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HAMBURG
LETTER.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28TH, 1910;
By this way the "September Corner" in collen has ignominiously collapsed both in [WHITTAN SPECIALLY FOR THE "KONGKONG" Liverpool and New York. Talking of collon.
DAILY PRESS."]
September 2911, The weather thla bist fortnight has been so tine (straw hate have reappeared on' Change) and
trade, partly owing to the continued labour troubles in Germany and England, has been so dull, that I fect inclined in this letter to devote my attention principally to other than com mercial insttors.
THE MAYOR,' '..
I must tell you that Mr. Theodore H. Price, the great American" colton operator, claims to hawa invented a cotton-picking machine, which, worked by one man, will pick as much cotton in day as can be picked by fifty man by hand. Hesays he has successfully tested the machine in the Texas action fields early in September.
F1
DYNAMO WORKS SOLD.
I Iar that the well-known Felton-
CHINESE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
ASING APO RE RUBBER EX.
CHANGE ADVOCATED.
at
THE "TIMES” AND THE OPIUM TRAFFIC,
The following article appeared in the Timms, of the 3rd inat j
A number of persons interested in "A The Straits Timon is advocating tho establish- Uniform System of Weights and Measures in ment of a Rubber Exchange in Singapore. In China" were to dine together at the Astor
amcent leading article our contemporary says:-
It must be nearly a year since we first wrote to No exception can be takon to the decision o House, Shanghai, last night. The NC. Daily point out the high importance of making Sin- the British Government, recently annouaged, to "accept in principle" the invitation of the New says:The dinner is organized by Mr. Fapore as great a centre for rubber an Colombo Howard Richards, Jr., New York. After is for tea, and s correspondent recall on old United States to participate in a conference at tention to the matter today. In the old dinner two papers will be read-one by days London took all the tea at what The Hague in 1911 to consider the regulation fessor E. C. Cooper, of Bt. John's Uniremity ever prices it liked to offer, and planters in of the trafo in opium, cocaine, and morphinó: on “The Metro and the Gramme," the other Ceylon had to put up with a good many losses; It is understood that the propose to be sub- men of strength and capacity who were preparod
Guilleame's dynamo works have been sold to the entitled, "Reasons for the adoption of the Intor. } but they did not suffer very long. There wmitted to the conference are mainly based upon To begin with, thon, and presuming that some Allgemeine Electricitats Gesellschaft of Berlin. antional Metrio System by China," by Professor to take in hand the business of buying tea from the Andings of the International Opium Com.
of your realers Jail from Hamburg, I would mention that the Mayor of this great oily, Mr.
weight is
PURE RADIUM METAL,
is quite another matter. the English system of weights and monauros may seem, it is still the standard in the British Empire, the United States (with limitations), and to some degree in Hussin, and at present
bas
rabber
ye!,
of
it, the prevention of
COR.
8. Rt. Sheldon, of the Imperial Polytechnic the growers and selling it at what were ven-
sidered fair
fale prices. Under the system, Ceylon mission which eat at Shanghai last year. They will I must not clone this letter without telling / College. A general discussion of problemspered and we hear no complaints from include the enactment of uniformi lawa respecting
before the gathering will follow. Any effort to
the growam Since
wo wrote, rabber produced the control and distribution of opium and its in Ceylon has been taken up by the C lombo derivatives, a reciprocal right to search vessels William O'Swald, on Sunday last, with his good you of a.further wonderful achievement by Mide.! arrive at uniformity in the weights and mos
Curie, who with her husband was the first to sures of Chins deservo cordial support. As merchants also, and they are lady, a daughter of a former partner of Messrs
discover radimo. Sho, with her collaboratori Mr. Howard Richards has pointed out, there same level na the ton. Thaving it on the suspected of carrying contraband goods, the Ceylon will prohibition of poppy cultivation in countries
plaator will 1. H. Merck & Co., selebrated his golden Dobierne, has now succeeded in producing the
are at present upwards of twenty differentstand. have no anxiety is faturo for the fate of not at present producing ring spium, and
not in transit. All to produces will be export to cau
to equntries wedding, the Senate of Hamburg presenting
purs radium metal. It was done by the ards of length in actual use in China and bought in Colombo, and from there a good deal the compulsory notification of ail shipments. him with a magnificent opergne,
electrolytical treatment of radian broside, almost as large a variety of weight. Whether of it will be shipped direct to the places where The Government has at the same time vory to discuss our existing arrange. Although the O' in his name has quite an
and the distilling of the amalgam obtained. it is correct to say that the International Motrie it is required for manufacturing purposes. As wisely declined
which Irish davour about it, his family on the con- The pare metal is white in colour, but taras | System is becoming the standord for Chine the ever,ishing & rubber exchange under certain condition for thu
r. Singapore has made no move in ments with China in regard to opium, trary originally came from Biberia, where they black when exposed to the air. Its stomary
extinction of Indian exports. This Clamsy though and it is not outside the limits of possibility
nce which the can trase their ancestry back for some 300 years.
206, and the bitherto known
that the
merplants will try to
to seize represents the utmost assistance Colombo
able to give without His grandfather somo 140 years ago migrated characteristics of radium showed themselves in
the
which local inaction is supply. Indian Government is opportabily ing to them, and will mole Colombo the contro plunging its own administration into to Hamburg, and soon afterwards was entrusted
a still mere prominent way. Paper brought
of rubber commerce for the Middle East. fusion. While the Indian Government by King William II. of Prussia with an in portant commercial post under the Crown. His into tooth with it was sot slight and water is
That position belongs of right to Singa loyally adhering to its undertaking, the not baon quite pore. All the rubber grown in the Netherlands Chinese authorities have son in 1831 founded the firm of W. O'Swald separated into its chemical components. The
Indies, in Borneo and small amount of metal obtained was seonroð in
the
Canton Viceroy itself would be Gold hero if there were a
has sought to & Co. in Hamburg, trading with Zanzibar
au airtight glass-tube.
of receiving it. But our businesses impose indirectly upon the importation of Madagascar and Africa-and likewise was the
non Indinu opium for lie most part are Prussian rocipient an
Consul-General of
also contrarans the spirit and probably are under instructions from home, so po why thefau Cove are, not only a violation of the many Royal favcura. The son again, the
some of these instructors have an interest in of the mutual engagement under which Indian letting matters go on as they are. If the mon experts are being curtailed. The Walsup present Mayor, achieved special distinction
taka bas sow admitted the illegality of the Canton have were their own masters they might take restrictions, but the incident shows how are tain about 1880 by bringing about a commercial
action-wo are casting no reflection upon their treaty between the Sultan of Zauzibar, and the
business capacity-bat they have to do re they is the control which Paking exercises over the provinces. Only a few days ago a Peking are told, and the question is whether they will telegram announced that the Cenepts laro Gerang Haza towns.
be told to consult together as to the possibe brought charges of negligones in the suppos
forming a Rubber Exchange which strong enough to command as much confidence sion of opium against no fexer than sight as the brokers in London, and to give better Vienroys and Governors, into whose conduct su service. If such an archange were established investigation is to be conducted. When such advantage of it.
conddenos is not yet felt in the ability of of it. Planters are not merchants or the Contral Gorezament to stop poppy euitica. we have little doubt that the estates would take things, occur it is hardly surprising that com- shippers, and, as a middleman service is necessary, the best middleman is the one who takes over the tion throughout the Chinese Empire.
Together with bis brother he has succeeded in steadily increasing the world-wide reputation of his firm, from which latter he retired only
few years ago.
THE SCHRODER COLLECTION OF PICTUILES.
I venture to think nobody was more plenud that he when he recaised on behalf of the town
SOCIAL CUSTOMS IN CHOSEN.
EABIY MARRIAGES AND THEIR EVIL
EFFECTS.
There seems to be all but n comments of opinion that Korean boys on the whole are us smart and clover on Japanese boys. In school, in commoroiulostablishmente, factories, and everywhere else, writes correspondent of the Broul Press, ong bears a decidedly favourable opinion of Korean boyhood. The reputation, houerer, begins to waue as soon as those same bays have reached maturity. It is asserted that
there are no indications that in any of these countries it is likely to be displaced by metric
of
unita. Either system is infinitely superior to market capablad the Malay Peninsula 80 panstilious. The new, restrictions which
the uncertainties of Chinese weit hts and mess nres, and foreign merchants will probably lay more stress on neiformity than on the necessity of one particular system.
JOCKEY'S £250,000.
FORTUNE OF TOM LOATES.
Tom Lontes, the famous ex-jockey, who died last month, has left an imposing fortens--the largest by far eser amassed by any jockey. It is said on gool authority to amount to something like a quarter of a million.
Never given to the extravagance which characterises 80 muzy jockeys, and earning
we
of
of Hamburg the marvellons collection of Inter on they make little progress in the large rume year after year for a cuidar produce most promptly, and with the least pictures bequeathed to it by the late for duty, and tlust, they scarcely show any is
Fontaineblean in
ગ
left
his lower
lovel
of
Fot
No one, we suppose, would now attempt to
that there is
borno
CRUEL CASE OF
WEEPING ECZEMA
Suffered So Terribly She Could Neither Work nor Sleep-Her Poor Hands were Perfectly Raw- Baby had Skin Trouble, Too.
MOTHER AND CHILD
CURED BY CUTICURA
"I was for eight months the victim of Berrible suffering from eczeniä. My hands were lik's raw beef and I was told that my complaint was weeping eczema. 1 had it more or leas all over my body as well as on my face and
it gave mo so much suf- fering that I could Belcher work sor sleep. The chemist gave me a prepared powder and told me to bathe my Junds in water and dust them with the powder, But this did me no good. It seemed rather to chap my hande more, so I went to seo a doctor. He gave me comə medicine and told me that I might not
·be rid of the 'disease for two years. | I became fairly clownhwarted. The dis gradually grow worse and eventu ally I was unable to attend to any of my domestic dution.
After a lapas of several months I happened to go to the house of a nogh- bour's sister, whose little boy had had ringworm and was oured, I was told, by Cuticurn. I was groommended to tryít myself and when I got home I persuaded my husband to send for a set of the Cuti- cura Remedies. Their use had immediate effect, my skin pooled, and new fish formed within a week. "It is glorimin to beoroo more able to get about and attend to my domestic cuties. I am culte erred and it is Cuticura alone that has cared me. I also found Cetisura a'positive remedy for another form of skin trouble, known commonly as heat bumpa,' from which my infant child war then soffering. I applied the Cutleura Cist- ment and in the course of a low days Mro. the 'bumpe' entirely disappeared. A. Holton, The Grove, ne. Wantage, Beria, England, Aug. 20, 19C9,"
Casleurs la the most sectionslemi treniment kɔown for affection of the kata and scalp. A tables of Cuti- eurs Bose and a box af Cutivars Ointmens are often sutficient to them, B614throughout the world, Depotas Deaden, 17. Charuriauss 89.; Paris, 10, nuo de in Chausse d'Antin, Austraila, it. Tawnik Cà., Brd- ney: Thdin, B. K. Paul, Coults: No. Alrien, Lan- rot, Ltd., Cape Town, etc; T. 8. A . Porter Ding
Chem Corp. Brie Prope. Boston. #Pont-free, 32-page Citkem Book on the Skin.
work, that they are topid in discharge of
able period, Loates probably would have trouble. It may be admitted that on a rising defond the abstract morality of the Indo-Chinese market the estate which ships to London gets an opiam traffic. The exports of Intion opium Henry Schröder, of London. The pictures found
their occupation more than that
good deal of money in any case.
Bnt advantage, but it must be acknowledged at the Oranot permanently continue. It is manifestly to assist China a worthy home in the "Kunsthall," where I
by dread of dismimal. Possibly the secret of his immense fortune lice in same time that on a falling market the reveres incumbent upon Great Britain several cansos may combine to make up the fact that Mr. Leopold de Rothschild, went to inspect thou a fow days ngờ,
premature individual degeneration who was for a number of years his chief employer, experience is met with Sales in Singapore in her efforts to prevent the consumption of immediate, and the planter would get opium. It is equally imperative that British Many of them are well known, auch us Jeromo's but I think the most serious of these causes will good-naturedly solasted and looked after his the best price available for his rubber the Colonies in the East should not continge to
the Judges," and his be found in the onstom of early marriage. The investments. Speaking of him once to an
TiON. which China trying to "Phryne before
Meissonnier's evil of the custom has lately been recognised by acquaintance, Mr. Leo" said, "Yes, Lastes is moment it was ready. The local merchant with countenance
estirpato. We are "Mahomedans at Prayer,"
prepared to admit, expenditure and his greater
is collerable, though not *Chess-players," Eosa Boahoar's "Changing the a limited section of intelligent Koreans, and rich-rich," repeating the word with significant { facilities for distribution could afford to give sufficient, evidence to prove that the Iudis the right to inorense her revevao in the
London. Pasture." P. Delarocho's "Napolesu in during his reign 11.H. Prince Yi deemed it emphasis
necessary to na edict against the custom.
Some time ago the knowledge of what had better terms than are obtained in
In a few years time we shall command been done for Loster led a professional backer
tariff. We imposo zu excite upon her cotion 1814," Arlo Sebaffer's ho eliet enjoined the people to discard car and commissioner to presume on the flimsiestrid's supply, and there is a huge profit vince. Our Peking Correspondent, who recently manafacturés, so that Lancashire may maintain deal more than half the liker Edict against poppy cultivation is way she desires, by su enhancement of her
to be ultimately obeyed in every pro. good as far as possible and ixed
acquaintance with a member of the to be made out of exchange business. All traversed Chins from east to west, bas her position in the Indian market. We have the limit provided in house of women-the same *
Civil Code. It has no doubt the Japaneso
crushing
robake. Well, you know," said the
fired in other channels, At present most of is not yet uniformly operative, and its duo recently saddled her with additional military notico glorious A decline in the enstown, but it is too old
"there is the Post Office. It artiste, ani, moreover,
old great Blaander, down.
the firms are acting as estate agents, and the obrtance still seems to depend upon the expenditure which she strongly resorts. Her examples by the
Kun paconis impa
doubt, pays for the time being, but idlesynemies of Provincial Governors. One needs are proportionately greater than great French painters an institution to be
stroke of the pen,
Lostax lived until recently at Newmarket, business, no good loss by and by, when the side of a river may be free from poppy, and the and spen an early increase in exporditure on Troyau, Daubigny, Dupré, Cam, Cotiently look forward to the day when their zone Tory quietly, in a £40 sort of house, and be necessity for putting management on a more other side ofiome with it, Before Great Britain education and other objects the whole future of depend While, Décampi, Fd. Frère, Roybet, and Gallart. Final
Ettain the age of serentsen, while not committed himself to few expenses.
it to
to China, as well ma bewelf and-her
her therefore, we sympathize with the objects ever, nothing to prevent the firms which not as
the which the signatories of the rarely is the edict flagrantly disobeyed. It was his economy was not of the same rigid kind as is her rights in matter, rate tot vory long ago that I read a
that practiand by a successful contemporary as them dependencies, to see that the eradication of the paragraph
This joskay, so the story raas, though earuing agents working or brokers als. Most of ugly poppy in Chine it thorough, comprehensive, view, we hold that they should not receive
sands a year, lived in apartments at an sous local vernentr
thousands o
familiar with the business,
because they have
have and permanent. Meanwhile, we cannot endorse general dis, unda so the durals See inclusive charge of
35s per week. After some
of the représentatives of the to assist Indis, and also the Society for the
Festival in Ancient Rome," and his "Trimingh of Bacchus," and L. Koun's "Village Counell,
"Francis sa di Rimini" Alma Tadema's" Vintage bonge at 17 for mon aud 15 for possi Rethschild to approach him on the that profit and all that business will be lost testimony to the diminution of the area of in the past burdened India with various charger but there are also many others by these dope B good deal towards bringing about investment of some winninge He met with a if we do not grasp it soon before it becomea and under poppy.. Unfortunately the Edict which we shink! hare met ourselves. We have
ly, other countries are represented by T. T. Ziom, Ad. von Mentzel, von Pettenkofon, Hans Gade, M. von Munkarzy, Toutwort, Schmitson, Schreyer Ley-Henrietta Brown's touching picture, "Bisters of Mercy, occupying a
of distinction then in
by one
oriticizing raper or
Korea
post
one of his
of the Government for having had o
safe
of
But
dayd
the
owe
nearest kiz married before the prescribed age time his landlady came to the conclusion that been associated with it from its earliest d the eager Presion of the Opium Traffo | and Hongkong, daring the specially favoured position. Truly a marvellous. The criticism, however, as y evoked on these terms hủ was not exactly a "paying "They could get buying commissions frora for an acceleration of the arrangements made in ficancial strees which the extinction
collection of immenso value, both artistically and commercially, of which the Hamburg citizens may well be proud, and which theeranky
little acho oven in the more intelligent circles.
They are aware of the evil, but soon to find the that immemorial custom offers too tamptations strong. Those who after most from this institution sre evidently the youths themselves,
by thai parents. It is rather common in this
31
"I shall leave.
up
German "Beccusionist. School" might do well whe, in a sonsu, ara compelled to contry engaged, a happy married man. Living an active
to study and profit by. Apart from the Schrödor Collection. I was much struck by a
nest, and intimated as much to him, saying she unst put the charge up to two guineas. If you do," he
Tom Leates brother Sam, who followed bim
replied, into retirement so far as an weer-trainer at Newmarket, and is still a life; but Tom found no attraction either in the or owning of horses or, until latterly to and severe illness, lying for many days on the brink ofdeath. During this illness the little man, so neat and unity when in health and keeping beard so long as Hip Van Winkle's was on
yenre' sleep.
number of canvasson by Graf Kalkreuth, an twenty-and-with-no..initial sûvantago matrimony. About two years ago he had a long met know that the mas, or the firm to which Pimes of September 12. The ultimate object of
artist living near Hamburg, and who delights in delineating the features of Hamborg citizens and citienesses, and scenes from the harbour and river, with its bouts and barges and turbulent fall
waters as well as glimpses of the surrounding of evelopment. Their energies would be clean-shaven a somewhat round face, grow a
110
ours,
pearl have in
Settlements
of
grave
the opium
as upon the evils of the opium trafia, there an urgent need for that "expression of Christian souscience" which the memorialists to whom we have referred ne much desire. Let us soothe our conscience, by all means, but do not let va extinguish one wrong by creating another. The Tiures.
traße will produse. Upou this point, as well
INTERNATIONAL COTTON
STATISTICS.
rest American Continental consumers if an exchange were fo med, and could ship direct to India. They do not seen to perceive that, these consumers. But a certain amount of co apart from the disorganization likely to be operation is necessary. Each member of the owed to Indian finanse, the praposal would London Stock Exchange fights keenly for his doprive us of our only means of bringing own hand, but without the organisation of the pressure upon Chism to fall her somewhat axchange and the confidence it inspires, the vol-
extensive promises. Nor can we subscribe, ume of the business transacted world be com
without reserve, to the United Christian for a young husband only a for years above
paratively small. Ita Rubber Exchange is formed Appaal for the Ending of the Indo-Chines here there must be co-operation also. A planter Opium Traffic" which was gablished in starting in
in life, to be made responsible for the main tournce of a family of seven or eight. Men
he entrusts his produce, is sound financially, and the appearing to find that so many will receita general approval, but it with such a lot, no matter what may be their
he must know, also, that the business is conducts ominent people have signed it without appar-
is almost potential talent, would hardly be able to give it
openly in the sight of all men, so that there is
Mr. Arno Bohmidt, the secretary of the In- no tricking him out of his fair due. An ently realising the true character of its vi
morality. Its exhausted by the struggle to adjust
exchange has to be
and to stop the ers and Manufacturers Associations, has prices made by the free China from which waslly accompany a married
competition of the members to buy or to Indian traffic at once. The appeal does not issued his annual statisties of the consumption of cotton for the year ending August "3let, alate, Othera în more advantageons circum Once Lostes narrowly escaped a violent death collat is satrusted to them. It must contain any recognition that conditional arrango-1910), and also particulars of stocks in spinners
ments have been already made for these An interesting ovent this last wook has honetances and who are not obliged to sacrifice through a mare called Birch Rod, belonging to have a meeting and storing place, and a
hands at the end of that period. but that is merely a minor defect in story hour of their lives to bread-winning are the rate Lord Derby, falling on him in the race small alaf competent to deal with general purposes; the offivial trial of police-dogs on the Rosner often spoiled by intemperance and grow old for the Liverpool Cup and causing him terers business.
In dealing with the figures, he remarks that We do 1 not wish, however, to pose its method of statement. Ita
grarest omission racecourse, where many prizes were awarded. quickly.
injuries. Another time he was badly knocked as mercantile experts, or to define how this is that it fails to show the slightest readiness to the organized short-time movement has been
cabled been These elerer animals are trained to do the most
as regards the short my opinion, continues the Seoul Press about in a fall at Marchester. After his illness or that detail should be arranged. For such share the sacrifice involved, "The heads of the i quite universal throughout the year. No debuito
Loates married his Lurse, and there is much
figures baro or that detail sheuld be strand merchant is Churches want to stop the opinn traffic, but they figs to nited States of Americs, but extraordinary things in tracing criminala, correspondent, the crusade against early mar
of 4,707,000 bales. necessary, but occasionally it is true that cheerfully thrust the whole of the loss upon
your's consumption of Colonel finding lost properly, etc. They hare boen in ringe minst first be directed towards the rising speculation among rasing people sa to how he bas
generation. Modern eduction promises to be one dealt with he money.
The renowned
onlookers as most of the game, and we are people of India. We are reminded onstant use now for some time in this part, of of the most efficient instruments for the termina
ned Fred Archer left a fortune of is the position of onlookers while the chance Seely's retart in the House of Commons three against last year's consumption of 5,241,000 ethe world and have achieved excellent results tion of the custom.
A Korean friend recent- £66,652. He was'a widower with one child, a of concentrating-a great business here is in Fours ago. Mr. Johnson had remarked that the bales shows clearly that extensive short-time, many murderers owing their capture and proof told me that boys attending school began to daughter, who inherited the whole of the money,' the balance. It ought not to be missed. All opinm question lay between money and right. has been rau in the States. The shortage
show a dialike to early of guill to the keen scout and wonderful instinct very encouraging age. Is it not a¦ which was looked after by trustees during her that can be said about the obstacles and
think that the minority. Fordham, one of the greatest juckeys difficulties might bare toen said, and wore, in the righteousness was our own, but the money East Indian cotton. In Great Britain 26 tirar,
ear to invomo as well as to the care and returning from the mountain after his twenty that the pricesesponsible for guaranteeing cartons her obligations is to release ternational Federation of Master Cotion Spin-
country,
of these dogs.
POLICE DOGS.
MUSHROOME,
A tredo which in a small way has assumed considerable proportions of late years is the gathering of mushrooms in the pine forests of North Germany.. According to the Tugliche Bunduchen, whole families take to this occupa tion the moment the first mushroom of the season pops its head through the moss. Father,
evening to the village int, where the dealer is eagerly expecting their arrival. Some families collected as much as 150 to 200 lbs., aday
so plentiful has been the crop this wet season, and though sometimes they get no more than da b. for them, the gatherers were well content with their receipts..
lessons can
geously utilized for the promotion of the object. foo much seal on the part of teachers is likely to do more barm than good, but explanation on the evils of the habit by schoolmasters with good sense and ability will be able to not great results. The adoption
of mixed education of Japanese and Koreans, as suggested by me in a previous article, will, I hope, greatly sccelerate the accomplishment of this momentons end. In the meantime public lectures
may be resorted to for the
the
effect of
the emoluments were on a smaller scale than now. F. Finlay, who died last year, left £18,986
THREE ACRES OF FIRE,
GREAT BLAZE IN NEW YORK.
bridade
of wood in the yard were fanned into glowing piles of incandescence, whence, within a very short time, large burning flakes were carried on to the roofs of adjacent factory premises, with the result that they, too, were soon blasing furiously. Furio Soene was au extraordinary one. It seemed from the vicinity of Brooklyn as though such a conflagration must be threatening the entire west side, and it is generally conceded
iz
this
Tho
eousness, whereupon Colonel Beely replied that of American cotton has led to a freer 186 of
representing 683,705 spindles, report that
cotton spinning. have given up. worth remembering now. men told their contemporaries that it was not "
has been postponed
0 comple tion of ssversl
I now mills has good enough to let London rule their best
In politics, in the impulses of philanthropy indefinitely. The consumption of American industry as it pleased. The local arms are
and social referm, and even in the religious
the pravicus stooped to the oyes in details of agency. Yet world, there is a growing tendency to assuage cotton is 106,086 bales less than in their principals might fad time to bold weet- Searchings
of heart at the expense of other your, during which over 40,000,000 spindles to appoint some shrand, capable, and impar people. Our humanitarians want to reform the stopped for seven werks owing to lock-out. Hial person to pay a visit to Colombo, gather all but they are not willing to put their The reduced consumption of all kinds of oulton the information that is availble thore, and lay hands into their own pockets. Each was not this year is 99,999 bales. Moreover, it has ascertained that the tendo has been on A fire which broke out on the evening of it before them with whatever recommendations | he spirit of the Great Britain of an earlier day, borably coarser conata, which means that
When the Emancipation Act was passed, a
the larger weght of cotton has been used mother and child go out at daybreak with their elderly to the bad pose of awakening the 30th ult, in a lumber yard on the west side it might suggest for their guidance in develop of £20,000,000 was spent upon free
of New York speedily sasumed alarming pro- ing the possibilities of Singapore as a world's of
per spindle. These facts prove conclusively It of early marriage. baskets and barrows and carry their spoil in the may also be hoped that forsign Christian workers Portions, sud, though all the available men, and rabber centre. Our part is done when we have shares. Suol, too, was not the spirit in which the extent of the short-time worked dur- the anti-opiam agitationing the past 12 months. In India eight who are so enxions to do good to Koreans and tugines were concentrated on the scene the fire given a warning against allowing the favourable the leaders of
approached this issus nutila very few years ago. were for hours unable to gain the opportunity to pass.
Br. Joshua Rowntree's book, "The Impor owing to bad trade, they have stopped spinning. frms, representing 132,800 spind'es, report that, have already done them very much good hoth
both mustary. spiritually and physically, will not be found
"Drug Trude, is generally acknowledged was a fresh wind and the great starke SIR FREDERICK LUGARD AND THE to be the standard authority upon one side of The erection of two new mills has been aband nowilling to
to help the Japanese in such a bene-
UNIVERSITY.
the question. Mr. Rowntree wrote in his cred. In Japan a further curtailment of cont cause. They command great respect and
book:-"At first it would be only equitable production of 273 per cent, on searse comats and influence among Koreans, old and young, and I
The London Daily Graphic of the 4th inst, that Great Britain should bear the lion's 20 per cent. ou medium and fue coasts bogina publishes a lengthy interview with Sir Feed am sure that their sincere co-operation in the
Bhare
usually of the loss. No one seams concerned on October 1st. Mills in Japan work movement would be found exceedingly valuable.
and night. The number of spinning erick Lugard on the University project and to advance that view to-day. The solicitudes of These joint efforts reinforced by the ever-in
*at areosing vigear of the batile of life will steadily
illustrates the article with a large reproduction the framers of the appeal is now entirely reserved spindles. in Grant Britain is estimated of the design of the buildings and view of for China; they have no compassion to a cotton for the year
53,397,466 bales, the consumption of Americon bring an end to the enstom.
Hogkong.
balon, Sir Frederick mentioned that His Majesty for the plight in which India is likely to be cotton
placed It he admitted that they have gone a minst 2,654,735 bakes in the previous year.
of the world are estimated at the King had expressed his warm interest in
787 the United States having 23,549,000 that the spectacle afforded to the many thou the success of the undertaking, as did the latoase for their attitude, Sir Edward: Baker's / The total :
10.200,000. An interesting table is The fiampoos of
frences of and of the opium revenue upon grander then any witnessed in New York many ethers in positions of authority he had India is now known to have
unwise given showing for years.
Tus excitement was intensifed when the of the red the greatest interest in the success and misleading; and the bish prices realized 21 per 1,000 spindles. In Great Britain the figure
project.
is much lower than in sales have cbsoured the im
in previous years-namely, 199 4.47, against 6.93 in and 7.80 in 1908, For dames spread to an liatel, bat the occupants had
With regard to the profesor. Bir Friderick pending honncial stringency which will or 46 had plenty of warning, and made goed their aid
with 32.68 in the escape at an early stage.
afterwards the work of the the Principal. On that anbject I have been tainly be felt by next year. The of the the United States the figure is 18.27, as com
tement Berhey
supplies, the all the advice I can obtain from those memorialists towards the e best able to help me. I have also many traffic Itself. On indeferle of India in 1908, Germany has also year and 21.40
us the oplum very nearly as morally I have previously referred to the impasse sident of the French Aerial League, in a leiter began to tell me the hotel and numerous applications from men who wish to be professors, wat thrust apon India by Great Britan. Verv 34.68 in the year before. The consumption per figure being 26.98. against 33.15 in 1909 and shoving, the trade in the bill of lading matter for solton from
He estimates that the Journey will occupy ander, but by the portually the fire was got!
in apindles ages 1,000 What I
Great Britain is American ports and that most European banks
ard it with any marked degree
is gradually det faw Indians regari it refused to accept drafts against them unless about twenty-five minutes, and will sost nee other buildings, covering altogether three nores, But it is hardly time for let yet
po perokil metro, or five-eighths of a mile, had been destroyol, and nine people, including
sa most anxions to get is the e money for endow of moral reprobation. The oxtinction of the crossing, the figure for the past year boing guaranteed by American banks, a' demand which and that
ment. We have only just got enough to The damage is roughly estimated at a million eight professors University enght to have which must fall upon the
engage revenge it produces will involve further taxation, 63.50 bales, against 65.88 in 1909, 72.74 in 1908.
previous It may be said: machine.
mas es of the people, and 80.24 in the
of several that in those banks refused to accede to. Imst week & by La or three passengers will be carried one or two firemen, had been in jared
in Great Britain 48,088.513 spindles mesting took place in London of a number of stone to join Boulogue in raising the £2,000
1 be president of the league invites Folks and a half dollars.
The stone of the outbreak, says Beuter, was fly or sixty. In making my public appeal for and it will dislocate the Angsses
£300,000,
I am in hopes that some of thore native States beyond the limits of direct British for which returns have been received, 40,101,083 leading Europesu banks, of which fresh proposals prize which it is proposed to give to the first Twenty fourth-streek. The property destroyed who have conducted very successful businessss administration very important point, upon are male spindles and 7,987,430 are zing spindles. were drawn up to be submitted to the American lying man who makes the double journey be included a lumber yard, a small botol, ware in Ching and retired with considerable wealth which an instruction letter from a former Machinery engaged on American. Fast Indian.
house, a factory, and several residential henses..
will do their best to encourage education and member of the Indias Political Berrics will to aud sundry cottons amounts to 35,579,640 banka, which may lead to a satisfactory too bolesting and of two penger, The Baltimore and Ohio railway froight yards progress in the country in which their money found in suether solamn. We already dony to spindles, and 12,508,873 spindlies are using
one week carrying one or settlement of this vexed question.
and Tenth-avenus were at one time in danger.
has been mada.
Egyptian cotton
GERMAN TOYS
Passing to a more important and yet appar. ently minor matter, it may interest your readers to see some figures relating to the export of toys from Gormany. In 1907, says the Ham- burger Nachrichten, some £4,000,000 worth were exported; in 1908 over £3,000,000; in 1909 the amount once more approached £4,000,000, and this year promises to beat the record.
COTTON.
CHANNEL AIB SERVICE,
IN TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES AT A COST OF 39, 70.
An neroplane service between England and Franes, which the cost will be about 3. 71. for the single journey, is forecasted by the pro- to the Mayor of Folkestone.
being
2,549,707
sands who crowded to all points of yanlage was King Edward. On the part of Land Crewe and riginal estimate of the effect of the extinction / 155 cermany will stock in bales on August
and
atcountered
at the
first point is, of course, to select
their own
cora
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