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TELEGRAPH.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
DAY BY DAY.
The Mines Again.
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CURRENT COIN.
(By "Mercator. ")
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY
Home papers are making much hay of the fact that the Interior of China has not much supply of} goods. That is true, but the MEN ARE DISTURBED NOT BY
dealers in the interior are afraid
When the
It must be minera' strike THINGS THEMSELVES, BUT BY
to place orders,
Lawyers as well as doctors have occurred last October it was THEIR OPINIONS OR THOUGHTS
I have previously described the conceded that there is a better been known to go on strikes It found in the result that there CONCERNING THOSE THINGS.speech of the Chairman at the feeling in the markets; in other 1916 the barristers practising in geod never have been a stoppage. George Eliot.
annual meetings of shareholders words, there is more confidence Sierra Leone were so dissatisfied After the resumption of work
of the Hongkong and Shangbai in the future, the opinion being with the judge acting as sub- this contention was put forward Saturday's health return showed Banking Corporation as being that we have experinced the stitute for the ablef justice while on behalf of Labour as well as one non-fatal case of cerebro-similar in importance in this part worst, and that the tide must the latter was on leave that they by the other side. Seeing that spinal fover (French). the dispute hinged chiofly upon increased production, of which the miners at first doolined to:
in
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having made some insulting re- marks from the bench to a barrister named Hacket. A gen-
of the world to a Guildhall affair. surely change in the near unanimously determined to give The financial review on Saturday futuro. Conditions in Hongkong up pleading before him. Legal At to-morrow's Sanitary Board by the Chairman, the Hon. Mr. are considerably better than those business was at a standstill until give any guaranteo at all, it is meeting reference will be made E.V.D. Parr, traversed a wide obtaining in Shanghai, where the the chief justice returned. What not easy to see how the Labour to an outbreak of rinderpest in a area and presented the salient speculation in commodities and appears to be the earliest of legal and outstanding features of Exchange has paralysed business strikes was brought on in 1789, argumont is to be substan-cattle- shed at Chu Liu.
the trade of Hongkong dur- to an extent which will take a owing to the Earl of Clonmell, tiated. But moro importa at
ing the
past year
a long time to get back to half the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, than allotting blame for
We are informed by the Right very succinct and highly pre-war normal level.. past disputes is the provention of Rov. Bishop 1. Pozzoni that refreshing and candid manner. future ones. When a settlement Father Lynch is leaving Manila The speech was
a vindication:
A financial review of the year's eral meeting of the Dublin Bar was arrived at in the autumn to-morrow by a. s. Taming,
of what I had all along stated in it was provided that the whole
these columns, in fact in many trade of Hongkong would necess-was called, at which a resolution question should como up for
parts the Chairman crossed the arily be incomplete without some strongly condemning Lord Olon- complete adjustment in March. Soventy five head of Ayrshire and dotted the "t's" of my reference to China politically mell's conduct was passed. It As a matter of fact, the miners milch cows for the Dairy Farm contentions. It is re-assuring to In his speech, the Hon. Mr. Parr was decided, moreover, that until speedily increased production to arrived yesterday by the Glenapp, learn that the Bank, in dealing tried to show that the political his lordship apologized to Hacket a point which for a part of the There were six calves born on the with the present situation, is pro- situation in China is still very no barrister would take a brief to
Any Western mind period raised their earnings by way out.
ceeding with caution, hut is also serious.
appear in the King's Benoti or more than the desired 2 por
"carrying
out the traditional trained in the science of European sign any pleadings for that court. day, going to show that the
Mr. H. A. Jones, manager of policy of the Bank, and liberally, politica would find the present "The strike experiment," writes a contemporary chronicler, was stipulation by the Government
Montrie and Co., re-if judiciously, assiting our friends political situation in China a and the mineowners could
unravel if scarcely have been an unreason turned from Home loave by the whose resources are temporarily most complicated problem and actually tried. The judges sat, but no counsel appeared, no cause were the markets. able one. The result, indood, had 5.5. Glenapp yesterday, accom-immobilised by the stagnation of difficult
This is a duty Westeru standards
ap was prepared, the attorneys all
་་ government that devolves on the Bank, and it plied. The word an unlocked-for development, the panied by Mrs. Jones.
vanished, and their lordships had coal scarcity being aueceeded by
will please every one to learn in Europe and America connotes the court all to themselves. There was no alternative, so next day The total output of the Kailan that the Hongkong and Shanghai organisation, but this is not so Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requires a glut. This was in the com- them to forward their names and addresses with communications parative sense, because actually Mining Administration's mines Banking Corporation is discharg-in China, and the deplorable Lord Clonmell published a very the wook onding 12th ing it to the best of its power. want of an "organised" state ample apology by advertisement address to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but as an the production is still well behind for
the pre-war standard. But com- February, amounted to 975 tone It is a strong sign of rooted makes it difficult to interpret the in the newspapers." evidence of their lana fides.
All communications intended for publication should Le address-petition is very keen, especially and the sales during the period, stability that the Bank has political events. Highly develo-
on the part of America; and coal to 77,187 tona.
theped party government is non est been able to withstand is being supplied to Europe by
world trade crisis and to carry and the position would not have
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1921.
TAKING STOCK.
more than over the risk of losing
agreement by which placed ander
of
MOBBI8.
trade.
a
of all
American markets.
On round. this came
Un
to
One of the problems of the
ently,
the
novel and takes manager. Last
Australia and oven by the East. The Warwick Comedy Com. on its vast business as usual, or, been difficult to unravel had business-like author is to make The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telograph" is 836 so that just now stoppages moanpany is to open a brief season at/shall Isay, almost as usual. But there been only one party to his material go as far as possible. The rate per quarter and por meusem, proportional. Subscrip-markets. Negotiations have been the Theatre Royal to-morrow the crisis was only overcome by have control for any length of It seems to have been solved by tlons for any period less than one month will be charged as for a proceeding in accordance with the night, when Bernard Shaw's the taking of swift measures to time. It is due to this want of a Mr. Cosmo Hamilton, who has Arms and Man" will be staged, support credit and to uphold large and well-recognised party been explaining to an American that Chins finds herself con-interviewer how to sell a good terms of the provisional settle- full mouth.
tinually resorting to compromise idea four times over. His own ment, but a deadlock appears to her should be a big house to
as the only method of solving, plan, if he has the germ of a plot, have been reached over the sub-witness this play, which is new
to Hongkong.
Looking back over the past her internal difficulties. Here is is first to work it out in a novel ject of national as opposed to district wages. It is a thorny |
year, one wonders that things the crux of the whole problem and get acquainted with the question. Surely, though, the Professor Danenberg's pupils were not worse than they turned and the seat of all China's characters. He disposes of the
same, the political troubles.
serial rights to a magazine editor. miners must this time recognise, are to give their annual recital out to be. All the
Next he sells the book rights to in their own interests, the need of at the City Hall to-morrow at events of this period have left
a publisher. Then he makes a avoiding a stoppage.
5.30 p.m. A splendid programme their mark. The first quarter of
The returns of the trade of play out of the germ idea- The Status of Sarawak. has been arranged, and Lady last year was satisfactory from
A question asked in Parliament Stubbs has signified her intention business point of view, and had Hongkong for the fourth quarter not necessarily a dramatisation
statistical department of the. it to the other day in regard to the of being present. The recital will the internecing strife not occurr- of last year, just issued by the of
he repeated on Thursday.
ed in the South our statistics of status of Sarawak comes as a
losses and failures would almost Imports and Exports Office, afford of all, he sells the story as cinema reminder of how British subjects)
Young authors, says Betback which trade in general Mr. Hamilton, are often so excited cooking adventure have now and The second organ recital of the certainly have shown another sufficient testimony of the great material.
all reduction
has suffered through the world then attained sovereign rank. present serica will be given in St.
top
at the prospect of appearing fa The questioner inquired whether John's Cathedral on Monday the serious drop in Exchange and crisis. There has been an all-print that they sign away to a appeal lies from the Rajah of next at 9.15 p.u when the
the mants. Stocks of imported goods serial rights but the book rights, Sarawak to the Governor of the vocalist will be Miss Bertha the stagnation of the British and round decline in most depart-magazine editor not only the Straits Settlements, and whether Meischke, who has not before whole, the Banks in Hongkong were very large, while the con- the dramatic rights, the foreign suming markets were glutted rights, the cinerna rights-all for the Home Government hae any appeared here. The programme supported credit and saved many with stocks of China the price of the serial. Each control over the administration, will include Mendelssohn's big from breaking up. The situation to which Colonal Amery replied Sonata in F Minor and a number still is not good, but if the Banks produce so that export trade version, he advises, should be re- that Sarawak is an independent of popular items, by request. stand by the side of the old languished during the period. garded as a separate entity and those During the fourth quarter the should be marketed independ- State, over which Britain has no
established firms, or control except so far as provided
The Hon. Treasurer of H. M. S. established during the war, there imperts into Hongkong were The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation ranke high by the agreement of 1888. The amongst the financial institutions of the world, and because of that fist Rajab, Sir James Brooke, Titania's K5 lund informs us that is no reason why, with fair trade estimated at £26,966,559, against raised was ing prospects, they will not be 37,854,45% in the corresponding
King George's chef is one of fact and of the large part it plays in regard to the markets of the East, received a grant of this extensive the total amount the annual speech of its Chairman is invariably invested with much and fertile territory in North- $3,284.60 made up as follows. able to wipe out their deficite. quarter of 1919, while the exporte
The Pharies' entertainment, The advantages which society from Hongkong were valued at the kings of his craft. At eleven In it, the past West Borneo from the Sultan, in importance and not a little value to business men. is reviewed and future prospects dwelt upon. Mr. Part, in his lengthy 1841. His son, the present Rajah, 81,623.75; 4th Submarine Flotilla's derives from a good system of £27,101,699 against £36,676. Of o'clock every morning he makes
dance including a
donation of banking depend to some extent course, the returns for the fourth his appearence in his office, and utterance on Saturday, reviewed a period of almost unexampled concluded the anxiety, both for bauking organisations and business companies. 1888,
Sarawak $63 from H.M.S. Marazion, $801. upon the point of development quarter of 1919 were converted at arranges the menu for the day. British10; collected from the ship's com which the system has reached. In a higher exchange than the fourth This done, so capable and reliable The follow-is his staff, bo has nothing more The early part of 1920 was marked by a continuance of the trade boom was
developed banking quarter of last year. experienced in the previous year, but, as was pointed out, the expected protection, When the Ranee, pany of H.M.S. Hawkins, $90.20; a highly
collected at cinema on board system the advantages derived ing is the comparitive table of to do until the time of prepar- reaction soon set in, and with it came hard times for commercial wife of the first Rajab, visited. M. S. Tamar, $339; collection from it are numerous. It facilit-excbangé conversione during the alion arrives, when he takes concerns in the Orient. The circumstances which created this England, Queen Victoria received situation were succinctly stated by Mr. Parr, and one gathered the her as the consort of a reigning at football match Hawkins vates exchange of commodities and three months-- impression, that, whilst the times still call for the observance of prince. The questioner's point Hollyhock, $206.35; collected at enables the wheels of commerce cautious methods, the worst is past and the immediate outlook more as to whether appeal lies from football match Navy v. Army, to run smoothly. When the tran-
$224.20.
quility of the financial world was encouraging than it has been for a considerable time. It was the Rajah to the Governor of the
much disturbed, the Hongkong particularly reassuring in this connection to be told that, despite all Straits Settlements may have
and Shanghai Bank, acting on A Chinese was this morning the policy which it had formerly the talk of overstocked markets, the stocks of imported goods been prompted by confusion with
means confined to the kitchen. not Hongkong and the China ports aro
island excess the neighbouring lying in
of charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell pursued, extended accommodation
Our imports during the fourth There are, in addition, pastry ivo and
that there are weicomo indications trado Labuan, which, at one time under in connection with an indecent which it deemed to be necessary, Boon resuming its normal course. Equally gratifying was the the jurisdiction of the British offence. Wearing the long coat and thus exerted itself in main quarter of last year from Japan and confectionery departments,
Borneo Company, was which is often regarded as ataining the general
practically assertion that the future prospecta of the eatton industry in China North
financial word
stationary.to say nothing of a bakehouse, are encouraging. These comments, together with the general signs transferred to the Straits Settle mark of respectability, this man, equilibrium. The decline of our compared with the comparitive and a coffee-room, each with its of returning confidence in the world's economic affairs to which the mont Administration in 1905. who said he recently arrived foreign trade, the depression of period of 1919, the figures heing own staff of experts who, under Chairman alluded, warrants the statement that Mr. Parr's speech Sarawak and Labuan constitute a from Cantou to look for a job, the American and British markets, 22,747,875, against £2.505,825. the chef's direction, produce the can be regarded as one tinged with a considerable measure of joint diocase, whose Bishop, Dr. was, on the evidence of Mise the enormous stacks of China Imports from the United Kingdom most seductive of delicacies,
the from Patisserie Fondantos optimism.
Danson, bas just been honoured Maria B.dos Remedios, of No. 2 produce in the different consum-were double, while from In his references to the political and financial situation in China, by a Scottish University.
Mosque Street, shown to ing countries must be regarded as British Dominions, Colonies and Glace a la Siamoise, the Chairman had the same story to tell as his predecessor last year.
bo a cause of constant annoy unavoidable phenomena arising Protectorates there was a serious shrinkage. The principal decrea- It was shown that, despite the huge sums released for the free use Imperious Angora.
ance to persons passing the loc-out of the situation. It may como as a surprise to ality. Miss Remedios stated that
ses under this head occurred in of the Chinese Government from the Custome and Salt revenues,
the imports of Australian wheat, accosted by the the country is still suffering financial embarrassment; that the feud many people that the Angora she was between North and South is as acute as ever; that the Central Government, which is not un defendant a few days ago as she
The Chairman said:"Speak-practically no flour, coming in Government is more or less impotent in enforcing its authority over accredited constitution, or bas going up in a chair. Though con- ing generally, the stocks of im- during that period owing to the
United Kingdom several provinces; and that the country is still burdened with the not been hitherto, holds a number sidorably upset, she took, notice ported goods lying in the Hong-existence of the embargo. Again: United States upkeep of a scidiory more than sufficient for its needs. A year ago, of British prisoners, and "refuses" of the defendant. On the follow-kong and China ports are not ex-in normal times we take a lot of
discuss their the Bank's Chairman spoke of the Customs and Salt surpluses having to
release. ing day, on returning to her cessive, and no more than was pig lead from Australia. In the Japan ... been poured out like water upon sand. It was the same story that had Mark the term! This semi-office with her sister and a lady normal in pre-war times. It is fourth quarter of 1919 our imports India to be told this year. From the Customs, no less a sum than Tla. brigand organisation, in the friend, she again saw the defen-known that the markets in the of pig lead amounted to £35,046, 23,150,000 was released for Government use, and from the Salt words of the British Under dant in the same spot. Apparent interior are bare of supplies of while in the period under review Gabelle the surplus handed over was $64,000,000. Yet we are told Secretary for Foreign Affairs, ly getting scared of their ap these goods, so it is hoped that the returns show blank. The im- that the Government is still in dire straits for money to declines to even discuss the pearance the defendant walked trade will soon resume its normal port trade with India also suffer meet its many obligations and administration expenses. It need release of the prisonore. At the off at a rapid pace in an ondea- course, and there are already ed. For instance there were no not be wondered at, therefore, that the Consortium is standing firm Near East conference in London vour to make his escape. He was welcome indications of this." Iimports of jute or gunay bags dur- in its determination not to loan China any money unless there is an the delegate of this precious followed to Hollywood Road and have already stated that the trade ing the period under review, United Kingdom accompanying guarantee that it be used for reconstructive purposes. Government put forward last Mr. Parr made a good point when he advocated a railway service week a long string of conditions arrested by a constable as he was tide is beginning to turn, but while the imports of tin from the United States
going up the staircase of a certain everyone will not agree with the Straits Settlemente totalled only Japan ... moulded on the same lines and characterised by the same integrity for a settlement with vanquished house. The evidence given by Chairman when he says that £7,900 against £24,443. The im Australia as those of the Customs Service. He might have carried it Turkey much as if the Porte his friend was ineffectual in sup-stocks of goods in the godowns of port trade with the United States India
The Straits Settlements further, for it is painfully evident that until we get honest adminis- had emerged conqueror. There porting the statement of the Hongkong and China parts are not also suffered very badly.
mention of a return or prisoner that it was tration and a rightful use of funds in all branches of government intia no
ዜ Case more than what was normal in following table of imports and ex-Canada China, the country will go on committing itself to endless obligat-exchange of prisoners, but the of mistaken identity. As a pre-war times. No doubt these ports convey a wealth of informa-Phillipine Islands
Under Secretary hopes that "the last ions, with small prospect of its being able to meet them.
resort the prisoner said stocks have bean slowly going into tion of the rise and fall of the France Mr. Parr's final words, in which he surveyed the present world matter will be settled at the that he was in ill-health and had consumption, but surely the barometer in the case of our trade outlook, are deserving of wide currency. He rightly painted out present Conference." It looks been advised by the doctor to Chairman does not include with important countries:- that the outstanding cause of the world's troubles to-day is loss of as if Bekir Sami Bey needs a take the air in the vicinity of the piece-goods, the stocks of which, purchasing power, and that no quack remedies will avail. He spoke few plain words.
of
of political unrest "born of aspirations economically impossible of fulfilment," asserting that " extravagant hopes, along with all other
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IMPORTS.
1919.
public gardens. A fine of $50, bath hero and in Shanghai, are or, in default four weeks' hard very heavy. A business man
from United Kingdom labour, was inflicted by His who has just returned forms of extravagance, must submit to the dictates of economic WHITEFIELD'S ROLL OF HONOUR. Worship, who in doing ao re-Shanghai has told me that the United States law," adding that "recognition of the futility of rebellion against it
A mémorial to the 52 members marked to Sergeant Paine that stocks of piece-gooda at Shanghai Japan ... is the beginning of wisdom." Truer words, more apt to present-day of Whitefield's Tabernacle who the bail of $25 that had been are sufficient to suffice for another Australia conditions, were never attored. Extravagance, collective and fell in the war was unveiled last allowed to the prisoner was, in-two years, while those in Hong-India individuel, ie at the root of most, if not all, of the world's ills to-day month by Major-General Sir sufficient in view of the gravity kong should see us through the Straits Settlements And the gooner that fact is realised (even here ́ in Hongkong, Frederick Maurice.
whole of the present year. The China... Incidentally) the botter will it be for us all,
of his offence.
control of the kitchen, and with keen eyes" overywhere at once" Boes that every course is not only as perfect as human skill can make it, but that it is ready
3/5 1/4 to be served at the exact mo. ment. Nor is his sway by any
Australia
to
IMPORTS. 1920.
£4,683,336
£3,016,544
£2,747,875
£ 251,662
£1,569,914
£ 577,864
£5,882,678
EXPORTS,
Straite Settlements China
1919.
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EXPORTS,
1920.
United Kingdom
United Sta es
..
£2,166,031 Japan £6,011,960 Australia
£2,505,325 India ...
£ 873,254 £1,768,215 £1,476,050 £ 146,793
£ 886,708 £5,495,371 £202,866
£ 325,880
£296,553,
£ 470,357
£1,127,802) £1,950,82811
£ 140,03201
£ 413,802
£ 720,415 Straits Settlements... £1,400,116
£3,114,566 Canada
£929.486 Philipine Islands
£5,519,932 France...
£ 99,742T
£ 85106#od
£19,720.