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Hongkong Banks.
HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND.
TWO POURDS, FER SHARK,
12th inst
Add to the Silver Reserva Fund $500, 00, Walto off Bank Premissa A/c $150,000, And carry forward about $2,000,000,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, JULY 16 1010
ULD FUBLIC BUILDINGS IN THE CARBS OF THET
HONGAONG!!
PROBLEMS FOR THE GOVERNMENT..
(Special to the Hongkong Telegraph.""}
NO STATISTICS.
MR1038PH
NTO THE
INTERESTINO, ACCOUNT OF HIS CRIF
Mr. Joseph Fraser, the well-known V. à. hat. returned to Colombo after his visit to 18h Straits.
The Directors, submit the following Repart with Statement of accounts made up to a pat 30, 1910, pin
The net ofta for the year end offaell 30, 1940, including the amount brought forward from that year, and not paying all charges and towing: for all known abilities, amount to Th1, 37933169
It is net an uncommon bella! that the life of
■ Chinese official; is essentially a delectable One. Visions ilin of idle days spent in rickety. yameau where the mandarin, dreams of prob áble advancement in Imperial feront, costom plating more fruitful sources of income, legal G We are officially 'anthosired to ̋state: that,
or illicit, from, which the name may be filled subject to audit, the Directors of the Hong- We appear to have heard the last, for the and the family enriched. Fify, years ago the kong and Shanghat Banking Corporation will time being at least, of those acrimonious picture may have bald good, prior to tiny days recommend at the forthcoming meeting public discussions that took place lalalya of telegraphs and telephones when foreign *** Dividend of £1 per·share.
the Legislature, in the Press and at the dinner consuls were curiosities, and self-governing table-regarding the best site. Ap-called societies were hidden from the yes; us the most contiguans to our new Law Court But whilst penetrating in these times that controversy has passed away, it has given much food for thought to many Hongkong THE MANDARINE EXISTENCE people on certain matters concerning our old was not without its charm, He could, and, there public buildings and their present condition: fore, did, command a wife, or and additions, In the first place, there is no doubt that the wild when the whim suggested a new playıbla„ the numbers of Büropean and native Resmen | Kuala Lumpur: districtnam Wo also vielted: krafe amount the Directors' recommand to be?
and so one judged the act to be aither barbarous or debatable. His children ware fod and trained by their respective mother, and only the ramshackle yaman he had seen nothing better, and so was content was bis own, and shorels, as a demi-ged, he could command the obedience of the subservient crowds who cringed at his beck, delight, himself with the writings of the ancients, either of pòstry of prose, and more biraself by comparing coup lets and epigrams, which would add to his in- tellectual lustre when, at the next convivial party, be produced them impromptu. But
SENSE AND SENTIMENT.
THEODORE TAYLOR ON OPIUM,
Published as supplements, to this: wock's' Gevernment Gazella ste fall and interesting re- ports upon the shipping and the trade of the Siralia Settlement during 1900's compiled respectively by Commander Radcliffe Master Attendant, and by Mr. W. C. B. Kean, who has acted as Registrar of Imports and export dure ing the absence of Mr. A. Stuart,
Touching Brat the Marine Department report wa End it sted that the total revesus collected in the three Settlements and in India amounted to $188,08 (canis omitted) egalest: Sanays, in 2008, a decrease of $519 Singapore shipped and discharged were spas and 19,664 and 1,19-Rod 18,002 respectively as against BB and 18,814 and
16,725
entered and cleared at the four posts of the The number and tonnage of all ressels Colony were 54,178 vessels, aggregating. 24, 15.737 set register tons, a decrease on 1908 At Singapore the merchant tossage entered decreased 147,913 tons, warships, etc, decreased even better distributed, So to 190 inches baing In accordance with 598 of the Memor and cleared,increased 180,6:6 100s, Dative craft. - Ropeially is quite ngusỉ to the F.M,S,, bat (ho's during the year under revis#: 65,116 tons, m
about the in Selangor. and Articles of Associadon, two my la mainly the cause of the better growth Messrs. It. S. McBain, and ofthe Directors in the marlier stages. There is also an absence tire, but,, beide eligible; offer themselves for of strong south-west winds in the F.M... re-election, limited areas. The J. E. Blagham and F. N. Mathaws. though damage is done by Sumitras In
Mr. Fraser give an interesting account of his visit to ■ Tumits of Ctylon representative from which we take the chlaf paragraphs Auf have had fcracy plastan, holiday," he said is the F.M.S. We haws good many Ceylon friends, who treated us splendidly and did avaryibing to make our trip an enjoyable oad We corared good deal of ground during the After desecting the Istarim dividend of of fortnight we were there. We visited rabber estates in Negri Sembilan, Perak, and per cent on $5,200 shares paid la' Taachty this large number in Selangor in the Klang and rear whichbsorbed in 1st,cool there
mains for distribution the sum of TIE, 245, 52.79. coconut states in Bagan Datoh and Klang districts. The growth of rabber is dealt with at follows, wine an
growth to the sixto your, hat from the end of Accoust.co (olber things being equal as regards the soil Share whether it is virgin or otherwise) from the Amount to be carried the sixth Ceylon gradually improves, and s litle difference to be ssen. The soil in Caylon
and
City is badly in need of a new City Hall; **** Practical men admit, also, that the existing An opium discussion in the Houseof Commons. Library and the Museum is situated apop
The other day we had a telegrām reporting edifice which houses the City Hall, the Public brought to him to be caressed. His ropin in tively, in 1908, ANONSKAMERA@elk? P°C• LA QUITE A YEAR AHEAD OF CEYLONA Final Dividend of. Tin, sya per
site facapable of extenilen or development in any ateful direction. And this can mean only one of two things—ie, that either a pow site will have to be found for the congenes of bulidings that make up those three institutions,
In the course of It there was reference to a.
ad that yet more stringent measures than have bass sanctioned should be put into force in
speech in which Mr. Theodore Taylor demand
Hongkong and Singapore to check the con- sumption of opium. Mr. Tayler seems to de sire that all the oplum shops shall be closed, and also that a register of oplum smokers. should be made at once, and that there iftae no newsmokers should be recognised. The object of such regulations would be to make oplam consumption impossible, except to rúch persone already resident in the two colonies, a might be able to establish the fact that they were entitled to a place on the register as habitual smokers. We do not know
regulations there would be considerabls.
or also that there will have to be some sort of
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A SEPARATION
made amongst them, some part of other 10 be removed to another site. There appears to be a good deal of difference of opinion as to which course it would be better in follow. It is quite impracticable, however, to expect the present site upon which the buildings stand to accommodate them all whas but in a necessarily improved and more com. medious style to meet the increasing require ments of the Colony,
THE PORTION IN HONGKONG wall enough to express any opinion in regard
One geollemão emitent amongst the archi- to it, but we believe that the badder for Wetects of Hongsong, expressed to the wri er the do saw that throughout Malays, they would opinion that the exigencies of the situation demanded a separation policy; his view being that a new City Hall abould be built upon the old site-taking its whole Area whils
NEW BITES
should be found for the Library and Museum elsewhere. With this view doubtless the public in general will agree. The City Hall and Theaire go naturally together, just as do the Library and Museum. In other Eastern cities this will also be found to apply.
THOSE BLESSED DAYB
dess have gone and will never reture. To-day of unbroken rope and anlatercupied bappi- the mandatin must erect new barracks of bricks, where there is no straw be most antal new ragiments of modern-drilled soldiers, and find the money both for pay and equipment; he must cozdemo as barbarous the old prisons in which the unfortunate Chinese were huddled together, and bound baud and foot with fetters until they were carried to the exccation grosad to be silenced for ever...
THE NEW AGE
be almost intolerable. · Hwery year we have “ great bumber of Chinese immigraóts, and among them there are a considerable number
cries out for prisons that are more commodious of men who use a small quantity of opium
thas the average Ubinose dwelling house and regularly. They are the moderate smokers,
better, ventlisted than a superior class of and to deprive them of the drug would be to
Chinese mansion. But the mandarin musi Impore on them a most serious hardship; it
find the fonds with which these new buildings are efected, however superfluous he may deem would, in fact, smontat in a good many cases to a probibition of admission to the colony,
them. For him as Imperial Parliment votes because the habitual user of oplum would
s Development Fond, to assist in his tank, not venture to take op his residence where he
It may, of course, be asked how all this Indead, the Gentral Goverment to-day is would be deprived of that which has become affects the Government, who bave practically source of unconscionable annoyance, and the one of the necessaries of his life. The point nothing to do with the present City Hall, Li-worries which lie telograms entall_ard almost we desire to emphasise is that a probibillen brary and: Museum, these being vested in a past endurance. Before the days of telegraphs, of quw registrations here would not be on all-body of public fruiters. As a matter of fact, the Provincial official was virtually vested with fours with a slisilae
this very much affects the Government, as will pleonry powers, and provided that the recog. be seen when one comes to examine all the dixed saxes were forwarded to Peking, the
As most Hongkongites, are circumstances,
"Father of the people" did not think it im aware, the City Hall with its adjunct buildings parative to interfere, except on rare occasions.. was elected by public subscription,
To-day the
PROHIBITION IN CHINA. Assuming the rule of registration to be rigidly enforced in Chins, all parsons who have be come smokers would be placed upon the register as such and thereby entitled, doring a fixed period, to purchase specified quantities of the drag. The refusal to make new registrations. would simply mean that the authorities re- fused to recognise as entitled to registration parsons who bad takes to the use of opium subiequently to the date of the edict. That Is a gulle reasonable and proper condition, implying no hardship, because it is acknow ledged to be a comparatively easy mat. ter for a beginner to give up smoking; and .further the presumption is, legitimato that the babit could not have been copineted at all without an evasion of the law. But the case kere is different. A person who bas practised smoking for, years, and we could introduce Mr. Theodore Taylor 10 one arawo Chinese gentlemen of amazing intellectual capacity who would fall under this description may desire "to take up rendence in Malaya. He is regis- tered la Chias; if the proposif of Mr. Taylor were acted upon, he could not be registered here, therefore the conditions of residence would be devial of a privilege enjoyed to his own country, and that, as we hava sild, would force a good many to stay away.
At present the
**** POLICY OF THE COLONY
Is to keep the price of oplam so high that ex- cessive indulgence is severely discouraged, and to exercise the almost waithfuluess 10 as to prevent Illicit trading to the drug. The effect of these messages is to prevent any gross
- abuse. Oɑr revenues disclose the fact thaï that ibera li n Jarge" consumption of opium, but it Isspread over a largo population, and of the most painalaking inquiries have falled to reves! any clear evidence of evil consequences resulting. For a class of men who work extraordinarily hard the occasional smoke is a solace of the host welcome and restful description. I wo compare the amount of injury done by it to ...Chinese with the dest uction wrought
Among Europeans, either in this colony or in any other' place, by alcohol, we are forced to admit that the weight of argament is on the side of the opiam. Like all indulgences
IT 18 AN EVIL
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and we are not defarding It otherwise than in A comparative sense. If proof existed that besitation harden the restrictions even to the great barm is done, wa should say without
extent of making the moderate user suffer la -order, that the generat bealth of nur Chinese community may be preserved. In the absence' of such proof, we strongly advocate abstention from drastic legislation. No impartial observer cao doubt the fact that tobacco and alcohol, the former particularly, are taking the place of oplum among Chinese and Indians also, and while we see not the slightest of-jection to some additional saxas on spirits, wa hope that it will be a very long time before anything is done that would lncreass the price of tobacco even by fraction. There never has been a time and there keyer has been a race thai had no popular sedative or stimulant which, was barmful If dised to excass. M
TOBACCO 18 HARMFUL,"
no doubt, but in a deżjog so far removed from alcohol or opiam that wise lawmakers, openly recognising the invariable custom of humanity, will do their utmost fa suconraga itɔas agalast the other more deadly things. Bot reform is a slow process, and anyone who thinks that the habit of centuries can be sradicted in a few months or years is a mere impractical dreamer to whom it is dangerogs for practical statedmen to listen. China may uproot the oplum habit by a kind of prohibition, bat
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of 176 vansols but an lucroute of 161,401 tons.
TONNAGE FIGURES
At Singapore, the sumber and toppage of merchant vessels above so tons entered and of native craft and steamers under 50 tons cleared were 10,624 and 14,114,323, respectively 17,324. vessels with tonnage aggregating 871,328 tons, As compared with 1908 the figures show an increase in merchant-vessels of 276 ships) and 180,918 tons; decrease in warships, etcy of 38 vessels and 66,115 tons; and a decrease in native craft and stearate under 50 tons of 1,293 vessels and 147,913 tons Daring the past six years the net tonbage of merchan vessels, entered and cleared, bas in- creased by 1,781,370 tons. The following countries show an increase of tonnage, entered and cleared, as compared with 1908-Japan 235,741 toos Holland 209,606 tons; Siam 54,972 tons; Sweden 37,670 tons. The following countries show a decranse Britain 83,334 tons: France 74,568 tops; Russia 75,593 tous; Doo- mark 47,675 tons; Norway 46,770 tone; Italy 11,081 tone; Spain 7,420 tons; Belgium 5,806 toos Austria 3,832 tons; Germany 1,445 (pas; America 662 tons; Sarawak 86 tous. During the seven years 193 toagog pative Craft Connage has decreased by 364,758, Sixty-one steamers of 40,515 gross and 23,307 net tonnage; and 419 sailing-vessels of 47,905 and 47,888 gross and net tonnage, respect voly, remained on the register on December 31 last.
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climate is more suitable, the rainfall baing
"GROWTH OF RUBBER IN JUNGLE LAND U
There has been no change in the
193,200,00
The accounts have been audited by Messrs.
PROFIT AND LOSE ACCOUNT, {Gants Omitted)
1910 January 6th To 21% Interim Dividend on 55,500
1910. April goth.
Shates
To Directors, Auditors, and Agency MYFODE To Balises
1 excellent, in some instances 160 to 207 lbs. dry rubber being harvested in the fourth and Efik year, and 240 to 300 in the fifth to sizik.
Vields of 600 lbs. per acre from old traes are now quits caminan off considerable areas. Seremban having given this in 1909, off 341 acres, all beautifully tapped by Ubinete, Though dearer than Tamils, they do excellaot work. On an estate in Perak, near Talpang, a field, I think of 121 actes, gavo 260 lbs, per acre last year, and gives every promise of giving 900 lbs. per acre in 1910. I understand there are no forward contracts, so at 81 par ib. profit, this will show a profit of £320 per acre. The area referred to is closs planted-something liks la fi, by to fl; 20-ft, by id ft. would appour 1, 1910. April 30thulling vide a fair compromise. It would not interfere with By Unclaimed Dividends transferred... 4.545. forking and maourlog, which in due course-By Transfer Fons collected dating yaır. By Interest received and estimated adele, will have to be systematically carried out.
crued on Investments, Deposit, and. Currant Account with Bank, Jess Interest an Oath Deposits with Company Muumpismom verndarja -16,177 By Transfer from General Working Ac
copot szakosure cottonakaya360,970
-Tl2:385,131
1959. May 11t
By Balance carried forward
BALANCE SHEET. Liabilities.
1910, April 3: Capital Account. Registered Ospital—
WELDING AND COCOA PLANTS.; "failed to come across a single plaster. who believed la dirty weeding, the uniretori opinion being that it was essential to remove all wasds before they sad, this being clearly the cheapest in the end, preventing a waste of cociles when tapping commences, and at the same time enabling the superintendent,to ar guaise and regolate his labour force more efficiently. Those who could not weed clean pleased to adopt the better way and will do so. from force of circumstance would only be too
when labour is ample. The passion Rɔwo. creeper has been and is very useful and help.55,700 Shares at Tis, too...3,570,000 ful in keeping weeds under control and cover- Ing the ground, but it is merely held to Be Subscribed Capital—- raiatively the best under the circumstances. 55166 Shares Insund at Tie. The trade report, which contains now features Nitrogen-collecting plants are now "belog. and can only be dealt with generally here, gives largely used after pianting, as the introduction a statement showing the value in dollars of our of continued growth and development of wesda gross aggregate trade for the last two years and fungoid parts in feared where planted and the increase or decrease of both imports, sufficiently far apart to admit of weeding be: and exports, and of marchandise and tres,tween the shrabs of plants, and they are all cut-down-before-flowering" And they are utili being utilized with distinct advantage for the first 2 or 3 years ་ ་,་།
Labuan khowa an increase of 35,742 toni in merchant-vessels as compared with 1908 ; a decrease in native craft of 6,113 tons; and a decrease in warships of 1,645 tons. The num Since that time-nearly forty years ago-the Let us take the case of the Canton Viceroyalty Celony has grown tremendously; notil now
ber and tonnage of vessels entered and cleared where a thro-sided controversy between Pak- these structures, in addition to being old, anti-ing, the provincial officials and the people has tively, and the Malices figures (above so tous)
at Penang were:18,154 and '7,434,650, respace. quited, and ill equipped, are entirely inadequate bren in progress in regard to the closing of
210 3,904 and 633,563 respectively here during to the public needs of Hongko g. The City gambling dens. On the one hand are the Hall building bas its Theatre and the Library
more active spirits of the all-powerful Self-five year, the not tonnage has increased by and Museum on the ground floor, whilst on Government. Association. Thaie in repeated 10.500 toss. The report.la amplified by several the upper floor are the two inrge bail rooms telegrams to Peking advocate the abolition of appendices.
licensed gambling dens on the ground, that they are detelmental to morals and a blot on advanclog civilization. With the moral aspect of the position the local Government is in complete agreement, but...
will auto-rooms..
No one who has attended a $1. Antirew's all in the City Hall needs to be reminded of sembly. Not only is it too email, but the gan- Its shortcomings, as the venue for such an as-
eral arrangement of the whole suite is open to a good deal of criticism, however band some the structure may have been regarded upper boilding might well be devoted le ball as when it was due. The whole scope of the
room purposes without the space so provided being in any way too great. As regards
THE THEATHE,
it is beyond expression Inadequate to the need of the public, It is too small, it is badly ventilated, and its acoustics are the despair of every operatic and dramatic company that yeotures to produce a piece within its walls. It is a good many years ago bat. Kebert Brough at the conclusion of a very trying shot soon in the Theatre gevoexpression to the hope that Bongkang would rise to the occasion and provide better theatrical facilities. Nothing practically has yet bens done, yet we conflage io growl about the bad résulte attained at Dearly.every performance.
It Is regiatiable to admit, too, that the Museum is not by any means what should be expected of Hoogkoop. The Colony has an excellent sub-tropical situation for the collec tion of natural-history, species of all kinds, yat
fur want of space the collection in not only kept within
MEAGRE BOUNDS ·
but the animals, toptiles, insects, etc., causot be kept in napthing like proper condition. Visitors from America and Europe, indeed, may often be heard to make observations that are' anything but complimentary to our Maicum; whilst the celebrated British Museum ostural is, Mr. Waller Goodfellow, could not refrain, through the Colony some years ago during one from uttering a few home truths when passing
of his many visits to the Far East, ne
Concerning the Library premises, the re building apply with equal force. There is not marks above made shout the other parts of the enough storage room for the books, and the reading, room accommodation is capable of
cat improveinsat
THE REMEDÝ,
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It is perhaps too much to expect the Govers meat to grant on advantageous terms part: the valuable site of the old Post Office for the pure pans of a Library and Museum. If that could be effected and a new City Hall erected on its own old silo, that would be the best solation possible.
RONGKONG-JAPAN SERVICE,
EXTENSION.CONTEMPLATED,
It is stated that the Department of Com munications is making investigations withis view to extending, the services of Japanese steamers abroad, say the Japan Chronicla. The future prospects of the American line, and of the opaning of a anrvice to South Africă, ara wald to be very promising. It is pointed out that when the North and South American lines bio extended, and a service with the eastern. coast of America is opened on the completion of the Paasma Croal, closer relations will be established between Japan and Brexil,
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IMPORTE,
Merchandise. Treasure.
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too fully paid up.....5,516,300 -38 Shares at Tla, toodus Members of the late S. C. Farnham, Boyd: and Co., Ird, to bu „jusued on application
55,200 Shares
Reserva Fund, Taken over from, the late S. 0. Farnham, Boyd and Co, Ld.)
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Unpaid Dividends,
Gross Imports, 1900...$301,313,799 $13,044,538 $313,156,427 Tapping is being done, do far as I could 19,783,195 310.395.939 galber, for from 10 to 18 dollar cents by Tamils, 1908... 396,613,744
and for 21 10 25 cents by Chinore, any 18), and Increase. Decrease. Decrease. to grå, und siį to 44 rupes cents respectively
4,701,055 7.7.38,567-7 3,037,512 but this will be improved on. We heard of a faw months' tapping being done for under 6 dollar cents,
Hub The Shanghai Dock and En- An old Carlos planter now managing one ofgineering Co, Lede the best F., S. asiates fait certain that, if we
LICENSED GAMBLING provides funds for the provincial exchequer | sare :— and there's the rab. Peking slopain_with_ice- recoup yourselves by increasing the tax on panaces-for the situation, . Close the dana, and,
sail,". To this the local officials reply that the salt monopoly will not bear the'additional strain of another thirty per cent, for the people will oot submit to the increased demand. Animpazie results and the sufferere are priinarily to be found it'te yames. A further worry, which is the growth of recent times,"is the bitterness ́of the attack of a certain section of the matĪVO Press, that grows with the sense of immunity enjoyed on neutral soil. It may be, perhaps, some consolation to bear in mind that the abaiss of the wailve Press is often Impartially distri bated between officials and foreigners. If the latter come in for all-round thuse, so mandarins am denounced for " paring off the fat and draw: ing away the blood of the children of Han and giving them to foreignors Officials, says an other organ, are responsible for all
THE MERRY OF THE PROPLE
"Ye are oppressing the peopls so that the rich ara hurled into poverty and the poor are trADS-
the latter and still other crowd in to fill their
formed into robbers. Whereupon ye slaughter empty places" There is little seem for wonder that the temptation of the mandarin is great to encourage this outspoken Press to vent its grievances solely on the foreigner,
Another real worry, Indeed a darger, that threatens almost every official in the temper of the people is the possibility of some sudden abulition of raga. Of their local riots there the immediate cause of such outbreaks may have been many instances of late, and while differ, one or two main reasons is generally to be found behind the disintbances. If the con tributory canse be not the.
HUNGER OF THE POPULACE
it in.almost sure to be traceable to taxation, Nor is it necessary that the new impost should be levied on the bulk of the population. In a recent instance to Kwangtung a special tax had been imposed upon priests and wisirds. The injured parties thereupan went out on suks and at once exlisted the sympathy of their fallowman. A riot ossued and when the focal mandarin west in person to reason with sidered himself fortunate to have been allowed the mob, he was stacked and may have'coo-
to return to his yamé'a without his robes and insignis of office, Thi
A
DATE DANGER OF LOCAL DISTURBANCE
has become. `much mbra real during the last few months, because of the numerousorganize- ious, that are more or less in sympathy and even in organized touch with the re- volutionary pait, Taon the cares of the modern mandarin lnclude not only the task of raising money for the carrying onoflocalgurerne ment, difficulty formidable and ever préssion but also the danger of local disturbances amonning often to menace, tak
▲ PATERNAL GOVERNMENT O
EXPORTT. 1909...$167,497,550 ^$13,085,765, 5181,189,0at 21,359,024 273,828,124 1908... 262,459,100
Increase. Increase. Tecrease, ~·5,038.456326241
GROBS AGGREGATE, -
(Taken over from the late Simar O, Farnham, Boyd and Co, L.)
get average yields in Corion of 500 lbs per Sundry Creditlons, e acre, we shall put our rubber l'o b for 4jd, per | Leseni Bills, etcommunis 7,354,897|||ib. or with manure 61--The higher cost of. Employees Deposit Accounts laboar and export dues-will-probably-prevent Directors, auditors, & Agancy- go...$568,833.355 $15,730,093 $59.4543,448 hair doing it in the F. M. S. with Tamlis Feel 1908... 539,071,814 312,46,129 $90,334,063 for under 84. to gå. and with Chipase for rn to 18. id. Thit is aming that the areas-in-nach-case-ure-all, io fall bearing
PESTS.
**Fomes Semitostas"; and other `aliled fan-
Profit and Loss Account. Balance at Gredit of this Account
Avots
1913 April
[8,300.
69,146
241,933
Tis, 6,877,608
Increase, Decrease. Increase.. 9.7399.321 5.413,126 4337,317,385 The gross aggregate trade for the year was 5594,541,448, being an increase of $4,307,385 or. 23 per cent on the trade of the preceding $313,358,427, or a decrease of $1,017,515 equal year. Towards this, Imports contributed
ta gó per cent, and exports 5 lajja8jj0zi, or no increets of $7,364,897, equal to 27 per cent, Under Imports, merchandise showed an in. crease of $1,701,055. 16 per cent, while treasure showed a decrease of $7,798,567 or 39 per cent. Under exports, merchandise of the various pasts. Digging and maturing Docks, Bandings, Wharved de Walls 1,39 again showed an increase of $5,038,456 or 1.9 per cent and treasure no advance of $1,550,441, V
gold pests and Termes Gestras are giving
being very efficiently seen to, and now, is the Land trouble. On many estates, however, those are balag successfully combated, this class of work | Property Account. lime, while prices are so high. Ia jangle clenciage all roots sad ratting timber are balog tomoyad and burned and there is every avid- once that this to a large extent is getting rid
will do the rest,
LABOUR.
Valge Tie 1,779)
Tools, Patterns, sed Gear? Machinery and Plant: At all Establishments, * 7,120,718
Steamers, Lunches, and Vassels Atall Establishments........ Pontoons, Steam Dradgars, Piledri
or aa 5 per cent. Id Imports." 'merchandise Tamils were coming in fesly while we | As all Establishments...MUNITPRITY. to exports, merchandise, which recorded satis earning seo no special difficulty ahead showed Increases from the second quarter but were there. With the good pay they are factory progress during the second and third improved saaftary conditions and godd quarters of the year, fell off in the last quarter, water supply, which many estates are going It is observable that the proportion of mesto great expense to secure, will add to the attractions, and then the Chloess can ́always be drawn on though at greater cost, bosiden Malays and Javannie. With such largn:araka coming into tapping combined with unhealthy conditions on a good young astate, there are bound to be difficulties for a time, but I should when there is time to get matters adjusted paren anticipate no permanent trouble in the fatore, It no doubt adds greatly in the meantime
chandise Imported into the colony from out- side places held by each of the sotilements was as follows, virs-Singapore 71'2 per cent. an advance of 1'3 per cent in valus; Penng 8'33 per cent, a fall of r'a per çent; Malacca 3 per cent, and Labuana per cent, the same as in 67 per cost, ao increase of: 8 per cent, Penang gob." In the case of exports, Singapore bad a'r per cent, a decline of 7 per cent, Malacca 6, por çent,,s" falling off of 's per cent, and Straits Timesid AO AGEN Labosa "s per cent, the sams, as in 1908 —
OPIUM SMUGGLING.
THRIVE: PENALTIES.
The Manila Tiwie of 8th last says:—Judge Jenkins passed sentence this morning upon Ambrocio Tiu Coco, a Obluere convicted of the attempted illegal Importation of 277 kilos of opium, valued at P60,000. The accused was. sontenced to pay a fios of one thousand pesos.
Estanislau Ortiga, a Filipino formerly em ployed as a guard to the customs service, was found guilty of being an accomplice: la the attempted smuggle, and was restenced to fear dred pesos.
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to the" troub'er and auxiety, of the rubber | Accounts in course of collection, sic plantois but there are many capable men on Birincluding, valus of cumplates the spot who will successfully overcome these.
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Directors and shareholders of companiestande kirke portional, unfinished. private ownert bave much to be thankful for. An efficiency of supervision is a marked, Nols, dated Septem feature of many estates, so it strikes the visitor,
wonies him ; the local Consul may pursite bim;] months' imprisonze ADELAND of two hand fast, who recently returned to Manlia" from ®-
the self-governing society criticiste him un mercifully the fros Press vilifies kim. His life has lost the dolce far cleats glamour of
the Argentine Republic, and other places ently to titions. Little wonder, therefore, that
on that coast of the South American cos there are frequent reports of mandarins wish, neßt. This will reapit in greater ing to resign their locumbencler, and expansion of Japan's foreign trade. There is among the mon persisent. of these are
HONGKONG CAPITAL FOR PHILIPPINES
ANAAMAWILAN K · OPINION, An excellent foundation can be laid for falare investments in the Philipplass by Obion const capital if the campaign is properly con ducted and capital glean the recognition it should have said Mr. M. A. Clark's on the 7th business trip to Hongkong and Shaoghal. be glad to invest in these lalands if they are The people in Chien be contioned, would not to thoroughly tied up in the rabbar business. The collapse of rubber in Bhang. bai has delayed capital in coming over here.
Mr. Clarke was in China In the internsti of mining and was ancountered verywhere, 81 maid, with the question de Why don't, cu get
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was to bring le four cases of opium and four →The plan adopted to smuggle in the opium cases of cheap merchandise at the samstime all eight cases being declared as merchandise, the cases peing, identical inspporrance but those with opium having a special mark by which
THE NEXT GENERATION will be far better qualified than we are to say whether the effects of the policy have been good. The next generation will know, what we do not, the nature and effects of a substitute which will be found as surely as the year to will came after the year 1910 We can qui e agree with Col. Seely that the small compensa. tion payable to Hongkong or any other colony for loss of opinm revanne should not be gmdg ad if the effect of the legislation is covers is as a large demand in South Africa for Japanese several Viceroys is, well as others of hum- they could be Idealised", Clasrance papers beneficial as men like Mr. Theodore Taylor goods. If a service is opened up with the Cape, | ter tank, If the facts ware known, it might were to be made out for the four cases or hops Bat the theoretical sentimentalist: In therefore, in connection with the European line well be that the official to-day in many cases merchandise, but the opium was to be removed: Amarican capital to go to the Philipp and Tunis Loudon, is not the best judge of what is good not only will the trade between Japan, and,) roally deserves gur, sympathy, though he doeë l'Instead and later other papers were also'so be was not realiză there are SO MADY Opportu for Adulic population... He wild test with South Africa increase, but the trade between not often go the right way in order to win it made out for the merchandise and the remakin- indignant scorn” tha" parnest, advice of such a
Bouth Africa and Jadia, the Straits Sattumants Whather it is the fittest or the most nafit who ing cases taken sway.”
In the United States moneyed men do not. Seaners Bishop Pidhing to go slowly, but the and Hongkong, will also be much extended surviva wart remain an open quesloot Batif Two custom! Yemployees and Chinase to go so far away from homný (kate
* che bellar jugo, and bis way is the. That being so, we learn, steamship lines to the the foreigner begins by mcogairing the difficile eastoms broker, wine Implicated in the plot, Cipaal is very ban Keith mi
„Bastern coasts of North and South America,ty of the mandarína taik and the pressure
in the Panama Casal, and to South Africs brought to beargpon him by circpm
chịch was discovered by a lady employee of home and the Capitalisti anças sad the Customs," who" nadery
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rust | bulleyasthat by providing transport accommoda" | to render him ammable ta gale
tion trade will follow, which: saama a llitle like, real
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