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THE ZIENTSIN-PUKOU RAILWAY.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY JANUARY 2 1909.

SHANGHAI PROSPERITY.

CONTRIBUTORY FACTORS,

SUGAR IN JAPAN

·EVASION OF CUSTOMS: DUTY"""

THE REVOLT OF WOMAN IN CHINA

The changes that are taking East are amazing in their rapidity and "com" pletances. This is proved by the testimony of many witnesses as renders of the currenI MEWES papers and periodicals may easily learn. The suddenners with which the Oriental mind

the Government's part to assert it u thority over the provinces, and it is hard- ly probable that the provinces will submit without some effort at retaliation. If they AN IMPERIAL DECREE.

suspect, as they probably do suspect, that The following imperial decrea is dated joint oworship with Government means Peking, 18th ulto. When the construction of the loss to themselves of what might be called the Tientsin Pukou Railway was first mooted unofficial menas, of gain, what simpler course Grand Councillor Yuan Shih-k'ai and Liang to the whole scheme, which will compel the Tan-yen, Vice-President of the Waiwupu, con Government either to find the greater put of jointly memorialized the Throne suggesting the foreign loan itself, or to allow the provinci that the ssid lice should eventually be conjoint als what they would consider a better invest ly and equally owned between the Government ment for their money. If this surmise is cor and gentry and merchants of the three pro rect, the decres would not appear to have bean vinces through which the proposed Railway very wisely contrived. There is no harm in an passed. It was anggested that, tas years after official assurance that the bands now offered for the building of the after the Governmen! sale will be regarded as inviolable. But to allow had repaid the foreign loan, the gentry audit to appear that the Government is in any way merchants of the three provinces concerned anxious as to the money being forthcoming is (Chibli, Shantung and Kinngsu) should be to undermine the whole position of authority authorised to raise one-half the capital of the which it has been at so much pains to secure; Kailway for which bonds would be issued find and the immediate effect of the decree that the line should be in future known and make what should be regarded as a gracious.

| it may all be summed up in one word; Trade.bama and Kuba Customs authorities, and Mr. sity of retaining the system of rebates now published" by Albert Mayboo in La Revis operated as a joint Government and mercan concession appear now as an appeal for popular With trada Shanghai is happy; without it, Hayano, a Assistant Appraiser, and otheria. force. Some may think that the free (Paris); in the number of which he shows how": tile enterprisa, Bubsequently La Hai-huan assistance. If the provincials shrink fram sub. (Director General of the Railway) in prescribing, the alternative is that the Government paring the regulations for the sale of rallway should boldly faen the prospect of exclusive bonds to the gentry and merchants reported ownership: and with proper control, economy that, as the live, would nine pass through. and the restriction of the burden of likin there portion of Anbui, the gentry and marchants is no valid reason why the Tiootsin-Pukou line of that proviace should also be given the privi should not be remunerative enough to justify lege, of subscribing for the bonds after the such speculation.-N. C. D. Nison. end of the said limit of ten years, and that the holders of the bande should be allowed to keep them and not be compelled (as was the case recently of the Telegraph Administration when private owners abarea

The existence of the import duty on the pro “duct, however, was suggested by the desire to prolect Japanese mufacturers of unrefined sugar against foreign competition. Properly It is only in certain lions of business that, as EXTRAORDINARY ACTION OF THE CUSTOMs, speaking, continges the 5, the duty on

refined sugar should also be increased to yet, we can say there has been a change for

What appear to be authoritative particulars certain degree ads to compensate sugar mane. the better in the trade conditions of the seitla-

of the recent attempted evasion of Customs tacturers for the loss they are obliged to lacur pmaterials which are taxed. The ment. Just as ona sees outside the mouth of streaks of the silt beating current which a little according to the Osaka Asahi, the British Government

by the last fifty years' history of apan But farther as is to occupy the whole Ares of the teamer Wongan, which arrived at Yokkaichi to the stance of the Conventional tariffs, estuary, so if it now in the sea of depression on the 5th of November, brought 13,000 bags of and it has consequently been compelled to the light as soon as it appears is amply proved Lazco sugar, the consignees being the Masu resort to the complicated system of rebates China is not to be left behind. Political, In- through which we bave been ploughing our waary way for the past three years. We ato daya, a Japanese firm in Nagoya, In the ap now in operation,

So long as the Government aims to protect, tellectust, and social life. Are undergoing not yet in the full current of success, but there plication made to the Yokkaichi Customs for

stitutional government and a house of represen«! ace signs that we shall arrive there in time. an import permit, & clerk named Katagiri, of manufacturers of both. refined and unrefined metamorphosis. Poking has decreed a cons

Meanwhile it will be worth the trouble to the Yokkaichi bmuch of the Masudaya, de- sugar against the Conventional tariff stipatives; the old educational system has been

lations, continues the Tokyo journal, the exist consider for a few moments what really are theclared the whole quantity to be of No. 1 factors on which the prosperity of the settle quality. The amount of the shipment being once of such a system of rebates" is inevitable. revised by a Chinese Richelier The exclu It must be presumed that the cause of all sivo study of the so-called 'classica” has given ment depends. What is it that makes the dif. amined the sugar very closely, when it was the tremble is to be sought in the existents place to a broader system in geography, pay- ference between a period of depression such as

Western curriculam are prominent. This is of articles we have been passing through and a time of found that no less than 4,219 bags of the of an import tariff on unrefined sugar. If sics, mathematics, and other branches of

shipment consisted of No. 2 quality. The this were abolished the question would be set forth at some length in sarien of buoyancy such as was seen in 1905? In a 18060 discovery was communicated to the Yoko easily solved, as there would be no neces

the Grand Secretary Chang Chih-tung, the could they take than that of passive resistance the Yaugtsze, while 'still in son, water, fioco and | duty ou sugar at' Yokkaichi are now published. by the ever is unable to do this owing-mhes from one extreme to another and follows:

were compelled to sell them to the Ministry of Posts and Communications Translator) to part with them in the futute on any excuse whatever to the Government This was approved of by the Throne, but now the said u Hai-huan again reports that al though the. Tientsio-Pukou Railway is known as the Four Provinces Railway, Ld, of Tich tsin and Pukou" there has been, so far, cor. siderable hesitation amongst the people of the four provinces concerned in taking interest in the construction of the said line.. We hereby decres that the Tents Pukou Rail way shall be line conjointly owned by the Government and the Gentry and Merchants, for ever, and that on no pretext whatever, shall private owners of bonds be made to give them up to the Government to the future. Let these our commands be notified to the Gentry and· Merchants of the various provinces concerned and let them be extorted to use their best efforts in raising funds for the object io view,

CHINA AND AMERICA..........

*TANG SHAO-VI'S MESSAGE OF GREETING.

Following is a translation of the message of greeting from Tang Shan-yi, special ambassa dor from the. Chinese empire, to the people of the United States,

To the people of the United States-

I am commanded by my sovereign to come to your country for the purpose of thanking your government for its magbanimous action in remitting a portion of the indemnity, with hupes that the relations between the two countrier will become closer.

I have been greatly impressed to-day on my arrival with the business activity and inpid growth of San Francisco. This is a mattes for congratulation. Lavail myself of this occasion to send my personal greetings to the American people.

unusually large, the Customs authoritida ex-

miserable. In the rough, that is true. Bat without some analysis it does not help us much officers is the Osaka Customs proceeded importation of unrefined sugar would damlar reform has invaded Chiness social life and now progressed to such a stage as to be able to This writer records the remark" "of" many" Trade is made up of imports and exports. To be to Yokkaichi in great baate in inquire into the age the Japanese industry, but the latter bas aroused the self-assertion of the tender sex "If under the breath of reform the family, really healthy the one should balance the other. matter. The Consignees claimed that the at- It is not to be expected that Chiga can for ever tempt to evade the duty was made on the sole hold its ground against the foreign product, Orientalisis" to the effect thit: q

which, though it may be admitted duty free, buy without selling. The first thing, therefore, responsibility of the clerk Katagiri, and that

the manager and proprietors of the firm know is handicapped by freight and other burdees, which is the essential basis of society falls to for the importer to think of outside his own

nothing of the false declaration. However, the Even suppoting it were necessary to retain the pieces and modifies its present constitution wa shell then be able to predict the dawn of a aid particular sphere of action, is how ha cao

Osaka Customs authorities, who have jurisdic-import on unrefined sugar there would seem to

new China." in the increase of Chinese exports. Is it too

tion over Yokkaichi, refused to accept this be bo necessity for effecting a rebate amount. much to hope that some day the native ten krower may be induced to copy his Indian con.

con specious plea, and pronounced the Masudaya ing to almost the whole of the duly on. reficed guilty of the evasion of the Customs duty. Us sugar intended for domestic consumption, temporary and prepare his tea in such a man.

der Article 75 of the Customs Law, the firm Altogether..concludes the iji, the rebate law ner that the British, Americas, and Russian

was ordered to pay the sum of Y3,838, being requires a thorough revision, as its interpsala tion at present means" much loss to the coun- markets may turk to him cace more? Shanghai

the difference between the duty on No. 1 and influence should be used unceasingly to this quality, in addition to VII,514, three times try-Japan Chronicle:"(ta. end; for certainly here we have one of the

the amount of the duty attempted to be evaded factors of our pass prosperity, if not of the pre-Y15,353 in all. The money was paid to the seat. So with some other staples we might Osaka Customs House to avoid further steps being taken. Furthermore, the 4,212 bags of sugar, estimated as being worth between

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20,000 and Y15,000, have been confiscated and the sugar is to be disposed of by public' auction.

AN EXCITING CHASE. 4.

PAUL FLOER ELUDES HIS GAOLER.

Disintegration, renovation, he proceeds to. show, have appeared in the family institution as it has for centuries existed in the Middle Kingdom. During these centaries the daughter was a mere chatial, her fact were crippled and deformed by artificial means; she lived within. the walls of the women's apartment, in careless- 'ness and ignorance; she was married without being consulted as to, her choice of a busband,

In 1891, we read, Kang-yoon-wai," the leader of the social reform moremant, who has beer styled the thodera Confactis, published, as the main principle of his teaching, "Now Is the time for a democracy in China wherein the masses take part in the government and the two sexes enjoy equal liberties." Thus he is looked upon as "the founder of Chiaste femi pism. This movement has since then be come organized. An associatian to promote the preservation of "natural feet" was first in- the wife and two deaghtes of the Viceroy Tuan-Fang. But associations of much store radical character were 2008 multi- plied, declares. Mr. Maybon. To quote bis

stituted by t TANG SHAO-VI,

Special ambassador to the United States, Sent by his Imperial Chinese Majesty.

JUNK. "WHANG HÒ DISMANTLED AT THURSDAY IS

According to the latest news from the North work has now fairly been begun upon the Ticalsin to "Pukou Railway, for which, by the

The notorious Chinese jook hang ito, way, the original concession, that granted to

which left here in January for New York, and. the subsequently extinguished Yung Wing

which was recently placed on the overdue list Syndicate, was given as long ago as the year and thought by many to have gone to Davy 1897. The agreement under which the line is

Jones' locker, is at Thursday island in the actually being constructed with capital sep

South Pacific in a dismaniled condition, reports plied jointly by British and German financiers

a San Francisco exchange, of 23rd Nov. The was signed on Februaly 13 of last year, and the first sod was cut early in the past sum-ish steamer fra arriving at Victorin e

But since that ceremony was perintmeday, reported that the junk had been picked ed the information that has pozed, ut, up by a cutter and towed to Thursday, where

she now lies a hulk.

mer,

in somewhat meagre dribles, has not been Reinsurance was quoted on the freakish craft

very satisfactory. Some parade was made of the sending of a commission, to various Chi- nese metal works to ascertain how far they would be capable of supplying the requinte materials. A little later, we were told of the ianitution of a telegraph and telephone school at Tientsia where Chinese operators were in be trained for future duties along the railway, when it should be completed. It seems unfeel. ing to suggest that the line should be, after a, the principal object of cure, and that telegraph

operators might safely be left to a later die. Doring the past autumn the discovery was made that whereas a formidable list of man- agers, superintendents and deputy assistants had been retained, the majority of them were practically without any employment worthi iher DAME. Mucb time, also, had been wasted in wrestling with the claims of those who pos sessed ascestral burying grounds along the proposed route of the railway. Now, however, Irum Talangchow, two days' journey south

at a high rate, and many thought it an easy play "not to arrive." Details is to the adven tures of the Whang Ho and her crew were nai contained in the dispatch received at the Merchants' Exchange yesterday,

The Whine He was brought out here two years ago from Chind and placed on exhibition a relic of old China," but as such did not senlize the expectations of her managers, who Inter decided to take the crait around the Hora for the edification of sightseers at Coney fainud. Leaving here in January last the Chinese junk some months later, after many adventures found itself at Papeete, where the crew imme diately deserted and returned here on the teamer Mariinsa. Another crew was secured and the voyage to New York once more begun. Since the Whug Ho left Tahiti several months ago nothing has been seen or heard of her until she was picked up by the cuiter, as reported by the steamer Moans.

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Similarly western influence should be brought to bear as much as possible in the develop

The following report from the Shanghai ment of all the ostural resources of China.

Times, of 33rd ulto,, gives particulars of the Har mineral, wealth is hardly touched as ye To Shanghai it is a matter of secondary im-

The Osaka journal further states that Mr. escape of Paul Fleer from police custody, ro Otsuki, Superintendest of the Osaka Customs corded in our telegram of that data rather portance whether this be done by native or foreign money. When it is done, China will House, is much concerned at the discovery of sensational termination followed upon the com- be so much the richer, and so much the more

the attempted evasion of the duty at Yokkaichi. pletion of the arson trial in H.B. M's Supreme prepared to boy; for her people, though He sent officers to the various booded ware.

Count on Monday when Paul Fleer was son thrifty, are not miserly, and will buy lux-houses in Osaka and had an examination made tenced to two years' imprisonment; for before be uries when they have the wherewithal. Wes of some hundred thousand bags of sugar stored could be safely lodged in His Majesty's gaol, torn education, then, should be pushed as therein, when to his astonishment it was found Floer had eluded his gaoler and was at liberty. He was sentenced a few minutes before six much as possible. is creates per tastes, it

that in most cases No. a quality had evidently discloses new sources of wealth, and predis. been passed as No. 1 quality. It was then o'clock, and was taken charge of by the Chief poses those who benefit by it to a wider sad

realised that if Heps were taken to prosecute, Gaoler, Mr. J. A. Chandler, whose duty it was more enlightened intercourse with the rest of

it was probable that a number of sugar im-to convey hi to H. B. M.'s Gnol which is the world.

porters, all Japanese, would be ruined by the situated is Amoy Road. Hore Floer was to At the moment one of the main factors of fises imposed on them. Tas matter was con- undergo his imprisonment with hard labour for twa year, in addition to the period of plos our prosperity is quite beyond our control.sidered of so important a nature that the ques We refer to a stable currency. China has no tion was submitted to the consideration of the mealbate which he was sentenced last mouth on a charge of extortion. The night was exceeding stable currency. Her new ine! coins when Customs Council. Those importers of sugar on the marker, if they ever get there, against whom evidence of the false declaration ly dark, with a heavy and incessant rain falling, will be just as unreliable, just as sub of quality was discovered by Customs authori and the gaoler procured a couple of rickshas

the ject to outrageous rise and fall as ties were much alarmed and appealed for the for his own and the prisoner's conveyance. The two, left the British Consular compound Mexican dollur or the lump of sycee, it will

clemency of the authorities. Mr. Orauki, Super- nut be possible for China to face the world with intendent of the Otaka Customs, thereupon shortly after six o'clock, and went along she a coinage which will give the security which sammoned sugar importers in Osaka and Kobe Yuen-ming-yuen Road for a short distance, took the first ricksha, the hood of which, was steady trade wants till she has a backing of to his office and informed them of the result of before entering the Ticksbas. The prisoner gold, as India has. This is a matter on which the examination of the sugar stored in the according to the highest and best principles. we should never be silent till it has been settled bonded warehouses, which showed that almost up, his gaoler following in the other, close every importer had been guilty of a gross viola bebind. At Peking Road they turned to the It may take time: it bas taken time to get tion of the law. However, the Superintendent right, and from here the gaoler kept his eyes upon the ricksha immediately in front of him, due attention paid to another prime factor in of the Customs added that the whole matier

in which he understood Floer to be riding, But in this he proved to be mistaken, for ou nur well-being, the conservancy of the river. bad bera cousidered and..it had been decided But at last that is being done, and in due that no legal action would be taken against the

reaching the Junction of Chekiang and Peking course we may bope to be so much the beiler importers for their action in the past, but he

Roads the ricksba in question turned off in the warned them that after this no quarter would

opposite direction to the gaol, to the surprise off by reason of the work Mr. de Rijke is now

be given in such cases. The sugar importers,

of the gaoler. The latter's surprise became doing. At the same time, it must not be im

even greater when a jumped out of his own ngined-that-in tackling we are tackling a conclades our Osaka contemporary, wara thera upon relieved of anxiety, and it is stated that

ricksba and found the vehicle in front of him problem which can be begun and finished at

to be occupied by a Chinamao and not any fixed date. That can only happen when they held a banquet to celebrate their remark

Floer, who by this time was missing in the river bas. ceased to, zup, Though 'skilled able escape.

the circumstances the gaoler did the only direction cao do much to make a stream.take cute of its own course it cannot do everything,

thing possible for him to do, vix, raise the and, especially at the mouth, efficient scouring

alarm. This he did by communicating with can be secured only at the cost of constant

the Central Police Station, and from there prompt orders were issued to all the other supervision.

police stations to turn out their men to intercept the escaped coavitt. The detectives rasponded with promptitude and instituted inquiries at all the shipping offices, searched every steamer

ward of Tientsin, come decidedly more hopeK LATE MR, W. 8. CHUNPUT, whether or not we have age arrived at a time

city.:

FORMER HONGKONG RESIDENT DIES IN

MANILA

One factor in the success of the Settlement we have long had with us-efficient Municipal management. The occasional periods of ad- verse criticism of our Councils have but marked the rule of general satisfaction. It is a question when a change would be for the benefit of the fat accounts. Gangs of coolies are reported to bave been at work for the past six or seven

Council itself as well as for the community. It weeks, and the ernbankment on which the line

might well be argued that a growth of five buo will run is completed for a distance of nearly

dred and more per cent in population, revenue, eleven miles north and south of the city. The

The Manila Calenta, of 25th ulto.,.3ys:—and expenditure night well call for some removal of graves appears to be giving more

The friends of Waiter E. Chanyut, Assistant, modificaties in the method of government, trouble that it did even in the case of the

We have already saggested that the Com Shanghai-Nacking Railway. But the Governor Chief Surveyor, Bureau of Lands, will. learn

munity should consider the question of an of Tsangchow, we are told, has shown that he with deep regret of his dealb, on December enlargement of the Council and of the inclusion can handle his knolly question with equal 23rd at San Juan de Dios Hospital, Manila, at

the age of thirty-two years. He had been ill in that enlargement of some Chicco Council firmness and humanity, and the population of

for several months, with an aneurism of an lors whom we could trust. For it is almost Trangchow is already optimistic as to the

artery due to a strain. A trip to Hongkong to certain that without some such concession benefits which they begin to anticipate for their

Test and visit his family during November there is little chance of our getting the exton sion which has now become so necessary a Meanwhile considerable interest attaches to secmed to do hini a great deal of good, but on

another factor in our success. “ the Imperial Decree, dealing with the financialDecember 19th a severe attack compelled him to go to the hospital where he received every position of the railway. The terms on which the Decessary capital was supplied are generally care and attention, No doubts of his ultimate familiar: they are shaped in accordance with recovery were entertained until within a very the Dow approved compromise whereby the Chinese Government has found it possible. to reconcile the need of admitting foreign as-

·sistance with the desire to retaia contral in its own bands. Warnings have been heard to the effect that, so far as the British contributing is concerned, the agreement for the Tiestsia- Pukon line does not properly safeguard the shareholders' interests; and that by this de- ficiency China's credit may, he seriously im. paired in the future. But it is obviously too Iste to raise this objection now. On the olber hand it is of vital importance that the harmony of purpose between provincials and Govern ment, at which the latter particularly professed. All persons with whom he came in, contact,

short time of bis death.

Mr. Chunyat was born in Melbourne, Aus- tralia, and came to the Philippines before the American occupation and worked with a com- mercial firm in Iloilo, Late in tool he was appointed a surveyor in the office of the Pro viacial Supervisor in Iloilo, where he remained until October, 1903, when he was transferred to the Moro Province as a junior engineer. In February, 1905, he transferred to the Bureau of Lands as a surveyor, where he remained until

his death.

His work was characterized by accuracy, neatness and attention to detail.

whether American, English, Spanish or Filipino, bar lost a most valuable servans and those who became his friends. The lasular Government knew him a pleasant and valued friend and companion.

Last of all, and perhaps at important as any, we come to the necessity of a thoroughly' good

understanding with our native fellow-residents. That such an understanding has been growing of late we are delighted to think that it may continue until every resident native and foreign is fully convinced that our prosperity depends OD our perfect good-will the one to the other is what we earnestly desire: Then, if our sug gestion is acted upon, if the Chinese Govern meat is willing to let us expand as our needs require without haggling over every square yard, then, with returning confidence, there should be such progress and such prosperity as we have rarely seen.-Shanghai Mercury.

FOREIGN UNIVERSITY IN JAPAN

JESUIT PATHERS BAVE OBTAINED PERMIS. SION TO FOUND SCHOOL THERE,

As a result of the negotiations between the Holy See, through Cardinal Merry del Val, the papal secretary of state, and the Japanese government, the Jesuit Fathers are shortly to spen a aniversity in Japan, presumably in Tokio,

The Hock quotes Mr. Nanaka, the head of the Customs Revenue Bureau, for the following

statement, which was of course made before the settlement as reported above:..

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Such associations are day by day becoming, more numerous. Oftentimes, under the pre- text of opposing the fashion of little fest," they make it their object to effect a complets reform in the family relations. In a large number of places the young women no sooner. found a club that they proclaims themselves. girls who intend to follow their own will They take an oath that they will choose their own husbands, and, if they think it necessary, to their happiness, they will rebel against the orders of their parents."

These women also take a keen interest in politica, as we learn from the following stats mont

"The feminist propaganda is largely promot ed by these associations of women, who now take part in political discussion and furnish, a new impulse to political movements. For ins stance, it was the young women of the province

protested at their meeting of Che-Kinng who against obtaining a loan from England to build an important railroad, and proved the sincerity of their words by their deeds, for they immedi ately invested $100,000 in the stock of the Cals nese company. It is thanks to such societies that the childless widow and the divorced wife are not abandoned, at beretofore, to a lot of misery. Such unfortunates are given new in- terests in life and furnished with positions in the government offices and in banks or hospitals Those who are educated ara sept to Japan to... take up courses of study. If they are without resources they are provided for by their associates.*

thing in their power to prevent the prisoner caving and about to leave, in fact did every compelled to recognise the growing spirit of from leaving the Settlement. Floer, though a convict, was not attired in prison clothing; ha His description was worea light check suit, brown shoes, soft brown hat and a blue overcoat, circulated to all policemen. on duty, who kept a sharp look-out for the man all the night. To Constable Walls, of the nongkaw Police Station, fell the credit of Floer's capture with The constable himself had never in a few minutes of one o'clock yesterday seen Finer before and all the more credit is therefore due to him for his smart piece of work. Finer was proceeding in a ricksha along the Hanbury Road from the Boone Road and was first noticed by Constable Wails as he was passing the Hongkow Fire Station. The being aroused the castable ord big suspicious They are now reading Jules Verne and Dean,

ordered the coolia

Private information was received by the Fin- Ance Department of the evasion of the Custome duty at Yokkaichi, but such matter must be taken up by the department only on informa tion laid by the Superintendent of the Customs House concerned. An official repon may bo received shortly from the competent author. ities. Sugar is classified into four qualities, by the Sugar Tax Law. Crude sugar is classified as Nos. 1 and 2, and refined sugar as No. 3 and 4. The rate of Customs duty on No. I quality is Yr.65 per 100 kin; on No. z quality it is Y2.25: on No. 3 quality Y3.15, and on No. 4 quality Y3.60. Distinctions are also made in the rate of excise between crude and refined sugar. The Customs House judges the quality according to the colour on the basis of the Dutch standard. The weather morning makes a great difference in the colour of sugar, and judgment varies according to the examiners. The examiners, of sugar for Customs purposes are chosen from among thons, most experienced in the judgment of the quality. It would seem very easy to dis tinguish the quality, as black sugar is defined as No.1 quality, brown as No. 1, whitey-brown as No. 3, and pure white as No. 4. As a mat ter of fact, it is very difficult to distinguish No. 2 from No. 1. There is a wids difference in the Customs duty.between these qualities. No. 2 quality is passed for No.1 quality and No. 3 for No. 2, the amount of the duty evaded will be enormous, as segar is imported in large a branch of the Osaka Customs, and the quantities at a time. The Yokkaichi Customs staff at Yokkaichi is very small and so large a quality-over 10,000 bags at one time-being imported into Yokkaichi astonished the ex Ashivers, The importers may have chosen that. port deliberately in order to evade the Costoms doty. In case of the rumours of this event being substantiated by the report of the Osaka Cas toms, the firm which has attempted the evasion of duty will be severely pubished.

REPEAL OF DUTY ON UNRETINED

SUGAR URGED,

If

Even the Government at Paking Ends itself feminism. One imperial adict has made illegal the mutilation of the feet and another has made the education of girls' compulsory. In the wards of this document, “The good education of the citizens of the Empire depanda upon the good education of our women, And a little farther on we read, Women as well as men ought to practise profession. They ought not to part their life in eating and "There is little of the Asiatic in such terma gossiping without any serious employment." as these, exclaims Ms. Maybon. It is also a remarkabla - sign of the times that Chinese women are growing heartily tired of the waari- some and grotesque legends, or the tales of domestle tyranny and intrigue, which thair native writers hava hitherto supplied them with... and Han Friday" is now as "popule, with them as with Europeans Transitions of books of travel, French and Engli, are eager

to stop. He then questioned Floer, who did not deny that he was the man wanted, and kew Siation where he was at once identified as of Bellamy is found in mom every Chinasa willingly accompanied his captor to the Hongly bought, and the Look Paul Floer. He was searched and in his pos- boudoir. During the Present your two import sessico, the sum of $12 was found-seven silver and works of romance by zatira suthors inve dollars in his pocket and a five-dollar bill con- appeared, oneth is significant title Fee cealed inside his but. When he left the Count, Marriage while the other is The Stone of Floor is said to have had no money. In the Niwan apology which makes use of meantime the detective force had been scout figures in Chinese mythology to ridicole and ing the whole of the settlement for the missing satirize old Chinese customs, social and re- man, while two of their number had

Journeyedligions, and to promote feminisms it for mid to: by trolley to Wooseng and share chartered a be a mixtars of Swift and Rabelais in style and Junk by which they visited the various steaman, There was a continual downpour of reln all the night and practically every detective who took part in the search got a thorough drenching.

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its" object is "to awaken the people and to set. them on the way to a new order of things.*" On this subject Mr. Maybon concludes his obser.... vation with the words punasiga kalan pelaya

"The old literature is doomed with the social conditions from which it originated. - Amid a› new society in which the two sexes shall enjoy equal rights, a new literature must arian. Me Translation made for The Literary Digent; **

to sim, should be preserved: and it is here, ac cording to the decree, that the rift within the lute

As to Floor's movements. between the time now appears. The principle, we are there told, Do which the construction of the railway warunder.

of his escapa sad his re-capture the reports are somewhat contradictory, bus it is probable that takbu was that the ownership of the line should altimately be divided equally between the Go live in Hongkong and deeply mours his logs,

His mother and several 'brothers and sisters

Referring to the rebato co sugar duty, which after getting clear of his gaoler he want along vernment and merchants of the four provinces

bids fair to become one of the important ques Peking Road as far as Sinza Road and then by through which the line would pass. Bonds

ORIENTAL BŪRIAL CUSTOMS.

tions in the forthcoming session of the Diet, Cartar Road to Bubbling Well Road. Here

THE KAWASAKI DOCKYARD. were to be issued to the extent of one half of

the Jiji Shimpo ways that the operation of the appears to have met an acquaintance with whom the total capital and these it was expected would readily be taken up by the provincials. The ordinary coffin used in Smyras is made

augar duty rebate law now in force will expire. he had a conversation, afterwards proceeding on March 31st, 1909, and much discussion is by way of Mohawk Read into Frenchtown

Thovice-president ofthe Kawasaki Dockyard Unfortunately the latter appear to be shy of the of pine wood, for the reason that it practically

1 the only oos in demand. It is very cheap, The proposed university is one of the results now going on as to the advitability or other and to the Kathing-Haugchow Railway, scheme they show "considerable hesitation in

to have said that there is no truth in the sukiong taking interest in the construction of the said and supplied by carpenters to comfia dealers, of the diplomatic missions entrusted to Arch: wise of continuing it in force. According to soable to find a suitable means of exit from Company Kobe, is reported by the Osaka Ji

who in turn decorate it with covers af black,f biskop'O'Connell of Bostos, us representative the provisions, al the existing law in the the city by reli so late at night he' returned 19 that the Company's works will be purchased by: Jize." Considering that *period of tea

avent of refined or rock sugar being manu- this side of the Settlement, only to be re- years must elapse before the foreign cop and white cloth and adorn it otherwise with of the Vatican at Tokio some two years ego.

factored and consomed in the country from captured. Yesterday morning he was brought the Government owing to the anfavourable fal can be repaid, and, consequently be gold or silver trimmings. The price depends

At the request of the Pope the work is to be imported material below No. 8 Datch stan up to H.B.M.'s Consulate where it was ex condition of the business. At present the f fore the railway. will become entirely a native to a great extent upon the financial circum-

under the direction of the American Jesuit dard a rebate of Y.4 per 100 kini.is pected a charge would be laid against him is plenty of work on band in spite of the general possession, it might be thought that the Govern- stances of the purchaser. Therefore, a coffin

Fathers, but distinguished scientists and pro- allowed, while on qualities between Nos. 8 and the police court, but after considerable delay he financial and trade, depression The

poder construction at the Dockyard or ord ment was prematurely anxious, But the re- may sell for $5 to $25. Some dealers oc-

fessors of the different countries will be called as the rebate made is Vigg. Forthor, if the was handed over once again to the Chief Galer

Include two of 8,600 tons such for the Nippon cords of railways under purely Chinese many casionally give a collin free to some poor agement are, with the ons exception of the man out of charity. There are also coffins upon to compose the faculty. American sugar is exported the rate of rabats allowed is who baving put on the handcuffs escorted bias Kalgan live, sipas too good, and the urgent made of walnut and mahogany, but these reach and Carmen he sits are already on Y1.65 and Ya.ag respectively. The repeal of back to the gaol where, after an investigation, Yosen Kaisha; three for the Orar Sharon

their way to Tokio, - The first president of the the law will greatly affect the inerents of sugar he will be dealt with for a breach of prison Kashara torpedo-boat destroyer for

and four dredger for the Güvemmänt wording of the decree leaves it only to be are very expensive, the price being so to

institution is to be the Very Reverend William manufacturers, and it is not therefore surprising discipline.

Tokushima Prefecture. Av stormi supposed that there is far more behind the $75. each, even without covered cloth or Rockliff formerly the Provincial of the Jesuits that they should do their atmost to ensure its trimming, as the wood itself is beautiful enough in the United States. Be is to be immediately continuance: The present rebate is based on

for a battleship building for the ?I document than appears on the face of it,

RUSSIAN VOLUnther Flee7. Navy is also bang made at the Docky Two reasons, suggest themselves for the in its simplicity.

The Company #brunch works) (zna reluctance of provincials to take up the offered There are about twelve coin dealers, assisted in the work of organisation by Father the import duty on unrefined sugar, the re

Dahiman, "well-known German-scientist,and-

"Fangement" being that in care of export. the bonds. The first is hinted at by the decree establishments in Smyrna, two of which only Father Boucher, formerly of the staff at Zik-whole of the duty, and in case of domestic con The order for three ships of 5,100 tons and 16. being constructed for the Hibgd and itself, namely, that the forcible acquisition by tent coffins. This is a synem generally prac wal in Chics, dat

of the

sumption about jo per cent less than the daty, knots speed, and two of 4,000 tons and 16 electric lines; locomotives and ulda Government of the privately owned shares tised among the native population

Through the good offices of the Japanese is to be returned. This complicated system knots each, has gone to German, builders at a Imperial Railway Board, the frame In the Chinesi telegraph system has had Orient, which suits many people, for the reason

that for a nominal sum of $1.50 the burial government and the liberality of a wealthy of rebates is due to the desire of Govern total of Yen 3,610,000; one ship 10 be compler for Fasad, and pipes for the Osaks vary bad effect on the popular appetite for

of refined the other four within twelve months of the the Company has steadily increased pablic undertakings To meet this objection expenses may be covered,

practice, however has already been donated, but as it has been

captere the order, but their estimate was Yen 700,000 higher than the Germans and the Ger- mans #greed to certain clauses in the contract with, which it was impossible for the Japadeju leople and

*palize Capitálists areŭnow, informed, with the | returned to the dealer, the coffin: being | Japanese Catholic, a site for the new structure} ment to afford protection by means of a l 'pleted within ten months from date of contract; works,, The number of: párjonli z'sens plo most moving urgency, that the bonds will be may, often lead to the spreading of contagious i found to be too far from the centres of dduch. / farid policy to manufacturama date. The Japanese strove hard to yours and in WYREY 'respect it may bekki)

ded as their own, absolate properly for so discases The majority of the coffin dealers tion another site will have to be obtained,

Irony please to hold them. The second have also protested the resting of coffos, for The work of the lastitution is to be exclusiva KELSORY BOWSTAT,, goss into deeper, it spoils the trade genatally, but the moolci ly of a university character) along the exacting jobs met for some palty has steadily refused to interfere-Confines på European and American Institutions

(d) of the same klad.

and unrefined sugar, at the sugar below No. 15. Detch Standard 1 exclusively as material for refood, sugar, ang. the Government was destions, of encomraging the sugar industry the Importation of mureased

jai should be

on

as a flourishing coacers: The Lions also mid that the GorKERIDOR) of the Dockyard as it use at Kurt and V