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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 19г г, 1907.

TABLE...A.

Estimated necessary income at present prices of (A) Head of a Junior Department (Salary $5,400 per annum with double componention @-3000 per casem) and (B) Junior Over onsulary of £345 por annum fat

$255.56 per mass-in).

EXPESIS PER MENSEM.

(1) Saying on account of paringes home and back

(2.) Insurance

Rant and taxes.... (4) Depreciation and

upkeep of faraiture

hardehip created by a rise in the value of the currency. The case has this special feature that monenres of relief occasion no extra cost to the Colony, for the annual estimates are neces sarily based on the lowest probable rats of exchange, and the rise in the dollar saves the Colony so much on the Estimates, and this moreover at a time when the Government is proditing by the higher rats in respect of remillauices to England. Wo submit that salaries west bear some definite relation to the cost of living in the Colony in which they re peis, sad that they should not be subjsat to fluctuation in the rame way pensions to officers in a gol country should be paid to or they aber will be subject to Buctuation. What the proper system of pay-

Transport

(cenas. nont of salaries to sivil servants shock s in

chairs and ricksha oler to astisfy these two essential conditions, (10) Fresh milk......

(U) Compradore it is not for us at the present moment to (11) Clothes and bouts.. suggest, imt we submit that the defects ia (12) Light and fuel...... ths existing system

which the rent (13) Gowrness or school Auctuations in silver have revealed are no

feex serious that they can only by a revision of the schùms of salaries.

gold,

(5.) Doctor

(1) Dentist (7.) Chemist (8.)

satisfactorily (14) Bervants

(15) Washing

The memorial signed by the hoads of depar(16) monte bas some very significant statements. In stating their base thug select two cases N typical and proceed:

Wine,

י

rerated, waters, ice and to bacc

charities Petty cash

(17) Recreation and

A

B

of Total.

"AS IT WAS.

OPIUM HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF, Noting the issue of the latest rider" Edict, the Japan Mail says the Chinese Government apparently finds that its behests re opium have hitherto extreised little practical effect, for attention is again called to them and severe penalties are threatened against off ials who Percentage Percentage fail to enforce the velo or to make accurats

aunnal returns as to the arena ander

tivation in thair districts. It is imp not to recall some phases of Chinesa history in $ conuention with this official erosado. We are reminded, for example, that the edicts published since laac October, including that just issued, are by no means as drastic as their prototype which the light nearly two hundred years go Opium was not then by any means now to the Chinese. It had been introdnoad inte

of Total.

S 60 7.3 8

(*) 1.50 18.1

20

75

20

5

01

7

20

Jo 3351 501 35126,5-1

40

10.

827

355

211

These figures are based on a conservative exlimate and allow no margin for entertainment.

HIMA KKB.

or

In making our selection of typical cases, wo were impressed by the fact, that the additional18) cost of a married life is fur bestier, in propor PERIOD OP TWO YEARS tion to that of a single man, here than at home,

it in unscanary to labour this point boas GIVEN WITH EACH INSTRU-nt and u'camer faces alone would prove it. It

seems inevitable therefore that our typical cases Í

It follows that they should be married men.

(1) Estimated at th of cost of return should also be men who marriage could not passages. If families are not brought back, hare ben considered by the Government as up the cost of 2 establishments must be courroi. net of imprudence, for the consequences of which (2) Includes Widow and Orphaus subscrip they were themselves a'une to b'ains. Further, tion. cor examples had to be chosen from differout | grades of the Sarvica. Apraiz, as the up Bringing of children is an ordinary consequence of marriage, we look for our typical cases ofcars on their highest increment, on the position that they had married on firat reaching thair present appointments; and we have $501 have sapposition that they

Yamily: of three young children, the increas.

of whose luter erlucation ing cost. bo left to the future and subsequent promotion. The types selected by us to answer all those conditions were (A) the Hoad of a Junior! Department no salary of $5,400 with com- pensation, and (B) a subordinate officer on a salary of £345. Table A gires what wa consider to be a reasonable rate of living for these wo Officers, together with explanatory notes. It also given the salaries drawn by them at the present rate of oxelange. And if

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3. A. The average rent at the Peak (with- cut fax) is 130; but the cheapest houses arrogaged in solling the drug was to be sout icto too small for a man with a family.

B A 4-roomed enttage

prpetual banishment, having first worn the sangue for a month, and anyone keeping au to pt angulation, his assistants being bamunced opiam dan was to be imprisoned for a term prior and transported. The provisions against sere correspondingly and inasmuch a this veto WAR acted fully s hundred years before tho. bana openly taken under suading any auti-foreign spirit into the docu Foreign pro action, there is no ground for

Peking's prohibitions wore actively suferend is mont. It is not in evidence, however, but the provinces, and it is to this neglect that the subsequent troubles which culminated in the witherer, did not confine itself to one elict. At epium war saust he attributed. Paking, how

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TABLE R

and

Showing prices of commodities, wages and aud taxes in 12 when the dollar was worth expuses of living generally other theu rents and in October, 19:6, when the dollar is

worth 2:3,

is allegal in reply that we have sodes). Included Hongkong Club $, enda batween the nèoss-ary and the actual an B. Includes Cricket and Civil Servico Clubs. great Be A raprasant, open aries must have odeurred me they have not done; to that we reply, they have been stared off, but in many cases be the most unsatisfactory devices wives and children have been sent home, with no prospect of rat ura many of us have given up our hous08 and sold our belongiuge, and wo living in hotels and boarding-houses and m6838 like neither married men nor bachelors, and som

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of living is on the increase, and that the higher |

We give in ellar Les brought us no relief.

I. COMMODITIEN.

at by that time the vise had taken root firmly. the cle of the 18th century it ieued another, d something more eficient than the rigour of Chinese officialdom would have been needed to eradicate it. The subsequent story of the deng's gradual and almost universal adoption by ite Chineer people is well known, but whether these predecessors so far as effect is concerned, who new edicts are to be mataly replicas of their can venture to predict?

MANCHURIA.

The negotiations between Vienroy Isu and the Japanes Cansul General, Mr. Hagiwara, 1.69 continue to progress towards happy ragulta, 15.00 1.139

We have already arplained that the first qu 54tion dealt with was that of the Yalu timber

1.tfelling enterpries, and that the Viceroy, while on the one hand prohibiting farther operating

1.

Commodity. 1905

Beef (lb)

1934

$ ....14

$

2

40

£. e. d..

5.4

2

Bread (id) ...

45

1

Jib

Butter (tin), ... .50

10

Coals (toa)

.. 9.59 13.10,

在

Eggs (doz),

Flour,

....18 3.6 ....04%

1

05

7.

Mik (in)

Milk, fresh (pt.). .16

3,2

24

.23

4.6

21

6

9.

Mutton flb)

... 20

of

26

ing

10.

Stout (same)

38 7.6 II.

45

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Table B some comparative figures to prove that. we do not exaggerate.

The Secretary of State has informel Your Excellency that we are better paid than the | Pablic Servants of ranst other Colonies-n ata- tomeul that we are uol in a position to contra- vert, as wo bars not the information at our dis- posal that might enable us to do so.

Our con- tention is les ambitious, namely to prove that our pay is inanfficient. There are howOver cor- tain items in our expenses which are prealiar to the Colony, as compared with others in the tre pics, which are:-coal, excessive house-rent and the great cost of clothing dan both to the need of providing against very hot and very cold weather, and also to the destruction caused by the damp. Steamer fares too are higher from here to En-

Other items cannot be stated so exactly. BESTANTE-The arket rate of wages paid in dollars has increased at least 20 per cent. We can give individually figures is support.

TRANSPORT, The Star Ferry have inorezsod their rate for a single teip from 10 ceate to 15 cent since 1902.

The Peak Tram and riekabas are the same in dollare as in 1909.

TABLE C.

A comparison of the dollar and storfing route of houses in 1902 and 1906.

on the part of the Chines company now work

in the Yaln valley, is understand to have" seat to Peking a strongly worded suggestion furs renewal of the Tientsin conferenc1.00 & much more liberal basis, The telagraph now ads that two other questions bave been virtually dispneed of. One wis that of the Ponksiku coal mine and incidentally of all the mining property throughout the belt of country traversed by the Makdon Antang Railway. This has been dispend of by a concussion qually creditable to both the contrasting parties; nomaly, that all flasá mines are to be worked by Chinese and Japanese conjointly. Finally the salt problem was approached. This coul1 not he dealt with radically in a moment, but the Viceroy agreed that all the Japaness alt bitharte conßucatod should be restored to its owners, and that pending ina arrangements as houses has increased as the lower levels by Japanese importars of sulf should conform to Thas the average dollar rental of European to the system to be pared in furture, $25 or over 18 per cent, and the average stor- the provisions of Chinese &seal rezulations. ling rental Las increased by 26.15, or 60 par The Ahi Shimbun's Mukdea

eays that endinga plans ovo forenoon and that most of the work done by Governor Tung-shani, the Viceroy interfering only occasionally, Nothing could. l'amore current than the Chinese ollioiuks show themselves. They eschew the Chinese habit of linguistics) refinements and I repeated delays for

NH-This return deals with the houses and those only which vero in existence in

gland than from almost every ollier charged, 132.

Table C. ahows that the anormous conte no for from falling with the rise of silver, baro greally increasel when reckoned in that metal,

aly increased whas reckoned in We have laid great stress on the tierensing prices, live

ehorm"

rospectively.

Average Rental per.

key to our position. Cader no possible o curat the Peak are 83 per neat, and 40 per cent. stances could we galu by the rise of the dollar, since being paid in sterling it takes the sans proportion of our alarios to make our gold purchaser, whether silver is high or low. At he best, if silver prives at once and automati. cally adjusted themselves to the diferent

No. of Hous

Average Rental per mensam

MARSAN

1902 at 1,8 1906 at 23.

. . $

£

correspon-

is

off. But as we have shown silver prices so far (nearly), (48 bonaes). from showing a tendency to so adjust them Peak, 120 10 8 130 seires, ovan slowly, are steadily ou the rims.

(over 90 hous99).

exchanges wa ghanld be as wall though no better Lower Levels, 135 1150 160 (nearly) 18 acino's and intelligently, with each question.

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There are no less than thirty problems to ba (over) 14 disposed of, aut seven out of avarý tan raprogant Chinese proteste. It is expected that fully ten daye or a fortnight will be needed to bring the. Jabonry of the conference to a close.

Among other things it may be mentionsI thai the Japanana hayo agreed to restore to Chins Fom 300 buildings which becams prizes of wor in 1905, and which the Chinese authorities claimed & Chiuose property. These hniklings sze now for the most part occupied by Japanese subjecte, and it is said that their restoration will causa much ineen rabience to the latter. Presumably they were in Hussin posso at the time of their capture by the Japanese troops.

According to the "de this information," the Japanese project for disposing of the salt question is to foru one large China Japanasa company which shall control the whole of the salt industry of the lannad territory as well as of of the Three Eastern Provine. Many of our readers are probably aware that the manufacture of salt is one of the chief industries of Kwantung, and it is easy to understand Japan's solicitude about the future of this valuable eplerprise Japan Mail.

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