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STKAMER DAMAGED.

The Toyo Kisen Kaisha steamer Rohilla CHEONG Fuk was charged and fined at the fer arrived in port this morning bearing Magistracy this morning S150 or two months Fidence of her encounter with a typhoon on hard labour, for having thirty-one tasis of et recent trip to Manila. She was to have opium dross in his possession without a permit. eft the Philippines on Monday, but owing to bad weather her departure was postponed until Tuesday afternoon at four o'clock. Coming THE new currency legislation at Singapore across she experienced more heavy weather pits difficulties in the way of traders, in Acheen and passed her sister ship, the Rosella Maru, and Deli, settling Singanore and Penang which appeared to have met with the last accounts. But they can still bring the pro typhoon as her bouts were missing, and it is hibited coins into the colony so long as they thought they may have been washed away Regarding the experience of the Rohilla Maru, a Manila exchange of the 25th instant: says →→

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CORRESPONDENCE,

We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by Correspondents in this column] ILLICIT TRADE "TAXE^" ON FOOD.

To ruz Koitoa Or Tife" Hongkond. Telegrafii.""" SIR,-As far back as 1303 in the days of Edward I, the market middlemen (formerly known as forestallers), who now in 1903 still control our food supplies, were then punished by banishinsht, forfeiture of goods, the pillory, fues, and imprisonment.

Thirty years later the military authoritica instituted trials with companies and even batallions of soldiers, to find out bow much of the despised sweet-stuff can be stowed away in the slid German stomach and with what effect. The result seein to have been excellent; for thy bra ght about the abolition of the sugar bounties, with h the consequent effect that the present generation of Germans can now indulge in cheap sugar, a privilege that was formerly reserved in the poorer classes in England. Some idea of the consequences of this import-

Before a safe and sound state of affairs can ant measure can be obtained, when we learn

be brought about in the British Empire, these that the retal price of sugar fell suddenly aidlaws and penalties must be revived, or suitable per kilo

restrictions reinforced. If there is any truth in the Vienness pro- fessor Schenk's feeding theory, the next gene

lions of Germans will principally consist of members of the fair sex and the prace of the further world will also be benefitted by a sweetening of the proverbially sweet German temper. The danger of revelation will be avoided since not enough embryo-soldiers will be born to kill their fathers and brothers in defence of the gospel "of the sacred majesty of the mailed fist."

The abuse of the sugar bounties is generally

aid at Germany's door, although that country was at first only pulled and pushed along with the other beet-root sugar producing countries, which were bent on protecting their new industries; and it was only when Germany came to the front as a producer that the coun try began to interest itself in this pernicious legislation, beneficial only to the great landed proprietors and manufacturers, and a curse to the country at large.

ACCORDING to Manila papers Mr. Ponltene Bigelow, writing in the Morning Post, describe,

Having weathered one of the heaviest the finese Exclusion Act in the Philippine typhoons that has swept southern Oriental asgantic and complicated fraud." Mean waters for many months, the good ship lohilla while, the Caplenews states under reserve that foru, Captain Beat in command, dropped during the last seven months, 700 Chinese have anchor in the harbour at ta n'clock, Friday hren smuggled into Manila, the smugglerą nie't, Ne arrived from Hongkong two days netting $:00 goli per man.

overdue. The Rohilla departed from the China port at noon, October 10th. At this time no DESPITE the stormy weather experienced storm signal had reached Hongkong, although of the the presence of a large storm area had been rive crop this year are very bright. Accony announced from the Manila Oservatory. It WILLIAM Edward Hartpole Lechy, the cele-ing to an official estimation recently published, was published that a typhoon was moving very brated philosophical and historical writer, is the total yield is cal ulated at 47,713.166 knku, slowly in a south westerly direction and that which shows an increase of some 29 per cent other one was approaching it from the Sulu over the yield of last year and of 18.1 per cent. Sra. This information was cabled to Hong- over the averne figure recorded for the last kong, but unfortunately it reached there after the Rohilla had put out for Manila. When seven years.--. D. V.

the Rohilla steamed out from Hongkong har bour the sea was like glass and the sky was freckled with a few inoffensiva clouds. "Fine sailing this," passed from mouth to mouth. adody aboad, not even so experienced least indication of an approaching storm. a mavigator as Captain Bent, could see the

At nooh on October 21st the Rohilla was within 300 miles of Manila. Here was where Selection......Souvenir de la Russie.........Harris the typhoon first struck the vessel. Apparently i had dropped out of a clear sky. Its fury rapidly increased, That noce but staunch ships could weather the fury of the wind and water was soon made apparent, and the very best of THE Coin Import and Export Enactment was seamanship was necessary to master the situa-ing to the Ostastalische Lloyd of the 9th passed by the Selangor State Council on 16th tier. The passengers became terror-stricken October, 1903, the production of beet-sugar. in inst. The measure probibits the importation and were ordered below. All hatchways were the German empire amounted to of the old British dollar, the Mexican dollar, battered down. By this time the wind blew a

Tons. the Japanese yen, and all copper and bronze hurricane and the sea ran mountain-bigh. The 1871-72 186,400 of which coins issued by the Governments of British waves washed the deck at every roll of the 1881-82 599,700 North Boroco, Sarawak, and Brunei. It also quivering vessel as she was tossed about like a 1891-91 1,144.400 prohibits the export of the new Straits Settle-toy. Here the real fight against the storm. ments collar of rooz, and the circulation of all | begun. Captain Bent ran hity or sixty miles the copper and branze coins issued by the to the south-west, hoping to pass out of the three Governments quoted above. These noti- storm section, but be was suddenly met by the fications, as regards the importation of the typhoon, which had been reported as approach British and Mexican dollars and the export of ing the Luzon coast from the Sulu Sea, the the Straits Settlements doli irs, do not apply to position of his ship becoming more perilous the colony, to the other Federated States; or to johore. The other States, follow suit,— Straits Times.

Miss Lamb, a member of the Zenana Mission, was drowned while hathing at Sharp Peak. Foochow, on 16th inst.

FOR boarding the steamers Suevin and Ham- burg without permission two Chinese were each fined $ID or fourteen days' imprisonment.

A NEW York telegram says that Shamrock 1. |will be transformed into a schooner, and will be employed to carry scrap metal to South America.

A MANILA exchange states -Mexican curren- cy has been officially declared non-receivable for public dues after January 1, 1901. The official rate of-exchange will be 3.30 until that date.

COMMISSIONER Skinner's report presented to the Transvaal Chamber of Mines advocates the importation of Chinese labour under strict sanitary supervision, and recommends that A. 5. WATSON & Co, every effort be made to increase the supply of

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LAM Kai appeared before Mr. J. H. Kemp at the Magistracy this morning being charged with stealing thirty-five pounds of fresh butter, and two empty bags from the s.s. Empress of India while in the harbour last night. His Worship sentenced him to two months hard labour, and to be exhibited in the sincks for

four hours in lieu of four days' imprisonment.

THE increasing protective tariffs in Russia have induced Messrs, Thomas Firth and Sons, of Sheffield, to purchase the Salamander Iron Works at Riga, in order to retain and develop their trade with Russia. The newly-acquired works cover forty acres of land, and include furnaces, hammers, and rolling mills by the Crucible Company and Siemens and Sons, of London."

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God Save the King.

In 1674, a special Act of Common Council states that The (London) markets being intended for the beseft and advantage of housekeepers and others, who buy for their, awn use, to be spent in their own families, ta provide for themselves in the morning at the best hand, and pay moderate rates for their provisions."

This Act also enforced band fids public auc. tions and proper weighing facilities within the market.

In 180, the Common Council of the City of

London issued its famous report as to the extravagant, high price of every necessary article of human sustenance, and food, which bad become truly alarming concluding with

in order to stop the nefarious practices of regrating and intercepting the supplies of pro- visions for the metropolis, we,—(the Common Council), are unanimously of opinion, that such practices should be prohibited, the offenders heavily punished, and the contracts declared void".

The immigration of thousands of most undesirable Polish, Russian and Bohemian The majority of the nation is now greatly labourers has been one of its worst features, and alarmed at proposed microscopic taxes on food. in a country exporting countless tons of sugar

Yet the country calmly submits to avoidable at unheard of low prices the inhabitants paid but augmenting Trade Rings, whose commer for this necessity at the highest possible rates. cial combinations have cornered our entire In 1870 the manufacture of beet-root, sugar fresh food supplies during both peace and war. was still in its infancy, compared to the Tied bakers shops run by millers, public- enormous output of later years. Nevertheless, | houses owned by brewers, an artificially limited even at this period Germany produced nearly supply of perishable meat, gamo, poultry, eggs, 1/5 of the total output of beet-sugar, Accord-butter, margarine, fish, vegetables, fruit, etc., are all safely in the octopus grasp, of the ubi- quitous middlemen, who have illegally mono- polised our Fresh Food markets, the Joint- property of the primary food producer and th consumer.

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1901-03 2,182,400

Tons. 14.300 exported

·314,400 694,900 1,216,500

The extension of the cultivation has, of course, mainly contributed to this enormous progress in the output, but the improvement in the machinery and methods of extraction have played no mean part in the final result.mpres In 1871-72 the production of sugar was only

Free Trade should mean Fres dealing be tween producer and consumer, which, owing to the machinations of the middlemen-has been made practically impossible in the British Empire. Wherefore, despite of Free Imports, the price of fresh foed in England, still com pares most unfavourably with that of some other countries-notably Germany-where the. Trade Rings are less powerful and less greedy,

foods and-food imports are taxed, yet the actual cost of food to the consumer is far less than in our own country.

than before. Three of the lifeboats were torn 18.28% of the weight of the beet-root consumed and where, although almost all home-grown

from their 'davits and one was smashed to smithereens by a gigantic wave. One of the iron davis was snapped in two., Two com. THE Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial passes, located aft, were carried away. and Nethersole flospitals legs to acknowledge, Thirty feet of rail on the port-side was split into with thanks the following donation so the tunekindling wood and tossed to. the winds. Most

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TROUHLE in northern Siam does not seem to have come to an end yet; and it is feared that fresh outbreaks may occur at any moment, In anticipation of such an untoward event the authorities are again augmenting the forces in the north. We have it on excellent authority that quite recently the commander of the forces in the province of Korat has been authorised to dispatch some more batches of troops well officered and equipped to reinforce the army in the Province of Pitsanuloke. This province

of the stanchions were cracked and broken and last, but not least, the steering geer became loosened and, more than anything else, threat ened the safety of the ship. The forty pas. sengers, confined below, gained but a faint conception of the fury of the storm by the terrifying rolling of the vessel that at times seemed to career right over on her beam ends, causing numerous cases ní mat de mer.

Shortly after noon on October 22nd the coast of Luzon was sighted and presently the storm ahated as suddenly as it had began. Captain Bent found that he had been blown several miles out of his course and that he had a day's run before him down the coast before he

might drop anchor off Manila.

The Rohilla is now moored near the canal's mouth. The delicate, varnish on the outside of her smoking room is covered with incrusted salt. lo fact, the entire vessel is speckled with white crystals. Pancis of her raft superstructure are

caved in

as the smoking room; the stanchions are

cracked and some broken; the stump of the broken davit stands out conspicuously, while the remnants of the destroyed lifeboat which remain hanging to its davits, tell the story bet

ler than words can.

THE SUGAR INDUSTRY.

Captain Bent is being warmly congratulated extends from Sutaradit to Xeing Khong, or the on account of his good fortune. He was for. Shan States, where it is said trouble is brewingmerly temporary master of the Nippon Maru again. During the recent rebellion, cultivation and is one of the most reliable skippers on the and other industrial pursuits had been greatly China coast. retarded and destroyed over this vast area, and now a season of scarcity sets in as a result, and hence the pessimistic outlook, and fear of another rising. It is commendable on the part of the authorities to anticipate the worst, and to take adequate precaution to avert any possible out- break that may threaten to desolate the nonhem provinces. A repetition of the past year's trouble would indeed be very unfortunate for the country.---Siam Free Pressé te

FACTS AND FANCIES.

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in the process of manufacture, in 1900-of no no less than 14.14% was obtained, and ever since 1897-98 (11.79%) the production has not been less than 13.37% Small oscillations, of course, will always occur, on account of the qualityofheets and the weather during the plants ing season, which, to a great extent, influences the sugar in the roots, but in general it may be safely said, that the plant yields about 137 %. From the native planted and pressed sugar cane in Java about 10% of sugar is produced, while I believe only 7% of the weight of the cane is converted into sugar in the Straits Settlements, a great cause of the inferiority of the profits.in the production of cane sugar in that colony. The lutter, of course, is generally preferred, on ac count of its quality, but in the face of an ever- rising production of bee-troot sugar in Ger. many, France, Austria, and Russia and last, though not least, in the United States, it seems very doubtful if the cane sugar ever will recover its lost position on the world's market. Some years ago the Germans tried their hand at the coltivation of sugar in Pangani (East Africa). It was, however, given up last year, owing to the unsatisfactory profits obtained The miserable state in which sugar planting has fallen in the West-Indies, as well in De- merara, as on the islands, especially Jamaica and Barbados is well-known, Cuba has got a fresh start through the greater facilities of ex port to the United States, and may still look for a few years of comparative prosperity, until the expected development of the best-sugar industry in America has come to pass.

Our fresh food supplies, if made "imperish able (as I have so long persistently publicly advocated) by proper means of killing or collecting, preparing, dry, cold air storage, and distributing, would tend to defeat the middle. men's monopoly...

Various kinds of fresh foods demand different

but definite-(artificial)-dry cold air tempera- tures for "imperishable" preservation,

The majority of these animal and vegetabile. fresh foods, especially fish, are cheaper, to pro-

duct, store and distribute, besides being much inore wholesome, nutritious, and palatable in the imperishable condition, than in their present perishable forms, too often state and. sometimet even poisonous.

Of course, in the event of war, then only "imperishable, fresh food supplies torthe, people, army, military and mercantile marine, can save the United Kingdom from starvation,

Note. Examples :—

(1.) New Zealand mutton is frequently.de- fivered at the chief poris, of the United Kings. dom at less than 34 per lb., for which in the

same town, the consumer is charged from 74,

the 5 by the local butcher.

to

(ii) Sprats are often sold in Billingsgate at

the local London fishmonger or costermonger the rate of about 19 ms. for one penny, for which charges from 2d. to 34, or more per B

That is to say, the consumer in London buys one pound of sprats for three pence, with which sum, $7 s. of sprats are purchased by the Billingsgate Ring

LAWRENCE HAMILTON, MRCS. 30, Sussex, Square, Brighton,

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

The sugar-planters of the Sandwich Islands, some of whom the writer, met on board the Mariposa of the A & A line, seem to be flour As far back as 1303, a wise and just statulo: ishing and quite untouched by the bid times. 1 of Edward I, declared that the forestaller”--- Their market in Western America is evidently now called Middlemen's Ring) is an open a first rate one and, as a possession of the oppressor of the Poor, and an enemy of the U.S. A. the Sandwich Islands, probably enjoy whole country, a greater measure of protection. It is certain. A Parliamentary Return as to the prices paid In 1870, when the writer was at college in a that nowhere in the world is there anything to the primary fresh food producers, and those. liute Rhenish town, there rose from the plains approaching the price of labour paid in the charged to the consumers, would prove that On Saturday aftemoon on the Happy Valley

adjoining the river Roer a factory which, owing Sandwich Islands. Unskilled coolis labour the Fresh Food Rings of market middlemen-... i the Hongkong Football Club will play Sher-

to its great proportions and pretentious style, at $20 and $30, ploughmen at 540 and white | (who do not contribute the food)—are a grave - PHOTOGRAPHIC wood Foresters. Kick-off at 4.15 p.m. The

aroused the interest of the surrounding district. | labour nì S60 yold a month, would astonish and growing danger and disaster to the trade, DEPARTMENT. following will play for the Club:-F. H. Kew,

The new sugar-mill and refi cry, for such it every plaster in the Straits Settlements, and at the progress and the prosperity of the Empire. goal; H. C. Austin and E. F. Aucott, backs; SPECIAL telegrams to the Straits Kaho state was,, soon produced a great change in the these rates crops of sugar could not be produced-{ am, &c, G. B. Macdonald, J. W. C. Bonnar, and H. C. that Mr. A. F. G. Tilleke, the managing pro-landscape of fertile fields and rolling plains, in that colony. No doubt, an extraordinary Gray, halves; H. A. Brent, R. A. Whitamore,prietor of the Siam Observer, has been sentence and the golden ears of com and ye were in

fine market combined with heavy crops must W. H. Williams, E. J. Davies, and J. T. Dixon

ed to six months' imprisonment for feloniously course of time replaced by the prosaical dark concurr to produce the prosperity of this con- forwards.

receiving a number of precious stones and green leaves of the low growing beetroot. quest of American diplomacy, On the other jewellery which had been stolen from Mr. This new factory was the second of its kind in hand, however, there is no doubly that the Grachlert, Bangkok, and that his Burmese clerk the Rhineland, though it must be stated that beavily paid white labour in a country where. had been sentenced to a year's imprisonment. the cultivation of the beet, on the vast plains the whiteman can thrive, is worth the sums A further telegram is that Mr. H. G. Gough, of Magdeburg; was already assuming con- paid for it. To engineers it is a well-known editor of the Observer, has been tried on a siderable proportions.

fact, that superior labour with a restricted charge of contempt of court by making'

certain

At this period, the simple-minded country number of the workers, a higher standard of allegations in a leader commenting on the itial, people in Germany still fostered a certain life and honesty, cleanliness, and intelligence Mr. Gough was sentenced to fourteen days aversion to the consumption of sugar, on In particular, cosis no more and often far Jess, imprisonment, it being added in the order of account of the high price of this article than the kind of skilled labour supplied by The N G 1, 5.5, chia left Singapore for the Court that in the event of defendant failing which caused it to be looked upon as a infer or races. The great objection to white: this port to day, and may be expected hare on to give satisfactory assurance for good be luxury rather than a comestible for ordinary labour in the great majority of tropical cous- 3rd prox

The N. V. K. 1. Bingo Maru (European haviour in the future he will be deported from consumption. It was not generally known tries, is either the inability of resisting the Siam. Execution of the judgment of the Court at this time that sugar is one of the most ravages of the climate, or the kind of labour. Line) en Sing, pore for this port on z8th inst, has been stayed for one day to allow the Editor faltering of foods; containing as much as disposible, such as beach-combers and loafers at 5 p.m., and is expected to arrive here on 3rd te time to publish an ample retraction of the 85% of nutritive substances; and partially on instead of working peasants of artisans. The prox, at 3 am

PR. Co's as Empress of CHINUTE statements made in the leading article in account of the high price and partially because results in the volcanic Sandwich Islands, in: The respect of which the contempt of court proceed their elders believed it to be so, chlidren were many cases are stated to surpass even those arrived at Kobe at & a.m., dz 28th again at a pm, same day, for Yok We are still doing business at 31, Des Voeux ings were instituted. The Observer caserare told that sugar was a most pernicious luxury," in Javi

she is due to arrive at (To be Lönfinued

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causing a good deal of excitement locally. * spoiling the teeth and the stomach for ever.

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ADMIRAL, Marechal, who is in disgrace on ac count of having acted in a singular manner to wards the Chinese, without previously having consulted the French Government, is in an awkward position. M. Pelletan, who insists on his retirement, nevertheless refuses to accord him an interview, which has caused M. Mare chal to appeal to President Loubat. Needless to say, all the sympathy is with Admiral Mare- chal; for, as M. Pelletan is becoming, less popular every day, no matter what scandal in which bis name is mentioned, it is always he that is accused of being the culprit. There is not a Minister in France at present that is less popular than he, says a home paper.

HE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Bear

made in the tropics -SAN MIGUEL,

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