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NATURALIST'S
NOTE-BOOK IN
CHINA
Some Press Reviews
R.Sowerby's book will bring tơ every inquirer in compact form a better knowledge of the wonders
of nature which surround him, and which can be studied to some extent even in his garden or by the suburban roadside.
There is much to be learned yet of the zoology (and botany) of the Chinese territories. Mr. Sowerby sketches this aspect, referring to the number of new discoveries made only recently, and the need for further investigation in all districts-Hongkong Telegraph.
THIS book will prove a valuable addition to the library of any resident in the Far East, especially in North China Not only is it an extremely handsome volume containing many fine photographs of the flora and fauna of_this_great_land, but also it gives much information which the naturalist or sportsman in China cannot afford to be without.-Shanghai Sunday Times.
A Naturalist's Note-Book in China by Arthur do C. Sowerby, F.R.G.8., F.Z.S., published in Shanghai by the North-China, Daily News at $8 per copy Shanghai Currency, portags 30 Cents.
THE WORLD'S
TURNO
GAZE
POLITICALLY, ECONOMICALLY, ARTISTICALLY,
JTOWARDS 1
JAPAN
WEZES
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY
Oriental charms are jealously preserved intact amidst the most advanced Oriental Civilization
Minimum Rates for Single Rooms, Moals included, are as shown besides Hotel Names.
ORUZENJI (Mikko)—–—– KYOTO
LAKRIDS Horz (10) KAMARUBA
THE TYPHOON
CAME WITHIN ONE HUNDRED. MILES OF HONGKONG.
ご
THEN TURNED NORTHWARDS,
The typhoon, regarding which many warnings were published, was the soures of lively anticipation on Saturday morn. ing. It was believed to be moving in the direction of Hongkong Conse quently, every precaution, in the usual quarters, was taken."
The new rescue tug, Kou Sing, bad steam up and was ready for emergencies as she patrolled the harbour during the morning and afternoon.
19TH. 1825
COLONY'S RATEABLE VALUE. A REAL BULLFIGHT ON THE SCREEN
NEARLY DOUBLED IN TEN YEARS.
INCREASE OF 2.60 PER CENT, OVER LAST YEAR.
In view of the stories circulated regard ing trade depression in Hongkong it is interesting to note that within the past to 1996-97 the ten years from "1917-18 rateable value of the Colony has increased by $13,598,094 or 9430 per cent.
A new valuation of the whole Colony has been made for 1996-97. and the rate- able value has thereby bees increased from 887,297,889 to $97,993;237 an addi- tion of 8710,373 or 2.60 per cent.
The number of tenements reported to bo vacant averaged about 209 monthly as: compared with 185 last year.
The funnel-less H.M.S. Ambrose, undergoing her annual overhaul, was moved to the buoy for greater security.
The following comparative statement The Causeway Bay and Yaumati typhoon shelters were crowded with for the past ten years shows how the sampaus and trading junks and all such rateable value of the Colony has grown
Increase on Percent- smaller craft from an early hour, on Saturday and pesterday.
Rateable Falue
- previous age of:-
year,
Increase.
# S 14,410,153
127,967 0.89·
13,638,736
1,928,583
8.59
4.95
16,304,801 668,065
6.77 17,408,969 1,304,185 18,696,680 1,287,701 7.40 19,805,999 1022-23
1,109,269 5,91 6.33 21,058,700 1,959,771
2,147,951 1,088,931 516 27,987,862 5,130,911 93.20. 97,088,207 710,375 2.60
Feat. No. 4 typhoon signal was hoisted on
1017-18 Saturday morning, and at about 12:43
1019-10 p.m. there was much bustle and exoite 1919-20 ment "on the Praya when the wind rose 1920-21 to considerable force and the rain fell 1925-m heavily Signs were taken down and 1923-94 steres which face the harbour and the 1924-95 1995-20 sen, took the precaution to board their
1998-27 windows and secure everything possible. A fairly general belief prevailed that the typhoon was fast approaching, Hong- kong.
A little later, however, the wind fell and the rain ceased, except for occasional showers during afternoon and evening.
The No. 5 signal, on Saturday at 5.20 was. hoisted and the overhead awnings of the Star ferries were removed about that time-both indicative of less anxious times
p.m.,
FOREIGN TRADË.
HEAVY BRITISH · · LOSSES.
EFFECTS OF STRIKE.
Importa, May
£81,199,444
Decrease on April ̧
21,232,555
43,783,971
Decrease on April
6,984,899.
7,532,672
Decrease on April
3,731,413
Exports, May
Be-exports, May
METRO-GOLDWYN
· PRESENT
PEDRO DE CORDOBA
THE
IN
BANDOLERO
WITH
SPECIAL PROLOGUE BY MURA SHIPOFF.
TO-DAY
At.
ONLY
THE QUEEN'S.
GOOD OLD-FASHIONED MELODRAMA
THE STILL ALARM
UNIVERSAL JEWEL
„TO-DAY ONLY AT THE STAR
INVESTMENTS.
WE BUY
Ref.
Bett
WE SELL
Ref. B16 4/10 HK. Banks A13 50 Steamboats 135 100/400 C. Lights Gro G$100/300 Nugara BR34 A13100/500 Hotels BE4 1,000 Taman
BR 200 Feak Trams E16 500Malaka Padas A13 B12 100 Ferries
A13 200 Unions BB34
TIL 4630, 22,500 DEATHS A YEAR ON U.S. ROADS. ONE MOTOR CAR FOR EVERY SIX PEOPLE.
30 T
04
10, Des Voeux Host £130
HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE,
CLOSING QUOTATIONE.
do Wharves Yesterday morning typhoon signals
In the figures set out above the disas
15 Unions were down and it was ascertained that trous effects of the General Strike are 50 Providents the dreaded "big wind," although com- abundantly apparent. Unhappily the loss 500 Telephones BR3 Rumtlands BRSS 200 Amusements WI 200 Dairy Farms BE34 ing within one hundred miles of Hong in all departments, serious enough in it- Banque Indo-Chine gold-bonds BR40 500 Jimas kong, had changed its course and diver, sell, does not stand alone. When the HONGKONG SMALL INVESTORS SHARE & REAL ESTATE CO.
upheaval occurred Britain's overseas ged towards Swatow...
trade had already heavily declined in Yesterday was dull, overcast, with comparison with last year, and the cumu frequent showers, but though there was-lative result has been to depress it to the lowest level recorded since the coal strike plenty of rain, some squalls, a little of 1921. Compared with May, 1920, im thunder and a few dashes of lightning, ports show a fall of 5,967,000, and they there was, happily, little indication of areas much as £10,837,000 lower than in the corresponding month of 1924. In ex- typhoon.
ports the decline on last year's May figures is £18,440,000, and on those of 1924 it is 24,497,000. As was to be ex pected, imports especially suffered from the stoppage of transport, and "our entrepot trade was heavily hit. Although
In the report issued last night from the Observatory it was stated that the "typhoon moving glowly north "severe, but moderating."
KARI HOTEL (Y12.) KABUIZAWA
MANIST HOTEL (Y10) MIKASA HOTEL (710)
*** KOBE
(Hakone) Y12) FUTIYA HOTEL (112)
June 1st-til September 15th,
IN JAPAN
SEIWONOSEKI MUNAGASAKI --
Santo Hat (710.) Krono Hom (12)JAPAN HOTEL (YB.) MITAKO HOTEL (Y10.) NAGOYA – TOKYO MATSUSHIMA NAGOYA HOT31(Y1Z) INTERAL HOTEL
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ONT ROTEL (TB) MIYAJIMA
NARK HOTEL (19.).
TOTO STATION MIYANDIA HOTT12) NIKKO -
KAMATA BOTTL(X11) Born (19.50) MITANOSHITA.
NIKO Horst (burnt) TRUALI SKITOKK
"Work bag OSAKAST
·ORAKA Horaz (Y14
Тов Нотк
CONVERSION
OF MRS.
PANKHURST,
NOW AN IMPERIALIST.”
OUT FOR PARLIAMENTARY
HONOURS.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the former leader of the militant Suffragist move ment, and one of the founders of the Women's Social and Political Union, has decided to offer herself as a Parlin mentary candidate in the Conservative interest at the first-favourable_op portunity
In conversation with a Morning Port representative she said she had come to this decision partly as a result of the strong persuasion of several influential friends, and partly owing to her own strong conviction of the absolate neces- sity for more women constitutionalist members in the House.
-
"...
Twenty-two thousand five hundred persons were killed in the United States by motor-cars in 1925, an increase of 2,200 compared with 1924.-
The National Bureau of Casualty and
in exports the decline was relatively Sarity Underwriters, who announce these smaller, it has to be noted that it follows figures, state that the number of motor in 1923 totalled cara in America a fall in April of £13,550,000, making a total loss on the two months of 10,954,347, compared with 17,391,981 in 1924, and that the motor-car death-rate £18.635,000.-
How heavily industrial dislocation, in in America for the years 1923, 1924, and conjunction with other adverse factors, 1905 was 14.8, 15.7, and 17.3 respectively Underwriters state that an encouraging has weighted the scales against our indus per 100,000 inhabitants. tries will be seen from the appended table, giving the principal figures for the sign is that deaths of children under first are months of the last three years. It the age of fifteen have increased in 1925 shows that this year's imports are lower by only 3 per cent compared with 1024, than in 1925 by £61,628,000, and are but deaths of adults increased by 15 per £4,797,000 less than in 1994, while in ex-
This is said to indicate that the educa ports the loss or last year is 245,666,000 tion of children on ways of avoiding ac- and on 1824 £38,333,000. Compared with cidents is successful, and implies that 1925, shipments of British manufactured
American inhibitants eventually may goods in the months January May were learn how to avoid motor vehicles. lower by no less than £31,760,000, and were less than the corresponding period of 1924 by £18,817,000, 1st five
cent
of
113,000,000, owns one motor car for every
America, with its population six inhabitants. Great Britain has a population of nearly 44,000,000 and owns 800.000 motor-cars--one for every fifty people.
LORNA DOONE FARM FOR SALE.
OHANGES IN A LAND, OF ROMANCE.
Rongkong Bank
Do, London Chartered Bank
JULY 17TH, 1920. 1íðu-buy,-1,195 %
£131 som
Mercantile Bank, A, de B230 nom
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East Asia Bank ...
Canton Insurance. Charter
$630 buy, 640 sel.
180.no
North China Inagrance. Tila. 148 non Insurance 91 m.
gtaze insurance $3.1 bay. China Fire Insurance
$200 bay.
$25.buy.
Douglases
kong, Fire insurance.. $593 bay. 695/600 s. FR, U. & M. Bizamboats. 328 buy. Hongkong Tugs. Indo-Chinas (ref.)
. Do.
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Shell Transports Star Ferne Waterbosta,
China Sugar 2n Malabon Hugars Bengusts.... Kailan Mizing Ad... Langkatea (combined) 10. (single) Shanghai Exploratio bhanghai LORDE Brab Trazioh Mines
Uml Caspiana
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HK&B. Hotals Hongkong Lands Hongkong Realtye me Hak Territoriala pr B.K. Developments Humphreys Estates.. Prince's Buildings.
·Hamil Landaí Two Cottons Orientals
Shanghai Docks,
months. Imports. Exports. Re-exports: 1926. £525,036,262 £288,107,206 £53,845,848- 1023. 566,555,050 333,765,080 88,845,888- 1994 509,763,348-329,440,564 04,104,018- The holding-up of cargoes obviously. ac- counts for much of the decrease in im- ports. The value of foodstuffs brought in was £5,801,815 lower than in April, all items sharing in the desline; raw mate
Lorna Doone's Farm at Malmesmead, rials fell away by as much as £8,327,947, and foreign manufactured goods by immortalised by R. D. Blackmore in his 7,913,274 Normally the quantity of coal romance of Exmoor, is to be offered for imported is negligible, and last month sale owing to the partition of the Osre "I have not yet actually been invited only 3,618 tons were landed. The only estate. to stand for any constituency, but if and other item showing an increase was Gaze Manor, of which." girt Jan Bhanghai Coltons (old) when such an invitation is received paper making materials. The principal Ridd" was overseer, has already been
figures for the two months compare as sold to Colonel E. E. Neglis
The desolate Doone Valley, stronghold! follows
MBY April
of the outlaw Doones, is also to be sold; with Badgworthy waterslide. Food, drink, "and"
Followers of the Devon and Somerset tobacco £42,176,706 £36,374,881 Raw materials 33,930,521 24,603,374 Staghounds are raising a fund for the Manufactures 2,083,943-19,870,669 purchase-of-part of the land.
shall, of course, accept it," she said. I am particularly keen to fight. & London division in which there is a large num- ber of women voters."
Asked why, in view of her previous
As in the ease of imports, all classes of exports were lower or the month Food association with more advanced political causes, she had decided to stand as a
and drink declined by the relatively sub- Conservative, Mrs. Pankhurat explained stantial amount of £898,443, and raw that she no longer believed, as she once materials decreased by £2,061,471 The did, that the State could do everything quantity of coal shipped abroad was "Certainly in my younger days I be 1,448,380 tons against 4,200, 662-, fons in lieved ip State Socialism of the kind ad-April, and every other item in the raw vocated by Mr. Sidney Webb," the said material class failed to reach the previous
But I can no longer support. the view month's figures.
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$134 nom
$12 nom. $6.05 bus."
EXCHANGE RATES. (BRITISH WIELLESS SERVICE)
Rrary, July 16th
Paris
2051
Brussels Amsterdam Berlin Copenhagen Vienna Helsingfors Lisbon -Buenoa Alye:
Shanghai
(209)
12.10
20,420
18.35
MENT
34.41
HK. Ropes (combined)
193)
2:17/32
Lane Omwford
2/11
Hinceres
Upired Abert
that State ownership of the means of British manufactured goods suffered & distribution, production, and exchange further loss of £2,400,528. The decline would be of any benefit to the com- was, however, by no means general, and munity. My war experience and my cz-it is probable that, but for the strike, perience on the other side of the Atlantic part of the ground lost in April would particularly in Canada, where I have have been regained. Groups which slight I spent recently considerable time, have ly improved their position were earthen- “thần tới Ngie spolously be VANA preferrous metal matesoker came the general strike, and I enw that cotton goods, sil manufacturersling SIN MANOHURIA
there were only two issues before the juta etc chemicals, and oils and fats. CHANGCHUN HOTEN (Makden) country, and that anyone who had the The beaviest falls occurred in iron and YAMATO ELITEL (XS) YAMATO HOTEL real interests of women at heart would steel, woollen goods, machinery, clothing, (79.50) stand firmly behind Mr. Baldwin and the paper, leather goods, and vehicles. Below DAIREN
YAMATO HOTEL(19,66) BYOJUN (Pork Government. I am now an Imperialist are the totals of the various classes of BOSNIGAURA:-:-
Artier)
exports for the two months:
INTAIWANI DEMUST TATHOKUTAIWAN BAWAT HOTEL (10.)
UHC SEN
SHINGISHU ***
SHINGISHT STATION
OHDEN HOTEL (T9.).
·FUSAN :-
FESAN STATION
HOTEL (78)
BOTIL (78)
For information, please apply to Secretary,"
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THE JAPAN HOTEL ASSOCIATION,
Use Tarmo BUSALU DEFATKE
In 1908, in her woman suffragist days, Mil Fankhurst was arrested outside the Caxton Hall after attempting to lead a Food, drink, and
tobacco procession to the Houses of Parliament, and was subsequently sent to prison for Raw materials
·kozna. weeks:
Hanufactures
April
May
£3,903,092 £3,004,649 6,023,140 3,161,665 41,483,354 39,073,826
Gency
Milan Stockholm
·Oslo Prague Madrid
18.15
1647
Big
Bombay
Hongkong
1/8.81/04 2/22
Silver (spot)
Silver (forward)"
China Providents Constructiona
2
Dairy Farms................$10% buy.
Der A Wingagen Trains, BOLL
Hongkong Mestrian
Macro ElectrLGE
Do (old)
$69 buy,, 69 an
35 nom: #25 gel.
10 søl
sel
..89 hom
Wm. Powells
22.15/18.
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