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Sir Chen Tung.

h, CHINESE MINISTER TO GERMANY.

INTERVIEWED TODAY,

15th last,"

Bir Oben has held two important embassa dorial appointments: the firit at Washington

and the next in Londen, Qalbis rature to

Obins he was appointed presidint of the Cau. too Hankow Railway Co. from which position he resigned last year. He but since been the victim of several

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY JUNE 18 1010

The Mitsui Firm.

PA NEW

ROTSCHILDS OF JAPAN

THEIR MINING ENTERPESE.

MİTSUI BANK, LD,

LOSHANG

KRĪTORY, HEALTH RESORT FOR HONGKONG. (Special to the W Hongkong. Talagraph."),

MALAYD

Chingk

REDUCTION IN, POPPY CULTIVATION MAN, in China may have conveyed a similar mis- taken impression, to people who are too busy to investigate the facts, that poppy crops are hard to flod, if not already things of the party dragge

would no longer ba responsible for the conductį. of the Company's affairs. ^ DAMAWALAPAI BAM1 fall," unið Hli Excellency la conclusios, that as an honourabla man I could not remain

So easy, is it to get accustomed to a phrase any longer in office and see mosey being spent

without appreciating lik literal: meaning, that Reports of great diminution in the quantity with nothing to show for it, and in rebiguing

It is said the substantive. Spaada, so common' of opium under cultivation this year have been in the Netherlands (adjen for, boy, or sarrant, so wonderfully favourable, that i am sure there 1 felt that I bad behind me the confidence of my Government, of my provinciali, and of the great majority of the people on the ShamanTo term the great and illustrious firm of ons in Hongkong finds to be most trying the door when visiting, before the days of card was gravely told in more places than one This is the season of the year which avery, from wisdomku lava forgotten that it comes, is Deed to correct, a tendency to suppose thai

Halapa ada. - used as a call at extirpatipu js all bat an accompilabad facts, – Yesterday afternoon. His Excellency Sir Chen and in hongkong, who know the bisatory of the Misul, the Rotschilds of Jepas, I but to when one ceases to take offence as being told boxes and Clectric Wrisitors balls. We do not when I alle Rogland two years ago that Tang Liang Chen, Chinese Michter-designate Canton Haukon Railway. For einer Covey to the European mind molthoroughly by one's friend", "You'rs locking seedy # to vouch for the derivation of spaach. The origin there was do more footbladler now in Chian to Germany, returned to Hosgkors from Can SIR CHER'S CAREER, DUATLON arquisted with the immense resourcefulness peatedly to the unpleasantly frank salutation of the term Malayu, la always pussling the minds all women were enjoying ustaral fest; and los ton by the fawng shan to take paungator Karope Sir Chen is about Lutty-nine yours of good werial in lenco sxercissable by that encountered. Those fortunate people who of new comer and many oldaten. The com- torturing of litla girls with foot: bandages was Garmas mail Prins. Blid Friedrick, and was one of the large number of young am, the pisition they occupy in the industrial fave earned a form of relief from their labotin mon form for peopls and country le "Malay, a thing of the part, Mrs. Little, I was told, tich salle to-morrow, Sir Chen, and his Cainsus, who were sent to the United Statet is. and Guancial world of the faland kingdom the Lave long time ago fled to jest torrid zones, Bur om for pro as the country or a bad been successful in atollablog the borrible family are putting up at the Astor House, und af or 1873 to study, American med each bring, the representative of one of the pains to face the terrors of a Hongkong sum people insist on Malaysia, a dreadful result of Wows a great debt of gratitude to Mr.

firm in quastion is aand by claves partners, leaving a sorely depleted community of Bara-trict of Malaya; while some quito impossible custom Last night His Excellency wil sotertained to laws. He was educated in America and is elavan Mitsul families. The direct activitat of mer and to develop thirst and avicmia till the the American Bably based on the belief that Archibald Litle for the extraodinary fervour, dianer by same of our mading Chinese mar graduate of Yale University, Some years ago chants: This afternoon he was the guest at he served an interpreter when Li gors which the most important are stoffet is just in times, like these that one ba sweet and a false grafting of the Asia on ducted her crusade. But an one who know the Giamare divided foto four companies, of weltering days of August) have basn ticked the rose by any other name would smell as concentration and ability with which the com tes of the Commercial Valon of the Pan Yue was Minister In Loadoa. Later he waN BOCIO- district (from which he comm) at their offices táry of a' special 'mission to Japio; and when Mitsui Gemei Kaisha (arm of Mitsui parimore, giar to roalise that Hongkong is lacking in one Malay. The usual terms used, by the men of least of all Mrs. Little herself, would say that in Queen's Road Central class to the Chinese the jubilee of Queen Victoria was celebrated ship), the controlling centre of the activities of most importani essential In the life of an Oriens the country is Negti Malaya, bui hara again the castom of footbinding has been done away Club. This evening he will h the guest, at be filled a similar position in the embly the Mitsui firm, in which abe Milsul Mining al city the Colony has got no health resort, there are many who do not conform to the with lederen E dinner of Mr. Lo Cho Sang, a merchant of which went to London. He was knighted on Department is included. -

True, the Peak we have always with us, but cantom, but give local names, such as Tiga to the same way reports one has seen con- Bonham Strand, in the Trag" Tion. Hotel, this occasion." Sir Cheb was a member of the

for many mascos which need not be enlarged Bush Negri for the Straits Settlements, and coralog the buy Queen's Road West,

party sent to Germany, In 1901, to make

upon, the Fesk cannot be considered as an Perusketuan Tanah Malayu for the F. M. S. apologies for the murder of Baron van Kettler, the successor of the Mitsui Bank the oldest available health tasort to the dwellers in Vic both obviously manufactured pames, and and was secretary of the Chinese Embassy to and by far the largest private buskie house in toris or in Kanlaon. It may be asserted that the latter as modern at the Kallang water the cordoniion of the late King Edward. I0-1303 fapan, and li backed with a capital of 20,000, Maceo offers all the advantages that a water- works. In the scientific world, Wallace's Sir Chen was appalled Chinese Moister to 900 yen, sli of which is paid up and led lux, place, ought to have on its bill of fans. "Malay Archipelago has stetesiypad a name Washington; the appointment bsing dus, it is, The Mitsul Busse Kaisha, Ld., or Mitani Bondly of situation and safubrity of cli rate the which includes maty more countries and is- said, to his knowledge of the United States and & Co, Ld, pid up capital 20,000,000 yen Portuguese Settlement indubitably possesses, lands then the Malay Paolosula. There are, of his education on the lines that made Wu Tingjast incorporated, being the successor of the but to Hongkongites in general Macau appeals course, abuodant references in most books deal Fang a valuable representative of China in the Milsui Bustan Kaisha, or Mitesi & Co., the less as a resort of seekers after health than asing with this part of the world. It is a wall attested fact that in Eastern fiza-

king of the foreign trade of Japan", the theory AR RAGNA Uolted States.

Fair Frank Swettopham's book on British chuan there is still a considerable cultivation ansust amount of whose business tracsacted MONTE CARLO OF THE EAST, Malaya doas not carry as very far. In chap and trade le the poppy. The cultivation is; of during the year 1908 was about 254 million

ter: 11 wa are: told of the Stjara, Malaya, course, not in conspicuous, sitantions, ybați: ven: foreign trade, 373 million yao, that is, 21

the Malay annals of the foundation, of mostly away from high roads. In one county, per cent of the total volume of Japan's foreign

Singapara in 1160, of the voyage of Werre Faschon, and that one of the largest, If not trade.

temanus of Rome, writing" in 1503, to the the largest, in the province, en observant city of Malacka -which some caif Melaka ; of. traveller would scarcely believe that prohibi- how Godinho states that

tion is the declared policy of the Government. * THE NAME "MALACTÀ"

There is an exception in this case to the sa- was only given in 141 and that it way derived crecy. On the billy banks of the Upper Yang- from a tro; of the lithmus leading from Cape (4-1-saw a month ago in this one county sights. Rachade to Sometre (Claudins Fiolemy, A.D), tooths of the cultivated slopes filed with the this remark: In Gedinho's time the Malay April). There was little attempt at secrecy, Peninsula was called Ujung Tanah-Land's From one and of this large county to the other, ie, the Malay cousity, while Sumatra is called spoiling the crops of maize, bozos, peas, wheat, Ead,-whereas now it is called Negri Malaya, about seventy miles, the poppy is this year Palau Perche, the tom inland, 40 though it and other cereals and, what it worse, the bad been tors of the mainland, or Tanah poppy in again limiting the cultivation of the Sabrang, the country across the water. There Chiness staff of life-rice-in that rice la dearer is a very similar instance in the case of than ever. Pinang, That, island," now. saparated from

At far as the eye could reach from a boat In Ibe mainland by a wide and deep stretch of the middle of the broad river the poppy was the res is still called "Tanjong" by all Malayı ||||| ONE CONSPICUOUI FEATURE UN BA fanjang being the Malay for promontory." of the bill sides, I could scarcely believe my Later on in his book, pago 144, Sir Frank own eyesight, and was only convinced when i says:

want ashore and made a closer inspection of the "The

fields and conversed with the people, mak

KÜLVIRÜLENT diatribes directed against him by irragona.ble indivi- duals in Canton, who want in the length of protestlog to Peking against ffis Ex cliency's. departure for Berlin, peading the stsult of the official investigation into the administration of the Canton-Hackow Railway ander his pre- sidency. This agitation has been largely engineered by the Canton Sell Government Society, but their representali nu were calmly disregarded by the Imperial Authorities, whose confidence be entirely enjoys

When interviewed by a representative of the Hongkong Telegraph to-day in the Astor House, His Excellency said, with reference to the severance of his connection with the Chutou.

Hankow Railway Company, that he segretted that circumstances made it impossible for him to retain the presidentship any longer. He had been subjected to fierce allicks, concerning the railway administration, for which any private individual could have found sedress to the courts of law, but which ha la his capacity of A Government official was able to combat personally,

Many of my detractors," be remarked, "work

HOT.EVEN SHAREHOLDERS, to the Railway Company, and indeed it was they who made maat autery. When I took up the presidentship I did so will be determina. tion to serve the shareholderite the best of my abilly and to give the uadatikink the full advantage of my experience galeed is foreign

countries.

"After nearly two years spent in the work t can say honestly that I have given them of the best of my services and there as part of my administration of the Company which I as an honourable man cannot look back upon with a perfectly..

CLEAR CONSCIENCE.

Meanwhile the Commission appointed by the Board at Peking has completed its investiga course to the Throne. By the Government's tions and its report will be submitted in dus

decision upon that report I shall have to abide,"

As regards the spirit which underlay the allegations of maladministration made by the egitators, Sir Chen explained that of cours he preferred not to mike any remarks at pre-

QUEST AT GOVERNMEÝT HOUSE. His Excellency Sir Henry and Lady May gave a luncheon party at Government House to-day in hospor of Sir Chen-tung Liang Cheng at which the following guests were preseal Admiral, Mre, and Miss, Lyon, Col, Mrsand Miss St, Joho, Hoo Dr. Bo Kai, Hon. Mr. Wei A Yuk, Mr. and Mr Blanchflower,

LONDON ASIATIC, JOHORE, LANDS, AND SIMO REPORTS,

The report of the Londos Asiatic Robber and Produce Company, Limited, states that be rubber crop barvested during 1999 amonated to 71,437 lbs, against a revised estimate of 65,000 18s, and an acibal yield in 1908 of 43,549 lbs, The net average price raalised was just under 75, 30 per fb. Ad appreciable, decrease is shown in the cost of production, the figures working out at 1 of 1 per lb. fo.b. Port Swettenham, as against 15, 11d. In 1918. The Lapioca output of 6,162 piculs fell short of the estimate. by 2,131 plculs. Prices ruling for the article throughout the year were very poor. The average sale prica par picul comes out at $491 after deducting sale and shipping charges Coffee added a small sum to the revenge, hat practically no further income wilt, be derived from this source, as the faw remaining bushes are gradually being cut out in order to facili tate the working of the subber. It is pro- posed to increase the capital, of the con- pay from £40,000 to £160,000 in making this proposal the directors have in mind the question of clearing the estates of the present mongege by redemption of the outstanding debegiures as well as the provision of margin for future capital expenditure. Atite request of several members, the directors have consideration the advisability of sub-dividing decided to submit to the shareholders for their each of the shares into ten shares of 20. of tapioca are estimated igio. The net profit

to be 'added the ansount car; led. forward from

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Many residente in Hongkong will be surprised to heat that they have almost at their very doors out of the most beautiful and withal convenient bits of country that could be found of the Chiza coast for the establishment of a anatorium. And this is on the

· Wonderful in bay, boca the diminution this year, such an impression is as mistaken as that concerning footbinding,

a place whose pleasures are skiber feverish, and are apt to be followed by a reactionary da... pression. Japan, again, is too far away and the trip there is too expensire to sarva'ihe needa of: THE MINING DEPARTMENTS AT an ordinary mortal. What Hongkong folks are is with the first of the three big depart in want of is a healthy place of resort where the ments that we are prompted to deal to-day by en tenour of the simple life may be pursued the receipt of a broctiore entitled "The Mining for a week or even a week-and-a place al Enterprise of the Mitent Firm, from the local together away from the Olty-and-its-busines

anociations, yet within easy reach, blesses office of the M.B:K. That section of the firm's with freedom of surroundings, beauty bi, view, 163}} of Tanah Samata for Sumatra; and then Poppy just coming into bloom- (latter part of” business is of special interest to Hongkong. since it probably controls about half the entire and situated at such an alilitude as to square aggregate of tonnage employed in the Japanese pressace if hardly the prevalence of cool cont trade with Hongkong. Whether on board boxes from the sea. ship, in the big factories of Hongkong, or in the domestic kitchen Miike: lump and dust" have almost become household words in the Colony Familiar as we are with the products of the famous colliers in Japan, all are not acquainted with the fact that the Mitsai Mining Department is the name given to the recently re-organized Milioi Mising Company, which was established in 1897, and forms a part of the firm of Mitsu! Partnership The department's properties include four work ing collieries (Miike, Tagawa, Yamato and Hondo), one siphur mine (I wasnoburi), and one metal nino (Kamioko), and also many coal, gold, and other mining conclusions dis- tibuted throughout Japan. The production of the Mitsui collieries make up more than one. ih of the total coal output of the Empire-a fact which sbows what an important position the Mitsuis occupy in the coal industry of Japan.

THE MIKE COLLIERY

is situated on the north-eastern shore of the Gulf of Ariake, in the island of Kyushu. Ac cording to local tradition, the discovery of the Coal deposit was made as early as the year the Government from 1873 to 1880, and during 1468. The colliory was in the possession of the latter year it was transferred to the Mitsuis.

SLOPES OF TAIMOSHAN,

in the middla of our own New Territory, Unfortunately for themselves, most people in Hongkong have very little knowledge of the New Territory. To them it is forra incognita, As they gaze across the Harbour waters they ses only the sterile, frowning, Jagged hills that dominate Kowloon Fetissula and form from these their estimate of the land that lies behind, imagining oiling of the smiling valleys and fruitful plains protected by that forbidding berrier.

It is now nearly ten years ago since tas wilter first travelled across the New Territory

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ORIGIN OF THE MALAY RACE

still a matter of doubt, but there are good reasons for believing that Many are the descendants of people who crossed from the south of Ladia to Sumatra, mixed with a people already inhabiting that lefand, and gradually Spend themselves over the contral and most fertile States-Palembang - Jambi, "Indragiri,

Thit opin dißanca 'off the :: prohibitory Edict bas, I presume, bien kept from the knowledge of the Viceroy in Changta," whose seat of administration is four hundred miles dia tant from Fouched city. Battkis rebellious at linde has not been kept secret from the Tautal residing in Chucking. He was mada aware of the facts at the end of last year, and

in company with a Government 'official who Menangkabau, and Kampar. From Suma, "want-himenli with some soldiers in the steamer

Fouchon, to abandon thair rebellious attitude.”

service bere. He was most enthusiastic in bis Java, to Singapore and the Malay Peninsula, e chou official ten thousand facis had spent much of his life to the public fra they gradually worked their way to Satung to exhort the geotry and people of appraising of the vains of this new British to Borneo, Galebes, the other islaide of the

session. Indeed it appeared to be almost Archipelago, and even to the Philippines, and deposed bim. I hear that this fine will be ridiculous at that time to hear him dilata apon

banked as loan fund to help the farmings the great development which the future had Formose, The word Malay is saidto be derived undefined.

ule, the Caroline Islands and perhaps to through with their lasser, at a rate of interest the coming of the railway (where the public, which flows by the mountain Siguntang Maha focal geutry that all the poppy crops dot des in store for this country, to hear him prophesy from a river of that same, the Sungai Malays, The Tabtal also took guarantees from th highways wore bridle paths) and the spenning Mero, in the State of Palembang, in Sumatra,

$10,000 lbs. of rubber and 2,500 piculis Uader the paw owners radical ́improvements of water-courses (where the bridges were rottes but it is equally likely, that-it, was' carried by royed by the soldiers should be rooted up by for the year amounts to £12,488, to which barware introduced to score efficient working of oide) Yet to-day we Bin the falfilment of his | the first emigrants from the Malls or Malaya / their (the gentry's) ordern, sold print

the colliery, achieving such a development roseate vision. that to-day the scale of the colliery is incom.

THE RAILWAYE

What really was đong was this. On hearing country in Southern India, The Malay trati of the purpose of the Tastal and his soldiers tlon, for which there is not only popular the farmers covered the poppy sprouts with

sent, as the whole case, wa practically 'sub I L'4,407 which the directors recommend should parable with any other coal mine in the East may be almost said to be au accompliibed factbslief but the authority of the Malay Annaiy earth. The soldiers visited a fow, farms near

judice, until the Governmzat had decided t upon But His Excellency spoke

last year-Damely, £1,419—making a total of

be dealt with as follows:-in writing off the balance of preliminary expenses, £4656 in payment of a dividend of 131 per cent, less in come tax, for the year, leaving to be carried forward £5,241,

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HORE RUBBER LANDS.

spoty spot certain spects of the railway administratios which he felt si liberty, to touch apon.

When he became presideal of the Company, he remarked, it

The report of the Johore Rubber Lode was wall kapwa shit ili administrative system was rollen to the core, (Malaya), Limited, states that the company was He had to underfaka that skof saving what incorporated on March 16, 190g but in terms of was practically a lost ship. Thil the Company the contract with the vendor company the es- was on the verge of collapse was anderstood.

tates were taken ever as from January 3, 1909, by the Imperial Government, and it was known and the accounts, therefore, dail with a perlad by the shareholders, by the people of Canton of twelve months. Aradvised in the circular and by many in Hongkong; adeed, any Chin-felters issued on March 31 and April 12 lust eps boy old enough to think for himself coult three of the company's blocks have bean have told you that the

sold-viz.. Múar Nos. 3, 7- and 8-for a cash consideration of 15.500,

and the properties have been transferred to the buyers, and Segamat blocks Nos. 1 and 2 have been disposed of to the Segamat (Jobore)

its daily outpot being over 5,000 OBE

The mine workers number 1727 in all idding.700 anderground and. 5037/surface modern bridges But that which struck one hands. Of those workers 33 per cent, are

most forcibly in this official's forecast of the women and convicts from the Miile prison form

fatura was bis belief also that a health resort for part of the mining labour. All the miners Hongkong resident would eventually be estab are required to save from five to ten per cent.shed in the New Territory. As time goes of their earnings by way of providing against em the possibility of a sanatorium or a hill ergencies. Liberal rawards are given for regalar itlement arising on the heights of C'aimoshan attendance, he colliery provides three sur appears to approach more nearly to realisation, series for the cars of Infants daring their Taimoshan is the highest peak in British Kow

returned to Chungking Surely such drastic After a few days the Taolai and his soldier. measures would turn rebels into good and abadient subjecist Or is the whole basloess an mora then Comic Operà?onth Mar

ers hastened to uncoveri

mothers' abisaco for work. This is quite a new loan. The view it commands of sea and pláin their old superstitions, and endeavour to pro. When they were at, a safe distance the farmKE = ?

institution established a few years ago for ex- periment with the object of allowing married women, toestotheir wages, placing their fofants in the charge of the nurseries.

The chief forcige markets for the Milke. late Shanghat, Hongkong, Slogapore, Manila, Java, etc.

roads, and streams have been spanned by of the Minlay race is töis Bukit Biganang pappy Where any was showing they eat of The Territory has been opened up with fine (whatever that is worth) is that the cradle the city, and discovered very little sign of Maha Meru, now recognized tam Gundog the tops, but took care not to cut so low as to Dempo, and there appears to be there a stream kill the plant Probably they also took guar with the name Sungei Malaya.. coming from that place would saturally de

People actess (1) or fines (1), nagu scribe themselves as Orang Malays, the name by which they are known today. To support the theory of their Indian origin we have not only places like Singapura, with purely India names, but when Perak Malays go back to

ses close to its baie. Land in cheap for tation which they do not understand, but which is unsurpassed for loveliness. The railway pliate maligo aspirits, they use a form of incan

THEIR BURIED TREIBURE building lola. And the surrounding country can certainly be traced to a Sanskrit origin."

and, assiduously encouraged the sickly and with its will ages will be found to be a veritabla Atid of pleasurable surprises by the amateur Society's monographs "Ptolemy's Geography planted additional late crops in delds which Recently published is a volume of the Asiaticinjarad plasts in hope still to make them pro» „Stable. But they did not „stop there." They explorer,

of Eastern Asia" by Colonel Getini up to a few Any one who has had experience of the years ago resident in siam. The author of then, of the Total's visit was, a pocketful of had been prepared for mains. The not result delights of a sojourn at Foochow's summer into names and places with excessive mlaarać exiating irregularities and prevent malpractices. Rabber Estates, I imited, the purchase too is situated in Tagawa district in the province.dea of a similar resort, being provided for ments and notes on the ancient geography of augmented poppy cultivation. But One of the first raforms ha devoted his atten-

relage, Kulinog, will at once appreciate the mess, Biling a thousand page back, with come and guarantees for some one, and a greatly sideration being £10,000, is fully paid shares of of Buzen, about 40 miles from the port of Moji Hongkong. Da Kuliang heights, there is the extra-Gangetic region. He says that the not done wib Comic Opers, yet r tion to, was to put the system rĺ book-keeping £. each. Excluding the above blocks, thereby the Kyushu railway. : The area of the con- always a difference of ten degrees in the term Malos is avideatly of Southern Indian Chon official put out a vary correct" and” on a batter footing. Hilberto the system fol- lowed had been the Chiness. He was coming over 35,000 acres, and four blocks aggregat the past five years is as follows:-

remtia ten blocks of unopened land, aggregat cession in 6,377 acres and the output in each of temperature as compared with Foochow, and extraction; and quotes Malai Korram, cos vinced, from bis ova experience in faciga ng 10,061 acres. countries, that for railway paparea the Ecglish

blankets azo a necessity at nights. The first Nagapatam, Kolia Malsi Hills &c. system of book-keeping, with vouchers, etc., was best and accordingly beinued directions to the heads of departments to adopt it. In some cases, however, these directions were ignored.

CONCERN WAS ROTTEN.

When he took up the work he did his utmost to remedy this state of affiirs—to check

That his action la this innasco, was justified was proved by the fact that when the two saditors were sect specially from Peking to Investigate the affairs of the Company they found nothing noaccounted for in the construc- tion and stores departments, in which the Eng- lish method Bad bean adopted whilst in other departments, in which the Chicase system had been adhered to, a great deal of confusion was

of book-keeping there had bas

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A GREAT OUTCRÝ?..

SIMO RUBBER ESTATES, The report of the Sima Rubbar Estates, Limited, states that after bringing forward

153, and providing for general administra tion expenses in Loodoo and directors' fees, the net amount at credit of profit and los acronot for the year to December 63,415. It is proposed to pay a dividend of per cent, on the paid up capital of the com- pany absorblog £1,106), and to carry firward the bilance, £1,2,9. The returns for the past season, owing to the serious falling off in the cocos crop through 'unfavourable weatherj coupled with a mach lower price, have ra rubber barvested is still small, and the dividends depend chifir on the cocoa crop, which veries In amount, considerably from year to yanr. The crop for the seasar amount to:-Libstian

-Year 1904

THE TAGAWA COLLIERY.

Tots 467,325

1905.......................400,00

1907: 479,184 1

... 540,584. This mine employs over 6,000 workers and its foreign markais ara Korea, China, "angkong, Singapore, Manila, San Francisco, Honolula, - Java, etc.

THE VAWANO COLLIERY,

DONA FOREIGN RESIDENCE"

ibited and then called a conference of the orthodox. preclamation that poppy was pro- have not the slightest doubt that the terms heads of Twan To them be laid dawa shug Malul or- Malaya and Kolla. hava been law. He would make a personal aspec imported to Further ladia by that stream of tion during the fourth moon, and if he found Southern Indian emigrants of the dark or y poppy is would conflacate the farmer's pogrito race, who-driven to the South of Ipod and hire the farmer baston. Daar, mac, by.dwelfare driven "from the plains Underte Peninsula and compelled to take refuge in / be knew quite well that by the dile stipulated";

Kuliang are equally to be found in the New emigrants evidently applied the term Malaya 10 times what used to prevail, even poor

All those natural advantages Bejoyed by Paolosula, part of which is still Malayalam, be hidden from distant view all milit

Malayavara, or Maliber The Sauthern Indian against a prolific result.

** But with prices (varying (tom, Territory. Nor is there any lack of land for the provision of tennis courts and playing

the prolazale which formed the southern end of

there was built in 1886 by Dr. Rennie. Now there are more than one hundred houses, and in the summer time these are fully occupied a Public Improvement Committee several miles of pared, roads

have been con- the islands by the Aryane advancing from the all the poppy crops of the present year, avan structed, mostly by voluntary contribution north-flowed on to the Malay Peninsula and including the late ones sown after the Total's by those benefiting from residence on the Archipelago and to coasts of Sigm Rod Kam visit would be harvested and out of sight.

Of course the poppy crops are poor. mountain. There are charming hill walks and baja, where they founded colonies and in the Buying the plants for two or three many interesting places within easy distance course of time spread their religion," Malaya From the middle of June till September a daily was, anciently used in Southern India to de weeks in January ; enting off the tops is in the Keto district in the province of Chiko-mail service is maintained with Foochow ignate the religion lying to the south of the of the plants not buried♬ lack of sunshine1 żen and is in telephonic commualcation with There are numerous private tenuis, courts and t of mountaios ** Malaya": was, in a word, the 10ws of peas and poppy, or baans and; poppT bo principal cities is Kyushu and Shimonoseki wo public courts on the mountain, and also a

Kaveri River, so named from the Malay range and the ingenious, trick of planting: alternate found'ta exist. In connection'with this.matter / duced the profi: very largely. The q santity of across the Chimonoseki: Channel. There are swimming pond and kill streams by dapat nag / ancient name for the southern end of the Indian for wheat and poppy, so that the bloom: skonia)

evidences that the coal-field was explaited, as early as 200 years ago, but no extensiva opera rained against him for paying what the malcon-

tion had been carried on, until, the mind was purchased by the Mitsuis in the year 1896. taels to an accountant whom he has to employ 1908; coco, 16.99 piculs against 1,062 output at the Yamato colliery at 22,000 tons. specielly, yet Mr. Leung when stat down from piculs indigo, 6 8684 Amsterdam ib. against China, Hongkong, Shanghai, Slagapure, San Peking to investigate raised its mo's salary 8,1341 Amsterdam Ibi indigo seed, 160 picis, Francisco, alc. are 1be, principal markets for to 200 tacli.

And what was the result of this investigation?nt of picats i kapok, 86 gr piculs, against this cost, In spite of all that had been alleged regarding 176 06 picuts; pepper, ro.82 piculo, sanjost 93 picyls; kapak sesd, 17,630 picule, against compton in the Treasury, coe had been 3236) picals; coca leaves, 8,154 Amsterdam found to exist. Is the consicion and stores ibr., against 1613 Amsterdam, ibs., nutmegs departments, there had been two defalcations and mace, 1,741 Amsterdam lbs., against 1464 on the part of employes-one lavolving eum Amsterdam lbs, and rubber. 1,775 Amsterdam of about $5,000 and the other some 1,709, laels Ibs., against 617 Amsterdam lbs. -during the two years of his'lmure of office at president of the' Company, la both instances restitution of the stolen money bad bean mada by the culprits' guarantors sødme of them was now locked up in gaol. But those defalcations were such as might happts, in the best

tante described as the exorbitant salary of #50 | coffer, 684.74 piculv, #ga1ost 169 15 picats in | The latest statistics pal' an average monthly grounds, Whether Taimpahan were ta ba deva. the indo-Chineincontinent.“ The readersbould are good shough this year to make fort

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reason to complain of the public nuisance Residents who for a long time bars had good caused by the daily congregation of stamp. boying coolies at the Past Office and in Pedder Streat will be pleased to bear that this traffic is not going to go on forever as one was almost afraid it would. It is calculited that in two or three months more, all the

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laped into a health resort by the establish Malay nation, which has apparantly resulted, the fields, growing poppy la county Sevant the project only requires some measure of descendants of Southere Indists, and cow slackness on the part of the officials will brand

not confuse the ancient Malayas with the modem 1 it fanciful to say that, with aight tooths of a sanatorium or of a settlement of pavilioss at least in the Pastasals, from a fusion of the miles from banedary to boundary, such criminal public appport in order to become a reality, comers from the Archipelago, and the Indo- The erection of W „SEBAGAIMANJA BARATORIUM on the modern Malayus The Malayas are con

Chinese Continent. The ancient Malayas and trouble for sext season? (prek

Fanchou rich and Impune, why should'not a extends over the divisional line of the two pro- | 00; Talmorkan bas baso, discussed on more, stantly mentioned in Indian classics. Golower hundred other counties, when they realize the vinces of Chikuran and Bozin, in Kyasba. It than one occasion daring the past few years in Gorini, also, suggests that the term Samang Edlet and nist November sow the seeds of a is one of the oldest of the coal mines the public Preis and there is little doubt that applied to, the Negritos of the

Impunity in this case, disregard the prohibitary opened to modern style in the Chika-Ho any local syndicate, formad to carry such-a coal fields, its first development dating back an scheme, into effect would end it to do so (čakels) is imparted from Sontheto fodia proftabin harrasti: Rubillion pays when man. far as 1882. After undergoing various vicissi Investment, as at Kuliang, Various in assumed to be Tanjong Kunstig on the Those interested in this now.

Cape Malen Kelne, mentioned by: Ptolemy darins are disloyal, ez tudes, under various owners, it finally came into divide bacally, in their to they would east coast, similar name given to the head: GRENADAL realsed the possession of the Missal firm le July, 1907. have no difficulty in letting their houses dating and north of Malacca, Tanjong Tuan or have won through and have poised this, your The outpat ie each of the recent three years in the months in which they did not require them Capo Rachado, may have resulted in the even more than they expected. And they are as follows: Tapite regulated business houses N

Parties, who had instated the attacks

Dame, Malacca, though a possible derivar in high hopes of finding, a way through sext tion from Amalaka, the Sanscrit nume for year @ This is clearly shown by the irise in the made against him seemed desirous to hold him responsible for the abies that had been

the amblic myrobolam (The Poka Malaka? Yang of property in Fouches since last Des A prefer to hold that the name Malaces camber, and large houses and pramSİSTE in axistence, before he joined the Railway

is either a modification of Maliyakolam, or offered me then at reasonable prices. 16 April Company as president. Some of their allega

Malayaka (moaning the country of the Malayas), these same premises were either not furthe Hope were, pelly, and almost beneath notice Hoogkong copper coins in circulation will have ground and aniface hands, This coal

Messrs, E. S. Kadooria:& Co. are,credibly or that it is identical with the name of Malaka, market or had doubled their purchase prica -- In one infance, ground for stack, was found been called In. For some time they have been from this mine, like most Japasso coals, informed that the transfer books of the United in Southern Indian tribe transplanted like many

Whaleyne (falih, other cosalies may havi in the gas production of billy relating to come coming back into the Colony, by the Epodad. Ands ready markets in Korea, Chinese ports Slagspore Rubber Compity biva bean re* other on the soil of the Malaya Feclosula

Theźprobibition: polley "Feschant 1) 'opened, in order to enable holders who hava dvad off Hongkong, Bogapore, etc. COLOURED MATTINGES AR 5 weight bat now the supply is stackahing Apart from the artistic merit of the book be got already done so to have their slíkram tenSI)

W. “I la Sispapore Free Press, valued at about eight maca in many ways discernibly had his workerão president had buns hampered and an. When an and is put to the existing stats of fora us from a printer's point of view, included to their samos-lhus securing rights to IK Tonkin, destitus alise Europeast in certala obstmoted by the mischief-makers." The object matters page will be better pleased than the of those people kopsired to bi to cause delay Police, who have toilston to constantcomplagis by arasyamsasi at their command. When he regarding their inactivity in deal.ng, with the found: Islterly thai die wat 'umble, by-rennan, naisance whilst knowing only tookwell that of the bitter opposition of the malconteper, to they have no power to arrest any of the offer: anaka ther progrsee lichicks hi was noxious to "ders" "Already" wallboar of two Europus maks, he felt shit poțhing waitfičfor bin but starksepera, in Paddor: Strael having kiran | sides ng brief guide to the Mhaus, collieries

wisham potics of intention to quit their praminas an: which Sa'accompanied by an exceliant map of Kever, was of destructivo, sigdation; "ha | account of the crowds of coolies" who throng Notthara Kynihu Beparate chapuu kia also zikas statistic doubt la the Qinter, thoat the footpath and in from bi nepiisa daround to the salint and ma

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