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FROM THE CUSTOMS REPORTS.

KOWLOON.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH, 1912.

FOOCHOW.

A WRONG VIEW OF AMATEUR SPORT

BY W. BEACH TRUMAS. (Ex-President of the Oxford University Athletic Club.)

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COACHING FOR CRICKET,

in genersi what athletes now feel is that f the Olympic Games and foreign example may introduce a knowledge of form and atyle which will permanently prom te this game of athletics and of physical culture. Incidentally they feel that a quite gratuitous hindrance is offered by boating men who have developed rowing to the highest pitels of perfection by the very means which in athletics are de-

If the question is considered logically, who can be more professional than those ultra-amateurs the country-house cricket teams, who usually prefer to ongago a professional to do the bowling, which is a great part of the game, on their behalf run his races for him.Daily Mail.

No athlete proposes to ask the coach to

THE TRANSMOGRIFICATION OF 'CHA.

INTIMATIONS

ECZEMA PAINED SO

HE COULD NOT SLEEP

Leg Red and Inflamed. Itched Aw- fully. First Application of Cuticura Ointment Stopped the Itching. One Box of Cuticura Ointment and One Cake of Cuticura Soap Cured Him.

"The appearance of my son's complains wan as though a'pirea of skin had been torn from the leg. B was so red and infamed sud used to itch aumething awful. He used to erstch it in his sloop and the pain be used to suffer was awful. It started as a scar about three faches square just below the knen and I think had been there about eighteen months

"I tiled several ointments, sic, brinne acemed to do any good for him, then I look bim to the doctor and he was under him for about two months. The doctor told me it was oczema arid the ointment be sarò me gave him no ease at all: My son's leg gare him the most trouble at nights sa ONIO nights he could not get to sleep for the pain.

Thea 1 pund about the Cuticum. Bakp and Cullera Ointment and decided to give ther trial. The first time I applied the Cutlers Ointment i atopped this isching and one box of Cuticura Ointment and one tablet of Cuticura Soap were sufident to effect a completa cure in three works, I abait bo only too pleased to recommend Cutleura Boap and Dinteraz to thood who suffer from any kind of skin disease.** (8gned) Mrs. Chaytor, 22, Walworth Brook, Sunderland, England, July 12, 1011.

For more than a generation warm baths with Culicura Soap and gentle appication of Cutleura Olainent have afforded the special and most economical treatment for forturing, garing affections of the skin and scalp of infants, children and adult. A liberal sample of Cuticura Bap and Ointment with 39-5, book feco from near- est depot: F. Newbery & Sons, 27, Charter- haus Hq., London; I. Towns & Co., Sydney, N. 8. W.: Lennon, L., Cape Town; Muller, Maclean & Co., Calcutta and Bombay; Potter ́D. & C. Corp., sole propa, Boston, U. S. A.

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Chs. J. Gaupp

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ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,

CHATEL ROAD.

drawn is that the Two Kwang provinces ralt, hampering thereby trade and they did not. provo a very serious hind outrage is committed against the amateur place in the good old times, before hotels! Always have on hand a very large completo

stock of

SCIENTIFIC AND

THE TRADE OF THE SOUTHERN rice crops suffered severely from inunda-

tions and untimely rains; that the pro- The shadows which coming events are PORTS.

hibition against poppy growing in Yun generally supposed to cast before did not nan has put an end to the barter of much darken the aspect of a considerably opium for cotton piece goods and yarn; brighter trade horizon at the commence, and that the revolution practically ment and during the first part of event brought the raport trade to a standstill

fol 1911. We know of a tremendous anti- in Novembor and December. Neverthe dynastic undercurrent: we heard the Kegarded from a commercial stand-

In the discussion whether or no Eng. less, notwithstanding all these adverse subterranean onrusl of those waters, stint land shall attempt to send a strong team point, "disappointed expectations" prob-circumstances, the business dons during hemmed in by laws and conventionalities to the next Olympic games at Berlin a ably conveys in two words the impression the year under review was more favour though forcibly seeking a fres outlet; but ourious and unexpected view has been scribed as degrading.

able than could have been expected. we did not anticipate the premature that the year under review has formed in Goods passing the Nativo Customs were bursting of the last obstacles Sumpcding expressed on the meaning of amateur and men's minda. The year opened with valued at 10.4 million taels-the highest the course of this onrush to the sunshine favourable prospects, and, money being controlled by the Wuchow Customs total all possible kinds of societica, with nam

on record, The gross value of the trade and free circulation, Honeycombed with Quite a considerable school, largely re plentiful, credit was onay.

cruited from rowing mon, especially The com- led 29 million tools- falling off of 2 crous secret or other tendencies, Chinese Oxford rowing men, argue that the mencement of revolutionary activities in million tacts as compared with that of life had been running for years towards athlete who trains hard under any tutor-

the preceding year. the spring brought about animaclared a Republic on the 7th November.authority on earth could have possibly event does somehow soil and weaken his Kwangsi was de-a great revolution, which no power or ship and specialises in any particular change, and trade, especially import, Fellowing the declaration there ensued a strange that trade, with its highly culis said that each preparation for inter- suffered overely. It is satisfactory to be period of

counteracted, may sportsmanship by taking this

It able to report that repudiation of conwhich gave the lawless cloment, for which tivated perception of eventualities, prov-national competition as the Swedes prae-

uncertainty and confusion, trueta has not been a feature here, show

heaval and change so soon to be effected: like element in British sport. to recomigence robbing and has induced a more conservative policy, with the result that for nearly a month by this apparent neglect to shape its and dealers do not mean to be caught junk and launch traile on the upper course accordingly, it has boon demon: with large forward orders on their hands river cane to a standstill, while on the strated how previature and unexpected or those who have coached them can hold

When my Boy after several years of as in 1908, Deliveries of yarn during the lower river it was much hampered. At wore the even of last autumn. Trade, such a theory is not easily understood, trustworthy service walked off ong Sun- year have been fairly satisfactory. From the same time, merchants wore timid though hampered to some extent, never. The ideal of English athletes, as being day morning with my "carpet bag, my India it is reported that some 100,000 about importing, as goods could not be theless went on uninterruptedly, and it prouched at present, is the boating ideal, mushing togs and hat turned up with bales have been imported into Hongkong, shipped off to the interior, and they were serious shrinkage has to be recorded, and practise as the university boats prae- green" or articles of similar value in

is a matter of great surprise that no more The athletes hold that if they could train the average of the last three years being afraid to store here, owing to the prevail- The total net value of the trade of Footise they would make running and jump this Eastern land, including a cortain 190,000. Although the price of yarn at ing uncertainty. At one time in Novem- the end of the year was less than at the ber there was practically no money in the Maritime Customs during 1911, namely, athletica as eight or four oared rowing forcatalled gaji, some silverware and a chow that CBD1C within the purview of the ing and the rest as worthy a form of part of my hard-earned and always commencemeat by some to per cent. u fall port, the banks having shipped to Cunton II. Tls. 17,290,210, shows a decline of of 40 per cent. in the prie of American all their ready money. On the other 11k. Tls. 1,121,398 from the corresponding

or as sculling.

dozan M.O.P. buttons, I laid low and cotton must, it is thought, compel a fur hand, native goods were shipped off asigures of the previous year. ther reduction in home prices before fast as possible, as morehans wished to million taels of this decrease, however, with the boating man is specialisation is several other masters and had so far said nothing to my friends. For, when Chinesa duslera will come into the market.

realise and await events. By the end

The only other player who compares I was away on my holiday, my Boy had An interesting feature of trade in Hong the year confidence was restored and busi-s due to the enforced diminution of kong has been the large four business

Bess was resumed as usual. Gambling in

traffic in opium, so that only a small de the erickster. Specialisation is hore fallen from graes that on my return I insisted found the Colony according him free financed during the year. The importa all its forms was prohibited throughout Preciation in value attributable to the extreme, and, if the word is tion was something over brillion bugs, the province from the 30th March, the more legitimate portion of the trade upon, professional almost to the point of board and ledging. He for his part was

about Hk. T. 121,000-remains as against a little under 3 million baga Provincial government thereby relin-

When the small boy goes from giving it far more strenuous effort than in 1010. Prices have fluctuated but little.quishing an annual revenue of $270,000 one-the fourth-was established in Feb he has been drilled in cricket more charge, however, mindful of his many

noted.

The saw-mills, of which a new his preparatory school to his public school he had put forth for me. On his dis- Dealers have had good year; and it is Jeting Commissioner of Custome.

derived from this sourceALE W Cross,ruary, 1911, must have proved a veritable thoroughly than any American athlete excellent qualities, re-instated him. anticipated by them that, with a shortage

He has Needless to say I had to put up with of the rice crops, wheat will enter more

El Dorado to their proprietors, so great was over drilled in jumping. largely into the diet of the Chinese. The

have been the shipments of planks and been taught how to stand, how to hold much criticism from candid friends; so I The year 1911 cannot be considered a kerosene oil boxes; and, as wood poles the bat, how to swing it for this stroke was loth, when the forescon occurred, to rosearches that connect the origin of that prosperous one from a profit-yielding also show an increased export, it is a pity and that. He is solemnly instructed on insidious discase bori-beri with the use of point of view,

run the gauntlet such remarks as "It The tables of trado, when to think that such a thriving industry paper-to quote a very vivid personal serves you right!", "1 always told you highly polished rice are worth mention compared with those of the previous year, will be inevitably ruined unless some reminiscence-in the mysteries of playing that would happen," etc., etc. Probably, ing. The highly polished rice, although record a falling off in values to the ex-provident afforestation laws are enforced short ball off the legs. The instructor as my friends often over, my mind is pleasing to the eye, is considered harmful of ik Tls. 25,116. The chief causes for threatened in the spring, the price going empty class room and demonstrates the folt far more keenly the loss of my queue-

tent of Hk. Tis. 1,023,501, and in revenue, at an early date. A scarcity of rice was to the health when the diet is largely a it were repeated floods in the summer up to 88.70 per slik of 130 cutties; bat, take fat from the turmoil and unrestless slave than I did that of my money. is a schoolmaster who takes the boy to an badly balanced, for I honestly confess I rice one. A fine scope for the ingenuity of the advertiser in pointing out the months, which unfavourably affected the fortunately, the first crop gave a bountif the moving ball and the fiery pitch. and personal effects. Over tan silverware advantages of hand-milled rice and of turbances during April, November, and harvested.-P. vox TANEER, Commission-

rice and silk crops, and the political disful yield (eight-tenths), and was safely When this paper lesson is learned the flour as articles of dist would seem to December.

prescats from friends I am not likely offer itself. Imports into Canton during pirates on the North and West Rivers &

The latter also gave the er of Customs.

boy taken to a net. One or two pro- to see again-I felt some passing senti- the year, both by steamer and junk, have fren hand: they constantly attacked the

fessionals are told off to howl at him, to mental regret; thanks to living in a been slightly below normal, while stocks river steamers and cargo-boats, robbing year was entirely uneventful.

The course of trade during the past bowl particular balls so that he may country where, despite our so-called hold, and expected to arrive, in Hong them of their cargoes and threatening the have been otherwise had the revolution as he has studied it in the classroom.

It might study in the field the A B C of the game Christianity and our fervent weekly kong are heavy; and this can be accounted lives of their crew and passengers, so that broken out in the early summer, when the

response to the commandment we allow for by the troubled conditions on the those vessels Gnally ceased trading for tea season gives Santoso all that it over

Behind him etands an instructor who the stranger within our gates to do all mainland, dealers being afraid to carry quite a while, especially at the ports of has of life and activity; but coming as only the specialist can perfectly attain. buttons could be readily replaced by w coaches with the deadly carnestness that manner of work on the Sabbath, the stocks in Canton and coast ports, and for call and stages, near where the piratical it did, when the little port had relapsed When holidays come special nets and trip to any tamby shop. (Perhaps, by

attacks were some time they have been content to Towards the end of the year the money had no effect whatever on the trade pass- { if he happens to be one of the fortunate, the gates this is enough salve to our

generally only their day-to-day requirements.

perpetrated, into its winter sleep, the political changemors professionals are provided for him, the way, as we are the stranger within Imports of rice into Canton by steamer market was very tight. The scarcity of ing through the Maritime Customs. The in the contro of London; and for his conscience for allowing the hosthen just exceed three-quarters of a million silver dollars in the province and the un- junk trade with the North under the edification a special treatise is issued Chinese and pagan Kling to pursue piculs, and are 50 per cant. less than in certain politient situation caused a decognizance of the Native Customs no by the club which presides over the game, throughout the seven days of the week the preceding year; by junk 2 million preciation in the face value of local bank-doubt suffered, but the disturbing ele-Could any schome of instruction be more picula have boon imported, or 30 per cent, noto, formerly extensively in use, so

the oven tenor of their ways.) The loss ments were elsewhere than in the Bamse less than in 1910. The inference to be that the merchants refused to accept them Tulet, and the statistics seem to show that professional and specialistic?

of my wang was a more serious matter, There is no serious suggestion that any but the event I have recorded above took were able to satisfy their own require which was taken in before the summer the prosperity of 1910, and it did not spirit by the net practice of a public Terms strictly cash for non-residenta

banking operations. The first rice crop, rance, The year opened well, reflecting

the displayed ments. The trade outlook for 1012 is not foods, was good, but on account of the belie its promise. The weather through school boy, or that a member of the of the hotel"; nor had a leading firin inhospitable notico-- very encouraging at the time of writing, subsequent inundations of the rice fields out was favourable; tea Fielded good university eight,, in preparing for the but a revival is inevitable the wauts of and the very dry weather in September profits, and by its very insignificance finest athletic event in the world, is pro- ing cash for 26 uncaten tiffins. In other the provinces must be met; the resources and October, the second one produced Santuan was spared the scenes of disorder fessional because his club pays some of words, chits were not yet taboo, so I as yot entrapped the unwary into pay of the country are numerous and develop pour regulta, yielding only about 20 per which inevitably attend revolutionary his training expenses. But both certainly world at least eat and drink and be SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS od and the Chinese have trading capacent For the same reasons the mulberry thango. cities of a high order.-A. H. HARRIS, plantations suffered badly and did not and Native Customs amounted to Hk. adjectives if it is true that the similar in the shape of the bill collector. There Transits, Levels, Plano Tables, Prismatic and

The receipts of the Maritinis deserve the application of all these hard merry, undeterred by thoughts of Nemesis Commissioner of Customs.

yield sufficient food for the silkworms, s. 158,082 and Ilk, Tis. 68,003 respec- training of athletes will sully the fair fore, my chief distress lay in the finding thus frustrating a profitable silk-crop. tively. Taken together, they form the Even at the beginning of the year the been & good one, it was at least free from in any one year since the

Though the year under review has not largest collection which has been reported

name of British sport.

of a new menial. Cookie, we know. In prospects of trade were not very en-

disastrous typhoons, and, further, the opened; but, considered as an indication port waa

always with as, but I had suffered many couraging the regular curtailment of river remained throughout at an excep- of the state of trade, the improvement is claimed for a comparison of cricket, boat in the past and was not keen to try more Some special appropriateness may be things at the hands of cookie's friends the opium import; fresh taxation on tionally high level, thereby greatly of no great nete, and reference to the ing, and athletics, as at one time these of his samples. ertain commodities; a rise in the price facilitating shipping in the harbour. past shows that any expansion there may three were the only forms of athletics to was of the blackest black, secondly I w

Then, when my cloud T-RAWING of rics and in the cost of living generally; P. VON RANTENPELD, Acting Commissioner be is of very slow growth. It is of some which the universities allowed the special its proverbial silver lining. For 1. be- and, perhaps more than anything else, of Customs.

interest a general feeling of rest-all con

observe that the Native Cushonour of a full blue. They stood pre: thought me of 'Cha tributed to make the ontlook a not very

toms revenue consitutes a charge of little cminent. over 1 per cent, on the estimated value athletics have rather fallen from the for some years I had had no need to It is generally felt that 'Che was my rikisha coolio and though promising one; and, although from un- looked for causes good profts have been

of the cargoes taxed.-G. ACHERON, Com- place which was natural to so fine a employ him any longer as such, he had Squares Set Squares, Straight Edger, missioner of Customs, matie in certain trades, when one looks back on the events of the year, one is

equality. pursuit, the one game, if I may call a habit of looking me up at odd timmy. hardly surprised to find that the unpro-

athletics, a game, in which the whole Now it chanced that he had called the world competos 011 something of an day before to enlist my sympathy o his mising prospects have, generally speak

behalf. He had been many years on the AGENTS - FOR--- ing, been fulfilled, and that the year's

road and the hard life of a puller was business, from the merchant's point of

telling on him; therefore, he begged of view at least, has failed to be altogether satisfactory. The not value of the trade

me to find him some other job. Unfor that passed through our stations was Ik,

tunately his physique was against him, Tls. 18,230,480, a decrease of over

so to speak; standing close on eft, and wall built, the casual fare" refused to realise the coolie's lack of strength to would take place, and the aid of mata drag his burden. Frequent altercations mata called in. Now if 'Cha has a weak- noss it is a supreme contempt for the Ta many old athletes this seems to be siang hate clutchon of the law when he pigmy Malay constable, ani not once appealed to me to hail him which is strong, to atone at Berlin for has defied such authority vested in formance at Stockholm. Athletics have two months' incarceration in Tan Tock

not been regarded in any degree as a puller's physical weakness. At the time ericket are. All the field events," which think of nothing to recommend him for, are rather scoffed at, such as pole vault-but now the thought flashed across my ing, a really delightful sport to see or mind, "Why not take him on as a house 880,000. Generally speaking, importa

practise, or hammer throwing or discus boy 7" Thanks to may knowledge of ready money was scarce, and trade was lost heavily through the diminished Royal Marine who was drowned in the help to make something of a game out of spot where be, with other pullers, was The romains of Daniel Sturgess, the throwing would if properly practised Singapore slums I could gamble on the in consequence considerably hampered; in September a disastrous food, followed, power of buying throughout the inland sinking of H.M.B. Waterwitch, were in-athletics, to give general interest such as most likely to be herding. I went, I saw, in October, by a typhoon, wrought havoc ly influenced by the mutual distrust of military section of Bidadari Cemetery, with a view to a particular inter- would he to taik, as our Colonial Cousins

districts, while export trade was adverse terred with Naval honours in the the amateur desires, and to evoke plea- Ionquered, with the autumn crops in the prefecture; the native merchants at Nanning and at at Singapore. The officers and men of

skill. To specialise on one of To say that ali has been plain sailing whilst in November Swatow, in common Hongkong and Canton.-H, J. ANDES, the lost vessel followed the coffin to its national event such sa the Olympic Games any, through one's hat. There has been with the rest of the Kwangtung province, Acting Commissioner of Customs.

resting place. Many of them, having lost at Berlin, ie no morò destructive of the the dillculty of language to begin with, thraw off its allegiance to the Manchu dynasty and declared itself Republican

The total collection for the year was

their tits, were garbad in miscellaneous amateur spirit in sport than it an event which could not but have a tem Hk. Tia. 872,268, an increase of Hk. Tha

articles of uniform, but the ceremony was cricketer to be a wicket-keeper first and a little of this city's Esperanto, and it for for 'Cho, like most of his tribe, knows porarily unsettling effect on the business 70,313 as compared with the previous innd of the Buffs played funereal accom-

nore the less impressive for that. The batsman after, of the port. Despite advere conditions, year's figures and the best collection peniments during the progress to

took me some time to persuade him, in however, and although merchants profita aince 1208. The increase is mainly at-

my presence at least, to wear a coat over have been wall, the gross value of the tributable to the enhanced opium levy,

cometery.

The same principle holds in running his open-work" singlet and don nether trade for the year, lik. Tis. 53,227,096, is though both export duty and tonnage

and jumping. The employment of a pro garments less resembling short. only some three-quarters of a million dnes show an improvement; but against

fessional coach is no more degrading for those sartorial difficulties have new be under that for 1910-the record your for this must be placed a decrease of Hk. Tle.

We have received from Messrs. Lane, the sprinter who desires to know how to

come a thing of the past; and, to-day, the port; which fact would appear to 28,095 in the general duties.

Crawford & Co, a number of articles, start than for the small cricketer who when the question of the registration of indiente that the growth of the port has the foreign opium imported paid duty at

Had all including playing cards and a bridge desires to know how to cut.

A pro- servants is agitating the public mind and not been impeded, and to promise a sub-Amoy (560.67 piculs came forward from Horse Cellar brand of Scotch whisky. Tongaged by the University Athletic Club the strain to their backs through the perer and re' advertising the White fessional coach was for the first time the postruen have barely recomred from stantial increase in the volume of trade the coast poris under examption certili- There is a namphlet also describing the at Oxford over twenty years ago. Ho burden of a plethora of affirmative post- when conditions assume a more normal cates), the revenue would have shown a origin and history of this famous brand WAS aspect EDWARD GILCHRIST, Commis more substantial increase, There was an

man of ao very remarkable physi- cards, I take my case in my krasi panjang sioner of Customs.

advarer in the Native Customs revenue of whiskey which has stood the test of a que or quality, but he could give the and, watching the quiet, sorious denean of H. Tls. 6,989 as compared with the century and a half and won the Grand meat stalwart Ozonian five yards in our of my Hokies as he prepare my

Prix for quality

the Franco-Briteh twenty simply and solely because he bad prandial repart and marvel at the trans- Ridering the general state of lawlessness amourted to 10.6 million taels 14 million that prevailed since the outbreak of the entitled "What shall I drink, Dector every athlete who ran with him and taels less than in 1910-in itself an ex- rerolation and the consequent diso The answer, of course, is Maukio's White learnt somn of his art felt that running still retains his towchang remains curl- Two remnants of his old identify he ceptional year, owing to large speculnganisation of trade that ensued, it is most Horse" whisky, because it is guaranteed had become better fur, that it was raiseded round his head, and to the anellation tions in nils-hut half a million tatiafacory to find that the collections of to be absolutely free of sugar and can more then in 1908 and 1009. This reault both establishments show such comparate taken as a stimulant with safety by

to something of an art. The men certainly Boy" he is mute. Do 1 require his is all the more gratifying when it is con- tiver gard results-W. R. MD. PARE, those with a tendency to goutiness and energy.

rau very much better, with less waste of attendance I must hail him ea in the sidered that the spring and autuan Commissioner of Customs.

The experiment in professional atreet of yore-Chr "-Free Lance in uric acid troubles,

coaching was in every way a success; and the Singapore Free Press.

LAPPA.

millions as compared with that of de preceding year. The direct juta de betwe Hongkong and Macao, which not included in the above figures, amount- ad to Ek. Tla. 887,010,--SMOLLETT CAMP RELL, Commissioner of Customs.

SANNING

KINGCROW.

THE DECLINE OF ATULETIES..

The very favourable weather in 1911 praised to make the year a most profit- able one from a commercial point of view. The yield of the two rice crops was ex- cellunt; the star aniseed harvest round shows, in the statistics which follow, & Posch exceeded all expectations; sugar distinct docting as compared with even The trade of Kiungehow during 1011 arrived in large quantities from Lung- chow and the surrounding districts; and that of 1910, which was considered a poor There are several reasons for this. One beans in all their varieties were brought year, and there is every reason to believe is the multiplicity of games, another is down from the country up river. There that the merchants of this port have had the need of hard training, another was no disease among the cattle and this depression in trade is attributed to democratic in the best sense, and many A very unprosperous year. The cause of perhaps is the fact that athletics are considerable stocks of hides

leather came from the interior.

the drought of 1910 and the spring of people prefer an aristocratic game, a Though there yet there were no seriously destructive the failure of the crops. was an abundance of

the rain during June, year under review, which resulted in game in which richer people have the doods, and no storms have to be recorded. had to be imported to supply the deft good or bad, it is quite certain that the Foreign rice advantage. But whatever the reason, The city of Nanning and the surrounding ciency: the price rose to $7.80 per piau status of athletics has fallen along with country wore practically free from plague and considerable sums of money had their popularity. especially at Oxford and other epidemies. The river kept an

thus to be diverted from the ordinary and Cambridge. exceptionally even high level during ber foodstuffs. The inportation of thes for

of the purchass and December the water did not fall the year amounted to 254,821 piculs factory one. Economic reasons, to which compelled motor-boats to, unload part of theso adverse circumstances ust suit undoubtedly suffered because they have Sing hospital, knew wherein lay the 1011 has not been an altogether satig- below the level which in previous years through the Maritime Customs and 11,005 the rather westched appearance and per- Europe P.C. I, who had been aware of picnis through the Native Custeres. To were added natural and political, their cargo at the rapida en route from phenomena, resulted in a continued feel- and to Wnebow, Were it not for the the revolution, which put a stop to iug of uneasiness 26 to the financial restrictions on the trade in native opium, trade.-H. W. BRAZIER, Acting Commis-raine, & sport, or an art, as rowing and he was soliciting my assistance I could catlook, and confined trade to ultra-con- and the political upheaval, the year's servative limits. In the early part of the statistics would certainly show Ggures Int

ahead of year markets were still suffering from the

any previous report. The total Anancial panic of 1910, merchants insisted value of trade-Hik. Fla, 4,700,517ell on cash payments in their transactions, short of that of 1010 by over Hk. Tis.

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