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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 57, 1914.

investigation by technically trained men to the guesswork and "rule of thumb" methods of many so-called practical miners." Mr. SMITH describes that branch of mining devoted to the winning of gold as

having leon very active, and as showing

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Tho Court of Appeal will sit to-day in TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

with the acticos-C. A. connection Tomes R. G. Shewan, and To Chin Lam v. Ho Sin Lam.

Eays, the

At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Shanghai Land Investment Co., promising results. "An increase for the

Etd., held last week it was decided to year of nearly a million pesos in gold pro-recommend a final dividend of 0 per cent, duction in the Archipelago is a romurkable for the half-year ended December 31st showing in the early stages of the industry. It means much more now than were it simply noother million added to a produe- tion of everal millions already existing Those who have been the most active, the promoters and operators, lavo a right to feel proud of their efforts.". The statistical tables show that the gold won in 1912 was 27,582 fine ounces, valued at P. 1,140,424, as compared with 9,190 ounces valued at

["DAILY PRESS" EXCLUSIVE SERVICE] THE JAPAN BLACKMAIL CASE.

SIEMENS MANAGER APPREHENDED.

TOKYO, February 4th. Mr. Herrmann, the Manager of the Tokyo branch of Siemens-Schulert, who ozzel, During the year just

was before the Procurator in cunication Shipping Gazelle, the number of vessels with the Richster blackmail case, was posted at Lloyd's as missing was twenty. five, with an aggregate net tonnage of detained in custody last night at the The missing ships were respon-conclusion of a tong examination. 31,126.

(THROUGH RENTER'S AGENCY:] sible probably for the toss of about 500, lives.

attacked him, and stole from him the sum

of $53.

BRITISH POLITICS.

MOMENTOUS SESSION AHEAD.

THROUGH REOTER'S AGENCY ]

SOUTH AFRICA AND THE MOTHERLAND.

LIBERAL NEWSPAPER SUPPORTS LORD GLADSTONE

The

an

[“ DER OSTASIATISCHER LLOYD' SERVICE.]

CHINA SERVICE,

LOCAL ADMINISTRATIVE BODIES SUPPRESSED,

LONDON, February 4th.

PERING, February 4th. Bedminster, Gazette, in

The Government has suppressed all the emphatically worded leading article on local administrative bodies for having the proceedings in the South African acted against law and order and for Parliament, Brmly upholds the attitude having often been the originating source of Lord Ghstone throughout as being of measures taken against the Govern the only Constitutional position which ment.

They have been ordered to turn over all, was, similar to the King in Great Britain. Any other attitude would money and documents in their keeping to reader the Constitutional influence be the Government officials, LONDON, February 4th.

tween the Motherland and the Dominions The Minister of the Interior has been. Sir John Simon, speaking at Rother-

The journal emphasises the ecmmissioned to evolve a new system for hopeless. hithe, said the Liberals would not sur-

of British local ministration and to employ render any of their fellow-citizens. I fact that the questions was the Governments duty to preserve citizenship ained by the deportations are able men in the execution thereof. the country in its position among the very important, and desires them to be great nations, but they were determined thoroughly argued with all the Dominions, Committees is expected in the

the to see if it is possible to arrive at a future, sea that the burden fell et

shoulders best able to hear it.

general principle to apply to all British The pros- subjects. induding Asiatics pect, however, would be blasted if they started by challenging the rights of self- governing States to provide for public safety.

to

Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at Car ∙lisle, while en route to Glasgow, said the coming Session was one which would afford the strongest test that had ever confronted the British democracy.

à meeting of the Licensing Committee was to have taken place at the Council

Mr. John Redmond, the Irish leader, Chamber yesterday, but the quorum of five required to transact business not in a letter to his supporters, reminds them being present, the meeting was adjourned of the supreme necessity of every member The Hon. Mr. Claud Severn (Colonial being at his post from day to day, and Secretary), the Hon, Mr. A. Thomson, hour to hour in order to repel attacks Hooner were present.

MEXICO AND AMERICA.

KND BEVOLUTION IN SIOFT..

WASHINGTON, February 4th. President Wilson has issued a proclaina

which

the embargo

tion

reruoyes

a blend of the best. Pot justice to them that they are working under Mr. D. W. Craddock, and Mr. A., Shelton and Frustrate surprises sprung upon the placed on the export of arms, to Mexico,

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SUPPOSED SEQUEL TO SUICIDE.

Singapore papers announce the death P.379,900 in 1911. One Company--tle of Mr. Alexander Sharp, who passed Gumus Flacer Company-by July 1st, peacefully away at his residence, Tan- 1913, had paid four 10 per cent, and two Sjong Pagar, aged 54 years. The deceased was in the serrion of the Docks for per cout. dividends, a total of 50 per cent,

twenty-four years and will be sadly in ten months au capital of P. 500,000-mised by all who knew him. What the other Companies have done in this respect is not shown in the Report, The police have been notified by Mr. the Gunaus dividends being mentioned H. A. Hyndman, gecond bookkeeper at only in a footnote. We turn with some Messrs, David & Company, 3. Canton interest to the reference in the Report to Road, Kowloon, that whilst he was walk- 1.80 the Headwater's mine, the one venture ining near the Naval Depot two men, which Hongkongcapital is largely interested, apparently Portuguese or Indians, and LIQUEUR SCOTCH WHISKY

22.50 1.90 so far this enterprise bas beco disastrous persun attired in female clothing" "KILTY LIQUEUR WHISKY,

for the investors, who were recartly invited 38.00 3.25 Great Age, Very Fine V.R.O. WISEY

2200 to put up more capital. Mr. SMITH de- TUORNE'S BLACK SQUARE 23.50 2.0

23.50 2.00 scribes it as having had a checkered WATSON'S O.B..

career, passing from one management to OTHER WELL-KNOWN BRANDY SUPPLIES TO another in rapid succession." The present

ORDER.

management, Messrs. SMITH, BELL & Co., of Manila, he wrote, had been making every effort to place this Company on a sound financial basis, but it must be said in considerable difficulty and that the elaborate equipment of the mill is about a year ahead of that warranted by the state of the mine. They have difficulty in keeping the will supplied with ore." The "behaviour of the vein" in the tunnel in which the Company Was working when the Report was written is described as not very encouraging, but "the most serious and immediate difficulty of the mine is a shortage of timber. The A.S. WATSON & CO.. original locators of this property, Mr. WARREN SMITH Bays, were singularly negligent in not acquiring sufficient timber ground adjacent to their claims, and Practically all the timber on their claims has been cut off. The claims on which Gaber is astiated are in the possession of abers, and up to the time of writing the Report, no acceptable termos bad been arranged. If some arrangement can be made, the work of the mine will not be interfered with." It is added that at the close of the rainy season, the Headwaters Company has to resort to gasoline as source of power. "The cost of gasoling in This district is too great to justify its permanent utilization as fuel for any but vory rich ore." The district will recover in time, he says, but before then, several things are beccesary : (1) or bond-file mining men and fewer speculators in the district; (2) capital, (3) consolidation; (4) a bydro-

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The decomposed body of in European

male, supposed to be that of Mr. J. H. Henderson,

second engineer:con the Bintaners, who mysteriously disappeared on the 27th ult., was recovered from the Harbour on Tuesday. It is believed that he cut his throat and then jumped over- board.

CHINESE CHARGED WITH

EMBEZZLEMENT.:

At the Magistracy Cheung, manager of the Fuk Shan Ching yesterday, Li shop, No. 102. Wanchai, was charged with feloniously. embezzling the sum of $2.767.08 on various dates between Febru ary of last year and January of this year, the money being the property of his employers Mr. P. S. Dixon prosecuted, and defendant was remanded for a week in order to allow of further examination of secounts.

A FATHER'S NEGLECT.

EURASIAN GIRL'S FATHERIC STORY AT THE MAGINTRACY

A

Government.

ENGLAND'S NAVAL POLICY.

BIR EDWARD GREY ON EXPENDITURE.

LONDON, February 4th. Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, speaking at Man- chester, said that the Naval estimates would adequately safeguard the inercats of the country without supporting an aggressive policy. He declared that any slackening in expenditure on armaments by one country would not necessarily produce a diminction in expenditure by another. It might, inderd, have stimulating effect..

THE HWAIHO CONSERVANCY

WORKS...

Д

LONDON, February 4th... The Tacs, referring to the option granted to the American Red Cross Society by the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture, in relation to the Conser vancy. Works on the Lower Hwaiho, emphasises the significance of the attempt- to save large numbers of people from privation and misery in a small corner and intelligent-looking of China, and says that though the protty electric power plant on either the Agio or nine-year-old girl appeared at the Antamok River. This can hardly be Magistracy yesterday

Chinese authorities are not undertaking BONG KONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VEUX ROAD C. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, EC regarded as highly encouraging to the distressing story to the Court officials, the work themselves, it is something to shareholders whose money has already been She said that her father was a Chinese, know that they are giving the under sunk in the Headwaters enterprise. With and her mother an American. The man taking their active

ard to other mineral products, progress is brought them to Hongkong about four guara tecing the cost.. shown chiefly in the production of iron, silver months ago, and had now run away and and salt. The East Batan coal mine, which had been operating fairly continuously for five years, went into the hands of a receiver and was eventually sold to satisfy its pre- ferred indebtedness. It seems to be peculiarly go back to California.

The Daily Press.

HUNGRONG, FEBRUARY 5TH, 1914.

PAST experience has made the investing public extremely cautious regarding invest ments in mining enterprises in the Philippine islands, though an official report on "The Mineral Resources of the Philippine Islands for 1912," which we have just received

the

and told

A

A NINE-YEAR-OLD MURDER,

man

support

and

After recalling the hard things that have been said about the Chinese Ad ministrat on in the last year or two, The Times considers the situation far better than it was a year ago, and that China is once more assuming the semblance of

cohesive whole.

a

CABINET'S FREQUENT MEETINGS.

LONDON, February 4th. Another Cabinet meeting was held yesterday.

left them destitute. Her mother's clothing was in rags and she was unable to come to the Court. They had nothing to eat, and were starving. Her mother desired to

Inspector Gerrard took the girl before strange, says Mr. Surra, that with so much Mr. B. A. Hazeland, who lent a sym coal occurring in the Archipelago no pathetic car to her pitiful tale, and successful mine has been started: Among ordered the fullest enquiries to be made. from the Bureau of Science, gives a more the noteworthy features of the year covered encouraging view of the possibilities in the by the Report was the completion of a Islands than the public generally entertain.geologic survey of the lower end of the A table giving the value of the total Bondoc Peninsula, Tabayas Province, which mineral production of the Philippine Islands is described as "a district which if already

At the Magistracy yesterday Acting

Terrett charged a

Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, the Leader of for the years 1907 to 1912 shows that the well-known on account of its seeps of Inspector value of the annual output has grown from exceptionally high-grade petroleum. The amed Chu Loi alias Chu Taoi, described the Labour Party, and another Labourite 234,092 pesos in 1907 to 3,513,745 pasos in structure of the region appeal to be 30) i stone breaker, a native of the had previously conferred with Mr. Lloyd 1912. Another table gives an abstract of very favourable for the accumulation Weichau district, together with other George when, according to the news-1

not in custody, with the murder of the Formosan mining statistics for 1910, of commercial quantities of petroleum, Sin Ying, at Wong-nai-wu village, Yau-papers, the deportation of labour leaders and Mr. WARREN D. Surry, Chief of the the Chief of the Bureau states, and plans mati. The man was further charged with from South Africa was discussed. Division of Mines in the Philippines, invites are being projected for the exploration of

shooting and wounding Sin Shu with attention to these figures because Formosa is geologically similar to Luzon, is about one half ita size, and the Japanese have heen in possession only three years longer than America liás been in possession of the Philippines. This is significant," Mr. SMITH says. He declares in his report that there is a "legitimate mining industry" in

the field by drilling. Wolframite has been murderous intent at the same place. The found in Panay, gilsonite in Leyte, and alleged murder took place nine years ago, what may prove to be large deposits of but the defendant was arrested only a chromic iron and copper, have been located few days ago at Kowloon City.

ie Antique Province, Panay," Reviewing The case was formally remanded for a the Report as a whole, it may be said that weck, the substantial improvement which has. taken place in mineral production in

the Philippine Islands, which, if properly the islands during the past five years is fostered, will yield in time a large sufficiently encouraging to attract attention return both to private investors and the to new possibilities. Government. It a mining country

JUNK ATTACKED BY ROBBERS.

At about 11.30 pm, on the 12th, ult, whilst a fishing junk, No. 308, was lying at anchor off Kau Sau, near Wong Nei Chau village, two boats manned by six- men came alongside. Two men, one armed with a chopper, boarded the junk

were, however, only able to secure 36. One man has been arrested in connection with the affair.

for the poor he says, and any gold Yesterday being the birthday anniver. rush or any other find of a mining boom sary of his Lordship, Dom Joao Paulino would lead to a great number of-bitter d'Azevedo and Castro, Bishop of Macau, forcibly, and demanded money. The men a congratulatory message was tele disappointments," He says that the suc sesser and failures in the past have clearly graphed to his Lordship by his numerous demonstrated the superiority of careful Portugues friends in Hongkong.

BANK FAILURE IN LONDON.

LONDON, February 4th. Messrs. Coupon, Berthoud & Company, forzign bankers and merchants, of London, announce suspersion of payment. It is stated to be due to the difficulties of an important firm in Brazilian trade, whose liabilities are heavy.

THE PUTILOFF AFFAIR.

Paris, February 4th. M. Donmergue has announced that the Putiloff Affair has been sattled satisfac torily to French interests.

[The affair in question was the reported purchase of the Patilo Armament Works in Russia by Krupps. The report -has-beep authoritatively contradicted.]'

The dissolution of

the Provincial

F1

MISSIONARIES AND WHITE

WOLF."

PEKING, February 4th.

The Diplomatic Corps at Peking bas requested the Chinese Foreign Offer to afford protection to the Missionaries from the White Wolf gang in the pro- vinces of Anhui and Honan. The Government has consequently ordered further troops to be dispatched.

BIRTHDAY OF THE CHINESE

EMPEROR.

PEKING, February 4th.

On account of the mourning for Lung' Yue (consort of the late Emperor

on the ground that there is now no Con- stitutional Government in Mexico.

Insurgent General Villa, upon learning the new said that it once more proved Kwanghsu), there will be no celebrations on the tenth birthday of the Emperor Hsuan Tung.

that the United States, was Mexicos greatest friend.

The revolution will now soon be ended. AMERICA AND IMMIGRATION:

JMPANESE TO BE EXCEPTED.

WASHINGTON, February 4th.. A ritler has been added to the amend rent advited by the House of Repre sentatives to the Immigration Bill

EUROPEAN SERVICE.

THE POWERS AND THE NEAR EAST PROBLEM.

BERLIN, February 3rd. The Great Powers have now agreed that the Note on the Aegean Islands question excluding Hindus and the Yellow Baces. shall be handed to Athens and Constad- This provides that unless the existing tinople without intimation or seercive- arrangements otherwise stipulate, all measures. agreemeris and conventions shall here- after comprise the exclusion of Hindus, Mongolians, or members of the Yellow Rates, Mdays and Africans,

THE ALBANIAN LOAN,

BERLIN, February 3rd. The Powers will grant Austria and Italy a larger share in the Albanian Loan, A first payment of 20 millions has been agreed upon. LATER.

The purposed legislation will not affect Japanese inmigration.

All the Asiatic Exclusion amendments to the Immigration Bill have been de feated in the House of Representatives.

DEVELOPMENT OF CENTRAL

AFRICA.

IMPORTANT GERMAN RAILWAY COMPLETED. LONDON, February 4th.

The German railway from Daressalaam to Lake Tanganyika was completed yesterday. It will exercise or importaat influence on the economie future of Central Africa. Expresses will be able to over the journey from the sea to the Lake in two days.

ITALIAN CONSUL ARRESTED IN

MEXICO.

ESSAD PASHA AND THE PRINCE- OF. WIED.

BERLIN, February 3rd. Essad Pasha, who has himself-declared for the Prince of Wied, has left for Potsdam at the head of a deputation to welcome the Prines to the throne of Albania.

A MISSING POLAR EXPLORER............

BERLIN, February 3rd. The Russian Council of Ministers urges

the formation of an expedition to search for the Polar explorer Sejedow. "PARSIFALAT COVENT GARDEN.

LONDON, February 3rd. Wagner's Parsifal Wus given int Covent Garden; with the greatest success, Every seat in the house was Sig. Paperelli, the Italian Consul at occupied. H. M Queen Alexandra was Chihuahua, Mexico, has been arrested by present. Federal troops. The Italian Government is protecting.

LONDON, February 4th.

SPANISH TROOPS ATTACKED IN MOROCCO.

LONDON, February 3rd.

The Spanish troops in Morocco were ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL CHOIR.

altacked nea Tetuan by rebeljous The following paragraphs are taken tribes, and suffered considerable losses. from Church. Notes

We are worry to receive the resignations 4 "SEE-YOU-HOME COMPANY,”. from the Choir of some of its oldest supporters in Mrs. Dealy and Mr. W. Commercial enterprise goes far and dis. Armstrong, both of whom have been con-plays boundless ingenuity in these days of nected with it for nearly twenty years, grim competition. But we doubt says the also of Is. Goldsmith and Miss White; Pall Mall Gazette, whether it has ever they have all rendered invaluable and found a more unexpected outle for its willing service cizou they have been energies than that of the See You Home members of the Choir. This month we Company" which has been started in lose Masters Tand A. Martin who are Belgium. Agents of the company visit leaving for England; the former has been the hotels and restaurants at an advanced principal solo boy for some time, and hour of the evening, and convey safely

to their homes those in whom in that capacity has done much useful

the work,

desire to go home is greater than the Mr Denman Fuller's agreement with ability to accomplish the journey. The

Summary conveyance the Church Body has been renewed for charges vary. three

He goes to England on costs but eightpence; conveyance in a leave foraine months from the middle of wheelbarrow covered with a sack, eigh- teenpence but conveyance in a caro February During his absence Mr. J. W drawn by doga, two shillings. Might we White will act as organist. Mr. White suggest, for the benefit of the superroys- hopes to have music from Stainer's terer, that a triumphal car of Bacchus, Crucifixion on Good Friday night in the drawn by a pair of tigers, might be pro- Cathedral and would be glad to hear vided at the charge of a guinea or so, and from any ladies or gentlemen who are the compant escorted home to shouts of willing to sing in the chorus

To, Bacchue,"

years.