RUBBER SHARES,
SINGAPORE QUOTATIONS.
Singapore, October 3, 1911, -
Messus, LTALL AND EVATT'S Lasr.]
Nom. Valus,
24 Allagar
Za Allagar Options
21 Anglo-JavD...
1 Anglo-Johore
Za Anglo-Malay
£1
Anglo-Samitra
1 Ayer Kuning
28 Batan
1 Banton Malako El Bato Caves
1 Bath Tign
-1 Bouafort Borneo
1 Bukit Kejang
1 Hukt Lintang
2. Bakit Mertajamo...
El Bukit Rafal
Za Bakit Selangor 163 pd.
El Carey United 58. p.d....
1' Casti-fold
24 ChersoneKO
Te Chimpal...
options
Consolidated Malay
Buyers Sellers -
3x3 3xing 1s 1-10) 43-49 6x3 7ab
16×44 1-766
5786 58-9 *18.9
218
40x 462
· 189 1911
215 235 iv.
71-3 78-9
18-3 20.6
41*6 44x
75% 80*
2*4. 2-101 240$
2209
1s dix, 6 dia,
€3.949 pm
11°N 120H
3M3 3+9
189
1×2 184
· 9-3
190.210-
3×104
82-6 89-9
8046-90-
2 Closly Ord
31-6 35-
Prof
31-6 35-6
16+3 17-73
£ Damenaza
105
115
1 Dunistown
22
25-6
2a Edinburgh
Ba
£1 Foderated Belangor
2 Galang Besar...
El Galoon da
1 Golden Hope
***
1
29
Heawood
રા
Highlands & Lowlanda
483 4x7x liv 7889 83×6 edit.
1
Inch Kenneth
160
157
25 Jasin
181
7x21
6s
128
1086 put. 14H
9x6 11-3,
2×10 386
59 5.10
£1 Jehoro R. Laude 10s-pil
1 Jura
2 Kampong Kyantang.
Za Kamuning 18-pd
静心
El Kapar Pare
1 Kepifigalia
£1 Kepong
I.pd.
J
Za Kota Tinggi
£1 Kuala Lumpar
28 Laba (F.M.8.)
21 Lanadron
1
Led bury f.pd
1
7a 755
172-6: 190
-136-3 14766
FMM.
983 10x6 x div.
1158 1258
28 "23
11746
12883
9x 10 xix.
1286 pd:
29 Linggi Ord.
Za London Axiatio
El Lamt 168. pd.
1 Malacca 747 Prof.
3786 3966x div.
1358 150
40s 44-3x div.
valer Falmer &
The Wine Merchany of the Case
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 16TH, 1911.
IN PIER JOHNSTONES
*SQUARE BOTTLE"
WHI KY.
UNVARIED FOR OVER
150 YEARS.
-
:---
TH SAMF TO-DAY AS IN
1745.
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
POLE AGENTE IN HONGKONG
LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.,
sul from ALL WINE MERCHANTA
156
SHANGHAI SHARE QUOTATIONS ON 5TH OCTOBER, 1911.
[J. Bisser & Co.'s Inst.} -
COMPANY
QUOTATION
Banke,-
Hongkong Fire..........
Shell Trans. I ord
& Trading pref Sbai Tug & praf. Lightor... ord Koolien Fransport-j ntion & Fow-Boat)
Docks & Wharve
CHINA'S GREATEST PUZZLE.
John Chinamaz delights in a puzzle. In many ways he is a puzzle himself. Flist, per- haps, in why he is so hard to understand at times. Give him a puzzle and watch what he
INTIMATION
THE PATHS OF COMMERCE even to the utmost
doss with it. I have done so many a time. Mark parts of the Earth are followed by the Remington,
In every clime and every nation-it is the Standard
SIEMSSEN & Co.,
SOLE AGENTS
FOR
JONGKONG, CANTON AND SOUTH CHINA AND FORMOSA.
his bland smile as he handles it. Now he in. vestigates its twistings and turnings-he te beginning to play with it. At intervali he lays it dat on the pain of one hand and squints a aloss scrutiny of its intricacies. Then he sets Typewriter. to work squat lit-lain The visible lines from hie nove gradually strvtch in the direction of his ears as the solution of the problem becomes more and more obsoure. You reciprocate his grin, for Johu, with the utmost air of self-assurance, in tugging at what is now a hopeless tangle. Whon he has increased the puzzle of the puzzle about a hundredfold ho tosses it back to you, beaming a "Hey presto!" smile as of some Eastern magi. cian who has just vanished an elephant or sh equally bulky article into thin air. If you and John are but newly acquainted you are non- pinssed by his trumphant altitude. You try to explain to him that he is smiling nuder false pratonces, as it were. That puzzle still remains unsolved; in fact, bis manipulation les anrvod. only to multiply its diffoultion. But Joha smiles on
his grin of satisfaction brandena in direct ratio to the strength of your profeet No degree of oxasperation on your part will straighten John's features, Ha nods an ex ressive "Eureka!" and, Oliver Twist-like. asks for "moro." To the Western mind the Chingman's conceit at having magnified the perplexity of the puzzle is incomprehensible. The stranger in his ignorance thought John's Braffe was born of confidence in his ability to do the trick. It wasn't. Its raison d'être Was a knowledge of and hereditary delight at big a
capacity to create further complications. Appreciation of the Chinese point of view in this regard is essential if we desire to gauge the magnitude of the task which a select number
of
-MEN-OF-WAR ON THE CHINA-
AND JAPAN STATION.
BRITISH
Alacrity, despatch-boat. 700 tons, 4 post, 2,000 ih.p. Comdr, A. Lowndes, Tingtao. Astrea, 2nd class cruiser, 4.360 toes, it guns, 7,000 .h... Captain E. B. Kiddle, en route to Hongkong. Atlas, admiralty tar, 615 tons, 1.40
k.p.
Master 8. West, Hongkong. Bramble, gunboat 710 tone, 900 ihp Liew
Comdr. B. G.. Washington Shanghai. Britomart, gunboat; 710 tous, 900 h.p.. Lieut.
Comdr. J. M. Barker, Tanglaze. Cadmus, British sloop, 1,070 tons. h.p. 1,400
f.d., Comdr, H. Lynes, Shanghai. Cherab, water tank and tug, 390 tons. i.h.p 340.
Master W. Smith, Hongkong.
ls, British aloop, 1,070 tons, ihn 1.400. Comdr. H. R. Veale, on route to Shanghai, Fame, torpedo-boat destroyer. 340 tuak.
6
guns, 5,700 i.h.p., Lt.-Comdr. H. B. Monroe, cruising
[533-11,
1.
Munch, surreygodep. lpeth to 86)
900 1.5, o amander. Ragot de la fronsto Salzen
Wonquet, destroyer, 30 to 7 g. 631
hp Vincider dil Kobe A THUYẾT H Saigon
Hey, river gunters) 17etana, dizuna, 300e 2 p.
Tápur, de Mundri Upper Yang Peibo, river ganhost, hetons, 4 genug, 2801 h. Perte, sul marine, 70 Cone, 60 up. Lieul MóOD
Livut. Pa, Tough -
Pistolet, dextrous, 30tons, 2 h, 2.1 p.
pier, Saigon
Commander Mortened, flogeny. Protés, sub-mariue, 70 Lous, 60 hp, Liem Redoutable, bakedup (r-ercy, 9,334 tons
Morris, danger.
Styx, roared gaabat, 1,45) toas, 3 gene 87 guns, 6.2 hot, Dagt. Drum, Balgon
Takou, destroyer, 280 sms, 6 gaad 6,500 hp,
1,800 6.9. Lien. Borio, algon.
Vauban, torpedo depot. Commander Mortenol,
In Reserv Saigon Hanguy
Liv. this, Ong
Vétéran, torpedo-topot,
Saint-Jac
Vigilante, rivergaɑhow, B50 tons, & gen. 7 h.y
Lieut. Danial, Seasde
I exports in the currency of the Chinese Empire have set themselves. They have been meeting in London of recent days with the object, it is stated the utmost secrecy is maintained souverning the proceedings of endeavouring to formalite a workable sobems for placing the currency yof the Far East on a more commercial and aniform. basis. The subject is fraught with diflorities of the most intense description, and is sur- rounded with such a wealth of financial consid- erations extending to Western Europe oud-j» America that it is not surprising to learn that Handy, torpedo-bost destroyer 295 tona, 6 guns, Aroons, draiser. 2,719) tous Captain von Hippe 4603225, sales &lmy. the deliberations of thing kopt respecting 2,000 h.p., Lient.-Comdr. Hon. Guy Stoptis, gunbost, 1,000 ton, 10 gun
Amoy meeting in question. ford, Hongkong. An attempt is being made to straighten out Janus, torpedo-boat destroyer, 320-tons, 6 China's greatest pazzle. The topsy turvinass of 3,900 h.p., Lt.-Comdr. M., B. R. Blackwood her currency is unique.
- oruising.
$100 $625, les yers
et Tls, 158, buyers
$50
$206, sales $50 $862), sellers $128), buzera
-$20
Tla: 49, sellers
78/6
£11.0.0, nom.
Tls. 174, sellars Ts. 46, buyers
T50 Tls. 30, sollore
Hongkong & S'ha.......,
Itaurando:-
$125 3035, ba
Union Society C'ta North-China
663
736 rts.
55*3
Yangleze Assocn. Canton
6236
2286 2685 pm.
Chin Fire.....
10% 11
10% 14%
pm.
Shipping:-,
Indo-China prut.
det.
}:45
1
Ord
140a
155x
Bi
As
Merliman
3H6
Options
184
3a10 1#101
410
T50
£1 Mount Austin
27-6
143 x dis.
1 N/Hammock 16s 6 pd.
586 658 pm.
28 Padang Jawa
2-3 2,73
2a Palating
24 Pelopsh
36 4a1+
Za Perak
6:3
73
£1 Permane
1836.
21. s
par 28
pin.
1
Rembis Prof.
215
248
d. 363
40%-
2x8
Muing
784 856 pia.
19286 215%
Bab Australian ... Chino Eng. & Min.
મા
21
Tis. 14), sellers
21a3 23x9
88.9
97-6 396 43-3xdir.
and
'bal Investment
T50
H'kong Investment
$100
Tla, 92, sales $:00.
3.
4.
Humphreya' Setata
10
65a 713
Wibeiwei
12
Tik. 41
55-6183
156
42-5
Migo-Fiendl
10%
Tis: 60, nom,
Buyers
3x9 4-3
5413
5472
Plantations
876 96-3
Alina Estates, Id.. Ayer Viwan Rubber'
£1
65%
73×3
Pation Co., Ld...
T
10×9 116
...
02-6
27-6
TIO
21
24 Port Dickson 86 pd.
1. R. Eat of Johore 15
28 R Est of Krinn.
£1 E. Invest Trant. 10s pl.
1 Sorg
1 Supong
1 Seafield
Zselangor
***
Sendayan
24 Bengal
£1 Seraming...
1 Wilford
£1
29 Straits 8. Bertam
2- 8ingapore Para
£1 Straits Rubber
2 Snastra Pars
£1 Sungai Choh
2s Sungei Karar
£1
Sungai Kriau Prof
1.Sungei Salak
1 Sungai Way......
1 Tanjong Malim 12s6 pd.
1
Tangkab Prof
1 Tebrau
Trembye
United Srdang
1 United Sua Betone
2 Buited-Sum Al·YA —
21R3 94
Bx6 9.04
€3×6 75×x¬dly 10. 110
19 dis Is pm. 2016
1083
56×3 61-9
*92K6 9899
9296 300 218
2326
2 United Temisang 183 pd. 84, dia 13 di
2 Vald' Or
2 Vallambrosn
Tam Song.
$1 Alor Gajah
-20 Ayer Hitam
1 Aper Koning
1 Ayer Moluk ...
5 Ayer Panas
1 Bal ownin......
Bukit Timah...
1 Bukit K B
10 Changkat Perdana
10 Cheris, 38 på
El Duff......
31 Glousaly
10 Henrietta, 88 pl.
10 Ludragiri
Jinb
5 Kalemsk, $4 pd
5 Fa
5
I Malake, Pinda
2 Malakoff
5 Mantin, 4.25
5
Merui
2 New Serendab
5 New Singapore
1 Nualas
Paiam
་་་
1 Pautai...
10 Pegob
1.10 283
25-9-29844 div.
7841
8N6 $1.40 1.45.
34.00, 3600 0.55 0 65 1.85 1.90 4,70 4.80 7.50 8.00 6 rts.
8.00 10.00
0.67)
0721
490 5.05
2.50
3.00pm,
3.75 4.00 1.5 160 6.00 7.25
100 dia. par
*5.41
50
0.30 0.35 3.00 dis 2.75 dis
1.85 2.05 1.15 1.25.
0.55 0.621 1.75 1.85
40.59
0.50 dis, par 0.90 12.5 1.95 2.00 4.90 0.35 0.373
10 Pulau Balang, $2.50 på. 1.50
Punggor
5 Radella.
Sandycroft...
PEN
2 Singapore & Jobora... 950
2 Sungei Bagan
500-
9.75
9.50
1.00
29.00
0.40
1.05 28,50 1.25 die.
0.55
9.00 10.00
.. 16.50 17.00 a dív
10.00
0,70
0,75 16.00
0:50
055
3.90
4 05
0:65
0.76
0.50
0 521
060
0.55
1 United Singapore
1.05
1.10 $117.50 127,50
10 St. Helena
5
Tambaiak
Telak
troray
2 Trafaluar
1 Ulu Pandan
1: United Malacon
Rs. 50 Jabong
"WITH DOG AND GUN IN THE NEW TERRITORY."
B
EING the Series of Articles récently contributed to the "HONGKOND DAILY PRES" by "Sportsman," reproduced an book
form
PRICE ONE-DOLLAR,"
Hongkong, 29th October, 1910.
S'hai Dock & Eug.... H:& W. Dock ...... 8. & O'kew Winrf... H. K'toon W. & G......! Yangtase
Clin
Chempedak Domba Rabhere.. Kalumpong Rabher K. Java Fation, L. Son wang R'ber... Sha ghai-umatra
Tobacco TR.&T.Estato Co.-
Coltons, etc
Internationale
Laod Kung Mow.. Say Choos
--Shanghai Cocton
Industrial:-
.
T100 Tls. 80, buyers
$50 Tl. 51 TIT. 93, buyers
850 650 T100 Tls. 180
Star Chamber silonce is
*
The week-ond tripper to Faris deliberates after he has changed a sovereign and wonders whether he has got his money's worth of franos. A similar. trazaaction in ex- change in some of the Chinese provinces, would provide him with sufficient mental exercise for the remainder of his apjourn on earth. The elements of variation in exchange in the Land of the Rising Sun are truly wonderful. Its our renoy at the present is in a state of pronounced confusion. Coin complications are almost as numerous as the inhabitants. And this condi tion of chaos has lasted through costurios. Mention might be made of other countries where order has been evolved from chaos and. uniformity from diversity; hat it must be re membered that China is not a
Country it is
a dozen; it is a continent, with the population and the internal differ 籍 continent, "with the inborn
onses of
habit of centuries to stereotype the minds of the people, and with the natural stubbornness of okl civilisation to resist all changu." Any back in prehistoris periods thear were systems of currency, based on inertime, tortionshell and cowries, area and grades, armlets and rings. Records show that in the evolution of modern enrranor practice in the empire alt anner of materials have had their value. It was not until the period 1100 300 BC that gold was used in connection with the currency. Today in Chica gold is only a commodity. As jewel. Tla. 11 00, sa,&b.lery or ingots or gold leaf it is hearded against TTIR., sellers a rainy day" Coppor, paper, and silver are
the three divisions of
of ourrency later years,
-IF
Tis. 2.25, buyera
Te. 10, sales T15 14 Tie-26:
The. 26, sellers
T20 Tle. 100, buyers 41 Ti, 112, SKIBS
T80 Tla. 01, Fales 978-Tla 44, buyora T100 Tl. 691, sal.se.
T6 The 251, sales TRO TL 63, buyers
A. Butler Carent,!
Tile Works
**s Anglo-Ger. Browery, $100
bina Flour Mil Chian Im & Ex..
Liner ... Curr
Ar Refining... Green is. Comment.... Machappij. &...
in hongkat Major Mrothers...... Sabarf's Oil &
*. Неде Ville, Lu, Shangh
Elostrie
Construction Shanghai Electric &
Asbestos Shanghai Gas
Shanghai Ico....... Shui Pulp & Paper S'hai Waterworks....
Storas
Hall & Hoitz J. Llewelly.................... A-S. Watson & Co. Contral Ordinary...! Central Founders.... 8. Moutrie & Co. ...! Woeke & Co............ Lane, Crawford & Co Dunning & Co.......! Kobole :- -Astor House Hotel Hotel des Colonies
Tls, 23, buyers $72, sales T50 Tl. 21
Tre Tx. 70. unles
$100 $1426. sollefs
$10 $4 Bales
Ga.
TO
T. 85, ales Ts.-25
T50 'T's.
210 Tis, 63, allora
$25 *1, Bellers ..750 ; Tx. 99), valos
T25 Tla 11, sellera T100 Tis. 10, sellers
420
Tls. 383, buyera
$20 $18, buyers $60 $56, salos $10-$61, buyers $15 $8 -$15 $400
$20, vellars $20 $25, sellera
$50
$100 $110, huyers
$50 $20, salex
$25 130 12.50 Tls. 4, sellera
ON SALE.
A' TABLE OF THE
RATES OF EXCHANGE AT HONGKONG
FOB
DEMAND DRAFTS ON BOMBAY On the Day Preceding the Departure of the English Mails from the Year of the Closdus of the Indian Mints to the Free Coinage of Silver
FROM 1893 TO 1909;
*.ALSD
HATES FOR SOVEREIGNS, GOLT LEAF, BAR SILVER (From 1900), and other Useful Information. PRICE: $1 Caal...
Oz.Sale at the "DAILY PEXrs" Office or | Loosi Becksallone.
It is only in copper (or branzo) that currency and coinage are synonymous forms in his. A copper coinage baa existed East for twenty-fire cantaries.
the
in Other ecins
Captain
Flora, 2nd claws cruiser, 4,360 tons. 10 gaps.
7,000 lp.,
J. Nicholas, oruising.
GERMAN.
A
SALE.
THE DIRECTORY
& CHRONICLE
1911
FOR
CHINA, JAPAN, CORHA. INDO-CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES" NETHERLANDS INDIA, PHILIP PINES, BORNEO, `BTC:
the DIRECTORY overs the whole of o rty and cities of the Far East, from Nether pode balin to Siberis, in which Europeans reside
Yong the Directory, as full and complete Tei emeli angehe is, can ho male, but each Colon fort, ne derchagant is preface by DESCRIP Aps, crefoil gerist much year, most of rhich will serve as accurate Gunes FOR THE orate, giving every detail in connee with he plares, their History, Topography,
The Information in these Descriptions, con ting a hevired interesting articles, packed th facts movisely set out and containing abies of the TRADE of each Country and Part, would alone suffice to fill a large volume. Boyal Cavo Complete with Fifteen Maps ang p1,882, $10.00, Directory onl mp. 362, €6.50.
The Directories and Descriptions are of
CHINA
Sooohor Canton Chinking Whanapos Nanking Kowloon
Walia
Lappa
Poking Tiantsia Peitsihe
Tako intang
Chinwangtan
Hankor
Kongmoon
Wuchowia
Kowking Samshuf
Manchurian Yochow Nanning
Trado Centroa Shasi
Nowobwang
Dairen
bip.
Port Arthur
Chefoo
Weihai
Kiaochan
Tsinaufa
Mukdeu -Shanghai
Captain Latrs guns,
Jaguar, ganbet, 900 tons, 10-gunaj 1,300 h.p
Captain Graf von Poxadowsky, Woundr Leipzig, oraiser, Captain Engel
Rent, armoured cruiser, 9,800 tons, 14 guze, Sh.p. 22,000, Capt. S. St. J. Farqabar, Hongkong.
Kiasha, river gunboat, 616 tona, i.h.p. 1,200, Lient-Comdr. T. J. S. Lyne, Shanghai. Merlin, surveying ship. 1.070, tone. 6 mm, 1,400
i.b.p. Comar. B. O. M. Davy. Labusa. Minotaur, armoured cruiser (Bsgahip Vice-
Admiral Sir A. L. Winston, K.C.B OVO., C.M.G.) 14,600, tous, ih.p. 27,000 Capt. G. G. Cayley, en rout to Hongkong. Monmouth, armoured cruiser, 9,800 teux, LP 22.000. Captain L. E. Power, M.V.O., Yokohama
Moorhen, river gunboa-180-tons, 2 guts,
1.bp. 800, Liout. Comdr. P. Loith, -West River
Newcastle, 2nd class oruiner, 4,800 tona, turbine
Caphin George P. E. Hant, D.8.0.. Yokohama
Nightingale, river gunboat, 25 tons, 240 h.y Lt. Comdr. Claude Hillersden-Woodward R.N., Yangtere
che, gunboat 850. Lous, të gaus, 1,349 by
Captain Bölken Scharnet, armoured cruiser (tagship.e 11,420 tons, 52 guns, Bijou ún. Kapitan Taku, drager tous guns, and torped
Zur 9. M 1939-
tabes, 600 .p.. Kobasant. Köln- (Haus) Bertom
Torpedo boat" go," Kapitan Lout, Kanton Tiger, guobost, 80 tons, 1 guns, 1,300 4.p.. Taingtau, guainat. 17 ion, 5 guns, 1,300) b.p.
Captain v. Kons
Opplain Rods Vaterland, ganhouttons, 3 gang, 50 hp
Captain ToursAİDÇ
PORTUGUESE
Patrin, gunboat, 700 tour. Captain J, Altroxo
UNITED STATES,
Lear-Admiral Joseph B. Murbok, 1.9.N.,
Mama ing. First Division,
Otter, torpedo-bost distroyer, 385 tons, 6 gun. Saratoga, firet olis oraiser, armourad, 8,150)
6.300 h... Comdr. Lambe, oraising. Robin, river gunboat. 85 tons. 2 guns, 240 h. Lt.-Comdr Como A. 0, Donglas, River.
at
Rosario, dopot ship for Submarines, 960 top, Lk p. 1400, L-Comur. N... Araliale, Hongkong,
Sandpiper. river ganhost. 85 teas. 2 pune, 24 b.p LientCondr. E. J. J. Southly Hongkong.
Suips, river gunboat, 85 tons, 2 gen 240 h...
Lt.Comdr. Maurice B. Loelle, Yantrag Taku, torpedo bost destroyer, 305 teas,__i‚f.)
6,000, Gunner E. J. Trillo R.N., Hon kong
Tamar, receiving ship, 4,650 tons. F Commodore Eyres, Hongkong..
tous, fishhip.
New Orisaus, uriser, 3,430 tour. Albany, orni ár, 3.43 ) tons,
Second Division. Wilmington, gunboat 307 tons.
lenu, vanhat 1.3760 |FIcano, gaubsan äßados,
Kaab, Nord Passport, 4,000 runā, Villalobos, gubi & kame
Samar, gunta, 10. Talku, gusto, 20 ms, Parga, um 30 ng indor, uban 30 out Qurorgung:0" bo
Torpedo Division.
Vahinan; T o eraisir. 1,90+ ons.
aro net coins, but weights or "teels." Here it.13 that the "fun" has its beginning Just fancy (or try to) how the City would get a with a silver currency as an article of barter of which neither the weight no the "quality"Virago, torpedo-host destroyer. 395 tone. was anywhere fixed. Yet that is the position in China this afternoon Tho copper
ainage is the enrrency of the people: the silver tusl of olasive value is used in connection with the
Teal, river gunboat, 180 tons, 2 guns, 10-tarn. –Bsinbridges to obti, 120
Lies Conde R. J. Buchanan, Yangterale Thistle, gunboat, 710 tons, 900 h.p.. Támr Comdr. M. B. Baillie Hamilton, Shanghai
large affaire of commerce. Originally the copper "cash," which is the basis of the currency system, was equal in value to the thousandth part of a task, worth a couple of de cades ago about 68. 6d. in English money, Now it is worth approximately a ten-thousandil part of a sovereign, John has increased his puzzle. He will have nothing to do wih the face value of his coins irrespective of their intrinsic worth, He
Jooks beneath Chesar's superseription,"
" and para according to the value of the metal. To arrive at an estimate of the true value of bia copper coinage he has to worry out the exchange market for gold and silver, the price of copper and spelter, and exchange between silver and the
copper coinage, and all this with the certain knowledge that the result of his compound Brithmetical computations will las inaccurate en the following day. But John does not get out of sorts, or tear his pigtail at the perplexity of it all. It is a puzzle and he is happy. He waits for the morrow that will bring him fresh puzzles.
8,3001.b.p
Lieut. Comdr. Harold D. Akhir Hall oraising. Waterwitch; surveying ship. 620 tona, 45 174 Lieat Cowdr R L. Haprock Singapore. Whiting, torpedo-brat destroyor, 300 ht
+
1.
inrry,
Deo.tur,
Lous
2
Submarine Division.
47
Colliers,
4
Shark Adlo. Porpoise au pois, all 12"
Speciul Service, Farbour Dejente.
108. gna, 5,900 b.p., Lent Code G. 1. Yoni de, muter Widgeon, genboat 195 tons, 2 guns, 8CC 1.
fartford, cruising.
Monel *
Comdr. M H. Willing. Yangtze Woodcock, gunboat, 150 fans, 2 g, 550 m. Woodlark, gunboat, 150 tons, 2 gans, 550 h.
Lient-Comdr. B. R. Brooke, Yangten
Lient-Comdr. G. F. A. Malook, Yangtare. Submarines:-
No. 35, Godfrey Herbert, Liant.-Commr, No. 37, A. A. L. Fenner, Lieut. Commr. No. 38, J. R. A. Codrington, Lt. Commr.
AUSTRIAN.
Kaiserin Elisabeth, Austrian protected orufser
4000, Fregattenkapitan Oskar Henga Northern Waters
Panther, third glass cruiser, 1,580 tour, Fre- gettoakapitan, Theodor Skerl Edi. von RobmidtÉeim
FRENCH.
Rushan, PDMƏ....
CHILDREN OF PAR CAPHA
& HOCIAL AND POLITICAL NOVEL OF AMOKING INTEREST,
By CHAR. JI HALCOMBE (Formerly of the Imperial Chinose Cutou Service, Author of "The Myaudo Flowery Land” etc.),
THE VOLUME which consiste et let. Pages, and includes a Sketch Plan of historical intorast showing the disposition The Furces at the battle of Kwailin, is dedicate
Sir ROBERT HART, G.C.M.G., and Dr. :
Aabéren, amoureu gunboat, 1,830 tons, 9 gunBENNIE
1,700 h.p.. Lieut. Bartrand, Saigon
Its description of Chinese Social Custo
rives into political conditions in Chian, make CHILDREN OF FAR CATHAY" Bu exile olume for presentation to frionis at Home.
Well lound in Yellow Cloth with Chinese timblem in Gold.
A century ago Germany teased the rest of Europe with a fairly complex assort-Alger, 2nd class craiser, 4,829 tous, 22-gunsnd Superstitions, combined with the insight, e ment of eain puzzles, but the elucidation Alouette, gunboat, 506 tona, 7 guns, 400 b.p 5,100 hp., Commander Fournier, H kong of those was mere child's play compared with the problems which are at present: being investigated in Lendon on behalf of China The tnel weight varies in every commercial centre:And not only that for with their pon: chant for piling complication on complication the Chinese have actually several standards side by side, so that the value received for a tael may differ from that of another given or received in tha some place. Modification of the scale depends in
Commander Badin, Saigon Argus, river gunboat, 180 tons, 6 guns, 570 b.p...
Lient, Andouard, -—- Balennette, gunboat. Cimeterre, ganhost, 140 tons, Reserve, Saigon Caronalde,gunboat, 184 tone, Reserve, Baigor Décidéo, gunboat, 630 tons, 10 guns, 500 Ep. Dupleix, armoured cruiser, 7,578 tops, 36 guns,
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