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INTIMATIONS

THE MUSIC OF THE

VICTROLA

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, APRIL 10cm, 1917.

MAKES HOME LIFE A FINER THING.

The instrument lustrated is

ALL STYLES AND PRICES.

EASY TERMS CAN BE ARRANGED.

EXCLUSIVE AGENTS:

MOUTRIE'S

WHERE WAS

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MOSES

THE BRITISH CONSULAR REORGANISATION

INFORMATION REGARDING TIE CHINA TRADE

BRITISH TRADE WITH CHINA. ADDRESS BY MR ARCHIBALD

ROSE.

MI Archibalit Row, Commercial Attaclic at Shanghai, visited Manchester on March 2nd, and addressed members

SOUTH CHINA MONEY DIFFICULTIES.

LONDON'S EMPTY GRATES. PLENTY OF COAL BUT NOBODY TO

·DELIVER IT.

Mr. George E. Anderson, the USA Consul-General at Hongkong, reports: Con is at 26. hundredweight to the Many of thean would gladly pay Between the high course of silver ex poor. change and disturbances in other lines half as much again even for inferior new currency difficulties have broken out quality if they could get it, says The in China and at present, December,

railway siding are full of landed

The question of the reform of the British Consular Service is one of ach vital interes to all connected with the of the Chamber of Commerce on the 1916, are having a marked, influence to tracks, and firms like Rickett, Smith und.

But

the course of imports and exports into China trade, says the Land Expressubject of trade with China, Mr, E. F.

provincial paper money is circulating at there are neither men nor horses for brass that we feel sure that some furner Stockton, vice-president of the Chamber, and out of Hongkong In Canton the Cockerill's report good supplies.

was in the chair,

"We have three trolleys out instead information with reference to the proped Mr. Rose said he had spent eighteen dikonnt of from 20 per cent. up. One portation to homelands." changes will bo welcomed. It vill years working and travelling in different result is that the advantage in the pur- already have been gathered that the parts of Asia, and he was firmly con chase of foreign goods due to the high our usual nineteen," said a St. Pancrof vinced that China: one of the markete value of silver is discounting fully the depot keeper, adding, "poor people aro begging us to let them have half a new style of report will be on quite which will best repay us for a little cure extent of the discount of paper money. coming from two miles round, and literal- ant and trouble in the difficult years of the Ou the other hand, contracts for, the hundredweight to keep the little ones different lines to any reports.

period in which the industrial power purchase of goods for export are paid warm and cook the family food. we have been accustomed to in the of the world will be straining to repair in paper money and not the producer 20 have 5,000 tons in stock; but, we cannot pust. In cach district the Consular official the havoc of war Dealing first with per cent, less than the face value of the distribute it, although my customers, in Including hospitals, hotels, and public the outlook for increasing trade generally money called for in the contract. will fill up contain forms which spelty with China, Mr. Roses laid emphasis Hongkong the Government so far has authorities, are clamouring for it.

TAXICABS AS COAL CARTS: succeeded in preventing the paper or the information required from him, For

upon the importance of advertising.

At King's Crosg aid Holloway depots. example, he will state the weights, non- The one way to advertise with the silver dollar from going to a premium sures, and currency in vogue in his dis Chinese, he said, is to let the consumer compared with the subsidiary coins, Office of Works wagons waited in line with see the goods. Samples will do in some which has been its problem for a number builders' trucks, hand-barrows, taxicale trict, the inland main distributing cemre, cases, goods on consignment in others, of years, but at times the demand for newspaper carts, shaphox and proan- port of supply, population, etc. He will and in other cases still travellers, or subsidiary coins he been such that they mily chariots, and people who brought Wood also is scaren and dear," Not also give the value of importe and cxporte goods on deferred payment, Japan, have gone to a slight premium. Aside only bags.

America, and Germany are making from the profit of the money changers,

one merchant, who was, busily sawing and from and to the United Kingdom during very strong bid for the China, market, however, the dollar has been circulating more than a handful for a tanter," said We the Inst three months available, togrier They work hard, study the special needs at par with slight ex three months ago, chopping in a Somers Powl wi

used to get orange boxes and egg crates of their huvers, and cut their costs of it reached par some three months ago, with the figures of the imports and lox-orthotion to the lowest possible agure, and the general feeling is that there and fruit caes for a penny or twopence

troublesometimes for nothing. Now it

it's & case the colony of buy dear for of parts of the jour principal competing It should also not be forgotten that the will be nɔ

with the currency

of the expenditures

Salvation Army and other social work countries over a similar period. If the Chinese themselves are coming on very The large

quickly as an industrial people.

colonial government for the retireers report that while there is little figures are not available, an estimate vill

Mr. Rose made particular reference to ment of surplus subsidiary coins, which poverty of the ordinary type, the aged be given. This is a simple and convani-

tha picce-goods trade. Cotton yarns and amounted to more than $1.500.000 actual and the very young are suffering severely ent arrangement which will enable mer- chants and manufacturers to see at a cotton cloth, as he reminded the metting more or less marked premium in Hong-the coat, through lack of fue

kong on foreign gold coin. For example, A Royal Mail metor-ven was employed glance certain preliminary Inety and from this xuntry. China is the second Anterican gold opin varies from 2 to 8 to deliver hundredweight sacks of coal in

biggest market in the world for cotton figures concerning, any particular incality cloth. In his opinion she has by no per cent. in value greater than American the Camberwell district. The inability to The demand for the obtain delivery of coal ha enused much in China in which they are interested, means reached the limit of her consump is for gold for industrial purposes, distress in this part of South London, besides obtaining some indication of the tion. He is convinced that China could

trike a great deal more of our cotton pro for beating into gold leaf and for use where processions of women carrying coal

sels and trundling half hundreds." extent of the competition u be faced ducts, shat she would like to have them, particularly for forwarding to India buckets, and other household ves

perambulators have been a common

sight This plan of partially standardising tacand could pay for them. But to induce in Indina jewellery bazuar

during

the last few days. her to do this conditions will have to information to be given by Consuls has a

Surbiton tribunal discussed the hard- in way. We are faced with changing conditions in the country itself, There are Mr. Rose thinks, only two romedics--cheaper production in Lanca sbire and better distribution in China, mainly with the object of stimulating demand.

CHANGED CONDITIONS NEEDED.

more serious

loas last year, have ceased. There is a

paper currency.

cold

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WHEN THE LIGHT WENT OUT? distinct advantage over the old sysidit the problem wey Competition and SHIPMENT OF ANTIMONY ORE ship to poor people resulting from small

Why, in the dark, of course.

And why?

Because he had no Candles in the House.

Don't you be had in the same way.

ALWAYS KEEP CANDLES IN THE HOUSE.

CROWN

CANDLES.

SINCERE CO.

Are obtainable from SUN CO.

·PRICES:-

OR

WING ON CO.

(Large Size, 25 Cents per packet. Small Size, 16 Cents per packet,

IN CASES or 25 PACKETS.

In the past & Consular oficial in his report might or might not deal with such ponte as currency and weights and mea sures and other topics on which, under the new scheine, he will now supply inform tion systematically from quarter to quarter.

OF

THE JOURNEY FROM CHANG--

CHOW TO HANKOW

coal dealers being taken for the army. Mr. T. Dumper, a member, said scores of homes were without fires during the pre sent severe weather. In one district a petition was being signed urging that the bo exempted from military service, sprite di

Another member, a churchwarden, said ho had to send coal from his greenhouse to heat the church on a Sunny.

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

In the King's Bench Division Mral coal merchant should Justice Sankey has heard the case of the New Chinese Antimony Company, Ltd.," the Ocent Steamship Company, in which the plaintiffs sought damages for an alleged short delivery of 76 tons in cargo of 937 tons of Chinese antimony oxides ore shipped from Hankow to London. In giving judgment the learned Judge said:-

These goods, antimony ore, were in- ured at Changehow and brought down to Haskow in lighters, and it is stated that the mine roturi was about 980 tons. and during that time they were at the sinks of the plaintiffs these goodsy last

SUMMER UNIFORM.

All white uniform of 1916 or previous. isauce which requires alteration or to be condemned as unfit must be produced at Central: Station at 5.30 pm, on Tuesday, April 17th.

be stareddy togther with such practice Bete successfully with a denter cloth from When these goods arrived at Hankow All ranks to whom this applies must pro

be

On the other

23 tons out of 960 tons When they ar

duce their uniform for inspection, but hey themselves, may attend in plain clothes.

nor sent by Equipment Officers to the Store Sergeant, Central Station.

RIFLES AND ACCESSORIES.

PRODUCTION COMPETITION... As for the conditions of production, he A very important aspect of the now Consular reports will be the information summarised the position of competitors they will contain as to extending and by saying that England can produce for opening up new business in China To A permy about 7 lb of cotton yarn, this end particulers will to supplied on Japan 11 lb. and China 12 lb. The cerning local firms in the various districts advantages in the latter cases do not who wish to trade, either direct with the He entirely in cheap labour, but rathor United Kingdom business house in the fact that both in Japan and China indirectly through the local British bust they have been able to produce a cloth The name, and nationalities which is just good enough to suit the ness hour directors; their financial of partners standing and commercial reputation, consumer and just cheap enough to om- Lancashire The remedy for increasing information by the principal onto from competition, in order that we might fuld quired, mode of transport

our own against competition which had and port to locality, terins in what

The correspondent Americh and Japan seemed to him to be rived at Hankow they were 937 tons. The names of men not yet in possession

been approached in a scienlife way by should similar details will is very far from ing the principal competing firms in the by co-operation between the master and It is about 250 miles, and they lost that various Consular districts. In these cases operative spinners and weavers, the fur weight in that short distance. They got I as to whether the firing deal in British or trade union representatives, who would the yard of the compound, and there Cleaning gear must be drawn from information will be given on such points Eastern shippers, the merchants and to Hankow, and there they were put into other goous, and the reason why, in the visit China and Japan for the express they stayed til the ship came and latter case, foreign goods are preferred to purpose of examining the products of carried them off. The defendants were the manufactures of the United Kingdom. products of local mills, the class of cut-the contractors to carry them. They were As an instance of the up-to-date character ton used, and the cotton cloths which are to go by an ordinary coasting vessel from of the new arrangements, we may mention selling bost, Such a body of mon might Hankow to Shanghai, At Shanghai they were to be transhipped to an ocean-going that in the event of there being immediate possibly decide that it is essential for

she brought them to London. It is to goods in any locality, the Consuls will be work a certain quantity of cotton of

be noted that these goods went to some Instructed to make these known by in inferior staple to that now employed of the hottest parts of the globe. They From the particulars, business men will The proper handling of the China trade gather that henceforth the Consplor be is of vital interest both to capital and stopped at Batavia, and then they went vice will be of real service to them in developing their trade with China Such labour in Lancashire. One thing he be through the Straits into the Bed S Cos those indicated above will lieves China could teach us all, as the and eventually arrived in London. The enable them to judge whether it is worth result of ber centuries of experience, celusion I have arrived at is this:— their while to attempt to open up trade She has ber guilds and her trade unions, I do not think there has been sufficient in any given locality. They will know all but they are combinations of employers evidence for me to say that Mr. Scott about the firms with whom they have to with their employés, not of the one has entirely displaced the evidence from deal, and, what is of equal importance, against the other. The Chinese have the Bill of Lading that 937 tons were the character and extent of the compet learnt, and they might help to teach us, shipped, but at the same time he has tion they have to meet. In a will be in possession of all the mer, they the possibility and value of real co-given me very cogent evidence as to the

which operation. On the troubled question inherent vice of this cargo-if I may so All it is essential for them to know. The old of the distribution of piece goods in put it and also as to the effect ut Consular reports were silent on so many China, Mr. Rose attributed the real ad moisture. There were 76 tons short as of these vital points, as in a senise they

vantage of non-British competing firms, appears by the letter, on page 4 of the published. Under the new plan British have China house, with their headquar-Antimony Company, Ltd., and from that

and manufacturers will be merchants

kept

ters in China, with responsible partners have to saw how much of that loss, if in close touch with a that is transpiring

themselves have made a calculation and I think that in the commercial world in China. They on the spot who can make prompt de anys due to the fault of the ship. I

are cisions and accommodate will know what their competitors quickly to any new development. In the amount of this cargo lost through no

for Wet Weather requirements for the supply of British employers to use and for operatives to vessel. That vessel was the Pelets, and

Prepare for Wet Weather!

We have just received our New Stock of

WATERPROOFS

in all weights and sizes at prices ranging From $17.50 each.

UMBRELLAS

Smart in appearance, dependable in wear. From $6.50 each.

MACKINTOSH

CO., LTD.,

Men's Wear Specialists,

16, DES VŒUX ROAD.

TALIPHONE 20

BALLANTINE'S

AND STOUT

BEER

TEL. 636.

TRADE

Wedded to

MARK

PURITY, QUALITY AND FLAVOUR

MADEWITH.

"THREE RINGS

DONNELLY & WHYTE,

SOLE AGENTS.

had to be since they were printed ad especially German, to the fact that they correspondence, sent by the New Chiness

I

conclusion, Mr. Rose said:" A closer fault of the shipowner at all was 53 co-operation between by the producer, the tons. I think there must have been some exporter, and the official is perlians the loss on the part of the shipowner,

think the amount the shipowners ought thing which could help most of all to bear in mind the whole amount, and I to pay for is 23 tons. Now comes the extend our national trade in China

question of how much. I think the pro- per price per ton is £23. Therefore the amount I award is for 23 tons at £23 a ton to the plaintiffs. That includes all

doing, in what lines they are being beaten. and in such cases why they are being beaten.

This information will enable them to hold their own with foreign com petition. The lack of it in the past has often been a stumbling block. More than is now offered by the re-modelled British Consular Service we do not think traders could fairly bak. It seems to us the State SOUTH CHINA SOAP TRADE,

A sort of taking an actual hand as it possibly can in help- as far

ing them

no

Mr. George E. Anderson, the U.S.A.

businesses, which, of course, Consul Genera at Hongkong states that considerations. There must be judgment | would desire In this ways a result of the war's interference with for £520 with cost

the

in their

Government have gone a long way ahead.

future

SHIPPING NEWS.

Armoury by all ranks not in posset- sion of same on either Tuesday, April 17th, or Friday, April 29th, between the hours of 8.15 and 2) i ni PARADES, CENTRAL, 5.30 P.M Monday, April 16th. Recruits of No. 2

Platoon and No, & Company. Tuesday, April 17th-Recruits of No. 2

Company

Wednesday, April 18th-Recruits of No.

2 Platoon and 3 Company.

Friday, April 20th. Recruits of No, a

Company.

....

All

NO. 1 COMPANY.

Armoury on Tuesday, April 17th. For Friday, April 20th, between the Bours of 6.15 and G30 p.m., for the purpose of drawing rifles.

CARE OF ARMS,

ranks will attend in multi at the

Platoon Commanders, Crown Ser- geants will attend in mufti at Police School for instruction by Musketry- Sergeant Fisher, as follows: Wed- nesday, April 18th, 6 p.m., No. 2 Company: Aprit 18th, 5.30 p.m. Nos. 1 and 3 Companies,

NO, 16ECTION. Sergeant 631 Cartwright takes over all

Default duties in connection withi this. Section

Pcs. 708 K. Mahomed and 781 H. Mahoned are dismissed from the Force.

(84) F C. JENKIN,

D.S.P. (R.) Hongkong, 14th April, 1017.

RTRENGTH.

....

HONGKONG RESERVES.

ORDER BY MAJOR WAKEMAN, 0.0, HEY.L Reference Corps Order No. 22 of 13th April, 1917, every rifle and bayonet returned to Headquarters for exa mination must have a label securely, attached, stating member's rank, name and platoon,

He

It remains for British merchants and Germany in South China there has been manufacturers to do their part.. It is a great increase in the amount of Ame their enterprise which must initiate rican soap imported into all the South business in China. If they do, it is now Asis ports, an the American product

The case between the owners of steam- clear from what we have said, that the is getting a considerable hold on the ship Penrith Castle to owners of steain- Government will

will give them every aid. A market in the cheaper grades ng well as

(Sd.) C. CHAMPEIN, Capt., great field of trade awaits them in China in the letter grades in which it had con- ship Fushimi Muru, which arose out of

Adjutant, HKV.R and with a Consular Service reorganised siderable trade before the war. The a colision in Gravesend Reach, and has

Hongkong, 14th April, 1917. on the lines indicated above, they should change in the trade also has stimulated already been before the High Court, has have no difficulty in obtaining and hold the local production of soap in prac been before the Court of Appeal. The

The Japanese Officer whose contribu- ing a full share of it in the

tically all of the South Asia countries judgment in the original Court stated Japanese soop products have again com- the defence of the Fushimi Marutions, of a rather quaint order, to the menced to come into the market more succeeded, on the ground of compulsory Daily Express we have noted previously, A curious kind of import was mentioned freely. In the Philippines a local coconut pilotage, This was appealed againet, and deals, in his last letter with the question by Sir Ryland Adkins, K.C., M.P, ap- oil company has placed on the market the Court held that the judgment of the whether China will join the Entente, pearing before the House of Commons a very satisfactor, laundry soap of which learned President was correct; the colli- tells us Chinaman nation never forget.

memories.

atrocities Tribusal on March 1st, for Mr. Foster it reports are: sales, and it is also 10 was brought about solely by the Most placid nation, most 37, married, classed.B1, and in part crapul sale in the islands. The largest increase be dismissed, with coste.

placing a cheap grade of toilet sosp on fault of the pilot, and the aprés must wonder forgotted by Chinese peoples.

will never Kaiser have told his troop to make Attila in Eastcheap Counsel said that PEPel Iant was concerned in importing prin in sales of soan to China. however, has

King of Hnn imitations, and Kaiser troop. cipally from China, large quantitiny bf been on the part of Hongkong, and has eggs, both in liquid and dry

conalsted chiefly of the product of a local States, the oils, however, coming mostly have exceed the instruction. No more will German make foot-step in China. were a large number the owned una operated by The factory's products at present include all moneys from German firms in Chins of varieties and soap inctory which succee is to the buti from China itself and Java and Ceylon Chinese business man will soon withdraw many were used in t making of margarine, and leather manu German interests before the war. The three principal grades of toilet soap and and sever the relation with Hun for ever. facture

A small quantity was used in output of this factory has been greatly four principal grades of laundry soap. German stronghold Tsingtao is to finish. tanning. The firm was now bringing in improved, both in general quality and in The cost of its raw material is about 20 Honoitrable, Japanese navy and soldiers a new sort of egg for grocers to sell wing the variety of its products. Much of its phr cent, ever pre-war figures, while the have made bombardments anon it and to the shortage of shell egge in Great raw material Somes from the United prics of the output has advanced in Huns are heated to ruin. That is most Britain. Final exemption till April ist

excellent situations, was granted.

(Continued at foot of next column.) greater degree.

There

but most