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MARRIAGES.

EVELYN CHRISTINA CHARLOTTE, daughter of January 29, at Cheltenham, W., GRISSON to L. R. Tottenham, late Rengal Civil Service.

On February 23, 98, at Shanghai, BERTHA LAZAREVITCH, of Herson, Russia, to AUGUST HERZBERG. of Shanghai,

On February 27, 1958, at Shanghai, JULIA HUNTER WOODWARD to the Rev. Jonk WILLIAMS NICHOLS,

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On February 28, 1908, at Shanghai, ANDREW EDWARD, eldest son of the late Andrew Sand- bach of Ipswich, to JANR GORDON, Recond daughter of Capt. Oudney of Fairheld, Car- nous!le.

On February 29, 1908, at Shanghai, Jour ALEXANDER KOSS, Chartered Bank of India, Australia nad China, lo ELLA WATSON, youngest daughter of the late Rev. John Whyte, Hormonhill, Dundee, Scotland,

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FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1908.

CHINESK AFFAIRS,

(and March.)

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perfunctory manner, in the report. If this with such a serious matter practically at a should be so the ratepayers will have to deal moment's notice after the chairman's speech; or in the few days after the publication of the report, or the resolutions to be proposed by the Council

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CONTENTS

Births, Deaths and Marriages, Leading Articles-

On Speculation and Investments. Chiods Afftirs

Sir Robert Hart's Retirement. Shanghai Affairs,. Sugam.

The Amended Company Law. Telegrams:-

Shanghai Tramways. »

Shanghai Taolai Liang.

Meetings:-

Legislative Council.

Hongkong Ica Company.

The China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd Sanitary Board.

Shanghai Tug and Lighter Co., Lid, Kulangaq (Amoy) Municipal Council. Legal Intelligenda-

Bankruptcy.

In Kai Shing.

Lai Chi Chin,

"Good Away,"

Police:

Florida Water Trade-marks,

Rafés in Hoogkung.

Mother Hubbard's “ Wünk,"

Robbing a Child..

Miscellaneous Articles and Reports:--

The Public Health BUL

The Late King of Portugal.

A New Barrister.

The Baluchis.

Harbour Fatality.

The Hongkong Intel Company, Limited. Propated Steamboat Co. -

Tramcar Fatality,

Hon kore Gymkhana Club.

Canton-Kowloon Railway, This Alternoon's Fire, S 1 Strange Story from Tai Hang-

Masonic Dance.

A Narrow Escape.

Naval' Nolex.

Last Night's Blow.

A Love Tragedy,

The Holm-Nestorian Expeditions iu Si-зn-fu

* 1907.

The Yau-ma-ti Express."

Macao.

The 'di Muru Case.

Raub Crushin..

Maid Servant's Death,

"Home for the Poor." Golf.

Donghaeg Gelegraph

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1958,

ON SPECULATION AND INVEST || mate..

MANIN,

(29th February.}

that which is evil? Whether we are fated Chiness as by foreigeers. He bad frequently

shall in this respect be entitled to treatment fall of our hopes, surely it will be better for tightly perceiving that the time had come when to rejoice over success or grieve at the down-twilstand the impatience of many who

accorded to refined sugar being the produce or the manufacture of the most favoured Chion gust enter into the comity of nations

nation." Now it is clear that under this pro and adopt a career of progress, forget that so Our happiness to know that what we have at- tempted has done the world in which we gigantic a change must be a work of time, and

vision of the Protocol to the Anglo-Japanese live and which we must leave stained or could only be brought about by slow degrees,

Treaty the Japanese Government would be brightened by our acts, some good in place We need not say more than that be has

at liberly to increase the Customs Tariff on of evil?

had mặch to do with making history in China;:

sugar concurrently with the increase of the his success and the confidence he enjoyed

excise. But by the Protocol to the German were due to the qualities he displayed and the

Treaty, subsequently signed, Japan under) cntire ¿disinterestedness of the advice he ins variably gave the Chinong, it long service i

took to give six months' notice of any, has been contemporaneous with the régime of.. When the "Combine" rage was-in-full increase in Customs duties, and the advanta the Empress-Dowager. We have also had re-progress, eighteen months ago, in Japan, it age of this modification is enjoyed by all parts of ber regnation of active work, but with the succession still unsettled her Majesty will be recalled "that Baron Shibusawa, the Powers under the most-favoured-nation may not carry out what was announced as harapan's greatest financier, publicly declared clause. It will perhaps be claimed that this, at the sugar cultivation and refining were Article does not come into force because no intention to tesign at the forthcoming. New services has been amply shows by honous ladustry. And how strenuously the Govern-tariff on sugar imported into Japan. But, and distinctions they have bestowed on him, ment and people of Japan have worked as every merchant is aware, the excise, must by his pointment as a guardian to the Heir together to give effect to the protection of be paid on all imported sugar before it can Appaiet which person is yet waiting appoint that industry, any one who has followed be pass through the Customs. If, there ment), nod by ennobling his, ancestors for three generations, which is a singularly dis- closely the course of commercial events in fore, the now rates of excise are to be tinguished conferment. Sir Robert is said to Japan cannot fail to have perceived. Not imposed on all imports from the date of have been the recipient of more decorations only in the cultivation of the sugar cane promulgation of the new law, the provision and titles by different foreign Governments has the paternal Government of Japanalo six months' notice of any change in than has ever been bestowed on any person shown a fostering care towards the agricul. the Statutory Tariff becomes a dead letter. outside the racks of royalty. He rendered turists of the insular possessions of the Indeed, it would only be necessary for services not only to the country of his practical adoption, and to his own country, but Mikado, but protection has also been extend Japan to levy an excise upon all the to practically every foreign nation that haded by indirect bounties to the sugar-refining goods which are now subject to the relations with the Chinese. Though the advice companies operating in Japan. While the Conventional or Statutory Tariff in order be gave the Chinese may not have been in all Japanese Government are quite within their to render wholly nugatory in all cases ay palatable to the authorities, they were rights to extend bounties in favour of home the provision as to six months' notice. A ware that it was genuinely disinterested, and industries, nothing can be said when such tax which is levied by the Customs authori not tendered with any ulterior motive. Report favours do not operate against foreign ties at the port of entry is to all intents and says that he never offered advice, but only

interests protected under Treaty stipulations. purposes an import duty and should be rub- zave it in response to a request; that is, It is to be feared that in their most recent ject to the regulations of the Protocols re- matters outside his own department. hat bis sympathies were largely with the Chinese is legislative enactment in the abnormal in-garding import tariffs. The question as to crease of the sugar consumption-tax the whether the importer should pay the tax or abundantly evident from the remarkable series of articles he wrote after he had undergone the House of Peers in Tokio has not acted the actual purchaser of the goods came up dangers and discomists of the siege of the in conformity with Treaty obligations with for discussion some years ago when the ex- Legations in 1900. He was an indulgent critic, the result that the undisguised.com. cise on sugar was first instituted, and some and These from the land of Sisim." were. apologeticof the Chinese attitude and thought. petition against a staple industry of Hong firms pald under protest, but though the matter was taken up by the Chambers, of His departure from Peking creates a void wet kong on the part of the Japanese has been only in the Customs, but in the political and stimulated in favour of the home Industry Commerce, no redress, was obtained. On sucul worlds of that strange capital: As re with artificial difficulties created against the that occasion, however, notice of operation gards the great and important office that has longkong sugar refining companies. From a of the excise was given. On this occasion crown under his auspices, we may say that in report appearing in the Japan Chronicle, the there is no notice, the measure.coming into the interests of Chin and the world at large till for the amendment of the Sugar Con- force on the same day that it was passed by we attach the utmost importance to the con tinuance and preservation of the Inspectorate sumption-tax, increasing the excise upon it, the fiet. Now the object of the provision Generd in integulyas, a. Chinese Govern was passed by the House of Poefs on 23rd in the German Protocol that six months' meat Service with its cosmopolitan personnel in ult, and on the same evening was imme notice should be given of any change accordance with the Bettish Treaty 158, by diately promulgated as a law, which there in the tariff was to prevent importers which it was constituted. One word more: fore is already in force. The new law is as who had made contracts for goods at During his long residence. Sir Robert has kept follows:-

a fixed rate, including duties, belog zub. djary. Is it too much to hope that his well

jected to heavy loss, by, a sudden increase earned rest may be devoted to preparing it for,

in the Customs. Such loss will certainly the appreciation of the public?

occur in the case of the sugar on its way to Japan before the 23rd February if a price including: duty" had", "been · fixed; but whether that has been tho case or not; it is clear that the exciso. cannot until,elx months has elapsed be en forced on exgoes entering Jepan if the spirit of the German Protocol is to be observed. The very "heavy increase in the excise on refined sugar, amounting in some cases to a fivefold increase, is evidently with the chject of protecting the Japanese refineries as well as obtaining additional revenue. The crude article is to be admitted at a low duty,. refined in Japan, and an endeavour made to' capture the markets of China and the Far East generally as well as monopolise the home market.

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SHANGHAI AFFAIRS,

(4th March.)

Under the heading of "The Shadow of Coming Changes in China," the Investor's Review recently published. a long and interesting article on the present condition remarked that great changes are impending in the Chinese Empire, and proceeded to say: What they portend to the European trader cannot yet be guessed, but the Chinese are more and more assuming an attitude of independence, and the maxim "China for the Chinese" promises to bring about develop ients in native industries as well as an altitude, towards the foreign trader, the consequences of which it might be wall to try to begin to esti The report of Sir Alexander Hosie, Acting Commercial Attaché of His Mjesty's path at Peking, on the trade of China for 1906, excites many thoughts, It is a well-known fact that in times of and stirs not a few questions well worth stress and difficulty the most conservative of working at if difficult of solution. It is not investors indulge in foolish speciative that Sir Alexander dwells upon political as dreams. More or less we are all dreainers pects of affairs; he concerns himself, on the in the matter of speculation, and even inside contrary, altogether with commerce and knowledge does not save us from the ten material developments, but it is impossible dency to pat oir money on the outsider. to deal with these and not take cognizance f course it is all very well to talk about of many facts or symptoms illustrative of what one should do, but human nature is an altered, temper among the people. That against rule and formulae, and people, the it will be a long time before China is able to best of us, will still speculate to the end. stand alone may be true, and that as China An excellent article, which will convince is opened up by railways, opportunities in anbody, and was probably written after a the inferior of the country may be increased. roup which failed, appears in Indian 10 the foreign merchant may also be true. Engineering on this subject.. It be None the less is the present Government of gins and continues as follows: Mak China, imperial and provincial, bent upon ing money should surely be a wholly meri asserting the self-sufficing Independence of torious act since money is standardized the country, in a manner hitherto unknown. labour-the equivalent representative of Meanwhile, the utmost confusion exists in man's toil, whether mental or physical, in the Chinese coinage, and, as Sir Alexander which we are supposed to adjust our mutual asic points out, what is wanted is the indebtedness Tor services rendered. To establishment of a fixed relationship be make money is therefore to increase the net tween various coins, old and new balance of the world's assets; and therefore, jostling each other and creating a state even when what is so added is possessed of things that now and then appro- entitly by the individual who has made" aches paralysis. Nothing, however, of. a the who adds has bettered the world as a uniform silver standard has yet ixen devised. "The foreign exchange," he adds, "is but whole; and, though himself retaining the betterment, he really has wronged no other. one factor in the trade of the empire. The Unfortunately, however, the expression til one speaks about so glibly is not a coin, making money has come to mean winning nor is it uniform in weight, touch or value or gaining money, without reference to the and in carrying on trade between one end distinction between making and transferring of China and the other as many as ten or appropriating what previously existed in diferent exchange transactions may have the possession of another; such confusion to be effected." This confusion must in of good and evil acts under one description crease the difficulty of the Central Govern is erly vicinus. If I win a lottery prizement in finding the money to meet the nr if I pick the pockets of same hundred charges upon its foreign debt or for the neighbours of a similar amount, there is a improvements and changes the new spirit The Preservation of Book's in Pot Climates. wide distinction between the justice of my demands. It may also do not a little Volunteer Cops Orders

acts: for in one case I filch another's pro- to stimulate the great satraps around the perty with his consent, in the other case throne to get quit of the foreigner without; but neither act is correctly des by other means than those employed by cribed as making money," and both are the Boxers. We have always said that equally pernicious so far ar the world's China has been abominably used on more aggregate welfare is concerned: neither al than one critical occasion by the European ters the community's joint assets, while both Powers, and most of all in the financial bur uselessly expend time and labour which dens placed upon her people after the therwise directed would have benefited Boxer rising. Every year for many years to humanity at large. There is no moral come the Peking Government alone,, on one difference between a lottery and a large account or another, has to transmit more number of commercial speculations. In all than £5,000,000 sterling' to the foreign buying and selling, unless the profit of creditors, and for the greater part of this rained does not exceed the value of service money the people get no equivalent of any rendered in collection, cariage, distriba kind. They are drained by means of their tion or some such equivalent, money is not confused and debased currency to an extent made but filched from others. In all lend-much beyond the normal equivalent in ing and renting, unless the interest ur rent noney, and their wonderful industry is ham is but a fair equivalent for sonic service such pered at all points by the resulting poverty, as provision, storage or laborious forethought, For all that, the trade of China is a growing we are morally on a level with the highway-one and as the resources of the country are man who forces another to hand over his purse because he has not provided himself as we have with a loaded pistol. The per nicious nature of thieving or fitching from another without his consent--and of public gambling or filching from another with his consent is universally recognised by the more civilized nations. When will the masked equivalents of both these despicable acts be. as rigidly prohibited? Not until the reason- January 27, a Londos, wife of S. G. GoMEs,ing faculty of the majority of mankind has F.R.C.S.E daughter,

advanced to a much higher level than On February 24, 1908, at Shanghai, the that which represents its present stage ol wife of X. W. Campbell, of a 100.

development. It would be perfectly easy on official investigation in licensing projects and taxing profits, le discriminate between The two classes of operations; and no more difficult to prevent the prosecution of vicious schemes than it is to suppress highway roh bery and the public sale of lottery tickets, Public intelligence is not yet capable of sup- On February 28, 1008, at Shanghai, Lug porting any Government in such a policy KING YURK, widow of the late Hugg Te-hung but the more intelligent among individuals pf 1. M. Customs, Tientsin, aged 45 years. can greatly hasten the advent of a better

On February 28, 19. 8, at Shanghai, EBTHER state of things by uniformly abstaining from is unlikely thut he will return to the scene of Pertinent to the subject under discussion. CHATHAM, widow of the late Joba Chatham, any association with projects of the vicious aged 45 ypat

On Saturday, February 29, 1908, at Tientsin, class. There are numerous openings for the beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. K. F. perfectly legitimate speculation the right MELçitars, aged one year and a half. cous nature of which is evidently apparently Jan At Vadan, France, Madame ]. C. PERCEBOIS, the shifting of industries to better sites, *** formerly of Shanghai, moiber of Mr. D. Perce the development of natural resources, bols, Imperis Chinese Customs Farvice. the exploitation of proposed methods by

ESTEPHANIA KOZA DE SENNA filhos com which the same or better results may be ob summa magoa participam a seus parentes, tained at less cost, l.e., with the expenditure amigos'p mais pessõna "do suas relaçoes que Dans N Se dignou levar para sua Sants of less labour-all form the bails of un- Gloria, son querida Esposo e Fai Joaquim objectionable schemes. Among such, Francinco de

Senpa, bontem às 9 horas among vicious enterprises, will be found every class of investment from that whose Shapghal ng de Fevereiro de 1938

access is certain to the most ricky and peculative: the risk depending upon the amount and correctness of our knowledge Surely then, when our chance of personal benefit is equal to the two cases, we will choose that which is rightsour rather than

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Cantony by Day,

Wuchoy-Notes.

The Shanghai-Nanking Railway, Piracy ng Sangha

Shipbuilding in Shanghai,

A Shipping Disaster,

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The Shanghai Watch Club Bubble. The Lighting and Busying of Chinese Waters, Shanghai Nanking, Railway.

Opium Dens in Shungitat China and Tiber, ****

Son Yet-sen.

A Sailor's Wedding.

Customs Gossip

The Bank of Japan.

Claim for Professional Services.

Fire on the Manchurian Railway.

Chinese Naval Students.

Ju Kaishing's Release

A Share Transaction,

'Singapore's Trade.

"Sharer-Simply Shares." Singapore Types—The Griffin. "Prince" in a Trance. The Minila Carnival::

Racing in Bangkok,

Commercial

Yara Market.

Exchange.

“Local and General.

BIRTHS,

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On February 24, 1938, at Shanghai, the wife

of M. GOLDMAN, of a son,

DEATHS.

On February 24, 1908, at Tandjong Bringin, Sumatra,HOMAS RIACH, son of the late John On February 26, 1958, at Shanghai, D. F. FISCHER, aged 35 years.

· Risch of Shanghai; ·

On March 15-1905, at Shanghai, GRACE APELAIDE HILL, aged nine years and eight On March 11 1918, at Shangbal, Jon Couch Quier of Hall & Holz Lá; Shanghai, Bend 59 you!

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practically infinite, it should continue to grow much faster than it ever has done. The country only requires to be opened up by railways and to be endowed with a stable and genuine currency that might ease the strain of debis, and it should forge ahead in a manner calculated to startle us all.

"he. Sugar Consumption-tax Law shall be amended at that YI in Article fil, of the principal law shall be increased to Y3 Y1,60 shall be increased to Y5.50; Yz0 shall be increased to Y8.50; and Y2.80 shall be increas ed to Yio.

Second quality, between Nor, 8 and 15 in enour of Dutch standard,-1.60 per 100 kin.

Third quality, between Nos. 15 and zo in culour of Dutch standard, and syrupY2.10 per 100 kin,

Fourth quality, exceeding No. 20 la colour of Dutch standard, and sugar candy, Y2.80 per roskin,

THE AMENDED COMPANY LAW,

"Supplementary Regulation. This Jaw goes into effect from the date of its promulge Mr. W. V. Drummond, the well-known tion and the provisions relating to the Sugar lawyer a shanghai, has addressed a letter Consumption-tax in the Emergency pe tat to the China Gazette, on the subject of the Tax (War Tax) Law are hereby abrogated. forthcoming meeting of the ratepayers in the The rates of the Sugar Consumption-tax as Northern Settlement. One important ques provided for in Article II. ofthe law referred tion, which has been brought under the promulgated on March goth, 190r, are as notice of the ratepayers and which is not First quality sugar under No. 8 in colour of without special interest to Hongkongutch standard, and molasses, per 100 is the opium question. In Mr. Drummond's kin. opinion, rowever, there is one of much greater importance to the community to be considered, viz., the increase to be made in the Police force. The valuable report made by the Police Inquiry Committee showed the necessity of dealing with this question very seriously and prompily, and the large number of crimes of violence that are being constantly The object of the Government in promui- The recent Ordinance passed by the Legis committed confirms the feelingthat this matter gating this law in such haste is to check the lative Council of Hongkong, at the initiation must be dealt with in a decisive manner at heavy importation of sugar in anticipation of intuential representatives of British firms and Corporations in Shanghai, to amend the the approaching meeting. A former Council the increase of the tax, the amount of sugar Companies. Ordinance in respect to "Local proposed to establish a fighting, army of landed having recently shown a marked in Registers," appears to have been received wills Indians to meet emergencies which arise in crease. Java sugar to the value of about satisfaction at the Northern Port, if the com Shanghai about once in ten years, and in 84,000was expected to arrive at Yokohama on mendation accorded to the amended law by the fact not quite so often, as the thres rots of the 25th or 16th ult., and the Dutch steamer senior paper there is a criterion of public feel.. the Ningpo Joss house, the Wheelbarrow jipanas," with a full cargo of the second jog in the matter... The N.G.D. News untes riot and the rgog riot are all that have occur quality sugar, was expected to arrive in Kobe the passing of the new law, in a leading article, red during the past 35 years, and all of these on or about the 27th idem. The Govern Ordinances" is a sufficiently familiar title in

and says: Registered under the Hongkong: could have been put down in an hour if they ment felt that in view of these facts, if the local business to justly detailed référence to had been judiciously and firmly met.. What new rate of tax were not imposed immediate-the amendments recently brought into force in is needed, in the opinion of the writer, isly, the increased revenue from this source Hongkong to the Companies Ordinance, 1855, that burglaries, robberies, murders and as would fall heavily below the estimate. On which has hitherto formed the basis of com- saults should be stopped, and the men who the other hand, seeing the possibility of the pany registration in the Far East, In the ab do by far the most valuable work in this Bill. passing through the House of Peers; the sence of any machinery for the registration of companies with limited liability: the practice connection are the European Police. Mr. sugar refineries have shown great activity of adopted in the early days of Shanghai Drummond urges that the Council's pro late. For instance, the Tokyo, Osaka, and was for undertakings of this mature to posals should be placed before the rate Moji factories of the Japan Sugar Refining carry on business under the provisions of payers at least a fortnight before the date Company have been working day and night Deeds of Betilement. Gradually, however, of the meeting. It must be remembered of late, and just before the amendments were advantage was taken of the Ordinance pass- that it is not only what is in the annual promulgated the company deposited with ed by the Hongkong Government in 1865 report and budget that is important, the Government bonds to the value of abling companies to be registered as Limited Liability Companies in that Colony, and with- but it is often the omission of what should ¥2,000,000 for the purpose of carrying out in the last fifteen years. the transfercuts from be in the report that gives rise to specia' the examination of sugar in stock. By this amenability to Deeds of Settlement to the anxiety in the minds of those who have been means the sugar will not be subject to the jurisdiction of Hongkong has been rendered resident in Shanghai throughout the year tax.: On the Shanghai market Hongkong complete, Accordingly,companies carrying on and who know something of what has been sugar has risen in price by 15 tael cents, and their business entirely outside Hongkong and (3rd March.) The fact that Sir Robert Hart, Bart., has going on, and the real needs of the place.the Japan Sugar Refining Co. has made a having no property of any kind in the Colony, contract for the sale of about 500,000 bags carried out within the Colony, are liable to the companies whore whole business la received leave of absence for two years from The annual report is an imposing publication his duties as inspector-General of Chinese containing several hundreds of pages of for China, which it is estimated will bring in 1865 Ordinance, and Amending Ordinances, Imperial Miritime Customs must be taken as more or less interesting information, but, by a profit of about Y1,000,000. The company which have hitherto made no distinction. synonymous with his resignation, observes the itself, it's quite insufficient to prove whether | intends to try and capture. the market in between the two classes. Under the pro- 1. 54 C. Behreis. Our London contemporary, Municirkt work has been well or ill done China, but the Japan Chronicle doubts its visions of these Ordinances each company devoting a leading article on Sir Robert's throughout the year and whether the ability to do so, notwithstanding rebates, in must have its registered office within the Colony absence, which has since Council proposals for the coming year are face of the general rise in the price of labour and must keep at that office its register of prospective leave been reduced to one instead of two years, by the wise, or otherwise. It is to be hoped, that and commodities in Japan. Meanwhile it is honoured in the breach than in the observance

shareholders. The latter claose has been mota tmpress Dowager, remarks: It is a very

reat milestone that we thus pass in the there will be no attempts at the next meeting, said that the company's factories will be closed but the appointment of a new Registrar at history of the foreign relations of Chios. Sir to stifle the use of arguments directly down for a month or two, in consequence Hongkong brought with it an attempt not only. Robert is dow sevenly-three years of age, and it

of the large stocks now held by virtue of the to insist upon the strict letter of the law, but also This was done in a glaring manner at the night-and-day work to avoid the new taxation. | to add 10theColony's revenue by levying duties: his long labours in Peking. Apart from his last meeting, and produced a result the exact Commenting on the Sugar-tax Consump on all transfers and by claiming probate daty ronscctian with the British Consular service

deceased shareholder was entirely unconnected: in hina from 1854 to 1858, he has served the opposite of that desired by those who made tion Law in reference to the Treatles, on shares even when the whole estate of the Chinese Government for just on half a cen- them. We are told that the strong expres our well-informed Kohe contemporary with Hongkong. It will be remembered that try, during which time he has only twice-in sion of opinion at the last meeting has pio- makes some, pertinent observations which on February 7 of last year an influential greeting 866 and in 1878-been on comparatively short duced a great reformation in regard to the should merit the special notice of the Com- of representatives of British Companies in leave. It would be quite impossible, short of information afforded to the public week by mittee of the Hongkong General Cham-Shanghai was held to consider the proposals several columns of this issue, to note some only week, and, if the Municipal Gasette, con her of Commerce. It observes that of the Hoogkong Government, and it is at the many services that Sir Robert has rentinues to improve, It will soon become the action of the authorities raises an in- legitimate to conclude that the representa- dered the Chinese Government on tonumerable record of great value. But here again, it is teresting point affecting the Treaties. By takenfled to the final settlement of the whole sions that were the outcome of the scion then ccasions. Suffice to say that long after he whist is omitted that is often of much more the Protocol to the Anglo-Japanese Treaty question, as embodied in the new Law known of HA Ta-jéo will long be familiar to the importance than what is stated. For in- of 1904 it is provided that "if Japan think as the Companies (Local Registers) Ordinance, fficial world of China.o other European instance, it must be assumed that proposals it necessary at any time to lovy an additional 1907, the full text of which, appears on another madera times has been trusted in like degree for strengthening the Police must have been duty on the production, or manufacture of page. The number of the companies registered by the Chinese. His counsel has saved them under consideration for a long time past refined sugar in Japan, an increased Cus under the Hongkong Ordinances but having from many bander or partially, retrieved and that a careful report, with recomiends toms duty equivalent in amount may be their head office way from Hongkong his now them from a falsa siep. By delicate tight, must have been received from the levied on British refined sugar when importalimised formidable proportions, while their and judicious manipulation of the qua tions before him Sir obeit was able, by natire new Captain Superintendent, yet not a word ed into Japan, so long as such additional mergate over Tis, $2,000,000.

It is befitting, therefore, that das consideration. soarity and adaptability, in overcome nearly has best silowed to transpire, and it is pls- tex or excise duty continues to be raised, should be shown to auch/ Handreht, and mit obstacles and to maka jaimes i as trusted by "albloʻthat the matter will be dealt with le a Provided always that British refidor niger, wo, may kucome” thel appeunave ceffa

SIE ROBERT HART'S RETIREMENT.

was quited the scene of his labours the name

as well