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created in rapid succession, and last year sugar was sent to Japan proper to the value of £3,776,803, representing a very large increase both in quantity and value on the figures of the previous year. But we gather from the Osaka Asahi that the Government has now stopped subsidising the industry, and that this means a rapid decline of the sugar-growing industry in the island. It is stated in the article that the total area

under cultivation it. Formosa this year has decreased by 40 per cent. The peasant finds rice-growing more profitable, for, if WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS |the critic can be believed, the production of sugar in a given area is only about one fourth or one-fifth the quantity produced in Jaya and Hawaii, and the tillers of the

BRANDY

Our Brandica are

soil find it pays them twice as well to cultivate rice as it does to mise sugar cane, If that is so, it can readily be understood tlust they would prefer to grow. rice instead of sugar.

But the increased cultivation of sugar in recent years has not GUARANTEED boon at the expense of rice. The area do voted to paddy has been constantly extend ing, as the Administration has increased the facilities for irrigating the land and

TO BE

PURE GRAPE norged improvement in agricultural

SPIRIT.

Percass Per of 1 dos. Bot.

A-SUPERIOR PALE, Fed

Capeale

...328.40 2.45

B-SUPERIOR OLD COGNAC, -

Rod Capente

WATSON'S * * * COGNAC,

Gold Capsule...

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OLD. LI- QUEUR COGNAC, Gold Capaulo

D-VERY FINE OLD PALE

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31 40 2.70

31.40 270

(The above. Prices include-duty,1

ALEXANDHA BUILDINGS.

methods. Today, we learn from the official brochure, 55 per cent, of the land in Formon under cultivation is devoted to

Dr. Morrison's salary as Political Ad- viser to the President, according to a vernacular paper published at Peking, will be £4,000 a year.

It is announced that the General Managers of the Hongkong Ice Co., Ltd. have declared an interim dividend for the past half-year of two dollars per share.

When the new Opium Agreement was published no fawer than 12,483) cheats of opium had paid duty at Shanghai.

Apparently the confidence trick was worked in Hongkong on Tuesday in Murray Road. A woman reports to the police that she was accosted by two mon who represented that they had just picked up a bundle of notes and wished them cushed. Mr. Eugenio Z. P. Percira, of Shang-jewellery to the value of over 8200 ns hai, who had come to Macro to spond a

She parted with money and

few days in the Colony, died there on

security, and of course say nothing of the Monday and his funeral took place on

mea afterwards, Tuesday evening.

The residence of the Austrian Consul, "The Firs, was entered by a thief on Tuesday. He gained admittanes by an to the value of 816. open window and went off with articles

On Tuesday evening a three years old boy ran in front of a tram car at Marri- sou Hill Road, and was run over. His right

The China Republican has made its

paper.

appearance in Shanghai as an evening saysAt the outset, we may at care In its first leading article it

state that we propose shaping our policy on the lines of Defonce, nut Defiance,' and our guiding principle, so far as possible, shall be constructive, rather than destructive. There can he opinions regarding the need that un-

interpret current events from the Chinese viewpoint. That this need does exist, we have no doubt will be admitted on all sides possessed of reason and sound jut:

two

TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL

ELECTION.

EXCLUSION OF NEGROES FROM THE

ROOSEVELT KONVENTION.

(THROUGH AKUTER'S AGENŪT. [ WINTRY AUGUST,

LONDON, August 7ih.

A winter-like gal swept over the can- try yesterday. There were many ship ping casualties, and ten more drownings among bathers and boating parties wer reported,

THE TRADES UNION BILL

THE OSVORNE JUDGMENT,

LONDON, August 7th. Reuter's correspondent at Chiengo states that Mr. Roosevelt at the Progres- sive Convention explained his platform, which constitutes a direct appeal to the

people should hold a people. He emphasised the point that

check on

every branch of public service and demanded a rigorous regulation of the trusts. Ho unfolded most elaborate plans to secure rights and better conditions for labour, the Unions the liberty of political action such as miniman wages, workmen's com.they had before the Osborne judgment,

LONDON, August 7th. The House of Commons, by 212 votes to 132, has passed the second reading of the Trades Unions Bill which restores to

leg was amputated by a wheel, and he doubtedly exists for an organ which shall pensation, insurance, old age pensions, but with safeguards for the protection of died almost immediately,

etc. He advocated a searching inquiry minoritica. into the rise of the cost of living and declared that the Panama Canal tolls for

According to a vernacular paper, the immense property in Wuhu belonging to

the heirs of Li Hong-chang has been

restored to the family after a half year's confiscation by order of the Revolu-

tionaries.

ocean traffic should be the same, for all

that Д free

passego

The Credentials Committee decided by 17 votes to 16 to exclude the negro dele. gates. The negroes intend appealing to Mr. Roosevelt,

ment, and in issuing this, our first copy, we have but ventured to step in and fillations, but the void thus created. We hope to make should be given to American coastwise the Republican the channel through which trade. rice-growing, and in well-irrigated parts two crops a year are raised. It is not loon, the residence of Captain Bunje, on

Thieves entered Durhar House, at Kow. to ventilate our views in a calm, reasoned manner, with restraint and judgment" surprising that the tiller of the soil in Monday and ratsacked the house, clear-Dr. Sun Yat Sen is reported to be largely Formos should be turning his attentoning off with articles valued at over $300.

responsible for the appearance of the new more and more to the growing of rice when They effected an entrance by means of andaily, and everyone will welcome and he sees that the demand for the cereal in open skylight window.

wish success to a well-conducted paper Japan Proper, the Philippines and elsewhere

which will represent the thought of the

upon the great-probleme confronting the new Republic.

LATER. The Convention has unanimously ap-

THE LIBERAL WHIP."

LONDON, August 7th. The Times states that the Master if Elibank has accepted a private appoints ment at a large salary,

It is expected that Mr. Illingworth will succeed him.

LATERE

It is believed that the Master of Elibank will be shortly elevated in the Pecrage.

The rumour that he will be succeding

in the East is no great as to maintain prices Chinese was charged with embezzling best leaders of publie opinion in Chinn proved the Committee's action excluding Lord Crewe is regarded as baseless.

At the Magistracy before Mr. Irving a several sums of money amounting in all to about 270, the property of the Kwong bail being fixed at $1,000. On Wing firm. Prisoner was remanded,

Dr. Douglas Gray of Peking travelled on the fat inst. by special train for Honam, at the request of the Ministry of the Interior, to examine the deputies who were seriously wounded in a recent attack by brigands on the Provincial Assembly. A Chinese who by false pretences got 1,050 pigeons in baskets from a simple countryman in Hongkong and escaped to Macao was traced there and arrested. He was extradited to Hongkong · and charged with the theft. The pigeons were valued at $178.

in the sourkets which wake the cultivation of the cereal mére profitable to the grower that was the case a few years ago. But so $7.49 3.20 far as the official returns enable us to judge, the cultivation of sugar in Formosa has LIQUEUR COGNAC,

mado far greater progress in the island Gold and White Capsule... 43.40 3.70 than has the growing of rice: Thus in 1905 the yield of rice in Formosa was 4,653,845 D-FINEST OLD BROWN BRANDY, Gold and White

kok, and the highest yield since has been Capsule

49.40 4.20 4,629,949 koku, whereas the production of sugar has increased from 31,632,658 kin in 1905 to $40,401,864 in 1910. The yield in 1911 is stated in the official publication to show an increase of 89 million kin, but A. S. WATSON & CO., there is evidently an error in the total for 1911 or in that for 1910, because, as print. LIMITED,

ed, last year's production really shows a decline to the extent of 35 million kia. But the point is, that notwithstanding the While making inquiries concerning Ansortion of the writer in tho Osake journal jewel robbery at Durbar House, Kowloon, that it is twice as profitable to grow rice as the residence of Captain Bunje, L.S. it is to grow sugar, the statistics show that Wills searched the boy's quarters and in five years the production of sugar has found papers belonging to an unlawful quadrupled, while that of rice, notwith-society. The boy was arrested, and on standing the irrigation works and improve being placed before Mr. Irving yesterday ment in agricultural methods, has remained pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three practically stationary. It is, therefore, very months' imprisonment. difficult to reconcile this with the wail of the Osaka writer that the peasantry are not taking to cane-growing, and that until they can be induced to do so there is no prospect for sugar-growing in the island. It looks like a plea by an interested party for the reten- tion of the bounties, though one of the explanations given of the preference of the peasant for rice-growing is the "haughty meddling" of the officials with the methods of cultivating sugar-cane and that the peasant is treated in a high-handed manner because

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DEATHS. At Canton, on August 5th, JAMES SIDNEY HOPWAR. Australian papers please copy.

[970

On the 2nd August, at Shanghai, MICHAEL SMYTH (a native of Ireland), Sergt. Louza Station S.M.P., aged 31

years.

On 2nd August, at Shanghai, JEANNETTE, widow of the late F. O. HANIBch, aged 78 years.

The Politica, a Chinese paper published comment on the Republic:---"The Re in Peking, makes the following satirical

public has produced the five-coloured flag, egg-shaped hubs, queueless women, the five-legged cow,

a shameless National Council and the Tungyikunghotang." The sixteen-letter word represents the name of a political party.

TROOPING ARRANGEMENTS.

THE K.O. Y. LI. TO LEAVE IN JANUARY.

Negroes.

Mr. Roosevelt, replying to a question, said the character of most of the Negro delegates discredited, the Republican Party therefore, the action of the Progressives was wise in excluding them. He hoped the time would come when Southern Negroes equal to the

The trooping programme issued by the Army Headquarters in India states that the transport Northbrook will arrive in Hongkong with the 2nd Duke of Corn-Whites in character, and standing would wall' Light Infantry, from South Africa, be sent to the Progressive Convention. on January 14th and will leave Hongkong with the 1st Battalion Yorkshire Light Infantry on the 17th January, arriving

TURKEY AND MONTENEGRO..

at Singapore on the 2nd January.

The Savdan takes the 1st Battalion Royal Inniskillings from Chingwangtao) on November 9th and arrives at Madras on December 4th.

It

CONTINUED FIGHTING.

LONDON, August 7th, Router's orrespondent Cottinje wires that the frontier fighting between the Turks and Mantenegrins continued throughout yesterday. The Montenegrins were ordered to retire from the border and adopt # defensive policy. The

It is hinted that he may withdraw from the Government.

The Liberals are disquieted and it is pointed out that even if he remains in the Cabinet it is in opportune to proantag the ablest Whip the Party ever had at a

moment when the slackness of Minis terialists is causing dwindling majoriting and when the Unionist whipping" is better than it has over been.

ADJOURNMENT OF PARLIAMENT.

Lospon, August 751 - The whips have agreed to adjouru Par. lament to-morrow.

The Sugar Convention will be debati on the motion for adjournment.

THE SUGAR CONVENTION.

LONDON, August.

Mr. Harcourt on the 2nd inst. -

A SENSATION AT. MACAO. There was great excitement in Macao on Tuesday night when a report was Turks, however, crossed the border and circulated that a bomb explosion had attacked them, but were repulsed with graphed to the Governors of the sugar- taken place in the Senado building. The foss by the infantry and artillery. Gon-producing Colonies announcing the with-- report, however, proved to bir an eral Vusotel has been ordered to the drawal of Great Britain from the Bugar exaggeration of the actual facts.

secne empowered to urge the Turks to Convention, regretting the necessity for appears that a few days ago two or three take common action to restore mea were arrested on suspicion of being

bran-adopting a policy which does not com concerned in a robbery, and they were

quillity.

mend itself to these Colonies, and cou taken before Lieut. Col. Santos,

The Montenegrins followed the Turks fidently anticipating that their interests Administrator, who is also temporarily over the frontier and captured three would not be materially` affected, Ha discharging the functions of Protector of fortified positions.

concludes by stating that the protocole Chinese and Police Commandant. Two

signed by the other Powers guarantee little bottles containing a powder of some kind were found upon the prisonera, Djavid Talaat has gone to Salonika for five years,

A Constantinople telegram states that that the bounties will not be revived for and these bottles were taken from them, wrapped in peper, and retained in the

the

The strike of mat bag packers employed at the Sugar Refinery at Quarry Bay on ita effectiveness. The room are engaged by mauure. If the views of the Osaka paper

a Chinese contractor and have all entered as to the general outlook for the sugar in

into definite agreements as to the condi- dustry in Formosa have any basis in fact it tions of their service. Some 70 people are would be a matter of great concern to the engaged, but a big proportion of these people who during the past few yours have have resumed work, so that there has been been investing Leavily in sugar mills which no serious interference with the output. have been erected in the territory; but a glance at any Japanese stockbroker's The Poking correspondent of the M.-C. share liet showe that the price of Daily News states that the appointment well main of Dr. Morrison as Political Adviser to the President is a notable departure on до tendency

the part of the new Government which

he receives a subsidy for the purchase of times, though it has lost a good deal of Administrator's Office. This particular

On the 2nd August, at Shanghai, Formosan sugar stocks are

HELEN, the beloved wife of T. O'DRISCOLL, aged 33 years.

HONGKONG OPPIOR: 70s, DES VOS ROAD C. LONDON OFFICE: 131, Fight Stager, E.C.

tained and exhibit

to

part of the building is undergoing re- pairs, and it seems that while some work- 100 were clearing up the place the.com- juring two men so severely that their tents of one of the bottles exploded, in- condition is described as critical. Con siderable damage was done to the build ing by the explosion, and it is very fortunate that only one of the bottler exploded. The other was found on the floor.

a Conference.

LATER.

AUSTRALIAN MILITARY

ENTHUSIASM.

LONDON, August 7th.

the Commonwealth contributes £2,000 for A message from Melbourne states that

the rifle team at Bisley in 1913.

AUSTRALIAN MILITARY

Krygger.

SERVICE

LONDON, August 7th. Ballarat cadet, who plead-

INCREASED PRICE OF IRON.

LONDON, August 7ih. The Midland Iron Masters have an nounced an increase of 10/- per ton in iron bars. This is the highest prios fur cloven years.

ALLEGED ESPIONAGE IN GERMANY.

THE CLON OF THE ENGLISH YACHTSAUEN.

LONDON, August 7th.

The English yachtsmen are still in

decline. We can only conclude, therefore, promises to develop into a fixed policy, SATURDAY'S ENTERTAINMENT AT ed religious objection to military service prison at Kiel. The German newspapers

that holders of sugar stock, up to ten days ago, at least, shared the official view that the sugar industry in Formosa is "moet

The Daily Press. provising."

HONGEONG, August är¤, 1912.

THERE bus recently appeared in one of the Japanese papers at Osaka an article on the sugar industry in Formosa which is not without interest at the present time when the collapse of the Sugar Convention is disturbing the sugar trade of the whole world. Contrary to what oue gathers from the official publications, the writer in the Osaka paper represents the cultivation of sugar in Formosa as a declining industry. We are told in the Finosiciel

The English mail of the 6th July was delivered in London on the 6th August.

The Ministry of Finance favours the use of the silver dollar as a standard unit of value.

for the names of other able men acquaint ed with China are mentioned af likely to Dr. be offered similar appointments, Morrison has started for Home and will return to Peking to take up his duties on October 1st. The Cabinet were unanimous in making the offer to Dr. Morrison.

Another old British resident of the Far

East has just passed away at Yokohama, in the person of Mr. B. Powys, who resided in that city for forty-four years, Home on leave, returned to the Colony and for many years was associated with yesterday.

Dr. W. B. A. Moore, who has been

Only 15 cases of plague were reported in the Colony last week, and of these 13 had a fatal termination.

A man was found in Water Lane on

apparently self-administered.

Two men were charged at the Magis tracy, with being members of an unlawful society. One was discharged, and the other was remanded.

MT. AUSTIN.

has been ordered to make up the arrears The following is the programme of the of drills. He is appealing against the entertainment to be given at the theatre decision. at Mt. Austin on Saturday:---

PART I.

1.-Overture

Orchestra 2.-The Great High Dive Act "and other Acts," by Miss Jean J. Speedy and Master Den Speedy. Introduced by Mr. James Phyllis. 3-Tubophone Solo.. Corporal Delamore. 4.-Song...... ...... “La. Citara,"

Mr. Geo. Lammert. 5. A few moments with Mr. R. M. Crosse

and the Chief Composers. 6.A Neapolitan Solo

Hon. Mr. Claud Severn. Mrs Schofield. S.-A Coconut Song and Dance

Bros. Mac. INTERVAL OF TEN MINUTES.. -

PART 11.

the firm of Lane, Crawford &. Co., Ltd. Born in the Midlands, and serving, his apprenticeship in the drapery business, Mr. Powys came to the East in 1860, being 7. Song in Hongkong and Shanghai for about two years. Arriving in Yokohama in 1868, be

and Economic Annual, published by the Tuesday, suffering from opium poisoning, entered into business on his own account Japanese Department of Finance, that the sugar industry in Formosa is "most promising," Sugar-case has been grown in Formosa since the sixteenth century, and the official publication- tolls us that as the result of the encouragement by the Govern. mout of Formosa, since the cession of the feland to Japan, the area of cultiva- tion of sugar-caue has increased, sugar manufacturing companies have been

Orchestra.

"MB. HILARY REGRETS." A Comedietta, by S. Theyre-Smith. Characters.

as gentlemen's outfitter. Later on the business was absorbed by Messrs. Kirby 1-A Waltz Medley & Co., Mr. Powys remaining with the firm until it was bought out by Mesara. Lane, Crawford & Co. Mr. Powys trans ¦ferred his services to the latter firm, with whom he remained until five years ago, Mr. Frank Grove, resident engineer of when he retired. At this time he was one the Chinese section of the Canton of the directors of the company, and con- Kowloon Railway, returned from Home tinued financially interested in the busi- yesterday, travelling out via Siberia. ness up to the time of his death.

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Dr. Power....... An Irish Doctor Capt. R. E. Boulton. Preston. A man-servant Mr. H. Law. Blanche Hilary...A Young Widow Mrs. Schofield.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

THE NEW GOVERNOR OF NEW ZEALAND.

LONDON, August 6th. Lord Liverpool has been appointed Governor of New Zealand in succession to Baron. Islington.

-FRENCH SHIPPING STRIKE.

LONDON, August 7th.

take the case seriously and praise the alertness of the Fisheries Superintendent in detecting them. His auspicions were aroused by such trivialities as the small- ness of the flag, which is of ordinary size, and the fact that no name was painted on the side of the yacht. The cruise was described by a member of the party who returned to England a few hours before the arrest. It shows the most innocent

photographs. They often joked at the idea of being arrested and sent a post- card to friends commenting on the fact that they were not worried by- officials.

IN PERU.

A message from. Marseilles states that after a prolonged strike the officers and engineers of the Messageries Maritimes THE RUBBER ATROCITIES have resumed work, accepting in advance the decision of the Arbitration Court.

THE ENGLISH LADY JOURNALIST IN PORTUGAL

a

LONDON, August 7th. At question time in the House of Com- mona Mr. Asquith announced that select committee would be appointed to inquire whether any responsibility

euita

LONDON, August 7th. Bliss Deam, the Lisbon correspondent of the Daily Mail, who was recently with the British directors of the Per

vian Amazon Company for the atrocities arrested by the Portuguese police, has in Putumayo and whether any changes

in company law are desirable

been released.