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TELEGRAMS.
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Russia and Corea.
LONDON, 28th October,
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1903,
THE SUGAR INDUSTRY.
FACTS AND FANCIES,
In the Dutch Colony. So piculs per douw---46 piculs per acre-is regarded as a bad crop, 100 piculs is an ordinary one, 120.to-130.picuts a good one and 150 picule and over (85 picuts, per acro) is considered an excellent result, In Queensland n certain amount of whiteAs much as 180. piculs per donw have been
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SARAWAK.
The Dally, Chranicle publishes the follow- ing paragraph enent Sarawak" During the absence from Samwak of the Rajsh, Sir Charles Brooke, who is now enjoying a well-earned holi
CAPTAIN PERCY SCOTT ON WHALE ISLAND.
Captain Perry Scott is gradually bringing ine to operation at the great naval gunnery esta- blishment at Whale Island, Portsmouth, a
To-day's Advertisements.
`OUSEHOLDERS are hereby requested
It is considered at Tokio that the Russian labour is employed, and the management of obtained, and even the enormous figure of zoo day in England, the Governmant of the country number of revolutionary changes provided for to make a Special Effort during the fortification of Yongampho, now officially the estates is, in most cases, in the hands of piculs, or 14 piculs per acre has been known, is in the capable hands of Mr Harry Fitz in the new Naval Scheme, and also some sug Winter Months to destroy Rals and to fill op reported, may lead to important developer Demerara nad other West-Indian but this is a record crop and a rare occurrence. ments as infringing Corean integrity.
The Liberal Unionists. The Duke of Devonshire, replying to the Queensland sugar fills buy a good deal correspondent, says that it may be necessary to reconsider the position of the Liberal Unionists towards the question of rejoining the Liberals,
LATER.
Fains in the United Kingdom. Phenomenal rainfalls have occurred in the United Kingdom and hundreds of square miles of land are under water.
The Meeting of the Tsar and Kaiser.
Several German papers, in view of the forthcoming meeting of the Tsar and Kaiser, emphasize the opinion that the Russian newspapers are mistaken if they think that Germany is about to depart from her policy „of strict neutrality in the Far East.
FOOTBALL.
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planters. Apart from the cane phtained from the larger estates, many of which are worked" by contract labour-generally Kanakas, South Sea-islanders, Chinamen or Javanese,
from kitle planters, either of European (Australian) or of Chinese and Kanaka origin. The factories pay for a ton of cane the exorbit- Ant price of from 129. 6d. in 145., although, for many years part, the price of sugar has not exceeded $9 per picul for the first quality and 56 to 7 for the second in the net produce of a ton of Queensland cane rest of the world. "It'is supposed, that the
is equal to that of the Javi plant; this is doubtful, however. The transport by waler of the cane to the mill, the cost of crushing the mill, combined, certainly could not make and boiling the sugar, etc. and the profit of
up for the little differer ce in price of the cave and ofbe prepared sugar, if legislation in Austr.lia and New Zealand had not taken care to almost entirely prohibit foreign competition. In Aucklat, in Sydney and in Queensland farge refineries are luilt and, ten years ago, foreign refined sugar was struck-with an import duty of £5 per ton, or more than $3 per picul, ie half the cost of production of sugar in Mauritius, Java, the Straits Settlements, Philip. pines, China and Japan, the possible importing countries,
At Quatry Bay recreation ground at 4 p.m. to-morrow the Naval Yard with play Tai Koo. The Naval Vard team is as follows:-Goat, Kidney; backs, Baffey and Tucker; half-backs, Pearce, Day and Luckham; forwards, Gladwell, This enormous duty has since he reduced Chesture, McDonald, Ruby and Griffin. · A | to £3 per ton, which is quite sufficient to launch will leave Blue Buildings at 3 pm.
CANTON NOTES.
(From Our Own Correspondent)"}
UANTON, October 29th,
THE WEATHER. When I wrote last we were bot. Now we are cold. The change was very sudden. About n-on on Tuesday the wind began to blow and by night the thermometer was down in the seventieth. This morning it registered sixty- one. The sudden change is felt very much, The Chinese are hurrying along the street as if were mid-winter. The clothing stores are do- ing a rushing business. The pawn shops are sending forth their summer stores.
THE VICEROY.
The heavy work and the continued anxiety are telling upon the Viceroy. He has been ill for some days and Dr. Shelby has been attend-
ing him. He is not seriously ill, but is in need of a rest. I hear to-day that he has been grant- ed a month in which to regain his strength. The feeling in the city towards the Viceroy has not improved. The official class look upon him as a little tyrant and would be glad to sect the last of him. Many of the better class of Chinese think that he is doing the right thing. The business men think he is not giving suff-
cient a tention to the disturbed condition of the country about Canton. The Viceroy of the Two Kwang has a difficult task, and probably our present Viceroy is doing all that could be done under the present condition of things.
THE FOOCHOW DIFFICULTY.
The Sin Wan Poe is informed that. Tartar General Chung who is acting Viceroy of Fu- kien, recently.telegraphed to the Waiwupu that M. Doyore, the late Director of the Foochow Arsenal, continued to be stubborn in attitude and was instigating French missionaries of the Province to raise side issues and therefore he was not only putting difficulties in the way of the Arsenal management, but was also involv. ing the province into deeper entanglement with missionary cases. The French Minister at Peking had been so hoodwinked by him that the latter was ready to take his part to the last, therefore it was necesssary to have the matter thoroughly gone into, so as to convince the Minister of his error and force M. Doyore into submission. The Tartar General concluded by asking the Waiwupu not
check foreign competition and to keep his
home markets for the Australian, at the
anormous price, superior even to the shameti retail cost of gd. per pound, which, until lately, was paid by German consumers of beet- sugar. A small quantity of cane is produced in New South Wales; this is grown almost entirely by white and Chinese labour.
Even this enormous projective duty.jo favour of the Australian and Fiji island sugar is not altogether capable of keeping Java sugar cut of the antipodes. The centre of the Queens- land sugar industry is MacKay in the Austra Laa" Mongrelia; "so called from the extraor dinary blending of races which exists there, a special result of the sugar industry, which is also remarkable in the Sandwich Islands, Fixhose European imraigrants work shoulder to shoulder with Portuguese from the Açores, Yankees, Canadians, Australians, Kanakas, Chinamen and Japanese.
An important company of Sydney, the Aus- tralian Sugar Refining Co., which has works at Sydney and Auckland, plays the principal role in the production of sugar in the Fiji istands. The mill at Nausoria is locally said to be the largest sugar refinery in the world; but the same is said of a MacKay mill, and is probable that the Caledonia Estate (Perak Sugar Co.) which has a yearly output of 5,000 ions is not inferior in importance to the Aus- tralian mills. Almost all the alluvial plains of the Fiji islands have been turned into fields f sugar cine. These are worked by Bengalese coolies-imported 700 to 400 at a time in sail- ing vessels-who are about the laziest and most insolent class of labour it has been the lot of the writer to deal with, and as workmen are far
Should the Australian and New Zealand Par inferior to the Klings employed in the Straits
liaments abolish the sugar duties, which is pro bable, the Fiji industry is doomed.
tian industry.
(To be continued)
FRANCE AND KWANGSI REBELS.
SWATOI COOLIE TRAFFIC
As
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kunnery. The experiment is only being tried a authorities believe it will be, it will be adopted Portsmouth, but if it is successful, and the best
at the other ports. Admiral Sir John Fisher said at Osborne Nival College, a lew weeks ago, that in two or three years' time the seaman
Gerald Deshon, whose personal acquaintance gested by himself Euring the last few weeks with North Borneo began over a quarter of a drilling among the seamen-gunners of the century ago, when he went to Sarawak as establishment has been brought to u ninimum, a cadel, Not long afterwards he became and much of the time previously occupied at A. D. C. to the Rajah, and he has since drill is now being spent at gunnery practice. been specially chosen for various important The staple work of the men has; of course, al. positions calling for nerve and sound judg. Peking Oct. 17.-The French Minister again ment. He has been a Resident Commissoner will almost exclusively apply themselves
ways been gunnery, but under the system they has drawa, the attention of the Wai Wu-puin different parts of the territory, and his know- pressed and that they now infest more dis rict only to that of the Rajah himself. to the fact that the Kwangsi rebels are not sup fedge of the country and the people is second gunnery, at which only the best of our marks- Whale Island is to become an academy of naval
than ever, which will affect French territory Sir Charles Brooke is now getting on in years-the home of drill and the elementary school of men will graduate. The naval depôt is to be greatly, and informed the Board that if the Chinese authorities can not suppress the rebels will for the future have a good deal to do with he has been Rajali since 1868-Vir. Deshon France will take active steps to protect her own the administration of affairs in this model and territory, by suppressing them with French
prosperous section of the great Dyak Island." troops, France intends to take advantage of
'As some of our readers will note, the above her sphere of influence in that province-Nicht certainly requires a few words of explanation, will be a'stoker, the stoker a seaman, and the the disturbed condition in Kwangsi to extend paragraph is somewhat misleading, and Nicht.
which are supplied by Mr. Gerard, Fiennes, marine-seaman, stoker, and marine. This is who writes to the Chronicle:-"North Borneo the idea of the future Navy, and on this is based is a term which is commonly employed to Lord Selborne's scheme. At the naval depó designate the territory of the North Borneo The war between the companies for the com- Company, from which Sarawak is quite separate.af.er which all will undergo preliminary courses recruits will first qualify in a course of drill, mand of the coolie traffic still continues, writes The whole of Mr. Deshon's service has been the Swatow correspondent of the W. C. D in the Government of the State of Sarawak. Aras, Both of the companies most concerned
There is no such thing as a Resident Com have big war funds, and are prepared to spend missioner' in Sarawak, and the use of the term is to the last mark in order to gain their end. And misleading, as implying that Sarawak is acolony now the news comes that the Siamese are dis-under the British Crown, instead of being a So- pensing with the services of their Customs vereign State with its own flag, enjoying only expert, E. Ambrose, Esq. A glance at the
British protection against attack from the outside. Bangkok director shows how many of the
When you say that 'as Sir Charles Brooke is offices of State are in the hands of princelings, now getting on in years, Mr. Deshon will, for both needy and incompetent (although these the future, have a good deal to do with the at particulars are only to be read between administration of affairs... you ig.ore the the lines). If the duties of Assistant General fact that the Rajah-Muda Charles Vyner Brooke Director of Customs in Bangkok are anything is occupying his proper position as Heir-Appa- like what they are in China, the welfare of the rent, and that, in the case of a Regency, be any immigrants may well be expected to would naturally be Regent. It so happens that filling a post is to stand in the gate and inter-present time, and Mr. Deshon, as senior officer suffer at the hands of men whose only idea of the Rajab-Muda is also in England at the cept all possible squeezes..
TRIAL TRIP OF THE S.S.
"HONGKONG MARU"
The Toyo Kisen Kaisha's Pacific liner Hongkong Maru has again passed the severe test entitling the Company to a renewal of the same Government-subsidy for another period of five years. She was to have made the trial on Tuesday, but owing to the proximity of the typhoon and the rough weather experienced it had to be abandoned, and it was not until yesterday that the majestic steamer set out for the south of the island and steamed over the Govern
ment three-mile course. She made a mean
average of 17 778 knots, although the require ment of the Japanese Government was only
17 knots. The credit of this successful per formance, which is due to Capt. W. E. Filmer and Chief Engineer Seaver, speaks much for the Toyo Kisen Kaisha's three liners, which are now the fastest vessels of the Japanese mer- cantile marine. On her trial trip the America Maru made 18.20 knots, while the Hongkong „aru has done 17.77, and the Nippon art 17.58.
The Hongkong Maru, which sails at noon on Saturday, is depatched on hurry orders, and before San Francisco is reached she will make up the three days she is behind schedule time.
THE SHELL TRANSPORT:
COMPANY.
The petroleum trade for the past 18 months has suffered considerably, owing mainly to the
and Resident of Sarawak proper, is left in charge; but that is à fortuitous circumstance which will, in all probability, not recur. Finally, since the King two years ago gave orders that Rajah Brooke's position as ruler of a Sovereign State should be recognised at Court, his proper style and title is His Highness the Rajah of Sarawak,' and not 'Sir Charles Brooke. You would not speak of the Gaekwar of Baroda -as Sır Sayaji Ra,,"
THE OLD MONOPULY
Most United States, telegrams and the great majority of the financial letters from New York dwell upon what is described as the "bear tactics" of the Standard Oil group. We are told, says a London paper, that it is "smashing" the market for reasons of its own, and selling things in order to force out weak spots.else- where, playing the game of "beggar my neigh bour with its old soullessness and success. This has long seemed to es a misinterpretation of the actual position of the said group. We have had a growing conviction for many months now that it is no longer the wealthy group it is popularly supposed to be. We are inclined, on the contrary, to attribute a great deal of the demoralisation and market paralysis now visible on Wall Street to the embarrassment of this Standard Oil gang. Things have not gone' well in recent years either with its rank and file or its leaders. The foreign trade in petroleum has by no means yielded the profit it formerly did.. Competition with Russian and other Asiatic oils has broken in upon the monopoly to a disastrous extent, and the Trust's shipping adventures clearly yielded no profit, else Mr. J. P. Morgan would not have been put up to form that shipping combine," by which many people and some financial polentates and banks in the Union are going to be ruined. No, our impression that at the present moment the chief source of weakness in Wall Street lies around the Standard Oil clique, and the failure of some of its chief ornaments would no more take us by surprise than the collapse of the
rich on paper, these magnificences, and have
In upon them. Hence it has been utilised to start all manner of gigantic enterprises, and tocked up in innumerable undertakings which time ago we were told an excellent authority have proved more or less of a deal loss. Some
that the all-absorbing Standard Oil swarm had obtained the control of seven banks in New York over and above the Standard Oil Com pany's own bank. The total deposits of five of
The island of Mauritius produces about 8% of the total output of the world, and is therefore no mean factor in the sugar industry. How. ever, the terrible storms, that from time to time work such havoc to the buildings and plantations in the island, and the appearance on the market of large quantities fact that labour has to be imported from the of retroleum products which could not readily be disposed of. There has been over-produc Malabar coast are conditions that go far to bamper the greater development of the Maurition in the Far East and other producing coun- tries, the single exception being America, A sugar country of more interest to the Hongkong market is the Malay where the supply has not been sufficient to meet the demand. To avoid a crisis in the province of Wellesley and the adjoining state
markets in which the Shell Company is so of Ferak. In the first of these, culilvation is
the severe competition-protracted negotiations careful consideration but the exercise of much bring all the Competitive parties into Farmo: i- us ction The benefits accruing from such a far-reaching policy as that adopted by the Shell Company could not he felt immediately, though there is no doubt that they, togelber with the Royal Dutch Company, have rendered yeoman service to the industry of the Far East, which they are at the head, by carrying through the amalgamation which found expression a few weeks ago in the formation of the Asiatic Petroleum Company.
to yield the co centrated on the western seashore, south of largely interested--a crisis consequent upon Steel Trust. They have been too blatantly
slightest, otherwise the result would be dis. Penang, and some of the old estates, like hive had to take place, which not only required not known what to do with the wealth pouring astrous, etc. Now some officials have sug- gested to Prince Ching to invite a prominent Crimean war, have reverted to tapioca and patience, for admittedly, it is no easy matter to
person of a third nation to arbitrate and settle
the matter
THE PEKING CANARD.
The Peking and Tientiin Times of the zind inst, contains the following -
Alma and Malakoff, evidently started after the other cultures. There are two large European owned plantations, viz., ihe Ratu Kawan estate, about an hour by launch, from Penang and the Caledonia mill, reference to which has already been made. The sugar Gelds of the Straits are about 32 miles long and run from Batu Kawan, opposite the island of Tenany, to the Gula river, where the third (Shanghai owned) European su ar plantation output 1,200 1,800tons?) is situated The width of the fields is variable and nowhere exceeds 3 to 4 miles. The concerns already The message was sent without verification mentioned are worked with the most modern at the Legation, probably upon the authority machinery and a European personelle, às are of a heretofore reliable informant.
also a few Chinese-owned mills, Not a few of Sir Ernest Salow telegraphed to London, the latter work their mills with buffaloes and
A correspondent sends us what is the most intelligible statement of the mynition robbery ut the Legation which has yet been made. Referring to the message of the Times corres ponde tour formant says:
Tokio, and Shanghai réfuting the statements. do the boiling in pans resting on clay ovens: What occurred, according to Colonel Rower, but it is remarkable that, notwithstanding the Commander of the Legation Guard, was a theft "badtimes," of which agriculturists and planters was committed by common Chinese thieves everlastingly complain, many of these Celes- from the Chinese City, Among the munitionials, who, not so many years ago, started with materials which they attempted to carry off was a few orlongs of cane fields are now in posses- electrical apparatus used in the constriction of sion of several hundreds of acres and well mines and this was relinquished by the thieves, built factories, at the last moment and left dangling over the The lowlands of the Wellesley province and wall by which they escaped. A quantity of gun parts, such as sights, etc, was taken, but all has been recovered except a small balance not exceeding len pounds sterling in value."
The supposition that these things were the paraphernalia of conspirators is held to be fidiculous by the British at the Legation and the barrack because they are identified as the property of the Legation, and were missing from the store room. It is unlikely, from their print of view, that conspirators would rely upon the materials in the magazine for laying their trato and fuse exploding devices,
there are none which are formed on such a In all the English Petroleum enterprises favourable basis to the outside shareholders is the Shell Transport Company, The ori sinal owners of the very important fleet,
these banks was put at $42,000,0:0, and alo gether upwards of $150,000,000, or £30,000,000, in deposits were alleged to be brought under the control of the Oif monopoly. if statements like this in any degree accord with the facts we may be quite sure that the struggle has been Titanic to avoid collapse. Collapse when it does come, as it must one day, will clear away a good many misconceptions.-The Japan Daily Herald.
THE GERMAN MAIL IN COLLISION.
On the evening of the 23rd inst., the German
of gunnery, engineering, and, in fact, the chief branches of instruction of which knowledge is required for the efficient working of our ships,
SCOPE OF THE WORK.
At present gammery only is being experi. mented with, but it may be taken for granted that the same plan will apply to everything. There will be 4,000 men at the depot, anu undergoing instruction in drill, gunnery, en- these will in parties, be at the same time
gineering, &c. With regard to gunnery, the instruction is to be divided into courses, and at the end of each course examinations in elementary gunnery will be made. The most efficient ten, or thereabouts, in each course will then be drafted to Whale Island for special according to the merits, and specialise in other courses, while the remainder will be classed
directions, for which they may be better fitted. Every man who gets to Whale Island will be of superior intelligence, and a good marksman.. At the gunnery estaulishment they will be awarded first-class or other certificates in ac- cordance with their efficiency in the advanced courses, and be drafted from these into the ships of the fleet. The men of the Excellent devote nearly their whole time to gunnery work now, and Captain Percy Scott's "Dotter" system has been brought into use.—Ex.
COMMERCIAL.
TO:DAY'S INTELLIGENCE.
There is a total absence of business in the share market; but with the political horizon cleared of war clouds in the North, the hope is entertained that the long-looked-for reaction will soon tale place. Quotations close as follows:-
...$ 77 5.
ON
Indo-Chinas China and Manilas China Sugars Docks... Kowloon Wharves Farnhams
West Points Hongkong Hotels China Providents
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RAT TRAPS and BIRD LIME may be obtained from the Secretary to the Board ages of Cost.
By Order,
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Secretary.
Sanitary Board Room,
26th October, 1903.
Сизова BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. FOR RANGOON VIA AMOY AND SWATOW.
THE Company's Steamship
at 4 P.M.
Captain Windebank, will be despatched as "JELUNGA,"
above on MONDAY, the 2nd November,
For Freight or Passage, apply to
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FROM RANGOON AND STRAITS THE Company's Steamship
"JELUNGA," having arrived from cus above Ports, Consigneer of Cargo by her are hereby informed that their. Goods will be delivered from alongside. «
Cargo impeding the discharge or remaining, instant, will be landed at Consignees' risk and on board after NOON, TO-MORROW, the 31s
expense into Godowns at East Point No Fire Insurance will be effected Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., Agents. Hongkong, 30th October, 1903.
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HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
THE SPOONS.
HERE COMPETITION
bore TO-MORROW, the 31st instant, commencing at 3 P.M.
RANGES, 200, 500 and too yards. Seven Shots and a Sighter at each Range.
MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE, Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, goth October, 1993.
ZETLAND
LODGE,
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REGULAR MEETING of ZETLAND A LODGE will be held at the FREE the 2nd November, at 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely MASONS' HALL, Zetland Street, on MONDAY, Visiting Brethren are cordially invited tonttend. Hongkong, 30th October, 1903, [1309: DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
the 'Shell line, namely, Messrs M. Samuel and Co., who have been also the owners of very valuable oil concession in Bosneo, as distributing arrangements in the Far East, well as predominating partners of the extensive
formed themselves, in 1897, into a company, they taking the value of their properties in Mail steamer Hamburg in going to her berth ardinary shates to the extent of £18,000,000, of at Tanjong Pagar sunk a lighter and badly which they are holding at the present time damaged two others. On arrival of the mail the Krian district of Perak are but narrow strips, 1,400,000. The effect of this policy alone and the soil not everywhere fit for the caltiva-should be quite sufficient security to all who seeing that the strong ebb tide was causing a steamer outside the Western Heads, the pilot, tion of either sugar or rice. The ground gen bave deemed it desirable to invest their mone current which was difficult to negotiate safely, erally consists of heavy clay with a coating of in the Shell Transport and Trading Company; decided to go round and come in by the East- salt or of brackish water and the adjoining hills for, after all, the outside public are chiefly in nie very barren. A crop of 80 piculs of sugar fereste! in the preference shares. If the proaching Borneo Whart the steamer presum ern entrance. This was done, and while ap per orfang (1) acres) or 27 piculs per acre is original vendors of most of the English com-ably "broke her shear, and despite the effons considered a good average while one of 50 panies would adopt such & policy, namely, to of the helmsman was swept against section piculs per ording or 34 piculs per acre ranks as have a large interest in the organirations by the current,, which was running lire a mill | a splendid result. It is interesting to compare promoted by them, a great, many millions race. Here the Hamburg sunk one lighter at Daylight. these results with those obtained in Java, where would be preserved for those who have invested laden with sago, and badly crushed two others, the standard bout of land is exactly 1 acres their money in the petroleum industry-The but was fortunately got under control again, or 1 1/6 priung
Petroleum Reviews and Mining News, before any other damage was dono.-S. F. Preis,
THE Company's Steamship
FOR SWATOW.
Captain Robson, will be despatched for the "THALES,"
above Port, on SUNDAY, the 1st November,
For Freight or Passage, apply to
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