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THE CITY OF PARIS, the measure of value. It is so at the present day and in a scuse it may be STREET.
said to be equally true of the colony of Hongkong, since it is only because the Mexican dollar is of a certain weight
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in an unpleasant dilemma and the law is in my illogical position.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1908,
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The dead body of a Chinese supposed We have said that the introduction to have died from plague was picked up on of a token coinage into Hongkong was a carga boat this morning. an evil object lesson to the ignorant or
-Mr J. M. Book, Superintendent of and fineress that it is acceptable to the unscrupulous Viceroys of the neighbour- the E. E. A. and C. T. Co. Tai, kindly informs us that telegraphio communication Chinese. In an evil hour, however, ing provinces of China. It is immaterial with Macao ban been restored. so far as subsidiary coinage a con- which of these adjectives, we apply to
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The orders of the Hongkong Volunteer- Corpe state: Complaints having been mada of certain Cadets blowing bugles in the vicinity of dwelling houses, it is notified that if this practice is continued the bugles will be withdrawn from the offenders.
MrJ. H. Kemp, at the Magistracy t day, sentenced a native to six, wooke im- At the Magistracy to-day, Mr J. Hprisonment on to pausts, the sentence A New Consignment cerned, the system of token coins was then so far as the results are concerned. Kemp committet two natives to guel, pend-to rus concurrently. The defendout was introduced bere. There can be no We have to admit that we have beening a decision of His Excellency Su Fre charged with stealing a hat and with possible objection to this system so travelling for a considerable distance deriak Legard, as to whether they should furnishing the pawnbroker with false in
bo surrendered to the Chiness anthorities. formation.. long as the use of such tokens can be and for a lengthened period in a wrong They are wanted in China to answer a confined to a particular area or country direction. When such a misfortune hay sharge of armed robbery.
An office boy, engaged at the Hong (indeed, it has sensible advantages) and pens to us in ordinary life there are
Having heard so many different kong and Shanghai Bank was charged at so long as the limitatis to its use are only two alternatives. We may either rumours regarding the recent ecture of arms the Magistracy, before, Mr.J. R. Wood, After bearing the evidence his understood by those issuing it. In the nake a wry face and at coco retrace our in Amoy, a representative of Amoy Gazelle to-day, with stealing a quantity of blotting
footsteps, or we may take a bye-road called on Mr Menouzini, the Acting Deputy paper.
Commissioner in charge, asking him for Worship discharged the defendant, remark- JOHN & ROBERT HARVEY & crise of Hongkong neither condition was
and endeavour to find the trus path at the reat facts of the case. These prose ing that it was only one man's word against
another. CO., LIMITED.
fulfilled. It was found impossible to
another point, thereby sacrificing only a that the incident has been grossly exag- prevent the percolation (if nothing mors) of Hongkong subsidiary coins portion of the distance already passed over: Alas, how often do such attemple into China, and the necessity of limiting Lead only to renewed disaster. The more the amount of such coinage to what is merely required for the due payment of 111 debts was not appreciated by those who
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Noon-Meeting of Hongkong Hotel Co.
Ld.. at Co.'s Hotel 9.15 p. Volunteer Concert at the
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NOTICE.
t
courageous course is undoubtedly the
more nor less than 2,000 old rusty rifle
gorated. The seized goods see nothing barrels imported in a junk from Formosa to be used as "old iron."
so soon copied cur procedure, the doubts whether the other is even ) December 31 last £157,500,076 138. 8d.. nineteenth parallels is excellent and sup
Having been asked to report on the climate of the Queensland,sugar districts and the capacity of British immigrants for _work.on_suger plantations, Dr Maxwell. The British Government owed to do. the leading authority on the subject in Australia, states that the climate of the districts between the twenty-eighth and safer and in this case we have grave positors in Post Office Savings Banks on possible. Tentative efforts have already compared with £155,566,446 the year berior to the British climate for immigrante fore. The cash received during 1907 from from the United Kingdom. Between the Chinese themselves. Yet for a long time
beou made to find such a hye road but depositors (including various Console and ninth and the sixteenth panels the climate no great evil was wronght, the intrinsic
they have not resulted up to the present other stock transactions) was £44,217,287 is trying at first, but the immigrant from value of the coins was not so very much in partial or promising success. Wo think and that paid out £46,341,582, Dopasi Northern Europe is accommodating himself below the nominal value, the minte have foreshadowed in the foregoing to hold £59.072,319 in Consols and there and is doing well. starop counted for something, the remarks the true policy which we think
+
£19,000,000 in local loans.
Mr. Roumegoux, of Montreal, bas arrived in Paris to experiment with an
The silk industry in Kashmir is now yielding extraordinary profits. The retar
Mr Yamanouchi, Vice-President of
conservative spicit of the Chinese the Government should adopt and what this date at Noon will be subject to counted for something also, and thus would be the solution offered by Aeroplane of his own design, the special given by the Imperial Department of Agri
inore and more of the Hongkong coine fumack expert. The Hongkong sub-feature of which is that it can rise direct culturo-in-India-state that the net profit... Transter Books of Douglas Stestuship Co., were absorbed by our great neighbour. cidiary coinage must be allowed to go into the air without having recourse to Kashmir raw silk in 1935 was nearly Some 70,000 persons are employ- Id.. close from this date to 19th inst., The profits axruing to the Government or it might be hoaglit up at its mixte wheels. It is stated that the aeroplave 928,140, or 58% per cent, on the capital in-
manoeuvres freely in the air, and the vested. from this source had always been vaine. To redeem it would be ton inventor claims to be able to lift a tone in connection with the industry, and considerable but frois the largely expensive, especially at the present time. weight with his machine. Mr. Ronmegoux, the rearing of cocoons has been successfial. who has red for msay years in Canada, It is interesting to recall that the Kashmir Gada per Benvenue undelivered after extended use of the cuius abroad it In this case it will fall gradually to
was born at Tarles, in the Hautes slk industry owes its initiation and sub this dato subject tarent.
became in the aggregate a very heavy comething nearer its intrinsic value and Pyrénées. Ha will begin his experiments sent principal advares to Sir Thomas- Wirdla Leck, president of the Silk Asso- SATURDAY, September 19 --
at the Matin's stadium at Colombes. sun, indeed, and to obtain this wealth would be used as Chinese coins we
ciation of Great Britain and Ireland. He induced it in 1897 under the auspices of for himself was soon the ambition of now at a considerable discount. The Colonel Sir Duncan Mackenzie, giving the Indian Government at a time of grent every Ficeroy in China. Let us freely future subsidiary coins to replace theso evidence-at-Pietermitzburg in the case admit that he was quite entitled to at present in uso would require to be referring to the alleged theft of Dinizulu's distress, owing to famine and cholera is cash-box during the Zulu operations, Kashmir. The profits in 1906 were £30,500, these proûts so long as he chose to of a distinctly different design and denied the allegations that he had threat-sind in 1907 £44,870. abide by the rules of the game, namely, of the actual value which they represent,ened or offered money to the chief's wife, Upon hearing that the cash-box was miss- the two conditions mentioned above. less the east of minting. The proût on ing, he forhale the troops to leave until the Railway Buteas in the Department of On the contrary the successive Viceroys tining would be relinquished but we the closest search had been made. The Communications, is to proceed to St. bed. Speaking in the Natal Legislative meat for linking up the Japanese and of the two Kwang provinces have assume that all hope of retaining that box was eventually found near Dinizal's Petersborg in order to make final arrange- infringed both. Perhaps they may he has deported as it will always be oper Assembly, Mr Moon, the Natal Premior, Russian milway systemus in Asia, the Japan excused the charge of not confining their to the Chinese to outbid us in the matter
stated that the Government had paid 500 Mad says. It is expected that no difficulty towards the cost-of-Diuizulu's defence, will be experienced in effecting satisfactory own coms to their own territories, as we Moreover, the law of 2 Wan TV., c. 34, upon the application of his solicitors, No anonymously signed communications that ourselves found it difficult if not impoe- must be enforced, or an ordinance on nave already appeared in other papers will be sible to keep our coins at home, though the same lines passed, forbidding the Orders for extra copies of the Cars Ma.it is not to be forgotten that they appear importation of foreign coined money should be sent before 11 a. on the day after to have succeeded in keeping out the to the colony under heavy penalties publication. After that hour the supply is
i's present information the Government passengers in Europe. to buy through limited Cash 10 dia, Credit 20 d., per precisely similar coins current in other The cost to the Government would be was unable to agree to a proposal, for in- tickets to Chira or Japan as the case may parts of China; but by infringing the actually nil, the coins would be really creased duties. In a country like Canada, te, and on the other hand people in Chins Alterations and additions to Advertisement latter purely with the object of enrichinghs. tenths; or twentieths of the said the Premier, woollen clothing was aand Japan will be able to buy timsugb
necesity, and any proposal to increase the tickets to any part of Europe. their OWD government they have
Merican Dollar and would be subject to taxes ou a uccossity of life would naturally a. New Advertisements should be sent to inflicted upon their own country and exactly the same rise or fall as it with arouse much opposition among, the con- Mr Haze, the Premier of New Bruns
surners. The Canadian manufacturers
Letters relating to businene should be address- ed to The MassOZE,
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Sir Wilfrid Laurior has replied to s
request usute by the Canadian Manufac turers' Association for increased protection of the woollen industry, stating that with
anangements, Japan in the one hand engaging to offset the necessary improve ments in the harbour at, Taurega, and Russia agresing to an equitable division of transport charges. After all the matters have been settled, it will be possible for
Laur Ofice at 8, Queen's Road Central before upon us the identical evils which the fluctuations of exchange. The placlaim that their inabustry is being ruined wick. has taken the unprecedented step
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characterized the rule of nearly all our
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the province, Mr Tweedie, to, refund not ordered for a fized perind will be continued Plantagenet and Tader Kings down to proposed is analogous to the old English by the competition of British woollen goods of officially calling upon the Governor of
£1,622, interest on "suspense account, the time of the Protector SouERSET. It suston of making coins in the form of imported under the preferential tarifi.
a cross, which allowed the payer of
Abd-el-Aziz Shawish, the editor of the claimed as due to the province at the end was in these reigns a common device to
sraaller sums to break it into two er four Nationalist newspaper El Lowa, at Chire, of Mr Tweedie's teria so head of the Crown raise money by debasing the coinage of
portions as necessity required. Usually has been acquilted by the Summary Court on Lands Department under the late Govern- England, and the recent Viceroys have there is a considerable amount of silver the graver charge of publishing matter likely rent. The official auditor in his repeat on to foment disturbances, but sentenced to the subject gives a list of nine notos, or done precisely the same thing with that Government bands us against the
pay costs and a fine of £20 for publishing drifts, amounting to £2,730. Governor! of China gud for the same reason. It extra issue of notes by the banks and
The China Mail.
GENUINE AGE HONGKONG, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1808.
AND
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FLAVOUR.
PER DOZEN
THE SUBSIDIARY COINAGE QUESTION.
abuse of the Ministry of War. The charge Twaedio writes that he told the auditor
was based upon a statement that seventy that as most of the parties concerned in the Sudanese were executed by the British suspense account were dead he would pay
has oll happened before, and it has ulscit is to be expected that they (the banks) been met before. To learn the mature would be equally satisfied to receive of the evils that threaten us and to find back in exchange for their notes ive, authorities in the Sudan on recount of the the amount out of his own pocket rather mundur of Mr Scott-Moncrieff. The con- than bring their names up and give Ir is well-known that the science and the remedy for a state of things that ten, or twenty pieces of silver of the olusion of the trial was attended with no publicity bo the transactions. Another practise of medicine has advanced greatly already is becoming intolerable we have aggregate weight, and value of a single incident, thanks to the exceptional measures reason for his doing so was that as ho was taken by the authorities to prevent a repeti; head of the Department at the time, the only to study the history of those early dollar. of late years, and that current ideas of the
tion of the demonstration made the previous public might hold him responsible. healing art differ coormously from those princes. The laws which govern the
mont's claim, but now interest was introduction of debased coins is written THE VOLUNTEER · EMERGENCY week by Nationalist supporters of the Accordingly Mr Tweedie paid the Govern prevalent seventy or a hundred years ago.
demanded, Mr Twcedio denies liability $16.50. Doctors tell us that this has aries very large in the chronicles of their times;
The gold output of New Zealand for for interest. He says he has referred all largely from an entire change of front ne they are known to every serious student
It is gratifying to learn that the idea the month of July amounted to 420 the papers to counsel, and if he is advised
£17,53, compared with regards the treatment of disease, and the "Wealth of Nations," and wo that whereas the older physicars ad. have only ourselves to blame if we all of Volunteer Ewergency Corps, for 52,9060%, valued at £219,809, in Fuly last that he is liable, legally or morally, be will dressed themselves to the alleviation of the matter to drift till things become rescue work along the water front during year. In on interview with a newspaper net accordingly."
Promier, stated that the financial position symptoms his modern coadjutor enden still worse. It is admitted on all sidosphone, has caught on. Already thirty representative, Sir Joseph Ward, the be enrolled, while the names of other unusually strong. He quoted figures
WATSON'S
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CORPS.
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valued
st
yours more or less snecessfully to search that already they are sufficiently bad one courageous stalwarts have asked to of New Zealand at the present Lime was
for the cause of the symptoms, and to The heavy lossas sustained by all those
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
The Into Sir John Day, formerly a
treat that cause in such a medical man-local companies which depend for their young men who are willing to join are showing that the Government has ner Judgo of the High Court, who died on income on small folls, as well as of all being received daily. So far, ligwever, the £1,500,000 cash in hand in the Dominion June 13, Telt estate valued at £102,888,
is restored. In ner that health political matters, however, it would
thst sppear
We are not more
Rainier Beer premise, or foc come superficial carry hina to hin costination. The legst the East and West, cada ehiculd be the countinued, would be filing dos biokeen this
The London "bus conductor losee nothing Sir Joseph added, showed an inamuse of of his gift for reparted. As an omnibitės
and unpledged securities in Loudou up with net personality, 591,271,55 grait majority of these willing to under-which it could, if required, obtain retail dealers, proves this beyond a
loan of At St Mary Magdalene's Church, doubt, but a simple case will show how take this humans work belong to the £1,200,000: In addition, they had parlia
Central district and a the Harlementary senation to raise a
£1,250,000, Consequently there would be Barnstaple, an St. Mary Magdalene's Day, advanced than was the physicians it affects every citizen from the highest
to the lowest. A taveller arrives in Master, the Hon COMMANDER BARU £2,450,000 in securities available in Lon (July 29), the infant child of the Vica of earlier times; that, whenever some
grandfather, the Rev. Thomas Boggis, the colony and engages a rickshaw to TAYLOR, R.N., is most anxious that both do Nearly £2,500,000 of current loans, the Rev. R. G. E. Boggis, was baptized by political trouble arises, wo look for sonce
November and March 31, 1909, and of of Tavistock, who is ninety-two years of
ago remedy which will hide rather than fare for the journey is 10 cents, the tenth equally well equipped be confidently this amount arrangements hadi slready been eradicate the putrefaction within, or at part of a dollar but there exists no coin in asks for Volunteers who reside, or are at made to renew £1,700,000 at 34 per cent.
sandwichman, carrying a board advartis-" stations, night or day as the case may year, PROVISIONS & WINES. LIGHT, wholesome, and most put off to a later day the care which he can make this payment. The basess, in these districts to send in The revened for the year onded July 31,
invigorating which eventually it will become inevi-only possible courses open to hins are their arco as early as possible, so that 2308,000 on compared with the previous was wailing in a block of traffe, a og á vegetarian restaurant, cumo ulose to table must be affected. It seems to us either to inconsciously defraud the
ba, can be allocated to them. It is in-
FROM MEXICO.
the conductor and thrint before his eyes Undoubtedly the best Beer that the question of the subsidiary coolie of between 1 to 2 cents, ar to pay
from the "Et Bol," a new paper st coinage of Hongkong is in danger of in excess of what the law declares the testing to note that a similar corps THB following paragraph was clipped the favitation to Lunch at Blank was established in 1872 but for some Hermosillo, Mexion, it being a part of a dining rooms." The conductor scanned being so treated and it is in the hopejust hire. The rickshaw écolie is not accountable reason wes allowed to letter to the publisher from a friend "Dn tho writing, and Tomarked airily, "No
my last trip to my properties on the fron thank you, my man; I funches at the of throwing some light upon the root of a person to excite our sympathy, he is
drop. Under the efficient and able cior, my beset fall with me to the ground. Carli, a little further down
wounding me bafly, but bychance provision. 00, the matter that we are induced to refer quite able to look after his own interest direction of the Hon. COMMANDER BASTI had brought in my value fiskvei
and make up for a loss in one quarter
TAYLOR We feel sure a really well or Chamber Pain Balm, and after dising From time out of mind alver bas by extation in another, though he ganized and properly equipped corps been the standard metal in China, and suffers moral deterioration by being will be started and thereafter kopt to the weight of a certain quantity of it forced to do this But the travailer is gether.
'REFORM IN CHINA
RING.iter" addressed to Bear
Badmiral bond OnarsES BERVAFORD,
U.B. M.P. And an article in reply to
OLINA : THE SLEEP AND AWAKENING,
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