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karg al zo cents per worri—a "Äghting rate pure and simple and the Companies adopted the same over their cabler

The commuolites of Chias and Ho-gkang have therefore since 1892 been reaping the benefit of law competiitos rates, and the Com- pantes, by the pressure of thle competition, have been prevented from doing in this region what they have done in all other quarters, namely, to revise the silver tariffs, as exchanga continued to fall, so as to make them fairly equivalent to the gold rate.

It is needless to say that co effort has been spared on the Companies' part to extilcate themselves from this position, and by sa #greement recently signed, and which has been carefully considered by Her Majesty's Govern ment and finally improved, it has resulted that the principle is adopted that the official gold rate shall be collected in currency at a fair and equivalent rate of exchange,

This would seem to hea simple and logical principle and practice. For years past while it has cost 7/ to send a word from London to Hongkong. It has only cost 4/- to send one in the reverse direction. Latterly, advantage has been taken of this discrepancy by some firma who propald repiles to their messages from Chin (Sa per word), thus obtaining the advantage of the law rate both ways.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1896.

It must not be forgnited that the public, both to the United Kingdom and in her colonies, have been crying out for incressed telegraphic facilities for some years pas, and that schemes have been proposed for, the laying of cables eliber from Chanda or the United States to Japan which ixiter country may be induced to lend important pecuniary asiance to such a project. It is needless for me to palat out that the reccal action of your Companies, consequent apan the ratification of the Telegraph Conven- tion at Paking, is eminently calculated to allenate public auapart and to lovite opposition.

I am dear sir,

Yours faithfully,

R. CHATTERTON WILCOX, Secretary.

To J. M. Back, Esq.,

Acting Manager in China,

E. E. A. & C. Telegraph Company, Ld. Great Northern Telegraph Company.

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illerical rate that leappearing lathe Hamburger Nachrichten, the fact is more likely to be due to kis inclination to harass the present German Government than to a desire to do injury to this country. Foreign jumalists always seems to have a difficulty in understanding that British policy is stalghtforward ; that it usually says what it means; that to has few or no hidden molives; and that it resks simply to maintain for Great Britain her hontor, her dignity, and ber possessions. Communication with crooked diplomacy hat had an injuries effect upon the foreign Journalistię mind.—ScotĮman.

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF

BRITISH INDUSTRIAL SUPREMACY.

(Continued from yesterday.)

· THE SICRST OF OUR DEFEATS.

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anpeilor, and la mast the equil of the English. Her caplailats have bean content with a simple style, which has enabled them to dispense with big immediate profits, and to feed their capital, They have tolled at their desks, and made their sons do likewise; they have kept strict controlling hand on all the slags of their bualnesses; they have obtained Stato aid in several ways—as special rates parts; they have losingsted themselves into to shipping every pait of the world-clvillaed, barbarian, savage-learning the languages and patiently studying the wants and tastes of the several peoples.

GERMAN SCHOLARS AND ENGLISH ECHOOLMASTERS.

It is lawful to learn from an enemy, and, as imatter of facit is usually from our enemies we learn the most. Germans recognized that long ago, and they set themselves with characteristic had to teach them. Fifteen years ago, when the energy to all at our feet and learn all that wo English Iron and Steel Institute visited Berlin, .rmany had gone to school with the English Dr. Heiman Wedding told ble guests frankly that 1100 masters; they had, however, Improved upon their masters. Dr. Wedding's words are, worth quoting:

Nor was it only in the fron trade that the the English. Mr. Williams says: Germans were not above taking lessons from

How is it that, after maintaining our position of Industrial supremacy against all comers for a century, the Brush champion should now be threatened with defeat? Mr. Williams gives many explanations, only some of which need concern us; others no doubt have their influence, bat, broadly speaking, we are losing the race for exactly the same reason that other champions fore other races. We have grown fat and laxy,

We may not relate to acknowledge—it were It is the old story of the hate and the tortoise ideed ungrateful to pass over in silence befors once more. The British Hare, feeling secure,

aur English guests the fact that by far the has carcered gally ahead of all competitors, and greater number of Important inventions and then, finding that it had the contic to itself, it ements in the manufacture of iron have lay down and snoozed. Meanwhile, the German proceeded from Great Britain; but you, our Tortoise, finding that his own unaided natural English visitors, will also acknowledge, as soon powers were inadequate to give him TCA

as you shall have learned to know our fran show in the international contest, mounted Lim-industry, that, on the other hand, the Germans self upon the meter cycle of Applied science, received from you to their local circumstances bave known how to adapt that which they have before long, was able ta get up

speed to render the race a foregone conclusion-anless the peculiar to themselves.

the issue of

with advantage, and to develop it in a way

hare wakes applles himself with a will to make up lor lost ор goes into training, and

the line for exactly the same reasons that they works in Barasia told the Commissioners that: time. The Germans are beating us all along

An English manager of one of the largest beat the French in 1870. They have taken more paths to know their facts; they haveGermany, thirty years ago, as compared with studied the task before them in a serious prac England, was simply nowhere, but, placing tical spirit, and they have gone to to win. For English and German workshops side by side marshals: we have plamed ourselves upon our our part we have acted just like Napoleon's we should find the twogress made in the latter had been simply marvellous. During all invincible prowess and our rasgaificent prestige.

these year the Germans have been following short-to use the expressive Yankee phrase the best men from the best shops, copying their We have taken things easy, and have been, in machinery and tools, engaging, when they could, the English step by step, Imporjlog their

"Tcod-comfortable all round."

metheds of work and the organisation of their come, to England in large numbers for the very industries." They bave come, and they still purpose; and, whenever they have deemed it expedient, they have engaged English managers and artisans to go to Germany, and work in the faciales there. But it is significant that the German Inventive genius, which in the past was meat backward, is now developing at a rate which bids fair soon to place the German beyond the need of English models,

THE VENEZUELA BOUNDARY.

SUMMARY OF MR. STORROW'S STATEMENTS. An advance copy has been issued of the first part of the brief submitted by Venezuela to the Commission appolnied by the United States Government to investigate and report upon the In bringing the paw Agreement into force the British Gulana. This part contains the intro true divisional iter between Venezuela and full equivalent of the gold rate has not been doction and summary, and two other parts will collected, but the tariff homewards is 61-galost follow containing a statement of the whole case, Zona Hongkonz and China as the liver is with quotations from the pools and authorities, from Hongkong and China is less than the more detailed examination of certain specific silver tarif from Slaapore, so that the China topics, and coples in fall of the more important Comites are sit on an advantageous documents. At the outset the document recite position compared with Colonies neater home.

As other Telegraph Administations keer and Lord Salisbury's despatch of January 10th, 188c,

which stated that to admit the claim of Venesuela and liquidate their Accounts to gold, the Companies to a boundary at the Essequibe River would insufficient bave of course had to make all their out pay-valve the surrender of a province now inhabited ments in gold, which has left them very smail by 40,000 British subjects, and which has been revenue on the homeward traffic and in some in the uninterrupted possession of Holland and cases there has been an actual loss. It is quite of Great Britain successively for two centarles." true that the present rate of exchange be- It declares that Venezuela offered to relieve the tween silver and gold is slightly better than the British Ministry of this embarrassment, when in lowest point touched during recent years, bat asking for arbitration in 1890, it proposed to the Companies' par ol exchange at the $a rate recogatse in Great Britain a right to li settle tir equal to 3/6d, It Is no figure of speech to

meats on both banks of the Esseqalbo, quele the "continued depreciation of allver"; and if the value of the Dallar had gone back to settlements of the Datch and of the English in The argument is directed to prove that the anything like it is not likely that any change Golana in the seventeenth century were confined

I tariff would have been made.

the ocean and of the river estuaries; they never to the rich sllavial swamps on the tide water of had nor attempted to have any settlement in the basin of the Cuyuni and Maxerunt above their lower cataracts, nor on the Essequibo above Its

GERMAN CHEAP LABOUR. lowest cataracts, nor in the coast region west of shoulders and maintain that nothing can be done Of course, the pessimist will shrig bis the Pomeroon. The British claim has, con unless our working population la prepared to testedly, no basis except occupation, Britti allegation is that at or before 1700 the

The accept a standard of living which would enable our manufactors to compete on equal terms baslo and a."post" at Harima Point. But Dutch had a temporary "post" in the Cuyaal with the Germans. "We are led by Ger- man cheap labour." That is what we are told on documents dating from that time show that, every side. Long hours and low wages enable trade these were at most mere stops for filendly our German competitors to cat the throat of the Spanlards. Such "posts" are not an anser-

the older settlements of the English, and there is no hope for an improve tión on hostile dominion; they are a recogni. ours for short hours and long wages, Indulging ment as long as the English worklog man clam. tion that the Spaniards were already established every now and thes in a ruinoes strike which there. It alleged that between 1755 and has the immediate effect of transferring ordern 1770, the Dutch had for a short time second "post"in the Cuyuni baals, and a second at Barima Point. It turns out from the contem Dutch archfres, that these were temporary hats, poraneous documents from the Spanish and chiefly, if not entirely, for slave raids on the Spanish Indians; that the Spaniards sent expeditions against each as soon as discovered and destroyed both, asserting 18eir right to do this on the ground of territorial sovereignty. The Datch States-General never afterwards renewed their attempts, and indeed abandoned their claims.

The Companies, while doing all in their power to safeguard themselves against lors by A depreciated currency, have not shown them- selves unmindful of the claims of the Pabllc for general reduction, and from rat July next, together with the general service regalaitons and tariffs of the Buda Perth Conference, there will come into force a reduced rate of Francs 7 in place at the existing Fianca 8.50..

With regard to Local tariffs, considerable scheme is being elaborated which will show important reductions to India and other counties. For local riffs an anfform method of calculating has been adoped, namely, to-charge 15 Cen times per word per too knots of cable, and this has resulted in a considerable reduction in those cases where it has been applied.

This system applled to the Hengkong-Shang- hal cable of 1,000 knoir, would work out to France 1.50 per word or $0.55 per ward at the present exchange; but the rate is fixed at qa Cents and again the China communities are placed upon better footing than way of setr neighbour.

Some exception has been taken to the short notice given of the recent alterations. This was unavoidable as the Agreement coolatred a clause that the provisions should come into force on the rat day of the month following its ratification. The Agreement was tatified on the goth July and notice could not be given before the gist."

The Eastern Extension | The Great Northern Australian, & China' Telegraph Company

Telegraph Com- pany, Ld.

Copenhagen. Hongkong Station, 19th August, 1896. R. Chaiterton Wi cox, Esq., Secretary, Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce.

Dear She reference to the proposed reduction of telegrarb rates to India and other countries mentioned in the statement sent you with my letter of the 17th instant, Information has now been received that the rate from Hong kong to India w probably be reduced from $1.80 10 3 20 per word, and that this reduction, together with various others, will shortly be formally spoounced;

I would at the same time draw your attention to the reducitor in local rates which came into force on the rat altimo, amely

To

Reduced from To Straits Settlements --

...$1.80

Perang......

Malacca......

Singapore on

Datch Indies-4

Java

Other Islands

$1.20

*** 1.65

*** 1.40

..1.05 1.00

1.80

... 2.05

I am, Dear Sir,

Your faithfully,

2.35 .1.60

J. M. BICK,

Actlog Manager, Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th August, 1896. Sir, I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th fast,, with its enclosure, and to inform yeu la reply that the Government bas addressed a letter to the Telegraph Company requesting that the recent sudden increase in the tariff of charges may be reconsidered.

I have the honour to-be, Sir,

Your most obedient servasi,

JH. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary.

The Secretary,

Chamber of Commerce.

THE CHAMBER'S REPLY.

It

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upon these acts of attempted occupation (if they could be digaliied by that word) that the English base their claim to the gold regions of the southern part of the Cuyani basla, and of the Barama and Barlma rivers, and the still more monstrous claim to hold the mouth of the The actual settlements of the Orinoco, Spaniards and the Datch were separated by to miles of forest in which no whlie min lived. Between them was a natural barrier,

or line of demarcation, which is a long series of years the Dutch and English settle. ments had never attempted to overpass} and which under a well-known rule of law formed at the time the International boundary. This line also defines the tract from and no part of which either Datch of English which the Spaniards expelled the Dalch posts,

ever again attempted to rest in until the Invasion by an armed English force, after the discovery of gold, about a dozen years ago. The British claim, therefore, is limited to their settled districts, and cannot reach the ultra-settlement | region.--Public Opinion,

Hongkong, 31st August, 1895, Dear Sir-thave to acknowledge, with thanks,|| receipt of your letter of the 17th_instant with memorandum regarding cable charges from China, and also your faveur of the 19th fastsat announcing probable early reductions to the rates from Hongkong to India and other Countries;

My Committee have read the memorandum on cable charges with great interest, but they sze unable to follow the line of argument adopted by your Companies. On the contrary, it seems to them that the reasons advanced for raising the tariff here constitute excellent arguments in favour of a reduction of the rains at the other and.

The argument that Hongkong in batter treated than Singapore can scarcely be accepted as proof of the fairness of the Telegraph Companies, but may rather be regarded as an indica tion of their disposition to impose the heaviest burden where there seemed least power of resistance.

My Committed are glad to learn that it is proposed to reduce the rate from Hongkong to India from $1.80 to $1.20 per word, and that this reduction together with various others will shortly be formally sanounced. They cannot, however, accept this concession sa compensation for the heavy advance in the rates to Europe and America, which action they regard as wholly opposed to modern ideas on the questionof speady communication, the tendency all over the world being in the direction of providing it,

both postally and telegraphically, at cheaper

entes, with a view alike to foster trade and to promote progist,

wholesale to our German rivals.

very much less this most people think The Now there is no doubt something in this, but

brought to the attention of the public last your most staggering piece of economic intelligence

was the report of the delegates of the British Iron Trade Association as to the condition of the fron workers in Germany. These delegates made a pretty exhaustive examination of number of German fron works, and on their return made a report as to what they thought of Germin methods. Mr. Williamsaxys :—

It was found by the delegates of the British Iron Trade Association that for loading-platen German mechanics are paid at the rate of a franc per ton, whereas the Middlesborough man gets only 531. to ya. An Englishman employed at certain Iron works at Germany, who had once been at Darlington"and - Middlesborough, and was therefore fitted to compare, discoursed to the delegates thus "Undoubtedly our mea are beiter off than the men to England. We pay, generally speaking, higher wigen. You have some few men who get higher wages than any men in our works; but over the whole of the men we get higher wages than you pay. That is an absolute fact."

Mr. Williams further adds that the evidence of these delegates is. fortified by the observa- trade who have travelled on the Continent tions of such Englishmen interested in tha

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note-aking spirit. The statistica of wages in Germany may be cited in confirma tion. These show not only that the German's working facome averages very fairly with the Englab, but that the German's wages are on a pretty steady upward grade. Nor is this con ficed to the fron and steci trides

On the whole, wages in textile Germany sverige pretly equally with wages in textile England. Here and there, however, they are actually higher; and I have been told of German factory girls who clear their fourteen marks a week for just such work as in Belfast is done for 6s, to g1. The German hours are but little longer than the English, and are in process of reduction.

The most effective reply, however, to those who maintain that it is all a question of cheaper labour is contained in the following paragraph:-

Belgian wages in the mining and fron trades rale lower than German. Yet Belgium com- plains more of German campettiton than does Germany of Belgian. The wages of New York printera are higher than these of London printers, yet they turn out cheaper work.

CHEAP RAILWAY HATES.

ENGLISH ANXIETIES 1.

EDINBURGH, July 23rd. There is a newspaser published in Hamburg which is supposed to be under the influence of Prince Blumarck. It is entitled the Hamburger Nachrichten. It has just been favouring its renders with its views on International affairs, and, especially on what it calls * English || anrleties.". According to this authority Great Britala is most anxious in regard to her relations with Rexia and France. They are opposed to her; there must be a conflict between her and these two Powers, because France is striving for the Soudan and Russia is striving for India, and Egypt is a great strategic poalifon in regard to both the Soudan and India. For these reasons and for others as good or as bad, the Hamburg sewspaper sces that Great Britain is cultivating an Italian alliance. It makes positive assertions Broadly speaking, Mr. Williams thinks Ger- as to undertakings entered inis by this country,man railway rates are about half those which and it warow the other Powers in the Triple the English manufacturer has to pay. This he Alliance-Germany and Ausula-to be on their thinks is due to the fact that rallways are gener guard against Britale's dealings with Italy. In ally and largely owned by the State, wheress all addition, there are put forth arguments to show our lines are ran for the purpose of making a that it would not be difficult to lovade Great big a dividend a peasible. Stata abadies an Britate The attempt to invade England is steamship companies, and a general facilitation 418 Endeed a risk, due no longer an impossible of means of transport, so that any one can book Enterprise." The tone of the article is thoroughly goods to any part of the world from any place in hostile to this country. The argoments, Indeed, Germany at through rates, tend no doubt to might be written down as rubbleb were it not make the way smooth for the German compatie that they are supposed to have their origin at tor. As the Germans preceded us in the adoy Fredericharubs it possible to concalve that tion of the parcels post, so by their combined Prince Bismarck is so ovenamed agalust this rates and through cheaper rates geods sie car country as the arifele in the Hamburg paper ried in many cases more cheaply from German would seem to fadicate ? In this career he has porta even into Eagilah possessions than they bean galded by what, in one sense, might are from Liverpool and London, called selfish considerations. Ha has not thought of the welfare of other nations, but ke has thought solely of the welfare of Germany, It need not be doubted that at any stima in his career he would have consented to the sacrifice of any other nation, if by doing so he could have enhanced the power and authority of the German nation. Unquestionably there is not a thing in his career to indicate that he is a fool. He has not dreamed over political affairs, He has looked at the practical side of everything. It would be an insult to his intelligence to sup. pose that he thinks Germany would be any better for the lessening of the influence of Great Up to a couple of decades ago Germany was Britain in the world. One thing is certain; Or an agricultoral State. Her manufactures was iste there have been in the German newspapers few and unimportant her industrial capital many attacks upon this country. Those attacks was small; her expert trade was too insigni- have been as ill-mannered as they bavo bean ficant to mesit the attention of the official in their very nature absurd. It does not, how statistician; the imported largely for her own ever, follow fast the German people endorse the consumption, Now she has changed all that. slacks. On the contrary, there is every reason Her youth has crowded into English houses, has

SECRETS OF ORRMAN FUCCESS. Dimissing this subsidiary and more or less extraneous aid to German success, Mr. Williams comes to the root and core of the whole matter when be says that though the Germans are beating us, they deserve to beat us. They take more trouble than we do, they turn out better work, and they are much more alert in every department to avold waste, to please a customer, and to extend their business in other words, the Germans are better up to their work than we are, and nothing will do any good naill that fact te plainly recognised :---

MORE SCIENCE AND LISS RULE OF THUME. This is, no doubt, the greatest of all the secrets the professors who are so abundantly employed of German success. Our practical men sneer at

Jy their German civils. So it was the custom professors of the German army, until more than In the French barracks to sneer at the spectacled

score of victories attested the fact that the spectacled ones knew their business better than those who steered at them. In time, no doubt, same ter lesson in his own field. Mr. the English manufacturer will be taught the

Williams says:-

The English manufacturer's lavishness is apt to centre itself in, not his fact, but his personal wants; the rule within that factory being a morbidly jealous eye on expenses. In Germany it is all the other way. There 1 one factory at Elberfeld, where not less than sixty trained chemists form a part of the permanent establish. ment. These gentlemen have well-furnished laboratories at their disposal, and they receive a regular salary for what the English would call "Ressarch"). They have no routine tasks in "doing nothing" (but the German calin it

copnection with the ordinary business of the firm; their work is simply to polysa and experiment day after day, and year after year, until one of them develops a new process, or a great use for something bitherto known as "warte," when the fortune of his employers (in which he sharĖS) is made. The Elberfeld factory is no solitary Instance: in Germany the Elberfeld system is the inle. The Badliche Astlin and Sodafabrik at Matobelm, for example, employs an even greater number-(seventy-eight, "uo_less 1)—a! chemists. "Reckless extravagance would be the English manufacturer's comment: but the last dividend pald by this company was a per cent. There is an extravagance which pays! That is how the Germans have conquered the world in the application of chemistry to practical needs; that is how they continue to extend dom lion. To pay comfortable salaries to a big expert staff, in order that every seventh man ca It may simply pursue his scientific bent, would be regarded by the Brilish mangfacturer (who rarely employs more than six chemists: who never employs any chemist at all in Pure Re- search) as a wanton and stupid waste of money -money which would rent a deer-forest, or keep a country house!

GREATER ARTISTIC FINISH, Mr. Williams says, in porcelain and in cheaper wares, German artistry is often better than the English, both in symmetry and in design. In toys the taste, the realism, and the workman ship of the German gire English-made articles the look of cheap and clumsy copies. In the priating trade, says Mr. Williams, quoting again from his English master-printer -

GREATER CARE IN PACKING. One great reason why British goods are handicapped in the Colonial market is that sa Hule palos is taken to pack them. The Ger- mans pack their goods much more carefully ; { they arrive in much better candillon, there are fewer breakages en routs, and when they are turned out they look well, while English goods often look their worst when they are fresh from the packing-case.

COND 'SCENDING TO THE FOREIGNIR. The Englishman lu his business relations in He does not take the trouble insular, and he has all the faults of his qualites learn the lan guage of the people with whom, he does business. His commercial travellers have to trust to interpreters. Goods are always supplied according to English weights and measures, and even trade circalars, as the Belilah Consul at Moscow pathetically complains, are sent 'round to Russian merchants in the English language, And here let me. in pasalog, recogelse the good service which Lord Rosebery rendered to the swakening of the Baltish trader by his instruc tions to British Consals to report regularly and promptly on the condition of British trade in Germans have made more use of our Consular their district. It la time that up till now the

reg wis then our merchants, but that, alas ! ts only too characteristic,

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over the decay of buslaen. "It" Germany," | konwlogly permli persons of bad character to was his explanation. "The £100 orders lodge in his house, and he shall maintala and have fellowed the five-pounders," The acolor enforce good order and decorum therein, and he partner suggested that they must take any- | shall also keep a register of the name, occupa thing they could get. The traveller replled | tion, and nailve place of each lodger." The that there was precious ile telt. "You Dross Farmer payi the Opfum Farmer $4,300 snubbed me once" (so the bardy drummer month and the licenses 103 divans at a monthly poncteated the moral)" for booktog small orders, fee of $6 each and a'commission on each piece of and went the Germans to the devil. But it is dross oplum sold, rangleg from 40 cents to $3.50 car business which has gone to the devil'; and | per day for each divan. "He also gets the Export there you are "

And Import duties on all dross rangleg from $1 to $4co për messem. It may safely be assumed therefore that there is a fair margin for profit. Re- gistration of divane as Common Lodging Houses would not, however, decrease these profits. Regis tration is free and were the dross licence to be withdrawn the Lodging House licence would stilbe valid. In no Common Lodging Housen to the colony are the lomites supplied with food ped inks; for lodging the average charge is about a to 3 cents a night-lot lodging pare and simple. With special reference to breduw 11 the barbouring of bad characters should ba discouraged equally in a divan as in a lodging bause. Numbers of poor creatures, however, who/ constantly appear in this Court for petty thefts, onlawful possession, &c..can give no other address than that of some divan which is their only home. If good order and decorum were also to be habitually enforced in divans the numbers of astenit cases would show a material decrease. Where prepared opium is retalled under licence from the Farmer the retallen are required to obtain the name and address of the percusser for Insertion in the certificate; with very alightlabour similar particulaes could be noted in a register in the divaos. These consideratloos, however, aro es, secilan a, pravides a definition of a Commen tside the provlace of the Court, Ordinance 4 of

I" Iglog House, "Any house or part thereof where usually only male persons are housed-not being members of the same fully-to the numbers of to perions and upwards."" On the first floor of

sleep:07 hours later viz, between 1 and 1.30 .. Io Cross Street between 1s and 11.30 m. on the 11th inst. 26 men were found, 23 of whom were on the 15th on the same floss in the same house 23 men were found all saleen, except the wan who opened the door. The presumption is thers. fare a fair one that more than to persons are " usually" housed there.. No attempt was made by the defence to show that they were members of the same family, that there were any special circumstances to account, for the presence of ten persons and upwardı. I have therefore no hesitation in deciding that. No. to Cross St., defined by Ordinance 4 of 18g. I feel compelled 1st floor, is a Common Lodging House E to remark that the elementary rules of hygiena held to be absolutely necessary to apply to Common Lodging Houses seems to ba equally necessary in this class of house, which equal to number more than 20 per cent, of that of the Registered Common Lodging Houses In Victoria. Wh regard to Dr. Clark's remarks that the Sanllary Board do not desire the registra' tion of these boases this Court is bound by the four corners of the Ordinance. If the Sanitary

why proceedings should have been taken in this Boerd did not intend to proceed criminally with view to the Jaw being anforced I fell to see Court at all. I can scarcely seriously suppose that Dr. Clarke accepted unreservedly the state ment for the defence that the oplum farmers are quite ready take any suggestion from the Sanitary Board as to the management of tions were backed by statutory authority he these piscas; if so, unless the Board's sugges would be idle... Under the circumstances I shall viction. Impose the nominal fine of $t to carry con-

THE UTILISATION OF CONSULS. The German Government employs its

their business. Hence, a German contul ia the commercial consule for the purpose ol assisting the commercial classes to push swore friend and ally of every Gerona trader who visits foreign country. He makes the pashing of German business a matter of per soal pride, and his success is the bust credan tial for official promotion. Our consuls, with few brilliant exceptions, are not where they are Williams says: wanted, or of any use where they are." Mr,

As Mr. Mandella pointed out to the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, the Germans spend Italian fodustry. England has a Vice.Consul Roo a year on a Costul at Miles, the centre of

only, whose entire emolument is £50 a year, out of which he finds his own stationery Our principal Consul is at Florence, where there is no trade.

In this, as to every other thing, we always come back upon the one fundamental fact by which the Germans have so emitten our hip. Their intelligence is greater. The Intelligence Department of the German staff was that which enabled them to beat the French army lala

enables aur German rivals to beat our traders cocked hat, and it is the superior information and knowledge of the way the land les which

out of our own markets,

Mr. Williams, in his carefal survey of the causer of German saccess, Jays stress upon the fact that the Germans are displaying more and more the sense of the immense importance of whereas our manufacturers are withdrawing advertising their goode at national exhibitions,

more and more from these great biztam. affference of opision) is that of the superior Another point (apon which there may be some

steadiness of the German workman. Saint shipped in Germany as in England, but, finally, Monday is not by any means so generally wor

he comes back to what throughout has been the burden of his song :-

Lastly, let me reiterate that the great cause of German success in an alert progressiveness, con-- trasting brilliantly with the conservative stupor established business; but you must diligently of ourselves. It is all very well to run an old-

and continuously he striving to bring its methods up to date. And this is what English manu- facturers fall to recognise.

1o our next issue we abell pass on to Mr. Williams's opinion as to what we must do to hold our own and recover our supremacy.

LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.

SUPREME COURT. SUMMARY JURISDICTION. (Before Mr. T. Sercombe Smith, Acting Pulene Judge) Anguit zand.

THE SANITARY BOARD SUED, The Wing Lee Yaen firm zued the members of the Sanitary Board for damage caused by illegally removing cocklofis from the firm's premises and damaglog goods stored therein, The lors was valued at $1.000.

Mr. J. Hastings (of Mr. V. H. Deacon's office) appeared for the plaintiff firm, Mr. A. B. John. son, Crown Soliciter, defending. The cast was tried before a special jary composed of Messrs Chantry Inchhald, G. B. Dodwell and E.

Osborne.

Mr. Dennys asked that the other cases of the samo vatore might be allowed to stand over for

a week, at he bad received Instructions to appeal.

This was allowed.

SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.

MAILS DUE:.

German (Bayern) 14th inst. Canadian (Embrass of India) agih inst. Australian (Guihria) 25th Inst. American (China) anth lust, Tacoma (Tacoma) 17th fast. American (Bilgic) zih prox.. Tacoma (Victoria) 11th prox. American (Pirs) 13th prox.

THE steamship Altmors which_left Hongkong on the 18th alta, arrived at Portland on the 20th inst

THE Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s steamer Empresa of China left Yokohama for Van- couver yesterday afteɔnoon.

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SHIPPING RETURNS. From 8 pan, yesterday to 8 pm. to-day.

Loosok.................steamer from Bangkok, Glamorganshira

→ Amoy. Kwongsang

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Katur-i-Hind After hearing evidence of the damage caused by the operations of the "Whitewash Mar He held that though the action of the Board's Crown of Arragon.

Amora - Erigade," Mr. Johnson opened for the defence. officers was illegal, it was taken óena fide, and Socotra................ (thip) was necessary under the conditions existing fly............ (cralzer)" girls coming out of a printing-works on the

#Look," my informant said, "at the factory. Application had been made to the Magistrate Redpols (gunboat)

it was more than likely that permission Continent-tidy, clean, smart, and neatly to remove the cocklofts would have been dressed; and compare them with the horde of granted. The defendants had careful estimates girls trooping from an English printer's-froway, made, and were ware $100 would put the tousled, and waldy ! There you have the cocklofts in better condition than they were explanation. The appearance of the girls to the the plaintiffs' goods, he would show that the originally. As for the alleged damage to streats shows clearly theirfashion of work inside goods were not destroyed by the defendants the factory," take pride in their work, and bestow great pains urged upon the jury the importance of the bend The German, Datch, and Flemish woskere agents, and so they were not responsible. He upon its detalis; and obviously, in such fades of the defendants in taking action, in miti- dustries as these, attention to detail is of the nation of damages. very sesence of good work. It follows that, so

Evidence was then led for the defence, long as national characteristics exist as they are, England must remain in the background. The summing up by Counsel, the jury returned

Upon the conclusion of the evidence and the best she can hope for is the spread of good werdiet for the plaintifs, assessing the damage schooling in industrial art. Then, when her at $500. Judgment for that amount and costs have come to take a pride in seemly results, workern äre more or less adequately trained, and | was therefore entered. more prosperous Umen may susue.

POLICE COURT,

THE BANITARY CONDITION OF THE OPTUM DIVAMS.

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OUTWARD-17th July-Toucar, Leander, 218, at July-Mogul, Wennington Hall, is Angus Breconshire, Frand, Queen Olga, Jasumi Maru, Dorotkia, zia-August--Gli%= zalel, Java, Kremun, Natal. 11th August-- Menilang, salk August-Caledonian, Malacca, Palamed Eltrichols, Oak Branch, Radley. | 2111__August-Achillis, Caylon, Belbourne, His Worship Capt. Hastings, in giving judg-chia. ment this morning, in the case reported in

HOUTWARD-14th August-Agam 8 FOR MAN, these columns on Thursday, said--The same Hankow, Błosumamuzßih August-Boulawser?, No. 10 Cross Street, rst fliser, did on the 15th || shima Maru mons in this test case is that Lai Chuk Ping at Carmarthenshire, Glanogia, Preussen, Kago August, 1896, keep open Common Lodging ing a licence from the Registrar-General, contrary Hypophosphlies acts both as food and medicine. House without registering the same and obtain- SCOTT'S Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with - to Ordinance 24 of 1887, section 73. For the It not only givos Lesh and strength by virtue of defence, it is urged that it is an oplem divan that is kept, not a lodging house, that under the appetite for food that builds up the wasted body. iti own nairitlaus propenies, but creates an terms of the licence it would be utterly impos- Read the following "Scott's Emulsion is la sible to form the divan into a lodging house-my opinion an excellent and valuable compound. that the licence la valld for one month, knly and I have given it to consumptive patients and have liable to whhdrawal at any time--that customers been delighted with the results obtained. It ta pay nothing for board and lodging and are pleasant to the taste and can be borne by the to believe that a large, proportion of the best wormed its way into English manufacturing

opplied with either fond nor daink.. Refer- most sensitive stomack E A. RODWAY, M.D., and most thoughtful minds in Germany believe, secrets, and has enriched her establishments planded the German practice. The senior ring to the byelaws relating to Common Butter-Knowley Darlington. Any Chemist can Indend know, that German Interests are mori with the knowledge thus obtained. She has partner consigned the Germans in the devil. Lodging Houses No. 1 is quoted to show supply Bola Agents for Hongkong and the closely bound up with British interests. If educated her people in a fashion which has five years after the travelles returned, the insuperabia phatacles in the wu Zapf China 1-Watkine de Cos Hango Princo Blausurch be giving countenance to the i made it in somné · branchos of industry the and heard the sealer parmer's Lamentation › keeper di'n Consaven Lodging Honed Shall her "h

BOOKING SMALL ORDERS, which their English rivals would turn up their The Germans are not above taking orders at noses. In proof of this, Mr. Williams sAYS (**** The big English houses want big orders, and, for possible expansions, scorn the small order, with starchy dignity and a shortsighted contempt leaving It magnanimously to the German horses. They are ready. To be once more moverbial: enough to rep up any orders, "A canile littles make a muckie," is a Scots however small, saying practised by Germane. Not only sa: the small order often leads to the large. A story lately current In the City Bigstrates the point, An English commercial traveller, returning from South America, was abused by the senior partner of his firm for sending koms small orders, and was informed that so great house. Ikm theirs could take on the business. The traveller