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BOMBAY MILL'INDUSTRY.

THE PRESENT POSITION.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1903.

RUSSIAN RAILWAY TO PEKING, | M.A. degrees. The examinations in all the 18

provinces are held simultaneously on the 8th and 9th September. In round numbers, same 10,0.0 students attend each of these examina- tions in the maritime and riverine provinces, which are the most populous, while the othe

Intimations.

THEY WILL REMAIN, The bump of reverence is overshadowed by the bump of intelligence in the 20th century man and woman. Old things are not pre

The Bombay Milf industry, since we last wrote a few weeks ago, fi not indergone much change, reports the Tigrof India. The feeling, if anything, is a little better, as large tion and fast approaching completion, from the provinces have from five to 8,000 each, making served simply because they are old. What-

sales of yarn have been effected both locally as well as in the eastern market, and prices have improved about four dollars per bale in China. The present rates in the far eastern markets are 103 and 103 dollars for 20s and 10s yarns, respectively. These rates are considered far from remunerative inasmuch as they yield in Indian money about 57.16 and 49.16 annas only per pound respectively. The exchange is a shade better, the present rate being about

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Rs: 118 and Rx: 162 per 100 dollars and taels respectively. The prices of cotton have gone up Rs: 8 per candy, which practically takes away the benefit derived from the higher dollar prices now ruling in China, and mills are still working at a loss. The intention on the part of some of the millowners of working short time and in some cases even of the entire stoppage of mills from the beginning of the year seems to have been abandoned, for the reason that the Taller course involves a great deal of disorganisation and also a deterioration of the plant, to say nothing of the loss incurred in respect of the fixed charges such as insurance, interest on borrowed capital, and salaries of employees working under agreement. These charges vary in different mills in proportion to its financial position from five to ten thousand rupces per month.

The cloth mills, however, are quite different.

A somewhat startling piece of information, says an Indian exchange, comes from English raveller just returned from Mongolia, who states that a branch railway is under construc- Southern or Manchurian Section of the Siberian Railway, across the Eastern Gobi, to the Kalgan Gate, of the Great Wall. Of course, it has been known, for a long time that the Siberian Railway bad beta brought down to Port Arthur and Dalny, in preference to us former terminus at Vladivostock, but it is quite a surprise to find that after all a still more direct and advantageous short cut to the been discovered. capital of China has The line which has been actually visited and

inspected by the traveller referred to, pursues a uniformly south-westerly direction, and passes through the expansive plain east of the Khingan Range called. Yu-ma-chung, or the Imperial Horse-pastures. This alignment has been evidently selected because of the flat and casy nature of the ground. It would seem that the project is especially arranged so as to fall within the four corner of the Arglo- which gave Russian Railway agreement Russia a fore hand beyond the Great Wall of China. It will, of course, greatly strengthen Russia's grip of Northern China.

THE NEW EDUCATION IN

CHINA.

A WONDERFUL MOVEMENT.

Of all the great events which have hap

ly situated. Some of the well-equipped weav-pened in our time, those men who are the best

ing mills are clearing at least an anna a pound acquainted with China and the neighbouring

on plain eleh fancy cloths necessarily seeking

a higher margin of profit. Looms are being ordered out in large numbers, and it is be-

lieved that the future extension of the textile

nations agree that the greatest is the Reis

sance of the Far East. But incomparably the g eatest of far-reaching movments, says Mr.

Timothy Richard in the Contemporary Review,

trale will be in this direction. The imports is the change in the character of Chinese Blue. of Lancashire and yarns come to about thirty ation, and he proceeds to give some idea of this crores of mpers per annum and there is no reformation, which at no distant day will he reason why a large share of this trade should says, react on everything in the world, for not fall to Indian mills. As it is finer counts mind coatrols matter and right thought must are being largely span by local mills, with the precede right action, and the Chinese factor is result that this bra ch of Lancashire trade has bound to have a large place in the future appreciably suffered. Owing to the fall in silver, problems of the world. In May, 190, a the prices realized in China for yarn barely cover | missionary, whose advice the Chinese Plenipo- the cost of manufacture. There-is, in fact, a loss:endaries had sought in the settlement which

of a quarter or half a adun per pound, and it is not likely that silver will improve in the im mediate future, particularly because the China indemnity question is still unsettled.

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followed the Shansi massacres, suggested that the best settlement for Slausi would be the

establishment of modern colleges for teaching universal knowledge, as it would remove the chief cause of antipathy to foreigners, namely, ignorance. - 'This proposal the Chinese Govern- ment agreed to: and later on it decided to adopt the same principle for the whole empire. For example: An edict on Reforin in Education,

The mill owners consider it fortunate that at the present juncture the steamship companies carrying colon from Bombay to Japan have reduced their rates of freight from Re: 17] to Rs: 10 per tan. They hope that a similar concession will alen he made in the case of,ublisked by the Chinese Government on the yara, shipped to the Far East, It must be rememberedthat when the steamship companies were charging the higher rate for cotton, they gave a rebale of Rs: 5 per ton to the Japan spinner, and the present reduction in the rate was practicily, therefore, Rs: 2 per ton.

H. T., in writing to the Times of India an the above subject, says;-In your issue of the 11th instant you suggest various reasons for the present unsatisfactory condition of the spin- ning Indusry of Bombay. Those various reasons, "I have no doubt, do apply, in a measure, but you state that "it is to be regretted that. Towing to circumstances over which the Mill

owners have no control,” etc.

29th of August, ryor, commanded the abolition of estays or bomilies on the Chinese classics, in examinations for literary degrees, and sub- stiluted for them essays and articles on modern matters, Western lass, and political economy, The same procedure was also to be observed in the future in the examination of candi-

dates for office. By the same edict it was ordered that as the methods in use for gaining military degrees,—namely, trials of strength with stone weights, agility with the great sword, and marksmanship with the bow and arrow on foot and on horseback-vere not of the slightest value in turning out men for the army, where knowledge of strategy and military science were the sine quid non for military officers, these tals of strength, &c, should be thenceforth abolished for ever.

Another edict for the establishment of new universities, colleges and schools in China was

I for one, Sir, do not think for a moment this paragraph applies with any great forre. I have been in charge of large mills in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and have studied the conditions under which they are worked. Each depart-published on the 12th of September, 1901. It ment vies with the other to produce the best possible article at the minimum of coat, and the whole is supervised by an intelligent, head, either the owner, or a manager who brought up in business from boybood, has a thorough grasp of every detail connected therewith. Such managers are seldom to be seen in India. They have no inducement to leave their mills and owners, where they are engaxed, not for three years, but for a lifetime. Hence their interest and whole exertions are centred on the success of their particular frm.

You canally remark that "many of the ablest mill-owners, and mill agents, are of opinion that the common practice of employing incompetent manager and foreman on low salaries has much to do with the present un- satisfactory state of affairs." I have been in this country many years, and I have studied well the various causes tending. in any degree, to bear on the present depression, I am fully convinced the main cause of the depression is the ratten system ander which the bulk of Indian Mills are carried on. The three-pie system is one that cannot possibly continus. The agents ene after another have "voluntarily given up their commission; but I believe in the majority of cases it was not a voluntary concession, but arose from the conviction that it was the only alternative to winding up or giving up their agencies.

commanded all existing colleges in the empire to be turned into schools andcolleges of Western learning. Each provincial was to have a University like the Peking University, while the colleges in the prefectures and districts of the various provinces were to be schools and colleges of the second and third classes. An other edict, for sending students to be educated abroad, was published on the 17th of September, 1901. It commanded the Viceroys and Gover- nors of other provinces of the Empire to follow the example of the Viceroy Liu Kun-y of Liangkiang; Chang Chibtung of Hukuang, and Kuei Chun (Manchu) cf Szechuen, in sending young men of scholastic promise and ability abroad to study any branch of Western science or art best suited to their abilities and tastes,

place the fruits of their knowledge at the so that they might in time return to China and service of the empire.

Those who are acquainted with China know very well that many of the edicts of the Government do not amount to much more

has not been so. The Imperial College in than waste paper. In this case, however, it

Shansi has been opened, with some 300 students, in the hope that it will developinto one of the provincial Universities. divided into a Chinese, and a Foreign depart- ment. All the candidates for admission must have the Chinese degree of B.A. After the students have completed their Chinese course

It is

The question of mill management is the next they pass on to the Foreign Department. 7he great cause of the depression. In 1897 when Foreign Department has six foreign professors the plague was so bad, many of these three-pie and six Chinese professors who hold diplomas mill agents quitted Bombay, but having of Western learning. Besides this there is a competent European superintendents the work staff of six translators of university text-books proceeded in a satisfactory manner. That is into Chinese, superintended by a foreigner. the year in which these agents took steps to The edicts have not been a dead letter in the economise-pot.in the three-pie direction, but other provinces either, though there has been in the employment of unskilled managers, enormous difficulty in getting a sufficient carders and spinners. Sons, ions-in-law and number of professors to teach, or of text-books grandsons have now usurped the places of to use. Some Chinamen who; under the old skilful Europeans. M. A's and B. A.'s have system of education, would not have got more been transferred into full blown mill manager, and the shareholders have been filled into a belief that in putting on a relative there has been a saving of Rs: 400 per month, in the management alone. How is it possible, in these circumstances, to expect satisfactory results? Very soon the agents or the poor shareholding will once more realise the necessity for proper supervision in lleu of the present ineficient management,"

COTTAM & CO., FOR SUN HATLİ

than £30 per per annum now get £240; and there are not enough of them. At the lowest estimate text-books and books of general knowledge of the West to the value of £25,000 must have been sold during this year alone. Books to the value of £6,000 were sold by the Society for the Diffusion of Christian Koow- ledge. He goes on to give an account of the triennial examinations beld for the B.A. and

"OTTAM & CO. FOR SUMMER

UNDERWEAR JA

up a grand total of 150,000 students with

Intimations.

WANTED.

B. A. degree-a fact unique on the face of the soever is no longer useful must get out of the way. Nevertheless,, progress that is not earth-Globe.

intelligent will not be permanent. We shall contines to breathe air, drink water and eat bread. There will be no "improvement" an the great essentials of living, and we do not want any. Babies will come into the world as they have from the beginning, and people will dit out of it as they have done since the world began. Let us not run away with the "COSTUME,"

idea that all of our treasured opinions are to Clo. Hongkong Telegraph.be upset. Through every change, all things Hongkong, 13th February, 1903. [178e which, like

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