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INTERPORT CRICKET, HONGKONG P. SHANGHAI. KANDSOME VICTORY FOR HONGKONG,

Faced with the record score of 455 for nine wickets, Shanghai started the second day's play. with prospects far from encouraging, and the re-opening found them very uncomfortable against the bowling of Bird and Cliver. Barrett was the first to make a fair stand, and Wilson alogged to advantage, but the man to make the mest rung was Anderson, who carried out his bat for 46. Hongkong's felding was excep tionally good, and Baird proved himself very smart-in the slips, making no fewer than three catches and following up his delivery with a catch against Main. The home team was well served by their bowlers, Baird getting three wickets for 31 runs and Bird four for 57, while Oliver hail the botter average of two for 18 runs. Shanghai were all out at 12.35 for 153, which was 302 behind Hongkong's total. They were sent to the wiokot right away, bat again made an nu- suspicious start, and ware all out, after an hour and a quarter's play, for 78 runS.

Hawkins and Lambe resumed their partner. ship and faced the bowling of Oliver and Bird. Bird's first over was a maiden and the second over was only productive of three runs, when Hawkins was caught in the slipa by Baird after The register then baving made oven rans. showed 17 runs for two wickets. A. E. Lanning joined Lambe and got a three right away. He ent a fine four, which Baird just missed, and after sending Bird- to the pavilion he was smartly caught in the slips by Baird sa he essayed another cut. His total was 12, and the register showed 30 for thres, wiokots, Captain Barrett took the willow, but his associn- tion with Lambe was broken when Green, the

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24TH, 1909.

74-99. Main was the last man to go to the wicket, but the watch was brought to a finish when Anderson tried à ran which was hopeless and he was run ont. Hongkong won by an innings and 224 runs.

BUANGHAL

(First Innings.) W. J. Hawkins, a Baird, Bird C. Y. Shackleton, Baird

P. Lambe, Green, Ollyerere A. E. Lanning, o Baird, b Birds........

Captain Barrett, o Feares, b Baird

E. N. Andora, not out

N. L. Bparke, b Bird.ALI KINDLE W. E. Wilson, et Green,b Garasit .............. D. Brand, Baird, b Bird

D. E. Donnelly, o darnett, & Bird

T. Main, o Red b Bairde equa

Extras

Bowling Analysis.

Total

B. K.

缸

28

18

·Baird i

11 $ Gamott.......LETINATI Bird.com 18 10 Olivera raam

(Socand Innings.)

W. J. Hawickar, b Oliver...

C. F. Shackleton, a Edwards, b Bird ... N. L. Sparke, b Oilver

Captain Barrett, b Olivär

A. E. Lanning, & Turner, b Bird

R. N Anderson, run out

P. Lambe, st. Green, b Bird

W. E. Wilson, b Bird

D. Brand, bw, b Bird

Sup

D. E. Donnelly, c Edwards, ↳ Bird.. T. Main, not out..

Baird

Bird

Extras

Total

Bowling Analysin.

M.

0 14 & 25

·19 2

158

พ.

SHIPPING NOTES.

It is reported from Port Arthur that as several sunken stemmern at the entranos of the port have been cleared, vessels of any description can now freely pase through the entrance even at night.

A new service is to be started by the Russian Volunteer Fleet between China and Vindivcrtook. Three new steamers have been built for this service, and these will be passing through Colombo this month from Odessa, Two of the vessels have been named the Poltowa" and "Oriel." Their tonnage is 3,200 tons, and thoir speed 16 knots an hour. They have been specially constructed for cargo escrying.

The Japan-China Steamship Company will hold its regular general meeting of shareholders in Tokyo on the 27th instant, when the following accounts for the six months ending September 30th will be presented-

Ten 267,396 Not Front Brought forward from last account 1,549 268,945 Total

13,370 To Reserve Dividend (five per cent, per snuum) 202,500 10,000 Bonus to Oficials ...

43,075 Carried to next Account

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Shipping men who call at Singapore will be interested to learn that Mr. W. G. Pfeiffer, of the Ships Agoney, who has been at Singapore for the last six years, is to be transferred to Sonrabaya Mr. Pfeniffer has made himself very popular both in the office and outside, and has been the recipient of some handsome mementos from the Chinese and European staffs of the Company here.

HAMBURG LETTER. [WRITTEN OFROJĄJAY WOD THE "MONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]

October 28th.

THE COTTON TRADE.

The advance of the Bank rate in London, to

Aamming the total con. romption to amount

to

*

There would remain in

11,850 11,950 11,174 ROBINSON PIANO

stock at the end of

August, 1910, .

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1,450

-agat...

1,560 & 1,913

CO.. LTD.

SPECIALISTS IN

th

Herr Licht in his direnler confines himself

4 per cent, last week has not been followed by a strictly to statistics without expressing kn corresponding movement in Berlin, as was opinion as to the future course of prices,

vit. :-

Horr O. Licht, 6,083,000 tons; the "Zen- tralblatt," 6,300,000 ions; and the "Statistical Union," 5,500,000 toas-against 6,700,000 last year.

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The markets, therefore, close strong and there seems to be no sigun of a near regation:"

ADVENTURES ON THE CHINESE-

PIANOS

BY THE

LEADING MAKERS.

JUST UNPACKED :

BRINSMEAD

WERNER

feared, and has had little effect on the stook that the general bullet contin to be, as aired HIGH CLASS markets and on trade, in general, although it stated, that they will continue to rise and that looked at first as if it were going to chook the the position of the article is sufficiently strong "ward cores of cotton and bring about the to induce the large speculators to hold on to long prodicted remotion. Money in the States, their stocks, thus to keep control of the market. homeser, remained easy, and the powerful These views have gained farther strength by ball" olique, dmwing sew recruits from Wall the estimates of the best crops in Europe Street mad Chicago and aided by an active published by other authorities in the trade, demand in the Boath for notual cotton to fill which are below the figures of Herr F. O. Licht contracts for. October shipments, returned to the charge and have since noceeded in driving up the price of Middling in New York to nearly 15 cents and in Liverpool to 7.601. The endeavours of the committee of the Interns. tional Federation of Master Cotton Spinners to counteract the manœuvres of the American operators by a more general and extensive adoption of short-time do not seem to be quite. 59 anccessful. At present 334% of the members of the British Master Spinners' Association using American cotton and two million spindles outside the Association ars not working on Saturdays and Mondays; in Germany moet of the mills are running ten hours instead of eleven daily in France and Belgium they are believed to stop one day in every week; in Italy two million spindles have been standing idle for the last five months; in Spain a reduction of 20 The explorors included Mr. C. H. Mears, per cent. in the working hours is to be main-Mr. J. A. Brooke, and Mr. W. M. Fergusson. Unfortunately, the expedition ended in disos- tained up to the end of the year, and in ter, for after the explorers had separated Mr. Portugal it is proposed to reduce production, Brooke was murdered by a tribe of savages.

Mr. Mears has now returned to England and has given a thrilling account of his adventures which has already been curtailed still further in Austria-Hungary goheme is now un-

The main object of the first part of our to. their expedition, he said, was to visit the unknown had been toushod on the outskirts by one missionary, but which to one until our visit had succeeded in entering. It is inhabited by eighteen semi-independent tribes.

-TIBETAN BORDER.

REMARKABLE DISCOVERIES BY EXPLOBEES,

Immense cave dwellings of a prehistorio race, a colossal elephant of bronze, a valley which in Garden of Eden, cannibal tribes, poppies with flowers eight inches in diameter, and a huge castle governed by a among the romantic discoveries which have been made by a British expedition to the hitherto unknown borderland between Chinn and Tibet."

woman chief are

RACHALS

KRAUSS.

INSPECTION INVITED.

The collapse of the Shanghai teara being quite unexpected, the greater part of the afternoon was & blank. An exbibition game of tennis might have taken place between the Hongkong and Singapore champions, but they had gone to Kowloon to practise and it was nearly five o'clock before the games were commenced. A few remained after the conclusion of the cricket Lambo's bat. The Intaman retired with 10 to Lyon and the officers of the Fleet and Dockyard. his credit, and the register showed 38 for four At night there was an enjoyable supper and bat it was in that year that it was formall number of spindles for the next three years and region near the Chinese-Tibotaa border, which weakly receipt of £443,446, which compared wickets. Anderson entered the partnership, and dance at the Hongkong Club. There was a secured a boundary in the second over, Barrett good attendance of ladies and gentlemon and sending Olivar to the pavilion for another the Buffs Band played excellent dance music.

To-day the match between Hongkong and quartette. Half an hour's play showed the was boing average of 100, runs per hour

wicket-keeper, caught the ball as it glanced off to attend the" At Homa" given by Commodore charter next year. The foundations of this der discussion providing that spinners abatto one of Renter's representativos

the Straits will be commenced at li o'elook.

The Hongkong team will be the same as against Shanghai, with the exception of Lient Anderson, whose place will be taken by the Rev.

SUPREME COURT.

Tuesday, 23rd November.

IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.

BEFORE HIS Hosoun Mx. H. H. J.

GoXPERTZ (PUISNE JUDGE).

maintained, the siguroi en the bourd being 50. When 60 was called Barrett was nearly ran out and parted with his bat on reaching home. In the next over Anderson made six off Bird-W. H. Maundrell. four and a two, but several likely hits failed to get runs through the claver fielding at mid-off and long field. After forty-five minutes' play Baird relieved Oliver of the bowling, and hit fifth ball was lifted by Barrett, and was well held by Pearce. Barrett's zoore was 22, and the rự gister showed 79 for dve. Sparke then came out and was clean bowled by Bird in his second de- livery, the score now being 79 for six wickets. Wilson was the eighth man to go to the wicket. and his second bit sent Bird to the boundary. He proved himself a slogger and knocked out Beveral boundaries, which brought the score up to 100 at 12.5. Anderson also got several boundaries off Baird, and the score quickly reso, Garnott displaced Bird, and his slower deliverles gave the field more to do. Wilson secured the first sizer of the day, sending the leather the Commodore's into the verandah of

ARMED ROBBERY AT LANTAŬ,

Three men charged with armed robbery at Lantao Island ou 20th Bopteraber last wero put on trial, Mr. C. G. Alabaster, instructed by Mr. Dennys, conducting the case for the Crown. Prisoners, who were undefended, pleaded not guilty.

The P. & O. Company will celebrate the werentieth anniversary of the granting of its great line were laid considerably before 1340, incorporated. The Cutard Line was also established in 1840, and will complete seventy year of Atlantic serviss on July 4 of next year. It is reported from Odesss that British steam ship owners have inaugurated a boycott of the a protest against the port of Nikolaiev ss special port duty on exported cora, Enormous quantities of corn wore awaiting shipment when the last mail left, and in the present bad weather are threatened with rain. The guneral expectation is that they will be shipped

in Garman bottoms.

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in respect of which she is lusured will be paid Drer. If the vessel subsequently turns up ske will, of course, be the property of the under- writers.

pledge themselves not to sid

a

We were, so successful that we started on second journey into the almost unknown land of the Lolos, our ultimate object being to get to Rima, a mysterious placo which has long been the desired but unattained goal of explorers, and Rima is known to be approachable only through a dangerous and which is of musla interest to the Indian Govern

cannibal region. most for political reasons,

The

to regulate their production by the decision of general meeting to be held every six months. fills in Japen have agreed to reduce their hours of work by 17.3 per cent, until the end of March. In the United States seven large his in the neighbourhood of Spartansbury have stopped running altogether in accordance with recommendation of the American Textile Association that all mills in North and South Carolina should shut down for a fortnight to. month, but the question is whether this will be strictly adhered to in the face of an improving demand for yarns, besides "bulls" maintain that a continuance of short-time on these liner will not materially affect the

At the capital of the Ranga tribe we found a position of the article, as with a more limited

erag and governed by a woman chief The lady production last year the consumption reached 13 huge castle perched on an almost ineccessible million bales. Mrs. Neill Bros estimate of refused to sea as or to let us in, but we were the crop pointing to less than 11 million bales provided with a house ontside, and remained for While there we paid a visit to a grant men gave the markets fresh start, but on the wholesome time giving medical aid to the people.

the children. This had the reverse of the desired is a sertain feeling of lassitude observablo, as if astery, and Estributed a number of mirrors to effect, for the people declared we were trying to we had gone far enough for the present. -

blind them.

to affect

BEET SUGAR.

people were intensely suspicious, Rumours had reached them of some mysterious expedition into the other side of Tibet, and although they offered us no bodily harm, they refused as provisions.

WOMAN CHIEF:

This was increased when they discovered that we were coolly smoking cigarettes and taking photographs of the dread ceremonial. But wa thought it as well to move on.

The month of September, 1909, is not likely to be forgotton at Lloyd's, a Madras paper points out. It was the worst month that under writers have had for many a long year, and it may go down to history as the black month." Four first-class ships, all heavily insured, have been lost, the Umhlali, the Maori, the Waratah, and the Lacania. It is curious to note that the first three of these were lost in South African

They argal na to leave, and as we declined, waters and the Zucanía in dook. With regard In the sugar market a similar state of ex- The following jury were empanelled; Messra to the Waratah, the obligation of the under vitement promils, owing to the same case, the they held a great ceremony, the object of which Hooper, A. Handerson. A. de Silva, A. V. writers to pay over the amount insured upon fear of su insufficient supply of beet during the was to solemnly curse na. This was an impres- her will be postponed for a while. In accord. coming season. The upward movement began sive function, at which many musicians were wet present, and was largely choral. Of the exact Silva, Carvalho, and J. J. Judah.

nature of the curse we were ignorant, but that Mr. Alabaster said that on the 26th Septem-sues with long practice she will not be posted in the summer, when the cold and

the yield of the crops in to occasion ear friends much surprise. offos, and with the next ball but one heber, about 8 p.m., three men, whom he would as "missing" for six months, when the amount weather experienced all over Europe threatened nothing happened to us at the conclusion seemed made a four. Anderson treated Baird almost as prove were the prisoners, were seen to approach

the different best producing countries. Prises effectively. A smart bit of work came from Cheungahawan on Lantao Island. They were Green, who stumped Wilson before he could observed by an old farmer, who, suspecting that

have since advanced something like 10 per cent and a further rise is confidently predicted by a recover from one of Garnett's throws. Wilson's they had evil designs fetohed a musket and

majority of these engaged in the trade, but it score was 29, and the telegraph read-139 for went down to the seashore. Before they landed

would appear as if the apprehensions entertained seven wickets. Brand, who took the place of he asked them what they wanted, and they said Pratt, who was sick, was the ninth wish to they were coming to search for opium. On

by them were exaggerated if the estimate of the take up the bat. Bird took charge of the receiring that statement he did not fire at them,

various crops published last week by Herr F. O. bowling again, and hid the satisfaction of but when they landed they knocked him

Licht, the well-known statisticlan, should prove correct, particularly as he admits, in a later the ground, threatened hig Boeing Baird catch Braud in the slips after that senseless to

circular, that the unusually warm weather during and son, and looted the house batsman had made fire, the telegraph reading wife

the last six weeks bas materially improved the 153 for eight. Donnelly had an unfortunate taking away money, jewellery and clothing to

condition of the roots still in the fields. He experience. He lifted his first ball from Bird the value of over $800. The first prisoner was

Anderson and Co., are the managers of the gives it as his opinion that Germany will and was caught by Garnett. Main was the last arrested shortly afterwards trying to pawn some

Orient Steam Navigation Company, Linate produce 2,150,000 tons, Austria-Hungary man to go to the wicket, but he had a of the stolen articles, and the third man was short innings, being caught and bowled by identified by the son as one of the robbers,

After hearing the evidence the jury found The charities connected with the marcantile 1,275,000, Franse 810,000, Belgium 25,000 Baird in the third ball of the over.

the first and second prisoners guilty, and the marine have always had an ardent supporter in Holland 220,0 0, Russia 1,150,000, and other Mr. Deritt. He is the chairman of the Royal countries together 475,000, making a total of third prisoner not guilty.

His Lordship discharged the third man and

and a trustee of the Royal Alfred Aged Merchant "sugar available for export from the different sentenced the first and second prisoners each to Merchant Seamen's Orphanage, Snaresbrook, 6,517,000 last year, putting the quantity of cane cane growing countries at 5,40,000 tons against ten years' imprisonment with lard labour.

Beazen's Institution, Belvedere, Kent. In as- sociation with Lord Brassey, Mesers, Devitt and 5,080,000 last season. This shows a surplus in Moore started the well-known Brassey" scheme the prospective supplies of about 140,000 tons. for the training of officers for the merchant, He, on the other hand, states the stocks of service and for the Indian marine, which has sugar at the end of the season to have been achieved great success. The firm's fourmasted below those at the same date in the two previous" barque Port Jackson is still employed in carry-years, viz.:-- ing out this scheme.

The second innings was commenced by Haw- Kins and Shackleton. The former opened well

and sent Baird to the boundary three times, but

Ho skied

Shackleton was again unfortunate. one of Bird's deliveries and was caught by Edwards at square leg before he could break his dock. His place was taken by Sparke, who without scoring a run, was clean bowled by Oliver. This was on the stroke of one, when the score stood 13 runs for two wickets.

At tifin H.E. the Governor was present, and the teams were photographed afterwards entsido the pavilion. Barrett followed Sparks at the wicket, and scored a few runs off Bird, while However, Hawkins hit out well from Oliver. he succumbed to cre of Oliver's swift shots and went out clean bowled with 27 to his credit. The register showed 36 for three wickets. Lau- ning filled the breach and hatted carefully. He took two fours in encoession off Oliver. Oliver

in a few minutes bowled Barrett with exactly the same sort of delivery that beat Hawkins. Barrett's score was eight and the register showed 49 runs for four wickets. Anderson went in, but his partnership with Lanning was dissolved when the latter was caught by Turner, his score being 15 The telegraph then read 55 for five wickets. Lambo's tenure at the wicket wm short, and ho was stumped by Green, whose wicket-keeping was remarkably clever. The register now stood 59-60 Wilson, who was the eighth man to go in with the bat, had also a short innings,. being unable to stop a ball from Bird played right on this stumps. The telegraph read 63-7-3 Brand was no sooner in than he was out, being found leg before wicket. Donnelly was next in the procession and distinguished his advent by sending the ball into Queen's Boad for six. He lifted the next delivery high, but Anderson failed to hold. However, Edwards made amends when Donnelly dealt with the next ball in the same way and made' a beautiful catch in long field. The figārés” read

CHINESE IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS.

Appointments on retura from Loane — Indoor.

Commissioner, H. F. Merrill, Shanghai. Dep. Commissioner, P. C. Hansson, Canton. Dep. Commissioner, K. J. Andes, Foochow Assistant, K. T. F. F. Tochterrmann,

Shanghai.

Transfers. Indoor

Commissioner, J. C. Johnston, Wuhu, to

Johang, Act. Commissioner, F. J. Mayers, Ichaug,

to Wuhu.

Dop. Commissioner, T. E. Cooker, Foochow,

to Hangshow (Kashing).

Act. Dep. Commissioner, C. A. MeAllum,

Canton, to Shanghai (for orders).

Assistant, P. P. M. Kremer, Shanghai, to

Kiungohoy. Outdoor

eat. Examiner, J. A. Dick, Chinking

Harbin Tidewaiter, C. E. Whiting, Soochow, Chefoo. Tidewaiter, W. E. Talbot, Shanghai, Shang

hai, for orders.

Lease. Indoor

Commissioner; H. E. Hobson, granted leave. Commissioner, W. T. Loay, Hangehow, from

141 10. Commissioner, E. Loriler, Shanghai, Commissioner, N. A. Konovalof, Harbis,

from 1.2.1910.

from 1.10.1909.

from 1.4.1910.

Act. Commissioner, H. Dawson-Grone, Kiria, Chief Aset, B. do Nally, Nanking, from

14,1910.

Aot. Dep. Commissioner, C. Thorns, Tatung

from 1.4.1910, Assistant, A. Scagliotti, Shanghai, from

1.4.1910.

Assistant, J. Klubien, Hangchow, from

1.4.1910.

Resignations. Assistant & M. O., W. Kirk.

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In succession to the late Mr. James Dixon, Mr. Thomas L. Devitt has been appointed chair man of Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping. Mr. Devitt is one of the best-known men in the shipping community. Be is the senior partner in the firm of Messrs. Devitt and Moore, and also a partner in the firm of Messrs. F. Green and Co., who, with Messrs. Anderson,

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A Seattle paper states that as the result of a conference between members of the Merchant Marine League and Beekman Winthrop, Secret- ary of the Navy, for the protection of the ship-. ping of the Pacific coast, a clause will be insertoð

In Europe

J909. 1908. 1907: 381,000 407,500 558,000 In the United States 128.0 0 234,000 218,000 In Cuba ...

7,000 22,00 43,000 127,000 199,000 172,000 Afloat

643,000 $62,500 991,000

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We next made our way south-west over a very high pass, where our people were all down with mountain sickness, and where we discovered some wonderful poppies with flowers eight inches in diameter, which we sont home to Kew. At we were received with cordiality, and festivities Damba, the centre of another unknown tribo, were stranged in our honour, but these were brought to a sudden termination owing to a raid by a neighbouring tribe.

Boon afterwards we arrived at the Kermer

(36 INCOME FROM DEATH DUTIES. The total receipts into the British Exchequer from the duties from April 1st to September 30th last were £11,528,000, with an average with £8,650,000 for the first half of 1908 and. with £9,500,000 for the first half of 1907.

It is not likely that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will during this year receive duty upon another estato so large as that of the late Mr. Charles Morrison, of Basildon House,

mada valued at £6,665,666, in respect of which

payment of £1,000,000 was account of estate duty within ten days, in order to avoid the payment of interest to the Exchequer or the duty. the shortest time possible after his death

The very rich estates of the past half-year include, in addition to that of Mr. Charles Morrison, thoss of Sir Frederick Wills, first Bart., aged seventy, tobacco manufacturer £2,918,114; Sir Donald Currie, G.C.M.G., eighty three, of the Union Castle steamship £2,377,052: Julias Cesar Czarnikow, Co., seventy-two, sugar broker, £701,117; Mrs. widow of Dr. Patrick Fraser, of the Prudential Martha Maria Fraser MoEwan, seventy-five, Assurance Co., £774,597: Frederick Gorringe, Cory Francis Cory-Wright, firat Bart., sixty. seventy-seven, retired silk mercer, £617,627; Str nine, ooal merchant, £537,933; William Peoch, £533,699; Ellis Abraham Franklin, eighty six, seventy-eight, formerly a tart commission agent, banker, a Jowish philanthropist, foreign £508,959.

Mr. Charles Morrison had attained the

age of ninety-one years, and the average of the age at death of the nine persons above mentioned whoas estates were valued at more than half a million each was nearly seventy-eight years.

It is to be regretted that important changes after the careful and in the death duties should have been found 1907 of the thorough revision made in

From the nature of their scale of 1884. duties should be seldom altered, and only incidence it is particularly desirable that death after notice, for the term of which ons year is short enough. The death duties are in most cures a charge on the residnary estate, of which they may absorb, in some instances, only a small part, but in others so large a proportion that

the residuary would leave little, if anything, for comparatively mall increase in the rate of duty legates or legator.

Comparative figures for ten years (the financial year ending on March 31) of the number of estates, the duties received thereon,

follows:--

Year.

посебвагу 80 Boon

coracles, a type of craft we had never before Eiver, which we crossed by means of leather and the ospital assessed in each year are me

Capital Received. Arvossed. seen in Chine.

£18,409,000

The valley of the Kormer was followed through a country of surpassing loveliness, 1899-1900 abounding in parrots and butterflies of every 1900-1901

colour.

1901-1902 1962-1903 MASSAGE AS A GUARANTEE. Part of the expedition struck westward into 1903-1904 a land of nomad robbers. At Tuko Mr. W. M. 1904-1905 Forgasson, who was with Mr. Brooke, sport 1905-1906 three days in massaging the chief, and the latter 1906-1907 was so pleased at the success of the treatment 1907-1968 that he gave the travellers passport through his 1909.1909 country.

In August the two sections of the expedition met at Mungan, the principal Chinese outpost. After this we returned to Chesta and set ont on our second trip among the unknown Lolos, an expedition that had be disastrous a termina. tion.

We first visited the sacred mountain of Omei

Duties

£292,814,000

16,721,000 264,514,000

18,513,000 17,913,000

288,86,000

270,473,000

17,326,000

264,118,000

17,258,000 17,344,000

265,103,000

272,172,000

18,958,000

298 460.000

282,294,000

19,108,000

18,31,000.

270,903,000

£179,860,000 £2,769,711,000

TRICKS UPON TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN.

THE SUBSTITUTION DODGE—A COMPLAINT,

We have received an almost undecipherable

Shan, a celebrated pilgrimage place for Buddhists letter from England, says the Japan Gazette, from all parts of China and Tibet: Half-way written by an engineer of a steamer that was at up we saw a colossal bronze elephant which was Shimonoseki last June, and indignantly exposing

The total supply for the present season should supposed to have been brought all the way from the dishonest dealings of some porcelain-sellers ··

in the charters for ocal oergoes to the Pacific thus be approximately the same as that of between the, government and foreign vessels the last. which willprohibit them hereafter from gobbling

this

remarks:-Arrived

op

The quantity of best sogar that has passed the commerce of the Pacific. They will be paid into consumption during the months of Sep. for the entire haul, and, under the form of tomber he gives as follows:- contract, they must return to the original pert empty. on this coast and having discharged their ergoes, these British tramps have looke around for freights to take them, ont and have broken into the lumber carrying trade to China. Australia and the west coast. This han deprived American vessels of charters, and the real has

IPS

1909 1908 · 1907. 95,237 102,805 100,390 Germany The journal in commenting

Austria-Hungary 46,471 47,248 45,622 decision

France

48,422 57,461 53,885 9,371 9,098 9,030 7,486

6.743 7,747 123,362 163,652 151,741 210,880 169,554. 163,680

Holland Belgium Great Britain United States

541,229 657,565. 529091

India,

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of

there. Our wurrespondent bought two-tea zote one for Y.53 (fluted Satsuma and 18 figures); On his arrival, he found the dealers had sub- the other Y45-to be eased and sent home. stituted common sets (for the Y53 set he got a

Near here we thoroughly examined a number remarkable care dwellings, and found many animals. None of these caves, of which there interesting objecte, including figures of men and were an immense number, and been studied before, & gure set worth perhaps Y.18 and for the probably owing to the saperstitious fear with

YA5 pet he got one worth perhap Y.15 to which they are regarded. Even the guides who 18, although he has full receipts for his. were with as would not venturo meny.

original purchases. He asks whether ha can We could find no traces of human remains, obtain redress in the Japaness Courts, expres but the figures we discovered showed evidence

of a very ligh and ancient civilisation. No one sing a willingness to spond several hundred dollars if there is a chance of punishing the of whom we inquired know anything about the original dwellers, but we formed the conclusions. We cannot decipher the signature or address, but the complaint is evidently bond that the places had probably not been inhabiter

fide, and there is no doubt that if the com for a thousand years,

plainant were on the spot with his evidence the Japanese Courts would readily co-operate in

There were fireplaces in all these caves, and there was clear indication that they were in

living at the shed Nin

In the tourists would do well to mark this particular form of fraud on the part of unscrupulous Japanese deelers. The moral is that it is unsafe to buy from, or trust to, unknown dealers, and that it is cheaper, in the long run, and more satisfactory, to obtain goods from mpatable firms which could not resort to such tricks upon travellera.

been to start an agitation against the dumping with the year before, and an increase of 23 per

indicating a decreas of 29 par sent, compared tended to be habitations of the dead and the obtaining redrese says our contemporaryTM:

of British steamers, eager for freight, on the cent, compared with the month of Sept., 1907. Bound. The agitation started among Ban The prospective supply of best and cane sugar Francisco shipping mon, and the United States together compared with the two previous seasons bas evidently come to the conclusion that it will, Herr Licht estimates as follows in thousand of to better to pay those British vessels to return tons:— to their original loading port light. It certainly means that the owners of the vessels will put a stiff price on their charters which Uncle Sam will have to pay to compensate them for the lose of lumber and grain cargoes which they might otherwise have picked up..

When we reached Ningysafn, the chief town, Brooke and I separated. He went off on a short side trip to secure some Lolo photo graphs, while I remained to do some necessary work.

As he did not come back I became anxious, for disquieting rumours came in regarding him. 1909/10 1908/9 1907/8 After long inquiries I ascertained the details of

We (H.D.P.) may add that such frauds on 1,913 1,991 how he had been murdered by the Lolos, and sailors appear to be not uncommon. We have Stocks held Sept. 1st... 1,560

6517 6,562 eventually I succeeded in recovering his body heard of similar esses quite recently. In one. Yield of Europana beat 6,340

5,080 4,535 and some of his effects. Exports of cane sugar 5,400

This brought our long journey to a sudden case stones were packed instead of a tes-sat. There are men on HM. warships which retently 133,000 13,510 13,088 ending, and I left as soon as possible after I visited Japan who can unfold a few tales of

had seen my friend buried at Cheata.

this description.