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CANTON.
[From Our Own Correspondant.)
WU HON MAN.
June 6th.
now they are objecting to Mr. Wu's partiality, as they call it, meaning his disregard of their wishes. It has been decided to send a deputation to Peking to protest and to find out the powers and jurisdiction of the Provincial Assembly
HONGKONG SHARE MARKËT.
Mesura. Vernon and Smyth in their weekly share report dated June 7th state: ---
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 8TH, 1912,
HONGKONG REGISTRATION OF
COMPANIES.
CHINA'S NATIONAL COUNCIL.
INTRODUCTION OF AN ANTI-OPIUM BILL.
An Anti-Opium Bill is before the Na- tional Council at Peking. The Peking Daily News (a Chinose paper printed in English) says:--
THE NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
HALF-YEARLY REPORT.
Yen. 2,160,391
2,019,005
To reserve
*** 108,016 Reserve for supplementing the Funds, for the expansion of
deficiency in the Subsidies 238,579 services and improvements on 9th year steamers of opium Bonuser to officials
The following letter appears in the
The half-yearly meeting of the Nippon Shanghai Mercury of the 1st inst, se
Yusen Kaisha was held in the Tokyo The market generally box ruled Bir,In last night's Mercury you re-
28ch ult. to receive the report and ac The Provincial Assembly in Canton quieter during the past week, but rates produced from the Hongkong Govern
Chamber of Commerce building on the on the whole have ruled firm. Sterling ment Gazette a list of companies which
counts for the six months ending March does not seem to get on too well with its Rubbers are not materially changed it is intended shall be struck off the re- The members of the Council who intro. 31st. The following is a summary of the
duced the Bill into the Assembly atate accounts -- head. It is not so long since they were Rubber is quoted to-day from London know if the Registrar has made any induction. After denouncing the use of the Net profit.
during the interval. Fine Hard Para gister and dissolved. I should like to
that there are three reasons for its intro- protesting against the late Governor, at 4/7 per lb, quiet. Discount rates
social evil the necessity of its Brought forward from last term 739,844 Chan Kwing Ming, on account of his are quoted at 3 per cent. (Bank of Eng-quiry into the reasons for the collapse of drug us
any of these companies? I happen to immediate eradication is given as the first! high-handed manner of dealing, while land) 23 per cent. (open market rate) have shares in one of the companies mên- | renson. The accond reason for the Bill
and Bar Silver at 28d. per oz. quiet.
Total Sterling T.T. closes at 1/11 15-18, and tioned, but this is the first information is to discharge our international obliga I have had that the company is to be dis- tion placed upon the country by the con- TT. on Shanghai at 724.
BAKKA-Hongkong and Shanghais are solved. The Hongkong Government, Iclusion of the Opium Convention with Great Britain. Article 2 of the Conven sized for at 2536, with local sellers believe, receives a considerable revenne tion provides that if China can effect holding for $840. London is unchanged from Shanghai companies for the total suppression of the plantation of the
privilege they have of being registered in poppy before the year 1017, (the at £54 10/-
the Colony, and shareholders are happy of Hagantung) the in the thought that this registration in a British Colony affords them some sort of protection, but as far as I can see this FIRE INSURANCER.--Chinus have soldj is a complete delusion. It appears to at $12, and Hongkongs at 8350, both me that the Registrar, before he strikes a company off the register, should, in the clesing firm
SHIPPING Hongkong, Canton and interests of the creditors and share-
probable buyers. Indo-Chinas ar un- company has ceased to exist. If it in im- changed at 865 buyers, the London rate possible to do this in Shanghai, it ap- remaining at 140/- (middle price). China and Manilas are procurable at 8109, and pears to me Hongkong should not register Douglases au 827. Star Ferrys continue companies in Shanghai-I am, etc., in request at 33 (old) and 824. (new), but no business is reported. Transports have further declined under bear" influences in London, the closing quotations being 101/6 sellers.
PURIFYING THE RIVER. À ̈great amount of refuse of all Horta finds its way into the river, nad especially causing the different creeks, into nauseous smells and helping to breed
MARINE Insurances.--Unions have again been done at 8808, at which rate the market closes firm. Cantons, after sales at $223, have been done at $225, and more shares are wanted.......
from India will corres be stop-Dividend en per cent."
ped. It is to be observed that the Con- vention inot only does not prevent China Carried to next term....
annua from-effecting a total suppression-of- opium cultivation at an earlier date thun 1917, but seems to encourage China to suppress opium effectively.
term:--
300,000
70,125
per
1,100,000 882,044
The following is the report for the During the first half of the business had in year ending March 31st, the Company 70 steamers of its own, addition
use
vormin and spread disease. Not only lacnus are firmer with sales at 827) and | bolders, inquire into the reasons why the should be maintained in all government aggregating 287,000 tons, in
this, but this water is used by a large percentage of the people for washing purposes, and by the poorer people even The attention of the for cooking. sanitary department has been drawn to this matter, and in the interests of the health of the community they have de- creed that no refuse is to be thrown into
the river under penalty of imprisonment, and that all lavatories, etc., in the near, vicinity of the river or creeks are to be zemoved within a week. There are plenty of facilities for the removal of refuse, and it is proposed even to augment
those. If this matter receives the serious
psideration which them preliminarios seem to imply, it ought to have a good effect upon the health of the community.
A NEW HIDING CLUB.
It has been proposed to form a large
Shelt
REFINERIES. China Sugars have been hoked at 8108 and more shares are pro- curable. Luzons have further declined to $31 sellers, but at 830 a fair number of shares can be placed.
MINING.Tronchs, after declining to 74/8, sellers, are firmer in London with no seller under 76/-. Rauls are wanted at and Chinese Engineerings at
after sales.
Docks, WHARVES
AND
GoDOWNS.~~
SHAREHOLDER.
THE OPIUM TRAFFIC.
ME. TRWING'S RETRACTATION. The following letter appeared in the Peking Daily News of May 25th:--
Sin. If you will permit me to use the columns of your paper, I wish to make a public apology to my British friends for using the name of their King in a way that was very unpleasant to them. will be more careful in the future. I
The third reason is that uniformity measures. It is absolutely necessary that there should be uniformity throughout the
of opium. The Convention provides, in country in the matter of the suppression article 3, that Indian opium will not be imported into the province where the cal
tivation pinin is strictly prohibited in Hunan and Chekiang, but there are other provinces wherein the drug should also be suppressed. It is therefore considered indispensible that laws for the suppres sion of opium should he passed by the National Council and strictly enforced in the different provinces.
Riding and Shooting Club near the East. kong Lands have ruled quiet with buyers way of going at it in this case, and some that within one month after the promul
Gate, and the matter has received great attention from the rich and influential people. A large sum of money has been put forward and the matter is in the hands of La Chi Chung and others, who have approached the Government for recognition and protection, bringing for ward the argument that it will be greatly to the benefit of the Army in
Hongkong and Whamps Docks are pres curable at $18, and Kowloon Wharves at $81. New Amoy Docks can be placed Shanghai at 0 after sales at 6). Docks are quoted at Tls, do and Shang- hai and Hongkew Wharves at Tls. 91.
LANDA, HOTELS AND BUILDINGS. Hong at 8105 after small sales at 8105), closing with sellers at $106 Kowloon Lands can is placed at 834 and West Points at 8537 Hongkong Hotels are firm with probable buyers at 8110 (old) and 2 (new), Humphreys Estates have again been dos at 871, at which there are buyers, with sellers at $8.
changed at 5 with probable sellers. Ewos have declined in the North to Tls. 87
sellers,
MISCELLANEDus.--China BorneoR ore
to seven other specially commissioned na several chartered steamers. The vessels, representing 20,000 tons, as sell Peers carried during the period numbered 79,000; goods transported amounted to 1,640,000 tons; while the
distane travelind was 1,500,000 nautical tiles.
Domestic Service. During the period under review the shipping business was very brisk in all directions, and the Company had to hire several steamers to cope with the trade. The number of
passengers increased, especially in the direction of Formosa.
Far Eastern Service-Generally speak- ing. the shipping business on this service was dail. In the direction of Shanghai there was a considerable diminution in the shipments, due to the revolution in China since October last. To Tientsin, however, shipping traffic was very active, but to Newchwang and Dairen the can trary was the case. In Vladivostock and Chosen there was some increase in the business done, as compared with the preceding term. In passenger traffic there was a remarkable increase in the
INTIMATIONS
BABY'S SKIN TROUBLES
Quickly Relleved by
CUTICURA SOAP
And Cuticura Ointment. No other emollients cost so little and do so much for eczemas, rashes, itchings and chafings that make life miserable for tender-skinned babies and tired, fretted mothers. Un- rivaled for every purpose of the toilet, bath and nursery.
Samples with 2. Look free from neurost depot Nowery, 1 AX,Charterhouse Sa.. London; 1. Towns & Co., Bylany, N. B. W.: Lennon, Ltd., Oper Town: Melle, relent Co..Onleutia and Bos Pollar D. & C. Corp., sole props, Boston, U. &
87.0
Chs. J. Gaupp & Co.
The Bill aims at the suppression of cultivation, sale and consumption of opium and is divided into five chapters, consisting in all of 15 articles. Chapter have learned how sacred they hold the deals with General Provisions wherein name of their King and Queen. Many it is provided that the opium evil is to of the Americans do not realize that fact be totally suppresed by the end of Decem- We think often of the President as jather of the first year of the Republic, and the head of the Government. I have been that the present law is only applicable to misunderstood in my intentions, which those provinces whore total suppression were not to insult the British, but just to of the drug has not yet been effected, try and make them think on this great Chapter 2 deals with the suppression of question, but I made a mistake in the plantation, and it is provided (Article 3) have said that it has hurt the anti-opium gation of the present law all the antidirection of Shanghai. cauze, I am very sorry, but I have opium bureaux and their branches in the European Service. In addition to Learned something. I have lost good different provinces sball dispatch eleven regular liners, the Company hired friends, and have been called rather bad deputies to different places to investigate two steamers. On the outgoing voyages names, both in public and in private, without delay, and to report any clandes- the goods carried were nearly equal to No doubt I deserve all that; but I under tine cultivation to the Magistrate of the those of the corresponding period of the stand the British view paint better. As district, who is required to uproot the preceding year The exports to Shang- one British lady said to me:You can poppy and to punish the offenders accord-hai diminished, greatly on account of the COTTON MILLS-Hongkongs are unway what you want against the Governing to Article 1 of the Anti-Opium laws.revolution, but business in the direction
rent, but don't you say anything against
For the suppression of sale of opium, of Hongkong, the Straits Settlements and our King: bs cannot decide anything or it is provided (Art. 4) that by July, this Colombo was nearly equal to that of the do anything himself, and he cannot help year, the provincial anti-opium bureaux preceding year. On the return voyages, the opium trade." I will not do sa
and their branches shall dispatch too, the business was almost the same as at $6. Cements are quiet at $4, Electrics the British people so much, as it seems opium dealers to find out how much has tion of machinery and articles for in- healthy soldiers.
It has received the at 893, Dairy Farms at 822, and Ropes I have done. I realize their real sympa- been sold during June and how much is dustrial purposes, which showed some
at 9101. There are buyers of Steam thy in China's fight against opino. And left over and to make an inventory show-increase. Owing to the strike of miners Always have on hand a very large complete Banction of the Governor.
Laundrys at 85, Watsons at Sif, Powells the fight will continue, as hard as evering the amount of opiuui required by each at $63, and Fisheries at 84.
and sometimes we will have to be agio dealer up to the end of December, the business of the Company suffered cons in England in March last, the shipping LONDON QUOTATIONS,--The following the Government." I fear, but we quotations (middle price) were received leave the King out of the question. The monthly reduction of 20 per cent. of their to passenger traffic, the Japanese steer- will amount to be computed by making a siderably, but there was a great increase from London by wire to-day :-
campaign is not anti-foreign, or anti- respective monthly sales, minus the British Ledburys
but in spirit.
anti-epium. amount in stock. It
The inventory is to
age passengers to Singapore showing a 14 against the -cultivation of be put on file in the bureaux and branch
great increase. Linggis
opium, the trade in apium, and the bureaux for reference. After July 20th desire of all is to free China from this of this year, the anti-opium bureaux and degrading vice, which makes her weak, at the earliest possible date."
their branches will issue to each opium dealer a certificate for the purchase of raw opium, of which the amount shall not exceed the amount computed accord- ing to the preceding article (Article 6). All opium dealers shall close their shops by the end of December of this year, and the opium unsold shall be surrendered to the anti-opium bureaux or their branches to be destroyed. Any violation of this article shall subject the shop to be sealed sad the owner to imprisonment of from the third to the fifth grade (Art. 6).
providing them with officers and strong Procurable at 391 and China Providents again, and I did not intend to offend depatice to inspect the books of all the in the preceding period, with the excep- |
·LOCAL BANK NOTEK.
There is still trouble is connection with the local bank-notes. Some shopkeepers, despite Government notices and warnings, rofuse to accept them at all, while others continue to demand a discount, so that every day sees some row caused by this. Yesterday, a soldier fell foul of a money
changer who demanded about 10 per cont. discount, and they came to blows, with the result that the money-changer was locked up and later on sentenced to imprisonment for lowering the valuo of the legal currency. Something will have to be done soon in this matter, for ons sces in large stores this notice every day, "Chinese bank-potes not accepted in payment," and there are a tremendous amount of these at present in circulation. THE WEATHER.
The weather over the whole delta has for the past week been very unsettled. Much more rain bas fallen than usual, and thunderstorms have been frequent. On Wednesday it rained heavily, con- tinuously all day, and the river has risen
United Serdangs Sapongs London Asiatics E. & Trusts Rubber Trusts Tronohs
Hongkong Electric Trams Shell Transports Chinese Engineering Inito-Chinas
52/6
31/-
10276
25/-
10/6
17/0
9/6 premium. 75%- 4/- 101/3
140/-
THREE-CORNERED-SHIP.
Professor Otto Kretschmer, dean of the marine engineering department of the Charlottenburg Technical School and late Chief Constructor of the German Navy, has published plans for an un- sinkable Vessel of novel design.
We want to carry on the warfare, against the great difficulties and forces that oppose us, in a fair manner, and in as friendly a spirit na possible. Thank ing you for the opportunity to publish this letter-Yours, ete,
E. W. THWING.''
MR. ROOSEVELT AND ORIENTAL IMMIGRATION.
"There is one thing upon which Cali- It is to be a three-cornered, or "tetra-fornians are pretty well united, and that hedral, ship, and its other unique fes- is on the question of Oriental immigen
tion. On repeated occasions the voters ture is that it will be a ship within a ship. In other words
Professor of the State have shown that they are Kretschmer proposes to make it unsink nearly a unit on this subject, and that able by constructing two absolutely they would present a solid front against separate and distinet hulls, one within
any candidate who had declared himself the other.
in favour of throwing wide open the doors to this undesirable class immigrants-
The inner ship is to contain the vessel proper, especially all the engines, boilers, and coal-bunkers, so that in case of such
a collision as that which sont the Titanic
to the bottora, ouly the oater keel or walk
which the
of
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, CHATER ROAD.
stock of
SCIENTIFIC AND
SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS
(Transits, Levels, Plans Tables, Prismatic and
· Sight Compasses, Hand Lovels, &c, do)
also
American Service. In addition to three vessels running between Hongkong and Beattle, the Company placed another steamer on the Robe-Seattle Line, which had been served by two steamers since 1910. In fact, the Company has DOW opened a fortnightly service between Hongkong and Seattle. On the outgoing DRAWING voyage the shipments of cereals and food- stuffe generally to the Pacific Coast in- creased considerably, while the shipments of flour to Japan and other Asiatic porta
INSTRUMENTS
AND MATERIAL
T-Squares, Sot Squares, Straight Edges,
Seales, Inks, &o., &c.)
also increased. "The number of passen- gors increased both on the outward and raturn voyages.
Australian Service. On the outgoing] AGENTS FOR- voyages the shipments from Japan and Hongkong were favourable, and the same way be said of shipments from Australia
The i to Hongkong and Japan ports." number of Russian emigrants to Aus- tralia and of Japanese emigrants to Manila was unexpectedly large.
That is the position taken by Roose paratus for Opium bureau the unusually large, the Company being.
Tess.
ing very strong tides, and to cross the designer declares would remain aflost thenacing the people of this State with shall be subject to imprisonment of from On the outgoing voyages there were large
river at present is a matter of some difficulty,
The San Francisco Chronicle has stated For the regulation of opium-smoking. the case for California against Mr.it is provided that every opium-smoker Roosevelt in these terms:--
shall be required by July of this year to renew his licence to smoke opium in the provincial anti-opium bureaux and their branches, once every month. The buresi in renewing the licence shall state therein the amount consumed by the licencee, which is to be divided into ten parts of Bombay Service. On the outgoing which two parts are henceforth to be re- voyages there was a decline in the ship- to the limit set for the total suppression Singapore, but on the return voyageu duced every month. Ten days previous ments from Japan, Hongkong and
of opium every opium-smoker shall sur-the shipments of cotton to Japan were render to the
oping smoking and the obliged to charter foreign steaners at considerably, so that flooding in the
velt. He has declared himself unequivether he has been cured of the habit or not. opium unconsumed, irrespective of whe
exorbitant rates to cope with the busi- streets in the lower parts of the city is of the vessel can be damaged or caved in,cally in favour of Japanese immigration, After the expiration of the above stated
Calcutta Service. This service, which worse than ever. The West River rising There are no communicating doors lead and gave effect to his declaration when period anybody found to possess opium
was opened in the preceding half-year, he occupied the Presidential chair by apparatus for opinn-smoking in secret and rushing down past Samahui is causing into the "inner ship,"
is now being carried on by ve vessels. and unsinkable in all imaginable con-
an armed invasion if they persisted in the third to the fifth grade, and anybody shipments. Keen competition now pre- tingencies.
their stand that they had a right to found in possession of apparatus for In the "Journal for Practical regulate their own schools without inter- opium-smoking shall be subject to a fine vails with various foreign shipping con- Machine-Building, in the current uum-
ference from the authorities in Washing of not more than 100 dollars At the ex-determined to continue the contest to the cerns on this line, and the Company is ber of which Professor Kretschmer out-ton.
piration of the time limit, any malo lines his scheme, he states that there is Not only did Roosevelt take this opium-smoker who shall not have cured | bitter end. grave danger that the world will be lalled stand when he was President, but he themselycs of the opium evil shall enter back into its old belief in the infallibility added to the indignity by asserting, in anti-opium bureaux to be cured thereof, of the traditional form of ship. He the heat of anger, that the Japanese were and every opium-smoker who is
female asserts there will be no positive safety on the whole better fitted for citizenship or is old, weak or sick, shall report at of life at soa till shipowners and ship- than most San Franciscans, and if his the anti-opium bureaux the amount of American newspapers announce the builders can be compelled to abandon the imperious will, and a bargain with the opium consumed by her or him every day death, on April 25th, at Lyons, New
of construction. The result of the recent searches for Present type
unsavory Schmitz, had not prevailed he so that a certificate (to be renewed daily) York, of Mr. Chester Holcomb, who was No increase of lifeboste and life would probably have made good his may be issued thereby for the purchase for some years an official of the Ameri uros is shown in one direction by helts" he says, "will solve the problem. threats to teach as a lesson.
of a stated amount of anti-opium medi- can Legation at Peking. Mr. Holcomb rather long proclamation which has been We must break, and break radically, with The progressives of California may eine. Anybody found to prepare opium
was born in 1844 and graduated at issued regarding licences. All persons old construction ideas, and look for real forget the debt of gratitude they owe to for clandestine consumption in violation
Union Collage in 1861. Later he became who possess a rifle, pistol, revolver o safety in the ouly place where it is to Taft, hat the people of the State of the present article shall be subject to interpreter and Secretary of the Ameri be found-viz., in taking advantage of will not overlook the fact that the Colonel imprisonment of the fifth grade or to a
can Legation here, other firearm must apply for a licener, the opportunities which technical science bulldozed us when the matter of Japanese fine of not more than 1,000 dollars periods between 1875 and 1883 which will cost 88. These licences are to holds out to us.'
7-11) (Article
Acting Minister. In 1889 he was a mem- All the provinces which have not yet be issued from June 1st and will b
established sati-opium bureaux are en-
ber of the Commission that negotiated joined by the present law to do so with
the treaties with China. Mr. Holcomb valid for one year from that date. The owners are requested to bring their arme
out delay, and the Ministry of Interior and wrote a number of valuable books. was an accomplished Chinese scholar ia empowered to draw up regulations for for inspection in order that a list may
its enforcement,
SHAMEEN.
There are in the river at present:- H.M.8. Clio and Robin, the French gun-, boat Vigilante, the U.8.8. Piscatagua and the Japanese Uji.
A BRIDGE ACCIDENT IN THE PHILIPPINES.
TEN MEN KILLED
:
be made up. The Government, reserves According to information received by
the right to retain any they think fit, but the Bureau of Public Works in Manila the large steel bridge" that was being
in the schools was a burning question. There are many who are yearning to get even with him because of his attitude on that occasion,"
A native quack was being tried in one of the Java courts recently for having. caused death by a rash act. "What are your general methods of cure?" asked
DEATH OF MR. CHESTER HOLCOMB.
and nt
Was
He was the author of a Neutral Arith- metic, a Life of Christ, and a Tranela- tion of the American declaration of Independence-in Chincee; and a num in all cases compensation will be made.erceted at kilometer 13.1 between Camps the judge of the accused during the hear- This story is from the Edinburgh Reber of works in English dealing with All holders of previously issued permits three and four on the Benguet rost, felling. The latter replied that he invari vir A wealthy man on his deathbed, China and Chinese questions, among will receive this licence on presentation on Friday afternoon May 31st, while the ably prescribed two methods: the one of the old one and their rifle for examins the workmen were putting it into posi
and conscious of a not altogether well- these: The Practical Effect of Confucian tion. This matter is being taken uption, precipitating a number of the pepper, and the other wass vitriol, black Scotch minister whether he thought that in Western China, Catalogue and Hand was vitriol, white sugar, and black spent life, anxiously inquired of his fem upon the Chinese Nation; Travels thoroughly and it will certainly do a workmen into the river over 100 feet
sugar and white pepper. "Have you a gift of a large sum of money to his Book of Antique Chinese Porcelains; great deal for the peace of the province. below and killing ten of them, four In the city and suburbs and the near Filipinos and six Japanese carpenters,
evor cured any persons by these means "church would make matters easier for The Real Chinoman: The Real Chinese was the next question, "Sometimes it him." Ab, weel, replied the cautious districts the arrangements are almost Eleven others were severely injured. sure to work successfully, but it remains The accident is reported to have been comes off and sometimes it doesn't," said minister, "I'll no be giving any guar- to be seen how far success will attend caused by the slipping of one of the
the physician. Homer said in his Iliad antee, but (anxious not to lose the that a doctor. is a man that stands out chance for his church) "it's an experi- these efforts in the Delta.
cables.
above many others.
ment that's well worth trying."
Question, and others of less importance... Mr. Holcomb was a Lowell Institute lecturer, and very well known to Ameri- cans through his many contributions to magazines and newspapers upon subjects appertaining to Chins and the Far East.
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