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Rather the reverse, for whereas in the early part of the month the subsidiary coinage was quoted at a discount of $80 to $85 per $1,000, the rate has increased to $go and there is nothing to indicate when the situation will be relieve The Inspector of Imperial. Mints arrived in Hongkong to-day en route to the North and we can only trust that the effect of his examination of the results flowing from the misguided energy of the Canton Mint will be made manifest within the next few weeks. There is the further danger that the famine bogey may lead to the resuscitation of armed robberies, by that unruly section of the populace which is always ready to take advantage of official incapacity; orineptitude; but that point is beside the ques AMMONIA tion in this connection, although it contributes G. Ni at. Ngawkis, from Haskow, repone
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LOCAL AND GENERAL
THE English mail of the 23rd February was delivered in London on the aged last,
on the 16th just.
GESTIONS:
PATION
MARCH 25, 190
ED
IMPROVING SUBSIDIARY "CURRENCY" EXCHANGE, PORN
H. Chan Bik, the Inspector of Imperial ipis, attived in Hongkong yesterday, on bil, way to the North having finished his work of ine vestigating the working of the Canton Mint and forming an opinion on the feantil geartions of the Southern Provinces His Excellency, who was accompanied by a numerous ex, tourage, was accommodated with a suite of apartments at the Thomas Hetal, and received
farge number of visitors during the day With the object of obtaining His Excellancy's views on some of the principal financial ques lions which affect Hongkong quite as acutely a they concern Canton, a representative of the Hongkong Telegraph interviewed the dis tinguished visitor this afternoon HlExcellency proved extremely affable and gracious, but could hardly be said to be communicative, no doubt due to the fact that the Imperial Govern ment must receive his official before bis mentions, one open to disruppelty his
lib, and speaking, only Pekinese, was inter-
of Ma
Sun
Railway St
of $164, being the amount fendant to plaintiff for use.
Mr. R. A. Harding appeared for the plain for loss of same by fire. tiffs, the defendant being unrepresented, th
Mr. Harding said the plaintiffs claim from the defendant the sum of $184,8% being as to the sum of $44.85 agreed rental for four months of a matshed erected by the plaintiff near Mong. Kek Railway Station, and as to the sum of mashed, which $220 cost price and value of the was destroyed by fire, and as for the balance of $10, for use and occupation of a malahed be
longing to the plaintiffs adjoining the afore- mentioned matshed and damage sustained by the plantills in consequence of the defendant obstructing the plaintiffs from taking down and reisoving such last-mentioned maished. In
Hast
and Grist
Dixon said days rent from
Hoor of No. romises wer
at the elongat the floor and pay: laller was paying. Dale on the gih init, but the from theth. The mat
asked for rent, but he or $42 for the seven
Gciobar last defendnot asked pla cliff to build day to day, and fastly to the anxiety of exporters in Hongkong by the 1. C. str. Weerung ashore at Oliphant Is 'siders
Pylandlord. The Wii yuan pretented our representative's him a marshed, which he did, and it was going to pay the meat as pliintig was still further complicating the issue. One of land Crossing
CF Chol Hing gava avidence. In card to His Excellency, who immediately apgreed that he should pay $414,80 as rest, the anomalies of the present position in the THE ex-Russian gunboat Bebr, which was suck peared in the reception room and offered greet and hour pay for the abuse the etion of the shove statement sayin yarn market is to be found in the fact that and refloated at Port Arthur and taken to ings in the most unaffected manner, including shed was burnt down Later on the matshed while prices have fallen buyers have been Nagasaki for survey, is condemned to be bro-the usual offer of refreshments.
was burnt down, through sparks flying from alcaman to the plaintiff compa
all the arrangements with the another burning matched. Defendant then
fetting the premises. holding back, either because they can see ken up, there being no hope of making her HE Chau, not being acquainted with Eng asked plaintiff an erect another maished. In the
witness said that he, arrangeme no inmediate outlet for their purchases; or serviceable. because they are enjoying the predicament of Two tow-boats teft Shanghal for up siver on viewed at first through the medium of a local autime another tenant wanting an adjoining ant had got forcible possession of the latter the dealers and hope for a further decrease the morning of the 19th inst: to tow the dis. Chinese merchant, but shortly after the pre-matshed they went together, but found defend shed and refused to give it up, and thus pre in the quotations. Altogether the outlook abled C. M. steamer Kinngfoo, which broke is not quite reassuring, but it is too early her walking beam last week, about twenty miles below Kiukiang. The Kiangyung tried
vonled p'aintiff from either pulling it down as in the day to accept at face value the gloomy a tow her down, but on account, of the Klang
he desired. forebodings of the pessimists, for anything for having broken her rudder, which was triced may occur to relieve the tension of The up outside the ship, she would not steer, and moment and rejuvenate the yarn market in the Adangsung had to give up the attempt, Hongkong.
he Hongkong Celegraph (Coinage) Order of
HONGKONG, Monday, March 25; 1957.
TRADE DEPRESSIÓN IN.
SOUTH"CAINA.
"
TWENTY-SEVEN sampasmen and women were arrested by the Water Police, at Causeway Bay, on Saturday, for remaining in the typhoon Anchorage longer than was necessary, Accord- ing to the regulations sampans are only par mitted to remain in the refuge for one tide only. The defendants have been there for days. They were paraded before. Mr. F. A: Hazeland, this morning, at the Police Court, to answer the charge. Fined $5 each.
liminary questions had been submitted, Mr. Fung Wa Chun entered, in order to pay a returo visit to His Excellency, and kindly undertook the office of interpreting, the conversation.
In reply to several initial interrogatories, His Excellency said he had been specially ap painted by the Imperial Government to visit the various provinces with the object of in- vestigating the working of the Provincial Miste One of the duties included in his mandate of instructions was to inquire into the financial: questions known to have arisen in Kwangtung, particularly with regard to the depreciation in the value of the currency in the Soulbest province..
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It was pointed out to His Excellency that the exchange on Captonese subsidiary coins has fallen within the last few weeks from £80 and 385 per $1,000 to $30 per $1,000.
THE celebrated Zig-zag Company of acrobats, gymnasts, clowns, &c. are shortly to visit the
"The unsatisfactory position of the subsidi Colony, and will open for a short season Carly next week at the Pale Ground, Causeway Bay. We are informed that the Company consist of ary coinage," observed His Excellency, is London and Continental "star" artistes who manifest! a drawback to the ordinary condi. will present for the first time in Hongkong ations of trade, and I have gone into the questioa varied programme of perfor acces, including weight-lifting by the juvenile Samson, musical very carefully. I have had several interviews clowns, burlesques, farces, &c. Full particolars with Viceroy Chow Fu on the subject. As you
doubtless know, there have been many com will be duly announced.
munications in regard to this question between the Government of Hongkong and the Viceroy."..
Would your Excellency care to state the nature of the compuntentions dpt the views
logo expressed
Hi Honour: His plaintiff a contract? Plaintiff : Yes
Plaintiff then testified as to the above facis, His. Honour I'd like to see that contract 's a most peculiar arrangement I have ever come across, GAR
Mr. Harding: It was an agreement to build and let to defendant.
Plaintiff: The agreement was that be should pay $14.80 for the four months' reoli
Me. Harding: What was to happen in case of a fire?.......
Witness: Defendant was to pay for it. Me, Harding What was the value? Witness: 51:0.
His Honour: How can you expect to
doggy succeed? These verbal contracts can never be substantiated.
Mr. Harding: I will produce two other wit nesses to leased sheds and agreed to the same
farms.......
His Bonour (to witness); Did defendant agree to the terms?
Witness: Yes. Witness, continuing, said that on the roth February, Cheung Yau Lee went and asked him to pull down the matshed which was built for him.
rent should commence on the râth c
emises
on the gth and the rest was to comm the ith ipst. It was not a ranged of defandent having to clean up t 2nd arrange the shop.
Wong Kwak Chuen said he was the son of the landlord of No. 51 Queen's Central, and on the B.b insty, the defen with the last witness came to coo-petsco about taking the prami191, and witness said he must armuga with Chun Wah at they
CaThei leased the premisen. Ti the 18th inst and the Chun Wah moved their fumiture.
Im Chuen Man said he was the managing. partner of the plaintiff Company,
Wah formerly occupied. No 57 Queen's Road Central, and 'defendant occupied a portion of the premises during their tenancy3 ile asked defendant for the rent in advance, and defend- ant promised to pay bye-and-by, jo
Mr. Grist said' that the defence was that defendant made no arrangement whatever with these people who wore suing. He did them to ask for the landlord and of these people' took him to the landlo
was mida and an agreement was far, the letting of the promises 133 8 20 2011 rental of $180 and the rent was to ba and payable from the 18th. But he wa be allowed to take possession
set up his faraiture, Defendant to Wong Kwok Chuen, the There was no case zyali
miss the 8th so that he could
there was no agreement,"
His Honour: Then how can this man sub 11 the shed was Cheung's?
Mr, narding: 1. was only Cheung's for four for rental in the absence of months, at the end of which time he gave up portsjon to the plaintif,
MALAY BIATES CURRENCY. While the stability of the silver dollar in the A. S. WATSON & CO., South has been ensured by the action of the Government of the Straits Settlements, and even the native suspicion which at first at tached to the new & bills has been practically removed, the endeavour to bring the Feder- ated Malay States into line with the Settle ments appears to be attended by a slight difficulty. The High Commissioner, Sir far Jahn Anderson, directed, that a proclama tion with respect to the substitution of the schedule to the Straits Settlements 1907 for that of the schedule of 1903 should be published in the Perak Government Gazette, THE Trust Compsey of Honolulu was on 5th which was accordingly done. According to appointed administrator of the estate feft by the late Chun Along, formerly of Macao and tha Kerak Pioneer, "the effect of this pro- Hongkong in that. Territory. Thir estale, clamation so far as the Colony is concerned, valued at $43,000 (cold) and consists principal will be to legalise the circulation side by side ly of stocks and bonds. The estate is entirely separate from the much larger fortune, which of two classes of Straits Settlements dollars, he disposed of by trust deed to his wife for, the the one minted since 1903 weighing 416 support of herself and her children when he grains and another issued after the 4th inst. Hawaii, after a residence in Hoofbl of more than thirty years, and returned to Cotha weighing exactly three-fourths of the former. to live, where he died last October. Itin doubtful, despite the proclamation, JOHN Dowale, who has daring his residence whether the new and old coins will circulate in the Colony made himself so popular by his on an equivalent footing, especially in the frequent visits to the polics court, was there again this morning Not so very long ago smaller shops and places of business, until Downie was sent to the House of Detention.
A He came out on Saturday to look for work," drawn and re-minted." Clearly, it will be punistable with one month's hard labour le difficult for the trader unversed in financial appears that Downie, was successful in touch shall place before the Ministry of Commerce, matters to understand why he should be exing Yaumat, but had not the money to resto, if cirred into effect, would result in the adjust. ⠀⠀⠀ Mr. Harding: As regards the assault case we pected to take the smaller coin instead of He applied for a night's ledning at the police ment of the fancial position as between may have to go to the Police Count
Mad tisfactory to both parties," the former token, and the difficulty is called drained the clar was sgkong, and pion and in the end prove Increased when it is stated that the wanted to know if something could not But would you give us any idea as to the
be done to get Downie, back to his people tha bankers and businessmen in, the in Australia: The Court was informed that the nature of those suggestions?" States are only bound to recognise the old Shipping Master would have nothing more la "Again, I am afraid that I must reserve standard coin. As our contemporary redwith Downie; that he had been offered em them for the consideration of the Imperial-Lord,
ployment on several occasions, but Downie wat marke: Difficulties may arise at any ways missing when the time to sige on came Government in the first place. I can say this moment between a customer, and, banker around His Worship adjourned the case for much, however, that whatever recommendations.]
week....... In tie nieantime, it is understood, The may maka i shall bear well in mlad the faci over a specle payment. Bither may, if so Beauvalent Society will be approached on the that if my proposals are adopted they can only be successfully carried out by the mutual inclined, refuse to accept payment in the matter.
co-operation of Canton and the Government of new coin, which has not yet secured the
Hongkong.. status of a recognized legal tender." The Government of the Straits Settlements have
While the reports emanating from South China respecting the trade conditions exist ing in the interior are far from satisfactory it would be unwise to regard the situation as threatening The principal factor in the present depressed state of trade in the pro spect of a rice famine in Kwangsi, but it remains to be proved that the worst antici:
"I am afraid that I'am not at liberty at this stage to make any statement on that subject, but when, I return to Peking. I shall lay the entire matter before the Imperial Government, Together with suggestions which have occurred to me whereby the present situation may be improved.'
Are these suggestions in the nature of compromise or do they include drastic referm of the present system ?*
Continuing, witness said when they went to the matshed the defendant was in pdasession
and refused to vacate, and he and a number of ignorants stoned them and caused them to Icave.
Mr. Steraberg spoke to the said that no one asked him afterwa rent,
On the ngih he asked one of the
feble to clear away. some rubbish and the ailesman asked him
pay the rent Witness told him that it was not
pations of the authorities will be realised. In all the old, coins have been entirely what forgot to return, which makes it an offence," "Poboljevd that the suggestions which I His Honour Thai is a Police Court case any business of his as he was not his landford,
any event the prompt action of Viceroy Chow Fu in arranging for the despatch of imported rice from Calton throughout the affected dis- tricts in the two Kwang provinces, together with the ready response which has been made by the merchants and gentry to the appeal for subscriptions towards the purchase of the staple of life in South China, should have the effect ofcalming the fear those who fancy they see destitution staring them in the face in the very near future. But the intimate connection between Kwangtung
and Kwangsi and Hongkong could scarcely be more forcibly illustrated than by the effect of the former's plight on the commerce of this Colony at the present moment, Even the suggestion that a famine may re- sult from the partial failure of the rice crop is sufficicat seriously to affect the export trade-of this Colony, as witness the depres sing report which has been issued by Messre, Phirozsha B. Petit and Co. on
station: and, wastheid, When case
THE YAU-MA-7Ï. RUBBERY,
OPENING OF THE CASE.?
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don't want it here,
Mr Harding; There are three His Honour: And one burns and asts fire
His Honour: How many sheds are there?
to another! How are you luing this man?
Mr. Harding: Under the agreement, my,
How
His Honour: Oh! agreement a few words not in writing or confirmed..
Mr. Harding: Well, let's hear another wit ness, my Lord, CA
no absolute power to enforce their views of At the Magistracy, this afternoon; Mr. F. him, He expressed himself delighted with the ad for blasting operations and asked the
the semi-independent Malay States, or have the Residents General the right to dictate what course should be followed by the State Councîle, but as a rule no oppost tion is offered to the adoption of suggestions
Hazeland presiding, the cate in which Mala Khan, a sepoy, attached to the 3rd: Company
29th Baluchin, is charged with committing highway robbery and assaultløg, at the police Vad-ma-ti was opened,
Mr. G. E. Morrell, Crown Solic cuted, the defendant being-represented by
His Excellency proceeded to dilate on the aspects of Hongkong that had most struck outward appearance of the elty, and spoke in praise of the manner in which the stret affic was conducted sad orderliness malo tained. The shipping marked the importance of the Colony as a port, while the natural
and had nothing to do with it.
in cross-examination witoess fald the land. inrd never told him anything about. 156 Chun
Wah' tenancy lasting till the 18MECHA
Mr. Dixon & AVhy should the landlord come
here and perjure himself? ~Wit, an Fhave nothing
that is his business,
His Hadour said that it this
dant certainly obtained evidence was very much
Kwok Chuen showing that premises from blin. Thi evidence of any ngre
a true one sue the land
Non-suited with costs.
His Honour: Well, go on, but think of the conditions in San Francisco. Besides' "IIe would non-suit the which you "ars, up against the Insurance Dixon consider the ma Ordinance. Call your witness. Cheung bring soother action, Yau Lee, called, stated that he was engag- plaintiff to build hina maished. He was to pay $44.80 and pay for it if it caught fire, to which he agreed. At the end of the four months his work was foished and so he sent his fok z to the plaintiff to tell him to take
him that the shed was in the possession of Indians He knew defendant asked complain not to build a shed, but he did not know the
Defendant admitted that he asked the when term. Further evidence was laken,
MMK IRMA GUIOT, Francais, a boarding Road East, gave Ber charge of the
the position of the yarn market. For made by the Straits, Goverment to the Grist, of Messrkä Wilkinson "addterile Abeänties of the Colony were rol to be surpass down the shed. His fokis returned and told for disobeyi
His
Chad is making only
for it,
Mr. Harding briefly reviewed the evidence.
and said that the 944.80 rental was proved,
His Honour: The fire agreement is absurd.
i zavor besed anything so absord, and fam mot sure that it is no: en illegal clam. There verbal agreements: whereby they make man to pay, for all sorts of cannot be upbeki
Well, you bere sol there is no proof this man. The $120
this morning, charge before
appeared
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many mouths past dealers in yarn have been protected States, and it may be anticipated faspector. McHardy, of Yau-ms-ti Police Stedj endeavouring by every legitimate means in that the Perak Council will follow the coumtion, was present on behalf of the potional hardly think," said the Inspector of Im
STEPMOMYy, Morrel', in outlining the particulars
peril. Mints, in conclusion, “but I have their power to retrieve the losses endured pursued by the Straite Settlements. In gip the case, said the facts were very simple last year in consequence of the stagnation ing expression to this view the Pioneer has The complainant, was a hawker, keep anything further to say on the subject of kronad-sut stall on the praya at Kowloos my visit that would be of interest to you induced by the enhanced value of silver, and 1,sly dig at the members of the Legislative on the night of the 17th imiant, the haker, am only sorry I cannot give you any, farther plaintiff to build him a me'shed and he paid strike the the consequent reduction in the purchasing Council in Singapore. Our contemporary was attending to his business, when two fe ipformation, but you can rest assured, I sball capacity of the people. It had been hoped observes: "Fortunately, off State Councils that a prosperous season for the agriculturists have always passed necessary legislation with
do everything possible to arrive at a settlement of the financial questions affecting the would relieve the situation and enable the such commendable expeditiousness as may
Kwany provinces and Hongkong, Legal
Men duke After the usasi safolations and an acknow- embarrassed dealers to tide over their diffi-well rouse to emulation the legislators of the
tol Mr. Yung Wa Choo's services, our culties. Several firms of importance and Colony who have been for nearly two year
lative ihso withdrew reputation in Hongkong found themselves in engaged in abortive discussion over the Re an impasse, and were reluctantly obliged to gistration of Partnerships Bill, which will have recourse to the bankruptcy court, but so awaits being passed into law, Sustrace for the majority of firms interested in yarnsary Bill would have been transformed into Jiaye managed to weather the storm. It is all an enactment at a single sitting of any of our the more to be regretted, in these circam-State Councils." Fortunate, indeed, are the stances, that the outlook is not more favour people whose legislators live together in such able, although, as we havesaid, it would be folly this juncture to regard with too jaundiced an eye the future of the yarn trade in South China: Another factor which has greatly Castelbuted to the existing dailneas and stagnation in the yarn market, as in other markets which depend upon the require China" for continued
South
discs, one of whom was the defendant, wenk up to this stall. They bargained for some sull but they would not buy. After time, said the Crown Solicitor, one of sedimas tok the hawker's limp and looked around the stall, Then they left About an hour later, to be precise at 8.75 o'clock, the hawker started lef retora hoins. He lived somewhere ja Raz repre clamation Street. Be carried his bankig of nutd Banging from his left hand; he held lamp in the same hand, while he bel box with the right hand. Inside the milk box was 5270 in small cola. When the ba ket arrived outside his house, he started 10 put down the bax to open the door when two indians fell on him. After struggle, the defendant seized thats bor and made Coff. A coelia by the memi of L1 Fook saw what had taken place, together with the baker Ao Keomuth chased the fadians, Duringrabe chape waver to t ́sight of the men, the tion Street the Indises ran ZA "Stadt, with their/ponsers Biates into Hod,@mfokengfattemp
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