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CANTON

May 25th.

HOME AND CHINA AFFAIRS,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 291m, 1912.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

"LONDON, May 1st.

RIVER 15%G.. The river has risen a good deal the last few days and many streets in the

MR. HENRY KESWICK, M.F. lower quarters of the Sai Kwan and of

Mr. Henry Keswick, who succeeded his Honam have been badly flooded, in father in the representation of Epsom sume places the water being eighteen without a contest, nevertheless spent £408 inches to two feet dump. At this time in taking the scat, so be will be a fow of the year it is always very inconvenient pounds out of pocket on his first year's to get from Shameen or the Steamboat oficial salary, Still, he will no doubt whurren to the new bund as the streets manage to rub along. are impassabiz. When the bund is finished this difficulty will disappear)

the

HOSPITAL AT WHAMPOA.

A movement is on foot to build an

A BIG WHARF SCHEME.

ACTIVITY IN BOATBUILDING YARDS.

THE TRADE' OF. PAKHOL

THE EFFECTS OF THE REVOLUTION.

The British Consular Report on the Trade of Fakhoi in 1911 in to band. The report this year is by Mr. G. S. Mom, Assistant in the Consular Service. We

make the following extracts

INTIMATIONS

SUN PILSENER

BEER.

Nothing like it

In spite of the quarantine declared against the port by Hongkong from May 15th to July 5th, the trade of Pakhoi for 101 promised to be somewhat better than the average when the revolution upset all calculations. The political upheaval was undoubtedly a most popular one, but the withdrawal of the former officials found the Republicans unprepared to replace the old administration, and the country during November and December was

ing became unsafe, the roads were bent, practically in a state of anarchy. Travel- with robbers, and trade was at a stand- still. Up-country brokers did not dare to place orders, and merchants suffered severely. A heavy blow WAR doalt to the purchasing power of the district by the looting of Limehow, its largest town, and the burning of the Cantones quarter there. The farmers suffered severely from brigande, many of their cattle being driven off, but fortunately s rich second rice crop had been gathered in and not mich was left standing_in the fields exposed to marauders. The monoy in the hands of the farmers from ever, be invested by them in their usual the sale of their crops could not, how-

winter purchases. Stocks could not he

tion apset, there was no security for the importa. Merchants found their calcula future, many fled to Hongkong, treasure was exported and money became very tight. The result has been that the net shows a falling-off of some 193,000 tals trado compared with the previous year and of some 320,000 taels when compared WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. with the average for the period 1095-9.

consequent disorders is best shown in the port suffered owing to the revolution and

Englishmen claim to be able to meet them better than the foreigner, can hope to go. Leuden also has a big now wharf] However, one scheme on paper is admitted for Canvey Island, half-way to be excellent, and the thing to aim at between Tilbury Docks and Southend. is to hurry up the training of an adequate, it is part of a bill now before Parlia number of pilots, for we are hopelessly ment, providing for 3,000 fect of wharf- behind to-day. But even the hardieat | go alongside the deepest pars of the aviators are a little inclined to look Thames.

Vessels of the largest class askance at what is expected of them could be accommodated there for goods nowadays. There is the projected trip and passengers, and in connection with across the Atlantic from Boston to the wharf scheme there is to be a rail Galway, for instance, and the Matin way connecting with Benfleet station on competition for big prizes to cover the the Longen, Tilbury and Southend Rail distance from Peking to Paris-some way. It is calculated that the new wharf CHINATOWN IN THE EAST END,

thing like eight thousand miles. That could deal with four million tons of The troubles in our East End China- is the severest test over yet applied. shipping very year. It would be avail- and in that respect, will be a great bless town are to cease, the leaders having Some calculations have been made to able at all states of the tide, thus avoid ing. At present building has got round called a traces. The police, in consequence show that the winner, if he gets through ing the immense delays that hamper the corner of Sha Ka Street and is of these pacific overtures, have altered at all, will take ten days on the way. trade in London's closed docks. It is pproaching the French Bridge on the charges against the participators in It will be a test of skill and endurance calculated that the whole undertaking Shameen, so that ere long one will be the recent disorders from disorderly that will strain all but the most resource could be completed in two years and the able to get a rickshaw from the Foreign' conduet "· tha "common" affray." But

ful, for most of the way will be Jacking cost would only be about a fourth of Concession to the Railway station at Tui there are severni under remand and others

in shelter, and bad weather in sure to

that of a dock of equal efficiency. All the Shạ Tóu, - -

on trial at Old Bailey, so these political met with somewhere, especially in the colonial governments having consider- Lake Baikal region. We have already able trading relations with the Thames debates will ripple the surface of Ratcliff Highway for some time to come. The riots

and flights over the Alps and over the have petitioned the Parliamentary Select isolation hospital at Whampoa to treat really arose because two rival organian-rimees, so there is nothing much in Committee in favour of the bill. cases of plague, a number of whom have tions, the Nautical Progress Society and the way of unusual altitudes to be en

this tremendous flight. returned from Hongkong. This question the White Lily Society of China had countered on

Three thousand six hundred feet on the brought up at the provincial assembly points of difference as to the governance rrrrived the support of all, but certain, of their homeland. To give point to their Yablonoi Mountains is said to be the sections of the community do not see, arguments they bought over a hundred highest point. At first sight there would the benefit which would be derived and bars of iron and a few revolvers, and when wem to be great probability of difficulty think it needless expense and a move the debate grow animated with these aids in finding suitable, landing places, but respect for rafts and ships, and there are sold, and there was no demand for new

one Saturday night it took thirty hefty I am assured that this is not really mori policemen to restore a semblance of order. likely than in England, for there are Even then it was only after a good deal of wide spaces of open land to be crossed physical, damage had been done that the in this lung jaunt, some of it desert, and debaters were separated. To nid the peace less encumbrance will be offered than on propaganda that the police proceedings inany better known routes.

There was a lot of tomfoole y about the When all strike of the Olympic's firemen the other Cinematography shows are catching on have stimulated, the kerenest politicians that has been said, the trip remains the day at Southampton, and I expect many with the Chinese and a good deal it, have been sent away from the scene of the most dangerous ever undertaken. If the men took it as a fine joke to take money is being “made out of existing debate. Sixteen have been sent to Cardiff August, when the race will be flown, piaces, while applications for Ticenses and others to Amsterdam.

there will be dangers in alighting in the Star line. But there is a swing of the a holiday at the expense of the White

are being received all round: Yesterday

plains covered by long grass, and

pandulum in public opinion even customs revenue tables. merchant asked for permission

dangers in the forest alongside the rail-

now, and many people are coming to open two places-ome on, the band and

rond that will be followed as far as possible. In any event a land mash will and of its managing director, Mr. Bruce declare that the criticisms of the line be more than ordinarily serious," for Ismay, are savage and unjust. I have there will be hopeless distances from seen some of the American Comments on repair shops, and the man who gets over. Ismay, and they are most disreput his difficulties in these outlandish points able productions. In their desire to grip of crisis will deserve spectal praise for chine will carry two experienced pilots resourcefulness. Presumably ench ma

and both will be expert mechanics. As far as possible, hases, of supply will be established, hut the firns are cudgelling their wits to discover some adequate way of running tenders for the neroplates. Even the trans-Siberian express could

ment which will not receive the thanks of the people. It is likely, however, that this opinion which is being voiced in the press will be overruled and this needed institution built very won,

CINEMATOGRAPH SHOWS.

the other at Cheng Show Street, and offered to pay $1,000 a year, as a tax for each. This offer was refused as the Government thrink it is not enough."

CLARMING THE NAVY.

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The Sailors and Marines the various Chinese gunboats plying on the delta present a rather curious appear ance, very few of them being dressed alike." The Commissioner of thể Navy in this province has taken up the matter and ordered over 16 thousand suits of a light blue material with which the inen are to be henceforth clothed. The navy is to receive much more attention in the future and a good deal of money will be spent in making it more efficient, thus doing a great deal to stamp out rubbery and piracy in the different parts of the

Delta.

DIAGON BOAT FESTIVAL

Thu 5th day of the 5th moon, which is about 21st of June, is éhserved annually us Dragon-boat day and it is a general holi- day. It has just benn nunounced that Dragon bont racing-will-not-be permitted on the river this year and flat the ouston, which is a relic of the old dynasty, will by stopped altogether,

COMAPNY MEETING,

CHINA-BORNEO CO.

The annual meeting of shareholders in the China-Borneo Cu.. was held in the office of the Company yesterday. Mr. W. D. Jupp presided, and there were also present:-Hon. Sir Paul Chater Hon. Mr. E. Osborne, Messrs. A. Deri- son; J. W. C. Bonnar, A. J. Pumfrett, .J. M. da Silva, A, Q. Lang: A. Guluzzi, O. Baptista, and Mr. W. P. Darby, general manager.

PERSONALIA.

A visitor to London just now is Mr. Oliver Bainbridge, the well known author,

traveller, au lecturer, whose researches in the interior of China in quest af Jewish traces are well known. After lecturing

in London last nutamn on India to the irritation of Mr. Keir Hardie and his friends he went to his home in Toledo, Ohio, and completed his book on India that Mr. John Murray is to publish. It will be an illuminating defence of British administration and an appreciation of British representatives, in the

East, especially Lord Curzon.

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The engagement is announced of Mr. Frederick William Carey, FLC.S., of the Chinese Customs Service (late Acting not keep pace with an aeroplane in stic- Commissioner. Tengyuch), and. Gladys, elder daughter of the Rev. Rognon and Mrs. Latimer, of Breamore Rectory, Hampshire.

Another personal item of interest to Hongkong residents concerns the mar- riage yesterday at Boscombe of Mr. John Alfred Haskell, of Calcutta, son of the late Mr. John fuskell, of Compton Abbas, Dorset, and Miss Agnes Alabaster, elder ["daughter of the late Sir Chaloner Alabaster, of Boscomplic, Consul General in China, and of Lady Alabaster, of Bos combe. The bride was given away by her cousin, Mr. Percy Alabaster. She wore gown of white satin draped with Honiton lace, with a Court train of lace and chiffon. Master Teddy Alabaster, wearing & Kate Greenaway suit in powder blue, was in attendaner as page, along with six bridesmaids.

THE JAPANESE MINISTER TO LONDON,

At the end of this week Mr. Kato, the The nutice calling the mareting having Japanese Ambassador, is due back in Iven read,

The CHAIRMAN

London after a return journey that has said:-Gentlemen,-- With your permission we will take the taken in Kores and Siberia, We also accounts, which have already been in have with us again in London Mr. Koike, your possession for some days, as read, who six years ago was a well-known When you bear in mind the unfavourable į trade conditions which existed here member of the canbassy staff. Since then during the latter half of last year, I trust Mr. Kike has done fine servies for his

cessful fight.

PARLIAMENT.

Members of Parliament are rather irritable just now. The reason is that they see a.n autumn Session looming

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their lives, equipping liners with ade

Bostbuilders are having the time of quate lifebont accommodation. Con- tinental lines are just as enger as the British to meet the public outery in this

of, for the summer traffic is about to also the excursion steamers to be thought start and no ship is so crowded as the

summer excursion craft.

BOAT STOWAGE.

AN IMPORTANT INVENTION..

The extent to which the trade of the

Is October.

when conditions were normal, the revenue

at the beginning of the math, the stop ber it fell to 9,9 taels, collected mostly was 14,52 Haikuan tagls, but in Novom

no trade with the interior being eloquently reflected in the reduced revenue of 100 taels for December.

GENERAL OUTLOOK.

ÜBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE.

H. RUTTONJEE

& SON,

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JEWELLERS

OPTICIANS,

a scapegoat by the neck, the Yellow Press | clue to the presence of robbers and over there have been guilty & brutal banditti, trade will probably not be secure until some administration is pro eruelty.

perly organised, and this is scarcely to |be expreted before the spring. When the roads are safe, products which have been kept back, notably sugar and indigo, will find their way down to Pakhoi, and belated orders for imports may be ex- pected and, given good harvests, Pukhoi trade may hope to retrieve its losses dur- The question of adequate boat accom-ing 1012. The increased demand caused Bodation On liners and passenger by the arrival of a considerable army steamers for the number of passengers from Carton will help to render the tem- | WATCHMAKERS, carried has been raised in 1 veryporary deprivation of the up-country serious form by the catastrophe to the marketa less felt. Owing to the increased Vitazie. In this connuetion it in of in- use of foreign clothing, caps, underwear ferest to record that a well-known and socks, a considerable expansion in ahead of them and they fear they wil authority at Dover, with twenty-five the import of these articles is confidently escape either to their business or pleasure years experience of life-saving at sea. anticipated. The future of exports will an ex-liner captain, whose inventions largely depend on the progress of events If the Government are to but seldum.

are in very general use in the Navy, as in Canton, the largest customer of native carry the Home Rule Bill, the Welsh well as the Dover-Calais-Boulogne Chan- products. The lack of money renders it Disestablishment Bill and a Franchise passenger steamers and Indian unlikely that the new administration will

Marine, has just patented a device by be able in the near future to contemplate ! Reform Bill, there is no way out of it but which he claims that even gigantic liners seriously any schemes for improvement of to keep the mills going at Westminster like the Titanic will be able to carry communications, which are urgently right up to Christmas. Some advisers of boat accommodation for saving every needed, and the proposed railway to soul on board, even when carrying her | Naming to tap the resources of Kwangsi the Government are inclined to a plan full freight. In an interview the cap seems to be as far distant as ever. whereby there would be an adjournment tain informed a journalist that by the The troubles have served to demonstrate of three weeks at Whitsuntide as a sop adoption of this latest invention there the absolute dependence of the commer to members to stick to legislation there would be no difficulty in a vessel of the cial prosperity of the district on the ENGLISH, AMERICAN AND after till the middle of September, but 28ft. long by Sit, bread, and 3ft. Gin.energy the preservation of Pakhoi from size of the Titanic, carrying 120 lifeboats, | Cantonese hongs, to whose public-spirited the Lords are by no means likely to agree deep, each capable of accommodating the looting which befel its neighbour to stop in town all through the summer thirty or forty passengers. With the town of Limehow is chiefly due. In spite - merely to råpedite business front the smaller number these boats would account of their severe losses et Limehow it le encouraging to note that they show no Comanous—even though that expedition would mean the throwing out of the two

signs of abandoning the district. chief Government measures.

OCEAN GIANTS.

for 3,000 souls.

The captain stated these boats could be safely swung out in about a minute when filled with passengers. Only two man are required to swing the boat out, as the boat touches the sea a small sea and another to get her clear. As soon anchor is put out, which keeps her riding head to sea, so that boatload after boat- load of people, with only one man in charge of each, can he put out from a

from either side simultaneously, Titanic twenty boats can be swung out

FINEST QUALITY

DIAMOND JEWELLERY.

A SPECIALITY.

SWISS

GOLD AND SILVER

WATCHĖS.

of all descriptions.

At present the country muffers chiefy from defective and unsafe comunica- CLOCKS tions and lack of banking facilities. industries and farming are properly Until security is restored and cottage organised on a large scale by responsible firms with sufficient capital, there seems no prospect of this district affording a Unfortunately market for machinery.

that you consider that the result of the country at Mukden, in helping to settle hobble along to Cape Race or Halifaxnking ship. With a ship like the there are no such signs of commercial pro-

stances, WO nray

AVIATION.

When Mr. Kat

gress, though a nail extension of electric lighting from the plant of the Church Missionary Society's Hospital has been sufficient to demonstrate that a larger installation could be operated with cor- tain profit.

THE SECRETARIES TO THE PEKING CABINET.

The growth of ocean giants has raised the important question of how much dry dock accommodation is available in enses of mishaps to these monster vessels. If, for instance, the Titani hus minnaged to what would have happened? There is

In cases of collision a liner's boats on no lock big enough on that side to deal

one side are frequently smashed, as was She would have had to be the case when the Orram was sunk off with her. patched up and a coffer dam fixed; ater Eastbourne recently. The captain claims which she would have had to be towed that with the use of his invention the to Belfast, where there is accommodation danger of loss of boats in collision will for vessels of nearly 900-feet, or about reduced to one in six at the worst, twenty feet more than the Tifuate. It is sent. By the use of the captain's inven-

: as compared with 50 per cent. at pre-

Mr. Wei Chen-tau, the Principal Secre- not yet sunouneed what is to be donations on the cross-Channel steamers, the tary of the Cabinet, was Under Secretary by the shipping companies, but there is average time for a boat being swung out of Foreign Affairs at Nanking. He re- White Star's next leviathan that was pr goes through periodical boat drill, and Mr. V. K. Wellington Koo, Ph.D. of no talk of abandoning the Gigantic, the is ten seconds. In these services CTC ceived his education in France.

member of the crew, including stowards,

Another Secretary of the Cabinet

in band some months age:

the inventer strongly urges the necessity Columbia University, New York. He At Newport News in America cere on big liners of a similar course being had a distinguished career, at his alma

perly drilled in case of great emergene in-chief of the college daily paper and adopted, not only seamen, but remen, mater, being both an excellent writer and coal-trimmers, stewards, etc., being pr speaker. For two year he was editor The inventor is Captain Frank Pett,

one year he was the principal debater deputy-harbourmaster, Dover.

in the intercollegiate contest with Cornell University. He was elected to the post of President of the Students' Alliance:

year's operations are fairly satisfactory many difficulties that cropped up from They have enabled us, after making ade the Russo-Japanese war. quate provision for depreciation, to re- commend the payment of the same gets back he will go to a fine-new private dividend as last year, e.. $1 per share, residence in Grosvenor Square, where for The value of our stocks of rough and many years successive Itálian Ambas sawn timber is some. $15,000 more than saders had their headquarters. last year. This is due to our having, towards the end of the year, considerably restricted our shipments of timber to

Aviation is all the erase to-day First China in view of the prevailing condition of the market, and, under the sircum France, then Italy; and now Germany consider ourselves have raised prodigious suns by public fortunate that our stocks are not higher subscription for the additional arm to then they are. They have been valued on the naval and military equipment. France a very conservative basis and in no case will take a whole lot of boating, because abere the actual cost of production. As regards our prospects for this year, she secured a good start, but the Italians I am sorry to say that as far as the local have been encouraged by the usefulness little or no sign of improvement, more arm in that direction, while Germany's vessel of 800 feet, and Montreal plans timber trade is concerned there is as yet, of the aeroplane in Tripoli to extend its is a dry dock that could accommodate especially in the market for Billian,

to have a huge one built there. On this present whirlwind campaign, under the which in normal years we look to as our

side, there are twelve dry docks in principal source of profit. Should the auspices of Prince Henry of Prussia, to present state of affairs continue it may, raise a sum that will stagger humanity England that can take over 500 fret and probably will, seriously affect the and make the Fatherland, secure in the apiece, but even the Lusitania class can- result of this year's operations. I can only assure you that we are watching the air is being supported with a vengeance not be accommodated in them. To meet situation very carefully and that we are by individuals and commuuitles. Mean the new conditions there are thousand. fret dry docks under construction on the in a position to take fall advantage of while England has what all experts say Mersey and the Clyde. Abroad there are any improvement that may sef in.

~L-is-a-fine-organisation-scheme,bat-it is On the motion of the ChaiEMAN, second- ed by Mr. DENISON, the report was being carried out but slowly and in a big docks at Gibraltar and Toulon, white adopted..

cheeseparing manner: moreover, British Germany's best is at Breen and can take Sir Paul Chater was re-elected a meu makers are some at the number of foreign in a ship of the extreme length of 7543. ber of the Consulting Committee, on the machines that are to be bought in pre- feet and breadth of 88 feet 3 inches. Yet motion of Mr. LANG, seconded by Mr.

ference to the home-made article. A year the remarkable thing is that Germany is BAPTISTA

Du the motion of Mr. PUMPREST, ago, they contend, it would have been building thres fifty-thousand ton giants seconded by Mr. GALEZZI, Mr. Hutton quite wise to go abroad for the machines, for the Hamburg-Amerika Line that if Potts was re-elected auditor, at a re-

them in the but the conditions have now changed, anything happened to maneration of $200.

Atlantic would have to make for Belfast The CHAIRMAN-That is all the busi. England to-day has somewhat different

problems to face than France, and the for repairs. ness, gentlemen.

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THE PORTUGUESE CLERGY.

A UNIVERSITY FOR BANG KÓK. Along with other measures presented to Parliament with the view of reducing the country's expenses a proposal has been

The Bangkok Times says:We are able made to eliminate the clause in the law to make the important announcement

the widows and Bangkok in the near future. separating Church and State which that a University is to be established in grants pensions to children of priests. The Times correspon. Majesty the King has sanctioned the dent at Lisbon says:-This has been well scheme in its general outline, and the received by all Roman Catholics, as the details are now being worked out. grant of pensions was a direct attack is to be a University on modern lines, upon the celibacy of the clergy, which is comparable more or less to those of such a fundamental principle of the Roman towns as Leeds and Birmingham, design- Catholic Church. Only a. very restricted ed to supply the needs of the present day

There will be eight. number of the clergy have accepted the in this country. law, and most of these belong to the lower faculties, viz., medicine, law, engineer rauks.

Jing pedagogy, administration, agricul-

tare, commerce, and political science.

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