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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY AUGUST 19. 1909.
great variation of social habit and competence among piopers make any· gezoralisation dif- Gicult. The poor law deals with the dissolute and deserving, and all the intermediate grada. tions, of moral condition. And as its direct contact (in out-relief) is usually with adults whose characters are more or less fixed, its
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Auy direct and automatic variation of cha. actor, earnings, and relief is exceptional. "Once a woman is put on the roll, provided ibe is not guilty of immorality or frequent intemperance, she is not disturbed. Her earn ings may rise and fall, but the relief will not vary. The inquiry as to her garnings is made at her first application, and rarely afterwards. ...it follows that in unions where minute inquiry is the exception that is to say, in most unions-the pauper worker is not discouraged from working up to her full capacity. Da the other band, the haphazard methods pursued in these unións put a premium on fraud and cause
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THE Princess Consorts of the Prince Régent and Prince Tsai Chen are promoting, the or- ganization of a Female Education Association, for the Empire,
IT had been decided that in the transaction of aval business Prince Tsai Paulo will remain in Peking, and Admiral Sah will travel about. between Shanghai, Chefoo and Canton.
THE East Asiatic Company at Copenhagen has placed an order for two steamers of 3,000 tones each for Russian account with the whit of Burmeister and Wain at Copenhagen. THE Chinere Government has decided on the early formation of a Privy Council and an Audit Department and the decision is beartily approved by Grand Counciller Chang Chib tung.
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DIFFERENCES AMONG SHAREHOLDERS.
PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT TAKE
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[From Our Own Correspondent.]'
Canton, 18th August,
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ANTUNG IN 1908,"
CUSTOMS COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. Mr. Lewis S. Falon, acting Commissioner of Customs at Autung, writes under date 14th" January --
We have received from the local branch of the Osaka Shogen Ka sha a number of excel- lent brochures with artistic illustration of The octopus of the commercial depression some of the beauty spots of the U.ited States which has been wrapping, its tentacles around which the intending, tourist would do well to the marts of North China. during 1908 seems visit. In connection with the Company'a to have taken less than its average toll of the Trans-Pacific service, the comfort of travel by life blood of trade from this part, although the the Obicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway || physical potentialities of the twelvemonth hive is set forth in attractive style. These are the really been much retarded by the anemic days of giant strides in the perfection of float- touch. The life of this valley still derives so ng palaces on sea and the iron hame on much more of its strength from the soil than land. The interior of the well-appointed from the operations of the counting-room Carriages of the Railway is the last and the shipping office that. It is not so word in ease and comfort.
The cory readily affected by commercial disturbances av that of some of the older ports. The dealers report, that their year has differed but little from last season; yet they complais bitterly against the ill fortune attendant upon the cur tailment of the producers' purchasing power brought about by the abnormally low prices of a restricted, demand at a time when almost unprecedentedly cheap silver should bave created a healthy forsige market and good sycce value for exports, However, outward appearances have afforded indication of an questioned prosperity. During 1907 and 1908 the Chinese towo seems varitably to have beep rebuilt, so many have been the additions of more substantial shops and offices. Alic in the section between the Chinese and the Japan. ese Settlement a regular system of broad streets
Recently, it has been an open recret that both Sir Chun Tong, Liang Cheng and Mr. Lo Po Shun had resolved to resign from office as President and Vice-President, respectively, of the Caston-Hankow Railway Company at the end of the 6th moon. It now appears that tele-sleeping berthe, the up-to-date library, an Commencing list week all the officers, sogi-grams have been received from H.E., Chang excellent cuisine, the high-clase table d'hote seers and quartermasters on the O.N. steamers Chih Tang and the Ministry of Posts and Com- provided and special compartments where the have donned uniforms of a semi-naval descrip musications declining to accept their resignstrictist privacy is ensured give to the cars all tion, the gold stripes being similar to those of tion, and earnestly persuading them to continue
the appearance of a well-appointed bome. the British davy.
in the service of the Company. Judging from From this we will pass on to a description of a the latest developments, matters in connection number of well-known lake, resorts which are A SALE of obsolete, warships took place at with the Railway seem to have gone from bad
among the finest in the world in their saluray Portsmouth on 13th uật when the following
to worse and the strained rela ions among luxuriant foliage and beauty of scenery. Excel. graatioequalities of treatment... This honest prices were realised:-Battleship Tunderar various panties of shareholders are daily becom- leat coloured photographs of those beauties of £19,500; battle hip Anson, La1,200; battlest-ping more marked. As has been already stated nature appear in au artistically got-up booklet Benbow; £21,102; busk Defiance, £1,415. Sir Cban Tung Liang Cheng's resignation has entitled "Kilbouro and the Dalls of the Wiscon- been refused by the imperial Government in and there will afford the strange bye a better but with a view to avoiding trouble idea of the natural charms to be found here Sir Chun Tung, without giving official notice than a mere descriptive effort. The advantages the Board of Directors of the Conf a visit to California, which has bean termed pany, left quietly for Shanghai on the last "Winter's Summer Garden," are also set forth day of the 6th moon and shortly afterwards sent
over the seal of the Railway Company. On earning of Sir Chun Tung's departure from Canton and the responsibility of his position Mr. Lo Po Shun left Canton on the same day for his home in the interior, Everything, there fore, in connection with the working of the Can ton-Hackow Railway Con pany in Canton re- mains at a standstill. Yesterday, a meeting was held by the Board of Directors of the Company and a number of shareholders, were of the opin top to proceed in a body to the interior to see Mr. Lo and to earnestly induce him to return to Canton and resume charge of the Railway Company. It is not known whether Mr. Lo will accede to their request.
Two Chinese women, who attempted to cảm,, mit suicida by jumping into the water, appeared in the Police Coart, this morning, charged with the offence. They were both taken to the Re- gistrar General's Office and the charge was
withdrawn.
PAUPERISM AND SWEATING. Considerable attention was paid to the,close relation often said to exist between pauperism and sweating. A detailed examination wai made of the eardings 'and' conditions of out workats in Glasgow, Belfast, Bermondsey, and Poplar, and, less fully, in other districts. Fiom these inquires it would appear that low-grade Industries are not, except in an infinitesimal It is understood that of the 103,000 shares of degree, directly supported out of the rates the Central Bank of Korea the governmeals of in the parishes of Glagow and Govan, for ex-Korea and Japan will take up 30,000 and 20,000 ample, with a population of about a million shares respectively and 1,000 shares will be people, only-64-pauper-ous-workers were dia- taken by the Korean Houtthold Department, covered. The investigators failed to find any while the remaining shares are to be open to instance of different rate being paid to a pau- subscription by the general public. per and to a non-pauper for the same work by the same fim. The average employer is gen. REFRESHING. brally ignorant of any of his workers being in
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Summing up under ibis bead, the investiga- lors urge that "the primary sources of sweating are the povery, domestic afflictions, - aud physical infirmities of the workers, leading to industrial inefficiency, and anocapacity 10 cara a normal wage. Low wagen in tura per petuate low earning power, and a vicious circle is established. Toz rates paid are of secondary importance compared with these primary dis abilities... The employer's responsibility lies in his frequent doling out work as people dole out indiscriminate charity, and bis desire to have reative of labour which costs nothing for keep up, and which be can count on for a few hours,
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"Me Jones concludes the final report by sug gesting the following remedies
Industrial (4) Here the most urgent need the_decasuplication" of men's labour, and a better industrial training of boys and girls; (b) it is important to preserve the efficiency of the able-bodied worker in times of continued trade 128 depression both by insurance before the de- pression, and by the provision of useful work during the depression.
Educational. A bold and liberal policy to- On August 12, 1909, at Shanghai, China, George Frederick Tillbrook, aged 16 years, lato"wards widows and their children on the lincs of Paget's Horie and Johannesburg Mounted Police, Transvaal
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1909.
REAL CAUSE OF SWEATED LABOUR.
Another interesting Poor Law Commission
report was isrned on 16th alt, dealing mainly with the effect of outdoor relief on wages and conditions of employment generally: The
of the Glasgow Special Roll Hereditary systematic policy of liberal support than under pauperism would be far less probable under a. the slovenly and inadequate system of doles which overworks the mother and half starves the children.
Administrative-The policy of deterrence should be given up for that of supervision, The obligation to assist in clearly defined cases should be openly undertaken, and the appro priate persons urged to apply rather than the reverse. But such a policy could be made effective and beneficial only if accompanied by a new classification and new machinery: (a) Aged persons should be dealt with by a pen. on system, (b) Sickness should be treated as a problem in health, not as a problem in po. verty. (c). For the able-bodied the workhouse test should give place to an industrial test ap
A.Toxvo despatch reports that estimates for the construction of two projected railways Korea will be introduced at the next session
Amèrican industry-
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a letter to Mr. Lo Pu Shun asking him to int lucidly. Last, but not least, an interest has been laid out, some of which connect by tog production is that in which appear the bridges and cuttings through the Japanese principal buildings of the Alaska-Yukon Pacific dike with the main roads of the Settle- Exposition. To show the importance attaching ment. Timber continues to be the chief to Seattle's great fair, the following paragraphs lever operating to raise Antung to a moje might be interesting to those who appreciate important place in the business world; still even in the wood trade there have been many losses associated with the general list of mo derate profits reported for the season. The year, has witnessed the inauguration of the Chico-Japanese Yalu Timber Company, the establishment of which was first provided for by Article X of the Komura Agreement signed at Peking on the 22nd December, 1905, and later madptbesubject of a more definite compact when the Yalu Forestry Agreement was concluded at
of the Imperial Diet. One of the two linser namely, that between Seoul and Woosan, will cost 20 million, yer and the other, which will pals through southern Korea, 15 million yon.
Mr. Leung Yang Wu, a member of the Min. Banking Company, which for the last two deputed to make investigations into the condi REGARDING the China Export, Import, and try of Posts and Communications at Peking, years bas distributed dividends of to parceation of the Canton-Hankow Railway, ja expect it is now stated that the enormous profits aut ed to arrive here to-morrow, of which those dividends could be paid have
only been made because the company worked whose articles the China Export Company sold as the agent of the Hoechster Farb-Werke,
in the Far East. These colour works now in-. tend to do the business themselves, and to put the profits ja their own pocket. They are, there- fore, about to buy as many shares of the China Export Company as possible, in order to be able to vote at the next annual meeting for the winding up of the concern,
CANTON ANTI-GPIOM ASSOCIATION.
SECOND ANNUAL MEETING.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Capton, 18th August, On the 16th instant, the Canton Anti-Opium Association held its annual meeting, when there were present a large number of people, including several officials who are interested in the question. The Acting Viceroy and the Tartar-Generals also sent representatives to take part in the meeting. Several officials and a embers of the gentry made speeches relating to the opium evil, which were listened to with considerable interest' by those present. A re- port on the working of the Association together with a statement of accounts was placed on the table for the information of the people. At the conclusion of the meeting area-party was held during which those present wished the Association continued success in the good: work it was doing in the suppression of opium- smoking On the same day, a procession was
HONGKONG WATER POLO SHIBLD COMPETITION.
SEVENTH ROUND.,
Yesterday's match betweed the Boys' Own Club and the 88th Company Royal Garrison Artillery resulted in a draw, bath teams getting ja two goals each. The Boys bad matters all thelt own way in this first ball, but only man. aged to score once after many attempts, the Anillerymen playing a splendid defensive game. Shortly after the opening of the second -ball a penalty was awarded to the 88th on account of Chunyut fouling bir opponent within the peralty area; this resulted in the Military team equaliving, and in less than a minute, later they had added a second goal against the Boys. The latter, how. ever, forced the game at this stage and just before time A. S. Ellis secured the second for the B.O.C., the contest ending in a draw after a very exciting and interesting struggle. "
The Victoria Recreation Club's representa tives immediately aftor easily defeated the 83rd Company Royal Garrison Arillery by a dozen goals to oil, the play throughout being in
favour of the home team.
DEATH OF MR. WARNFOLD
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LATE MANAGER OF RAUB GOLD MINES.
It is confidently expected by the builders that this will prove to be the most beautiful of all the world's fairs. Whether this hope will be realized each visitor must judge for himself Certain it is that the surrounding country pre- sents wonderidl natural advantages, and the appearance of the grounds and buildings six months before the gates open shows a full
*ppreciation of these advantages by the land. Cape artists employed.
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Peking on the 14th May, 1998. In pursuance
of its terms the Japanese and Chinese. Căm^ mistioners signed at, Moukdba on the 11th, The Exposition monument stands in the September the detailed working regulations of: plaza in front of the United States Government the company, which, in turn, fixed upon the building. It will be entirely covered with gold 15th September as the inaugural day for this from Alaska and the Yukon, and 'its splendour | international enterpriss. It will be remember- will be one of the features of the Exed that these two conventious provide for a position. It is eighty feet high. At the base joint stock company with a capital of are four figuter, emblematic of the Northland, $3,000,000 to be advanced to equal parts the Southern Pacific-Countries, the Pacific by the Powers; with a chief director Coast and the South Seas. The column is in the person of the Tungpan Tao, the Corinthian, with an ornamental shaft carrying an astronomical globe showing the signs of the rodjac and surmounted with the Americau eagia. About $7,000 worth of gold dus! wil ba used to gild the monument,
At the head of the Cascade Court stands a monument typifying the "Spirit of the Pacific," the sculptor having used the aboriginal races of the Pacific Coast countries as models for bis central figures.
THE NAVIRS OF THE WORLD Warabipi, lying at anchor is Seattle's barbour will tell the story of the Pacific. The United States Navy Department will have the entire Pacific ftet here during the fair; Japan will send her great war vessels, and Great Britain, Ger- moy, Chion, France, Russia, and other vations that have to do with the commerce of the Paci- fic will have their navies represented. It will be one of the greatest opportunities yet pre sented to the people of the middle slates to study the modern cavy.
racking local Chiness official; with two manag...... ing directors appointed by the two Govern ments; and with offices at Anfang and at such places along the Yalu River de may be required." The company is to carry pa,its operations in à strip of territory 60 8 wide ninng that part of the Yala beiween Macerbsham and what is known as the Twenty-fourth Valley, near the head waters of stream, and is to act also as ibo telling agent for, all-timber felled by Chinamo. sither in this region or in the Hon River Valley. With the opening of the company's. office on the 25th September the already much chequered career of the Yalu timber trade, entered upon a new stage of its existence, over which beads are shaken when predictions are made. During the past two seastup iho. Ispanare Timber Bureau has forced the rafts- med to surrender to it one-quarter of all thos logs floated at prices, which were fixed by itù own officers and which averaged from one-fourth, to one-half of those current on the open market, EXPOSITION FINANCES,
Since September this levy has been discon- The Seattle spirit that created the fair will | tinued, and the company has begun buying up make it successful. When it was launched the the local stock still in the raftamen's hands at. citizens were asked to subscribe $500,000 in a reduction of from 10 to 15 per cent, on the stock. They subscribed $650,000-lo a singls | market price, so that the raftsman finde h's lot day. Is October, 1908, when it was necessary very similar to what it has been since 1958. to raise more money Seattle people took Still it is. felt that the future of the industry, $350,000 bonds in two days. The landscape especially if it is nurtured by a carefa'ly ad and on one Saturday afternoon the people of proposed by the Japanese representatives dur- ing the negotiations arent the formation of Seattle took 40,000 to the grounds.
The handbooks, as usual, have been cleverlyhe company, must be à prosperous' ops, con: got up and are the highest expression of the tipuing to contribute to the port's steady growth, artistic sense, which reflects not a little credit Bat without question that feature of Antung's en the enterprising compilers.
special investigators who make the report areplied to the labour exchange. Unworthy appli-organised and perimbulated the city to impress amopuncement is the Ceylon papers of the department asked for 25,000 geranium plants, ministered plan of rebolasmant, such as' WAS
Miss Constance Williams (London) and, Mr. Thomas Jones (Glasgow University), and their institutions, (d) if the above classes were elim opium habit,
Casts should be offered help 10 disciplinary upon the people the evils attendant upon the
Inquiries embraced many typical untons throughout the country. Inasmuch as out- door relief is not generally given to able bodied, wage earning, men, the reports deal chlafly with women, workers.
From the summary appearing in the London Morning Leader, wo gather that the small ex-
ipated then out-relief as, now understood might be restricted to special cases of tempor. ary distress, to be dealt with by a Poor Law Board or a board of charities.
LOCAL AND GENERAL. Pincx Tsai T'ao intends to visit Germany to study ber naval and military systems.
A EUROPEAN was fined Sto in the Police Court this morning for being drunk and incapable.
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tent to which wage earning Women are in re- ceipt of relief compared with the numbers employed, and the abundant reserve of low skilled women workers generally available, whatever the out-relief policy, forced the in- vastigators to draw the inference that pauperism bas practically no infidence in fixing the level Two shop-coolies were fined $25 each to-day of women's wages. About 70 per cent of the for illegally bringing letters into the Colony. women paupers are és years of age and up- wards, and about the same percentage of the A CENSOR has presented a memorial calling occupied women paupers are engaged in canal attention to the necessity for prison reform in domestic occupations. The remainder are to
China,
be found chiefly in precarious employments IHE Waiwapo has notified to the United like hawking or small shopkeeping, or in Slates China's acceptance of the appointment of macksewing, ragsorting, in serated waler and the new American Minister, jam factories, and in laundries. Such industries
peimit of irregular attendance, and therefore relieved widows, with children, are, attracted to
them.
MEN AND WOMEN PAUPERE.
We understand that the meeting of the Legia lative Council which was to have been held 10-morrow has been postponed.
THE OPIUM TRAFFIC.
ALLEGED CONSPIRACY IN SYDNEY,
Despite the fact that the Customs officials, have been exorcising a constant and strict watchfulgess over all vessels that were sup. posed to have on board the prohibited opium,
We (Bi opore Free Prea) regies to see the death of Mr. Charles G. Wereford Lock, which took place at Bandarawelia, Ceylon, on July 30. Mr. Lock was lately in the Straits aud was not then very well. He went to Ceylon and there underwent an operation in May, from the effects of which he never recovered. The immediate cause of death was heart- failure. The funeral took place at Nuwara Eliya on Aug, ist, and many friends whom Mr. Lock had minds during his comparatively short stay there followed his remains to the grave.
Mr. Lock first came to the Straits in June, 1902, to become manager of Raub Gold Mine, a position which be held for about four years, leaving the company in 1906. Thereafter he was in the Peninsula as a mining engineer and expert, and we believe reported on Sempam Mice, among other. He stayed in Singapore for some time, and his wife came out here in April, 1907. His age must have been close on
they have been aware that considerab'e quan- tities have been secretly imported into the State, says the Sydaay Evening News of 17th ult. It is recognised by them that there are various ways by which this might be done and that there must
always be a mental context between them and the people who cadeavour to get the stuff into the State in defiance of the law. This contest is made all the more heen when it is known that the babit of sixty. opium-smoking continues without cassation,
On Friday afternoon Plain clothes Sergeant M'Intosh and Coustable Kelly arrested Cos toms Officers Frederick William Dowling Dan sey and Thomas Edward Love, and Water Police constable, Sidney, Wickham, on a charge
of conspiracy,
Mr. Warnford Lock's qualifications were F. G.S., M.I.M.M., And he had been engaged pro fessionally, in Iceland, Austria, British Colum- big, and New South Wales. He was a great writer and soms of his books are "The Homs
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REPATRIATED CHINESE.”
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Canton,, 18th August, This morning, one hundred and fifty-six poor, aged people among whom were several invalide, arrived here by the steamer Kwanga! from Hongkong. These men are repatriated Chi- nese from Peru. They were received by the various charitable institutions and will shortly be sent to their respective homes. They are now temporarily accommodated in the Kwong Yan and Kwong Chai charitable institutione.
FIRE.
At 1.30 pm. yesterday afternoon, fire broke
of the Eddas, Practical Gold Mining, Gold out in Tai Ping Fong Street, Honam, through Mining," "The Misers' Packet Book and the careless use of karosena oil, as a result ọf The police state that they saw Wickham Mining in the Malay Peninsula," the fast which eight buildings were destroyed, leave the E. and A. Company's steamer Em-named baing issued only a few years ago, i TWENTY-THREE Coolies were cach fined $3 atpire carrying a b.g. When be reached the the Magistracy this morning for gambling No. 1, Ching Ching Street yesterday.
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Little evidence of hay direct and immediate consecilan batween out-relief and seasonal employment could be discovered. The great majority of paupers ́at,any given time 'are per- manool casol. They remain on the books THE dopaty sent by the Ministry of Posts and from year to year, and the only common way Communications to study railway affairs in of removal is by increased earnings of children Japan is leaving Tokio on his retain to Peking.
or by death. The labour of wives and children, THE Navy Department for the reorganization the assistance of misslune and charities, ATB of the navy wili station pificial reprosentatives Interposed between the inefficiency and unem in Tientsin, Chefos, Shanghai and other poria -ployment of the husband and 'recourse to the'
poor law. "Where many men are casually The Oriental Colouration Company has es amplayed, there many women will be foundered into a contract that will give it a monopo casually employed also,” a
ly of fishing licences along the northwestern The investigators were instucted to observe coast of Korea, in order to prevent posching: the economic, social, and mami effect of our but the company, will permit ordinary deber- put-railef upon.
But the men to operate under its superintendence.
Customs Office the box'was examiced by Cos-' toms Officer Love, and passed as being kil right. Wickham, it is stated, took the box to a house in Surry Hills, where Sergeant M'iq- tosh and Constable Kelly, who were hiding in the room, arrested him. Thay afterwards ar rosted Love and Dansey,
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THE ANTUNG-MUKDEN RAILWAY.
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Tokio, August 197 "Baron Ijuin, Japanese Minister at Poking, At the Central Police Court, this morning, and Grand Councillor Na Tang, President of Wickham, 28, Frederick William Dowling the Waiwapu, held their first conference yes- Dansey, 38, Customs officer, and Thomax Ed today. ward Love, 35, Castoms offices, were charged Emphasis is laid in Tokis on the fact that with having, on July 16, conspired to Import | Japan will not surrender her right to police the opium into New South Wales. ... ·
Antung-Mukden railway line, In view of the On the application of the police, the defend provisions made by treaty and of the frequent ante weis zomaadid until Friday, July as, appearance of banda of Hunghutzs within. the Bail was allowed:/:
railway arest.—/V. G.D. News.
'CANTON-HIARKOW 'RAILWAY,
Mr. Leung Yang Wa, who was recently de- tailed to proceed to Canton to investigate the affairs of the Canton-Haukow Raitway Com pany, bas arrived here and called on the Viceroy la report bimsoll,
H.L KO TỰ HIM IN GANTOA On the 15th instant, H.E, Ko Yu Him arrived here from Hongkong and called on the Acting Viceroy, L. Wat Song Lum to discuss contain matters in connection with the Macae delimitation question.
WEI CHING-TONG,
commercial boroscops which reads trunet is the prediction of growing importance 'to' follow' upon the conversion of the light milway to Moukden into a standard gauge road and the constraction of the bridge across the Yalu, which will link up the Korean system with tha iron ronda of Asia and Europe. The Japanese officiate of the South Manchuria Railway Com." pany state that the £1,000,000 recently floated in Londen will be immediately devoted to this reconstruction, work and that the
foal surveys for the new roadbed are already being made. The general plaus säpovi tioned provide for a northern terminal at Soklatur, the station on the mala line of the, South Manchuria Railway, 10 miles south of Moulden, which also serves as the junction with the line to the Fushun mines. This will give the road a total length of 170 instead of its present 188 miles, and will also save the ́ex- pense of another bridge across the Han River, it is likewise proposed, in order to cater to passenger traffic, to retain as much of the scenic beauty of sho present lins as engineering, can- üiderations will permit. The railway officials
say that activo work will be started in the early spring and that the remodelled line shold be completed in three years, that is, during the spring of 1913. From the Korean Railway officials emanates a simultaneous report with reference to the proposed bridge, to the effect that operations thereon will be begun affør the summer rainy season has passed, and that this the bridge should stand complete by the sime the new Autung-Moukden ralls are laid. These constructive works will probably mean much to the business life of the Japaduan Sattlement, which has been so markedly unsatisfactory during the past two years. Capital has been very tight this season among the” smaller mer. chants, while many losses have fallen upon the larger dosiers through unprofitable transactions:
The ex-Provincial Judge of Kwangtung, Wei Ching-tung, will leave. Canton on the 21st instant for Kwangsi to take up his new appoint., ment às Provincial Treasurer of that province.", in exports.