COTTON-GROWING IN INDIA,
A return of correspondence between the India Office, the Indian Government, and the British Cotton-Growing Asenelation bus been published asa Parliamentary paper (349). On August Sist, 1965, the ludian Government addressed a tatter ed cordial agreement with the objects of the anciation, as mede known by a letter from Mr. They added that
OLD CHINESE PORCELAIN.
A Mail paper anga;--
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS "SATURDAY, JANUARY 26cn, 1907.
CHINESE, ARMY REFORM.
The most common specimens of du Chinoso, porcelain in England are blac and white and powdered bine, and the uninitiated who visit the exhibition at Mr. T. J. Iarkie's gallery, New! of the magnificent Bourdeley to the Secretary of State in which they express Bond Bill be enrprised at the wealth of tion of the Chinese arusy. Thapgh tiro
Collection colons of the various objects. Each case resembles a resembles a garden of flowers
that
Jainty shapes
J. A. Hutton to Lord Curze to the Indion and exquisite bues. Green responds to red and s: Peroy Yuan Shih-kal over the modern-drilled & en volt after the ceremony, ja still prevalent, tls the natural entcome of reforms long didant "kely to be great reforms at no very
the Board of Agrienture, and asking for artists from the year 980 world the Chines divisions have boon taken over by the navelo
art
The girl of Japani ia developing a wonderful personality. When the question of a woman's aniversity was first mooted there was great (FROM THE "TIME" CORRESPONDENT. }
epposition from the men, A few enterprising Peking, Deo. 13th.
spirits est to work, a university to accommodatə 5 studsats was built, and there were 1,000 During the past fortnight an important
applications for a
admission. advance has been made towards the nationaliza
Japanese girls are absorbing Western movement involves, the separation of much of ideas about bene life. Although the old the direct control hitherto exercing: by the marriage custom of buying a wife, who is not
there are the mailer had been
in an infinity of tones that produce advoosted by the Viceroy himself. The Viceroy
army, Board of Agriculturs for its carotul considerabine to gold
"The Chinese girl, whose interest_nover. din; and, after mentioning variona w fat the risk-st-tarmeny This collection proses inva
Dose retains command of the 2p and Die
An Divisions,+ wandered beyond her home, is also elamouring. cheervations and suggestions that had been mado remarkable degree the greatness of the Chinese retain commo
1821 to,
Before
Six of the other for education. only by
art and that Lemporarily
The educational ontlock for the Indian girls was articulate in the Western permission to appoint a cotten expert on the For the Beard, the Government went on to other races Dienr Seat applet to their rears The Ministry is alan engaged in fear. They had never seen a white woman, and of War, of which the in zoumass in the darkest. When I drst went with them as with reconstituted Ministry of had created I masterpieces, and
Tieh-lang, is a wors brother of the into us some of the girls fed crying with нау
senres form came with reason and knowledge. Mining control of the divisions at Wu-obnog, thought I was suffering from some terrible The problem is largely a commercial one, und
In the case coutaining examples of primitive ar the cultivators will not abandon the coars bardy, prolife seriotion for the fine delicate there is a bowl (59) of the Sung period glowing at present under Chang Chili tong, and these at disuse
Nanking and Fa-chas, The Government,
- There are 15,460,000 in the zenanas, varieties until they are ratised that the latter ike a leechwood or a virginia-creeper in antu vight the greater and sarr profit. Our object fu all Venetinu art there are no fares to squat judging from the telegrams receivel, has every There are 491,080,140 girls under louriez Jers I richness of those on this rudely reason to believe that the reform is popular of age in India, and only 400,000 are being mist bylo nute cotton of ay kind, without the depth al ric
The floors are proud to belong to a national siluented. formed object. In the same care There is a regard to the loogil; of stople, a more certainly fort
of baluster shape.
Army rather than to separate provincial | - In March I au going to whip up the paying crop to the Tudian cultivator; whilst we baariful square cum (14) of
Frenchgirls in the guild. zin ohjeet of the British
go on to Italy. The uncertain factor is the question of pay- then to Australia, and Boally to South America. understand that one main Catton Growing Ass
to iocre tog perind. It is, oddly enough, «f Archaic Association is
the design, the den for which may have been
The wonderful way in which English The tords of Lancashire. There ubi ets are by nor transmitted from India after Alexander's Ministry will continns the same puus uality of girls have bander themselves in the list production of the long simpled varieties suited to brought from the Near Eust by some traveller ment, aur time alone can show whether the new
IRVATİNU. The ground is of torquoise-blus pasment which is the secret of the success of guild is extraonlinary. And the kelp that a Deane saingouistic, 2 the association them-
ves remark, and as will bo wren from the abore veladon, and it is cu orated with Yuan Shih-kai.There is no need of approton- girl can give to a girl in hundreds of stu
babes of pasch tres of ricket castelul Dowers in white. ion for some time, funds being nesible tar dining and rare is a standing ficure Payent of the divisions under thear Uffice of Kwanyin (the Guides of Merey), in for at least another year, if not diverted to other
infor
The restriction of his command to two tl, and purple drapery, Twe marriage
divisions has relieved the Vireroy of wady batio scarce, for after the ceremony these ress-ls are broken, as are the cups or glasses in Jewish and provincial revenues. Russian rites. A perfect exam. ie of this period may been in the largo vess (459) with dragons among dames, and rouge-de-r, yellow, blue, and siglet enamel on while ground Of Kang-hi porcelain there are charting pieces, notably a pair of famille-terie standing sure of Court ladies (446), alluring, in design, a figura of a prisal (316), modelled with Tigour and vivid in expression; and a splendid large plate 27), The X red raried suppliva a pair of
of hexagonal baluster-shaped vases of the net elaborate description, both in
and
oviform eggshell execution
commands.
UKTER.
ing in arrangements adopted with a view of tion trip, of Ming period also, &1*********? ( ́ burdens of payment hitherto defrayed from 1
the
better
account of our nation. We are iuoli esi to flink
asrist in
in their at- that the evention on best tament, so far as Iulia in concerned, by uid- who grows securing that the Indian cultivator
good sampio of high guilty cotton may reckon an golling a price for his produce, however smal in quantity
the larger more on. If the assaia applion of poor quality tion desire to give foancial assistance for the improvement of Indian cotton, the most practic. able method would seem to be for it to make an Danal grant, which could be utilized under our orders, either in giving a subsidy to the cultiva by him on the recommendation of the local tox for every note of flor-staple culton grown would make Department of Agriculture, whi special arrangements to help him in scouring a fair prien for his superior calten, or in com-
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The reforms contemplated in the army encouraging. There is a promise of an array department is to be established. The troops av budget and as arms audit, and u centaui clothing not to be increase in numbers, but greater is aimed at. A considerable namnbar +ficiopey of thesis are being sent to France, while it is alnust certain that mucouvrea will not be fold are of half a million next year, and the expenditure of saved to the country. Another good feature is sterling spent over the last zaobcourrey will be
the attention paid by the Chinese to the tem- perste raporte of foreign experts on the last mascarres. With growing knowledge, the better perception than
pesating him for any loss incurred in the lantara of unusual enlour; and a haluster-Chinese seem to have
Initial stage of such ouitivation. If this sings of exquisite workmanship. The story like they had last your of the many defects of their gestion meets with the approval of the British period was a time
of
fancy and
quality...
~~Cotton-Growing-Arendalios, we shall be gres fragility of eggshell
object like
pared to give all possible assistanco in its executies.
Mr. Brodrick, in a despatch dated October 271b, 1995, sanctioned the appointment of a cot- ton specialist. Mr. Johu Morley, very soon after office. communicated on January 5th, taking 1906) to the Indian Clovernmout the fact that association proposed to make a grant of £2,500 for four years in aid of cotton-growing in India, to be employed as the Government pleased. Mr. Hutton, in a letter to the Recret ary of State (dated December 6th, 1905) offering the above-mentioned grant, said:--
the
would request that, as for as possible, where advances are made, that it should be stipulated that the colten grown should either be sout to this association for sale, and that the latter, Eat of the advances, hand over the
surplus
to the placter, or that arrange- ments should be made, us for as possible, for the money to be advanced oua baiaras basis, on that there would be some possibility of, at any rate, sowe portion of it coming back again. If this can be done, I have no doubt the Council would to readvance the money thus lent, for a further period, and I would suggest that s rintonable rate of interest should be charged
The India Office and the Government of India bare expressed their gratification at the liberal conduct of the association, and stated that it should be kept duly informed as to the . employment of the money.
THE GOLD RESERVE.
WE H
and
be men-
Juo.
rage, pranus tender in half-tones of other men, 4 large plate (184) may
entwine in a dosarationi tioned Peneb and peony ent whose glamour is heightened by the introduction of a bird and a butterfly, and the xpose of Izseions white grozad has fine artistic value. But to maoy the gom of the collection will be a large black vare (461). Ming parind, decorated in relief with the flowers of the four seasons in It is far superior aubergine, yellow and green. to the black vases which brought 3,700gs. at Christie's on Friday. The quality of the porselain is rich, and the erasusulation and spacing are happy thoughts expressed by the craft of a mater. All students of Chinese art should see this exhibition.
CHINESE IN LIVEROOL.
HOW THEY MONOPOLIKE THE LAUNDRIES.
in
In a series of articles upon Liverpool's Yellow Peril, the special correspondent of the "Liver poal Courier" given an account of the Chinese capture of the laundelen.
army organisation.
THE CENTURY OF THE GIRL.
· GREAT POS8I DILATIES,
*This is the 'girl's century.' The nobool girl, who wad to be of little account, has discovered herself, and tho po kibilities of thin discovery are enormous,aid Miss Jessio Aokacman, the "girls friend, "to an
Fxpress "representative-
Miss Ackerman, who has travelled are times'i round the world, bas been appointed “ world'« }
to the Girls Realm organising president' Galid of Service and Good Fellowship.
"It is not only Brause love girl and because I consider them one of the most interesting
studies of the age that I have taken
ap this work, but because the girl has been
Misa Ackormann said. misunderstood,
T
The world has accepted the Fordiet that women think in ' fecks, that they can have a individuality of opisina. And yet I have found this fock theory to be entirely false. Take ang girl apart, draw her out, and you will soon discover her individuality,
The Chinese are rapidly gaining almost a monopoly in laundry work, he says, with the te reisalt that they are displacing the townspeople.
by This is the more distressing in its effect renson of the fact that laundry workers are a very pour and
paratively helpless class of the community.
many with children to support, take up isandry work
their only ramures, while the wives of labourers eke ont a scanty livelihood by the same means.
many cases the wife of an unemployed labourer endeavours to keep body and soul gather by laundry-work, while her husband is -weary search for work be tramping about in
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At that
PIC
All business meu will agree with the remarks made by Sir Felix Schurter to the Iostitate of Bankera da the Lecurity of increasing the gold reserve tell by the Bank of England. The recent increase in the bank rate showed how cannot find. Macy instances can be quoted whore very much alive the directors of the Buck of women are appealing for half a day's work at a England are to the danger of allowing or landry to keep the house together while the stock of gold be depleted, but almost vory husband is tramping from town to town. business in the country, has felt the inco The Chinese invasion of the laundry trede. vosience which is inseparable from this munds is Liverpool started twenty years ago. of proventing our gold supply from big data Ye Chin opened a laundry in Newington draand away to the United States. The he was the first Chinaman unconnected with the desirability of having a large gold reserva in
residence in Liver. admitted on all hands, for business is paralysed peel. The "Connie
peel. Yea it; but unfortunately the experts are charged very high prices, and be made money Withent
amazingly. by no means agreed as to the best method of fast. He was partronised by presparaus people
matter if, as Sir securing it. It is sorinus
a larrative business developed rapidly. He Felix Schuster and disposite end, the liabilities on current hired in somn style at Aigbario, and its that United Kingdom are over eight hundred ten years ago by went back to Chine with a milions sterling while the sock of ballion in pocketful of money. the coffers of the Bank of England only amounts to thirty-three millions odd. Eft Flix angeata that supgesta
of things a ta remedy this stale referre should be formed by each bank "referre Contributing two per opat of its liablities on current counts. This he calculates, would bring in about eight millions, while, if the Pet Oftce Sarings Park were brought into the scheme, another four millions might be locked for from that scurce. This reserve he would place auter the c composed of representatives of the bauks acting with the Bank of England, and
in the
old
women. When his business too root, and his At the star Yes Chin employed British
erterprise seemed asfo and assured; be dropped the women and introduced Chiusmen. This was done gradually as his business increased, the women being discharged one by one, and their planes inken by imported Chinamen. These Chinese musistants often worked all right.A Chin was terning ont as much work as a large double shift was employed, and at one time Ise steam laundry. Then Yee Chiu went home to
ampil eurot of o committes, Chins, leaving some one else in his Newington
he wou fd ebop.
Soon after his rotura to his native land a
give power to the latter, in times who, the rate party of slout istesty Chinawon appeared in
of interest was abnormally high, of increasing Liverpool, nod some five years ago a unmber of
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note issue to an extat quivalent to Chinese laundries sprang up in different parts gazeter or a third of this special reserve. It is
a proposal which requires careful consideration of the city.
The objectionable spraying methods aroan illustration of spordy (and dirty! workmanship,
Au English Isandress dumps her material either by drawing a wet cloth over it or sprjuk!-
fren many points of view, but it is certainly the most practical made yet, and Sir Felix Schuster's epulation sa buker stands too high to allow, even its most convinced oppo-ing it with her lagers. The Chinuman fakes Bente le dismiss it without careful considera-
a monthst] of water, and blows it from his lips tion.
Que garment enly, but a encecssion of garments in turu. It is not a plasant process to watch, but it shows won
womier ful skill. I have been struck more than one JAPAN MAY POINT OVE DEFECTS OF BRITISH by the adroit use of their lips and tooth among
ARMT.
thes people, and in dealing with thread and The Expres understands that a conferenss lacy material it finds full scope in the laundry. application of facial
CONFERENCE OF ALLIES.
in likely to be lank in Japan early next year on questions relating to mutual tactics and defence arising out of the Anglo-Japanese alliance.
It is not yet certain whether military oficera only will proceed from Pagland for this purpos
or whether two or were distinguished javal
ofleers will be included also.
Whether this dexterity is desi Chinese may decide.”
the patrols of the
THE EARTHQUAKE,
Á city, teeming with life and joy, is suddenly
It has been submitted in this reapset that as changed into a tomb-a living tomb, perhaps Eagloud is a first-class naval Power, all questions-by the exertion of the forces of nature. relling to her Navy should be discussed at had then we stand appalled at the magnitude of those forces, nod look upon whất has
home.
It is hoped, however, that this view may be barponed with wonder! Yet our daily life over-ruled. It has been pointed out that se
offers a spectacle. quite s strange in many three distinguisbed Japanese admirela bavo
resprots, it los
lees anticed, visited England already, a visit of British familiar with it. What we eat
because we are mors tand drink is admirals to Japan would suggest reciprocity changed by the alchemy of nature into bond and nood not be considered as a precedent.
It is net anticipated that any immediato or and mascle, brain and nerve, if a proper drink be chosen, a form of liquid food, All the require- thants of nature can be fulfilled In Van Houten's Cocca, for instance, one has a byverage that supplies the chemical laboratory. of the stomach with all that it requires for the building up of a strong, healthy body and sound
visible regalt will eraus from the conference, which, however, will serve to accentuate the alliance between the two Posers.
It is possible that Japan may point out very onatiously, but very firmly, to her ally that the organisation of her Army is neither entirely nerves satisfactory tor capatis.
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