THE SECRET MAN. (Continued from page b.)
MR. DELAY'S WILL.
Messrs. Edell & Co., of 4, King Street, the well-known City Bolicitor who acted for the Delay family, issued the following statement to the London Press: --
You are probably aware we net for the Delay family and have done sa for the Jost twenty-Bro years. We are acting for the excentrices of the will of the late Mr. James Arthur Delay, who died at the Atlantic Hotel, Newquay, on November 25 East. We are not in any way concerned
for Mr. Nowill or his late wife.
We enclose espy of the will and codicil. Some comments have appeared in the Press as to the exlicif not having been properly attested, but you will see it is in order in this respect. The original cutieil
was with the deceased's bankers.
You will observe from the will the deconsed has given £10,000 to be paid to the Public Trusted and invested, and the incuine thereof is to be paid to his widow For life, and then the capital is given to his children. The deceased was married, and his widow is now and his for some time since been in London. She married the deccased in New York on November 1, 1911. There are no children.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRIS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 72m, 1918.
RUBBER IN THE EAST,
INTERESTING REPORT BY PARA.
EXPERT.
REMARKABLE TRIBUTE TO PLANTATION INDUSTRY.
Straits Times, to a distinguished repre We are greatly indebted, says tho
the following copy of a translation by sentative of American rubber interests for Mr. George E. Pell, General Manager of the General Rubber Company, of a sage to the Legislative Congress of Para from the Governor of Para, delivered September 7th, 1919. It contains import- ant references to Malaya -
Extract from the message of the Gover nor of. Para to the Legislative Congress of that State, September 7th, 1812--
In my last message I informed you of the sailing of that competent scientist, Dr. Jacques Hubar, Director of the Goldi Museum, for Europe and from there to the countries of the Orient.
It is now incumbent on me to give you an account of the results obtained by Dr. Jacques Huber in his excursions through the Eastern Asiatic countries, which excursions, although relatively rapid, have the advantage of faithfully portraying for us the situation of the rubber industry in those regions. A
The notices which we received from the In the ovents which have happened the residue of the estate is divided equally Oriental and other rubber planting and between the deceased's two sisters, the exploiting points, optimistically painted Missés Louisa and Emily Florence Delay, the development of the cultivation and who are the excentrices. The will will be showed us calculations truly alarming, proved in due course by Mr. John Fred-on the crops, increasing formidably and erick Eddi, our senior partner, under a power of attorney from the Misses Delay,
who are abroad,
As regards the codicil, if the late Mrs, Nowill met her death on November 23 last (as to which we think there can he
little doubt) then the legacy of £90,000 lapses, and falls into the residuary estate, If, however, she survived the late Mr. Delay, the legacy will form part of the late Mrs. Nowill's estate. . The gross value of the estate is £72,971 Gs.. the debts and funeral expenses amount to £2,282 1s. 7d., so the net estate amounts to £70,680 3%. 5d., and the amount to be paid for estate duty will as near as possible bo £4,949.
The fact that the deceased was married was quita unknown to any member of his family until after the inquest, and came as a great surprise to them.
WILL AND CODICIL.
The will and codicil of Mr. Delay are set out below:-.
in succession. At the same time ther supplied us with information on the industrial applications of cultivated rubber, which for us was far from re assuring,
to
Now, since I assumed the administra- tion of this State, I have always had my attention turned the extractive industry, and very especially towards our first article of export (rubber) and I have always nourished the conviction that to the measures which we may use for the defence of the production (of rubber) which recapitulates the economic life of Para, we should add accurate enquiries, direct observations, Hound studies, made in loco, so that we possess the full certainty and absolute truth as to what constitutes the scarecrow**
of our economic future. It became, according to my view, indispensable that we get a clear picture of the threat offered by the plantations abroad, which were destined, according to current opinion, to sup- Amazona's rubber. plant, within a short space of time,
NO FEAR OF BYNTHETIC.
This is the last Will and Testament of me, James Arthur Delay, late of Singa- pore, in the Colony of the Straits
From what I had read on the subject, Settlements, Advocate and Solicitor and heard from perscns competent in the give to the Public Trustee of England matter, a. terrible threat lay on the the sum of ten thousand pounds free economie life of the State, the realization of all legacy or other duty in trust to of which would find us unprovided- invest the same in proper trustee securi unprepared to repair the consequences. ties and to pay the income of such I did not meditate on the great European securities to my wife, Mary Leslie Delay, and North American laboratories who are during her life and after her death to labouring to secure a chemical substitute hold such securities in trust for any for rubber, since, as you know, no dia- child of mine begotten by my said wife.covery has been made, which can com The whole of the rest and residue of pletely substitute the vegetable gum, my property of whatsover kind or nature or wheresover situate I give to although substances are being produced my sisters, Louisa Delay and Emily which can be used with the addition of Florence Delay, in equal shares or to scarcely 10 per cent of natural rubber. the survivor of them if either shall pre-existence could not be denied, and which Another fact of great importance, whose decease me, but if both of them shall profoundly affected the mercantile value predecease me then I gave such residue of our rubber,
eleven,
were
the plantations
to my niece, Dorothy Louise Josephine existing in Ceylon, Borneo, Malaya. Chard, and I appoint the residuary Sumatra, Java and the southern part of Ingatees or legatee under this may Will Hindustan. to be the Excentrices or Executrix existed in the middle of last year (1511),
In those countries there thereof. In witness whereof I have sett my hand to this my Will this 25th day 130,000,000 rubber trees, Hevea Brazilionais
was affirmed, nothing lesa
than of November nineteen hundred and predominating, Such plantations, re- presented, for manufacturers, a IB fo The will is witnessed by 3. O. Bart-guarantee that the Asiatic production, by jett. Westbourne, Burnemouth (Bank its proportional increase within a few Manager), and S. M. Older, Wilts and years, would reduce rubber, as a crude Dorset Bank, Westbourne, Bournemouth material, to a price which would cause (clerk).
The codicil to which so much public attention has
been drawn reads as follows:-
I give to my friend Marian Nowill, the wife of Sydney Nowill, of Sheffield, the legacy of thirty thousand pounds free of legacy or any other duty whatso- ever which I beg of her to recept as a slight token of the high admiration and esteem I have for her and the gratitude I feel for the friendship she has shown for me during the past 18 months. The codicil is dated September 9, 1912, and is witnessed by H. M. Hales, 9, Pall Mall, London, and A. Taylor, B, Pall Mall, London, hanker's clerk,
RUGBY FOOTBALL.
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KENT."
On Saturday afternoon, the Club won their sixth victory by defeating H.M.S. Kent by 24 points to mil.
The game
proved; a fast and interesting one throughout in spite of its rather one- sided nature. The Club were decidedly the better side, and in spite of the Kent's auperior weight in the scrum, the Club forwards managed to present their backs with plenty of chances which were made good use of.
Tries were scored by Gravburn (3), Chapman, Fisher, and Stark, the last-named also converting
three of them.
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them no uneasiness as to the future.
FORECASTS,
So it is that, calculating the Asiatic exportation in 1910 as 8,000 tons, they announced that in 1911 it would be 25,000 tons, rising in 1912 to nearly 45,000 tons, and in 1914 to 70,000 tons, with the expectation of a total of 100,000 tons in
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individual trees which by the interior aspect differ more or less with the typical Hevea Braziliensis, without, however, it being possible to classify them in any other species of the kind.
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ture of the Federated Malay States, estiates the production of Malaya in 1910 at 65,000 tons, taking as a base an area of 300,000 acres only. Considering tha the actual area of plantations in the Malay Peninsula amounts to half the total area of the plantations in the East, it is easily comprehended that the estimate of 100,000 tons as the production of all the plantations of the East is not exaggerated.
PRUDENT EXPLOITATION. These figures naturally suppose normal development of the plantations. and a continuation of the intensive pro cesses for the extraction of latex. It is
possible, however, that these may be modified in the sense of a more prudent exploitation of the trees, which could easily reduce the production 10 to 20 per cent.
Labour is abundant and cheap on the Eastern plantations. It is true that in the Malaya Peninsula, where the plantations have a greater development, the recruiting of Tabourers encounters certain difficulties on account of the small resident population, the introduction of coolies from the three neighbouring regions more densely populated being neccssary from India meridional, China and Java. In'a similar situation is the island of Sumatra, which imports ita coolies from the neighbouring island of Jaya and China. Even the populous island of Ceylon imports the larger part of its rural workers from India. Only Java is completely independent of the introduction of foreign woolies, getting from its own population of 30,000,000 inhabitants class of cheap labour, although a little unstable. On this island, the day goglie corresponds to 300. is of our man (abt. ile gold appr.), while in Ceylon the Tamil coolie receives 350 to 400 reis (alt. 12 to 12/c.. gold, appr.), per day, and in the Malay Peninsula, where wages are higher wages are paid at the rate of 150 148 10 1,000 reis (13 to 33. gold, appr.) and in exceptional cases (Chinese labour) up to 1,800 reis. 59c. gold appt.) It is not Impossible that these wages in the future may increase still a little, due to the large demand there will be in the next few years to complete the force of workers opinion is that the plantations once com- on the plantations. However, the general
influence will be sufficient to prevent any to the indolent Asiatic coalie, that this great advance in the cost of labour.
FUTURE OF THE PLANTATIONS.
process of adaptation to new conditions area occupied by plantations of Hoves of climate and of the soil, and by very cannot extend itself very much, owing active propagation. And so it is that in to the topographic and climatic condi-pleted, the work is so easy and congenial
plantations
sion in the culture of ailmentary plants; found many tions on one hand, and to the great exten- on the other, the Malay Peninsula, where at present the culture of the seringueira (Hevea Braziliensis) is the preponderating industry, and Sumatra, whose agricul ture is still in its infancy, it would be triplicate, the plantation area. possible to easily duplicate, if not may be said of Borneo, where, however, The same in the Hevea Braziliensis in its new home the dificulties of communication and It is necessary to agree that the accii, labour possibly retard the development Eastern plantations is perfect, the growth matization of this Amazonian tree in the of the plantation industry.
THE PROSPERITY OF THE TREES.
ability, it is not possible to speak, in the Notwithstanding this extreme vari. proper sense of the word, of a degeneracy
FUTURE OUTPUTS,
It would be possible to believe that the notable precocity of the rubber trees on the Asiatic plantations produced prin- intensive culture will cause as a conse- cipally by the exceptional conditions of
quence premature exhaustion of the vital not seem to me that from this will result forces of the trees. Meanwhile, it does
a serious menace to the plantations. Also, the cryptogamic troubles notwith- constant
[NOTE-The Governor has, it would appear, gotten his years mixed, and he probably intended to say, 25,000 tons 1912: 43,000 tons 1913.-G.E.P.j those who wish the ruin of the Brazilian Now, before this prospect agreeable to extractive industry, and considering that is; in general, vory rapid, and the treesThe total exportation of the Eastern standing they constitute la labour in Asia cannot become scarce, have in the large part a very healthy producing countries, in 1911, was close danger to the planting industry, have nor become more costly than it is at appearance. It is true that they are to 15,000 tons of rubber (Ceylon and present, and that this cost represents less subject to different parasitical troubles, Malaya together 13,400 tons). It is than I milreis (33c. gold daily, per in the roots and trunk, which in certain calculated that the production of 1913 plantations is in their intensive exploite up to the present been effectively com labourer, including medical attendance cases has caused serious loss to the planta (1912), will be 25,000 tons. The calculation (stimulated still by the decline, bated. The greatest danger to the Asiatic and residence), and finally taking into tions; but by active vigilance it has been tions of future production are naturally, trees, to what extent will our principal troubles. On the other hand, the Asiatle Ceylon and Malaya, there exist, however, exhaustion of the trees. This exhaustion, account the new processes for tapping the possible to efficaciously combat these subject to numerous causes for error, although slow, but inevitable, of prices) which sooner or later must cause the Heveas have shown themselves free of lest prophecies based on figures more secure, manifesting itself scarcely now in small I would call your attention to rigorous veracity and sincere frankness those of roots and trunk.
the troubles, which are more dangerous than and an experience of some years. From areas, planted 10 to 20 years, as yet which animate the pages of this document
1905 to 911 the production of these two Dr. Huber's report) a succint recapitula
countries was as follows:
exercises little influence on the total pro-| sufficient, however, to give you a clear tion of which is given in this message,
duction, especially as the areas now idea of the situation in the East.
arriving at the producing stage are much larger and the general tendency is to advance as much as possible the time for tapping the new trees. To cite but one example, 10 years ago the production of one kilo (2.2lb.) of rubber per year was only expected from trees 10 years old at least, while this kame quantity is now taken from trees & years old, and in
source of revenue be reduced?
THE EXPERT B REPOET. Dr. Jacques Huber says:- As I was able to convince myself, during my excursions in Ceylon, Malaya, Sumatra and Java, the cultivated trees
industry well established in Ceylon, The culture of Heven Braziliensis is an Malaya, Sumatra, Java; existing also in plantations in the producing state in i some other Asiatic tropical countries, such as India meridional, Burmah, Cochin-China, in the Philippine Islands, Borneo' and in Guinea,
TOTAL AREA PLANTED, The total area planted with Hevea in in the Asiatic plantations belong incon- the East attained at the end of 1911 to testably to the species Hevea Braziliensis, nearly 1,000,000, which is recognised as furnishing the best follow- quality of rubbers
Malay Peninsula Ceylon Sumatra
Java
Ceylon. Malaya. Total.
tons.
tone. tons. 75
205 576
1808
130
1906
146
430
-1907
249
885
1,133
1208
407
2,030
1909
866
1910
1,629 3,340 4,006 1,801 6,504 8,105
1911
3,194TM 10,700 13,394 The estimates of future production, in
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December, Nil.-Order.. Varaine, 31st December-Haiphong 28th December, Cement and Coal- Bradley & Co. CHEONGSHING, British str., 1,250, Lyddell, 28th December-Chinwangtao 23rd December, General.-Jardine, Mathe- son & Co.
DONOTTAR CASTLE, British str., 3,696, W. J. Stanley, 2nd January--Shang- bai 30th December, Nil-Jardine, Matheson & Co.
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HANOI, French str., 739, A. Marquerite,
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3rd January, General.-A. R, Marty. Johnsen, 2nd January-Haiphong 31st Decembor, Stone. Shewan, Tomes & Co. KornBER, Austrian str., A. Foresti, 5th January-Singapore 29th January, General Sander, Wieler & Co. Kucnow, British str., 1,450, Martin,
31st December--Saigon 25th Decem- LIENSHING, British atr., 1,049, W. Mesney, bar, Rico and General-Chinese. 5th January-Weihaiwei 31st Decera- ber; General-Jardino, Matheson &
· Co.
LOCKSUN, German str., 1,208, W. Taubert, 30th December-Hongay 27th Decem ber, Coal-Butterfield & Swire. Lucnow British ate 14 Meathro
9th December-Wuhu 25th December, Rice-Butterfeld & Swire.
MATHILDE, German str., 831, G. Schlai-
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MEXICO MARU, Japanese str., 1,958, J. C. Young, 28th December--Shanghai 24th
December, Ballast.-Asiatio Petroleum Co.
MONGOLIA, American str., 8,700, Emery 2nd January-San Francisco 30th November, Mails and General.--Paci- fic Mails 8.S. Co.
NIPPON MANU, Japanese str., 3,452. A. G. Stevens, 3rd January-San Francisco 7th December, General-Tokyo Kisen Kaisha.
PAKLAT, German str. 1.018, J. Wenzel,
30th December-Hongay 26th Decem PITSANULOK, German str., 1,264, D.
ber, Coal-Butterfield & Swire.
QUARTA, German str., 1,143, U. Madsen, Reimers, 5th January-Bangkok 24th Decomber, General-Melchers & Co. 3rd January Swatow 2nd January, Ballast:-Biersen & Co.
Runi, American str., 1,408, James Miller, 3rd January-Manila 31st December, Hemp.-Shewan, Tomes & Co.
SABINE RICKMENS, Dutch str., 573, Do. Fries, 3rd Jan.-Swatow 2nd Jan, Ballast.-Order.
SAIGON MARU, Japanese str., 1,230, Yama- guchi, 29th December-Moji ard December, Coal. Osaka Shiosen Kaisha,
SANGCHOON, British str., 3,722. W. G. Larking, 28th December-Singapore 23rd December, General.-Chinese SHUNTEIN, British str., 1,035, Heppell, 3rd January-Shanghai 31st Decem ber, General. Butterfield & Swire. SINGAN, British str. 1,647, J. Robinson, 3rd January-Haiphong 1st January,
MARU, Japanese stz, 1,119, K. General.-Butterfield & Swire, Tashiro, 3rd January-Swatow 2nd January,
General-Osaka Shosen Kaisha.
Soan
as the next few years, are as follows, for the exceptional cases even from trees 4 to TAMING, British str.; 1,562, P. Cole, ard
same copatries :---
acres, divided
Acres.
550,000
215,000
1912 1913
150,000
1914
186,000 40,000
1915 1916
Borneo and other islands India meridional and Burmah 30,000 Cochin-China
15,000
1,125,000
Tons. Tons. Tona,
6,500 17,400 23,000 10,000 ... 28,000
36,000 17,000 38,700 55,700 ..20,000 49,800 60,800
59,400-
years old. Therefore, we need not be [NOTE-As the rubber tree seeds
surprised if the production in the next brought by Wickham from Brazil, and
few years still exceeds general expecta from which the Eastern Plantations
tions. It is, however, possible that al were propagated, were collected on the
the end of some years the premature margin of the Tapajos river in Para,
exhaustion of the trees will make itself & river that sends out inferior and
felt with more intensity, and that large weak rubber, it has been contended "y
The figures referring to Ceylon are period of repose more or less prolonged. areas may have to be submitted to a most Brazilians that the trees in the
taken from the Ceylon Directory of 1911, East were not the true Hovea
while those with respect to Malaya were
The necessity of opening new areas to Braziliensis. Dr. Huber, von will sec, decides conclusively that the Eastern trees, more or less; as, however, many
This area would correspond to 150,000,000] in the Struits Times, of March 21st, 1919 already admitted by many planters of calculated by C.C. Malet and published replace the failures thus produced is trees are the genuine kind.-G.E.P.) trees and even
By my calculations for Malaya alone,
large experience. It appeared, however, that among the plantations will not arrive at the pro-
a certain number of I arrive at the following figures:-- It is understood that the Ionan Cham-specimens originally introduced into the ducing stage, it may be said that ber of Commerce has requested the East, and of which there still exist 100,000,000 is the number of trees whose Government to grant an extension of the possibly 60 in all, there are individual production it will be necessary to cal period after which the total prohibition rees representing several variations, culate till the year. 1916. of poppy cultivation and of opium deal more or less well characterized in the Notwithstanding the retardment since ing and smoking will be enforced: The inate variability of the Hevea Braziliensis the plantations did not remain totally aggerated is evidenced by the fact that THERAPION
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