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MR KEIR HARDIE ON HIS VISIT TO INDIA.

A joint meeting convened by the British Committeen of the Indian National Congress and the London Indian Society was held on the 9th ultimo, at Cexten-hall, Westminster, te Welcome Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P., and Mr. H.

W. Nevinson on their retain from India,

MR. HOMER B. HULBERT.

Commenting on the extraordinary statement which Mr. Holbert made to a newspaper con Berning the assassination of Mr. Stevear, and which we recently noticed in our columns the "Japan Mail" writes a follow:

It

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, MAY 2279, 1908,

STRAITS PUBLIC WORKS.

OVER TWO MILLION DOLLAES LIPENDED.

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The total expenditure in the Publio Works,

in each settlement, was Singapore $1,031,531 Penang, including Province Wellesley and the Dindings, 1942,870.48, and Malacca, 8187,95865; total $4,161,660/13. But this sum does not include a sum of $14,019.98. to meet liabilition incurred at Home, for which accounts have not been received.

Thus remarke Mr. F. J. Pigott, who, until recently, was the Asting Colonial Engineer and Surveyor General, of the Straits Settlements in his annual report of the Public Works Department.

This average cost of engineering and sub- ordinate supervision on compared with the total expenditure for the previous year was as

pers

Singapore 4-20 per sent Penang 5.75 per cant: Maincoa 7:55 per cent.

924 feet above high water. The "total cost of the work will be $247,000, of which a sum of 8110,012.27 was spent during the year.

· The Master. Attendant's Pier in Singapore, was extended a length of 27 feat at a cost of $8.250.58.

The Convalescent Bungalows were in fair demand during the year, Changi being cooupied as 154 days, Seletar 105 days, Woodlands 68 days and Tanjong Rhu on 234 days. Bukit Tiwab is but little need and was only occupied ou 7 days. In Penang, the Belle Vas Bunga low was occupied on 253 days and Fern Hill Bungalow on 68 days. The Tanjong Kling nogelow was cropted on 273 days, while the Town Rest House was leared for the year, for 50. Gas compared with 8480 in 186.

· SHIPPING SUBSIDIES IN JAPAN

SPEECH BY THE MANAGER OF THE BHIPOWNERS ASSOCIATION.

Mr. Nishikawa, manager of the Japan Ship Owners Association, delivered an interesting __._speech on shipping subsidies at á recent mieling of the Oriental Society held at Tokyo, which may be taken to show that even in Japan some doubt is beginning to be felt in the utility of such measures of protection and ensoarege- ment

at a cost of $2,507. New Quarlara were orcoted for the Public Works Department Storekeeper costing $2,000. The face of the sea-wall at Lembongan was rendered in cement for $1,500; suberquent repairs owing to damage by rough sens in November cost $1,000. The Stadt House and Government Offices were repainted for the sum of $2,000, Quarters were added

In Singapore, one hundred and thirty.one contracts were entered inte during the year, of which 13 were completed. In connection with these, 284 designs and drawings and 405 tracings were prepared In Peung, one hundred and eighteen contracts were entered maized untnisbed, and in Malacca there were

All will agree, said Mr. Nishikawa, in the meccstity for the development of the coautry's maritime trade in order to encourage the growth of foreign trade and the emigration of Japanese abrend, etc. For this purpose the amount of money. The total amount of ship Government is an nally sponding a large ping subsidy provided for in the Budget for the current fiscal year is Y13,190,000 of which Y12,390,000 is under the control of the Department of Orinmunications and Y800,000 in the bends of the Home Cffice for the purpose of the extension of navigation in Formoset The amount of subsidy Jamn is paying for the encouragement of her maritime trade is thus by no means smell. In the current year, for instance, the inbeidy absorbe 60 per cent. of the estimated revenue from the business tax and 47 per cent. of the income tax. The fact that the Diet agrees to the disbursement of such a largo amount of money without any objection may be taken se proof that the people are paying the af most stention to the encouragement of the shipping industry. Further, it may be shown that Japan peye the largest amount in the matter of shipping subsidy of any country in the world. This year's subsidy shows an increase of 13,036,000 on that for last year, The increase is due to the building of ships of large tonange euch as the "Tenye, "Chiye," and "Kame" The law pats no limit on the construction of large vessels, and therefore the subsidy, which at present amounts to 13 million sen, may be increased to 15 or even 20 million yen in the a method of shipping encouragement is beneficial

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Man's thoughts about the Day of Rest have become more human, we might also say more. Christian, than they once were. They form their judgments on the subject from the niter- ances of Jesus Christ, not from those of the Westminster Divines.

There are few Scotsmen who now believe that

if they are not spending in the public and private exercises of God's worship all the hours of the day except those taken up in works of necessity and merey, they are offending against a cate gorical divine imperative that is not less binding than the commandments. Thou shalt not kill Thou shalt not steal! Sermon-hearing, too, cepies a changed place in modern religious valuations, and is no longer regarded as a means graco ex opere opérato. It may be exceedingly. may not

in helpful to the spiritual life, but also it

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Mr. Homer B. Hulbert obviously intended Mr. Keir Hardie, who was received with loud

the above to be a austhing denunciation of Mr. obeere, said that his trip in India was every extensive. It was alleged that he was in the Stevens. It is, on the contrary, one of the most bands of the Hindu agitators all the time, and damning indictments of Mr. Homer B. Hulbert that theirs was the only point of view he got himself that could possibly have been penned. At every place at which he stopped by this exmissionary is ineffably contemptible. The bypocrity underlying every phrase uttered may deputations representing the leading It was very wrong, oh yes, very wrong to mes of the Hindu and the Mahomeden

Mr. Stevens. communiter, and, in the north,

theesensiaate of

But who can wondor that the assassination was commit- Sikh communities. In the main be WAK

tel P. Who can wonder that the Koreans, driven received courteously by the Mcials. He TT the Viceroy, the members of the Government, to exasperation by wrongs that cry to heaven, and Governors of provinces, and in most case but impotent to right them, should turn on no interpreter was needed. He did not go to min in Mr. Stevens' position" Mr. Homer B. Halbert cleare bia own skirts. When he is India to make sporches, to take part in agit accused, by every honest man who thinks him tions, or to stir up strito, he went there to learn.

With that object in view be felt it incumbent worthy of notice he must henceforth be accused

The percentage for the previous year was as of having publicly justified this savage crime, follows: on him to le as non-committal an possible in

he will be able to Auswor by quoting his own

Singapore 492 per cent; Penang 5.20 per he might have to say there. One Not a moment would I condone if cent Malacca 8.00 per cent anything morning after his return from Eastern Bengal

was wholly wrong. This material for fatars

Among the buildings completed during the be found Calcutta in a state of ferment because

for Government information had arrived from London that he reference is carefully prepared to do duty on year were the laboratory

But to the Analyst and laboratory and lecture room for bad

been making enditious speecher in Begal Mr. Homer II. Hulbert's

says in effent: Under the Medical students, the amount expanded being The people of Bengal had not heard of Koreans he

324,384.24; foundations for eleven wards, ute, these speecber, neither had the reporters of oizoumstances. I really don't see what else Celentia-honourable men at the head of their you could bare done. You had reasonable at the now Tan Tock Song's Hospital, profession who had accompanied him most of cute for attasking him. You had the most $30,46076, Clab building for the Chinese Com the journey.

He had been ico long in public terrible wrongs to avenge. You couldn't well-pany of the B.V.I., $10,502.58; cpiam fastory

have done anything else." I do not at all wonder life to mind either abuse or misrepresentation;

at Teluk Blangah, extension of European but he was ocnsidering whether, in the interests that you did it. Eat it was very wrong of you. ward, General Hospital, 18,815.75; and thres. Most unfortunate. You really abonid not have of the Indian people and of any ervice which lie might be able to render them, he ought not to behaved in such a menner! Nevertheless you bungalows for Government officials at the The Marine Police Station at Malaosa was take legal action in the matter (oheers) to know that Mr. Stevins had come to America orner of Orange Grove and Nassim Roads, compel the wildawal of, and an apology for, to circulate mercasry falashoods about your remodelled and additional quarters provided as a cost of $8,000, Ward: Nor. 5 and 6 at Durian the wilful and deliberately lyinga statements country and deceive the American people about which had beer mundo concerning him. It might the awful sufferii gs indicted on your country- Dann Hospital were re-roofed in permanent help the perple of Great Britain to place men, your countrywomen and your little little form for the sum of 23,600. Now Servante less reliance on called Press reporir. It children by naproteked Japanese soldiers. I Quarters ware constructed at the Stadt House was not only the Preis gairet which on not at all surprised that you did what you the friends of Todis had to complain; a did. But how wrong it was to do it!'

Is it not marvellous that any educated man volume was recently issued under the title of "be Real Itein."(Laughter and hisPH.) It should imagine the possibility of deceiving the the rest of the book was as inaccurate as the gablic with euch double-faced inlls As for Air, tages which referred to his visit to India, the Stevens, we speak from an intimate lnowledge author should stand discredited in the minds of acquired through thirty years of close fellowship The people of this country. There was no sedi when we declare that he was no mere oppable of the miserable rascality attributed to him by tion in India, and the wonder was that there

Mr. Homer B. Habert than Mr. Homer to Durian Tunggal, Jrain, Pulau Sebang and was none. It was remarkable about the situa-

Hulbert is patile of appreciating his noble Alor Gajah Police Barracks, at a total cost of tion here that the responsible fenders of the

$1,869. At Pengkalan Reus, a new Ver reform more ment still remained patient and law character. He was a man to whom the faintest neonlar Bobool was built for $1,149, and, at abiding. They would win in the end through taint of dishonour seemed intolerablo. Practical Tanjong Bidara, for $725. The school build- their patience and their law-abiding policy, It benevolence and liberal kindness were prominentings at Buta Borendam, Palan Sebong, were

traits of his disposition. He firmly believed extended at a cost of $976. had been a great stain to pat apor human baluro for to remain loyal during the last SEO years of that the course ho advised in Kores was persecution, abuse, and anisrepresentation. Lord the tre and unly route along which the Curzon "estimated the average income of the Koreuns could be led to people of India at £2, and of the India peasantry boppiness. Nothing could have been more Et 26s. ed. er hender ensam. The average foreign to his nature than to turn a deaf ear inecone per head per annum in this country was to the offerings of his fellow-men or to 345. The texes from the people of India, wink at crusity in any form, Had he been

Sabbath day, it you would claim to be a land, were really 75 per cent. It was thas Mr. Homer B. Balbert describes and be

must bare lern ceguizant of them had they contracta exclusive of contracts for the to the country. The object lessons furnished equivalent, Be in your per anfailingly on the evident what a burdensome impent the taxation

the fact that the development of the maritime trade does by no means depend on the amount the destrin may now be considered as defunct. years proceding 1904, 15.000,000 of the people

Hongkong, 22nd May, 1908. of bounty that country spende for its encourage. In the oss of the Churches that clair to abide of India were certified to bare died of hunger,

England, for example, snnually by the Catholia tradition it has been killed by These were people for whom Great Britain was responsible, Sir William Hunter had pointed

meat,

et that 4,000,000 of the people were never

expends-Y10,318,000-on-her-mail and naval the manifest impossibility of deciding which

tion. In the case of the others it began to fatare the four companies will be able to make able to fully satisfy the cravings of hunger,

subsidies; Germany Y3:330fc0; the United Church is the exclusive depository of salva- presad by some people as to whether in the Stater, 19,816,000; France, 19/00,000; Italy, and that was after 15 years of Britiel ule.

According to an authority quoted by the X4,465,000, nad Russia, 75,626 C00, Cf the die a natural death when the pot was trans so much profit us in the past. countries mentiorel stove subsidies are mostly formed from a seat of grace into an expon-

Toyo Keiza the prevailing dulness of the four- There was a very hopeful movement

given for the carrying of mails under contract, sive marketable commodity

There are multitudes of socially raspeatable market is chiefly due to the over-supply that He suggested for Lidia more repossible

is given for the encouragement of Feople to whom the Church and its message exists, though it is usual that the demand for bounty government. At present the country FEE

814,428 still to be expended. The old earth the shipping trade of these two countries noting that outsiders ought to join the was believed that many of the new mills Church as a mattor both of privilege and of would commence work about June or July tempered by a civil bureaucracy, at without account. He will understand, one day, that it of $44,934 in the year under

has ruined his own reputation. It has given formation of West Coast Road between Pendan only does not show any advance compared with any youalar control. That was an alenithy,

bim an opportunity of showing Limself to the River and Jurong River, a length of 1.26 miles, that of England, Germany, and the United obligation. The sons of obligation has to be last year, and in view of this circumstance the danger on state of affairs. The condition of things

created before it can be felt, and membership in merchants limited the quantity of four to be publio in bis. tone colours, and, with the in India would necessarily go from bad to worse

we again raired to the formation level original States, it seems to be actually declining.

privilege, imported. Contrary to expootation, however, ly decided upon, an average height of about" If, Mr. Nishikawa continued, we take the the Church, so far from seeming until some effective check was put on the way dementia which heaven is sometimes constrained

very commonly presents itself in another light the now mills could not commence operations 326 feet. The expenditure of this road was amount of the subsidies paid by the various altogether. Some are repeiled by what strikes until November or December. In the meantime India affairs were administered, That clock to decree, he has seized the opportunity."

$17,850.

countries when divided by the total tonnage them as the unsocial atosphere of churches the market besame depleted and the price went could not te sprlied from the House of Commons

The total length of roads ander maintenance possessed by them, it will be seen that Japan the presence in them of seceptnated class dis up. Orders were therefore hurriedly out across or from the Indian Offer it must come from

MURRAY V4 TIMES 4

in Singapore was 89,7 milee, of which 85 miles comes first in the list with Y12.30 per 100; the perple of India-bemgalves. (Land cheers). He denied that religiona feads more a real

The writs claiming damages for libel issued are metalled with granite and laterite, 2 France Recond with 1:18 per ton; Russia tinctions, the preference showa for the man to the Farito coast for arrival in August.or...

of the railway transport which existed at that chatzela in the way of the reforms, be advocated

Very real, though not always noknowledged, time in America, the shipments ouly came in for he had ample testimony that in the ecnattygainst "The Times" by Mr. Halls Murray Bravelled and 2 natural. The cost per mile third with Y5.75; Italy fourth with Y3.66; with the gold ring over the poor man in-vile September, but, as the result of the dislocation is the pecuniary barrier that looms in the eyes October and November. By that timp some of districts Hindus and Mahomedaus mingled outing in an award of 27,500 damages) (exclusive of re metalling but inclusive of America fifth with T2.17; Germany sixth with raiment.

were in respect of two letters, signed "Artifes, Patobing) was $317.37, $198.66 and $165.6581 sen; and England seventh with 56 sen par

ton. It 236y 101.79.8e a valuable lesson to Japan of many the hover near the borders of the the Japanese mille had began work, and this, freely in their social and religious services,

which appeared in "The Times" after the respectively Candidates for the municipal connells, too,

The amount spent upon similar work in to note that in France and Italy, where a publication of the Latters of Queen Victoria.".

similar system of encouragement as fa Japau is Charob. Their life is a sonstant struggle to with the simultaneous arrivals of imported four, received the support of bull classes of 10- ligionists. He reiterated bis statement that in the first of these the writer described the Penang was $21,702,

All existing bridges and culverts in Singapore in vegue, the shipping trade shows very little make both ends meet, and they know that by brought about congestion of the market. joining the Church they would at once-inoar. Notwithstanding the present depression, of price of that book as "imple extortion," and

ware maintained in gord order. A sam of headway in comparison with other countries. India-ought to receive "colonial. government,"

fresh financial obligations and liabilities the trade the economio journal holds that the futuro added the t more than two-thirds of the price to forget that there was no uniform system of charged for the book respresents an arbitrare $157.150 provided in the estimates as a con- This year's shipping eudaidy in Japan shows obligation to pay seat rente and to contribute to prospects are not so gloomy as is feared in some The people who griffoize that statement seemed

the collection plate or the offertory bag, the cases, and it is probable that with the advent of What he meant was that addition to the nstural price of the book, which tribution to the Municipality towards the an increase of three million you in extending popnlar government in India they would be absolutely impossible if books, were erection of a new bridge over the Bingsporo of last year, and it is more than probable liability to bo called upon by pushfal elders or the warmer season the existing glot will be

opifom cast-iron stem blished under the ordinary cemptition River was not, expended, no work being dens. that it wil ko on increasing year after deacons.and persuasive ladies, young and old, gradually lessened.. should not set up Indian Empire, bus stoeld conditions prying to other productions," adopt the form of government and the cunt Finally the letter conoladed,

bas exploited the great personality of populer roprofcntation) nedereny to moot the nested requirements of provinces and of Queen Victoria for his own ends, and surely that was a moderate proposal. He coined the national intercat in her doinge for thought that joint action should be taken in the his own enrichment into 32 pieces of silver, Hones of Cornious in regard to what was to be precise."

A week later (Cotober 26) "The Times" con- called Mr. Morley's reform téh me, and action should be taken to enlighten this country tained a quotation from a solicitor's letter concerning these proposle. He suggested that stating that "the work is Mr. Murray's pro- held in London, where it would command the publieber, bearing the cost of its production, attention of the whole word. There were and he will be remunerated by a fraction of

the net profits, and The Times" added, " difficulties in regard to caste, but the claims of opste must give WAY

to the clafins of country willingly give publication to this statement, in and regret any misstatement or error our (Cheers). He thought that the methods which had been used to promote an entents between correspondent may have made."-

Artifes," however, was less ossily satisfied; England and France and England and Germany should be applied in the ease of for in a further letter he said,"He is to be re

wbilo nominally 50 per conft. of the vild of the cognizant of the shocking brutalities that into during the year, of which nineteen ro- near future, It is very doubtful whether sucherlesiamalla sala once had as its Souttish

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must be on starving people. During the occurred, he would have been the first to supply of read metal entered into during the by some foreign countries tend to demonstrate Christian. In both of its old interpretatione PA NO COR LIDE

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The work of forming, drawing and, metal expose. End condemn them. And bad it chanced that their places were exchanged, ling Bedok Road to connect Enet Coast Road that Mr. Hemer B. Hulbert were lying in his grave and-tint Mr. Stevens with Changi Road nearly completed in 1906, were still in var ride, othing that the. Tas niched, a sum of 84,080 being expeaded world contains could have induced Mr. The earthwork, in connection with the constraction of a new road from 13 mile Stevens to atfer over the ashes of the silent Kranji Road to Woodlands Railway Station, drad such a vile and ecwardly slander as Mr commenced in the previous year, was.com-

departmentally

"The total satimate Mr. Hulbert pretends to Stevens b. believe that this faul murder will hurt Korea

India-iducational industrial, and political. Hamer B. Hulbert has now addressed to Mr.pleted road is 878.730, of which-s 'sum' of with the exception of France and Italy, wheza

for the

year,

governed by a military antoormeg, somewhat reputation; pretends to regret it on that $14,768 was expanded in the previous vive navigation and shipbuilding. Despite this frot mean little or nothing. There is no use in four alsokens during the winter months. It

colonial

Overment.

that

new bridge 2 feet aspen, formed of brick year un as an amendment of the law is with a view to special subscriptions for all masuer The capacity of the country in producing abutments and platform of rolled steel joists, introduced. The present law for the encourage of congregational and denominational objects. four bas, as already shown, been greatly inores- expanded metal and cererete, es constructed ment of navigation was framed and put into

and to the man who reslines this, and has train- daily output of the Masnda Soifon is estimated at the junction of Labrador Villa Road and operation in 1896, and is to remain in force for Giving certainly is a high Christian privilege, red by the establishment of tas now mills. The Pasir Panjang Read at a cost of $1.996. Two eighteen years, that is until 1914. The un

ed himself to the necessary self-sacrifice, at 4000 bags, that of the Nippon Seimai at feet span, were also Luilt on the hew Woodlands sent conditions of th as applied to the pre-collection may be a most exhilarating Doossion. 1,600 bega: Nippon Seifan at Hyogo, 1,800

ge can Bao. sily imagined bridges of similar construction, but of 15 and 10 suitable nature of Road for an expenditure of $4,028 and 81,950, when it is considered that a law brought into Bat it is not surprising that many of the poor bags; Asahi, 400 bags; Nippon, 5,000 bags; operation to mest requirements twelve years sheep who are outside of the fold should regard Teikoku 2,000 bags; Nisshin, 1,600 bags : Ta-a, is computed that the annual During the year, six eld worden bridges ago is still allowed to exist, actwithstanding the the invitation to enter as little better than 2,500 bags. It is respectively.

summons to part with some of their scanty wool. prednotion of these companies does not amount women bear if they droop- now and then into the latter 4,010,000 bags, which is the average Mr. Nishikawa then goes, on into detail as in Perang, and the ironwork for four more decade or re,

to the faully nature of the law, and points out the churches! Does it uenally interest and annual quantity imported, the surplus will be in ncy inform them Christian preaching should the neighbourhood of 2,000,000 bags. Not only bridges was delivered: These will be fixed is 1908. The amount expended was $9,990.

Sungai & ulim Bridge, in Province Wellesley, that, us it now stands, it has a positive tendency And is it not the case that it is the lack of some in.it estimated that this will effectually check of 100 feet span was completed and opened to to encourage the construction of ships and pro traffic in October. Seren old worden bridges mote. their voyage abread more for the sake of laminating and kindling quality in the pulpit the importstion of flour, but it is thought

in the pews!

Japan and China by extending the market, were converted into iron and masonry bridges receiving the bounty than for the development that generally explains a conspicuous emptiness probable that the surplus can be used in and the wooden decking of six bridges was of trede, though the latter is the real object for

Not every preacher can be a genuius or an always supposing of course, that flour can be

the next Indien National Congress should be perty; he has been merely employed sa the were converted into iron and mesonry bridges tremendous progress made during the past And what of the preashing that such man and to less than 6,000,000 bags. Deducting from

cora.

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to visit the country. After expressing his sppreciation of the cordiality of his re ception by the people of India, Mr Keir Hardie, nid be not only supported the suggestion that the Goverment should sppoint mittee of the House of Commons to examine the reform proposals which had been made, but that all those proposals should be shelved until a commission had visited India and reported He thought that. such a commission would

need and the great possibility that existed for a largely extended measure of self-government in India.. (Cheers.) He recommended that the whole energies of the Indian people abould be devoted to obtaining self-government, through which alone could administrative reforma be mado effective,

the whole"

A CRISP OPIUM COMMENT.

So the wild balls of Bethan who noscunt" themselves the "unco guid of the Parlia mentary world have been at it again in the Areas of the House. The Chinese Govern ment, which all who know anything of the

to negotiate with its tongas in its cheek, has professed a mighty seal to appress the of opium within its territories.

"Behold,

timber.

Iz die, and that public men should be induced munerated by a fmotion of the profits. What replaced with reinforced concrete or by steel] which the law was devised. “According to the orator, And yet even in these days of much cheaply preùneed. It is however, doubtful fraction ? A fraction is anything less than troughing. The abŝtments of a 38 feet span existing arrangements the larger the tongamented defection it is not difficult to point to whether the Japanese flour milling companies

bridge

at Rantau Panjang, Malacca, were con- and the greater the speed, the more will be structed in masehty for 32,785 and a timber the rate of subsidy given. For this reason one another who, without any shining gifts, will Lo enabled to reap satisfactory profits in pistoform fixed for $709. The abutments of a there has been an unmistakable tendener tells his church week after week because he has competition with American flour. The fact is, 38 feet pan bridge at Kuala Sungai Bharu build larger ships with a greater speed mange in which he believer sund declares it says the Tokyo journal, that Japan is not yet in were built in masonry for 18,400 and the regardless of the general economy of sach manfally and in the epirit of love. The con position to produce wheat in sufficient Iron-work for some supplied at a cost of $1,787. veeels for business purpose. On the occasion oluzion of the whole matter seems to be that quantity to satisfy the demand. The total The timber bridge at Bungai Rambei at the of the late war, for instance, the Government ministers and Church courts, instead of in-yield of wheat in the country is estimated quantity Frontier was renewed, the Masz Government paid charterage on the gross tonnage of the dulging in complaints and lamentations on the at 3,500,000 koku, of which half the

vessels The result was subject of churchlesences is difficult, but is absorbed in the manufacture of

itary koke of whost which is required for four-milling Providing them in the report to the dredgesteld engaged as transposobliged, reply for nothing like so difficult as that which was and mise. Consequently, of the 2,500,000 return, as he had done, impressed with the great Chiness mind will believe that it knows how ing operations of the Mudlark and the Crab, | tonnage which won not of any actual benefit, fasad by the little Church of the first del parposes, about half the quantity has to be

and with respect to Lighthouses and Beacone, the net tornsge being far below the gross when it set out to conquer the Roman

There is then the question of speed. If the Church of to day is to repeat those early imported. Of course Japan, can afford to lonasge Mr. Pigott observes:-

Very rapid progre was made during the The inevitable consequence, of building vessels victorier, it must face its task in the spirit of increase the yield of wheat if a good price is my noble example, eay as it strate up year with the erection of the new forro. of greater speed for the sake of subsidy must be the victors themselves, and adapt the methods assured, but this can scarcely be practicable for the Toyo Keizal, if Japan wants to succeed in the Fathway of Profeestd RighteousDEAR. There, ozolims British Pharisais, let

oncrete Lighthouse, at one Father Bank: the production of ships of a very uneconomical that they employed to the conditions and some years to come. For this reason, oquelades the flour trade, in Korea and China iu competi At the conclusion of the previous year, the character. That a greater speed will require a exigencies of the present time. sinking of the main piles and the main larger consumption of fuel is a matter of conTHE FLOUR INDUSTRY IN JAPAN. tion with American flour it is necessary that the us keep step, with noble Chine," notese-

the ing that it is acting as procurer to the

bracing had been practically completed or slazd, in a long voyage a large

portion of

Government should institute a system of most money.making monspcly conceivable.

Great Inchzars OF PRODUCTION. work below a level of four feet below. High space of such a vessel will inevitably be taken

drawbacks on wheat when it is exported as flour, And an obsequions House of Commoné,

by her fael. The Japanese Davigation

Miss Florence Warder has established ber- whole of the remainder of the structure was

Amongst the various now undertakings started for the amount of cargo carried or not treacle, but believing it to be as black as its professional detractors paint it, completed, including the erection of the lantern

Some of the flour mills promoted and her output is already prodigious. In these and opticle apparatos, the maw light being carried, with the consequence that the

with scanty milling. corps was originally divided into two separate kowlows. to the Jess of Undinous Rectifsde..hibited on Jennary 12, 1908. The light ships are often induced to travel egod subsequent to the Ista war was that of four self.as a favourite of the novel reading public, brenches under the Commander-in-Chief and the and rushes to declare that it thanks God that house is octagonal in plan carried by 17 piler cargo. Some years ago, when coal was rather bave ceased to exist, having been swept away by circumstances it is not necessary to subject her Military Supply Department, respectively; both it is not as these other men are. But, like some come under the former authority and two die-

other things, self-labelled Virtue in frills costs a 24 inches and 18 inches in diameter and dear in Japon, certain ships brought coal to this the financial crash that followed. Many have, latest, "Lady Lee" (published by T. Werner tinct sections are no longer necessary. lot of money to somebody. And the atmosphere includes Bervice Room, Quarters for Light country all the way from Austrails. Of course however, survived the trial, and these are now in Lauris) to literary analysis. One might other. pon smart, her villain too villainone, ber virtuous keeper end Crew Visitors Room, Omea and Australian coal was dearer than Japanese even working order. Those situated in the KwansaŤ Corps has consequently been reunified and this,

Johnsons and Taylors and the rest of the smug crowd have enveloped themselves it a lugurious goode, and tab end lavatory accommodation. when the subsidy received for the voyage was Beimai, the Asahi Seifun, and the branch mills conviet tos virtuons, and even then one might indulgence for which the Eastern British The light which was supplied by Mesers taken into consideration Australian coal came of the Nippon Seifun, while those is the have been unfair. The story of "Lady Loo

Chanco Brothers, Birmingham, is a second cheaper than Japanese. Again, the grant, of Kwento-diate in Ende tine Tools Seifan has this much in its favour, that it rana to the the Tos. Seifun, the Nisshin Seifur, and the end with unflagging interest, and if at the Crown Colonies bare to the perfumer's bill.

Order Occulting White Light, giving four bounty to certain classes of chips will Worhall wait to 2006 anddenly anskened con-

finsbes, in quick succession every 15 seconds. result of driving away unprotected vessels from the Meiji Seifun (incorporated, with the end one is tempted to say the puppets were not. anience declare that it is wrong to revel in

The duration of each fish is one-third second the field of competition, and this destroys the Nippon Seifan). All these companies, with a lifelike and their emotions exaggerated, one ingle exception, have been 'started nos the feels that the story has aroused a fresher throb moral lasciviousness at other-people's expense.

followed by an eclipse of two seconds, the long spirit of independence and free competition."

On these and other grounds Mr. Nishikawa war Prior to this the production of flour of respect for that which is pure, and good, Johnson, Taylor, and Co. will move, when

interval between the groups of flashes being conscience awakes, that Any deficit of the

seven and two-third seconds. The intearity thinks that the shipping subsidy was it is now in Japan was very limited, and the annual im and lesu. Lady Lee's husband, at least, has Crown Colony budgets from their action shall

of the light in 64,000 oandler. It has a range in force is more injurious than beneficial to the portation of from four to five million bags of his counterparts in the Far East, and they our was found nosessary. In consequence of need the kindlier thoughts that Miss Warden be an annual charge-en the British Badget.of 15 nautical miles, the focal plane being interests of the country.

the sudden increase of supply fear are ex-inspires for the type, We shall wait. Singapore Free Fren

SUPPLY AND TRANSPORT IN INDIA, The Pioneer" states regarding the changes taking place in the Supply and Transport Corps that further centralisation is not intended. Tha

The

it is held, should tend to a simplifiostion of work. It is, moreover, intended to decentralise by making the sine divisions responsible for all The Registra- their own supply of contracts tion and Trapport staf at Army Headquarters will eventually bo reduced as this scheme comes into operation. Divisional generals will be given more responsibility, and concentration of authority at Simla should cease.

The Supply and Transport Corps should thus become more efficient, and better-calculated to discharge the heavy duties which devolve upon at when mobilisation takes place.

not knowing opium from brimstone and Water-During the year under review, thang is paid for the mileage-travelled,

of the Odour of Sanctity in which the opiophobe Armour, Store Room for oil, water and dry then, but it was calculated by the shippers that district are the Masuda Seifun, the Niwise have suggested that ber Smart Set is too

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