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CORRESPONDENCE.

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THE CURRENCY QUESTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY FRESH."

Hongkong. 14th January. Siu-With reference to the remarks made at the meeting of the Committed of th Hosg. keng flener: Chamber of Commoron on the currency question, no member expressed any viewuste the grout possibility of silver baraming are commodity like tin, ets, and cerivialy if Indo-Cham, the Straits, the Philippines, Mexico, and other American states "go gold" and consequently demonetiss, silver, as is highly probable, the white metal will become a drug in the market nad we shall have a dollar worth

sixpence, or perhaps less, and be the only country except Chinn trying to use silver vs a standers of life. In such an event will the Colony be able to pay its gold indebtedness (sterling las, salaris of oficinis, contributions to the War

INDIAN NOTES.

THE FONGKONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, JANUARY 15TH, 1' 03

FROM A BOMBLY CORRESPONDINK.]

THE INDIAN CURRENCY FIFORM 1ŁAGIE.

The recent slump in silver, the proposal to fix a gold standard for the Straits Settlements and the consequent depreciation in the value of the Mexican dollar are making matters rather gloomy for the Indian willowner. Hitherto one or two skilled writers Law boen endeavour in and out of season, to din into the ears of local exporters to China that the protested rune has been the cause of most of the trouble în connection with low dividends. They have also been trying to teach producers the econo. mits of an artificial cutroney. They say that whereas the producer who purchases rapes in England with his produce is, according to the intrinsic value of the rupes, entitled to receivent present something like fis. 20 for every sovereign eliset, he now only gels Rs. 15, or Rs. 11 los for each sovereign. This, of course, impoverishes the agricultural community and every one who is an exporter to gold-nsing countries. The mill-owners' cry is loudest in reference to the depreciation of the Mexican dollar, which they say is no longer almighty." as it brings them Since Cinverument ofkaals received the last back fewer repens. They have also serious two exenange compensations their salaries huse reasons for becoming disheartened, as--and, incessel in dollars abent 100 per cont,, which perhaps, mill-agents in Chino will no doubt alone is a considerablo increase to the expen-hear this with some surprise-new milla Love diture of the Colony, and with a further drop of a shilling in exchange this one ilou will make a farther considerable increase in the expomliture. In any other Colony but this the Government would be taking some interest in the matter, bat 1 press they ara waiting until the last moment, ouil as in the case of calling exports to halter the health of the Colony und later on in utending the Building Ördin- auer, they are waiting till they are forcer by a number of deatles, or in this case escons expou- ditare over income, to move in the matter.

ve, etc.) and still flourish

I have heard several men say that the falling dollar has increased the export trade the last few yours and added greatly to Hongkong's prosperity, bat if those wou taken the average rate of exchange for the three or four years before 1962, I think they will find it averaged Is. 11d. to 28, or what one might call a 8xed exchange, and the year 1992 cannot be called a very prosperons year for Hongkong, and tutely one has heard of the increased cost of rice, etc., and general stagnation iu trudia; this occurs on the First Ing drop of silver for five years ¦.

to bring about the adoption of a gold standard for Bosg eng and also the Straita Settlements. Opinions are divided here as to the great advantages of the gold standard for

the Straits, and those interested in Cline dollars and tools took with grave anxiety at this new dark cloud on their already gloomy horizon.

THE MACKAY TREATY

EASTMAN'S

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Appetito and sloep vanish, and the sepzation of weariness never overcomes one so long as the craving is fol. It also kille ull raving for solid food and then liquid nutriment only is palatabis, milk by proterouco, but woe, howling FILMS. KODAKS AND ACCESSORIES

woe, comes in the wake of all this phasure, and after one, two, three or fourmont accoring to ths strength of his constitution-the victim oce

THE MARCH OF THE

DUKHOBORS

GOOD WORK? PROMPT RETURN.

WE HAVE AN ESTABLISHMENT SOLELY DEVOTED TO EXECUTING

WORK FOR AMATEURS, AND WE HAVE LARGER AND BETTER FACILITIES FOR DEVELOPING AND PRINTING THAN ANY HOUSE IN THE COLONY.

ACHEE & CO.,

PHOTOGRAPHIC GOODS STORE,

174/ QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

FEW DOORS EAST OF HONGKONG HOTEL,

Hongkong, 15th November. 1962. VICTORIA

LITHOGRAPHIC

3, DUDDELL STREET,

is looked at with much suspicion by the mer-day suddenly finds bis whole throat, from gullet. hata who deal with the Far East. They were to collarbone, paralysed, his tongan hoary and DEVELOPING AND PRINTING UNDERTAKEN. disponed to laugh at first at the idea of a ichin-insuosible. Emaciution of the body sets ic, and less madarinate, but when it dawned on them where the skin sinks in between the ribs, it through the columns of the Indian Textile turus dark, and his lips, tongue, and troth Journal that the Viceroys were playing a deep assume a blackish colour from an earlier date. game and were willing truly to abolish fokán His head becomes suddenly semmelos, and the various senses of intelligence and light become because it paid them heffer to do so they began to look dorper into it. They are of opinion now that confused and jumbled, so much so that he for- it would pay the Viceroys to get their squeezer gets his cocaine allogether and tries to think direct from the Imperial Customs, unreduced by and find out whether he is himself or somehody filtering to them through the aloud of hungry olse. Let us hope that no wischief-monger subordinates, and at the same time be free to will introduce the habit in boagknap. find out one thousand and one ways for contra- vening the spirit of the now treaty and escoting i now squeezes to replace lekin in the same "olo fashion," for the mandarins. Then they think

In dealing with the extraordinary situation they are in an anomalous position as regards the Indemnity. Either China can or cannot which the Dominion authorities were called upon aysha must be dealt with as France was by to foes by departure of some fitren hundred Gorwary: If she cannot pay, it is no use giving faunties from their homes in the North-West Territories, on u fatanas, jourany with no deci. her so many dollars through the Customs simply Ive end in view, writes & The correspondent, to receive it back as an indemnity in which it would soom that vary great credit fuast he Bussin's share is so enormously large. Be-due to the officials who were despatched to ben lately pinced on the market at one-sides they think that they are dragged into gapple with the problems, in a spursoly--ettled third their original cest without finding taking part in the enrichment of China for the try, and with what we should suppose to be

very inadequate mesas at their disposal. purchasers. Be this as it may, Imperial sake of paying off au indemnity in which they The fanatical movement of the Dukhobors of interests, looking at the currency problem | have no contera. But this is too one-sided Swan River caue to a head in the third week

of October. Thres humbed of them from the: from a broader point of view and taking the as their trade has benefited by the quashing of Yorkton colonies, who had been viciting other British Empire ne a whole into consideration, the Boxer's rebellion. But on the whole their communities, on the 22nd-went among the is unmoved, so far, by thus cries. With the view is a rational one. According testbom, Thandor Hill people, and permuted some 800 hope of obtaining a more favourable hearing by Chins has coms off best all along the line from the various communities in the district to meane of concerted action, some of the mill-

Hor Viceroys got money direct, every year. join them in their sourch for the new light." One of the villages was totally deserted, and owners of Bombay acting in sympathy with cer

The Treaty provides the Mandarinate with now the Department of the Interior placed a man tain producers determined a few weeks back to modes of taxation-and gives them the chance in charge look after the grain and ofbe fonna Currency League and the result of their of looting poor farmers in the name of the in-effects. In another village only five people deliberations was a few days ago presented to demnity for 39 years-till the time the whole were left, and in a third some 50, these promised to inform the department if they the outside world in the form of the following 450,000 0 tals and the interest and com-

decided to join those who had gone out, Many circular--

pound interest are paid, Tho Government moun- telegrams were sent from Swan River calling while enjoys additional income from the Customs home their friends to join the pilgrimas, while other Dukhobors wool by trois to Winnipeg to pay off the indemnity. With the other and elsewhere to bring bem in. The fanstics sagem-ats made by Sir James Mackay no had recently purchased a great deal of clothing, white for walking they wore rubbers," a sort of shos worn by Canadians in the towns over

style of the goloshes formerly worn in this country. Sous of the must deluded wont bake. foot and bareheaded. They believed that there would be no winter and so cold weather, and that God would give them sunny skies under which to march during their search for Jeans The superb weather of the autumn, daring which they were going from one community to another, and with which they were favouret in age them in their delusion.

The grievous effects of the artificial currency system, adopted by the Government of India in 18, have become a source of grave anxiety to those intimately connected with the agricultural and industrial development of the country. In order to give récognised shapo and form to the efforts of those who have hitherto raised solitary and inefficacions protests against! the system, it has been thought advisable to The Chairman talked of getting rid of organise some concerted action in this connec- surplus millions, sad as regards calling generation, and with this object "The Indian Currency meeting, said that no one will ens forward Reform League" has been started in Bombay. with a seberou to show how the change to **There is a wide consevens of opinen, amung

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Ioue here is discontented.

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MACHINERY FOR PRODUCING FIRST-CLASS WORK,

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[166 CLOSING THE SIAM MINTS. THE PHILIPPINES TARIFF AND

CURRENCY.

It was never anticipated by those who had studied the question that the mere fact of the

A Washington telegram dated December 1, losing of the Miut by the Government and Luke Wright, Vice-Governor of the Philippines, appeared before the Sonato Com- the issue of au advertisment that the Governmittee on Philippinos to-day and urged the ment wire prepared to pay £7 ticuls for one passage of the bill relacing the duty bu pound sterling would have the effect of at once Philippins roods coming to this country to 25 fixing tlio value of the tical at 17 to the pound. pur cent, of the Dingley rates. llo also thought Chinese labourers should be allowed to come to It was thought that the action of the Govern the islands. Governor Wright also supported ment in thus divorcing the `tical from the bill for reform in the Puilippine currency.

Besides the Durlur all India is to have a big their boots in wot and cold weather, ufter the the dollar would probably effectually pre. | Wright said that in his opinion the tariff of 75

holiday this Christman. Government bave paid its servants before the end of the month, as all its offices are to be closed till the 12th of January, 1903. The Boubay Committee hare arranged to have a People's Fair with the new Kovolving Railway as a feature-illuminations, crackers and a dinner to poor Christian

gold can be rande, but I take it this 18 But the economists as well as business men, that India widows, in the Town Hall on the 1st, when the ourly part of their march, served to encour

the guests will be served by the aristocracy of beauty and fashion.

THE GREAT DELHI DURBAE.

vent the tical from following the dollar in ita downward course, but that its valno would, while remaining fairly stationary at Arst, when trade incressed and money became tight in Bangkok, gradually rise.

Bet an entirely unexpected feature presented itself. The Banks, under the impression that the laws of Sism, like those of the Medes and Persians, were unchangeable, and ablicions of the fact that the Decres which made the tical

Ou October 23, 1,100 of them, about 400 of whom were men, passed through Fort Pelly ou their way to Terpennie When they started from the north upon their march, all their sick interchangeable with the doliar, at the rate of and feeble were carried in wagons and carts ticals for 3 dollars and with the rupes at & drawn by the rest, but after a few miles the ticuls for 7 rupees (how strange it sounds now vehicles were abandoned, and stretches of poplar might at any moment he repealed by the Power poles and remment uficials cook char which made it, sont, in the course of their conveyance. charge

per cent which now obtains on all pretincts ship pod from the Philippines to the United States really amounts to a probibition. He pleaded for larger and more liberal trade relations with the islands, and said that the ships bringing sugar and tobacco to this country stʊnid taki buok Aroerican products. Seuators Burrows and Diedrich challenged his statement that the s prohibitive, and existing tariff of 75 per con said that the imports of mat since 1900 båd increased steadily. Weight replied that the amount was a more bagatelle compared with tis production: “ Asa mere matter of sentiment, "de said, "I think there is hardly anything Congress could do that would have such a fue effect upon the Filipino as to establish more intimate trado relations." It would, he said, remove the impres

which oxists among them that the sion Americans are there to exploit the islands and not Lo gito thon the benefit

point. The Best thing to decide is: "Is it advis, economic welfare demands the reopening of the able to try for some stubility in exchange and zaints and the resolution passed by the Man- place the country on a gold basis,” and fàcil, ifchester Chamber of Commerce, in June, 1898, the members are in favour of doing s6, to call urging the same course, has therefore their tull for experts' assistance to show how it can be approval. If, however, the Government com- done and the surplus millious got rid of? sider the reopening of the mints as impractionbin Mr. Showen sail wages buvo sisen, which is the league, by respectfully pointing out the disastrous conséque neos of a policy which threat ens to impoverish the economic resources of gutes batches of the aristocrrey, ecutinental of the discarded vehicles and sert them tu Fort exchungs / business, a large amount of their of American markets. The possibilities of is correct, as that would mean a rise of 23 the country, and involve agriculturists, plantes and English, millionaires and pleasure-seekers l'elly. On the 26th they had reached Crooked Bangkok fands out of Siam, to Singapore and sugar production in the Philippines, his suid,

true, and infers that they have risou equally with the fall in exchange, which I don't tisink

near 2, which it

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or and manufacturers in serious difficulties, will pray Government for the lowering of the rate to such a figure as wenld, cu the one hand give equilibrium to the country's finances and, on the ether, substantial relief to producers and others.

to 30 per cent. in the Jask three four years, taking the rate at somewhere for Sette time, As for the slatemont muds that wages will rise as the sterling value of the dollar falls and that conditions will adjust themselves until that limit, which Teamot be very far off nae, is

Fally convinced that the object aimed at is resekod, I doubt if any firm will give its to avert further mischaf,, sad to mitigate the employers a rise of 100 per cont, if the dollar hardship at present complained of the Pro- drops to a shilling.(... that it will, if archang visional Committee cordiatly invites all bankers, drops to a shilling in the next year or two, pay maoufnoturers, traders, producers and others an employee who was zocviting $400 a month a who sympathise with the object of the league to year or two ago 8809; and, us for the limiterol themselves, as mentues, and with their being reacher, it is wid that there are mines support and assistance add weight and influence which eat bo worked at a profit at a shilling an to the operations of the league." ounce, oral it is also well known that there are Everywhere kong taill-agents hore, the many mines worked for gold and other winerals chief topic is the gloomy autlook for the ez- turning out quantities of silver which ente-deporters of yarn to China. The losses already sold at it, an ornice without making any very suffered by some owing to heary shipments perceptible difference on the prolits made by being forwarded with exchangh unssenrad is rather bouvy. Mill-owners aro thereforsturning Mr. Sheran said that the banks would be their attention to weaving, in order to make up to open lanches in Canton and the trade and for the bad trade ia spiasing sad, orders for industries of longkong would in consequence machinery have been already placed in England buffer a severe blow-but why? I quite agree by the more up-to-date directorates. The in with him that the banks would have to open interest of Bombay spinners is at the present Canton chiefly for the purpose of getting rid of moment up to high-water mark as regards the any sitter they received, but I quite fail to doings of mills in China. Mr. Jamieson, the see why the trade of this place should suffer British Commercial attaché in China, in his because export morehauts were busing thoîr silk recently published report says a good deal about purchases (Kay) and had to work out, their rates between Alver-using Canton and gold-using Hongkong and Loudou instead of basing their

· rates between silver Hongkong and gold London

these mines.

only: even now they have to allow some slight

difference between Hongkong and Canton, so

COTTON-SPISNING IN INDIA AND THE

FAR EAST.

If he enters so heartily into the spirit of the thing and marsinis bis facts and figures, as he has done in the report just mentioned, in futura

The sensation of the season with is of ennyes the Delhi Durbar. By the time this is in print it will be a thing of the past. The English mail steamers are bringing to our

Some of the from all parts of the world. potentates come from places difficult to find even on a big map, but the ery is still they Is it not strange that no members of come." the Jewish fraternity in the Far East who hail from Hindustan have their name in the lists of

Lake, and next day they wore mut-gear Yorkton by Mr. C. W. Splers, colonisation agent, and Mr. J. S. Crerar, immigration officer, who watched the progession nati a camp had been Exed upon. At midday on the Both they des cended upon Yorkton, and a few hours later were followed by some 500 mese. In some of the litters which they carried were women with

registers to different camps? There is going to infante, some of whom had bean buri on the be a gathering in Delhi such as never took place march, one being only three day old. In the anywhere in the world since the dawn of historyusbands and children to go on pilgrimage, and procession were women who had left their and man during the time that Solomon was at following behind were hushands, wives, and the zenith of his glory and the Queen of Sheba sons, who pleaded with thoir relatives to return

home. came to pay him Lounge. This is no ox- aggeration Lut a very modest, way of stating a simple fest. There will be first and foremost the Ruling Princes of India and they are innumerable. They are to appear in their national costume, riding on slephants and camels and in specially built stato carriages. The Gaekwar of Baroda takes with bin bis gold cannon, and some other equally rare treasure. The Americe millionaires are on the list, France and Germeny and all the other European Powers will be represented. Japan will be there also and so will be the Siamese, the Burmess, the Megal, the Turk, the Arab the African, and every other people imaginable, as guests of the Government. It is stated that the creem of British Society are sirendy in India. One of the fair visitors from the old country will wear among her other jewelry a diamond necklace worth a triffe like £80,000 And some of the dresses are to be wonders of their kind. There is usthing strange therefore in the rumours that are afloat about the likely attendance of the lightingereal gentry from

America and London in the town of Delbi

it would not require any great effort to allow, reports, there is no doubt his efforts will during the next few weeks. Expert knowledge

courage our competitors in the Far East to too, for the further difference in exchange persevere with high kopen as to a bright futuro, in the back rates et Canton and Hongkong.which considering the currency problem &fect The banks would no doubly being is such, close: proximity to China, be freely operating in silver, Bombay, gives them. a long pall over us. and I daresay would quote daily in Hongkong The labour question and the doctoring - of their buying and selling ratos for silver, in cotton are at present the two stumbling-blocks to the spady development of the spisning in- Hongkong cairency.

dustry in China. When these are removed, we A turning point has already, in my opinion, bere will have to ga is for more wearing, or been reached, and the Hongkong public generapia ourselves to liquidation, a by no means ally will it another three or four years, when cheerinl outlook for the already handicapped

Indian spinner,

silver has been demonetised all over the world and the dollar is worth anything under half a rupee, any Sd., regret that they did not at this time make an effort for a gold erreting. Yours, etc.,

A GOLD STANDARD VOR THE STRAITS.

gravitates always to the direction where a good deward is indicated. But the police and sani- tary, lighting and other arrangements are in abl Lands and the need be no scare o

this account.

COCAINE-EATING IN INDIA,

elsewhere, without complete cover by the of bills or by the importation of dollars..

sale

That such action must under the oircum

lances be considered as partially speculative cannot be questione; but there the fact was, and when this Government closed the Mints the Banks kooked with dismay upon the prospect before them of having to bring back to Siam a vast quantity of gold, in order to parchase outstanding, ticol liabilities in Siam, with a tical enough ticals to liquidate the balance of their the value of which was considerably greater than the silver that it contuital.

With this knowledge in their possesion and At Yorkton the Government officers proceeded with the further knowledge that ticals would to exeraise their authority. The leaders could only be purchased from the Government in gire po satisfactory answers when questioned as future at the rate of 17 ticols to the pound to their object-they were seeking the now sterling, it became impossible for the Banks light-and Mr. piers told them they would not to sell their remaining ticals at anything less be slowed to travel over the country with than 17 to the pound. This would have meant women and children, us they had been doing. a sudden jump in the value of the timal from men were invited to conduct the rest into about 114d to 1/2, which would not only the Immigration hall, but were sulien and made have resulted in a serious dislocation in trade, no response. Thereupon they were told that but would also have compelled the Banks the officials would insist upon it, and police and to endeavour to sell their sterling drafts at spectators began the work of housing. While a rate of exchange ont of all proportion to the this was being done, the men were palm-sing- rats at which they were purchasing bille locally, ing. It is diffoult for any one who has never In order to mast this entirely unlooked for seen a small prairie town treatise what such situutiou, to prevent any violent a torat on in an extraordinary situation mnet siguify: 450 exchange, and also to save the Banks from the were sheltered in the Immigration-hall, 250 in inconsegnaces of their setion-legitimate bank Dunlop's implement shed, 40 in the aeromotering business as it was in having emitted from elevator, and the remainder in the range hell. Si ta so much of their tical assets, the Govern ment issued a Notineation 1 the sffect that One young girl of 18, who had had no nourish- food for days and refused to eat, had antracted they would for the time being sell ticais at the pneumonia, and had to be compelled by force to rate of 20 to the pound sterling. This was a take a draught base people will not see u rate only slightly higher than the value of the doctor or take medicine lost doir seule should tical at the lime that the Mints were closed, and be rained. A equad of 20 mounted police should the dollar rise, it seems quite possible that the Government rate for selling Licals ursy guarded the buildings and patrolled the town. The men were lefs to look out for themselves, shortly have to be raised to kee, it aboyo the and camped outside the town, spending, the value of the silver that the mainted coin contain night praying and singing peals

That the Government is perfectly able to The Duklotors not affected by the mania had increase thus the value of the tical to any strongly urged the department not to take care reasonable value that they may choose to gire the women and children. on the ground that to it is disputed by none, sul it seems certain the necessity of providing for these would tho that, to far as human knowledge can prodist, sooner compel the men to return to their tarass, Sian is free for ever from the harassing but, as is Bouth Africa, this idon did not com- vagaries of a iluctuating exelange and frum

would be unlimited were the importasion of a ques- Chinese labour permitted. Raplying tion if it would not be better for the United States to produce its own sugar and obviate the neo-ssity for shipping it across the Pacific. Wright said that as a Philippine Commissioner

he was bound to evance the interests of the Filipino people. He next discussed the question of Philippine currency and urged authority for the Commission to isans temporary certificates gold coin and which could be exchanged for the of indebtedness, which shall be redeemable in peso. He was not. ke said, in favour of unlimited coinage. The ultimate purpose of Congress, be thought, in undoubtedly to give to the Philippines the same queroBoy is our own, but he said, it would be sufortunate to do that at ouce.

A despatch dated Washington, Decomber 11, sags: The Scoate Comaities on Philippines discussed with Vice-Governor Wright the monetary situation in the archipelago. It was generally agreed that there would be difleu ties in changing the currency in the islands. The conmusus of opinion expressed was that the unit of value in the Philippines should be a gold peso of twelve and nine-tenths grains of gold, which is one-half the value of the United States gold dollar, and the peso in silver should be made legat tender of equal value to the units. Austber feature upon which Governor Wright and the members of the committes agreed was that United States currausy should not be made legal tender in the islands, as the silver dollar would then be worth, twice as much as the peso, containing more silver than the dollar, which would encourage counterfeiting of the United States dollars.

TRADE

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of the Government to introduce, and the talk A SCOTCH WHISKY OF EXCELLENT about claims against the wovernment for com

QUALITY AT REASONABLE pensation were so many wild with whirling words, uttered on the spur of the excitement caused by the vast economic change that the Government had no successfully engineered.

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mend itself to British not ons of proceduro. the loss to the country incidental to STILL LEADING When they approached the boundary of Masi-depreciating tical. Such alteration in th tola on November 1 certain interesting desput valus of the tical as the fat re may have in ches passed between Mr. Robin, the Consorcative store will in all probability be on the side of It might be news to your readers in China Premier of Manitoba, and Mr. Clifford Sifton, increasing its value. The whole measure was that some of the natives in this country are Minister of the Interior in the Liberal Govern indubitably wail within the legal competence trying to establish their supremacy, as nar-mont at Ottawa. Mr. Robia said the Dukhobers comaniaus, to the opium-smokers of the Land of wore not wanted in Manitoba, and enquired whether his Government would be relieved of bebellions and Inderuities. Calcutta. where all responsibity, financial and otherwise, if they bhang and ganja (Indian hemp, from which is should reach the province. To which Mr. extructed the drag Cannabis Indies) are used Sifton replied, that if Mr. Roblin decided to interfere with the officials plac d in charge of in different forms, fint began the scandal by the work, he would take such action on his own This is another subject which gives our

trying the exhilarating effects of a drug called responsibility. mill-owners serious

ausa for uneasiness. The

cocaine officially deseribed as "an alkoloid mere rumour of a gold standard for the Straits obtained from the leaves of Erythrocylum Settlements, has, they believe, sufficed to bring Coce." It travelled down to Bombay about In the early sixties Mr. Duueau McLaren, the already degraded Mexican very near to a

two years and a half ago, and is sold openly brother-in-law to John Bright, and M. P. for far with the rupee, and they are afraid the in shops where betel nuts and betal leaves then, Wasyl Konkin, enquired whether the mome years for Edinburgh, sued and obtained adoption of a gold basis will drive it out of a mages from the Scotsman for having refered the monetary market and cause shippore to him as a "serpent" or "sual -in-the-grown.” or similar term such as we use in speaking off her to face song big losses. Not many seem our dearest enemies. Shortly after, baving to to understand hers why it is believed in teal with some statistics brought up by Sr. Singapore that Hongkong is bound to object MoLaren, the Scotsman in a leader wrote

We have always bail regard for Mr. MoLaren's

I.

capacity as an adder, but his figures on this

question," &c.

used by the nativos can be kad.

On Sunday, November 2, the pilgrims crossed the border, anti encamped at Milwood on the Assiniboine, which flows into the Rud siver at Wnipeg. Next day they ranched Binsearth. an forined up opposite the station, when one of The general people would like to hear their teaching.

On that day a bitter wind sprang up from effects of the cocaine-enting habit is to the mori cast, and in the evening snow was fall produce a feeling of goodwill to all markieding heavily, That night the main body were and to forgive your bitterest enemy. Some of bridled together in a willow scrub at the bottom your rialto people will not appreciate the of Stony Crook Meanwhite at Yorkton, plans to the gold currency proposal.. I hear on

were being matured for dealing with the women wisdom of this. It also gires ons an over-

and children by vilages, and despatching the good authority, however, that Sir C. P. powering impules to scok pleasure or confer it first detachment by train to the Swan River Chater has been trying his best ja London on others, which amounts to the same thing. moitlements.

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The Government is to be congratulated on having at once met in ench a liberal and statis- marlike manner the representations of the Banks, and wo firmly boliero that all elas es the commnaity can look forward with confident IF YOU REQUIRE A PERFECT ·· hope to a greatly impr. ved condition of things

LIQUEUR WHISKY now that Siam is no longer to be affected by the curious antics of our old friend the silver dollar. The Banks are doing business both ways on the new. Government rate of exchange, and the Government scheme may be said to KING EDWARD VII have been fairly launched and to have weathered the breakers through which it necessarily lad to pass at the outset. Its prosperous and 1- ahegaorod further career will be wished by all friends of Siam.

The Government selling price of the tical is to-day (Dee, 23) 194 ticals per pound sterling. -Singapore Free Press.

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