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liquors imported into the Colony. These figures have led us to turn with interoit to the Customs Returns for China. The latest analysis of the Imports available is for the year 1912. Comparative statistics are given

for four years. So far as beer and porter are concerned the returns, though they show a progressive increase, do not at present give cause for alarm. The net import in 1913 abowed an increase in the value of malt liquors amounting to not more than sixteen hundred tags, R3 compared with the year 1911; but if we WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. compare the import of malt liquors in 1913 (Tle. 786,657) with that in 1909 (Tis. $51,962) we are that in four year the import has increased considerably. Spirits show a wuch larger percentage of increase for the period. In 1909 the total net import from foreign countries direct was Tle. 827,464; in 1912 the value of the import was Tle. 1,278,089. On the other. hand, the consumption of wines has declined The net import of wines in 1909 was Tle. 1,694,000; in 1912 it was Tls. 1,171,163 while other beverages (cider, lime juice, etc.) shows Tis, 9,289 in 1909; Tis. 30,315 in 1910;

Tls. 99,849 in 1911; and Tia. 71,202 in 1912. While these figures clearly establish the fact that alcohol is naadily taking the place of the opium pipe in China, the probability is that more strikingonlance of this tendency would be furnished by statistics regarding the consumption of native wines. These, however, are not available. If Chineas leaders of public opinion have been studying the recent move. ment in Russia for the repression of drunkenness, they have had much food for reflection. According to the estimate of Count Wirre made last month in the Council of State, the Russian nation will

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TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE ULSTER VOLUNTEERS.

CARBON.

Fifty Manchu girls from the Eight Banners have been selected to serve as PRESENTED WITH COLOURS BY SIR EDWARD maids in the Imperial Household, says Reuter's Peking correspondent. Under the old régime three hundred used to serve

in this way.

LONDON, April 14th

THROUGH BEUTEE'S AGENCY.]

OIL DISCOVERED IN SOMALILAND.

LONDON, April 14th.

{"DER OSTASIATISONER LLOYD' SERVICE

CHINA SERVICE:

IMPORTANT CHANGES,

PEKING, April 14th.

The sub-committee of the Constitution

Convention has approved the following points:

Mr. Alau Ostler, a special corres AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION. The Bishop of Dawa consecrated, and pondent of the Daily Express, telegraphs, Sir Edward Carson presented, the Colours from Adun that a mining expert, who has The first of the series of variety thostres to the 3rd Antrim Regiment of the been investigating on behalf of tha which Mr. Maurice E. Bandmann, with Ulster Valantere at Masareane Park, Government, pronounces the recently dis-

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Ltd. Artxim. Evolutions were carried out by covered oil land at Dagashebeli, Somali the Coliseum

land, to be of such excellence as to (Colombo), and the Harry Rickards Brigade of 2,600 mon. Tivoli Theatres, Limited (Australia); General Sir T. T. Richardson, the warrant an expenditure of £20,000 on are opening throughout the Est, a officer commanding the Ulster Volunteers, experimental borings. inaugurated on March 17th at Calcutta, where the old Empire Theatre has been took the salute transformed into an up-to-date Palace of Varietics. *The result leaves, no room for doubt as to the future success of the venture," says The Staterman of Calcutta,

The firm of Maitland & Co., which has carried on business in Shanghai sine 1858, and has occupied for 56 years premises at the corner of Canton and Szechuan Roads, removed last week into new premises several times the size of the old" erected on a site opposite the which Bank of Communications on previously stood the opium godowns of the China Merchants S, N. Co-situated at the rear of the old Telegraph buildings between the Bund and Szeebuan Road.

The R.G.A. am holding their Annual Regimental Sports on Saturday, April 18th, on the U.S.R.C. Ground, Kowloon, commencing at 2 p.m. During the after noon the Officers of the R.A. will be At Home" in their enclosure. By kind per- mission of Lieut-Colonel H. D. Tuson and

The spectators included Teers and Peresses and members of the House of Commons. Lord Masareone rode at the head of one Battalion.

Sir Edward Carson, in the nurse of speech, said that none should take away their rights while a man was luft.,

THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION.. HUERTA'S FORCES TO SALUTE AMERICAN FLAG

The Provisional Constitution to be

abrogated,

The principal influence in the Govern-

ment shall be vested in the President, and the powers of the "Li Fa Yuen,” the newly formed Chinese Parliament, are considerably reduced.

The Parliament shall have nothing to

WASHINGTON, April 14th. President Wilson has stated that Huerta's forces at Tampico will saluto the American flag as demanded by do with the appointment of Ministers or

Envoys. Admiral Mayo (as reparation for the

A Council of State is to be formed and THE VANCOUVER MURDER

unlawful arrest recently of some Ameri

there will be no Premier, as heretofore, ALLEGED CONNECTION OF THE MURDERER

can Marines).

but the position of Secretary of State is WITH WHITE WOLF."

CONCESSIONS TO THE EPIROTES,

to be created, the incumbent to be LONDON, April 14th.

responsible to the President only, as will The Temes correspondent at Toronto

ATHENS, April 14th.

be his The programme of Albanian concessions his colleagues also. states that the police investigation into the murder of Mrs Millard soems to to the Epirotes includes a sort of local

scholastic show the existence of an active Chinese self-government with

arid

revolutionary society in Vancouver, and religious autonomy, on condition of the Victoria police are of the opinion that immediate submission by the Epirotes, the murderer stole in order to get money to send to "White Wolf."

It appears that the Chinese at Yan-

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HONGFORO, APRIL 15TH, 1914.

year no less than £100,000,000 on strong drink. In ten yours the sale of vodka has increased by 50 per cent, while the popula- tion has increased by only 30 per cent., and & writer in The Times has recently remarked that "the astonishing truth is dawning on the Russian people that if

Russia had ten times as many presons as she now has it could not accommodate ita wrong-doers. The suppression of drunken. ness has become the great question of the

day in Russia. It may be mentioned

that more than one-third of China's annual import of spirite is now coming from Russia, and it would be well if Chinese statesmen kept a watchful eye on the growing consumption of alcohol in China, and took timely measures to check such development as that which is now giving great concern not only to the CAR and the Government of Russia, but to certain territories in Asia where Chinese and other Asiatic labour is largely employed in agricultural and mining industries

The English mail of the 14th March was delivered in London on the 11th April

The Pacific Mail steamer Mongolia left the Colony on the 11th April, with 250 salcon passengers for Ban Francisco via ports,

will play during the afternoon. The open events are a mile race, open to Royal Nary, European Garrison (including H.KV.C), and Police, for which the prizes will be 815, 810, 85, in cash or kind, also a Relay Race for Indi1a Troops, one team of four per battalion, competitors to run successively 220, 220,

440 yards. There will also be the open half mile.

A $12,000 OPIUM FINE.

At the Magistracy yesterday the case again came on for hearing in which a Chinese who was arrested at No. 49, Staunton Street was charged with being in unlawful possession of 165 taels of prepared opium Defendant was fined $12,000.

ARMED ROBBERY IN NEW TERRITORY.

A woman living in a village in the Shatokok district of the New Territory has informed the police that on Sunday. two men wearing masks, one of whom was armed with a chopper, entered her house by climbing a bamboo pole and sliding down into the back yard. They lit a torch, and walked into her bedroom, one

December, and the police are war DOỞ that another cargo for White Wolf " is being prepared.

SEQUEL TO NEW YORK BENSATION.

TOUR GUN-MEN ELECTROCUTAD,

NEW YORK, April 14th-

The so-called New York gun-men, GP The Blood, Whity Lewis, Lefty Louis, and Dage Frank, who were convicted as far back as November 20th, 1919, for the murder of Rosenthal the gemobler, have been electrocuted at Bing Bing:

A NEW VISCOUNT.

LONDON, April 14th. Mr. Sydney Buxton, formerly Post mastar-General, who was elevated to the peerage in the early part of the year, and was subarquently appointed to succeed Viscount Gladstone as Governor-General of South Africa, has now been created a Viscount.

TALK OF GENERAL ELECTION..

Losnos, April 14th. The Labour Conference have agreed to a levy of one shilling on every member of the Union, as at the present time thero are no funds for a general election, which of them throwing some cotton material the leaders regard as being possible in We have received information from over her mouth to prevent her becoming

July the Colonial Secretary's Office

that

noisy. The other robber broke open two quarantine against Hongkong was chests and stole clothing, money a

and declared at Newchwang on the 8th inst,

jewellery worth $66, afterwards getting safely away in the direction of Chinese territory.

A young Chinese, giving the appearance of a houseboy, was found lying in an unconscious condition on the stairway at

No. 57, Ites Vœux Road Central, and was sent to hospital.

TRADE CONDITIONS IN THE NORTH.

THE PANAMA CANAL TOLLE

BANK HOLIDAY AT HOME.

LONDON, April 14th, The Bank Holiday was perfect; summer- like weather prevailed and the various resorts were prowded.

VESSEL'S STRANGE MISHAP.

BUDDER AND STERN POST LOST IN RED BEA

In troubleus times the President alone shall have control of financial affairs, and the President is empowered to issue independent Ordinances.

The rights enjoyed by the Imperial Family will be embodied in the Constitu- bion.

THE NEW STATE COUNCIL.

PEKING, April 14th. Hou Shi-chang was the guest of the President yesterday and had a conference. with Sun Pao-chi, Liang Shi-yi, Lí Ching-Hsi, Li Yuan-hung and Tuan Chi- jui concerning the new Cabinet, in which Liang Tang-yen, Wang Shi-chen, Li Chian-chu and Jen Hain are prepared to take office

LATER.

The result of the conference of Chinese

There is in port at present the steamer Galdmouth, one of the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company's bank vessels, await ing repairs made necessary by reason of a rather peculiar mishap, According to ber bor skipper, Capt. J. Evans, the vessel, of some 4,863 tons burthen, left statesmen at the President's Yamen Suezion February 20th. She had as cargo (previously reported) is apparently that 9,656 tons, of petroleum, loaded at Batoum, the new Council of Ministers will consist and about 900 tons of bunker coal. The of Hau Shi Chang as Secretary of Stato, usual track down the Red Sea was

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followed and all went well until late on and the former Tatüh of Honus, Chang the night of the dard, when a slight shook Cheng Fang, as Minister of Finance. The was felt, the vessel trembling and Minister of the Interior will be the pre-

The shock vibrating in the after end.

was also experienced by the captain and sent deputy, Chien Neng sun. Liang officers amidships and was, for the time Tung Jen will be Minister of Foreign being, explained by the assumption that the ship had come into contact with some Affairs; the present Minister of tho floating object. The speed at the time of Interior, Chu Chi Chien, will be Minister the occurrence was of knots. The voyage

was continued without further mishap of Communications; Yang Shi Chi, of well into the Red Sea, but in the course

of the afternoon of March 3rd the vessel Commerce and Industry: Chang Shiang refused to answer her helm. The engines of Justice; while the present Deputy: were stopped and an examination very.

With the vessel helpless it was impera

quickly showed that the rudder and post Minister of Education, Tung Hung Yi, had been lost from about a boot below the will become Minister of his department. second pintle downwards together with the stern post, from the top of the pro- The Ministers of War, Navy, and the peller aperture downwards. Chief of the General Staff remain as at tive that something should be done present without delay and, as the state of the sen at the time was not favourable for rigging a jury rudder, a large 25 inch coir bawger with a heavy chain attached, was passed over the stern and made fast with strong wire rope guys. These were run through noutriggers supported in a capstan on each

THE PROGRESS OF WHITE

WOLF.

ALARM OF THE GOVERNMENT,

PEKING, April 14th.

The Tutuh of Shensi reports that White Wolf" has gained further

NEW YORK, April 14th, Mr. Bryan has written a signed article his organ the Commoner, published in mids. To further assist the vessel in staring sails were hoisted and in this way! Lincoln (Nebraska), in which he urges some 400 knots were covered, at a rate of the repeal of the Panama Canal tolls | 51 knots 20 hour On March 8th the captain decided to bip the ship and stop exemption, on the ground that the subsidy the engines. A large iron plate was then advantages Consequently the Teking will benefit an American Shipping Trust, fitted to the remaining portion of the Government; in view of the growing rudder post, together with the large while the Democrat platform is opposed rudder used when navigating the Suez danger of an invasion of Kansu and to subsidies.

Canal which had been strengthened with Szechuan Provinces, has ordered General Angle bars. This jury rudder worked

THE prediction that the Chinese, deprived of the solace of the opium pipe, would take to alcohol is in due process of fulfilment. We observe that the growing demand for

The manager of the International Bank-

The writer of The Week's Finance alcohol among Asiatice has become a sub-

ing Corporation informs us that he has in the 0. Daily News saya :—-~ ject of much concern in the Malay States, received a telegram from his head office Although there is little improvement in The Commissioner of Trade, when address New York to the effect that a dividend the financial situation in the interior, sing the Belangor Chamber of Commerce has been declared for the half-year ended indications are towards a near, revival of recently, supplied some figures showing the 31st December, 1918, at the rate of 6 per trade Country reports show that dealers increase which has taken place there in the cont per annum, and that the undivided have waited as long as they can and carried forward are gold accrcity of cargo in the interior is being import of beer and spirits. The import profitsTM

seriously felt, * Further, the past two months inactivity has helped toward a

The Daily Telegraph under increased inquiry for goole has been shortly. evident. Other conditions have also stands that drastic proposals will be made, change has improved slightly, bringing which will include the complete discon- sous relief to the importer, and the dis tinuance of patronage. parity between home and focal prices 18 being reduced

of malt liquors into the Malay States 8773,888.81.

THE CIVIL SERVICE

DRASTIC REFORMS" FORESHADONED.

LONDON, April 14th. The report of the Royal Commission on

well and an average speed of seven knots Chao Chou of Honan, General Ma Ling was maintained over the 700 miles to with the Mohamedan troops, and General Colombo, E

Colombo reached the vessel was put by Wu Chung Sheng, to proceed with the the head and inspected by Lloyds

increased in value by $475,000 last year and A bar stored with straw took fire at small accumulation of funds A slightly the Civil Service will be published stern and bottom the diver reported that ments totalling 8,000 men, The Tatuhs of

brandy by $109,000. The Chinese are said Li Shiu Ling, tear Fanling, on Sunday to be the principal consumers of brandy, and morning, and was completely gutted. A es doubtless most of the brady is cheap bullock and a couple of pigs were inside and nasty, the fear expressed at the meeting the barn when the fire broke out an I were that there will be trouble in the country if in paril of being roasted alive. However, the native populations take to drinking cheap, they managed to escape with on a few spirits is well founded The CHATEMAN, how minor burns. The damage is estimated ever, remarked that the most important by the owner of the barn development of this question was the sale

$200,

grown more favourable to trade Ex-

AN AMERICAN STRIKE ENDED..

LONDON, April 14th... The Calumet copper miners

in

enrveyor and diver. After examining the utmost speed from Taonan with reinforce there was no sign of the vessel having Kiangsu and Hupeh have been ordered to touched any obstruction, although the sternpost had broken froni seorph to send at once great quantities of arms and the provincial constructed and atted down to the level ammunition,

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of the 20 foot mark, after which a authorities have been told not to issne certificate of seaworthiness was granted by Lloyds The Goldmouth then left for nasers to foreigners for Shonsi. Singapore, with the company's steamor, Turbo as escort, and arrived here after

a voyage in which an average of eight knots an hour was maintained. She is rudder and will probably remain hore about two montis.-Straits Times..

of beer and stout to Malays and Tamile, Champlaints are being received favourable weather the harvests have not Michigan have voted for an end of the cow awaiting a new stern frame and

At present there was no restriction on the sale of hear and stout, with the result that the consumption of them was going up by leaps and bounds, av much so, that ho quite agreed the time had arrived for Government to take a hand in the matter,

SPLIT AMONG REBEL LEADERS

PEKING, April 14th.

The Peking Jih Pas reports om Yoko- hame that a split had occurred in the Hsin Tung Men Hui, with the result that |___ The official report of the cotton fire at Sun Yat-sen will not start the third

Colaba, Bombay estimates the damage at a

after the lapse of 60,000 bales and the loss at R7,353,000 revolution until

Export activity, has begun în a small way, and bids fair to be of substantial volume this time, if nothing untoward happens. In spite of troubles and un

ben as bad as was expected. But for Shanghai with reference to the now want of financial facilities we might strike which began on 3rd July, 1013. system of taxation (formerly going under already have had a big business by how The men have waived their demanda.

helping and dealers begin to see that INTERNATIONAL CHERBS the namt of liken) on cotton piece goods on thus the steadiness of exchange is shipped to Ningpo, and leaving that port they will profit very little by waiting for plaos in Chekiang This taxation further. A good deal of the previous

season's seeds and other harvests remainten & chess tournament, England The chief losses are: Mears. Bruel ander Ave be marketed, the high exchange of the past year having made business almost im- defeated Holland by twelve games to four. is taking place in the Malay Stats Chinese merchants are believed to be possible. Although the chaotic state and noticeable also in the Straits Settlements

stringency of money are bound to be felt and in China as well. It was mentioned in a public speech by a prominent resident of Singapore recently, that there was an increase last year of 25 per cent. in the malt

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is now so unfairly pod that it is a great hindrance to all business interests doing their best to arrange a modification

in the rates new being charged, and it is in reducing the volume of trade, both understood that representations here being in imports and exports, it is generally made to the Consular Body to that and beloved in business circles that any change in the situation at present will be NC. Daily News.

for the better,

THE HAGUE, April 14t

INTERNATIONAL RUGBY

Co. 17,000 bales valued at R2,125,000, another five years, while Huang Hsing Hirji Khelady 10,913 bales R1,364,125, and and Cheng Chimei would seek the help Mitsul Bugan Laisha. 9,000 bales valued

at 10 lakhs. The Bombay Co. and Messrs certain foreigners to start the revolu= Wallace and Co met with the loss of 6,871tion forthwith, with the offer of the LONDON, April 14th, bales valued at B858,875. There are 9. In a Rugby match at Paris, England defeated France by 39 points to 13.

other losees ranging from R35,000 to R9 surrender of Manchuria to the foreigners lakha Ten well-known European insur ance companies are affected:

as compensation