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THE HONGKONG DAILY FRES“, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4TH, 1916.
REVENUE OFFICER'S TRAGIC INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
DEATH.
Revenue Officer James McMillan com mitted suicido at about midday on Sunday at his residence, No, 1, Naval Terrace, by shooting himself through the head with a revolver. He was one of the most popular and efficient men in the Revenue service, and his tragic death came as a severe shock to his colleagues and to the many friends his bright and sunny temperament had
attracted. Apparently he had experienced financial difficulties, and on Saturday, it
OF CHINA.
SOME RECENT OPINIONS. BY PROFESSOR MIDDLETON SMITH,
M.SO.
"EXPORTS UP, IMPORTS
DOWN,"
HOW THE AVERAGE MAN IS AFFECTED.
With regard to mining, China, which up to the present time has hardly been scratched, seema destined to yield some of the biggest mining enterprises of the world Just as the Chinese shareholders
In piping times of paner, few people in the Kailan Mining Administration give a nougat to interaucous since Und touch dividends they never did before, it is a very discut subject, the sandů 100s Dab touch the aveinge man in At present the workshops of Europe will other and similar enterprises any cavity of mas fe, and he is well con
ip and America are
yield good returns. Prosperity soothes went to wave it to the politicians who are Almost every lathe feverish activity.
There will be no resentment of a joint *pposed to unterstang such things and
che ananciers who do, and machine tool is being used, directly Chinese and foreign control when it is or indirectly, for the production of muni- fully appreciated that the result, is very tions.
profitable to native sa well as foreign shareholders Mines will play a very
state of
Fortunately, Here is a limit of time, even in warfare. In a few months,
is said, ho reportedly threatened to take or in a year, or in three years, the pro-part in the growth of the New China. his life. On the Friday he was to be seen,gent great demand for shells and machine. in the attire of a down, romping about guns will almost case. Then will com- Like & veritable, schoolboy and amusing the mence new anxieties. A market will be children at the Civil Service annual neosary to keep the lathes and their It is already evident
sports.
attendants busy.
They demand close attention. Mr. A. J. Hoskin, in showing the relative values of mining, agriculture and manufactures in such a country as the United States, has pointed out that, in one year, agri-
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De average un is wrong. If he had
and trusted the politicians leas the history of the last teen mon he would have been different. Regarded fr in ano her stand- point, the average inan is one of the owners of a great business and ought to have suficient knowledge of the general principles on which it is conducted to be able to check those who manage, or mis- manage, it as the case tisay be
Once reduce the international financial
an ori.nary balance-shoet, and the average
Deceased was formerly in the Royal that great hopes are fostered in Great culture produced about 8795 (gold) per position created by the war to the terms of Garrison Artillery and served in the Britain by the belief that China will capita, mining $1,910, and manufacturing man has no need of the assistance of the South African war. He left the Army absorb a great deal of machinery in the 8780. The lucky possessors of certain while in Hongkong in 1911 to join the near future, Police. Three years later he transferred
Officer Wilden
The funeral 100k place at Happy Volley last evening, deceased being accorded
military honours,
TRAVELLERS FROM HOME,
Mr. Ainscough, the British. Trado Com his services to the Revenue Department,missioner, has recently been giving the and had lotterly figured with Revenue home manufacturer the benefit of his im several important opium pressions, recently formed while visiting seizures. He was a Lance-Corp, in the eightem of the Provinces of China. He Hongkong Volunteer Engineers,
pointed out some interesting facts about our German competitors. They had ob stained, he said, a practical monopoly of two, enormous lines of trade, viz., are and munitions and aniline dyes. With the large commissions earned on those two lines they had been enabled to stand the expense of agencies in the principal towns at any rate in the capital towns of the provinces-and to push their other lines of trade. This applied, per haps, more to engineering than to the cotton trade," This official commissioner Mr. P. W. Goldring represented the passed through Hongkong. He seemeyi to defendant.
EXPLOSIVES AND BOMB
CASES.
DETECTIVE'S DISCOVERY. At the Magistracy yesterday, before Mr. J. B. Wood, a Chinese named Ko Shu, was charged with possessing 15 bomb casos at Hill Road.
An Indian sergeant deposed that he stopped defendant with the bundle which contained the cases
be impressed by the amount of German machinery which had been imported into China. Since the year commenced, cl course, such imports have almost ceased.
Mr. Riddle, also, recently gave his
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directors (Cabinet Ministers) to decide antimony mines in China have had the how we stand or what we ought to do. Let us get down to the foundations of it. full benefit of the recent remarkable rises
In 1913, the last complete twelve months in the price of that mineral. Religious before the war, the total value of the im R. FORGAN'S CELEBRATED CLUBS. or superstitious fearg about disturbing a port and export cradle of the United King- grave, or liberating the hidden spirits of do was 1,403,555,000,
When statisticians
and economista the earth, have a way of disappearing juggle with such prodigious sums, divid- when large profits seem probable. Judging, classifying, and grouping them, work ing from the romantic history of the ing out percentages and curves to prove
whatever pet theory they happen Kailan Administration, it does seem to be in view at the moment we are apt to re-
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towns, continues to grow, During the figures of the British merchant and his LADIES' AND LEFT-HANDED CLUBS,
possible to create in China a demand for up-to-date mining machinery.
The demand for electrical machinery specially that used for lighting native last year, despite the difficulties of deliveries, there has been a considerable supply. When prices come down after the war, and easier methods of paymont are possible, there will be an increased demand, The industrial centres, such
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Shanghai, Hankow and Hong kong, will provide a market for other kinds of electrical apparatus,
THE FOUR CLASSER."
Although, just now, the engineering trades are not anxiously concerned with Mr. Golding stated that his client's con- tention was that the tiny were for the purviews concerning industrial development the Ching market, they will benefit later post of holding amino dyes. They was in Chins. He spoke to a Midland audion by the continued spread of technical
gard them as figures only, and to forget TAYLOR'S that official statistics only show the sum total of transactions between indivi- duals. Bebind the vague generalities of the economists we can descry the dim customer oversea, and it is merely the sum these individuals that the economists total of the personal transactions between handle so dexterously. If we can influence the actions of individuals, we can alter GOLF SCORERS. ing! Let us Bee. those trade statistics. Do they need alter-
Of that 1,403 million sterling, 709 millions represented the value of importod goods and only 635 exported goods,
That gives us an excess of 133 millions of imports, It is true we are disregarding imports and exports of bullion, but that beed not concern us, because before the war we imported more bullion then we exported and during the last five years the difference vas only 36 million altogether.
For many, many years there has been an
the statement he had made to the Police ence. What seemed to surprise him most education. Each year the number of excess of importa over exports" and, know- was the fact that, right inland, there is Chinese who understand something aboating as we do that foreign trade is always
also when he was arrested.
A Sergeant Interpreter at the Central Police Station staled that when the man
was brought to the station he said that another Chinese had asked him to take the casas to a house in Hill Road, but he did not give any number. He took them there and they were received.
Mr. E. B. Dovey, Government Analyst, said he believed the tins were used for the purpose of making bomb cases. They were exactly similar to other tins which were made to take a tube arrangement for a detonation. There were sittings which were exactly similar to those which
a great demand for electrical goods. He visited a town where there was no European building. The people crowded round him in the street, so suprised were they to see a white man. Yet the place was supplied with electric light and used metallic filament lamps.
well-known
At 41 per conta jo estimate the re- turn from foreign investments would bo £180,000,000 Shipping probably brings in at least as much, so that our apparent adverse balance is more than wiped out by these invisible exports, as the experts call them, and the margin representing in- created investments can safely be set down part of the national savings in peate time. For many years England has been getting steady richer
Perhaps she might have done even better; we will not enter into that now,
at once that thero must be other factors. scientific work increases. All these act as conducted on the basis of exchange, we 400 missionaries of industrial development in than those mentioned that restore the their own country. It is quite true that, balance. We find them in the interest on £4,000,000,000, and in the services render- in common with almost everything else in our foreign investments, valued at some this world, technical education has beened by our own shipping on the one side affected by the great war, It has been and in the steady increase in our foreign possible, however, in most places, f investments on the other, Mr. Arthur Preece,
carry on" Progress may have been the London engineer, has been recently visit-case had Europe remained at peace, but is ing Shanghai and Hongkong, in conues has been satisfactory. Doubtless when tion with the development of the eco the war is finished efforts will be made to tricity supply schemes of both places provide better instruction for mining He, also, was surprised at the industrial engineers in China. There is every rep development of the last few years.
a bo believe that the Chinese themselves The mail of to-day brings the well-are anxious to do everything possible to be had soon in another case. These cases known technical journal, the Engineer, foster the growth of Western learning in worked perfectly. There was no resp published about six weeks ago. It con- their own country. Every one of them why the tins should not be used for holdtains a leading article on "Our En- who is trained, in whatever branch but that she was doing as well as she did. ing aniline dyes, but they were rather com-gineering Trade with China," possibly study, by English teachers will naturally mon for holding such a valushlo substance. written by the special commissioner which have sympathies with the country with The dyes were usually sold in glass bottles that journal sent out to China about whose literature they are acquainted.. It Sergeant Cockle depowd that he went two and a half years ago. It commences is only during the last few years that to the house and there found several tins as follows: An enormous field will be English engineers have fully appreciated similar to the ones produced, some of open in China to British engineering the fact that there is a certainty of 15. which contained explosives. Some men trades after the war, provided that the industrial development of China. They were arrested. The boxes in which the efforts put forth by British firma receive think that the rate of progress will of tins were found were covered over with adequate support at the hands of the greatly affected by the education whia
Government and of the banks which con- the Chinese obtaine otton wool, In rolls of cordite were found
duct business with the Far East, and whose principals are quite familiar with the customs and the business methods of
291 sticks of dynamite, some acids, glass tubes containing liquid, and a card-board
box contoining some powder like sugar.
the people." Other influential technical
was some excuse for those who believed all was for the best and left it at that,
In 1814 came the war, and despite showed a decrease of exports of 108 million seven months of peace the final returns pounds and a decrease of imports of 79 million pounds.
There was nothing very alarming in these figures. There might easily have been so end to all foreign trade on a credit basis as we know it. Fortunately that for congratulation, though there was a danger was avoided, and we had reason weak point that did not yet reveal itself to everybody.
It was this,
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They also discovered a quantity of journals have said very much the same be four classes, gelatine,
Mr. Dovey (recalled) stated that he was present at the house when the explosives were discovered. He also saw there seven coils of fuso and four boxes of detonators, The outfit was complete for the making of
barbs.
Mr. Goldring said there was no case at all. There was no definition in the govern ment Ordinance as to what constituted bomb case: cigarette tin might be used for
bomb case. The prosecution could not show that his client knew what the
tins were for.
sort of thing..
RUPPLY AND DEMAND.
It has been said that in England society is divided into three classes, viz., those who change their dress for dinner, those dinner at sil. In China there seems to
They are merchants, and the figures relating to these transno- officials, farmers and robbers, all of them, tions do not appear in the monthly official have one great object in view the trade returas.
Now we come to the present year, and Another class is quirement of wealth. These various views all support the being evolved. The leaders will be called we find that, apart from Government pur- chases abroad-an enormous item-during same general theory. Until the war is Captains of Industry, and they will b finished the engineering trades of the come very rich. There war an old pro- the first ten months of this year there has phecy in Ching that as the Ming dynasy been compared with 1913, which was the world will be too busy at work on mani- came to an end when the temple were last complete year before the war an in tions to worry very much about new restored, so the Ching dynasty woul1 creased importation of £82,000,000 and a come to an end when the roads were decreased export of £131,000,000.In put in order. The Ch'ing dynasty did other words, our excess of imports for ten markets. As soon as peace is declared there will be great efforts to sell fall with the opening up of new rail-months has been £213,000,000." machinery to China. It may be
Probably 25 per cent, of our shipping not roads. As these extend, and as the mines without interest to suggest the probable produce their hidden wealth, the robbers has been taken up by the Government, but, and bandits will disappear, and indus present rates the remainder is earning trialism will make great strides in China far more than the whole mercantile marino developments,
It is comforting to know that there is earned in normal times, still a very large country ready to absorb machinery of all kinds. For at the close of the war Great Britain will be in position to supply much more then was used up in the old markets,
His worship-It seems to me there is & electrical engineering, case to answer.
Mr. Goldring said the man had been employed at the Naval Yard and by the Electric Light Company He was a man
The three chief branches of applied science which will benefit seem to be rail way engineering, mining engineering and
In the develop ment of railways lies the chief hope of those who look for a period of peace and tranquillity in China. The railway and the telegraph are forces which can make
of good character. He had now take the country smaller and easier to handle,
shere in a shop and when a man asked him to make the cases he did not wish to turn away business.
The case was adjourned.
FOOTBALL.
SHANGHAI CHARITY MATCH
The anus) charity football match.
As education is the enemy of despotism,
FAR EASTERN MEN AND THE WAR.
MR. KENNETH DOURGE.
NOTICE,
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
NSHIP DERTIFICATE with respect to 10 Shares numbered 2789/2798 in the above Office standing in the name of HO E OAN (deceased) of Canton has been LOST, and should the same not be produced before the 13th January, 1010, a new Scrip Certificato will be issued in favour of the said HO E DAN (deceased) and no transaction taking place under the Old Scrip Certificate will be recognised by the Office.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD., General Agents. Hongkong, 20th December, 1915.
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Still, our figures show quite clearly that the confortable conditions of pre-war days No longer do our exporte, have gone visible and invisible, balance our importsHE CERTIFICATE No. 318, dated 25th September, 1833, of Fifty Shares Nos. with a margin to spare for foreign invest8311-8360 in this Company, standing in the inent.
On the contrary, we have been obliged to sell many of our foreign securities abroad to keep down the rising balance against us, particularly in countries from which we are getting great stores of muni- tons, and the British Government has been glad to buy foreign bonds held by British subjects and send them back to the U.8.4. for realisation there to help to pay for the goods we have bought,
has been LOST, and if at the expiration of name of Mr. WEIA KWONG, of Hongkong, One Month from the date hereof the above document be not forthcoming another Certi ficate will be issued by the Company and thereafter no other will bo acknowledged.
Dated 13th November, 1915,
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The following Dews has been received so is the railway the enemy of revolutions.from Sir F. 6. A. Bourne, C.M.G., about It seems reasonable to believe that the his son: Kenneth has just been over political difficulties connected with rail for five days leave. I have never seen way concessiong-in-China will-be-easter him looking so well. Ha is I am glad to say, in an excellent billet. He took up
The best and simplest way to ease. the of solution after the war than they wer with bombing as soon as it started and is situation is to inciesse our exports and to before it commenced. Even if the schemes now Brigade Bombing Officer in the 75th do without many of the things we are now.
CHINESE has lately brought from
Peking many kinds of CURIOS. OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE, which was played on the Recreation Club's now in abeyance sa carried out, there Brigade. He lives in a house with the importing. ground on Christmas Day, between the will be a period of activity. There has Brigadier. He teaches bambing four days. That is where the overage a comes in collection is on view at the afING L
week and inspects and arranger supply again. Just now he can render his coun Boarding House, No-119, Connaught Road. Shanghai Recreation Club and the Shang been in the past few years so much of bombs, etc., the rest of his time We try magnificent service (1) by not using Central, First Floor, and may be seen any hai Football Club, ended in a draw of desire to obtain railway contracts in have now an excellent bomb called the anything that he can do without that comes day between the hours of 1 P.M. and 4 P.M. three goals, esch, and will, therefore, hav to be replayed The-net-proceeds of the China that it is hardly probable that the Mil's ag, one went off by accident and from abroad, unless from one of our Allies, All those who are interested in such articles match are expected to total wall over a financial difficulties of the future will killed-eix-nen and wounded twenty three; and (2) by selling as many goods abroad are cordially invited to pay a visit of inspec
4 explodes four seconds from the time of as he can make or get hold ofDailytion.
[116 Hongkong, 26th December, 1916. thousand dollare,
leaving the hand,"
~be insuridountable.
Most
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