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MEMOS FOR TG-MORROW, Moating.

THE CHINA MAIL.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

like to borrowing, but wo contend that loans for permanent pablic works are

Dr Knight, of the U.B. Navy, has 6.80p Meeting of Kowtom Cricket justified by reason and experience. To arrived from Manila, on his way to

Club, at Cricket Ground,

pay for public works out of revenue may America, la Suez.

Miscellaneouta,

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Goods por Forwaerts undelivered after

this date subjear va vent.

this date nalijest to rent.

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 1907.

AN EYE TO BUSINESS.

POTENTIALITIES OF CHINA.

Ao interesting visitor in Longkong at the moment is Mr Henry Tarleton Wills, Special Commissioner of the "New York Commercial." Mr Willa is a trade expert and an observer whose opinions are worth A Now York telegram dated Septem-listening to. The time ho has spent in ber 16 says:Mr. Grover Cleveland, Ox Japan and the contact he has had with the President of the United States, is dying Chinaman have not been lost to him, and whilet, as he quaintly puts it himself, he Baron Spack von Sternberg, German le not an Upton Sinclair prophet, ho is a Ambassador to the United States, is beballover. lieved at Washington to be in bad health,

Mr J. S. Fuller, the US. Vice-Consul, Goods per Oceano not cleared at 4 p.m. be a very fine thing but we are inclined

to believe that it is moroly a confession has roturned to duty after ive weeks that inxation is: too heavy. A private holiday in Japan. Boots per Breconshire undelivered after company when it finds its business ex tokding and realises that it can profit ably handle more capital, either issues debentures or increases its capital. In either case it borrows upon its credit instead of withdrawing the amount required from ite income. We have scen

General Memeranda.

THURSDAY, September 24:--

Sp.r.- Anotion of Leneehold Property, At Memes Hughes & Bongh's Sales Boome

5.30 p.m.-Meeting of Hongkong Foot

ball Club Fongkang Hotel.

Gonda por Glerdrac not cleared on this

date subject to rent,

Famay, September 27 :—

6,30 pm.Meeting of Hongkong at. An.

drew's Bocisty in City Hall.'

AURA. September 28:~~

Noon- Meating of Tougina Stormahip

Co., L. at Ca's Office,

BUNDAT, Hoptember 29 *-*

one or two of the great local companies

doing this Intely but we have not heard any criticism directed against the policy. The Government is to the Colony what the Board of Directors is to a company. Yet there seems to be scine illogical objection to the Government adopting a

Transfer Banks of The Dairy Farm Coprocedure which is held to be entirely justifiable on the part of a Board of Directors. Of course it would bolene. sential that any lon money was treated

Ltd...sinso from this date to 14th Oct, inclusivo. Goode por Manda undelivered after this

data subject to rent, MONDAY, September 30:-

2.45 p.m.-Auction of Household Farmi- tara, at Dr Punter's Residence, Ne, 8, Muntain View,the Peak. 3 p.tn. Auction of Craps Land at the

Public Works Department's Offices, 5.10 p Dm-Meeting of Hongkong Cricket

Club at Club Pavilion.

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The Ray, J. G. Vauglinn, D.D., field secretary of the China mifsionary centennial, has just secured a gift in Nair York of

$22,600.

TELEGRAPH.

WAR BEWARDS.

Japanese Honoured,

(Belusine Service, supplied by Reuter, vin Bombay).. LONDON, September 23. The Emperor of Japan bas bestowed

†192 war rewardė,

When asked to express an opinion upon Marquia Ito, Barquia Yamagata and the trade of this part of the Pacific, and Marquis Oyama have been created ita potentialities, Mr Wills replied that be imagined the task meant that he would Princes, and Admiral Togo, Generals have to convert himself into an up-to-Oku, Nogi and. Kuroki have been dato condensor. The sentiments express-crested Counts

The friends of Capt. Taylor, A.D., od have been so varied that the will be ploused to know that he has recover-summing up is difficult, be sald, but, ed from his recent indisposition and is now he added: I boliore implicitly in a About again,

great trade expansion throughout the Celestial Empire, Manchuris and Korea. To-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock Lady Conditions warrant it. the certain progrons Lugard, in company with the Registrar of China with her mpid Western civilization General B Brewin, and Capt. Taylor, devoloptient demands it, and the entire A.D.C., will visit "The Refuge," at Westindustrial world has its oyas turned this way in the belief that here may be found now and importașst marketa,

Point

This silernoon Lady Lugaad, accompani- apart from ordinary revento. It shoulded by Capt. Taylor, AD.0., visited the only be devoted to works which would be of a permanent character. With this safeguard borrowing would be not only

6 r.20.-Meeting of Royal Hongkong justifiable but advisable. There is no

Yacht Club at City Hall. Tuesday, October 1:-

6.15 p.m.--Menting of Hongkong Hockey

Club at B K.0.0. Pavillón.

6.30 p.m.-Organ Recital in St. John's

Cathedral.

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Monday, October 14 :—

12.30 p.m.-Meeting of The Dairy Farm

Co., Id., at Co.'s Town Office.

The d'hing Mail

justice in taxing the present generation heavily in order that the next should es cape. We do not believe in throwing the whole burden upon posterity but long dated loans with fixed sinking funds would distribute the burden fairly,

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soldiers' married quarters at Kowloon not visited when Lady Lugard last went to Kowloon.

MOROCCO.

A Night Attack.

(Exclusive Servier, supplied By Router, via Bombay), LONDON, September 23,

The French forces at Casablanca

have made a might reconnaissance.

To one who kusy something of the China of twenty years ago the change is wonder- ful. Indo-China, Hongkong, Canton (with an awaltened municipal policy), Shanghai

They attacked and shelled the · (a concentrated little Europe), Tsingtau (full of Teutonic spiritond method), a nde-Maroccan camp at Sibi-Brahin, drivlog trigue is fast-becoming subservient to coin- over Tientsio, a Peking where political inoff the Moors.

mercial and industrial ambition, and a vido On the French side one lieutenant Miss Manchuri, whoso gates are being thrown was killed. ånd five men were wounded.

College, U.S.A., has been appointed by the Ming Edua Kunz, a graduate of Hiram

Cincinnati Foreign Christian Missionary Society a missionary to China. Kunz vill leave for Nanking after the September meeting of the society.

open so that the world may soe and the

inhabitants know the wealth of her resourcos, all tend to me decision-Pro Congressman Cooks is at premont in the cress, and a great Progress ↑ Colony after having been in the Philippine. I feel, however, that what the kat 20) Islands for a month studying the conditions years have done is but a little of what the there. He is. the mambor for the Long next 20 years will do. It boloves Chins Island District, part of New York City, to grasp every opportunity to develop her in the U.S. Congress...

unknown resources and possibilities. It behoves Europe and America: to conson- | irate efforts toward the encourgemont of this end.

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There does not seem uny immediato danger of the British Empire going havo into liquidation No doubt we

The "Nashville Bannor, Tenn., U.S.A., bad hard times to encounter and com says:The Rev: James L Barton, Secco BOYOKONG, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1907petition to face, but, according to the tary of the Aucriaan Board, who has boon Quarterly Review," wo can still keep turing China in the interests of this ubove water. In an article entitled Board, is expected back in Boston in a few weeks, baring covered a great stretch "British Investment Abroad!" we of territory and having visited the whole read that the figures for 1906 are field of the board's missionary enterprise £3,220,000,000, showing an increase in the Chinese Empire.

THE COLONY'S FINANCES.

The more the competition the better the result!

The education of these millions of people to. Westem civilization and the require monta of that civilization mean & demand for everything that goes toward a trade development

•{REGTE'S SERVICE.].

LONDON, September 22. Negotiations with the tribesmen are broken off, and General Drude resumes the offensive hostilities

THE COLLISION IN MEXICO.

LOSION, September 22 The latest reports state that 63 were killed and 43 injured to the collision at Encarupcion,

THE HAGUE CONFERENCE.

LONDON, September 22. The Hague Plenary Conference has adopted a proposal regarding the es

FURRE were several points raised by His Excellency the Governor in his Budget Speech which called for remark but with which we have not found time to deal. Our of these was our surplus. A surplus is an excellent thing. it do not support the general allegation and Mrs Tomkins, Mr Law, Mr and Mrs spirit. It is almost an axiom that "goodfcrence eight years heuce.

serves to decorate a balance sheet when that we are living on our capital be- a deficit would be merely an unsightly cause our importe exceed our exports. blot. Thereforo no doubt gratification On the contrary, they afford conclusive is felt that our finances showed a balance evidence that the accumulation of on the right side of $783,109. But after wealth by this country is so great that figures have been subjected to a little.

it is accomary to find an outlet for, ite analysis, first impressions are liable to profitable investment abroad." The

tablishment of a Prize Court, also a I mean this in the broadest possible motion recommending a third Con-

ORIENTAL LABOUR IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.

LONDON, September 22.

on those of 1897 of 2670,000,000.

A dinner party is to be given by Sir Feo- A commercial alliance which would Any one troubled by the "exports ederick and Lady Lugard at Government govern motheds would bo ominently imports" ecare may be reassured by the House to-morrow evening at 8.15 pan., the desirable. remark which follows:-"These figures guests boing Lady and Miss Berkeley. Mr

Reunio, Mr and Mrs Brewin, Mr and Mrs comes out of evil? There has been much Chester Master, Mr and Mrs Looker and of the latter in this part of the world and Miss Hamilton, Mr Hoes Daries, the good must come! 1 am speaking com Szentirmay, M. Droser, M. Eitzea, M. and mercially fur commerce is the mainspring. de. Bribasia, Colonel Reid, Colonel Political intrigue and bloodshed have play- Price, Major Phillips, Major and Mred their part and will continua, though Parry, Capt. and Mrs Basil Taylor, Com-appearances indicate that the horrors of Sir Wilfred Lauries replying to mendor and Mrs Penfold.

the latter are minimised.

resolation of The Canadian Trades and Mr F. O. Leiser has just returned from In reply to questions reading de an's Labour Congress, asking for the abroga be altered. It is not enough to merely amari aliquid is the frequent difference a three months' study of the Chinese progress Mir Wills said: Unquestionably |tion of the treaty with Japan, said that on the wrong side between nominal sugunga in connection with the Y.M.C.A. these Islanders have shownan extraordinary the treaty was a great advantage to announce that thoro is a surplus, it amount and market value. In Ameri.language school conducted nt Kuling this grasp of the situation. The loadera, men] Caandh; whose trade with Japan was

summer. He will assumo full charge as of education and exceptional ability havo must be known how that surplus was can investments the first stands at 750 secretary of the Chinese Department of been fearless in the consciousness of their considerable and had considerably in- obtained and if the conditions, which produced it in the period under review are likely to continue. Our surplus when looked at thua critically does not inspire confidence. The sum of $168,918 saved by the simple expedient of allow-

Mrs T. M. Elliott who are to be, associated

millions, and the second at. 569, the the YM.C.A. in Hongkong for one year South American figuring with the and the proceed to. Canton to lay the portentous discrepancy of 39 millious foundations of the work there. My and against 67. In the Edinburgh. Re-in the Y.M.C.A. work in Hongkong will view another writer domonstrates arrive in the course of about two works, from recent trade returns that Bri- tain has been subjected to a fierce

geographical position, and having studied crossed. No one believed that the. and absorbed European methods have regotiable incidents in Vancouver were allowed nothing to stand in their way. due to the influx of Japanese; the Their enterprise in shipping, manufactur disturbances were directed against ing, the insistent forcing of their goods, Asiatics generally, and precipitate nction and our goods, too, for that mat er, janet might be the cause of regret. The

ing authorised votes to lapso, the competition and is ooming out of from cdreational institutions in the eastern any of the methods, but on the whole it into the cause of the recent influx of

works were necessary they should not and this in spite of curtain national WHISKY. have been allowed to lapse, If they defects, with increasing succosa:”

were not necessary there was no purpose. to be served in getting the voto authorised. Any private individual could cito several works which might with advantage be proceeded with but the

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To-day the fleet of torpedo destroyers at prosent in port went out for torpedo practices

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"THE JAPANESE CRUISERS,

LONDON, September 22. The Tukuba has arrived at Port Said.

A hundred or more Chinese students admiration. Wo may cavil at Government would carefully enquire

seems to mo that Japan has proved, and Orientals part of the United States gathered at will prove, an instrument toward the great Phillips Audover Academy on Aug. 21 object, te. widening of markete. to open their third annual conference,

In the broad eonse I say that all this is which will continue until August 27 working for the good, but every interest, Aming those who addressed the students wero Hon Chow Techi, Chaty d'Affaires European and American, must be awakenod of the Chinese legation at Washington, Japán is striving.

to the necessity of striving just as hard aa Professor J. W. Jenke, of Cornell Univers sity, Profossor Aloxander Meiklejola, of Dronn University, Alfred E. Steam day for commercial enter, rise in the East principal of Phillips Andover Academy there was a onerous amount of over- od Dr Young Wing, former commissioner tinding because this century-old country

The third edition of the Now Street of Chinese students in Amorica. Several

would not and could not respond. Sho Index, by Arthur Chapinan, Government athletic contests, and the presentation by did not know how to respond, and had to rossor, is now ready. The edition

expected to artire from the north about the students of a play in English are among

the features planned.

An Indina was sentenced to three

wook aprisongent by Mr C. D. Mulbourne at the Magistracy this morning for atealing eleven sovereigns from a follow

Indina.

M. Louis Rocher, Contraissioner of Cus toms at Nanking, bas retired from the Customs Service and will shortly return to his hows in France. M. Rocher is one of the senior and most experienced Communi stonors, a keen sportsman, and a fluent

-Thorein lies the ultimate success.

In the fret blush of the dawn of a Dow

to, and must be, taught.

STREET INDEX OF

HONGKONG.

has been, rovised and brought up to Ask anyone of the Commissious of date, and has been enlarged by the Imperial Customs in China, er better, read addition of Shaakiwaz, Aberdeen, Fak thiol reports, analyse their statistics, and unheng and other important villages, you will thore find the proof of progress: The Street Index is particularly valuable you will there find the cortainty that this to Solicitors, Cusumanoo Companios, progress is but the beginning.

It has been my good fortune for some works which miglit advantageously have photographs of the V.R.C. spurte, taken Luova in Shanghai, where he was Com-the world, inttarly South Auries, Austra and economic conditions in any parts of been initiated. This disposes of more by Mr II. Pearman, topics of which can be misioner from April 1814 to May 1900, lia, New Zealand, oto, all virtually new than half the surplus. A large amount purchased from Lost Hing's photographic during which time he took as uctive countries--now felds in trado and pos

store in Queen's Road, was received from probate. This is obviously a windfall, and it many not

proceeded with it was not available for we have received a number of English and Chinese scholar. He is w/ Jors to have looked carefully into trade

According to Mr. R. G. Afacpherson recur for a number of years. Thus M. P. for Burnt, British Columbin, the another $200,000 of the surplus is a poll tax of $500 for lead on the Chinese counted for.

which was expected to prove entirely pre amount left to fibitivo, has not served its purpose.

The

jutorest in commercial and public questions abilities but here is the biggest serongo

M. Rocher when princ over in the for developmoul, en people curious to

Architects and Surveyors, Estate Agents, Property Brokers, and all who are interest- ed in land and house property in the Colony.

A CHINESE KNIGHT.

As Baseball Player.

representations at Peking which led to the learn; slow, perhaps, to understand, but Sir Choatung Tan Chong, Chinese restriction placed on the export of pheasant once lasrning and clearly understanding Minister to the United States, has been skins which, at one time, threatened the will respond to the Enowledge they possess called home like his predecessor, bir Wu, wholesale destruction of game ininud. The by becoming ambitious to show the world to sores the empire iu domestic diplomacy, $15.00. $114,191. The high rate of exchange

successful establishment of the Bauilary not only what they have, but will domand Chine bus wood of all her able diplomatiste Station in Shanghai is also chiefly due to what the more progressivo of nations are and administratora in her vast new scheme was responsible for saving the Govern- The Russia Minister to Teking has his efforts. Many good wishes will go producing.

of inminal refonu. Ocs of Sir Chen- Bus: requested the Waisapu not to have any mont $60,000. But this again is not to chinese soldiers stationed in the arva of with M. Roober in his rotirement.

I do not wish to single out America's tung's accomplishments, however, will working toward trade in the East, or to allowed to noguish in the Chinose. Lo depended upon. Exchango is a puro the railway as the Chinoes soldiers causo

Japan's offorts, or European. backward-foreign oleo-bia Yanken skill at baseball, ness, but it BOOK to 120 the which he acquired along with other liberl To-day the U.S. Consul General received whole commercial world can, and, by fair nets at Philips Academy, Andover. in which case the surplus would have A SHILLING. SAVED REPRESENTS- the following telegum from Manila: "Sop-opetition, too, profit from this grant Spoustville (0) Journal. shrunk to such small dimensions that

tember 24, 1907, 1p.m. Typhoon about old ungarnered and not yet exploited, whose boundarion embrace the greatest WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, it would require an optimist with a average man, dona 1:ot a re to ex-B. N. E. Guam, approaching Southern

territory on the globe.

Mr Willa said in conclusion that no s

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--RBEUMATIC PAINS KELIEVED,

TO oho need non ander the aguadeing pains of polatic and score rheuma-

microscope to find it. Too much stress expenses for every one saved. Sometimes CHAMBERLAIN'S COUGH REMEDY, futuro date he intende to go mors into is, so quick rotel tasy be had by should not be laid upon this sur, a few peno properly invested, like buying

eds for hinanden, will co several ines TIS is a medicino of great worth and detail on this subject, in some special applying Chamberlain's Fan Balm, This thousanda nl caso, The Foment eliovas

plus. We are confronted with a to none, later on. If to the slime in Tumort. Try it when it have adition of the "Now York. Genuintact has been daily slemoonatharest in many falling revenue and wo bare most hoging Chamberlain's Colio, Ofilera and cough or cold atid, you are, certain rabe His remarks at the somont pre merely ne pand piakos alve and rest pol Do this Reinsdy. It costs but little sbd pleased with the quick lief which it preliminary summing up, but he expresses, which is alone worth many times its public works to be fuitiated or carried butfle of it in the house offen even affords. It is pleasant to tako and can the hope that they will prove an entire Sold by all chemista, and; aturde

lage datos a hill. For sale by all chemists Always ha depended updu, For sale by and storekeepers.

BUILDINGS.

to completion. There is a general die

Hongkong, Joly 27, 1907.

all obemists and store koupore.

to renowed activity by somo, if not by all keepəri,