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THEN AND NOW!"

ANGLO-JAPANESE

ALLIANCE.

COUNT OKUMA'S VIEWS.

THE CHINA MAIL.

RENEWAL MORE THAN EVER NECESSARY: BOLSHEVIK

DANGER.

ATTITUDE OF MERCHANTS.

MANCHESTER WEEKLY

MARKET REPORT.

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Messrs. James F. Hutton and Co., Ltd, Manchester, report on April 28-

ABSENTEE RAJA.

„SUBJECTS DNMIND RETURN.

JUN

NOTICEL

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

Received new shipments

of

LAMB, MUTTÖN," "BEEF, RABBITS, HARES,

KIPPERS,

to again. HẨM

We see from a telegram, says the Mairas Mail, that H.H. the Rajah New York has been very unsettled, Puddukotah still continues to wander being unfavourably affected by the about the face of the earth, leaving Japanese financial situation which the administration of his hide State forced a certain amount of liquids in commission. It would be interest- tion, and also by further reports of ing to know what reason His Highness bad weather in the growing States, now advances, for. his continued ab- but the bearish element has proved serice. Some years ago when the the stronger and prices are again Council was first appointed, it was Marquis Okuma, in the course of lower. The downward trend was stated that the health of the ruler an interview, declared that the reflected in Liverpool prices but demanded that he should have a more Anglo-Japanese Alliance was more owing to an adverse movement or less prolonged stay in England. than ever necessary in view of the in sterling exchange on New York, Since then the Rajsh. has married an post-bellum situation, especially in values have been sustained. From a the Orient! Without the Alliance," review of the changes in valves which Australian lady, and his visits to his MACKINTOSH be continued, "dangers threaten have taken place recently, it is to be State have been like those of angels, China, Siberia and India, particularly noted that distant positions have few and far berween, and only for the latter. This is a critical relatively become much dearer, which very brief intervals. During the war moment with the Bolsheviks threats of course to be put down to the the Rajah lived in Australia, but since The greatest encouragement to the has had, and there is little doubt and takes no part in the administra Reds would be the knowledge that that the dominant factor in the tion of the State. Apparently, as long Japan would not interfere whatever cotton markets for some time will as he, the Ranee and the young heir happened in India. The same applies be the weather news. In view of draw a handsome Civil List allowance, to Japan with regard to Siberia the importance of this influence, a from the State which permits a haufi- The League of Nations is welcome report to hand is of much interest.ous absentee life, he does not much but is not yet founded on a solid This states that no real damage has worry about the feelings of his sub- enough basis morally to control the as yet been done to the crop by jeas in the matter. At first they world, as is evidenced by the Angle-bad weather and it, as is forecasted, were sympathede, then succeeded a French Alliance as a guarantee to there should now be a clearer and period of apathy, but recently, judging France and the refusal of America warmer spell, little serious harm from communications on the subject to ratify the Treaty. The necessity will have been caused, although of that we have received, they are be- According to the report of the Harbour Master for 1919 the total of When Huns were hammering at the of a renewal of the Alliance is not course under present conditions coming restive and demand that their limited to the contracting parties.it has many riske to run. In the ruler should return and take a more the shipping entering and clearing at door,

It extends also to the other Powers, yarn and cloth markets there is little active interest in his State and his ports in the Colony amounted to And you were filled with fear.

responsible for the safeguarding of change to report, the absence of subjects. The financial resources oi 649,168 vessels of $5,615,169 tons. The service men were to the fore

having become the world's peace. America, vitally demand

almest

Fuddukotah' are none 100 large, and which compared with 1918, shows an In. all your minds out here.

interested in the Orient, should lead universal. Of enquiry there is a

the people wonder why a double bar- increase of 69.627 vessels, with an

bat for the in welcoming a continuance of the moderate amount, increase of 6,096,980 tons. Of the You feted them and said rice things

Alliance. Because of the Monroe present there seems to be little serious den should be imposed on them of shipping 41,985 vessels of 21,072,129 About what they could do:

Doctrine America is unable actually intention to do business behind it maintaining their rider and his family tons were engaged in foreign trade, As guardian angels without wings as compared with 43,436 vessels of They then appeared to you.

to participate in the Alliance but if it appears rather in the nature of and a Council of Regency. We hope it were made possible, she would a testing of prices. Here, however, that an Indian gentleman's estimate of 16.955,332 tons in 1918. British

surely be welcomed into the group no weakness whatever has developed, the Rajah as a ruler is not true. name- ocean going ships account for 324 But after armistice was signed,

which would thus form a triple for although there is a slightly easier ly that he cared so little for the Sate per cent. of the tonnage and British And you felt safe once more.

Such thoughts of them you soon realliance, while the efficacy of the tone for some grades of yarn and that he would sell it if he could find river steamers for 15.4 per cent.

signed,

alliance for the maintenance of peace cloth, prices for others are quoted a purchaser. Is it not time that the would be enhanced" The British even higher. The wages dispute Madras Government, who have poli- to residents in China and the Austra-continues to overshadow all other tical control of the State, courteously lians are taking a superficial view factors and the prospects of a settle but firmly insisted on the Rajah oc and are opposing the renewal on ment are little advanced. The opera cupring his proper pince? I his the ground that it throws unilateral tive spinners and card-room workers health permits him to travel about the resalted in favour of world in the way he does, it ought obligations upon the British. Japan ballot

notices strike and

were certainly to allow him to take up again played a significant part in guarding a the Pacific and frustrating German immediately banded in to expire May the administration of Puddukotah, designs against Russia and she was 1st and negotiations in this section of constantly a faithful ally in peace the trade have as yet only resulted and war. The maintenance of the in the arrangement of a further meet, Alliance is an imperative necessity ing of the employers and operatives* though textual changes are neces representatives, which is to take place to-morrow. In the weaving section however, the outlook is brighter as the strike notices have been postpon- ed to May 8th and the operatives' unien have agreed to the principle of arbitration..

Of vessels of European construc; And all was as beiere. tion, 4,571 Ocean Steamers, Sailing

And now your doors are closed

Ships, 3,550 River Steamers, and 2,509 Steamships not exceeding 60

them.

tons entered during the year, giving Your guests they must not be:

a daily average of 29.1 ships, as They're only common soldier men. compared with 273 in 1918. and Or sailormen, you see! - 29.9 in 1917.

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Some colonel you may ask to dine- To give your place a tone. Because you want to be thougbe fine, And just for that alone.

The average tonnage of individual ocean vessels entering the part in creased from 1,459.2 tons to 1583.1 tons, the increase in British ships! being from 1,482.5 tons to 1.772.6 And yet these lads. who now are here,

River steamers increased in Living close by your side. average tonnage from 484,7 tons to Have fought and bled for you!

there,"

tons.

448.8 tors.

An increase is shown in British Ocean-going shipping of 1,421 ships

And would "for you have died.

"out

sary."

SHANGHAI COTTON MFG. CO. CASE.

SETTLEMENT ANNOUNCED.

A settlement has bees reached in the affairs of the Shanghai Cotton If gratitude you really feel

Manufacturing Co., Ltd., which have For what the lads have done, Your cloak of snobbishness just peel, been before the British Supreme And make them feel at home.

TIGRIS."

were

NEW ZEALAND'S GRIEVANCES.

Sir Thomas Mackenzie, High Cam- missioner of New Zealand, speaking with considerable feeling" at the luncheon given to Lord Atholstan of the Montreal Star by the Times.

MR.-F. 2. UNWIN RETIRES, declared that because of the acton

52 YEARS OF CHINA

..

or 58.1 per cent, and an increase of The life in barracks or board ship 3,214,448 tuns or 88.6 per cent. This Has nought of homelike charm:"" is due to a partial recovery of ship-Soon into ways the best may slip." ping after war conditions owing to That cause them lasting harm. release of mary ships for commercial purposes.. British River Steamers decreased by 305 ships and 190,664 toas or 5.2 per cent, in nurabers and 5.5 per cent. in toanage. This is due to two ships formerly British having been transferred to the Chinese flag.i to one ship having been taken off the "run for three months and another

having been laid up. Foreign Ocean- The actual number of individual going Vessels increased by 1,040 ships Ocean-going Vessels of European with an increase of 1,507,930 tons or construction during the year 1919 24.5 per cent. in numbers and 24.6 was 957 of which 301 were British per cent, in tonnage. This is due to and fas Foreign. In 1918 the cor

titors are charging you twenty, guin partial return to pre-war conditions.responding figures Foreign River Steamers show an which 162 were British and 513 Mr. McNeill said he was glad to and acted as Chief Secretary of Teas for a suit of clothes. It is true increase of 89 ships and a decrease Foreign.

be able to inform his Lordship, the Inspectorate General temporarily that New Zealand is erntled to a ball of 20,638 tons or 5.2 per cent in These 957 ships measured 2,230,105 Judge Skinner Turner, that since the numbers and 3.3 per cent. in tonnage. tons. They entered 4.575 times and Court last sat he and his learned established at Shanghai during the share of the profits, but we don't This is due to the transfer of two gave a collective tonnage of 7,242,689 friend and their respective clients Siege of Peking, when the capital want it. All the farmers are agreed was cut off from the outer world. that any surplus should go to the sol ships formerly British to the Chinese Thus 282 more ships entered 1.232 had been able to come to some His subsequent ports were Ichang, diers and sailors who suffered by the flag and to two large ships having more times and gave a collective arrangement and, therefore, with his

"The Food Controller, he went on been taken off the run. In Steamships tonnage greater by 2,364,580 tons. Lordship's permission, he proposed Soochow, and Chefoo, where he spent war. Dot exceeding 60 tons employed in an average of 1919.3 tons per entry to withdraw the petition. Counsel He will, however, be best remembered to say, under a mistaken assumption, Foreign Trade there is a decrease of

On 301 British ships there were explained that in spite 967 ships and a decrease of 19,049 tons 2,408 British and 32 foreign officers difference of opinion his clients as Commissioner at Shanghai from is holding up more than five million or 16.1 per cent in numbers and while on 656 foreign ships there had never desired to make any im. 1913 to 1917, when on account of the carcases of New Zealand meat. What | 105 per cent. in tonnage. This were 4,659 officers of whom 78 were putation on the good faith of the war, his position was far frour being is the result? After a time the nicat After being on home must deteriorate, and the high reputa- | decrease is due to a number of Steam British 1-6 of the officers serving in directors, liquidators or any of the eave which he spent in America, he tion which this important article of launches being laid up part of the foreign ships were British, which is Japanese shareholders in the case year owing chiefly to the expense of an increase on the previous year. and at the same time he would like, returned for a year to the post of diet has enjoyed will be destroyed. of coal and to two vessels formerly in the British ships 22-74 per cent of if any of the documents filed in the Commissioner at Hankow, and in As for the price, it is true that mut- November last was appointed Stati ton has been reduced 1fd., but lamb run as Steam-launches, having been the crews were British, and 86-8 case had suggested any such imputastical Secretary, terminating in that has been increased, so that there is ze-measured and run as vessels over Asiatics. On foreign ships 0-83 per tion, to withdraw it unreservedly.

Janks in Foreign Trade cent, of the crew were British and Mr. Macleod consented to this position a service of 52 years, in the an average increase of id. instead of

■ reduction.**. show a decrease of 2,729 vessels of 92.00 per cent. Asiatics.

course being adopted and said that) 275,333 tons or 11.6 per cent in In the river trade in 1919 1,373,947 he quite appreciated his learned Mr. Unwin is one of the first, indeed numbers and 126 per cent in ton passengers were carried, (1,410,400 in friend's remarks.

of the Government the vital interests of the Dominion which he represents are at stake. Our very life-blood." .he said, "is interfered with." Mr. F. S. Unwin, one of the oldest "In support of this assertion the Court for some little time. An an foreign residents in China, left for gave a few stating figures and facts ncuncement to this effect was made: by Mr. D. McNeill, appearing for Mr. home on the "Tenyo Maru," with with regard to the way in which the disposal of three of the staple, pro- F. J. Burrett, in the petition by the Mrs and Miss Unwin.

Mr. Unwin arrived in China in ducts of New Zealand--wool, butter, the former that the company should September 1868, tas first point being and meat--has been and is being bewound up under the supervision of Foochow. After serving at several handled by the Government.

Wool the Court, though the exact terms of other Southern parts and at Takow, sold to them by New Zealand at ¡15. the settlement were not divulged,

With Mr. McNeill for the peti-Formosa, he spent several years 3d. a pound has not, he said, resched at Chefoo and Newchwang, where our manufacturers under from 5s to

He tioner was Mr. W. H. Langley Smith, he was in charge in 1885. $s. a pound. No.,wonder that your while Mr E N Macleod appeared was Commissioner at Ningpo and 675 of for the Company,

Chinkiang in the late nineties,

60 tons.

the

of all

of 2

several years-from 1909 to 1912.

a-sinecure.

Chinese Customs Service.

we believe the first, to benefit by the new pensions scheme recently

"The case of New Zealand briter appears to be even more, outrageous,

nage. This decrease is but apparent. 1918), 328,369 tons were exported His Lordship said the petition adapted for the Customs, and his it is, he told his audience, threatened It is due to the abolition of war (399,458 in 1918), and 323 563 tors would be withdrawn and he apps friends will wish that he may with expulsion from the British mar time regulations under

which imported (262,146 in 1918). Trade preciated what Mr. Macleod had said live long to enjoy the reward of his ket, unless New Zealand accepts the movements

jurks by junks amounted to 1,454,715 on behalf of his clients. It seemed service to China But this thought price offered by the Government. That were reported. Now many of them tons

to him a most satisfactory conclusion fail to report arrival or departure.

The gross revenue collected by of the case for proceedings of that in no way lessens their regret at his price is is. 71d. a pound, consider- In Local Trade (ie., between places! the Harbour Department

was sort must have tended to harm the departure, for both inside and out ably less than half what Irish butter Mrs. Unwin unfor- their produce. No-wonder-there is within the waters of the Colony) there is an increase in Steam-launches $633,794.25 against $594,728.91, an liquidation of so successful and side the Customs Mr. Unwin was merchants are allowed to charge for

The prosperous, a company as this and Fidely liked. of 87,086 vessels with an increase, in increase of 6.16 per cent.

$191,850 96 as it had spared him a lengthy and tunately suffered from very poor biner feeling of indignation, as he He health in Chma; it is to be hoped said, at the Antipodes. No wonder toupage of 2,631,944 or 175 per expenditure was cent. in numbers and 42.5 per cent against $173,527,64 in the previous possibly troublesome inquiry.

New Zealand meat trade have come to England.. This increase is due to more was glad to hear from Mr. McNeill he will benefit by the change to that 80,000 of those interested in the Mr. Unwin has been succeeded as the conclusion that they must combine expenditure incurred on new moorings what he had said about any possible

Statistical Secretary by Mr.J. W. H. and regulate the quantities of New for ocean steamships and salaries for imputation in the documents. officers returned from active service. The Court then rose.

Ferguson, who has already assumed Zealand meat that shall be placed on Emigrants-leaving Hongkong in

charge of the Statistical Department. the home market. 1919 numbered 59,959...

year.

in tonnage. This increase is due to more shipping frequenting the Port, the employment of Launches towing having considerably increased. Trade show а Junks in Local

vessels" and decrease of 16,008 651,761 tons or 432 per cent. in numbers and 35.6 per cent. in of

The total expenditure for upkeep Government moorings and broys revenue $61,156.

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abolition of war time restrictions,

under which the movements of all

Junka irrespective of

size were

.nd.

"le it difficult to understand what the Food Controller expects todo. CAUSE OF DESPONDENCY. E-PONDENCY is often caused by What he actually does is to satisfy massaging with the palm of the hard for five minutes at each application quickly disappears when Chamberlain's nor the would-be consumer in, this Then dampen a piece of flannel slightly ablets are taken. Those tablete streng country. He is robbing Peter, but he

the

test of pain. For sale by al For sale by all Chemists and Stors

keepers.

reported, where as many of them { Tako a "VALLA-WALLA" BOAT with this liniment and blad is on over then the digestión ard move the bowel certainly is not paying (or pleasing) |

now fail to report their movements,

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Paul," says the Times,

&, &c.

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