Intimation.
THE HONGKONG TELPOI
to hoodwink the people have so ignominous ly failed. What answer can they give to the statement that--unless we are mis taken for the first time in the history of British trade returns the aggregate value
A. S. WATSON & CO., of the imports and exports has passed the
LIMITEI).
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or
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VERY OLD LIQUEUR
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thousand milllion pounds mark by a matter of seventy million pounds sterling? A
Shanghai Contemporary has taken the trouble
journals on tropical complaints which he argus
decidedly good.
Hongkong where beri-beri lafreque
be the disorder froin which Chinens
patients are suffering, the medical
vorment Civil. Hospital have corded their
TUESDAY JANUARY 14.
NG BANKS.
* DIVIDEND
PRIATION OF BHARE. PREMIUM.
We are officially wutheriacd to state that, subject to audit, the Director of the Hong- kong and Shanghai Banking (orporation will
to make, some calculations .with the object / attention 19, the subject, bu“, so far ng we ate. recommend at the forthcoming meeting-
of giving some idea of what a million pounds wait, without arriving at any conclusion which means the seventy millions odd are not would answer every argument. If the remarks worth considering when we are dealing with of a real American shop are to be accepted POPULARITY hundreds and thousands. The Mercury at their face value as they appear in an says:et us suppose the "Hongkong American paper--and while wa may kaya our and Shanghai Bank to have first opened its suspicions of the ordinary touting mishonary doors on the day that Shanghai wan thrown we cannot even hot a sugestion of credulity. open for foreign trade. in 1843. Let Us when his lordshi, begins to launch gut is Imagine a shroff to have have been told the rhetorical line-it would seem that all off to count a thousand million at the rate this hunting among stale and decomposed of 100 a minute. Let us further suppose him to continue at his task during the six, rica for the origin of beri-beri in simply a hours of an office day and to keep at it waste of time and energy. In fact without holidays of any sort. In this year argues a lack of intellect. The prelate who of grace 1908 what would be his position seems to know all about tropical diseases, and with regard to his task after the 64 years had is also to the confidence of the Emperor of elapsed? "He would have still some twelve Japan, is Bishop McKin, who is described a years further counting to do!" Any man, "one of the two Americh beads of Episco even a shroff, should be surfeited with the lian missionary work" in Japan, le solem colour:of"gold by the time he was finished-avers that the medical advisors of the Japapase Government attribute beri-beri, to the babit of the natives of sitting on their haunches, iosisad of using a cane-bottomed chair. In the words of the San Francisco Caifs report the medical men in Tokyo have "discovered at faut that. cramping the legs is one of the chief causes of beri-beri, the destructive dropsical disease which bas long puzzled the Oriental physicians, because it attacked doly those Mongolias inces addicted to rice and to resting on.
their heels, Floor mats, therefore, will be forever proscri
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BIRTHS,
On January 9 1938, at Shanghai, the wife of T. MORGAN PHILIPS, of a daughter.
On January 9, 1908, nes kanghai, the wife of T. N. HUGALL, l. 10.
PAGE-Janbury it. At, his residence, zy, Wyndham Street, Hongkong, the wite of Capt. E.. PAGE, of a son.
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The Hanging Celegraph
HOKOKONG, TULSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1908.
GREAT BRITAIN'S COMMERCIAL
PLOSPERITY.
would probably even be glad to get a chance of counting bir beads for a change. But the calculation, indicates very clearly the im- menuity of British trade industries. It should be kept in mind that these figures do not represent the sum total of British interests. As our contemporary remarks, our modern economists have discovered there are such things as exports" which escape the Customs statisticians, and likewise imports which remain invisible to the Board of Trade.
arrangement favoured in the western world." It is certainly a fact that from Aden to Yuko sams the art of squatting on their haunches
is popularly pursued by the lower Asiatic casses, and perhaps the Chinese of rack may not be averse to the same practice. But in China we know for au undoubted fact tikt the wealthy or educated people have used chairs from time immemorial, because examples of Chinese Carpentry in the form of chairs which provided the original designs for Chippedale which are known to be hundreds of year old
a dividend of £ per share of the old
a pro rata dividend, or £1.10
1008
TROUT (STOCKING.
PROPOSED EXPERIMENT IN HONGKONG.
THE GOVERNOR'S SUGGESTION.
We have received the following communica«? | tion from the Colonial Secretary
Colonial Secretary's Office; Hongkong, 14th Janury, 1958. Sir-it may interest you to learn that His per Excellency the Governor having decided to try
the experiment of stocking soma of the Re
share of the new issue Add to the Silver Reserve Fund $500,000 and carry forward about $2,000,000, in addition to the above, the amount received as premium on the new shares has been dealt with as follows:
To the purchase of Consols of sufficient nomical value to increase at 8s the Sterling Reserve Fund by £500,000 which fund will then stand at £1,500,000.
To the transfer to the Silver Baserve Fund of the balarice of $1,150,000.
the appropriations of the second half-year Igo6 For the corresponding period of last year,
were as followsi
a Dividend of £115/- per share
Bonus of "per-share Add to the Reserve Fund Sy56,coo and carry forward about $1,700,000.
AN ESTATE IN BANKRUPTCY,
arvoirs with trout, a consigament of the ova of trout is expected shortly from the batcheries of the Canadias Government."
5. Il any of your - readers - Havo "bad ex
Telegram.
*** HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH
SERVICE
THE PROPOSED SHANGHAI BOYCOTT
DENUNCIATION BY TAOTAI:
PROCLAMATION 185UED
· [From Our Own Correspondent.]}}
Shanghai, 14th January,
2.50 p.m.
The Shanghai Thotai has issued a Ferience of batching our ova of trout perhaps proposed boycott, incited by ex• proclamation on, the subject of the
to
they would be good enough Colonial SecretaryYours truly,
call on the.
F. H. MAY.
Censor Jang Seu-zung, of the Hong-
andhanghai Bank.
The proclamation denounces tho boycott in unequivocal terms,
NTON DAY BY DAY,
THE GOVERNOR OF MACÃO,
RETURNS TO THE JRTUGUESE COLONÝ
The Governor of Macas and puty, returned" to the Portuguese Colony this forenpon by the Coatinho were conveyed on board the warship gunboat Alo Lima, P.K. Senhor and Madame
•MACA'S BOUNDARIKS.
on the Government tender Victoria which had
From Our Own Correspondent.} been placed at their disposal. : Capt. Mitchell.. Taylor, the Governor's A.I}.C., went to see the
Canton, 13th January, distinguished visitors off, „Crosul-General Ro- "The Mižistry of Foreign Affairs at Peking mano and Mr. J. J. Leiris, Vice-Consul, mera bas informed the Canton Viceroy that Wan- also on board the Victoria to bid good-bye (to | fral, opposite the Pontaguese colony of Macao, the Portuguese vitijos. No vom 47 | la mot « Portugusia concession bul Chinese - At the official dinner at Coverment House territory, and has instructed H.E Chaing to at- last night covers were fald for forty-eight || odcecommunicate with the Portuguern Goverüs guests. Dasides, the hosis and bostess, Sir ment of Macan 10 have this place restored to rederick sed Lady Lugard; those present were: the Chinese Government according to the His Excellency Senhor Coutinho, Governor treaty drawn up between China and Portugal,
{KWANOBIĄTROUBLES. ANOMA Da ni Menez, Chief of Staff, Macao, Cap- Lady French, Teutenant Santos, A.D.C., Cap tain. Marescans, & af Captain Aiantes Pedro 10, Rio Lima, Lieuteunst Goularto de Medaizos, -jeutenant Vital Freitas, Commander Glennie, Mr. W, Davidson (uf Musers. Hastings and | Weirratick, Major, Bayliff, R. M. L. I., Lient- Hastings) appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. P.net Brock, Clio, Lieutenant Blackwood, dia W. Goldring, (of Messrs. Goldring and Barlow), crity Captain Brierly, Capiain and Mrs. Murray, for, the defendants.
Captain McCullock, Captain and Mrs, Colling. wood, Hon. Mr. and Mrs F. H; May, Li Bramble, R.MLI, Lieut. Satterthwaite, R.E
SUIT TO KECOVER MONEY. ALL' GRD TO BE DUE TO THE ESTATE. Before Mr. Justice Wire, presiding in the CF Dixon, of Messia, Hastings and Has Chi, a bankrupt, brought an action against the Tai O Chan firm to recover the sum of $500 alleged to be due to the bankrupi's estate in
respect to a money loan association
His Lordship (to Mr. Davidson): I would like to know what focus of indi your client bas? This money is not due to the estate.
Mr. Davidson: I submit it is,
His Lordship: But an outside creditor can not claim this loan association money. You have not carried this association on since August 26. The money does not belong to the bankrupt. It has nothing to do with the
[A“ Peking (lélegrem states that HE the
Governor of Kwangsi, Chang Ming-chi, owing to the frequent occurance of disturbances in the province, urges that an enormous sum of money is required for the maintenance of the mil.tary forces there, and has memorialised the Throne for authority to appropriate all thë likin and salt taxst that have been collected curing the past year in that province, amount- | Ing to Taels 790,000, to defray t
y the expenditure, and this requent in reported to have been sano, tinned by the Latperial Government.
Capt. Dalyell, trgib Baluchis, Consul-General
WUCHOW, PAT PORED CĂPITAL, {} ~} A. G. Romano, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Leirin, Rev.
The Central Government considers that the and Mrs. Ennis, Mr and Mr Eves, Mr, E. 5. Governorof Kwangsi should remove his yamean Carruths, Mr. and Mrs. Pemberton, Mr. and from the present capital of Kwelling to the pist Mrs. O esfa, Mr and Mrs. Lafrente, Ms. Chard,of Wuchow and to remain there permanently, Mr. and Mrs. Baker, Mr. AJ Williams or that the raid pott be made into the principal Captain P. H. Mitchell Taylor, A.1.C., and Mr. city of the province as it is aliuated in a favoure A., Brackenbury, private secretary. #
"able ̈poultion,, much more so than Kwelling The King" and "The King of Portugal," ogibreaks of rebellions, etc. in that city: bich Sir Frederick Lugard proposed the to. This proposal is the outcome of the frequent which were duly honoured.
greatly endangers the city.
Our vast shipping business is shown neither bed as appurtenances of real, except for sleep Summary Jurisdiction Court, this morning, Mr. of Macao, and Madame Contioho, Captain in the imports nor the exports. The interesting, and even for this purpose they are being on our world-wide lozus and investments supplanted rapidly by the mattressandireframstings trustee of the property of one Kwok Puitate da Fonseca Monteiro, ADC Loid and come in as goods for which, we have already paid, and the result during the past decades during which the balances have, on paper, to try your national enrichmen national bankruptcybut national enrichment, All these things should prove to the working man that if the present Government is not the best that ever was it has certainly given a staggering blow to the pretensions of the other side. From the Imperial point of view, for, despite the clamour of the Opposition who claim to be the only real Imperialists, there actually are members of the Cabinet who,recognise the inportance
are at rare intervals offered for sale at Christie's of the federation of the Empire, but not
in London. The poor, however, had anther to federation at the expense of the Mother accommodate their joints to nature's demands or Country the comideration of the trade regoleg weary. So they tucked up their moules-general creditors turns leads naturally to the question of our and cramped their legs and promptly became Navy's efficiency. Our Navy, as the Afer the unfortunate victims al beri-beri. And for cury puts it, is large already, powerful already, all these years the pathologists have been and expensive already, but in proportion to pottering about among rotten rice and insant the interests it has to defend, it is cheaper,tary areas seeking for what could never be.
·less powerful, and less extensive than those found there. The medical practitioner re *--- of Great Britain's rivals. There can be no crated in the West have not received a more question, therefore, but that it will be main
severe blow to their pride for many a long tained at the highest range of efficiency day. After all, we are not quite certain that called for by such an unparalleled 'position. the medical advisers to the Government of And as its burdens in the form of commerce
tory to take care of are steadily growing, so, factories on the Pacific slape. The Bishop, to defend, populations to protect, and terri. Japan are Japanese; they might be Americas missionaries with an interest in some cone wood it will be rightly argued, must the Navy grow with them. Ten years ago we were in the as has been said, was very communicative midst of the early efforts, made by men who to the San Franciscan, and related some knew the situation, to awaken the Britishi manufacturer, merchant, and distributor to
association made a separate contract who the Mr. Davidson: I submit nach member of the promoter
His Lordship Supposing you get this money, how are you going to dispose of it?
Mr. Davidson::1 submit it is part of the bankrupt's estate.
creditor, for goods sold and delivered, in cati- Hin Lordship: You mean to say an outside
tied to share in it?
Mr. Davidson: Yes, my lord.
Hi Lordabip Have any creditors proved
not? who are members of this loan association?
Hi-Lordship: Have any proved who are Mr. Davidson: Yes, my lord,
Mr. Davidson: Yes, my lord, they have. deliver it to them. It is only in His hands, so His Lordship: Well, you certainly cannot
|
H.K. Senhor Coutinho, after the tea party at the "Duart yesterday, spent the rest of the evening "shopping" in the city, He was accompanied by his A.D.C.'s and Vice-Consal Leiria.
ARMED ROBBERY,
SUSPECT ARRESTED AND CHARGED.
At the Magistracy, this afternoon, Mr. E. A. Hz land presiding, an application was made | by the Chinese authorities for the extradition of one Lo Chau, alias Li Chung Chan, for tion of China. The accused a man of about armed robbery committed within the jurisdic twenty-five years of age-denied the charge.
of this sort is to benefit the promoter. When armed with revolvers, broke down the door His Lordship. The object of an association company with six others, all of whom were man or woman gets loto difficulties he or and entered the house. Altogether there
A
TIT FOR" TATA
A Faking telegram tiates that, as the French Government has refused the Chinese Govern ment's request to establish ä Chinese consulate at the French port of Hanoi, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also refused the 'request of the French Minister at- Poking to establish a French consulate at Kwangsin
CANTON-HAWKOW. RAILWAY, MAR The Ministry of Communications and Poste bas memorialised the Turons requesting the Govamment to Instruct the Canton-Hankow Railway Company to push on the completion which have so frequently retarded the progress of its railroads without the unnecessary delays
of she undertaking.
N
THE ANTIPIUM-MOVEMENT, "The Canton Anti-Opium Society has decided ju
of his personal experiences to the highly into speak, to distribute among members. They terested, representative of the Press. He ob pay subscriptions each month, and he takes
Chief Detective Inspector Hanson, who pre- the true facts as they then were. The lieniewe served; "Every time I went calling i had to the discount as prof. It is not part of the secuted, said the rabbery occurred in the
MILITARY OFFICERE VANTED. of Reviews had for years a standing head do my hosis did-ait on my heels. When general estate-it is not the property of the Samhol district, where the complainants lived.itles of the northern provinces for the services H.E. the Viceroy his applied to, the author. line "Wake up, John Ball Apparently they came to see me they asked my pardon bankrupt at all,
They were farm bands and lived in a house of Avo, well-trained military officers to Canton, the awakening has been effective. That the and curled their legs up on my chairs. Theyors are entitled to share. business of the year has been on the whole said it made their legs numb to sit as we do,
Mr. Davidson: I submit the general credit-ituated at one and of this farm yard, On the and these men are now expected to arrive bere
night of the sth February last, the accused in by the end of the present mouth. not merely large but Round is partly proved just as it benumbed mine to sit as they did.But by the slightness of the eff ct which the this was mostly among the elder japanese, the American financial critis, bas and in bishop added. “Chairs are in use in the govern.sho larte a man association. The trustes is were seven persons employed `in the farm to establish an asylum for the treatment of acting for the general creditors, but the only yard, but being Chloess, New Year four opium smakers from the beginning of the com- people who can share in this money are the had gone home, leaving three, who were asleeping Chinese year, and a medical officer has nothing to do with the trustee in bankruptcy. Mr. Hansoo said that one of the wit subscribers to the association, I think it has in the house when the robber entered, been appointed to superintend the refuge,
You are suing for the future.
neware would tell the Court that be a PEDRO A. PATERNO has offered to the Assem caught by the throat by hope of the bly an amendment to the proposed bill provid. robbers, who demanded 5300, which had beening for the admission of Chinese into the and on account of the money not having been immigration may be allowed only in those arranged to be paid over some months before, Philipp nes, by aubstituting the class that received they planned the second visit.
provinces where the Chinaman is needed and His Worship-Blackmail?
where the authorities of the province:
Ask for Mr Hanton-Yer,
hiisdminion.
Britain. 1 is remarkable that it should have been when it is remem.
So
ment schools. The banks, large stores and government offices have them, but in the homes the mis still are supreme, and it is to protect the next generation. et men and women that the emperor will issue bis edict." Surgeons of the Japanese army who yet dus
7
Continuing: Raving been 'frightened the
witness told the robber that if he wanted my
Two private chair coolies in the employ of Mr.
hered how very intimately are British and American business connected. Incid entally the steadiness of the British market is likewing a sign that the crisis in the States
Mr Guldrings here are instalments pot was more apparent than real, and that the Economist was right in saying that American investigated the origin of beri-beri found, wetitied to sun unless the defendant shows that Mr. Davidson: I submit the trustee is en assets are what they were before and that the are told, that the disease swells the limbs of he is a trustee, I submit the onus is on him to trouble has arisen, as such troubles do arises its yelims, first, then extends upward and do that.! ** The most mean-spirited and arrow: minded observer of events in England must partly from lack of sufficient currency, and paralyzes their hearts. It is not enthely His Lordship: There is that pojut. I quile experience a feeling of compassion for the partly from a temporary withdrawal of credit result of squatting on the door, however, The see your argument. I am not going to decide members of the late Government, who so Altogether the trade and financial record of Japanese scientists found rice partly to blame, it just now will adjourn the case, and will
try to let you know my decision by Friday,
ke would fed soms in a fir at the bottom"of gaily predicted the downfall of the British Great Britain, during a period when the and that is the reason why barley is now a part"!
his beds The jar was produced's, the contents Omiston, of the Mercantile Bank, were charged at the Police Court, this morning, with Empire should their services be rejected, and hole world has been experiencing abnormal of the regular army ration, and the scruples of
($86) were removed, together with some clothing the utter ruination of home industries. The depression, is a tribute to the capacity of Buddhists regarding the consumption of flesh THE Yingking, Capt. K. 1. Page, brought When they were fearing the robbers demandsaulting Lakong No. 169 and with behaving gentlemanly party was ridiculously routed at those at the helm; and if the party languish are ruthlessly overridden by the strict order down a shipment of $14,020 clean British ed that the $yoo be paid in two days otherwise in a disorderly manner in Chater Road yesterday the polls and the iconoclasts, the cisturbers in outer darkness, and gnashing their to all soldiers to zát, so much moat per day, dollars, this morning, from Canton, Ca
they would visit them again, and because of afternoon. The lek og alleged that the secus- of happy homes, the enemies of the Empire teeth in vain jealousy at the remarkable There is the whole thing in a nutshell. The Mx, Augustus Heinss, who was arrested on
this the complaints gave up ibair business ed stuk him with a carrying poles He had `mp" witnesses 10: corroborate this,” statement, and left the 'district. and the destroyers of Great Britain's trade results which have attended the labours of Bird's friends have discovered the cause of the 7th instant in New York on a charge of
sere several witnesses for however. There were Evidence was then called, were placed in power by the votes of com-the present administration, can twist the beri-beri and now all Japan will be seated on malpractices in connection with the Mercantile
the delence, lacluding two Europeans, who mon-sente electors. Yet it is a fact, which trade returns for last year into an indictment chairs in compliance with the Emperor'a edici. National Bank, pleads not guilty, will scarcely be denied by the moat rabid of the Government's domestic and Imperis | Stranger things have come to pass, and notable | THE San Francisco Chronicia urgen, that expected bere on Monday next." -
THE... Malle, of the Chargeurs Réupis, is spoke to the rough treatment the coofle
ceived at the bands of the policeman. The case was discharged. supporter of the old gang, that the British policy then we shall be among the first to
discoverien have been made in equally sliple Japanese Exclusion Bill is for the moment Tux Taft boom is held to have received a Empire was never sounder than, it is at the congratulate them upon their ingenuity.
fashion, and it may be that the Tokyo doctors loadvisable in consideration of Visesuat Aoki'set back at a Republican dianer given in Naw present time, while the prosperity of British
are right and all the others, wrong. I would speech and of telegrams received from Toklo, York, be a feather in the cap of the Japanese if their
trade and the st cenu of British enterprises | 718 LOQUACIOUS BISHOP ANU scientists had really stumbled on the truth, and "CATHERINE," by L. Parry Truscolt➡THE the Governor will preside at the distri
A, UVUMBERLBARI;
would entitis our ally to a front seat in the scientific world.
cleeft dang
have not merely exceeded all expectations but have surpassed all records. The leader lear party may pretend that they are: joyful | at this extraordinary state of affairs but they can scarcely fool triumphant. After preach. Jag hunger and misery, and hoping against hope that strikes, lock-outs, over-supply and want of confidence would break up the in dustrial market, it must be wormwood and sciantist, who studied the disease in Formal, usual axcellent myle which
For years medical men in the Far East, in India, Burman, Malaya and in Chion have bean reaching for the cause of barl-beri, among the natives of these countries, but so far without any definite access being achieved.
o know that their attempts write a lengthy paper 40
ORD
THE Anglo-Chiness Calendar; for, has reached us from the Birm and publishers of Sha Noronha, Fernandes &
Citading: work of that Arm
which
Werner Laurie a pathetic and very interest-bution of prizes, at St. Stephen's College, on
Friday, 17th ichty at noon"/ (og novel, and... for those who, like a story different to the ordinary every-day novel every page is fall of Interes
|The distribution of; prizes to: the succes scholars of the Anglo-Chiasse D'strict Set will take place on the
Governor will dir
MK, ELIKU Koor, U.S. Secretary of State, in preparing to answer Count Hayashi's note: OD the immigration question;
LEAVE of absence ou England, la/granted) Brodie, zid Canseron
SHIPPING AND MAILS-
MAILS DUE. Gennan (Prins Heinrich) 15th inst., p.m. Indian (Namsane) 16th ium. American (Siberiag.200k inste Franch (Opianian), gret Inst. Indish (Kamrank):33
The Boston 9,54 d'affairs, to || frôm Yosobamá Lieutenant 24A
from 16th