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Intimations

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following sticle Applied in the London It will be remembered that the Express has shooting in the Navy

the following letter just received from a well known officer on the Chind Station. It was directed to Mr. Amold White with a request for its publication in some English piper which look interest in efficiency. Mr. Arnold While kindly forwattled it to the Express.

"gain to reveane, is # 1098

community; (3) the portion

which loses is that which buys rupees

'ont fat as fast as they use

nity (4) the

up: Forfai is, fuelo and the burning of if maked power, and force, This children even along to the age of

(THE JAPAN MA

the

cen only one topic of conversation repeatedly urged the importance of straight producing portion bays ripees, and themelore eighteen or twenty are in danger from con East rp.peopld throughout the week

loses ; (5) its Joss is, equal at present to Asumption, and from other wasting complaints. ition is not only serious, but it is border-:We therefore have great pleasure in printing loss that a 20 per cent or 30 per cent. The children who'starve, and the young men on the disastrous,

and there are

production acts as a bounty in favour of com-idea of it is frightful. For such as they there export tax would entail; (6) this tax on Indian and women who are consumed why, the very ely, at the moment no indications of the metal steadying itself at any price, though there

peting countries. If ever Indian industries is always what the Bible calls mighty dre plenty of people who look for a rebound in

were to prosper, as they might and should, the famine in the land. Food, though it may the value. The presinned to be the best

rate of exchange most be lowered, and that the be taken plentifully, does not nourish them. judgzadeuline, however, gentisily to pronounce

state of the finances would enable this relief to takes no fat i it gives no strength, To any opinion.& feature to remark, too, is that

Bene ti the letter we prim a question that is be easily carried out. A Commission of Inprevent this, to cure this, to save the young the forward price', lately been under spal, in- duced partly by speculative sales and partly no

to be asked in the House of Commons to-day.quiry, to sit in India, ought to investigate the gnes at the mother's' knees, and the bright

subject We may explain that the reason why practice.

boys and girls who are just looking at the bably by sa en by the banks to cover their com

world with hopeful and ambitious tyės, ammunition is destroyed is owing to the fact mitments. The suggestion of a gold standard that the firing of big guns skins the paint of

purpose of being adopted in the Straits has no doubthe warships.. With adinirals with whom a caused the fall in a contain extent, as well as ship's appearance is everything, a commande the lulk abhut Mexico Sing gold and the fact

has therefore great inducement not to indulge that Sim 5 gore goll, but the mal collapse in practice firing - of the market is due to the incapab·lity of India to absorb the supplies, Chira has for some time becu more a seller than a buyer, and the outside orders have been comparatively few. Mexican dolls have followed the price of Silver, and have, indeed, been quoted slightly our two years ago, with a view to encouraging shoulders of the people a very heavy loss and cularly those troubled with Anemia, Scrofula,

under their meling value. "Anyway, a fair number has been taken for the purposes f bring, weled. The whole apsition is also aggravated by the fact that it in difcol 10. deal even quite snail amount with out affecting the prion, in degies that i altogether out at proportion consual trodsnes tions. Sr leg, sentiment been a par and people do not consider that because Siam has gone on a gold basis, and that the

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SNURNED BY THE ADMIRALTY..

Hongkong, October 24, 1902. Dear Sir,-The Seymour Chalienge Cup for le shooting has been on by H.M.S. Espiegle This cup was presented by Admiral E. H. Sey

good vifte shooting.

A circular was sent round the fleet giving the conditions of the competition, and as an addi. tional rewand it was stated, "The chip holding this cup will always take the right of the line at all parades on shore, or whenever a brigade is landed. This notice was posted up in every ship of the squadron, and embodied in the station anders.

The Espiegies have won the cup, but they

In the ensuing discussion Sir R. Giffen (who presided) said Mr. Elliot had shown conclusive ly that the change in the currency in India find produced contain evils of a kind which no there was an adificil money, such as that now Government ought to overlook. So inny as

used in India-for there was neither a silver metul nor a geħid metal for the standard-there must be inquiries of the kind advocated, Mr, Willian Fowler maintained that the Govern- ment of India had succeeded in putting on the

WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION,"

its success is decided and settled. Thousands

honey and contains the untritive and curative. owe to it life and health. It is palatable as

properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod livers, combined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites and the Extracts of halt and Wild Chierry, In build- ing up pale, puny, emaciated children, parti:

escaping from it themselves. The closing of Rickets, and bone and blood diseares, nothing the mints in 1893 was a great mistake, and he equals it; its tonic qualities are of the highest hoped the Government would have an inquiry order. Parents whose children are sick can to see what could be done to get rid of the con- not resort to it a day tag soon A Medica sequences of that mistake. Mr. L. C. Probyn Institution says: "We have used your prel at Sir James Westland said he was unable to and inflammation; its application has never dissented generally from Mr. Elliot's views,paration in treating children for coughs, colds discover from what the lecturer had said how failed us in any case, even the most ngy avated the particular effects to which he had referred bordering on pueumonia, The children like arose from the currency, policy of the Indian it, they love the taste of it, it looks good to

in what they attempted.

Strai's are considering the same subject, that will not be on the right of the bone, as they have Government. The Government had succeeded | them, and it builds up their bodies; maoy.

both must for a long time to enne continue to use silver, and silver ante, avete carency, though by legislation that silver may be given a fictitious value; as is the case with the rupee in 'ndia.

ben informed at the order promulgated by their admiral has just been countenanced by the Admiralty. This is the way efficiency is. encouraged!

IMPROVEMENT STOPPE",

THE WEATHER,

little children owe their lives to it." The more it is used, the legs will be the ravages of disease among the people from infancy to old The following report is from Mr. F. G. Figg,age. Every dose effective. "You cannot be Acting Director of the Hongkong Obser disappointed in it." At all chemists and A. S. vary

Watson & Co, Limited. Iying in the N. part of the fea of Japan yester

On the 3rd at 11.55 am The depression.

day has moved Eastwards and lies now over the NE. coast of Japan.

The high pressure area still covers China, along the coast and over the N. part of the and the monsoon continues to blow strongly

Forecast strong NE. winds; fine.

- Entimations,

DRINK

The Oreon! have wot the China Squadron In discussing this ques ion as regards the Challenge Shield for hequr shooting Will Straits in our hit issue we asked a they get the extra lease in paying-off which paragraph--which looked at the subject of a

was promised by Admiral Sevipur, or will that gold standard heing really such a standard-be countermanded by the Admiralty? how much of all the total of silver coins im-

Anyone who interpones with the gunnery of ported, which would have to be redemned, the Navy must expect to be snubbed. Admiral would come is for redemption 2 at that pice Seymour-hegre-lus-tie, however-has-theChina Sea. are they to be redeemed? and when the consolation of seeing e good work he started money to come from, and at whose expense? | bearing fruit, for the Chies squadron, both in This would be for a true gold standard, as in rifle shooting and in heavy guinery shooting, this country, and the Straits conld not attain heads H.M. Beets. such a position. What, however, is attain«ble

The Navy League have offered Admiral Sir is a sort of bastard gold currency, such as we Cyprian Uridge £go to be used as he thought sea in India. It is quite praveable to find at to encourage, cod shooting. The admiral method for establishing a fairly stable price for has declined it, the dollar, or whatever rain is selected, as is the case with the Indian rupee. But this can only be done by limiting the supply of the dollar, or whatever the coin is, which would, as in the Indian case, become simply a token. Now what would be the effect of such a policy on the trade of the Straits, and particularly in view of the fact that fresh, importations of dollars every year mean about $22,000,000? They get absorbed in every direction. and Siam, we know, has bihero taken something like 9,0,oro of them. We are beginning to see that monopoly-rated rupee is having an effect on the export trade of India. Now how would such a policy affect the Straits? The commanty there has grown and thriven on free made principles, and no one is prepared to say at presen: that those principles should

Every naval office knows the deplorable. state that our big gun shooting isin, Neglected for years as it has been, still any ende vour to improve it is stopped by the Admiralty. Sir Thomas Jackson, the head of the liungkong and Shanghai Bank, to en courage good boat-pulling, presented a challenge trophy in the China squadron. It was accepted. The Navy League offer a trophy to encourage good shooting. It is refused.

Wid

Cap'nin Percy Scott, in his lecturę given here, pointed out that cur inefficiency in shooting the Empire; Admiral IL danger to Lord Charles Beresford said the same to the London Chamber of Commerce.. Are we to wait for the naval Colenso that Mr.

be relinquished, Is fiee trade to continue Corbett says we are sowing the seeds of? except in the one essential of money, and would | I enclose my card.—Yours truly,

not such a policy have very considerable effect

on the future fortunes of the colony?

Arnold White, Esq.

NAVAL OFFICER,

The Secretary to the Adinialty is to be asked by Mr. Macartney in the House of Com mons to-day whether he is sware that ammuni

in exceeding £21,con in value bas been thrown overboard from H. M hips; whether this was practice ammunitio, and, whether i was thrown overboard to avoid gunnery practice

Sir Charles Dilke will also ask if it is the case that the amount of ammunition for heavy guns allowed for practice is now the same as it was in the days of muzzic-loading guns.

Apart from the other effects due to the dis astrous fall in the guld value of silver, the fur. ther and continues drop in the exchange has enormously added re" the burden of the Indem "nity due by "thira to the Powers for her out break in 1900. The decline has at presen added a sum that is approaching another Tls. 100,000,000 to the sun that China will have to pay to make up the Tls. 450,000,000 payable at the rate of 33. gold to the taci. his, unfortunately, only tends to further aggravate the evil. China, instead of being a consumier, as she nomially is, of the white metal, is now an exporter of it, is her necessity of buying the equivalent of gold for her indebtedness. This is partly going to India, and the support usually accorded to the London market by bib India and China is withdrawn. Whether the Pawers will consent to accept their individual share of the Taels at Beir ex change nite is a political question that hus been brought forward, bar has not bee determined. Fut i is certain whether they do

1. Eliot remarked that Lord Curzon con- or not the impest trade of China must be greatly affected by the decision, and from the British led his Budlet speech of March 28, 1900, point of view it is a question whether any loss by saying that "there are two great duties

INDIAN CURRENCY

LEGISLATION.

At a recent mening of the Pst India Associa hua Mr. R. 11. Elliot read a paper on "The Economical Effects of Recent Indian Currency Legistation,"

* ustained by the Governmeat, if it accepted its o Imperial statesmanship in India. The first

amount in silver, would not be outweighed by "advantages intrade. This is a question, however, which unfortunately does not appeal to those to whom the larger share of the Indemnity is due, and it would be of no avail unless all the Powers agreed to the sime policy, At the same time the low exchange should stimulate the expart trade, and give Chine an advantage as against both India and Japan in products where they compate, but though the stimulus has been acting for some time it does not

is to make all these millions of people, if pos- sibe, happier, more contented, and more pins perous; the second is to keep them and their property safe," Up to June 26, 1893 (the date of the passing of the Currency Act), those objects were as fully a riven for as circumstances per- mitted; but since then causes had been iritated which were calculated to make the people less happy, less contented, and less prosperous, and their property, so far from being kept safe, had been and was being now most deplorably Appear at present to have produced any very deteriorated. The explanation of the lapso was material, and distinct results except in one or that in the year. 1893 the rulers of India, who wonnstances. With the low remaining silver | werendmirably qualified to conduct those affairs, ountries in the world turning their thoughts to with which a long experience had made them

tandards which do not necessarily,

old currencies-it looks as though thoroughly acquainted, resolved to reconstruct new commercial treaty with the currency of India without possessing, the China agrees to take the qualifications necessary to enable them to steps to provide for a uniform udgo as to what, if anything, should be done

ge" will have to be expanded, brea

have to join in the gold in the matter, and more especially to form a rest of the world." After all, | sound opinion as to the consequences of any gain be able to point to the new currency polley they might adopt. Having

would only be repeating her own referred to the severe effect of the measure in in had a gold standard long

dreamed of inCADEway, undiquentio

bgkong would have to continue

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