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The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines, amounted to 73,477 fors, and the for the week ending 16th August, sales during the period, to 70,758
tons.
1919
CURRENT COIN.
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BY MERCAETOR.”
ed in America, but for more than
of
which
U. S. S. BROOKLYN.
the Trans-Pacific has come to stay.
THE PEACE CELEBRATIONS.
FAR EAST IN THE VICTORY MARCH
Takahashi,
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ADMIRAL RODGERS NOT ON BOARD. The high erchange is, to use a hackneyed
The U. S cruiser Brooklyn. In the great Victory March in expression, an absorbing topic of conversation, commanded by Captain Kearney, London on 19th July, contingents There is no Enowing where the US Navy, came into harbour of the Allies in the Far East had rate will touch. Some shrewd yesterday at 10 a.m. from Manila their place in the Processo financiers predict that the sterling. She did not as expected, bring China was represented by General iture showed no signs of decress, ing and neither had the number.
rate next month will be fiwa shil. Admiral Rodgers.
It is now understood that Col. S. Abe, Major S. Oyaian,
Tang and General Dan; Japan by." of Government employees bean
Captain Hussey is leaving the linge. There is no justification materially reduced since the Hang Sang to join the ss. Kwai for the recent panic, which has Admiral Rodgers will come to Major N. Morita Major cessation of fighting. It will have Sang. Captain Ferguson is taking been aggravated, more or less, by Hongkong on the 4th or 5th Saturd been seen from a telegram which Captain Hussey's place.
the Chinese speculators. They instant, to transfer his flag to the Sadare Takahashi Fhave all along been against Brooklyn. He is on the General Fugil, Major Y. Kawakami, Major we published on Saturday that." the Premier
Saturday's health return shows a high exchange, and, as yet, Alava, a small ship similar to the Captain 8 Ando, Captain M has seen the reasonableness of the criticism 18 cases of gastro enteritis, of not learnt from the experience Alacrity The General Alava is Homma, Captain Ra directed
for used as flagship. She is more aand Captain S. Tanaks; and against him which 2 ended fatally, and one which they have paid
by
price of Parliament, the Press and the non-fatal occurrence of plague. The
silver must yacht than a flagship, but she Siam by Captain Nitiakara be regulated by the laws of supply will serve this latter purpose and Staff, and a contingent public, for he has addressed his All the sufferers were Chinese. colleagues on the subject in very
and demand. More than half the when the Brooklyn is overhauled form the Siamese Army. Ox outspoken terms. The time bas "Mr. F. P. J. Wodehouse, CLE, world's supply of silver is produc-} at Manila.
reaching the saluting paint at come," he says, "when each is leaving Hongkong on the 11th
Buckingham Palace the Officers Minister ought to make it clear instant for a short holiday to thirty years the price has been specific and -special information in Command of these contingents
He regulated by an arbitrary fixing concerning trans-Pacific to his control that if Shanghai and Tsingtau.
values by a Committee of three, not information gleaned from with
trade were invited to take their place the King and Royal they must make room for some-
the "Silver Triumvirate," which tabualed statistics and reports Party held forth in London, and but accurate, dependable and in the other Allied commanders, company. with body who can. This is the tem- per of the public, and it is right" The Blue
steamer the prices which this Committee dependent information and stat-and subsequently took luncheon Then he goes on to say that the Titan, which arrived in port set ruled in all the markets of theistics, much of which will not be with the King after the ceremon Heads of Departments must be yesterday, brought mails from world. The American producers otherwise available. The Trans-
The contingents from the Far compelled to undertake the un-Home. She took a battalion of feel that in the past they have not Pacific will, therefore, fill a very East attracted a good deal of was urgent need, and Mr. B.W. attention from the crowd, : who, pleasant duty of reducing the troops from England to Bombay received a price
warranted for silver. England Fleisher, the editor, who is by the on several occasions, with charse personnel, intimates to Minto relieve Territorial forces.
making the price for the metal way, also editor of the Japan teristic humour, begged in vain isters that they cannot at the
In the recent tennis tourna low so that there would be a profit Advertiser, must be congratulated for a smile from the Chinese present juncture hope Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requires | to enjoy their pre-war ments at Wimbledon, Ng Sze in the coinage of rupees for India. on the enterprise, the typography. Generals, who rode along pas- used to get-up and matter being excellent, sively and unmoved, gazing into them to forward their names and addresses with communications vacations and tells them that he Cheung, brother of Mr. Ng Sze American silver" was addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but as an expects from them by the riddle Kwong of Hongkong, was one of liquidate Britain's trade balances and the first number is a fair infinity. One of the descriptions evidence of their bona fides.
of this month reports showing the competitors. He was, however, in India, and the American pro- sample of what the future editions of the march reads as followson the methods they intend to adopt knocked out in the first round.
ducer gave the metal at a price will be then I have no doubt that Solemn visaged Foch was by so as to conform to the general
set arbitrarily by Great Britain.
no means the grimmest man on desire of the nation.
The price of silver was high up
parade. That distinction THE METHOD AND THE MAN.
to 1873, when the International Thea is a large market for all doubtedly belongs to General Now, this move by the Prime
of silver was formulated. In that dried, in Hongkong and South the mask like, impassive attitude agreement for the demonetisation varieties of sea food, fresh and Tang, of China. His solemnity was Minister is somewhat typical of the man. As the head of the
year silver sold at more than gold China at all times, particularly of the Far East. A tall, thin man, Government he has been crit-
$1.32 an ounce. It declined steadi- for Chinese products. The field probably on the right side of 40. icised for not practising what he preaches, whereupon he proceeds before Mr. N. L. Smith with steal-It touched the low point of slight cally unlimited. A large amount doubtedly impressed all. This was ly thereafter falling under $1 an for dried shrimps, if distribution he sat his horse throughout the A Chinese was to day charged ounce for the first time in 1886. can be fairly arranged, is practi-procession in a manner that un- to fasten the blame on to his subordinates. He wants to make ing a pair of leather boots from a ly less than 52 cents an ounce in of such goods are sold in Hong- not the case with Colonel Abe, it clear that he is with the public European who was drunk in Des 1915. Since then it bas increased, kong at the present time, the who led the officers and men of in the desire to see economy in Voeux Road Central. He was until Great Britain and the annual turnover of all such the Japanese detachment. Colonel Goverment circles, but he tells the sentenced to three weeks' hard United States of America took products, including awahi, beche Abe enjoyed himself and let every- Heads of Departments that it is
labour. :
control of the market and de wer, cuttle fish and one know it. Handsome, young, up to them to discover the ways and means.
stabilised the price at about $1 sharks fins, amounts to about and with an obvious sense of A Chinese who went abroad to He tacitly admits Panama for 16-years, returned silver was
an ounce. When the embargo on | 80,000 short tone. In nearly all humour, there was not much en that there is much unaeces-
lifted the price such goods, the American route that missed his attention. sary expenditure going on, does last Saturday, and was charged shot up to above gold $120. Our Consul-General -reminds us, Col Abe's dress was the last word › not seem to realise that he himself revolver, and a certain quantity ing to the cross rates between ideas which
with unlawful possession of exchange rates are fixed accord- he Chinese have certain fin comfort. He wore none of the
have called this morning in Mr. N. L. that cross rate, in turn, is fixed the product. as the Government should bear of ammunition. The case was England and America
much asual military belts and trappings, and to do with the `marketablity of and his loose fitting light khaki merely turns round to the lesser Smith's Court, but the defendant by the demand for gold. The ebrimps, for instance, the best,
In the case of tunic became him admirably. lights of the Administration and failed to appear, and his bail was
Another distinct favourite tells them that if they cannot find
world's production of gold has according to the Chinese idea, are among the leaders was undoubt the remedy they had better make
confiscated,
been steadily dropping. In 1915 those with a hard shell or skin edly Capt. Nitiakara, of Siapr. way for somebody else who
the volume of gold production in with the fish more or less in the He may be 55s. 3in. in height. He can. MT.. Lloyd George
South Africa, the United States original state; that is curled up walked the whole way. He made frankly says that there is no
and Canada was unusually large, and not flattened out. It is a quaint picture in Whitehall. defence to the fact that the
and the world output for that important that the head, tail and when be left his place to talk to. number of Government employees
year was the largest ever feet or feelers be left intact, and the British officer acting as his has hardly decreased since the
recorded. In the three succeed the colour should be red; of course, adjutant. Capt Nitiakara did not war. But who has appointed
British reduced operations the fish should be thoroughly reach the
officer's ing years these people to their posts? Surely the Premier has something tain S. Robinson) came into port caused production
practically all importan dried. They are usually sold shoulder, and as the latter talked- The Empress of Russia (Cap gold-producing countries have in Hongkong in cases con- down to him, it was obvious that to say regarding the creation of at dawn yesterday and went materially. The Transvaal mines Dried
to decline taining from 150 to 200 pounds, the gallant Siamese appreciated A week ago, in this column, we endeavoured to make out a case new offices. Anyhow, we cannot immediately into dock. She car produce over 40 per cent of the a
prawns make up the situation, for his face was as for separate and distinctive representation for Kowloon on the forget that, under the Liberal ried-242 cabin and 29 second-class total world output. The following the total imports of dried fish The rifles carried by the men of very large portion of fall of fun as that of a schoolboy. Legislative Council. We Indicated the steady growth of the Government, Mr. Lloyd George, passengers. She consigned to the European population on the peninsula, showed by reciting a list of ❘ with his pet national insurance Colony 419 bags of mails and 153 figures of the world's production into Chins which average perhap Capt.Nitiakara's party were unus- Kowloon's necessities how the demands of the people across the scheme.
"responsible for tons of milk and whisky and 60 of gold for the last four years H.K. $13,000,000 annually. harbour have been steadily ignored, in the past, and urged that a very big addition to tons of through cargo of tobacco are instructive: In 1915, gold considerable amount of such pro Kowloon should make its ples for distinctive representation in the number of Govern-
are produced in South $470,466,214; 1916, $454,176,500; ducts The Titan came yesterday from 1917, $423,590,200; and conjunction with the movement for constitutional reform. We are ment servants.
1918, China and are shipped to other glad now to learn that our suggestion for the convening of a public don't like this attitude of the 1,202 Chinese who are
Frankly, we Liverpool with a big batch of $376,775,550. We will have to parts of the country. meeting of Kowloon residents to take the matter up has fructified Premier's in shuffling out
being
wait and see how the new scheme, and that such a gathering is likely to be held in the near future-in responsibility in the matter. It
repatriated to their homes. She which we are told the Allied. Last week I drew attention to Association made a brave display brought 2,047 toas of cargo direct time for a petition to be drawn up for presentation to the new is something gained, however, for Hongkong and 7,774 tons of Governments have under con- the way Japanese shippers were with the Union Jack flanked by Governor when he arrives, or shortly thereafter. Sir Reginald Stubbe that he has seen the power and
the Conference the flags of China and Japan. In through cargo. She had 85 bags
sideration, of establishing a gold contravening is evidently in for a busy time, but we venture to think that of the and strength of public opinion and of parcels and letters for the foreign exchange transactions there is no likelihood of Con- Mott and Dickson and the Borneo Tariff rates. I understand that Fenchurch Street Messrs. Denny, settlement fund to facilitate. many questions which he will be asked to look into, none is of that he knows it is a factor Colony. greater importance than this one of devising means whereby the not to be scouted. But we doubt
rates being raised Co. Ltd, also made good showings. past neglect of Kowloon's needs shall not be perpetuated in the whether Mr. Lloyd George will Shanghai with 870 tons of general shipping quantities of gold be. although it must be borne in mind On the building of the former
The ss. Hermelin came from and to eliminate the necessity of ference future.
find any kudos coming to merchandise for Hongkong.
tween counties, if it is put into that these are minimua rates there were golden lions heads and It is not in any way over-stating the case to say that the island himself from the methods he has
There is and that individual lines are wreaths, coats-of-arms, festoons. community, officials included, have been rather given to looking adopted in taking the matter up.
The Choy Sang brought 100 operation, works out.
to conmend it as much
fres to charge what increased of laurels, red and white roses, it 'down" on Kowloon and all who live in it. Kowloon has been. the OUR MONEY-CHANGERS...
tons of general cargo from Canton. would make it unnecessary rates they can secure, which in and the Royal monogram sur- Cinderella and Hongkong has taken up the attitude of the proud
She is an Indo-China S. N. boat.
by a Crown. the some cases certain Conference mounted The new conditions of money- sisters. Now, this frame of mind might have been understandable changer's licences, which we Mes r. Jardine, Matheson and country.
to transfer gold The Lai Sang, whose agents are
lines are already doing. The Whittington Avenue the twenty or thirty years ago, when the community across the water published was small and relatively unimportant. But things have very much teresting and at the same time
on Saturday, are in-Co., had a big cargo of sugar.
amount of cargo offering to the flag of Siam was, flying from the There is no end to the making | United States via the Pacific con- Siamese Consulate General The changed since then. Europeans, in increasing numbers, have been very necessary. The revision has had 199 bags of mails.
The Hong Hwa from Singapore of trade journals in the Far East. tiuues to grow, in spite of the P. and O offices in Leadenball compelled to find homes on the peninsula, until to-day the settle-been made, apparently, because of
This is symptomatic of the value extraordinary high rate of ex-Street were decorated with flags ment across the harbour bids fair to outrival the island as a resident- the greater control which it is Saturday with a load of 2,000 tons enterprise that is sweeping over feared that rates across
The Telemachus .came on of these markets and the wave of change now ruling, and it is of all the Allies, making an in- ial centre. The place is rapidly growing, but the provision of urgent desired to institute over local of rice for Hongkong from Saigon. China and Japan.
the posing show, necessities has by no means kept pace with its growth. Moreover, coinage
There is Pacific will soon go up.
Some of the spectators of the. We see that there are Kowloon's residents comprise a very big percentage of the staffs of two rules which have to do with Bangkok 1,120 tons of general many trade journals devoted
The Kuechow brought from at present six times 6.9 Coal prices are slowly coming that the sword of the leader of Victory March may have noticed our business houses, men who are filling essential roles in the com-the displaying of conspicuous cargo for this place. mercial life of the Colony. They may not be taipans, neither may
issed down, and there is every indica the little Japanese party shone to the Far Eest, notices. One is that the words many of them aspire to a place in the so-called Society of the Colony, "Licensed Money Changer have longing to the Java-China-Japan than there were four years ago. materially lower than those of Few realised that it was one of the The Tjikini, e Dutch boat be-in America and China and Japan tion that 1920 contracts will be brightly and fiercely in the sun. but they are a compact little community, growing in numbers with to be exhibited and the other Line, came every year that passes, contributing to the well-being and is
yesterday from Go to any merchant's office and this year. The market for Jablades of Old Japan-an heirloom that.... all official prosperity of the Colony, paying their due share of rates and taxes regarding the currency of the tons of beans.
notices Shanghai with a cargo of 1,400 you cannot help being struck by panese coal shows a tendency handed down to the present and rightfully expecting, though, failing to obtain, the provision of Colony must also be prominently
the number of Far Eastern towards lower prices.
owner by legions of long-dead elementary comforts such as are necessary to ensure a reasonable displayed. These are necessary weather on her way from Seattle. them extremely well got-up. A export of rice from Bangkok for more than that Japanese katana. The Fdmore experienced rough financial magazines-most of The approximate return of the Samurai. No sword glittered standard of living.
These are some of the reasons which account for the feeling among never understand is why the ship Company.
regulations, but what we can Her agents are the Pacific Steam-new knight to enter the lists is the month of July has now been The Japanese sword was the residents of Kowloon that the time has come when their wants money-changers are not also com- The Western Knight, an Amer- described as
the Trans-Pacific, which is truly issued, the quantity for the soul of its owner. Hence its should receivo more serious consideration than they hitherto have, pelled to exhibit, in an equalls ican vessel, brought from, Seattle economie magazine of Internat valued at ticals 29,435,939. It drawn save in self defence. That a financial and month being 1,319,971 piculs mirror-like surface. It was never Under existing conditions, there is no-one on the Legislature of the conspicuous place, the rate of 9.272 tons of hemp and 1,000ional service." Colony making it his business to watch and further the interests of premium or discount between tons, of steel. Her owners are good art paper, the journal is away in view of the fact that the allLondon to see was a pretty com Printed on very was an amazing quantity to get one of these weapons was bared for Kowloon. A few years back, Kowloonites were even better off in paper and notes. That would be the U. S. Shipping Board, the characterised by sound judgment control of this cereal came into pliment from our Eastern Ally this respect than they are to-day, for the Hon. Mr. Osborne did of value to the public. As things, local agents being the Pacific and up-to-date ideas which have effect on the 13th of that month. display some practical interest in the affairs of the community on are, unless one is "in the know** the mainland. To-day we doubt whether there is one of our Un he can count on being fleeced, into port on Saturday afternoon. so successful in the East
Steamship Company. She came made most American publications Of that total 473,008 picule, valued Southend to take part in the officials who really understands Kowloon and it needs. The place and, of course, the visitor to the The Riojua Maru, with 1,900 man who has caught ever
No at ticals 11,838,721, went to celebration was the Malaya, is almost as foreign territory to most of them; neither their business Colony, who knows nothing about tons of through and 550 tons of glimpse of Chine can have failed took the second place in the list Jutland. We may recall that Singapore. Netherlands India which did such splendid work at nor their social calls bring them in touch with it; hence they have our currency, is likely to suffer general cargo came on Sunday to be convinced that a great com- with 280,499 piouls valued at ticals, this ship the gift of the Federat no true comprehension of its probleme. We are told that the now most of all. Is it too late now to from Manila. Her agente are mercial future is soon to open in 15,440,696, while Hongkong was in ed Malay Stateswhich Captain Governor will, soon after his arrival, be looking into the question of add a fresh condition to the licence Messrs. Dodwell & Co.. constitutional form. The time is therefore opportune for Kow-embodying this point?
the East. A knowledge of the the third place. 226,520 piculs H. T. Baller now commenda, and Jason to Barman that they scheme of popular representation on the
The Anye Maru brought 200 commercial conditions in this part | vained Artical25,210,572. That was in which Prince Albert foem Cornell place shall effimft for the admission of the principle TYPHOON WARNING. coil for Hongkong. She is a important for foreign and cous (100,494 picula of a value of ticals 21st inst, there was
tons of general and 4,000 tons of of the world will be increasingly mainly made up of white rice No. served, was hát eight: tinsen, Petite geople of the peninseln should have their own directly- elected member, charged with the special duty of looking after Kow-
T. K. K. vessel, coming from mercial bodies in England, 2,546,103), and white rice No. 1.warships"-- ho loon's interests. When the proposed public meeting is held-and we
The telegram quoted below was Valparaiso. Two of her passengers America and elsewhere. A The value of the rice exported promoted by the have reasons for believing that it will soon be called this is one of received by the American Con- died of comsumption. feature of the Trans-Pacific, this year from Bangkok up to the Club, who gave the questions which will be brought forward. We therefore urge all the Manila Observatory at 12 p.m. came in yesterday with 1,012 tons magazine indispensable to mer Before this year the highest total boats
sulate General, Hongkong, from: The Kwang Lee, a Chinese boat, which should serve to make the end of July is ticalo 173,489,873. £25 in prize residents to make a a point of attending, for by the interest which they manifest in the gathering will the sincerity of yesterday Typhoon N. E of of through and 3,470 tons of chants is the service bureau, for any twelve months was a" Malaya' their demanda be judged;
Aparri, moving N.N.W or N. direct cargo from Shanghai. which undertakes to supply „trife under ticals 100 millions.—–—– priza,—–
HONGKONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1919.
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With the fleet which came to