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Britain's Sea Supremacy.

A'REFERENCE BOOK FOR NAVY ENTHUSIASTS;

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY DECEMBER II 1908.

of reminiscences of Hongkong, Singapore and

"KALEIDOSCOPIC " JOURNALISM.

The Navy League Annual will undoubtedly find a place in the library of all, students of Naval affaits, and the extraordinary amount of STORY OF A HONGKONG ANNUAL WHICH technical knowledge displayed, by the writersBROKEN BECAME A (QUARTERLY, GRAN should containly keep Hongkong admirers of N our'anin defence thoroughly au fall with the existing conditions. It is published at a somital price by the Navy League, at 13 Victoria Street, London, S.W.

Another new periodical, which is to be known ka! The Kalidoscope an extraordis ary though not l-filing name, har just ap peared in Hongkong, but the average reader

LODGE NAVAL, AND MILITARY

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will find some difficulty in classifying it. TheThe larze bill was tastefully decorated for. Government may be induced to adopt restric: } Minister says that althopo The British

THE LATE RICHARD MARKWICK. Original intention of the promoters was that it

THE CORONER'S INQUEST,

The circumstances surrounding the death of Mr. Richard Markwick formed the subject of an inquiry by Mr. G. W. King, H.B.M. Cord Times of lett ner, yesterday afternoon, reports the Bhanghai

sbould be an annual, bot the advertisements:

the occasion, and after an excellent supper, the following programme was gone through, every poured in so thickly that the first idea was rapid-item receiving well-merited applause frequent encores being demanded by the large and ly dispelled and it was decided to make the appreciative audience. An orchestra of the publication a quarterly. From the publishers

Batt. The Buff discoursed some very point of view no decision could be wiser, for if well-rendered pieces during the supper and at there are profits to be snapped up it is high time the concert, the piano accompaniments, being that even our amateur jourealistic friend should played by Mr. J. P. McCarthy, 4.8.C. gain their reward. As we have said, the X is aquarterly, but a quarterly what? It looks like

WAVY LEAQUE ANNUAL,”.

·Naturally in a port which "is regarded as x brst-class naval station, a fact which is con tinually being drammed into the ear of those who fail to recogaire the importance of the China squadron to Hongkong, a reference book backed by such names as the Duke of Argyll, the Marquis of Graham, Mr. Carlyon Bellairs, M.P., and bikers is bound to prove of interest to sa considerable section of the community. The reference book in question is the "NAY? League of publication. No doubt there

which now enters ite second year are many, who while they are firm belloverg

Dr. Goode deposed to having received a magazine; a casual lince would lead one to the two-Power standard

believe it to be a magazine, one of the popular 1intining of strength in the Navy, do not always telephone message at a few minutes past 9 a.m.

on November 17, asking him to proceed to the sort, but on closer acquaintance it appears to Bod Bye to aya with the Navy League, but

China Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Canton be a glorified advertising medium. Nearly we are assured that the Annual is not, in

Road where he was told a man had shot him everybody who proclaims the superiority of his mich devoted to the booming of the League a to the wider diffusion of knowledge elf. Arriving at a quarter past nine o'clock hewares receiver a page or more of fulsome found the deceased lying on his back with his

of encomiums apparently as a sort discount concerning the relative position occupied by

legs crossed, and a cushion under his head, for cash. We have nothing whatever to 'Great Britain's first line of defence as cop.

FAY against that system; it "trasted with the navies of other countries, Liis He was bleeding from the pose, both ears, year when we reviewed the initial isses of the and mouth. His clothes were not at all which rests entirely between the advertiser and the "compiler, but the man-in-the- Annual we were happy to discover that the disarranged. He was unconscious, and breath- pames of many, if not all, of the expert crhicking heavily, evidently aylag. He did not street who is inveigled into reading a long on aaral affairs were attached to articles of regain consciousness or speak at all, and died dissertation about nothing particular only to at 9.27 o'clock. Subsequently witness made fod in the end that he has been wading through surpassing interest. On this occasion, it seems to us that more attention has been given to the autopsy at the Mortuary. He undressed what is known in newspaper parlance as a

the body, and found the collar and shirt blood."p

"puff" is apt to feel aggrieved. Not that there. technical side of naval doings than the general stained. There were no bruises on the body, are no original articles, original in more ways sarvey which was the feature of the first volume, but the palm and fingers of the right hand were than one, in the quarterly X. For example we And for that reason it is to be feared that the

have a poem entitled Christmas Bells "——a stained with powder. On the right side of the latest volume will hardly appeal with the same vault of the skuit there was an elevated com- most pathetic ballad, as two lines, not the pick force to the onlooker, who cannot clan tu be a student of the intricacies of armament and minuted fracture of the bone. In the roof of of the busch by any menas, will show :-

the mouth there was a hole, evidently the mechanical contrivances.

point of entry of a bullet, On removing

For example, the special articles have been 'reduced from fifteen to eleven, which the Editor considers an excellent feature, steing that the contributors to the 1908-9 Annual are not limited by the exigencies of space. We take it that the Editor knows his own business best, but from our point of view the reduction in a disfisch mistake. It means that the more' rabid 'the writer is on his particular hobby, the more space will be tako to convluca the reader that he, and be alone, is right, and long before that has been at lained the onlinary reader will lay down the

book through sheer boredom. The heading to the articles are capital, but the prospect they suggest is rarely realised. There in little of that Chatty heart-to-heart talk which distinguished the previous Annual. Rather the writers are so painfully in earnest that they slide into abstruse calculations which will, we are afraid, leave the Dog-aaral mine in a quandary as to what the author is trying to get at. This is somewhat unfortunate, because nearly every Britisher, and especially those who live in Hongkong, has a sub-conscious idea that it is ble duty to know generally all that is important to be known about the progress of the British Navy, Bist.he does not care for it to be ladied out in hard chunks of petrified facts. Rather he would absorb hit information in a dilettanta fashion, gathering in the principal items mach in the same way as he scoops out the sultanar in plum pudding Are there no racy anecdotes or grim tragedies, if you like, of the sea to

• Illustrate'ibe dry-as-dust figures which parade themissives on almost every page of the Annual? Aʼkugle story illustrative of a plain proposition In worth a bushel of argumenti.

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Whilam, the sea they konratly bones or fright The good ships from the rocks."

the scalp the bullet was found lying among It reminds one of Edgar Allan Poe's tintinabull. the fragments of bone at the vault of ation of the bells. A couple of pages of American the skull. Witness produced the bullet. Wit-jokes which should raise the spirits of the ness made an examination of the organs of

are thrown in gratuitously. The hypocondriac the body. He had treated the deceased off and young Gees gathered round the Vale loz. on for two years, and witness told him about

bas an article in execrable taste on the ways of two months ago that the general state of bis the young men of Hongkong, exaggerating health was very unsatisfactory, Deceased bad foibles which are common to the whole, world suffered a good deal from insomnia, and apart and spitting out venom with such rancour that from his health he was rather nervous that the to be feared no self-respecting, family who

it is insurance company would fiil bis place. Witness have sonsboro in Hoogkong will have anyibing poke to the Managing Director and was told to to do with a kaleidoscope which indulges in such téll deceased that he was to stay away putil he mud-slinging. It is anonymously signad "The was ft to come back to work, his salary would: Tadpole" which is a most appropriate name for be paid, and a place kopt for him. For the last || a writer who wallows in slime. Other anticlar mouth witness thought that another doctor had of more or less interest as the reader is inclined treated the deceased. The cause of death was deals with the " Merchant vs. Missionary an a haemorrhage and laceration of the brais sub-factor of civilisation" and "Inventions and Dis stance by a revolver wound. He would say coveries of the Age." Mr. A. S. Parker, who con that the wound was self-loflicted. Evidently tributes the latter, has achieved the impossible, be put the barrel of the revolver in his mouth

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He has condensed into about 5,500 words a sube clopedia Brittanica. Mr. Horace Wyndham tells "How Britain gained Hongkong" and introduces some new facts which past historians have overlooked. For example, he says: "Like the majority of our Colonial possessions, che island of Hongkong was pot brought under British sway without resorting to the power of the sword. The fields which to-day haar smil.

and

From the Minutos of the Shanghai General

On the 28th day pfaho oth moon (October Chamber of Commerce: it will be soon that 2) the Walwapu received from Sif.). N. Jor the indiscriminate issue of bank notes by doua dispatch in which ure British Minister The some soo members and friends of the Chiness Banks has again, occupied the

states that he has received a letter from the above logge passed a very enjoyable evening attention of the Committee. The matter, representative of the British and Chiness Cor- last Friday night at the Masonic Hall, Zetland indeed, is considered of auch vital imporation complaining of the infringement of Street, at the Installation Concert and Supper portance that representations are to be made some of the conditions of the Chekiang Rail- given in honour of War. Bro, J: G, West directly to Paking in the pope that the Central Way Loan Agreement on the part of the

Chekiang Railway tive meatures before the evil affects seriously in-Chief has been saincted and appointed by

A British Engineer the credit of China, and there representations, it is understood, will be backed by the efforts the Ministry of Posts and Communications, the of the China Association in another goar

appointment has not been officially approved ter, Five nionths ago we draw attention

by the Railway Company Sir:J. Na Jordan to the number of native bank notes cir-

adds. that, some of the suctions of the Rálic culating in the Settlement and pointed

way are being badly constracted, and that the that, as far as could be learned, they were materials and Foods used are not of good and issued for the most part without a cash reserve satisfactory quality. He states that although To-day there are no less than seven backs with the British Engineer-in-Chief arrived in Shang a note circulation amounting in all it is under since been asked to discharge his duties and hai more than two months, ago, he has not Whale Solo con Bandanas Englefield. stood, to $14,000,000, while two other banking that, unless drastic measures ate inmediately

institutions have been established and aid to be contemplating an issue of notes. In some affairs, it is feared that not only the intereals taken to ameliorate this unsatisfactory; state of cases the pole issue of a bank is aither equival of the Chinese Government and the Railway out to or greater than the amount of the paid. Company, but also those of the subscribers to the Long will be injured. The British Ministor Central Government should allow the Railway adds that he is at a long to know why' tha' Company to treat the Agreement with ach levity. In conclusion he requests the Chiness. Government to instruct the Railway Company" to act in strict accordance with the settlement. of the Loan Agreement-N, G. D. Newsl

-March

PROGRAMME

‚“Ronymll' Lasa"...OrchestrM., (Chmiel—incantonsaitenaan. Hunderas

*-Recitation,,“ Professor Choker" a-later. Mr. Young. -Song (Corrie)............................ Private Collfar.

Song. 7-Song

.................Mr. J. 1'. McCarthy, -Song

Selected Mr. Huicheson, .. 9-Trio (Comfe).......................... Coonville Coloured Bland. Selaciod:maverios Capt. Parke 10-Sang

Interval of ro minuleg during which Orchestra will play.. -Plecota Sola...

„Bandumaa Englafekt. 2--Song (Comic)" \umner, Mr Hutchespa, R.K. Sally Selected, Mr. Sandlare, -Song (Conle)

........... Private Collier, Song..Selected (Coon)..... Bandeman Englefield. Song. Selected. M. J. Cooks. --bong (Consid)...................Selected........Mr. Huicheson, K.k..

God Save the King. Accompanist .........Mr. McCarthy, ABC.

OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR 1999.

up 'capitat;" in others a bank started by an official loan, which has been subsequently with drawn, will have notes in circulation amounting to over $1,000,000, with no reserve, though the issue is said to be guaranteed by the Provincal Government. In addition

to these Binks various Provinces hare issued notes with no special reserve against them aed with. out fixing the final tihtits of the issue. This practice has been discountenanced by the Paking Government, but no definite stops have been taken to stop it, and the system is said to be spreading. For the present this Aight Worshipful Manter-Wor. Bro. J. C. paper money circulates with few or no restric

tipos in Chinese hands, although all attempts to persuade foreign banks to recognize it have hitherto failed. But it is clear that ultimately depreciation will result, with consequent loss in holders; and even if popular dissatisfaction does not lead to disturbances, a dislocation of trade and the possible lowering of China's credit ars likely to result.

Weat

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Taymediate Past Master--Wor, Bro. E, A, Chapman,

Wor, Senior Varden-Bro, G. W, Coysh, Treasurer-Bro. Jas. McLeod. Chaplain-Bro. Jacobs,

Sentor Deacon-Bro. H. Woodward. Inner Guard-Bro. E. W. Dawson. Wor, Junior Warden-Bro. J. Hutcheson. Steritary-Bro. J. J. Blake.

Junior Deacon-Bro, A, Charlton. Director of Ceremonios-Wer. Bro. A.W. Hill Stewards-Bro. C. H. Parkinson and Bro, C.

Tyler-Bro. J. Vanstons.

Frith,

INCREASE IN DUTIES.

ILLICIT OPIUM.

THRAE MEN HULCTED IN HRAVY FINES. Last Friday afternoon, Excise Officers board. od the steamer Loongsang in search of illicit oplum, this trick of boodwinking the Govern« ment baving become frequent of late. Police Sergeant Wilson put himself at the head of affairs and the party began poking their official nosen in every nook and corner in the hope of

• "capture." They had vol goos for when their bulging optics discerned aspicious-looking. packages in the foc'sle. There were twenty-two boxes containing eighty-eight 'taels of oplum and two tias containing night tasia. In the ventilator on the bridge, seven bags contain-

188 POPULATION OF JAVA,

As is already known, the Chinese Govern- meat has given its attention to the question of currency, and as a result of a memorial from the Government Council a Decree was issued on October 5 on the subject of a uniform sation- af currency. From those documents, it willing 120 tine of the drug, equivalent to 516 taels be seen that the Kuping tasi has been chosen ware discovered. The illicit, anield was taken as the standard coin, and it is ynderstood possession of, and this morning, thres tally- ́that silver, amounting to over one million men were charged with having the drug in their

tacis in weight bas already been sent by the possession. Yam Ping, the first defendant, put: Ministry of Finance to the Tientsin mint for the others hopelessly in the shade by being" ÜPIUM IN THE MALAY STAIRS. the purpose of coining the new currency. the fined $500, while Lau Sum Chun, and Chan reasons which have induced the authorities Pin, the remaining two, had each to pay half. to select the Kuping tael in preference that sum. to the dollar are not, without interest," We are told in the first place that eleven pro vinces advocated the taal, while eight were in favour of the dollar. So far there would seem in have been a fairly equal division of opinion. From "the point of national dignity," however, it scomed to the Government Council, that the country" ought to try to stand alone" and that it could not afford "to throw away our so- vereign rights in order to gratify the wishes of others;" while, continues the Memorial, "from the point of view of the people wa should and not change a tendition of the country for the convenience of the open parts or trading marts." Starting from those promises it is not a matter for surprise that the Government Council was able to make light of all argu. ments that ras 'counter to its predilections. The existence of an enormous supply of dóliard already in circulation, the' objection that the of living, the difficulty, of reckoning exchange higher denomination will tend to raisa the cost with 1,549 cash to the teel-all such points are brushed aside, and the fiat has gone forth that the country is to have a 'tael coisoga,

fired with bis left hand, covering his mouthject which can hardly be contained in the Ency.import duty on opium is to be so greatly in- with the right band. This would explain the blackening of the right band.

Raymond Arthur Kiltalee said that he was eniployed at the Chios Mutual. Coming to office

A few minutes before ning o'clock on Friday he saw the deceased about to enter the back dook He was ring a box, and knowing he was rather wank witness went to help him 'up. When ing crops were once dyed red with English the Government, as the outcome of its own foliow a course suitable to the greater number though their average duration of lifà is shorter* ·

We bad, in a recent issue, reported that the creased in Perak, from the beginning of next year, that Chandu will become, practically beyond the reach of the Chinese coolie. The decrease of the imports of the drug will, we anticipate, be so large, that the Gov crament revenue is bound to suffer, not withstanding the greatly enhanced rate of duties. But the loss, if any, will fall on policy, and there are no vested interests to suffer thereby Mr. Birch bad suggested an increase of 25% on the existing duty. Had the commendation of the resident been exactly conformed to, it would have increased the duty from $560 to $700, per chest. But it has been

tions and rewards to informers. decided to good deal of snuggling, may look

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thorough going believer in an all-powerful || step from the first landing with his head leanine mirable, bat that the man who wants reading bein natifled, under instruction from the country has enjoyed in the past, it has

High Commissioner, that the rate of duty is to be raised from $44040 $1,200 or an increase of $60 per chest. Had the Farmer been entitled to appropriate this increase be waight have been amply compensated for the inevitable decline in the quantity of opium imported. But the excess daly levied is to be collected for the Government

The present state of Ohinese fiance, bow ever, provides'a strong argument against the Government committing self to any defaite course until it has taken expert foreigo advice open, the currency question. In spite of the sound financial reputation that the recently adopted a most reckless attitude towards the currency, especially towards the money of the millions, the standard in which wages, and all small_reisil tran- sactions are settled. It is calculated 'that in 1995 and 1906 over sine and a balí thousand million ten-cash pieces were struck by the

The Kaleidoscope will stand the closest scruby the Farmer, as its agent, being:remunerated various mints, while copper cash potos'io ati

tiny. Mr. T. C. Swaby is "compiler" and wa look anxiously forward to the second number which will appear on race week.

witness reached him he was-on the first land- blood, and many a gallant soldier, now sleep: ing, and wit asas asked if he wanted any help. ing peacefully in the Happy Valley cemetery To this deceased said no, and witness went on met his death in the fighting which our occu into the genomi.office. Deceased bad at this pation of this dependency occasioned.* Masy time laid the box on the window. Aboul two people will be interested in the articles minutes afterwards they heard à sound like a New York civilised?" while others will wonder cracker exploding, and Ister on going down whether the author of " Mauda ja not a grONS certainly au important addition to the works of Markwick's body lying on the landing with his writer of the story, which we fancy we have But when all le said and done, the Annual is the back stairs to the office below he saw Mr. plagiarist, unless, of course, he was the original

I'to a good of smuggling, prosecu reference with regard to the navies of the head against the wall. Witness asked if he read in a dozen papers, America and colonial. But this policy is not to be confined to world." The Editor, Mr. Alan Burgoyne, it wanted any help, but receiving power beThere are 16 parissite of "Our Public Men,"

Petak. It is now reported that the increase respottibit for a survey of the progress of the ran back to the general office and called Mr. and as we have met them one sad all in the is also to be given affect to, in. Pabang, from British Navy and Foreign Navies, but the Reza The latter examined him and first re-flesh it is reasonable to believe that they

rst. January next, though the Faimer's leato equally interesting reviews on the condition of marked that he had fainted and then that he had are island worthies." Some pictures entitled

does not expire before the end of the year the Japanese and American Navies, the Dualshot himself; Dr. Goode, was then telephoned Local street scenes" remind us of a weekly

1909. "It is stated that Government proposes Alliance (Franco add Russia), the Triple All for.

long defunct, while the caricatures on St. An-

to avail itself of a special clause in the con- ance (Germany, Italy and Austria), and the Carlos Maria da Roza, clerk in the China drew's Day were scarcely worth resurrecting. brief references to the floating strength of Mutual; gave evidence as to knowing Mr. And that is about the sum total of the leading tract with the Farmer, which enables the mindr nations are unsigned, so that the Markwick for two years. On Friday he was and pictorial matter of The Kalcidosgaps. A Resident, to raise the rates of duty at any precise value to be attached to them is called by the previous witness to see Mr. an ouliet for enterprising advertisers it in.ad-time during the continuance of the lease. In the exercise of this right the Farmer has an unknown quantity. Mr Burgoyne is a Markwick, whom he found sitting on the second

matter over Sunday should be mulcted in the Navy for the United Kingdom. So far as we against the wall. Witness shouted in his 'oRTE

sum of 50 cents for the "compilation seems can make cul, he would have all the great ship asking what was the matter but receiving no rather stiff. The front page is adorned with

at full building yards in the country working at

an authentic portrait of Copfacias, and from a revolver lying in a pool of blood, and seeing our recollection of the sage when a boy it cer pressure constructing additions to the various reply thought he bad fainted. Then he noticed units. le 'desting with the British Fleet he he had shot himself witness called for Mr. Kiltainly resembles him, especially about the feet. talks somewhat strenuously of the people in flalee. The body was then removed upstairs. As a-first attempt at bringing out a quarterly Great Britala who are shivering because the Mr. Markwick had not come to the office for Admiralty in their opinion is not sufficiently about two weeks previously,

Edward Randall, telephone clerk at the Cen progressive. Was it not Sir. John Fisher, who should know something about the Navy, tral Police Station, stated that he was on duty Who said that the inhabitants of Great on Friday morning.when a telephone.message: Britain might sleep peacefully in their came at 9.15. It was from the China Mutual, bed at aight in the safe knowledge and was to the effect that a foraigner, had shot that they had a Navy which would scare any himself. The charge-room sergeant sent wit- thing in sight. Yet Mr. Burgoyne ir pot satis ness to the office where he ioand-the, da God. He remarks: "Last year it was pointed ceased lying on bit back on the second land cut that, in view of the strenuous naval coming. Dr. Goode was in attendance. On the petition across the North Sea, it would not be window sill on the first fight of stairs to continue reducing, our estimates witness found a deed box fastened with a strap, Patially, and a hops was expressed that in the while on the box there were three letters and a interests of national security, and to allay the hard felt hat. He found the revolver on the anted fought the condom, it would be be handed to Deng with the box and letters distrust, throughout kingdam wise, to lay down ships additional to those arrived. Dr. Goode told them to take deceased suggested, and thereby ease the burden of the to the hospital, but as they were taking him fature. The Admiralty could doubiless put downstairs life was pronounced extinct. forward excellent reasons for demanding no The Coroner found that death was caused by more than two armoured vessels this year, but bullet wound in the head'sali-inflicted whilst It is questionable whether the doubling of that ́in a stalo of temporary insanity. number would not have proved sostider than the adopted policy of putting off the evil day when force of circumstances will dictate the commencement of a far larger number of units, and thus heavily swall the estimates ont of all proportion at, may be, a period inconvenient for the dancellor of the Exchequer." There Is nothing half-hearted about that. The "evil day is approaching, and the Admiralty will sthed condensed for their laxity. To the block with them, at gače.

It is with genuine anfisfaction that we learn our submarines are all right. We lead the world and by gist March next, we shall have

no less than sixty of these boats complete,

Every one

one of which is better than the other. which preceded it. Our-torpedo-bosts are not up to much, nor are the torpedo destroyers all they should be; atlit there is hope, for which we are sincerely thankful. Fortunately our battleships are;'all: right;; and-the-Jalomilable beats the American cruiser Columbia into a cocked hat b

Det, Prosser, who bad - then

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GINGER AND ginseng..

STAM'S NEW COINAGE, The Siam Obstrer prints the text of a provisional translation of the new Gold Standard Act. The Act is too long to repro duce but it may be stated that the theoretic

equal amount were issued during the same period. The only excuse offered for this lo discriminate misling out of all proportion to the economic requirements of the country is that it was a temporary expedient to tide over a period of stringency, for the copper cash could be minted for three-fifths of its face value, Now that with the fall in exchange the profit on the coinage of coppar cash-has, dicap- peared, the same,disregard for the economic welfare of the people fads expression in the issue of unsecured bank notes, and on the top

by three per cent commitslos on the receipit, Under the new altangement, the Farmer stands to lose nearly as much as the Government is bound to gain by the enhancement. There has already been, last year, a decrease of 14 chests compared to that of 1906 in consequence of an increase in the price from.5766 to $789 per chest. The contemplated increase in the duty by $260 will just double the price, and consequently halve the consumption Assume al unit is to be the tical of 558 centigraming that it will coly diminish by too chests mes pure gold. The silver tical of 135 next year, the Farmer would lose $44,000 grammes abali have a value equal to the in the shape of duty thereon, at existing of the present currency confusion the Govern gold unit. The tical shall be divided into rater. Against this loss, the only set-off

per cont. pag-coinage tco satang. The coins- to be minted are the would commission Dos or to tical gold piece, the tical, two salong able on the excess receipts credited to and salung in silver, the rơ and 5 ratang in Government, The net loss of the Farmer nickel and the satung in bronze." Gold and one

would be about $40,000, while the Government tical pieces are to be unlimited legal tender; sub revenue would be increased by not less than sidiary silver up to five ticals nickel and bronze double the sum. We should think that, in all to one tical. Foreign coins not legal tender fairness, the Farmer ought to be allowed unlessexpressly provided for. Astability reserve rebate of $440 in his rental, on every chest that fund is to be built up to consist of a sum of the imports fall short of those of the current £3,000,000 ticała transferred to the fand, of the year, as a natural result of this enormous and Ross profit or coinage, and suy other sources of almost prohibitive augmentation in the duty profit and income emanating from the fund. Perak Pioneer. “ The fund kept in Siam shall be in gold and silver, either bullion or coin. Demonetisation will be accomplished gradually.

LUNACY PROCEEDINGS IN PENANG.

of

Java, which is hardly one-third larger than Ireland, offers an interesting problem to students of the isw of population. conditions which were first investigated scien The Javanese increste fast in number under tifically, in 1869, by a medical officer in the Government service thers named Biesker. Ha came to the conclusion that the people of Java, “·

than that of the Dutch,, would multiply faster than the people of Holland. Dr. Bleeker laid it down that the population of Java doubled in' 35 years, while, in Holland, it takes yo years to double the population.

He forecasted that the population of Java, which stood at 14 millions in 1865, would ex- céed 28 millions in 1900. The actual counting shows him to be surprisingly in the right. On December 31, 1900, the census returns showad the population, to be 28,386,111. During tho twenty years since 1885, the population of the island had increaked 45.3 per cent. Facts hay- of Java in 1935 will stand at about 56 millions! ing proved Dr. Breaker's theory, the population:

At present, the pressure of population is so great as to arouse anxiety. What will it ba s geantation bence?

OPIUM IN PAHANG,

REPORTED INCREASE.

-IN-DUTY.

There has been a rumour for some time past that the duty op opium imported into, the Federated Malay States. would shortly be con- siderably increased; and this has been con.. firmed at least in so far as the State of Fabkog:: Is, concerned.. in accordance with a'clansa:la the contract for Pahang Farms for the years. ^ 1908-9, the British Resident of that Stats can at any time during the continuance of the period of the contract alter the dation leviable on the': import of spirits, opium or tobacco so as to be higher than the duties in force at the time of signing the aforesaid contract.

It is reported that it has-basa found necesi sary to take advantage of this clause, and the British Resident, under instructions from the High Commissioner of the Federated Malay States, has intimated to the present Farmer that from January 18, 1909, the rate of import duty, on opium will be raised from $440 per chost to $1,200 per chest.” The additional duty to be collected is therefore $703, or an incresse”, of 172.72 per cent,Malay Mail.

coinage, that must inevitably place fresh obstacles in the way of trade. It is to be hoped, therefore, that while representations on the irresponsible issue of bank notes are being mide, the Peking Government will be urged to reconsider itu „decision regarding the tacl

A COOLIE accidentally met his death lant currency. In spite of the confident opinion o the Government, Council the drawbacks al- Saturday morning in Leighton Hill Rosd. The ready enumerated to the introduction of the unfortunate man was engaged in the demail. feel as the standard coin are serions, and if tion of a verandah near No. 1 Police Station,

when an iron rod fall an his head and tossed; discontinued until fresh advice on the subject him into the road. Death was instantaneous, migling has already been begun, it should be

The deceased, whose name in UUKLOWD, WAS! has becu taken. Above all the further issus of bank notes should be immediately prohibited thirty years of ag notil regulations controlling the terms of issus THE Japan Chronicle of azst uit says:There have been published, while no further subsi-

was very large assemblages of foreign diary silver coins or copper cash 'should'. be residents at the American bataba at Robe struck until they circulate at par (tha`par rate for cash being definitely fixed). The appoint ment of a Board of Currency with central con- Washington, rith October, The Bureau of Engraving and Frinting has trol of all mints is also required, and no steps completed desigur suggested by Postmaster calculated to complicate an dready confused General Meyer for a new issue of postage situation should be taken: nat!! complete stamps. The new stamps will bo of the folles fluxncial policy has been agreed upon by the Government under expert advice-N. C. D. New

NEW AMERICAN STAMPS.

·HEAD OF WASHINGTON IN RELIEF ON 'ALU OF THEM BUT THE ONE CENT,

A correspondent writes to the Rangoon Gazelle--The Burmese call ordinary ginger ginseng. But they are two quite different articles. The best ginseng comes from Man churia and is highly esteemed in China, the best description selling for its weight in gold. Even the semi-wild quality from Corea is worth its weight in silver. A considerable quantity of cultivated ginseng has of late years bean imported into China from San Francisco, Though ginseng is usually described in China as a medicine it really appears to be more of a tonic possassing to Chinese opinion marvel. lous restorative qualities. When a distinguish one of his wives, and Pawanteh, one of kiting denominations: One cent, two, three, four ad Chinese

statesman is ill the Empator as a ¦ grandsons.

Some months ago" lunacy: proceedings were. instituted, under Chapter 39 of the Civil Pro- cedure Code, 1907, against the well-known Malay millionaire, Mahomed Ariff, by Jelliah,

special bonour occasionally bestows as ounce Mr. Nambyar appeared for the applicants, or two of ginseng upon him. Europena pbyal. while Mr. Armstrong opposed the application cians have decided that the virtues of ginseng || on behalf of Mahomed Ariff,

are largely imaginary, but Dr. Porter Bmith The enquiry was held in camera, and exlande mentions having seen some cases in which life ed over several sittings. The judgment, which appeared to be prolonged for a time by its use. had been reservad, was delivered yesterday.

five, six, eight, ton, Efteen and one dollar The two dollar and fire denominations now in BIÐ will not be reprinted

"MÄN-BATERS NEAR PORT

* DICKSON:

Woolley, the Chief Agent for Japan of the P pasterday afternoon to bid farewell to Mr. Alf. Y & O. Company, who left by the Oriental for England Mr. Woolley has realded in Japan for good many years, and has taken a very active part in the public life of the foreign Kobe and Yokohama.

held the Laserly communities, having been stationed boil at post of Chairman of the Kobe Foreign Board of Trade and was also Prositiont of the Bobent Club, but, whether he resided in Yokohama or It will be sozze weeks before all,the

demo-

Kebo, Mr Woolley has always been foremost » minations will be put on the market. How.

in rendering upgrudging services in the ingui terests of the community, On Thursday i It would be wall if the Editor of the genus

ever, the two cont stamps will be first distribut ed, and it is expected that shipments to Fon-

(19th Instant) the members of the Kobe Club could give us seme ides of the cast of the

Aa Russian traveller states that one of the The allegation of the applicants was that - masters will commence some time in Novem- It would appear that two mad-eating tigers assembled at the Club to witness the presentas various vessels ha enumerates. All we know Cossacks of his party having chopped off a Mahomed Ariff, who is said to be seventyber

aro' at large its the neighbourhood of Pasir tion of a silver salver, and tan astrion, which Is that the Dreadnought cost £1,600,000 What inger accidently with an axe, applied oint years old and whose estate is estimated to be The new issue has been designed with the 'Panjang, some miles, from Port Dickson, had been subscribed for, as a mark of respect was the contract price of the latest craisers, meat made from ginseng and the wound rapid. - worth about three million dollars, was mental- object of obtaining, the greatest simplicity com- One day fast week a report was brought in to and esteem. The presentation was made, act, when completed and ready to be commis ly bealed. : Is Manchuna, a Chinese Imperially incapable of managing his affair and that, mansurate with artistic ressit. The profile the latter place this a Chinaman had been Mr. H. Lucas, the President, who [D." "ta, sloned?. We had'occasion to search the other edict made it at one time a State monopoly, therefor, the estate, had been mismanaged has been taken in each instance instead of a || killed by a tiger: Two Europeans thereupon appreciative words referred to Mr. WoDIDYS day for an estimate of the average price of gon." bouff and torpedo craft built in British yards much as durians were declared Royal property to the detriment of its numerous beneficiaries foll view, stamps are of a similar design, con went out with rifles. They did not fied the public work and his qualities, a

in the times of Buranse Kings. As there appears The allegation of mental aberration was sup. taining a head in an ellipse, the only decoration tiger, but discovered the body of the Chlas citizen. My Woolley replied in hap but so information could-be got from the to be no great difficulty in its cultivation, and it ported by medical evidence. The application belog laurel leaver on either side of the ellipts, many which was in a terribly mangled condie speech reminiscent of the years he had pas

in so much more valuable than ordinary ginger, was objected to by Mahomed Arif on the The lettering is in straight lines, at the toption. The tiger had evidantly sprang at. bis in Kobe and the affection he had for tat, pis With regard to the Duke of Argyll's

US Postage and at the bottom the throat and killed him, and subsequently de- Yesterday afternoon, as the Jannch left Elon wit is a poems. Whether it is a good poem Or profitably made to introduce is callvation here aging bis extate, though his memory was some Words Two cents. The one-cent stamp con roured portions of him. The Chinaman was hatobs, the large crowd of farlightP

thingwe leave to others to says. As it is Mr. E. H. Parker, the former Adviser on Chi- what impaired j' and that he had appointed his teins the head of Franklin, while all others will the owner of a small gambier planlation be hearty cheers for Mr. and win. Wobley, Ulispecial, black; ypařit must, be one nese Affairs, mentions that he tried it once for wecand ions Wan Chi, to be his attorney and bear that of Washington, (aken from basts by which the lalagg had been allowed to grow up Whether Mr. Woolley will nydrostol [apés la the bamies of the volume: All we can say scistica which he was suffering from when in manage the estate under his direction, | Man Hondos. - This one of this most notable difer" | high., Investigation revailed the tracker off's not we believe, whollyrastorid, - burl wg in lindid make a first-class rag time dity. Come, and that the bafy affect was to make homed Ariff also produced medical evidence | ances in the new lane will be the minimum of tiger all over the plantation. Some time ago'a' quite contain that his rotors will be kepad INCOLN TÚTO REould like to refer to an | him feul hilarious med full of nervous: force, to show that nothing was wrong with his mind. lettering -The onlours are the rode and, þides man was taken by 'a liger" and the hialny's do- by a large circle of friends,, sod war

lusion bro Lisaks Richard An American consular officalibers, told to except that he was a little forgetful of theme of the Bureau of Engraving so that there la: good reason to suppose that he will decide for Japan's p

1994 020722 clare that tão tracks in this case ware dinerent/ press the ballaf that if she choice vitiedela, frigates, comma 34 - Mr. Parker he had once tried it and that it ^ His Lordshipy: in in Lougthy judgment" de-air Dire

Eg Marche, 1861 (it made him a ." perspire blood,, so it is evident cided that no order could be madar, Struiti | and

Annual on this vital point na ibu- which grows well in Burma, attemple might be I ground that he was'mantally capable of man-being

Tarka (ka kam, kampe ma the| there are two of the brutes, pauwling around his, home and rendered such.