THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY JUNE 20 – 1908.
THE" POWANE WRECK:
SOLD FOR $750.
At their auction rooms, in the forenoon,
The cargo of 262 bales of paper was sold to
the same buyer at Stz, and afterwards, on the Co. wharf at 2 p.m. a quantity of ship's Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat appurtenances salved from the wreck, com prising compasas, blocks, 3 life boats, brass, telegraph connections, deck awnings, stan chions, sidelights, bandpump, table ware, etc. was sold in small lots, about eighty altogether.
THE HISTORY ON OPIUM,
CHELANTRY
¿PROPOSE
PULCOXSWAIN.
GNISED
TO CHINESE
It is proposed that the presentation shall at sume the character of a public function in order to stimulate our Chinese fellow-citizens of the
of the master of the Ham Shun."...
o
AI HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS,
The above prizes, la ibe order named, werd handed to Captains Wood, .Armstrong, and Skipper on behalf of theirrespective Companies, Besides these, there were several individual prizes
THE PIECE.GOODS TRADA
VAN OPEN LETTER BY A LEADING CHINESE
MERCHA
lower orders to emulain the good example Whampoa Dock me fifteen hundred Bombardier Sorby won the Nathan Cup for ply exceeds the demand disaster: becomes ap
WHOL, SANG" SOED,
ROOK LIGHTHOUSA.”
TAU SHUTTERS FOR BUILDING,
"SMOKING CONCERTA BOUGHT BY UK, C.. AND M. STEAMBOAT CO.
agay 13th inst.. Avery.anjoyable imoking concert was held When we announced the sale last month of the'as.”Langthan of the Macao-Canton service,
As interesting excursion was made, to Gap at the Volunteer Headquarter last Saturday. The trade of Shanghai greatly exceeds that of to the Canton Hunkow Railway Co we last Monday, Mesam. Hughes and Hough The regular weekly meeting of the comWorks Dapartment officials and Dock Co.'s consented to be present At the annual distributiads in the port is that in piece-goods Since ||Rock Lighthonia yesterday by a party of Public might, whan H.E. 3F Frederick Lugard, Kindly any other port, while the largest branch of recalled statement mide by the chair auctioneers, put up for sale the wreck of the mittees of the Tung Wa Hospital and Po employens. The party copulated of Mr. H. E. Con af feries. The hall was fastefully decorat 1000 foreign firms have all waited branch mun of the Hoogkong, Canton and Macao British river steamer Poran, 28 she opten Leung Rat Socisty was held at the Tong Goldsmith, assistant engineer P.W.D. and ed for the occasions. There was a large gather bongs in Tientsin and Newchwang, where Steamboat Co., Ld owners of the Langbered pep. Capsul-mun Pass off Lanta Wa Hospital last Sunday. After the regular Mia Goldsmith, Mr. J. G. McEwen, over ing of volunteers, and cistent, and additional their agents have been able to deal directly Thaw, at the last half-yearly meeting of the Island, in one lot. shareholders of the Company. Mr. Robert
business had been disposed of a suggestion seat, P.W.D., Mr. D. Purvis, engineer, Hong-colour was lant to the occasion by the presence with purchasers, In consequence of this the There was a fair attendance, included among
was brought forward by Mr. Ho Kam Tong to kong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ld, and two of several naval and military officers. HE. distributing trade of Shanghal decreased im Shewan said on 25th February last: Savage whom were Messrs. W. E. Clarke, Secretary, Chinese competition on the Canion-Macao lips Hongkong, Canton and Macac Steamboat Co discuss the advisability of considering means Chinese Gitters from the Dock Co. The object The Governor graciously stayed to the end-mediately. Indeed, since the troubles of the for the adequate recognition of the signal of the Plains the lighthouse was to attend to which was at midnight-an interested and year before last the trade in coloured place-- caused such a loss in the working of the small Ld, part owners of the Poman, W. Gibson
metal shatters to the windows
WK | 'amused listener, Mode
goods
has almon been ruined. Moreover, steamer Lungsham that your Board withdrew and a representative for. Lloyds, the under-services rendered by the Chinese coxswain of the
the steam-launch Kam Skus on the night of in
on the Rock.
The following are the list of prizes won dur those engaged in this particular, business sufo the vessel from the line panding other arrange writers. Bidding started at $10 and advanc.
the wreck of the sa. Powan on the 8th just
daca may understand the paring the season
fered in addition great lossen eud vosa. This, ments. This particular trade has been stagnanted by sa's until 5750 was reached, when
the lot was knockall down to Mr. Robert Jack, agreed to raise subscriptions with which to After some discussion it was unanimously and without profit for many years, but with a Mr. Gibran being the runner up.
the shutters are, required is Blake Shield: For Muskelry Course i won it may be stated, has been the origin of the plained that owing to the very by No. 1 Company (late left balf No. 1). Baun losses suffered by Chinese merchants. Stil economical and suitable vessel employed we
order a silk flag for the Kam Shus and a gold exposed position of the Rock, when the weather shall hope to hold our own, on the run. The
more serious a harm to the trade has been the matter has the attention of your Board, Increas
medal for presentation to Lau Tai the bad big waves dark against the Rock, which Cap For 15-pdr. B. L. gün practice: won
coigne Shield: For Maxim'gun practice:" won 10 go about and recklessly invite people to the vessels saldom receive, or appear to look
permit of the expenditure, smaller medal. To prevent the building being inundated By No. 3 Company. (late right half No, 2). Lu make contracts for goods. As a matter of fact ing competition in which the actual owners of
Coxswain. If the amount subscribed will rises perpendicularly above the surface of the by No. 2 Company (late left half, No. 1), Gase starting of new foreign film which engage shroffs will, be given to the members of shutters have to be provided for the win ward Cup: For General Efficiency won by there have been opened several tone of naw for any return on their outlay makes the
.the...' crew. aiwell. The resolutions, ware COWL. Hitherto the shutters were made of No. 4 Company (fata leh half Nu, aje
foreign tongs; all of which engage shroffs to: opposition so much harder for us to struggle
proposed by Mr, Ho Kam Tong and seconded iron. Owing to the fact that the material.
bring business to the hoog. Then shtoffa only agalost, and, in consequence your Board have
by the chairman of the meeting, Mr. Tam.
was subject to corrosion and hence rapid
desire to effect a contract for theinbongs withour to make greater,e
efforts to obtain what we
Hok Po..
deterioration; Governmes decided some
making any distinction as to whether the deal. consider our fair share of the business."
fifteen months ago, to replace the iron but
ers they make such contracts with will be able, The Lungshan has since been sold. In reg
tern by new ones of gun metal,, "The cone
to make them up or not in the future." NaW placement of that vessel, information has reach
tract was placed, with the Hongkong -and ed as, which has been confirmed upon inquiry.
The Corps Championship Cup for 1907 was there has always been an ascertained limit in It is believed that won by Sergeant Marshall: and
the trade in coloured plece goods. If the sup": at the office of Masers, Chi Wo & Co., that the Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Co., Ld.,
all-round efficiency,bun
parent at once. The amount of these goods at has completed preliminary negotiations for the
"After the distribution of prizes, H.E. the present in stock which represents one year's purchase of the ss. Hoi Sang, belonging to the Chinese firm, and until recently employed
Geversor addressed a few wants to those pre-supply is sufficient to fill the demand of threa sont. Hit Excellency, said he did not intend years. Is it to be wandered then that there is on the Hongkong-Kongmun trade. We under stand that, until the overhauling and refitting of
to make long speech. He thanked those a stagnancy in the trade? In addition to this concerned for tirgir kindness in inviting him exchange has "shrunk”, to such an unsinCE - the Hol Sang are completed, the sale cannot be considered as effectively concluded. The Hot Sangis now in the hands of the Kwong Tak
who had the good tons of winning prizes this and all suffered great losses therefrom.. year, would be succpitiful again next year. To Cheong firm of shipbuilders at Bungbom, where
A perusal of the daily papers shows long, those who happaned just to miss the target, lists of foreign hongs who have brought suits beving ber saloon accommodation and fittings
luck next time. He expressed a wish that the delivery of goods. No day passes in which the altered to order to suitably, adapt her for the
newly-formed Infantry Company, which con- papers do not report at least one or two such now run in which she will be engaged. She will
sisted of only a few men at present, would cases tried in the Courts. As a result, there be put on the Macao-Canton traffic.
have a fairly large number by next year are proprietor of hongs that have been sued especially as the new Captain (Capt. Johuston) by foreign hongs who have been forced to close
ha
business. Prior to being soed these proprietors bave been able to borrow here and there as running concerns; but no sooner were the summonses out than confusion began, render- ing it impossible for the proprietors to keep their hongs open any longer. Those who manage to learn beforehand that steps are being taken to sue them have been known to abscond. Even if they become sub- sequently caught and are imprisoned in the Mixed Court no one has yet heard of any of the foreign plaintiffs receiving back both prin cipal and interest in full. For this resBOG it is necessary to come to some arrangement for the common good, and we have, addressed this with such an object in view. straightforward letter to beads of foreign firms,
Whether one be a Pro or Anti the historical facts about opium cannot fail to be of interest just now, when the subject is a burning one itstally and figuratively. The facts berein set, forth are from a historical note of the Poppy in Chins prepared by Dr. Edkins of the Chinese Custome Service in 1889.
me
they word to cost dollars. One of the essentials of these shut.. tors in that when they close they overlap GURMAN shipping subsidiES each other and also the templates after the fashion of a water-tight door on board ship, Messrs. Behn, Meyer and Co., Ld, contribute the shutters a hole is drilled to enable two or three feet long, iron bar to reach it The poppy was well known, to the Greak the following letter to the Singapova Frej. Prezi kom she inthiior" of the building as to sex to present' the bikes. He hoped that those dented extent that piece goods man biye"one",
the 5th inst
curely fastes the shutters by means of screws
boisterous weather, w The construction 'of the 'nEWSLE
shaja being caulked and recoppered besides poppy in a garden hange da aus side, its head ping Subsidies" in your to-day's issue, we completed at the Bocks this WERKSKNan and for that reason the'prizes, he wished better against Chinese honga för failing to take"
In river shipping circles it is stated that the purchase of the Hot Sang is conditional upon the withdrawal by the Chi Wo firm of the Had Ming from the Hongkong-Macao trade. This
vessel has, we understand, been transferred to the barth taken up by her sister ship' previous to her sale, and at the Hongkong-Kongmua line is just as remunerative as that from which she has been withdrawn the excellent arrange ment should be of advantage to both parties.
The Hot Sang is practically now steamer, Having been built in 1905, at Mongkok, by the Kwong Tak Hing Her dimensions are Length 165 ft., breadth 28 ft., depth to ft. Her tonnage is gross 455.7!; not 284.08,
and Rontags and was cultivated in Italy at very early age. Domer speaks of "just as w laden with fruit and with the dew of spring" was a son of Priam struck in the chest by an arrow. Hippocrates called the juice apos mekonos, from opon, juice, mekon being the Greek name of the poppy. Virgil speaks of the sleep giving poppy, and in the first Christian century opium" was already introduced in the Western world and sleepy effects of it
As
ranged that the using into přáttu fat his Gap Rock be made yesterday. Shoy balore two o'clock in the morning the panya labbye Boarded the Government steam tender Stanley Capt. Willoughby) which maintains the ser vice. At 2 a.m. the Stanley cast off, "There was fine, moonlight and the weather wa fine and clear. With a moderate wind the Stanley covered the thiny-three miles between Hong long and Gap Rock within four hours. After the vessel, was brought to her anchor, the boat was lowered and the party sont'ashore,
of
With reference to the article "German Ship,
state that the writer is wrongly informed as to what is termed the policy, of the German Gov. eroment to subsidise private companies in order to be able to successfully compete with the English lines for a share of the carrying trade, in the Eastern seas. It is said in the article, that the ND L. is about to start a new
Among those, who contributed to the merri- service of steamers between German New
popular man.
everywhere knowo, a
Guinea, Australia and Japan, for which the
ment of the gypning were Messrs. Goldring German Government is asked to grant a further
and Moore, who gave several songs, and whose Opium was well-known to the Arabs of the Caliphate, and took the name of alyun, through annual subsidy of same £25,000. Now, the
well-trained and powerful voices elicited en fine mentioned is already in existence since
cores, Mr. Moore was obliged to render "The the Samitic habit of changing the p to f. In
Yeomen of England" a second time. The Persia it was known by the name of Afyun years and the amount required as additional also, which became the parent of the Chinese subsidy is towards heavy losses sustained in being hoisted to the Rock by the derrick-comic element was appplied by Captain Parke, name ys-pien. Opium. is mentioned in the connection with this line and the inter island an experience which was noval to most whose songs Stand up" and "My School Do difficulty Days given in his usual catchy style, highly Jewish Talmud. Previous to the Tang Dynasty service in German New Guinea, which beef the party. There was
came essential owing to the increased develop-landing; the metal shutters being also salely amused the audience. Captain Taylor, A.D. C. the poppy was apparently unknown to the Chinese botanists and physicians, and it was ment of the Colony. The amottot also io transported ashore. When the Dock staff pro to the Governor, was also kind enough to give cludes a certain sum for the establishment of a reeded to put them late position it was disa song, "Te Anthea, which was appreciated. brought to them by the Arabs, before the
line between Singapore and German New covered that there was a slight misfit, belugSapper Todd's song "The Admiral's Broam," eighth century. The first mention of the cul-
Guinea, which is urged by the planters in or just an inch too short, to permit of the over-" which stirs the heart of every true Englishman, CHÌNA, OPIUM, AND FINANCE.
tivation of the poppy in China is in the work
der to come into close contact with the Straits the job could not, therefore, be effected yestributed one of his usual ticklish stories, which "lapping; at top and bottom. The completion of Chen Tsang chi, in the eighth century). [So
was a great success. Licul. Northcote con- that before the English nation was born, China Settlements and Netherlands India,
matter of faci, the public here, as well? Jerday. It should be pussible to supply sort did pot fail to tickle his audience. Staff Pay- The Calcuits Englishman says :—It is avid- was cultivating the poppy.) ent to those who have examined the question For two centuries very little is said in Chin-as in Europe, is under a misapprehension with rubber tongue to make good the required master Gyles, of H.M.S. Flora, gave "The dispassionately that the evils of the opium ese books about the Arabs. They did not cease
regard to the subsidies granted by the Govern-ength of the shutters, when they should be of Drunken Sailor in his inimitable style, and habit have been very greatly exaggerated, and to visit China, but nothing is said about them.
was Beartipplauded: There were several ment. There have been many exaggerations mense service in keeping the sea water from
other item. Aroo pumeroas to mention, and a that they are to truth pot much more serious In the year 973 the Emperor Sung Tai-tau gave about the subsidies and very olice the German getting inside the building in bad weather!* After spending a little over three hours on
few minutes before midnight, the National than are the evils arising from over-eating, An order that Liu Han and Ma Chib should press had to contradict loreign statemen to say nothing of over drinking. However, prepare a medical work, and the poppy then which were greatly beyond the truth Quite Rock the party re-embarked on board the Anthem brought a very enjoyable evening to a the victory is for the moment with those entered the Chinese pharmacopeia. The poppy recently the Korinische Zeitunis pablished only at 945 am, when the tender weighed close.
anthor du her homeward journey. There was, who see in opium nothing but evil, and is called ying-tzu-su and it is stated that its article on the "Fables about the German Ship derate ses and wind all thaway until arrival who would protect all the weaklings of the seeds have wonderful healing powers. Su ping Subsidies," which clearly shows the exact world against themselver, so preventing the Che wrote a poem-on-the-cultivation-of-the--position of the German subsidico, as compared of Dumbbell Island at about half-past twelve, process of natural elimination which secures poppy, which, if we quoted the translation, with the subsidies paid by other Governors and the Stanley war oversken by a rain and the survival of those only who are strong enough would lead us to be charged. with praising The German Government only pays dies and thunder storm. The party disembarked a
few minutes past one o'clock. in mind and body to resist all evit influences the drug. In the tith century, the medical to two Steamship Companies, ie, the NEYL. As a result mainly of the constant iteration use of poppy seeds was recommended, and for its Eastern and Australian Lines, and the of worthy humanitarians, who have paisted in the twelfth the first use was made of the German East Africa Ş. B. Co. pletures more darkly lurid than the worst capsules. Three authors in this period recom- in the book of the Buddhist Hells,mend the drug as a cure for dysentery.. In the Chinese and British Governments have the 14th century the use of the ding increased undertaken to abolish the opium trade. The and in this and the following century trade opening of the story is now old, It will be with the islands of the Eastern Archipelago interesting to see how the end will shape greatly increased. When the Portuguese ap itself. It was on the 20th September, 1906, that peared unexpectedly at Cochin in 1498, they the Chinese Government issued the first fm commenced at once a career in conquest and perial Decree for the prohibition of the habit quickly made themselves masters of Aden, and cultivation of the poppy throughout its wide Hormuz, Goa, Cochin, Quilon, Calicut, Malacca, dominions, within ten years from that date. and many other cities. At this time, wo learn Since then edicts, enlarging, emphasising, ex-from Barbosa, opium was among the articles plaining or modifying the original one, have brought to Malacca by Arabs, and Gent's bean frequently issued... The latest of these merchants, to exchange for the cargoes of may, in many respects, be regarded as the most Chapese Junks. The Arabs had begun to important of all. It affords evidence that the grow opium in India in the 16th century Chinese Government is, for the time being at and in addition to this from places on the any rate, distinctly in earnest in its projected.
Coromandel Coast' opium was exported to reform; and is not, as many men, growa Siam and..Peru. Wang Hai, an author who suspicious by experience, at first imagined, died in 1488, gives directions for procuring, just playing a game whose object is the opium from the poppy. This author was, in killing of the Indian trade for the sake of official charge of the Province of Kansuh for extending the home industry. For the first more than twenty years and so must have time also, a full and commonsense view is known very well the medicines and habits of taken of the maoy difficulties attending the anti-the. Mohamedhaus there. From this date opium campaign, and recognition given to the onwards we find constant rolerence in all very crucial question of finance.
It is characteristic of the origia of the anits Chinese medical books on the drug. Says Dr.] vernment, £813,000 Admiralty subsidies, in all issuing the debentures the company promised portant financial mission, including the estab2 Į able easily to make good the twenty, por ceni ta'
oplem war that no heed whatever was given to the most important part of it till at the eleventh hour, when the details were impressed upon the authorities by.level-headed foreigners not inter- ested in the suppression of the optum traffic.. The humanitarians and the Central Government took no thought of the fact that the abolition of opium cultivation and consumption would result in a direct loss of revenue in likio, duties, and kist of some twelve million taels It was conveniently slurred over, just was the serious loss that would result to India, The reformers refused to take thought for the morrow, and found comfort in the hope that providence would provide. Unfortunately in the present crowded and restless state of the world the fullest recognition must be given to practical politics, and adequate provision made for the securing and disbursement of state funds.. India, we know, can ill afford the sacri- fice she is making to the reformers in China
Edkios. It appears plain that from the latter part of the fifteenth century the manufacture of native opium 'has existed, and it is not only in recent years that there has been both native and foreign opium in this country."
How vastly exaggerated the views about German subsidies ute, shows the recent report of a Company in Philadelphi Eating, that o infringement of the anti-trust fund of the Union had bean committed by the Grainan shipping, inasmuch, as the German Government had closed a contract with the "H.A.L. and the N.D.L. for the period of 15 years, paying them not less than 140 millions of Marks, in order to enable them to successfully compete with American trade. It may not be known genor ally, that the H.A.L, does not get a penny at all from the Government and the N.D... galy gets subsidy on the Eastero and Australian ran, and bot a posay subsidy on the North Atlantic.
The Koelnische Zeitung gives the following figures as subsidies paid by the different Govs argments.
יין
France 1,035,000 subsidies for steamship lines, besides 2,100,000 construction premiums, further £1,340,000 outfit; premiums, in all £2,475,000.
Germany £350,000.
Austria Hungary £650,000. Italy £880,000.
U. States of North America £1,000,000, In addition to the figures given under " Eng. laud," there are certain sums of money for the building of auxiliary cruisers, for which Germany does not pay a penny. Not mentioned yet is the large amount which the English Government holds at the disposal of the Cunard Line for their two new steamers on
FRENOH CAPITALISTS AND JAPANESE COMPANIES,
THE PROPOSED MOJI. DOCK COMPANY,
Many rumours have been in circulation re- garding the probable collapse of the Moji Dock scheme. We now observe that a Tokyo dispatch to the Osaka Asahi regards it as im probable that the scheme will come into exist ence in the near future. Messrs. Noda Ularo, Sasaki Shoto, Mitsui Chuzo, and Kage Nobumori were the prime movers in the scheme, for which a charter was granted. A disagreement took place among the promoters, and Mesars, Nada, Sasaki, and Mitsul withdrew, while the remaining promoters' agreed to transfer the company to Mr. Loonen, upon payment by the latter of bargain money to the amount of about Y100,000. Mr. Loosen, however, ban failed to find the necessary fund for promoting the com- pany, and the balance of the bargain money still remains unpaid Discord is going on, concludes the dispatch, between Mesirs, Kage, Looses, and Masujima (the company's legal adviser).
In this connection we note the following paragraph in the Japan Herald
|
Never has trade beep so bad in Shanghai as at the present time. In former times pro- prietors of hongs acted cunningly. Although possessed of much money, no sooner did it become apparent to them that they would lose money on a contract than they would pretend to be on the verge of bankruptcy and fail to take delivery of their goods. As soon as, how ever, they learn that proceedings are to be taken against them then, fearing to lose their own good name, they hasten to ask some one to -go-on-their-behalf to the plaintiffs before the casa comes to Court to try to come to some) arrangement, Instances have been known even where claims have been paid up in full. THE SUGER-TRADE.
It is not so at the present time. During the years gone by people have become exhausted VERY SATISFACTORY RESULTS.
in energy and resources, Thera is yet another class of people, who knowing that they have The Japan Chronicle says :-The result of
'lost money, therefore, make a large number of Japan Sugar Refining Co.'s list: half-year's
contracts with the object like the gambler of working proves to bave been very satisfactory.
gaining or losing by the single cast of a die. The report and accounts adopted at the general
Proprietors of such honge even if you punish meeting held last week showed that the pet
then by having them sawn asunder, it is to ba profit for the period autounted to Y953,265. Of
feared, have only their lives to offer as they this sum V66,750 will be paid as bonuses to the
possess nothing substantial, Moreover, out of officials, leaving a balance of Y886,555, which,
every hundred hougs we cannot find more than added to the amount brought over from last
one or two able to stand independeos. How account. Ya,col. makes the total available for
then can it be expected that by entering sult distribution Y888,607. Of this sum, Yo,coo
against all thess hongs there is any chance of was placed to the legal, reserve, and Y200,000
settling matters? We do not say that foreign (including 15,000 for the sinking fand) to the
hoogs ought to soe, we really mean to suggest special reserve for redemption of debentures.
that by entering salt, fareiga bongs needlessly The sum of Y563,500 will be distributed as a
spoil the market without obtaining any ad- dividend at the rate of 15 per cent., and the
vantage for themselves; If one does not su balance of Y76,107 carried forward, It in
he can make the dealer tako delivery of goods! explained that the amount placed to the special
at the selling market rates. By so doing he reserve has been increased to Y100,000 from
will be able to obtain from seventy to elably Y50,000 thus allocated in, previous periods, the "The Tokyo Asaki is authority for the state per cent of the value of his goods. The loss increase being des to the issue of deben- meat that when Mr. Looneny of "Tokyo, was will, therefore, be only twenty to thirty par England £1,015,000 postal revenues of the tures to the amount of ¥7,000,000 for the about to return to France some months age, it cent. The dealer who has lost money will Government, £300,000 from the Colonial Gov-purchase of the Dairi sugar refining mill. In was rumoured that he was going on a very im always seek to better matters so that he will be the banks which underwrote the issue to put ishment of a Franco-Japanese Bank and the thirty per cent losses. If, on the other hand, 2,128,000.
aside not less thau. Y300,000 yearly to the sink introduction of French caphal amounting to the dealer is sued, be finds himself under ar ing fund. A liberal sum has now been carried about Y1,500,000 for the Toyo Garasu Kaisha. rest and put into confinement, He, there forward to next account, showing an increase (the Oriental Glass Factory), Mr. Loonen, says fore, has no opportunity to go about to seek for of Y74,000, and the dividend is limited to 15. the journal, recently returned to japan, and purchaters of his goods. The foreiro hong per cent. This course, says the directors, is his attitude gave an insight into the gloomy naturally then gets hold of some, one to lake: considered necessary for the protection of the outlook in France regarding Japan's finsocial the imprisoned dealer's place in seeking for interest of shareholders and improving the standing. When the directorof the Paris Bank customers. The substitate, however, being standing of such a large company. The con- was staying la Tokyo at the end of last year, ignorint of the channels through which the suction of the Formosan Mill of the company for the purpose of favestigating the financial imprisoned dealer has been accustomed to sell is expected to be completed by November conditions of the country, he had an interview his particular line of goods cannot, therefore, with the financial authorities and rather emobtain as good prices as the said dealer. The next, and the sugar refined there is ex
substitute, moreover, charges commission' on pected to appear on the market early next barrassed them with several questions as to year. The amount invested on the mill-about the redemption of national bonds, especially sales, and this makes the foreign hang's losses The foregoing shows that there is no un 2,200,000-will then return interest, with it is the railway bonds. His penetrating inquiries still greater. Furthermore, the chances are have, it is alleged, placed the authorities that the substitute, being also a piece-goods sound policy on the part of the German Go. hoped a still better result to shareholders.
A meeting on the 28th ultimo of the re-in an awkward position. A pessimistic report dealer, may also have goods in some other verument, which seems to be a general belief presentatives of the Japan, Yokohama, and he published on the result of his investigations foreign hong which he has been unable to in foreign countries, and it cannot very well be Kobe Sugar Refining Companies agreed to has shown Japan in a unfavourable light, so take delivery of Such being the case this said that the German Government has set its stop entirely the production of sugar for the much so that the very mention, of the country? same substitute may himself be à defendant in heart on wresting from the English if possible home marked during June, in order to maintain created an unpleasant feeling on the money due time at the Mixed Court, and also flad the traffic to and in Eastern waters. If the the price, and prevent the loss which might market ip Paris... It was about this time that himself imprisoned, which puts another place- steamer services in question could be main-- rewalt during the rainy season, when sogar Mr. Loonen arrived in Faris, It is therefore goods man in the hands of thỏ law, while the liable to loss weight,? When as wonder, says the journal, that the proposal piece-goods market has one man less to sall of the German Government, we think both the Government and the Shipping Companies would will be reduced by 235,000 baga,
Japanese Bank fell on deaf ears, and that the las word, if every piece-goods dealer finds only be 100 glad..
The Qaka Mainichi takes exception to this invitation for subscriptions towards the Orien himself sued and as a result all are imprisoned, resolution adopted by the sugar companies. Our tal Glass Factory were treated with cynicism, fettered and unable to go about their business, contemporary observes that, though complaint | In short, Mr. Loonen's mission ended in com- what will be the result? What will, the plain. THE CHINESE NAVY,
ismadsalthesmall demand, the companies have piete failure. It is reported that M. Charles tiff bongs do to sello mailem under sech cit- already raised the price by the increated rate Loonen, a French capitalist (father of Mr. R. cumstances? Do foreign honga think that by The Peking correspondent of the W. G. D. of excise. The present market may be a little Loonen) has offered to subscribe a few hun merely entering suit against a dealer they will News, writes on set inst:-The reported re- lower than might be expected, in view of the dred thousand yan for the capitalisation of the be able to hand over the money to the banks? organization of the Imperial Navy of China has advance of crude sugar in price, but in trying Glass Factory. As this sum is fuenfficient. for: The piece-goods trade is indeed in critical cis- caused much interest in Feking recently. Some to forte up the market the companies are the equipment of the factory, Baron Shibusawa comstances. In the interest, therefore, of pros of the leading foreign firms of Shanghai and adopting a very selfish policy, especially in and other Japanese promoters are now worried prictors of hongs, of the beads of foreign bongs Tientsia have sent up representatives here to view of the large profits made. The reduced regarding the future of the company."-Japan and of all whose rade leja piece-goods I (we). secure contracts, for battleships, cruisers and consumption le due to the fact that the higher Chronicle,
AL SE
exhort you, all to come to some working are other war vessels. It must be confessed that price of sogar has reduced the demand. F
rangement of mutual give and take. There is the reorganization of the Chinese wavy is still no use to try and force up the market artificial..
nothing better than this. What do I (wo) mean by in the air chiefly for lack of funds and expens; ly, and the companies will have to repeat such
the words "Tang Jung" (working arrangement and also becsure of the jealousy and disagree-resolution so long they try to keep-up; a
of mutual give, and, take)?. It is to allow the In the Marine Magistrate's Court, on the 15th dealer to take delivery of bis goods at the selli ment batween the Manchus and Chinese, high price, The Osaka Journal secommende especially in the case of Tish Liang's con that the companies would do belter in con- ist, before the Hon. Commander Basil Taylor, ing market rate and that he be given a limit of servative party who wish to put the naval centrating their energies on endeavouring to RN, Policeman Bird charged Young Fing, time to make good the deficit arising there 'ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT.
department under the Ministry of War of increase the export to China, as they have Ho Sam, Chau Luk, Leung Mul, bostmen from This is the whole question contained in which he is President. He is Suskas bear thie le purchase a matrial cheaper licensed cargo-bouts, and Fra Kan and Chan a sintshell
while the fate contends that a separain Ministry of Marine than the Hongkong sugar mills, and are Shing, masters of licensed cargo-boats, with but the
Past NETHERLANDS PANK SHROFF ARRESTED. must be established in Peking if China: really placed in an advantageous: position in comunjawially making fast to the pa. Signal in will readjust itself. It is my (our) hope takt means to have an efficient navy. Prince Ching, petition,It seems to ps very improbable that such a manner as to cause an obstruction to pepprissors of hongs who have bean, gulity pl Chan Chan Ting, an accountant and shroff in the Comptroller General of the War Ministry, the Japanese companies will be able to under the Central Fairway on the 14th inst. In reckless contract, misking, and those, foreign the employ of the Netherlands Bank, was, in the is well known to be a weak and irratolute man, spil in Chins the Hongkong companies, if only Victoria harbour. The defendants pleaded hongs which hara recklessly allowed the mako Police Court, last Monday forenoon, charged He has givas no definite opinion on the quest because of the great difference is the cost of guilty, P. C. Bird stated that 11.30 am. fog of such contracts will not forget, the great with embezzling certain fonds belonging to the tion as yet. The only polat yet decided, if that labour at Hongkong and in Japan, the increase on the 14th inst.,, he found, defendants boats dimepities of the present day, and baung to compradore Mr. Chan Ngai Ting. The sum at Tactal Tip Buch hear Vice-Chief of the of taxes in the latter country, having raised the lying astern of the Signal." They were all comp to some made of Procedure which shall SEUD WAN 5392.05. From what was stated, wo Haichinchu or Department of Naval Affairs cost of production to such an extent that the large cargo-boats and were made fast abreast guard againn a reputulos of cuchi fearn that accused had only been in the employ. (attached to the War Ministry) has been in Hongkong rennerita are easily able to under of each other of the bank for some fourteen months. Onstructed to draw up the necessary regulations sell in Manchuria the Japanese product. How. All the defendants unanimously stated that In the shop to go to Saturday Jant his books, ware examined, and and rules about the establishment of proper ever, we quito esten with our Osaka contam- they were told.
were told by errors were discovered. The police warn then Misitiry of Marine and be conversion of 'porary that while the restriction of production the #SI notified, and the arrest came about ficcused naval official as substaufive officers"with the Id Japan may temporarily stimulate the roary Captaic pleaded not guilty and the case was tremanded, sans ranks as the new military officers em est the higher the price raised the greater, fins of
plored la the Luch in forcas
the falling oli la consumptio
Opium taking was exchanged for opium smoking in the Ming Dynasty, about 1610, when the tobacco plant crossed the Pacific and flourished in the neighbourhood of Manila. It was planted at Amoy by Hokies coolies and had arrived at such general use that in 1644 tobacco smoking was prohibited, but was too largely indulged in to be stopped by law, Various things were mixed with tobacco to try their effect, and among them, og arsenic. The origin opium smoking is thus accounted for. ibe Manchus also promulgated an edict against tobacco smoking, and later, against opium smoking. They were equally ineffectual The habit of tobacco smoking became national; as that of opium.
d
the turbine system.
and the humanitarians at home. The question in Kaempfer's voyage to Batavia in 1688, where | tained without the financial support on the part stored 11·792 is carried into effect, the output Erelating to the establishment of, a Franco goods
The first opium smoking shops recorded are
he speaks of tabernae levideores exarundine, opium diluted with water belog smoked with tobacco. This sort of tobacco was exposed to the passers-by to be smoked. The learned German uses the word haurlo, meaning smok ing and not drinking as is plain from another passage, where he says the black inhabitants smoke without a pipe (eise instrumento hourinot) by rolling tobacco leaves into a whith, which they light at the lower end and smoke from at the upper by holding it with their lips and drawing. The early opium smokers in Formosa mixed the opium with their to bacco. Various early narratives describe the method of smoking opium with a bamboo pipe, the habit having travelled from Java to For mosa, which agrees with what Kaempfer wrote, This was about the time the island was samed Taiwno, in. 1746.
-W. M. in Singapore Free Press..
now it can China afford the tremendous sacri fice of ati established revenue, and replace it easily by new taxation? This question time alons can answer, but so far the prospect does not seem over-bright. The latest decree saya: * As for the manner of obtaining other revenues to make up for the losses on that on opium hereby command the Ministry of Finance to arrange about this matter." The sentence is short and pregnant. It is to be feared, however, that if pregnant with trouble, The needs of China, and her expense grow weekly. She will not easily be permitted to increase her tax on foreign trade. The cquetry is restless, the over huge population bitterly poor, and seriously discontented, rebellion is endemic in certain sections, and sporadic in all pasta. It is certain the people will resent and oppose the imposition of now and heavy taxa tion. The extent of the empire, and the pri mitive state of communications will render the task of abolishing the cultivation and smugs, gling of oplum a task of the utmost difficulty, a which will need the pxorcise of all the authority the Central Government posseastu. Lastly, Injunction and fulfilment aro 'so wide apart in Chins, so fixed the habit of taking the ward for the dead, and so apt the Government to pause and cleep upon the task scarce begue, that it would not be astonishing if the great reform decree of September, 1905 became dead letter after the Indian trade had been killed,
THE Chinese Engineering and, Mining: Co., Ed zundunces that the total output of the Company's thres mines for the week ending May 30, 1908), amounted to 28,742.91 tons and the piles during, the same period to 25,54
this resolution
MARINE COURT.