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THE HONGKONG BAILY PHESS, THURSDAY

THE "TIMES” AND SIR CYPRIAN neither permanent die dadgunted beforehand, y but selected for the occssion according to the LA BRIDGE:

"exigencies of the dextagio eitiation, and cap The following article appears in the Times able of being shifted at will in response to any change in these exigenules. History tells of February 19th

ns that this has been the nezmiał procedure in

the clow-

maid Chief

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES

AND NEWS!

des

ILY 2ND. 1908

The Egyptian Goterminz Bocounts for the year 1902 have just-bron closed. They show that the recorpte amount to £114306, BANITATION THEN AND NOW.

A and the expens-1 to 1 £11,139,3227, having a The remarkable progress which has bad sarpine of B, £716,184 Besides this surplus, times past and even in the present day. The made in respect of the cleansing, of cities during thers Appoer, on the expenditure side of the The Supply dad Cou

century may be understood when it is accounts a surplus of the Caisse of the Public the last ach road at the feet which asantnes the offences stated that a hundred years ago the cleansing Debt amounting to B £1,061,111, which is paid kong Un Service Insuration by Vicd British dot masthan to establish what are Admiral Bir Cypriss Brage, the present Com-sometimes called flying bases to which it staff of the city of Glasgow consisted of twelve to tas general reserve fand, and also Conversion the China Station, can resort at will. This explains why Nelson policemen, who left their bests for four hours sonomies to the amount of E £265,097. The weos clictul, it rarely used Gibmltar na: a base, why we per week in order to sweep the streets. At tas real mrplus of receipts over expenditure there.

nder-in-coupled Paliciam in 1854, and why the prosent time the staff number 1,350, and over ford exceeds E £2,000,100,

Americans used Guantanamo Bay in 1808 300 horses are employed, while last year the following in this respect the precedent set se quantity of material dealt with was about long ago as 1641 by Vernon, who called, the 400,CC0 tons, giving a`dally scurage of 1,256 place Walthenam Bay and even renamed It toan. Camberland Harbour. There is always a danger that the pre-established base may prove to be in the wrong place; indeed it is pretty certain to be in the wrong place if the enemy knows his business for, as Bir Cyprian when going to war to give your enemy credit for a verlain amount of good sense. Oar

may per be

Chief's apologis" for the advics he is known to have tendered to the Admiralty last year to the ef. fest that Weib alwai should melonger be organized na a secondary base for the supply ed stores, ammunition, and soul to British warships in La northern waters of Chins. She Cyprian Bridge is entitled to speak an such a subject with the high authority which belongs to intimate local knowledge, to willo naval experience, and to a

THE AMERICAN LOVE OF TITLES.

SYMPATHETIC CONTACT.

The experience of sharing the guard's van with twenty-two workmen, owing to the over crowding of trains, which befell Lord Adding ton and Mr. D. J. Morgan, M.P..-recently on their way to a menting at Walthamstow, Mrs. G. Cornwallis West (Lady Randolph recalle. saya a London contemporary, an Churchill) contributes to the March number adventure of a well-known bishop who was strategic insight and historie grasp which place Bridge delly' says, “It is not a bad rule of the Pall Mall Magazine, a paper' which will anxious to gain an insight into the tastes and provoke considerable discussion at bema zud in manners of the working-classes in London. –He America." Americans," she says, "are often travelled one morning by one of the workmen's

him in the very front rank of living wito on the teachings of naval history and the

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SURANCE BROKERS.

The Times correspondent, who contributes the daily notes on Lloyds and Marine Insurance Companies, wrote on February 28th.

principles of maral atrategy. He was for sover! Omemy's good serais kely to lead him to do credited with loving titles. In a sense the trains on the Underground Railway, and was brokers have in some cases made contracts at yours Director of Naval Intelligence, an offics exactly what we wiel him not to do and not to criticism is true, but only. inastinalı ss, striving mnoh struck with the potener of several expres-

If do that which we wish him to do... we have erected permanent bases in times of which placed him at the head of what is,.80 far as it can be with its present mongress the enemy will know their whereabouts organisation the thinking department of the as well as we do ourselves, and, unless be is a Navy, He is a man of wide literary and pro-greater fool than it is safe to think he is, he fessional culture, he writes with rate skill and will try to make ne derive as little benefit he has written largely, though mainly anopy from them as possible. The flying base," mensly, on those broad seal issues and topics on the other hand, is from the usture of the which the Ints Admiral Colomb was among the

case either exactly in the right place or as near first to diecrias, in this country and Captain to it as may be. As these views appear to bave Mahon has since made his owE. said of prevailed with the Admiralty, at least so far as him not long ago, that those who sta privy to Weibiwel is concerned, it is perhaps zeedless the authorship of writings too long anonymete to enlarge upon them further. But the final world not hesitate to rocker Sic Cyprion lesson deduced by Sir Cyprian Bridge from his Bridge among the few English writers who argument is both highly important in itself and have spon mayal bistor the light now capable of a general application. It is that the revealed to all the world Cap

agatem of supply, to be adopted in war should bo For a justification of this

steadfastly practised in padde. Surely no one will care to deny that the fleet which has practised in quiet years the system that must be followed in war will start with great advantage on its side when it is at last con- naval Warfare." fronted with thestern realities

now point to the masterly article en Power" contributed by Admiral Bridge to the supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica. In view of credentials fuck his these, we needoffer ao apology for giving to the gallant Adul viewsone Supply and Communications of s Flect a wider publicity, and besparking for them a larger attention than was likely to be afforded by the proceedings of the Hongkong United Service Institutión,

the

THE HOARDED WEALTH OF INDIA and

H

The Times of India writes:--In the speech which Lord Curzon delivered recently at the Bengal Chamber of Commerce, he said he had

always to have the best of everything inelading society, they make the mistake of thinking that the aristocracy of a country must represent the most cultured and reflued of its inhabitants. There are some who do not discriminate, and who are dazzled by a high-sounding title what- ever the origin and whoever the bearer may be: bat this is not an American monopoly."

A FIVE-YEAR OLD CHESS CHAMPION.

ions which he was compelled to listen to. He ventured to ask how they came to learn such language. Learn it, yer rivirence!" came the roply:"yer can't learn it. It's a gift !"

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do. kind ocmes to be execated, brokers have to "names" which they control-there is no fixed Blatz, American .. distinction between brokers and underwriters De. as there is on the Stock Exchange between Yebian, Japanese brokers and jebbers—or they have do the business in the market and most any loss on the rates themselves, or they delay completion in the hope that the market will fall to the point at which they can fall their contracts without Ind, Coope & Co.... For 8 Doa. Pu. $19.50 $2.45 loss. All these three courses are full of danger. Gulness, Boar'a

Hoad Guinness, Boar's if the brokers" "namen" are saddled with larger lines of insurance at inadequate premiums than they can safely carry, there isa risk of a smash stich as was witaszsed in Glasgow some scars since. The failures in thist instance were so large that the Glasgow market was shaken to its founda tions and has hardly recovered since. A vory strong firm might continue for a time the second

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A wonderful story is related by the Tienas correspondent of the Daily Mail. It seems that five years ago Bernard Falk, the apothecary of Stanislau, a village in Galicia, became the father of a son. It was the father's wont to play chess daily at home with old friends, and as soon as the little boy, who has been christened Delo, could walk he used to sit on his father's knee watching the game. At four Itle Dolo knew all the moves as well as his father, and one day be was allowed to play a game unassisted, { was not practised. As to the relative merits of coure of effecting insurances in the mackatundi SE NEW EDISON (LATEST No. 71)

The child played and lost, but in such a manner as to show that his infant brain had already grasped the rudiments of the game. Day by day Dolo improved, besting not only his father and his friends, but also veterans of the game from far and near, until the five-your-old child is acknowledged the chess champion of the neighbourhood.

JEWS AB BUSINESS MEN.

The Lancet discusses subalitution in the spirit trade, and points out that, rightly or wrongly, the medical profession is generally credited with having brought whisky into favour for medicinal use at the time brandy fell fato disre- pute owing to the failure of the Charente vine yards in the "seventies," while about the same time suspicion fell upon the nature of some of the wines imported into England. It would scam clear, therefore, that in recommending the use of whisky for a specific purpose medical man could have had no other spirit in view but that made entirely from malt and matured by stor- age, for at that time the addition of grain spirit these two forms of spirits, the jonraal believes that a young raw malt whisky will create more physiological mischief than will raw grain spirit, but a well-matured all-malt spärit is undoubtedly more wholesome and less harmful than either.

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Apply to of making up any deficiency in premiums, but with ACCESSORIES. even the strongest firm could not for long do a cosing business An example of the third curse-namely, of delaying completion in the hope of a fall in rates, ccurred not long since, and the shipowners and merchants who suddenly discovered that they were uninsured Taking & fost approximately of the strength

had horridly to get the business done at a LIVERPOOL AND BOOTLE of the British Squadron How in Chinese water, Bir Cyprian Bridge frat estimates the amount

Liverpool, which is endeavouring to swallow loss, No system of this kind-fundamen sean calculations to the effect that the hoarded of the supplies at requires to receive within a wealth of this country amounted to over 825

Beotle, in ap instanco (saya the. Chronicle) of tally unsound as it is-could exist at all that given period in time of peace, promising crores of rapers, "Whether these figures are

Ars Jews more successful than Gentiles in how rapidly a town can grow into importance. if shipowners and other largo assuring firms were careful to examine their insurance doca- difference in the supply of a given narelorrent or not, added Lord Curson, they

Although Henry II made it & port, a con- force in war and in peace is principally that in represent an approximation to the track," We business? The general opinion is that they are.

siderable period elapsed before the place grawments at short intervals and see that their the former the requirements of nearly everything do not Inow where His Excellency took his But Mr. Israel Zangwill, the well-known into notice, Fuller does not even mention it, business had really been done at the rates in except provisions will be

center; and opzise figures from. One of the most recent references novelist, thinks otherwise. Asked his opinion a la the reign of William III, Liverpool was but their contracts. The remedy for a state of will be glad to and STAMPS on approval a townlet, and until 1699 it was a chapel of things which may bring serious losses upon to any address on receipt of satisfactory refer. quently that the articles must be forwarded in to the subject we have come across is in the to the Jewish commercial position in Great

Is also prepared to purchase used POSTAGE Larger quantities or at shorter intervals than in paper on "Silver Prices in Lodia," by Mr. Britain and throughout the world, be given his

AGENTS WANTED. Teabe time. The Sgures obtained are not a Fred J. Atkinson, which was printed in reply in the March Magisine of Commerce, in case to Walton, which was two miles distant, them as well as upon the insurance market is in exces,

15.ta 25 per cent, Discount Allowed, little signiUmut. The assumption is that the one of the numbers of Journal of the Sta- the course of which he says "If the truth be a petition from the inbabitants, William their hands Thog hare, in the first place, to number of men to be supplied is about 10,000, tistical Society for 1887. In that paper told, the commercial position of the Jews is straigad the place to the dignity of a parish. In regard with suspicion those who promise themes in Large or Small Qusaities for Cash that the number of days during which each ship Mr. Atkinson carefully, worked out from the best no better thats their social position, which 1712 Liverpool started its first newspaper, the excessively cheap insumace; and, in the second is under way, and thorofaro burning coal at recorded figures of imports and exports an is very bad indeed. The Jews, as a rese, may Liverpool Courant, which appeared twice a week, place, if they do make contracts, to see that they much more rapid rate than when she is estimate of the amount of hoarded wealth in be judged by the standard of a small sconcesful The smallness of the sen traffic is shown in one of are properly exented and that the insurances stationary, is not, in time of peace, more India from 1885 to 1885. In summarising the minority. As well say that every American is its early numbers, which, containing three days' have been placed in responsible quarters and are few things less worth buying than "cheap" and of another "outward bound for Dublin." than six or seven in the month, and that results, he wrote: It is, however, certain a milionaire became Pierpont Morgan, Rocke news, gives news that "one ship has arrived," not concentrated on a few "names." There the quarterly expenditure of ammunition is that the popular idee is a very exaggerated faller and Andrew Carnegie ere American But with the institution of a newspaper the insurance which, at a pinch, offers no adequate

town grew rapidly, an inquiry was made for a protection. that form of the truth, and the enormous hoards citizens. For many years the Jewra gave the constant. On tids assumption

that are said to exist are very fregnently, na has world some of ile leading financiare. To-day deck, and sixteen years later than the starting often been proved, more efforts of the imaging the world's wealthiest men are Gentiles, though of its newspaper we read that 120 vessels tion. Mr. Atkinson summed up his conclusione now as always the poorest people in the world belonged to the port of Liverpool. But the THE NATIVE LABOUR PROBLEM| thus: It is possible that the wealthier are the Jews. The present Lord Mayor of growth of the plase, is, perhaps, more forcibly natives hard to some extent in gold, as there London is both a Jew and a successful business conveyed to the mind by the fact that the was a Act import of Bs. 148,490,518 of that mon, but that fast doesn't justify the belief neoms of the estates of the corporation was less than £20 at the beginning of the eighteenth metal between 1835 and 1892, and it seems that all Jews succeed in commerce."

contury, while now it reaches £13,000,000. But impossible that the whole of this could have been turned into ornaments. The estimate of

even the growth of Liverpool is not more startling than that of Bootle, which refuses to silver hoses entered in the statements gives a

to merged in Liverpool Mr. Gladstone, in s total of 500 crores of rupees, and this probably

speech at Liverpool in December 1892, said that he remembered wild roses growing in what

the teenage requirements its auxiliaries for a full six month period would be about 74,000, without fresh water. As, however, the ships would have started with fall store rooms, holds, and booker, and xpected to return to the principal may be

the station at the end of the period, stores for fear and a half months and coals to meet twenty weeks consumption work! be sufficient. These would be about t,750 tons of stores and ammunition, sud 46,000 tons of conl

This is "without fresh water,

base port

ever, a commodity which ships have never

been able to do without, and which they roed now in higher proportion than ever. Sir Cyprian Bridge computes that the reqnite ments of the squadron would be little less than 30,000 tons in six months, of which without adding very inconveniently consumption, could

remaining 18,000

to them and analler

he wanted by the exiliaries, ma

six months demand up to 16. courge these totala wond bare increased in time of war, the -ameant being food and othe

while the normal myply of be reduced at a pinch. - Ax? founded on the experience. that in war tims ships three times the go for ammunition, "in single notion might for hours me much peace allowance allowance of ordzis

1140 tons

fores and ammi

Perkapa if we

their cool

LONDON FOGS,

was then the centre of Bootle.

BOATS, AND SCULLA,

IN SOUTH AFRICA.

At the annual meeting of the Meyer aud Chariton Gold Mining Company at Johannes- barg on February, 27th, Mr. George Alba, the chairman, dealt at great length with the native labour question. He said that it was not a question of procuring a few thousand ad- ditional natives, but that within the next few years, if the industry was to progress with the rapidity that recent developments justified, 200,000 unskilled labourers would be required. As natives rarely contracted for more than a year this would entail a continuous supply of 20,000 natives monthly.

He believed that the fears

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[639 Hongkong, 16th February, 1903,

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NOW ON SALE,

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SIAM, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO-CHINA, MALAT STATES, NETHER LANDS INDIA, PHILIP

PINES, BORNEO, &c., WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED THE CHINA DIRECTORY

AND

THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY·· AND HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST

FOR

1903.

EDITION.

FRENCH IN TONKIN AND SOUTH CHINA. By ALFRED CUNNINGHAM, Sixty Illustra tions and One Map. Prke $3.

About & year ago the London County ," how-" | represents the very maximum. As regards Council decided to conguria sugges the hidden wealth of India before that period, tion which had been put forward by the we have only even, vaguer conjectures. Mr. Meteorological Council, that it should assist in Clarment Daniell, of the Bengal Civil Service, the initiation of a special inquiry into the vou- heught together in an interesting little book ditions associated with the development and entitled "The Gold Treasure of India" all the distribution of fog in London and its vicinity,

Under the auspices of the Thames Boating

THE FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL ISSUE. wailable material, historical and statistical, and authorised an expenditure of £950 for the

When they remembered the labour and time

The CHRONICLE and DIRECTORY, at- available on the point, and arrived at the purpose, on the condition that all responsibility Trades Association en attractive exhibition was estimate that the stock of gold which has been for the conduct of the investigation should rest held during the first fortnight of March in the involved in bringing to South Africa 200,000 under process of acéamaiston in India during with the Meteorological Council. The object Ducal and Princes' Bail, at Earl's Court. British soldiers who were to be had for the though printed in smaller type than formerly, more than twenty-fire ontario consideraoly of the inquiry was to obtain more definite fore. The exhibits were very inferesting, and afforded asking, they must appreciate the enormous and condensed in every posible manner, con- Royal Octavo Complete with Fourteen Maps the full exceeded 200 crores of rupees in value. Two cats or warnings of the approach of fog. A the amateur an idea of the amount of money dillenity of the labour problem. He believed tins every year more pages.

that by a great exercise of patience they could sad Plans, PP. 1,574, 89,00, Directory only e to be borne in mind with reference report has now been received by the Council, that is expended annually in boste for use on Daniell

On the one hand from the secretary of the Meteorological the Thames. The feature of the display. oventually obtain 100,000 natives. He was pp. 1,179, $5.00. gures.

of the Council, on the reanits of an inquiry into the however, was the number of motor launches, and still optimistic regarding the efforts being made JUST PUBLISHED 250 (REVISED), Donningt – they do not

the value

by offering higher wages, but should every milyer treasure in the country, while, on the matter extending over nearly five months. The it was to this that Sir Frederick Dixon-Hart- other it ignores the distinction made by Mr. inquiry was carried out under the direction land, the chairman of the Thames Conservancy expedient fail, the only alternative would be

He suggested importing THE fone. Atkinson between hoarded wealth and the pre- of Captain Carpenter, E.N. From & summary Board, specially referred when he informally Chiness Inbour. sowe cious metals used up in jewellery. The amount of the report it appears that there is no opened the show in the presence of a die 10,000 Chineze labourers as an experiment on

the deep levels. of silver imported into the East during the evidence of any special connexion between tinguished gathering, which included Mr. the centuries commencing with the middle the frequency or intensity of fogs and Hanbury, M.P, Visconat Hayashi (Japanese

the severest restrictive regulations. of the sixteenth century was estimated by geological conditions, nor does the locality Ambassador), Mr. W. H. Grenfell, M.P., and expressed of the Asiatics overrunning the Del Mar at $40,000,000.

How much of of beginning of fog depend upon geological Alderman John H. H. Salter. Describing the country were exaggerated. He would support this went to Indis, and what the previous stock formation. The well-known circumstance that exhibition, a Lerdon contemporary says:--

A mator launch 201t in length is shown by a of ellver in the country was, we have at present elevated stations are freer from fog than other no means of knowing. If we add Mr. Innell's stations is confirmed. The beginning of a fog Portsmouth firm. This, fitted with a three horse-power motor, is priced at £185; while estimate of 100 crore of rupese worth of gold seems to be a general process depending upon with a four aut a half meter the cost rises to (including jewellery) at the beginning of the general atmospheric conditions. The setual nineteenth

with the 125 crores of silver locality of fog et any particular time seems to £10. "The simplest launch in the world" is and gold (exe

7) since the com- depend upon local atmospheric conditions the description of another craft, which, with of that century, got total of which require further investigation. There its luxurious fittings is on sale for £700. In rores less than the it so evidence tending to show that fogs are larly striking, but this is not surprising

as ap formed outside and invade or drift into Lon. the principle dos, The meteorological conditions for the remembering the high standard of perfes- dednot one-half of the total formation of fog ure carefully set out. fection to which the leading boat builders on in the country at the beginning Captain Carpenter says that a reguar s the Timmes have attained. Attention, however, fer ornaments, the anunt is tem of observations of temperature might may be directed to one exhibit, which proves the ores, to which has to be added indicate the possibility of local forong alvance made in scull manufactura. A racing in the country at the ing of loge, especially if these were mags Boll in 1747 weighed Gilb; that used nowadays last century As we have in the early of the morning The weight ill. The Putney firm showing these

no means of even roughly

logical Council ask that the London specimens also gives the amateur a practical might have been, but

we should te below the mark for

requirements of war,

Now it stands to reason that this quantity of upolias cannot be rept permanently in store base, whether secondary or even prine Coal det iorates rapidly in store, and its quan. tity available for eficient stemming diminish greatly through frequent handling and tran

If any one doubts this deterioration it would bo well for him to examine reports or coal and

stent trials. He will be unzátually fortuna

frda so zinall a deterioration 13 10

It follo inexorably that the bash itself

list by a ponstant short of maritime ication.The Uno of

most be defended

da to operate at all in

the amount

000

the squadronererything.com red, and having regard to Me Atkinson's warning against popular ok

we think it would be rution on the A sale estimate to take the gold and ally hoarded in India at the present time at abou 500 crores of rupees. 1

the base and, this being no, it is not more difficult and might be much venient to defend an alternative line munication leading direct

the matter of novelties there is nothing partien-

ON SALE AT LOCAL BOOKSELLERS.

PLESS NOTICES.

Continuing, Mr. Alba denied the allegations

This volume places before the English mada in the London Pressof the mineowners being pay given to the natives rendered their condi. French colories in the Far East that has ret slave drivers, and he affirmed that the food and reader the best description of the Southern

Many of us in the Far East have read tion infinitely better than that of the London appeared," "SHANGHAI MERCURY. poor. It was impossible to employ poor whites

in great sumbers owing to the inflated prices of books on Tonkin, sacient and modern, but a food stuffs, and it was also useless to astila white knowledge of things as they are there to-day, men on the land for promoting agriculture if of what has been accomplished nuder M. labour could not be obtained to till the soil Denmer's administration is far from common, Consequently, the scarcity of native labour was. The auther has written what he set affecting the whole progress of South Africa,

LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. The P. & O. steamer Shanghai left Singapore The steamer Catherine Apcar, from Caleutta. for this port on the Slat alt, et 10 B.. left Singapore for this port on Tuesday after BOOK

The "Mogal" Line steamer, Sikh left Sings pore for this port on the morning of the Slat ult. The B.L.B.N. Co.'s steamer Itria, from special reading of mary soul. It goes through seven stages before ters or other instruments, but the it is ready for use, and while at the cutest the Rangoon and the Braits, left Singapore for

Committee, in reporting upen wood weighs 351b,, when it is finished it scales this port on the 31st ult, at 3 p.m. pok

land (Or), arrived at Yokohama yesterday Ho not see their way only 84lb. Another fem shows how a "tab" The P. & A. steamer Indruvelli, from Port- Inoar any farther constructed, the work being conducted in view morning, and may be expected here on the 12th

of the visitors

ont to do, a very readable and accurate sketch of the colony as it is at present... Altogether, this is a book to read BANGKOK TIMES.”

THE BOOK WILL BE FOUND TO BE A COMPLETE

GUIDE 30 THE HANOI KIPOSITION, MA

Hongkong, 17th October, 1902.

NOTICE TO BUBBORIBERS.

ovide a farther £200 to proof of the labour involved in inaking an ordi- and may be expected hers about the 5th inat. BEG to notify that on and after the

SUB- Ist JANUARY, 1903, the RIPTION to the HONGKONG DAILY PRESS will be så follows:

PER QUARTIRAN PER MONTH.

ALFRED CUNNINGHAM,

Manager. Hongkong, 8th December, 1962.

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