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REMITTANCE AND COINAGE OF PRECIOUS METALS,

IN INDIA.

In the House of Commons on November

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, SA URDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1902.

·COLOMBO ·ASA RIVAL TO

BOMBAY,

The era of unexampled prosperity" which 6th Sir Edward Sassoon asked the Secretary of Ceylon has been fortunate enough to experience State for India, if he will state the amount of during the nearly eight years of Sir John West gold remitted from Indi. since February This Ridgeway's rule, has enabled considerable pro- year, and to what purpose these remittances gress to be made in the development, of its have been applied; the sums of gold now held chief port. The growth of Colombo may not in India in the currency reserves, the Govern yet have had much influence on Bom meat treasuries and the gold reserves fund re-bay's position as the terminus for the India

Jatteris passenger traffic; but that the popularity of the spectively; whether any of the deposited with the Presidency banks or other. island harbour is increasing cannot be gainsaid, wise utilised in aid of namene; the number and it would be unwise to ignore the steps of rupes (including value of subsidiary coins) which are being taken to bring it still further issued since the beginning of this year; the

in line with modern requirements. Not long total amount of silver imported during the ago Lombay had the satisfaction of receiving same period, how much of this has been on a steamer which had to be sent all the way from Government account, and whether this portion Colombo to be repaired because the facilities is subject to the five per cent, import duty; in the Island were inadequate. These days, the present amount of the cash balances in however, are passing away. Colombo's new India and England respectively; and what graving dock is making rapid progress, and in has been, since March 4, the average weekly order that it may receive the largest vessels amount lent out from the Indian Office buill, its length is to be extended to 700 feet, instead of the (co feet, originally planned. Treasury in aid of the money market here.

The additional cost will be £28,700; and the Admiralty refuse to contribute to the cost but the local Government propose to carry out the work at their own expense, whilst the plant and labour are on the spot. The patent slip will practically be finished by the end of the year, the north-east breakwater will soon be completed, and the north west breakwater will be finished by the end of 1899 or earlier, and under its shelter eighteen new coaling jetties will be built. Further evidence of the growing prosperity of the Clapham Junction of the East is found in the scheme for again increasing the accommodation. It is proposed to provide a separ te fishing harbour, which will release the valuable space now occupied by the fishermen on the foreshore, whilst another scheme provides for a wet dock in the swamps to the south of the Elomendall, the approach to be from the existing harbour.

Lord George Hamilton: The amount of

Intimations.

IT IS DIFFERENT NOW. Once upon a time-students of medicine held the notion that there were as many different diseases as the body has organs and pants; every one of these ailments requiring a different treatment. So stupid a mistake

could lead only to miserable failures. For the fact is the body is a single machine; and what concerns one part of it concerns, more or loss closely, all the rest. Thus we see how it happens that one remedy, or mode of treat- ment, may relieve and cure a variety of complaints-or what may appear like a variety, but are really various forms or out- comings of the same cause, Take, for example, Anemia, Scrofula, Poverty of Blood, General Debility, Influenza, Throat and Lung Diseases, etc.—a formidable array indeed they look to be; yet

WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION quickly abates the worst of such cases, and absolutely. cures many which have been abandoned as hopeless. The reasons are: its power over the digestive and assimilating process, its action in expelling impurities from the blood. and its consequent ability to vitalize

and rebuild the whole structure. It is palatable as honey and contains the nutritive. and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil, combined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry. It was not dreamed out, or discovered by accident; it was studied aut, on the solid principles of applied medical science- It is precisely what it is said to be, and has won the confidence of the public on that basis. You may resort to it with a faith and hope that arise from the history of what it has done for others. Dr. Thes. Hunt Stucky says: "The continued use of it in my practice, convinces me that it is the most palatable, least nauseat. ing, and best preparation now on the market.' Every dose effective. "You cannot be dis- appointed in it." Sold by chemists here and throughout the world and A. S. Watson & Co. Limited.

gold remitted by the Government of India to this country -inc: February last is sooo which has added to the balances held by the Secretary of State in Courcil. The amount of gold hell by the Government of India on Oct. ty was as follows: Currency reserve, £5,748, 000; Gigvernment treasuries, £88 000; Gold fund, (175,000; total, £6,011,000, I have no reason to believe that any of this gold is de- posited with the Presidency banks.' If it were so deposited it would, of course, be necessary to transfer from the banks to the currency reserve or the treasuries an equivalent amount in rupees, a course which, in all probability, would hinder comnlerce rather than aid it; but for a consi'erable time, wheneger the mer cantile community has desired gold in exchange for rupees, the Government of India has made its own stock freely avait able The total coinage of silver in India from April till August 31, 902,

was 7,33,63,606 rs. (£4 925,000). But this includes the coinage of British dollars for use in Hong kong and the Straits ettlements, the rupees coined for Natives States and the subsidiary coinage for use in British India. The rupees coined for Native States amounted in about fo, 00,000 r.; but I am not yet in possession of exact figures on this point. The imports of silver into India during the period just then- tioned were as follows: "On private account, 5, PA, 17,857 vs. ; on Government account, 51,830 rs. It is provided by law that no Customs dutying up of the railway systems of the island Prices lower than other shops in the same

is leviable on goods belonging in the Govern ment of India. The latest figures for the cash balances in India and Bagʻand re as follows :— In India, on Aug. 31, 16,93,00.00 › rs.; in Eng land, on Nov. 5. £5,069,2:8. The average weekly amount of loan from the home treasury during the present financial year has been £5,100,007.

TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN ENGLAND AND INDIA.

The magnificent School of Technology which the Prime Minister opened the other day at Manchester, is the most concrete-illus tration of the wholesome change which is confing over public opinion in Great Britain in respect of the practical value to industries of scientific research It has been described as by far the finest technical institute in England, and Mr. Schwann who had been touring in Germany and studying the wonderful industrial progress of that crentry within recent years, wrote fitas pssessing a building and applic onces worthy of Marebester and suitable in a superljive degree to each the best practical, and theoretical metlines of adopting science to industry. The scho occupies an area of

The work now in progersa will increase the area of Colombs Harbour from 415 to 660 acres and the suggested wet dock would add another 187 acres or sufficient space to berth thirty of the largest steamers frequenting the port. The preliminary survey for this dock is being made, and if after the works now under construction are available, the increase of shipping justifies the expenditure, the wet stock will be undertaken, The one thing now needed to enable Colombo to seriously coinpete with Bombay as a port of departure and arrival for Indian passengers is the link-

and the mainland. At present the railway programme in Celon is a long nne, and such a scheme is hardly within the range of practical politics. But with a few more years of surpluses Ceylon could very well face with the expenditure and the completion of a plan which has been in the air for a good many years the passenger lines from Bombay might begin to feel the competi tion. Certain matters in the way of fares would undoubtedly have to be reconsidered. These are not questions for to-day, but the progres- sive policy of Ceylon is not without its significance when one looks a decade-ahead.---- Times of India...

Intimations.

THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY

TRADE

THERAPION - MARK

This successful and highly popular remedy, used in the Continental Hospitals by Ricord, Rostan, Jobert, Velpean kad others, combines all the desiderata to be sought in a medicins of the klad, and suspaues everything hitherto emplored.

6,400 yards, and is six storeys high. It has THERAPION No.1 cost nearly £300,000, and has ben seven years. in building. It comprises almost every import- ant branch of science applicable (industries electrical, mechanical, and sanitary en.ineer-

markably

sbaritime, often afew daysonly,comoves all dischargesfrom theurinary organs affectually superseding injections, the use of which does irreparable harm by laying the foundation of selcture and other serious diseases. In dysentery, piles, irritation of the lower bowel, cough,bronchitis, mathma and some of the more trying complaints of skis kind, it will be found astonishingly eficacious, fording prompt sellad where other well-tried remedies baro heet powerica.

ing, the sciences relating to architecture, and THERAPION NO.2y of the photographic and printing arts, and chemistry in all its branches with an elaborate provision of laboratories and workshop attached to each. Mr. Balfour spoke of it as being

the blood, scary, pingier, spots, blotches, palavand swele iings of the joint, secondary symptoms, gout, rheumatism, and all diseases for which it has been too much a fashion to employ mercury, sarsaparilla, &c., to the destruction of Buffer teeth and ruin of health. This preparation purifexthe wholesystem through the blood, and thoroughly eliminates every pajsanaus matter from the body.

for

* perhaps the greatest fruit of its kind of Muni-THERAPION NO.3

cipal enterprise in this country," The first Technical Instruction Act was passed in 1889, and it empowered Municipalities to devote their

exhaustion, impaired vitality, sheeplertagear, and all the distressing consequences of early error, excess, residence in hot, unhealthy climates, S. It possesses wirprising power in restoring stezogth and vigor to the debilitated.

funds to institutions having for their object the THERAPION is sold by the prin

provision of technical instruction.. Manchester is the second municipality in Great Britain to avail itself of the powers conferred on it by that act and a speciál rate was levied at once for the purpose of the Techincal School. Here is a lesson for Indian Municipalities to take to heart, Not many of them are over-rich, it is troe, but some of them can well afford to mise their rates, and we believe there is no legal obstacle to their devotin them to the main- tainance of technical schools

The more feasible thing, at present, is perhaps for a num ber of neighbouring municipal and local boards to co-operate in the establishment and main- tenance of a central institution with District Boards constructing railways out «f the rates; it is not impossible that this equally productive investment of capital may commend itself to the more enterprising of our local bodies in course of time.-- Times of India.

THE WEATHER.

The following report is from Mr. F G. Figg Acting Director of the Hongkong Obser vatory:

On the 27th at t.go a.m. The barometer. has fallen quickly on the E. coast of China.

Pressure is still high över Central China and probably again low in Manchuria.

Decreasing monsoon along the China const, -strong monsoon in the N, part of the China Sen. Forecast moderate NE, winds j. dull, cloudly...

‘OTTAM & CO, FOR WASHING

BOW TIES.

3ferchants throughout the world. Price is England /& 4/6, In ordering, stale which of the three numbers in re- quired, and observe ahevn Trade Mark, which is a fac. simile of word "THYLATION" it appears on the British Government Stamp (in white letters on a red ground) affixed to every packaṛaby order of His Majesty's Honi Commissioness, and wibout which it it a forgerz

Sold by A. S. WATSON & Co., Limited, Hongkong, China and Manila.

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A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY: sinis thenge of research and experiment, when all nature, so to speak,feransscited by the scientifis for thecomfort and happiness of man. science has indeed made giant strides during the past century, and among the—by no means least importanti discoveries in medicine comes that of Therapion, particulars of which whi be found in another čolama, Thia preparation is unquestionably one of the most genuine and reliable Patent Medicines everintroduced, and has, we understand, been used In the Continental Hospitala by Ricord; Rostan, Jobert, Velpean, Maisonneuve, the well-known Chassaignee, and indeed by all those who are regarded as authorities in such matters, including the celebrated Laicmand, and Xoux, by whom i was some time since unifizuty adopted, and thai a worthy the attention of those whorequire such a remedy we think there is no doubt. From the time of Aristote downwards, a potent agent in the removal of thiens diseases baa (îke the famed phi losopher's stone) been the object of search of some hopeful, generous silndai and far beyond the mere power-If such could ever have been discovered-of Immuting the baser metals into gold is surely thediscovery of a remedy so potent as to replenish the falling energies of the comfirmed row in the one case, and ln the other so excctually, speedily And safely to expel from the system without the ald, or even the knowledge, off second party, the or Inkerited disease fant their polsons of acquired proican forme as to leave notalat or trace behind, Buch is The New French Remedy Therapion, whicli may certainly rank with, if not take precedence. o many of the discoveries of our day, about which no little ostentation and noise have been made. and theertensive and ever-increasing demand that has been created for this medipine wherever introg daeed appears to prove that it is destined to cast Into oblivion at those questionable remedies that were formerly the sole reliance of medical men. Therapion may be obtained in Enriend, direct from the proprietor, and of the principal Chemist and Merchants throughout the Colonies, India, Chios, Japan, čvek; not even excluding such renunta districts as Central Africa, kku Fiji Iolanda, Blaj

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Mails.

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(THE JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.)

PROJECTED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG-SUBJECT TO ALTERATION,

STEAMERS.

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DESTINATIONS.

SAILING DATES.

(VICTORIA, B., and SEATTLE, TUESDAY, 30th Dec., at

U.S.A., VIA SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI,;

MOJI, KOBE and YOKOHAMA is) 4P.M.

(SYDNEY and MELBOURNE, VIA) THURSDAY, 1st January, at

ISLAND,

MANILA, THURSDAY TOWNSVILLE and BRISBANE .......

4 P.M.

{KOBE and YOKOHAMA ............................. 2 FRIDAY, and January, at

Daylight.

BOMBAY, VIA SINGAPORE and FRIDAY, 2nd Jan, at

COLOMBOAN

Noan.

* Through Passenger Tickets issued for the Principal Cities in the United States, Canada and Europe. in connection with the GREAT, NORTHERN, RAILWAY and Atlantic Steamers Round-the-World Tickets also issued. Between Moji and Kobe, rst and 2nd Class Through Passengers have the Option of Travelling by the Sanyo Railway,

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Hongkong, 27th December, 1902. COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES, FAQUEBOTS-POSTE FRANCAIS.

NOTICE

- STEAM FOR SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, COLOMBO, BOMBAY, ADEN, EGYPT, MARSEILLES, MEDITERRANEAN AND BLACK SEA PORTS, LONDON, HAVRE, BORDEAUX ;

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ORIENTAL

Manager.

STEA

THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.

STEAM FOR TRAITS, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA,

ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, PLYMOUTH AND LONDON.

al 1 PM, the Company's Steamship "TONKIN," Captain Schmitz, with Mails, Passengers, Specie and Cargo, will leave this,Through Bills of Lading issued for BATAVIA, Port for MARSEILLES, via BOMBAY.

PERSIAN GULY, CONTINENTAL, AMERI- CAN and SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.) HE Steamship

This Steamer connects at COLOMBO with the s.8. Filla de la Ciotat, which vessel takes on her Passengers and Mails leaving that Fort T' on the 19th January, 1903, Direct to Suez, Port Said and Marseilles.

Cargo and Specie will be registered for Lon- don as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in transit through Marseilles for the principal places of Europe.

Shipping Orders will be granted tili Noon, Cargo will be received on board until 4 P.M. Specie and Parcels until 3 P.M., on the 28th instant (Parcels are not to be sent on board; they must be left at the Agency's Office.) Con- tents and Value of Packages are required.

For further Particulars, apply at the Com-

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last 25 years, and is open to all classes. Much BOSTON STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

of the clerical work of the city is carried on by its past pupils. As this is the first time we have applied for assistance we expect a generous

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