FAR EAST TRADE.
British Returns for Last Year.
The Boar of Trade returns show that British trade with the Far
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH..
COURTESIES TO THE PRESS.
Some Favours and a Sequel.
and
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EXTRA
HONGKONG, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1914.
DR. A. P. WILDER.
Brilliant Speech to Young China.
distrust it and he might fear ite reaotionary policies, but a gov. ernment was like a home. It the frame-work of the country, and it was only in the On the 2nd-inet. Dr. A. Pfarest possible airoumstances, Wilder, formerly American Consul when things were absolutely
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LIFE OF A BOY.
Is Too Much Pat Upon
The Schoolmaster ?
The place of the parent and of General in Hongkong, was given hopeless, that good citizens the schoolmaster in the life of a
The Late Rebellion.
J
BOXING WORLD.
The Cross v Rivers Combat.
When Leach Cross emerged from the dreadfully effective lick- ing administered by Ritchie, I thought he was taking a tremen-
GREAT STAMP DEAL.
Record Price for Lord
Crawford's Collection.
ex
The old newspaper me was
The greatest deal in the history Esat participated in the general reminiscing. "It is customary to a farewell reception by members opposed the government. It was boy was discussed at the annual dous chance to travel four daye of the world's stamp collecting expansion. Taking the value of extend ourtesina to the press," of the World's Chinese Students, not enough that the Government general meeting of the Incorporat across country, eating canned was made known last month by goods as the standard, it is he said, and I've had a few fae Federation at Shanghai, on the was uncongenial to them; that it ed Association of Assistant Masters food, drinking tank writer (even the purchase of the late Earl of ssen under exports that cotton one shown me, but about the occasion of his impending depar was manned by men they did not in Secondary Schools at the if poured out of veritable Crawford's collection of British yarn shipments to the Dutch most pronounced favcu" that ever ture for America on resigning his like It was not enough that the London Day Training College", East Indies and the Straits Settle-was bestowed upon me was from Consalar appointment there. Dr. Government was unjust and cruel last month.
"spring" bottles, the odds are stamps. The collection, reputed on the
"tank") and then to be the finest of its kind in the ments rose £7,000 and £23,000 the Judge of a court in a small Wa Ting-fang presided, Dr. Those things did not justify Mr. J. C. Isard (The Lays emerging from a shill, cool, world, has been bought by Mears. respectively compared with 1912 country town in the South. It was Wilder was to leave Shanghai on rebellion. It was only when the School), the retiring chairman, bracing climate to the tropic Edwin Healey and Co., on behalf Exports to China and Hongkong, the spirit babind the favour that the 6th, inat. for Japan, and after situation was absolutely hopeless said that whatever trend public summer of California, Had he of Mr. R. B. Sparrow, of Taly- however, fell off some £20,000. has always impressed me! a short stay there will proceed to and when the sentiment of the affairs might take, the school stepped from the train and into bont-on-Uak, Brecknock. The
"Myael! As regards, however, the great
other tvo
America, joining his family in world endorsed it, that rebellion master was little likely to count the ring it would have been purchase price, it is stated, is staple of the trade with the reporters were covering a son- San Francisco and eventually was justified. Rebellion, said Dr. for less in the boy's life. better than waiting the two weeks close upon £20,000. The price countries of Eastern Asia, cotton satinnst trial at the county seat, making his home at Berkeley.
Wilder, was anutterable. There **The father and the mother,' in the new climate, which was constitutes a record figure for the piece goods, the advance hore is a village of perhaps 300
In the course of his speach, Dr. they attacked the establishment of confessedly already do count just long enough to let down disposal of a single collection. a very considerable one, and may or 400 people. In some manner Wilder said he was a hero wor the country, they ruined their less, and in proportion every mental sinew and thew, as The late Earl of Crawford ser- well give satisfaction to Lanca the Judge had heard that repre-shipper, and perhaps at times he homes, and affected millions of as the State increasingly plans only those undergoing it can ionaly devoted himself to stamp ahire manufactures. Following sentatives of the metropolitan overdid it. But when he saw a hard working peasants. Even to and supervises the life in adole-understand. I have been thrice collecting all his life, and valuable another good increase in the press were coming, and he sent man who had done something think of such a thing, because of sence, so, potent though they reacclimated, and I want no more stampa which is unique in the month of December. British exhis own carriage to the wharf, he admired him. He advised all ambition, was one of the greatest always could be, the parents until the final case, when nothing history of philatelic enterprise. port of these goods to China we arriving by boat, to most us the young Chinese men and wo iniquities that a man could be count again the less.
will matter much. So Cross met One of his collections was sold exhibits rise in value and convey us to the courthouse, men to become identified with guilty of.
"Who, then, the more The Rivers who was trained to some time ago to a London dealer, in the whole year of over That flattered us tremendously, some one thing, whether kinder-
master; for they and their fellows, the minute, to the very hour. but the stamps in the present £3,600,000 na compared with but we were scarcely prepared for garten, libraries, work among the The last rebellion in the sum be they statedly Civil Servants or Rivers was badly defeated by sale formed a complete and, in 1912, and of not far short of subsequent attentions.
poor, politics, reforma or literaturo, mor, said Dr. Wilder, was brought not, must be agents of the State Ritchie, much worse beaten than many
ways, remarkable £2,000,000 as against 1911.
In the presence of a grow and to excel in it. The improve on not only by the ambitious and in this affair. And so great and Cross, who suffered no disgrace, hibition. An American collection Sales to the Dutch East Indies that packed the little courtroomsment in the home-life of the avaricious and by men who growing a matter is it that we but earned encomium beyond which was formed by the late also expanded to the extent of almost to suffocation he ordered Ohina was one of the things took their own bodies into esfety shall do well to look not alone to ments £100,000, and to Siam from the lawyers in the case and The home should be the place parily brought on by the unthink heads and boards, or Ministers of see that plucky lad whipped "outaway the most valuable part of £800,000 to the Straits Settle the bailiff to take the trial table that appealed keenly to him. in the hour of peril, but it was regulations and inspections, to question. Cross was the favourite, Eare is still unsold. The British and I am glad I was not there to stamps, however, are far and £180,000 As against this, give it to us.
where father, mother and children ing people, who thought it would State.
of his boots" in twenty rounds, the late Earl's vast accumulation." Japan's purchases fell off to the
There's an old washstand could meet, especially in their be a good thing to give Peking "God's Englishmen."
prostrated until "be sat The stamps which now pass to extent of nearly £300,000, and out in the lockup, be euid. Bring leisure hours, and read good scare. The horrors of a re "We must look somewhere mately sobbing-not crying, Mr. Sparrow, himself a well- exports to the Philippine Islands that in for the learned counsel to books, good magazines, talk over bellion, the suffering endured on beyond those, lest-doing per-mind-in his corner, trying to known collector, comprise a sheet also show a shrinkage. British
put their books and papers on,' things and have good friends. the battle field, were not the hope mush and well for our
how it of the famed 1d, black V.R. series "Bolievo me, I was embarras The new doors that were being worst features. It means anar- boys-we yet
fail. of
explain to himself licen piece goods trade with the
the happened.
and a sheet of the 23. bláe (1840). sad and so were the other follows, opened for the women of China chy, and the ruin of their coun, best and most; whereas we The bout opened under the soft without lines. These examples Tue examination of the first were one of the most hopeful try. Men would get all the follow should, and might, even though sunlight of late afternoon, and in themselves bave a value of witness was begun in a rather low phases of New China. It was ing they wanted if they were failing and missing in many finished under the electrics. about £5,000. There is one set tone by the prosecuting attorney, wonderful that from Chinese equal to it. The work of the things, yet set in them some seed Twice Cross was floored by olgan of Imprimatar plate numbers, and the Judge halted him. women, strong in all personal country depended upon the and stir in them some impulse,
Speak louder,' be ordered, virtues, but uneducated oa: mo-younger men. Men fell off in moving and growing, from which knock-down punches, concerning which is said to be the only set which there was no question, for extent, and the essays, trial dern lines, and without the know their generation, but the Govern they shall be found strong for "nino." A short shop to the colours and proofs, which are ledge of modern topics, such ament ran on, The older men had every event, noble in all circum-obin in the fourth round, and a included, are unmatched for value race as the Chinese had been got their work to do, but the stances. God's Englishman, right and left to the jaw in the and condition. But produced. But, what would be the young men were needed. Their our memorial."
twelfth round, a fraction of a Bosides the collection proper, still another was to come. The result, asked Dr. Wilder, when time was coming, and their pre- The Chairman (Mr. Saunders) turning a little nearer to the old Judge invited all three of us to the Chinese mother, possessed sent daty was to it themselves said he thought they ought to second apart, being the trouble there is included as part of the level after the boom, of 1912. bis house to dinner that evening, already of the grand qualities for the great responsibility when oppose the tendency towards makera. At least five times Cross sale the reconstructed plates of all The silk broad stuffs trade with and introduced us to his two of the Chinese, added know it came. He advised the young parents counting for less in re the same two countries shows an perfectly lovely daughters." ledge of the best things men to get in when they were gard to the training of their improvement: In view of the
"Was that all? asked
of modern culture? Thoy all able, and quoted the saying: children. He thought too much reports concerning the projected
knew that the children, epeat" He carries the sword who is was being put upon schoolmasters building of foreign soap factories in Chian-with an eye apparently
mothers. A child took the in- Wilder did not see why the most of their time with the strong enough to lift it." Dr. in that way. to the possible raising of the
print of the mother, and to-day young men of China, trained" Chinese Customs tariff-we my
thousands of young Chinese wo- abroad and in the colleges of note that soap to a value of
men were being trained all over bina, should not prove to be men $143,000 was exported thither
China, and they were preparing of the highost power, from Great Britain last year, this
the mothers of a great and better being a decline of £22,000 on the
race than of the past, previous twelve months. More soal was sent to the Straits, and considerably larger supplies of the fertiliser, sulphate of ammo nis, to the Dutch East Indies and Japan. Indeed, this trade has visite to the Aldershot military it was necessary to keep on current financial year, the Roval different ides of truthfulness from verbial giant refreshed with wine, samples of black V.R.s and two grown in the case of Japan to a hospital in order to learn some-modern lines, to build this beet of Sovereign and the Royal O something less to appeal to.
Dutch East Indies improved very
slightly, but shipments to Japan
have been rapidly falling off in
the last two years, and last year's figures show a decline again of nearly £40,000. Coming to woollen and worsted tissues, Japan has here proved a consider- ably better customer than in the previous year, whereas in the oase of China the totale are re
so the gentlemen of the press can hear you.'
"Those were rather marked attentions, don't you think?
suspicious listener.
old newspaper man vory gently: "No, not quite all," said the "I married one of the daughters."
MORE THAN LIKELY.
Some time ago, while she was
Wanted a New Press. still Princess Margaret of Con-!
It was important that every naught, the Crown Princess of Sweden, who had been holiday country, doing what China was
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was sent staggering across the the British stamps that have been ring, and what probably saved issued, whether used or unused Cross was Rivers broken thumb The arrangement of the stamps is in the eigth round. Only once was perfect, and the stamp bistory Rivers in trouble, when a right attached, which was written by "The parents," he declared, hand crashed on his chin, and he the late Earl, adds considerably are shoving too much on to tis. staggered back with head snap to their interest. a the collection.
came there are many reconstructed would not complain of that for ging over. After him moment if I did not think it is Cross, crafty as a snake, swinging sheets each containing several
jabbing, crossing, trying to lift handred stamps. very detrimental to the best inter the perfect cover to the jaw-bat It is the most complete so- osts of the boys, I have alwaya. felt that boys who lose their never thinking of the perfectly camalation of English stampa оред solar plexas. Rivers both used and unused, and mother in early life and boys who
the lasted to
gong, and envelopes and wrappers, that has are sent home from India and do
drank Cross
the applause ever been got together. The out- and came out like the pro-standing feature is, of course the not know their mothers, have a other boya. There is always It was too late! Rivers ducked penny blues, and if the stampa "The mother ought to be the under the first swing, came up bad been sold separately a bigger almost chest to.. obost with price would have been obtained. value of over £1,500,000. Great thing about nursing and "first the new on the heat of the old, were laid down at Portsmouth and to build up a clean and in-and Devonport Dockyards respec British gent smaller supplies of aid."
"One of the doctors at the hos fluential Press. He did not know tively on January 15. There, one person that any ohild really Cross, smashed him to arm's ship, bridge, and boiler plates,
known the person whom he can hook uppercut, and then drove him but that nation's purchases of was rather inclined to partronize giving the people, of China. be smaller, slower, and less cost trust utterly, then there is always like a stray sheep with stinging A Year's Petroleum Production. and of black sheets 10 Japan, pital, not knowing who she was, what the native papers were like the other three ships, will trusts, and if the child has never length with a right and a left
tremendously than the vessels of the Queen that kind of uncertainty about in value, and reached what more about her, he remarked one work for a great Press. They Elizabeth class began last year: truth speaking which comes with backing like the letter "S" about leum during 1913 will work out textile machinery were doubled her. Wanting to know something but there was
Instead of using oil they will cowardice. There are certain employ coal.
New Battleships. The two remaining battleships ranking, paid a series of incognito doing, should reorganize itself. of the naval programme for the
appears to be a record figure. day: China has also considerably incres-
"I'm sure I must know your sed her demand for this machinery, people. 1 go about a good deal."
suggested
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wanted a newapaper that had the confidence of the people. It was not enough to find fault with existing conditions. Growling
the editoriale did not amount to
As regards the other figures "Possibly you may have met dealing with metals and metal my father,' manufactures, decreases are" re- Princess.
corded for Japan in the case
of pig and wrought iron, and
galvanized and corrugated sheets, bat an important increase
relations which exist between Salling Ships And The China
Trade.
persons and children which can- Two of three large sailing not be taken over by the school mach. They wanted the editorial vessels chartered by Messrs, master.
Standard Oil June from the
man's
Mr. W. A. Newsome, referring
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lefts, blinded and dazed, The world's output of petro the ring, cowering in a neutral at about 370,000,000 barrels. It corner to avoid the final blow is now estimated that the capital invested in the industry is when the last going bounded.
Later, Cross said: 'Rivera is roughly, £500,000,000; but it is the best light-weight I have met.no less remarkable that the pre- "It's more than likely," he said full of facts and figures; one Arnhold, Karberg and Co. laet Lower Than Mechanics' Wage He hits harder than Ritchie, sent enormous output in being another go at Ritchie. I would 10,000 acres in actual develop. confidently. "What's his name?", that was sound in argument, and Company for the China import to a statement that there was a Brown, or 'Murphy, and deserves produced from an area of only
that was the one that would "The Duke of Connaught is was the quiet and totally unex-/count. A good editorial was the trade are now on their way to New tendency for salaries to improve,like to meet Rivers again, às I am ment. The United States easily
York, say the Land C. Epapres of said the figures did not bear that one which aroused #
better," Rivers said: "Give world's premier producer, with shown in the case of tinned plates rected reply.
passion, and which made him January 9. These are the four-out. The matter could not be not at my best form and can do maintains its position as the Cross credit for all etamins and about 31,000,000 tone, or, rough- and sheets. China took more
"Recently," he continued, "a mixed or yellow metal, wrought came froin the Far East last year, realize that the man who wrote masted barques Daylight of 3,566, passed lightly over. iron bars, ets,, tinned plates and As regards rubber, the value of it was clear and clean cut in his not tons, and Drumelton, of 1,820
kong, with full cargoes respec- the salarice paid to sssistant masin seventeen rounds, in the nine; total output. Russia comes next wen. for it sheets, lead, and old "iton and imports from the Straits and the mind. They must appeal to the pet tons, which sailed from Hong-comparison was made between gameness. Beaten to a standstill ly, 60 per cent. of the world's hard I did not know where I was lowing with 300,000 tons, fitters and steel. "A general increase is also Federated Malay 8tates shows thinking.
favourable weather they may be muneration of shown in exports to the Straits little difference as compared with they who told the others what to on Nov. 16 and Dec. 3. With tors and mistresses, and the re-teenth he rallied and hit me an with 9,500,000 tons, Merolo
were scared stiff" tons, the Dutch East Indies with Settlements, where Great Britain the figures of the previous twelve do. So he hoped to see an expected to arrive at New York mechanica in engine shops, and for a second or two, and my Roumania with a round 2,000,000
actual improved Press in China. He
the Daylight during the first of the comparison was to the dis- handlers
Seventeen of the twenty rounds 1800,000 tons, and Galicia and has sent larger supplies of a'eel months, whereas the
were with Rivors, two for Cross, India each with a round 1,000,000 bars and angles, iron or steel quantities received rose 100,000 wished the young man in Shang- March, the Drumeltan during the advantage of the former."
and one round even-Sporting tone. Of the Russian fields, rails (increase £100,000); various centals of lb. in the former case hai would have an organ
four-master, the "Brilliant, of
Chronicls.
Baku easily holds first place with manufactures of steel and iron, and 80,000 centals in the case of own, backed by wisdom and first half of April. Another
430,000,000 poods. Grosny has Mesara. Lloyd, Matheon and produced approximately 68,000,
Was
of their
£30,000), unenumerated mach-alone were almost equal to our say every week, a periodiosl
Duty to the Government.
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Bast Indies Rallway.
A sure sign of general progress
- Tea Report.
rail locomotives and other prime the Federated Malay States, moderation on lines with which 3.906 net tons, will probably bel movers (inorense in each case Rubber imports of the Siraits they were well informed, 50 that despatched from Hongkong on or is the extension of the capital of inery (increase £70,000), galvani-imports of the Brazilian produst.might be issued which would before Jan 31. When the Stan- the Dutch East India Railway Carritt's report dated London, 1000 poods, and Maikoo bas in- zed and corrugated sheets (in- Hemp ahipments from the Philip carry great weight. The Prasadard. Oil Company seemed like Company, the largest in the Dutch January 15, concerning China creased it output by 50 por ly to abandon these boats, the East India. Subscriptione have to Since our last the market has sent to 16,000,000 pooda. zed a 630,000), and beer and ale pises fell off 19,000 tons in called for great wisdom, and it boom in ocean freights opme, and been opened for £6,000.000 41 maintained its firmness for black- Among European fields the best
quantity, but the higher prices called for money.
the cost of transporting rough per cent, bonds being the 5th, leaf teas, and a steady demand showing is made by Roumania, (an increase of £44,000).
With regard to imports ruling make the total value
The speaker continued that he cargo from China to the United Uth, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th sories continues for both common and which has produced during the the Far East
tea in 1912. Considerably less soya was so near being a private States became almost prohibitive of f1,000,000 each. The com good qualities at fully previous year something like 2,000,000 The chance was thereupon seized pany engages to make the bonde rates. In Foochow Tess there is tone. In the matter of exports it receipts of have fallon off in value as much beans came to hand. Strails the citizen, that he could touch upon compared with 1911: Silk from quantity and valne. The ballion titude towards the Peking Go-way of counteracting the advance Jaly 1, 1914, and farther on each from 51d, to 78. per lb. and United States, the capital in as £190,000, and £270.000 as exhibits an increase in both politios, and refer to their st. for employing these sailers by redeemable at par, f 21,000 on rather more inquiry for Panyonge now comes second only to the the same country also exbibits a figures reveal a big shrinkago in verament. It was the business in steamer freights. The vessels first of July of the following years several parcela bave changed vested in the Roumanian oil in.
ments were still his government, He might not route, as in the earlier days of made redeemabla the year before have also found buyers from 101. £16,000,000 sterling
like the Government, he might American trade with Chins.
from
Okina
the (£2,000,000) slightly higher then
larger supplies arrived from though the Japan Practically no eager considerable,
plus the interest.
to 1s. Id per lb.