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The American community in Shanghai, has made arrangements for "a fitting
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A Heater's telegram from Peking states that it is understood that the Waichianou has requested Great Britain to arrange for the re-shipment of opium from the treaty ports.
only $1,857,542, derived from three pro- vinces! The other provinces had sent in no estimate of their probable remittances to Peking; the reason for this omission doubtless being that they are nid disposed to remit these revenues to Peking. Some of the Provinces, indeed, are openly claimed the
Notier is advertised of an extraordinary right to retain the proceeds of the salt taxes
general meeting of shareholders of the for local expenditure, including payment of
Star Forry Company, at which a resolu troops. Mr. W. V. DRUMMOND in histion will be proposed to increase the pamphlet on "China To-day," writes of the
capital from $300,000 to $400,000. salt taxes as being no se arity at all for a los. He remarke
Mr. Klimanck, formerly of Hongkong. has just won his way into the final of the Shanghai gentlemen's lawn tennis singles, beating Mr. Barrett 2-6, 6-2, He now meets Mr. Toissant, thus repeat- ing last year's history of the struggle.
Tientsin papers report the death, at home, on Jun 26, of Mr. W. W. Dickin- kon, formerly of Titatsin. The drepnsed the Indo-China director of Navigation Company, and for many years he was Hon. Treasurer and Chairman of the Tientsin Municipal Council.
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"Railways can be occupied, if unssary, le military force, though of course at great expense, but when it comes to matters like the Suit Gabelle, and Provincial taxes, it is practically certain that such securities could never be rednerd into possession, or realized, in the orral of default, by anything less than a military force which would amount. The alt to n empation of the country. gabelle could never he really controlled by foreigners, The system is extraordinarily complicated, the salt-producing districts are situated, in some entes, far inland, and the men who now control then are a very rough, reckles set, who would never peaceably sub- PRICKLY HEAT LOTION
mit to having their work supervised by for-
The prices realised at the June opiug | An invaluable and most effec-ignes. If a few foreignis were sent to cach place they would go at the peril of tive remedy.
their lives, and lives would soon be lost, sal at Calcutta show a drop of nearly As regards the supervision of salt accounts three lakhs of rupees as compared with allays the irritation.
this would be an impossibility. Foreigners the last sale. Only a chests of uncerti i would have to accept accounts, and papers fed drug was offered and realised Ri. the which they could not possibly check, and the
The nominal supervision would in reality 14,9,450 against Rs. 17,18,825 for
sage aber of chests last year. quite worthless and would not improve the administration at all. The more establish getural average prie per chest was Rs. !ment of an offler at Peking would. not ba
There must be 486 as compared with Rs. 2,991 last of the slightest valné, foreigners stationed at each of the places month. where salt is prepared for sale, with ample powers of supervision, and as this would prove to be practically unpossible, the only way to make the Salt Gabelle a real security for loans would be to place it wholly under the management of foreigners on a system similar to the Maritime Custons.” We can only follow the course recommended in another connection by the British Prime Minister, viz., “wait and seo." The attempt has to be made. China's credit is at stake, and as recent events have already demon: strated that the Contral Government's control over the Provincos is much more effective than many of us imagined, we are quite prepared to believe that an effective A. S. WATSON & CO. central control of the salt revenues may speedily be numbered among the "realised of which the East has improbabilities LIMITED,
afforded us so many striking examples in the course of the last fifty years. Neither
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RENEWAL OF WAR IN THE PARSEVAL AIRSHIP PURCHASED
BALKANS.
SERIOUS FIGHTING AMONG THE ALLIES.
TOKYO, July 1st. Despite repeated denials, Prince
BELGRADE July 1st. At three o'clock yesterday afternoon Katsura is pronounced seriously ill.
DISTINGUISHED CHINESEghting took place between the Servians and Bulgarians at the front for a dia- tance of 30 miles.
VISITORS.
TOKYO, July 1st.
Stu Pao Chi and Li Sheng To huve arrived hore on a visit which
arouses interest. They deny that they are on an official mission.
[Probably these are the gentlemen Japan to despatched from China to counteract the impression created by Sun Yat Sen.)
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.j THE PRIZE RING.
LONDON, July 1st. At the National Sporting Club in the light for the heavy weight championship of Grat Britain knocked out Packy Mahoney in the thirteenth round. Mahoney's jaw was fractured in the fourth round, and ho was sent to hospital at the conclusion of the fight.
A later message announced that the Bul- garians had attacked the Greeks on the whole front.
BY BRITAIN,
LONDON. July 186 The new naval Parseval airship wat most successfully launched at Forn- horough. The airabip. piloted by Gor mans, made a fire flight, encircling the Houses of Parliament and returning to Farnborough, where the Admiralty fook it over.
THE CRYSTAL PALACE.
LONDON, July 1st The King has given £200 and Queen Mary and Queen Alexandra £100 each to the fund for the purchase of the Crystal Palace.
LONDON, July 1st. Greek telegrams confirm the report of The the Bulgarian general advance. Greck outposts are retiring according to The Greek public accuses the orders. Bulgarians of bad faith, and of playing on the Ministerial crisis with notes and counter notes, so as to gain time to pre-subscribed in July. pare for aggression, though the experts regard the Bulgarian advance as of little strategical importance.
Meanwhile both the Government at
An anonymous donor has offered to give £30,000 to the fund provided £60,000 in
THE HOME RULE BILLS
LONDON, July 1st. The Home Rule Bill passed automati-
Bombardier Wells Athens and the Government at Bofu are cally through the committee stage of the House of Commons without being dis-
GERMAN DEFENCE BILL.
BERLIN, July 1st. Mr. Chats, H. W. Kew was on Monday
The Reichstag has finally passed the presented by the staff of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Coy: Defence Bill, agreeing to the six new with a gold watch and aneriod barometer, envalry regiments demanded by the Gov- Mr. Brown, the Acting Secretary, who rumeut, three of which the Budget,
Committee previously struck out. handed him the gifts, made appropriate
A proposal by the Opposition, introduc and complimentary references to Mr. Kew's long service in the Company and wished him success in his new firm,ing in the Military Penal Code the principle of extenuating circumstances. Messrs. Rudolf Wolfi & Kew
well-
A foreign suit for divorce is engaging and providing in such case for imprison- the attention of the Japanese Court atment instead of penal servitude, was also Kobs, the parties to the suit being Mr. adopted. au Mrs. J. S. Happer, who have long been resident in Japan and are known there. The suit is brought by Mrs. Happer, who alleges ill-treatment and The desertion. No defence was offered. marriage took place in 1892. The decision
A Socialist umenduscut demanding the taxation of the Princes was rejected by 195 votes to 180, and thereupon the Taxation
Bills were passed.
The Reichstag was prorogued till the
reciprocally protesting on account of the aggression.
A later message says there has evidently been severe fighting on the Servian and Each vehemently Bulgarian frontiers. accuses the other of attacking, and the Bulgariana declare that the affair was 'started to support the War Party in the Skupstina.
BELGRADE, July 1st.
Dafing the sitting of the Skupstina the news was spread that Bulgarians had attacked the Serviuns along the entire frontier, and there was so much exeit-
GREEK FLEET SAILS. ment that the House was adjourned.
ATHENS, July 1st...---
for
The
cussed.
Under terms of last week's resolution the Opposition protested loudly and chal- longed a division. The Bill was passed by 270 voten to 143,
· CORRESPONDENCE.
"HAVE ANOTHER."
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY FRESS."]
BIR-The community is indebted to |you for publishing the paragraph on the
above subject in Monday's issue.
Most men are willing to listen tu makon The King has gone to Salonika.
and it will be readily granted that such Greek Fleet hurriedly sailed
evidence as Dr. Hogg's is without pre- destination which is at presont unknown.judice and to the point.
It is announced that the Greek Beet bas Over are-half of the cases of habitual chie to the "have gone to Thagezi and Eleuthera, both places drunkenness åre being mentioned in Greek despatches another fashion, and often it is the best
advance, and kindliest that go under.
regarding
the Balgarian
the Government at Peking nor the Powers of the case wis expected to be teu lored ; 20th November, after a speech in which/Thagezi is a place to which one of the
interested in the Loan are blind to the difficulties of the task of reorganising the Salt Administration, as the alternative security provided for in the loan agreement makes sufficiently plain. The Loan Agres- ment provides that during the period required for the purpose of this reorgani- sution the Provinces of Chibli, Shantung, Homan and Kiangsu shall pay into the contracting Banks in monthly instalments the funds necessary to meet the service of the Loan. Payment of these funds is
yesterday.
tri.
Dr. Bethmann von Hollweg paid a A crocodile attacked a District O. „cer's bute to the Reichstag for accomplishing boat in Borneo on the 17th ult. The the great work in one of the most incident is recorded by the British North memorable sessions in its history of safe Bornes Herald as follows:- "Leaving Trusa again in the small boat the party guarding peace and the honour of the were returning to the launch, when, with country. out the slightest warning, a crocodile which had been seen in the morning, at- Lacked, charging the hont, not exactly in the rear but slightly on the starboard quarter, fortunately without any other effect than to leave teeth marks on the boat.
RUSSIAN REACTIONARY PRESS LAW.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 1st. The reactionary Press Law has been
Greck detachments retreated.
ROUMANIA'S ATTITUDE.
BUKHAREST, July 1st. It is believed that the Balkan question will be settled by arbitration.
Roumania's real wish is peace in the Balkmus, but if this is impossible Roumania will certainly take action in view of preserving not only her own frontier but also the Balkan equilibrium.
Roumania's intimation that she is
secured by a first charge upon certain Had the brule sc desired, it could easily postponed owing to the opposition of prepared to take active measures if war
revenues of the Provinces named. The Chinese Government bat, in accordance with the terms of the Loan Agreement officially notified the Legations that the obligations thus imposed have been officially recognised by the proper Provincial Authorities for the respective amounts nesigned to each Province. These Provincial contributions are to be suspended as soon as the revenue HONGKONG, JULY 2ND, 1913.
collection of the Salt Aninistration over Now that Sir RICHARD DANE, K.C.I.E. a period of ais vour shall be sufficient to cover the service of all loans and obligations has arrived in Puking to take up his new
now so aired thereon, including that of the duties us Associate Chief Inspector of the
new Loan, together with a margin suti, Salt Gabelle, no time is likely to be lost in making preparations for the reorganisation cent to cover a further half-year's interest on the latter. The service of the Loan of this important asset contemplated under
is then to be paid from the revenues of the the Quintuple Loan Agreerrent..
Salt Administration. As soon as these RICHARD DANx spent the last ten years terenuse shall have hann maintained for
Sir
have had the D. O's boy, who was squat ting absolutely in the stern, steering, However, white meat was evidently in greater demand, and it was a very near thing indeed for the D. O. Had it been a full-grown Saurian this recital would It had have had a more tragic ending. was, no further attack was made. the effect of making the boatmen, tired as they were, row as they never rowed before, till they were well out at sea.'*
As it
MALINI, THE MAGICIAN. Malini, the Magician whose name has been so much in evidence in the Colony recently, gave his first public perfomance here last night, in the new lounge of the Peak Ilotel, The audience numbered over 100 Malini in the course of an hour's
certain Ministers.
FORTHCOMING NAVAL MANCEURES.
I am not one of those who see no good in the life of the East and the Treaty
Purts
is much in particular there that is splendid; but who will honestly deny that the "have another" fashion is one of our worst evils 7
It takes a strong character indeed to stand out against these unwritten laws, and it is sad to see many of our best ung men come out from Home, where they hardly touched intoxicants, and gradually drift into the drinking habit- uut necessarily, to start with, to great excess, but sufficient to undermine flus finest of their character and physique. I am not talking" in my hat," I have lived here long enough to see and know.
Cannot
breaks out among the Balkan States is variously interpreted. According to one
a strong public feeling be view Roumenia is following the advice created against this drinking fashion? If of Russia and wishes to warn Bulgaria the caipans, seniors, freemasons and other LONDON, July 1st.
of the danger of her irreconcileable leaders in the Colony would only let it Altogether 346 s.ips, including
48 behaviour towards Servin, thereby imbe known as their opinion and by their battleships, will assemble at the forth proving the prospects of peace. Others examples that they are, on principle, opponents of the "have another" and excessive drinking habits, & change would coraing Naval manoeuvres in the North ascribe to Roumania the Sea and the English Channel. Attempte manifest her freedom from the influence soon come over the community, and they will be made to convoy transports to land of the Triplice, expecially Austria, who would have done much to raise and large bodies of troops with a view to notoriously favours Bulgaria against maintain a higher standard of manhood
Vice-Servia. Finally, others consider that in the Colony and Empire.-Yours, etc., testing the possibilities of raids,
ONE WHO KNOWS. Admiral Sir G. A. Callaghan commands Roumania is only considering her own the British and Vice-Admiral Sir John interests and is determined to secure more territory as a set off to the eventual Jellicoe the energy,
desire to
is probably the most correct, but, what- SIH JAN HAMILTON TO VISIT NEW enlargement of Bulgaria. The last view rver the molive, the effect is likely to be
ZEALAND.
WELLINGTON, July ist.
SUNDAY LABOUR ON SHIPS.
Captain Phillip Going, assistant manager of Holt's Wharves in Hongkong, in the course of a letter dealing with
of his service andor the Government of three successive year at the amount re-
General Sir Ian Hamilton visits New Pacifying unless it encourages Servian several shipping questions, published in India in looking after the salt revenge, squird for such service and margin the entertainment proved to the complete. that he comes to China with a practical know-- aforesaid Provincial ability is to case. ledge of the work such as few foreigners Moreover, it is provided that the revandes very first rank. Many of his card tricks Zealand in 1914 to report on the results/recalcitrancy or the taily hostilitics on
Administration for
satisfaction of all to be a rongician of the
and night.
tuo account. in the interest of the Bonilholders. Out of the proceeds of the Laon a sun of $20,000,000 is to be assigned for the purpass of reorganising the Salt Administra tion, and if Sir RICHARD DANE succeeds
INTERESTING TIN FIND IN THE MALAY STATES.
the quarterly report of the Mercantile Marine Service Association, says:---
Another fastter that should be gone into and improved upon is Sunday labour- that. Sunday labour should be altogether stopped by Parliament. Why is it that the British sailor is the only man in the world who is fixed to work on Sunday in harbour, and not be paid overtime for such work. It is a scandal to the British Empire. And surely if the Church of England is so powerful they ought to be able to persuade Parliament to stop this iniquitous injustice to the British sailor. Why can't England take a leaf out of the SOFIA, July 1st,
book of Australia, and stop all Sunday Strict orders have been given Bulgarian labour-ur of Germany and other coun- troops to cases operations unless attacked by Greike or Servians.
the frontier become formal warfare. were new and truly wonderful, and the of the present system of training.
GREEK REPRISALS: possess. The Chinese Government, in of the Salt Adminstration pledged under entire entertainment afforded the greatest
MR. LYTTELTON'S ILLNESS,
ATHENS, July 1st. assigning the entire revenues of the Salt the Agreement shall, in due of default, pleasure. After this taste of his quality
LONDON, July 1st. It is announced that in consequence of Administration as the principal security of
le should be able to count confidently on after a reasonable period of grace be ad the big Loan, has good reason to believe that ministered by the Maritime Customs a full house at the City Hall to-moOFTOV
The Right Hou, A. Lyttelton, M.P., is the simultaneous Bulgarian attack along 140 miles of Greek front without a de when the administration of the gabelle has
́not yet out of danger, but there is slight claration of war the Greek Government beau reorganisel the revenue from it will be
ground for hope that he will recover. has ordered the Bulgarian battalion at ample for the service of the Loan. The only
He is suffering from internal rupture Salonika to surrender their armus. question is as to the willingness of the
possibly, the result of playing cricket law Provinces 10 nud over the revenue to the Central Government.
week for the first time for year
ENGLISH COUNTY CRICKET.
LONDON, July 1st." Leicestershire defeated Derbyshire at Chesterfield by an innings and 43 runs.
The match between Middlesex and
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A remarkably rich lode has been dis kcon calculated, on the assumption that in doing for the Salt Gabelle what the late covered by Dr. F. Th. Muller, on the. property of Messrs. Mertens & Co., Ltd., the consumption of salt in China is por Sir ROBERT HART did for the Maritime at Tanjong Rambutan, Ulu Cheh, under capite about the same as in fadia, that the Customis future generations of Chinese, will somewhat interesting circumstances, says Chinese Government, having regard to the hare good rea to bracket his name with the Timurs of Malaye. A tiny stream of water trickling through the jungle was larger population in China and the higher fat of the distinguished Irishman as tired to contain iron oxide, and in the excise, should be able to count upon a of men who, in an age of inefficiency and bed of the stream a little tourmaline and iron pyrites were discovered. The stream revenue of out less than $120,000,000 porearmption, whith exposel the country to was followed to its source, a spring, where Essex at Leyton was drawn. nunum from this source alone. But under grave dangers, set her feet finnly on the path brown funstone and iron sulphide wero
found in decomposed granite. what has been described normal comi- of progress by fursiddeg fot a country, in
operations were then carried on and peg tions," the Buda Gabelle, it is stated, should have yielded a revenue in 1912 of two of its principal revenue reing depart. matitic rock staining tourmaline and
es unpies of efficient ments, shining $71.869,220, though this is regarded as
far less the the amount actually col. organisation and honest adainistration for
other departments to emulate. Zected. We are thout the means of
Blasting
a little violet fluorspar was opened up. A shaft was put down and at five feet deep the tin are lode was struck. values. we understand, are extremely high:
OBITUARY.
LONDON, July 1st.
The death is announced of Mr. John
BULGARIAN ORDERS.
-A COMPROMISE POSSIBLE.
LONDON, July 1st.
tries. These Shipowners grow fut with riches, gained by sweating their seafaring mployees, and are not satisfied but deinand Sunday work as well, and won't A fine even grant overtime price. example England is setting to the world, The Ambassadors will meet again on forsooth! No wonder that the Asiatic and Weshesday. It is expected that the other foreign countries have a contempt recent discussicus of Governments and for the British and their humbug.
Here in Hongkong it costs only $200 for also of Ambassadors outside the con-
Sunday permit. That is paid willingly, ference will result in the conferenes
as it is made up by a day's work--by the an overworked, underpaid It is likely sweat of now being more fruitful.
British Officer; the cost should we $2,000, and then, perhaps, the British Officer would have a day's rest and recreation.
The Dicklander, a director of rubber estates that there will be a compromise even
in the Federated Malay States and Java. I over the Epirus frontier.
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