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ESTABLISHED A.D.. 1841.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY JULY 25 1908.
the Government saw fit to renounce the principle of holding the reserve fund lu
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
demands of the banks, and recourse had to ba had to section of the Ordinance, To meet the demand Singapore had to silver tokens he would exert his utmost | LLOYD's an insuring against the election of make use of the money, which, they had energies against the Bill, with which Mr. Bryan in their possession against the security he was otherwich in agreement The
visiting Chinese pons have been drafted and will shortly be submitted to the Throne for
REGULATIONS to apply to Foreign warships
approval,
A WIRE has been received from H E. W Turg Fang stating that the approximate date of the arrival of the U. 5. Fleet in Chinese waits will be the 14th September.
A. S. WATSON & CO., of the Currenty Committionem invest Colonial Treasurer explained, according ments. The question to how the to the report in a Strails contemporary Crown Agents were to receive the gold that when the old dollars were reduced was not provided for in the Ordinance, and their bullion value would be credited to the will have to be considered in Committee. The old standard reserve fund, so that it is point of the argument was whether they could evidently the desire of the Government to receive the gold in exchange for notes issued give effect to the suggestions submitted by in Singapore, or were the Currency Commis. Mr. Baker. With that object the Bill has sioners to remit the gold to London by been referred to a special sub-commitice and THE Korean editor of the Korean Daily Nees meaus of the bank? In the event of the lat the names of those appointed to investigate has been apprehended on suspicion of having ter point, certain amendments would have to the proposals-Messrs. Baker, Anderson, misappropriated funds raised for the redemp be made, so as to allow the Commissioners Maxwell and the Colonial Treasurer-afford tion of Korea's indebtedness to Japan. 4 freer hand. Mr. Baker, in the course of every reason for the belief that the gold an extremely lucid speech, affirmed his con- standard of the Straits currency will be settled fidence in the standard of value of the Straits on a sound basis. The question is, of course, currency being maintained at least in the of chief interest to Singapore and the Straits
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MONDAY, the 3rd of August, being a bank holiday, shall be observed as a holiday by the Government departments. There will be no
THE RAIN STORM.
MORE DAMAGE REPORTED IN THE CITY
AND ACROSS THE WATER...
The rain storm which passed over the Co
loay last night and which lasted for very near- ly two hours was, perhaps, the worst we have experienced this year. During those two hours something approachung'1.76 inches of rato was recorded. To-day's outlook was not so dreary, and but for a fine drizzle early this morning, the elements look like moderating. The "scissor grinders." were to be heard singing in every tree to-day," which is a sign of good wasther At about half past seven o'clock isal night the approaching, according to native idear, rain came down la furious torrebis, accom panied by vivid flashes of lighting and loud peals of thunder. It stopped as suddenly as It started:
being manufactured, with the FINEST neighbourhood of its present value and also generally,, but if is of none the less import holiday for the Police Magistrates' Depart Pea't district there wore one or two small laod-
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expressed his confidence in the ability and intention of the Government to maintain that standard. Having made that declara tion of faith, he proceeded to discuss the measure, and said that the Bill appeared to him to be introduced chiefly for the purpose of giving effect to two important doctrines. One of these was to vest the Currency Com missioners with more power in handling the currency affairs of the Colony than they at present possessed, while the other was the
ance to Hongkong on account of the close business relations which unite the two Crown Colonies.
meat.
it is stated that the Central Government has decided not to appoint & Minister to Sweden, but that the Chinese Ministerio Germany shall be further accredited to Sweden, as well as to
While the storm lasted, more damage was done in the city and across the water. At the slipa. Part of the hillside above Jubilee Road and Pakfoolum kuad was washed A." quantity of earth was washed Away. down from Caire Road into Ladder Street. At Yau-mation bridge anar the Steam Laundry works was completely washed away from its position, and now obstracts We are informed, says the Chin's Critic, that the road. Severe damage bus been done to the the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking. Cor walled city at Kowloun City. A portion of the poration will shortly open a branch at New-wall collapsed, and the remaining portion is in cawang. Hithero Mesure. Buab Bros. have a dangerous condition.
If this is not pulled been their agents at the porthern port.
down in the tourse of a day or two there ii a likelihood that it will collapse suddenly, and, THE Cantonese merchants at Han! ow held a probably, beattended with the loss of life, as the
relief funds for the people suffering from the still lacking. This does not prove that they the question of raising as amount of money as playground. From the New Territories Laws West and North rivers inundation in Kwang- have suffered no damage, said a police officer, but probably due to the fact that the police have been unable to leave the stations owing
THROUGH THE TELEPHONE" | Germany,
Who would have dreamt that the in nocent and stoic-looking telephone which performs the duty of a desk ornament or a wall decoration is the insidious transmitter of deadly diseases? Nearly everybody is in
:.
COAL CONSUMPTION IN
FORMOSAI
[From Our Own Correspondent,) (80)
Taipeh, 18th July, During the last few years the quantity of coal
consumed in Formenn has been conaldarably, increased, owing to the extension of railways; increased number of steamers calling, and the. springing up of new Industries. According to the statistics lately published, the total coal consumption in Formoss during 19-7 shews as 89,536,225 kin' (or 111,718 tom) of the value of Yen 732,13, Of this quantity only 10me 14,400 output of Formosan coal mines.. We now give. tons were 'Japan coal, the bilince being the below particulas of the quantities and qualities of Formosan and/or Japan coal consumed in 1907, as well as the purposes for which it was unedi
Used for Railway. Screened'. Steamers... Lump..... 2,033
Quality," Japan Formosan
...Goal.
Coal *** 8,650 tons 9,81n
14.285
19
"
H
Screened... Unscreened
17
43,450
Factories:
Lump ................ 2,993 „ Scrooned... 39
5.996
4.814
... Unscreened 30011,178 ... Dust.........
7,480 2,196
...Nut.........
Total... 14.4:6 ions 99,372 tons"
Total 11318 toan..
establishment of a gold standard reserve. daily and hourly confabulation with the meeting on 14th inst,, at the tea guild, at which space near this wall is used as the children's tans, According in the Customs returns some
With regard to the first object, he expressed the belief that everyone would approve of the Curicacy Commissioners being given ample power to deal with all the minor currency Tairs, so long as they kept clearly before them the one important object of maintain ing the standard of value of their currency, and did not otherwise do anything that might possibly be interpreted as tampering with exchange. The other object of the Bill, the establishment of a gold standard reserve
officer declares that it is the lurking ground telephone, so that when an eminent medical
of tuberculous germs the subject becomes have been using the telephone in the most one of general importance. For years peopletang was discussed. matter-of-fact fashion, little knowing that every time they shouted "Hullo" into the mouthpiece they received in reply' a shower of microbes which attempted to retaliate for the rough treatment they had received. Now that it has been ascertained, however, that
is
MR. William Henrat, proprietor of the Ninto the roads being ff so red and unsafe. York Jurnal, in reply to an appeal from Mr. tion of Labour, on at the Democratic Compers, president of the American Federa Patty, says that he will not support the chame. lean candidate of a decadent l'esty.
ment. A gang of carlies was engaged during The damage done in the city is receiving the prompt attention of the Public Works Depart
the last two days in clearing away" the obstruction in Battery, Paib, caused by the
fund, was a most estimable one, and one the mouthpiece of a telephone. is impreg ORDERS for the vesicls of China's new any washing away of part of the hillside. It is be which, in name at least, could not fail tonated with a variety of germs, principally will be given by the Government to. British/lieved the path will be cleared about Monday.
commend itself to everyone who was interest.
that
way,
ed in the welfare and prosperity of the those of tuberculosis in the case of public Colony, He might also have added-and of telephones, the receiver will henceforth be taken down gingerly and treated with those who have dealings with the merchants
care. From a report which has been fut of the Straits Suttlements. It was a matter
nished by the medical officer of Westminsterto in which merchants and bankers might well the ante there seems to be little doubt that rejoice--the idea of establishing a gold stand telephonitis.bide fair to become the latest dis- ard. But did it not strike them, he said, as
ease. According to the London Chronicle, being utterly ludicrous that a gold standard one of the Post Office public telephones on the reserve fund should be represented, as the Central Exchange was wiped round with Bill provided by token money, or, in
'swab" to remove any existing germs in the other words by debased silver coinage? mouthpiece, and the contents of the "awab" He referred to the fact that the so-
were then used to inoculate two guinea pigs. called gold standard reserve fund of One guinea pig was killed twenty-three days India was built up: in
after Inoculation, and the post-mortem ex- derived from-token-coinage. Nevertheless, tuberculosis. A. second guinea pig was and its token coinage, or surplus silver,amination showed pronounced signs of that fund had been criticised very severely,, killed twenty-seven days after inoculation, and had been held up to the greatest and showed similar signs of infection, thus A. S. WATSON & CO., derision, and on the very first occasion of its proving that the deadly germs of tuberculosis being put to the test the utter futility
can be transmitted by public telephones а LIMITED),
clusively the truth of the assertion, says the HONGKONG, CHINA & MANILA.
public or private use, should be periodically thronicle, that all telephones, whether in
disinfected as in the case of the London Stock Fachange, where fifty telephones are sprayed daily with a disinfectant under an agreement with the General Post Office. So
!
JUICE OF SOUND RIPE FRUIT
Established 1841.
Hangkong, 18th July, 1908,
NOTICK,
builders. There are several reasons for this election. The officials in charge are mostly Greenwich students and the reputation of the British navy is superior to that of any other navy in the world,
THE Governor of Chekiang has complained to the Waiwupu that a French firm is starting the Foreign settlement of Hangcbow) and that work on an oil tank at Kangché Bridge as it will be a source of danger in the vicinity its construction should be stopped and some other place selected for the purpose. .....
THE theatrical performances on Saturday and Sunday at the Gymnasium, Kibe, given by Chiocte amateurs in aid of the Canton soffciers
mains, which will be sent to Canton by the from the gods, were well supported, and after all expenses were paid the sum of Y300 të Kebe Chiasse Benevolent Society, THE personpel of the new Japanese Cabinet is
THE NEXT GYMKHANA,
SFICIAL RACE FOR WALERS.
As shown above the consumption of For: mosse coal amounts to 99,312' tops, while the production dudog the last year was 135.140
also tramp steamers took a considerable 25,000 too were exported from. Formosa, and quantity of busker. The consumption during this year is expected to be greatly increased, and when the sugar factorien in Formosa"arg in full swing, the demand for coal will be very greatly increased:
TRE JAPANËSE BUYCOIT.
DIVERSION OF FREIGHT FROM THE JAPANESE VERSELY TO AMERICAN STEAMSHIP.
A Tacam despatch of gh, inst. says :- Bringing sixty cabin passengers and ་་ stee aga passengers, the American steamer, Shawmut arrived in port this sfiernoon_on_ber. twenty-first east-bourd paniga from the.. “One of the foalutes of the forthcoming gym-Orient. Some of the passengers disemb`rked. khana, which takes place on the 29th of next Victoria, but cearly all of the cable paston month, is a race far waters, which an account pars came through to Tacoma The steamer of its rarity in Hongkong should prove a de- had 6,7 tons of general freight, Including of kings. Several of the officer of the batta cided attraction for those who follow the sport large quantity of guonies and,, heavy” ship..., lins stationed at Kowlooo hive a fine selec-iato Keelung, Formosa, for the tea. She ments of new tea, the liner baylog gone
tion of horses which are kept as ́ chargers and | brought only a light Oriental mail. - it is stated that their mounts are on the fai The steamer had a sman run over from, side. It was accordingly proposed that a spa Yokobama, having had no heavy wasther, cial race should be included in the gymkhana Officers of the liner report that the Chinese vents in order to trai the running powers of boycott is on in full effect against the Japaness the walers and the owners having readily fallen ligne. It is understood that for this reason in with the idea, arrangements have been made both passengers and cargo were divested from lo give su added fillip to the programme. It: the Japanese liners to the Shawmut, is a considerabila time now since a race for The owners of the Shaomul and Tregoni ara waldis has been. witoessed in Hongkong, so negotiating with the government for the sain of
and ineffectiveness of its use exposed. at present in general use. This proves con- of Finance, General Marquis Katsura; Foreign nine or ten e
Contrasting the position of affairs in the Straits with that obtaining in India, Mr. Baker remarked that in November of last year the exchange value of the rupee de (33 clined to 15. 3 23/32d., which was nearly two per cent. below par value. He was proud to say that notwithstanding the ad
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that there should be no lack of excitement in as follows:-Minister-President and Ministers event. It is expected that there will be Affairs, Count Kamura; Home Affairs, Baron
Oxabe; Agriculture and Commerce, Baroo Hirata: War, General Viscount Terauchi: Navy, Admiral Baron Saito; Justice, Viscount Oura; Communications, Baron Coto; Educa- tiou, Mr. Y. Komatsubara.
CENTENARIANS ÎN JAPAN.
It will be news to many that Japan's popula tion includes a respectable sprinkling of cen tenarians The Yorodau recently instituted a Tué aniodot of Japanese subsidies to be grant--novel-competition to ascertain the number and Encouragement Law for next year is estimated gations, made by the Department of Commu- 10. exceed Y5,138,60s. The result of investi nications shows that there will be 38 steamers bexty car cotitled to the subsidy-seven N. Y. K steamers, twelve T. K. K. linere, four belonging to the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, and five O. S. K. steamers, besides ten vessels which are now under equipment.
existence and were still living. As a result the ligh, the oldest of whom is 111 years of age. Of competition has brought 382 centurias this number, tes range between 106 and three being male, and seven female. Prizes have been distributed by the Forades amongst those of the greatest age,
the steamers to the isthmian caual commission, and while these vessels are on Puget sound: they will be surveyed by a naval board, but it is not yet known whether the deal will be com- pleted or not.
SERIOUS CHARGH NOI PROVEN,
ALLEGED EMBEZZLER DISCHARGED.. Embezzlement was not proved in the case
King We was an accountant,_and_be-was-
verse times through which the Colony had. there is no doubt whatever about the dangered in accordance with the Steam Navigation ages of persons who had passed a century ofgainst Hạ King Wo, and, "at-the-Police Court passed, the position of its currency had that hides itself in the mouth of the tele: never descended to such a depth of destruc-phone, and yet it has taken all this tion. Therefore, he besought them not to time since telephones became a popular fall into the errors in currency matters that institution to discover the fact had been committed by India; but rather, would seem that the man who yells and profit by their affairs and not adopt any howls at the telephone as if he were trying currency measure of an unsound or fallacious to make himself heard on the Zambesi, and character. "The Straits Settlements, if they the irate individual who cannot remove the were to produce the effect desired. and to receiver from the book without Indulging in inspire confidence, must be represented by a fong and violent barangue with the tele. gold, or, at the very least, by gold securities, phone gitin at the exchange are the most To bring about such a condition of affairs likely victims of the treacherous trap which Every
The rater per quarter and per mensen, proportional, The dally imusil deilvered free when the address
monowible to unger. Do copies sent by post'un additk ml $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage, Struck him as being quite, simple and his wears such an open countenance.
The postage on the weekly issue, to any part of the
, world la 80 ċenta per quarter.
Bingle Copley, Dally, ion conia Weekly, twenty.
five cente.
DEATH,
At Singapore, on July 14, MARY ISL CARRUTHERS, wife of John A. Martin.
remedy will be appreciated and endorsed by
shout permits the irritated germ to get all who have given attention to the question. down to business in order to put in It was not to transfer to gold standard reserve some
fine work. And when the tele- fund the surplus token coin which the recoin-phone operator retorts sharply that she ing of old dollars had produced; but by sub- "won't stand no nonsense," the plethoric stituting those new token coins for the old party at the other end swallows a moully dollars, which the Currency Commissioners ful of germs along with his wrath. So held, and which were intrinsically of the that the operator has the best of the die 'new token.coin, then transferring to the gold cussion in every way. With regard to this standard reserve fund those old Strails dol-spraying scheme, it looks exceedingly simple
inter day in D. Recomandi, bargede Ho
while in the employ of Chan Shup, the manager charged with embezzling the sum of $2,000, of the Hop Wa Loong firm, of .10, Lee Yoon entry in the firm's cash book, but this was
·Street, Pa was also accused of making-a falsa
withdrawn, As far as this charge went defendant was alleged to have made the A FIREMAN belonging to the steamship Barro, following optry do tan cash book *** Siro Ar the Police Court, this morning: Police who made violent, though unsuccessful efforts, paid to Mr. Tso," which, it was stated, was Sergeant Gordon, of Cheung-chau Police Stathe rain squall last night, paid $5 in the Police the prosecution it was stated that on the 13th
to swim along Connaught Road Central during incorrect. tion, charged Ng Fan, a fisherman, with
According to the evidence for disobeying an order of banishment. Accused
Court for failing to carry out the task. He Jane defendant collected a certain sum of was charged with being drunk and disorderly. money on behalf of his firm. He was alleged to?! was deported to Canton on 8th February, 1907, for five years, who turn a few days :
and was supposed to have kept the balance. bave paid in a few hundred dollars to the firm however, and was found in a matshed at
This, however, was not substantiated, and Mr. Cheung Chau yesterday. He pleaded guilty to the charge, and was sentenced to six months'
Kemp (the presiding agitate) sidered his hard labour On the completion of his sen
release from cunody.. tence accused will again be deported.,
at
MAJOR GENERAL Fukushima. Vice-Chief of the Japanese General Staff in Tokio, arrived at Peking on toth ios, with Major-General Aoki, military attaché to the Japanese. Legation, and aluo„Mr. Matinkara, Director of the Kawasaki
An unlikely report is current that H.E. Tuan reference to the reorganization of the Imperial Dockyards at Kobr. The purpose of their visit is baknown but is supposed to have Fang, Viceroy of the Liangkiang provinces, is Chinese Navy, General Fukushima is in to be transferred to a high post in the Capital charge of the Military College in Tokio, where and that bis Excellency's successor at Nanking Chinese military sudents are now trained, and will probably be E.E. Yuan Sku-bson former respected and loved by many high Chinese
Mr. Reginald Harding appested for the pro secution, and Mr. G. E. Mell for the defence.
- FIRH-AN- KOLË,
EYE-JOSPITAL DESTROYED,
The Hongkong Gelegraph has, which were eventually to be sold for gold, at first sight, but there may be more in it by rail of this port) Gaverner of Shantung.encap tie the Capital. It is posible that the (dth instant) fire broke out atribe Takahashi
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1908,
THE GOLD STANDARD IN
SINGAPORE,
token reserve were addressed to the mem-
it is islikely that Viceroy Tuss Fang, will go officials in, the opulyard topos to beat its
while the danger under a resinous tree or an his firm in Chios, and knows public sentiment quite safe to stand under a beech, for example, been thirty-two years manager ofthe business of
In the small hours of yesterday morning Eys-Hospital, No. 30 Shimoyamate-dori,
The outbreak originated in ao usoccapled up stairs room, and the flames soon spread, threat- euing the surrounding houser, Happly, the lime, and by their efforts, the fire is success fire brigade arrived at the score in a abort
fully confined to the place of its origin. The
under control a little past one o'clock,
The main building, which was a handsome
and then ultimately Singapore would have a than meets the eye. How often has some ical and not a sham gold fund. He suppos convivial friend on the day following to Peking at least for another year yet; but if Eurepsan competitors and secure an order for 8-chome, Kobe, reports the daban Garonicia ed that, in round figures, the total number of grand symposium made the malicious sug, he does, H.E. Yuan Shu-hour, of Shantuong new man-of-war for the Chinese Navy. old Straits dollars of 416 grains weight which gestion that a suspicious breath is being har, perhaps, the best chance of any ons so far had been reminted into new dollars of 312 wafted over the wire? Such a character known, to succeed the Liangkiang Viceroyalty. ACCORDING to a Vancouver paper, Mr. F. grainsweight, was about 144 millions, and this would be quite capable of declaring that Some pregnant remarks on the fallacy of should produce in millions, in token coins, there was more than Coady's fiuld in the ruze is a popular belief that certain trees has been expressing his opinions on Far Dodwell, of the firm of Messra. Dodwell & Co., 'maintaining a gold standard on a silver thus leaving a surplus of 42 millions in similar deoderiser with which the mouthpiece of ara less likely than others. to be, simuck by. | Eastéin questions in the course of an inter Are lasted for about an hour and was got coin. Imust sirke everyone that the only the telephone had been anointed and the lightning, and that during a thunderstorm it in view: Mr. Dodwell, says the interviewer, has bess of the Legislative Council in Singapore wonder is that Mr. Baker's suggestion had most respectable, cautious and count the other day by Mr. L. S. Baker, the man-not previously revealed itself to the Straits of men might find their reputations, which enk in, respectively, fifices or twenty times in the Far East like a book. He says the European style two-storied house, and two Ager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Government, for it is obvious that on the had been laboriously built up at great greater. This is disputed in a recent writing dread of a Yellow Invasion of Canada, so Japanese houses in the compound ware PERC in the Southern Settlement. The Colonial old silver tokens whose intrinsic value is personal inconvenience; slowly but surely by Dr. A. W. Bothwick in his "Notes of the far as China is concerned, is consensical-tically destroyed. The damage sustained in Treasurer had moved the second reading of superior to that of the present currency, the undermined as the result of a diabolic tele Royal Botanical Garden of Edinburgh." The in any case, should ach stosomic or the loss of the building and forpiture is given. a Bill for, the amendment of the Carrancy Government is bound to proft, and phone. At the rate that things are pro. doctor says that no treo is comuns, and the political complications arise all that would as Y9,900, of which 3.500 only the vains of Note Ordinace which was passed when the when that profit, is converted into gold greasing at present and medical discoveries beech. Ja struck quite as frequently as any be necessary would be an alliance between the building is covered by insurance with the. Strafts Soupments adopted a fixed dollar, or invested in gold securities the nucmade, the only way to avoid infection will be other species. Apparently the taller trees in England, Germany, and the United States, Nippon Fire, laiurance Comppy. The just and in doing so he explained that the main leus is provided for the gold reserve to take a trip to the moon. Still, if one is a neighbourhood as the ones most likely to and the doors to all these countries could be gical apparatus and implements destroyed are object of the Bill was to enable the Crown which is essential to the assurance of the content to take the risk of living on can be stack. Cootrury to what is believed by effectively closed. Anyway Liars in no danger, valued at Y5,700, agents to hold in gold a part of the guar- maintenance of sound gold standard, and finds it necessary to use the telephone tom by the formation of stastn, as might hap
in rece y to use, the
some people, the calls are not ruptured or Mr. Dedwall went on, musloğly In The Creator antee fund, and the principal reason for the The whole argument of the Hoogkong, and as of yore perhaps the beat way of evading pen if the heating by the electric current was mendment, was that, during the months of Shanghai Bank's representative in Singapore Infection is to follow the Government's very great. The calls epilapes and atrink, upy October and November, last year, the gold was against the boarding up of a debased 'advice in respect of cabbages--ofs, boil the, but are niver tom. The
ure was being exhausted rapidly by the sliver colange and be threatened that unless telephone every morning and evening.
not seem to be aver dama
(dou
standed that some estions should be he wore
of wood and drawers of water for other patiens, the fr and we are the people, no Reed, draad no supratancy of other Bations