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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29TH, 1908.

HONGKONG'S GREAT DEPRESSION

IN TRADE.

On the whole affairs this year bave been very uncertain and unsatisfactory, offering manok scope for speculation. The production ĥes-been exceptionally large, especially in the earilar [Under this heading the Commercial Supple-crops, which were also above the average in ment of the Times given an accent sent by its quality, while the later ones left much to be Hongkong correspondent on Dec. 8th, which desired in this respect. Under specially. Invour. we print here for theas who may not have soon able climatic conditions the quite anprecedented it-Ed.)

addition of an eighth deep took place. The total, saport for the season will probably he 50,000 against 42,000 bales last year. Export figures to date are:-

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The year which in drawing toolse has been one of depression evon mure marked than was the care in 1906; in fact, it is difionit to believe that trade in generel could be worse then it has been during this year. Efforts have been made in more than one quarter to sscertain the cause of this depression, aúd although it can generally be put down to look of demand from the npring

districts round about, it is diffent to say why this demand should be non-existent or almost so, The rice crops in the interior bars not been particularly favourable

it is true, but the silk crops have been gord, and must have trought a great dest of money into China. Piracy has, of course, been much in evidence, and the increas of this form of thieving has done something to restrict.

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ENGLISH WOMAK AND THE CIGARETTE.

Far LADY FOORE IN THE "EVANING STANDARD."}

Our women of to-day play hockey and fence; they have brought down their petticoats to t irreducible minimum; they fill with credit posts formerly held only by mon, and earn the bread of independence in a hundred ways undreamt of by their grandmothers and more or less distaste- To Earope, 34,818 bales, against 32071 balesful to their mothers. Yet in doing all these for 1906.

things the possibility of their remaining wo- for 1906.

To Americs, 7,682 balas; against 9,582 balad manly is generally admitted. What is hers in the smoking af u.oigarette that should unser Westsailk has moved to some extent in them What horrid magie in the little white sympathy with raw silk, though its course hae

coated cylinder (showing so plainly by its pretty been lea erratic. An uusually heavy demand suffix that it is the correst feminine of from the Continent has kept prices steady on a sigar) that its onsumption should brand

them a bold and almost immoral! high level. Exports to date are:

bales for 1906 13,823 halay to England, against 17,752 10,129 Other exports call for no special comment.

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a settled state of affairs in the interior demand

MOPES FOR THE NEW YEAR, been working of accumulated stocks, and

On the whole the year closes with brighter this coupled with the fact that many purchase Prospects for the future. Much of the penala are bring inade direct, without coming through losses, and the road is thus clear for legitimate five element bus been eliminated by the past Hongkets, and that cheap goods were all alobasicess. Stocks of goods are light, and given to be had from the mich overstocked market of Shanghai, accounts for much of the poor trade should soon make itself felt in the shape of fresh of

Hongkong. The failuren? so wasy

dawlers early in the year made the native banks very orders. The action of the British Government ventions, and although money has been plentiful in taking upon itself the repression of piracy they have not been inclined to advance it on in the West River, district should, after the freely. The restricted wet out feeling of irritation which it has coured has discouraged much speculative business on the died down, lead to such a sense of security us will part of the Chinese, but this is for the good of justify merobante in shipping goods in the interior on a much more liberal scale than regular and legitimate business.

recently. The railway to Canton in making programs, but it will be some time ere it is The poor trade, combined with other restone,inished, and so is not likely that act Hongkong bes led to a considerable depreciation af property trade for a few years. in the colony, and this is the most striking sympte m of the unhealthy state of affaire now existing. Stocks and shares of local enterprises. have also suffered. The high rate of exobango has been one factor in inducing low prices butb for property and shaies, as many took advant age of the good exobeage available to sell at their local holdingend convert their property inte gold. Although exchange has declined considerably this last month the high rates of interest ruling at home will prevent much money coming out hers for investment for some time. Many companies also are feeling the reanits of the losses incurred by the disastrone typhoon of last year,

Exchange has ruled very high during most of the year. A decline in rates in the mentis of April and May was followed by a quick recovery, and this led to little fuit being paced by the Chinese In the greater decline which has taken place these last two months of the year. Money has bean platifol all the "me, but -credit has been restricted.

ERSTRICTED IMPORTE.

The yarn trade suffered very ousiderably at the beginning of the year through the failure of practically all the leading Chinese dealers. The liabilities were enormous and the as triding, and in consequere the trade was. Beverly crippled. The disposal of the exorta- ous stocks left in importers bands has counpied the greater part of the year, and although at online it lacked as if there would bos revival. of demand sufficient to relieve the marke, der ing the last few months there has been very little movement, and the outlook is rather gloomy. The abore opplles mainly to the Indian and Japanese spinnings. The higher counts of boglish yarug have been in good assed, but business has been restricted by the bigh prices and long deliveries asked by

epioners at home.

The piece goods travle has been +xceptionally bad, pertipularly so in the oneo cf grey and white abietings, grey drille, &c. The Chinese here, in the absence of any demand from the interior. Lag0 refrained from ordering on their account, being frightened of rise in Ybhange or lower rates for cotton. Fancy grds have been more in request, but demand has been very ductuating, and bus usually been for spot carga of auch a

kind as was not to be bad at the moment. The impetus given by the late Viceroy Bbum to the ass by the Chinese of European clothing, or clothes in Chine a style, but of serge and ether European cloths, bas bad a severe set-back by his successor, and those dealers who imported large quantities of klinki and serges in anticipa tion of an increased-use by their countrymen have been bidly disappointed. All the same, the Chinese have beenbaying more freely such. of the various lines olassail me "anndrieu Ba Bre usually looked spou as for uropean wear, principally knitted woollen underwear and onys. Basinoes insaudries," however, as a rule was dull, as there were hoary stocks on hand and consumption was poor.

In metals the dealers have not so to complain of us, although the businesewa mach restricted, there have been no heavy losser, The only exception to this has been in the case of yellow metal, u, vire the fail, in copper left a quantity of bigby od steek in danlors' Flour was imported in very large quantities indeed for assial caths at the beginning of the your, Australis getting a large share of the trade. The new local mill also put its production on the market, and thus there was, auch, s0 -accumulation of stock that the entlook was distinctly grave, as there was little movement in the commodity. Forluvately the prices for four in the producing countries rose rapidly, and by holding on to stocks the Chinese were able to dispose of their purchases at covering raits. These, however, were very low fa com parison to the replacing coals and there has probably been no other place in the world where Bour has been seld so cleaply these last few months in Hongkong

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| fair to class the woman who smokes with her sister who drinks oud-beta-to-excom, or swears, or laughs loudly in public places By many otherwise reasonable persons she is undoubtedly soolased.

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In Russia, Austris, and Italy women of the best type have as much right as their hug- bande to their eigureite, but we poor English. atidal sin of smoking the undeniable one women

to the problem- of deceit if we desire to calm an over-notive brain or harassed nervss or a much-tried temper by a few whiffs of mild tobacco. Fow of us have the courage of our convictions. We koom we are not committing a crime in smoking, and and when the igarotos & counter fails a the garage midge nips ne unmolested under We would not the cedars on the lawn. willingly shook the gentle hostess, the dear, old-fashioned parson, or the rich maiden sust, and to spare their feelings we forego our pleasure; but we get no credit for our sot denial, o pity for our unapeased oravings, even from those who are in our seorel, kings it is generally supposed that no

bouse now-a-days some heemmmodation is provided for the male anker, but now and then one chances on an establishment where te bacon is under a bar, and a smoking-man who has found himself and his pipe thrust pitilessly forth into the cold, damp darkness of a November night can guess something of what a smoking woman has to bear. Many a midnight oigerette, orper.. tops only half a dozen whiff of one, has present writer, in mortal fear of discovery sad disgrace paffed up the wide chimbey of her bedroom

ANOTHER AMERICAN DISCOVERY woman ought to want to smoke. In almost every.

LONDON DESCRIBED,

Americans ara very busy writing about England just now. Sometimes they come hero to gather facts, Sometimes they are too busy to cross the ocean, and stay to home" and imagine them,

Mr. Samuel G. Blythe, who has written a delightfully humorous article which be calla An Ameriosa in London," in the February number of "Everybody's Magazine," must surely be among the latter class.

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some country house whose hospitality --...stopped short of indulgence towards ber This is how Samuel G. gina

one vice. And if it is not the The Erst mau I saw in Loudon wore a of fires, one must needs blow out the lights high hatred is a bobbedff coat, and yellow shoes,

grown waistcoat and hang out of the window to smoke, taking care not to drop ash or end on the roof of some verandal or conservatory below, there to-remain just out of reach, a silent, damning proof of sin in the age of mistress and maid. Better for had it been boldly deposited in the That, and I pointed to the grudy. perses.silver base of a dat candlestick Ow, that's the nation mahater.

What's that? Lexeitadly asked su English nisu who had come in on the train with me.

What's what returned the Englishms, gezing about in some trepidation.

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Is that all? said, much disappointed.

I thought he might be the Lord Mayor.

The Englishman crushed me.Reabily, he said, it is not. The Lord Mayor of London is not in the employ the railroad company.

Samuel G. knows a lot of little things" about.ng. He thinks London in England and He regarda London saa soggy sort of piaco" which the American tourist is slowly civilising, and so on.

that the rest of the island does not count,

Our tailors are awful

The fashionable tailor makes bis es fight that There are but two kinds of London clothes. Fou have to get them on with taleum powder and a shoe-hora, and the cheaper tailer makes them so loose that you can put them on over your head. The London tailor who can bring a collar up close enough to the neck so it roaches the sixth vertebrs thinks ba hes accomplished a triumph of sartorial skilt.

The real London combination is a silk hat, a short coat, and a read or green tie, together with an abormally high collar

ually soiled-end a coloured waistcoat. That station master wasn't so much of a curiosity after all. The explanation for the bright coloured: waistcosts is simple enough, They have to wear something to lighten up the mark.

Almost the only women who can smoke with impunity are the admittedly scentric and the "smart."

A pretty woman who neither desires nor deserves to be considered the one or the other becomes perforce a clandestine amnker. With a cigaretts between her rosy lips she is board to bo aagused by her social compaers of unduly courting attention. She is "indiscreet" she Loen widerly and plain, devoted to good -in short, she is hardly respectable, Bur had works and olever at knitting things for the North Sea shermen, ber taste for tobacco would have been regarded as a aimless peculi- are different ways of smoking, offensive and in- arity, It is not to be denied that there offensiva, and there are many occasions on which a woman would be ill-advised indeed. to light a cirgarutta. f she posseses a retrousse nose sho had better not smoke at all, for under it a oigarette is certain to look impudent.

One

The use of a holder, which will prevent pretty fingers from bonomiag stained is much to be recommended. It satisfies a proper fastidious- news on the part of the emoker, aud lessens the risk of detection by the curious or ill-disposed.. Far beiter than the amber mouthpiece is the long holder of carilboard and quill, of which one can buy a hundred for a shilling, so that every bigarette can have its own gleau setting. thing is certain, and that is that the woman smoker should nuder no possible circumstances frequent a smoking room intouded for the (med of a house and their friends.

She Our afternoon tea annoys Samuel Gim will be invited to do so, no doubt, mensely, and he telle an extraordinary story of but, however strog ber inclination to accept, how an American manager of a neṛtain London ale must be firm in her refueal to enter firm divered that the gas used by his clerkait. It is not her plage, and her presence to make their to cost the firm 200 a Fancy that!

One can readily ses from the foregoing how carefully we base been observed.

year!

Sasol Grisently very amusing, but "Every body's Magazine as an immense sirenlation, and perhaps away in some remoa American village some reader will take him seriously. And that would be a pity.

MARK TWAIN AT A PUNCH”. DINNER..

-17 BROKA PE ALL UP.”

will be an embarrassment rather than a pleasure to ite occupants.

Brothers have a great deal to answer for, When they are young and thoughtless, it amuses them to teach their sisters to smoke, never considering that thisy may be kindling a little fire which even the cold water of parental disapproval will be powerless to quench. Husbandy vary, but many are kind and reasonable. These like to share their pleasNTER with their wives, and see in an after-dinner. rigarette no more than a legitimate solace, fairly earned by the woman who le pivot, buffer, and mainspring in the easily marhinery of domestic + Motency-the efficiency upon which their well-being depends. The time will dome, no doubt, when it will no longer thought wrong, improper, or oven odd, for us who do must radure as best we rasy the cold English women to smaku. Meanwhile, those of

ok and advet s criticlem of the small majority of our men and the vast majority of our sisters, the pioneers of a movement calculsad to benefit reflecting for our comfort that we are, after all, thousands of overworked and over-worried wo- mothers and misunderstand wives, mistresses-of Den-losely old mids, usappreciated step-

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What happens at the "Wednesday dinners of Mr. Punch" is usually reserved for those posthumous volumes of recollections which so often fail because the contents have been kept too long in bottle. Mr. Clemess has just revealed in a speech to the Lotos Club of New York be way in which the famous paper, feted him when he was over here last astann; and we call the report from the "New York Tribune." Mark was giring off a string of the greatest compliments that had ever been paid him, and among then was the following p

It was at a dinner given in the building of the "Pauch" publication s humorous paper which is appreciated by all Englishmen. It was the greatest privilege ever allowed a ruly homesholds; inonsolable widowe and foraigner. I entered the dining room of the daughters of stern fathers and nagging building where those men get together who mothers. have been running the paper for over Afty years We were about to begin dinner when the toastmaster said: "Just & minuts, there ought to be a little ceremony," Then there was that meditating silence for a while, and out of a closet there came a beautiful little girl dressed in pink, holding in her hand a copy The year opened with a brisk demsed for of the previous week's paper, which had in it silk, and as the stocks left over from 1906 were my cartoon. It broke me all up. I could not small, prices were very firm and the business

even say “Thank you," That was the prettiest tranzacted small, By the end of February all insident of the dinner, the delight of all that the old silk had been taken off the market and wonderful table. When she was about to go, considerable interest was shown early in March I said "My child, you are not going to leave. for new silk. Large contrasts for delivery up me; I have hardly got seqzainted with you." of quietness, then set in, but in July there was never let me come in here before, and the to October were booked at high rates. à period She replied: You know I've got to go; they reuswed inquiry, with a consequent advance in never will again." That is one of the beautiful rates.The Chit eso bolders were, however, very incidents that I cherish.

In sugar the imports lost heavily through heavy stooks at the beginning of the year, but. latterly prices have become firaner, and stocks sre mors reasonable. The local refineries bare done fairly well. A

LARGE EXPORTS OF SILK

firm, and thus the busincks_transacted was not Mr. Twain spoke feelingly of his hospitable great, and this altitude of the Chinese, together reception everywhere in that country. He with the easier state of the Japanese market, said

GERMAN ARMY SCANDALS.

COURT-MARTIAL'S DECISION.

Berlin, January 23. Count Lynar delivered judgment this evening. The court-martial on Count Hohenen and

Count Holienniz was saquitled, but Count Lynar was sentenced to fifteen months' imprison- ment for abuse of authority in six instances, for legally involving insult to his subordinates are a breach of morals.

Court stated that it acquitted. Count Hohonau In giving the reasons for its judgments the because his guilt was not proved, but not because his innocenes was proved. It had not been shown in the present trial that he had done hything to render him liable neder Paragraph 175. However, proof had been brought policemen knew me everywhere, Count Lynar of the paulshable praatios And considered Lit A very high, somplimented in the judgment. The Court considered that The financial offis in the United States, and indead. Those policemen in London would not the potiod for which he had been imprisoned the effect this had of demoralizing the Torohazas only salate we, but would put up their puissant pending trial could not be deducted from the market, and the acouaulated heavy stocks at hands and paralyse the commeros of the city term of his sentence, because he had brought home, all tended to keep the market dull during just to let me cross the street.

caused buyers to retire about the middle of Why, the Beptember.

the lator mouths of the year. The weaker It is no Battery to Mr. Clemens to remark boldera-hed at length to the way, and prices that he was worth it, and if he lived-over here, are declining sterdlly, the sterling ea belog London would stop its traffic every day to let now about 25 per cent. lower than ruling him walk past, and thinks it a bargain, k579 in April

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about the delay in the present trial through bis the remainder of the reasons for the judgments own conduct. The Court decided that, while were being given, the public should be excluded in the interests of military dissipline.

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