i
WHAT DOES THIS - UNREST MEAN?".
A Nation of Odd Jobbers.
A recent article on the strikes, under the above hending, recently appeared in the "Daily Mail, written by an ordinary man." Dealing with the present state affira in England, the writer,
Buys:
of
To my mind, so far as in my poor, uninstructed way I am able to project it to the survog point,
it
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
FINANCES OF SIAM
DAY SEPTEMBER 8-1911
Tos. 375,000-set off by a reduc- tion of Tea. 223,000 under Land and Fishory Toxos. The increase on the Lottery Farm representa merely the entranced bid runde at The
the auction of the farms
Prepaid Advertisements.
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Advertisements. THE GENERAL ELECTRIC
CO OF CHINA, LTD.
28 WORDS $1 for 8 insertions or
$2 for one week, som
not a skilled workman, with skilled, responsible, pleasurable work to give a satisfying interest to his life. Vaguely,
Prosperous Conditions. I imagine, ho feels a senso of injury, a sense of comparison be-
The finencial position of Siam sween what he is and what he to-day is very exhaustively and might have teen, between the concisely analysed by Mr. W. J. F. based upon the collections of the BOARD AND RESIDENCE— kind of work he does and, the Williamson, financial adviser, in past year. The expected advance kind he ought to be doing and his report on Sinm's budget for on opium is mainly due to a rise
HOMEVILLE," Morrison Hill, is capable of doing. I do not
plendid view of the harbour, 16 in the sale price of the prepared know that we can count his angry tho year 130 (1011-12). The re- drug, which has been rendered
minutes from Post Ole by, cleotric gara; entranco 153, Wanohel Road, restlessness as being, any fore port, which is addressed to H.R.H. necessary by the increase Apply at the house. than the ignoble nature of his Prince Cliandaburi, Minister of amounts expected to be paid for
[1287 employment, his own fault Finance, makos evident that the the raw opium during the year TO LET TWO ROOMS suitabl Everything in the end is traceable back to politics. We have de. State is in an eminently sound the case of nines, the advance fees in St. George's Building
is due partly to the rise in the apply to F. Blacklicni and
Snl Flor. For partienkurs plene. graded him as a man and we financial position and that the price of tin, on which there is an have appealed to his degradation country generally is in a prosper-ad vorolom duly, and in part to the and revolt. Ought we to be the comparatively poor rice crop wing to the greater number of with angry incitements to lintred ous condition, notwithstanding expectation of a larger output surprise that he is not be-of the past season. It is remark edges now being employed by having himself vory well?
the Province of Puket. certain companies operating in
is the all-round weakening of authority in every form that is the feature of our present emergency Upon the maintenance of consti- Luted authority all ordor and all | libarty roste. You cannot weaken THE GENERAL'S BABY. any girdler in the complex cantil- over system of a bridge without weakening the whole structure.
in istor.
Adjutant's Serious Duty.
one..
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Notices
NOTICE,
CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND MANUFACTURERS
Telegrame
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Telephone 518.
10, Des Voeux Bd. Hongkong.
MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY,
ESTIMATES GIVEN FREE.
C6, 131 Large Stocks of Fittings, Cables, Wires and Accessories
longkang, 1st-Sept., 1911. [3401
NOTICE.
CHINESE ENGINEERINO
ad, however, en passart, that the
WE unyu this day transformed ear weather indications for the pur On the estim tod increases of
AGENOT.. Hongkong pind rout year's crop are at present expenditure the Ministry of War Canton to MESSRS. DODWELL a favourable and the expectation is is credited with over a million TD who are hereby author of to * AGENTS all duetinenta that the harvest will be 'n grotics of an increase for the army. la jug to the business of the Company. und the survey department, This role will continua to be for the You cannot wonken any portion of Army life in. Indin has any
sexplained, however, by the fact time belag in Alexander Buillings, the system of authority, social poli- strango, phases. Mr. Rudyard
At the very outset of the report that a new cartridge factory is THE CHINESE ENGINEERING tival, or religious, without looson-Kipling has with inimitable skill Mr. Williamson notes changes being erected and that the survey
& MINING CO., LTD. ing the whole structure. When the vouchsafed us, glimpses of that accessitated by the fluctuations in partment, for administrative constitutional prorogative of dies and tragedies, its joys and tion and distribution of which la of War. A reduction of over leidoscope existence, its come the price of opium, the prepara- the Ministry of Agriculture to ronas, has been transferred from King is assailed by his Ministers,sorrows, its pains and penalties, there is a general relaxation of the We should like to have seen him were taken over by Government h If a million is therefore thwa
HAVING
【AVING thin-day Leen appointed interrelated org misition, and the don with the following incident two years ago. He saya:In the oa the expenditure of the former vanboy defies the authority of his woll authenticited. The wiloofan revenue and expenditure were the privy purse and civil list of course at non tenidas relating which, according to Truth" is estimates for 127 1008-01) the ministry. There is also noted an ENGINEERING & MINING CO. nerenso of Tes. 1:1-2 millions on LTD, in Boagkong and Canton we Whom the House officer of high rank was passing bath shown gros, i.c., inclusive His Majesty, representing the sum "Commons weakens the authority hrough Jhansi in the course of a
to their business la arkle'sxl ta
DODWELL & CO., LTD, · of the Secont Chamber,il weakons railway journey. On the pre-of the cost price of the raw drug, graciously surrendered by His
2. Agenta - also its own autturity over the vious day the adjutant of a rogi-nd this fact accaunel for a con- Majesty out of the amount drawn THE people whom it is its task to request from the General's A.D.C. figures on both sides of tho ae-His Majesty's Coronation ex-Hongkong, it Spt., 1911.
mont on the station received a siderable increase in the total by the late sovereign. A sum of Pes. 500,000 has been allotted for govora. Whens Minister applies to meet the Indy at Jhiasi rail- to high politics the low appoal of way station with two pints of out, as compared with the pre-pontos, sots in movemeat fores that milk hal bon boile an! that if the budget report for 127 that, as treasury reservo are calculated to violent and angry vituperation, he milk. He was to be sure that thevious your. It was explained in Special expenditures from the oxpreas thongtelves in violent was kept wara. As it happened the proparation of the drug for take up Tes. 1,854,231, and ex- leeds about duck gates. The the adjutant mentioned. the mt-sale, and the collection of the
traordinary expenditures from vongoful spirit introduced into the tor to his estone, who promptly revenue, were now in Government sum is to be utilised in the con- Hongking, Ini May, 1911.
loans Tes. 9,820,838. The former untional politic's sinks down and wire that he was unable to pants, it secured proper that the traction of branch railway liups dow, through the series of my men to perform this in receipts and charges should connecting the towns of Nakon smaller interesta, till it expresses tant duty, pointing out that there itself in the curses and threats was a refreshent room at Jhansi shown in full on opposite Srithamarat
aides
To Let Songkhla and violence, of a mob at a factory | fully capable of providing for the!
account (Singom) on the east coast of the code of the general's baby. The the estimates for 128 (1000-10) west-coast, with the main similar course was followed in Malay Peninsula and Trang, on gato,
I long for the time to come, colonel's temerity is' un lecstood
to have caused a serious coman would doubtless have been contaneously under construction. and it must come, when the tion in exalted cirelos. Lackily tinued but for the very great in- The money acquired from loans ind 129 (1910-11), and the system Peninsula lius which is simul Tiberal Party will have given up to him he was not in the om-rease which has taken place duris to be expanded on reproduc as impossible its futile endeavour to ratain the votes of that an-man 1 for which the milk was re-
of
the
and
antiafjablo section of the lowant quired. So there was a couring the last year or so in the price tive works, in accordance with
martial
L10,000 FOR A RIFLE RANGE.
A
class that belongs and ought to bolong to the Anarchists. The sitation would be clearer then, Iimgine that the goal Liberal who is being badly hit thoso days,” machint, manufacturer, work- ́man alike, is not enjoying the A Colonial's Magnificent Gift. experience of living his party and his, reprosentatives ollies
10
cipla is the maintenance of the food supply of the fly, cannot by vary happy. I fancy, as ho finds himself being swept off his feet in a mad movement that is directed against the food supply of the country. Our, presont state of parties cannot last much longer. Liberalism will shake itself loose,
INFANT PRODIGIES.
Christianity, while one visit at ani
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f raw opium, as a consequence the Bottled policy of the Govern of the reduce quantities offered ment, such as the Northern and for salo by the Government of Southern Railways and the Bing- India, under the terms of their kok waterworks. arrangement, with the Chiness Government. Thus, while in The report also deals with the January 128 (1910) the average question of currency and tho price of Benares opium at the Cal-trado of the country, and thore sulta salos was only Tcs. 1,767 ro tabulated statements of the The War Office continues toer chest, the corresponding revone and expenditure attnéli-
ed......... stampede.bpm hay gifts showored upon it. Anfigure for May 130 (1011) was who, be they are still ultition to the growing list was Tes. 2,555, and in the interval it regarde 1 possible Liberal officially announce on August 14, ha hoon as high as Tes, 3,537. volors, are unrestrained from acts
In the above circumstances, it isob- The Secretary of State for War, and purpais that strike at the Lord Haldane, has received an
vious that the practice of including idos of Liberalism. The good offer of £10,000 as a gift to the the cost price in the revenue and trade unionist whose first prinuation for the purchase of a rifle exponditure of the Opiam Depart-when there is talk of infant pro Macaulay must not be omitted range hear one of the thickly mout would necessarily involve populated districts of England,
large fluctuations both in the esti- digics: From the age of 3 ho The donor wishes to remain males and in the final accounts-road incessantly, and by the time honymous. Ho signa his letter the variations, moreover, being due he was 7 he had begun a com- "An Englishman from Byond to causes over which the Govern- pendium of universal history. At the Seas, and emphasises the ment has no control. Further, as 8 he wrote a treatise designed to growing impulse throughout the general tendency, appears to Empire towards united action for bo for the price to rise, the effect convert the natives of Melnbar to defence n the importance of would be to inflate the Government early age to Strawberry Hill was RIGHTS, DUTIES & LIABILI- organising the spirit of patriotiem accounts by very considerable enough to enable him to carry the A common lines to the best mountea fact which will be catalogue of the Orford collec ulvantage..
readily apparent when it is mentions in his memory ever after- In writing to accept the gift on tioned that the difference in price wards. At a later date Macaulay E fulf of his Majesty's Govern-between January 128 (1910) and expressed the opinion that he mont, Lord Haldane has expressed May 130 (1011) involves an addi- could reproduce" Paradise Lost Articles appe.ing their warm appreciation of the tion of nearly 1.1-2 million ticale. and "The Pilgrim's Progress" gonerosity and public spirit which It has accordingly been decided if every existing copy were de- HONGKONG TELEGRAPH "
that, for the future, the opium
atroyed. Other benefactions which have revenue will be shown not, i..., boen conferred on the War Office after deducting the cost price of infant prodigy on record was
Perhaps the most marvellous The Liauts, Dutims and Liantlazizi during the last two years include: the drug, while, on the, expendi-Christian Heinecker born at
Or SasuKENS,” October, 1810.-The Leban-ly air-merely the expenses mourred by Lubock, February 9, 1721 At
ship, built for the "Morning the and fashions it into property value, November 1910-The Daily "pium for consumption, in ar- epenk and repeat every word Post" National Airship Fund. the Government in preparing tlie the age of ten months he could the carpenter, the engineer, theMail" airship garage, brected ranging for its distribution and which was said to him, when 12 bat berk nuns ore use bo dlatitel on Two Artidos h, va already apparel, printer, the watchmaker, the
on Wormwood Scrubs, Lon lon, sale, and in maintaining services months old he know by heart the
pleation. mason, the cotton spinner, and
W., at a cost of £6,000, pro- for the purposes of control, principal events narrated in the waiver, the instructed and in-
Further instalimente will appar o Pentateuch, in his second year he tolligent tra lesman of every kind, the old trade unionist, in fact,
and before he was three he learned has become a minor quantity in comparison with the căsuàl day labror. We are now a nation, in fact, composed mainly of odd jobbra. The producer of goods
and when the Anarchist forces are separated and consolidated-it-will- bs possible to deal with them. It will be possible then for a Liberal Governnien; to reassert the latexit
"authority of the State.
The conception comes to us with the force of a paradox now that our commercial organisation
· haaro shed a stage in which the class of workmen upon which we are fanat dependent is the un- kilod labauror. The producing working man, the maker of things, the man who takes raw inatorial
has smuller influence and im- portance than the distributor. The casual. Labourer, who has no invested skill or knowledge, no permanent interest or local associa tions, no sense of yesterday and
line prompted the gift.
,'
TIES OF SHAREBROKERS.
· VERY· Mañ on 1 Woman in Dong- kong should read the series of
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Expakan Ezra FaRY3.00 SLEEPING CAB SUPPLANESY Y6,00 6 p.mi, by ti e former is 6:37 p.m. by the latter. Supplementary Charger on DAIREN-CHANGOLUN Barvica, la
TICKET AGENCIES-The Company's milway and steamer tickets are Trains Co., Nippon Yusen Kaisle. Shanghai, Vest Thos. Cook & Som obtainable at all the Agencies of the faternational Sleeping Car & Express
and Refrebire a der Hamborg-Amaika Linie.'
RAILWAY HOTELBYAMATO HOTEL ("'a'. "Aïd. : " Tomato “) ak Dalten, Port Arthur,
sented for the reception of the inspection and detection of illicit knew most of the Bible by heart, / Satard ys natii amplation of the serina,pany's manage i ent Mokrog, Fasian and Chas gehan, all un fer the Com-
dealing.
Revenus aud Expenditure.
Clement-Bayard II, sirship. June, 1911-Four Valkyriomono
Don't Miss Them. They will interes planes, presented by Mr. H.
to speak Latin and French. In fraa deeply, aud are worth 'praverring, Barher, with a view to en For the current year the total his fourth year he employed him- * HONGKONG TELEGRAPH," revenue is estimated at Tes solf in the study of religion and couraging aviation in the Navy (2,320,000 and the expenditure the history of the Church, and bis July, 1911.-Mr. Georgo Pinakat Tea. 62,235,580, showing a fame as a scholar spread so that Hongkong. Bili Aug., 1911..
ard's gift of 450 acres of land, Hurplus of Tea. 84,401. These the King of Denmark sont for
and the Arany..
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COMPANY, LIMITED.
together with kennels, stables, figures show an anticipated him, and was amazed at his learn GREEN ISLAND CEMENT and cottages, in Surrey, for the in case, on both sides, of about ing. But before he was five years purpose of horse-breeding. 1.3.4 million ticals over, the of age ho fell sick and died, and In December, 1900, Sir Harold corresponding figures of the saved the world a horrid nuisaDOS. Harnisworth (then Mr. Harold Previous year.
no plan for to-morrow, is the one Harmsworth), who early in that The principal heads under This season's east opast herring man now without whose work the year had given £10,000 for re- which a growth of revenue has fishing is the best on record, 500 system of the country cannot con- cruiting purposes to the chair-been budgetted for are, in round Linue. He is restless, and I do man of the Territorial Force As, Agures Lottery Farm, Tes. English boste having earned not know that it is surprising sociation, County of London, 324,000 Spiis, Tos, 327,000; $325,000. Most of the fish caught For I do not know that it is sent a further gift of £6,000 to the rim. 70400; Minen, Tos, is oured for the Raman and Ger putirely his fault that bo islamsociations for the same object," 5,000; and (plation Taxes, man markatu,
PORTLAND CEMENT.
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In Bags if 250 Iba net. SHEWAN, TOMER À-CO
Genel Managers.
1910,
4.
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