Hatimation."
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY MAY 5, 1910.
kobw mandarios who would gladly give up their official position and rotira into a private life which, if obscure, might at least possess the advantages of safety and personal honesty, it they only could pay thair debts and secure their future. Many of them have hopelessly S. WATSON & CO., mortgaged their whole lives in procuring their appointments.' Every explanation of the con- dition of maddle in which the Central and Provincial Governments are involved can be summarized in the same words. It all amounts to this that the hoped-for strong man who
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MANUFACTURERS OF
A JAPANESE PURITAN. Where will Puritanism break out next? It is, of course, always with us, we know it of old, and many of us associate it, if not with our mother's milk yet probably with har'slipper, We have it in Parliament (woren luck) at every election meeting at lectures, in school and out of schools, in books, in the Press, in our laws, in the Budget, and even in Hoog. kong, and—here. we are seriously, grieved-- even there where it never should be, never was
Royal Square.
QUESTIONS AT THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
MR. MURRAY STEWART GIVES NOTICE
TO THE GOVERNMENT." At the meeting of the Legislative Council this afternoon, Hon. Mr. Murray Stewart gave notice that at the next meeting of Council, he would ask the following questions:-
(1).Did the Governor of the Colony in this Council on the 28th July, 1903, accurately state
be said with regard to the ground in
ever be built upon it. I propose that the front of the Club: "I hope that nothing will ground shall be made a public garden, My iden is that the ground shall be preserved at an open space entirely and so add to the beauty of the place?"
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
A meeting of the Legislative Council was held in the Council Chamber, this after ndon. Present:—His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, Sir Henry May, K.C..., Colonel C. W. R, St. John(Com- manding the Troops), Hon. Mr.A. M. Thomson, Hon. Mr. C. Mcl. Messer (Colonial Treasurer), Hen. Mr. W. Chatham (Director of Public Works), Hon. Mr. F. J. Badeley (Captain Superintendent of Police), Hon. Mr. A. W. Brown (Registrar General), Bon, Mr. Wel Yuk, C.M.O., Hon. Mr. E. Osborus, Hon; Mr.
O. Clementi (Clerk of Councils),
MINUTES.
must be obeyed has not yet arisen, and that intended to be, for we even find it la church the intentions of the Government when E.A. Howell, Hon. Mr. Murray Stewart, and
The beautiful and in every way beneficial cus- we sae no signs of him yet. A Regent suc ceeds no Empress Dowager. A child-Emperor tons of old England at Christmas time, and those too of the Germans, have been assailed succeeds an invalid, who did at one timestry
as savouring of frivolity and light-mindedness, to serve his people. Some of the great dames'
Indeed, the fierco rigoriste of Charles the have passed away; their supplanters are no
First's time would permit no illuminations, no less than they were in all the things which
Xinas tree, so giving of prosents, no walls, no, make sufers great or small, Plus ça change. plus c'est la même chose" ciernally the canapeal of bells, wo Xm spie and plum-pudding WATERSd-flats remain, though the tides eternally with all the quaint old-fashioned practices such
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Come gun this night ther Xmas pie 4h the thief thoughing'er voly Witte'i "tle-books canli come nighe
To match h
J'eath hi who all the nights at dere Having in eyes still in his af And a world of d'âvious teist,
to watch it."
yond shift their countless grains
The fances and the currency of the Empire are in a more chaotic condition than ever, and we are strongly of opinion shat no committed of Chinese officiale capable of dealing with this enormous question 'could possibly be fa:med, We think, and we shall they swept away as ruthlessly the dainty May, have occasion to reiterate our conviction, i apole with its sweet-scented flowers and white China will be compelled to take foreign advice clad girls. Japan loves the beauty of her us who loves and accept foreign aid after all, in conjunction cherry-blossom, and every one, with selected Chinese of, the mercantile and any beauty at all and has rejoiced in the May banking classes, shrewd, and businesslike then. fiver ou ao Hoglish spring morning knows Her house must be set in order, and no.em. how such fair things move us to gindness, piricists or personal axe-grinders may be ask The Japanese feel their puises beating in time red to come and do it. Oh, for the strong min to the music of the spring-season, and it
Mr.
The minutes of the last meating were read and confirmed.'.
PAPER.
The Cotosial Secretary, by ardor of R.E. laid on the table the report of the Director of the Officer Administering the Government,
the Obseratory for 1909,
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FINANCIAL MINUTES.
The Colonial Secretary laid on the inbla Financial Miantos Nos. 27 to 29. It was agreed that they be referred to the Finance Committee. F. C. REPORT.
(a) Did the Hon. Director of Public Works, then, as nuw, &c. Chatham, at the officiul core in ny in connection with the laying of the foundation stone of the New Law Courts, on November 12th, 1933) in the presence of the. Governor of the Colony, the Coloulal Secretary and many other high Government officials, ac- curately speak of the intentions of the Goverge ment when he read from a witten document
The Colonial Secretary laid on the table the as follows:-"The area to the month of ¦ report of the Finance Commilles (No 3)....-Et 'this, wifi, therefore, remain uubuilt upon and an almost unrivalled site for the.Courts, having regard to open spaces which will adjoin it on three sides, will thus be created?
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was approved by the Council,
SQUATTERS DILL,"
SA
The Colonial Secretary moved the first read-
(3) Did His Excellency Sir Frederick Lugarding of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend
the Squatters Ordinance, 1890.
The Director of Public Works seconded. Agreed.
This Bill repeals the Squatters Amead- ment Ordinance, 1909, and gives effect to instructions of the Secretary of State for the Colonies who is al opinion that the question of compensation to claimants should be left to the
to sea to this; this first of all! Believers in de Young Japan dous new dresses and singsments, not easily to be thought of as imos. quaHors Hoard and not wholly to the Director
Many
on the 28th November, 1919) say in this Council in reply to a question whether the Government would undertake to clear and make the plot presentable, as soon as it was no longer necessary for the work in hand, "The present intention of the Government is to clear the plot as soon as it can be done?
loviewo these seemingly au ́horitative state-
mocracy may see in the National or Provincial dances and drinks under the beautiful canopies posible utterances, is it, on consideration, Assemblies the fore-glow of his stor. la the of flowers found in Uyeno Park or along really incomprehensible to bigh Government meantime they educate, nad education is an
the banks of the over. sunda, it must not be officials how an impression was created obvious aced. The crying question of op um assumed to be engaged in that which is "in the public mind which led to has been settled officially; quty remains for juneus pot only to health but also to morals," hearing with surprise of the recent decision tu sell to a private purchasos, for building pur. those concerned to keep their word, to adhere Pertaps some English and German Christians honestly fa perlecs sincerity to the agreement have been known to over-cat nt Xmas time, per- made, and instead of being a cause of enbierhaps some young people may baye, in the old meat and strife it should, prove a subject of days, thought more of a merry flination than self-congratulation to all parties,, The doubts the beauty of the May. But we cannot think and saspicions, without which it is yppsible reasonable on that ground to depy ourselves to view the fragmentary provincial reports, can a stice or to of pudding and maný, slices of only be dispelled by obedience to one of the merriment when Xmas comes round, or grudge many disregarded lampesial decrees-viz','that the young people theirianocest amusement on of June 1957-ordering periodical returns in x-May-on or any other day. We are all for tinue to be mide, giving statistics as to the virtue, and are strongly inclined to think that poppy cultivation throughout the Empire. Puritanism isn't vatus. It's a cussed pleasure A. S. WATSON & CO. The imitating controversies about railways in in robbing others of pleasure. "Bast thou
Stone Ginger Beer Dry Ginger Ale... Pints 91; Splis &n Lime Fruit Cham.
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NOTION
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Manchurin have not yet ended, and we heartily wish they were. Sir Edward Grey has shown biinself unaccountably-vague, and as liberally, fatabby"-as the most liberal of givers away of British interests would have him ou all matters affecting British interests in the Far East. This is grave, graver than appears on the sur face, for it was understood that :Bir Edward Grey was put in the Foreign Office to save al least that most vital departmeal from "don's Kaix-Hardyism." A uumber of masters, which on the surface appearinfi og but are, in reality, of deeper importance, and may easily, become questions of principle, are dealt with in the Repon. We leare without astonishment, for we anticipated it, though many others did not, that far from proving the death-koek of the chin, the railways bave, as a matter of fact, proved an easter
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HE FUR SI MUOVE"
poses, the site in question ?..
Proceeding, thu honourable member stated these questions he bad intended to ask at the meeting that afternoon, but he had not received notice of its being held unill Tuesday fail. might be suggest that, after the Council had been adjourned sine dic, sufficient motica -at ibn het meeting abuald be given to enable members who might have questions to ask or
resolutions to bring, forward to be able to do so
under the rule which provided two clear days notice of such business.
Hon, Mr. Ozborac endorsed the remarks which had fallco from the lips of the last speaker
'member had not received sufficient d'olice of
think that begause thou art virtuous there is to The President said that the last question of be no more cakes and ale?" Sume Japanese the hon. member representing the Justices of equivalent of this question might be asked the the Peace was out of order. It was a matter of mido corresponceal of the Yorodsk Choko, whe opinion. He was sony-t hear that the hon. while declaring bis fove at flowers especially the meeting of Council, but he thought it was the emblematical clierry blossom deprecales | no understood thing that two-days were more the merriment which attends the public expres- than sufficient. However, the Cavernment in 610n of that love during the season in Japan futura would try and comply with the hon.
member's request He even urges that stops be taken to pro- bibi a gaiety which is out of harmony. COLLISION IN THE "HARBOUR. he says, with japan's present position as a first-class Power in the world. Heigh- bots a pity, a sad pity, my masters, but we are not to be allowed to pound our caemics battleships into scrap-izon and dend. tog barbed wire entanglements storm through faming death up the scarp of glory-crowned "careschinents and also wear pretty clothes nád cajay song and dance among the flower
FATALITY NARROWLY AVERTED,
of Public Works.
PHARMACY.
On the motion of the Colonial Secretary, seconded by the Colonial Treasurer, the "Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1909, was read a second time.
The Bill was then considered in Committee, read a third time and passed.
MERCHANT SHILIPING. The Colonial Secretary moved the third reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance fur- ther to amend the Merchant Shipping Ordi Dance, 1897,
The Colonial Treasurer seconded. Bill read a third time and pasted.
MALICIOUS DAMAGE.
The Colonifit secretary moved, and the Colonial Treasurer seconded, the second tead ing of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the Malicious Damage Ordinance, 1865.
The Bill baving been read a second time, was considered, in Committee, read a third time and passed.
'OPIUM ORDINANCE.
In moving the second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to am;aid the Opium Ordinance, 1909, the Colonial Secretary ex- plained that, the Bill provided for the exemp tion of compound opium of from the provisions of this Ordinance.
The Director of Public Works seconded. Bill passed second reading. Having been considered in Committee, the Bill was read a third time and pasted.
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MAGISTRATES ORGINENCE.
.: · POSTPONED.
The Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the But for the presence of a police launch in the Magistrates Ordinance, 1830, passed the second the vicinity of Holir's wbanyes yesterday, a and third readings on the motion of the fatality might have had to be recorded as the Attorney General, secunded by the Colonial result of a collision in the harbour just at day-Secretary, the Council agreeing. break. From the report, which has reached us, it appears that, at a.m. yesterday, the steam lausch Atalanta, belonging to Holz's blue funnet line of steamers, collided with
At the time the sampau was carrying a living freight of thirteen passengers-the unlucky 13 again-for Yaumati, when the Afalanis crashed into her. The passengers and crew were ali thrown into the water. They were the master
means of exacting that oppressive and in many spread canopies of Ujeno Park or on the banks Jampan No. 648 B, just off Blackbeau's Point.
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of the uver Sumida. That all rapes, even to the artistic Japanese and the laughter-loving Burmese, and all religions even nature-loving the Roman, should all have lurking among Buddhism kod that most Catholic of systems
them somewhore that kill joy the Puritan, all without exception, is no consolation to the philosopher..
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Tux bailoos at Bitterfeld was destroyed by wind pressure, not by lightning. The instru ments show that a height of 8,nos feet bad been reached. The wreck was unspeakably horrible. The car overturned and the badies, falling boad first, dug deep-holes in the ground and were
The second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the Tramway Ordinance, 1501, was not proceeded with at this meeting., ADJOURNMENT.
The Council thea adjurned till the lath inst.
FINANCE COMMITTEE,
SHANGHAI SPRING RACES.
THE SECOND DAY.
(Tha rasults of the remaining races "of the second day, in addition to thusa published in car issue last evening, are as follows.
THE SICCAWEI CUP.-Doe pile 'pod a quarter.
Marengs, (Rowa) ........ Fabulis (Moller)........ Lamarion (Johnstona) Time: 2m. 50/5 'Record time: 2m, 33 4/5 sec.
THE PEKING STAKES,--Oos mile.
Appleforth (Johnstons)
Raven (Wuilloumist).................................................... Halley's Comet (Moller) 9 Time : am. zo 2/5 sec. Record ilme: am, azt sec...
THE SHANGHAI STAKES.-Oaа mile and balf.,
Stirrup Cup (Hayes) ....................................... „Verpaslan (Aldontop). ............
Capitaine Maurice (Schoo(r). Time: 3m. 35 sec.
Record time: 3m. og 3/$"ace. THE SPRING Cur.-Ona mile.
Clarchaven (Cumming)...................................... Stadacoon (Jones)
Stippet (Eggera).
Time: am.18 1/5 20C.-
Record time: am, onj.sec.
THE SCURRY STAKES. --Seven furlongs,
Rosyth (Johnstone)................
Sandy (Hayes). 199... Crapaud (Schnorr)
Time: 1m, 58 1/2 sec.
Record time: im..45.2/5,sec?
THIRD DAY'S RESULTA. GREAT NORTHERN PLATE.
Fafner (Mich)...... Fabalus (Moller)...................................... Orcas (Rowe), Timo: sm. 57 600. RUBICON PLATE.
Oil King (Baiki) .. Critic (Jones). Valhalla (Springfield).. Time: am. St 2/5 sec. SHANTUNG STAKES.
Halley's Comet (Moller)? Caoutchouc (Lindsay) .............................. Applegarth (Johnstone)........ Time : um. 18 2/5 sec.
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A PUBLIC NUISANCF.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE " ¡longkong TelEGRAPH."," Dear Sir,--There is a street in Hongkong called Duddell Street. It leads from 'Queen's Road in the north, up a bill, to a wide flight of alopo steps is the south. It is this stairway, or what is beside it, or beneath it, which moves me to appeal to you.. I do not know what the thing may be. But-and see in the Direct... ory that there is a Sanitary Department in Hongkong, As well as a fight of stone steps in
Duddell Street - if I were a Snitary Inspector mounting those stepe on my way to my tillia after meritoriously using my nose altowbare în the interests of the public, I should seek for some culprit's nose to tab in the thing, what ever it is, that blights the underneath, or the sides, of that stone stairway. Sir, 1 invoke the irresistible power of the Prets, and appeal gainst the noisɔmeness of the thig and the want of zoie (and "nous") of the Saullary Department-Yours etc,
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THE QUADRILATERAL. Hongkong, 5th May, 1910,
UNITED SINGAPORE RUBBER COMPANY.
RUKOURED OFFER OF PURCHASE,
It is stated in town to-day, reports the Strafis Times of 27th ult., that a Shanghai syndicate is making pa offer to the United Singapore A meeting of the Finance Committes was
Rubber Company to take over the property of held immediately after the meeting of Council.that company and refloat on a capital of $5,000,
BY HOON SIGNALS-
A sum of one hundred and twenty del as in aid of the vote, Observatory, Other Charges, bombs and tubis for making urgent typhoon signals.
DISTRICT OFFICE, TAIPO,
FLOATING FIRE ENGINE,
.
This was all the business.
000. The directori, we believe, were not osger ta soli, bu; the offer is 10 tempting that it must. go before the shareholders, & good deal of the land which will be transferred if the offer is accepted was recently purchased from the Government at a premium of $30 per acre, and is subject to a quil rent of $1 per acre for the first six years and to $4 per acre afterwards.
TYPHOON WARNING..
The telegram quoted below was received from the Manila Observatory at the American Con- sulate General yesterday :-
Manila, May 4, 1970. 4.30 pm. Cyclone or Typhoon N. W, of the Pelaw Is-.. Inads, moving W. or W. N. W.
cases illegal tax than any, previously existing. We are told, "this curse of the lekin grows worse and worse, new exactions, under all sorts of names, being levied in every direction, Just so. We could easily and quite truly say:
of the launch and his,wife and their family'olt was 'agreed that the following votes, be "We told you so 1" but our concern at this
five children and six passengers. Thanks to recommended for approval by the Council: condition of affairs is too deep and · well..
the lynx aye of the European constable op board the police launch on patrol, the lausch grounded for us to feel. Jachined to make the
was quickly on the specs of the accident; for most of sad forecasts being al . The
accident, pure and simple, the coll:5.00 was. "young China" party and the "Chisa for the
The occupants of the sampan were struggling Chinese cry are considered by some of the
in the water, and if all were to be saved the authorities quoted, the former with some severe
crew of the launch were not to latry or
A sum of two hundred and twenty-five strictures, the latter with a certain sympathy
hesitate. Their rescuing duties, were to be dollars in aid of the voto, Public Works, Ex- At the last meeting but one of the China It is noted that while the cry in itself if con-
commenced promptly and with determination.traordinary, miscellatesus, furniture for the Society, a meatlog made memorable by Mr. F.
One by one the victims of the accident District Office, Taipo. ceived intelligently and patristically commands
were pulled aboard the launch antil all the "B. A. Bourne's valuable paper, the fact was respect, yet when used by a party whose
luckiest 13 were accousted for. It was found A sum of nine thousand eight, hundred and noted and deplored that the many edicts which minds are but half-opened by a smattering of reduced to a pulp.,
that two of the children were in a very precar-fifty-two dollars and twenty-five cents in aid of bad been poured out from Peking bad appar Western education, it becomes a danger to
ious condition; ibey w.re in a state of uncons, the vote, Folice and Prison Departments, enlly "been, of as little effect in ablishing China and the Chinese and a pestilential nulsgistracy this morning for being members of a
SERGEANT Lee charged two men at the Maciousness and death from asphyxiation threat special expenditurp, fire brigade, flating fire aburas and establishing serious reforms as if
ened them. Constable Pattison, of the police engine, ance to everybody else. Of the leadership, Triad Society ht Yau-ma-ti. It appears that launch, to whose credit is dub the energetic they had, bren treatises ou, say, the Nebular chivalry and self-sacrifice which characterise Sergeant Lee raided a bound in Woosung work of rescue, realizing the danger of the two Hypothesis or the Law of Storms. Forced by the advance of Japan there is but little evid-Street, where be found an extensive amount
children, immediately resorted to antificist THR oil fields at Palembang in South Sumatra the increasing pressure of public opinion to at
of regalia and oiber articles in connection with ence in Chins, as yet. We must emphasize'
respiration. So successful were P. C. Pattison's are arousing much attention at present. The least admit its existence, the mandarinate bar
ths Society. The case was remanded, to our "as yet." For depressing as is the review
operations thas, after a while, the children re General Exploration Company, a Dutch organi- Saturday, squeaked when it was pinched, and otherwits of the year 1908-1909 we may console pur.
covered consciousness and were immediately sation, has obtained from the Java Government has remained'as blandly, smilingly, apparently selves with the reflection that 1899-1920 was a
A CRICKET msich Hongkong "A". The conveyed to the Government Civil Hospital for a concession to prospect them for two years stupidly unchanged ava japaneze dull in a shop window. Now the report of the China good deal worse. And ind 21 is the muddio of Rest of the League will be played in the cricket treatment. We understand that the youngsters The Royal Fetroleum Company has an interest ground on Saturday next, the 7th ins. The are doing well under the care of the medical in the venture, and prospecting operations will the Government, and the stagnation of its following will play for Hongkong 'A':-Pearce, attendants in the hospital. branches, dangerous as a section of the semi- Turner, Sharpie, Claxton, Makin, Swettig involuntary matutinal immersion. we find the same points emphasized and the educated youth may be to the cause of a Hall, Leith, Atkinson, Aubrey and Mackenzie. NAMA
The smartness of the Water Police launch in state of affairs dealt with an in civilted Chhia at the head of a 'peaceful East. Reserves Irving, Jacks and Long. Play to
rescuing the passengers and crew of the sam Bourne's paper. The dilatory and even hostila,
pan is worthy of every commendation, and we ́ ́aulitude of the mandarine towards any kind of we do not "despa'r of the republic." The commence at z p.m.
great work is being dose; it seeme to stand THE two men who appeared at the Magistracytrust that the conduct and judgment displayed chango has so pften been discussed in our still; but God's work never.slands, still when the alber day-for being concerned in a Triad by Constable Pattison, who was in charge of./ will come and then wo shall rond very interest-givas (nteresting particulas of the pineapple | columes that. It will vol be necessary to say more on this subject than remind our readers meo are willing to use eyes to see it and hands Society squabble at West Polat were again the police boat at the time, will receive to do it with, “E pur si muove"; it does brought up before Mr. E. R. Hallax in the recognition at the hands of the Captain Super
Police Court this morning on charges of assault intendent of Police. and cutting and wounding. It will he remem. selected for reasons none of which, or hardly move on, no matter what they say. ons of which, would pass at amerit in Europeas THE M. M. steamer Soldate is now in dock at berad that a quarrel took place over some M. Stead, of Staten Island, New York, has eyes, or even as a useful qualification for office; at Saigon for repairs. On the outward voyage, money matters, sed as a consequence over invented a cotton gir, which, ho claims, is that the interests of the, Central Government near Ceylon, the engines broke down, but the tan man took part in a fracas which resulted capable of effecting a saving of £50,000,000 a damage was repaired sufficiently for her to two men being sent to hospital. A fice of year la the process of separating the cotton in Peking are often diametrically opposed to a port, She arrived six days overdue, $io was imposed in each case and the mrs from the cotton sted, A European company, those of the Provincial Governments; that The Saigon Opinion says that the repairs will were auch bound ovar in the sum of Sto 10 with a capital of £1,000,000 is being formed
to work the invention; fually a mandarin's salary fa a mockery. We take about a month.
keep the peace for six months,
Association for 1908-1909 has been issued, and
that the Provincial officials are men who ara
The adults were none the worse for their
Á CORRESPONDINY writes to the Malay Marl:-It is believed that there is a probability of the Saliosing Gold Mining Company being revived in the near future. This company, which was once in a farishing condition, closed dowo somo years ago leaving behind a lot of valuable machinery, Capt. James Robarts who was at one time manager at Selinsing, recently came out from Europe, and, spect several days luspecting the property. He has A RECENT issue of the Pordk ̈ Fizneor sayı :—now returned to England, and wifi, it is said, ' Representatives of syndicates from Shanghai | place bís report before the principal sharehold were in Taiping and left yesterday, for Ipoh, ers of the now defunct company. Most unheard of prices are given and offered
1oo be taken in hand,
for rabber estates. We wonder when the crash AM agricultural bulletin published at Batavia
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says that piveapple preserving is on the down" ing tales in the bankruptcy courts, so writes a canning Industry at Singapore. The writer correspondent.
grade then, owing to the fresh fruit ousting the THE Netherlands India government intends to tinued article ip Europa, and owing also to the improve telegraphic communication on the keen competition of the Hawaiian pine, The line from Dall to Achsen, which already is in size and flavour, Beveral (actories in Sings- east coast of Sematra by constructing a land latter is dearer but meets the public taste better connected with Sabang by under-ses cable pore bave stopped working, and the few, that' Experts say that the line should be supple-keep going can only do so by seeing that the mented in the interests of shipping by a wire-loss falls on the growers with the result that lasa calograph station at Babang.
pineapples have dropped heavily to price,
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