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dustrially,apart from agricultural pursuits, the Japanese for centuries were a nation of artiste, working with that freedom from re- straint common to artiste, producing at very small cost for purely local markets, artistic work which in the larger world Japan joined, when she was forced to abandon her policy of seclusion, commands prices anormously in excess of the actual cost of their produs. tion. To-day her people are thoroughly imbued with the spirit of modern com mercialism. Mammon is now worshipped before Art, and as the industrial revolution

Shanghai is converged at the posable reeur- rence of bubonic plague in the Bettlement,

It is anggested in northern newspaper that the destenotion of Kitin by fire msy ben blesa- ing in disguise, as it will afford an opportunity in rabaílding to make Kicin a model city.

The P. & O. Steam Navi ration Company have arranged to despatch the steamer Maloja from London to Bombay to meet the convenience of the publis desirous of attending the coroantion Darbar at Debhi.

As will be seen from our advertising columna,

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DAILY PRESS.

May 30th SIR,-I have heard, on what I four is good authority, that part of the top floor of the now Government Buildings has been loaned as the Consulate-General of the U.3.A. This is surely a vary brilliant conception, only to be surpassed if the representative of His Japanese

CANTON.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Canton, May 29th

THE FLOODA.

The heavy rains exportanced hero show no sign of abating, and the river is very high inteed. Many of the low-lying strasta in Sui Kwan are inches deep in water, while in Honam the case is even worse. At high tide the vacant spaces in front of the Housin Toinples, which are mostly used as landing places, are completely under water, and long planks have

proceeds in Japan it is becoming more and the Donglas 8. B. Company is despatching the handed over to-day to the Yu Chuan Majesty should also hoist bis fag over this roof had to be fetched in order that people may stop stoamer Haiyang to Bwataw, Fooohow, and Po. Lord Li Chin Fong becomes the and thus take a long strido towards the realize into the forry-boats dryskod. Last night there tion of Baron Uchida's ambition "to see the was a very heavy rainstorm, and although it Wakamatsu. Cabin passengers will be hooked departmental chief and Mr. Pirie the Armanent hung with the mingled splendours of did not last long, the downpour was terribo. at special rates to the Japanese port.

two banners-The Stars and Stripes of America and the Enn-flag of Japan." Picture, sir, the Residents will be glad to learn that the Hong

inaccent delight of our cousins as they enter the Harbour and soe."God's Own Flag" on such kong, Canton and Macao B.S. Company are placing the two £ne steamers Heun lan and finshan on the orcursion trips to Masso, during the holidays, Sanday and Whit Monday, the 4th and 5th proximo.

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more evident that by the time the Japanese reach the standard of productive capacity reached by the commercial nations of the West the seeming advantage of cheap labour which she started in the race. will have disappeared, and cheap labour will mean inefficient labour in Japan just as it does elsewhore. Even to-day we find so competent a judge as the well-known Tokyo correspondent of The Times affirming that if we go to the bottom of the question and consider what is being paid as wages and what is being obtained as the product of labour in Japan, we may find that

Japanese labour is not cheaper than labour

One of the police messengers was held up by abbors in the Now Territory on Monday. When returning from Saikung to Kowloon City, and when in the vicinity of Casteme Pars, the mos-- songer was waylaid by two Chinese who throw him to the ground, rabbed cement in his eyes, rifod his pockets and escaped with $1.50

administrative chief with full control of the staff. The details are consider ed satisfactory.

BEUTER'S SERVICE TO THE "KONGKONG

DAILY FRESS."} RUSSIA AND TURKEY

a setting!

Our Chiness fellow-subjects will no doubt feel that the prestige of the "British Raj had clothed, what we may perhaps be permitted to call the cradeness of American methods. Yours faithfully,

W. L. CARTER.

From the country districts come pitiful talas of whole villages being under water, of rice field, hopelessly inundated and of general distress, These foods have como at a most inopportune,

moment, for taking advantage of the troubles that occurred at the beginning of the mouth, the dealers in rice, oil dad drowood have seen fit to put up their prices enormously, and the poorest section of the people is in very great) distress. Just now the hot season is coming in, and the diapers and clothiers expect to do a brisk trade in light garments, but I am told that owing to the general unrest, rise ja prios of necessities and consequent, posorty arising therefrom, the clothing trade in almost at n standstill, and it is estimated that the traile in

one-fifth of what it did for the corresponding month of last year. I have been told by people well advanced in age that the present year

LONDON, May 30th, Turkey replying to the Russian note of the 25th instant protesting

THE GOVERNORSHIP OF MACAO. against the concentration of Turkish

We have received from Macao a letter sigard in other countries.". We notice also that

troops on the border of Montenegro by four promituout residents asking us to con- articles to the value of 5,365 yet were salvaged says that she is astonished and pained/tradict a statement made by our Mauso Corres pinen goods and foreign goods does not reach more recently still Mr. CLARENCE POE, AR

pondent that the Chinese were being canvassed American writer, who has been studying from the British cruiser Bedford which was by Russia's representations. Turkey's to defray the cost of a telegram to Lisbon this same question in Japan, arrives at a wrecked off Queipart Island in July last. The precisely similar conclusion. Because articles salvaged consist of 40 cases of gna. Japan made a dramatic appearance upon powder, 560 kwau of copper and brass, 19. pipes

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the scene of the world as a great Military and Maritime Power, people have been too prone to conclude that she will appear with equal suddenmass and success as a first. class Commercial Power: Upon this point | we cannot do better than reproduce the words which Mr. Pox quotes as being those of a Japanese statos: In the old handicrafts and family industries to which our people have been accustomed, we can beat the world; but the moment we turn to modern industrial maolinery on a large

scale, the newness of our endeavour tells

against us in a hundred hindering ways. Numbers of times I have sought to work out some industrial policy which had suc

It is reported that during Maroli and April

and some other articles.

The return of visitors to the City Hall Library Museum for the week ending the 23th May shows that of non-Chiness there were 404 to the Library and 139 to the Museum, and of Chinese 185 to the former and 2.044 to the latter. The Library was therefore used by 589 persons and the Massum by 2.183...

Governor-General W. Cameron Forbes of the Philippines is planning to leave the Islands about March 15th next, on about eight months vacation which he will spend in his home in

Massachusetts, and on his ranch in Wyoming. This will be the first vacation enjoyed by the Governor-General in over three years. Daring the absenes of Governor General Forbes, the duties of his office will be performed by Vicer

patience towards the reprehensible conduct of Montenegrins shows that

Turkey has no hosule intentions.

THE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL..

LONDON, May 300. The House of Commons has passed the second reading of the Mr. Lloyd George's State Insurance Bill.

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.

LONDON, May 30th. Mr. Lloyd George in the House of Commons to-day promised a week's

urging the confirmation of Livut. Machado as Governor of Masas. The signatories to that letter write as though our correspondent sug- gested that the Chinese were being asked to pay for a telegram which Portuguese residents were sending, but we have a further uute from par Correspondent explaining that two telegrams have been sent to Lisbon, sus paid for by Fortuguese and one by Chinese. He is that the Chinese telegram cost over a hundred dollars, and that the money was collooted by a Chinese in the police service, the subscribers being some of the principal Chinese firms and resiloats of the City..

promises to be a record one in many rapcode,

for novor have prices ruled so high within the memory of man as at present. With the superstition that characterises these people the recent earthquake shock is mid to be the cause of the foods and the large amount of sickness that prevails in the sity.

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CHEAPER HOUSE EENT.

Although the "Eight Banner Settlement” in supposed to be populated only by Manohṇa, it a fact that very large numbers of Cantonese have rented houses therein, One effect of the late troubles has been to scare all these families. out of the Settlement, and even many Manchna THE QUEEN-MOTHER OF SIAM.

in fear of the massacre that would inevitably follow a successful rising have removed to other Her Majesty the Queen Mother of Siam localities. As a result it is stated that at a attended by H.R.H. Prince Devawongse, Minis-low estimate two-fifths of the houses in thi tor for Foreign Affairs, H.R.H. Prince Nareer, Settlement are vacant and the landlords are to Her Majesty, Admiral Phya Rajawangsan of proporty holders in this district it wad re- and Mr. Luang Banthoru, received His Ex solved that all rents be lowered twentyper cent. celleney the Governor at-4 o'clock on Monday in order to indace persons to take the vacant houses. The police are also feeling a loss, for the exodus of so many families from the city has caused hundreds of houses to be rendered tonantless and the polico tax (ton par soat. on the monthly rate) is thus lost.

ELECTRIC LIGHT.

ceeded, and could, not but have succeeded, Governor Nawton W. Gilbert, who is expected discussion on the Women's Suffrage Minister of Public Works, Prince Oscar, A.D.Closing considerably. At a recent meeting

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unconsidered elements of a different envirou

ment, a totally different stage of industrial evolution. Warriore from the beginning and with a record forcontinuous government, unsurpassed by any European country, our political and military achievements are but the fruitage of our long history; but in in dustry we must simply wait through patient generations to reach the stage represented by the Englishman, Irishman, or Germain, who takes to machinery as if by instinct." No words, it secos to us, can more admir ably interpret the situation, and it would seen from what Mr. Pog, writes on the

subject that it has become palpable to very many leaders in Japan's industrial revolu.

to return from are in the United States in

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Bill next session.

THE VETO BILL.

LONDON, May 30th. The House of Lords has passed the

Tho wedding took place on May 22nd in the Armonian Church of St. Gregory, at Singapores of M. Horoanjieff, moont officer of the Rus sian. Votnrteer Flest steamer Vorosej, and Mademoiselle de Wywodzuff, only daughter of second reading of the Parliament Bill M. Artomi de Wywolzaff, Consul-General without a division. for Russia in Singapore. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. N. P. Paul, the Vicar of THE POPE AND PORTUGUESE the Church, and the reception was held at Waringa Hall, the residence of the bride's parents. The newly-married couple Inter on went on board the Voronef and left for Odessa,

No one will be surprised, says the Japan

Mal of May 20th, to hear that couider able naousiness is felt about the silk crep this year. The climatic changes have been quite

REPUBLIC.

LONDON, May 30th, In a Papal Encyclical. His Holiness vehemently condemns the anti-religious acts of the Portuguese Republic.

DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM GILBERT.

LONDON, May 30th.

Sir William Gilbert is dead.

The news of the death of Sir William

afternoon.

1.2.1. Prince Devawongse, on behalf of Her Majesty, returned the call at Government lease the same evening,

ARMED ROBBERY AT JUNK BAY!

At ten o'clock on Monday night a number of

Some two weeks ago 1 reported that a scars.

robbers visited the lonely home of a widow who was caused in the Military Bureau by the yeefdes at Hanghow, nour Jaak Bay.. Tag | sudden extinction of the electric light. The woman was alone when a knock sounded on the Viceroy has now ordered the Electrio Light door. On inquiring who was there a man Company to lay a maja cable right up to this ordered her to open the door, informing her building. Estimates have been prepared and that he and his friends were excise officers, and had the work will, it is said, take a week to perform, come to search for opinm. The door was opened The cost will amount to nearly 2500.

PROTECTING THE STREETS,

and six mon entered, five of whom carried ter ohas, while the sixth was armed with a revolver. After the late rising many of the principal The woman was ordered to hand over the Leys streets enlisted men to act as guards during the abnormal. Last Starday the thermometer

of her boxes, and when they obtained these the hears of darkness. A somewhat novel arrange- tion that Japanese factory labour when stood at 68 dag. F., and on Sunday it registered

robbers opened the boxes, remored all the valu-ment has been made in the case of Wai Oi reduced to terms of efficiency is not greatly 61 in Tokyo. On Sunday night and Monday

ables they could find therein, and appropriating Street, which is a very long thoroughfare cheaper even now than European. As time morning show fell in Nagano, and frost was

every other article worth removing, they traversing the old City from West to East. departed with booty valued at $190,

Thit street is divided into a number of sections goes on wo bolove that whatever small reported from other agricultural districts.

each under the governance of a number of tho advantage yet remains will tend to disap-Scarcely a voir passes without alarm on this Hongkong Offiun: 10a, DES VEUT BOLD O pear. The standard of living in rising score, but it must be confessed that the varis

prizeipal traders. Tustead of enlisting guards. each shop is soading out one foki who will do steadily in Japan, and Imperial rescripts tions of temperature this season have bou quite

out of the common. The beat has been prema livan is fonomerable opens has made his

sight duty in the vicinity of his smployer's against the luxurious tendencies of the age are sad the coll bolated,

aame practically a heasehold word, and no We understand that Messra. Macdonald & shop. It is said that this is likely to prove a do little to check them. State exigencies

better appreciation of his ingenious humour have required the imposition of heavy taxes

can be found than the use of the word "Gil, engineers and contractors. Hongkong more efficient scheme of defence and thenper hara seonrad an important contract from the than biring a guard, for most of the fokie bertian to describe certain ludicroussituations. on the untion. Wages in the skilled trades

He was born in 1839, bacanie a burvister of Government of Moas for the improvement of having some small share in the shop in which the Inser Templa in 1864, and was have risen enormously in the last decade or so, and as the industrial movement develops,

Macas correspondent informed as last week that use graator vigilance.

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The Daily Press.

BONGKONG. MAY 318, 19:1.

Admiral Ching, who is on his way to England with a Chinese oruizer for the Coronation Laval review, has been interviewed at Colombo, In

Gilbert will be received with genuine regret throughout the Empire. His work with Sut.

HARBOUR IMPROVEMENTS AT MACAO.

his romarks were not without interest. The (Milltis). He was knighted in 1901, 1970 on Friday the Acting Governor had received a

ano things he, was rather reficent, but, even RO of the Royal Aberdeenshire Flims cant harbour. No details are to hand, but our they are employed will be more likely to

which has been so much discussed during creating greater competition for labour, and report says Rear-Admiral Ching did not care 10 and Ealates, 1871; The Wicked telegram staling that the Lisbon Government to Western in the Pacifie, but remarked that it looked as if 1874; Broken Charity, 1874 Cabh: Tal granted the sum of $162,000 for the harbour

Tar highly protective tariff of Japan

as the standard of living continues to apsay much with reference to the balance of power

the past six months has probably induced

are-The

1873;

Sweethearte,

lation in Japan, nor the growing strength He did

China. The Chiuese people were wak-digora; The Yeomen of the Guard: The

of trade unionism, which way be counted i

tions on present sources of profit. So that, all things considered, it is not difficult to be lieve that before Japanese skilled labour has attained to Western proficiency the Japanese manufacturor will have lost any advantage he way have reckoned upon as accruing from the cheapness of labour.

gress was very slow in China, but China WAR

It was their nature to be slow. Some

of the people were patriotic and some were not; there were so many different races of people. Progress, however, was taking place, and their endeavour to re-organise their ntry and army

was sa indication of it..

DOG CATCHES A THIEF.

[FROM THE H.-C. DAILY NEWS."] COUNTY CRICKET.

London, May 25th.

CULTIVATION BY ELECTRICITY.

EXPERIMENTS IN KOREA.

Heart, 1876; in the countrios of the West a good deal of proximate more and xaore quiet reflection on the commercial Futurs of standards, the tendency of wages to rise is Japan would be the fature predominant by Jury: Dan'l Druce; Ne'er De Weel, improvements at Macao,

Foggerty's Fairy Comedy and Trogoly Burcerer, H.M.S. Japan. After the close of the war between certain to continue. Then, again, we cannot Power, The Japanese were a very patriotlo 1878; Gretchen, 1879;

Tinafore; Pirates of Penzance; Patience; Japan and China in 1806, when the Japanese disregard the democratie tendency of legis people. China, however, would still live long.

not believe in the particion of Folanthe Princess Ido; The Mikado; Ind- nation with an appearance of feverish haste began to prepare for an industrial conquest,

ing up, but not the majority. If the Chinese Gondoliers: Utopia, Limited; The bounte

banks;

His Excellency; The Grand Duke; was air uncommon to read confident upon to move in the direction of bring only woke in the same way that Japan did, The Fairy's Dilemma: Bab Hallads. More predictions that, with the immense reserves the factory legislation more inte line with Chins would be the Power of the fafars. Pro Bab Ballads, etc.] of cheap labour which the Asiatic countries that of other countries, thus imposing restric posscas, and the great imitative capacity of

always slow, and it was better to be late than the Japanese and the Chinese, the day was

never. not far distant when the Asiatic marketa would be profitless to the European and American manufacturers who had boon at such labour to create them. The industrial revolution of Japan has since that time been steadily progressing. She has built up a great shipbuilding industry; established many cotton mills, sugar refinerius and engineering works, and, in short, fins entered upon all those branches of industrialism which seam to promise success in competi tion against the European in Asiatic markets. Yet industrially Japan is still in her infaucy; but even at this stage of her progress we think it may be said that her experionce is revealing the truth of a prediction we remember to have heard expressed more than a decade ago by one of

· Japan's most enthusiastic admirers that the Western nations were being frightened by a bogey when they anticipated that labour in Japan would still remain cheap as Japan continued to develop along new lines. In-

It is proposed to form a Chamber of Com- merce for Ipoh,

Dumping of corpses in now said to be a practice in Singapore among the Chinese.

In the matches played on May 22, 23 and 24: Northamptonshire beat Gloucestershire at Northampton by ten wickets; Kent bent Middlesex at Lord's by 172 runs: Yorkshire beat Worcestershire at Dudley For the third time in its career F.C. Bond's by ten wickets Warwickshire beat Leicester dog has distinguished itself by running to earth abire at Birmingham by nine wickets; a thief who in all probability would have other-Derbyshire beat Lancashire at Manchester wise escaped the grip of the law. While patroll-

LOCAL SPORT,

LAWN TENNIS LEAGUE.

WIOWAN 2 CLUB DE RECKÉIO.

This match resulted in a win for Wigwam by 55 games to 43.

WIGWAM.

Brandtmae and Fittosk Jeffries and Wolff... Chilvers and Konnott

Total

CLUB DE SECREIO, Remedios and Listas Pirin and Gaiterrez Rosic and Remedios

Total

A new departure is to be made in the cultiva tion of ginseng at Kaisong by the Ginseng Monopoly Bureau of the Financial Department by utilising the electrotropisin (susitiveness to electricity)

of the plant. Western scienes has found that certain vegetables attain more rapid and greater development by the help of electri city, and the method has been exployed with fair amocess over small areas. The Seoul. From #tates that the authorities, always keen in the cultivation of

sscientific discovery might be turned to some account in it. We are now told time ago that hisans, concived the idea some

that they have decided upon trying it. The dry air in Korea is regarded as peculiarly

18 SUNSTROKE AN ACCIDENT P. favorable to the adoption of the method, for it retards considerably the dispersion and enn-

Is sunstroke au accident? Such was the sequent waste of the current. The current will be passed through the stem by means of wiree question which had to be decided at Salford a day, that is, at 2am and 2 p.m. If the Road, Salford, claired damages under the Work- supported by the covaring frames over the fields Conaty Court vlen Arthur Davies, Trafford mothod proves mocesaini, it is expected the men's Compensation Act from Gillespie

yields Barton, 01

which Davies was formerly Krst Petesen ¥1,500 and Y2,000 a ton every five officer Davies, it was stated, was on board

the ginseng area at Kabong

is stated that the prospective superintending the stowage" of cargo in the and it Teara, increase will far more than suffles to cover the West Indies when he was struck down by the increased oxpense which the application of sun. Partially unconscious, bs groped his way. electricity will entail. Is Japan Proper the to the cabin, and found ho could not seo. He Nishigahara Experimental Farm is the only improved, but it was admitted on both sides institute making experiments in the use of that he was now partially blind. The defence was that the blinduem was not caused by mn. electricity in euluivation.

stroke or by un nooident arising out of employ ment; while it was further admitted that injury

injury

throngh frost and lightning, which were not deemed to have resulted from socident within the meaning of the Workmen's Com pensation Act Judgment was reserved.

The police have been notified of the larceny ing Bouha Strand Constablo Bond obey two runs: Cambridge University beat increase by ten per cent. in value. At Nichol, of Glasgow, owner of the steamship

of the $6 worth of brass caps and other articles from the Kowloon Decks.

For having skeleton keys in his possession Mr. Wood at the Magistracy yesterday sentenced In Chiness to fourteen days' imprisonment..

Two Chiness have boon arrested on suspiolon of being concerned in the recent attempted armed robbery at Shanghai Street, Taurati.

The dead body of a Chinese male was found

Sussex at Cambridge by 41 runs; and the a man extracting goods from a shop window match between Surrey and Essex at the from which he bad cut away a square of wire

Oval was drawn. netting. The thief also saw the policaman when he was some distance off, and took to his hesis. Constable Bond gave chase, but was no match as a sprinter for the thief, and the latter

THE HAREM SKIRT.

crop W present the

Much interest wis taken to-day, saye s tele. was rapidly outdistancing his parauer when the gram from Melbourne of May 2nd, in a case at the dog joined in the chase. Overtaking the Chinese Ballarat Curt in which a firm of drapers prese he seized him by the trousers and hold him until charged with having obstructed the footpath by| LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENT through munstroke was in the same nategory s

the policeman took him in charge. At the athibiting two ladies attired in harem skirte in their shop window, as the result of which a large Magistracy yesterday Mr. Hazsiand sentenced crowd assembled on the footpath. The proceed- on board the river steamer Honum on Monday the thief to two months' imprisonment withings were taken under the Police Offences Act

hard labour and six hours' stooks.

The defendants were fined £1.

while that vessel was-tying alongside her wharf.

The str. Ischia left Singapore for this port on the 29th instant, and may be expected here on or about the 5th prox.