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THE TRADE OF SINGAPORE
INCREASED VALUES."
"At the annual meeting of the Singapor Chamber of Commerce the Chairman, M. W. P. W. Ker, in the course of a address, said:
Against 8529,994,447 For 1018.
TUESDAY, 1 lira. 1920.
PROFITEERING IN PASSAGES. AMAZING ACTION BY THE LLOYD
TRIESTINO COMPANY.
OLD AND NEW WORLDS.
INTERESTING ADDRESS "BY' PROFESSOR MIDDLETION
'SMITH.
POLICE COURT ITEMS: A PERSISTENT BANISHEE.
A Chinese who had been banished on thres previons occasions-the last time for From time to time addresses are given a period of twenty years was charged. to the students of St. John's Hall, the with returning to the Colony before the University, and on Sunday morning Pre expiration of his term and was sentenced Bemor Middleton Smith spoke about old to twelve months hard labony and four and new worlds. The following abstract hours' stocks.
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will be of interest, as in it is reflected very many, practical ideas, with hints of the things that appeal to the mystic.
In his opening remarks
EXTRADITION PROCEEDINGS.
At the Magistracy, yesterday." „Chief: Detective Inspector Mufison applied for Professora formal remand in the anse of two-
In regard to the case of profitearing in steamship passages, of which, we repro- duced a report from a Straits contempor. As regards the progress of the Colony'sary recently the Struike Times states that Trade during the past year the official it communicated with Mr. Minto, Ipoh, figures show that, excluding specie.
who was the victim of this imposition and be confirms the accuracy of the statements. Imports for 1910 were valued at
According to Mr. Minto, it was necco | 8601,813,153
sary for urgent bealth reasons that Mrs. Minto should go Home, and he was anxious that she should leave Mainya - Showing au increase of $133,429,700 or before the monsoon set in. Mr. Minto $5 per cent.
eventually succeeded in ascertaining that the Pilma, due at Penang on or about April 9th might make available the Sam said that be welcomed the oppor. Chinese whose axtradition is being sought tanity, as a member of the University of by the Canton authorities on a charge of purser's cabin
Correspondence paised between Mr.
Hongkong, to pay a tribute to the murder. The men, aro alicged, to, belong Minto and the Singapore and Fenang agents of the Lloyds Triestino Line of Italian steamers, of which the fine boak of about 7,000 tons barthen is in question.
An offer of £5 per fe or Trieste TAS The Harboar Board returns show that!
day for the passage during 19192,418 vessels of a nett register from falays to
tangage of 4.330.83 tons used the boneyed by the Singapore agents to the wharves against 9,114 vessels of a nett - Shanghai office in February, and on gistered tonnage of 3,330,791 tons in 1918h 5th the former wrote to Mr. Minto Chal inward totalled 405,990 tons again
Exports for
1910
were valued
| 3681,018,024 00:
Against $167,088,178 for 1919. Showing an increase of 8913,081,846 er 45 per cent.
It will be understood that these increas ed values do not necessarily mean increas, in quantity..
founders of and the good work done by to a gang of five who pillaged the Sat St. John's Hall. To anyone who helped Win district and killed a little child. the University he felt under a personal The case was remandet till Friday. obligation as he believed that the Univer
MISTOOK ANOTHER'S HOUSE FOR sity was, and could be made, a vital force for good in the Far East. If we believed
•HIS OWN in anything or anyone, or felt under any
When a Chinese was charged with being
409,834 tons in 1919. Coal outward was the offer of, £5 per day for obligation, it was a duty to acknowledge a rogue and a vagabond, and with being
441,80 tons against 399.397 tong in the
previous year. As regards cargo 756,8 tons were handled inward against 504,034 tous and $7.232 tons outward against 509,046 tons. These figures are of interest. but do not nearly indicate the full extent of the trade of the port, as a good des! of both cargo and can! has been besit. with in the roads. The Harbour Board, lis everybody else, is handicapped by short age of lubent. but I understand special efforts are now being made to improve matters in this respect,
IMPORT BUSINESS,
cabin on the steamer and enclosing a debit note. For the
cost of
the fact. Each one of us mast discharge found in a house in Quiten's Road East,
passage as follows: Cost of passage the obligation in the way most natural to he pleaded that he mistook the house for (Purser's Cabin).
him. The rich man, the merchant could his own. He was arrested at provide the money needed for extensions yesterday, and some wire was found con-
..
Mrs. J. A. Minto £150 One child
Discount on cheque,
cealed under his jacket.
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He was sentenced to six weeks' hard: labour.
BRAWL.
A STREET
The proprietor of the Blue Bird Candy Store and a newnaper "vendor were charged with disorderly conduct,
The first defendant stated that the news.
or development. The man whose stock-in- $1,629,30
9.08 trade was Hens, spoken or written, could provide them. That was the gift that be $1,630.03
gladly offered to St. John's Hafijnst a So far, there is nothing to complain of few ideas that had been foating in his The charge was heavy bat it as mutually mind for years, but which he now wanted greed upon, and what appearate us to to crystallise into words which might be beth, inite convict wag- entered into
of interest, or even of use, to the students
When he had been asked for a title for his address, he immediately and rather hastily replied "Old and New Worlds," Paper vendor croated a disturbance out. because the times were changing so rapidly "ide the store by hosting. When asked of the present and the future, but of the him. that it behoved us all to think, not only to stop, the boy wore, so defendant hit past Asia was the home of the human
The boy accused the first defendant-of race and Asia was in common with the rest of the world, changing. China had being drunk and of kitting him without Any calise, A number of Europeans Provided the earliest civilisation; some st the greatest thoughts-was preserved in the writings of witnessed the assault, Chinese scholars. In particular he re- Both defendants were bound over) ferred to the practical Mencius who had. many centuries ago, pointed out that you cannot possibly elevate to nobie thoughts those people whose whole life is a con- tinuous struggle against starvation.
I noted when addressing you in September Mr. Minto and the agents of the ber last that the bazaar was gradually company But her Minto conducted getting used to paying the higher prices his wife and did or board the Pilina at demanded and during the second half of Pegang he receted & rude shock when a the year a brisk business was done at ever advancing values. The replacing cost of demand was made for 280 for the purser's all commodities is still very high and there cabin or what was said to be the purser's
cabin
in the vicinity of the ladies bath is no doubt we are now dangerous rooms! No amount of argament could level. These circumstances have impressed induce the purser to give in and Mr. importers with the necessity for cautious into, having no cash on his person at buying and this will tend to prevent any the moment, asserted to some arrangement great accumulation of stocks when a reac- tion arrives Stocks in importers hands by which the purser secured 50 from a have been all for some time past, but money changer on the condition that Mrs. Minto would be ejected from the cabin if there has been a good deal of boarding the sum vas not paid to the agents by Mr. by the Chinese Dealers which makes the Minto before the ship reached Colombo.. published list of stocks in European bands The steamer only gues as far as Trieste, somewhat misleading. One of our prin and it will cost a further sum of £36 to cipal markets, Bangkok, bas been buying sparingly for some months past, due no get to London from there. The passage for one lady and one child from Milaya to doubt to the partial failure of the Siam London, thus works dit as follows: rice crop, but this has been largely ecm--
£150 pensated for by the demand from French Indo-China and Dutch ports
Lady at £5 per day Child
Premium in Cabin Trieste to Londen.
Totar
40
20
36
£306
пр
I need not, think, at this meeting. analyse the reason of the present high cost of everything, as it is common know. ledge that manufacturers have more orders than they can deal with, and shorter
One can do no more than-offer profound hours, higher wager, and shortage of tw material bave had the inevitable effect of sympathy to Mr. Minto, but it seems to us increasing costs I hesitate ti proghpassent of the wrongfully extorted stan action against the company for as to the fature, but it will. I think, be by its servant ought to succeed, if the law a considerable time before values care. come down to near, pre-war levels and no We have beard (tays the strous Tienre) one can estimate the time it will take for of several cases in which the Lloyds the world to make up fet the wastage of Triestine Line has given passages on the five years of WAY.
basis of a first class fare plus a surcharge for use of an officer's cabin. In one case, we are informed £150 surcharge as paid for the fourth officer's cabin. This is an objectionable system, but if the passenger is clearly told the terms when booking the profiteering is comparatively respectable in Mr. Minto's case, the demand for £30 was made at a time when it was practically impossible to withdraw and in it was a violation of the specific contract made with the company.
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EXPORT BUSINESS.. Values of all commodities bave ruled high, and as Singapore has been well supplied with tonnage, a large business has been possible. As regardy tin you will recollect that at the beginning of the year there was an entire cessation of the demand for the metai and the Government bought up considerable supplies of tin pre on the basis of 8118 per nicul. After the Chinese New Year the price fell to as low as $100 and there came a time when the Government would not pay auch a good price as could be obtained from the snelt ing companies. Before the middle of the year the tin market opened again and before the end of August the whole sosi tion was quite sound again and the F.M.8. Government had been able to sell their. stocks at a substantial profit. Since then the market has ruled nt's high level. The Average price for the whole year was about $127 per picul. The highest price of the Year was 8164 per picul and the lowest $100 per picul. R
WHY BOOTS ARE DEAR
LEATHER SENT TO GERMANY. The Daily Exprus understands that the Gorerament have just sold to Germany approximately twenty thousand bales of East India leather, representing a value of about £6,000,000.
literature crystallised
each to be of good behaviour months.
THE "NOCHIT ORDINANCE
James Farquhar, a' ship's officer, was
Professor IT then spoke of the old world-the beginnings of animal life and the upward struggle until the period of charged with obtaining credit for liquor
the cave man. In that age there was a
life little above the brutes-fear was the to the amount of $9.95 from the Hong ruler, Fear of animals, fear of the neigh kong Hotel with intent to defrand.
bour, fear of the unknown. From that
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until this there had come to men three great idean. He wanted to place these ideas simply before them; they were co deserved carerut reflection. great, that they were simple and they all
withed.
Mr. J. Cotton, of the Hotel stated that defendant ordered drinks and afters wards said he wanted to ign a chit. Witness replied that it was against tho The three great ideas were these. First regulations, whereupon defendant asked of the forces of nature. When, the first him what he was going to do, adding that cave man who had rubbed two sticks toss could take him to Court if he- together and made fire saw the flame, be bad produced a very wonderful force for mankind. Since his day the struggle to
Defendant said that when ordering the the light had been slow and painful but drink he had money which he thought a knowledge of the laws, the great un-
was Hongkong currency. Subsequently changeable laws, of nature had been accumulated. He particularly wished to however, he found it was Japanese motay emphasise that many scientific men were and asked for a chit to sign. He had no humanists, workers for huecords of intention whatever of cheating. He had highest sense of the word. their lives showed their unselfishness. They, in common with the writers, the poets. the painters and the real statesmen. were inspired by a great desire to benefit the human race, And a new scientific discovery, like a fine essay or beautiful picture, had often elevated life for thou sands. It would have been impossible for man to have reached the heights on which be stood today without the practical results of science.
a large sum of money on the ship.
Mr. Cotton said that if defendant paid the money the hotel would
not press the charge.
"Mr. Smith remanded the case, allowing, defendant out on $10 bail.
PUGILISTIC TENDENCIES.
A Chinese was charged with "disorderly, Ages after the beginnings of science conduct in a tram-car came the idea of God-crude at first; just
For no reason whatever the man blow expressed by images of wood and stone.
a police-whistle for a quarter-of-an-hour. Like the growth of scientific ideas, the He told a Chinese constable, who protest This quantity is a considerable propor- notion of God has become nobler as knowed, to mind his own business and offered tion of the stock held by the Government, ledge and discussion improved and classi-to fight him. He had to be removed who have controlled the important Eant fed the crude beginnings. It was possible India leather trade since the wat Pre- Ivam credibly informed that the produe-vious to the war it was almost entirely in nowadays for anyone to trace the evolu.forcibly to the Police station, where it was
discovered that he was-mad tion of rubber in Malays for the year 1018 the hands of three large German firms of the Old Testamest to the loving Father Cours and challenged the constable
tion from the idea of the wrathful Jehovah
Defendant created a disturbance, vin was 142000 tons, the experts for the same through whom British tanners had to of the Gospels, as the story had been to fight. Mr. Smith ordered him to be year being 108,000 tons. The resuit was obtain their supplies.
THE RUBBER MARKET.
translated into so many languages.
that large stocks were held over at the British tanners will learn with indigna-
Finally there came the birth of the great quiet, to which defendant replied All end of 1918 due partly to import restriction that between a third and two-thirds tions, and also to the lack of shipping of the quantity of East India leather idea that of a duty to humanity. For right, inaakee. He laughed midtd when facilities. The estimated production of available on the English market is too many hundreds of years that idea had been the Magistrate fined two met for gam Malaya for the rear 1919 amounted to to Germany. The Daily Ezmers, under betere mankind, but only recently had it bling, and walked about the dock telling been crystalised into practical politics. the other prisoners that he had held forty 177,000 tons and for the same "period ex stands that the price fixed for the sale The details of a scheme for a world poity men at bay and was willing to do so ports were 194,000 tons. It will therefore of the leather was sufficiently high both to be evident to you that the position is now make the purchase s good bargain for the was the work before the practical states- again if any of the prisoners would
take him on."fetis men of to-day who saw that only by soms considerably improved, the large stocks Government and to keep British Arms such scheme could man continue to enlarge
Defendant was sent to the House of which were held at the end of 1918 having from competing for it. East India his outlook, to improve his knowledge. Observation, and on the way said he would been taken into consumption and the gan-leather is used for the manufacture of Just as when man produced fire it was like to jump into the spa eral trademand being good. The quan boot sties and uppers. It is well known tity of Bubber sold in auction during 1818 that tanners have already large stocks of impossible to predict the inventions which amounted to 71,000,000 lbs., the quantity leather in band, of which they are unable had followed, a jehen this idea of service sold during 1919 being 79,000,000 Th
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to dispose on account of the glut of books for humanity—the Gospel of work-was Finally, said the lecturer let us give
workable
to
if they wish. As the result of the A oficial of the Disposals Board us an inspiration for oar lifework, Sifts which we have in order to improve
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in the country but Ebots are doled out presented it was impossible to say how by the holders in fuskufficient quantifies practical statesmen would make out of it our utmost to the things in which re benefit all believe. Let us gain inspiration from the something to maintain high prices. THE RETIRING AGE IN THE
humanity. But that there would be world Fast but try, if only by our thoughts, to GETLAGRAST CAUSES. ***
order la some age was inevitable fashion the future. Let us be practical STRAITS CIVIL SERVICE « The refusal of the Government to cut From the old worlds, inid Professor in our desire to carry out the great idea
their losses and sell raw material ata It is perhaps not fully realised, says price consistent with the readiness of Bri BITE, ve can still gain ideas and inspira of doing our utmost for humanity pro the ufalay fail, that although the Straits fish firms to buy, coupled with the equally ions. What Mencius or Plato or Paus serving for future generations the splendid and the F.M.S Civil Servants havs no wilful and unnecessary withholding of thought was of use only to us if we care-inheritance of the ages in the shape of actual right to retire at the age of ilty, stocks it the boot trade, ste flagrant fully selected the thoughts which were inventions, literature, paintings or lates the chances are that they can now do so causes for the high prices of bouts, and applicable to this new world. Especially ship but realising the parable of the should we select the thoughts which gave talents, each of us giving freely of the shoes Balaries Commission's and the Secretary
our work, or change it. We must believe from the cave man; the loyalty to ernment has ling hereon, the local Gov. the Ministry of Munitions, admitted work, or as bee We must believe in passed frombers. The fear of a neighbour
been invested with certain to Daily Brpressrepresentative discretionary powers in regard to the that deal has been made with Ger in heroes; every age has its heroes. This the cribe became patriotism for busy wa retirement of its officers Hitherto the many," but would not divulge the terms age has produced the herdes of the recent people Preserving the affection for great war, men who had such a love for family, for tribe or for our own nation of the contract ATENAR Government had no power to allow an The best leather was 28, 20, 3 pound truth, justice and humanly that they we could continue to work for this grant cheerfully sacrificed themselves for what idea the improvement of the lot not only other to retire before the age of 55 unides before the war ssid Mr. John Ormerod, the believed was their duty Allure of the individual, not only of the family. not only of the nation, but of humanity. may apply for his penslin at the age of 50 and expect the appleton to reire leather manufacturers, to a Daily Express on The world, in
thing in the world and it was well worthy favourable considerations Soulement now 10s to 10s, 6d, pound. of what was beroic, was variably right
At the end of the address Mt. Prop would not want to dec. But those with boots they want for the next three years daty was not beroic, it was simply mono- University
popularity than the real bero, often our SECK WAR expressed the thanks of boo some private means and children being because we canot see where, supplies of tonous. But if we were ashamed of our
Christian Association, dider schucated at home, will probably avail derare coming front if the Govern work it could not be meful
**whose auspices the meeting was held to themselves of the opportunity and--la-
Professor mith for his interesting ent, tra doing such ridiculous thing ly--lesson the block a pro
address is to other countries.
on a medical certificate Now any obcer the head of a large firm of Manchester orifice Wes heroic s obje menthat was the practical and the greatest
representative
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