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heard in the Minlay States recalling the TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
time when the superior soll, better cultiva
tion, greater care and cheaper labour in Malaya were going to drive South American coffee out of the market, yet somehow
AT THE WELCOME DINNER Malayan coffee never caught on as
of the
MEDICAL
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hek in London on tho 6th ultimo, at the RITZ HOTEL,
th
market." superior article in the home Honce the pessimiet is inclined to wonder wbother this bit of Malayan history is to be repeated in the case of rubber, and he sigh for more public recognition of Plantation excellence from actual manufacturers and
users rather than from financial mag. natos." Again, it is asked: "Is it that buyere prefer to purchase one ton of Para at 3/6 and to detry Plantation in CHAMPAGNE order to buy twenty tous of the latter at 1-
DE ST. MARCEAUX,
1906 VINTAGE, WAS THE ONLY
CHAMPAGNE ON THE MEND
DE ST. MARCEAUX & Co.,
REIMS,
IS A GUARANTEED VINTAGE
WINE.
a lb. less? Or is there really soins extra value in Para ? ** These questions are obviously of vital importance to all who have money invested in rubber estates in the Middle East, Mr. MALET, discussing in the article to which we have already xoferred the question as to what relution the price of
CHAMPAGNE Plantation rubber will bear to Pura in the future, says "The presont situation is obviously artificial, and nothing can be drawn from it, but, eren supposing that the proposed methods of standardisation do not bring Plantation rubbor up to the recognised plane of Para for commercial purposes, it must bring it much nearer than at present, especially with a little combination on the part of estate companies, and I think that for the next year or two Plantation will fetch within a penny or two of Para, if it does not reach parity again, which it should do. It only requires combination on the part of rabber growers to do this, and if once the Admiralty specifications are opened
It is the most Popular Wine in England and Europe to-day and invariably Ogures on thu menus of Banquets. Dianera, and Suppe given by Reigning Monarchs, Ministers of State, Merchant Guilds, Sporting Clubs.
etc., etc.
CHAMPAGNE to Plantation, then many other closed
Co.,
DE ST. MARCEAUX VIN BRUT AND VERY DRY, PAKE ER CASE 1 oz. Qlu. $57.00 INCLUDING DUTY, 2 Pt. $59,00
SOLE AGENTS:
sources of consumption-railway contructs, etc.-will
Come into line, and best smoked sheet will certainly well on a par with Para, Supposing that the price of Plantation remains down
now, the price of Pars must come down also- or else Plantation will rise to meet it." These are very comfortable reflec tions for those who are heavily in- terested in Plantation rubber. The strength
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HONGKONG, SEPTEMBER 26TH, 1913.
Tus steady drop in the price of Plantation rubber has caused ranch searching of heart, not only among planters in Malaya, but among all who have invested in the rubber companies of the Middle East. For one brief space of time in 1910 as much as 129. a pound was realised at the auctions in
London for Plantation sheets; Mesara. VERNON & Surrn's last report gave the price as Two Shillings! A writer in the Malay Mail a fortnight ago, when rubber was 25. 24., said: "It is, of course, a fact that at the figure now obtaining many estates in this country cannot possibly produce except at a loss, which is a serious matter." The prophets are entirely con- founded by this slump in the price of Plantation rubber. This is, indeed, a sud world for prophets as well as apparently for profits. But the important question for the moment is, whul is the explanation of this steady declina? Writing to a London financial paper recently, Mr. C. MALET, Of Singapore, said, “the present, bear in planta tion rubber is purely artificial." Other writers have been suggesting that Plantation. rabbar is being found inf, rior to Para for utilitarian purposes, and the pessimist is
demand for rubber is yearly increasing, while the output of Pars is represented as having reached its maximum. But as against this we bave to put the fact that scores of new rubber estates in the Middle East are now coming into bearing and the question whether the supply will not very shortly far exceed the demand. For the present year the estimated con- sumption is 120,000 tons, and next year "it is not likely to be less, as manufacturers will begin with the certainty of cheaper rubber than they began this year with." As only 28,000 tons of Para (which the experts say cannot be increased) und a possible 70,000 tons of Plantation-total about 100,000 tons--will be commercially producible in 1914, at least 30,000 tons of other rubber must come from somewhere, This means that the bulk of the other wild rubbers now produced. (47,000 tons?) must be kept on the market, and Mr. Mater. says, this cauuot be done with Para at much less than 34. Gd., so that for 1914 the price of Para must be automatically maintained at a reasonable level, which will permit of this. The price of Para at the present moment is governed by a close corporation which maintains it, and the same will undoubtedly happen to Plantation, which will tend to bring the two to parity. The price of Plantation will thus largely depend, not on the bogey of over-production, which has not yet cone to pass, but on the amount of combination on the part of Planta- tion companies. This should mean 38. at least for good sheet Plantation for 1914." As we have already remarked, this is a sad world for prophets, but it will be hoped that this prediction will not prove wide of the mark. Unless the consumption of rubber increases greatly there will be over-production in a couple of years from now, and it is satisfactory to see that the planters are ahve to the danger and are contemplating the formation of Committees
of Reorganisation and Contrôl.
Dr. Gröne left by the Shingo-mary for Home on holiday, accompanied by Mrs. *Gröna.
Dr. Martyn Lobb left by the Empress of India on a short visit Home and will be returning, we understand, with a wife..
Major R. S. Paul of the 126th Balu- chistan Infantry has been granted furlough to the United Kingdom for one year from November 11th on urgent private affairs.
It is notified that the business hitherto
carried on by Mr. T. W. Kidd, under
the style of the Hongkong Timber Com pany, will on October 1st be transferred to Messrs. Melchers & Co., and carried on by them under the style of Messrs. Melchers & Co. Timber Department,
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[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE HOME RULE CONTROVERSY,
"DOOR STILL OPEN FOR THE
TULLEST DELIBERATION.”
LONDON, September 25th.
The Westminster Gazette, in a bag statement in reference to the articles in the Evening Standard and Pall Mall Gazette the previous day (sun- marised in yesterday's Lulegruium), says that it may, of course, be taken for granted that the political situation was discussed
on
· (THROUGH · HEUTER'S AGENOT.]
BRITISH EMPLOYERS FORM A
DEFENCE UNION.
ENORMOUS GUARANTUR FUND CONTEMPLATED.
LONDON, September 25th. The Times announces that a United
Kingdom Employers' Defonce Union has been formed, which will be registered as-
a trade union, with the object of consoli- dating the resources of the employers and maintaining their rights and freedom to bargain individually with fres
[THROUGH RELTER'S AGENCY.]
SUCCESSOR TO MR. MORITARO ABE.
Loxion, September 25th. Mr. Chozo Kojke, Councillor 'at the Japanese Embassy, has left for Tokio via Siberia to succeed Mr. Abe as Chief of the Political Affairs Bureau in the Foreign Office,
He is due to arrive early on the 11th October, and enters upon his duties on the same day.
The staff of the Embassy and a large
SUPREME COURT.
Thursday, September 25th.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION,
BEFORE HIS HONOR MR. J. H. Keur (PUISNE JUDGE).
SMALL CLAIM. FOR RICE SOLD.
Action was brought by Chau In Man and Chau In Ting against the Hop Hing firm to cover the sum of €10.51, balance due for rice sold and delivered.
Mr. F. Mason appeared for the plain tiffs, and Mr. C. A. Sutherton Russ tr the defendant firm.
Mil.
Mr. Mason said he was not ready to go as his clients' books were missing. They were left at his office to be translated,
by the public men who met at Balmoral workers, or collectively with trade unions. and representative gathering of Japanese so that they might get certified copies,
At
meeting last week two and elsewhere, but there has, been no
manufacturers promised £50,000 each nepossity for any new decision on the towards a guarantee fund, which it was part of the Government, for Ministers are hoped would reach £10,000,000 sterling. of opinion that the door has always been. Individual guarantees will become opern- and still is, open for the fullest deliberative only when this sun is secured, tion of every aspect of the Home Rule question.
BICKERING IN THE BALKANS.
·SERVIAN RESERVISTS CALLED OUT.
BELGRADE, September 25th. Two regiments of Reservists have been called out, and the railway is wholly reserved for military traffic.
The Westminster emphasises the cordial relationa between the Nationalists and the Liberals, and declares that the Liberals will not countenance any action which would betray the cause of the Irish party. The article concludes by assuming that
A telegram from Sofia says that the if the Unionista desire peace they should
Servian troops and Turkish Bashibazouks find some method of dealing with the
are attacking the Bulgarian frontier Ulster situation which would prevent its
posts in the Strumnitza district. blocking the policy of conciliation.
Servia and Montenegro are acting ULSTER DELEGATES MEET IN
jointly in warding off Albanine iacur BELFAST.
sions. Montenegro has sent 60 men from Five hundred Ulster delegates wet in each battalion to Diakora. the Ulster Hall, Belfast.
The Vienna Bourse is much dopressed owing to the Albanian complications and the Servian military preparations.
Sir Edward Carson and Lord London- derry drove up, attended by a bodyguard
of motor cyclists,
The Duke of Abercorn, Captain Craig M.P. and many Peors were present.
The confereres finally approved of the articles for a Provisional Government, and Financial, Legal, Education, Cus toms, Excise, Post Office and Volunteer Forca Committees were appointed.
The standing committee of the Ulster Unionist Council was appointed the Executive, with Sir Edward Carson as chairman, while the Rt. Hon. J. H., M. Campbell, P.C., Attorney-General for Ireland in 1905. was appointed Aesssor. Details will be published on the day when Home Rule becomes law,
The largest Union Jack in the world
was spread over the platform.
Lord Londonderry opened the proceed ings, which were conducted within closed doors, and an official statement was made afterwards.
Reuter's correspondent at Sofia wires that the Bulgarian Government has presented a note to the Russian Legation complaining of the reign of terror" created by the Servians in Macedonia.
ANOTHER OUTRAGE IN ABYSSINIA.
ENGLISH ARMY OFFICER WOUNDED BY
17ORY HUNTERS.
assembled at the station to bid him far well.
ILLNESS OF EX-PORTUGUESE KING'S CONSORT.
LONDON, September 25th. Ex-King Manuel's consort has been several days in hospital at Munich. The nature of her illness has not been dis-
closed, but it is announced that her coudi-
tion is improved.
but his interpreter, who had charge of the case, and gone to Saigon, and the bocka could not be found.
Mr. Russ very strongly opposed an adjournment. This was a very trifling case, the claim was one of only 18, and the costs had already ran up to a con siderable amount. He had a book which was chopped by one of the plaintiffs and set out all the items. If would be shown. in the course of the case that the cause vf the action was that the book WON wrongly added up. If the items were properly added, it would be found that the amount duo was $12.80, and that amount had been settled.
Mr. Mason said his books showed a balance due of $26.51.
very
OPIUM SALES AT CALCUTTA.
At the ninth opium sale at Calcutta on the 2nd inst., there was a further rise in prices, the total proceeds of 576 chests being two Inkhs more than was realised at the August sale for the name number of chests. 100 chests of Bihar opium were sold, the highest price per chest realised balance of between $12 and $13 due, and being Rs. 3,000 and the lowest Rs. 2,905,
His Lordship-The claim is small one, and I would like to dispose of the case now if possible.
Mr. Russ said there was an uncertain
Of Bonares opium 475 chests were sold, one of the plaintiffs wrote to defendant the highest price per ebest being Rs. 2,000 and asked him to pay $10 in full settle- and the lowest Rs. 2,595. The grandment to his wife. Mr. Russ said he was. total for the sale was Rs 15,34,900 as going to submit that that was good against Rs. 13,20,975 at the last sale, while accord and satisfaction. As far as he the general average price per chest was R. 2,609-6-3 as compared with Ra 2.290-2-1 last month.
JAPAN'S ACTION IN CHINA,
'BEITAIN'S DIPLOMATIC, SUPPORT.
Tokio, September 17th. Before presenting the Japanese de- mands in Peking, the Foreign Office instructed Mr. Inouye, Japanese Ambas- sador in London, to round the British Government and ascertain its attitude in NAIROBI, September 25th. the event of military action being taken against China. Mr. Inouye learned that Following the murder of Captain Great Britain would view with apprehen- Aylmer in June by ivory poachers in sion military action against China at the Abyssinia, Lieutenant Jones, of the encourage the partition of the Britain present time, which was calculated to
King's African Rifles, has been wounded
the Powers amongst
Great would support Japan in Peking diplu- Kutol, near Lake Rudolf. It is pre-matically if demands for apology and sumed that his assailants were Abyssinian indemnity were made, but could not countenance stronger action previous to the presentation of such demands.
ivory hunters. ~ Troopa were already en route bofore the news was received,
BRITISH NAVAL DEMONSTRATION
IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.
must imposing demonstration of naval power that Great Britain has ever made in that sea.
Sir Edward Carson, addressing the
LONDON, September 28th. conference, said they must recognise that. The concentration of British warships two hostile parties were face to face. If in the Mediterranean will constitute the Home Rule was not carried there would be trouble in the South; if it was carried there would be trouble in the North Great Britain must be accepted as the arbiter between the parties. All the artifices of politicians and the subtleties of Radical pressmen would never convert what was essentially loyalty into treason If there was disgrace in the fight before them, it was not disgrace for Ulster, but
AUSTRALIAN NAVAL DOCKS.
LONDON, September 25th.
The famous engineer, Sir Maurice Fitz Maurice, is sailing for Australia to investigate on behalf of the Common wealth the question of Naval Dock bases from an engineering standpoint.
WRECK
for the men who, for their own baso pur- poses, had driven them into their present position. They would have had no right | SEQUEL TO AMERICAN RAILROAD to take the step they had taken that day, with its possible consequences, if they had. not exhausted every means to bring the Government to a real sense of the problem
and its dangers.
USE OF ALL-STEEL. CAES RECOMMENDED,
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2ib. The Inter-State Commission's investiga. Sir Edward Careon gave £10,000 as an tion into the recent wreck on a Newhaven indemnity fund.
railroad recommends legislation requir- ing railroads to use all-steel cars.
PRESS COMMENT,
The proceedings at Belfast yesterday have been made the basis of admonitions by the Unionist Press to the Government to abandon the policy of drift and appeal to the electors if they do not wish to be responsible for certain bloodshed. They dwell on the orderly, practical and busi- ness-like character of the scheme for provisional government, and declare that if there was ever any doubt of the inten tions of Ulster it is now removed.
THE DUBLIN LABOUR TROUBLES.
LONDON, September 25th.
Government has asked Sir George Ashwith to visit Dublin and medinte in the Labour dispute.
The
Irish
HOME TURF.
THE TETRARCH INSURED FOR THE DEREY,
LONDON, September 25th..
The phenomenal colt, The Tetrarch, has
been
The Liberal papers point out the undemocratic nature of the standing com
insured with Lloyds against mitice, which includes eighteen peers, and inability to run in the Derby of 1914. The declare that this self-constituted authority rate paid is 25 per cent. means to rule Ulster on behalf of the
MARRIAGE AND LONG LIFE.
BACHELORS AT DISADVANTAGE.
could see, the books were not material unless the details in plaintiffs' book disagreed with the details in the book he had put in.
After hearing evidence his Lordship entered judgment for plaintiff for $2.86 and costs.
STEAMER PIRATED IN CHINESE WATERS.
The 'ss. Lieurne was attacked by a band of about seven or eight armed pirates at Ki O, in Chinese waters, at about 10.30 on Wednesday night. The steamer leit irg, and when off Ki O the pirates rushed Hongkong at about 7 o'clock in the even-
on board the vessel, presenting their
revolvers and threatening the crew and
passengers with ugly-looking knives. The robbers battened the passengers down in the hold, and tied up the master and Coxswain.
to They then proceeded examine the boat for booty, and took two chests of opium, $1,000 in money, and nine cases of cargo, and made good their escape in two of the ship's boats. The pirates were in charge of the vessel from 10.30 until nearly one o'clock in the morning, and deserted hor in the neigh- bourhood of Wong Moon.
Several pas-
Statistics collected by the Federal authorities in America, and edited by Professor Wilcox, of Cornell University. show conclusively (says the New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph) that marrie men have a much better chance of life than bachelors. The sengers were injured more or less severely advantage is greatest in middle life, but by knife and bullet wounds, hut no one at all ages before eighty it is marked. was killed. There was no European on
From twenty to thirty the death-rate among Benedicts is 4.2, as compared with board the vessel. 6.6 among bachelors. In the decade following it is under 6. against nearly 13.
Between forty and fifty the married man is better off in the proportion of 0.5 to 19.5, From fifty to sixty his margin
NAVAL AND MILITARY.
of superior vitality is 11, and the ten
A draft of close on 200 ron-commis- years up to his allotted three score and sioned officers and men of the 1st ten years it is as much as 19.
Gloucester Regiment is to proceed by Commenting on these figures, the Journal of the American Medical Asteamship to Hongkong shortly to join mation observes that some allowance must the other battalion. be made for the fact that men of bad or New crews for the sloop Rosario, parent indifferent health are not willing to ship of Far East Submarine Flotilla, and assume the burden and responsibility of a family. It is certain that the regular surveying ship Merlin, employed on the life of a married man, the care bestowed China Station, left the Naval Depot, upon him by his wife, and his avoidance Chatham, on 27th inst. for Devonport. of unnecessary risks are all important
The following appointments have been factors in retarding his journey to the
At all ages the statistics show mado at the Admiralty-Commander grave. that unmarried men die at a rate almost M. Baillie-Hamilton, to the Triumph, on recommissioning to date August 28th. twice that of the married men.
Women, oddly enough, seem to gain loss Lieutenants C. P. Chearnley (as navigat- by wedlock. Between twenty and thirty,ing officer), C. M. L. Scott, C. A. Browne, string probably to the dangers of child B. C. Porter, and J. G. Bowles, to the birth, the death rate of wives is higher Merlin, on recommissioning, nudated,
4. These than that of spinstera by 5 to figures are misleading, however, because, while the "girls" in this group include all between twenty and thirty, compara tively few of the wives are under twenty
In the more advanced ages the five wives have some
the advantage over spinsters, but not so much as the hus bands over bachelors.
AB to suicides, four-fifths are urimarried, but, it is added, small means and small hope of wedded life are apparently the chief contributing cause."
Royal Marines-Captain R.M.LI... C. L. E. Mantz, to the Triumph, for passage, for the Tamar, joining. Lieutenant R.M.L.I.-F. H. Thomas, to the Triumph, for passage to China, for the Tamar, as instructor of musketry, Hongkong,
Lieut. Francis Allen Newton Cromie, who has been appointed to succeed Com- mander Archdale in command of the Submarine Flotilla at Hongkong, passed the whole of his time as naval cadet and
an on the China Etation, in thes flagship of Rear-Admirals C. C. Penrose Fitzgerald and Sir James He was mentioned in dispatches for his Bruce, from May, 1898, to the end of 1991. servicce at Tientsin in June, 1900, during the Boxer outbreak, and has the medal
The recent celebrations of the birthday anniversary of the Eraperor Francis Joseph will be overshadowed by those which are to be held in December next for this.
Major R. B. Airey, A.S.C., has heen when his Majesty will complete his sixty-fifth year as Emperor of Austria.selected for service in North China. It was not long ago that he talked of abdication. It was through the resignit tion of his uncle that Francis Joseph NEW YORK, Sept. 25th. came to rule Austria, and it is interest Patrick Ford, the rited Nationalist, ising to note that Ferdinand lived for over twenty-six years after relinquishing the Bead.
Orange Lodges. They dwell on the bad DEATH OF A NOTED NATIONALIST. impression created on workers by Car sonism, and assert that the hollowness of the movement is made evident by the elaborate advertisement.
throne.
Major P. B. Morris, Duke of Com-
wall's L.I., hts been placed on duty with the draft joining the 2nd Battalion at Hongkong.
Capt. W. A. Moore, R.G.A., has been appointed to the Hongkong-Singapore Battalion, R.A.