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LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
The Silk shipped from Hougkong hy R.M.S. Empress of India on the 5th April, at 6 pm, reached New York on the 3rd May, at noon.
noon.
The P. & O. str. Candia is expected to arrive at Penang on the 23rd May, al The P. & C. str. Xable is expected to leave Singapore on the 10th May, p.m.
The C.P.R. str. Empress of Japan lefi Yokohama on the 6th May, at 2 p.m.
The C.P.R. str. Monteagle leaves Muji on the 8th May, at 1 a.m., and is due to arrive at Shanghai on the sth May, at 5. p.m.
VESSELS PASSED ANJER.
April 1, Dutch str. Ophir, Oudendijk, February 29 from Rotterdam Batavia,
|
THE CHINA LOAN.
THE DIKANDE UPON IT.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 8гн, 1913.
The writer of "The Wook's Finanęs” in the N.-O. Daily News says:-
The present loan can hardly do mors than relieve China of pressing claims, while it will almost certainly be necessary. to borrow further for reforms, like that of the curroney and the administration generally. The object of this loan is to set the wheels of Government in motion. so that it may derive a settled revenue from the country, and thus give scope for reforms to be introduced gradually. No doubt, a portion of the money will be available for at least a partial reforma tion of the sal galelle, which forms part of the principal security to the bondholders. The Minister of Finace has made the fact plain in his telegram to the Tutuhs slut the present loan is solely to save China from the undignified position the is now in the present course being the only one open to the Government.
It may be interesting to know something about the probable disposal of the total of the £21,000,000, roughly, which the Chinese Government will receive on this loan. According to the statement issued by the Ministry of Finance Into in Octo bor last the amount oving up to June 30th next is 8173,000,000 of course, not including sure due on loans secured by the Customs, or sums due on railway loans or indemnities. In the interim about £4,000,000 has been received on the Crisp loan; hence the balance owing should come roughly to over £15,000,000. If the balance of indemnity due up to that dato is added, the total will be £18,600,000; and the Government would be left with £2,500,000 for administrative expenses and the redemption of paper money, both of the provincial and the late Nanking Military Governments.
Here is a detailed list of the principal outstandinge. ap to June 30th this year, which must necessarily be met at once.
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The indemnities have been paid up to of members
of the former National
April last; consequently the balance due Council. The terms originally submitted on this account would be £3,500,000. The to the National Council provided that Four-Power Group, as it then was last the loan should bear interest of June, have advanced £1,750,000 on trea sury bills which have how matured. The advance on the Belgian loan, cancelled upon the protest of the Four Power Group, is £1,250,000 and that amount has boen due since March.
The amount due for men-of-war built in Europe comes to about £1,000,000; this amount has already been overdue for one year. The three Carlowits loans for Mks. 12,200,000 or £630,000 have been chtained on the stipulation that they should be repaid as suva as the big loan is signed.
and the issue to China was to be made at per cent. the rate of 97. the same rate of interest but the issue rate The present loan involves is only 834. The original terms relating to the employment of advisers were that the Chinese Government would employ foreigners in the Salt Inspectorate, but the present loan agreement provides for a British Direc tor-General in the Sult Inspectorate, a Russian and Frenchman to he Director- General of the Audit Department, a German to be the Director General of the Loan Bureau, and Japanese to be Director- Genoral in the Chang-lu Salt Bureau.
These terms practically clear the way for oneroachment upon our sovereign rights, and the dangers confronting us are therefore not few or insignificant.
LARGE SHIPBUILDING OUTPUT,
tripone
LLOYD'S QUARTERLY RETURN.
The returns of Lloyd's Register show vessels of 2,083,694 tons gross under con- that, excluding warships, there were 563 struction in the United Kingdom at the close of the quarter ended. March 31. The tonnage now under construction is stated to be nearly 94,000 tons more then that which was in hand at the end of last quarter, and ex xeds by about 377,000 tons the tonnage building in March, 1912. Compared with the figures for June, 1909, since which date continuous quarterly increases have taken place, the present total is no less than 1,318,000 tons higher, and exceeds all previous totals recorded in the society's quarterly returns.
The Mitsui leans total roughly £550,000, and the Okura loans £200,000-the lenders in both instances having hean promised repayment in May last. The amount due on loans to the provincial Government by
Of the vessels under construction in the the foreign banks-given on the authority. of the Manchu Government is about of Chine in the future, for the sake of the 437 of 1,586,881 tons, are under the To thus pave the way for the partition United Kingdom at the end of March €1,600,000. Thus the total to be paid out temporary benefit of the loan, is a of this loan to foreigners comes roughly to misdeed. According to Article XIX. of the Register with a view to classification by grave inspection of the surveyors of Lloyd's £10:500,000. Quite as pressing as the Provisional Constitution, all matters relat above items are the outstandings to Chi-ing to loans or the national debt should be 625,117 tons are building abroad under this Jociety. In addition, 124 vessels of mese. Although the proceeds of the Crisp Fret approved and sanctioned by Parliament the society's survey. There are thus now loan helped to disband a good number of before agreements "the “gevelutionary tamoy mere reshu Now, the Lovement has evidently Captus suficient men left, enough to prove a tracted a big foreign loan without the ap heavy charge on the impoverished Governoroval of the Senate, and actually argues nient. Further, the credit of the Govern that the farmer National Council duly ap ment has been badly shaken by the paper proved of the loan. money which now stands in some places, at over 80 per cent, discount.
of
"The Government, clearly, is aiming at the ruin of the nation and m jeopardizes the interests of the people.
What a perverse misdeed it is!
buildina dan aku
toms The tonnage under construction to * Registor 691 venacls of 2,111,528
the society's class at the end of last December was the largest ever reached up to that time, but those figures are now exceeded by 84,000 tons.
THE TEA TAX.
It is understood from the beat informed sources that disbanding will yet cost about TIs. 20,000,000 at the very least, or about
"We (the Speaker, the Vic-Speaker and £3,000,000. The exact amount of the issue other Senators), on hearing the news of the
The telegramos during the past week re- paper money is not known even to the signing of the agreement, immediately in-ferring to the Tes duty lend interest to Peking Government, as that was mainly terpellated the Government personally, but the following letter which recently ep done at Nanking, and by the provincial they falsely and deceitfully asserted that peared in The Times: Governments.
It is believed, however, the agreement had already been signed. On that about $31,000,000 worth of paper inquiry, we found that the agreement was
money is now in circntation. It is in-signed really only to-day, April 27th perative that at least half of it, or about Government'. misdeed is
The the ACZ £1,800,000 worth should be redeemed, in
Hos despotic the Government perversity.
ability of the Chancellor of the Exche Bir-Rumoure are rife of the prob quer removing the duty on tea. This I
of
will endeavour to show would almost amount to a national calamity. The tax
NEW MODEL OVERSTRUNG
$450.00
PIANO
THIS PIANO IS
GUARANTEED for FIVE YEARS.
FOR CASH
A LIBERAL DISCOUNT
18 GIVEN.
BASY TERMS FOR HIRE PURCHASED.
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TO LET
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56 DREEZY VILLA," No. 2, Park Road, 4-Roomed Bungalow with Tounis Court Commands splendid View of Harbour.
For Rent, etc., plause apple to-
YAP HOK LING,
No. 4, Ripon Terrace. Hongkong, 23th March, 1913*
107
TO LET.
GODOWN, situated on Water Front, ARGE SUBSTANTIALLY · BUIL
East Point,
For further particulars prnly Property Ofier. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LT Hongkong, 15th August, 1912, [67
TO LET AT KOWLOON.
JEW MODERN 3-ROOMED FLATS
with Two Bathrooms, Pantry, Kitchen
Range sand Hot Water Boiler. Electric Light English Baths. Kitohen has English Cooking jad Servants' Quarters. Bathrooms fitted with
thronghent. Immediate Possesion,
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JARDINE. MATHESON & Co. LTD. Hongkong, 3rd May, 1912.
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OFFICES in Hotel Mansions.
166
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HENRY HUMPHREYS, Alexandra Buildings Hongkong, 9th April, 1913.
TO LET.
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HOP in ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
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A, S. WATSON & Co., LTD., Alexandra Buildings. Hongkong, 27th November, 1912. | 69
TERRACE NO.1st May, 1913,
HOUSES with Tennis Courts. Ready for ALSO
decupation about at Mar
FIVE-ROOMED.
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
Co., LTD, Alexandra Buildings. Hongkong, 16th April, 1913.
306
TO LET.
TO. 2, WEST END TERRACE, Shaman 153, PRATA EAST. GODOWN. Unfurnished, & HOUSE at The Peak Apply-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVERT
MENT AND AGENCY Co., L Hongkon ist May, 1913.
65
TO LET.
EAST, 74, Mount A HOUSE in KRUZrod Terrach.
TO LET,
A HACIENDA
Kellet Road. Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD. Hongkong, 1st May, 1913,
[587
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TO LET.
order to inspire confidence in the rest of is! The former National Council was now fixed at 5d. per lb., and I should the notes, which may then be allowed to coerced by the Government some tim: ago like it raised to Bd., and the trade in TO, 21, EHELLEY STREET.
If there
remain in circulation.
Then there are and now. it has again tramoled upon the various amounts borrowed from the merights of the National Assembly. chants and gentry in different places, to
were no Senate there would be no Republic. help the revolutionary cause.
The only way for us now is to resist the loan, oven at the cost of our lives!
In Shanghai, for instance, there is one iter of $7,000,000 due to the merchants; late in December the Peking Government gavs treasury bills for $3,000,000 when the former pressed for payment. Large sums ara understood to have been borrowed in gentry and merchants had not the same different places in the interior, where the choice as in Shanghai; and the total might, perhaps. without exaggeration, be put at Tls. 20,000,000, or roughly about £3,000,000. Besides the above there are quite a number of small creditors, foreign and natire, according to the list of the Ministry of Finance; and the total due on these accounts is over £2,000,000. It may thus be seen that the sums to be re- paid at once tatal £20,000,000, according to the above list.
We specially request you to jundert us with public opinion in order to realize our desires respecting the imperative necessity of cancelling the contract."
INDIGNATION MEETING AT
formed that that amount of duty, would not be, interfered with either way in the Enture. To put it broadly, tes is a drug. which if drunk in its purity, and moderately, does little harm and perhaps benefit to the adnit individual, but if of a bad anality and drunk by the young, it is a poison pure and simple. The whole- sale price of tea at present is from Bd. per l. upwards, and it is sold retail, with 5d. aty added, at from 1s. per lb. - words. I maintain that no tea should be sold to the public" anders is 4. per lb. A public meeting called in Shanghai to At this price, one ounce of ten, costing protest against the kan was attended, it | Id., would supply at least eight break- is estimated, by over 50,000 people. From fast cups of good ten including milk and the report in the China Republican wo sugar. This is practically a free break- read that:-Although many thousands at fast table, so far as drink is concerned. considerable distance from the platform We have to remember that some women were of course unable to hear a word, yet will not get up enfly enough to make good they remained throughout the proceedings wholesome porridge for their children.
SHANGHAL
to take part in passing the resolutions the consequence being that a large teabot
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The "EYRIE," No. 13. Peak, To Let Farulsbet.
"CRAIG RYRIE," No. 4. The Peak, To Let. 8 ROOMS; Tennis and Croquet Lowas; Fine Situation
From 1st February, 1913, MERION, No. 10
PRAX, Furnished or Unfurnished. 6 HOOVS
To Let or For Sale, “GLENSHIEL," No. 124: Barker Road, Peak, 5 ROOMS, from ist March, 1913,
For Sale. "HARTING and ROGATE on part of Howlone Infand Lot No. 1154,
Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
3rd Floor, Alexandre Buildings Hougkong 5th May, 1913.
TO LET
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT AGENCY Co., LTD. Hongkong, let May, 1913.
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HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER. Hongkong Observatory, May 7th
Barometer Temperature Humidity
*
Provious On Date On Date
Day! at
st
at 2 p.m. 6 a.m.
2 p.m
2994
29.90
29,87
77
75
80
78
85
70
Wind Directiva
Force Weather...
E/S
East
East
2
0
b
Rain
000
Elighast open air Temperature on 6th Lowest open air Temperature on 6th ... 72
79
64
HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.
From 8th to 14th May, 1913,
HIGH WATHE,
LOW WATRE
B'kong
F'kony.
Mean
Meau
Time.
Time
h xa..
ft. in.
h..
has 8 & 36 5. m 3 40
11
5 21
9m 10 13
J
3 58
5 10 a 0
623
·Tiesa,
Wed
Satur. 10 a 1 12
10:0 7 7 11 m 2 54 3 7 m 11 47 7 4 40. 12 No inter. high-
0 51 7 0 13 No infer. high-
2 16 x 6 6
39
4 14
3 5
4 23.
nor low water
9 31 a 1 1
14 m 6-18 4 4
Tthe PEAK, naar Tram Station. FIVE- ROOMED HOUSE, FURNISHED. From 1st June, for 8 months
Apply-
J. M. C.. Cars of Daily Press" Office. £598
TO LET.
OFFICES, Nos. 12 & 14. Queen's Rd, Contral. No. 9. MOUNTAIN VIEW, PEAK.
· No. 5, STEWART TERRACE, PZAR.
Apply to
M. J. D. STEPHENS. Hongkong, Esth April, 1913-
has been come to regarding the repayment the assembly. Only a few short speeches little fresh tea is added, some hoiling It is not yet known what arrangement that were to be submitted to the vote of is on the hob in which there are probably
old tea leaves from the day before. of the Crisp loan of last year; in any
were delivered. Prior to the Resolutions water and the resultant decoction is Hongkong, 21st April, 1913. case, it is to be hoped that there is no obligation for repayment out of this loan. (which were clearly written and hold up practically poison. I believe this is one
that the £5,000,000 raised last year to the view of all) being put to the meet-
ld be part of the £25,000,000. Ining there was displayed considerable reason why we see youths and men of to- day so much more stunted and narrow. any C, the amount now borrowed is in indignation, and one of the citizens prehested to those I remembered of 40 and sufficient for the needs of China. It is sent at the meeting bit his finger and with 50 years ago. quite probable that some of the creditors his blood inscribed the following words
My main reason for wishing to see the SHOP, No. 12, Queen's Road Central. We should never duty on to maintained is because at may be willing to extend the period, and on a pices of paper: let the Government spend more for adcognise the loan. Two men who were present we have a very careful inspection ministrative reforms, Or, it may be the tactless enough to criticise the patriotic by the surveyors of his Majesty's Customs intention of the Group and China to make utterance of one of the speakers were upon all tens entering this port, and it future arrangements for further loans at seized by the crowd and were roughly would astonish the public were they aware for an early date, as by that time the Govern handled before they were finally rescued by of the quantity of tea that is refused ment would be stable, when the floating the Police Following is a translation of admission into this country as unfit for of loans for a country of such vast re-
THE RESOLUTIONS..
human consumption. If this strict super- sources as China should be quite an easy That Yuan Shih-kai be asked to retire, vision were taken off, the natives of India. mattor.
2nd Vice-President Li Yusu-hung he invitel Ceylon, China, and Java would flood the country with so-called tea absolutely Following is a translation of a telet act as President pro tem..
Even now it is That the National Assembly should unfit for consumption. grund sent by the Speaker and the Vice- Speaker of the Senate to the Tutabs, the pach Yuan Shib-kai for complicity in often tried on, and I have heard of tea Civil Governors and the Assemblies of the the murder of Mr. Sung Chiao-jen and never refused here by the advice of one of the slect him again as President of the Republic.surveyors, shipped to the Continent, all That all military urders directed the marks on the chests removed, re-ship- ned to England, and passed by another against the people be disobeyed.
April 3, Dutch str. Billiton, Leilings, aliruary 24, from Amsterdum Batavia.
►
April 3, British str. Islander, Deans, April 1, from Singapore for Christmas Island.
THE SENATE'S PROTEST.
•
various provinces, protesting against the loan:--
4-That all provinces should at once stop remitting money to the Central Government. 5-That the Big Losu, being made with
surveyor.
These surveyors have a very arduous task to perform. They have hundreds of thousands of samples of tes to inspect
April 8, Dutch str. Walcheren, Ross, April 2, from Tjilatjap for Batavia.
April 4, Dutch: str. Sarpedon, April 4, from Batavia for Amsterdam.
April 4, German str. Esslingen, Orgel, April 5, from Batavia for Padang.
April 8, Dutch str. Kediri, Flach, February 4, from Rotterdam for Batavia. "Although the principal clauses of the con- April 9, German str. Elbing, from tract of the Sottuple loan were discussed at Hamburg for Batavia
a secret conference of the former National April 9, British str. Dordanus, April 9, Conueil those matters were nover officially from Batavia for Amsterdam.
sanctioned; neither was there a quarum pre-out sanction of Parliament, be formally yearly, and I understand there are only
Now that repudiated.
Intil. April 10, British str. Pecha, April 8, sent at that secret ennference..
the National Assembly has been officially from Tiilatjap for Batavia.
On being put to the vote the whole of eight allotted to do this work
recently they received the manificent April 10, Dutch str. Goentoer, Patle, convened it is clear that be concluding the the Resolutions were carried by acclamarther in yearly for time Load of £25,000.000 with the Five Pavors tion, whereupon the enormous crowd the technical knowledge, but for some April 10, from Batavia for Rotterdam.
without anbitting the contract to the 1s-
reason this £50 has been taken from them. April 14, British str. Atholl, April 14, sembly, for approval, the Government quietly dispersed and the secretaries
Instead of taking this from them, I would from Batavia for Amsterdam.
seriously infringed the prerogatives of the pointed to the meeting proceeded to April 15, British ezble str. Recorder, legislature. Thus a perverso irregality telegraph to Yuan, to both Houses of much rather have seen the amount in- April 13, from Cocos Island for Singe has been committed. The terms of the Parliament, and to the Tutuha and creased to 250 a year, and a more strict pore.
agreement of the Quintuple loan were very Assemblies of each province, in conformity inspection of the fan made, if possible,
with the 'resolutions carried at this I have no doubt many people will not April 15, British str. Camphill, from different from those of the Sextaple, Ioan Buenos Ayres for Eastward,
which were submitted to a secret conference great mass meeting of citizens of the agree with what I have written, but I feel
Chunghua Republic.
certain all medical men must do so, The
TO LET.
FLATS, "WILD DELL,”. No. 147. Wanchai Road. Nowly Built, each Flat with 3 ROOMS, Kitchen, Bathroom," sind Servants Quarters Quiet Locality. HOMESTEAD," No. 45, PéAK.
Apply to
TSANG KIT-FAN,
........ Comprodone Department, HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION,
(522
Hougkong, 29th April, 1913,
amount this duty brings in to the Chan cellor does not interest me, I am only thinking of the present and future genera tions. We now drink nearly 71b, of tea per head of the population, and deduct ing those people who do not drink tea, including babies, the quantity per head is vaatly increased.
I am, dear Sir, yours,
ANXIOUS.
Wook.
"KCELL
佔747
Height
Height
7 10 8
3.7
2 19 0 9
4 0 a 6 2.
nor low water
133 a 1 2 8 11 4 3
11 37 a'i
ON SALE.
MAIL TABLES
FOR 1913.
Shows the dates of departure of the Mails of Europe and America, sad the dates of their expected arrival at their destinations, as well as
the dates of return Mails,
Mounted on Card On Paper
30 Centa
25
12
On Sale at the Honghnog Daily. Prese Office
Honghong 10th January, 1913,
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