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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1901.
Intimation.
THERE are temporary vacancies in the Colonial Secretary's Office for a typewriting. clerk, salary $10 per month, and an office clerk, salary $50 per month,,vide advertisement appearing elsewhere."
A REPORT is in circulation among certain Anglo-Indians that Lord Curzon is anxious to return hame from India in order again to take part in British politics. It is said, moreover, that Sir Alfred Milner's visit to England is
AT THE MAGISTRACY:
MURDER.
through rates and so forth to help the German manufacturers to force their goods into now markets. It is a pity that larger, faster and better boats do not compete with those recent- Inspector Kemp arrested Cheung Kwai. only bought by Germans, for it is by this means arrival from Singapore as answering the alone that we can prevent the whole trade of
TO-DAY were liberated from Kennedy Town concerned not so much with his own health as description of a man wanted on a charge of Siam being absorbed by our Continental rivals.
A. S. WATSON & Co., Hospital Ko Tang Chiu recovered from small- pox and Wan Lo and Woog. Yes, Fuk, two LIMITED.
plague cases. We regret the scarcity of cases of recovery warrants our noticing the fact. A SUGGESTION, say's the Pall Mall Gazelle, has been made to the Secretary of State for War that the gun carriage upon which the body of the late Queen was conveyed through London should be permanently depu
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
THE LEADING MANUFACTURERS
OF
RATED WATERS
IN THE FAR EAST,
with an offer to succeed to the Viceregal office, THE sufferings of the people in famine time are papularly supposed to be matters of hunger and thirst only, but the following from the Pun- jab Famine Report (relating to the Rohtak district) shows how much more there is in the back ground: The great beat (itt May) made it impossible to work except in the very early hours, and people came to work before day
murder in the Straits" Settlements. Prisoner was remanded.
STEALING COAL.
INSANITARY HOUSES IN
BOMBAY
The Corporation of Bombay have realized that much of the money spent on plague mea- suces is wasted as long as np iniprovèment is made in the construction of insanitary houses. Govemment declines to help them in the matter, as structural improvenient is mather a ihatter of prevention than suppression. The
Clan Ming was charged with stealing half a ton of coal.
P. C. 29 said he heard some shouting and saw a man in a boat making for a saw mill The man got away. He took the boat and afterwards arrested the man. Defendant stated he was offered ton of coal for $2.00 if he first paid $1.00.
Firing is provided where he is now for 6Corporation have therefore ordered an
Indian Engiacering.
sited in the armoury of the Tower, or elsewhere./break; duststorms were frequent, and the weeks, also sufficient exercise to keep himself inevitable Committee. to enquire and report -
THE Chusau, with the English mail, arrived this morning in the harbour, several hours before she was expected. She was, we believe, neatly two days in advance of schedule tipe OUR FACTORIES are construct- at Singapore. What a pity it is that the fort
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temperature was frequently over too "," TiE s.s. Matching, Captain T. F. Hall, (Messrs. Douglas, Lapraik), under charter to carry troops left Hongkong à day or two ago. Owing to the tremendous weather encountered she re turned to Hongkong yesterday. On arrival
tiremen. The vessel was promptly quarantined. The s.s. Watching will get away, it is hoped, Captain Passmore, one of the most efficient and popular men on the China coast-Captai
COLONIAL SECRETARY not later than the 15ibed with every attention to the best ghly mail carried by the French boats is not case of plague was discovered amongst the
instant.
By Command,
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary, Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Gore Hongkong, 5th June, mi.
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THE OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA, LIMITED
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MEUM AND TUAM.
Chung Say owned an opium pipe. Cheng Lei wanted it. He got the pipe and three months' hard labour as cumshaw,
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GOING FOR THE BRASS.
Ho Fuk was imprisoned for 14 days for his fondness for other people's brass. He was found brass screws. His screws and rings are now of
steel.
GETTING RID OF MOSQUITOS.
KEROSENE NOT RECOMMENDED. A recent Bombay Gazelić saya + As a result of the experiments with the malarial mosquito which, it will be remem bered, Major Andrew
·
Buchanan, I.M.S.,
principles that sanitary science can. We draw yur readers attention to the advertise- to-day. or to-morrow under the command of in possession of io brass, rings and lbs. of engaged upon, the fallowing important points suggest; and our NEW FACTORY | ment in another column of the well-known at WEST POINT is the LARGEST Green Island Cement Company, where it will be seen that the price of cement has been ad- and BEST EQUIPPED in the FAR vanced so cents per cask and 30 cents per bag of 375 lbs. and 250 lbs. respectively. The in- EAST.
crease dates fruin June 1st.
Chronicle. Some twenty or more years ago
T. P. Hall being on sick leave. SAILORS are superstitious, folk, and have im. plici faith in the luck of a vessel's name. The P. and O, liner, which has stranded on Tung
· A perfect Systqu' of Filtration is WE shall be obliged if any subscriber on 1542 employed guaranteeing Absolute pur-write on the Wrap, or of the paper the Time of there was another Sebraen, a sailing ship receiving his paper late or irregularly wrilling Island bears an unlucky name, says the delivery, etc., and forward the Wrapper to the which voyaged between England and Australa. Manager, Hongkong Telegraph Co. Ld., 50 It was much used by people who were recon.
The wrapper will The Machinery used is of the Latest | Queen's Road Central.
mended a long sea voyage. On one particular enable us to check the delivery coolies
passage there happened to be an extraordinary Type.
number of funerals at sea; there jyas a fire; NEXT week Mr..Fisher Unwin will publish in
and there was a mutiny. The ship was placed on the sailors' black list.
FOR FOOCHOWA SWATOW AND THE Company's Steamship
"ANPING MARU".
Captain S. Atsumi, will be despatched for the
ity.
A STAFF OF ENGLISH EXPERTS above Fort, as WEDNESDAY, the instam, attends to every detail of the Manu
at Daylight,
For Freight or Passage, apply to
facture.
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THE MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA,
Agents....
Hongkong, 6th June, 1951.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE P. & Q. S. N. Co.'s Steamship
CHUSAN,"
FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND
STRAITS.
Consignees of Cargo by the above-naruel vessel are hereby informed that their Gooils ue. being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf and Godown Godowns Kowloon,
The Waters produced are of the highest class and excellence, as testi fied to by the best English makers.
A. S. WATSON & CO. LIMITED, THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, Hongkong.
Company's trailowns at Roston, where each The Hongkong Telegraph
will be sorted out mark by mark
and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.
This vessel brings on Cargo: ''
From London, &c., ex S.S. India and
Arcadia.
From Persian Gulf, er B. 1. S. N. and B. & P.
S. N. Co.'s Steamers,
Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contrary before 2 PM, TO-DAY.
any case whatever.
Goods not cleared by the-rath, instant, at 4 P.M. will be subject to rent. !
No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in All damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns and a certificate of the damage ob- tained front the Godown Campany within ten days after the Vessel's arrival here, after which no Claims will be recognised.
1. A. RITCHIE,
Superintendent.
Hongkong, 6th June, 1901..
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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA.
Losos, June 4th." The meagreness of news from South Africa is causing public anxiety in England. It has been alleged that the Government is suppressing despatches.
The War Office announces that it has published everything received from Lord
Kitchener.
BATER.
BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA. THE VLAKFONTEIN FIGHT.
is Colonial Library. The Maid of Maiden Lane," another of Mrs., Amelia E. Barr's charming romances of Old New York. The main theme is the love story of an English man for an American girl, a love which ran away for a long time but came to a happy
-ending.
A SWEET TOOTU..
Li Chin stole 5 cents worth of sugar from the Po On Godown and was -sentenced to 6 weeks' hard labour.
CESTRUCTION.
rickshaw men up this morning and got thein Lance Sergant J. Lander had two enses of fined for rushing at people at Pedder's Wharf A few more and this nuisance will stop.
CORRESPONDENCE.
anopheles, as distinguished from the culex
Superintendent of the Central Jail at Nagpur, in the Central Provinces, has been recently have been established namely:-(1) that malarial fever in India is most prevalent after the rainy season is over (this differs, it may be remarked, from the experience of the disease ia Western Africa, where according to the. recently issued Report of the Liverpool School of Tropical Merlicine, its prevalence is greatest during the rains); (2) that the number of cases of malarial fever (as gauged by the admissions into the Jail Hospital) varies with the seasonal prevalence of anopheles, being greatest when the insects are most numerous and lowest when they are least so; (3) that while the
variety readily make their way through a cur- tain with a coarse mesh, they may be kept away by using one with a fine mêsh; (4) that though the culex may select sewage or foul water for its habitat, the anopheles on the contrary never does so, but generally select clear spring water. for the purpose Major Buchanan derides the idea of endeavouring to get rid of all mosquitoes -by applying kerosine oil to the pools in which SIR,-There is a paragraph under "Local they breed, which is the plan generally recom- and General" in your paper of yesterday re amended; he would rather find out where the Certain "rew of buildings" now being erected breeding pools are, preserve them as much as at the eastern end of Elgin Road, Kowloon. possible and than collect the eggs in the case I beg to state that I have nothing whatsoever of culex, or the larva in the case of anopheles, to do with this "Row" in question.
which is an easier matter, and certainly appears There have been enquiries at our office 're the better plan. The results of Dr. Buchanan's this matter, the:efore deem it expedient to observations differ in one or two particulars write you and beg that you will please grant from those recorded by preceding experimenters in the same direction, perhaps because he me space in your columns for the above.
Thanking you in anticipation.
experimented with differen; variety of mos- Yours, &c.,
quito; but in hundreds of others their observa tions have been verified. His own experiments have not been carried on for n sufficient length. of time to enable him to report on everything connected with the mosquito, but so far as they go, the results have been as above described.
We do not necessarily endorse this opinions expressed by Correspondents in this column.]
JERRY BUILDING. TOTUL EDITON OF THE Hongkong Tezkorápu.”
A HOME paper says:-W. G. Grace has begun the season in a manner reminiscent of his early manhood. Recently he scored 100 in a small match, and Inter he made 71 against Surrey. Not many people were at the Crystal Palace to A PARIS telegram states that according to the see the champion play the fast bowling of Rappel a new rifle is now undergoing exhaus-Lockwood and Richardson, and the lobs of tive trials several of the army corps. It is Jephson with equal facility; but all who were the invention of an Italian watchmaker named present, were delighted. Except for some slow- Lamacchia, hring near Toulon, who has spent ness between the wickets he displayed all 'his' oid briskness; in cutting, leg-hitting and plac- over ten years in perfecting it, The rifle is on the lines of the Lebel, but is much lighter, and ing his eye was as sure as ever. Grace's fine Carries nineteen rounds in the magazine. '- innings was chiefly played in company with C. J. B. Wood, who last season was about the most useiut.inan in the Leicestershire team. Wood can hardly be called a pretty bat, but he possesses the accessary qualities for run get-Number
ing-steadiness and power. The first partner- ship of 131 runs led to a total of 382 by the London County.
THE West River trading steamer Woping, as previously reported, went on the rocks fast week in the Silam Channel. The cause very frequent one--was trying to get out of the way of a junk, suddenty sighted, canying no Tights. Cap, Sherman, in the face of many difficulties, is engaged salvaging the cargo, or the remains of it for the insurance company concerned.
17 may be noticed that we are publishing a Bazette of interest to the shipping community generally, giving the names of afficers on leave promotions, transfers, etc. We imagine it will be found useful by many shipping people here, who can see at a glance where their friends are at the time. We shall be much obliged for any information from our readers tending to keep the column up to date,
AN Indian paper says:-If the existing pro- It is officially stated that at the Vlakhibition regarding the passing of soldiers of the fontein fight, the British force consisted of British service to the reserve are relaxed next 1,400 men with guns. They were return-autumn, there will then be about 25,000 men ing to camp; when, under cover of a veldt fire, the Boers rushed the British rearguard, capturing two guns, which were re-taken on the remainder of the British force coming into action, and the Boer position occupied. The Bouts lost 41 killed.
India who will have completed their service with the colours, and can claim to be sent home. A commonsense arrangement will be to offer bounties to many of them to re-engage for one or two years more in India, as they are seasoned soldiers.
JOHN LEMM,, F. 1. Ag. Architect.
Hongkong, June 6th, 1904.
THE PLAQUE.
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FRENCH INDO-CHINA. of cases reported (Chinese....... 1,006 up till noon of the sth Other Asiatics 38 The tonnage at the part of Saigon during Europeans...... 141900 amounted to 1,573,273 tons (a slight de June, 1901.
Chinese... IQ Number of cases reported Other Asiatics 2
crease over 1899 of 12,262 lons) represented by during the past 24 hours
1,200 vessels, 7,100 of which were foreign, Europeans..... printipally German, English, Norwegian and Dutch. The ports of Tong-King have been Total number of cases reputed to date 1,069 visited by 1,354 vessels or junks inwards, and 1,211 vessels, or junks outwards, altogether a Number of deaths reported (Chinese..... 965 movement of 2,565 vessels, aggregating 787,787 up till noon of the 5th Other Asiatics 20 tons. Out of that total of vessels there were June, 190r....
Europeans..... 596 German, 69: English, 27 Norwegian, 7 Chinese... 18American, 3 Japanese, and a great number of Other Asjatics o Chinese junks, French vessels numbering only Europeans.....193.
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A RESOLUTION is published in the Finance. Department, at Calcutta, on the subject of the law relating to the apprenticing of Eurasians to sea service.. 1 lays down that in section 29 of the Indian Merchant Shipping Act, 1883, the words "Native Seamen" should be held to refer only to indigenous as opposed to Euro-Nuinber of deaths reported pean or Eurasian inhabitants of India. Eura-
during the past 24 hours' sians, therefore, may be shipped as seamen on merchant vessels on the same terms as Euro- peans. The resolution adds: The Governor-deaths are Genetal in Council considers it undesirable that any restrictions should be imposed by executive orders of Local Governments on the employment of Eurasians on merchant vessels and any instructions on the subject, which it may be thought advisable to issue to Port Officers should be reported for the previous
approval of the Government of India."
»THE doom of another batch of literary land- marks has lately been sealed,” says Literature. "First the old Black Bull tavern in Holborn, where Mrs. Gamp nursed Mr. Lewsome in
Total number of deaths recorded to date 1,008 Since noon on Saturday last the cases and
-Cases Chinese..
Other Asiatics European
'Total'
T
Deaths Chinese ....
Other Asiatics: Europeans
17
Total
112
The plague returns for last week were :—
Cases......
....215 Deaths
.207
The returns for 1st June, 1894, were i
Total deaths to date
1,003.
86
New cases in previous 24 hours... Deaths in previous 24 hours... 83 Patients under treatment... 235
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It is announced that Dr. Johnson's house at On the British side, it was found that the Lichfield has been acquired by the Corpora-partnership with Betsy Prig-Nussed together, casualties amounted to 183, including sevention, and is to be turned into a inuséum, like, turn and turn about, one off, one on.' Then officers killed and six wounded. The 1st Carlyle's house in Chelsea, Cowpers at Olney, the Red Lion, at Henley-on-Thames, in which THOSE desirous of obtaining copies shouki Battalion Derbyshire Regiment suffered and Milton's at Chalfont St. Giles. Lichfield, Shenstone was said to have written the familiar
Mr. Cameron, of the Eastern Telegraph Co., chiefly, losing 18 killed; including three it is true, was not the scene of the great lexico-lines which Dr. Johnson quoted to maintain officers, and 68 wounded. .
grapher's literary labours. He was born there; his thesis that there is nothing which has ye
was out and about to-day looking little the he kept the school there at which David Gar- beer contrived by man by which so much
worse for his recent attack of plague. He testifies to the prompt altention he received on rick was a pupil; and he stood there bare happiness is produced as by a good tavern of
inn; though other authorities have claimed going to Kennedy Town Hospital, and although headed in the market-place for an hour, as a
that honour for the Red Lion Inn at Henley-attacked only in a very mild form by the self-appointed penance for a sin.
in-Arden. Lately, too, Burford Bridge Hotel, Dear Box Hill, where Keats finished Endy- mion towards the end of 1817, has been in the market-whether for demolition or not, we: cannot say."
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EYE SIGHT:
WEATHER REPORT.
The Observatory report says:- On the 6th at 11.45 a.m. the barometer hus fallen considembly on the E. coast of China, and moderately on the S. coast. A depression has appeared over Central China, and the low pressure trough seems to be stil! lying across the N. part of the China Sea. Forecast N.E, and varying winds, moderate; showery.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE Joint Telegraph Companies inform us that the Foochov-Shanghai cable is' restored. PARCEL MALS for Europe, &c, per 5.5. Coromandel will close at 3 p.m. on Friday, the
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A CHINAMAN, Ip Fai, who was sent to prison on May 31st, died this morning in the gaol Hospital. An inquest was held this afternoon. Tre population of England and Wales roughly speaking is 35,525,716, an increase of 3,523,191 on the number of persons enumerated to years ago.
THAT unfortunate, but by no means rare, bird, the heppecked husband, has been the butt of the shafts of ridicule since Adam delved and Eve span, though it is not recorded that either of our first parents ever felt tempted to apply. 10 a magistrate for a 'separation order against THE Pall Mall Gazette says:-There must be the other. There has just been formed-and Consternation in the nether world among the not before it was wanted-a Husbands' Protec- rats if they have intelligence enough to know tion Society, for the purpose of getting the what has happened to them. A new method sexes equalised before the law, which at pre- has been discovered of destroying them by sent enables Joan to obtain a separation order shiploads. Henceforth no rat need leave a against Darby with comparative case, whereas ship to express contempt for its unseaworth Darby has to put up as best he may with any ness. A few days before it is time to sail, 2 eccentricities of conduct in which Joan may nasty man with a little engine can go aboard, indulge as being "only pretty Fanny's way."
and after he has battened down the hatches the engine will begin to work, whereby is pro- Some first unrevised results of the census duced a gas deadly to rats. The effect of this taken on April i have been issued. Only the in the clunga, the transport-ship of which county boroughs and the county of London are something was beard some time ago, was that dealt with. The population of the twenty-nine when the hatches were opened again the rats boroughs included in the county of London is and other verinin lay dead in heaps. The now 4,530,034—an increase of 307,717 compared experiment was witnessed at the Albert Docks with the returns for 1891. This increase is by representatives of the Fort Sanitary au very unequally distributed. In some of the thorities, the Local Government Board, and divisions the City, Bermondsey, Finsbury, many up-owners. It is not unlikely that Holborn, Marylebone, Shoreditch, and West seagoing rats will have an uncommonly dis Minster-there has been an actual decline, agreeable time of it later on. If they would while in Battersea, Fulham, Lewisham, and only keep their proper place they are excellent GREAT proportion of cataracts and
Wandsworth the increase has been very scavengers of the seivers nobody would mind diseases affecting those advancing in life. MR.Chamberlain has called an Imperial Con considerable. Of the county boroughs Liver them. But when they travel by ship, and carry occur to those having some deficiency in the ference, which is to take place at the end of pool is still the largest, with a popula the plague with them, their destruction is im construction of the eyes-the many years of
Eye Strain ending in serious forms of disease. May, on Colonial jurisdiction with regard to tion of 685.376-an increase of $5,748 inperative. It is well that the means has been Glasses specially adapted in youth to those appeal cases. All the Colonies and India will the decade. Manchester comes next, with discovered. requiring them save and preserve the sight. be directly or indirectly represented.
543,930; and then follow Birmingham, Constantly recurring headaches, spells of dimness when reading, weak eyes, the letters MR. Farmer of Messrs., Madar and Farmer 522, 82; Leeds, 428,953; Sheffield, 380,717; running together; any of these symptoms indi, returned from Canton yesterday evening and West Hain, 367,308; Bristol, 328,836; and cate a deficiency in the form of the eye requirreports all quiet as far as the native residents Bradford, 279,209. The greatest increase in ing only to correct and care..
Class Supplies his SPECTACLES are concerned. Mr. Farmer was inspecting the decade has occurred in West Ham, where the numerous alterations being made, in the the growth has been 162,495, or nearly 79. per only after testing the sight.
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The Government of India have sanctioned Rs. 203,793 for works in connection with accommodation for Naval Ordnance Stores, Bombay, and algo for doubting the tramway in
Butcher Island there,
centielt
BREAKING THE RECORD!
tatemens of the Rainfall in the Punjab during the famine year reveals the astonishing fact that the district of Montgomery broke the record of all districts for all time by recording a rainfall for the entire year of 165 inches
disease, attributes his early recovery to the careful treatment received.
BRITISH TRADE WITH SIAM.
DEFENCE OF THE COALING STATIONS.
(BY ANAVAL OFFICER.)
The Secretary of State for War has lately expressed the opinion of the War Office-that the Navy should provide a sufficient number -" of Marines to release five battalions of the line from garrison duty at certain naval coaling stations. The War Office also intends to substitute black troops for white troops to the extent of five battalions-at coaling places in the tropics. It is a very unfortunate circum“. stance that the Admiralty and the War Office do not see eye to eye in the matter of defending the naval coaling stations. As a matter of fact, the Admiralty cannot spare 4,000 or any other large number of Marines unless an equivalent number of "seamen gunners" is provided. To do so would take five years-it takes that time to make a seaman gunner. Not only would the tile be-required, but additional training. ships, barracks, and gunnery and torpedo schools would have to be provided; to say nothing of recruiting difficulties,
The coaling stations proposed to be inanned by the Navy have not yet been named, but it may reasonably be supposed that those places where naval establishments exist are intended. Bermuda and longkong are islands with naval depôts and coaling places, so are Esquimalt and Port Royal. Bombay and Malta, though islands, are not intended to be turned over to the Navy for obvious reasons-there are six battalions at Malta. Naval depûts also exist at Gibraltar, Calcutta, Trincomali, Wei-hai- Siam affords another instance where foreign Wei Simon's Bay, Ascension, and Halifax. nations are gradually superseding the English Calcutta comes under the same category as in the van of commerce, says an exchange. A Bombay and Malta, so does Gibraltar. Trin- year or two ago the Holt Line and the Scottish comali, though a naval depot, is probably not Oriental fleets were bought by the Norddeut meant to be defended by the Navy. To gat- scher Lloyd, the reason assigned for the sale
rison Halifax, Bermuda, and Hongkong, as at being that the steamers did not pay, This is present, takes three battalions. Vancouver and Simon's Bay take about zoo men. As- not the experience of the Germans, who are developing their trade and extending their lines cension is already provided with a marine Wei-hai-Wei will probably soon on lower values, and if one may judge from the garrison. figures given as to the increase of their trade, develop into an important naval depot;" the shipping of Bangkok will be in their hands already a considerable number of Marines in a few years. The next consular report will and the Chinese Regiment are stationed reveal a serious decay of British shipping and a there. Port Royal, Jamaica, is garrisoned correspondent to Commercial Intelligence states by a detachment of the West India Regi that the proportion of British vessels trading ment. To garrison Hongkong, Wei-hai-wei, with Bang ok has failen in three years from 70 Bermuda, Halifax, Esquimalt, and Simon's cent. to 35 per cent.; while tonnage has Bay would take about 2,700 men; but as the War Office intends to release five battalions, dropped from 78 per cent. to 38 per cent. In the same period the German vessels have risen or 4,000 men, there is here a great margin from 7 per cent. to 51 per cent.; and the or discrepancy. If the War Office cannot or tonnage from 6 per cent. 45 per cent. The will not find men for the defence, then the chief cause is of course the transference of two Admiralty must either give up their coaling lines of British steamers to foreign owners, but stations and trust to steam colliers, hospital, the Russians, Danish and Dutch are each water, ainmunition, lactory, and torpedo deput port. It was expected that after the transfer off the depot.. making energetic efforts to get a festing in the ships, or else find the men for the defence of Should the Admiralty have to undertake the ships there would have been a large increase in the number of tramp steamers flying the Brit defence of their own coaling stations-and it tish flag. Such has not been the case, and our appears that they will have to do so-they cannot at present be expected to provide hips have deteriorated in quality as well as quantity. The merchants cannot depend on artillery and engineers, as well as infantry. tramps, but are compelled to ship their goods Two courses are open to the Admimity one is to increase the number of seamen gunners and by the regular liners, for which accommoda tion.they pay very highly. After the manages ccucurrently part with the number of Marines ment of British steamers passed into German required by the War Office; this would be the hands freights rose, and the German capitalist simplest plan, and would probably be the best is getting a magnificent return on his invest arrangement as a temporary, measure, until the ment; What our Teutonic brethren can do details of a vastly greater change can be worked ought not to be beyond the business powers of out. The second cuurse would be to part English traders, but it appears as if the sale of company with the whole of the Marine Light British vessels took with it British trade New Tulantry this of course, would require a very that they have got into the markets, every considerable length of time and much con effort will be made by means of preferential sideration to carry out St. James's Garitie
per