1906-05-19 — Page 1

The

NEW SERIES No 5155

CONTENTS.

Births, Marriages and Death. Loading Artiolos:-

A Warning to Householders.

Hongkong's Population.

Trade in Singapore.

Canton Piracies.

'Decline of China Tea,

Exchange Compensation in Hongkong. For Vegetarians and Others,

Hongkong's Water Supply.

On Marriage Bent.

Telegrams:--

Customs Commissioners.

British Protest.

Akashi Maru Ashore. Wei-hai-wei.

Chinese Imperial Customs. Chinese Student Corps. San Francisco Earthquake. Anti-Foreign Outbreak, Nganking.

Hanghutze Rising. The Beachley loquiry, German Mail Ashore. Sir Robert Han,

Mootinge:-

Legislative Council. Sanitary Board.

Legal Intelligence:-

Claim for Deposit.

The Alleged Perjureis

A New Barrister-at-law.

The National Bank Case. Damage by Collision. l'olioo.

Disorderly Americans at Hunghom.... A Dishonest Cook.

Attack on Excise Officer.

Theft of Eye-glasses.

His Lost Brother.

A Dangerous Practice.

The Alimony Cale.

A Pugilistic Bar-boy. Highway Robbery. Alleged Manslaughter. Stone for the Military. Unlawful Possession. The End of a Treat.

Correspondence:--

The English Church at Kowloon. Canton Lepers. Miscellaneous Articles and Reports

Hongkong Gymkhana Club. Hon. Julius G. Lay,

The Wrecked Chukong, Plague at Connaught Hotel. Queen's College Gems."

Tragic Death in Hongkong.

The Akashi Maru.

The Late Rev. Walter Fong,

A Flourishing insurance Company.

Double Tragedy at West. Point.

The Corinthian Yacht Club,

Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association," Sunshine in Canton.

The Canton Medical Missionary Society. Canton Missions.

Canton-Hankow Railway,

Attempted Gaof-breaking at Shanghai, The Inspectorate-General of Chinese

Hongkong Telegraph.

联六十月四年二十三精党

MAIL SUPPLEMENT.

· (ESTABLISHED 1881).

SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1906.

TRADE IN SINGAPORÈ.

CANTON PIRACIES.

(15th May.)

六拜禮

鹽九十月五英港香

meant

$13 PER ANNUM, SINGLE COPY, 35 CENTS.

as manure, a practice which is prohibited in | registered births to the number of "unregis

use the native product or give up the nun privilege of drawing half of their pay at Hongkong, although no one will maintain tered. According to that play it appears that

inebriating cup entirely. As a matter of fact, the rale of 15. Bd. to the dollar, or will the that the custom does not prevail. In their | 124 males are born in proportion to every 100,

the majority of residents on the borders of Government grant some other relief by way annual report on the sanitary condition of females. In the non-Chinese community

Chinashow little or no enthusiasm for the teas of compensation to such Civil Servants 2" the Colony, Dr. Clark and Dr. Pearse, the the proportion of male births to female was! In referring to the river traffic carried on grown in the Middle Kingdom. Perhaps the We thoroughly believe that Mr. Pollock's chief medical officers of health in Hongkong, 103 to 100 last year; in 1954 it was 83 males by native vessels between Canton and other preference exhibited for Indian tea-includ presence at the Legislative Council' board call special notice to this practice and warn to roo females, and in 1903 and 1902, the places, Mr. F. A. Morgan, Commissioner of ing the Ceylon product-may be attributed will be productive of lasting benefit to the householders against the consumption of proportion was in males to 100 females. Customs at Canton, in his deccanial report, to the fact that people demand a rich, full community at large, and that his motives raw vegetables. Several cases of typhoid The death rate is rapidly descending, and says: "The pest to the traffic is pirates. flavoured article, with a strongly pronounced are of the highest, but we submit that if Mr. fever were traced or at least attributed to figures could be implicitly relied upon, During the last year of the decade 36 piracles colour-a tea which palpably exbilirates Pollock is in favour of supporting the claim vegetables which were partaken of either on. Hongkong should be one of the healthiest were reported; though this is but the minu after a single draught. The average China of the already highly paid officials to an ad. cooked or under-cooked. "It cannot be too places on earth. In 1886 the rate of dhortest percentage on the number of trips, the tea on the market is usually of a werk, litional rise in salary he has been led into strongly impressed upon the public in this lality was 31.79 per thousand; in 19og'it was losses to passengers total up to a large sum

colourless variety, with Barely permaking a false step Not only is this a Colony that to indulge in uncooked vege 16.89 per mile, and the average for the five and a general feeling of insecurity results."ceptible favour, or at least, with a fa maiter affecting the Civil Service, but it tables, c. g. salads, is to run a risk of typhoid years from 1991 to 1995 was 17.62, a re-

There is no doubt about the feeling of our which it requires an educated pa concerns every one in the Colony, for one infection." These medical experts proceed:markable rate for a semi-tropical city. But insecurity, for every native traveller on the late to appreciate and enjoy. The Euway or the other, it will clearly touch the "By far the greater amount of vegetable this has to be rentembered, that Chinese Canton delta is in perpetual terror that the

Topean consumer demands the more popockets of the ratepayers, or in other words food is imported into Hongkong from China, when in fear of dissolution seek their native next turning will reveal a gang of pirates tent ten, while the Chinese revel in the the whole community. We have to consider, Info the first place, what claim the Civil Ser The Chinese as is well-known use human land where they can die in peace and within, bent on relieving him of all his worldly delicate aroma of the native leaf.

vants who are drawing their pay on a sterling excreta as manure. The danger of this prac sight of the ancestral tomb, so that these possessions, down to the last garment that Hongkong.there are, it may be assumed, tice is not found in this mere fact itself, for averages are not absolutely correct. Among covers his nakedness. As the authorities comparatively few foreigners who habitually basis have to this measure of "relief." About use China tea to the exclusion of that cal. a dozen years ago, when the dollar began to provided that all such matter is thoroughly the non-Chinese section of the populations continue to ignore these desperadoes, the ripened in a manure pit before being ap there, were 302 deaths; of these 8g were latter become bolder with repeated successes,tivated in India. Indeed, the newcomer is tall, there was a great outcry among the Civil plied to the soil the probability of contamin. British, 56 Portuguese, 16 German, and it was only a short time ago that a well inclined to suggest that he is being de Servants that because they had to remit ation of the plants is remote. But there is American, 6 French, and smaller numbers known missionary was despoiled of all his frauded of his rights when China, ten is money home they found themselves on danger in the practice of watering vegetables of Swedes, Italians,.etc.

impedimenta which may be considered a substituted for the article to which he has the verge of starvation on account of the with diluted fresh excretal matters. It is not

suitable word in this connection-and even

been accustomed, and it is not too mich to depreciated dollar. It may be true that generally known to the public that the urine

his medicine chest and camera were appro say that a chest of China tea if sent as a gift they had to remit money to England, or it of a typhoid patient may contain the typhoid

priated by the pirates. It is observed by to a household in England would be received may not; but if that necessity to make bacillus for weeks and even months after

the Commissioner of Customs that as a rule with dubious feelings. The result of this remittances to England really existed their convalescence. Over such food, grown out An interesting and in some respects in- no resistance is offered to the pirates, and preference for Ceylon and Indian teas has condition would be no worse to-day by the of the Colony there is no control at all. portant review of trade prospects in Singa. he accounts for this tameness by the nature been a slump in the Chinese leaf, so far as appreciation in the gold value of our current Within this Colony the bye-laws require all pore appears in a recent issue of the free of the people, and parity because the crowded Great Britain is concerned.. For one thing, token, since they are able with fewer dollars excretal matters to be removed to the conserves. The writer after considering the out- state of the boats makes resistance difficult, adverse seasons have had the effect of de- to make the same remittance home. This vancy boats and hence the using of it in look from á general standpoint comes to the and renders it easy for the pirates to "hold eciating the flavour of the tea. Last year grievance was worked for all it was worth, gardens is illegal. Practically the only conclusion that the position of Singapore up" their fellow-passengers. "Consequent the cold wet spring ruined the flavour of the lowever, and complacent unofficial members manure obtainable by gardeners in Hongkong is not reassuring, and unless there is somely," he says, with something approaching first crop, and when the better quality, of the of the Council were induced to support a is of human origin and the very existence of change for the better in the condition of the complacence, there have been few deaths. Later pickings gave prospect of an improved resolution for the grant, in the first instance, market, gardens in this Colony most certain incal bazaar which is now far from satisfac In a few cases, however, fight has been shown market, adverse exchange operated to keep of exchange compensation and, subsequently, ly be taken as presumptive evidence that tory, the failure of large dealers hitherto and lives lost on both sides. As a rule the prices low. Green leaf was pronounced to double exchange compensation when the human manure is used. In spite of the fact deemed absolutely safe gives some intimation pirates are content to carry off the spoils and be the worst for years, and although the total dollar again fell, Mark the point, that while that people if caught removing excreta to of what may be expected." The writer adds: to allow the launch and boat to continue their quantity exported was equal to that of the the dollar continued to depreciate the Civil any place but the conservancy boats are1f, however, the bazaar quickly recovers in journey; but they sometimes carry off the preceding year, the prices realised were vast Servants were benefiting all the time. They were rubbing their hands in glee, these men fiable to punishment, no one should assume tone, a fixed exchange will prevent a recar-launch and use her for further outrages..ly lower.. In his annual report, Mr. H. B. that vegetables grown, in this Colony by renee of the enormous losses sestain. They have even been known to charter a Morse, the Statistical Secretary of the Im-paid on a sterling basis, so long as the dollar market gardeners are, ar can be grown with ed by Chinese and Kings during the launch in Hongkong and take her off on a perial Maritime Customs, remarks that al- dwindled in value, and the men who had elected to take their money in the currency of profit, without the use of human, minure, last months of 1995, giving greater stabi piratical cruise." It is recalled that some though the returns show shipments to

13rita in years ago the pirates became so hold that

Great

ol black tea, The moral is obvious :-Ta cat no uncooked lity and removing the principal hindrance

green the country were bemoaning their fate and vegetables unless, grown in a garden where to to canfidence in business transactions." they actually demanded subsidies not only tea, and brick tea, it is known for going about " with a face full of woe." Now

a fact that the last named is one's own knowledge such manure is not Although there has of late been an absence from native but even from foreign firms. It

that the dollar bas risen again, the Civil used." If people adhered literally to that rule of commercial prosperity in Singapore, that is satisfactory to add they did not get the for Russia, and that, is probably true of Servants come once more to the Legislative it is doubtful whether many would ever enjoy fact cannot be attributed in his opinion to subsidies. Now, why are these pirates in leaf as well. To show the falling off in Council, and through Mr. Pollock suggest that a salad in this Colony. It is practically in any lack of enterprise on the part of mer existence at all? Mr. Morgan says that the the consumption of China tea in Great they should again be favoured at the expense of the community. Assuming, for the sake possible to keep a surveillance over the chahts. On the contrary, business houses supression of fantan, the introduction of Britain the figures in the annual report may market gardens in Hongkong, and the ways have never been half so aleit or active as steam launches and other causes are as he quoted. The home consumption of of argument, that real hardship does exist among the Civil Servants, who is responsible of the gardeners are not always what they they are at the present time. They have signed for the existence of these pests, be China tea in Great Britain in 1904 was scem. No doubt many of those who have been doing everything in their power to in cause they are supposed to be eaming a 82.800 piculs; in 1905 it had fallen to or this state of affairs? Nobody but the passed the gardens in the vicinity of Happy duce business, but all to no purpose. They living in the only way left ter them; but the 49,942 piculs. And yet the consumption in Civil Servants themselves, and that can easily. Valley must have had their suspicions haves abandoned their former supercilious true cause is probably to be found in the Great Britain of all teas in 190.p was, proved. A couple of years ago, the aroused as to the character of the manure attitude towards an intending customer and facilities which the many waterways afford 1,924,950 picals, and in 1905, 4,913,1g Secretary of State for the Colonies offered which was being used to raise the vegetables, crave his business, with the result that the then for carrying out their depredations and picls: So that China only supplies to the then the alternative of drawing their but nobody dreams of taking action on bare customer is now the independent individual escaping pursuit. It is usual to suggest English market a paltry a per cent. salary partly in sterling and partly in silver. suspicion, and the Chinese gardeners pro-who is waited upon deferemially by the that if die Chinese provincial authorities of the total amount required. Mr. Morse Why did they not then adopt such a course And the reason for this changed neglect their manifest duty to exterminate adds: The hope of the future now as would reduce to a minimum any risk that eced to please themselves on the question of seller." manure, The fact that the use of uncoolted attitude is found in the keenness at competi- the pirates the river-boats of the Powers

seems to lie in the finest teas, attractive, for might be incurred as the result of a fluctuat vegetables, grown in districts which are free tion which has come to stay: It is not now should take the matter ip hand themselves, the inimitable softness of flavour, and theing dollar? There is a standing rule in the froin the trammels of sanitary inspection, is a question of a fifteen to twenty-five per and ruthlessly stamp out these hindrances

commonest teas, attractive for their cheap- Colonial Office red hook that members of the to trade. The Commissioner of Customsness. But we duubt very much whether Civil Service may not indulge in speculation. cent. profit, but of anything under seven. a very real danger to consumers is found

That rule was cast to the winds when they in the report that next to plague the The question of exchange has blinded the has another scheme, which is worth atten

even on the point of cheapness the Far Cus-largest number of cases of infectious disease Singapore merchants to the real state of tion. Work for the unemployed on roads, Eastern tea can compete with the scrapings elected to take their salaries in sterling, for occurred under the heading of typhoid fever. affairs, and the writer predicts that 1906 will etc., and a stricter policing of the water- of Indian tea which English dealers supply it is a well known fact that the vagaries There were 42 cases among Europeans, 16 show some surprising results to those who ways would probably stamp these gentry out

of the white metal are as uncertain as the to their poorest customers for little more of which were inported; while the Chinese have trusted, in the past, to recoup them and restore such confidence, in many dis- than a song. A writer in the Times in, elements. They calculated that the dollar cases numbered 37. and there were selves on a rising exchange. One of tricts, that work would follow Does this noting the deficiency in the importation of would continue to fall and that they would cases among the other races in the Colony, the features of trade competition is mean, then, that the work of constructing China tea remarked-A commission of icap still further advantages. At that time it was common rumour, even in financial circles, It will be well, therefore, for householders to the sacrifices made by foreign houses to the Canton-Hankow railways on the one Chinese experts has recently visited Indian eschew such foods as those which imply the secure a share of the market, and how hand and the Canton-Kowloon railway on and Ceylon plantations in order to ascertain that silver was still on the down grade, that the methods by which they have grown tea at would fall below 15. 6d. and might even use of uncooked vegetables, unless, of course, the elimination of the exchange ques- the other is likely to have the beneficial and they have a back garden in which they grow tion creates an important revolution in the entirely unlooked-for result of reducing the so much better than the, Chinese can; it touch 15. 2. As it turned out, the unex- the plants under their own supervision. methods of business furance. It is remarked ranks of the pirates, and causing honest

reported that the members of the pected happened, and the little "flutter" that a short time ago it was sometimes pos rascals to become decent members of commission were not hopeful of emulating indulged in by the Civil Servants proved sible to buy goods as cheaply as they were society once again? It is to be doubted. British methods on any considerable scale their unduing. Their judgment was wholly sold in Europe, but that was an unnatural Once embarked on a career of crime it is

although tentative experiments may be at fault, and if they are receiving lewer state of things which will disappear with the difficult to turn back. The spice of danger made." So far as we can leam, these experi-lotlars to-day than they anticipated, they Some interesting statistics regarding the fixity of the dollar. The fluctuation in home in raiding a boat, the game of cluding the ments have not yet began, but even if they have themselves to thank for it. Now they come forward and ask to be recompensed population of the Colony are given in the prices, and the movement in local stocks, claws of the authorities, the free and easy proved successful it is doubtful whether

China tea could supersede the Indian and for an error in calculation. Should the annual report on the sanitary condition of remain the only speculative consideration life, these are things which enter into the Hongkong, Very few have any idea as which now enters into transactions, beyond freebooter's blood-they become incradic Ceylon product, now that a taste has been to the numbers of the respective races in the ordinary margins, of profit. It is satis able. As to the policing of the waterways developed for the latter. It is rather to be the Colony, and a summary of the report factory to note that the position of Great if that is to be carried out at all it must be regretted that China tea with all its associa on this subjeri may be of value in the Britain in the Southern Colony as a manu under loreign supervision. One way or tions should lose the English market, but settlement of arguments which continually facturer of goods gives no cause for pessi another," adds the Commissioner, "a con people will have strength before quality, as arise on the point. It seems that the white mistic utterance. She is far and away in siderable number of pirates have been cap is evidenced by the housewives who begin population of tongkong numbers 10,835, front of her rivals, and there are no evidences tured and executed by the authorities; but the day with a first infusion which remains of whom 5.722 are civilians and 5,113 belong of any weakening of her bold; rather does it the public sentiment towards them seems to in the teapot all day long, the quantity of to the Navy and Army. The coloured races appear as if she would improve her supre- be somewhat like that entertained by the leaves gradually increasing as the colour (non-Chinese) number 6,837. In the city macy. One of the great drawbacks to legi commonalty towards highwaymen in Europe shows signs of weakness, till the final de

coction is little more than rank poison. of Victoria including the Peak and Stone imate trade in Singapore is the shipping in the earlier years of last century, a mere cutters Island there are 194.950 Chinese; ring which has affected commerce since tricious honour being conferred on the

EXCHANGE COMPENSATION in the villages there are 16,206; in Old 1897, by imposing restrictions entirely un-offender, by his free, dashing life and easy

IN HONGKONG. Kowloon, 73-473 in New Kowloon about natural and disturbing the balance of trade 21,000; while 54,154 live in boats. The by doing away with the benefits which flow grand total of Hongkong's population is from a "healthy competition, The writer, 37/$50.

It will hardly be believed that of however, believes that in the pear Juture the Chinese population no less than 429 the alliance will be shattered by the per cent, were males, according to the introduction of vessels of buge, tonnage figures obtained at the last census, so that which will aust the vessels of the "ring" we have the unusual position of three men The reviewer argues that Singapore is de to every woman in the Colony. And these clining as a distributing port but maintains males are not boys or decrepit old men; the that it is increasing as a port of transhipment, very reverse, for they are in the prime although that is an unprofitable business of life.

or at least half of them are compared with buying and selling. In this in that happy stage of between. To connection he remarks that "even il, as some and 45 years. Hongkong's population lives suppose, she has before her as a shipping in 8,571 houses having 25,393 floors. The port immense possiblities in the opening up average number of persons in each house is of China, the cutting of the Panama Canal 22.4 and each floor carries an average of may be considered an offset in favour of the 7-5 people. So that it will be seen the pro- ports of Manila and Hongkong. The ex portion is perilously near the limit laid down penditure on harbour works, the expansion by the Government. Indeed, one is inclin of facilitics at Tanjong Pagar and the possi Within the memory of the present genera- ed to suspect that in some cases the restric ble creation of a naval dockyard, would all tion, China tea was considered a luxury by tion of eight persons to a flat is evaded, mean the expenditure of large sums of people in England, and those who claimed The non-Chinese houses number 966. The money in the place itself, but this would that the Indian product could compare in number of persons

to the area built be more or less of a temporary nature and it the least degree with the Far Eastern article over is 270. If the authorities went by is doubtful, what, if any, increased benefit were looked upon somewhat in the light of A WARNING TO HOUSEHOLDERS, the births registered by Chinese their as a port would accrue." In all these dangerous revolutionaries. But when coffee calculations as to the population would circumstances the outlook is not reassuring falled in Ceylon and the cultivation of tea be wholly untrustworthy. It is the custom for Singapore. But the writer neglects to on a large scale was started, there was a of Chinese parents not to register a birth take into consideration the rapid develop. gradual change in the taste of the English unless the child survives the first month, and ment of the hinterland, the large areas of consumer, and that change has continued often in the case of female children the birthland in Malaya that are being brought into until the present day. Ceylon tea practically is never registered at all. It is therefore cultivation, the extension of the railways, holds the market at the present time, and assumed that all children of one month and the opening up of Johore and a variety of the once famous Pekoe occupies a miser- under who die in the convents, or are found other schemes which must all tend to assist able position far in the rear. Of course, dead in the streets, harbour, hillsides, etc., the chief part of the peninsula. On the there are those who still declare a preference have been born in the Colony but not regis whole, looking at the matter from a dis: for China tea, but they are mostly confined to tered, and accordingly a fairly accurate esti interested standpoint the writer may be those whose palate has been educated in the mate is obtained by adding the number of 4 deemed unduly pessimistic,

Interior of Chins, who have been obliged to

tomi.

The Chinese Penal Code. Albambra Cigar and Cigarette Factory, Lid. The Great Japanese Review. Clock-making in Nagoya.

Dock Charges.

Local and Genoral.

Commercial:--

Yarn Market.

Raub Gold Mine. Exchange. Opium.

BIRTHS..

On the 29th April, at Shanghai, the wife of Mr. M. ZIMMERMAN, of a son

On the 5th May, at Yangchow, to Dr. and Mrs. P. S. EVANS, Jr., a daughter.

On the 6th May, at Paoting fu, the wife of

DAVID LATTIMORE, of a SOD-

On, the 9th May, at Shanghai, to Rev, and Mrs. FRANK Rawlinson, a son.

On the oth May, at Shanghai, the wife of THOMAS K. MCINTYRE, of a son (still-born),"

On the 6th May, at the British Legation, Peking, the wife of C. C. A. Kunke, of a son.

HOLLINGS-O the 14th May, job, at Brentwood, Essex, England, the wife of A, E. Hollings, of a son, ALFRED MAURICE, Both doing well. (By cable.)

MARRIAGE.

On the 8th May, at Ningpo, the Rev. WALTER ROBBINS (C.M.8.) of Taichow, to Miss MARIE

LOUISE WOODRUFF.

DEATHS.

On the 31th March last, at Beckenham, Kent, JOHN BRAND, formerly of Shanglini,

At Hove, on 17th April, Lucy, widow of W. W. Williams, Jate Colonial Treasurer, Straits Settlements, aged 71.

On the 6th May, at Shanghai, Jost FRAN- CISCO DE ROZARIO, aged 52.

On the 8th May, at Shanghai, WALTER GORDON STROUD, aged 27 years.

The Hongkong Telegraph

MAIL SUPPLEMENT, 15SUED GRATIS TO SUBSCRIBERS.

HONGKONG, SATurday, May, 19, 1906.

(14th May.) Considerable attention has been given of late to the largely enhanced cost of veget- ables in Hongkong, but in dealing with this subject people are apt to overlook the dan- gera which lark in the green foodstuffs which come into the Colony. It is a well known fact that in cultivating vegetables the market gardeners, who are practically Chinese to a man, are in the habit of using human excreta

HONGKONG'S POPULATION.

bearing when retribution eventually overtook him." But the gay and gallant highwayman was exterminated, despite his free and easy bearing on the gallows tree and the plaudits of those who found in his end sport for an English holiday; and there is no reason why the dashing buccaneers of the Canton delta should not also be wiped out, by the rough and ready methods, if necessary, of earlier days. We have referred only to pirates in the Canton district, but these decennial reports of Customs officials all round the coast teem with details of the damage and destruction done by pirates to legitimate trade and helpless travellers.

DECLINE OF CHINA TEA.

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Colony be called upon virtually to give this administrative staff a zo per cent. bonus on half their salaries? Is it not better that the Colony should reap the advantage which has resulted from the increased value of the dollar, and carry out urgerit works of necessi ty with the surplus which will result? We are not suggesting that the Colony should act in any niggardly spirit towards the ad ministrative staff, but the bigher grade Civil Servants have already received, exchange rompensation, and double compensation too, inerely because they asked for it. Are they going to receive still another "grant-in-aid" because they ask for it? Are the moneys (16th May.)

required for public requirements to be One of the curious, features of the ad- diverted into the pockets of the Civil Ser ministration of Hongkong is the wonderful vants? The idea is absurd. When the partiality, which is shown the higher paid Straits Settlements Government suddenly branches of the Civil Service of the Colony. fixed the dollar at 25, 40, an arbitrary rate On every occasion possible their wishes,not at all regulated by the current value of

the coin but to obtain security for the Go which are by no means restrained or mo derate, are met, if they are not forestalled,vernment, there was no suggestion of com to the detriment of those who occupy junior pensating the Civil Servants there who.draw positions, and to the injury in some cases of their pay on a sterling basis. The fact of the the public purse. Were it the fact that the matter is, the Civil Servants of Hongkong subordinates in the Civil Service participated have not the ghost, of a leg to stand on. in the distribution of plums which is perio. When they saw the dollar rising they should dically made there might be less to cavil at, have curtailed their expenses; they had but it would almost seem as if they were plenty of time to do so. Many a poor ostentatiously ignored, and being voiceless covenanted employé has to work for private they are treated as the goals of the Service. firms in the city; does he get any exchange, There may be no intention on the part of and double exchange, and triple, exchange the Government to slight a most deserving compensation? No, he has to grin and body of men, but unfortunately the general bear it. He is hardly likely to be comfort policy of the powers that be would lead one ed when he knows that any compensation to think otherwise, and a new demand which given to the Civil Servants comes out of his has been submitted does not tend to dis-pockets in some way or other. And when sipate that opinion. This demand takes the the junior members of the Civil Service gee form of a question which will be answered, how the cause of the well-to-do is champion- no doubt, at the meeting of the Legislative ed by the representatives of the people, while Council to-morrow, and strange to relate the their little wants-little to outsiders bul demand is submitted by a non-official mem all-absorbing to them-are callously cast ber of the Council, one pledged to safeguard aside as valueless and not worth the con the interests of the city and to see that no in sideration or advocacy of Colonial states. justice in done to the ratepayers. Standing meh, are they likely to be satisfied or work in the name of the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, any better? Mr. Pollock is capable of much x.C., is the following question: "Will the good at the Council and we would not dis Government consider the advisability of parage him for a moment, but surely he was granting to those Civil Servants who are advised when he brought forward this drawing their pay on a sterling basis the purely imaginary grievance,