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HONGKONG SANITARY BOARD,

A meeting of the Sanitary Board was held yesterday at the Board Room. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe presided, and there were present:- Hon. Mr. E. A Tering (Registrar-General), Mr. A. Shelton Hooper, Dr. G. L. Fitzwilliams, Mr. an Chu Pak, Mr. Ng Hon Tez, Dr. F. Clark (Medical Officer of Health),

of Health), and Mr. W. Bowen, Rowlands (Secretary),

“THE HÔNGKONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31st, 1910.

HAMBURG LETTER.

FOR THE "HONGKONG WRITTEN SPECIALLY

DAILY PREBS."]

August 5th. THE COMPLAINTS OF BAD TRADE. It seems diffoalt to reconcile the continued complaints of bad trade with the official returns of exporta, &, and the fact, montioned some

which during the winter sulautan had a num bor of steamers laid up for want of carge, are at present not only running every one of their own boats, but have actually been obliged to sharter extra ones in order to meet the demand for

importance for the solation of which the advice and assistance of practical men of ripe | knowledge and experience appear to him highly

dosirable; in agricultural affairs the operation of the "Landwirthschaftsrath" has provod most valuable, and be therefore now proposes to establish an advisory committee for commercial matters to consist of members of the leading chambers of commerce of the country, Berlin is to be represented by two,

Naraburg, Mannheim and Chemsits by one each, and these several chambers are requested to send in the names of members they consider qualified.

This is no doubt a step in the right direction and will enlist the sympathy of all concerned,

bureaucratic system of administration abroad,

EMPEROR OF THE BRITISH.

WHY SHOULD NOT THE KING ADOPT THE TITLE⭑

The Coronation of King George will take

plos next June. The actual date has not yet been fixed. His Majesty would, in te ordinary course, assume the title of King of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Domin- inas Beyond the Boas! Dofonder of the Faith: Emperor of India

The London Daily Express believes the time come when theres should be an alteration, the British Sovereign.

THE TROUBLE IN TIBET.

DE, SVEN HEDIN AND THE LOSS OF BRITISH PRESTIGE.

$

FORTY-FIVE MILE WALK THROUGH THE FLOODS.

TERRIBLE BÛENRS NEAR KARUIZAWA.

Dr. WW--Pearns {Assistant Medical Officer-tima ago, that the groat skipping- compazion, Hamburg by two-and-Bremon, Cologne has an addition, to the titles adopted by able, from a greater distance, to get a better of the catastrophe, modestly saying but little of

OFFENSIVE TILADER.

or at

An application from Bhamenipo for a fat boiling icones was considered.

The PRESIDENT informet members that the Crown Solicitor was of opinion that the Board barg America Line, besides another huge particularly as it will toud to modify the present more indepandont sovereigaties. The German the action of the great Viceroy in its right almost ludiferent to the foods beneath,

could not grant a licano conditionally, and as the Assistant Medical Officer of Roatth was not prepared to recommend this application, he thought it would be wiser to refuse it

Mr. LAU CHI PAR--The business has been

in existence there for a long time, has it not?

freight space. Moreover I learn that the Ham

Rengar bont, has ordered four new cargo bouts and tho Doutech Austral Gesellschaft three. Thero must, therefore, be business

of

magnitude geing on, but pos. Bome

COLONIAL PRODUCTS.

-

The fartherance of the production of raw silly mannafacturers may not always findatorinis for the use of the industries at home, it remunerative, prices of most raw naterials such as wool, cotton, indiarubber, coffee, cocos,

An

An article by Dr. Sven Hedis an "The Pokey of the Dalai Lama" appears in this Latest reports from Karuizawa state that all month's Contemporary Review, and in viow danger is now passed, but it is evident that the of recent developments, the artide for Dr. destruction is the district has been very serious. Hedin speaks with almost unrivalled authority Fome idea of the conditions may be obtained -is of great importance.

from the following narrative of Mr. Phelps, Referring to the British expedition to Lhasa Y.M.C.A. Secretary at Kyoto, who has boon in 1904, Dr. Hedin.

visiting Karuizawa Mr. Phelps gave a ropre- Now that six more years have passed we are sentative of the Japan Gazette some particulara Tat British Empira is now something more perspective of those avants, whose scene is laid his own foat, and that of his friend accompany than a sera convenient term, and it is surely in the highest mountain rauges of the worlding him, in "beating their way" hong in the fit that the Empire should have an Emperor, It is easier to criticles than to strike a great face of great difficulties.

blow. and that King George should be known as Many among these myself-disapproved He himself was lodged in a house at of Lord Carzen's Tibetan policy six years ago. Karuizawa on Hanaro.yama, one of the a collection of two ar Empire is strictly

Now that all details are known and one can see Emperor of the British."

highest points, and so might Lavo remained milien, one must recognise that it was a political but it appears that he, with all the foreign Rocessity, brought about by the irresistible residents from every other point, rallied course of events.

to the work of resens when the

dunger came. Besoral accidental oroumstances affected this. The points absolutely intact when he started coarse of events. If the Japanese war had not.com were the four houses ou Huare-yuma, those on ths wight have been different. If the Ter

upshot

Dearing Hill,

fill, the: foot of Atago. Watanabe-gemi The Bri ish Empire has come slowly into Russian Ambassador in London is not protest and

among the notables seen just before Mr. Phelps vested with regalties, an empire was teorically-chief of the guy British Cabinet the con Ambassador, Marquis Katsuce, Marquin-Suioul created. But while India was still in the sequences of Lord Curzon's polloy would. Celonies were still only Colonies there. WAS possession of the East India Company and the probably at least, have been carried out. One surprise after the other interfered with the logical development of events.

Empire, for instance, consists of the kingdoms of Prussia, Saxony, Württemberg, and Bavaria, and many grand dushies and dachias. The Austrian Empire consists of Austria · and

IMPERIAL GROWTH, Hungary, nas

མ

startod boiling fat there without any permission, manufactured articles have not kept pace. This cipal abjects to engage the attention of the Dudies of Lancaster and Cornwall were in the leader of the Opposition had not become the started being Mrs. O'Brien, wife of the U.S. The PRESIDENT statoil that this applicant having gone up considerably whilst those of the Risal kemp, copra, do,, will be one of the prin being. Strictly speaking, perhaps,, when the fed. Tibet would not have got off so easily. Id The Grove. No lives had been lost. Those

Committee, for, although satisfactory progress has been made so far, a more rapid expansion will be, it is hoped, the result of its co-operation. during the years 1903 to 1908 has been in millioze

continue he must take out a licence. There crop, prices of cotton havo for the past nine The value of oxports from the different colonies ada, Australia, New Zealazul, and South

of Marks:-

African Sonth Soo Kisu Total

chow.

no such thing as the British Empleo. Africa have, Lowever, now become great and, ing the English language, loyal to the British in many respects, independent countries speak. Crowe, bound by innumerable ties to the

of Saxony or the kingdom of

40.3 Motheindum ut every bit as independent

Colonies. Colonica,

1903

21.7

5.9

14-7

1904

20.8

3.9

20

1905

23.4

4.4.

24.7

.44.7 52.5

1906

25.5

5.6

-- 34.2

55.3

1907

35.9

52

32.6

737

1908

377

8.7

47.3 93.7

THE TIME.

the

Württemberg.

It must never be forgotten that the Sovereign is the one living tio between the various countries of the British Empire, and that the legal right of fual appeal from the Colonial courts is not to an English court but to the Privy Council-the King's Council nominated from the whole of the Empize. George is Emperor of India, bit outside India

without an Emperor. we leave the absurd anomaly of an Empire

England has emerged from this complicated tangle without loss of prestige, except in Tibet, accidental circumstances that the Lhasa and it is only owing to the above-named petition did not yield better resulte.

IN 1904.

Baron Sibusawa and Dr. Nilobe. It had been raining for

cleares!

week, but Moody (8th), and the vero busy. Qu Monday

on ยอ

tennis players

night there w rained hard. That day H settled down at home to do some rainy day Today it

-rizon typhoon

ra, bl.

a thunderstorm, and on

Mr. Phelps and

work, when friends called and spoke of the Не certain honse. anugur threatening a As it will be remembered, the Lams left promptly sallied forth and worked with other Lhasa as Colonel Younghusband approached foreign young men, Japanese policemen and When they rosch Lboss they heard that the coolies, to save the Norman bouse. They out Dalai Lama left bis capital the preceding night, down trees, drove piles, brought up and bags followed by Dorieff and other faithful men. and falls completed an embankment which turned the current and saved the house by

Wednesday right.

And the Amban declares that if the Dalai Lama refuses to come back and resume

with the negotiations Younghusband he will in

W

Indis is an empire by itself, and King Consequence thereof be d-pused, and the Tuski Mr. C. V. Hibbard, of Daley, having ur

is especially the case in the cotton industries He was chargel at the Felice Court, ned either $10 or 825, and told that if he wished to whore, owing to the failure of the last American upon he made this application, but it was found months raied above the average of previous years that the place was not suitable, and the Pre and would probably be at a still higher level but for the general curtailment of production on the sident proposed that the application be refused.

Mr. HOOPER, in Bocoading the motion, said part of the mills all over the world. The situa he thought it was unfortunate that the Board tion is becoming more serioas every day as the had no power to grant conditional licances, prospect of the American wrap now in the field because the conditions obtaining to-day might in by no means as promising as might be wished be changed in three years' time, when it might the Agricultural Buroan in Washington in be the duty of members not to renow licences. its monthly report for July giving the He hoped that the matter might be brought to stand am only 75.4 as compared with 71.9 last year and 83 in 1908. An acknowledged

An innovation deserving the grateful acknow- the notice of the Government so that they

On Thurday morning, Mr. Phelps and might be given power, by legislativa canctment authority in the trade, the managing director

of one of the largest mills in Barony, has ledgement of all skippers has lately boon intra-

Lama of Tasbi-laupo will be installed in his

gont business south, started to walk, but or by byelaw, to deal with cases like this.

place as the head of the Lamaistic hierarchy found the bridges down, and had to follow Me. LAU CHU PAX was not opposed to the sounded a note of warnisz in the Fress. Heduced at the wireless telegraph station at Nord-

And the thirteenth Dalai Lama was really de-

the railway, wading three mites. In this posed, as rosointion, but he thought a site should be not proves by statisties that the stocks of cotton, sich, ie, the signalling of the exact Greenwich

was one of his predecessors, the airth

preliminary start and circling trip, they yarns and finished goods not only in Great time both at noon and at midnight. At 11.53

EMPIRE COUNCIL

Dalai Lowa.

BBW many sections of the damage at apart for this particular trado.

One of those days thoro xong bo se Imperial Britain and the United States, but on the am. and p.. a preliminary signal is made in

An Imperial proclamation about this was

Karnisawa and neighbourhood. A stream was The ExESIDENT was in accord with MrContinent of Europa as well, notably in this order to allow of the recuivers on board the legislative body called into existence and con- Hooper, and thought it would be very much

to what my caravan leader, Muhamed Isa, who street to the depot. From mountain to JOGOS- ensiar for the Board to deal with these applion. country, mast be nearer eihaustion than ever vessels it may reach being properly attuned; attaining represen'atives of all the British eg up in a public place.... It is tenoit was-runing straight tireough the waiting-room of

feelings not only of tens of thousands of mon

The dairies, saw. tions if they could grant conditioast Horntos, before, and that consequently to fill up the 11.57m.478. and 11. 58m 38s, it is followed by two countries, but we feel that we are voicing the two with dirt and torn prandes, according the new station, coming right awal 2005 of deposition aroused no excitement; it rather mills and Shin-Karuizawa were all under water He would take steps to ascertain whether this gaps a crop of at least 14 million bales in the farther calls, and at 11. 58m. 46. the first time and women at home, but perhaps of still more of the ut Lhasa, told me, But otherwise the tain was a plain of water.

our fellow countrymen ucrces the seas, when we looked as if the people were glad to be rid of a The police deserve highest credit for wareing States will be required. Under ordinary signal is emitted consisting of five dushes at in-

oven in the middle of the right -could be done by byclaw, or whether-it-woull be-

disaster on his country. necessary to have the Ordinance amended,

of their danger, e is no outside power by which Emperors From all the Blue-books contain about the coolias, in participating in the relief work. The and ka would inform members. With regard to suffice, as the world's comumption two years transmitted after a short pauso; at 11.59m. 568,, demand an Emperor.

can be minds. It la doubtful if the British Dalai Lama it is clear that he wished as far as magnificent display of public spirit shown the Batting apart of a site, su ares in Victoria ago was estimated at from 12 to 13 millions the final five are sent off, the last of which indi-

ไมย WIS pruise, The Bumago

was dividend Three principal sections. On the among State, China.

The Swedish explorer traces the course of south-east side Mr. Pedley's new

HATENA events in the years before the 1904 expedition, was washed away in the night and the flood out and he points out that the Lans evidently in to within a few feet of Dr Learned's house, desired that the Tibetans should uci entirely in occupied-by-the-Grovers-while-As-Scudder's dellance of the wishes of the Chinese, whose and Hazea's houses were in great danger, but prestige had suffered in Central Asis after their enfe when Mr. defeat by the Japanese.

settle the question for the whole of Kowloon,

Dr. FITZWILLIAMS- Was of opinion that an ares for offensive traces should be sut - apart in all the villages, otherwise this question

would be always arising.

The Rearran-GENERAL said it seemed to him that this man had been boiling fat at Shamyolpo for many yeara,

Mr. Hooper-Illegally.

The PRESIDENT-aid if this place had been on the outskirts of Shamezipo there would have boon no objection.

circumstance

with

one of 13.3 millions might terrals-of-one second, another Ave dashos being my t at the dignity and prestige of the Empire high priust who by his obstinacy had brought the occupants,nd with the rikishames and

It

-oven then an

SOUTH INDIA AND ESTATE LABOUR

The Madras Temos, writing.on satate labour

supply, one of the subjects discussed at the UP.A.S.I. conference, says :--

There

King. If it were adopted there would be no All that is suggested is that King George change in his functions or his powers. should at the mom of his coronation to

dauts the title, rank, himself and fe and dignity of "Hr of the Britishin addition to all his other titles and ana title of dignity only.

It is evident that the King will only do this if he is assured that it is the wish of his people, for wo live in democratic days and in the most domseratie Empire that the world hus ever known.

If the new title is to be assumed, stops must he taken throughout the Empire, and by means of non-party resolutions, to bring the people's will to the knowledge of the people's King.

■UGGESTED TITLE.

All that can be done is to make it quite evident that it is the universal desire that the King should next June declars kis stylo to be

Our Sovereign Lord George, by the wish of his peuples Emperor of the British, ned by the Grace of God of the United Kingdon of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the British Dominions beyond the Beas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India,

CHINA'S CHANCE.

Phelps left.

was under considération at the present moment, and the annual increase arising from the cafes noon or midnight as the case may be. To Parliament itself would buvo any authority to possible to rule the country himself and make by the and when that was settled it would be well' to natural growth of the popolation os not insare perfect exnotitede an astronomical clock pe an Act conferring the new title upon the himself completely independent of the sore sign of all residents

exceed.3 per cent. But is there at least has been supplied to the station which is oure chance of the latter figura being roached fully controlled by the Imperial Observatory at The writer thinks not and deeply regrets that Wilhelmshaven and emits the signals autome- the majority of German spinners and mann.tically. Captains will thas have an opportunity facturers still cling to the belief in a huge crop of verifying the correctness of their chronome and the idea that the only way to escape heavy ters whilst at sea. losses later on is to work up their last ounes ➡? cotton and their last yard of yarn and clotti What is to happen, however, if the yield by a Tho· REGISTRAR-GENERAL~And now the moderate, say, oven a fair, ono, and prices instead Board takes cognizance of him and says be of declining, na loudly anticipated, should must not boil fut without a hiccuse, and when he advance? By using up all reserves a real, not applies for one the Board ways. You won't get an artificial, short interest is being created, suck

If the demand is greater than the supply the one. Before we stop this business it would bene has not been wituesed for forty years.

price must be raised. We note that Mr. A. E fair to decide the question of area and permit will require a monster erop (which seems to

be out of the question) to satisfy the demand Mead and Mr. Couchman, TCS both pointed him to carry on in the meanwhile,

out that wages had not rison in India with the We do not feel gaile of of starving consumers, and

getemi rise prices. accumulation of that cost de to and cartain that this is the case as regards plants- for for many months to come. Bo splanors and tion labour. Some twenty years ago the manufacturers in pursuing so perilous a polter scale of wages in planting districts was 4 namas

that

there are very We imagine realize what the prospects of supply are up to the Per diem for a man and 2 antas 8 pies for end of December? Are they aware that the estates on which this scale is still adhered to. rookly consumption of the world amounts to 250m. On a tea estate during the flushing months a bales and that only half that can be counted apus woman can easily turn six alla a day and

eight

is often paid for rubber- with any degree of certainty? There is every even more, and we understand that in reason to doubt it, for they are proceeding as if tapping coolies. We here enter the realms of An the position were perfectly normal and not one supply and demand with a vengeance, because

ontes a day, it only

it were German Empire throughout the year, makes the oc continuone of actual famine. The upskot will probably be age of eight ont

Japan a wild upward moveiaest causing sovers less cupation of an agricultural latoarer attractive. Kores

close are concerned, to the huge so far as wages:

Morocco The unendant was withdrawn, the motion to the trade. Mr. Tattersall, of Manchester, in was carried, and the Registrar General, Mr. whose judgment full reinco may be placed, which provides clerks and schoolmasters and all Russi

"The supply of labour

British Empirs Lan Chu Pak and the Assistaut Medical estimates the losses incurred so far by mch the ether badly raid servants of Government Ottoman Empire... 1,145.500 11,400,000 as are in the habit and commercial houses.

in India at this rate ought to

to be enormous and Officer of Health were appointed a committee of the British milks

Nins of these Empires are Emperors-the to recommend an area for this trade to the of publishing half-yiarly balance sheets 1 for larger even than the demand, We do not British Empire only has a King.

schoolmasters 9.31 per cent, of their share capital; nad the

mean to suggest that clerks and

rabber tor state of affairs in this country is in the opinion will give up their professions to go

be obtained in agricultural pursuits m An application for a similar licence came from of the writer af the article, probably no better, ping, bat the fact that such high wages are to educated class that manual labouris and manufacturers to stand by each other and often as AN

Mr. LAU CHU PAR mored as an amendment that the application be refused. but that the applicant be informed, his trade would not be Interfered with for twelve months.

Mr. No HON SZE KOcondled.

Mr. HOOPER doubted if this was in order, It was open to any ratepayer to prosecute the man, and for him to plead that the Board had promised not to prosente bima wond place it in a very false position.

Board: "

WOME

fer

a

the

H

frout to Bad, by tarring

for in deep, doing great damage to the shops. with their areas and population. The British disputes und friction on the Indian siden at bo ng circulated to assist Japanese sut

Mr. Phelps crossed the river to the east of the Auditorius, and found the house all in preat Largely owing, however, to the action of the danger. The new house of Mr. Klingman British Government, events have changed went down with the stream. The Reifensider enormously during the last few years. Again and Dr. Swartz's house, together with the Stan- to quote Dr. Hedin, "The Laboral English ford residenes, were orionaly threatened. The Government (have) let go all the advantages new tennis court, built this year, was in the bod of the aging terront. The Auditorium was that might have been gained througie Lars safe. On the south side, Mr. Kirby's house, thoss Curzon's policy." Dr. Hedin quotes from his of Mr. Brand, No. 1 South as for as Mr. Dan- own book, Trans-Himalayan":=

lop's were threatened and vacated, bat seomeil The blunder of the Dalai Lama, and the unsafe. Below the town the McCauley, Canning- expected change of front on the part of the ham, Rabbitt, and Honniger houses were ult Buglish, had given the Chinese an opportunity badly dansiged. The Mikass Hotel was partly of establishing their supremacy over Tibot more securely than they had been able to do sinto the wrecked and also the Mampei, Mr. Old's house. days of Kang-iii-and-Kien hung in the seven cocupied by Mrs. Correll, of Osaka, had a very teenth and Leeu

eighteenth centuries. Perhaps it Harrow escape.

At was prudent of the Liberal Government in the main street and was a torrent from hous

2 am on Friday the stream turned into London to give up Chumbs, and

house front, sir or

eight feat We give below a list of the world's empires, frontier to exclude all possibility of boundary

Erun then there were many subscription Empire excecds them all

our time the uld Arin is

Arin is beginning to Aron:

out of its deep sleep, and the Great Powers of Square milee, Population.

Europe which have interests there thould rather ferers and others who had sustained a total loss. At noon on Friday Mr. Phelps and his friend, 350,000

Back to retain what they alrely possess than being unable to stay away from the scene 241,333

49.425.000 endeavour to make fresh acquisitions. At any of other urgent duties, started on foot for 1,500,000 400,000,000 rate, the Chinese statesmen exhibited on this Tokyo. It took them 70 hours to reach Yoko-

228,850 60,641,278 occasion admirable prudence and vigilance, and

hama, during which time they walked 45 miles 162,655

49,232,8 2gatherol in all that the English gave up. to Clabo, where they found a construction traia 10,000,000 $71.000

The Lama left Peking in 1908, and arrived at which took them a few miles, and o" 314,000

Llava a year later. He was allowed to stay 8.379,044 155,433,300- there for forty-nine days only, and then along," tuking what trains they could to

started journeying again, this time towards rabe, where they discovered the station almest water; in fact they steppe surrounded with India,

from a temporary platform into beats. In the Convention entered inte ly the United track had disappeared and they

Ewanted Kingdom and Chins on April 27, 1905, the miles down the roadbod. The villages along suzerainty of China over Tibet was fully acknow there wore from four to six fest under water. lediged, and it was further acknowledged by People were grouped on the second stories (if England and Russia in their Convention of were

thor lucky enough to have any) or on 1907. As a matter of fact, the Chinese are the furniture, ate, piled up on the roof of their only people who bare benefited at all from the cottages. The loss to the farmers mast, Mr. of view The Englishman (Calcutta) states that the Younghusband expedition. As De Hedin says: Phelp estimates, amount to many millions. it is

is obvious that very few agricultural

conid survive so great a rise

in

To had worked." the and Calcutta to corner silver continues. scale fnges. Inde imagine that July 26 lust, they had secured one-ninth of the In con- world's entire output and have made enormous rubber cultivation is the only one sequence, competition from their

annes a

day

Kennedy Town, the position being to the cast / Now, he says, if ever, is the time for spinners the profitable as clerical, However, looking

of Sand Street.

Chida

8,000,000

25,000,000 410,000,000

ATTEMPTED CORNER IN SILVER.

INDIAN NATIVE BANKERS MAKING ENORMOUS PURCHASES

The PRESIDENT stated that as this was just to act in concert, in order to avert the threaten } at the question from the planter's poida attempt by a group of native bankers in Bombay "They reaped all the gain for which the English The factories were all stopped.

on the border of the ores set apart, he saw no objection to granting tho application."

Mr. HOOPER--Don't you think it might affect property in Holland Street?

The PRESIDENT That stront consists of godowns.

Mr. HOOPER-I think there are 26 Louses thero, and the carrying on of anols & trade

would constitute a nuisance.

ing onlamity, for their interests aro identical.

I live given this article comerat fully as it appears to me to concern not only prodacom at home, but buyers of cotton goods abroad as well,

THE LABOUR MARKET.

The state of the labour market in this country ems to be better than sowhere, for the num

ber of alion workpeople has risen during

tries

rize

own

TO-DAY.

The tunnels this side of Karuizawa were not It is said that allor his return to Lhess thendly damaged, but were full of débris. The bridge-work was almost entirely washed away. kin purchases ainos. Indeed a Calcutta bazaar Dalai Lama did not carry out the obligations He and his friend saw many dead bodies, those of members of the families of the tunnel will ไม่ the danger which wast beset tea report states that the group now holds half the he had entered into at Peking, and that "the and coffee planters in the future. It is obvious

Tibetons had seen for themsolres that his caretakers he was told by a track-layer that 21 that, if an adequate supply of labour for all is world's supply, but this is unconfirmed.

The American group now hold

The PRESIDENT-Ope of the honses is ap and 309,000 in the latter found employment ou planters are becoming agitated and wish fail of the fins and con- English in India in consequence of the latest many cases even the piers having been

parently already a fat boiling establishment.

!

cross

I may withdraw my opposition. If not, I will onsted German workmen is not to be supposed, Mr. Martia gave some ralasble information | 30th instant morning, end is due at this port turbable Eastern calm, smiled and did not more regular passenger, train was secured, not, bow-

wore that it be not granted.

Mr. LAU ORU PAK-In the mounting the man may have to pay rent.

as employers much prefer their own people, if they can be had, to foreigners, if only on account of the somewhat troublesome palies regulations with regard to the latter...

is a A

factor which

Breaking Biness ho had rogeived from the

the

to be kept a wayes mnt riso, bat, so long na / but are romly to offer if a favourbook-back, promises were worthless und vain." He was persons had been killed by landslides. At missed the opportunity. China has taken it. electric power plant, as well as to the town, and will attract all the available coolies, the Indian speculation plantations

ing lies in the scooeding

Referring to the present position, Dr. Sven there was considerable loss of life reported. the supply is limited, as it is now, the rubber occurs. The greatest diflenty in the way of altogether deserted by his people. England Yokogawa great damage had been done to the Between Yokogawa, and Okabe, forty-evon the three years from 1905 to 1908 from 454,000 and other agricultural industries will go to the trade conditions in the Far East, where there is Hedin saya

market, owing to to 780,000, of which 207,000 in the former wall. It is no wonder the coffee and tea.

What is now the political situation for the miles from Tokyo, the bridges were all out, in washed to the

of many native throw impediments in the way of recruitors soquently there is no prosent demand for silver.

events in Tibet? Lord Morley Las explained away Mr. Phelps and his friend land to Mr. Hooper-I would ask that this matter the latil," whilst 247.000 and 471,000 wers of emigrant labour

some places on the ties suspended by The enormons The Indian group must nurse its stock till that all the frontier authorities immediately got stand over. There is no immediate hurry till absorbed by the various industries. Emigration increase in recruiting agencies must in time normal conditions prevail in China. The ques-orders to maintain attitude of strict the harging rails, a tio being here and that they had to jump daring that period having been practically nil, bring to the comprehension of the coolie tion is whether the group can afford to hold on nontrality." The English now play the same there missing so next meeting.

that labour is a commodity worth a considerable for a lengthy peried.

part as onlookers as the Chinese did during across, knowing that a slip would be fatal. CF The PRESIDENT-The application was re.it follows that they just have met with re-

amount to himself in an open market. At pre-

this part of the trip little could be extracted, but Younghusband's expedition. Only they have ceived...

munerative occupation or they would have sent he does not reap the full value of the

it was evidently an extremely risky part of a generally hazardous venture. At Kumagaya, Mr. HoorER-I don't think that matters returned home and stopped a further indux of demand for his work, because of the middlemen LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. exchanged parts.

Then the English showed great and swerv.

about 30 miles on the other side of Omiya, a of inflated advances. That they should have mnd the pernicious system of

The str. Lennox sailed from Keelong on the ing energy, while the Chinese, with an imper. much. If the matter is allowed to stand over their countrymen.

st The Bangaloro Conference

this qtes this evening.

ever. ronning on schedule, and "civilisation" a finger, tion of advances, It

Without breaking any treaties the The str. Capri left Singapore for this part Chinese are now seting with admirable energy,

was once again reached.

Mr. Phelps-wished to upsets all calculations in the equation be on the 29th instant, and may be expected hare

and demand, because the

the money

on or about the 4th prox. tween supply and given by way of adcance is so

is so much irrecoverable

railway e capital throws out to attract the labour in the here on the 25th instant, at 11. a.m., arrived at

The I.G.M, str. Prinz Ludwig, which left ago-to make Tibet a province as dependent on

the Peking Government Eastern Turkes the

At pus tan. At present the English sit with foldel first instance. It

29th instant, at 5 p.m.

• to to to

arms, but they have no reason to smile. which to get into debt

dried successor at the Colonial Office, has shown need never be repaid, and it corrupts the con

instant: his appreciation of the co-operation of the tractor bongo estate, managers will enter into Vancouver on the 27 6th instant arrived at force on the frontier of Tibet? Because ea in. I thoroughly:

an inmne competition with each other in raising. The "Ben" Line str. Derglas from Middles

of their amcant mercantile community in matters colonial the

certainly is bro, Antwerp and London lott Singapore on by a letter addressed to the Chamber of difficult to see how the labour supply of the the 28th instant for this port.

The Chinese know this: their Ja. public for its restoration. Twenty-five out of fatare is

is to be increased if

if the advance system The Indo-China str. Laisang left Calcutta necessity.

foot will, he opines, have to be entirely re-built. "Tho School Examinations of the Royal Commerce of Berlin in which he says that, at kopt down within itsaccessary and healthy for the Straits and Hongkong on the 28th inst. unos instructors know it, too; the German the forty-five miles of railway he leavorsed on firme that provide them with armas know it. In some places the road-bad bas slipped away, although the initiative in the development of limits. Even so, it is difficult to foresee how and is due here on or about the 13th prox. Lord Curzon acted at the right moment. Now the colonies must remain with the sellers, planters will enfores their

ta without the

The C.P.B. Co.'s str. Empress of China it is too late, no one must be satisfied with undermined, and in others, on comparatively high ground, it has been twisted oat of all practicable promoters at

form is fantastic shapes. He was told that it ing Home for Girls. The following resulta merchants and farmers it bahores the governo talk glibly of the certainty of a labour arrived at Shanghai at 6.30 am on the 30th strict neutrality.

and left again at 6 p.m. same day for

would take excellent work to restere even tem- measures, such as the extension of the moans of apply becargo of the steady increase of the avasaki, where she is due to arrive at 4 a.m.

population. They ought, before indulging in to-morrow.

William Richards, an English carpenter be-porary trafo in a month, and some "exports communication and transport, the regulathe labour supply of South India on the spot, or Wash, for this port on the 20th instant, and is fell down one of the steamer's hatches on the apparently no chance for them to get out at

their optimism, to study the complex problem of The O.S.K. str. Seattle Maru loft Tacono, longing to the British steamer Yangfase, in port, said several months.

As to foreigners at Karuizawa, there was there are questions of still wide rely on the experience of some of the most expected to arrive here on er about the 27th 15th instant at Yokohama and was killed.

present except by foot. intelligent recruiters.

Dr. FITZWILLIAMS supported Mr. Hooper, and felt satisfied that the applicant would lose less after the place bad been inspected.

Consideration of the application was postponed.

SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS.

Drawing Society, London, were held this year for the first time in the London Mission Train

were obtained:-

Div. L-Honours, 8. Pasues, 2

Dir. II.Honours; 2. Passos, 6. * Dir. L-Honoure, 1. Passes, 3. Dir. VI. (Painting) Passes, 2.

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.

Herr von Lindequist, Herr Dersburg's shows him he corrupts the coolle because it BC.P.R. Co.'s, str. Empress of Japan,

ment to aid their endeavours by general

tion of natiro labour,

these

But besidea

is

easy it

advances. Tt.

assistance of an Act.

the

which left here on the.

prox.

and they want-I ascertained this two years

en route, they even allowing

to cross the bridges under repair. where they were stranded during a

Why do not the English act with energy and thomore took them to his own honge. gave them of his boat. They

outted all the kindness

ent: railway;

of Tibetan territory means war with He estimated the

Но China, No English

Government on such an adventure

ва entare except in a case of extreme

entor uplions of yen, and bespot to the

the

*f

of the