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Disease-producing Parasites Bre; there fore, possibly present on the Surface of Plants, eg, Lettuces, over which the Gardener's spray fulls.
October, 1999.
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News and Views.
From the businessman's point of view the change proposed by the Senate will neem a very sensible
one.
Nothing is mere disturbing to trade than uncertainty as to tariff changes, and there are other The anticyclone remains station-points now before Congress which
ary to the north-east of Hokkaido are of considerable importance, to and pressure is relatively low to
Fresh merchants exporting goods to "the the east of the Vienyas. monsoon will prevail along the United States. south-east coast of China and over
the N, Chidh Sea.
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CONGRESS AND PRESIDENT.
The fight going on at Washington over the Tariff Bill has taken on a new and most interesting aspect Up to now the struggle has been of the usual character when ques tions of this nature are under dis- cussion, but now the authority of the President is to be challenged. The Senate has approved a plan
One Chinese case of enteric was reported on Wednesday.
The forthcoming wedding is an nounced between Xr. William Ngartoe Thomas Tan, Barrister- at-law, residing at 11, Babington Path, and Miss Jessie Pui Chan To, of Be, Dragon Terrace, Heng Kong.
Mr. J. W. Lee, the Hon. Football Secretary of the Chinese Athletic Association is giving dinner party at West Point on Saturday to all Chinese Football Reporters. The dinner party, will be held at Man Kwok Restaurant, Ah Chow room (1st flour).
The Greater Shanghai Public Safety Commissioner has notifed the public that they must inform the police whenever they move their Those ignoring
places of abode.
the order after October 1 will be punished.
The Rangoon Times reports the recent find in Mogok of two magni- ficent stones, one a sapphire of 1,000- carats and the other a ruby of 98-
carats.
The ruby, the price of which has not yet been quoted, has a daw in the middle, but when cut will yield two splendid stones. A piece of the ruby of 42 carats, found in 1010, was sold uncut for Rs" S lakha at the mines. The sapphire-
has been sealed for jewel merchants, who have already started from
America. The ruby was found in a private Burmese mine.
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The proposal to amend the law so as to change from the foreign to the domestic value of imported merchandise, is another far-reaching change. It is claimed that goods imported from foreign N.Y... Mishima Maru arriv. countries are often invoiced at ed yesterday from Victoria, B.C.,
Sentence of six mouths' imprison lower prices than those actually and Seattle, and Mrs. Ne!! Jenkin,
ment with hard labour was passed A man named Miguel Martinezby Mr. Graham Campbell, at Bow. charged to the importer, and wife of Mr. F. C. Jenkin, well-recently accepted an invitation to stroet Police Court recently on dumping," operates to secure the known barrister-at-law, returned referee a duel between two of his Charles Mack, 20, painter, for breaking into the premises of Levy adinission into the United States of from Seattle accompanied by her friends in Mexico City. The dual and Franks, Limited, caterers, "goods that otherwise would be ex- daughters, Miss M. Jenkin and lista fred at 20 paces and both Gordon-square, Bloomsbury, and cluded by the protective tariff. Miss B. Jenkia.
bullets pierced the referee's chest.tealing 12,000 cigarettes, Efforts made under the existing
cigars, and other property worth in Martinez died. and the ducilists all £180. He pleaded guilty. It Tariff Act to procure information The directors of the Hong Kong fed.
was stated that the premises were from foreign manufacturers con. Chinese Young Men's Christian
broken into about 12 months ago. cerning their production costs hare Association announco that the
and the only clue obtained by the The Marqués de Estella, in a police was a small.pices of candle met with pronounerd opposition, og formal opening of their Kowloon statement in San Sebastian recent-hearing the impression of one the ground that American officials Branch Building, Waterloo Road,y said that the censorship of the finger. Recently Mack was arrest- Presa daring the debates on the pro-ed as a suspected person, and it was were obtaining trade secrets that by Eis Excellency the Hon. Mr. pesed new Constitution would be then found that his finger prints. Enited States. might be used by competitors in the Man Thursda october 16 a continued both in the Assembly and corresponded with the impression place on Thursday, October 10 at outside it, though perhaps less In agreeing to sub-1.30 p.m.
strictly than formerly The Prime stitute domestic prices for foreign valuations the Finance Committee
Minister said:"As long as the A lecture entitled The Machin Dictatorship lasts a censorship will recognised that the immediate effect of Warships" will be given by be imposed." of the proposed change would be a
Engineer-Captain W. H. Mitchell on October 8 at 8.30 p.m. in Iloom marked increase in the duties paid."K" of the University. The As the increased protection would have the effect of raising domestic prices still higher, there would be set in motion an endless chain of increasing duties. To meet this
lecture will be illustrated, and will held under the auspices of the University Engineering Society, and visitors will be welcomed.
be of a popular nature. It will be
on the candle.
The Tsar's Letters Found,
A box-containing a number of lettera written by the later Tzar Owing to the fact that British Nicholas II, the Tzarina Alexandra subjects own some £20,000,000 worth Feodoroven and their daughters. of property in Shanghai and that has been discovered in the Pushkin over 20,000 Japanese House of the Academy of Sciences. residents in that port, the British at Leningrad. The letters were there are and Japanese Ministers have agreed written during the Tzar's stay in to maintain a similar attitude Tzarskoye Selo (Tzar's Village, now towards the question of the rendi- renamed Children's Village) after Trouble broke out in the Chention of the Shanghai Provisions: the March Revolution of 1917 and firm so far as the Court's re-exile to Tobolsk. It appears from
these letters that after the first Re-. organization is concerned.
volution the Trar intended to go to England and worked out different. The letters also throw light, on cer- plans of accomplishing this aim, tain hitherto unknown aspects of Selo after the Revolution and are the Romanovs' jojourn in Tzarskoe
& PRIZE | whereby the power now vested in objection it is provided that the Tai Silk Filature, Chapel, when a Court. Likewise, they will remain cover the period ending with his
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the Chief Executive of changing United States Tariff Commission 1mber of female workers, dissatis Customs duties is to be given back shall formulate and submit to fed over the fact that their wages to Congress. It is argued by ad. Congress a schedule of reductions had been deducted through the installation of a number of "silk vocates of this change that it is in in duty that will correspond with metres" which showed how much gregor,, writing from Victoria, A letter from Mr. Norman Mac accordance with Anglo-Saxon ideas the higher valuations. Importere silk they had reeled daily, destroy.C., on September 4, shows that of administration that authority to claim that this procedure will throw considerable amount of machinery.so was of a very severe nature., ed these implements as well as a the last operation he had to under- make changes in the tariff should business into a condition of un- The Chapei police were called The bright side is that he must have of considerable historical interest, rest with Congress, and not with certainty as to prices of foreign and four ringleaders were arrested got up his strength a great deal in the opinion of specialists. It ap the President, In
The workers claim that they pro since leaving China, to undergo itpears that thear letters were deliver- regard
to goods and will greatly hamper all duced the same amount of silk s so well and he appears 'now to be fed to the Pushkin House for safe- matters of executive authority, it dealers in imported articles, render-before and that the metres had been making good progress. Mr. Mac keeping by representatives of Ben- is well-known that the President of ing it almost impossible to make installed simply to cheat them of gregär was expecting to leave Que kedorff, the Marshall of the Court,
their just dues, the United States has much wider | long-term contracts relating to
her by the Empress of Australia for with the request to open up" the England on September 24.
box only upon orders of eame mem- ber of the Tzar's family or not be fore 1916, The box with the letters. has been turned over to the Central Archives in Moscow.
Students in Japanese universities and colleges are not required to their work every day nor are there punch a time-clock when going to glowering prosters and monitors
Looking Back 25 Years,
power than the ruling Sovereign merchandise that must be ordered a
The special children's cinema in Great Britain, and the whole year or more in advance of de performance which is to take place Mr. S. Saburi, the new Japanese British system of administration livery.
at the Queen's Theatre to-morrow Minister, will arrive in Shanghai is infinitely more democratic than Another matter of interest to morning at 10.30 am., in aid of the on October 4. After remaining here that of the Great Republic. Reuter merchants and shipping agents has expected to prove most successful. A king, accompanied by Mr. M. Ministering Children's League, is for three days he will go to Nan- tells us that President. Hoover is been dealt with by the Senate most attractive programme has been Shigemitsu, the local Consul anxious to retain the power he has Finance Committee, which een-ringed, and children are nasured General, and Mr. S. Uyemura,
ot a delightful entertainment. The Consul in Nanking, to present his The game of poker has hech in regard to effective tariff changes tinues, without modification the performance has been organised by credentials to General Chiang Kai acquiring extraordinary popularity and the action of the Senate is existing provisions whereby, foreign the Victoria Branch of the M.C., Shek. Then he will go to Peping at Hong Kong, and we have re- likely to precipitate a vital trial of merchandise bound for a foreign satisfactory sum will be raised Nanking about the middle of Noclaim similar intimacy with high and it is naturally, hoped that a for several weeks and return to peatedly heard of high play among young men who cannot be said to strength between the President and country may be bonded for trans from the sale of tickets which have ember to resume negotiations with. Congress. The development of this portation through the United States teen priced at 20 cents each. These Dr. C. T. Wang concerning the pay. The other day, at a sitting of the Supreme Court, there was contest will be watched with great without appraisement or payment may be obtained at Moutrie's or on Sino-Japanese Trexty."
the morning of the performance at
heard a case directly arising from interest by many people outside the of duties. This featurg of the the Queen's Theatre.
that seductive and mind-obsessive United States, for the issue is a United States shipping trade is
Some time ago a traveller who game of cards. We would like to had вест more countries than think that the statement of the mess. very interesting one, inveiving as considered exceedingly important,
Ulysses remarked that England into which it apparently put the it does the democratisation of but hitherto bas attracted little
was the only place where drivers defendant would give pause to the system of government which is attention due to the fact that goods
does nothing to help the opening now being led into a ruinous understood that sounding the horn number of young men who are eren CHRONICLE supposed to be intensely democratic imported and exported under this
up of a traffic block. The Japan pastime for the pursuit of which but is in some respects more auto-provision are not included in the who see to it that each man is in Chronicle says Japan must be at are needed more money and more eratic than many monarchical ad- genoral statisties of the inter- his seat a certain of number of the other end of the scale, because strength of mind than many of
days during the year, says the there the driver who has to stop them possers,
The amounts. ministrations.
national trade of the United States. Japan Advertiser. However, too while the traffic clears in front of mentioned in the case show that the Government experts are preparing frequent absences arc frowned him, hoots all the time, and, when takes played for were much too a complete analysis of "shipping upon by both the educational and
it begins to move, goes on hooting. high for young men of their finan the police authorities. The officials
Although the Judge- pected that the passage meanwhile in transit and transportation." of the Metropolitan Police Board quainted with motorists in Shang was obliged to give the verdict on
Our contemporary cannot be ac- cial means of the Tariff Bill would leave the showing in detail, for the first time, recently conducted an investigation hai, both Chinese and some foreign the evidence, there being an acknow- way clear for President Hooven to the international origin and des-of some of the students who never ers. For sheer stupid purposeless ledgment that there was "value- draft a Message to Congress of tination of the merchandise under a result arrested more than 100 against the world.
seem to show up for work, and as noise-making we would back them received," the debt would obviously not have been contracted except at more than usual interest and signi- this category. Customs statistics young men who were spending their
the card-table. When such docu- ments become necessary, poker is no than the pursuit of knowledge. Residents of the United States longer an exciting pastima; it be The young gentlemen got off with are now insured for over comes a business, and a shady one- a good talking to, and were sent $100,000,000,000, according to a 607- at that The young man about to back to their booka.
vey announced recently by the ABSO-"learn" poker should therefore ciation of Life Insurance Presi- cast out his mental view of poten dents. Policies Are distributed tial winnings, and set himself to realise what he "stands to lose." among 65,000,000 holders. The sur- companies representing 86 per cent. Kong, it is possible to lose more- vey was made from the reports of 44 It appears that, even in Hong of the legal reserve insurance busi- than money. Förl sup.-/long ness transacted in the country. Kong Daily Press, October 4, 1904, These reports showed that the total. Looking Back 50 Years. reserve of these companies on July 31 totalled 885,203,805,000, an E- crease of 5.2 per cent, since Decem ber 1028. Allowing for a similar increase by companies not report
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"This is the first occasion on which 4 British gunboat has proceeded right up to the British Bund since the silting up of the Haiho took place,"
says the North China Daily tail of September: 21. H.M.S. Petersfeld was the centre of attrac tion this morning, both from the few foreigners who had assembled on the bund, as well as the Chinese. Even the Chincas, constable who was
the bund clear of any coolies or
detailed to keep a certain part of ing for the seven months, represent carts in the vicinity of the gun-g the other 15 per cent of the boat, seemed quite proud of his business, the total on July 31
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SETTLEMENTS, MALAY great importance was expected to through the United States in 1928, he debated when Congress meets not including goods imported for STATES, NETHERLANDS INDIA, BORNEO. THE towards the year-cad, particularly manufacture and subsequent re-ex PHILIPPINES, Etc.
in regard to the problem of demar-export, reached a total value of cation of authority between the 8420,743,000. The figures showed This Large Volume of approximate Federal and State Governments, that goods valued at the same 17 2,000 Pager gives, in addition The tremendous economie strides of amount were exported last year. to the Usual Lists of Firme an the United States during the past Over half of this trans-shipment Alpbabetical List of Residents five years have laid many tradi- trade is to and from Canada; the in the Far East containing the tional policies open to serious chal United States also received goods
The Chinese Authorities have Names of NexTİY
lenge, and during the next two for trans-shipment from Europe
struck out a new departure. Nos months it was expected that leading valued at $101,000,000. The United
only is emigration-by ancient law proscribed to be sanctioned by members of Congress would be States shipped to Europe goods
treaty, but it is in the future to be crystallising their views on these from other nations valued at
conducted under the Dragen Flag. various reforms in readiness for $108,000,000. A large share of this
The China Merchants' Stenin Navi- gation Company's steamer Hochung. open debate. The chief concern of latter figure, according to Govern-
is to load with Chinese coalies at Canton for Honolulu.
of the House of Representatives, how-ment statistics, covers Canadian
fied guardian of the law was Great Britain in 1928. had the course the grand idea is to open up ever, has beer to prepare itself to grain shipments in transit. Trans- admonished in voluble language lowest infant death-rate ever re- a new field of enterprise for the frustrate any effort of the Senate shipment trade of the United States which is a feature of Chinese concorded. Out of every 1,000 children China Merchants' Company, that IMPORT AND EXPORT to effect a radical modification of with South American countries,
stublca in general, as a result of who lived to be one year old, pet monopoly of the Chinese Gov. MERCHANTS the Tariff Bill as passed by the figures for which were recently pub which the other coolies with their es died. The nation's birth-rate ernment. No one can blame ther
carts simply stood and gazed at
for the same period with one excep. | however, for secking tô obtain a Lower House by an overwhelming lished for the first time, show that him with awe, until they were tion was the lowest on record, while | share in this most legitimate trade. majority. Now.comes a bold and goods valued at $15,811,000 were re. promptly told to move on.
the death-rate, except for two years, The Chinese in Hawaii are flourish. was the lowest on record: Great ing and prosperous, and the unexpected challenge from the ceived in the United States lost
Britain's birth-rate for 1998 was emigration thither has uniformly. Senate which raises quite another-year, bound. for foreign ports. To The Mai Tsai " Question in
16.7 per 1,000, while the death-rato | been voluntary and bond fide. The though not entirely new-issue, and South American nations in 1928,
was 11.7 per 1,000. The greatest Chinese Government certainly it will be interesting to see how the the United States shipped goods Canton is taking stops to restrict Registrar-General points out, were company to engage did it feel any The Buranu of Social Welfare in number of deaths, the report of the ¦ would not allow the native steamer House of Representatives reacts to this latest development in the valued at $23,116,000. Statistics the keeping of mui tsai. A noti- children under four years of age; | doubt on the subject, and the g over the tariff. "The power show that ports of the United Scation has been issued prohibiting the second greatest group being nex- despatch of the Hochung will be at present vested in the President States are serving in handling the the Bureau hopes that the whole rate from cancer increased slightly by the Colonial Office, as a signal the buying or sale of mui trai and nons between 70 and 74. The death. | regarded, we should imagine, even affects the prestige of both Houses of Congress, and in submitting that trans-shipment of the greater part system will be ended before long.
rate of sui million living. The refutation of the silly and wa Anglo-Saxon ideas of administrn- of the Canadian trade with nations Whether or no this is likely to tion are opposed to any such over of South America, also that South happen is a different matter. Gov. number of deaths due to motor ne Tirag Wah Hospital Commitice to riding authority, the Senate has American exports consigned toernments in Canton" come and go cidents increased. The rate of death | His Excellency the Governor, and of women from discases of mother- as a proof of his folly in listening stated an argument which the Cuba, Mexico and Central Amerien with bewildering rapidity, and not Lower Houm will have some difare shipped through the United every edict can be enforced in hood was the highest in eighteen to them.Hong Kong Daily Press, ficulty in refuting.
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