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CHINA AND ITS CURRENCY.

[BY A "TIMEN" CORRESPONDENT IN

MHANGSLAT

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 21st. 1095.

HOW ADMIRAL TOGO'S NERVES

WERE STEADIED.

Pitman's Shorthand Weekly quotes from the Penny Magazine the following nonsensical

known with its panro hede in the mid- tiou. It all the fire silver (1,006 Japanese warriors. Ifis naval ochucation is of

OUR VOLUNTEER.

A wag, is extolling the value of our Volen- tora, in Filman's Shorthand Weekly, points out that their avocations in civil tifo qualify them in a special degree for particular branches of the Military Servico, and for particular fone. tions in war. Surgeons, for instance, are fitted to excel as lanes officers, er in mortar practice. Smiths should be foremost in doable and single fila shopkeepers in countermarching; watch letterpress printers in forming lines and sainting the married at close order; farmers at drill, bankers in urafts and exchanges; tenchors in infantry movemente.

*ALWAYS AILING."

Ber Nor BIK ENOUGH TO KEEP TO BED,

What a lot of people there aro "always ailing" but not sick enough to keep to bed, How do you know them?

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brought up to date. They consist this year of fourteen of the following:- COLORED PLATE OF FLAUSOF Funkios Hova, MAP OF THE FAR EAST PLAN OF YOKOHAMA

PLAN OF KOBE AND HYOGO PLAN OF FOREIGN SETTLEMENTS, TIENTSIN PLAN OF SINOTAU (KIAUCHAU) PLAY OF FOREIGN CONCESSION, SHANBAR PLAN OF HONGKLW (SHANGBA) with Insot

Showing the EXTENDED SETTLEMENT PLAN OF PEAK DISTRICT, VICTORIA

coin, a onoration ago of this nominal value of which is, thoorotiently, terring other stated that in his youth, he and a fellow makare ia marking time: weavers in dressing; head and limbs soho; that they have no energy | LawGE PLAN OF THE CITY OF VICTORIA

Admiral Togo, commander-in-chief of the Japanese Navy, comes from an old school of

the best, and he has been trained in vory way to be a fearless, enim, and tireless fighter. It it students at the Japaneso Naval Academy were recastorood to attend an annual

revolving annou, loa fed with a ball and trained to the loval of their hands. The trigger was so arra

r and as much spelter av ziuc tame. becomes a mutter of rangement with the eat at a simulan teblangand a stout, hay columis; lovers in présenting arms and sleep, esn't eat; every little cold affects thele PLAN OF KOWLAON

of 4123 grains 200 tino, one Heilwon tool oquais 1571 Milyar dollars. Introduced nuder the treaty of Nanking (1812), the laps of sixty years has not sufficed to create modificaione in In considering the question of enrrency ro this stoodued, which, moreover, is ourrent for forma in China it should tiest he noted that this revenue purposes in all theports open to forestry- is the correct term te he need, and not menatury | train. Evan with this curtney, -wever, lo.x reform. China has no esinage, exempt the well-immutability has to be taken with some resurse

that the merchant lms de, which the Chinese call a "ooppor." This at hand to pay his duties

the standard for all she twenty hith of a jauny, and you represent- payments i to Government; and ing the fortit of a pony, has a standard silver, eorumculy

the ordinary trade silver of weight of 27 grains of the metal of which it is times landi as the copper will taka, uja. Asum sug this to - of copper to 4 of spelter the intrinsic value of, the coin of inll weight is on twenty-third of jeony: as a consequence there has been much costtraction of the currency fron the molting down the reaha, and from all partk of t empire cane ruperis of locut

inowy stringency, the result of this contraction. In 3686, when silver had lost only 8 per cent. of its copper purchasing power, the matter had already attracted attention, amian Imperial oliet darrer extensivo minting; and tids order was carried into effect. Now, when contraction has Gast a difference of 37 per cent, lstwrew the exchange of 3 years ago and the present rate,

carf

people;

the place, the rate at which it shall be accepted banker; the later having account to the Government for a certain weight of silver 1,000 fine will be careful to rocive an amount sufici.

arranged that it coulib› touched from a hid- ente in vale to ever bis liability. Another deu serce outside of the b mynoting hall. That A REALLY GOOD THING. elementfor veration, even in this carrean, is

at sometime during the banquet the cannon the differenes betwise the receiving and paying would bo ral overyone at the table knew, but The great difficulty hitherto experienced in rates in fores in all Gorurrent treasuries, al just who, or in wint direction it would be obtaining, in this Colony, a regular supply of tanks, and with those merchants of suficiontiy pointing, was a mystery. Of course, there was fresh cream has been extirely overcome by strong standing to make their own counting.

a prasibility that the ball might orash harm- Mouers. Fussell & Co. Ltd., who have placed on house rules; this dilertes, usually between &

lessly

between the head of two banqueters, but the market exquisite Pura Cream fresh from quarter and a half of one per cont, is mudo not it was equally probable that it might carry eff milk from Cos's fed on the high Norwegian by elarging a commission, but by boldly using the head of some student. Yet no one Linched. panturos, sterilized by a new process, and packed two sets of weights, and for reiving at out The chances were equal to all. The pictaro-10 Cans texmetically sealed without the net of

paying, and is intended to comp mate for the al our of weighing ingets and lam, sof silver at of destruction revolving during the any solder, and although we Preservatice of any for

genial hours of the banquet, painting from kind is need in its manufacture, it will keep goud of nu fixal weight, and for the risk incurred and student to student, and ready at a given moment unopened, in any diante, for any reasonable

Nii. 1 unknown degres of Gnomoss.

Tho

sidered in Japan admiraldo training to steady same grounds as that of the the nerves of a fighting man.

It will be found simply delicious with ell defondsd

kinder of fresh or slowed Fruit, and for Sweels, foreign exchange lank is quoting different

les, &c., it is equalled, it addition to which,

Enbalitate for Cod Liver Oil, has been used with great sucess in tropical climates in casts of Anomia, Wasting, Dysentry, &c., and is also of great service in the treatment of Diabetes. The Cream is to be obtained at most Storis, and readers should be careful to ask for Fansell "Golden Butterfly" Brand.

rof

xpert knowledge roquisito for taking rice is to blow any one of them to pieces, was con. I pe-for

<>

the

By their pole, allow faces, dull eyes B hopeless appearance-this in face and body, and always alarmed at their condition,

They will tell you their backaches, that their aro rbenuatic, pervous, and irritable; can't back they cough a little, sud their beurt sols PLAN OF MANILA atengely. They are generally miserable. PLAN OF SAMON

Such people have kidney trouble, and don't PLAN OF SINGAPO Their illness is caused by wook kidney action. The kidneys are clogged, and are keeping bask in the tour the arie Reid and the fluid waste which cause urinary disorders, bladder troubles. Bright's disease and dropsy.

Despondent as they are, it is dificult to courines them, and to got them to stop thinking not toir ilis.

know it.

OF PENANG

PLAN OF BATAVIA

The CHRONICLE covers the notable ovents

of the last half contury in the Far East together with the Texts of all the most important Treatis concluded wirk the countries of Eastern Asia the varions Custom Tarifts, Trado Regulations Consular and Court Fees, Hongkong Slamp Chambers of Commerce, Soules of Commissious

But & core is easy and certain. Doan's back-Duties, Postal Guide, Signal Codes, Chinose ants kidney pills will make them hearty and Festivals, Tables of Money Weights, and well, by helping the kidneys to drive out the leanres, and other Commercial Information

including: diseasensing impurities from the body.

This medicine in ospecially for kidney and

TREATIES WITH CHINA urinary troubles, and can be relied

Brain-Nanking. upca as sato Great

$12 Tiontsiu, 1848 Tarif Agreement and Rules, 1859, and certain. It does not open the bowels. sell Loan's Hackache Kidney Pills, prics 2/9 for

All the obief shomists And medicine dealers Convention. 186; Rules for Joint Investigu

tion of Customs Seizures, 1869, Chefoo, 1 box, or 1aj9 for is boxes; or the medicine may 1870, with Additional Article; Opitun Con vention, 1856; Chungking Convention, 18901; the proprietors-le Fouter-McClellan Co,

Tibet Sikking Convention, 180; Burmal who will also send a Sample Bes Free to any Welle-street, Oxford-street, London, England, Convention 1807; Kowloon Extension, 1898

Weihaiwei 1899; Convention, Commercini one who writes for it and mentions this paper.

Shanghai, 1992; Emigration Convention,

and with its bug the things aceded to satisfy buying and selling rates for bills of oxchun IS THERE NEED OF TWO CLASSES it is of great valno medically. It is a splendid be bad, past free an asarist of price, direct front

KUPINO TABI..

ON THE STREET CARS?

no steps are being taken to restore the bilanen,

WORKING OF THE COPPER CURRENCY, This copper coin, of which it takes 9,400 to wake £xterling, is the enrrway of the in it the farmer reives the price of his produce, the simple wants of his family. The millions know na aller coin, and by its agency is carried

Lavd The Kuping is the currency in which ou the whole of the retail trade of the enipire, are collected all other dues to the Geserament Transactions which in bugland are settled with the Customs duths, exepting only these the three metals are in China stod with which are levied is kind (such as the grain popper only, and this quaint coin is of the momi tribute) or in "coppers." Theoretically uiform important of the links which bind the papirs throughout the Empire, there are still differ together.

Even in this coin the Chimminanones to be observed, apart from the diforenfare is immaterial. We must confess that the shows his inevitable tendency to create

tatiated reiving and paving rates referred to differences. With the exception of one spot, above. In one aspect the taal may be consid Peking, the coinnge is uniform throughout as bank money"-a fictitious medium of China, but in the northern provinces, of which exchange from the currenes to another--a

province, Chi. wie a wo Bad that (with urinal exchange at

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Shantung and the metrof***enel coin counts an | 1,200 eas to the tarla 2,000 cash and more are

Ji.

may be taken as example,

two. Thehousekeeper does her marketing with levied where a tax, assessed in taels, is colluted

in mid-Chion six weight of coppers;

amb thin cash, while the exchange

first 800 ensh is south shoralls this amount one fins (of 10 or less where a lux, assed in cash, is collected cash) and in the north she calls it two tino: in a silver. This, however, from another point of the south she will be asked in and in the wort siow, may be taken as sa ees-utricity of the 199 enal for the same article, but in both she

Chinese lazing olmes. The normal standard Kuping

taol

145799 grains of silver 1,000 fine;

each

10 Huikwan taels=101612335 Kuping tacks. 100 Kuping, vole--109660 Shanghai taëls,

SHANGHAI TAEL.

will pay out 50 coins. The capital, finor 15459 silver dollars. This is the paying

from patriolic zaotives, possibly abo masibly from because it was under the eye of the Government,

rato the rucairing rate being 15 grains heavior) was alone in acrepting, al continues to this at the Imporist Treasury, and thus several pro

use die teken coinage ised during the the viciul turies vary from this standard in some instancesas much na ono per cont. Where ping rahelion (18548); of there coins, of a nominal value of 10 cash, it would take 100 is the foreign obligations of the Imperial Govern make the flag of 10, but being in the northmont are concerted the empu

equivalence of the sororal coin counts for twice its face value, and incurrencies in takomas follows: the tino ure only 50 coins. To prevent mis understanding it should be stated that this patriotic splance of a depreciated usinage does not involve any loss to shopkeeper or

The Shanghai Luel in the standard of interna customer; the purchasing power of tho coin is ticul exchange for the trade of North China, rated very closely by the amount of metal con- and the Yang ts basin, all other quotations tained in it, and the lengths of cotton sheeting in local currencies being re-conversions from the bought by one time at Shanghai would com rate for Shanghai enrrosey. The rato of the mand a pri of eight to ten to at Peking. day is weerplo by merchants as the rate of con

THE NUMEROUS "TAEL" WEIGHTS, version between two fixed currencies; and you, Chius has never had a Government coin of if we take exelange on London as an oxample, other metal than copper, l'assing over for the use of the currencies atsis for the imoutable menuent the pieces issued in recent years by the in finance, while in the other it is doubtful if

many of

of the foreign merebants who so blindly quorat on But a coin, but a

go into the treasury of a Chineso

value

After all, is it a good thing to put a versen across a street car and mark ono sido first class" and the other second class?" The seats are the same, this speed is the same, and the difference in American plan of putting everybody in the same las lias many things to commend it, and we believe it would work well here.

way,

Many Americans will ride second-class any- and many natives would feel sternally disgrneed it seen on the rear side of that dy net. So what does it all amount to, but the Fetting of an artificial standard No man will be any the worse for a riste on either end of the car, and people so makempt and unclean as so in objectionable will not ride on the ears anyway. Let's throw all class distinctions to personal worth.-planil Cablenews. the wind and let every, wun stand on his

CHINA IN A.D. 1925.

.

A British Columbia labour delovato says:--- When the timo is rite millions of money will pour into China. Immense masinfneturing enterprises will be started.

With ecal and iru

in plenty, purchased more cheaply than in the United States, for instanco, how on similar unterprises in this or my own country enter inta any competition will the factories of China, where labour can be cured one-quarter w cheaply se bore or anywhere else? While this will affect the iron industry more seriously than any other, inroads will be made on all kinds of industrial life.

LEN TING.

STREFT

SURGEON DENTIST,

No. 10, DAGUILAR

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Booruitation Fro Horexone × Maroh, 1903)

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MANUFACTURERS and DEALERS IN

CHILDREN'S

LADIES

AND UNDERWEAR, EMBROIDERIES, LACES, SILES, Pondres,

Fin, 1838: Convention, 186)

1883: Conventions, 18, 1887, and 1965 Frontier Timo Regulations. United States:-Tutain, 1855; Additional 1808 Poking. 1880; Immigration, 1891 Commercial, 1903.

Germany-Tuutsin, 1861; Peking, 1899

Ківосних

Mining

tion, 1808; Railway anl

1898.

Shiki. 1995; Listung Con.

GRAES LINEN, SHAWIS, HANDKERCHIEF Japan: 1995; Commercial, 1997; New Ports,

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Machinery orders are attended to DIRECTORY

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It is a simple fact, but none the less true, that wages in China will, perhaps for a hundred years, renin as they are now. Wages are not various provincis! mints, the currebey of Law, their operations on this exchang and labourer within her borders as all other the sterling merit of the publication.

raised while the available supply of cheap ecuntry, cther than sopper, is nut a

material is at hand. And China has as many weight. This weight in the "tal," as it is called by foreigners, the Chinese pune for it weigh but for himself a Stangludi tacl, astm-

countries combined. being lang and when in operation in ing even that he could road the inscriptions on Japan is constructing ten ships of 7,200 international teady, a wholesal

of શક

tuaniagra Shang- purchas, the weights he set. The

esak and capable of maintaining a Government indebtedness or Customs duties hai tael is made up of three elements, the speed of 18 knots each. These are to ply the have to be liquidated, payment is effected by weight, the quality of siirer, and a convention. Pacific. This is simply one straw that shows weighing out the required arbor oftein" The weight on the scale is 4525 grains, the how the wind is blowing. of the stipulated quality of silver. A century silver is fine, and the convention in that 99 ago Gorunny was the paradise of the

tasks of this weight and this silver liquidate a the money tal changer with its countless coinages, each liability of 10 tools Shanghai "contention" circulating in its own principality; but that currency, Expressed in terms of the silver dollar as before one Shanghai tael equals 14105 was simplicity itself when compared with China In this country every one of the hundreds of silver dollars. commercial esatres not only has its own tal wught, bat in many cases has several standards side by vie; and Elzast tasks of money will be weighed out in silver which, even in one place, will be of aereral degrees of burnONY,

TIEN THIN, HAN-KAU, AND CANTON TAMLS.

|

There will, in my opinion, be ton or twenty good years yet for America and other countries

Then China will be in the Oriental trade.

reconstruct-d, and the volume of trade will begin going the other I will guarantee

way. that the very manufacturers in the United States now who are clamouring for a bigh tariff to protect themselves will in a score of years be inaintaining their greatest factories in Chias and alling for free trade.

have gathered mass of statislice in sup part of my statistics while in the Orient There will be embodied in big coming report to the Iron Workers' Federation. It is possibla they will also be printed in book form. The matter is one of int rest to every working wa of any far-sightedness at all, for it in simply a truthful statement of conditions as they are to day and what they must he a score of years from

It will not be necessary to commorata sven the important among the numerous enrrencies of China. but the principal tals of those currant at the three leading marts, Tien-tain, Han kan, and Couton, should not be omitted, One town may be taken to typify many, the The chief Tiou tsin, tool thaonly one known to the town of Chang-king, in the province of Szoforoiga merchant, has a weight of 559-75 grains chia inter for at of Chinyere teams of silver 092 ans. The corresponding fast at standard weight of the tool for silver trans- actions is 43.7 grains and this is the standar Han-kan weights 5547 grains of silver 967 fine. or all transactions in which the seal is not At Canton the standard enel waighs 581 grains, being the heaviest mercantile tael in the empire; Loing however, a modification of formerly the silver was taken as 1,000 fine, bnt specified. provided for. depending in some in the list half century foreign dollars, mainly now." the scale is cases upon the place from which the merchant Mexican, 13 or luas battered end comes or with which he trades, aut in others have antively supplanted ingots, for large trans- chopped, upon the gouds in which he deals. A merchant coming from Kweicher, or trading with that actions payment is always made by weight and

norer by conat The result is a curiou place, will probably, lett teerinly, a

Le uspress clearly

it being always necessary le esp

THE TIBETANS.

AN APPEAL.

THE SISTERS who direct ST. ANTONIO's

CONTENT 21 Macao will be very thankful to Shop-keepers, Liten.ilrapers, Clothiers and Tailorsia Hongkong, Macra, and elsewhere whe will send to them remnants of material, hooks of patterns no longer used, and any pieces of cloth, re matter bow small, of which they can- not make use.

Those who sand will thus, at no cost. to themselves, afford the numerous hands in the especially the little ones, opportunity conrent. for useful occupation; for places of cloth, svin of a square inob, can ho stitched together and very pretty pieces of work made out of aleth, that would otherwise be thrown away. These articles are bought by charitable persona and The Sisters are thus helped to keep up their very large establishment, which is maintained the alms of friends and in a great measure by the earnings of the girls themselves, who lead

xcul cu which the Lael weighs 372 grains; a tal is of foreign silver" (nu tine) or of "pure their chief features were their self-satisfaction by no means an idle life within the convent

Lecturing to the Society of Antiquaries, on the people of Tibet, Mr Percival Landen mid and their unwillingness to receive outside in- Bueno. To illustrate this, Mr. Landon alluded

two extretues are at least ten topicalicated by a practice, which has crept in of to an incident which securred daring a visit i

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merchant from Kwei-fu, a town on the Y-silver; in the latter cass payment is effected teze, a hundred miles from Chungking, will buy

by weighing out 10 per cent, additional of the ad sell with a tad of 550 7 grains; and between dille silver. The question is even further com

tu+1 all **

**current" at Chungking, In additions

twive these two topical there are others connected with T One of the most important products of Szechwan in salt, and dealings in th s ure settled by a tal of 544.5 grains, unless it is sult from tho, Tre-lin well, in which case the standard is 5-15.7 grains A transaction in cotton eluth in settled with a tnel of 545.1 grains, but for ection yarn the fuelly is 5441 pmnius, and for nim cotton the tuel is 536.0 grains.

geen

at

When

of a certain abbot to Colonel Sir Frank Yonag- recent

t years, of making 20 per cent. of payments husband. The abbot was shown the lastest in salcidiary silver coins 500 fins, with perhapa achievements of western science.

which ho soma bargaining

to whether the proportion shall be 15 or 25 per cent. Here we have appeared to be impressed. Conversation took case of degeneration within the memory of matters astronomy was spoken of.

plass. on recent discoveries, and among other now living. A tarl containing 81 grains of fine Captain O'Connor, who had been talking, had silver becomes one of 675-2 graine, and ultimate finished, the Abbot spoke for the first time, and

one of 562-4, and all with the samesta'e,

said that what he had had shown thant TRANSFER MONEY. One currimey practice, recalling the "lank sciones was making strides in the remote corners money" of the old Amsterdamsche Wirrelbank,

of the earth. The Abbot had been told that must be referred to. This same confusion, but we are not yet at tael is 576 3 grai 5 of silver 992 fine. Except of mut

At Nevchwang the local the earth was round, but this he denied,

marking it was shaped like the bony of shoulder the sad. Up to this point we have dealt only of copper there is (er, us the war may cause s

of mutton, and Tibet-core ed one-half of the with the weight on the scale, but now comes

abange, has been tile of the mutatis in circula entire surface. He urged them not to be In the question of the finenes of the silver with tion, silver being commonly

disheartened, bat to read better books and in the mo deposited at which paymont is made. At Chungking thro banks, which permit real

Lundon on the first timo

that any gympathy shown to the fino current throughout the trunxiers from accostat to account. This "trana. persants in the fells was for the moment silver" between 930 and 970 feet; and payment meat of all mercantile transactions. On depo-it.

"is exclusively used in the settle with the bondage and slavery of their life. As fer money

entirely misplacal; they were quite satisfied

muy

be stipulated in any one of these three and on each quarter Day, the depositor is eredivet Feligion, every one believed that the world of sprites, bobgoblins,

VARIOUS DEGREES OF FINENESS IN TAELS,

k

qualities of silver are in couraon aset days of the 3rd, dtb, and 12th months, but loss would become learned, 27 m

Sir "uld silver" about 995 fine, and

trade

qualities. Taking the score of current taal weights in combination with the three grabs Hilver, we have at least sixty currensics in this

one town.

This is characteristic of the ou piro. The traveller, even a private individual, journeying from place to place in China will la careful to take with him a small steel-yard and string of a for selected cash," the exser weight of which on his konus scale is known to him. His first step in cashing a draft or exchanging the

with a premium which varies with the demand

money.

ghaemium, por cent.

tavim

1:00 00 3.00

103.00

4.12

107.12

and demons. This

was at

walle

Hongkong, 18th May, 1904.

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CHINA Wahu

Canton Kawkiang Whampoa

Peking

Tientsin Peitaiho

Hankow

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Skansi

Hangchow Ningos

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aluy Port Arthur Changking Chefoo Woilsiwei Kiacchan Shanghai Foochow Chinking

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Santu

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Langchow

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JAPAN AND FORMOSA

Osaka

Moji Nagasaki

Hakodate

Keelung

Tainaulu Tako Anping

vention,

1896. Supplementary Commercial 193. Russia--St. Petersburg, 1881, Russian Land Trade, 1881; Port Arthur and Talienwan Agreemont, 1889.

ortugal, 1888; Commercial Treaty, 1904. FINAL PROTOCOL made between China and

Eleven Powers, 1901.

TREATIES WITH JAPAN

Great Britain, 1894; Duties Consontion 1895

Russia, Agrements as to Cores; uited States Extradition Treaty, 1886; Grout Britam (Alluce) 1992

TREATIES WITH COREA Japan, 1876 Japon Supplementary, 1876 United States, 1883; Great Britain, 1895 Trade Regnations

TREATIES WITH SA Great Britain, 1856 au 189; France, 1893

and 1994; Japan, 151, Russia, 1900. Great Britain and Francs, Siamese Frontier. Great Britain and Russia, Railway Convention

1899,

CUSTOMS TARIFFS TRADE REGULATIONS China, Japan, Siam, Cores.

RECENT CHINESE LEGISLATION, Revised Regulations for the Constraction of

Railways in Chius,

Experinatal Regulations for the Registration

of Trade Marke

Temporary Mining Regulations in China.

LEGAL DOCUMENTS Orders in Council for Grocurement of HL.B.M.'s Subjects in China and Cores, 1865, 1877,1975; 1881

1884, 189, 1980, 1991, Rules of H.M.B.'s Surge and other Courts in China, o.; Tables of Const and Consular Fees: Charter of the Colony of Hong-

Malay States Fedoration Agreeme ls of Hongkong Court Fess: Admir- alty

Ruier,

Jurisdiction Act, Rogu Foreign lations for the Consalur Courts of United States: United States Consular and Courts Fess; Rules of Court of Counts of Shanghai Regulations for Foreign Companies in Japsu Chinese Passenger Aot; Hongkong Licauum, Trade Marks, and Letters Patent Bees; Purt Regulations for Chins New Harbour Regulations for Japan; Hongkong Pilots' Ordinance and Fees,

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that until the recent oxpedition they wore in iromance as to the exact form of polyandry. M. With regard to the folk-lore of the country, he silver he brought with him is to ascertain the It may be noted that the parity of exchange is

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and the financial position of the he had recently brought out. money market dependent the tanker in the matter of the bankers may be seen from the quotatious of the when published would provide more material Thear tales quality of river; fortunately, the commercial last day of 1904- honour of the Chinese laukers stands high.

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785,

and they did not represent our conception of ***Shanghai tool; and there three have the Those figures show the banker protecting his the people. He imphasized the fact that greatest degree of I univareal. currency.

reserves, giving 4 per cent, premium for de-

the common people in Tibet were simple HALKWAN TAKL.

posits and charging 22 per cent, discount for slightest friction between them and our peplo. hearted and courteous, and there was not Che withdrawals; while the slight demand for Our presence in Tibet, he said, was only resent exchange is shown by the difference betweez the fixed parity 109.55 and the exchange thened by the priestly caste, but by the dwellers it obtainable 112.09.

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