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are on paid up capital, and it must be admitted that the returns scarcely support the view that the landlords are avaricious and "getting rich quick." It may be said that the income derived
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
INDUSTRIAL UNREST IN ITALY.
STRIKE DEMONSTRATORS FIRED AT BY SOLDIERE.
LONDON, June 10th.
A general strike has been declared in Italy, owing to Carabineers firing at
killing two of them.
(THROPAH, BEUTER'S AGENCY.]
DISABLED STEAMER FOUND.
A VALUABLE CARGO OF PHOSPHATES.
LONDON, June 10th. The steamer Cairnhill, bound for Stettin, which was abandoned by all her crow except the Captain, the First and
[DER OSTASIATISCHER LLOYD": SERVICE.)
CHINA SERVICE.
THE NEW GOVERNOR
OF MACAO
Dr. Jose Carlos Maie, the newly- appointed Governor of Macau, reached Hongkong yesterday. by the. N. D. L. steamer Derflinger, and was met by Capt. Alison A.D.C. to H.E. the Gover-` nor, and Mr. J. J. Leiria, the Portuguese RAILWAY ENTERPRISE IN NORTH | Consul in Hongkong, who went out to meet him on the Government launch Fistoria. A guard of honour of one hundred rank and file and a band, supplied by
CHINA.
PERING, June 10th.
by the companies from their property does demonstrators at Ancona on Sunday, and Second Officers, and the Fourth Engine the Chinchow-Chaoyang Pingchuan-Johol Pior in honour of the distinguished.
not, in all cases, represent the total sum paid by the actual tenauts, because large blocks of houses, are sometimes leased to individuals who make a profit and prob ably a substantial one-by sub-letting. To what extent this is done we have no ready means of ascertaining, but it seems clear that while individuals who acquired house property years ago are obtaining very lurgy returns, on
their investments, shareholders in the public
companies are not getting a rate of interest
which can be described as unconscionable. We have been led into these reflections by the anticipations our contributor holds out of much lower rentals in the new
suburb which it is desired to develop in the neighbourhood of Deep Water Bay. There, we believe, the idea is to provide opportunities for individuals to build their own houses and become their own landlords, and those who do that may reasonably expect to be able to live core cheaply than is possible now. Building sites in that part of the island will be cheaper
than they are in the immedi te neigh-
bourhood of the city, and presumably much of the stone for building purposen is procurable in the district. So that eren | though the boom in the building trade, which would be created by the starting of work on the new suburb, should tend to enhance rather than decrease the cost of labour, it ought to be possible to build houses there more cheaply than is possible at the present day within the hits of
The demonstratore wore denouncing the disciplinary Companies in the Army.
Many people have struck work in Rome, but the shops are for the most part open. There are strikes on a considerable seals in the important towns throughout the country.
The strikers bare cut the railway at Ancons, and the question of a general railway strike is being discussed.
A number of demonstrators at Florence threw stones and bricks at the police,
several of whom were injured. The
police finally drew their revolvers, killing
ae man and wounding two.
One demonstrator was killed and eight winded, and 25 troops and police were injured in rioting at. Turin.
Troops at Rome fred a volley into the air, dispersing the mob, after scuffles in which several persons were injured.
Strikers, in many places stopped the trains, placing stones and sleepers on the lines. They also broke the windows of the carriages,
THE NATIONALIST VOLUNTEERS,
MOVERENT." SPREADS LIKE A PRAIRIE FİRE'
LONDON, June 19th.
Mr. John Redmond, M. P., the leader of the Irish Nationalists, in a letter, says
that the Nationalist Volunteer movement has spread like a prairie fire since the Irish party announced their support af -
the movement.
All the Nationalists in.
the City of Victoria, Mr. MONTAGUE EDE, the promoter of the Portuguese Housing Scheme, who went very thoroughly into the question of building costs, was able to promise houses at Wonguei-Ireland, be declared, would shortly be chong at half the rentals tenants in enrolled, and he suggests the strengthen
ang of the governing body by an additional 25 representatives from all parts of Ireland.
the city are now paying; and we have BO doubt that the promoters of this now and attractive scheme for develop ing the district around Deep Water Bay have assured themselves of the possibility of satisfactorily meeting the demand for cheaper and healthier homes. Yet it does not require much foresight to picture a time not far distant when the new suburb with its
beautiful bathing beaches and possible recreation grounds will become a popular holiday resort for peopis in other parts of the Far East. There are obviously great pos. sibilities in that direction. What then will become of the suburb's early reputation for cheapness? But we can defer the con- sideration of this question till it threatens to arise, and merely note now the fact that there will be plenty of room for expansion beyond the area defined in the agreement under the consideration of the Legislative Council.
DOW
The first Aquatic Fête ander the auspices of the V.R.C. takes place on Saturday night. An announcement ap- .pears in our advertisement columns.
THE NEW FRENCH CABINET: '
M. HIT'S SUCCESS.
PARIS, June 10th. M. Ribot has completed his Ministry. M. Bourgeois is Foreign Minister, M. Noulens, War Minister M. Delesssé Marine Minister; and M. Chantemps will be. Minister for the Colonies.
LATEIL Subsequently M. Noulens withdrew acceptance of the portfolio of War, and
and Steward off New Ireland on the 31st
March, has been picked up and towed into New Guinea. The cargo, of phosphates, etc., was valued at £70,000,
The steamer was reported to have broken her tail-shaft, and an Australian warship was dispatched to render her assistance.]
MORE VANDALISM. BY
SUFFRAGETTES.
LONDON, June 10th.
A, Suffragette has mutilated a Romney in the Birmingham Gallery.
Police raided the Suffragettes tempor- ary headquarters at Westminster and | seized a number of documents.
PARLIAMENT RESUMED.
LONDON, June 10th.
resumed The House of Commons yesterday. For several weeks the busi ness will be of a routine and unconten- tione nature, and excitement is not anticipated until the Home Rule Bill is
introduced into the House of Lords.
ARMS SMUGGLING IN MEXICO.
-AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, DETAINS CARDGES FOR REBELS.
WASHINGTON, June 10th. The Cabinet has ordered the detention of cargoes of arms which were being loaded at Gnlycaton and Baltimore for
the Mexican Rebels.
INDIA AND THE MONSOON.
BOMBAY, June 10th,
The official The monsoon has burst. forecast says there will probably be a defective rainfall" in the existing famine area,
where a plentiful monspon essential for the return of prosperity,
HOME COUNTY CRICKET,
LONDON, June 10th. Essex beat Surrey at the Oval by 323 Fus
Northants beat Bristol by 143 runs.
The survey of the proposed routo of the 8th Rajputs, was lined up at Blake Railway has been completed. The Chin-visitor, and as he landed a salute was fired by the Kowloon battery, and the chow-Chaoyang section of this line will Rajputs Band played in Portuguese he constructed by Chinese out of surplus national anthem. After inspecting the funds of the Poking-Mukden railway guard His Excellency proceeded in a and will cost $4,225,000.
REBEL LEADERS ON TOUR.
PRKING, June 10th. The Chinese Press at Shanghai, reports the departure of Sun Yat-sen from Japan for Paris. The other rebel leaders have also left Japan, saying that they are going on a round trip through Europe.
CHINESE INTERIOR LOAN,
PEKING, June 10th.
motor car to Government House to call: upon H.E. Sir Henry May.
THE SMUGGLING OF OPIUM.
At the Magistracy yesterday in cook and the Douglas steamer a carpenter on Haiyang word charged with being in unlawful possession of 144 tacks of raw opium. According to the evidence of Revenue Officer Wilden, the opium was found in a secret compartment in the. carpenter's shop on board. The carpenter
The Kuo Chuan-pao reports that the admitted to Inspector Wilden that there was raw opium concealed in the compart- President has sanctioned an Interiorment, but denied that it belonged to him, Loan for $20,000,000.
EUROPEAN SERVICE.
BRITISH PRESS AND SUFFRAGETTES,
LONDON, Jane Oth.
and alleged that it was the property of a cook, whom he pointed out. The cook, who was defended by Mr. P. S. Dixon (of Messrs. Wilkinson & Grist) was discharged. but the carpenter was ined $1,000, or six months' imprisonment.
Revenue Officer Wilden also proerented in another case, the defendant being a The British Press is demanding the Chinese named Chung Yan, and the institution of severer laws against amount of opium concerned 420, taels. excesses committed by suffragettes, as it feared that otherwise the public will resort to lynch justice.
The drug was shipped in the Chnen Chow at Macao for delivery in Hongkong, and was consigned in wooden boxes ás pre- served fruit." The defendant came on
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BRITISH OPINION OF THE NEW board as the steamer got alongside the
FRENCH CABINET.
wharf in Hongkong, and, presenting a delivery order, asked for the hoxes, paying 60 cents for freight. The revenue officers then arrested him. The tallyma of the Chuen Chew said that the boXER were brought on board by two coolies just before the vessel sailed from Vacao. Defendant, for whom Mr Agassiz (from Mr. Harding's office) appeared, was remanded.
LONDON, June 9th. British imperialists hail the advent of the reactionary Cabinet of M. Ribot, and the Daily Mail declares that the friends of France would view with the profoundest regret the abolition of the three years' service.
THE RULER OF ALBANIA.
BERLIN, June 9th, Serxia and Grecce have declared them- Gloucestershire at selves as being against a change of ralera in Albania in favour of a Mabonmedan Prince.
The match betwean Worcestershire and Sussex at Worcester was abandoned.
OPIUM DEALER DEFRAUDED.
The police have been informed of a big
CONSTANTINOPLE ANNIVERSARY,
BERLIN, June 9th.
In view of Greck demonstrations, the
LINGGI PLANTATIONS.
CONSIDERABLE DEPRECIATIOx is
INVESTMENTS.
The report of the Linggi Plantations Limited, states that, including several amall blocks of native boldings required during the year to December 31st, and the small estate mentioned below, tha total acreage is as follows:-Cultivated with Hevea rubber, 7,408 ncies; being reserve land, 5,888
the Cabinet had to be re-arranged, M.trand performed on a Chinese opium Forte has decided to celebrate on Friday, planted, 30 acros; Delcassé going to the War Office, and M. dealer, living at No. 97, Jervois Street, the 12th instant, the anniversary of the acres. The rubber output and revenue Chautemps accepting the post of Marine by a Chinese. It appears that on the 1st Minister
The Radicals and Socialists intend to a resolution against the new
move:
Cabinet.
་བདག་--- ASIATIC IMMIGRATION IN
CANADA..
LONDON, June 10th. The Times correspondent at Ottawa says it is understood that Canada and China are negotiating for a settlement of the imigration question on lines similar to the existing agreement between Canada and Japan.
inst. a.
man named Cheung Fik Shan capture of Constantinople by the Turks. Costs, compared (on the same basis) with 1912, are as follows:-Rubber harvested, bought from the opium dealer four chests The Greek world is greatly incensed and 1,281,116 lbs., 1918, 1,166,344 lbs. (estimat of Malwa opium, valued at $25,300. The the Patriarch bas ordered the closing ed output for 1933 was 1.125,000 lbs.). man paid $4,000 in cash, and gave four of all the schools and churches as a sign Cost per lb-Estate expenditure, 18. Irafts for the rest of the amount. The of mourning over the Greek emigration 1.45d.; 1912, 165d. f.oh., s. 2.61d.; 0.73d; 1912, 1s. 5.50d.; depreciation, drafts, on being presented at the Bank from Asia Minor, and in view of the 1912, 18. 7.15d.; freight and selling were drelared to be forgeries,
CHINA AND THE SEA.
coming meeting at Constanza, in the hope of creating the impression that the Christians in Turkey are peraceuted and Although the political troubles in the to incite the wrath of the Orthodox Chinese Empire have for the time inter- Russians. Several of the Powers have fered with the placing of orders for newdmonished the Forte to ameliorate the ships of war, and the proposal to obtain a naval mission from this country has condition of the Grecks in. Turkish been deferred, says the Naval and Mili Jary Record, the Chinese Government is territory. persisting in training personnel. It has naval schools in existence now at Chefoo, Nanking, Foochow Canton, and Woo- sung. The most notable of these institu- tions is the naval college at Chefuo. The
A temporary general strike has occurred reement has been building, spacious, well-equipped, and
possessing ample grounds, lies about 17 in Italy as a protest against the killing miles to the east of the foreign quarter
LONDON BUILDING TRADE: DISPUTE.
LONDON, June 10th.
The following Admiralty appointments
The basis of anti are ́amnounced:-Mr. G. B. McCormick, reached in the London building trade assistant ordnance store officer, R.N.O. dispute as a result of a conference Depot, Hongkong, to R.N.O. Depot, hetween the delegates of the Trade Upnor; Mr. C. D. J. Bell, assistant Unions and the employers. The matter constructor, Hongkong, to Portsmouth.
will be submitted to the ballot, but it is doubtful whether the men will accept it.
The second engineer on the Nile has complained to the police that whilst the steamer was lying off Taikoo Dock some Tuffiew of the Hongkong landlon prs.person stole from his cabin a Smith sented in the contributed article published·
Wessen revolver and 50 cartridges. in another column, wherein be is represented Major-General A. Anderson, C.B., as filling a role akin to the Get-rich-quick formerly the Officer Commanding the Wallingford" is one which is widely adopted Troops in South China, and now a divisional commander. in India, has been in the Colony, but, as we bare had occasion to point out before, the high reats prevailing promoted to the rank of Lieutenant- in Hongkong do not necessarily mean that General. all landlords are making enormous profits. The man who bought house property ten or fifteen years nga, and still holds it. is unquestionably prosting enormously by pressnt day rentals; while those who have taken advantage of the steady rise in the value of property in recent years
Among the passengers who left yester- owing to the pressure of a growing popula-day by the Empress of Asia were Mr. tion upon available accommodation have W. G. Humphreys who is going on undoubtedly realised handsome profits, holiday to join Mrs. Humphreysin The higher the price a man pays for house England; and Mr. W. E. Bell, of the proparty, the higher, of course, must be the Asiatic Petroleum Co., who also goes on rentals to make the investment remunerative, holiday, and is accompanied by his wife It is a well-known fact that during the and children. past few years a very large amount of house property in the Colony has changed hands at very high prices, and it cannot be confidently said, we think, that the majority of landlords are getting, even at the present level of rentals, an unreasonably high return upon their investments. Many are, no doubt; but can this ba said gener ally of local landlords? As some guide to the question, look at the returns paid to shareholders by the local companies. The
yenra
STRIKE IN ITALY.
BERLIN, June 9th.
of Che foo. Students of 12 to 10 years of a labourer at Ancona at the time of of age are admitted, and the whole course
of training in free. A superintendent is the demonstrations against the military in charge, and in addition, there are disciplinary company, assistants, inspectors, and teachers. numbering 10 persons in all. Provision
expenses, -1.58d.; 1912, 2.37d. directors fees and general expenses in London, 0.44d.; 1912, 0.57d.; total, all-in. s. 4.20d.; 1912, 14. 10.08d.; erop proceeds. (excluding discount and draft), 29. 6.20.; 1912, s. 1.620.; profit per 1., s. 2.000.- 1912, 29. 3.53d. The estimated output-for 1914 is 1,385,000 lbs., of which 204,240 lbs. have been sold forward at an average of 2. | 5.74d. per lb. (new torns).
During the year investments, to the value of £39,449 were sold, and the pro- ceeds applied to meet estate requirements. Shares to the book value of £1,717 were transferred in settlement of the purchase price of a small estate adjoining the cou- pany's Ulu Sawah Division. The renais ing investments, valued at middle price on December 31st, show a depreciation as compared with book value of £23.166. The date of valuation was a time of abnormal depression, and, although a considerable proportion of this depreciation has since been made good by recovery in market values, the directors have deemed it advisable to meet this depreciation by writing off £25,160 to desit of share pro- nium account, and this has been done in the accounts now presented. The preft for the rear amounted to £80,748; to which has to be added the balance carried forward from 1912, £5,933, together making £89,680. After deducting the in 1911 by Vickers, carrying a comple: petition, consisting of five events, was won following dividends paid:Dividend on ment of 230; as well as the composite.
first interim dividend of 1 per cent. on training-ship Kingching, built at Foo by H.R.H. Prince Frederick Charles of preference shares for the year 1913, £700; chow in 1864, of 1,005 tons displacement, Prussia, sun of Prince Leopold, in the ordinary shares, paid August 8th, carrying a complement of 202. There
£15,000; second interim dividend of 15 is also the steel training-ship Tungchi, | splendid style.
per cent on the ordinary shares, paid 1,900 tons, built at Foochow Arsenal in
Dctober 8th. $15,000; third interim dis 1894, complement 155. Not only is the
dend of 15 per cent on the ordinary Chinese Government training officers for the new Navy which is to be created as Many eminent persons remarks a con- sharce, paid January 18th, £15,000, there soon as the political conditions in the temporary are great believes in "Sound remains a balance of £43,080, which the and of Sound Industrials, directors recommend should be dealt with Empire permit, but the students include. Industrials The Municipality has voted a sum of voung oficers who are to be drafted into Nestle's and Anglo-Swiss Consolidated as follows:Payment of a final dividend The of 23 per cent, on the ordinary shares, 5,000 marks to entertain the British the
mercantile marine. Potentially Milk Co. are an excellent sample.. China is one of the richest countries in company made nearly 13 million francs making a total distribution for the year Squadron. There will be a Regatta the world, and the new Government is (£510,000) in 1913 and pays 90 francs 1913 of 70 per cent., £25,000; special evidently convinced that, once' political dividend. The capital is now £1,000,000 remuneration due to the directors under Week. The Socialists supported the conditions become stable, a great future and the bonded debt £800,000 were paid Article 96 £1,500, leaving to be carried
forward, £17,480. lies before China on the seas
MAROONED OFF ALASKA.
À REVENUE-CUTTEN TO THE RESCUE
LONDON, June 10th..
BRITISH SQUADLON'S VISIT TO KIEL.
A revenue cutter at St. Michael's, Alaska, has been ordered to Wrangle "Col" Bob Love, who has for so many Island, to reseve the marooned crew of
been identified with the circus the Enrluk business in the Far East, will probably wish it to be known that the reports of his death at Hongkong, which have appeared in Bangkok and, Singapore papers, are very much exaggerated." He entered the Government Civil Hos pital a fortnight ago suffering from blood poisoning in the foot and has had to have a toe amputated. He is still in hospital, *-- but is making steady progress.grant.
KIEL, June 10th
and
BERLIN, June 9th...
is made for 192 students or cadets. The ARMY COMPETITIONS IN BERLIN. college curriculum includes English. geography, mathematics, sailing, rifle gun practices, astronomy, and sundry other subjects.
The great army competitions took place China Year-Book for 1913 includes in the list in the presence of Their Majesties at the of the Chinese Navy the training cruiser
The officers' com- Shauko, of 2,200 tons displacement, built Stadium in Berlin.
The
(in diviends.