1908-07-22 — Page 5

Page

BANKS

THE

"OKOHAMA SPECIE BANE

LIMITED.

CAPITAL PAID-Ur...... Tea 24,000,000, RUSHEY FUNDS ..................... 16,120,000

HEAD OFFIOR-YOKOHAMA.

Tokyo-

BRANCHES AND AGENUIES.

Kobe

London

Csak Lyons

San Francisco Bonolulu

Nagasaki

New York

'Bombay'

Shanghai

Bankow

Chefoo,***

· Tientain

Peking

Newchwang

Dalny

Autang

Lioyang

Port Arthan Muledon

"Tieling

Chang Chan

HONGKONG-ÏFTERIST ALLOWED.

On Current Account at the rate of 2 per cent

· per annum on the daily balance.

On fixed deposits for 12 months 5% per annum

a

15

13

25

BY B%

+1

Manager.

TAKEO TAKAMICHI,

Hongkong, 24th March 1908.

$24

YEDERLANDSCHEHANDEL

MAATSCHAPPIJ.

(NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY), ESTABLISHED. 1824.

PAID UP CAPITAL FL 45,000,000 (23,750,000) RESERVE FUND FL. 5,752,884.84

(about #479,407)

HEAD-OFFICH ; AMSTERDAM. HEAD-AGENCY BATAVIA

Branche Singapore, Penang, Shanghai, Rangoon, Samaring, Sourabaya, Charbon,

BANKS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22ND. 1988.

TONGKONG AND SHANGHAI

BANKING CORPORATION,

H

·PAID-UP CAPITAL.

RASERYE FUNDA (—

STERLING

£1,500,000 at 27-$16,000,000 BILYME ***

$18,500,000

$15,000,000

$28,500,000 Rusney® LIARITY OF PROF'TORS$16,000,000

"COURT OF DIRECTORS, E. SHELLIM, Esq.,--Chairman. W. J. GERSSON, Eng.Deputy Chairmar,

W. Helms, Esq.

E. G. Barratt, Esq. C.G.R. Brodersen, Reg. G. Friesland, Eleg. O. 9. Gubbay, Esq.

C. R. Loumana, Esq. B. Bhawan, Esq. Hon. Mr.H.A. W. Blade H., Tomkina, Esq.

CRINE MAN KGER Lengkong-J. H. M. Bar

MANAGEEN Shanghai-W. ADAMS ORAM,

LONDON BANKBRS-LONDON AND COUNTY BANKING COMrant, Limtræo,

HONGKONG-INTEREST ALLOWED. On Current Account at the rate of Two per cent. per Annum on the daily balanos.

ON FIXED, Deposit.

For 3 months, 2 per cent. per Annum. For 6 months, 81 per cont. par Annum. For 12 months, 4 per cent. per Annam,

J. R. M. SMITH,

Chief sanger Hongkong, 14th July, 1908.

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK

THE

:

THE NEW FRISCO,

FAST AND PRESENT KÉKŰRIES,

{By a Californian.]

To stand again in the desolate city of one's nativity after year-long wanderlags in the world's distant quarters, to ravisit the ghost: haunted glimpass of a dead metropolis, and to gaze for the first time upon the tragis traces of an immense disaster is an experience surely beyond ordinary chanos or adventure. Unusual thoughts besiege the brain, and strange emotions- grip the heart of the beholder.

ware of

–

Fits original rubbish, has the appearance of having been bombarded by great shells in some terrible siege. Wore its ruplared walls, col- Ispred towar, and broken pillars but sovered with iry, it might become even romantic- something more simple, more dignified in form than the Roman Forum. As is now partly Hon and partis stands, it is a fit symbal of the depraved, disorganised Government it ends housed, and farnishes the best and bitterest

BIGNS OF CHANGES.

oral upon its own dishonest soustruotion. For all that, it is inspiring to see the hage bronse status of San Fransisco standing straight and austirred, store the curve of the lofty dome, still holding on high hor torch of hope and How remota to the returned wanderer Beemed courage, he still stande undauntedly in the even the immediate past, how nose and, as it brave sunlight, as she stood above the battling the days preosting the fames, looking upon the doomed elty at her yesterday, several yours of his absoooo On viewing again feet, the old and well-known places the human mind seems strangely bent on leaping over the intervening gap of interruption in time and space and connecting the obtrusive pre sont with the distant perspective of the past. This tendency is furthered in its effects by the refreshing sight of “old familiar faces and old familiar places." Thate grase the reality and the verity of much that was no vivid in another environment Bat the nativa return ing to San Francisco finds most of the familiar placas gone beyond recall, and many of the dear familiar faces driven far beyond his ken. Most of the visitors to the shattered City of the Sunset come to look upon the people and the plass, and such display only the tourist's suriosity in the ruins, Then they pari sa to the Farther East or return to the Atlantic States.

Van Nes-avenue, once select and aristocratio, is now the fashionable shopping ontre, and Fillmore-street, in the heart of the undestoyed westera addition, is a roaring hive of trade, showy and obtrusive in colour and dieplay by day, dazzling with electric sigas at night. The superb width of Van Ness-agonus enabled the fire fighters to make a sucessful stand against the conflagration that advanced westward like

than a year ago. The

Latin

Quarter about the base and slopes of historic Telegraph Hill teens with its re- sewod life. Not far away the re-established and picturesque Chinstowa le growing com- past and poputons. Golden Gate Arengu vuca“ an elegant driveway to the park of the gam name, has been digraded into i street of shady resoris devoted to the lower sporting element. On the northern heights, when the mon is in the cloudless skies, scenes fall of a sombre enblimity present themselves. Upon the fis-swapt apex of a noble hill rise in majesty the pointed arches and broken buttresses of Graos Churob, a soft dark masz, tonehod by the moonshine into vagas.

raller Against the luminons indigo of the hoarens.

an infernal army, Kittle more

Melrose

Tegal, Pesalongen, Pasoeroeas, Tillatja, Business of the above Bank absence with photographa, personal accounts, Abbey or Elgin Cathedral are scarcely more

Palembang, Kota -

Padang, Medan armain

Radlja (Acheen)

Correspondents at Macass, Bombay Colombo, Madras, Pondicherry. Calcutta, Bangkok, bo, Melbourne, Sydney, New Haiphong, Hanoi, Amoy Yokohama, York, San Francisco, &o., &

LONDON BANKEKS; — THE UNION OF LONDON AND SMITHS BANK, LIMITED,

The Bank buys and sells and receives for collection Bills of Exchange, les letters of aredit on its Branchen and Correspondente in the Eset, on the Continent and in Grosi.. Britain, America, and Australia, and transacts Banking Basiness of overy description.

INTEREST ALLOWED. Op Current Accounts 2% per shuum on daily

balancos.

On Fixed Deposits 12 months 41% per annum,

6: do. 4% do. 3 do, six do

do.

J. L. VAN HOUTEN, Agent, Hongkong, 16th July, 1:09

D

-35

WUTS01-ASIATISCHE BANK, CAPITAL FULLY FAID UP...Sh. Tseln 7,500,000

HPAD OFFICE-SHANNAL BOARD OF DINMOTORS, BARLIN.

BRANOME Elia, Hamburg, Gsicutta Haukow Tiantai, Paking, Trinantu, Tringtam, Kobe, Yokohama, Singapore.

Founded by the following Banks and

Bankers ---- KORIGLIAM SEBHANDLUNG (PRNUSHIBOR)..

STAATEBANK) Berlin,

DIRECTION DHE DISCONTO-

GESBLISCHATZ

DEUTSCHE BANK

3. BLEIDIEORDNE

BERLINBEHANDELS.

GEBRIISCHAFT --- -- BANK THE HANDEL JND

INDUSTEJA

ROBERT ARSCHACEN & CO. MENDELSSOHN & CO.

M. A. YON ROTHSOUILD &.

BOTHNE

Jacon §. I. ETSIN

Berlin

Frankfurt 4/

NORDDEPTSCHE BANK INDAmbore, Hamburg SAL. OFFENEBIM. J., & Co., Koeln. BATHRISCH HOTHEKEN UND WAORNEL

BANK, MUENCHAN

LONDON BANKERS: Mesra, N. M. ROTHSCHILD & BON; THE UNION OF LONDON and Smith's- BANK, LIMITER. DEUTSCHE BANK (BERLIN), LONDON AGENCY DIRECTION DER DISCONTO GRIRLLSCHVÁT

INTEREST allowed on Current Account. DEPOSITS received on térmis, which may be learned on application. Every description of Banking and Exchange, business transacted. A. KOEIN,

Manager-

94

conducted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORA FION. Rules may be obtained on application

INTEREST on deposita is allowed at 31 Per Cont. per annum..

Depositers may transfer at their option balances 8100 or more to the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK to be placed on FIXED DEPOSIT at 4 Per Cant, par annum.

For the HONGKONG AND BHANGHA

BANKING CORPORATION, J. R. M. SMITH,

Chief Manager.

AL Hongkong, 12th January 1907.

TEDERLANDSCH-INDISCHE

HANDELSBANK

N

(NETHERLANDS INDIA COMMERCIAL BANY

ESTABLISHED. 1863,

Authorised Capital F1. 15,000,000 (£1,250,000) Subscribed Capital El. 10,000,000 (Paid up) Reservo Fund FL-2112,570.38 (8176,048

HEAD OFFICE. AMSTERDAM. SpE-OFFICE: THE HAGUE," HEAD AGENCY: BATAVIA BRANCHES at: Singapore Bourabays Bamarang, Indramajoo, Bandeeng and Weltevreden. CORRESPONDENTS at Cheribon, Tega

Pecalongan, Macassar, Pontianak, Padang, Medan, Penang. Hoogoon, Calcutta Bombay, Madras, Colombo, Karachi, Djedia, Bangkok, Saigon, Shanghai, BANKERS:

[THE WILLIAMS DRAGONS BANK, London: Swiss BANETHRAIN. Paris: COMPTOIR NATIONAL D'ESCOMPTE-DE

FARIO,

Berlin: DEUTSCHE BANK," Brussels: BANQUE DE PAZIO ST DES PAYS BAS. Vienas: UNION BANK.

Home: HANCA COMMERCIALM ITALIANA,

THE BANK buys and sells and receives for collection Bills of Exchange, issues Letters of Cradit payable in all important places of the World and transnots every description of Banking and Exchange burinees.

INTRAEST "ALLOWED.“

On Carrent-Account at the Rate of 2% par anam on the Daily Balances.

On Fixed Despoist: 12 months 4% per acnum

do. 16 do 349 do. do.

3 do. 8% .. C. WOLDRINGH Manager. No. 16, Des Yux Rood Contral Hongkong, 1st April, 1903.

THE

THE BANK OF TAIWAN LIMITED

201

LINCORPORATED AT SPECIAL IXPERIAU

CHARTRE

CAPITAL BUBBURIBED CAPITAL PATD-UT

Amoy Anping

·HEAD OFFTON TAIPER, FORMORA

BEANCHES AND ÅGRECIES: *

.Kobe

Nagmaakl

Hongkong, 4th December, 1907.

Foochow

Osaka

Keeling

Shangha

Trinan Tamerul Tokio Tokohama

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.

Swabow

INOGRPORATED BY BOTAL CHARTER, 1858, -HEAD OFFIUR==LONDON,

PAID UP CAPITAL ...............

£1,200,000 rumu: £1,525,000

RESERVE FUND.***. RESET LIABILITIES OF PROPEIR

TOES.......... £1,200,000

INTEREST allowed on Current Account at the rate of 2 per cent per antium on the Daily balances,

12.

On Fired Deposite for 12 months 4 per cent

for 6 for 9 JOHN ARMSTRONG,

Mannger.

135

£1,500,000

|

The first sight of what remains of the charred corpse and demolished adornment of the once debonair and delec'able city is not neo, sarily shocking, nor even surprising. Once the spent was terrible and full of despair, but now now life and hope have risen from the ruins. To anyone, in particular a native, equipped with suggestive imagination and supplied during and printed descriptions, the city appeared even a such a one might bare mentally pic. tured it. True, the facts of reality but selfom at the Rations of the fancy, and there to always the inevitable readjustment of erroneous sup. position and the correction of misconceptions Then these are formed by the mind instead of the eye and car. Is was omsily evident at the fret comprehensive panoramio survey how vast had been the havoc and Lorter and devasta tion whereof the male yet elegnent reminders, a year old or so, were num nous enough. Yet, upon this realm of destruction, this domsia of doom, wuch of the new life had been imposed, blatant, brilliset, and sensational by contrast with its setting and, its bsokground. That which ono no longer uw one did not, instantly. mise, and it was only when memɔry reson- structed the old scones, and these în turn brought back the old association, that ons grew sadly cominísóent, and mused in the in evitable moralising manner upon the transi toriness of all human endeavour,

* TH |_ BUINS OF THE CIET,

One might easily from some commanding eminence of the oily have smulated Mwins ss he-mourast over the ruins of Carthaga Nearly all the towering masses of brick and stone, blackənəd

by flame, and rent from base to cornice with zigzag fissures and rawsing oracka

manda the

by earthquake, had been razed

|

full of intrinsic charm and pongy than theas romantic ruine in a city that fina with all its rivisitades, not yet resolied the arongs fates of man's yours. Not far that from the church the great hollow shell of million. sire's bromastone palace staude sullenly on its lofty eminenos, the couchant liona of marble still ga rding the massive portals, the empty window openings framing the starts that peer into the roofas interior, at times the railing sos-fogs come with all their mystery, then even the day is fall of the softened msgio of a besutiful transformation. The artists" of the city have found here a sld of the richest and most inspiring zustacial:

A city in a son et land I saw,

Bank by the thro e of earth, the storms of

fire, And o'er it broodad wide with wings of awe

he doom that fell on Sidon and on Tyre. San Francisco -35- expariszoing a period of rozonskenation and taganerstion, not in a material and econotaio sonss alone, but in a moral and political one as well. No city of modern times his presented such various and interesting phasin of developuisat as does the metrapolis of the West. The air is still full of impending change, the times are portentous, the mysterions signs that loom is the heavens of her faturs are fast with great good or great | evil, sud veat indusvost are omtanding for the mestery of thingy. Man sy dut mai sad o81 against matter, the Tabanio struggle goes on,

↑

Whatever the city of the future is to be on the fatura of the city, there is nothing that osa avar rob the Q1-00 City of the Pacific of the glory of his fory martyrdom nor of the tragic yet signal distidotion of her epochsi cataclysm. Tusse sublima terrors have woven for her brow an historic dimbus of awful romanos that shall ever invest ber pana in the memory of mankind. —Dażly Telegraph,...

LORD ROSEBERY ON STATE AID

-:----

GOVERNMENT SPPING THE QUALITY OF SELF-EELIANCE,

The Erlof Raabery was last month installed Canoollor of the Cairersity of Glasgow in sacassio to the late Lord Kelvia,

"long ago.. Signi of patching and repair wore visible upon the fronts of m my of the mighty buildings whose exteriors had in a measure survived the ocean of Bre that engulfet the city. There wire many rigged walls still standing in a waste of fallen brick, mast molaa. aholy and forlorn, indeed, wera they: mers graves and ghosts of once strong and populous odifices. The evanescenes and disintegration of man'a solid conceptivés, their utter belpless ness against the elements of inture bint ou ravio, and the swallowing up of a great |*- sity by flro, atruok one with a di quieting sense of the futility of all things: Here, where thers Was now attor vacuity, bid boon great sirac. tures-offices and counting rooms filled" with computing and soribbling olerka; Bors spielows shops and stores had bassed with business all the day here studies had once existed devoted to artists and their dreams; hers had been restaurants filled with conviviality and boarding Is the venres of his address Ford Risebory. goodly-sweet memories of excellent dianers and referred t the early straggls of Carlyla anl charming tas-tates Yonder formerly arose others, and asked what it was that enabled them. the bulk of a splendid hotel, a tras moroobem to face such struggles. Wait not that Sos tish in each of whose innumerable chain bars for pharao eristio of self-reliance, the heart of msay years what human comedies and tragedies Boottish independance and of Scottish Busesse. had not been enacted! Now not even the That was the stamp he would in sea thể shadows were left, though itsaomad (sach tricks University of Glagow silly va her torching of does Linoy play) e if deceptive micages of the graduates she sent out to be world. piotares of fate morgana hung in the air-the Everything was being done to swamp self- air that is joint possessor with the earth reliance, to make it superf ions and almost all grass polition parties of all the memories of the past or as ridiculous. In it one heard weary whispure out of mosbonical organisation overruled individual quite respotable antiquity

Houses and opinion sad independent thouguf and opizia buildings and coomonos materially asparated were banned and condemned. Polities with and enclosed regions of cubicular space-now, made for pen, not men for politics, by which he so, to

speak

that men should control palition and ast the empty, univerest air, an utter death and annibil- Lonation to eyes of flesh. The bright, atacing

3,750,00

Californian san poured its brilliauce over the oid death and the new birth. The bite of the skies, deep as that of the Italian heavens; sank low into stranga sad nusaustomed horizon lines. The hills, denuded of their crests and orowns of houses, moldly blunt an 1-st. All this invested the wide, blasted region with an air of something alien, and caused the spectstor to experience a feeling of having bes despoiled of substantial riches the fertile, tangible soil in which fond human memories skrike root and ⋅ old fast throngh life.

DEAD ID SILENT STREETS, The streets, to where soms tall Jandmark and survived the nologist, were unrecognisable. Sutter street might well have passed for Tark, or Eddy for Fall. Along Market-siroot, the main artery of the city, thore food s current of trafo, but the side streate wore strangely dead and silent. When wandering through them one was strongly reminded of the accia tasted solitudeof the disintered streets of ancient Pompei. The down-town thoroughfares of San Francisco are padded with earth and dust, sad ào all sounds of traffic are mufled; no rolling. of wheels is heard, no beating of horses' hoofs. The streets in certain snotions possess the quist of country lanes. Grass sprouts along the base

A correspondent states that the Federal- of orambling walls, and weeds are rerapautGovernment is cusiloring the desirability of amidst the debris. Some of the high bills in placing an Etoles daty on opium, as it has been the once-populous district south of Market-straet. found that this Opium Prohibition Pronlamation, have reverted to a state of nature, and the wild issued in Jaincy, 1936, is being evaded, and flowers, long dispossessed, havs come into their that opium in osasid rable gasatities is being own horilazo anos juego. The jangching ager waftssed the Profit states in cable produced locally Atthe time the proclamation cars, with their basting gongs, no pingcar through the stress, but hinderstood thought the fans excaramente carlkbinderc electric

that opiam was not manufastarad silently. to se aleggio, translide unitily, most lines from poppies grown loally, and a few months along. The bask are deap in earth and sand, and hills of brick and later an Act was in faci passed by the Victorian Stone excambor the impassable walks The Parliament providing that before any opiam cavernous, empty plats display rested boilers could be held, even for medicinal purposes, a furnaces, and a tangle of iron pipas. The winds permit must be obsin feon the Gavarnor in whip up ristons, clouds of diet, walch settle upon Council. This Act has been rigorously enforced the raina giving them an aspect truly antique, and nambers of parsons, mostly Cass), hara and dimming much of the showy spiondoar of a fined for having oplam in their the new mushroom edifices; presumptuous in illegally. The other States have not done what the Prime Minister thought they would do, their painted pride.

and while the importation of opiati inte Commonwealth ports is prohibited, except ander speelal ciroumstances, the passession of opian. and the ecltivation of poppies for the purpass of safacturing oplum in varions Blates are not

ooled and liberated into the ip mea. He would have self-relianna

HONGKONG OFFICE:

8, Dia Vaux BOAD. Interest allowed on Current Acoount: Deposits received on terms which may be ha on application.

1. TOHDOW, Manager. » Bangkang, 5th April, 1907, INTERNATIONAL PANKING INTERNATI B

Ꭴ

ORPORATION

P

Syndication

785

Gold $3,250,000; CAPITAL PAID UP

about Mox. $7,222,022 RESERVE FUND

Gold $3,250,000 about Mex. $7,322,222 HEAD OFFICE: 60 Wall Street, New York, LONDON OFFICE: Threadneedle House, H.C Honghong, 14th May, 1908.

LONDON BANKERS;

BANK OF ENGLAND.; THE MERCANTILE BANK OF NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND Caterer & Counské Jove, Duran BEANOME and GaNs all over the Werte The Corporation transacts every description of Banking and Exchange business, rov: Current Account at the Rate of 2% per annum on Daily balance and accepir Fixed Deposits at the following rates ---

For 12 months 44 per cents per annum. For 8 For 3

No. 9, Queen's Road, Central, Hongkong.

·W. M. ANDERSON,

AUTHORISED CAPITAL (3. BUBSCRIBED

PAIDUP

REBREVA FUND

1,125,000 582,000 210,000 BARTHER LONDON JOINT STOCK BANE LIMITED, INTEREST allowed on Current Accounts at the rate of 2 per cent, per annum on the Daily balance,

ON FIXED BEPOSITS: For 12 months

For 6 For 8

*

404

"

4 per sant, 3 per cent 2 per cent. EVAN ORMISTON,

Hongkong, 23rd April, 1908,

money

N

3

- F

Bengkong 8th April, 19087

Manager

The gigantic, untouched ruin of the City Hall, once the largest cislo building in the world, is wonderfully imprese re and pie turesque. That mighly heap of rotten mascary, resolved at the first quivering of the earth into

For your own comfort in Tropical Countries use

CALVERT'S Carbolic Soaps.

Sold by local Chemists and Stores. Made by F„C. Galvin & Co., Manchester, England. -

Guarded- against Infection.

Perfect Personal Cleanliness.

Freedom from Skin Irritation.

GYD GYD GYO GYƏ

SYDGYDGO

SYD GYOGYA

Calvert's 20% Carbolic Sonp. Among the special purposes for which this power- ful antiseptic soap is useful, it has secured a wide popularity as a safeguard against infection, an a protection against mosquitoes and other insects, or for antiseptically cleansing their bites.

· Calvert's Carbolic Toilet Sosp You will appreciate the feeling of thorough purifica- tion ensured by the antiseptic properties of this delicately perfumed soap, while its pure quality meets the requirements-of-even-a sensitive skin.

Calvert's Carbolic Prickly-heat Soap

is most serviceable in warm climates as a preventive of prickly-heat or other skin irritation. Well adapted For regular bath and toilet use by its purity, antiseptic -properties and pleasant perfume.

Which meets your special need? Each suits the_climate.

OVER

NOTICE.

►UBLIC ATTENTION is drawn to the Fast that the present time- many brands PUBLIC

ȘI CONDENSED MILK are being offered for sale bearing, labels so nearly. representing that of the original "EAGLE" brand Milk manufactured solely by BORDEN'S CONDENSED MILK CO., of New York, as are onloniated to desire the purofasers of the real article

As an additional protection, all purchasers of BORDEN'S "EAGLE" BRAND HILK xa requested to note that every tin of same bears the signature of GAIL BORDEN, the -original-manufiotarer, on the Isbal, BORDEN'S "EAGLE” BRAND MILK has the enviable reputation of being the milk par excellence and without a rival in point of view of quality and parity.

Owing to BOUDEN'E special, and exclusive process of manufacturs both theirs *EAULE” and “GOLD SEAL" Brands are specially resorataended for use in tropical alimates, they belog gauranteed to keep batter than any other Condensed Milk offered to

Hongkong, 17th July, 1908.

For BORDEN'S CONDENAND MILK Co.,

CONNELL BROS. COMPANT,

Sole Representatives in Hengkong.

1083

When you ask för

BOVRIL

do not take a cheap imitation. BOVRIL

is all beef and is a standardised strength. giving food...

Always havo BOVRIL Kandy,

By Royal Werrant tas

forbidden and the abuse of opium is almost as

quality for which Beats were famous, but which was being daily mapped. It was by selfreliano that the Scots had thriven in India, Canade, Australia, and New Zukad, and oven Bagland. (Laughter.) They did not ask math from th Btate, bat the Blate invited then every day le lean upon it. Their motto was "lard ap," while this greed of modern civilization was "level down," let the overnment have anger in

olamation, in the opinion of the Comptroller- every pis, probing propping, disturbing. Every great us it was before the i-suing of the pro day the area for initiative was being narrowed; every day the standing ground of relf reliancerer of Chatoms, who recently presented report on the subject to bis Government, wee being andermined every day the public- the net offect of the proclamation has been with the best intentions, no doubt infringed on taken bung the individual. The nation was into custody by the State. Speaking 65 a Sootaman lo Scotsmen, Lord Rosebery pleaded opium. for their bistorical character, for the main- leuance of these sterling national qualities which had meant so much to Scotland in the past. It was self-reliance that built the Em pire, and it was by saif-relianes and all that it implied that it might be welded and coatinaed

THE OPIUM PROBLEM IN AUSTRALIA.

or

His Majesty the King

ON SALE.

A TABLE OF TAE RATES OF EXCHANGE AT HONGKONG

Demand Drafts on London on the day of proceding the departure of the English

Mails: also Table of the Yearly Approximate Averages for 34 Years FROM 1874 TO 1907.

:

THORNE'S

to deprive the department of about 280,00 For revenue per annum, formerly collected on An organized system of *muggling is carried on throughout the Commonwealth, and the Comptroller General is duobifal "it

Price: $3 Cash. On sale at the "DAILY the prohibition has lessened to any extent PRESS" Office, or Local Booksellers. the amount of opium brought into Australia," There are 26,000 Chinese ta the Common- wealth, and it is ustimated that opiam smoking is confined to about 7,000 of this number, who will have cpinm at any cost. At the present time they pay as much as £3 per half pound tin, which is more than ten times. the present market value here. The possibility of obtaining such high sprios for opiam hay encouraged local entfirstars to compate with the smugglers, Aad, unless the other States follow the cours params by Victoria, or unless a heavy Exis duty is imposed, opium will be more plantifal in Australia than it was before 1908,

meat, frisblog a muzi

agradable ̈method vi admin- staring the only -cerfan Kenedy for atom of Thread Wer 11 is perfectly sta and rail, experi aily adacied los Sold in Bottlen Druggista..

Children

KEATING'S

WORM

TABLETS.

Proprietor, THOMAR KEATIMES, LÁDANI

QUASE

OLD VAT

SWAS STARTED BY THE LATE RÓBERT, THORNE -

OF CHLENUGMAND MAS' BEEN SOLD AS NTS SINCE (193)

SCOTCH WHISKY.

SOLE AGENTS IN

781

HONG KONE, CHINA & MANILLA. A. S WATSON & CO.LTD.

As Hagali

ito the House of Commons.