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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16TH, 1923

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CHIHLI NARCOTICS "TRADE. NEARLY $750,000 RAISED BY FINES

In reply to repeated interpellations in the Chili Provincial Assembly concern. ing fines imposed upon persons found guilty of traffic in Chintan pills in the Chihli province, the office of the Civit Governor has informed the Assembly as follows:

This office is in a position to report that last year all the hsien ramèns as well as the bureaux were instructed by this offer to take defaite action with regard to the narcotic traffic in the pro- vince, and to impose rigid punishment on manufacturers and smugglers of chiato. With this object in view special measures were adopted and a Provisional Conjoint Cuurt was formed at Tamingfu. To this Court Chang Ya Ju, Department Chief of this office, was despatched to deal with Chintan cases, in association with General Sua Yueh, Defence Commissioner of Tamingfu All delegates representing various hṣices were also invited to parti sipate. As regards fines and confisca tions, the Provisional Conjoint Court received

..... $497,434

The Civil Governor's Yamén

received

The Court of Peiyong Camp ....... The Shihchinchwang Police Ad

ministration

Total

100,324

1,761

72,400

8602,138

Details of all the various fines with the names of 15 separate hsicas in which culprits were dealt with are then tabu- laced. If one may judge' by the amount of fines some hsiens seem to have carried on a very extensive trade or more vigi. lance was shown by the police for the total fines vary from $100 to $78,936. The latter sum was imposed in Tamong Haien.

The

fact that nearly three-quarters of million dollars was raised by fines for morphia pills selling in the Chibli pro vince in one year, and that 75 hsiens were indulging in this destructive habit is con armatory evidence of an extensive under. ground traffic.

REVIVAL OF TRADE. STATE CREDITS CONDEMNED.

Sir Felix Schuster, a. director of the National Provincial Bank, Ltd., giving evidence at the 6th meeting of the Com- mittee on Industry and Trade, said that Continental exchange fluctuations had dislocated our trade, not only with the Continent, but with countries where we were in competition with Continental centres of production. Greater stability on the Continent seemed to be impend ing, and this would help our overseas trade, but before the desired object could be attained in seemed to him essential that the important and argent questions of reparations, and inter Allied debts should be solved. Equally urgent was the return to the gold standard, which would contribute to the lowering of the cost of raw material and of articles of food, and would thus mean an immediate rise in real wages. It was the most

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Ho thought London's pre-Law of Carriage before the Secretaries' eminence as an international market had Association. The chair was ccupied by been due to its being a free market in. Mr. Albert C. Edwards, F.A.A. gold.

"In the course of his lecture Mr. Hay- As regards the supply and efficiency don said a "common carrier" was, broad- of capital for industry. Bir Felix did not ly speaking, an insurer of the safe deli- think that any difficulty should arise very of the goods at their destination He had to Heem experience had confrmed bis within a reasonable time. view that there was even now sufficient carry the gooda tendercil to him at a capital in the country ready for employ proper time for a reasonable price,

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provided he had room, for them, and ment, in industry,

& nature risk, but he thought it would be a mis that, if they were of such take to attempt to provide for the exto require packing, they were properly pansion of trade by the State providing packed. The abilities of the carrier so-called credit facilities. Our present were limited in certain respects by the commercial and financial organisation Carriers' Act of 1830, while in 1854 an appeared quite suficient to provide other Act, called the Railway and Canal credit for the movement of commodities Traffe Act, was passed which to a great whero such credit was justified.

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Banks $1,200 b.

$755. nom. Canton InsuraÞÖR Hongkong Fire Insurances..3715 nom. Union Insurance 1260 b, $232 18.

$58 b Douglas Steamship......... ELK, O. & M. Steamboats...3334 b., $38)

Forries

137+ b, ..$163 b. 8311

The 22 b. $211 b.

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Chins Sugar... i a Langkats (combined) Kowloon Wharres Whampoa Docks... Shanghai Docks

$151 be.. Tis 108 nam.

H.K. & S. Hotels (old) $18) (new) $17.35 nom. Hongkong Lands.......$100 b., $109. Fumphreys Extater

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(old) Ts. Bi Shanghai Cottons

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Orientals............ Gaments (combined) Chins Lights (combined).

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$534b.. $531 5. Watsons...fold) $22, nom., (new) 184 b. Posk Trams (oki) ...

$26. B. b-buyers; "s-sellers; na-sales.

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Scepticism regarding the future sup- lies of mineral oila was combatted" on Dec. And by Prof. A. W. Nach and Mr. H. G.. Shatwell, of the Oil Mining De- partment of Birmingham University, who, in a paper read to the Institution of Petroleum Technologists, pointed out that abundant reserves of free petro- leun still remained untouched.

PASSENGERS' LUGGAGE..

The rattway company wan liable as A. "'common carrier" in respect of passen- gers luggage, subject to the limitation of liability conferred by the Carriers Act. Railway companies were strictly controlled. They must provide reason- able facilities for traffic, including passen. gers, goods and animals. If they were not provided, the Railway Commissioners might make an order that they be Bupplied.

were

With regard to passengers, the liability of carriers, with reference to the carri- age of persons, rested upon different principles from those which governed liability ja respect to the carriago of goods. They were not. insurers as far but had concerned, A passengers to use all reasonable care for the passen gers safety, and the standard of care required was a bigh one. The circums tance that a through ticket had beca issued by one company to a place on the system of another, company made no. difference to the contracted liability of the company which issued the ticket.

DIVIDEND ANNOUNCEMENTS.

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Subject to audit, the balance at profit and loss account for the eight months ended December 31st, 1924, is $274,169.37 which, together with $37,252.71, brought forward from the previous year, makes a total of 311,415.08 available for appro- priation.

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