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INTIMATIONS
MIN RIVER CONSERVANCY.
ENDERS are hereby invited for th
delivery, c.lf, Foochow, of one *trongly built wooden Servico motor boat, open, with removable canvas awnings, 25 to 3 feet in length, draught not to exosed 24 inclus. Engine to bo of inost approved type, 12 to 18 Horse Power, kerosene feeder.
Offers suting particulars, terms, time of delivery, otc., will be received up April by
15th
Ilon. Secretary MIN RIVER CONSERYNCY.
Foochow
1620
S.8. "CHI YUEN" (LLOYD'S REGISTER NO. 628), THE Undersigned are prepared to receive Teuders for the purchase of this vessel which has been damaged by fire, and is now lying at Hangon.
Further particulars and copies of three independent Survey Reports on tho ship can be inapocted at the Office of Messrs. GILMAN & Co., Lloyd's Agents, Hongkong.
The buyer will be required to pay 10% of the purchase money on acceptance of the tander, and the balanen on delivery of the ship, which must be taken at Rangoon within fifteen days of the acceptance of such tender.
Haripur Dons and other charges incurred from the date of acceptance of the tender will be for account of the buyer.
The undersigned du not bind themselves to accept the highest or any tender.
GEORGE GORDON & COMPANY, LLOYD'S AGENTS,
RANGOON.
Telegraphic Address:
Gordon, Rangeon."
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LAND FOR PUBLIO
THE HONGKONG DAILY
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IMPORTANT NEW PROPOSALS.
The Ministry of Reconstruction have now issued the second report of the Com- mittee upon the Acquisition and Valun- tion of Land for Public Purposes, of which Mr. Leslie Scott, K.C., M.P., is chairman. Thoir first report, which was issued a year ago, recommended measures for cheapening, shortening, and simpli fying procedure for obtaining compulsory powers for the nequisition of land, a pro- cedure so cumbersome as to involve a delay of many monwards.
and costs of any thing from £600
In their second report the Committee devole atten tion to a suitable system for the valuation of land compulsorily acquired for public purposes. The existing legal provision for dealing with auch valuation is based upon the Lands Clauses Act, the chief of which dates back to 18. The experience of two generations has shown, says thu report, that this Act and the amending Acts require reconsideration in order to give effect to the requirements of the Omunity of to-day. The Lands Clausce Acts are out of date, and should be re- placed by a fresh Code.
the
Bus paid for property taken for public purposes have for many years past been frequently excessive. For this ro Bull it is impossible to assign any ono cause, and the Committee deal in detail with several. Their main recommenda tion is that the basis of value to owner which has hitherto been
adopted as the criterion for such valuation ander various judicial decisions (though no such criterion was, in fact, specifically laid down by the Lands Clauses Acts of 1845), should be replaced by a general standard of value to be paid to the owner, which is defined es the market value na be willing buyer and a &
willing Roller. In addition to this value, the owner would be entitled, under the Coin- BRITISH MUNICIPAL, COUNCIL,mittee's proposals, to payment for conse
quential injury, or any actual loss to him involved in the taking away of his land. The Committee do not think that the fact of his fad being acquired under com- pulsory powers for the public benefit should entitle an owner to additional compensation 彻 that ground alone They urge, therefore, that the conven chase (which in England and Wales is tional allowances for compulsory pur normally 10 per cent,, und which in the case of agricultural land in Scotland bas, in practice, resulted in giving forty-five years' purchase of the gross annual value, representing in recent years nearly 100
eent. allowance) should be discon tinued.
LOW
TIENTSIN.
PRESSURE WATER SUPPLY SPECIFICATION FOR PUMPING
PLANT.
THE COUNCIL invites tenders for the
following plant ENGINES Three separate independent modern internal combustion engines, to run on gasolene, tervisene or crude petroleum, complete with all necessary valves, fuel tanks, piping, silencers, exhaust piping, water cooling etc approximately of 30 B.H.P. at Dormal operating speed. PUMPS-to be driven by the foregoing.
B
per
EFFECTS OF THE STANDARD DE VALUES.
Three separate and independent
There are certain other corollaries pumps, preferably centrifugal, inch to following from the adoption of this puig, at normal operating standard of market value," which are approximately 1,000 gallons (Imperial) important, and for which special provi per minute, Total lift 40 feet 6 inches sion is made in the report. On the vexed including 12 feet suction ( question of what is known as "special maximum).
that an owner should not be entitled to adaptability," the Committee recommend
Bay increased value for his land which prises solely from the adaptability of the it could be applied only under statutory land in question for a purpose to which
powers. The adoption of this principle excussive values for land required for would put an end to the payment of
reservoir sites, railways, and other under- takings of a public nature, which can only
The above to be housed in s square tower 20 feel x 20 feet carrying a 20,000 gallon tank. If pumps aro belt-driven there can be difference of
about # feet 6 inches between the levels of the purupe and engines.
The engines to be quick starting and arrangements to be made for charging the pumps, if of the centrifugal type.
Tenders should give complete details
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THE BALT IN TRADFI DOMINION BUYERS WAITING UN THE MARKET.
Within forty-eight hoars of one another the buyers of large business houses in New South Africa, Australia, and Zealand called on the bond of a con- siderable manufacturing firm. Unknown to one another they had an experience in common. Each had received from hend- quarters in Cape Town, Sydney, and Wellington respectively cabled instruc Lions a cancel, whorever possible, the bulk of their orders. There wore a few things required immediately; every other
article must wait,
To be sure, the South African market was reported to have been affected ad. versely, as far manufacturing England is concerned, by the arrival of merchant ships from Japan laden with goods at prices that
hat put British competition out of court. There was no report of like kind fzum Australia and New Zealand, but there was an obvious explanation,
Suppose that the number of importing houses in South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand is reduced, for the sake of convenience in argument, to ten apiece.
Let us suppon further that nine out of teh of these importing houses buy largely in order
supply the needs of large areas, and that the teach man The goods will take prefers to wait. from one month to two months or even longer before they reach their penulti- mate destination, the shop or store, By that time it is confidently expected that the re-opening of markets all the world over will have brought down the price of raw material, and that, in consequence, the cat of manufactured articles will fall.
WAITING POLICY.
RDAY, MARCH 99ra
DIVIDED RUSSIA.
FOUR DIFFERENT GROUPS.
[GY "THE DAILY TOLERKAPH'S "' LATE↑
FETROGRAD CORRESPONDENT]
What was once the Rumian Empiro is now divided up awong four different groups of peoples and parties. In the centre are the Bolsheviks; on the extreme north, the east, and the south-east, vari- Dus partics temporarily united in the
$1019.
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D. C.
In the Musical Play
"PINKIE AND THE FAIRIES'
for Grown-ups and Children,
by W. GRAHAM ROBERTSON. Music by FREDERICK NORTON, With full Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet. Over 60 Performers
basia of their common hostility to the FINAL EVENING PERFORMANCE
Soviet Government; in the south, the Ukraine Directory, which so far has not clearly covealed its general political teu-| dency; and in the wost, a number of non- Rossin peoples-the Poles, Lithuanians, Leifs, and Esthenians-whose immediate object is apparently national indopoad-
Enco
plebe aocialisation of Russis, which, te Lonin and his followers aim at the com cording to their professions, is now being introduced proletariat by the "dictatorship of the This dictatorship has taken the form of
proached by Karl Marx a deliberate extermination of every'ody the arath of the Bolsheviks premises and and everything that dares to challenge the accuracy of their arguments,
Of the anti-Bolshevik administratione, that at Archangel probably exists only on Allied support. Its head ig the veteran sci, one of the Social Revolutionary, Nicholas Chaikov- for freedom in Russia.
pioneers in the struggle much of his life se
Ho hap
Spent England, and possesses a high authority political refugee in
lista It is not known how many Rus among the more moderate Russian Socia
sians are supporting the Allies with arma
probably not a large one in the Archangel district, but the number
The general public having access to the facts, and having waited very patiently for many things that would have been
THE UFA "DIRECTORY."' regarded as necessities before the war,
The most formidable of the anti. will be prepared to wait a little longer, Bolshevik Governments is that for which until that tenth importer in all the Over-Admiral Kolchak eeta ne Director." He seas Dominions who has not bought with the rost voce the chance for which he was waiting and buys at a price that enables him to undersell every competitor in the country.
Direc
is the heir of a "Directory, which was formed at Ufa by the Western Siberian Government, the Alexeiff Army, and be tween two and three hundred members of the Constituent Assembly of
of whom While we were at war, "Business na ware Social Revolutionaries. usual was the motto all round. The public needed the goods, and had the Astroff and Asksentieff (in Govern Vologodaki (Siberia), tory consisted
money to pay for them. Now it is difment), Chaikovski (Archangel), and ferent Everybody is looking for a fall General Boldy rooff (General Alexaieff's in prices. Manufacturers are hesitating successor as political head of the Volun to turn war plant to plant because teer army assembled in the Kuban pre
pence they believe that the cost of doing so will vinee). Two of the "Directors," Astroff be far less six months hence. Other men and Yologodski, were Cadets, that is to who have developed businesses during the say members of the party which Professor war and see their way to capture some Miliukoff led in the last Duma. Under) erstwhile Continental monopoly are shy circumstances which have not yet been ao at know where they stand in regard arrested, and Kolchak's dictatorship sub- and conversion because they satisfactorily explained, Asksentioff was do not to war taxation, and feel that a new stituted for the authority of the Dire venture cannot indulgo in an expensive tory. The Admiral claims, however, to equipment and then pay sixteen shillings have the support of important
organisa of the Social Revolutionaries, and co-operative societies, which play so important a part to the life of the people of Siberia. He also controls an army which big friends estimate at several hundred thousand men, and which has rosently inflicted severe defeats or 1e Bolsheviks, cup. turing
Perm and some 40,000 prisoners. The nucleus of his force was provided by the Crecho-Slovake, who seem, however, to have been somewhat ruffled by the Gorchak coup d'état, and are understood to have taken be active part in the repent fighting.
that gives no other value for money than, a receipt that may not even be stamped
So we see that the buyer from overseas and the manufacturer at home are alike suspicious, uneasy, and unwilling to go full steam ahead, even though the demsad for employment must be increasing day by day.
Here is a case for wise statesmanship on the part of some of the people who wanted at Versailles Daily Expres.
in the pound of its prouts to an, ezin Moggleviku,, as well as of the
of engine, pamp and fittings, with be initiated if statutory powers are approximate fuel and oil consumption, granted by Parliament for the purpose. and should also state time of delivery.
Quotations should be made on either The bigh valuations which have handi- of the following bases :---
capped
such improvements in the past preferally: (a) all machinery to be erecte
have been based d largely upon hypothetical
сте not ed on foundations pro competition between different promoters requiring the land for the sathe purpose. fact, have obtained the necessary statu- Only one of those promoters could, in tory powers, the competition, therefore, upon which such values are based is imaginary.
The
Committee further recommend that no enlargement of market value shall be
Or
By Order,
vided, and handed over after satisfactory working teste have been passed. (b) machinery to be de
livered C f.
Tientsin Band.
J, R. LYNE 8, Becretary.
Council Room,
Tientsin, March 18th, 1919.
Write
MIDWIFERY.
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A QUALIFIED MIDWIFE, trained in
is open for engagements. Mas. MOEWEN, Government Civil Hospital. [44]
AUTOMOIBLE FOR SALE.
A1918 MODEL 6-pager Overland, wire wheels, extra wheel and other extras, in first class condition. Owner selling because he has bought a larger
Box No. 638, Care of "Daily Presa" Office. (638
war.
Address:
FOR SALE
STEINWAY ELECTRIC
The proclamation of the Kolchak dicta. orahip seems to have been followed by a light coofing in the relations between Omsk and Ekaterinedar, which is the headquarters of the Volunteer
Army
taken into account which arises from the enhanced value which is to be contributed raised by Alexeioff. This force, which
use of the land in a manner contrary to sanitary or other laws and regulations (as illustrated in the provisions of the Housing of the Working Classes Acts, 1800, in regard to premises in an un healthy arch, where such premises are
overcrowded, insanitary, or unft for human habitation), The Committee make various recommendations with a view to
in the betterment chargu
that
now commanded in the fold by General Denikin, is, however, again co-operating closely with the Siberians. It has a re presentative in Paris in the person of
of M. Saronoff, who WEB
Russian Foreign Minister at the beginning of the war, and; played a leading part in the formation of the Entente. The Volunteer Army numbers between 100,000 and 150,000 men,
POSITION IN UKRAINE.
indefinitely postponed for financial res sons under the conditions likely to obtain after the war. La normal cases the Com mitte limit the percentage of such
by the owner to 60 per cent. Where the State is the promoter, the State should retain
the whole of the betterment charge." Where a local authority is the promoter, the sanctioning authority should decide whether the whole of the betterment charge should be retained by that authority, or whether some pro portion should be paid to the State. In giving promotors greater freedom in the ease of a private promote hould be his share acquiring and disposing of properties limited to the actual cost of construction roquired for their undertaking. They shall not be compelled to purchase any
of the works involved in his undertaking. General Kraanoff, the Hetman of the interest in land which is not required
As to compensation for injurious Don, adopted a rather ambiguous atti for the purpose of their undertaking, and affection," the Committee recommend tude so long as the war lasted, but subse they shall be able to specify in the "notice
its operation. should be confined to (a) Damage arising directly from the his understanding with the Germans only quent events have supported the view that to treat," the date on which such notice is to take effect in regard to any interests
taking of the land, such as severanes amounted to an insurance against the which they do require. They shall have
or disturbance of occupation, in respect dangers of Bolshevism, which throatened power to tako part only of a property
of which compensation should be paid. in the general course; and whenever they think fit, and to acquire
to engulf the sana elements in the Cossack rights of access or other vasements over.
(b) Damage arising directly from the territory. He is now said to have recog construction or use of the works into be working cordially with the other or under land whenever such rights or
Dised
the
of Kolobak, and suzerainty" ensements will of themselves be sufficient
question, as to which damage the sane- for the purpose of their undertaking.
tioning authority should exercise dis anti-Bolshevik forces in Russia, They shall further be entitled (on pay-
cretion in determining whether com
The
great unknown factor in the pensation should be allowed or not ment of all
Russian problem is
at prosent, tho tion) to with proper costs and compensa- their "notices to treat".
according to the circumstances of the Ukraine. Here the Hetman Skoropadaki W swept away by a popular-rising the "RECOUPMENT." items in respect of which compensation favour of a system of what is known as has been taken by & Directory, in which moment his Austro-German masters fall The Committee are not generally in into military impotence, and his place is demanded), or within such other daté B may be directed.
recoupment (ie., the giving of powers Viniahouko and Petulra, two of the Finally, the pro- moters shall be entitled to use land free to take land beyond what ia neomary leader of the original Ukrainian inde from any existing restrictions on its use for the authorised works, in order to pondence movement of 1017, are the prin (subject to payment of compensation to secure the enhanced value created by such cipal figures.
work They think that tay general which this Government depends are, how The popular forces on
A tar alternating ourrent, in claim (which should clearly
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any persons actually damaged by the subject only to certain limitations in very breach of such restrictions), and able
application of such a principle might. have undesirable results in a tendency ever, evidently much more." democratio special cases, to hold and dispose of ties, and that the general puspos of rumoured that a socret agreement exists to speculation in land by public author: than separatist, and it has evon been Burplus pose of their undertaking.
lands not required for the pur securing to the public some proportion of between Moscow and Kieff. On the face Another vaxed question is that of what the enhanced value of land arising from of it, this, is hardly probable, ne, several is known as butteritent The Com enterprises of a public nature would be of the members of the Ukrainian Govern- mitteo think that the general principle of
better served by the imposition of ment
have been sentenced to death by "betterment
betterment charge, and
worsement (for tions which they recommend,
** under the candi- Soviet tribunals. The Directory itself which latter term in their report
But they professes to be both soparasiet and, anti- substitute the term injurious affection, think that acquisition of land for pha mpoarchical, and to have fought battles in a larger scuso than that in which it
recoupment should bo per with the Bolebovik, as well as with the normally recognised under existing mitted in the case of State improvemmte troops of Donlkin. Its published, pro law) should generally be correlative. or where the land is required for the
reinstatement of displaced interest, or of Loninite doctrine. If we are to believe
gramme certainly falla
den! short good for the efficient development in the future ita Bonat, it disposes of an army of persons whose property has been enhadood by saying that a simpla, quick, and From Odessa divides that ned by the
on the ground that if of a specific undertaking. They conclude nearly &
million mon. A neutral estimate coonomical system for the noquisition of The Ukraine has now boen
number by tan. land is essential alike to the development
Thoy attach much importance to an extended application of the principle of "betterment,
of such
Poses of
in valuo by public improvements, aro improvements by means of a
there will be more inducement Progress, and that a new Code established doubt the operations against Lemberg by legislation to replace that embodied and the Bukovina sro being diccoted from
made to contribute to the than of the nation'a rosotrose and to sound Ruthenian, of Eastern Galicia,, and, no
clinrgo," for promoters to undertako seberes (Uko ly to develop the resources of the nation and the amouition of national life), which ore in danger of being hampered or (Continued at foot of nail columns)
in the Land Clausos Acts should involve Kier The Dinotory It suxious to get siple of expropriation in the public delegation for this purpose, but the a more complete scooptance of the prin into touch with the Allies, and sent out * Interest than that which has prevailed in Savoys were turned back-se the Franco- the past. Telegraph,
Italian frontior:
TO-NIGHT (Saturday), Marcbz 9th, at 9.15 p.m. Prices $3, $2 & $1. Children Half-Price for Matinee. Booking at MOUTRIE'S.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
As there are still many adults and Children who have not yet seen.
“PINKIE & THE FAIRIES
and are clamouring for admission to the party, A FINAL MATINEE
has been arranged for
Wednesday, April 2ad, at 4.30 p.m.
The whole of the ground floor of the Theatre has been purchased, but seats may be secured in the Dress Circle if early application is made.
Price: $3.00
CHILDREN HALF FRICE,
Booking open at MOUTRIE'S on Saturday, March 29th.
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