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SIAMESE, FISH.

SLUMP IN SHIPMENTS TO CHINĂ.

The present season for fresh fish has *Mr. Gilbert Collins, is not, we bebeen a record in Bangkok, and fisher lieve, the first author, to write a book men no less than the dealers and distri about Peking, and it is a little too butors are agreed on this, says a local much to expect that he will be the lusk -

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But at least we may have hopes that paper. That this glut should occur in of the future chroniclers will senson when the export to Hongkong take a good many leaves out of Mr and China is wriously affected by the Collins book. The Forbidden City, the conditions prevailing there is one of the Lama Temple, the Thieves Market, we burdens the Chinese merchants of Bang- have heard strange storicaįabout them, kok are called upon to bear while their and read even stranger. The pity is countrymen are making up their minds that those who tell and write those as to their future relations with foreign same stories fail aggrieved if they are nations. : Hongkong and China last year not believed Probably they have told absorbed 61,640 piculs of salt fish (platæ them so often they are prepared to and other varieties). But this year the believe the stories themselves, but sure-export to these ports will probably ba ly that is no reason why anyone else smaller as there is very little going should,

Chinawards.

"BLONDIN.""

Now Mr. Collins is refreshingly. different He doesn't expect you to beleve all his stories, yet the majority of them could nearly be swallowed without undue straining Except, per- haps, the one about Blendin. Nothing to do with the famous tight-rope walker, Blondin provided excitement to an equal degree, and at much less risk to himself. Some of US have ridden Blondin's blood relations, hut no-one will dispute the fact that if Mr. Collins was thrown 17 times in the first week, the second, and nine times in a few minutes before getting past the Mess door, then Mr. Collins' Blondin was a little bit livelier than the worst of his relatives.

Or that Mr. Collins ought to confine his riding to rickshaws Take your choice.

But the point is that it Mr Collins does exaggerate, he does it very nicely, and very convincingly. There was 4 writer the other day who gave what he insisted on calling a truthful account of a hunt in which his riderless pony chased and caught a wild goose, bring ing the bird back in its mouth. After reading of Mr. Collins' Blondin, it

a very tame sort of affair, Blondin would undoubtedly have pluck ed and trussed the bird before daring to bring it back. And Mr. Collins wouldn't have said the story was true, but some of us might have believed it,

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June and July have been wonderful months on the past at Chumporn, Lang- suan, Taku, ete, and the steamers have had heavy cargoes of fish. So, much so that the Siam Steam Navigation Co., Ltd, have had to employ their lighters to provide additional cargo space for the dried fish going to Singapore.

The three months June to August have also been very heavy mouths for the Southern railway. The district served by the railway includes Kao Tao, Banta Hua Hin, etc. Out of a total of 1,00% phan Yai, Bantaphan Noi, Nong His, tous of fish carried on the railway ta Bangkok during June, 310 tons came from Khao Tao, 244 from Bantaphan Yui and 21 from Hua Hin. In July up in seat 1,069 tons, Kao Tao 667, Nong Hin 169 and Bantapban Yai 159, the total for the month constituting a record for the line, 2,247 tons. In August the season began to declino 1,995 tons only being carried of which 836 came from Hua Hin pad 332 from Khao Tao..

But the big catches caught the mer chants and dealers unprepared. Neither with material nor organization were they prepared to handle such quantities, and much of the fish was spoilt and prices owing to the glut went to very low levels. The railway benefitted by the freight paid both ways. Boxes and ice in larga quantities were sent down to the various stations daily and the fish were sent to Bangkok daily. But the supplies were unprecedentedly large, and the situation was too much for those engaged in the

ride.

declining month

Blondin, with his Race Course man ners, is as Chinese na Lao Tzu'rh, pos

While August was sibly the biggest liar who ever lived, for the places ramed the fish had moved or at Ay rate the biggest one Monwards towards the head waters of the Collins is able to find in Peking.

Perhaps there's not much fabref, and the Tachin and Meklong fisher- Far too many writers have prated of men who in July ondered what was the excellence of Chinese servants (be wrong with the Ashing season, were be fore the Shanghai strike) but they have ginning to feel the benefit of the arriv bemoaned rather than praised their ing shaols early in August. By the 'greatest ability,-avoidance of the truth. middle of the mooth the season here was Mr. Collins, on the other hand, takes in full swing and remains so at present, dish-washing capabilities for granted, According to those who handle the sup and tells us all about the lies. The plies there has not been i "senson a6 biggest liar Mr Collins ever had the Tachin like the present in the last twenty pleasure of meeting. Lao Tzu'rh, np- parently needed only another inch or years. The railway company bas been two round the cheat to win the world's running special trains day and night title. "He paused for breath," saya to bring the fish to Bangkok and it has Mr. Collins after referring to an un-

happened that fish has arrived and sold nepally good story told by the cook at a price that did not pay for the "It is the one thing that stands between special which brought it and the unfortu him and perfection. If he were little nate consignors hail not only to lose the deeper in the chest I think that. Lao fish, but pay in addition. The big Tzu'rh would be about the greatest liar establishment where. fish are cured. að that ever could live.”

Tachia have their vats full to the brim This was evidently written before and temporary vats have been made in Ananina put in an appearance, Ananias the ground and cemented in order that could lie for hours on end without more fish may be treated. Attracted by blinking an eyelid. Ananias was the low prices prevailing people have izard, and Saphira his wife was 4 come by boat from near and far, and in lizardess. Between them they were the most remote waterways folk are sponsible for the ultimate destruction

of four other pets in whom Mr. Collina Balting fish for consumption at some took a particular interest, and who future date. took a particular interest in Mr Collins. "The Four Muskeeters,” Mr. Collins called them (he probably enlled them other names too) and if they bit a hole in his net as big as a dinner piate then they deserved everything they got.

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It would be unthinkable, of course, to write any book dealing with Ching, Bailors had run up to their masthend a and especially a book with husneuvele string of socks and shirts and hand- leanings, and omit those twib delights, kerchiefs, and other articles of clothing. 4 face and squeeze Thedia-presumably native and perhaps femin- has duly trotted out the Sino twins, but ine. I was compelled to luckily he has succeeded in giving that the vessel had not shifted, her borth if not a new view, then a new way of looking at them, and once again the showman in Mr. Colling pulls the cur tain away from a little private, booth, and, reveals his own inimitable, treasures of servants, as magnificent in their "face" and impudent in their No, it doesn't require much guessing squeeze as they are brazen in their alter the chapter on squeeze" But living Once again you are not obliged the writer is inclined to think Mr. to believe everything, but then every-Collins struck a very unenterprising thing might have happened.

warship, Nanking lags behind Canton, where they do things very much better than that, Though Nanking deserves K' | lot of credit. It isn't every warship which serves its country in so useful a fashion, and there are not many Chinea citizens who send bandkerchiefs to the washed

Then there is a clever description of Peking and the city walls, not a Thomas Cook and 6on would have you see them but as some of us actually do soe them, and an excellent sketch of woman's £4,000,000 whim (the Summer Palace) with a dissertation about Chinese havy, There is not, as we know, anything jingoistic about the Chinese navy. It is what the late Ad miral Fisher would have called too dddemocratic, and it is not sup- prising to learn that when Mr. Collins saw a warship at Nanking there were not any strings of flags at the rast head Asual, it was washing day atard; washing day on a far teaching wenly, and already well advanced,” (Continued on next Column

There are in all eighteen sketches, ench informative and vivid, as well as amusing The author, as a matter of fact, reserves the right, within limits, to make jokes about the Far East" Presumably this does not mean he is claiming a monopoly, but merely pat ting the many Boots in the East on their guard. He will be a dense Scot who needs the warning,

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