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not merely to offset the orcess of males | born into the world, but as sufficient also to] account for the enormous preponderance of females which is disclosed by the censua returas. It is, of course, a conclusion not warranted by the mortality statistics. Wa soo very little difficulty in accounting for the fact that the cansua shows a great excess of women. Emigration is certainly the most important factor in the problem. During the past five years the average annual number of British emigrants has boen well over 300,000. We have no statis- tics at hand showing the proportion of females te mules among the emigrants, but we do not think we should be far wrong in hazarding the opinion that male emigrants represent at least 75 por cant. Then, again, we have to bear in mind the fact that among this great excess of women which the wives of the Consus rorcala aro thousands of men on the high seas and in ports in all parts of the world, on British

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are engaged in commercint or industrial enterprises in tropie regions-women who are home, possibly, to watch over the education of their cons and daughters, or

Mesare. Ellia & Ellis inform us that! they have received a telegram from Shanghai stating that the output of the Langkat Co, for the month of August is 13,815 tons. The output for the month of July was 13,032 tong.

As the Hon. Mr. Murray Stewart is shortly leaving the Colony, & meeting of the members of the Chamber of Com morce is called for the 16th inst. to elect a representative to sit in the Legislative Council until the return of the Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett, C.M.G.

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE.

The opening of Term yesterday proved an interesting exent. Archdeacon Bar- nett, Warden of the College, and Mrs. Barnett, after an extended furlough in England, attended the College, and after roll call the Archdeacon delivered an appropriate address to the studente, who had assembled in large numbers.

After expressing pleasure at being back again, the Archdeacon referred to the changes which had taken place since they started for England, not less than 18 months ago. The greatest change of all The movement to combine the Presby was the change in the government of terian, Central Methodist and Christian China. Those who had been in England churches of Manila into one big or and who knew China had watched this ganization is being taken up with en change with very great interest. It had thusiasm by the various creeds represents been his lot often to speak at meeting

in England with reference to China and ed in the matter. Committees have been appointed to discuss affairs connects changes, and now he was looking anxiously to see North and South China tion with the movement.

The engagement is announced of the united, and trusting each other. Until

put her foot on the first rung of the ladder which lends to solidity, strength,

TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S. AGENDY.] THE TIBETAN SITUATION.

LONDON, September 3rd. Sir F. E. Younghusband in a letter to the Times says "It is inhuman to leb the present conditions in Tibet continuo We must tall the Chinese and Tibatans that we recognise Chinese suzerainty but never Chinese sovereignty. We must also be careful not to lose the goodwill of the Tibetans gained by the expedition of 1004.

Router's correspondent wires that the British official at Darjeel- ing refused to permit an alleged Chinese Mission to the Dalai Lama to cross the

nt Calcutta

[TKHOUGH XEUTER'S· AUSWUY.}

THE PANAMA CANAL.

LONDON, September 3rd.

It is officially stated that Great Britain intends formally to demand the sub- mission of the Panama Canal question to arbitration.

THE KAISER.

LONDON, September 3rd.

A Berlin telegram states that the Kaiser departed on Monday evening for a four day visit to Switzerland, whern he will witness the military manœuvres.

The Sedan Day celebrations concluded

frontier. The Mission arrived at Cal- with a torchlight tatteo outside the castle. outta last week armed with gredentials Rev. W. Horace Foster Pegg, Chaplain this was accomplished China could not which the Chinese agent accepted. Now

to the Forces, Hongkong, South China, eldest son of the Rev. H. Foster Pegg, M.A., vicar of Battersea, and Daisy Elsa, daughter of A. Usmond Scott, of The

Orchard House, Bedford Park, and 13, Victoris-street, Westminster.

A Chinese was charged before Mr. Irving at the Magistracy yesterday with the theft of six and a half yards of canvas from H.M.S. Sandpiper as she was lying in dock. During the hearing of the case a witness was giving evidence, and the police decided to charge him also. The case was remanded.

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The first issue of paper money for the new Chinese Republic is boing printed in New York by the American Bank Note Company. At the office of that company, says the Philadelphia Record, great secrecy is being observed at the behest of the republic, so the officials put it, in regard to the amount of this issue.

Perasso Por of 1dow. Bot. for reasons of health. When these con- sideratious are before us they minimise to a Bed

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According to a Reuter's micssage from encountered in a country which is new. It Hankow, six missionaries living in wide- therefore seems that if female emigration isly separated districts, namely, Liupang, to be conducted on at all a large scale, the Packing, Yungehow, Pingking and organisers of the movement must begin | Siangyin, all'in Hunan, have been in- A. §. WATSON & CO. with young children. Already some steps terviewed and they all declared that the have becu taken to train young girls in report of a recrudescence of poppy grow- LIMITED,

domestic service with a view to sending ing in Hanan is grossly exaggerated. them to the Colonies. There is certainly an sager demand for them in all the large colonies, and the striking announcement that there are 1,179,276 more women than men in England and Wales will doubtless lead to a wide extension of the movement to the advantage of the girls themselves, the land of their nativity and to the Colonies to which they are destined to go.

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HONGKONG," SEPTEMBER 478, 1912.

Tax interesting fact that the census returns just published show that there is a murphus of no fewer than 1,179,276 fomules in England and Wales alone has prompted rateresting comment in maay of the Home papers, but so far we have seen no explana tion of this enormous disproportion which satisfactorily accounts for it. Yot we think this surplus is capable of ready and reason- able explanation. We may deal first with some of the views on the subject we have reen already presented. It is notorious

that more male children are born into the

world, even in England, than female

A Chinese met his death on Monday by either falling or throwing himself from the roof of a house in Mercer Street.

The dead body of a Chinave aged 20 years has been found in a decomposed

state on the foreshore at Shaukiwan.

Manila, according to our contempor aries of that port, had a "surfeit of typhoons" last week, but very little dam- age appears to have been done.

Mr. W. Stark Toller, of H.B.M.'s Consular Service, has been transferred from Swatow to Shanghai, and left for the Northern port by the steamer Africa."

None of them had seen or heard of any recrudescence.

A Chinese was charged before Mr. Irving at the Magistracy with kidnap ping a boy, seven years old, from Can- ton. A Chinese detective who happened to travel on the same steamer had his suspicions aroused, and questioned the MAN, The prisoner tried to ran away on landing in the Colony, but was caught by a constable. His Worship committed the man to the Sessions for trial.

and success, and unity was the object at which every patriot of China should aim.

In turning from the political changes, the Archdeacon referred to the educa- tional changes which had taken place in the Colony... It was at St. Stephen's that Sir F. Lugard, speaking from that plat- form, reminded his audience that the pro. jeet of the University would always be associated in his mind with St. Stephen's College, because it was at the College that the idea of a University for Hongkong. was first promulgated, thus the Arch- doacon felt, the University and St. Stephen's were very closely connected In addition there was that other link in the educational chain-the Hostal-to

it is believed that the Mission consists of

disguised Mongolians whose object is to induce the Dalai Lama to make an offen-

sive and defensive treaty with Mongolia.

Reuter learns that Britain up till now has received no reply from China to her

demand anent Tibet.

GREAT STORM IN THE UNITED

STATES.

There were 800 musicians and the thou sands of spectators gave a great ovation to the Emperor and the Empress who appeared on the balcony.

COLONIES AND THE NAVY.

LONDON, September 3rd.

A message from Toronto gales that the Australian High Commissioner in a speech at the Exhibition dwell upon the duty of the Dominions to aid the Im perial Navy, The Canadians had made splendidly loyal statements in London, LONDON, September ard.

and the Empire was watching anxioly It is reported from Pittsburg that a for the postscript, hoping that Canada storm has swept over Pennsylvania and with her great strength and prosperity Virginia, washing out railways and would do something permanent and im- doing extensive damage to other pro-mediata to relieve the strain on the Em

perty.

So far 35 persons have been reported)

STORM DAMAGE IN ENGLAND.

which students of St. Stephen's can pass. after leaving the college; a handsome, killed. home for their University career and under the guidance of one who had proved himself a very real friend during his past three years' service at St. Stephen's-Rev. W. H. Howitt

Changes had taken place in the teach, ing staff, but with the arrival of Mr. F. A. Britton from Oxford University, that was now complete, and they had a body of men in whom he had the greatest con

fidence.

LONDON, September 3rd. In view of the widespread distress in the agricultural districts resulting from failure of the harvest, the Standard urges the appointment of an expert ecm- mittee to formulate a scheme for repair- ing the damage, and suggests that the Government should advance money to needy farmers, at easy rates, to enable them to tide over the winter.

AN AUSTRALIAN'S GIFT TO CHARITIES.

It had been the Archdeacon's pleasure to meet many old boys in England, and it was a great satisfaction to find that they had not forgotton the lessons taught. at St. Stephen's. He did not mean mathematics, etc., but the lesson of how

LONDON, September 3rd. to live a respectable, clean, industrious. A Melbourne telegram states that Mr. life, so that now they were welcomed to Charles Forrest, formerly a member of the best families at home and received the Victorian Legislature, has donated there as gentlemen. In other spheres,£100,000 to charities. intellectual and physical, these old boys were also distinguishing themselves.

The Archdeacon before closing his ad-

Archdeacon and Mrs. Barnett have

TRADES UNION CONGRESS.

LONDON, September 3rd, Mr. Will Thorne, Labour M.P., in his

The transactions of the Congress of dress paid a graceful tribute to the solid work which had been done in his absonce, the Far Eastern Association of Tropical particularly to the work of the Senior have been issued in a bound volume. It worthily acted as Warden in his absence. Trades Union Congress on an increase of Medicine held in Hongkong in January-Master, Mr. G. A. Hanuck, who had Presidential address, congratulated the includes some fifty papers read all the Congress, covering most of the illa that flesh is heir to in the tropics, and this permanent record will doubtless be wel comed by medical men throughout the Far East. Dr. Francis Clark, the General Secretary of the Association, edited the were printed by transactions, which Messrs. Noronha & Co. of Hongkong, and the book is published at 19/6.

Hupeh is no longer poor and it has plenty money, so says a Hankow paper. arrived at Wuchang from Tientsia toge- The other day 0,000,000 lbs of copper

The

been away from the Colony for almost 18 over 250,000 in membership, and said months. Although in search of health... that labour unrest could only bo atemmed and happily the Archdeacon has been by the removal of social inequalities. successful in his quest-no idling has taken place. Numerous meetings in all He urged the Labour party to vehement- parts of the British Isles have been ad-

ly oppose compulsory arbitration. dressed by the Archdeacon, and the eree- tion of St. John's Hall, the official title miners' strike had brought them a step of the C.M.S. Hostel, in Bonham Road

nearer the nationalisation of the mines. opposite the University, is, a striking He blamed the Government for defeat testimony to the chdeacon's foresight

ing the transport workers strike, and and hard work.

emphasised the point that labour must have more representatives in the House. of Commons.

GERMAN MILITARY MANEUVRES.

LONDON. September 3rd.

SHORTHAND SUCCESSES. The result of the recent examination

Capital to the amount of $4,500,000 is stated to have been subscribed by influential Chincae in the Straits Settle ther with 300,000 silver dollars. The tax conducted at the Technical Institute for ments for the establishment of a "Hokien

from cotton hemp and tobacco leaf at Pitman's certificates is as follows:- Bank."

Wisusb amounts to Tls. 600,000 per

Fitty words per minute-Hide Noma, mouth. The monthly tax collected from T. F. O'Sullivan, Wong Kin Wo. the various tikin offices has reached the

Theory-N. L. Railton, Yeung Wan figure of $1,200,000. The annual land Hing, Li Kwok Ming, Merlinde Webster, tax und stamp tax for title deeds amount James A. Lop, Camella Collace, Lai to $4,200,000. The monthly requirement Hing On, H. A. Lop, Ho Ying Kwan. for the ration of soldiers is $1,600,000, and the surplus each month will be

Elementary Certificate Marion C. Marshal). $600,000, with which many schools are to be opened.

The servants' quarters at the Japanese Consul's residence in Macdonnell Road was broken into on Monday night by thieves, who stole clothing to the value of 818.

A European named James T. Laing failed to appear at the Magistracy yes- terday to answer a charge of having been drunk and disorderly, and his bail of 810 was estreated.

At the Magistracy yesterday a Chinese was £sed 850 for wrongfully filling in

an assessment form.

LAWN BOWLS OPEN CHAMPION SHIP.

At a meeting of the Lawn Bowla

Sixto Lopez, whom a Manila contem. porary describes as a *determined ex- patriate and irreconcilable," left Philip League Committee on Monday it was pine scii last week after a four days' stay. decided that the final in the lawn bowls

Router's correspondent at Berlin tele-

graphs that Their Majesties on Monday reviewed 00,000 troops, including the Guards, at Tempelhoferfeld. Two air- ships and eight army aeroplanes flow over the heads of the Royal visitors.

GERMAN CRUISER AT QUEENSTOWN.

LONDON, September 3rd.

The German cruiser Hansa, visiting

He represented He went there, as he says, to breathe the open championship between W. Russell | Queenstown, has been the object of un-

that the rent of his house" was whereas it was 8150.

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KING'S INVITATION TO AN

AVIATOR.

LONDON, September 3rd. Mr. Hucks, an aviator, who is at pre-

pire.

THE WESTPHALIAN OUTRAGE.

LONDON, September 3rd

A message from Hagon in Westphalia states that the wounded burglar (one of the five who had a pitched cncounter with the police) has died. His comrades threw him into a flooded river to prevent his revealing the names of his confederaten, but the police rescued him. He gave one name, enabling the police to effect three

arrests.

TEN FISHERMEN DROWNED.

LONDON, September zid. A fishing boat foundered in a gale uff the Hebrides, and ten fishermen lost their lives. These unfortunate men leave 61 children.

THE LIBERAL-LABOUR BREACH.

LONDON, September 3rd, The Liberal-Labour breach in Mid- lothian is widening. Mr. Rameny Macdonald, speaking at Edinburgh,

agents, but to vote straight for Labour. urged the rotera not to listen to Labezal

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MAGISTRATE REVERSES HIS DECISION.

The re-hearing of the summons agaiust

Shun Ting for issuing receipts, the amounts being divided so as to avoid the revenue, which was dismissed at the first hearing, took place hofors Mr.-E. A. Irving at the Magistracy yesterday.

Mr. Hodgson (Assistant Crown Solici- tor) prosecuted and Mr. Crowther Smith defended..

Mr. Hodgson pointed out that the frets of this case were similar to those in the case of the Colonial Treasurer v. Rutton- jee. Hore they had a collector acknow

ledged by the defendant, who ind' au- thority to give receipts on behalf of the defendant, receiving money for the de- fendant and with the defendant's au- thority. The tenants who paid rent to the collector held receipts against the defendant firm and the present tenants considered their account for rent as settled between then and the defendant or those entitled to receive the rent, That was exactly the same issue the Full Court in. Hongkong had bofore it in 1808 in the case of the Colonial Treasurer Buttonjes. The defendant in this case received money for the firm and there- fore became defendant in this case, On that principle he asked his Worship to reverse his decision; the facts in this caze being exactly similar in truth and prin- ciple to those in the case decided by the Full Court.

children and the fact that the census reveals that the number of females in the country is so enormously greater than

air of his native land, and, when he had of the Kowloon Bowling Club, and W.sual courtesies males, leads the commentator on these

breathed his fill, departed on the Rubi. Pitt, of the Police Bowling Club, be The officers were invited to Dublin as Egures to mention first that "boys are less

A man from the village of Teat Tee Lopez has made frequent visits to the played on Saturday, September 14th, at the guests of the Earl and Countess of easy to wear thau girls," and the further Mui was knocked down on the Shauki Philippines, although previously he has Taikoo Grees, beginning at 3.45 p.m. fact that, in later life, the mortality wan Road near Bay View by a tram-car, always remained on the steamer which The prizes won in the championship

brought him, the various | and received injuries which necessitated among man due to the danger

His refusal to take the competition and in the League competi- oath of allegiance to the United Statos tion will be presented that afternoon. industrial pursuits in which they are on. his removal to the hospital.

bars him effectually from living here. gaged, is greater than among women. Here The first skirmish in the bearing of He came on the Binh Thuan from Indo- the commentator seems to leave the question the petition of George M. Lack in the China and was permitted to land by the with the remark that "the problem is one Manila Courts for the issuance of an authorities. obviously suitable for investigation by the order against Frederic W. Taylor, Direc

The Theatre Royal was well filled last Eugenic Society, and perhaps in some tor of Agriculture, restraining him or

hight, "The Dollar Princess" being tent at Aberdeen, flies to Balmoral to-day remote future Eugenists will have discover his assistants front imposing upon cattle

LARCENIES IN THE CITY.

presented by the Bandmann Opera Com- by invitation of H.M. the King. He is pany. Mins Georgia Corlass, Messrs. Ito land on the lawn of the Castle. ed how to regulate the production of the imported by Mr. Lack from Hongkong

Fred Coyue, Bobbie Roberts, McGrath, Yesterday it was reported that 8200 had Farmer and Frith were responsible for In abandoning the inquiry at a quarantine of longer duration than

THE SHOOTING SEASON. this point, the writer to whom reference that actually necessary to determine the been stolen from the Post Office Build- the more important parts, and the per

ings.

LONDON, September 3rd. has been made seems to accept the fact presence of disease, was won by the im

Jewellery to the value of $750 was The last performance of the season will

formance proved an undoubted success.

Partidge shooting has been hampared that mortality among males" is notoriously porter, the Court overruling the de greater than among females as sufficient murrer presented by Judge James Rose, stolen from the house No..at, Wyndham, be "The Count of Luxembourg" this by the wet weather which has destroyed each count and granted leave to appeal

¡Street yesterday.

two sexes."

attorney for Mr. Taylor.

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evening.

many birds,

Mr. Crowther Smith said the amended ordinance was not in force when that case was beard.

Mr. Hodgson contended that as far as he was concerned the original Ordinance was effective.

His Worship found the defendant guilty and said he would defer sentence until he had heard the pending caves,

Mr. Crowther Smith asked his Worship to state the fine now.

His Worship imposed a fine of $1 on

if required.