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THE HONGKUNG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 3RD 1912.

Recent foreign, appearance in Japan with greater tre were placed in Japan. trade returns Berm to indicate that quency recently, and although they have Japan is trying to overcome this draw been dealt with in a rather despotic back. The revision of the tariff in Japan manner they are likely to continue has not yet had the effect anticipated-long as wages fail to keep pace with the The increasing cost of necessities. In spite of of shatting out foreign goods.

THE KING'S BIRTHDAY PARADE TELEGRAMS TELEGRAMS.

will

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]

To-day being the birthday of: H.M.

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the on

Hongkong King George V., a military parade Cricket ground this morning, AU THE LONDON DOOK STRIKE. detachments are required to be in

GREATER ACTIVITY AT THE DOCKS.

excess of imports still continues, and these drawbacks, however, it seemi prob- Inosition by 7.30 a.m. The troops will be

able that Japanese industry will mark another step in advance in the near

future.

The German mail of the 30th April was delivered in London on the 31st May.

The name of Mr. A. G. Hewlitt has been added to the list of authorized architects.

indeed, han so far this year reached an unprecedented umount. The nature of the imports, however, shows that no alarm need exist on this point. There has been a large import af raw cotton, for instance, which is absolutely neces sary for Japan's spinning industry: in wool, in hemp and other fibres. The iron- import has also shown a great advance, followed, to a lower degree by uther metals, and the import of machinery appears to have received no check. Briefly it may be said that the increase in the imports is almost wholly in the direction of raw materials and the appliances for turning those materials into finished products, so that WHISKY it may justly be concluded that either Hewitt.

VERY OLD LIQUEUR

SCOTCH

MALT. SCOTCH WHISKIES.

For over 30 Years WATSON'S

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A Chinese was on Saturday sentenced to six months' imprisonment for stealing a $100 bill from 214, Queen's Road West.

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Mr. W. L. Carter has been appointed a member of the Sanitary Board during the absence on leave of the Hon Mr.

were fined $2 each or Nineteen men", saven days by Mr. Melbourne on Satur- opiumi divan. The keeper was fined $30 or three months.

It is notified in the Gazette that the Bay Henry Copley Moyle having assumed office as Chaplain is a member of the Church Body for St. John's Cathedral Church,

Mr. William Dickson will act as a member of the Court of the University of Hongkong during the absence from the Colony of Mr. Montague Ede, with

an increased demand for Japanese products or that such a demand -is-expected _in_the near future. This A BLEND OF THE FINEST PURE indirect evidence of an industrial revival-day for making use of a house as a is supported by something of a boom in It is true that company promoting. many of these new companies have been formed for engaging in purely domestic undertakings, such as electric tramways, and other means of communication, but | there are alsé a large number of companies purposes, formed for manufacturing

case is a very large "E" has maintained the re- although in no

To give amount of capital involved. FINEST some idea of the growth of this company the pulation of

fever, it may be stated that the total SCOTCH WHISKY in the number of new companies established in Japan since the beginning of January last is about a thousand, with a total FAR EAST.

That Japan can capital of £348,000. increase her output very considerably provided she finds a market there is no doubt, and if the increuse in the trade with China is as good as anticipated developments may be expected, At the same · time Japan is suffering under several drawbacks which undoubtedly She is not only retard her progress. saddled with an enormous debt, but also with an undertaking to pay off this debt by heroic measures. As a matter of fact, these measures have already broken down in practice, the annual amount set aside

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effect from the 22nd ult.

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The Hon.

Stewart's Murray appointment as an unofficial member of the Legislative Council during the absence of the Hon. Mr. Hewett is announced in the Gazette.

The Times of the 7th ult, saya!-Lady. Lugard is making good progress and was tible to be carried from Hans-crescent Hotel to 10, Hans mansions, where Sir Frederick and Lady Lagard remain for the season,

H.E. the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint Captain F. J. G. Agg. The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, to be his

ing the Government (Hon. Mr. Claud inspected by H.E. the Officer Administer- Severn). After the firing of the Royal Salute and a few-de-joie, the Band will play the National Anthem, the troops will remove their head-dress and give three cheers for the King, and then march past in fours,

GOVERNMENT HOUSE. There will be an Official Dinner at

Government House to-night (June 3rd) | to celebrate the anniversary of His Majesty's Birthday.

The following have been invited :- General Anderson, Mr. Rees Davies, Mr. Clementi, Bir Kai Ho Kai, Mr. Gom- periz, Mr. Ross, Mr. Anderson, Colonel d'Oettingen, Major Rowlandson, Mr. Taylor, Monsieur Paillard, Colonel St. Stewart, Colonel Irwin, Mr. Friesland, John, Mr. Alabaster, Mr. Murray Colonel Gordon Hall, Mr. Macedo, Colonel Dyer, Mr. Imai, Mr. Chatham, Mr. Thomson, Rev. Copley Moyle, Rev. Father Spada, Mr. Hallifax, Colonel Colonel Dr. Voretsch, Hamilton, Radcliffe, Mr. Eitzen, Capt. Stewart, Colonel Begbie, Mr. de Reuss, Mr. Bade- ley, Mr. Wei Yuk, Colonel Stacpole, Colonel Chapman, Mr. Hurtado, Mr. Pollock, Mr. Osborne, Colonel Mullins, Mr. Jansons, Major Tulloch, Mr. Nilsson, Rev. Foster Pegg. Capt. Simonde and Mr. Crofton.

SUPREME COURT..

Saturday, June 1st,

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.

BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE (Mn. REES DAVIES, K.C.).

THE LI CASE,

His Lordship delivered judgment in the now famous Li family caac, the present hearing of which occupied the Court eighteen days.

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LONDON, June 1st.

There is greater activity at the docks. The volunteer workers who are unloading

hour, but struck for a skilling, which has foodstuffs at first received sixpence per

been granted.

TWO THOUSAND MEN WORKING.

Two thousand men were working at the docks yesterday, unloading 25 ships as compared with a thousand on Thursday.

RAILWAYMEN TO STRIKE,

A meeting of three thousand Great Eastern Railway men decided to strike if necessary to secure victory for the

strikers in the Port of London.

GOVERNMENT PROPOSAL..

(THROUGH. REUTER'S AGENOT.]

MAIL SERVICE DISORGANISED.

LONDON, Jung ist. The Secretary of the P& O. Steam Navigation Company writes to the newe papers emplissing the difficulties of main- taining the mail service to India, China, Japan and Australia under the present

that the steamers Maloja and Funnt, conditions of labour unrest. He states

which were appointed to take the mails this week and next week respectively, are stil! undischarged. The Maloja has gone to Rotterdam to discharge coal and will sail without a pound of freight aboard. The Egypt will be replaced by the Caledonia, which likewise will be despatched in ballast. The Himalaya, unless the strike concludes, will have to replace the Mongolia, which is due to sail on June 14th, and will likewise depart in ballast.

The Secretary points out that a pros

"Burent" is general-among the strikers. A conference of Ministers was held at the Home Offer, after which Mc Ben lungation of the present disturbance

service altogether. Tillet announced that the Government must lead to the suspension of the rail- proposed the establishment of a Concilia- tion Board for the Port of London. The proposal is being considered by the masters and the men, who will reply next

week.

A private conference was held by the employees yesterday, and they decided that they would be willing to accept the Canciliation Board if it was purely consultative and not if it possessed com- pulsory powers.

The National Council of Transport

OPIUM FOR CHINA.

STRONG REPRESENTATIONS BY BOMBAY

MERCHANTS.

LONDON, June 2nd. The leading opium merchants in Bom- bay have wired to the Government of India, drawing attention to the extreme- ly critical situation in the opium trade with China. They complain that thu Chinese merchants are unable to accept

authorities refuse to admit

Indian

Workers has resolved to recommend the delivery because several of the provincial London Strike Committee to accept the Government's proposal with the necessary "pium, in defianer of the treaties. The safeguards ensuring the enforcement of merchants declare that they are obliged to continue buying opium in order ta keep up prices to prevent a collapse on the Chinese markets. They further state that the resumption of opiura cultivation in China is uncheek-

the decisions of the Conciliation Board. SKIPOWNERS AND TRADE UNIONISTS. The London Shipowners are offering a

for paying off the debt being offset by Aide-de-Camp, in the place of Captain plaintiffs, and Mr. C. G. Alabaster, At-du not insist on their comrades being ed. They say that, unless the Govern-

P. H. Mitchell-Taylor.

Mr. M. W. Pett, superintendent of the Singapore Fire Brigade, has just teen appointed to command the brigade of the foreign settlement at Shanghai Prior to going north, however, he will go home on leave for six months.

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Mr. Eldon Potter, instructed by Mr. W. Crowther Smith, appeared for the minimum of 40-weekly to the men who torney-General, instructed by Mr. J. Scott Harston, appeared for the defence.

His Lordship said that this was a caso in which the action was brought by the widow and executrix of one Li Chuk Chi for the return of monies alleged to have been paid by Lí Chuk Chi under a family H.E. the Officer Administering the agreement made between the sons of Li Government has been pleased to appoint Sing, deceased, whereby the two defen- Rev. G. M. Spada to act as a member. dants, it is alleged, requested Li Chak document in writing acknowledging their of the Court of the University of Hong-Chi to pay certain debts and gave him a kong during the absence from the Colony indebtedness to the amount named in the of the Right Rev. D. Pezzoni, with effect borrowing note. The defence was a denial of the alleged request and of the payincats and all indebtedness and by amendments

From the 19th ult.

As a result of the decision of the Court of Appeal at Kuala Lumpur that the cart used by Harewood estate had no licence it appears that all estates must licence their carts and in consequence Government would net about a million dollars extra revenue.

were on

made in the defence at the abortive

trade unionists.

THE SYMPATHY OF THE BUILDING TRADE..

ment immediately strongly supports the merchants, a grave financial crisis will The Federation of the London building follow. They suggest that their present industries has decided to withdraw all stock should be taken over by the Chinese men employed at the docks and wharves Government. They would be quite will- of London if non-unionists are employeding to end their trade in opium, and by shipowners.

secure the earliest cessation of shipments to China.

WELSH NATIONAL LIBRARY.

A SMALL STRIKE OF COLLIERS.

LONDON, June 2nd. Colliers to the number of 1,300 have struck in the Midlands as a protest against an award by the Wages Board. NEW YORK WAITERS STRIKE.

LONDON, June 1st.

LONDON, June 1st.

have

subscribed

fund

for the

The Government £30,000 towards the National Library of Wales.

TREASURY. WINDFALLS.

LONDON, June lat.

hearing before Sir Francis Piggot alterna tion of the alleged request, and further live pleas were inserted, averring revoca-

A telegram from New York states that stating the conditions under which the

The cotton spinners, Mr. James Coats family agreement was entered into, which two thousand waiters at six of the must conditions, the defendants pleaded, were

fashionable restaurants dropped their and Mr. Archibald Coats, loft £1,904,145 not complied with, and the agreement napkins at the dinner hour, and walked and £1,365,132 respectively. failed.

His Lordship, after reviewing the unt. The cooks and hotel employees are evidence, said: There will be judgment.

So far there have boen five millionaire

year.

On Friday afternoon, two men whest- ing a truck in a passage at the rear of the Hongkong Hotel pushed it against a ladder, on which another Chinese was

for the plaintiff on the claims allowed, joining the strike, which is spreading to estates administered in the new financial for $25,300 and custs of action except in so the clubs and apartment houses. working. He fell to the ground and was

LATER. su seriously injured that he died almost far as they have been increased by the in- clusion of the claims which have been The two men

Thirty hotels and restaurants are now immediately.

disallowed. The costs of the defendants, Saturday charged with causing his death, so far as they have been increased by the

inclusion of the claims disallowed, are to affected by the strike of waiters and Altogether 3,500 are and vero remanded.

he paid by the plaintiff to the defendants. kitchen servants. The question of interest was reserved for out on strike. College students are re- remark that fell from Mr. Drummond at placing the strikers, argument. I must add a word as to a the close of his address. He said that this is no case for compromise, that if the

title:

led to sil, but if not, she is not entitled plaintiff's case were believed she is en-

have to decide on the facts as I find them to one dollar. I have only to say that I on the evidence before me.

continued new loans. Japan is thus pay- ing out with one hand and borrowing with the other, and no Finance Minister has yet had the courage to ent the knot and boldly dock the amount allotted to the Sinking Fund to reduce the excessive taxation under which the country is suffering. There is no doubt that such a trenchant step would effect to some extent the value of Japan's bonds abroad, although, as most of these are hrld as investments, the stockholders would not suffer. It may, of course, also be bad Anance for a country to depart from the policy laid down, since it gives rise to Rome distrust as to the country's financial stability. The facts of Japan's finanes are now so well known, however, and so widely discussed that a revision of policy would merely, mean au acknowledgment that better principles of Anance are to be followed. At present a Commission is sitting to investigate the incidence of On May 25th, at Shanghai, CronGE taxation and to ascertain whether any DANIEL SHARNHORST,

improvements can be made in distributing HONGKONG OFFICn: 10a, Dza Vœux ROAD the burden more equally. There is also LONDON OFFICm. 131, FLEET STREET. ECHOme talk of a reduction of taxes, but in the present condition of the State finances, such reduction can only be nominal; that is, reduction in one direction must be accompanied by increases in others. taxation is Accompanying this high A considerable increase in the cost of THERE are indications that Japan, after living. the prices of necessities even suffering more or less severe depression reaching an unprecedented figure. In the case of rice, the staple article of diet of in trade for several years, is on the eve of an industrial revival. The indications the country, this increase has been set of such a revival, it must be admitted, down to the manipulations of speculators are at present more or less of a negative on the rice exchanges, and the Government nature, and depend more on favours to has taken the extreme measure of having come than actual results. Nevertheless some of these speculators arrested and they are of sufficient importance to charged with gambling. Forming corners The prospect in rice is a favourite pursuit of those who warrant consideration. that under the changed conditions in.

are in a hurry to get rich, and if the China there will be a great increase in Government can show that the law under China's foreign trade is one of the which the rice exchanges carry on their favours to come which is animating business covers only bond-fide transac- industrial circles in Japan. As China's tions that is those in which the rice is actually delivered, such speculation, will and possessing more neighbour, advanced industrial equipment, Japan receive its death-blow. At the same time seems justified in expecting that a good it is to be feared that the high price of share of China's increased foreign trade rice is not entirely due to the speculations on the rice exchanges, and that the popula will fall to her. She already carries on a comparatively large business with the tion of Japan is beginning to get ahead Middle Kingdom, which even the revolu of its food supply. It is of interest to tion did not affect to any serious extent, note in this connection that the agricultas, and she is now devoting herself to pro-tural interests appear to be very prosper viding for the increased demand Sheous. Large supplies of artificial manures. expects to come. One drawback Japan have been imparted lately and the de- suffers from is that her output is yet mand seems to be fully equal to the supply. She cannot com- This prosperity in the rural districts may comparatively small. pete with her rivals in the West in filling do something to stop the migration to large orders promptly. with the result the towns and cities which, in Japan, as that she often loses the advantage of berin most Western countries, is on the in- geographical position. It is possible for crease, but it will hardly help the manu- a large order to be placed in a European country to be delivered more promptly, in spite of the time taken in transporta tion, than would be the case if the order

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We are informed by Messrs. Thos. Cook and Son, the local agents of the South Manchuria Railway Company, that the 8.5. Suikio Muru has now resumed running in the Shanghai Dalny service, and will, leave Shanghai every Wednesday forenoon for Dalny, connecting with the South Manchurian and St. Petersburg Ex- presses leaving Dalny at 2.00 p.m. on Fri- day, returning from Dalny on Saturday at 3p.m., and dus in Shanghai on. Mon day morning.

Mr. Potter I beg to move for judg ment for $25,300 and costa, subject to the Ifis Lordship-I think you ought to question of interest being argued, be satisfied with what you have got, with out going into details. Whatever your legal rights may be you ought to be satis- fied with what you have got.

Mr. Alabaster-Will your Lordship grant a stop?

At to-morrow's meeting of the Banitary Board, Mr. F. B. I.. Bowley, mirsuant to natice, will move "That the Hegistrar-

His Lordships that necessary f General be appointed' as an additional member of the Committee appointed by

Mr. AlabasterWe are asking for a stay the Board on the 13th February, 1912, of six months in which to consider our Mr. Potter--There is no instance of a to carry out the provisions of the Bye position. It is the appealable time. laws for the prevention or mitigation of stay being granted for six months. I am

time. and that the Committee ге His Lordship-I will grant a stay for epidemic, endemie or eïntagious diaguite prepared to consent to a reasonable Mr. Alabaster Will your Lordship appointed on the same date to carry out two months. the provisions of the Bye-laws for the

Hay three months? The money is safe enough. Rumoval of Ceilings be dissolved.”

THE "SOSHO MARU" ROBBERY.

At the Magistracy on Saturday, seven men who had been arrested in connection with a robbery which took place on the facturers, who have constantly to fight...Soxku Moru were brought before Mr. against the demand for an increase of weges due to the higher cost of living.

Labour troubles have also made their

C. D. Melbourne. Mr. Lewis appeared on behalf of the defendants and secured

a formal remand.

Mr. Potter-The money is safe enough; but it should be brought into Court.

His Lordship Mr. Attorney suggests

three months,

Mr. Potter-If the money is paid into Court, then I think there will be no objec

tion.

His Lordship-This is an exceptional case. I will grant a stay of execution for three months.

On the application at Mr. Potter his Lordship certified for two Counsel and for the services of a shorthand writer.

AUSTRALIAN NAVAL POLICY.

--LONDON,-June-1st..

The Times Sydney correspondent states that Mr. Andrew Fisher, the Premier, in a statement made as the result of a suggestion of a London newspaper to the effect that the Commonwealth should copy. New Zealand, with regard to her

recent action, say's that to split the fleet unit is impracticable and unstatesman- like whereas the Commonwealth policy will relieve British ships and crews for service in home waters.

MALTA NAVAL AND MILITARY REVIEW.

LONDON, June 2nd.

A wire from Malta states that a naval and military review of 6,600 men was held in the presence of Mr. Asquith, Mr.

Churchill and General Hamilton and

magnificent spectacle, especially with re- other Gonérale and Admirals. It was a

gard to the Naval Brigade and field Mr. Churchill conversed with

guns.

every officer on parade.

ILLNESS OF SIR GEORGE WHITE.

LONDON, June ist. The condition of Field Marshal Sir George White, V.C., is nów dangerous.

"CARPATHIA'S" CAPTAIN

LIONISED.

LONDON, June 1st.

The Captain of the Carpathia is being ionised in New York. He has received on ovation in the theatres, and has been entertained at luncheon by the widows of Colonel Astor and Messrs. Thayer and Widener.

THE CRETAN DEPUTIES.

LONDON, June 2nd. A telegram from Athens states that owing to the determination of the Cretin deputies to take their scats at the open- ing of the Chambor to-day, the Greek Government, disregarding the protests of the Consuls of the Powers, drew round the building a cordon of armed troops who tearfully (sic) barred the approach of the deputies. The Cretans thereupon sent a deputation to parley with the Fremier. The incident was witnessed by enormous crowds. When the excitement subsided some of the troops were with- drawn and the Chamber adjourned until October 14th.