1907-11-29 — Page 1

The Hongkong Telegraph.

NEW SERIES No. 5620

CONTENTS.

Births, Marriagos, and Deaths, Leading Artioles

Shanghai's Rubber Interests: The Future of the Philippines," "A Sanitary Board Mare's,Nest-

Chinese Engineering and Mining Company The Public Works Department. St. Andrew's Day,

Telegrams:

West River Patrol,

International Walking, Match. Anti-dynastic Riots!"

*West River Patrol Service.

Naoking Electric Tramwa}, Shanghai Riot Claims

North China Troubles.

Mootings --

Legislative Council,

Sanitary Board.

Kulangau (Amoy) Municipal Chuncil.

Lagal Intelligence:-

A Pirated Junk.....

The Swatow "Reforger."

Tal Ping Theatre:

Police:

'Love's Dreams.

Carwating a Bark Shroff,

"Star" Ferry Fracany

Robbery at Éist Point.

Tragic End of a Boat Woman.

Peer Bux's Troubles.

Correspondence:~

Interport Cricket and Lawn Tennis. The Alleged Disturbances in Portugal Miscellaneous Articles and Reports :-----

St. Andrew's Ball.

Hongkong Shipping Firms Boycotted,

"Bishop of Victoria.

Sugur Conventión,

Public Health Commission.

West River. Patin).

Kowtron-Canton Railway..

Hongkong Harbour.

Kowloon Waterworks,

Marringe at ibe Cathedral. New Law Court.

Kangarked.

Cigarette Shop Private Enterprise in Hongkong, Sir Paul Chater's. Mines,

Hongkong Land Sales.

An Easy Way

New Phat Offee

Live.

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Race Griffins for Hongkong.

Sale of Rare Ponies.

Signalling Approaching Vessels. Chinise Engineering aul Mining Co." Hongkong Piers,

Volunteer Corps Diders

New Western Misket,

Scene on-Blake Piere"

Barghury in the House Street. Garrison Fontball League; Canton Day by Day, Raub Gold Minlog Co. Shanghai Edro, Trouble,, Coal Areas in China.“ International Catton Mills. Child Labour in Shanghif, Indo-Japanese Trade.

The Inland Sea Collision Cassi Disabled Vessel in Yokohama. Commercial Modity in Japan. "Police Pratection in Japan. Japanese Turbine Steamers,

A "Ghost" Scie

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in Ceylon, India, and the Straits the paper abiding set of people." After referring to course, opinions differ on that point. What GIII VESE ENGIEB ING AND ocean-going steamers, we believe the chifr have been devoting unlimited space for years, their hospitality be added: "I found the the United States wants is a prosperous,

man referred to such important lines as past to the new industry in all its phases, people also very frank in their talk about Thriving and self-supporting Colony, where

thore operated by the Hamburg Amerika but once having "caught on, as it were, conditions. I found agriculture, especially labour is abundant and unfettered. If that the significance of the small paragraphs Linie and the Chargeurs Reunis, whose and convinced as most of us here probably as regards the culture of hemp and rice, state of affairs cannot be attained by the which appear from week to weer in our hosts call at regular and afated intervall at are by this time, of the vast expansion picking up well. It is increasing favourably help of the resident Filipino, the agricul columns concerning the output and sales of Ching Wang Tro, Indeed, the opinion is that awaits the whole rubber business The situation is a hopeful one." So far as it ural labourer of the interior, then there is the Chinese Engineering and Mining Com entertained by some of those whose views that is, the cultivation of the rubber trees,

goes that view of the condition of things is no no other alternative than the free immigra-pany's coal from the Company's fields may not are entitled to some consideration that Ching the production of the raw material, and doubt highly satisfactory from the standpoint ion of the indefatigable Chinese worker, have been as apparent to the general reader ang Tao, being, as it is, fce-free through- the handling of the finished article-Hong of the optimist, but we should have liked to who will convert a barren wilderness into a as it proved to those who closely watched out the year, promises to become the port of -kong, Shanghai and all the other ports in learn something about the labour proposi smiling oasis.

the figures and were immediately interested Northern China, and that it will attain to its the Far East are likely to find rubber playing tion in the interior. Has the native"

in the working of the largest undertaking highest degree of prosperity at the cost a largo part in their commercial life before population overcome its aforetime objection

wherein British capital is invested in North of the well-established and older port many more years are over, Rubber, in fact, to tilling the soil? Is the Filipino will

China. Readers of our editorial columns of Tientsio. We have no opinion may confidently be expected to exercise aing to hire li ́mself out as a day labourer

must have been long aware of the sanguine of our own to offer on this point, but vast economic influence in the affairs of the to those who have invested in agricultural

views we have held even at the most critical considering the energy which has been entire Far East, to take the place perhaps land. We are told that in Manila he has (a7th November.)

stage of the company's existence, as to the applied towards the development of the that opium now occupier and, in, the comcast off his former habits of laziness, in As the result of the repeated assertions immediate and future prospects of the Chi-port of Ching Wang Tao and to induce visits merce of these regions, when China fiually order that he may earn aufficient to enable made at the Sanitary Board that the efforts nese Engineering and Mining Company, by regular ocean liners of the more impor shuts down on business in the insidious but him to dispert his charms after the day's of the members to secure the health of the Those views were neither hastily formed nor tant steamship companies, there, Lulittle entwhile profitable poppy. There are far-work is finished. That may be, but what Community the same time causing the too optimistically entertained. They were doubt that, whatever may be the comparative sighted people even now, who can discern, about the independent resident is the least pouible inconvenience to the rate the views based upon a careful perusal and merits of the two ports, Ching Wang Teo with the mind's eye, great regions in the country districts, where the attraction of payers, were in many cases nullified by the close study of the history, political as well as bids fate to out-rivat-its alder competitor. provinces of Yunnan, Szechuen and Kwang fine raiment and social pleasures is less im action of the Governor-in-Council in refusing commercial, of the company from its very Optimistic as we are of the future prospects si, which are at present devoted the cul-portant because it cannot be displayed to adopt the recommendations of the Board, inception, when it passed as a purely Chi of the Chinese Engineering and Mining. tivation of the popp", covered with flourish the banker remarked: "There are wont was generally accepted as a fact that the hese undertaking into the hands of Britlah Company, we are not vomindful of the fact ing rubber plantation; for experts tell as derful opportunities in the archipelago for members had a grievance, of sorts. And no financiers, who constituted it a British com that today it does not hold the position of that the soil and climatic conditions which a riculture. The soil is magnificent and all doubt, when a particularly clamant individual pany under the laws of Great Britain. We monopolist in the matter of coal pro- favour the growth of the poppy are also that could be made to grow here would desired that some modification in the require need not at this time enter into any recapitula- duction in China within the carboniferous suited to the cultivation of the Siphonin grow with great abundance. I believe the ments of the Public Health and Buildings. tion of the political wrestling for the control area of the Empire. One factor, however, lastica, in other words, the rubber tree. In Philippines have a great future before them, Ordinance should be made in his particular of thisprosperous company. It is now a matter operates entirely in its favour, and it is view of the manifest importance of the sub | agriculturalty. We accept those dicta. as case, it was easy to quieten him by explain of history, although more may yet be heard factor of no mean importance. That is, ject the hunghui Times, has been at sume heing a perfectly proper statement of what ing that so far as the Board was concerned as to the claims put forward by Cheng Yen that whatever its production there is a ready pains to inquire into the present magnitude of could be done by the exercise of manual everything hal been done to meet his lap on behalf of the former Chinese owners, market, even at the mouth of the mines, for the industry and the extent of Shanghai'saliore labour furnished by the natives, but are the wishes but the remorseless Governor-in-That this aspect of the question an affecting its enormous output, and the price of the in it, and lays the figures before its readers. natives willing to come to the rescue? So ouncil would have none of it. The Gover the Chinese. Engineering and Mining Com coal, although somewhat inferior in quality The world's consumption of rubber, it is for as can be seen, the Insular Government or-in-Council was an excellent bogey to act many should be settled once and for all most to those of other companies, makes it of stated, for the yer ending June, 1996, was

is by no means inclined to favour Chinese up. There are hundreds of people who talk of the shareholders and the wellwishers. of paying value to its constituents; and as in 02,974 tons, which, in view of the increasing coolle labour, and it may be accepted as an of the Governor-in-Council as glly as they the company would, without a doubt, like to dustries promise to develop in China there are brought about as soon as possible, for can be little doubt that the supply will be mumber of uses to which rubber is now put, axiom that the members of the new Assem-would refer to the constitution of their own together with the heavy and growing bly, composed as it is of Filipino patriots, household, yet it is extremely questionable if there are a dimid few who may feel a certain made equal to the demands upon the demands of the automobile and bicycle in

witi oppose any scheme of Chinese immigra- they could define even a section of its hesitancy even as to the undoubted stability resources of the company. dustries, may be expected to undergo a vast lion to the utmost of heir ability. The functions or give the names of those of the undertaking as a purely British con increase in the near future. From a summary whole question then resolves itself into this: who form it. So that when the self-made cern, so long as the repeated "claims of of the capital invested in rubber companies Is there a sufficiency of native labour to builder complaimed that it was unreason Cheng Yen Map crop up at intermittent registered in Great Britain, Ceylon, India develop the agricultural and mineral possi- able to require, that pettifogging demands intervals. However, that is a matter which, and Malaysia, to which we have had access;

Billies of the islands? And, if there be, is should be carried into effect in accordance as already reported, the Eastern manager, It would appear that companies entirely that labour procurable by those who have with the exact letter of the law, it was a | Major Nathan, has gone into and, we be

(18th November.). There is an old Scotch Jacobite song which devoted to ruliber growing have invested the interests of the country at heart? In the simple matter to hold up the Governor-in- lieve, he has proceeded to London in order has the refrais, "Oh, but ye've been lang o in Ceylon and Indis €785,00; in Malaysia West Indies, after te slaves were emanci- Council to obloquy. Probably there are to consult with his board of directors with comin, lang lang, lang of coming" and the £4,500,000; in the islands of the Indo-pated, after they became imbued with an it a few ratepayers who regard the Goverview to a settlement of those claims, even lion. Mr. W. Chatham, CMG., Director of Milayan regions £678,000; in America | inflated idea of their own importance, the notih Council as a sort of Council of Ten, although the company is advised that the 'ublic Works, will understand: best of all £765,000 and in Africa £43,non, Asso negroes refused to work at The beck and call some such secret conclave, whose own Chinese have none in point of law, We, what we, allude. It is now approaching cations, cultivating rubber in addition to of their former employers, or of anybądy else interests are kept paramount. Be that as it now come to the immediate purport of the the last month of the year of grace, 1907, lea, cacao, and other products have a capi- for that matter. They were content to scratch misy Mr. Lau Chu-pak performed a useful present article, which is a review of the com. Labours of the Public Works Department for And we are favoured with the repors on the lal of £9,012,176, bringing up the total a hole in the ground on which they squatted, service to the community when he called pany's position as presented to the share 1006 teless to dwell on the paint, but British capital invested to £14,363,300. and pans the day in tolling idleness, the for a return showing "(a) The number of holders by the chairman at the annual meet certainly reads like ancient history when Bearing in mind the fact that these vast ferility of the soll and the character of the the Board's recommendations which have ing, which was held in London last month. every other paragraph in the report refers to sunis are British money only, and that all climate aiding and abetting them in their been accepted or refused by the Governor. The net profits which have been derived by the typhoon of the 18th September, god, the the other commercial nations of the world indolence. The result was that planters in Council from January 1, 1907, and (b) the company during the year 1906-7 con-

liavoc wrought and the expense it entailed. are interested in proportion, an idea may could not secure labour at any price. At where the recommendations were refused, stitute the record since the establishment of the hardest worked of any in, the service, and Undoubtedly the Public Works Department is possibly he formed of the great magni length they were compelled to seek new whether the Board decided differently from the undertaking, and enabled the directors the Director is perhaps the most painstaking, tude to which the industry this even now sources of labour, and thus began the system what the Building Authority or the Medical to pay a go per cent, increase in dividend hat with all deference we might be permilled attained, and of the prospects, which it holds of the assisted emigration of Indian coblies,fficer of Health advised. From what we over that of the preceding year. This to hint that a report which appears a year after. '00! to capitalists-those belonging to who have since proved the mainstay of the can gather from the trend of the discussion, satisfactory result is not alone what the com- the event is just a ride belated. Still it has Shanghai as well as to other places of profit great plantations in Demerara, Jamaica and Mr. Lau Chu-pak was somewhat sur pany has been capable of showing, for arrived and, who all is said and dune, that is able investment, The Shanghai companies Trinidad. It was sheer necessity which prised to learn the answer to his Inquiry, additional profits have been earned after an

the maja thing to be considered. It appenin represent a total authorised, capital invested led the Colonial Governments to counThe Secretary's reply was:a) The total expenditure on capital account of £110,000 by the Legislative Council under the Estimates that while something-lika $2,584,7.6 was voted in rubber of Shanghai theis 1,175,000 and tenance the advent of indus, but their recommendations relative to sections 175 has been made on an electrical installation and supplementary votes, the actual expens £16,000, or, taking the latter amount at the arrival proved the salvation of the West in 88, 153, etc., since January 1, number 176 at the mines, which will enormously increase diture amounted to $1,45,73. On the current rate of exchange (two shillings and dian Islands. Do the Filipinos differ very (b) Recommendations, refused by the Go the output both at Tongshan and Linsi, at Stem of Personal emafumenis and other eight pence and three-eighths)-Tis. 563,397, materially from the West Indian négroes in vernment, 4, (c) Sull under consideration a considerable reduction in the prime cost charges" a ravias of practically $8,000 wat

effected due, we are told, to the risa in ex from honest toil ?. The Filipino townsman Governor-in-Council sanctioned the recom- cost of labour advisedly; for it must not be in 190; on the basis of a 4 Bd dollar, whereas cannot be considered in the same category as mendations of the Sanitary Board in 170 inferred that by the addition of the labour average actual rate was 28 14 16 the the country labourer, for while the former cases out of 176; and that two are still in the saving appliances and devices the item of Estimates for 18 had been based on the must utilise a modicum of his bodily indefinite stage, is proof positive that there expenditure on coolie labour is in any way une conservative principle the result might strength or his mental advancement if he isis not the slightest antagonism on the part diminished., •In fact, it is shown to be just have proved more ecotomical for the public to take advantage of the pleasures of town of the supreme or revising authority to the the other way. From a few hundred coolies exchequer, especially as the dollar seems life, the latter is moved by no such impulse, labours of the Sanitary Board. Yet Mr. who have been hitherto employed in pro the 21 standard. Towards what is called to "be on the verge of falling below. and may be content to vegetate in a slate Lau Chupak wrote:The Board's respecting and other works on the extensive Annually recurrent works" a total sum of fa6th November.}

approaching physical coma for the greater cent recommendations have been refused fields of the company, the roll-call, we $412,250 was voted, but of that there was spint Those who have discussed the question of part of his life. The doctrine also that the to almost every case, and as the Board believe, has recently been augmented, merely $379.797; while for Extraordinary the future of the Philippine Islands and native is a good as the foreigner has has no power to grant applications for unit the number has increased to over works" a grant of $1.989 524 was made, ali their potential value to the people of the been inculcated by the Americans with such exemption or modification such applica a thousand native labourers who are though the Department only matiged to ex United States-in conversation with Ameri persistence that the Filipino may assume tions should in futere be forwarded direct to daily engaged at the works in connection pend $1,463 858. It is explained that the ex- cans resident, in Manilo and the insular coast that he loses somewhat of his dignity when the Government. As things go at the pre with the undertaking. And this pay-roli Pnditure fell much below tre estimates in parts must have been struck by the unanimity he hires himself out as a labourer. Already sent, personally I think it simply a waste of does not by any means seem to have reach Office ($87.939 14), Prison ($40,000), New roads regard in the Law Couis (517.309.38), Post with which they express their opinion as to the acquisition of the Philippines has cost valuable time in discussing and making ed in maximum limits. The output of coal in Kowloon ($ 2,150 75), Permanent marke for the prospective importance of the islands, the United States in the region of four recommendations on them." How he itself was increased by as per cent, in the travene survey points in New Territories The agricultural and mineral, wealth of the hundred million dollars, gold, and the hopes to sustain his argument that year under review as compared with 1905-6, (51 on e), Reinforced concrete plers country is described an beyond calculation; capital expenditure has riot yet ceased. We the Board should cease to deliberate and we are told by the Chairman that the ($8,781.97). Innhary property scrumpling the industry of the natives, impelled by the are told, however, by the Far Eastern Review on matters essentially of a domestic character general manager estimates that the output (5:3-66.62). Kowloon waterworks (331,<8183) spectacle of American energy, is a constantly that ; " The Philippines are not a bad, bar- in face of the official and undisputed figures for the current year will be increased and Reconstruction el "No"2 (ark (5*4,935 85). As regards the item "risan," the report states, increasing quantity; the formation of railway gals. They are not a bad investment. No in the return it is impossible to conceive. by another, advance of 25 per

instructions were received that no expenditure communications and the construction of | country in the world offer such inducements Even supposing that the two cases, still, making the estimated total for was to be incurred in connection with it and, roads proceed space; so that within a few for the Investment of capital, if the laws are under consideration are rejected, against current year. 1,200,000 tons. So that as regards the item New ads in Kowloon? years the Philippines should prove a rich passed which will permit their development, the recommendation of the Board, surely within three years the mines have increased that a saving of aliout $12,0-6 was to be effect investment for those who have had the pluck The lands are there, the labour is there, and the fact that over 96.5 per cent, of the their productive value to the stockholders cd, in the case of the other items mentioned, to act es pioneers and the belief in the coun only capital le lacking. But capital will not recommendations are endorsed by the by go per cent. Yet on the asscis side of the savings were mostly due to less progreis try to wait the returns they descry. Whe enter, until the "slands are given a fair | Governor-in-Council amply warrants the the account we see that the directors have being made with the works than waszantici• ther, such views are merely paraded for the chance and the limit on the lands increased. Board in continuing their work of discussing not, as some Far Eastern undertakings have Dated, or to stres ordered from England not benefit of the foreign interrogator, or actual. Keen interest is manifested by financial the applications to which Mr. Lau Chu-pak recently done in Hongkong and elsewhere, votes, bar, with regard to the fast item, it has arriving in time to be charged against the At Sopchow, WILLIAN HOWARD, ton of Dly represent the settled convictions of those circles in the United States in the Philip refers, And to suggest that because rather thought of watering the capital of the com- been considered advisable to adopt sonther - an Mrs. A. G. Béarn, aɖe 21 years.

November 14,1 07 at Yokohama, HARRY who give them definite express on, it is, of pines, and capital is slowly going into such less than 35 of the recommendations are pany to any undue extent, for the figures scheme which will probably render it unneces THOM'S WAVELL chief examiner, L. M. Concourse, difficult to say. But this much is clear; enterprises an are not affected by adverse refused, the Board is simply wanting is representing the purchase value of the comary to proceed with the reconstruction No. toms, Chefoo..

mage that scarcely a single publication emanating laws. The mining industry shows signs of a|"valuable time"lo discussing god, making pany's undertaking, £1,037,811, stand in 2 tank - There was excess expenditure over the Antonio de Padua BARROS, Purser of ** from Manila fails to expound them. A Manila | healthy growth, and in the next year or so, recommendations on the applications" is to the balance sheet, as on the day when the new Harbour Office and the Weston Market to Fathan, at his residence. No. 10, Beliling banker, Mr. Evans, has been touring the sou. there will be some millions of American say, in the words of the Houyhnhnms, "the undertaking was taken over six years ago. Kowloon Canton railway in the extent of over the amount of over $29,000, and in the case of be Terrace, at 3.15 am on the 15th inst. Suddenly. Thern islands lately, in company with a judge capital invested in these ventures. But the thing that is not," None of the other These figures are a sufficient indication of $31,000. The damages caused by the tyr hoon. Deeply regretted

and a representative of the International great wealth of the Is'ands lies in agrical members of the Board, seems disposed to the enormous value of the enterprise to its amounted to nearly $50.0.0. The actual ex Bank. Interviewed by a representative of ture, sugar, tobacco, hemp, ele, and when endorse the views of Mr. Lau ('hu pak.' It owners, and when we take into consideration penditure on Public Works Extrafrdinary, an Ura Cholinews-American, and asked 4s to his the American market is opened to these is highly probable that should the Board the importance of the port of Ching Wang shown by the statement; fell short of the conditions, Mr. Evans limited himself to that some inducement will be offered capital the Ordinance, simply because a few recom.nwrs every inch of ground comprised within but if the amounts refunded from the Railway stating that he was not prepared to speak on

the Islands will soon, recuperate and will mendations presented to the Governor in the territory held under lease from the Chin- this phase of the trip just yet. He expressed prove one of the best investments the Council had not been endorsed, the Govern ese Government, and add to that the fleet the opinion that the Country it bire of won United States has ever made." That statement might find it necessary to curtail the which is owned and controlled by the com. derful undeveloped resources as a whole, ment was made in connection with the sug functions of the Board in other directions. pany we present to our readers-a combina and, as regards agriculture in particular, gestion that the islands should be sold to. It is not suggested that the Sanitary Board | ilon of assets which is not only large in its There are vast tracts of tillable land still Japan. But here again, the question of labour is invested with any very marked degree of capital value but still greater in its prospective lying idle all over the country. The is almost entirely avoided and, we submit, that authority at the present time, but at all worth! We have seen it critically remarked lands are largely agricultural, continued Mr. when the question is brought down to a fine events it is perfectly plain that its proposals that to protect their own fleet of steamers Evans, We went somewhat into the interior point that is the kernel of the whole matter feceive full consideration at the hands the authorities at Ching Wang Tao maintain but did not enter the vast timber ranges We need not repeat what we have said over of the Governor-in-Council, and the willa tariff which acts preferentially in favour of so I cannot speak of the timber resources, and over again that, assuming the disincline of the Board is usually that of the the" Fing" boats as against liners belonging With regard to the cause for the land lying tion of the Filipinos to take the principal higher body. As Mr. Hewett said It to foreign or even British companies. That idle, Mr. Evans was of the opinion that it share in developing the agricultural and would, be a very retrograde step to adopt there is little, in, auch criticism is fairly was due to a large extent to the death mineral wealth of the country, the sole Mr. Lau Chu-pak proposal simply be obvious from the remarks of the chairman of the animals, necessary in agricultural solution is to be found in the importation of use the Government in a few isolated at the last meeting of shareholders. He said undertakings., fie maintained that the death cheap Chinese labour. If there be any case has not adopted the decision "The trade of the port increased steadily from disease of so many carabao was the other solution, and we take it that white of the majority of the Board". Apparently, several of the largest shipping firms in China greatest affliction that had come upon the | Tabpur is, out of the question, then it, the originator of the proposal hopes to bring | had established themselves there, the vialus people of the Philippines, greater by far than would be interesting to hear what it is, it op the matter at some future meeting, hut of large oceangaing mexmers were becoming A good deal of money lávested in the rubber any of their other trials, troubles and calam | cannot be argued that the conditions which ac, fancy, that if he gives the matter a little more frequent, and the advanta ́offered; /Industry-and- the signs of the times go to "itten. Holwan very favourably impressad 1 led to the exclusion of Chinese coolies from further, thought he will aurive at the con- by the Ching Wing Tho

with the Filipino people. * They seem to, America are in any respect: analagous to clusion that he has discovered a mare's, as compared with the route rin me to be a happy and contented and law those prevailing in the Pallippings, but of, nest

being more sed more.

Alleged Bri ish Seizure,

Anti-Opium Campaign.

A Pencil Factory

Fukien Merchants in the Philippings,

A Boating Incident..

Sir Arthur Moore and the China Command.

A Call from Chinx,

The Outinok fór Siam.

Hana University

Commercial:-

Yarh Market. Exchange

Local and General.

"BIRTHS:

On November 18, 1907, at Shanghai, the wife

of, Max Müller, of a 200,

GOATZ-On 18th November, at Berlin, the Wife of Mr. E. GOETZ, nf a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

On November 23, 1937, at Shanghai, CARL OFCAR, eldest son of the late Carl Christian Bojesen, DM, of Copenhagen and Shanghai, to ANNIE SATSIE, eldest daughter of the late Captain, Samuel Augustus Lord, of Salem, Mass, USA.

HOPE HOOPER -On 17th Navember; 1007. at St. Joho's Cathedral, on, kong, the Rev. F. T. Johnson, assisted by Rev 65. Stories Chaplain to HM... Forces, Lieut. JORN UAMBON POPE, Royal Garrison Artillery, san of Major-General 1, E. Hopa, Royal Artillery, Henley-on-Thames, to CHRISTINE ISSIE SHELTON elder daughter of A Shelton Hooper, Rougemont, Hongkong,

DEATHS.·'

68-a total of Shanghai tacks 1.738,397, and their desire for personal freedom-freedom by the Government, z. The fact that the of labour. We say reduction in the prime cha ge, the Estimates having been prepared

of this sum Shanghai taels 1,271,648,84 bas been already paid up.

THE FUTURE OF TUK PHILIPPINES.

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The Honghong Celegraph investigations, of financial and indosirial per ducts and the land low repeated so refute to perform its duties as laid down in Tao (o the company, and also the fact that if amount provided in the Reimates by 597-82134,

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MAIL SUPPLEMENT; } ISSUED GRATIS TO SUBSCRIBERS.

·HONGKONG, FWİDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1907.

SHANGHAI'S RUBBER-

INJERUSTS

(25th November.) While it is unquestionable that Hongkong investors have not been backward in re cognising the importance of the "boom" in rubber shares, they have been by no means enthusiastic as the people in the Straits, there rubber has been the talk of specula tom for years. In Shanghai, we learn from The Time of that port, there is already

thow that there, will be a good deal more applied in the arms way before very long,

were

The

includ d, the expenditure only fell short of the Account, ad obtained from other sources be estimated amount by 520,294.57. or less than 2% Referring once again to the typhoon, w find here for the first time a certain amount of complacency, notwithstanding its effect, forike Director of Public Works Tremarke though it caused the expenditure of a large sums disastrous.. typhoon, off the 18th September us in repain to existing works, had the opposite effect as regards works in course of constrac 100, as most of the temporary, stricturns in connection with the e; such as maisbedar scaffoldings; de were actively-demolished, progress and expenditure on Public Works decrrise to the expenditure of the Department Extraordinary being thus dimisi bad. The in 1006 a compared with that of the pr. Jous your was $3 1 805, but when one comes to analyte the reasons for the decrosse; it is obvious that it was don to purely fortaltous causes. Under the heading of 1) Land:15744 and surveys, « it is recorded that the amodej si premium paid into the Treasury during th YEAT WAS $320,002.09 or considerably less: kan

estimate which amounte