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corruption. Endless difficulties would also arise in connection with deliveries of teas to a number of competing foreign buyers from the single godown of the monopolist guild, itself composed of rival, tex longs. No scheme can have any useful result which does not provide for the erection of modern factories in each too district, under capable, that is to say, foreign, supervision. It is not only the method of preparation which stands in need of reform, but also the method of growing, and this such factories would be able to secure by taking in hand the education of the producers themselves and insisting on buying only leaves of a standard quality." We quote these remarks at length, for they contain a pertinent expose of the failure of Chinese official methods when it comes to dealing with a useful reform that touches on the daily life of the BY APPOINTMENT TO H.E. THE GOVERNOR people. It is certainly a hopeful sign that the bureaucracy should have given thought at all to such a question as China's ten trade, and have made suggestions, however futile, for improving it (it may be recalled that the programme of the late Supe Caixo JEN, on his appointment as Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, contained no mention of the tes trade), but the sugges tion only serves to show how hopeless it is to look for help from official activities. The scheme now put forward for Hunan and Hupeh was advocated some time ago for the Tibetan trade: the tea growers of

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Szechuan wore so careless or unscrupulous in their propanation of the leaf (or stalk) for that market that it was passing out of favour even with the Tibetans, so the pro- vincial authorities, alarmed at the prospect

of the substitution of Indian tea and con. sequent loss of revenue, proposed to establish a monopoly in the shape of u Government Ten Company, which alono should be permitted to sell. "In vain is the net spread in the sight of the bird " the dealers of Szechuan showed little anxiety to be improved out of oxistance, and the scheme came to nought, as, we doubt not, the Human monopoly will also, if it has not doce so already. The Foochow Trade Report repeats the tale of futile attempts at improvement, with the same A. S. WATSON & CO., pessimistic note: "Java is a cloud on the

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HONGKONG, Acover 18TH, 1913.

Tus recently published Consular Raport on the Trade of Hunkow in 1912 contains the following interesting particulars of au

Foochow tea dealers' horizon, which is becoming more ominous every year. In quantity (which the native producers seems chiefly to aim at regardless of quality, and in spite of the efforts of the somewhat nebulous Tea Improvement Socis. ty) the crop (as a whole) promised to reach, if not exceed, the heavy figures of the 1911 The rapid comparative decline of thy China tea trade, despite the efforts that have been made in recent years to establish

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THE TYPHOON.

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and the wreckage from junks and piors. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

near

"A number of godowns were flooded RAPID APPROACH FROM APARRI cocupante of which had to seek shelter in besides numerous ground floor shops, the

The typhoon yesterday was sufficiently the Wanchai Police Station. A small alarming, though it passed about 30 miles dredger, which we understand belongs to to the southward of the Colony. It is the Government, lies wrecked probable that Macno felt its full force. Arsenal Street, only her crane and boiler Happily, comparatively little damage was showing above the waterline. The hull of done in Hongkong. On inquiry at the Observatory last night we learnt from Mr. Claxton, the Director, that the typhoon had come all the way from Yap. It was a little to the East of Aparri at 6 am on Saturday morning. From Aparri to Hongkong is about 800 miles, so that it travelled at an extraordinary rate to reach Hongkong in thirty hours. It increased in velocity after passing Aparri, and on the latter part of its

'clock of

journey it must have travelled at the rate of over twenty miles an hour. The red signals were hoisted at Saturday afternoon, and at 10.50 the lights representing the black signals went up. indicating that the typhoon was within 300 miles of the Colony. Until about 10.25 pan. on Saturday a moderate wind had prevailed locally, but at that hour there came a squall which registered 56 miles an hour. Then the velocity fell again to 10 miles up to midnight. After that it rose fairly steadily right up to about 11.30 am. yesterday, when the maximum squall occurred, showing a velocity of 105 miles an hour. It dropped to 12 miles ac noon, and steadily fell to 20 miles at 10 p.m. last night. These velocities are by the Dines aueinometer. The old Robinson cup anemometer "only

records mean velocities, which are in the proportion of 10 to 7. So that 70 miles by the Dines would be 100 by the Robinson

anemometer.

junk was also drifting in the same vicinity, and apparently the vessel had been smashed to pieces alongside the Prayk wall. The fate of her crow is unknown.

Three other junks were observed to founder near Jardines in the height of the gale when no assistance could reach

them. Two of them have completely vanished, but the third is lying off Kellett Island with only her masts and part of

her stern showing above the waterline. What has happened to the orews unknown. There have been no reports to the polics concerning them, and although much wreckage has been washed up along the eastern praya, no bodies have been discovered, so it is hoped that they have managed to make their escape.

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CHINESE REVOLUTIONARY LEADERS IN JAPAN.

TOKYO, August 17th.

(TURQOGĘ MUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE BALKANS. .

DEMOBILISATION IN FULL SWING. -

LONDON, August 17th. Reuter's correspondent has arrived at Wu Hon-man, ex-Tutuh of Kwang-Sofia from Bukharest, and says that tung, arrived at Shimbashi last night, demobilisation is in full swing, at every guarded by Japanese detectives. He station and field. Tho trains Bro crammed with the disbanded soldiers, left the station in a motor-ear.

who all looked well and were in excellent Sun Yat-sen and other leaders of spirits, giving no impression of a beaten Army. On the contrary, their bearing the rebellion are still in Japan.

was most soldierly and disciplined. Among the Army there is great bitterness against Roumania, whose intervention, they declare, reduced Bulgaria to im- potence.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOV.]

VENEREAL DISEASES IN GREAT

BRITAIN.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ĐÓAND REPORT.

LONDON, August 16th, It appears that there has been a Local Government Board Enquiry into vencreal

disease at the instance of Mr. John Burns during the past year.

Some little anxiety is felt concerning the whereabouts of a party of members of the Corinthian Yacht Club whu left for Chingehau on turtle hunting. The report was issued on Friday even- expedition on Saturday. As all the ing. members of the party are competent yachtszen, however, it is scarcely likely that they would be taken unawares, and they are in all probability in shelter awaiting a favourable opportunity to return to Hongkong..

It expresses disapproval of notification as tending to concealment and delay in treatment, and hopes that the operation of the Insurance Act will lead to the

This

detection of much of the disease hitherto Two well-know yachtsmen went out neglected. It further says that the disease sailing on Saturday afternoon, one of could be made outstanding if early re- whom was bound for Macao, No news of course to skilled treatment could be made their whereabouts was received in the the rule instead of the exception.

result was impossible unless a very frank attitude-on-the-whole subject is adopted, and the importance of its public health aspect realised.

Colony, last night.

...

The lowest reading of the barometer

The news spread in the Colony yester- was 29.277 at 11.30 am. yesterday, and day that his Excellency the Governor was out in the typhoon on the Govern- by 9 p.m. last night it had risen to 23,755. These records have been corrected forment launch Stanley, but it was general- diurnal variation and reduced to sealy felt that his Excellency and the master level.

of the vessel would be sufficiently weather- wise to get into a safe anchorage. His Excellency returned last night between 6 and 7 o'clock by train, having landed at Taipo.

COMPARATIVELY LITTLE DAMAGE.

All the small craft found their way to the shelters-nt Causeway Bay and Mongkoktsui-on Saturday evening and, as is customary when the black signals The U.S.S. Wilmington, which wag arc up, the steamers in the harbour made lying outside Taikoo Docks, fired a couple ready for eventualities. When the three of guns during the night as signals of bombs were fired about five o'clock yester-distress, and a tug from the Ducks went day morning, big steamers moved to her ass stance and towed her to safety. The Peak tram cars ran at irregular away from the wharves, and proceeded out through the Lyenmoon Pass to seek intervals during the day, but the electrie brams and the Kowloon ferry boats were shelter in Junk Bay.

unable to run until late in the afternoon.

CANTON DAY BY DAY.

THE GOVERNMENT MINT LOOTED.

CHESTERFIELD BYE-ELECTION.

LONDON, August 16th.

Mr. Asquith has telegraphed to Mr. Kenyon, the nominee of tho Miners'

Federation and the Dockers Union, wishing him success.

The Miners' Federation Executive have repudiated Mr. Kenyon whom the Derby. shire miners are supporting.

The foreign Military Attachés seem to think that the position of the Bulgarians when the armistice was concluded was decidedly favourable. They wero actually in the process of ont-flanking the Greek Army, which in

couple of days had been enveloped and forced to retreat. The scenes in the country, at the stations, and in Sofia betoken a spirit of national rising against the misfortunes, The people are hailing the troops with a great patriotic enthusiasm,

REJOICINGS AT SOFIA.

When the troops of the Sofia division returned they were acclaimed by large crowds, who showered flowers over them.

King Ferdinand was crowned with a wreath of leaves as he rode at the head

of a number of high officers, who were similarly wreathed.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.

THE KING'S SPEECH.

LONDON, August 16th. Parliament was prorogueri on Friday. The Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords, and the Speaker in the House of Commons, read the King's Speech. It said that the visit of President Poincaré was a source of great gratification, and the manifestations of goodwill to which it gave rise afford a fresh guarantee of the continuance of the cordial friendship

A split among the miners on the subject of Liberalism and Labour is expected.

Mr. Bonar Law, in a message to Mr.uiting the two countries Christie, declares that the Government

THE BALKAN WAR,

are afraid to interfere with the open The speech refers to the Conference of organisation of Ulster to resist Home Balkan delegates in London which agreed Rule because the majority of people in on a Treaty of Peace, and much regrets Great Britain would support Ulster in that the renewal of hostilities between the different nationalities again created a resisting

A later telegram states that Messrs.state: DË war accompanied by many Kenyon, Christie, and Scurr (Socialist) deplorable incidents.

The wind continued to blow, with zon- siderable force and a very high sea, was running in the harbor, sweeping the Praya and doing damage to the roadway which will cost a very large sum to repair. Quite early in the day the signals dis-

CANTON, August 15th. appeared both from H.M.S. Tamar and

In the afternoon of the 13th, when it Blackhead's Foiat, but at 0.50 the was made known that the mutiny of the Director of the Observatory informed as 1st regiment of the 2nd Brigade had been by telephone that the typhoon was still subdued, the Luk Ewan soldiers guard approaching the island, and it was at that ing the Government Mint demanded a

uncertain whether it, would reward from the Director, who handed have been duly nominated at Chester- pass to the South or the East. In either nut a sum of 360,000 in twenty-cent pieces field.

This amount they case, Mr. Claxton said no great increase for distribution. of wind was anticipated. He added the regarded as too small, and threatened to information that no typhoon signals put to death the Director and the officials The latter at once fled in could be hoisted at Blackhead's Hill, and in charge.

alarm. The soldiers then opened the that telegraphic communication with the

strong room and took away with them over $1,000,000 in coins and about 100,000 Observatory was interrupted.

is now guarded by a corps of Lung's taels worth of bullion. The empty Mint

China tea cult ja England, is да significant that we may be pardoned for quoting once more the figures. In 1888 China exported 289,967,000 pounds of tea, as against some 30,000,000 pounds from British Tudia, twenty years later the hour figures were 210,133,000 for China, and 218,013,000 for Indian export, in addition to which the export from Caylon had more than trebled itself during the same time. The ivisser faire alluded to in the Hankow Trade Report is bat too apparent, for whatever effective measures have been taken to improve the trade, or to prevent its further decline (there is a slight improve ment in the export figures during the present century), have come from outside. It is to be feared, however, that it is too late new to do much, and that the most that can be hoped from any reforms will be the preservation of the markets not already

At 11.30

GOVERNOR SULZER REFUSES TO

SURRENDER EXEQUTIVE.

AUTHORITY.

ALBANY, August 10th, Lieuteannt-Governor Glyns of New

to surrender executive authority. York has called upon Governor Sulzer

THE KING'S SATISFACTION.

"It is satisfactory," the Speech pro- coeds, #that. the Conference of belligerents at Bukharest bus led to the

cessation of hostilities, which I hero will be permanent. It is a cause of great satisfaction to nie that the Great Powers have kept constantly in touch with each other, and my Government has dene all Governor Sulzer has locked the Coors in its power to facilitate the interchange Late on Wednesday night the encamp of the Capitol and placed numerous of views, and co-operation in actios ments of the 4th Brigade of the Land guards over them. He has proposed that through the Ambassadora in London.” Army on the North. Parade ground were he and Glynn should' prepare a statement set ablaze, and the soldiers (about 4,000) of the case for presentation to the Courts. all fled to Vintong, where they have been

ENCAMPMENTS BURNT.

above, and soon after noon, there were came the extraordinary squall referred to indications that the typhoon was passing soldiers. to South of the Colony. The wind moderated and the sea calmed down....

So far as could be ascertained laat evening the damage done by the typhoon, considering its strength and duration, was at great everal junks and lighters foundered. One lighter, laden with remaining without encampments ar and this will probably be done.

attempt to revive the tea trade of Human/lost. The teas of India and Ceylon have hemp, belonging to Holt's gedowns, provisions.

and Hupah: "The authorities appear to

It is reported that these foundered; another of the firm's lighters encampments were set on fire by a certain

be at length waking up to the danger of extinction which threatens the tea trade of Hankow, which with Kiukiang is the chief producing centre remaining in China. It is pries, the tea-cousuming public of those fender had drifted from the Naval Yard Lang by flying a red banner.

new gained so firm: a hold on the taste of st countries that, even if improvements in cultivation made it possible to produce a China tea of the same quality at the same lands could not be induced to change its habits and transfer its customi

long since primitive methods and the policy of laisser fire have relegated the teus of China to a position in the world's markets inferior to those of Ceylon and India, Russis remains the only country in

"Random Reflections" are unavoidably which Chinn toas can be said to be held over until to-morrow. prodominant, and if prosent conditions continue, the loss of this market also can

A Concert is being arranged to take place at the City Hall on Saturday, September 6th, in aid of the building

fund of the Diocesan Girls' School.

to

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appoint Mr. E.

W. Carpenter

THE SOUDAẠN LOANS.

The Speech further expreases satisfac...... tion in the passing of the Sc4tish Tem- LAVER.

perance and Mental Deficiency Bills Lieutenant-Governor Glynn has de- The King had pleasure in assenting to Bills. which His

got alongside Blake Pier, and did much Brigade of the Land Army, which had clined to submit the question to the the Soudan Loan damage to the pier as well as to herself strongly protested by bumping against it.

against the 4th Courts, and declares his intention to Majesty confidently hoped would not only A hard-wood Brigade signifying their loyalty to

perform the functions of Governor. up to the pier. Either the lighter or this:

CYCLONE SWEEPS CANADA. fender badly smashed one of the iron landing stairways. The

GENERAL LUNG,

August 16th.

LONDON, August 16th.

A inessage from Winnipeg states that a cyclone has swept the North-West over

add to the prosperity of that territory, but would afford increased Eources of supply to the cotton industry of Britain.

“COLONIAL: LEGAL APPEALS.

The

Appellate Jurisdiction Bill

an area 100 miles wide and 700 miles will," His Majesty concluded, “austire long.

that the Supreme Tribunal of the The damage done to the grainfields in Empire will be fully and adequately cou

60 as to meet the growing Manitobe and part of Saskatchewan is stituted very beavy, many barns and granarics requirements of my Indian Empire and

my Dominions Overseas,”

Yesterday there was great excitement being unroofed or overturned. LATER

in the city in consequence of reports of

feverish activity for a battle between the Later details received regarding the Luk Kwan and General Lung's troops, cyclone considerably modify the reports owing to an alleged intention on the part

Yesterday afternoon General · Jung, lighter with several hundreds of his soldiers, was heeling over a little yesterday after- made a tour of inspection around the Old noon, indicating that she was making City. water. A lighter was sunk alongside the It is said that, as the Tutuh's Yamen Star Ferry Wharf, and a large fishing has been partially destroyed by fire, junk foundered at the Canton and Macao General Lung and Wong Sze Lung will only be a question of time. The Huuan

Steamboat Company's pier. The Ferry make the Bannermen's Club house (New Government has now devised a scheme, the

Wharf has suffered some damage to the Band) their temporary yamen. lighter parts of the structure, and all the principle of which is to induce an impréve-

Chinese piers cast and west of the town ment in the quality by limiting the quantity

are more or less in a state of wreckage of tea for export. This is to be effected by

The Statue pier matshed, as usual, establishing a monopoly embracing the to act as Executive Engineer in the callapsed, also the matched on the ground packing and the marketing of the finished Public Works Departmert, with effect of the Hongkong Cricket Club which had article to the foreign-buying buyers at a from the 28th ultimo.

been erected for the promenade concert

of General Lung to disband the whole of of the damage done. Though the craps fixed price. A liberal schedule of fees

which has twice been postponed on the Luk Kwan troops. It appears, how have been flattened, the grain is only in payable by the Chiness hougs engaged in

account of the weather. A matshed cover ever, that there was no real foundation the inilk stage and may recover under the tande is of course added to bring grist

ing" at the V.R. C.. was also hlown down, for this alarm, which was actually spread a hot sun, in which the loss would be to the official mill. It would be unfair to

While the storm was at its height yester. by Luk Kwan soldiers who had looted the fractional; also, the downpour should deny any motive to the officials responsibla

day morning an electric wire near the city, and had not been able to get away make the yield greater.

Their their booty,

object We are informed that two cases of City Hall was blown down, coming in, with for it except that of collecting rovebue, but it is quite certain that the proposal will cholern ware discovered on the Portuguese contact with a coolie and electrocuting apparently was to scare the inhabitants, not achieve its avowed object of improving which proved fatal.

cruiser Adamastor on Saturday, one of him.

and to cause them to remove their belong- The eastern end of the city has suffered ings elsewhere so that the Jooters by the quality. In the first place, any mono-immediately removed to hospital, and the severely from the storm. All the binding mingling among them might be able to have received letters from Orangemen in poly is a violation of Treaty, and in the cruiser, which was expected to leave for has been washed away along Queen's Road escape the attentions of the police. The Vancouver enclosing £210 sterling, and second place monopolies lend themselves to Portugal shortly, went into quarantine, East, the tramway is strewn with stones public, however, are still far from being from Melbourne enclosing £900 as contri-

butions to fight against Home Rule,

OUTBREAK OF CHOLERA ON THE "ADAMASTOR."

The patients were

assured.

THE HOME RULE QUESTION.

LONDON. August 16th. The Unionist Headquarters at Belfast

BETTER CONDITIONS FOR

POSTMEN

RECOMMENDATIONS OF SELECT COMMITTEE. LONDON, August 16th.

The Select Committee appointed to investigate the conditions of Post Office servants recommends increased pay, Trade Union recognition, a 48 hours week for postmen, and no abolition of Christmas boxes.

LONDONDERRY QUIET.

LONDON, August 16th. Londonderry was quiet on the arrival of the troops.