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REAL ESTATE IN AMERICA AND JAPAN.
In view of the advocacy of the adop tion for British Columbia of the laws of Japon, so far as they place disabilities on foreigners, to which we recently drew attention in a leading article, the follow- ing article from the Japan fhronicle is
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HE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 18гn, 1912.
It is now more than two years since the Foreign Landownership Bill passed the Diet, but though it has been pro maigated, no date has been fixed for operation, and it remains so far a dead letter. Some little mystery attaches to this measure, and it is not easy to dis cover the object with which it was passed and promulgated, without being brought into practical operation. At the time it was believed by some that the enactment WAE for use in the Treaty Revision negotiations, as proving that Japan had determined to permit foreigners to own land under certain conditions and thus anticipate any demand on grounds of reciprocity. But the Treaty Revision negotiations are practically at an end and the measure still remains inopera- tive Others hellered the object was in some way connected with the settlement of the perpetual leaso question, and prog- nosticated an anticavour to convert the lenscholdings into ownership, with the cancellation of the special terms on which the leases were held. Whatever the objects with which it was originally framed, the Foreign Landownership Law has been hung up now for more than two years, and show no sign of being put into effect. Not that this delay has been of any particular disadvantage to foreign residents. A we have shown on several occasions, the provisions of the Lay are so extremely illiteral, and they are beset with so many restrictions and conditions, that it will be of little if any benefit, and we believe very few foreigners would be likely to take advantage of its enact ment to purchie land in this country: Thus even should the Law ultimately go into nominal operation, it will in all Why continue purchasing probability remain a dead letter, for it factory-made Mineral does not grant those rights of land- Waters? Make your holding to foreigners in Japan which the Japanese enjoy in almost every civilised country.
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to our notice as it was 575,000 years ago, most distant of these objects, with n diameter of 1,300 light years, is brought the light of our perception--if there is that remote period in the past! no mistake-having started toward us at
New York State. Is it possible that Mr. Okamoto is unaware of the state of the tively, would so deflect the cathode rays and 1,000 alternations per second respec- law regarding the land ownership of that they would sweep over the entire aliens in his own country? really believe that Japanese can claim receiving end, two magnets would be Does he screen about ten times a second. At the the right to hold land in New York energized by the two alternating dynamos State on grounds of reciprocity As we of the transmitting station, and the was promulgated in Japan in April, 1910, over a fluorescent screen, the light and have already said, it is true that a law second beam of cathode rays would sweep which nominally gave foreigners the right shade of which, varying with the current It is therefore very interesting, as ex-tained a clauso that the date for putting
to own real estate in Japan, but it con- received, would reproduce the image. hibiting once more the curious notions the law into operation would be detor- of reciprocity which prevail Japanese, to find that a book has recently Ordinance has not yet been issued, nor
among mined by Imperial Ordinance, and that Strassburg Cathedral has caused a start- The asphalting of the streets around been published in Tokyo urging Japanese is there any immediate prospect that it where they had nested for centuries. The ling exodus of pigeon from the spire, to invest in land in New York. The book will be issued. Moreover, the law con asphalt is cleaned frequently, and the is compiled by Mr. Okamoto Yonezo, who tained a number of conditions and excep- birds no longer find food in the locality. appears to be an estate agent in that city, tions of a peculiarly drastic nature. In parts of London pigeons have t is entitled "Real Estate in and about Foreigners were declared incapable of diminished since the motor traffic lessened New York City," and is published by enjoying the right to own land in tos takuun-kwen The book dwells at the Hokkaido, Formosa,, or Japanese the supply of scattered horse-feed. length on the remarkable transformation Saghalien where as newly developing affected in New York during the last territories the right would have some The aviators missile of the French War eighty years and gives particulars of the value-or indistricts necessary for Department, & 5-inch dart with heavy marvellous rise is the price of land which national defenes," has taken place, while numerous illustra- and elastic term which, again, was left falls point first, the blow from a height steal head and cross-shaped shaft, always a peculiarly vague tions showing how country houses and to be designated by Imperial Ordinance, of only 3 feet penetrating a hard-pineyard snail, Prof. Emile Yung of Geneva rural scenes have been converted into Then the right, when granted, was to be blank an eighth of an inch, bustling centres of business activity lend confined to foreigners domiciled or interest to the book even for those who resident in Japan and foreign juridical The system of sand spraying" dele made more than 2,000 observations, have no intention of investing. The
persons, the latter having first to obtain seribed by an English motal-user covers writer desires to show that a poor man permission of the Minister of Home iron or steel with a very hard shell of may become rich by purchasing land, Affairs before such acquisition of land sand and paint, and this has proven a though how the money is to be obtained for such purchases is not clear. lose his domicile-should he leave Japan than the usual protective process. The first could be registered. Should the foreigner more effective preventive of corrosion Among other items of information ap and romain absent for five year-then metal is first thoroughly scraped and pears an interesting comparison of the he consed to be capable of enjoying the cleaned with a wire brush, a coat of red- value of land in three great cities ownership of land; he must within one lead paint being then applied. This is
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has now proven that their eyes are absolutely sighticas. With 176 specimens
and in no case was there the slightest. evidence of the perception of light or dark spaces, and obstacles were entirely unperceived.
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A hearing device for the deaf lately shown to the Paris Academy of Sciences
is so small that it can be worn easily in
According to the writer, in the City of year dispose of his real estate, otherwise followed by a second coat of paint, which the ear. It is a microphone transmitter
SUDDEN LOSS OF SIGHT. Oculists find that sudden blindness is
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informed that their Goods are being
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New York land is valued at 48,600 yen it would be expropriated and would is sprayed with fine sand before dry, and and receiver connected by a tube, and per tsubo in the City of London at neerue to the biscus. If a foreign juridi, after drying another coat of paint is 24,444; and in Oaks at 1,000 yen. The cal person possessing land withdrew his applied, with another spraying of and natural inference, it might be thought, business establishment from Japan, the The whole is given a finishing covering would be that there is more hope for a land speculation in Osaka, where land same rule applied. Forced sale or expro of paint. The combination of paint and is still comparatively cheap, than in Newpriation. We doubt if the statute-book of sand offers exceptional resistance to rust- York or London, where prices have reach any country can show a more illiberal producing gases, and is recommended as ed such a tremendous figure. But this is actment than this-a more decided especially adapted for mild-steel pistes not the view of Mr. Okamoto, who urges keeping of the word of promise to the and rolled-steel beams, as used for so that in the suburbs of New York, which Mr. Okamoto appears to know nothing
ear and breaking it to the hope. But many and varied structural purposes. are annually being brought into closer. touch with the heart of the city, there of these things. He assumes that Japan- are still many opportunities for invest-ese are entitled to take advantage of the not often due to defect of the eye itself, ment. Incidentally we learn that the provision of the law of the State of New but is commonly a result of some change York, which declares that land-owning by behind the eyeball, such as injury to the Americans are net mere money worship aliens is confined to citizens of a State optic nerve, and it may be weeks before pers, as son Japances seem to think or nation which confer similar privileges any effect can be seen in the eye. Accord but are diligent, philanthropic, and self- reliant. Whether they are so by virtue on citizens of the United States. He does. ing to Dr. A, Konig, a hemorrhage near of their inclination to land speculation, not seem to know of any law prohibiting the optic nerve is the usual cause of or whether land speculation produces the ownership of land by aliens in Japan; sudden blindness with visible change in Scotland and thoroughly maturepent their risk into the Godowns of the these qualities, is not quite clear.
he does not know of any law passed to the back of the eye. The nerve fibres have The object of the book, however, is to remove the disability; le does not know little resistance, and are at once affected by age, being shipped from our Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown show that an investment in land in Newf the restrictions it contains, or that by pressure, though when this is very stocks of Old Whisky in the West Consigaus risk ond expense. York is likely to realise great profit.it has been hung up indefinitely. It is slight the loss of function may he only Highland Bonded Warehouses Many foreigners, we are told, own land difficult to understand such ignorance in partial. In one case the patient awoke in and about New York, but few Japa the case of an estate agent. Ferhaps Mr. one morning with much dimmed vision these are among them. It appears that Okamoto assumes that no inquiry will be on one side, followed in four days by the Japanese have hesitated to invest made into the national polity of Japan total blindness in that eye. The cause because they believed their right to own
when a transfer of titles occurs in the uns a hemorrhage behind the eyeball, but. land was uncertain. More probably the State of New York, and that one the in a month only a small pale patch in reason is that Japanese do not regard title passes there is not likely to be any the rear of the eye had become distin- themselves as competent to judge the trouble, no prevision existing for for
guishable. Whatever the localities where an expausion in values feiture to the fiscus." is likely to take place, for Japanese have explanation, it is certainly remarkable Sunlight, so often recommended as a invested largely in agricultural land on that a book should be published in Japan destroyer of bacteria, is now found to be the Pacific coast. However, the interest urging upon Japanese the advantage of fatal also to some insect life. In his ing fact is that, according to the writer, investing in real estate in America, while experiments in India, Dr. Cunningham Japanese need be under no apprehension aliens are still prohibited from owning as to their right to own land in New real catate in this country and even the bus included many with fleas, which have
M' York, notwithstanding that they are proposed removal of the disability is come to be much dreaded as disease -carriers, and they succumbed very aliens. He quotes from the Real Pro hedged round by so many restrictions as quickly. For instance, he placed 100 perty Law of New York of 1900 as to make it valueless. Reciprocity Beas in a piece of carpet exposed to the almost as blessed a word in Japan as an in a tin vessel. They tried to escape Mesopotamia, and about as meaningless, from the sunshine, but those on top of the carpet were dend in seven minutes, and those hidden beneath survived lese thar half an hour.
follows:
The right, tide, or interest in or to real property in this State now held or hereafter acquired by any person entitled to hold the same cannot ho questioned or impeached-by-reison-of-the-alienage of any person through whom such title may have been derived.
"Every alien holding property in this State is subject to duties, assessments, taxes, and burdens as if he were a citizen of the State."*
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY,
TELEVISION BY CATHODE RAYS.
THE SUN AS INSECTICIDE.
ASTRONOMICAL POSSIBILITIES. Speculating on the size and distance of A transmitting and a receiving bean the spiral nebuluc, Dr. Max Wolf brings. of cathode raya, synchronously deflected out some boxildering and startling by the varying fields of electromagneta, figures, Astronomers find that there are are suggested by A. A. Campbell Swinton probably hundreds of thousands of as the possible solution of the difficulties nebulae in the heavens, and that a large Exactly; and, with exception of the of transmitting images by wire. The part of these--perhaps a majority-have franchise, le posusses all the rights of transmitting apparatus would include a the form of a spiral or whirlpool. For his a citizen. In view of the conditions pre Crookes tube fitted with a cathode, which calculations, Dr. Wolf has selected eight vailing in Japan as to land ownership, under the influence of a continuous car of these spiral acbulac. He assumes that it is interesting to learn that a further rent of 100,000 volts would project the they are great galaxies, or star systems liberalising Act" was passed in 1904 xam of cathode rays upon a screen of like our own Milky Way; that. in size which provided that "any citizen of a small insulated cubes of some metal-like they are practically all of the same order State or nation thích by its laws confere | rubidium-that is active in discharging and that consequently their apparent similar privilegi on citizens of the negative electricity under the influence of diameters are inverse measures of their United States, may take, acquire, bold, light. The opposite side of the screen distance. His unit of measurement the and convey lands or real estate within would be a chamber of gas or vapour--such distance light travels in a year at 186,300 this State, in the same manner and with as sodium vapour-that conducts negativo miles per second-is more than €3,000 like effect as if such person were at the electricity more readily in light than in times the distance of the sun from the time a citizen of the United States." the dark, and a lens would threw the earth. Of the eight nebulec, he finds that Now it is an aonishing thing that this image on the screen through this vapour. the nearest is 20,000 light years from us, law is quoted by a Japanese writer as Two magnets, placed at right angles and and has a diameter of 1.100 light years; } giving Japanese the right to own land in energized by últernating carrents of 10 the smallest is 712,000 light years away,
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All broken, chafed, and damaged Goode are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be amined on THUPEDAY, 18th inst., at 10 AM. All Claims must be presented within FIFTEEN Days of the Steamer's arrivel here, after which date they cannot be recognized.
No Claims will be admitted after the Gooda have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining nadelivered after the 18th inst, will be subject. to rent.
No Fies Insurance has been offooted. 1ills of Lading will Le countersigned by
SHEWAN, TOMÉS & Co... Agente. Hongkong, 12th July, 1912.
1903
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NOTICE.
MONSIGNEES of Cargo from London ex "Breton." from Havre ex 8.8.. Breton," from Bordeaux er ss. "Leroy Jierin-connection with above- fleamer are hereby informed that their.. Coods with the exception Opium, TressIES sad Valuables are being landed and stored at Their riske into the hazirdous and or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co.. Lid, at Kowloon, whence delivery masy. bo obtained immediately after landing.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unless intimation is received from the Consignees before Noon To-TAY requesting it to be landed her
Billa of Lading will be countersigned by tho Undersigned, Goods remaining unclaimed after the 22nd Inst. at Noon will be su jest to rent and landing charges.
All Claims must be sent in to me on or before he 25th inst., or they will not be recognized.
All damaged packages will be examined on do 22 inst.,, at 3 P.M.
No Fire Insurance has been effcoted.
P. THONIS.
Hongkong, 15th July, 1912.
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