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A WOMAN'S TRIBUTE
TO THE VALUE OF Dr. MORSE'S INDIAN ROOT PILLS WHICH
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THE HONGKONG D ILY PRESS, THURS DAY, MARUH 23 D. 1911
HONGKONG GENEBAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
HISTORY FROM ITS INCEPTION. 29TH MAY, 1861, TO DATE.
PERFECT HEALTH, RICH BLOOD, CLEAN COM-BY THE HON. RE. E. A. HEWETT, CHAIRMAN.give details here.
PLEXION, SWEET BREATH and regularity in all the fanctions,
Gentlemen-I have for some time been an
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Since I began to use them I have had excellent health: I have kept myself regular and strong by their use. The South China climate is at all times particularly trying to ladies, but your pills give tone and vigour and overcome these frontles. I always recommend them to my frionds as safe and reliable corrective and promoter of regularity.
(Continued from yesterday.) Mas. E. DE LAFOFTAINE writes to us was part raised by the Hongkong Government, The question of ownership of private mooring a as follows:--
acting on a few complaints made by a small aut propose to buy up the private moorings, section of the shipping, The Government did
responsibility of keeping them in order, wished but while leaving the owners the cost and to have entire control of the using of the buoys, and that no vessel should be allowed to make fast to any mooring unless having first received the permission of the Harbour Master. Committee strenuously opposed this innovation, pointing out the delay and inconvenience, not to say possibly increased risk, were the Harbour The matter was ain brought up in tho appears, for the moment at all events, to have beon shelved.
The
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to former attempts made by previous Vicer The quest on hore a very similar resemblance roys notably in 1933 and 908 and in Nenkiu in 1937.
having appealed to the Chamber, the question On esot of these oocasione the merchants, was taken up, and in each case, thanks to the prompt action of the respective British Consula on the spot, and the support given by the British ence with the trade
was abandoned.
THE NEW RIFLE AMMUNITION, AN IMPROVED DESIGN. The Bisley correspondent of The Times writes:-
The question is still under discussion between the British and Chinese Governments, and as it has not been considered advisable under the circumstances to publish the ener mona mass of correspondence beuring on the sub- jeo until a final agreement has been arrivod at by the two Governments, it is inadvisable to rifle shooting will be glad to hear that at last a The larze section of the public interested in. In brief, however, the proposal as put forward solution has been arrived at with regard to the by the Viceroy create an entire monopoly of Froblem of a now cartridge. the foreign opium trado and the levying of a tun. The facts of the eses are fairly well un bared that in the year 1905 attention was drawn It may be as well Arst to recapitulate the special tot on all opium imported into Kwang-position in which this matter has stood for derstood, as reference has frequently been made to a German design of pointed bullet, which, Rome considerable time, and it will be remem clamations issued by to Viceroy have also been combined with reduction of weight and increased to the matter in the local Press and several pro published.
muzzle velocity, gave very flat trajectories. envelope, the principal objection ta it being and consisted of a lead core with a nickel stoc The Spitze bullet weighed 150 grains, the exceedingly short length of parallel which sharp point was per ac either novel or original, although it cannot be said that a bullet with a resulted from the reduction of weight, and,
still there is no doubt that it was by the Germind that the possibilities of such a design were made manifest English manufacturers immediately In this case, however, when it was first proposed Smith, in which the lead core was compounded. MRS. E. DE LAFONTAINE,
mental bullet was designed by Mr. Melvillo for a permanent quarantine' sta- ta lory the now tax on foreign oglum, protests with another material of lens density, the tion was also before the Committee, and, the The remarkable power of Dr. Morse's Indian representations made to the Government Really Canton, and the Viceroy therefore delayed carry-
were at ones made to the Consul-General at object being to obtain reduced weight while Boot Pills to overcome female ailments and re-resulted in the purchase of a site with buildings ing ont bis scheme for a month, wailing to see maintaining such an offeotiva length of parallel store health to sick and delicate women is well suitable for this purpose in Lai Chi Kok. and widely known. They are a perfect blood
what attitude the British Authorities would trials wore made with lead und ebonite, lead The better control of Companies trading in toke
as to ensure satisfactory ballistics. The first purifier and a positive and permanent cure for China, which are rezistered in the Colony, op Biliousness, Indigestion, Constipation, Head
The Cousul General-unlike his predecessors acho, Blotches, Liver and Kidney troubles and consulted the Chamber on certain points with levying of the tax, while he declined to recog. at the Bisley Meeting of 1906, when it was and compressed paper, and lead and aluminium, was again before the Government, who then-did not see any breach in the Treaties in the and ballots on this principle were publicly used all irregularities.
regard to their proposed legislation. The Com-nize in the proposed regulations the formation demonstrated that cores consisting of two or powers on the part of the Government were vided the tax was not differential" he did not tory shooting at the longest ranges. The mitten gave it as their opinion that further of an illegal monopoly. He stated that pro re parts of different densities gave satisfac desirable.
subject to the local Chinese Officials, and would Mark VII. cartridge has a compound core of ses his way to make any representations on the ballot which has been adoptal in the zer only do so under definite instructions from his the nose, This is satisfactory from'n superior offioara.
lead and aluminium, the latter being placed in 'n manufac- Oficials the Chinese extended their operations mistake, since it is undesirable that British Emboldened by the attitude of the British ring point of view, but in the case of a pro. to Swatow and all other parts of the Kwang-ballets sonid be less punitive than those of jectile designed for war must be regarded as a tung Provines.
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Master's naggestion noted year, but Minister at Peking, the contemplated interfer set to work, and in the same year an expari- |
During 1907 the currency question was again well to the foro, No progress could be reported as to any steps being faken in China to reform the Imporial currency, and this. Chamber for s third time joined with Shanghai and Tientsin in sending a joint memorial on the subject to the Diplomatic Body at Poking.
H.E. the Governier appointed a small com- mitice to report as the question as relating to taken to discourage the smoking of opium, the While at first it was stated these steps were Hongkong, and the diffenty of finding a sola-oficials now frankly admit that the now tax is tion for this vexed question was demasnstrated lovied to replace the loss of revenue caused by by the divergent views expressed by the Com. the suppression of rambling, and the sum miltas in their report. Space does not permit estimated as likely to be raised has been of further reference to the matter here; tha vationsly stated as from threo and a half to papers, however, dealing with it were published nearly six million dollars per annum. with the Chamber's report for 1207.
Other questions demanding the attention of the Committee wore those of Shipping Confer saces and their effect on the trade of the Diony, the need for attending the Imperial Morohant Shipping Act so far as it relates to the carriage of Asiatic passengers and contract labourers, and the excessivo coat of the British section of the Kowloon-Ca ton Railway and of the contemplated harbour of refage for small oraft.
With regard to the latter work the Govern. ment decided to charge half the cost of this to the shipping, and, in spite of the opposition which such a proporal naturally gavo rise to, increased the light dues for a term of years, daring which it was calculated the necessary funds would be raised.
this particular projectile. In regard to its adoption, it is familiar to those who have taken So much for the history of the evelation of
Hongkong, put forward by the merchants, the weakest bolt action of any in the world, and In spite of the strongest possible protest from any interest in the subject that we are consider- Chamber of Commerce and the Hongkong consequently to employ with it cartridges of ably handicapped by our rifle. It lay the Government, who are now being supported by standard ballistics, such as other nations could the British Minister at Foking, this illegal adopt, would be quite unsuitablo, not to say interference with trade and impost on opiumassafe. Twenty tons is the atmost pressure still continues..
is already enormous, while à base sum of money The loss to the British Merchants concerned hes been locked up in large and accumulating already passed into sirentation greatly to the stocks, money which would otherwise hare benefit of all-antive and foreigner, alike engaged in the trade of South China.
affairs is awaited with great interest.
The final outcome of this lamentable sinte of
Other questions which have occupied the Trade Marks Ordinance and the proposal put attention of the Committee during 1910 are the forward by the Chamber that a trade convention should be signed between Hongkon and France, in order to obtain the benefit of the minimam tariff for goods imported into French territory from this Colony.
This retrograde step was entirely opposed to the principles of the Chamber, which had repeatedly, from the first year of its existence, urged upon the Government that with a view to oaconraging shipping, no dnes of any sort should be levied on vessels visiting the port, And that under no cironmstances should ship. Throughout these fifty years many other ques ping be taxed for purposes of general revenue.
Special reference to this new impeat was made Commeros, but spacs does not admit of reference tions have been dealt with by the Chamber of at the annual meeting held on April, 1909.
The advisability of registration of trade marks others quarantine regulations affecting our to all. I may, however, mention that among and the raform of Chius's currency both osma trade, sanitary reformas, water supply, and many in for considerable discussion during 1908
During this year the Viceroy of the Two Government of the Colony, have repeatedly other matters more nearly relating to the notual Kwang again attempted to establish a monopoly received the consideration of the Chamber. In in the trade of raw opium and also isaned cor- the foregoing sketch I have endeavours to give talu rales to, regulate the trade. After con.a brief outline of the work which has been enr siderable correspondence with the British zied cut by the Hongkong General Chamber of Legation at Peking the Viceroy was once again Commeres during its first half century of induced to refrain from illegal interference existence. with the trade.
Acting under definite instructions from the record is a good one, and that successive Com It will, I think, be readily admitted that the Home Government, in consequence of a resola-mittees have worked hard, and in most instances tion passed in the House of Commons, all opiam successfully, in the interests of the Colony and divans were closed, some at once, the balanso onite trade. White fearlessly advocating views the terminat ca of their existing licences. This which they believed were in they tras Interests of
Mansor Mannlicher, and other well-known something like 20 per cent. less than in the that can safely be used in the Lee-Enfield, or
designs. This weak action has been, as pro- trouble ever since its inception, but never has dicted by The Times from the outset, a source of it boon moro apparent thau during the recent experiments carried out to design a new an- munition.
wa's Bever issued.
truly announced that a fresh cartridge had been It is now a year since Mr. Faldane prema
bullet with se aluminions, and load compound adopted. This particular one had a 160-grain addition of an supple radius at the base afforded core, but the omission of the cannoture and the the propellant gases every opportunity of gati- lag past the bullet in & worn or large barral. Bad for some reason (probably that of difficulty The cordite adopted was of the fiat strip type,
and this ammunition of loading) the result was not very satisfactory, Some compromise became inevitable, and this is represented by the new Mark VII. cartridge, which ban a bullet of 170 grains and a charge
time been in use in Americs and also on the of about 39 grains of cordite. The latter is of s wall-known tabular form, which has for some
dar they are arranged in continuous lengths Continent, but instead of the tabes being out
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the King's Norton Metal Company, whose long experience with pointed ammunition at Bisley The first to placə it on the market has been
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Hongkong Community, most of whom realized that while it would entail a serious los of revenue to Hongkong, it was more than doubt inl if it would result in curtailing in the least the amionet of opinn cousamed in the Colany.
The matter was fully discussed in the next Annual Meeting, and in the report of the Chamber for 1908 two very valuable memoranda on the opina question will be found, one written hy H.E. Sir F. Lugard and the other by Mr. Cecil Clementi.
Hongkong is still uncertsio as to whether the ball pledge made by Home Government to make good the loss sustained by the Colony in carrying out their instructions as to the closing of the divans will be made good
high British Officials, in the Far East or at Home, were disinclined to agree with them, they have, by strictly confining themselves to such questions as rightly fall within their province and invariably gained the rapest and goodwill of the by their moderation of expression, almost offoials, even when failing to secure the full support they desired.
and consideration which has, at all events ofrecent It is only right to pises on cord the coartess
of Commerce by the officials of this Colony, and years, invariably been socorded to the Chamber I doubt if anyone now resident in Hongkong gan recall a single instance in his own experience where the reverse has been the case.
obtained from that soured the mean observed vulocity of fire rounds (observed at 90ft) was found to be 2,392ft per second, the mean differ- enon being 2ft. per second. The mean pressure 1835 tons. Accuracy iliagrams taken from 20 of five rounds heated to 120 degrees Fabr, was rounds fired at 600, 800, and 1,000 yards, proved ever, ko chiefly centred in the trajectory, which quite satisfactory. Military interest will, bow:
the Mark VI. That of the German Spitze" is height of 8ft, 4i, as against the 13ft, din. of over a distance of 800 yards has a maximum
6ft. 10in.
The Way Office would, therefore, appear to controversies which at times took place between service design of smmunition. The original This is a very marked advance on the bitter regarded as a distinct advance upon the present have arrived at a compromise which may bo the leading members of the Mersatile Cou-anticipations, however, of a cartridge giving at munity and the higher local officials in the earlier days of the Colony.
During this year, owing to the withdrawal of the Government grant the Chambor had to torminste the arrangement which had been ja force for upwards of 30 years for the publication of political telegrams received through Renter's Agency. In the early days of the Chamber the question of receiving a regular supply of reliable telegrams was constantly before the Committee, and for several years figured largely in the correspondence, more parat heart, ticularly with the Shanghai, Chamber. In view of the importanos attached at the time to the mutter, an importance which we, now living under Euch different conditions, can hardly rea- lize, the change demands more than a passing roference.
The proposed new Japanese tariff early in this year came before the Committes, and it was con- sidered advisable to at once circulate the papers on the subject, which had been submitted to the Committee, to the Members of the Chamber,
600 yards tha mi imum trajectory required for cont ane, much to the benefit of the Colony in if a 150-grain bullet had been adopted Thongh The existing state of affairs will, we believe. it may be argued that it would have been better military purposes have not yet been faifilled, and which we official or anoffi is the residents of on a windy day the latter would not have been Hongong, re all so deeply interested, and squally popular with the Bisley shooting whose prospority and progress we have so much man, the trajectory would, on the other been the history of Hongkong for the past 50 of the "Spitze," and a considerable advantage
The history of the Chamber of Commerce has 6ft 2in., or about 8in.
hand, have been lowered to about years, and this intimate relationship between our would have been gaiced without any appreciable less than that
must continus, if our wish for the advancement Chamber and the Government of Hongkong loss of striking energy at effective ranges. of our Colony is to be realized.
EDBERT A HEWETT. Hongkong, Zud February, 1911
who were then asked to make such comments as BRITISH NAVAL STRENGTH IN THE might appear desirable. The question bas, it is understood, bean strongly taken up at lions, and.
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It is therefore to be hoped. that the present measures taken to improve the rervice ammuni tion may be looked upon as to posted which and that A new ride will abortly, be will be capable of withstanding the necessary pressures of a modern high-velocity earlridge. It iz, of course, well known that the question of an automatic rifle la under consideration, but in the opinion of the majority of military and rifle experts the chances of its adoption are too remote to justify further delay in the provision
SCOTCH WHISKY. During this year the Chamber hud again to and Agamemnon will relieve the Swiftsure and of a satisfactory single-loading magazine rifo.
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