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PARIS LETTER. WEITTEN SPECIALLY FOR THE "HONGKONG NAILY PRESH."]

July 29th

REGULATIONS FOR SUBMARINES.,

and the commanders of submarine stations. This circular strictly prohibits plunging in the Channels leading into a port, and also forbids

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, AUGUST 26TH, 1910.

there

THE NEW SPIRIT IN CHINA.

SIR ROBERT BREDON'S VIEWS.

JADEITE IN BURMA.

THE TRADE WITH CANTON.

through the country there is a new learen which in the long ran will inevitably make for Independent growth. Already it is showing itsal in now educational methods, In the do volopment of a new military organisation, in the desire to control railway construction, oven In the review of mineral production of India Sir Robert Brodon, who, from the date of Sir if the money be obtained from foreign sources, in 1904-08, the following appears as to Jadeito:

The

special note to the effoot that the person in ques, its cost, which in asserted to be 2s. 61. a }b., tion may have nood of the said weapon forself but the wild rubber industry has done very well to-day, and in considering the matter it is at: defence, Private individuals would be forbidden with rubber at a far less price than it stands at toexchange, sell, or even give revolver to anyone least possible that costs may go up in the Middle else. If it is desires to make a gift of a revolver. East Already some plantation managers there the bueficiary could only accept it after ob.ro disturbed at the labour position, as was Robert Hert's leaving in 1908 until the middlemond for now political institations, in | Tho mineral jadeito, like the true jade (nephrite). ostal difficulty in oblaising fall labour of April last, acted as Inspector-General of the the attempted suppression of the opium trade, with which it is often confused, is especially taking the certifiente from the police commis pointed out in this column last week, and when

Chinese Maritimo Custome, is now in Eneland, and thousand other ways.. Power prized by the Chinese, an aportant of There is no evil without a good-so the old ry. Second-hand weapons could be sold only equipment the tendency of wagon le certainly and recently had & conversation with a repres

in the future possess the most in-

mineral forms quite an important industry sentative of the London Morning Post on | Quance saying goes. 1 he recent Pluvioso dinantur is the tos gunsmith. In no case could minors purobass net stationary.

Peking will be not the Power which

of the mineral raised Burma. It will indeed to somewhat surprising if in

in Upper the subject of Chinose affairs. Although Sir adapts methods of "bluff" and "

"bat the obvious reason for a long eironlar addromed by aru. The carrying of a weapon by a person the natural course of events as at present ne Robert Bredon has retired from the position on Power whigh know how to conciliats passes by the overland route into Yunnan, but

and there

Is not a pretty substantial rise

most of it finds its way down to Rangoon, the Minister of Marine to the maritime profects without the right to do so would be severelys in the Middle East, while considerable in 1906, to which ho was appointed by the most striking foature of tho Chinese tem- ments and China.

the Chineso Board of Customs Control, eranted

which is the the respect the spirit of compromise,

whence it is exported to the Straits Bettie- panished, especially in the case of a second in prices

The average apnual offence. The same provisions would apply outhy is inevitableupon housing nocommodation

Chinese Government on his removal from the perament. The great coup rasantly made in to knives, daggers, kanokiodastors, and all other has been to a great degree overlooked in ble Customs, he will nevertheless return to Poking German Representative has been due in very figure of 3,470 awts for the period of the export during the perind nuder review was and the provision of sanitation, eto, all of which

Acting

Inspector Generalship of the Maritime the lean for the Hush Han Railway by the

Railway by the 3,911 wts, as compared with an average on steamers or other moreantila dangerous weapons. This measure may seem past. An notive healthy coolia is a valuable to, tako up a new post in the service of the large measure to the queuing, and previous review. The prices paid for roug

a rubber plantation, while rather far-reaching, but it is only by the adop asset nowadays op

the wheel, but it is! Chinees Government,

polite but none the less knowledgeable and stons vary too much to permit of an average tion of really stringent regulations much thesekly one as song "pon the whee the men

business like methods by which the work ha going to cost money to

"PROVINCIAAL "INNERELIES AND "FINANCE. that the oured hooligans will be get rid of properly, and, moreover, the coolies are not se

declared it is mean that the vales se determiped The larger portion

Sir Robert Bredon's been charsotorised. In regard to the English gas boing girl but from the export value blind to their owu interests as not to know when

prospecta, Sir Robert Bredon considered that No hall-measures to be taken.

has averaged £1769 per out. during the fire the demand for their services is greater than conversation with the representative of the the Anglo-Japanese Treaty must have tended

ded years under review, showing a

a considerable the supply,

Morning Post was devoted to a consideration to of the new Provincial Assemblies started last to inflence the Chinese view of English dipineroso na compared with the average value for

lomacy. The year and

influence in Treaty certainly crust have same į the previous six years, namely, £11.98. por euth the to

of the Constitution, influen It is pretty certain that will rubber is not the completed development of which an Edict of what British action will be when the interests parts of the world, beth nephrits and

Amongst prehistorio relice found in various jadeite pinnace or a torpedo boat hearing a distinctive | mcinont of the collision, short circuits broke out doomed yet, if its doom depends upon its cost the bert Bredon remarked in war 1944 of China and Japan in the Far East conflict and implements and ornaments are widely dis

of collection, although this may be, and no doubt sie reign lua promised for tho

Great Britain feel called upon to interveno,tributed, and an admiration for the beauty sign, on seeing which all rossels must keep at a all over the vessel, expecially in the control { is, in excess of that of plantation-grown material Assemblies-a feature which, it may be noticed. As regards Manchuria, the apinion of local of the stone, descended frous a bolief in

remarked

Day Englishmen in China

seems to be that their its magical properties, maintains the value cortaia distance, and not pass in front of the post, where all the cables were found fased, It seems to be the popular notion that all the has been

Gororament accepts the closure of Manchuria the minom in the ayee of the Chinese, who m Peru, bat this a mistako, for Africa yields a

"attacks

"vésrels, as well as against warships met by okanco. These attacks are only to be made. Bay the new submarine rules, in the course of opora tions ordered by the commanding officer, and ouly against French warships indicated by the offfeer. When a submarine affects plunging op erations in the neighbourhood of a port or in the rondstend it must be accompanied by a steam

THE "PLUVIOBE". PIBASTEN, An important discovery hoa benn made with regard to the fate of the crew of the submarino Pluvices. Investigation has proved that, at the

WILD BUREEE,

7

Sir

deport

1917.

the Chineso estimato of

the

almat avery observer

been almost up

Bir Robert Bredon did

Edict

yu-esk.

convoy. Submarines that are out for plunging the woodwork of the switchboard charred, wild rubber comes from the Amazon Valley and that their thug sing to British, enterpriso 18 a neceBary nci. the chiot buyers, and to whom the different

a

and admirably oligarchie in by constituirheyron of and

boon

The

softer, serpentinous mineral

Instractions are also given that the periscope contral post, as well as tho oficer in charge oftions, and that there is no tapping of immature job it so much needs, or to further rather doubted whether the new proposal world as a poor rarioty of jude. Two distinct minerals

case of forte majeure-until the officer in com.

maintained during the necessary period of time, These instructions are to be posted upon aly ambmarines, whether le commission or on trial.

DEATH OF A FAMOUS GINGER.

By the regrettable death at the age of 81 in this city of Mme. Delphine Ugalde, Paris has lost a formons singer. She was already ́s widow when she appeared at the Opéra Comique in the "Domine Noir" in 1848. By her impersonation of "Galatoa" 1864 nho took rank as one of the most brilliant

in

"If the fire OT

twa rents, the invasion of the water was

It

rapid for it to have bown possible to carry out all the ivago mapovics throughout the sub-

maríme."

DAMAGED CROPS.

Grave anxiety is growing in regard to the

This much

COST OF PRODUCTION.

in

20

that

tho

very

the Karakash valley in South Turkestan for

The only jadestone of commercial value is found in the basin of the Urn river, a tributary of the Chindwin, in thas Moguung sub-division of the Myitkyina

district,

rict, Upper Burma. Jaileito is now worked at three localities-

-Mamon, Hwaka and Tawnow.

iamon At

the

jadeite in the foran boulders in tho alluvial

deposits of Uru river, und also the bel or river

focad

a metamorphosed guests dyke intruded into

exercises must also exrry a special flag, which and the ebonito twisted or broken, Although very large quantity, and the same is the ones They are, be kil

and obligations.

others, are known under the generic me distance. The somephorow will also Loint prevented the fire from big of any considerable of that the trees and plants from which wild interest in regard to them, and one which has pot think that the Imperial

in thoir natural interest and are therefore trae from many of {mphasised by their opposition to the tax-lished last May for the outablishment of a bowerile passes va the North-West Frontier special signal to warn ships in the neighbour- duration, the powerful heat may, it is thought rubber is obtained grow

proposals of the quite possibly have usphyxiated the men in the the risk of the Ceutralised Government, hood whenever a sabmarino is diving.

the Central Government with that adult altogether practicable in its present characters are unmistakably disinet from those

crade form. Reform was badly nooded, but he of a

f nephrite and jadeite, it is ovidently regarded must never be left during diving operations, the periscope. It is aron suggested that the plants, which is raons than can be said of the

weaken it, "Will they said Sir Robert

are included in the term jadestone or jude. and that the watcher on duty must not be done smoke might have been the cause of the Middle East.

One more point. It is possible that the

"make for Home Rals or for central make exchange difcallies, not necessarily,

however, insurmountable. In regard to the namely, the true jada or nephrite, which is When submarines opening of the forward mannholo. All the lantation industry will develop and thrive in

At disturbed in any way.

the Chinese financial suppression of the opitani trade, Sir Robert Bro-a silicate of calcium and magnesjum, and a administration is really provincial,

present

But the make their piangor without the periscope, operations proscribed by the rules for the the faturs in a way fully in accordance with

the dos fought there was no doubt that the Chin-mombor of the amphibole group: and jadeite, the brilliant promise held out by its start, but independence of the Provincial offcist is eer Gove neut was in earnest, and he did not which is a pyroxene of the composition silieste they are to keep at a sufficient depth to purpose of causing the vessel to rise had been

aluminium, ensure that vessels passing directly above them carried out. It in even open to supposition tits alone will prove this. A little too much is diminished by the centralised scheme of think the diethal beon dictated by any arrière of

in colour and other physical prope

properties, demonstrate that wild rubber is doomed, and if they are controlled. "There has been much Gorerumont monopoly in the opiam trade but jadeite is slightly the harder and shall not place them in any danger. When a sabmarine is about to come to the surface after and that it was this which rendered the crow the Eastern industry steers claar of any and loose talk," said Sir Robert Bredon,

and consider about None the less be sympathised with the Heng ably heavier of the two, and is noza fusi bio. a doop dive, it is not to omèrge-ercept in the powerless to provent the catastrophe. Le Temps overy sort of danger, then it will be the only one Chinese finance and its reform. This Anzaco kong authorities, whe derived a roronuo of h

China herself on

equally by the Chinese. No -which is the official organ of the French on record that has done so.

or £180,000 annually from the thstic £160,000

Jade are prized e

(nephrite) of the kind that would be at least may be taken for granted reform must be carried out by

trade, and NOW no prospeut of regarded as a

a mineral, having the essential indicating the presence of avothor vessel in the the English submarine A. 1. to prove that live up to prospectus promises, and that oren if (Resistance and advics if given from the Cheese alternative source of taxation likely to bring in India But Marketable mineral is known in mand is satisfied that there are no sounda Government — points out the precedent of that not every planatation company is going to her own lines. Sho may accept sympathetic |

point of view, but anything like interference is anything like that amount. As to the recent com

composition and approaching coarse jade in immediate neighbourhood. In this connection there is nothing impossible in the supposition they all did it would be a matter of years before sure to be resented. The Chinese as little as rumours of a possible anti-Manchu and anti-physical characters, is known in South Mirzapur. it is recommended that if circumstances pormit. that the submarine was not under control at the the output of enitivated rubber exceeded that of anybody else liko advice which savours of dista foreign rovolt having for its centro the provides Trno jade, however, has been largely worked in

the wild substance. After all, about 99 per cent. tion.

Chinese of Hunan, Sir Robert Bredon said the whole fluance is the engines shall be stopped and strict Bilanca moment of the collision, and that the men in the of the world's supplies of rubber to-day are wild on. Thus talk of international Chinese subject was one he could express no opinion on many conturios.

absurd. Quite apart from and only 1 por cont. plantation. The latter has mistrust there would be constant international as he has no defuite knowledge. The Chaur- central post were asphyxinted by a fre

the long period of development in store for it, jealousies and the personal jealousies of the shu riots were largely attributed to the scarcity Temps concludes:

therefore, before it knocks out ita big rival.

international agents to prevent the effortire of rice, and he had no doubt that the anti foreign Plus one is a fast, and it is hardly open to

carrying out of the work in and over the element in the rising was to some extent pro doubt, it must have "proceded, and not followed

Harking back for a moment to the cost of enormous areas of territory concerned. In the duced by the

which compelled the provincial anthorities

in the

the MoKay Treaty of Any 1902, production in the Middle Fast, a remarkable same way Chinese Raanes in the hands of the collision, for, given the dimensions of the

to showing is that of the Vallambress Company, one Power would be impossible. The talk of to twenty-one days notino. before they

which, in its anzual report, returns this item at expert on who maza who accepted such imperiod in the interest of British shipping lives itself. At H woke the mineral is found in the

my opinion, tomised tras only 8.3d. per b for tapping, auring, packing, work would have to be an expert fiumuoior, but whick had often been put to the expense of form of boulars in a conglomerate of Tertiary

purely visionary, The and transport, 10.86d. per 1. last year, where could you find an expert fastcier who sending their vessels up to Chinese ports only age. But the most interesting of the thres oc-

sginst while the average total cost, including exten- elons to plant and

tand upkeep of young rubber, was also possessed an adequate knowledge of

forbidden,

and

of окрене only Is. lid, per lb. Hero inbour reezus to be Chinose conditions, Bannoial and soojalt, And found that the expor bail been summarily outrouces is at Tawgat. Dr. A. W. G. Bleeck of describes the jadeite ui Tawmaw as pecurrina ín where would boud owners be while a forsign the v yaga ·liad been incurred to no bo faced fully just pat awhile..

Some complaints of damage from unskilful Occidental system on minsteon semi-independent the Chinese provincial authorities, who in hrge result of the metamorphism of an ulbite.

sce euming it, and in the north of financial organisations, suola 18 the Chinese areas possessing only primitive moun of tran Penang

Provinces are? What China wants is to be let sit found it absolutely necessary in times of famehel ne rock originally forming the dyke

According to Mr. Warry, judo-stone or boing

spoiled by the system pursued, and

nophrite has been known Ching from a potic Bridge is dead-at any rate in Paris. Bridge continuance meas that all the bark of the will not accept, unless it be sympathetically means of salsistence."

of antiquity. It was found in Khotan and it has died a

natural death since the jigsaw trees will be removed, which will render them giren and which she will renent

The Chinese army was developing as far as other parts of Central Asia, the most valued of either distation or interferenco. Know of

with funds allowed, but not, Bir Robert Bredon had variety being the costly milk-white kind held in is in connection entitled, "The Diplomalia Origin of the hit by the musical afternoon, to which all thas condetuned is also practised, it is said, in

which hostessos Dow invito crowds of

other parts of Penang and the adjacent terri- questions

as in the earlier period, Yaan Shi-kar's removal and ofleiul life. The discovery that green jude Central Government and the Provinces, and the War of 1870," have just been published. It but the ridiculous jigsaw puzzle has put the last tories, where nativas are in control, dato force onflicts. The Central Government frous Tientsin and subsequent retirement to jadeite) of fou quality occurs in Norten privato life had possibly given a set-back to the Burms was made accidentally by & &-gall tells the story of the long olisin of ovents which it in its coffin. The number of teachers of mon knowing bottor how to proceed and most incedaso its control over the Provincial movement. He was was possessed with the Yu unnaarse trader in the thirteenth pentary, led up to the conflict between France and bride on the lack out for employment increases rising that the work of tapping is

Governmente and the independent

military Idea os Chica's policy

known Germany. It is claimed that the history will be dally.

A special commissioner who has been investi- opinion slowly and gradually.

zeal and gennine quali. a piece of stone, which was inter found to be absolutely impartial, and as it is compiled from

ties of landership, and has a strong character. jade of valite. For some centurios small

great official documents proserved in the Archives it France, but notwithstanding the interest taken been interviewed by the Ceylon Press, and has Opposition for want of a better term, isto However, Sir Robert Broden thought his do pieces of stone found their way scross the will be authoritative. Unfortunately, a number by public men, statintion show that the remedy unburdened himself in pessimistis vein on the reach common accord by conciliation and com

of the inevitable once the old Empress Duw tracted hostilities between Baring and Chins, of important documents are missing from their not yet to hand. During the past week Dr. Jabour question in the future. He said that promise rather than by either moral or material cartage From Peking almost in the nature frontier but it was not until 1/84, after pro-

Lannolongue,

when the large acreage of the present quite fervo." who was associated with Gambetta

ager had gone. Archives or Record Ofco, Among these are the

"It is curious," said Sir Robert Bredon, "how ick trying to arrost the depopalation, had a young rubber comes into boaring" the highly papers of M. Rouher, which were taken from a measure before the Senate. According to the capitalised companies will be more disappointed little foreigners realise the Chinese character

mansion at Yorcay by German eminent doctor, one of the causes is the

they eveu the wisest soldiers in 1870. The work has been compiled oncession, and he wishes to resort to the lar to anticipstart promote at prescut appear A prominent Chinese official remarked to me not accepting the tod out, for instance, long ago: 'It is quite extraordinary that some Leroy that

current estimate that two of your people can come here and spend several by a commission appointed in 1907 by Beaulieu, of the Institute of France, holds the ocolies per acre will be required for estates in decades and in the end know little more of us Pichon, the present Minister of Foreign Affairs. opinion, which he demonstrates from statistics. full bearing, the Malacon Rabber Plantations than when they came. What China feels is

The position of the pounties on the 1st inst. of what in now the • town. of There will be night or ten columes in all; and that in three generations bance, the population will require for the 15,000 acres under rubber that foreign intercourse is nesympathetic and the first volumo deals with the affairs of of France, as far as Frenchmen are concerned, 30.000 colies, and other estates in proportion. unrecog the national Chinese di

Utica is given below:- too much of European diplomacy

P. W. L. D. P. cont. Schleswig-Holstein, December, 1863, has benn will be reduced from 39,000,000 to about A scheme to supply Gujerati labour seems to

Khin advisers not agresing with it. It was proposed spotless ones. I anco pat solected as the' larting point, that is when the 20,000,000, and will have fallen to 10,000,000 in have fuilen through, owing to tlie Viceroy's consists of pushing cnime, and not always

an Kont problors. to an 120 years hence.

to offer lands for the labourers to settle down English official: Suppose I said, a certain Middl

ય. on after three years' werk, but it was pointed claim, instead of being against the Chinese Hampshire

Yorkshire ant by the authorities that the Gujerates were fovernment had been against one of our not people who staigrated, and that under the Colonial Governments and had been taken to Surrey... circumstances the Government of Indin did not the Judicial Committee of the Privy Cenncil Lancashire see their way to supporting the proposada.

instead of to the Foreign Office, what affect Sussex on the diplomatic Essex would the result have had on

Northamptonshire It was a new way of putting the case,oicestershire... notion P and patarally he was nudecided, although be thought the result would have been the same. Nottinghamshire

stars. As directross of the " Bouffes Parisions" 'grala crops, which lasso sabered so much of Pentiful, but of course this problem has not to manofer was trying to impress some new purpose. Sir Rubert Bredon sympathised withBerpen ine. He concludes that the jadeito ja the

The venture was not, however, a financial Ferds have also been greatly damaged. Au tappie island a lot of tress, it is said, uro and not distracted by adrice which eheino, to regulate the distribution of the staple

she made a great hit with Offenbach's music,

success, and she zeturned to the Opéra Comique,

ats by the recent thunderstorms. The vine.

agricoltural orisis is fearail.

Her later yours were dovated to teaching,

THE WAR OF 1970.

BLIDGE DEAD,

alone,

ALVOU B

The first two volumes of a monamental work puzzle came in. It had already been hardi zon-taspable for years to come. The ayat the forsien did to make difficultion betwonnonra, quite so rapidly daring the last two years bigh esteem as symbolical of purity in private

ohateau or

Saxon and Hanoverian troops entered Holstein- The first two chapters throw an interesting light on the character of Bismarck as well as on the diplomacy of Lord Palmerston. King - Edward VII., then Prince of Wales, figures, as already distinctly Francophile in sentiment, but Is overruled by Lord Palmerston and Queen

people,

Inbour.

The depopulation question is never at vest in geting the industry in the Middle East us in dealing with, what one may call 'his Majesty's pasive e parope, and although who, ta balance the land on his mule, picked up

THE BILTH BATE.

as it existed before the Revelation,

THE RUBBER MARKET.'

Law of

A NEW FUNGUS.

The Kew authorities have been appealed to in connection with now fungus which is af tacking Para rubbor trees in the Federated

diMoulties.

HOME CRICKET.

THE COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP,

A DISCRIMINATING DEMAND, The Special Correspondent of the Evening Standard and St James's Gazette writing leat

arket asid month on the Rabber

Shipments

of plantation rubber from the East have maintained their nemal rate of increase, the total The repression of the opaches or hooligans is the first hity despatched from. Corton in Malay States, and have diagnosed the samples If ho could have been sure I should have been Gloucestershire admitted to be one of the gravest tasks confront-ornly about muing about 500 tons, sent them as a hitherto undescribed species. ↑ pleased to know it."

the quantity shipped ont Peninsula.

The greater part

Victoria

THE EXPRESSION OF THE ROOLIGANS.

of the

our-fourth of the

from the Mainy

The fungus was first discovered on dead Pars

THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROGRAMME. In rezard to Constitutional Government Sir "The Government has committed itself to a

ing the Paris authorities In the course of the of the Straits Settlements rubber is now being f trees. Ons tres about 25 debate in the Chambor some two years ago on despatched from Port Swettonham, where botter rough died suddenly, and the fungus appeared Robert Bredor said;

with the

to

the abolition of the death penalty, M. Brland, facilities are besrabber traffic, that 'port the fungus Butypa caplicora, which is in the policy which. I believe it intends to carry out at

then Minister of Justice, declared that in his opinion one of the chief causes of the increase of criminality was the abuse of the privilege of carrying weapons and the facility with which to be taken, therefore, if the abominable Apache

arms can be procurad. Ons of the first measurðs

provided to cope. steadily increasing being more favourably, situated as regards the plantation industry

than Singapore and Penang,

and therefore likely to attract more and more attention is being given to the possibilities which Costa Bica offers for rabbor planting on

attention

large scule

that

regular trade was opened between the two countries, and then the Chinese soon dis. the position of the jade-producing district. At the beginning of the nineteenth

corared

century the Bunuese klogs soom to have become aware of the importance of the jado trade and the revendo it might yield, and in 1806 a Burmese Collectorate was established at the site Moganng, whiel be- came the head of the jade trade in Burma, The Kuchios, in whose country the jade deposite 76-47 are sitanted, and who were regarded as the absolate owners of all | the jade produced, brought 5384 the mineral to Mogauug, where it was sold to the Chinese. Who it was ready to leave 50.00 Mogaung an ad varmit issued. Payments

2

4

50.00

4 5

G

3

50:00

50:00

4375

WAB lorind and a

wore made in bar

daty of 33 per cent.

silver at first fairly pure, but

4000 later on dobased with lead (rupees did not come 32-46 into general use until 1874).

"The period of greatest prosperity of the jade 36-36 trade

1831-1840, which timo at least

was

3571 800 Chinese and 600 Shans were saunally en 23.76 raced in business and labour at the mines.

13 3.7

Warwickshire

16

13.75

Faged

Worcestershire Derbyshire Somerset...

13

.5

14.

2 10

15:38 14.28

fu, then the great

12 0 11

THE AVERAGES.

The loading averages are given below:---

Batting.

at all eventa extrémely difficult, to procuro, the the prospects are said to be good. It is claimed thing at all." In all probabind by careful the hands of Prince P'u-lusn, he is working Mr. A.K. Fostor

weapons

201

14

The

a heavy fine. But nothing is dono to pre-es), which are fou, d in great plenty in the Ceylon Observer understands that they are

Success, Ho

& close relative.

Al

bought the rough

Ina.

the stone went by one of several routes to Tuni it emporium of the jade tra e, where Cantonese merchants stone and carried it to Canton to

to be ent and polisbeti. In 1841 war

war broke out

between

Great Britala and Chias and this hostilities at Cek- ton soon affected the jade trade, so that the Cantonese merchants ceased to go to Yunan. fu to buy stone. Stocks necumulated and nan traders ceased visiting the mainos. The trade passed through various vicissitudes, but 1.642 158 51-31 it was not until 1861 that it really improved 144 47:69 in. From that date, when the first Can- tonese merchant arrived in Mandalay and 99 40 aado a fortune by buying ap all the old

stocks 234 39-69

till now, the of jade,

the bulk of the stone 126 39-66 has been carried by sea to Canton. During the 130 39:55 ensuing years, the

jade

dues were sometimes col- 104 38 23lected in the orthodox way-by the Collector at 142 38- 950142-37-39

1,097

4

BAD 1,310 714

4

2A 3

804

*

24

1

··

A

an 2,314

23

5

23 2.

754

165

25 0 897

27 4 25.0

820

ens Mr. G. L. Jessop

Mogaung whilst in other

farmed out;

WEB

years the ter but the King of Burma, dissatisfied 782 156 37 23 with the revenue thus obtained from the

rever

material 158 36 50 tried in some years to purchase all the metadat 25 5 647 106 35 94

35.94 himself direct from the Kachins at the mines.

35.90 In such years the Kaching, proferring the

121.35 88

old and 2ft.

on it several weeks later. Then the next tree it diod, and on it, too, eventually appeared form of a crust, hard, black, and rather brittle. the time originally indicated, voither hastened

The trees attacked

this were, upon iures nor delayed. The whole system is to be complota by tigation, found to have had carrying denying system is to be thoroughly reorganised, An artly in 1917. In the interval the administrative standing in stagnant water carrying decaying material

Brembly, to

which the nominations deficient drainage was the radical troable Dr. have af hoon made, and which will erentnal J. T. Tyldesley

stable matter, so that probably here agai Prain, of Kew Gardens, in reporting upon it, ly become the Upper House or Senate in the Mr. K. L. Hutchings 25 is to be got rid of, is to make it impossible, or Already there are same filantations there and stated, that he did not like the look of the new Government, will meet shortly. The Mr. C. J. B. Wood 23

however, this, preparation of the Constitutional movement is Mr. A. Hartley that the soil and shiste of the San Carlos like other pests, can be

712 A. C. Johnston 22 and which render him so dangerous district are ideal for the growth of plantation saltivation

on it industriouly and Consaientiously. anamy of society. The Law places rubber, the lands there being the richest in the European markets seem likely to have a believe with the most honest desire to

'argent It certain obstacles la the way of carry state, and accesible by a good road from the competitor in respect of rabbor auctions, for it make

capital city, and by launches of light draught is seriously

holding fortnightly of the Emperor and Regent, has travelled Arnold contemplated ingah, such as planing pocket pistols from the Atlantic seaboard by the San Juan sales in Colorabo: The various Colombo estafa abroad, is much in touch with foreigner, sildi in the category of prohibitol weapons, and San Carlos rivers. In 1909 66 tons of rub agencies have brou approacheds to whether I know no one in whose lands such work could Hirst the possession of which renders one liable to her were exported from Costs Rice, produced their support could be relied upon, and the have been hotter placed. The building the Seriate G. Brown

is to occupy has been commenced from designs Mr. A. O. Jones from wild rubber trees (Castillon

furnished by a German architect, and it promises practically unanimously in favour of the new rent the purchase of auch weapons, and forests on the Atlantic stops. It is hardly like departure.

Bardsta to be an admirabla addition to the many now gunsmiths' shops are plentiful enough in Paris ly, however, that there will be any important

UNITED STATES IMPORTA

foreign ready put up as public | Langdon

Mr.C. V. L. Hooman 24- The apache, however, bays bis revolver second move in this direction, for streatly capital is

The United States imports of indiarubber in odlices in hand, as a rule. To all intents and purposes, being devoted largely to other branches of April ware 6683,223lbs., against 7,603,110lbs. in "Many people," added Sir Robert Bredton, Mr. R. B. Heygats 30

for the April, 1909, making the

the total imports *think the step has been too soon and hurriedly the prohibition to carry arms is a dead letter. commersial enterprise."

ten months of the financial 147,376,4161be. There is much to be said, however, for verbally

90,055,4331be.

taken, and that more preparation was needed. So for this month rubber has been coming against 73,747,099lbs, in 1909 forward more freely in Brazil, the Para receipts in 1908. The value of the imports for the ten committing the Chinese Government to a policy citizen who uses a revolver or pistol in self- from the opening of the new season on July 1 months of 1910 is given as 890,217,431, or just first and carrying it out afterwards, adding the

about $1

$50.514.973 or 680 defence is prosecuted by the authorities whose up to July 13 being no less than 1,420 tons, lb, in 1909, and

necessary betterment is experience ray show W. Smith

Woolley 600 per such to be desirable. That in one way of meet- 512,289, or the dig opposition which one

Bly the cannot suppress the murderous practicer of the opache is to total was only 1,400 tons, and in July, 198, 1,3101 in 190

to which consumption across restrict the sale of weapons of all sorts, and the tons. No doubt come local conditions are re-

the 1910 returns are so large as to suggest that China" Suret or Secret Police has prepared draft sponsible for the increase (probably the forward has increased during the past three years, and the steam-hummer more successfully than in

ing of supplies hold back at Mannos), which is

RECENT CHINESE POLITICS. regulations which, if strictly carried out, would at a rate which cannot possibly be maintained stock must have been provided against con-

bave

Sir Robert Bredon alluded in the course dertsialy out his claws. These regulations pro- under current conditions of harvesting, and so tingencies, which, indeed, seems likely to

been the case, judging from the recent indif vide that any person desiring to carry a waspon A good deal of criticism is still being levelled ference of American buyers in the European of conversation to many points connected with W. Mes

recent Chinese deralopment. In regard of any sort must go to the police commissary of at wild rubber companies as opposed to planta markets.

The Dunlop Company bave reduced the price the whole queation of foreign influence, ho Tremlin. his district and justify his request. If the tions, of which is undoubtedly unbiased

Fairservice... commissary, after making inquiries, considers and more or less well informed, but some of of melor cycle tyres to the rates which prevailed was very strongly of opinion that the day bad Fielder

which is also merely prejudice. A favourits prior to the boom in rabber earlier in the year, gone by when Chira would any longer con that the person may safely be trusted with a

China is awakening, and all Tarzınt pan Power. Cambridge types, as well as to Dunlops. wespen, he will deliver certificate, with argument against wild rubber sa an investment the reduction applying to the Warwick and sent to be led by the leading string of any Euro NewmBAN

It comes into play, more often than not, after the harm is done, and sometimes an honest

IN BRAZIL.

reflect

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"duty it is to protect him. The only way to stop while during the whole of July Inst your the 1908. These import figura Atlantio Nowhere does the fait accompli play the role of T. Hearno

tent to

Hirst

Not out. Bowling.

se the

111 35-74 former revenue methods, curtailed output and 928 156 35 69 produced pieces of inferior quality only. The revenue accruing to the King from the jade 783 116 35-59 es varied from Rs. 10,000 per annum to Es. 946 124 3503 50,000, being least when the King tried to

the jade himself. With

farmed occupation of Upper Burman, the tax wAD; out to Leospin, who made himself so unpepator by his methode of

of collecting the tax that he was murdered at Moraung. The first British visit to the mines was made in 1888 by Major Adamson with a colason of British troope. The

0. M. B. W. A. 948.5 284 2,082 169 12 31

512.2 132 1:246 96 1297 721.3 2031,6

203.1,638 1.4.131

The British

parohes

tax of 33 1-3 per cent. on output is still farmed * 407 126 853.64 1332 out by Government on triennial leases. It is 622.2 155 1,445 98 1474 collected at Mogaong in the case of stones trans- ... 801.2 226 1,780 117-15′21 | SOU

ported on males 49 1.041 67 15:53 port

DOAR Mr. P. E. Le Contere Thompson ...

to

Haigh...

·87 1,045 65

vid

Kaming,

and at Kindat in 207.4 491 608.5 152 1,634 103 15-86 the case of stone transported on bamboo rafte -2005 1521,634 103 15-8 down the Urn and Chindwin. The actual work ... 3622216 1047 55 1610 of quarrying is carried out by the Kachins

.458.2 116 1047 65 16:10

1016 53 16 12 during the dry months of the year. At Taw. ... 419.2 92 1,016 63 16:12

346.2 78 942 58 15-24 nw, where the jadeite-rock cecurring in situ is ***376 72 1,077 65 16-56 quarried, ounsiderable difficulty is experienced ...246.4 60 626. 37 1691 in extracting the rough rock, and it is found cry to resort to splitting by fire, it in said to the detriment of the stone. The use of ex- plosives in, however, being adopted.

... 698 136 1,920 113 1699 550.3 107 1,225 7217-01