1908-02-20 — Page 4

Intimation

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20, 1908.

A. S. WATSON & CO., time-before the twentieth year on the payment

LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841

CHEMISTS,

BY. AFPOINTMENT TO

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR AND HOUSEHOLD.

a

MOORING BUOYS.

GOVERNMENT AND CHAMBER OF

E COMMERCE AT VARIANCER

"A VERY SERIOUS APPREHENSION."

Colonial Secretary's Office,

are at variance with those of bis immediate predecessors is not correct. Cap Ramsay discursed the matter, with Captain Taylor and assisted him in drafting the schema es ori, ginally put forward, and Captain Barnes-Law rence's approval of it is on record

az, The prosperity of Hongkong depands to farge, extent, as has frequently been urged by your Chamber, upon its shipping, and the present proposals are the outcome of a very serious apprehension, which may prove to be not altogether unfounded, that disadvantages under which a considerable percentage of the *** Hongkong, “4th January, 1908. SIR-Referring to your letter of the 5th visiting the port are placed as regards berthing accommodation may tend to make the September last, in which you have dealt as port unpopular and so to drive trade away. length with the proposal of this Government to make leased moorings in the harbour available to vessels other than those of the lessees, I am directed to put forward for the consideration of your Chamber a more detailed account than was given in my letter of the 6th August of the grounds upon which this proposal is founded.

1. The statement, that more than half of the total number of private moorings are always unoccupied, was based upon evidence obtained

Your committee are of course at one with

decide, payment being made in all cases 14 up of her resources, and the training of her! days previous to the date of issue. After the sons. If it be objected that Chlon will do! expitation of ten years, the Chipase Govern- these things for herself, the reply, fa that, for ment may if it so dorise redeem the outstand the time being, she cannot, and by so much ing amount of the loan or any part of it any she will be delaying and endangering the All this applies to railway making, mining, very development which she most desires of a premium of 21%, or £102 101, op every

and industrial work generally. If in these. The following letter on the subject of private Lino bond. After the twentieth year redemp

serious attempt is made to walk alone, faimooring buoys in the harbour is included in lion can be made without premium, but in any lure is practically certain. What applies to that report sued to day

the appendices to the Chamber of Commerce case six months" notice must be given by the the development of resources applies also Chinese Government, and the method of re to the application of them. China needs demption shall be by the drawing of additional

an army and pavy, The first she has beguo bonds at each ordinary drawing. The Hong to develop. The second she is talking kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation about. Under pressure down south she has and the Deutsch Asiatische Bank are to actually begun a serious effort to suppress receive a quarter per cent, as commission piracy. But money is needed, and money is for acting as agents. The loan is secured in not forthcoming in anything like sufficient the following manner which we quote from quantities at present. It will requite many, Article 9: By lekin internal revenues of many years before it is possible that China the province of Chibli 1,200,000 Haikuan Tacis can have a navy as efficient as that of Japan, a year; 2-By lekin and internal revenues of and till she has, her hopes of being received the province of Shantung 1,650,000 Haikuas as an equal amongst equals will be doomed Taels a year, and 3-By the revenue of the to disappointment. Consequently 'we' are Nanking Lekin. Collectorate gon,poo Haikuan thrown back once again upon the finhacial Taels a year and of the Huai-an Native Cus-question. One of two things must be done. toms 100,000 Haikuan Tacis a year in the It is better to develop than to borrow. It is BURROUGHS WELLCOME & Co., | province of Klangau. The provincial revenues also bafer. Hence we see once more the short

sightedness of the policy now being pursued.. Another question has to be answered before a decision can be come to us to the time it will take for China to become sufficiently developed to be received as amongst the Powers. How long will it take for her to establish a modern system of law and legal procedure in place of the patch work of local custom, old world enactments, and jurisprudence tempered with bribery, which is the "system", of the present? Not before that has been done to the satisfaction of the outer world will there be one whisper of the abolition of extra- territoriality listened to. The United States may discover a huge mistake in their book-buoys were lile used, the northern China, the former of which belongs to the Canton

DEPOT FOR

THE FINE PRODUCTS

OF

LONDON.

'TABLOID' BRAND PRODUCTS. 'SOLOID' BRAND PRODUCTS.

· KEPLER' MALT EXTRACT. KEPLER' SOLUTION or COD LIVER

OIL IN MALT EXTRACT. BEEF AND IRON WINE (B.W. & Co.)

DARTRING! LANOLINE PREPARA-

TIONS.

HAZELINE," "HAZELINE CREAM,"

"HAZELINE SNOW," &c, &c., &c. ̧ 'TABLOID' MEdicine chestS, AND

POCKET MEDICINE CASES.

The Fine Products of BURROUGHS WELLCOME & Co., are prescribed by

loading Physicians all over the World..

an equal

as shove are declared free from all other loans, charges or mortgages." The loan, it is laid down, is to be issued in two or "more instalments of bonds, the first issue of as possible £3,000,000, being mada "as" soon after the signing of the Agreement, and sub scriptions are to be invited in Europe and Chipa. After referring to the conditions under which the account, shall be kept, provision is 'made in the Agreement permitting the syndi cate an extension of time should political fail in or financial troubles CAURO A the value of Government Stocks so that the successful issue of the loan would be ren dered impossible on the terms named. It has also been agreed that the construction and keeping and be honest enough to admit it control of the railway will be entirely in the sending back millions of wrongly exacted hands of the Chinese Government, but British dollars; but Washington will not subject one of her sons to torture or the amenities of and German chief engineers will be selected to

Chinese prison practice as at present under supervise the work. When the line is com- stood. Here again money will be required pleted a European engineer-in-chief will be ap for the purpose of establishing a new legal pointed to retain office so long as the loan sub-procedure, a complete change in prison sists. With regard to the material which will be practice, including the building of hundreds required for the line the Agreement says of thousands of modern structures, and the, "At equal rates and qualities, goods of German enrolment of more police. A generation and British manufacture shall be given pre will be all too short for these things, espe- ference over other goods of fordiga origin for cially if the present mistakes be persistently

this Government in their desire to foster trade by every means in their power, and Hig Excellency is confident that the figures and Arguments now put forward will receive their most, careful consideration. Before effect is give to to the scheme, it would of course be

such questions as the antifying ships of the necessary to arrang certain details regarding moorings they are to take up, damage done to by the Harbour Master by personal observation

13. I am empowered by Messrs. Dodwell & during 19:4 and 1906, supplemented by daily extending over a period of more than two years, buoys and similar matters.

Co, and by Messi, McGregor Brothers and verbal reports from the Boarding Officers; and by special daily reports made during 8 weeks Gow to say that the proposed scheme has their at the beginning of last year. Subsequently to approval, and it in understood that Messrs. the receipt of your letter under, raply His Ex-Butterfield and Swire and Messrs. Shewan, cellency directed Captain Taylor to keep a fur- Tomes & Co, are not opposed to it.-1 am, &c., ther daily record for a period of three months, the result of which is shown in the enclosed table. 1. It will be observed that during this period the day average number of buoys occupied was 1906 out of a total of 24 of which however out was under repair during the whole and a second during the greater part of the time. The largest number of buoys occupied on any one day was 27, on the 1st and 2nd November, when there were 46 and 50 ocean steamers in the harbour respectively. The least number occupied was 11 on the 6th December, when

there were 44 ocead sienners lo port.. Certain Merchants buoy being occupied on one day only, and by a vessel belonging to another lipe. Others were for the most part lens or leased by the owners, the Peninsular and Oriental Company's western baby being occupied on 49 days by Japanese vessels, and not on a single occasion by vessels. belonging to the Company. The Osaka Shosen Kaisha who had on eight days only two vessels in the harbour at the same time, used their own buoy

on as days only and other buoys on 63 days,

4. These figures would seem to be somewhat at-variance with the experience of the repre- sentatives of several leading shipping com paules, quoted by you, that it is of quite rare

F. H. MAY,

Colonial Secretary.

The 'Secretary,

General Chamber of Commerce..

CANTON DAY BY DAY.

WEST RIVER PATROL.

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Canton, 19th February.. The two sleamt launches Chus On and Yues

Bunding Bureau and the latter to the Canton Government Cement Works at Honam, have, by order of the high authorities, been placed at the disposal of Acting Admiral Li Chun for patrol duties on, the river.

ANTIMONY ÖRE..

The output of antimony ora from the mines in the district of Kuk Kong for the twelfth moon of the last Chinese year is 31,100 cattina ROBBERY,

A. 5. WATSON & CO., the Northern and Southern sections respec. adhered to, steek youth to build ascesy pecurrence for them to receive any request clothing and other articles that the 'robbers

LIMITED,

CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS;

THE HONGKONG D

DISPENSARY,

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

Hongkong, 15th February, 1908;

lively," but later on it is laid down that, in is rapid development.

order to encourage Chinese industries, mate

rials and goods manufactured in China will in

all cases receive first consideration. The re-

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

mainder of the Agreement is of a comparative THE German cruiser Leipele arrived from ty, formal character,....

CHINA'S FUTURE.

Swatow this alternaque des

RETREAT will be rounded by the pipes and drums of the add Battalion Cameron High

Parade ground.

from agents of other lines for the use of their moorings,

A shed situated on the Mau Shin Hille, near the second section of the Canton Haskow Rail way for temporary quarters of the workmen and godowns, etc., was entered by a gang of robbers on the 13th instant. All the workmen's could lay their hands on were carried away.

ARMS SHOP RAIDED, 5. They show further that a number of the

Yesterday a delective of the Central Police best positions in the harbour are continuallyStation with a pose of men, raided a shop in: unoccupied at a time when the less desirable Ping Chow which was dealing clandestinely anchorages are filled with vessels which in arms and ammunition and foc have no private moorings. In 1905,8%-bf-co band, becaumafchmides, Beriying ein us Colony owner of the shop was arrested and brought to

were vessels "whose ownlis.or agents were Dhe Police Station to be tried and punished, not buoy owners, and your committee will, I

"APPOINTMENTS: think, agree that in the interes of the trade

The Hongkong Celegraph Under the heading of When will China lenders on Fridays on the Murray Barracks of the port this important miagrity is anitled Mr. Cheung, Fung-kal has bom

be able to stand alone?" an interesting article appears in the Shanghai Mercury, HONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1958. The article in question remarks: China has

THE TIENTSIN:PUKOW RAILWAY, LOAN AGREEMKNI.

per cant.

to some further consideration than is at pres sent shown to them suat

6., With regard to the Chamber's request that,

or their representatives who have com y may be supplied with "the names,

plained of their inability to secure the use, moorings, I enclose a list of ships the masters of which have been moit persisteet lo making verbal complaiot Together with the names of their owners or agents.

MR. C. S. Gubbar, of the firm of Messrs. E. D. Sassoon & Co., has been appointed a director of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Cor. poration in place of Mr. A. J. Raymond, re7 It is hardly correct to say that a certain number of vessels, chiefly engaged in the Pack signed..

0 trade, cannot use any of the fixed buoys owing to the r weight and length, as with the exception of '5,5. Shawmut and Tremont these hips have their own moerings and invariably Ao them gjenv

THE R.I.MT. Hardings is expected to arrive on 24th instant with 13th Rajputs, who will be quartered at Kowloon. The ship will sail for Karachi on or about 1st March with the r29th Balochis

Telegram:

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH "

"SERVICE!

THE LATE MR. BAVIER

DE

INQUEST CONCLUDED,

JURY'S VERDICT.,

[From "Our Own Correspondent.

Shanghai, 20th February, 1908, 2.45 pro

The Coroner's inquiry into the

death of Mr. E. de Bavier has been concluded.

The jury returned a verdict that the wound on the deceased was self. inflicted while in a depressed mental condition brought on by business worries.

[According to our special Shangbai telegram of the 17th inst the late Mr. Bavier, who had been suffering from depression for some time, shot himself in bed at. 11.30 am, that day. He was immediately killed-Ed., II. X. T.]

LIGHTER POUNDERS IN THE HAKBOUR.

CREW RESCUED FROM WATER BY N. D. L. LAUNCH.

The lighter Ariel, belonging to Musurs, Wilks and jack, foundered in the harbour, opposite The Harbour Office, on Tuesday morning. At the time the mishap took place tha 'Ariel had' on board a crew of about twenty-five persons, and was, so it is stated, leaving the barbour. A strong wind was blowing, the son was rather choppy, and with considerable difficulty the Ariel managed to make any headway. Arriving opposite the Harbour Office she listed to ore side and in the next minute a wayO. truck her and she foundered. The crew jump; ed into the water, and ware picked up later by 2,32 the N. D. L, launch, which was passing whan kera the foundering occurred. We are informed that steps are being taken to raise her.

that

DEATH OF CAPTAIN W. P. JOHNSTON,

WELL KNOWN ON THE CHINA COAST.

It is with regret, snyc tbs Shanghal Mercury,

we have to chronicle the death of Caps

Petor

'some time and bis dee81)

estiva

weden,mid came to

Shangbal

"bridge

who pass

bad, fol

Magistrale of the distrier of Nambol old Na Gre gistrate Cheng Wing transferred t ture Solum-chow Mr. Cho appointed magistrate of the diffic in place of the present magistrate,” Lau

A Peking, telegram

Trom his

ceram states that HE the Mercha Viceroy, Chang Jea-chup, hat memorialised on vari the Taroon stating that all the troops as are to becoming quired to be trained in the province of Kwang- Afterw tung are now being formed into regimens and a quantity of arms and been ordered from a Germa which will amount to Marks

MISSING

RECOVERI

on has

8. The argument that many steamers would or greatly Inconvenienced if ordered to THE Chinese Government has been invited by charge at a particular polet, for instance

What 'might have been very int the Portuguese Government to send a reprocal (clesme)stat West Point or sice steamers

case had it been entered into, came to 'a very sentative to allend the conference on tele-East Point, presupposed to the Harbour

Adaster either a complete ignorance, of the sudden end at the Supreme Court, this morn graphic developments which will be held at Lishan this year.

Beeds of the shipping or a babitual disregard cling The case was bat

eir convenience. The Chamber may, 1 Hee, a trader

st assured that in

the event of the sought to t

that way.

A CLEVER

oats as officer, «Vča

(he was

for many years; buda

kpot long ipared

Tong

which John: Sam which he followed is Wpg Lok Street, certainly be found

F

birth place

STATION leave of absence, with permission to travel in the neighbouring - countrlos, is grant-j set before herself a stupendous task, no lessed to Lieutenant C. Wyley, & A,M.C., from 23rd than that of making herself a great Power. February to 7th March, 1908. She bas followed the example of Japau in so far that she has definitely made up her mind that she will break with the past because it A translation of the Agreement which was is only by so doing that she can ensure her recently concluded between the Britisht and future. What are her chances of success? Chinese Cerporation" and the Waiwaipit," at Has they as Japan had, the necessary quali. Peking, in connection with the Tientsin-Pukawfications? And having them, will she em railway scheme has now becu públished and ploy them in the right way? What are the should prove of interest ip those concerned qualifications?. First and foremost, ability with stairs in China. The first Article on the part of her'sons. That she has that sanctions, "the issue of a loan by the is certain. No Japanese or Westerner can German and British. Banks Syndicate for boast of greater natural powers than those of the Chinese if they are rightly developed, five million pounds sterling at 5 par cent. to be styled "the Chinese Government Eve and wisely conserved. Whether she will use this ability to the best advantage remains to Tientsin-Pukow Railway Loan."

be seen. At present the outlook is somewhat This loan, we learn from the second Article, is doubtful, For what are the requirements of to furnish: the capital wherewith to construct a the case? Evidently, for some considerable THE Chinese merchants in Newchwang prohink, rest å Government railway from the vicinity of Tien time a course of apprenticeship. Japan pose builting a large storage godown to doption of the proposed scheme the nime and Han Siltsad, the mazil

ich had then wante (oshim by the remained ́tsiu, to connect the existing Peking-Shanhai submitted to it, not gladly, nor too willingly, accommodare cargo from the interior during devour will

will be made temaeti be rendirent kwhuline via Techow Chinanfu to thaico along but because she saw that her object could the closed winter season, and not to read itments of all p

the Didrict Registrar, Gloslowasville Queens several times and with the southern boundary of Shantung, and this be attained in no other way. At the mo- out via, Talienwan as they lose by sending it

land, Australia, and which he had depoilted inked out of the bottle, an

line will hereafter be known as the northern | ment, China looks as if she were in too, great

with the defendants on 7th March, 1955. In of inc'made through their vents)

section of the Tsia-Pa or Tientsin-Pukow line; a hurry. She has gone from one extreme RESIDENTS on this side of the water were

the alternative plaintiff claimed $1,000 and left on a board to dry. Twenty-four hour

later he had a set of beautifully "tr costs." and from thieu to Pakow on the bank of to the other, a very natural course of pro-treated to a pretty, if destructive, spectacle, of the buoy occupied is met to a great extent by

Mr. B. H. Gudiner, of Means, Brition and baits, bright and clear as silver and cedure under the circumstances, but not a grass fire on the bills on the mainland beyond 166 suggestion made in my letter of the 6th Hest, who appeared for the plaintiff, Raked fectly odourless. A coat of varnish was necessarily a very wise one. Her education Stonecutter's Island: It was the first of the August that owners should posify, the Harbour for an adjournment on the ground that he applied and when they had dried is but begun, and any premature action with season. It began about 8 p.m. and illuminated Master, on any of their boys becoming va could noi proceed with the case as his wit were wrapped in bile of silver paper untrained minds, untrained hands, and un- the surrounding hills for a great distance. By cart, when they expect the arrival of another nesses and the plaintiff were not in the Colohy, let alone for six weeks, before Boy attempt of their vessels to occupy it. As you pola? qui,

Mr. Justice Wise refused to grant an ad- was made at their use. When onpacked by were discovered to be in excellent condition' digested schemes can but result in failure. 9.30 p.m. it burnt itself out.

the universal use of the telegraph gives ample journment, China can never carry out the great scheme

Mr. Olte Kopg Sing, who was for the de- and, upon a thorough trial, were found to act she has in view without money, and the CHAN SZE, á coolie, haring no fixed, place of time to any one who understands his busincer,

fault to be fund was that the varnish hadi can not hope to get that without a careful, abode, entered the house of a shop coolje, at 9, fo which category the Harbour Master may fondapis, was of opinion that the plaintiff bad well and prove an attractive bait. The only Mr. Justice Wise-Why couldn't the plaintiff ly dulled their aforms, silvery appearance the master of the house and his family worn, arrangements. jas systecistic, and scientific development of On Tai Street, Central district, last night while be included, to make the necessary, berbing ample time to secure his witocsies. her resources. Money she must have abed, and, appropriating a box containing 10. The Committes admit that unoccupied get his witnesses? speedily, and in plenty, or her great about $28 worth of clothing, started to leave buoys, if not required by their owners, should Mr. Gardiner stated what when the case was matter were to be taken up by ness will be postponed to the Greek Kalends, the premises, Going down the staircase to be placed at the disposst of others, provided first brought up it was put over the Chinese Prising and intelligent

could correct that defect, the Is she going the right way to get it speedily met a policeman, who, seized him. He was that this does not in any way interfere with New Year.

low priced "mummified" bait, and is plenty? We fear not. Possibly not given six weeks imprisonment at the Polled their own businois. They siste further that

be able to offer the trade the movements of ships are known to their YesT DOW

leave the ordinary preserved a few of her sons will be disposed to question Court, to-day,

agents here at least some 48 hours prior to our reasons for thinking as we do.... But we

INSPECTOR MCHARDY, of the Sam shukpa Arrival, a period which would in most cases be

far behind. have, as we think, good ground for our as

Police Station, captured thirty-two gamble amply sufficient to enable the Harbour Master sertions. In the first place we feel sure that in a raid at 79, Ma Loɔng Kwan village In 19 make all necessary, barthing arrangements a very great mistake is being made just now night „There was a stand

is therefore difficult to understand on what 'optered and’

grounds the commities absolutely dissent from 30,the jealous shutting of all, doors against |'ing, foreign capital. We are in favour ofserety.4.ko.

the suggestive in paragraph 3 of my former foreign

letter, referred to above, that owners should possible and reasonable safeguard, so that?

the Harbour Master of the expected though foreign capital may for the time

itsels, in order fibat: he may fots to place their, buoy

the Yangize opposite Nauking which shall hereniter be known as the southern section of the Tri-Fu railway". The total distance of the two sections is 1.Bag kilometres or equal to 2,170 Chinese li. The period of construction is expected to occupy four years, and a com mencement must be

sonde within six months after the Agreement was signed. Within fatter period, also, the syndicate must place the sum of £500,000 it the disposal of the Director General of the

the

„sailway, that amount to be deducted from the

original loan Interest is to be paid every

half year "by the Chinese Government either from the proceeds of the loss or from other sources as considered advisable." The next two Articles road in the following terms:--The Josh is made for a term of go yours, the repay set to commence at the and of ten years, and captions noted in An. 6 of this Agree with ment the

to the banks shcamned,

Baok, and Hongkong and

oration, shall" instalments qu

baing reap its due benefit, the

should be to the bene

from such other indeed would all the while b

the build

y. The contention that difficulties would be experienced in connection with the shifting of room for s vessel belonging to the owner of vessel before finishing discharge to make

put

Lad

Mr. Justice Wise-It is the Chinese New

Mr. Gardiner stated that the plafotif went to Macan to get his witousser, When he arrived there be found his sister ill, and he was being kept there.

Mr. Justice Wise said be was "very BOTTY for the sister, but he could not allow another Adjosrament. - The plaintiff had ample time to get his witnesses ready." There would be judgment for the defendants with costs.

Mr. Gardiner applied for

The "French" angler suggesIS

tackle

SHIPPING AND MAILS: