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CHINESE GENERAL'S. CRITICISM OF HIS COUNTRY. LI YUAN-HUNG'S. VIEW OF CHINA'S NEEDS.
MALACCA RUBBER PLANTA- | TIONS (LTD.
SIXTEEN THOUSAND ACRES
UNDER RUBBER. The Ninth Annual General Meeting! was hold on the 18th ult. as Winchester House, Old Broad-strect. London, Mr. George B. Dodwell, the chairman of the Company, presiding."
INTIMATIONS
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BRITISH PILSENER
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MINING IN CHINA. An Interesting article on the prospects of mining operations in China in conse quence of Japan's policy and the possibi lity of their proving pretitable to the investor are discussed in the current issue of the Mining Magazine. Four questions aro asked-nänrely, is there adequate evidence of the existence of mineral deposits of sufficient value to offer a Di substantial hope of exploitation? labour conditions and other local factors
The Chairman, in moving the adoption influencing the cost of operation, indicate
A Chineso Itinerant Lecturers' Assecin of the report and accounts, said that the that manes can be operated at sufficiently low cost 1 1s there, in the can of the base tion, which has its headquarters in Peking.colonial exponses in respect of a crop of metals and minor minerals, & reasonable is sending out parties of lecturers to edu3,359,14716. of rubber were £180,760, expectation of adequate and growing cate the people of China. Vice President which compared with £192,868 for 3,008,475 markets that are safe from capture by Li Yann-hung has, written a preface to lb. in 1913, showing an actual decrease of The figures imported products? Are the laws and re- the regulations of the Association, which expenses of £12,108, with an increase in
production of 373,672}b. were extremely satisfactory. The fact it gulations governing the mining industry opens with the following aphorism?—
If you are intent on a plan for conserv such that mining operators can expect to conduct their enterprises under satisfacing the peace of the Commonwealth, and thes pealised £13,633 les for their erop They sold a sensible pro- tory and stable conditions? Our conten making up the deficienees in your own en-than in 2013 was, of course, a question of porary, proceeding be discuss these factors vironment, how better can you accomplish the market.
this end than by educating the masses, and portion of their last year's crop fo.b. Singapore, and by that means cut out in turn, says:-
helping the weak "
freight and Londen charges to the amount of about £3,000. That factor was, of course, taken into consideration in the negotiations leading to the fixing of prices with buyers, and slightly lower prices were agreed upon than they would pro MACGREGOR&C. sumably have obtained in Landon,
would the rubber been brought tone and sold hare, the item "proceeds of erop have boca inerensed by £6,000 or there abouts, but the item charges on rubber would have been subject. Lo a correspond. WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, ing increase. Homie expenses totalled £29,000, as against £42,013 last year; bat
The General procvers at cico to deve lope this statement,
Hnd
That mineral deposit of sufficient richiess to justify exploitation exist fa China there is no doubt. In a paper on
Our country," he says, "has ap to the Mineral Production, and Resources] of Ching, published in the Transactions the present lived in sublimo ignorance, of the American Institute of Mining anbefore the times of Hsien Fâng an Engineers four or five years ago, Mr Pung Chih the people assumed a well Thomas T. Read has simmarised the then contained and self-satisfied attitude the existing knowledge of the mineral de classes in their calin' seclusion, and the posits of China, and as an engineer asses uken up with their ride pleasures qualified by some years' residence in the have been in total ignorance of what a And on the free of defeats country, his views are of special valuduntion means. fle showed that.coal is so widely distriby Japan on the East, humiliation at the bused throughout China as to be almal hands of France in the South, and the everywhere available with comparatively shaung inflicted by mighty Russia, the little transport, and that its quality eredulous people foolishly went in for generally good and in many cases exed Western civilization, adopting customs lent. One large mine of iron ore of gold that had been in existence among foreign quality has been developed mid therefers for hundreds of years, but mistaking evidence that other deposits of similar as the husk for the kernel, verily paring the exist with a presumption that there are foot to suit the shoe, with the rule that many such.
Considerable amounts of there has been evolved a lawless equality, copper have been produced by aafice and an unbridled liberty. Blindly they methods in south-western China, though rave and man, having no settled enivic- hampered by lack of transport facilities tions.
CHINESK. BELF-SUFFICIENCY. and a cally seauty fuel pply. Ther same remark applies to zine, except that you wish to find one man with the regarded as satisfactory. A mat notice-
substantial sum came off the charges on rubber by reason of what he might term the selling machinery which they ad adopted as to a proportion of the crop. But even allowing for that their expenses this end were less than last year, and were now about as low as they could reasonably hope to get them."
NET PROFIT FOR THE YEAR. The net profit, for the year, £114,923, when compared with that for 1913, showed at increase of $13.007, which might be
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For the present year t The £83,717 in 1013 to £5,700 for the year under review. would be still further reduced."
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A SNOWBALL BAG SALE,
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preliminary arrangements have nlready been made, will afford the needed fuel difficulty. The lead deposits are offerssful in your search, he would not be a Debenture debt was being diminished Chain Lane, Crawford & Co.. make), Fine transport, and will presumably sole the
and to date Debentures of the value of more problematical value, hut offer pro-
£42,549 15. An amount of £31,008, unter Teak Dining Room Saite, Bookcase, Screens, Casement and Door Curtains, ate, Teakwood mise. Nickel deposits have been pund,
£43,020 had been wiped out at a cost of Blackwood Cabinets, Stands, etc., etc., Famel though little definite knowledge iduting to the is available. The tin depcsts are husband and wify those betwoth brothers the heading of French taxation," was Twin Bedsteads and Mattresses by Powell siderable part of the world's outout of love, honesty, propriety and modesty are for distribution. When die shares of able Chest-of-Drawers, etc., and I pur
Improved methods of regarded as of little consequence; in fact the company were placed on the den The tendency to day is for the people certain taxation would be imposed upon they can all go by the board. people advised by Choir then Paris agents that able profils to an operating company.
the company in respect of the shares cir- Silver deposits occur in many plajes, but to descend, to the level of brutes and to re- so far none of them appear to compare gard the degeneration with complacency. culating in France, but that the amount BEER. with the world's great silver since. Gold This peach was past in the closing payable would nos be assessed until the deposits are found chiefly along the days of the Ching dynasty, but since the completion of three years from the date the Paris Bourse. upon northern and western borders in listricts establishment of the Republie it has been when the first block of shares was officially
They also offer decidedly on the increase. If indivi-introduced now difficult of noerss, much hope of profit under more faveur dans degenerate into bens's, what shali Deposits were nindo from time to time until there was n sum of £1,010 in the hands of the agente in June Inst. During FAILURE OF CEPUBLICANISMISSALA able conditions, which may reasonably be be said of the resultant nation?", expected to be rytually attained. Alto
From this "evere indictment Li Yuan-that month the agents intimated that gether it is evident that China is a minig ang proceeds to how how republicanism rey wore giving up business, and the As to inbour, it is generally knoễn hus failed to cure the frils from which agency was transforul to their prest that Chinese miners are efficient, as he the entry has suffered, "The Republe, representatives, the ambit of the deposit experiment of using them in South Afranys, has now been etablished for being handed over to them. In the fally demanis rated. The rate of wage in three years, and in this period there have month of October as the directors heard ben rosses internal disorders and for from Paris at the authorities were China is extremely low so low, in faces complications. The miseries of ligh engaged in assessing the tax, and their that it is unprofitable to employ
more than had been anticipated. machinery for any operation that hand low alike have been without number agents suggested that it might run out at labour on perform satisfactorily. Lack Those who are concerned for the approach
directors had any hint that their ensh ct transport makes supplies expensive ing dissolution of the fintion without was the first cension upon which the GROUNDS OF GOVERNMENT. HOUSE, many districts, but this is in generally Ention ascribe the present state of affairs deposit, might prove not to be in excess
to be nou extermination of bumility, the
of the amount required. Shortly after- true of mining as not to need elaboration;
non turn of the refuges uputation towards their agent advised them that the and it is obviously difficult to generalise their has the tangle of national fin assessment had been made, and that for concerning a dres of 4,277,000 square ance, and she failure of all official plans five years from 1910 to 1914 inclusive it The board's efforts miles, part of which is as densely pop for any-lination. If there is one man in totalled £31,006 9.
wers immediately directed to endeavou lated as Lancashire, while other part authority who will give a lead, and be consist of an almost uninhabited deser followed by his enbordinatey, will not this ing in secure a reduction of the amount, Generally speaking, conditions presele sufficient to save the situation? It but they were eventually forced to the o unusually unfavourable features, ascert s though there are no public-apirit enclusion that an appeal against the 11e law cost of labour is a great advantaged men among our illustrious people. assessment would lie a useless expenditure that is certain to continue for a long the There is no calamity more grievous, than of money, As to nurkots, conditions are both. favourable and anfavourable. Chua heart dead to the public was indeed the being renade into a modern count, and death of the body is a lessor evil.” Therefore presents a large opening r the
To rongnize e evil and not to true we of metals and minerals. Bt the growing general business of Chin offers it to its soures, says the tieneral, the market for finished products rather revers of charitable. In fart times" he derlares, there were those who itiner than for metals as such. In some cases where the Chines erude article can bed with a leil, and those who went up produced at profit as compard with and down the country recording notable castonis and eradienting evils. This plan. however, was inspired by the government, well.
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PRESENT POSITION OF PLANTATIONS, With regard to the present position of the company's plantations, le miglit say shortly that things were never sd satis factory in Malacca as they were to-day, The planting programme indicated to the shareholders at the lass meeting was com plete, and they had 16,000 acres under Etude
The estates were, speaking in orallent condition, and rubber.
As to labour,he new scheme,
that from abroad the foreignfinished defds, all for the purpose of removing bal geneducing areas here: coming along
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Et par le Ministère de M. GENDRELU, docteur en droit, notaire p.i.
product does not enjoy any alantage. However, a copper mine may field the
and therefore met with indifferent success, which was put into force last year, had metal at a low price per ton, t uns Why? Because the feelings of the people werked smoothly, and had effected a con- the mining company is prepared under-
During the your the problem of take refining and the manurture of are not only hidden, but difficult to exsiderable reduction in their colonial ex- thimming out had revived the considera- wire, it cannot reap the heat of there, and there are practical difficulties penses.
They were also making growing market in Ching fo electrical the way of oficial instruction. equipment. Another factor of parti ant masses are at a loss to make dis tion of the management and a great deal gular inportance in the sted industry ions between good and evil, and the had been done. Railways is China are iris financed things that have for long eluded the experiments with the system of alternato results where. In conclusion, the almost entirely with foreign pitel. The ardeurs have burdened into day tapping, which was giving excellent greements under which th loans are
prosed a very auxious time for those made in most instances provic that firmi Yet Li Yuan-hung jevos firmly in the chairman said that the past year had Temple. "As koudes have it," he says.rusted with the direction of the under shall enjoy certain prefential priv the direction of virtuous excellence, of the country in which the lao is foster the tural disposition of the people is taking, both in the East and in London, LE VENDREDI 16 JUILLET 1915.
As a laig number of railways are being built with British and he feels sure that if proper advan apital, this would be ratheadvantageantage is taken of their natural bent the o a British owned and aged plant ople will show their true qualities and and we are informed that pnstruction go from strength to strength. It is, after such a plant was arrange, and would much amentation, a hopeful view in a
through which China is passing. have been commenced hadit not been foreiod of transition such as the one
e unfavourable conditis created by Yourse he war. China wems, therefore, to offe better field for large vetments, and strong groups than smiler enterprises which might not be able to reach thei market properly.
loves.
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and they were rind to be able to feel that the company's affairs wore in a condition which suggested strength at thì Justified high present moment, and hopes for the future. There was every probability that they would be able to improve upon the present dividend next
C. year.
STOLEN IRON CROSS.
ZOUAVE'S NIGHT VISIT TO GERMAN TRENCH,
The Managing Director (Mr. Charles Emerson) seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimoruly.
USINES
à 9 k du matin
DE DEUX
A DECORTIQUER
LE RIZ CONNUES SOUS LE NOM DE
ET "RIZERIE DE L'UNION"
"RIZERIE-ORIENT"
situéor A Cholon, quai des Jonques The retiring directors and aditore WATO re-elected, a dividend of 174 per cent was comprenant les terrains, constructions, declared
upon the Preference and Ordi-machines et le matériel correspondant à The present laws and mining regule
A French effour has described to nary shares, and the following elution l'exploitation et au fonctionnement de
to the ions of China are not conducive to the respondent of the Telegraph a dare was anonimously agreed to: That a chaque usine.
Mise à prix seventeen-yar old further sum of £1.600 (in addition investment of foreign capital in miner devil exploit by &
"I had jokingly said before sum of £500 mentioned in sticle 83) ba deposits. Generally speaking fercig Zunave. firms can only engage ʼn business in one of my men," explained the officer, and hereby is voted to the directors as Pour la Rizerie de l'Union 300,000 piastres.
PRIX PAYABLE COMPTANT. tain restricted areas known as treat that I would like to sand home their reuuneration for the year 1913, and Pour la Rizerie Orient - 450,000 posts, within which they be under-t' souvenir to my wife. The Zouave had a like sun for the year 1814, and for each
Un délai pour le paiement de la moitié Jurisdiction of their own Consuls, ne overheard me and determined to get what subsequent year until otherwise decided
du prix peut être accordé pir les liquide- I looked at it, being subject to Chin-se laws or payin I wanted. Next day he came to me and by the general ne
Handed me something. China, other ny taxes to.
Caution de 30,000 piastras, pir chaque T and was surprised to find that it was I import duties, which are low
The Board of Trade, having considered usine, pour être admis aux enchères.
La matéria flottant sera treaties concluded the end of the andan Iron Croes-a real Iron Cross. foreign outbreak in 1909 provided the asked the Zouave what it all meant, and
ultérieurement. China should reys its mining regulatio bo replied to me in his queer French to the report of the Advigney Committee, sech a way that foreign capital shout the effect that he had visited during the called the attention of the public in the be free to invest in Chinese jing at night the energy's trenches, and having United Kingdom 1st month to the great. be free on the years that have si seen an Iron Crocs Dined one it without import mesort with in view to eco-emising passed serral codes of mining chest, he had carefully undone tim of
awaking the sleeving German: la votre the national supplies and avoiding an
excessive increas of price. one have been promulgated, Be
souvenir, m'capitaine.'"
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meeting
taurs.
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B'adresser, pour tous renseignementu,
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