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INDIAN FACTS AND FIGURES,
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1902.
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'so much, would-be well content to see lesston at the pit's mouth. But the mines are badly attention paid to the accumulation of worked or not worked at all, and the one thing. If Mr. J. E. O'Connor's genius for marshall-big balances, and, more to the expediting of needful for their development is railwaya.. In" ing and elucidating great masses of statistics messages, especially between the principal one province in this wonderful country is an were more generally shared in India, the official
towns. The postal service dates from 1837, enormous coalfield covering thirty thousand publications of the Government would not be and in the last official year gave out for de- square miles, and from this vast area, it is said, open to the charge of repellant dullness levelled livery $32 millions of letters, newspapers; | the world might be fed with coal for thousands against them, and Lord Curzon would have
packets and parcels. Its duties are, perhaps, of years, had no occasion to catbark upon his vigorous
more varied than those of any other postal campaign ng inst the burden of reports.
system in the world, and besides the carriage- portly Blue-books which issue at regular
of [mails embrace such multifarious duties intervals from the office of the Director-General as the sale of quinine and, the payment of Statistics are as attractive as aggregations of military pensions. Another most in of figures can be, and the latest volume on structive return is that which relates to Financial and Commercial Statistics of the Savings Banks. The natives of India were British India is a mine of information, where- quick to appreciate the benefit of absolute in he who would delve has no difficulty security with a fair rate of interest, and have in tracing the rein he would fallow. These 190 lakhs deposited in the Savings Banks, statistics embrace an area of 1,786,254 square miles with a population of 294,294,953, 50 it is obviously impossible to do more than indicate the trend of the most salient features. The outstanding fact in the Government's balance- sheet is the enormous importance of the rail way system to India. The receipts from the railways are the biggest item of revenue form- ing no less than 26.36 per cent of the whole, They have easily displaced the land revenue from the foremost position, and it is now only 24.13 of the total income, as compared with 31.57 a quarter of a century ago. The de- mands of the railways also constitute the prin- cipal drain on the Imperiat Exchequer, ac counting for 26.94 per cent of the total expendi tore, as compared with 25,88 absorbed by the Civil Services and 23,69 by the Military Depart- ment. In quarter of a century the gross reveune from the railways has grown from 72.44 millions of rupees to 302.67 millions and the predominating, influence they exercise upon Indian finance must add to the gratification felt at the knowledge that the system as a whole is earning a fair percentage on
its capital. The salt revenue has advanced but slowly during the past decade, chiefly~ owing. it may be presumed, to the prolonged agricultural depressions. Despite the fulminations launched against it, the opium traffic betrays a remarkable vitality. It still constitutes 72.81 millions of rupees to the revenue; twenty-five years ago the figures were 91.83 millions. And as the impression continues to prevail in badly informed quarters, that the Indian Government is in a state oft chronic financial embarrassment, we may give prominence to the fact there have been nor plutes in fifteen out of the past twenty-five years, and that the surpluses in the aggregate exceeded the deficits by 118,49 millions of
HOW A RAILWAY was packed up. The man who has now the control of those vast coalfields, has also in his own hand the power to build-the-railways-needed-to-make- them a source of unparalleled prosperity. "Al- ready China's iron roads are -springing into being, and the story of the first railway in the strange Empire sounds a long way back in the world's history. Built almost in secret, and without any permission from the Celestial Power, In the industries of India, the Gotton the line was finished and ready for working when Mills exercise an overwhelming predominan unfortunate thing happened which brought ance, employing a capital of 180 millions of its career to an end. A man was run over rupees, and giving occupation to 173,708 and killed, and the accident, enraging the persons. Bombay claims about 70 per cent. of already angry officials, threatened to bring -A special charge is made for lines of the mills and spindles and 78 per cent of the about a riot, which was sipped in the bud, looms. The most noticeable feature in the however, by an order of the British Minister industry, after the recent revival of trade, is the closing the line. Eventually the railway was spinning of the higher counts of yarn, in which sold to the Chinese Government, who paid for this Presidency has taken the lead. Eighteen perit in twelve monthly instalments. On the day cent. of the whole Rombay output is of counts the Government entered into possession, the above 20s, and by using imported Eygptians day the list instalment was paid, the line was and other cottons, the local mills are produc-closed, the engines were broken, the rails and ing appreciable quantities of yarn of 40s, and sleepers were tom-up, and the whole railway upwards. Bombay also wove 85 per cent.
was packed up and shipped to Formosa! of the whole quantity of cotton made in India. Jute, notwithstanding its monopoly, plays a very poor second to cotton, and does not re- present more than a third of the capital em barked in the premier Industry. The woollen
rupees.
If we turn to the details of the great spend ing and revenue earning departments of the State, we are still amongst very big figures. Take the railways, for instance. There are now 25.378 miles 'open and 1,782 under con- struction representing a capital expenditure of 3,023 millions of rupees. Last year the rail- ways carried 195 millions of passengers, and 34 million of tons of goods, carning 336 millions of rupees. In telegraphs enormous strides have been made since 1851. Dr. W. E. O'Shangness obtained the sanction of the Government to construct an experimental line from Calcutta to Diamond Harbour. The de
owns 66,442 miles of wire partment now and supervises further 2,772 maintained for railways
canals. It transmits and nearly a million passengers a year, and returns a handsome profit to the State which last year exceeded 44 lakhs of rupees. The public to whom the efficiency of the telegraphs means
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mills have to struggle under the disadvantage that there is not much demand for woollen goods, except of a class which can hardly be profitably made in India in competition with European mills, and no large expansion is to be anticipated.The Times of India.
OBITER SCRIPTA.
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One man's power. One of the most im- portant posts in the world, surely, is that created for Yuan Shi Kai, the reforming Viceroy, who is to atminister the "mines, railways, telegraphs, and commercial, affairs" of the vastest area in the world controlled by one central Government. China bas from time immemorial invested her Viceroys with far-reaching powers, but no Viceroy since China's Great Wall built has ever wielded such authority as Yuan Shi Kai. The Chinese Viceroy, under ordinary circumstances, is practically an uncrowned king, wielding almost unlimited power over populations, greater than that of the British Isles. To these men who appoint their own armies, build their own navies, raise their own revenue, deal out their own justice, is left the entire control of the wheels on which China goes round, and so long as their annual tribute goes to Peking the Viceroys may do as they please, knowing they are held responsible for the peace and prosperity of their provinces.
TO FEED THE WORLD WITH COAI But the laver which has been placed in the hands of Li Hung Chang's successor is much more powerful still; with it Yuan Shi Kai, may do more for the development of an empire than it could fall to any other man in any other empire to do in one lifetime. The control of the mines alone is a position of almost infinite possibility. There is hardly a province in China which has not coal, iron, or copper in great value, and coal may be bought at a shilling a
A SK for ASAHI JAPANESE BEER ASK for ASAHI JAPANESE BEER
G. Girault,
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Girault.
AND HOW A MILLION OF MONEY WAS WASTED,
Even Governments, it would seem, repent sometimes. The Government of China, after the dismantled railway had lain for years on the muddy shores of Formosa, allowed one of the Viceroys to erect enormous works for the construction of steel rails and locomotives, and here for several years rails were made at a cost three times as great as their cost in Europe. But they were never laid; a round million was wasted in the first railway undertaking of the Chinese Government. To-day the world has invaded China, and at this moment from sixty to eighty millions sterling is invested in Chinese railways, and more than six thousand miles of lias are either laid or being laid—St. James Gasette.
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THE SUPERIORESS of the ITALIAN
THE SUPER, CRESE ROAD, begg most respectfully to APPEAL to the Residents of patronage and support, and desires to state that Hongkong and the Coast Ports, for their kind she will be pleased to receive orders for all kinds of NEEDLE WORK..
Gentlemen's Shirts made to order, and Cuffs and Collars renowed on old ones.
Ladies and Children's Under-Clothing (ni.- dren's Dresses, and all kinds of Embroidery, Materials can be supplied, if required.
more than average length.
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CRIPTION IN STOCK.
INCLUDING
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Mails..
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STRAMERS.
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DESTINATIONS.
(BOMBAY, VIA SINGAPORE and FRIDAY, 5th Dec., at
COLOMBO.........................
MARSEILLES, LONDON & ANT-SATURDAY, 13th Dec, at
SAILING DATES.
Noon.
Daylight.
Daylight.
4 PM.
ŠNAGASAKI, -KOBE and YOKO-2 TUESDAY, 16th Dec., at
WERP, VIA SINGAPORE, PENANO,
COLOMBO and PORT SAID...
J. W. Wale....
HAMA .....
VICTORIA, B.C., and SEATTLE,
and YOKOHAMA
KINSHIU MARU
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SADO MARU
J. H. Macmillan.......... YAWATA MARU..............................
A. E. Moses SHINANO MARU”........
M. J. Curnow......
KUMAND MARU
E. W. Haswell
SANUKI MARU....
W. Townsend
at
U.S.A., VIA SHANGHAI, MOJI, KOBE TUESDAY, 16th Dec, MARSEILLES, LONDON-& ANT-SATURDAY, 27th Dec, at
WERP, VIA SINGAPORE, PENANG,
COLOMBO and PORT SAID..... Daylight.
+
(NAGASAKI, KOBE and YOKO-Į SATURDAY, 278 Dec., at 1 HAMA.........
Ncon. VICTORIA, B.C., and SEATTLE TUESDAY, 30th Dec, at
+144
U.S.A., VIA SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, MOJI, KOBE and YOKOHAMA SYDNEY and MELBOURNE, VIA THURSDAY. ISLAND, TOWNSVILLE and-BRISHANE........
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ELECTRIC BELL INSTALLATIONS.
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Trained 'Mechanicians sent to Out-Ports to fit up Installations if required.
The Superioress will also be most grateful for any PAFER, or old ENVELOPES to be made NOTE ADDRESS:-2, ICE HOUSE ROAD. into Books for the Childran of the Poor Schools, who are taught by the Sisters.
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STEAM FOR STRAITS, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, PLYMOUTH AND. LONDON. Through Bills of Lading issued for HATAVIA PERSIAN GULF, CONTINENTAL, AMERI- CAN and SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.) HE. Steamship
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Silk and Valuables, all Cargo for Frascy and Tea for London (under arrangement} xill be transhipped Colombo in a steamer proceeding direct to Marseilles and London; other Cargo for Loudon, &c, will be conveyed 'vid Bombay with Transhipment,
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