A MODERN CRUSOE.
Tanned and weatherbeaten by axe posure to the tropical sun of the
South Seas, Captain Richard Chuss first officer of the wrecked Common- wealth sailer John Murray, returned home recently to resume the prosaic life of a bookseller......
In a graphically written log the modern Crusoe has depicted the daily life of the marooned mariners in manner which at once recalls boyish associations with Maryatt and King-
sto
a
a
SAN FRANCISCO PORT
CHARGES.
HELL-HOUNDS.".
THE CHINA MAIL.
The superstitions of Nigeria have recently found a place in the columns
As already briefly noted in the "China, Mail," it is reported 'from San Francisco that the port is to be The Times," and no doubt many opened to the maritime commerce of readers have moralized on the curious the world or a free ship basis on outlook upen life that the possession January 1, 1919. All berthing charges of such beliefs must give. For dwet, against the ship, now in vogue, are
ROMANTIC CAREER OF KOBE SHIP MAN........
From a 25-yen-a-month junior clerk in the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha in Kobe to the president of a great shipping concern and leadership in several
to be removed. The charge is to beers in towns the night has lost its other big corporations with assets
a ton
14
PANTAI, LIMITED.
2,618.01
1,336,54
as follows
The area of the estate is unchanged
Acres. Planted (of which 490 acres
are in bearing)
Site
Ravines Reserve
590
MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1918.
FOR THOSE ABOUT TO
RETIRE.
TION AT HOME.
WEATHER REPORT.
March 3d. 194. 15m-No returns from Japan, Vladivostock and Weibai- SERIOUS INCOME-TAX QUESwet. Pressure has increaset slightly to moderately at all reporting, stations, Tan anticyclone of moderate intensity A correspondent writes to the having developed over N. Chiss "Rangoon Gazette"As I am on the point of retiring from Government anding at 10 am, to-day, 100 inch.
Hongkong Rainfall for the 14 hours" dat service, the question of income taxes Total since January 1913 Inches, is a very serious one, for me, so I against an average of 3.50 inches. appeal to readers for some assistance. Forecast for the 14 hours anding at The problema with which I am faced coon on March 4, 1819, show much of my limited gross winds fresh: fair.
1.-Hoogkong to Gap Rook: M. E, income will be available after the L-Formona payment of taxes. I obtained from fresh to strong. the commissioner of taxes, Tasmania. a printed scale of rates for incomes and unfortunately I have not got the time to apply to the authorities at home for their rates. The Informa- tion at my disposal regarding the taxes at home consists of
Channal N. winda,
-South coast of China befirman Hongkong and Lamacks: The same. 25%
Sonth sonst of Chins between
The same No. 1.
Houghout and Hainan property.1 No. 1.
(a) Taxes for incomes from busi- ness (pension) three' shillings in the 6 pound up to £600 with the following 80 statutory deductions: £100 for self, 72 £25 for wife, £25 for each child under
sixteen..
748
HOTAL OBSERVATORY HONGKONG, DAILY WEATHER REPORT.
MARCH 9, 191
Wied
Station.
Hour,
Barometer at Soa Lovel.
The ninth yearly report of the directors to the shareholders of Pac- tai. Limited, states: Your directors beg to submit the balance sheet and profit and loss account for the year ended October 31, 1918;--- put on the cargo. Existing carga terrors. Their paths are illuminated that total approximately £30,000,000 The amount brought for-
ward from last year is...$ toils of 5c a ton will be raised to 15c for them by the friendly light of gas, in a five years business career is the From which are to be
and a constant sense of human cem.record of Mr. Nobuya Uchida, pre-
deducted loss for the This programme of a complete
year amounting to ..... revolution of the port system of panionship close at hand has banished sident of the Uchida Steamship Cont On July 27, as the storehouse stock revenue in practice since San Fran- all those malign spirits who walk pany in Kobe. was getting low, and no word had cisco was a seaport under Govern restless through. desolate places ready Mr. Uchida was graduated from Leaving a balance in pro-
fit and loss account of $1,281.47 been heard of Captain Vaughan's ment operation has been announced to spring out upon the incautious just a few years prior to the outbreak which your directors recommend be from "business" and
| the Tokyo Higher Commercial School arrival, at Fanning Island, Captain by the State Board of Harbour Com travellers. But outside the radius of of the great war, and joined the carried forward to next year's at Chugg decided to set out on a relief missioners. expedition with three hands for the Regular" steamship lines, föreign, the city lamps superstitious beliefs Mitsui Bussan Kaisha in Kobe count. ." succour of the two stranded crews. off shore and inter-coastal, are to be die hard. They are not obtruded a junior shipping clerk. After a few where he took an apprenticeship as In company with A. Cameron, car-assigned permanent berths only upon penter, Bell, A.B., and Tauniya, a the condition that they shall maintain upon public notice, but none the less years with this, firm Mr. Uchida native, the hardy mariner set sail in not less than eight regular sailings a many dark imaginings lie hidden established himself in a shipping firm a decked-in lifeboat for Penbryn year, or at least twelve unscheduled under the placid exterior of the of his own, a few months before the Island and Samoa. An extract from vessels in the trade. That class of agricultural labourer and colour un war started. his log describes their last view of shipping te to benefit from a lower expectedly his philosophy of life. Foreseeing an extraordinary short- Frankston-on-Malden:-
rental charge by reducing to about A short time ago a servant girl in age of shipping during the war Mr. "The breeding ground of the one fifth the existing dock rentals. a Herefordshire country parish went Uchida quickly chartered as many Kittiwakes at Frankston was The change to be effected; accord for the day to her home in a neigh-ships as he could, regardless of size
(b) Taxes for income from "pro- wonderful sight. Tens of thousands ing to the Harbour Board, will appeal bouring village, intending to return and age. These he subsequently sub- The output for the year was 160,-perty" (interest from deposita and of these birds were sitting on their first to the great fleet of unassigned to her place in the late evening. chartered to other firms at an abnor 254 lbs., being an excess of 254 lbs. dividends) six shillings in the pound, exes without a break in their ranks ships, looking the world over for Rather to the annoyance of hermally high charge. The story of how over the estimate. This might have but I do not know the limits within for more than two miles square. On freight charters and always attracted employers, night came, but the girl the Uchida fortune has increased by been increased by bringing into the which this is levied. The maximum the first day out from Malden the to the port, all things else being did not return. On the following leaps and bounds is a romance of tapping area a further portion of the in which I am interested under this relieving party met with misfortune, equel, which relieves the ship of the morning she walked in and gave a modern business in Japan.
estate, but, in view of the poor prices head is £600 and under pension £500 when the temporarily rigged pump burden of port costs.
somewhat unusual excuse for her Recently Mr. Uchida has altered ruling and the higher scale of wages, or £437 to be more accurate. broke down and rendered frequent
In the same connection the Harabsence. She had left home, not the organization of his firm to a joint it was thought advisable to delay
The incidence of taxes in the Vidiostock....-8.n.). hand bailing necessary. After a bour Board will put into effect new long after dark, she said, accompanied stock. corporation with a capital of commencement on any new area.
Colonies is very much lighter, and as Nemaro♫ Bu rough passage, on
a short diet, rules concernitig cargo handling on by her father, but they had not got £10,000,000, with several of his right-The output per acte tapped was 327 far as I can see the taxes at home lakodata.
Tokio consisting of a small daily ration of the docks calculated to reduce to a far along the road when they heard hand men on the board of directors. lbs. This would have been increased,
are so heavy that my net income Rochi rice and a kittiwake's egg and a small minimum the dangers of congestion, the hellhounds, and, fearful of what This is one of the steps taken to be had weather and health conditions would not be sufficient to live on and Nagasaki ..... allowance of water, Penhryn, Island, while measurably increasing the eff-they might see, had hurried back and prepared for possible emergencies been favourable. The estimated crop
I have no option but to retire in the Kagoshima. 350 miles to the south-westward of ciency of the pier system of the port. taken refuge as quickly as they that may arise in the business world for the current year is 170,000 lts. Colonies.
Oshima I am informed that income tax is To that end and following largely could" They had not, indeed, dared as a result of the termination of the The results so far have been:- Malden, was sighted on August 1,
Haha. Believing the invaders to be Germans, the line recommendations made by a to leave the house again, until day war.
Ishijima November, 1918
levied again at home on dividends .............. 10,800 lbs., the more daring of the natives massed special committee on port charges light made the roads safe to travel.
on which taxes have been paid out Weihaiwei. 8": During the two previous great
December, ... 18,060 in warlike array to give them an and revenue recently made to the Not unnaturally, this explanation wara lapan engaged in first with
January. 1919... was rather coolly received, but the China and then with Russia, many unfriendly reception, while the women Board, there will be instituted a new and children, terrified by the tales plan of cargo demurrage charges. girl persisted in her story, and shipping firms have prospered and they had heard of the Germans Steamships will be required to dis- evidently considered that she required have failed after the conclusion of oppressive methods, cleared for miles charge or lead a minimum of 500 no further justification.
each of these wars, mainly due to As it happened, on the same night the fact that these shipping firms into the scrub out of the supposed tons daily, excess time demurrage to
The presence of be charged in the form of rental for too heard the hell-hounds. It was were not in a position to withstand tyrants reach. Tauniya, who had been included in dock use. Cargo la to be removed moonlight, rather cold, with no wind the reaction in shipping that came the party on account of bie know by consignees as soon as discharged and a slight ground mist, and except with peace. ledge of the reefs and the outlying After five days, demurrage will be for the occasional Hoot of an owl,
Realizing this fact and foreseeing island inhabitants, however, served charged against coastwist cargo and the night was very silent. Suddenly, the keen international competition after ten days from discharge of ship from over the hills in the north, at his firm will inevitably undergo, Mr. to set the islanders at their ease."
first faint but rapidly drawing Uchida bas" organized In the log theseamansaysWhenton off-shore and foreign cargo.
Application of the rules and re-nearer, came the unmistakable clam corporation on an international scope a trading stepped ashore the policeman (native)' took me to his house and offered the gulations touching the removal of our of a pack of bounds in full cry. with branches
America and his best. After a much needed bath delayed cargo on docks will be made The effect in the still halflight was Europe. He also
has and shave. I was presented with clean more drastic by the Board in the re extraordinary, and for, the moment the Yokohama Engine and Iron bought clothes and a meal of well-cooked organisation of the entire port charges the only explanation seemed to be Works, an
establishment which that the local pack must have got has been successfully carried on meat. We were all treated alike, system.
Commenting upon the decision of away from the huntsman in the late under foreign management and he is The natives could not do enough for us. They washed our old clothes the Board to remove ship dock and afternoon and be chasing a fox on now contemplating an expansion of was 55.54 cents per lb. and sang hymns for our deliverance berth charges, Acting President John their own
account. Nearer and this institution on a large scale in in the evening."
nearer came the sound.
view of building some of his ships at his own shipyards.
H. M'Callum said:
1
"The Board is giving virtually The Resident agent of the island
A cry more tuncable Was never then escorted the party to Omaka. sixty day's notice to the shipping world holla'd to, nor cheered with horn" In view of the expansion of the Here they learned that Vaughan had of this change of policy. It goes to and it became apparent that this was Uchida business a new office building, successfully reached Fanning Island, the point of opening this port on a no terrestrial hunt, but one carried to cost approximately. Y650,000, is and that relief was already on the competitive basis with all other ports on in the spacious country between being built in Kobe. The building is road to those marooned on Maiden. of the Pacific Coast to the shipping heaven and earth. The illusion was to cover a total area of 173 tsubo. It In the log for the day is entered of the world. By removing the port complete, and no feat of imagination will be a reinforced concrete structure "We decided to go no further on charge from the ship the way is now was required to picture some fugitive of a modern Renaissance style. It hearing the news. Our mission was opened for the harbour of San soul fleeing through homeless space will be finished by June, 1919. at an end. We must now settle cur- Francisco to stand in that particular Before the Wild Huntsman and his selves to a term of native life till then the same basis as all other arrival of a passing trading schooner." Pacific Coast ports."
The information had been gathered
from the ship Shandon, bound from SOLDIER'S LOST MEMORY,
Australia to Frisco, which had hove,
N
and found, on getting up next morn
ing, a fine fat goose lying dead in the middle of his lawn,
ghostly pack. Fortunately the meer was bright enought to provide a more prosaicexplanation; in a long, curving. me a flock, or gaggle," of brentgeese passed by, just overhead. In the to off the island the previous day.
Fearful of recapture "by the misty light the birds looked twice their Relating to his life on the island the Germans, by whom he had been proper size as,fying at a great pace and mariner describes the population of imprisoned, Private Beer, of Culm- calling and yelping to one another two hundred islanders as industrious, stock, Devon, who had temporarily as they went, they swept on south- intelligent, and religious. For susten lost his memory, lived 12 days in wards. Had a gun been handy it ance they depend mainly on fish, sheds and plantations near his father's would have been possible to emulate coconuts, taro roots, pooraki, crabs, home, and fed on raw turnips and the achievement of a country parson pandamus, and occasionally the flesh potatoes.
in Lincolnshire many years ago. "of a wild pig.
The returned prisoner took train Just as he was going to bed, he heard A remark is made on leprosy. 10 Wellington, Somerset, the nearest the clamour of an approaching flock "Three unfortunate lepers, two railway station to his father's of geese. Picking up his gun and young men and a girl, are to be sent home, where he was met by Ms. hastily ramming in a cartridge, he to the leper station to-morrow. Most Bell, a member of the local Ladies' flung open his study window and of the people have assembled and Committee for Meeting Returned blazed upwards, at random, into are singing hymns. We can hear Prisoners. He was given a meal and space. Then, rather ashamed of the the women relatives weeping, wailing, a hamper of eatables, and sent to his impulse that had prompted him so and screaming their lamentations." father's home in a motor-car. The to startle the night, he went to bed, For more than two months, the driver, however, left him at the stranded shelībacks resided at wrong place. N Penrhyn Island between the two
Beer's mind was evidently unhing districts of Tabuka and Omaka ed, for he failed to reach his father's
What impulse" had driven these waiting for deliverance. In addition house, although he was formerly well particular geese to travel inland so to helping the Resident in his copra acquainted with the locality, and for far as Herefordshire it is impossible pursuits, the captain beguiled the 12 days and nights he slept in sheds to say, for the brent is a strictly daylight hours with nautical observa and plantations, or wandered about marine bird, and there had been no tions, while the evenings were passed Culmstock Moer. He was occasion: particularly cold weather to account pleasantly among the natives, who ally seen by the country folk, but for their visit. They passed on, from entertained them with a nightly hula- shunned them. hula (a performance in which three The father was expecting his re- the unknown to the unknown, and no large drums are used), native dance, patriated son, and on hearing that more was heard of them, but the and sing-song. The Resident also there was a strange man in the occurrence served. to show how old took a keen delight in producing, woods, of which he is the keeper, he superstitions linger on in country novel palate ticklers for their con made a close search, and ultimately places. It is the fashion to say that, modern education has killed them, and sumption. Such choice dishes as came face to face with the wanderer certainly the average schoolmaster is coconut salad, crab and copra pasties,
Although the soldier had grown a little versed in folklore and impatient taro soup, stewed ocotpus with coco beard his father immediately recog of old tradition, but those who know the nut sauce, turtle steaks and soup, nised his son, but there was no re- and a variety of wild sea birds eggs cognition from the other side. Beer agricultural labourer best realise how were frequently on the menu.
was taken home, but he still failed superficial are the impressions that On September 26, the schooner to recognise His parents or his wife he gains from his schooldays. Fear Averua from Maiden Island, with Mr. until Christmas Day, when, after af ridicule has taught him secretive- Grice and his native Soys on board, long sleep and a hearty meal, hisness and given him "two soul-sides, put into Omaka.
memory partly returned. He is now one to face the world with and one After witnessing a great native slowly recovering. feast in, honour of the boys who had senlisted to leave the island, at which
the bula again came into prominence, good favour with the king, but also and a graves ceremony in which the with the ladies of the locality. natives grouped to sing and pray for
In the log of October 12 the worthy
the oversea voyagers, they cast off tax states:
that preserves tenaciously the old beliefs of his fathers. No one would have suspected that the myth of the hell-heunds was remembered 'to-day in cottage homes, much less that it retained any of its oldworld vitality;" had not the brent-geese made their
and left Omaka on October 6. As Went ashore, and was introduced noisy pilgrimage, so difficult is it for the ship made outward the natives to King Apolu, a fine old man of four man to know what his neighbours held the customary tangi-a cere score years. He wanted to hear all are thinking-Times. motywhich consists chiefly of a about the wreck, and was greatly series of wild screams, and weird interested in our boat journey to Pen- rhyn Island. He was so pleased with
movements
A FAMILY NECESSITY. Calling at Rakahanga on October our adventures that he presented me TIVERY family should be provided 17, the hardy salt found favour in with one of His granddaughters, Dith Chamberlain's Pain Balu at the chieftain's eyes, with the result fine, plump, dusky lass of 18, to be all times. Spruins may be cured in much that he was presented with a neatly my daughter. Owing to the White less time when promptly treated Lame carved canoe and paddle inlaid with Australia policy I fear I will have to back, Irmeaboulder pains in the inde and mother of pearl. A grand native leave her behind not without regret. chest and rheumatic pairs are some of dance followed."P
Princesi Omigta Tuckhia, this royal the diseases for which it is especially that grand daughter, has also presented acquainted with its qualities and you yalusbla Try this liniment and bodome me with sleeping-mats, a hat and will never wish to be without it. For pupu (shell adomment).
sale by all Chemia and Storekeeper
But it was at Masihiki Captain Chugg came into his There he not only found himse
*15,500
27
""
ナラ
here.. It is not so in the Colonies.
SANITARY BOARD.
Per Ib.
44,360 lbs. The all-in cost was 56.95 cents per lb. made up as follows:
Tapping, manufacture, etc., including all gen- ⚫eral expenses (cost ex
estate)..... Depreciation Freight and selling...... "charges
.47.45 cts.
2.21
2.97
Singapore expenses...... 2.56 5.S. War Tax............. 0.42 F.M.S. War Tax (extra
duty)..
1.34
56.95 cts. "The average gross price realised
donations
Mr. Uchida has made several among them being Y1,000,000 to a to public enterprises, new high school to be established in his native city of Mito and also Y1,000,000 to the improvement funds of public roads between Kobe and
Suma.
Borin
Lalandi
Banko
(chang
Kiukiang
Changsha
Shanghal
Gatzlaf
Amoy
STRIÚČ KOT
Humidity,
30.25 43 100
—‛། ས
For the meeting on Tuesday, the sharp Pk. 30.12 54 orders of the day are:
ח
34.14
30.13
13
30.00 61 130,00
130.00
30.07
6.30
H
Macao (80,01 Wuchow... 9 Pakhoi.....
obow
1.-Letter from Government rela- Swicow... tive to the erection of the proposed Thiboku....5 30.10 latrine at the junction of Ning Po and Taichu
Taiano. Woo Sung Streets.
Kosban..... 2-Plans of the proposed trough Fascadores. closets and urinals at Happy Valley, Canton... Conduit Road, junction of Glenealy Hongkong and Caine Road and junction of Gap Rook. Seymour and Robinson Roads.
3.-Correspondence relative to the dirty condition of the narrower lanes with plan showing the proposed erec- tion of urinals thereon.
4.Report from the Government Analyst on the public water supplies for the month of February, 1919.
5.-Limewashing return for the Legaspi ... fortnight ending 18th February, 1919. Tacloban 6.-Mortality return for Hongkong Iloilo
Surigao for the month ending 31st January 20 audi6th February, 1919, and for the weeks ending. 9th Labasa
the week ending 9th February, 1919. 7-Mortality return for Macao for
3.-Rat return for the weeks end- ing 15th and 22nd February, 1919.
DODGE BROTHERS
MOTOR CAR
WE HAVE CONCENTRATED ON ONE CAR AND ONE CAR 'ONLY, IN A DETERMINA- TION TO MAKE IT AS GOOD AS A CAR ́ CAN BE MADE FOR EVERY PART AND EVERY PROCESS THAT ENTERS INTO IT WE HAVE PERSONALLY. ESTAB- - LISHED A STANDÅRD, THE WORK DONE AND TIL MATERIALS USED IN "EACH PART AND EACH PROCESS IN EVERY CAR, MUS" CONFORM TO THAT STAND-. ARD. DODGE BROTHERS WILL ALWAYS GIVE TO THEIR CAR THAT OVER CARE WHICH THE PUBLIC EXPECTS OF THEM
NI
PEOPLE EAVE IMPLICIT FAITH THE INTEGRITY OF DODGE BRO- METHODS. THERS MANUFACTURING BECAUSE OF THE NAME IT BEARS.
SURE YOU MAY BE
THAT THE PRINCIPLE BEHIND THE CAR WILL NEVER BE CHANGED A HAIR'S BREADTH + DODGE BROTHERS" HAVE ONLY ONE IDEA IN THE UPBUILDING OF THEIR BUSINESS. THAT IS TO BUILD IT SO SOUNDLY AND SO WELL, THAT THE GOODWILL "WHICH THEY HAVE WON WILL GROW AND ENDURE FOREVER -
ITS STABILITY IS BUT A REFLECTION OF THE INSTITUTION ITSELF.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
SOLE AGENTS --
TELEPHONE NO. 781,
St. George's Buildings, HONGKONG,
Faalien 7.29.95 ToursDo 16 $29.9 C.St. James Dagupan... Aparri, 8.
Kanila......
e
Direction,
Force.
Wonthag
T
O. W. Jarraiza, Chief Assistant, Hongkong Observatory, March 3,, 1919
1. BAROMITTE, reduced to 32 degroes Fahrenheit, on the level of the sea in Inches, tenths and hundredths.
1. TamyKRATURE, in the shade in de crees Fahrenheit.
3. HUMIDITY in percentage of natura tion, the humidity of air saturated with moistaru being 100.
DIRECTION OF WIND, to two points. *B.. FORCE OF Win, according to Beadford Scale
6. STATS OF WEATHE, b bhia sky, e detached cloud, d drizzling rain, f fog. g gloomy, h hail, I lightning, overcast. Ppassing showers, q squal, z rain, 1 DOW,
thunder, v visibility w daw, wak 7. RAIN in inches tenths and hun.
dredths
HUNSIONS - HEGISTRA
day
Previous] it 3p.
jon date ation date a
$
Farometer... Temperature Humidity Direction of
Wind Force **** Weather......
29.98
-30.00
30.00
71.
£3
€8
-85
24
71
Z
3
3
0.000,00
9,00
מי
Bigharti'open air. Temperature ba the Ind-79 Lows open. Alt Temperature on the Inf-di
T.F. Cuzco, Bro |Hongkong Ubærvatory, March 3,· 1919. ..
HONGKONG TIDES.
The tide table kiven below has been compiled at the National Almanse Office In London from the result of the analysis of observations taken by means of an sutomatic tide-recording machine in the Water Police Baala at Taim Ehs: Tsui during the years 1903-8, PjetrNA The zero of the table corresponds the zero of the sounding in the Admiralty Chart, which has been found to be 4 Lost 3 inches below mean sea level
To obtain the depth of water on the dde gange at the Victoria Naval Yard add a feet 4 inches; and on the gauge. st Lamont Dook, Aberdeen, add 10 feet 4 inches to the height given in the table.
March 4 to 10, 1910.
SVEN WATER
Tine
す
Hongkons
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.