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KWANGTUNG NATIVE

· INDUSTRIES.

THE SUGAR PRESS.

[BY AN UP-COUNTRY CORRESPONDENT.) · Probably no single commodity is of auch universal use as sugar. Teetotallers sad drinkers all consume it: the chemis try of commerce constantly needs sugar: from sweetest infancy to the acidity of old maidhood we all want agar daily Hence it is worth our while to ask, where does it come from! and how do we get it There are two sources of sugar-the "Bugar cane and the sugar beet. The sugar beet industry is of much more modern, date than ibe obtaining of sugar from the sugar cane; und the world's greatest supply come from the awet juice of the cane, boing for the most part first obtained by those whom Westerners are prone to describe in general as "native" whether in the castorn or western hemis phere. A visit to a Chinese sugar-mill is well worth the trouble for any one who has the opoprtunity.

THZ SUDAR CASE, AND THE MILL.

THE OPIUM TRAFFIC IN FORMOSA

HARITUAL SMOKERS' LICENSES "DECREASING.

One of the measures adopted by Japan for the administration of Formosa as 3000 as the island was brought under her rule was the control over opium smoking. As the result of careful consideration of the situation the Japanese Government ;; de- cided to put a stop to opium smoking mokers but not allowing any to start gradually, giving licenses to the habitual smoking. Investigations were carried out ns to the number of habitual smokers and in 1200 licenses were given to 160,000 smokers. A fixed amount of opium began to be supplied to the smokers and at first three kinds of opium treacle classified according to quality were sold to them, but the demandt for the second and third class opium has gradually decreased and at present only the first-class opium is in demand. As will be noted from the following figures the number of smokers has steadily decreased either by death or stoppage and their number in 1918 dwindled to about one-third of the number in 1000:-

Licensed smokers.

SPORT.

RIFLE SHOOTING.

The following is the refult of a match shot off between H.M.S. Titania and Wilts "D": 06. at the Stonecuttors Range on February 11th, resulting in win for H... Titania." The scores were as follow:-

„HIMI.8. .” TITANIA."

---; 900 – 600 600 - Total.

ydaydayd». Mr. Blackford... 44. 49. 30

Scutt

+

195 30 "199)

2+

Tapley

41

38

Barker 37

to

35

Peskett 30 #3

30

Edmonds. 32 35

38

H

Sigsworth... 31

120 119 107 108 109

*

Taylor

Total

WILTS D" 00.

887

200 300 600 Total yds. yds. yds,

Mr. Smith.36 Halloway. 38 Drow......... 30 Mayne

www

19589688

35 111 38.. 101

90 99

91

89

R. O. Smith 38. Cheesly.... 31 Timworth 31 Hedges 30.

85

6.9

26 2.4. 81

75

Total

K

716

"The following is the result of a match

but Giles oleared. Both goals wero visit- ed in turn, but there was no scoring, and half-time showed a blank sheet.

On resuming, the Wilts assumed the aggressive and, assisted by the wind, gave the Police, defence an anxious time.

Lancaster fouled Robertson and brought relief to the Police vide which was, how ever, only momentary, as the Wilts co- turned and set up a regular bombardment of the Police goal. Hillyer brought of some good saves. Following a corner, how- "Menham trapped the ball slöse in, and beat Hillyer with a ground shot. From the centre kick, the Police agzin went down, but Giles cleared. At the other end, the Wilts forced a corner. Mair cleared, but Giles attempted a long high ahot from the half-way Kine, Hillyer mis- judged and allowed the ball to pass over his head into the net. Time arrived with the Wilts winners of a fast game by goals to nil.

Mr. Williams was in charge of the game. By winning this game the Wilts. added two points to their score in the Lengue, which makes them champions for the season, 6, with one match still to Play, they are five points ahead of their nearest rivals, who have still two matches to play.

The Police should have won the match

shot off between H.M.S. Hawking and in the first hall. Had Robertson con- H.M.S. Alacrity at the Stonecutters verted from the penalty kick the result Range on February 26th, resulting in a would have been reversed.

The pace. win for H.M.F, Hawkins, The scores however, was too fast for the Police to were as follow: --

819323738

last, throughout. The new men worked hard and Pearson played one of his old Total. time games.

ترامي

The Wilts worked hard and during the second half had most of the play. They deserved their win and are to be' coa- gratulated on winning the League,

Opium supplied.

1900 1901

.165,732

Y4,673,808

157,010-

3,512,052

1502

.143,992

3,101,783

1003

109,903

3,730,923

100 1905

1000... 1807 1908

.137,939 ...130,476 121,330 .113,185

4,120,900 4,627,788

4,914,742

4,852,690

..119,991

3,128,349

1909

.109,953

5,123,131

1910

98,087

5,200.007

1911

02,973

1012

87,371

5,707,186 0,027,868

1013

82,008

..: 5,586,400

H.M.S. HAWKINS."

1014

76,005

1915

71,713

5,083,861 "5,880,723

200

500, 300

1910

€6,847

- 6,500,153

yds. yds. yds..

1017

62.317

1918

55,772

8,994,077 7,502,245

Mr. Charlesworth 38.

Horton 40 40 Trowbridge. 33 Bishop

41

.118

114

41

109

36

31

36

Chapman Dames Miller

... 33

3

.. 35

28

30

Total

H.M.S.

200 500 600

Total.

yda, yds. - yds.

Mr. Hewlett Seymour Walkey

41 30 41

30

190

30

109

CLUBS. R.G.A. Res. St. Joseph's United

4#

101

Halo

40

"

29

100

Oilers Kowloon

... 14 15

7:3 4 25 10 17

6 5 4 25 20 17

"

Jervis

35

28

South China...... 15

7 1 7 29 24 15

Stenner

81 Cortille

19

0 1 3 20 12 13

Silcox Semard

31

81

Indiana

15

5 0 10 18 35 10

4725

77

Staff & Depta.... 13

2 98.20 31

Total

777

Hongkong Club. 14 Punjabis

ILLS OF HEIGHT.

The sugar cane hereabouts is of two main kinds, the larger and greener kind being preferred by the Chinese for cut- ing, and the smaller, or "bamboo care which they use for pressing.

The sugar mill is not un'imposing place when viewed by those accustomed to look at Occidental factories, where every process. is carefully supervised with a view to cleanliness and to the well-being of the workers employed. The sugar-mill out here consists of a roomy Chinese shed with no windows but two large doors which allow sufficient light and air to enter. The space within is divided by a rough fence into two parts in each of which a process is carried on."

The first stage is the pressing of the sweet juice from the canes, and its machinery needs more room than that for the second, or evaporation, stage, The mechanism is simpio, consisting of two heavy cylindri cal millstones placed side by side on. their ends, having wooden cogs set into their upper edges so that when one i turned both must turn To the vertical. axle of one stone is attached a long bear fashioned into a yoke, at its outer end, and to this when working are harnessed buffaloes, one or two, according to the weight of the particular mill. Bound and round the great creatures go, re- volving the millstones, while the cane is fed into the chink between the stones. As each small bundle of canes is gripped by the mill, it is of necessity carried through, every single stalk being sub jected to great pressure by the powerful. machines and emerging at the other side as a fattened juiceless straw. The juice thus expressed falls to the ground at the base of the mill-stones, where is large stone gutter or most to receive it, from which it ruas down a channel underground, under the circular path worn in the earth floor by the constant tramp of the buffaloes, under the rough dividing fence, into a sump of most primitive construction in the other sec tion of the mill.

No care matoke May takar

and a single glance is enough to assure one that plenty gets in Indeed the carthen floor trodden so hard by the cattle and strowy watotation of the case straw is the only protection to the juice destined eventually for aid of these masks. human consumption; for the channel underground is not waterproof. writer had the opportunity of inspecting

(The

WHAT EVEREST CLIMBERS HAVE TO. FIGHT."

Anamis, lack of muscular power, mountain sickness,"

3," sleeplessness, and severe headaches are a fow of the symp toms which appear in climbers at heights above 10,000 feet.

What will the conquerors of Mount Everest feel like if they over reach the summit? They will be 20,000 feet abovo sea level and subject to all the ills men. tioned.

The cause of these hardships is the rarefied air to be found at great heights, oxygen, vital to man, being present in insufficient quantities.

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ALACRITY

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101

90

08

86

7 2 8 8 8 3 8 11 7 8 8 8 8

LEAGUE TABLE,

2nd Division.

1

The table of the gad Division up to and including February 26th is as follows:-

GOALS.

P. W. D. L. P. A. PTB..

15 12 2 1 83 13 20 11 33

7 19 8 15 28 2017

11 9 14

10

3 0 11 14 25

3 0 13 14 77,-

BILLIARDS.

The barometric pressure at the top of Mount Everest would be about 250mm., and the oxygen supply would therefore shot off between H.S.M. Hawkina and The following is the result of a match mirutor our unist showanes of oxygur difficulty?

How are the climbers to cope with this on February throating B'win for

---→ Stonecutters Bangement yesterday,, at the Painen Hotel,

In the Ho Kom Tong handicap toarca"

H.M8. Curlew. The scores

J. P. Wilson (200) beat G., Urquhart follow-

(-198) by 167 points, and A, J. Osmund (-300) beat W. Smith (-150) by 100 points (games 250).

oxygen maa

There is only one way they must wear

climb may be accomplished with the

it because an obstruction chanced to clear fluid over from the vat into an occur while he was present and the earthen bowl standing conveniently near earthen floor was just dug up to find and at hand. Here the liquid sugar is con. remove the stoppage. It was interest tantly stirred with a wooden polo util ing, incidentally, to see the workmen some change takes place, for which the using, to clear the hindrance, exactly workman is on the lookout, but which the same thing as a rifle's pull-through; the writer was unable to appreciate, and when the pull-through broke in half, then the bot bowlful is poured out into inside the channel, it became more in the jars, plates or whatever is required teresting still-from the onlooker's point to hold the final product. of view).

In a short The floor of this part of the shed was maases of raw sugar which form so pro time it sets into the familiar deep brown in a very bad state of dirt, but appear minent a festurs of the Chinese streets ances, suggested that it is cleaned out at this time of year. This end-product sometimes for manure purposes The is vory sweet, indeed sickly, and is very buffaloes have a good time as they get largely used in Chinese cookery, though some of the sugar cane while at work needless to say, any little people who "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he chance to be near the factory enjoy a treadeth out the coru."

piece to eat. A proportion of the un- THE EVAPORATING VATS.

refined sugar prepared by these means is The samp for juice in the second half taken to refineries and becomes the lumps, of the shed is placed conveniently by loaves, granules or candy of varying the side of the evaporating rats, which colour after due cleansing" and other are three in number. placed in the posi-treatment. tion of the dots of the sign for there fore") and are raised some two

Were As

H... HAWXINE."

900 500 600 Total yds. yds. yds.

40 43. 122

43 42 117

វឌ

To-day, J. Muckerjee (~50) meets J. Sawray (-900);

TE

Mr. Beauchamp. 39

Charlesworth32 Bishop 30 Miller

13 37 116

41 -31

38 34 113

377

40 108

..... 41

35

97 103

26

92

A

35 39

91"

4

,662

Horton Hudson Chapman... 31. Trowbridge 24

Tota!

H.M.S. CURLEW."""

200 500 600 Total. yds, yds, yds." Mr. Spencer 40-4337- 123

Dew 41 Carpenter Morgan

44 32 117 36 38 115 44 31 113

1

Morgan

"

49 Telford 35

35

32 100

36

Passmore... 37 Cox 33

39

33 103 2T 103 2733

Total

FOOTBALL.

WILTSHIRES A2 LEAGUE CHAMPIONS.

876

THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE

TATE. The vats" are of interesting.construc- feet from the floor, beneath them being tion, being each made of a very large a large furnace. This furnace is fired sized Chinese cooking cauldron aunk from outside the shed, and is made below the level of the general vat-plat- smoke-proof: whatever does get in, no form; with a sloping, 7 concreto) suT- Boot from the fire reaches the sugar. face all round, covered with rattan mat- Besting on the edge of the sump is a ting large barral filled from the sump by a really a large shallow basin whose centre Thus each of the three vats is workman as required, and having a slot is metal and whose sides are mat. The

WILTS, 2; POLICE, 0, at one side which automatically adapts slope is so arranged that when the liquid the quantity of its contents to the capa- boils up and froths, the overflow is kept poned Shield match on the Club granad, The Wilts met the Police in their post. city of the vat.

well within bounds and indeed after a

The vat being already heated, a bar specially vigorous ebullition the receding yesterday afternoon, and, as these teams relful of the cold juice is poured in fluid leaves behind it on the mat a froth were due to meet in the League next through a very large-meshed sieve which and such finely-divided extraneous

ifts out any sticks and straws that may material as that has carried up 16 is Saturday, they decided to play for the ba floating about. At this stage the juice an easy thing for a man to sweep up League points, as well as for the right

FIRE ON THE “KOREA MARU.'

CARGO OF HEMP AFFECTED. Yesterday morning it was discovered that. fire had broken out on the T.K.K. Korta Maru in cargo of Manila hemp loaded in No: 2 'tween deck of No. 8 hold. It looked much worse than, we are informed, was really the case, as hemp amokes so much, but it took several hours to ex tinguish the outbreak. Thanks to the- help rendered to the crew and the Fire- Brigade by sailors from H.M.S. Tamar, Carlisle, and another British maa-of-war,, the fire was got under control by the tiffin hour, but the water pumped into the hold caused the ship to list. The Govern ment Inspector will ascertain to-day what ; damage has been done by the fire. The Toyo Kisen Kaisha are of opinion, from the information they have received, that the ship will be able to sail on Monday, as

definitely until after the inspection which scheduled, but this will not be known

is being made to-day.

THE CANTON MINT.

PIECES.

is a dirty green colour and as it warms the froth and fine dirt with a broom and to meet the R.G.A. in the-semi-final of TO STOP COINING TWENTY-CENT up there forms on the surface a black shake it all off into the first vat, thus the Shield Competition. Pearson, R.E., scum which is skimmed off and strained gradually straining cut through fine cloth, the usable juice com- foreign matter during the concentration almost all ing through into the yat again, while procCES. the filth remains behind.. A few band-

an old interport player, and Toms and Brown of the Alacrity, turned out for The Province of Kwangtung produces fuls of quickline are thrown into the very large amount of sugar proud the Police, J. Clark still being on the boiling from time to time, with the ob- much of it is treated in the manner injured list. joet of clarifying the juice

Repeated skimmings cause a wonderful change in and down the country. The work is of

described at hundreds of small mills up Pearson started for the Police who were

On account of the heavy buying of silver bullion by the Mint daily during

the last few months, which has to be

paid in Hongkong currency thereby in- creasing the demand for Hongkong notes,

and consequently increasing the premium

the time it is really boiling most of the six of seven years experience before he relieved. Robertson forced a corner off is ott material and by a highly skilled order, a man requiring soon attacking, but off-side against Brown green colour has gone-and the fluid is

can be reckoned a good hand at it. The Gilea, Wilts clearing. "Amor forced a decidedly brown. When it has boiled a sugar cane preasing season commences

on them to the high rate of 20 per cont., it little while, it is ladied out into the about the tenth Chinese moon, and lasts, corner off MeWalters and the Police is reliably reported, says the Canton second vat and there kept boiling again, with a brief holiday for New Year, until cleared. Robertson beat Giles and Times, that the Mint will suspend the losing bulk all the time as the water the second moon; for the rest of the

ferred to the third yat of the series when work or find other employment

e even off. Subsequently it is trans-year the workers go home and do field Trivett was forced to kick out. The play coming of 20-cent silver pieces for the the contentration process je,

was very last, with the Police doing most time being until the premier of Hong completed. When put into this vat it is already about a thousand catties of sugar, cane down in the penalty area, and, taking the

One of these small mills deals with of the attacking. Robertsun was brought kong notes drops to normal. quite a viscid fluid and of a bright day, Pressing and evaporating go on

It is the intention of the authorities of brown colour Aftor it has boiled vigor at diffrent times, and so the shed is not kick himself, sent straight to Smith, the the Mint to stop coining silver coin, and ously in the third vat a workman begins really idle much during the twenty-four ball rebounding. Robertson followed up to issue a large quantity of five-cent to stir it round and continues for about hours. As always in China, good us

five minutes: this is at the stage when is made of by products, the tops of and sent the ball outside The Wilts nickel pieces for circulation in the market. the fluid has become quit trendly. At the canes with their sweet tips and leaves then took up the attack, and Toms headed It is expected that these new nickel the critical moment be ceases stirring and are given to they buffaloes to eat, while Brother man instantly scoops the thick the dried pressed cane straws are used out a dangerous shot from Evans, Hands pieces will make their appearance in the

(Continued at foot of next column.) for fuel to heat the vats.

against Lancaster sent the Police well in, market shortly.