Canton Opium Mono- poly
MEETING OF CHINESE CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE...
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY JUNE 24 1910
CANTON OPIUM MONOPOLI.
TREATY IMPUDENTLY INFRINGED.
In a leading article the Singapore Free Pro
writes:
There have been abundant assurances that ENDS IN FASTICUFFS,
the Government of China is entirely sincere in its loudly-expressed desire to suppress the cul- [From Our Own Correspondent]
tivation of the poppy within its frontiers and to restrict the consumption of opium. We cannot Canton, 17th Jooo..
class ourselves with that cosiding body of With reference to the recent establishment Persons who believe averything they are told, of the so-called prepared oplum licence mono.
and all the more balieva it if it be told, with a poly in Capton, it has already been reported that
show of vitlus, whatever the value of that com- The firm of Kwang Wing Ynen has been ep-modity. We believe in the axiomatic character pointed and cauusted by the Cantos Govern-will do what they prefer to do and they will of human goliye and human action. People ment Anti-Oplum Bureau to collect such licence fas at the tate of 30 cents per taei weight of
refrain, nalais under some form of compulsion, prepared oplum agd $7.50 per ball of raw
moral or physical, from doing what they do not opium. In consequsnce of this, there has provincial authorities were fools they would do want to do. if the Chinese Government and the fately been considerable dispute between the oplom merchants and the Commitee of the
what the auti-opium people fondly imagin Canton Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the
they ste doing. That is, suppress the produce serious allegation bilag made. (which has not
tiou of optom within their own borders in order' bean proved) that they have received bribes portation of opium from India and Paris. to have a claim to suppress the naughty im to help make the monopoly on accomplished fact. Morenver, inproven charges of incom.
But from much more than quarter of a century against the manager of the firm lo question
Colony and elsewhere, we have come to the Yesterday the Canton Chamber of Commerce
conclusion that not only are the held a meeting, at which all opium merchants
CHINESE NOT FOOLS, in the city were present. There was a great deal of heated argument during the proceedings betwasn the opium merchants and the mem- ban of the Committee of the Chamber but beyond that the meeting was barren of results and ended in a riot to fistuffs.
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KULIANG
75 ALIBRNATIVES TO OPIUM.
RUBBER BISTORY.
INTERESTING NOTES ON THE INDUSTRY.' EARLY EXPERIMENTS IN MALAYA..
Rubber Industry, the Editor of the Straits and Under the heading." Historial Notes on the
math, writes: F. M. S. agricultural Bulletin for the current
1
Phiency and unpopularity have been alleged observation of, the Chinese' character In this llc.stlanplasts or drugs.. That this change is in ❘ ¡y for a few days running and pates the result. I the foot of the tree; coconut cupa wein fastened I were, though us old, quite small and not stʻull
The matter has now been referred to the Viceroy for settlement,
CORRESPONDENCE.
(We do not necesarily anlarse the opinions dressed by Corre peste in this column.)
THE SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE.
out the way of coagulating rubber lato biscuits, the form in which the bulk of the cultivated cal Agriculturist has come to hand giving Mr. Stace writing the above, a copy of the Tropl- We learn from Foochow that there are
Para rubber has hitherto appered on the Parkin's paper in Science Progress in full's He hatisen to be had at vary moderats rates for the
market, (for the sheats of Malaya are modestly does not mention himself by name an hot months up at Kuliang. The hilly ridge
simply larger biscuits). Instead of, allow the discoverer of wound response and the Wire OF near Foochow called by that name is about
ing the latex to run down the tree and making clean rubber, bat girer the credit of the houses there are at a height of well over 1,000
ng it to dry into a mass of dingy black rubber ant. As in Mr. Willia' various worn la the 2,000 feat high at its peak, and most of the.
thus become dirty and instead of allow. discovery to Mr. Willie and bis scientific Larist feet. of life are well catered for and we are much Provisions and all the necessarios
in coconut shell, he showed that it could be history of Par rabber industry, no milanos 15) collected is little tins placed one under 'pach mado at all to the work of this Singapore Botanic pecially ladies with small children, do not go ject as the story of discoveries and aventions surprised that more Hongkong people, When history is written, even of such a sub-cur and then mixed together and coagulated Gardens. In Willis' Agriculture in the Tropicas up there for the summer. The place is really connected with the rabber industry, it is advis very beautiful, and the rent for a furnished abis that it should be not only complete but Dr. Trimea in 1888, sed Ceylon had made no about 20 year (1) 8. from about 1884) arcip
with á contain amount of acetic or older acid, the only allusica to the work done in Singapore This discarded system was the one adopted by | is: Bat little interest was taken in, the trees fot house is not exorbitant. Children that spent accurate. We are led to this observation by farther progress till 1899 The coconut shell by the heads of the Botanical department in the begjoning of autume with red cheeks, indian Rubber Journal and India Rubber the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, but the her that was done between 0 and 1896 Im last summer at Kuliang came back to the plain reading articles in the recent numbers of the
system was dever, I coed hardly say, used in in Ceylon, Java and Singapore. Now all the very pink of condition.
World and Dr. Willis' Agriculture in the Tro-ringbone system of tapping and the cigarette Ceylon was to tap - single tree once a year. pics. In those papers the incompleteness and
tion and saucers were adopted in 1889, just tex In Java nothing at all appears to have bedri Cod was me original discovery by parts of the world, long before Mr. Parkin made their being ever likely to be worth cultivating inaccuracy list in the accoust of the so-called
years previously, and specimens of the rubber done as the trees In Baltenzorgwarn too re-discovery of wound-response, which it was
so made had been freely distributed to many small and wretched to offer any prospect It is the case, we think, that avery,
Messrs. Willis and Parkin, in 1899, but later as
his great invention. There is absolutely no About 1894. Dr. Treub Mr. any standing in the Fat Last, are out afro-discovery of a phenomenon known to the suggestion as to making biscuit, stent or any Botanic Gardens, Buitenstigmab, of the sion to express some anxiety test the restric
lakon occa Amazons seringueiroz and some other points,
other defeite. form is his" paper of alif The Singapore Gardens and wished to see the rubs took on the consumption of opium should sppings of a rubber tree produce a greater flow
The discovery that the second and later following Dr. Trimen's description of his her trees, O4, the first sight of the you get drive the Chinese to 'recourse to other articles of latex than the first is one that no one can
process. The method followed was to smooth oses Dr. Troab turned to Mr. Wigmas and of consumption, probably in the form of alcobo possibly overlook who tape a red consecutiva.
the surface by scraping off a little bark told, Wigman, did you ever sen auch trees?, height easily reached and then to make with No, said Wigman, nothing like them. I was steady operation fresh, evidence shows every la the ladin Rubber joureal of March 11, 1910,
a 4 inch chisel numerous shaped lecisions at xrprised but found that the Buitenzorg trees day, and it was only lately that the Principal account is given of an article in Science Civil Medical Officer of this Colony, whose Progress, by Mr. Parkin, who visited Cayloa in
with clay and the milk conducted to them by encouraging in appearance. Dr. Traub took little ridges of clay. Most of the milk dried on the greatest interest in all economic plants but of calling attention to the increase of alcoholic larger collection of rubber producing plante, allonation is well known, took sa opportunity where he would have found not only a much
the tree in tears. The tapping was done in evidently up to that date had not thought of Lunatic Asylum. The Pinang Gazelle toucban Insanity amongst the Chinese patients of the
The real story of the invention of biscuits, or
Para rubber as being a suitable cultivatied for and a much greater number of Para rubber
Javá, and as far as I can guibar, no experimenta hees of good size, but also that experiments in
pancakes of rubber as they were called, is this: orrecords of observations were made In Java may work the change from opium to alcobol years previously, and that the phenomenon of of rubber which dried more rapidly and kept as he was the first, 3. believe; to tap the rubber
When, in the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, we the same subject and comes to the concla-
rabber tapping had been carried on for ten began to tap regularly, na desired to get a formon Dr. Trimen's work, which deserves credit, till after 1899. Mr. Willis dous not even men- realised. Il says: way work for more injury than at present wound-response had been known for many cleaner, brighter colour and sought about for a
Granted that the use of opium is a vice-work done by D. Triman, and the interest be
years. One is glad to see that he mentions the more suitable form of vessel to act the rubber Mannwhile, the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, tres in the East, and to record his results which is, however, open to debate-it must 100k in the possibilities of profitable cultivation be conceded that it is at any rate a self-con of Hevea braziliensis, for Dr. Trimen has not
in. As no fands were available for anything was at work from 1889, and was laying the tained vice: The opium-smoker after indul- of late years received the share of credit for his mouts, we hit upon the common enamelled experts, and had proved that the industry would expensive and any spacially made vessel, how foundation of the industry and indeed had b gence in the drug sleeps off its effects, dalike work in this matter and in other agricultural
ever simple, was too costly for our experimlited saleabla mbber of first class quality to nuisance to all -round him and sometinies the drunkard who frequently makes himself a commits ghastly crimer under the lofbence of
horticultural and botancial work that was dus
iron plate which is extensively abld in Singa- pay well before Mr. Wills and ever send a pure, and being in common use by natives, rubber tree. Surely in an account of the rise of drink. It is therefore with great ragret that
to him.
was very cheap. These were found quite satis the ludustry purporting to be a history of the factory, and the form that the rubber took in agriculture of the world, this work should not being limited by the enhanced prices charged we learn that as the consumption of opium is
them was that of the well-known biscuit: Dis-
rubber, and very likely found their way even. cuits of rubber were made and most of them most of the planters of the East Indies and to have been entirely ignored. It was known to giyan sway to various persons interested in many, I am sure, in Ceylon.
ing tray of fairly large size, which we bappen-industry. They include most of the system? to Ceylon, in abogi 189 Shoet was made vertes and inventions made in the Straits Bat It would be to long to detail all the disco sooo after, at firs; in a photographer'i develop-tlements and F. M. S. connected with the ed to find in Singapore. In any case I cannot of tapping (except the spiral, which proved a find anywhere that Mr. Paikin ever made or failure) the crepe machines, the form of thought of a single biscuit. He gives in his rubber known as biscuit, block, crepe and papar no suggestion as to this whatever, beyond sheet, the wound-response," actual returns of saying that commercial rubber can be freed the tree, bast method of packing seed, and from moisture and putrefaction by drylag it io thin sheets.
the pasin, Fomon, Diplodia Hymenochoste, Tormes Gestroi, ate, and methods of dealing machine (invented after the crepe machine) with them To Ceylon we credit the wom spiral tapping, and the pricker and Biffea's, centrifugalizer and the Northway
kaller Honour to whom honour is due, the. Botaole Gardens of Ceylon bara produced valuable pipers by Trimes, Bambar, Peich, Green and others and Parkin's paper though anticipated “" was useful piece of work.
but that any man who wants to get the bal/pecial acquaintance with all forms of meatal 1890, but unfortunately did dot visit Singapore,the afternoon. ter of a Chinaman in commercial mature would need to get up very early fo the morning. We have never concealed our im pression it may be wrong, of courES- authorities are by no means blind to the that the Chinese Central and Provincial valde of their own oplum production as the finest engine of local and Imperial revenue, and have determined, as a step to the develop. ment of this, to kill all importation Item ludía. If it be necessary, ay contributing to this step they are prepared to extinguish for a time their owa domiesile production of opium so that an argument is thereby provided for the voluntary, restriction oloplum exportation from India to China. We hear plentifully that the Chinate TO THE EDITOR OF The "llonokopa Tulumpatial Governmeal is in deadly carest in SIR,While being the last to depreciate the the suppression of opium productos through nignificent gift that Sir Lormusjee. Mady has out its provisces. We hear of drastic measures by the Government Monopoly, the consump.gode, and talking with. Dr. Trimen about their niada to the Colony in the shape of the against opium using officials, extending evcation of alcohol as well as the practice of Seamen's Institute, I as a merchant sailor, to decapitation. We boar of edicts forbidding morphia and cocaine injection is increasing, who have had opgation to make full use of the the cultivation of the pappy, and of orders tor for the prospect it opaus up is most disgalet old lastitute, would be obliged to know what the uprooting of poppy crops and the substituing to those who have the welfare of the ma standing a merchant seaman enjoys when he goes to the Tostiute for board and ledging, that in a token al sincerity, Well, some people we are on this subject we would once more. tion of other crops. Some people think that all five population genuinely at heart. While In their respective speeches at the opening caremomy on Saturday, both the generous
urge upon the local authorities the necessity dooor and His Excellency the Governor ap
of taking prompt and stringent messures to peared to make it clear that the new institui
deal with the growing trade in harmful liquor was intended primarily for the use of sailors
which threaten to become a curas both to the from the mercantle marins. There was not
Colony and to the F.M.S. the slightest disparagement offered towards the
injury indeed will have been done to the na
A very grievous men of the Twin Services, for as anyone who
live population of this country if now that the has had the advantage of associating with them
traffic in the comparative innocuous opiun knows, they constitute one of the best class
or restrict the sale of the whisky made bas been abolished nothing is done to prevent that i la passible to meet with.
from old book lo Hamburg and sold at Sz a case above the duty in Penang and Singapore the brandy" distilled from sawdust in Aot werp, and the "portwine" obtained from all kinds of refuse and guaranteed to make a reving homicidal maniac" of the mildest minusred Tamil or Chiasso. The Planters' Atiociation
arc
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On my first coming out to the East in 1888,
of seeing the fins ara rubber trees at Heneral I stopped for a meath on the way with Dr, Trion at Peradeniya, and bad an opportunity
tapping and the possibilities of a fature rubbar adastry. On my arrival at Singapore, 1 found in the Econpinic Gardens more than ten times as many Para rubber trees ikan there were at Heueraigoda. These had been planted by Mr. Uantley, who like his predecessor, Mr. Murion, had foreseen a future for rubber. These trees, however, bad been much overgrown with secondary growth; at which no one will wonder when I say that the vote for keeping up the Economic Gardens, about. 120 acres, which were almost entirely overgrown with dease. a mandor. As soon secondary forest, only paid for len coolies and rubber ground was cleared of undesirable troos was practicable the
·and shrubs, and I and my assistant commenced to examine into the tapping of the rubber trees,
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EARLY SPECIMENS.
1898, about rabber taken from the renang Mr. Curtis writes in his annual report for trees:. A samplo was submitted to Mesars, ported it as beautiful rubber, very well. cured, Heckt, Levis and Kabo, for valuation, who re wartli to-day 3/3 per lb. This was tapped and collected in tins which he describes costly two years before Mr. Parkin discovered the method of making it in this manner, and it was by no the first sample sent home to the rubber Mr. Ton Obay. Yan, the first practical rubber
The following extracts from correspondence deaters from the Strait, Rubber grown by from Sir William Thiselion Dyer will show to a small extent how far Singapore hid progress=" planter in the Colony, was exhibited, at the ed in rubber research before Mr. Parkin ole It was grown in Malacca at Bukit Lintang.. rubber shown for competition from the Straits.writes in answer to the director of Gardens in December 1, 1896-1 am glad Pars rubberis the place for it...
SWEETLY CREDULOUS. Some knowledge of human natura keeps us from such extremno inuocancy. Supposing China were bent on not only gaining a mono- poly of opium production, but of opium supply throughout the whole of the East, could she act more intelligently than she is now reported long as there are sival sources of supply in the to be doing? There can be no monopoly so But in the old Institute, unfortunately, a dis
field. But China turns to the Brish Govern tinction seemed to be made to the disadvantage:ment, and exclaims: Behold how viatapes of the men of the merchant service. That is
we are i We are restricting our opium, and to say, sea-faring men who did not belong to
will have it clean abolished in the years. Do the navy were apt to get the cold shoulder
you the same and abolish your production in 2 times when the Fleet was in the Harbour Bengal in the same time. They? Well under and when leave-med-wete numerous. This the existing British idea-at least those that is by no means the fault. of the Navy men make a show of prevailing at home- | hava already approached the Strails and the always showed specimens of new or interesting Maldeca show in 1898. This was the first Parahis paper in 1893, Sir William Thisalton Dyer
there would be so possibility of Bengal over re.F.M.S. Governments on several occasions on suming, under agy pretext, the growth of the the subject, but no steps appear to bave been POPPY. But China, once India and cut her taken to check the abuses. To the lay mind it is astonishing to find reputable, old establish- ed European firms engaged in this disgraceful
tous effects ogon the unfortunates who drink well aware, cannot but hays the most defeier traffic and importing liquor which, as they are
it. The code of commercial ethics which can reconcile such a trade with ordinary every day morality in indeed a stranga ese.
who are the last people to the world le des prive a fellow of his quasiers, bor is the Statement applicable at all to the regimental liberly man who want to spand the night away from the Barracks.
But the fact remains that when it came to a crush in the old Institute, it was the merchant service officers who had got to suffer. As an Indication of this naequal treatment it may be mentioned that in the billiard-room of the old Justitute a notice was posted up stating that if Service men were desirous of playing while the table was engaged by civilians, the latter must make way for the former. The same rule was not posted up as regards the use of dormitory bedi or state rooms, but at the same time it was an unwritten law which all merchant servica man were made to understand.
Now that the few Institute has been opened, "it is to be hoped that there will be samp more consideration shown towards the men of the merchant service.-Your, olc.,
SHIP'S OFFICER,
20th June.
'We do not necessarily endous the opinions expressed
by Correspondents in this cohman.}
THE PARSHE COMMUNITY, TO THE EDITOR OP, 211% "Hongkong Thlágram."
throat as a result of
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CHINESE RLANDISHMENTS,' not only for her own exclusive use, but would will be ready to resume bar ons production have an abundant margin to spare the supply consuming populations dwell. Now any per to all the regions in the East where opium- son who in pol the utter innocent that some people seem to imagine" we all are would surely reflect upon the exact meaning of this illegal imposition of an impoн tax of $300 a chest at Capton on Indian opium, 'Accord ing to the existing treaty such an impost in quite unjustifiable. Indlan opium enters China under the treaty regulations, and has to face the competition of Chinese grown opium, The restrictios of imports should have been left to the natural operation of the ladian Government regulations that provide for a diminishing export at such a ratio that in-ten years there would be an entire cessation of the import of Indian opium into China Wheace, then, this sudden imposition of an import tax, ly the authorities have taken the HORAL, MEASURE
CHINESE SEAMËN.
VIEWS OF A SHIPPING ORGAN
ALCs.
an account of tropical agriculture as seen in Willis' Agriculture in the Tropics only gives Ceylon. Economic plants not cultivated or of importance there are scrappily and often in. accuratively described (o.g. Sago, Ipecacuanha),
boot in India-rabber planting. Most of the June 19, 187-There is a trem sedoust schemes are simply insane. Your result: from: a ulos.year-old tree is very good.
fairly established in the Nativa States." Dany's
• Dec 27, 1898-Para rubbar saams at last report is very promislog, Beautifully prepared is only a broker's term. It means that the". turn. I can't imagine why your Para rubberis rubbar la clean and frog from excessiva"mcis only quoted at 3/3 i can only suppose it is because it was notamoked. A
The reader is also referred to the fuos num ber of the Bulletin, 1899, but probably by the time he has road this account he has had of making saleable rubber by tapping into enough evidence faid before him that the id ́ ́
and pure form of Para rubber had been invent ad is the Singapore gardens some yaaru balom - Caylen had got beyond the mad and cocosul in 1899 of the method of making clean rubber perfectly well-known, as was wound-responts and other parts of the East lang bafore M Will or Mr. Parkin var came to the East' at all
af the British Government, and coosider that remarks savour of exaggeration. "While," he At that time the spieliminary lapping before gives the whole history of the rise of thio hundreds of people in the Straits Settlements
STIFFENING OF THE LANGUAGE TEST
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SINGAPORE SHARE MARKET,
In these years we had annual Horticultural Exhibigan in Singapore, the first of which after my arrival in 1888, was hold in 18891 Bs der the exhibition of plants and flowers w
botanic gardens, such as tea, coffee, fibres, elc. economic products grown and prepared in the and always with them were samples of Para rubber from the old trees in the gardens. Ila Mr, Derry's report of government plantaging ahead. I always said the Straits would be am not sure if thein were any on view in 1289
tions in Perak, 1897, he says:-Many trees but there certainly were, in 18,0 when the have been tapped and report on the work Duke and Duchess of Connaught visited the abmitted. The rubber obtained is not yet show. The trees ware tapped in the herring sufficiently smoked for sanding home, but bone method andite latex collected in cigarelio samples have been valund la Mincing Labe tios and allowed to coagulate paturally 10 the at 2/8 and 3-a pound and considered equal to tot without the use of acid. The tins wer
the-nest Brazilian produced rubber and also quare, and had a hinged lid which could be worth a pound more than that usually sont clared over the cup to prevent the falling to
home from the Straits. He gives also & pum. of dirt as described in the Bulletin of 1897. ber of figures of return from treas of various These tins were bought by the dozen in the
at home in 1899 the fint large baziar, and used for a long time. One of these parcel of Para.rabbar from the Malay Penin- small blocks of rabber is preserved in the sala; it realised £5; 18. 6. hearing to the deputation waich urged the need tough quite black It is firm, clean, sound and
Mr. Buxton gave a 'distinctly sympathetic
muttum of the botanic gardens, Singapore, and for stricter administration respecting the em. playment of Chinese teamed on British ships,
good though early 20 years of age. A piece of rubber made in a saucer, one of the first bis Do the other hand, the President of the Board
cuits (made 1893) is also sound and good. Hut of Trade throw some measure of cold water oo
mon of these samples were distributed to vas. It is apparently not intended for a general working and preparing the resulting latex in a clasă. the agitation of which the deputation was the
ious institutions and to persons interested in it on agriculture is the tropical regions, and this outcome. These who addressed him spoke of
who sent them to their firms at home. Need-
is doubtless the reason why the work with the employment of Chinese scamen as assunte
less to state we discovered what is now called Hara rubber done in the Straits Settlements is contrary to the provisions of the Trony. Clear: ing alarming proportions, and suggested that wound-responso shortly after we commenced i čatirely ignored. Unfortunately it is clear from shell stage and that the discovery by Mr. Paltar have their hands full in dealing with displaced gueiros who visited the gardens later, I found readers are under the impression that the, was anticipated by nearly ten' yours,' and 'was the newly established Labour Exchanges will tapping in 1880, bai from some Brazilian seria the Journals which quote from it that the British sailors. Mr. Buxton showed that such
that it was well known to them, so did not se account of the development of the rubber DEAR SIR-The Inca! Farsi cominurity, although the treaty has been impudently in said, "there has been some Increase in ths
cord it as an important discovery on my part industry in Caylon, as given by Mr. Willis, through a circular signed by the Hon. Surefringed, the British Government, simply be total, the proportionate increase; as far as I can taking the latex on the second day was called industry is the East which is far from being tary of their Trust Funds, was first sounded cause it is opium that is being unfairly bardea jadge, has bees less since the act of 1906 came about the end of March or beginning of April, ed, will not care le vindicate treaty principles, mio operation in 1908 than before. The evil,
Calling the rubber, and when samples of rab the case. And then invited to sigu sa Address of on account of the artificial unpopularity with evil it be, is not, therefore, graming and so
ber were required for any purpose a man wat Practically nothing was done in "Ceylon to congratulation to be presented to Sir Homusji which the word "opium" has been invested
seat to call the rubber two or three days before push the industry or to experiment with the
As previously remarked, history, if work N. Mody, on the occasion of his being amongst hundreds of thousands of gaetamases, upon the contrary plea it signally failed.
far as the case of the deputation was based hand, At this date twenty years since I com. Para rubber trees from 1888 to 1897. Even the writing at all, is worth writing accurately and knighted by our late heloved King Emperor, The result is that contracts for delivery have
menced tapping the rubber treas I cannot, re-stock of trees at the gardens seems to have
completely, and the stories of the origin of the King Edward VI. While other local clubs, collapsed, and'ibe lodian merchants.who rast us to bave gone a vett long way to meet a In the circumstance: Mr. Buxton scoms to
member when i actually discovered the wound been bardly increased, Meanwhile, at Sing industry as given by Messrs Willis Hod Parkin acieties and friends have already fulfilled suffer from the consequent collapse in prices, case less exaggerated than that presented to
response for myxell,
spore as far as was possible, everything had are inaccurate and misleading, their duty to this gentleman, the very cam
are driven to fato ruin in view of their commit him. He promised that the..
Many planters and agriculturists, and Dr. been got ready for the development of the munity of which, this truly respected gentle- meste. Indirectly, of course, with this exclu-
Triman himself, visited the gardens in these future industry. A large number, about 1,400 man not only a member but the chair- sion of Indian opium that the inordinate and
early days, and the advantages, of rubbe: as a res, had been planted to supply the Rock of man of their Trust Funds, has up far liged illegal impost of Sjoo per cheat at Canton will should continue. As regards.dietary, he saw the trees, system of tapping and specimens, parts of the Peninsula, ip district officers crop was urged on them. They were shown oed, a good many dispersed to various behind and, for one season or another, the imply, the prices of Chinese-grown oplam o objection to giving the Chinese seaman the presentation, which should have taken place will go up with a bang. Who stands to option of taking the European acals, provided
and the necessity of calling the rubber before and planters. Experiments in tapplag" in within a week or two of the inauguration of the make money over that? Here we see that was really inlted to his needs and uses.
the collecting in balk was explaload to them, various forms bad been made, wound. movement, has so long been delayed. To the the Chinese plan, a perfectly simple, one, Finally, Mr. Buxton announced that bis de-
and they often carried away with them samples response bad been rediscovered, block best knowledge of this writer very few orione and ons we indicated years ago, isto destroy partment would take special steps with a view from Ceylon, or had intimate relations with specimens exbibited at exhibitions, distritated of the prepared rubber. Many of them came And biscuit rubber had been made, of the members of the local or Canton Patal Indian importation.. under protext of sup- of acquainting ike relatives of Chinese seamen Ceylon. All this was going on some years be to various persons and institutions interested community have objected to this, presentation pressing their own opium production, and with their rights under the Workmen's Com fore Mr. Willis or Mr. Farkin came to the East in planting, and sent to rubber dealen who of the Address which in itself is too ume when the Indian opium imports were once ponsation Act. This last-mentioned decision, at all, or had seen a rubber tree. Mr. Wright, had valued it at the top price of the market and not at all worthy of the acceptance of destroyed, thers would be no reason to do we are told, is due to the President's be auchlboral-hearted gentlems. Some, anything else than re encourage the poppy lief that the preference given to
in talking of Mr. Willis discovery of wound. (1896), while a sumber of experiments la however, did abject to the high-handed way in cultivation that has lately been the object of sailors, is very largely based upon ship. been invented by Mr. Parkin or Mr. Willis, is still in the Botanic Gardens masom a response, (this word indeed seems to have growth and flow of latex had been tried. There which signatures were rought, as memban a tomporary and astore laterdict. Often have owners' obligeons under that Act. la other bat it does pot occur in Parkin's first account blacnit dated igo. It was coagulated without. were asked to sign the loose sheets without we smiled at the vehemence of the alleged words, shipowers seek to avoid their liability of his experiments) says that it is of grem prac acid and is too quite hard and stiff, though copy of the Address being banded to them for Chinese restriction of opium production. We mader the Act by employing Chiness. This is tical importance in rubber caltivation, and also still light in colour, a pale yellowish white, perusal. It was not at all a matter of very
have never had the least faith in it. And this suggestion whose accuracy can easily be lest-of great botanical interest. I fail to see where The specimens dated 1893 and 1894 are black great trouble and dificulty to get all the signa attempt to create a domestic opium monopoly. ed. Assuming that the shipowner was anxious tures, In the case of other circolare Issued by the Hop, Secretary, a very large majority of
at Canton, and destroy Indian imports, is just to defeat the
the great practical importance comes in at pre- and are now showing algas of deterioration, sent; wo konw of it all along, and the chief but still fairly sound and elastic, the local signatures are easily to be obtained
few ignorant people who attempted to tapa bistory the Botanic Gardens of Singapore wore WORKMEN'S.COMPENSATION ACT, 17. value of its knowledge was that in quily days s It will thus be sana, that as a-maltar. of A day or two, at the number of
isso con day, and did not find the rush of latex just about ten years ahead of Ceylon, when signatures to be obtained does not exceed a
At first that they expected thought, till they Mr. Parkin find conceived the plan of making hundred. Does it speak weil of the energy of the Bon. Secretary and his co-adjutors that
know of it, their traes were useless. Should respectable locking rubberlastead of the mossy movement which cquid sadly have been unfait
wa, however, and cut the real meaning of it we stuff, culy known there till 1899. There is accompli within a week or fortnight at the
might gals some knowledge of the fanctious nothing whatever to show howover that good utmost of its inauguration, bas taken not weeks
and physiology of latex which could not fail to salcable samples of rubber were made in Ceylon but month to get through, even taking into
be of value but at present we are sot much as early as 1899, cithar pablished or in the consideration the intervening Mounfal Evant.
wiser to-day on this subject than we were in correspondenca with Ceylon Botanic Gardens As yet the signatures are not completa, "av
1890. Mr. Parkin's original paper, published in in our office. members with families who have expressed
Ceylon circular 1224 June, 18:9 was one of their willlogoers to join the movement have
considerable value, although many of the facts not been presented with the Address
were already knows to those who had been for their signatures, Has the intprast
studying rubber for some year. Unfortu In this movement fint shown by the
nataly in those early days of Singapore, it was Hop, Secretary died out altogether? Was it
and is this effort they have had file or no Insincere from its very inception? Does the
oficial aid. Whether & Chinese sailor fad ac. We had to depend on the services of the gov almost impossible to get any agricultural na search work published fu any reasonable time. gentlemen to whom this picsentation is yet to
cording to the European scale would do the rumint printing press, which was so fall of experiments that he had no time to answer Mr. Parklu wis so bayy faishing of bis algstean: months to get printed, and we had, lote leaving for England and he asked me to work of the ship any batter Mr. Buxton does work that papers look any time from six to your kind letter about rubber in Singapore bar at the creation of the last Kalght of the latetea experience which he first learned in the concerned with that aspect of the subject, the vased reign. If so, it would not be a surprise battleship Shah and the rebel Peruvian turret the Cbinaman con-competitive, and that the ever memorable encounter between the British 'whole point belag that it is desirable to render kilig foarm that this vestrable Knight may ship Huascar,
as before remarked, too small a vote to spend do so. We are vary much obliged for the In Soma oficial: change declive such an honour, and thus unknowingly quite a boy.
a cent on printing from our funds.
formation.......Your trees yield much better General have already. off Yle in 1877, when he was European food scale may possibly be used to be lusimmental in slighting not only the prime
than ours, though poorly compared with those changes and a'waadja KLARNET help in that; direction. For aur part, we can
at Pars and I am inclised to think that Fara are expectedi moveis but the whole Fani community whose appointed secreury to Cammodom Eyros on ranks of Chinein sailors. There is only one reation of biscalts that it is monk quoting that rubber was at that date vary low in price, thodist that timet
Assistant Paymaster G. A. Cooks' has been concalve of no per scheme for thisales the gives polodd an account of Mr. Farkle's las ladustry in the East. It may be remembered an Imperial Onde
Mr. Willis, In his Agriculture in the Tropics rubber planting will never be a big or later turbed w interest he has so much at heart. Your truly,
the latter taking over the command at Hong-rik, namely, moslaughter on a considombie Not only did Mr Parkin work out the wound- and that we were all cupping the cross vers, officers of other kong naval estábament, and Asiliant Pay scile. Perhaps that is why the pqual to be res quate and thus change what appeared to be lightly and with much catilèn not being sure Hongkong, 19th June,ipio,
master A. På Roignette has been "eppolated", thrown on the Atrisory Committee-SMITE BAIT 1. moderately/romunazative industry. Last the plant would stand the amount secretary's clockwin, and G. Brárút,
fato a very printable one, but he has worked ung la mode agradayı, 1/4t
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the evidence to be'expected to be forthcoming
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Chinoin
as the Indian prodaction and export is sup- he would, immidiately he was included within pressed. The Ubisens Government and their i purview, have employed more and more Provincial representatives are no fools. They foreign seamen, What, however, do we find? will do exactly what human nature of a very Mr. Buxton, Sir Walter Howell, and other are ordinary type diciales that they will'do, constantly informing us, with some amount of bonating, that the propemton at foreigners in the mercantile marine is not lacreasing, but des creasing.
COMMODORð byrks.
NO STRANGER TO THE STATION,
Commodore Egres, the newly-appointed Commodore at Hongkong, is no stranger to that station, as be commanded the cruiser Undaunted on 1 from 1808 to 1901, and subse- quently was naval attacke to the Russian foot during the Tapis Ressid War, in the course of which he acquired a very extensive know
If so, and the proportionate Increase of Chinamon has, u Mr. Buxton says, also boon less of late, what becomes of the charge that ship-owners are deliberately trying to dodge the Compensation Act? What they have beca trying to dodgelista
THE UNDISCIPLINED SEAMAH,,A
be made, deserve such treatment at the hands ledge of the prictical side of naval warfare met tall as, Halt, indeed, it seems to us, not of the community.which self feels honoured
Though Mr. Parkin was unable to visit the Singapore Gardous, he obtained a good deal of Information as to our work by correspond. pen, as he sent a long list of questions, in 1899, on the subject and asked me to perform certain experiments for him. Air, Willis writes In answer, April 15, 18991-50
FRASER'S SHARE CIRCULAR Towards the end of lust work there was an distinct advance in rubber abans, both dollar - and sterling, and more activity than'wo have! again drooped, and is extremely quiet. In mining stocks there is practically nothing to scon for weaka, but as 'wo write the market has
record, and Industrials are quieter than wa have won them for some time,
Rubber,-Among the more notablo advances Highlands which have been done during Lin: in the London Shares are Kuala Lumpurs and week at 10:20s, and 67 48, 6d respectival". Ledburys fully palá hava: changed hands st gas; sad Seafields at £7 178, 6d. United Sua Betongs, part paid, have been done at mga, pres
a 2915, and Lamadrons" as, 26 10s. 6d. pra- "manı have been done atʼ78. jd, Damansaras! Kiumį Duffs are agala up to about ags. Matll-
miam. Among the dollar shares there has besa good demand for Singapore and Johores at Pants from $12,50 to $15-75. Balgownics have St0 to $1850 Glansalys up to 55, and Ayar been placed at sig, Changkat Serdange at Sidi Pegohs at $40, and Fort Dicksons” at $6-prs: mlim.
General-A few Fraser and NeavOS, KATO been done at Szog, and Riley Hargreaves at 577-50 Straits Traders remain about the sAILA as last week with small transactions, Howank Erskines are offering at $50 and Gold Storages ate wanted st; $INGURA VENTA
IMPENDING DEVELOPMENT IN KOREA,