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THE INSURANCE PROSECUTION.

ALLEGED FAILURE TO REGISTER,

74th last.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY NOVEMBER 25 19IO

MESQUITA” MEMORIAL,

DISPOSAL of Longkong funds.

3rd inst

Belcte Mr. E. R. Hallifax this afternoon, Mr F. X. M. Fig-eiredo presided at a meet Tam Tiz Kong, general manager of the Hipag yesterday, nt the rooms of the Bibliotheca Oa fusorauco Company, was charged, by Mr. Puttugusas, of the subscribers in Hongkong to G. H. Wakamon, Roglottar of Companies, with the funds for the "Mesquita Memorial, doing life insurance business in the Colony on initiated by his father, the late Mr. Jord M. V. bahalf of the Wah On Insurance Company de Figueiredo. The meeting anonimously without having registered and made a deposit agreed to hand over the amount subscribed, as required by the Life Insurance Ordinance, together with the accomolated inte, car, 10 the Mr, H. L. Denny, Sr., prosecuted and Mr.

Central Committee at. Macao. The transfer Otto Keng Sing defended.

will be made as soon as the fixed deposit be

Some arguent took place regarding the putting in in evidence of the advertisement ap pearing in nowspapers. Mr. Kong Sing ob fected to its being put in. His Worship noted the objection.

BIG OPIUM SRIZURE.

DY EXCISE OFFICERS,.. Chief Excite Officer G. Hoggarth oad in party of Chinese employees of the Excian De nanment entered Nos. 247 and 249, Queen's Road Central last night and arrested two Chisaman for having 1,195 tools of proparad oplum and a taels af opium dross in their possession. A fatther search was made, and resulted in the discovery of namber of la postal documents.

The men appeared before Mr. E. R. Halifax this morning on the above charge and were remanded. Mr. Barlow from the film of Messrs.

ZHE POSITION OF SILVER.

The future of silver is a subject of faterest to the whole of the Far East, and it may be use: fal, therefore, to take note of an instractiva prososorament on the position of the white metal by an American authority, Mr. James S. H. Umsted, who, writing for a Ualted States fiusqcial jurnal, expresses quite rosasta views. as to the future of the silver position. He bases his high hopes on

INDIAN AND CHINESE 'PROGRESS.

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*** RUBBER MANUFACTURERS,

DELIEVA GREAT RISE IN PRICES A SERIOUS MATTER.

tion was rather less than in the early fighties, when our exports of rubber goods whia loss than a million sterling. From this It is plato that the progress shown cannot have been due to any genéint rise of price over this period, but represents a soal lecrease Inaba volume of goods old to customen overitas.

DEVELOPMENT OF T-ADS RESTRICTED From the Financial Naos of September 22,

By an Invasion of the hema markets our the contribution of a correspondent: we take the following interesting excerpts from manufacturers are put upsa their metile. They

diligently inquire into the causes of their com The great site which has taken place during petitors' saccess, obtain the latest machinery, the last eighteen months in the price of raw

improve the quality and finish oftheir goods, and cad by coming out on top. In the late nicoties rubber is naturally highly gratifying to the there was a serious jump in imports and only a holder of shares is rubber-producing commoderate rise in exports. Thit appears to have Pipies. Ha chuckies as há soes prices in

comes due. The amount to be so transferred | Goldring, Barlow and Morrell, appeared for the 214,000,000 ozs., the price is back lo dalween-1 Mincing-long jumping by ico per cent, and had the necessary bracing affect on our mants-"

is some $750.

We understand that the General Committed have decided that the memorial will assume the form of a u atble column saemonnteɖ by a. The translator of the Registrar-General's ment is estimated to cost £275 sterling, ex bust of the late Colonel Mesquita. The mona office was called and translated the advertise-clusive of the cost of rail'ege, foundation, etc. ments appearing in the Chinese papers.".

Designs of the memorial, with specificatiour, Me, Kodg Sing-Do you know what a life were laid before the meeting yesterday. Josurance cauvasser is ? -Yes.

What is It?-One who goes about and seeka business.

What does the word.” Klagles" mean in the advertisement ?-It means maboger or agent.,

Mr.): 0. da Canha maved a vote of thanks 10. Mr. F. X M.. Figueiredo fer looking after the invastmrat the Hoogkong fands all these years. The motion was seconded by Mr, J. M. P. da Silva and unanimously carried

defoodcats.

THE SUNATE OF CHINA.

A CRITICISM..

If we are to criticize the Tzuchong Yuan in any way it would be on the ground that, as Tot, one of the members have spaken boldly for the Government's side, though it I know nisay hold views different from those who have been mest active in the debates. And, on the other hand, the proviecial members should be. criticized for their apparent intolerance in re- fasing to give respecial hearing to those whose views differ from their own.

grew very slowly, while exports mounted by leaps and bounds; so that at the end of that decade the state of our foreign trade in these goods was far more healthy than it had ever been before.

Ho points out that when silver sold at at 11-160. in 1902, the world's output was 161,753,438 fine bunces. To-day with a production of at least

zed, and #5d, or, say, 0.52 or 0.53 an ounce in

by notes with profound satisfaction the rise of facturats; for daring the succeeding decade im New York. The panic of 1907, with its world-bls Kuala Lumpori from £1, 95, 98, a share wido business depression, was one of the re-

to more than 69 or of his Linggi Plantations sons for the metal's drop from 32 7-16d. In

from a 3d. to move than 554-all within that year at the start to a3d. Jo December, 1908, eighteen months. It is true that a consider Bithough the influence of crop failure and partial able fall in the price of rabber has occurred famine in fudis counted for much. To-day during the last month or two, but this only. that great country is teaming with crops, nearly parily discounts the great advance of more unusually arge volume-doubtless in some cases all of its agricultural products having boss of than 150 per cent. shown by the average mice unprecedentedly big. Thase products, too,

in the first half of 110 as compared with the average price for the year 1998. Of course, Are commanding blah prices--notably cot ber shares, the advancing record in satirely

from the point of view of the investor in rob wheat, and fisx. Even in the matter of the Influence of the demand for the arts and lo. admirable, and may with advantage be con-

cloued. dustries among the Western nations there. is a

Han Husg stated that on the 21st of Jacuary this year he made inquiries of an insurance company which was carrying on business at 43, Bonham Brand. The Wab On was carrying on tasks on the first flor. He saw a clerk, and got a small red book from him, and an ap plication f rinsurance. This be brought back seeg by visitors to Macao and where it may ativa goverament, we take it, is respect for the that will 'expand in the future agalast crap

to Inspector Hanson. On the 16th of Septem bar, Turpector Hanson gave him $45 and be gave it to Wong Chuk Tong, The same day be got a receipt for the money, which he paid for insurance. On the 18th of October he received policy. Ho know that the manager of the Hip On Insurance Co. was Tam Taż Kong.

Mr. Kong Sing-You have been to the lip Da Insurance office several times in January? -No, only once.

Did you see Tam Tsr Kong -No, You never spoke to bim ?-No,' ' About the Wah On?-No, I spoke to his clark,

-No.

put it to you, you spoke to 1 am Tiz Kong? I also put it to you that Tam Taz Kony gave the clock instructions to give you the book in his presence No.

I put it to you, you went to Tam and told him who you were ?—No,

Cheng Chan Po, accountant of the Sheung Po newspaper, stated that he entered an item in the avertizemcot book on the zih day of the month. The charge of the advertisement was $8 for three weeks. He received the advertise ment from the Hip On.`

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Mr. Keng Slog-Did you see the draft of the advertisement hi ed in to the Sheung Pol-1 | don't see it now.

After the formal part of the business had been concluded, a conversation ensued among the subscribers present as to the best site for the memorial at Macao. The opinion was uns! maus that the manument should be erected in smo public place in the city where it may be

also serve as a public embellishment of Macao, instead of being erected in the Cemetery where it will be seen by a comparatively faw people..

188 CHARGES AGAINST JOHN

GRANT.

FRESH ALLEGATIONS PREFERRED, AD&INST

DEFENDANT.

23rd Inst.

John Grant was brought up on remand before Mr. E. R. Halifax at the Magistracy this morning on the following two charges:-(1) 7 bat he did receive or have in his possex. in a blank cheque (No. 714,669) of the Char- tered Bank the property of oue . Roberts, stoica porside the Colony on or about the ith ips (2) That he did receive or have in bis possession property, to wit,'n number of testi. monials the property of K. Roberts, unlawfully ablained outside the Colony on or about 11th inst. Mr. Depays, Sr., from the Orows Solici 101's office, prcsecuted and defendant was us- represented..

It is the right, nad the duty, of every mem- her to give h's yews on any question fully and asily. Unless this is done there can be no proper discussio The basis of represent Tigla of the lagrity. If the mejority adopts a policy of refusing to hear these of dif. feret siws, as it has en several occasions, the Taucheng Yuan will discredit itself in the eyes of the perpls. It is equally Important that membs of the minority assert themselves Pating Daily News.

REASONABLE PRICES DESIRADLE,

The increase of out trade with foreignero Is more than five times as great as that with Belgium, find France alone have grown more colonials and our sales to Germany, Holland, than three times as much as have not sales to

European neighbours should have increased ul the British Possessions combined. It la remarkable that the trade with our four: a enormously while our net Imports from: POTENTIAL STIMULUS FOR. SILVER.

But, of course, the rubber manufacturer la all the world have remained virtually, ata There are also broad movements which pro

compelled to look at the matter in another way. tionary. In the last five years our sales to these. As he is the client of the rubber investor, as the four countries were much larger than zar net mire increase in permanent prosperity for British India, Irrigation is making steady

one bays what the other has to sell, an inspec-imports from all searcos. progress in that country, affording en latúrance

tion of the matter from the maunfacturer's point of view will be worth making. Rubber is now losses and famine when the monsoon fails.

the raw material for a surprising variety of The rrilroad system of India is still in fls in.

manufactures-from motor and cycle tyres, fancy, and surely the growth of mileage will

boots and shoes, and waterproof clothes dawa go on in that country, facilitating the transacar lacial sponges. The total output of all the to matulog, gloves, stoppers for bottles, and tions of commerce. Moreover, in the last nine rubber trades can at present only be guessed years there has been hardly a year when thera at; but it seems certain that it must amount to was any important recession in the net volume a very substantial sum. At present the census of silver received by British India from abroad. of production has only dealt with one small There is another factor in connection with the

section of those trades—the elastic-web mann- probable future demand from India; it relates facture-and the gross datpai for this is 1957 to the currency system of that country. The

Is given as 45,057,/ro. When we consider how ACCUMULATION OF RUPEES

small a part of the rabber trade is here ra presented, it seems not anlikely that the gross output of the whole mast equal or excond that of the motor and cycle Industries (£10,643,000) In any case, whatever be the value of such a rough estimate, we know that the expins alone kave for some years exceeded £2,000,000 per annum, and that they averaged £1,000,000 for the four years to 1908-before the great rise in rubber begao.

in the currency department of the Indiau Go, vernment which followed the famine and de pression In that country of the last year or two has been displayed by an absorption, so that the imminence of silver purchases for coinage purposes bas become a topic of discossion. here have been no Government purchases for this account for a period of three highly favourable moment to the silver pro- years; the resumption of them would be of

ducer,

The writer proceeds to refer to the awakan ing of Obina as au imponans factor in the sknation. Financial reform is in progress in that country, and it, is' balieved that the unit belog to standardisa the National currency, will be based temporarily on silver, the alm sweeping away the ancient copper colos and.

by the Provincial Viceroys, Thess abuses to the abuser of the minting privilege enjoyed include all manner of

No, at the time when you e tered It in the '99, did have o e' cheque lo his posses which had not exported oplum for three years, creating a National Mint that will put an end

book? -Yes.

Did you receive the advertisemoot?—} don't remember, as it is so long ago.

Do you remember seeing the draft of the advertisement?—Yes, I do,

Mr. Wa eman was re called and stated that

he knew the defendant as manager of the Hip Op till the time of its liquidation. It was re gistered at 47, Bonbum Strand.. On the 27th Aug.st, 1909, Tam Tiz Kong signed the an unl retato as manager of the Hip Os,

Mr. Dennys-That is the case for the pro- secutio, your Worship. I understand my friend would like to call sume witnesses.

The case was further adjourned for a week.

THE KORBAN'S FAMILY LINE.

DEBASED COINAGE ISSUES,

besides the deprivation of the people' of a elform system which would caable them to derive more profit from their commercial re-

world of to-day, and the slow but gradual Celestial Empleo, he says, is awakening to the lations with the foreign world. The great

and enormous natural wealth to Westera trade opening up of this land of teeming population. and exploitation will hasten the proposed fiscal change. The

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RENASCENCE OF THE LAND

OPIOM STATISTICS.

SOME INTERESTING FACTS AND FIGURES,

The annual report of the Bambay Opium Department shows that the duty paid export of Opium lato Bombay during the year 1909 10, either for exportation by ses to China order home consumption was 13,217 charts, This, of course, was a very inucn re uced figure on account of the limitation of the trade to China, as in fact compares with the total for the pre ceding year of 34419 chesis, a decrease of $0,50%, The'decrease was distributed amongst the various agencies as follows:-ladera 6,057 1.2 chest, Ujjain 1,23 chests, Chitor 1133 chests, Rutlan 1,744 1-3 chests, Dhar 354 1-2 chests, havra 1,1711 chests, Bhopal 783 1-2 obstituted the following therefor

Mr. Dennys withdrew the above charges and chests, Manderar 4,033 chests, Koth (where

the scales have, sicce August, 1903, bean traus (a) That John Grant on the 13th November, ferred from Baran) 820 cheste, Ahmedabad 1442 chests. On the other hand, Ajmere, sien, well knowing the same to have been stolon: () That, Jolin Grant on the rgth November, 190. felagiously did forge and portation on which duty, for exportation by

now exposted twenty chests. Tho actual im

of money, that is to say, counterfeit a certain order for the paymont 56 was paid was 7,753 1-2 chests, against porting to be a cheque drawn upon the bere was a slight decrease of some 400 chests writing. pur-27,838, a decrees of 20,098 z chests. so that Chartered Bank India, Australia and Chloin kcal consumption. The actual duty realised by cae Kenric Roberts with intent thereby to wAB 5. 74,94,500, compared with Rs. 3,19,81 defraud; (e) That John Grant on the 13th No. 700, a decrease of R*, *,34,85,95; This was be forged, a certain forged order for the pay. the right of priority. ol export, daty was paid vember, 1910, did u'tor, knowing the same to partly due to the fact that in order to some porting to be a cheque draws upon the Chat- almost the whole of the permissible experts for mot of money, that is to say, a writing pur during the preceding year by exporters on tered Bank of India, Australia and Chinn by the years 1909 and 1910. Further as it has ong Keric Roberts with intent thereby to de-

heen decided to introdeco from 1912, a system fraud, well knowing the same to be filse, for under which the right of export will be as ged and counterfeited; (d) has John Grant signed to the highest teaderer, a duty of on the 1 th November, 1gic, felonicusly ob

Rs. 31,99,800, paid on chests which will not of Confucius carries with It potentialities that mained certain property, that is to. any, certain

come within the limits of 1973 and 1901, was ab prophet even could well attempt to forecast 10,U, amounting to 26, by virtue of a cer.

refunded, and the exporters will be allowed to. in their final outcome. Nor is the commerci I tain forged order for the payment, of money

exporr after 19. a corresponding number of world bind to the fact that the low price of that is to say, a writing purporting to be a gheque drawn upon the Chartered Bank of India,

chests provided they agree top.y doty at Rs, silver has stimulated China's competition in the to per ches, when called upoo: The quan trade of the outside world, mány of our owe as ustralia and China by one Kentic Roberts, ities of opium impotted for despatch to tong. well as Europe's far-sighted obiecvary discern- John Grant on the 31st October, 1910, did respectively, compared with 838 and 1,495 in well knowing the fame to be forged; (e) That kong and other posts were 18 and 3,015 chestsing for a long time to coms increasing exports forge and counterfoit a certain order for the the preceding year or a net ircrease of 167 the great Yellow nailon. Io time the con and diminishing imports of merchandise by payment of mosey that is to say, a waiting chests. The total fees realised were Rs.15.778 sumption of silver caused by the world's pay. purporting to be a cheque drawn upon the against Rs 1,780 in the previous year. The tiongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, average price of opium la the Bombay market

ment of the white matal on its adverse balance to China with latest thereby to defraud; (7) Thus John during the year was Rs. 1,346 per chest for one The writer met a little five-year-old boy the Grant on the 31st October, igio, d.d utter,

year old and Rs. 1,646 per chest for two years other day. He had a very solled jacket on and koowing the same to be forged, a certain order a wide and dusty pair of padded pantaloons, for the payment of money, that is to say, a writ.

ald opium against Rs. 186 and Rs. 1,305, the rise of course being due to the increased prices He was standing quite alovo and seemed lost.ing purporting to be a cheque drawn upon the now prevalling in China. I asked him, "Who are you?""1 am a Yun hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation aa Yi sald the boy. Now the Yun an Yi's by one CSmith Grant with intent thereby to date their origin from General So of the Tangs, defraud, well knowing the same to be forged Chloe, who in 641 AD. conque ed Paik-j, one

and counterfeited. of the early kingdoms of Kozes. Since then thesa Yi's have been the most exclusiva aristo- crats and have gone proudly by in a palanquin while the rest of the world walked. This little chubby-faced laddie looked up at me and said I'm a Yao ao Yi." Have you had breakfast?" I asked. He nodded his head but no word was uttered, "Are you lost?" I inquired, and he wagged his head to say no. "Then who is your father?" "He's A Yon-an Yi;" and that was all his little soul would graat má. Ha bad drawn'in with his frat breath and consciousness of life the fact that he was oOD of the Earls of Yao as, and that his trousers might be salled, and a dark brush of twentieth century bread and cheese might be on a ch cheek, and the world might apex or go to destruction, but he was a Yua as Yt. The pride of family is very-great-and-aby cross blood that comes in makes posterity hang

Koreans think the world, and all of their an- cestral'ssat, family line, genealogical table, etc. Prite of birth rides serenely over poverty and Ignorance of every sort, as well as over every other man's success Greataces may be moth Caten and old beyond the days of Genghis Khan, may be but the threadbare remains of no ead of reverse and glading poverty, but the family seat is talked of, and introduced into conversation with all the pride and haughtiness of the first lord of the land.

head for a thousand years.

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No clan dare ever intermarry. A mission ary in Korca once knew a young man who seemed sulted to wed a girl of her arqualstance and so the set about is true Western fashion to make a match, All was settled till it was found that the-bungling Westesoer had fixed up two to wed who were of the same family seat. Tacy had been first cousins somewhere in the

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His Worship (To defondant) ~Do you plead guilty to the charges?

Defendin-plea of guilty.

Mr. Deonya-1 wish to ask for a father ra.. mand, as some of the witnesses are a long way and it'll take some time to get them here. Als Worship-Will Toesday and Wednes day dej

Mr. Dency-Yes, your Worship,

The case was remanded till Tuesday mort at

5p.m.

SHIPBUILDING AT NAGASAKI.

WORK COMPLETED and IN HAND AT

MITSUBISHI NOCKYARD——

JAPANESE ENTERPRISE.

A PLAN TO GIVE TOKIO THE ADVANTAGES OF A COMMERCIAL PORT.

WILL FORCE A RISE IN THE PRICE

until the bigber exchange rates will lesien the power of the Nation's capitalists to manufacture goods at starvation wages to their labour and The matter of competition with foreign countries will be equalised to cost. But such a state of affairs, it is pointed out, is far off for many years, at least, it is reasonable to asume that there will be an ever-lacreasing demand for silver by China for domestic coinage and for its excess sales of merchandise to Europe and the United States. The intelligent manipula tion of its needs by the shrewd Celestials and

MISHAPS OF OCCASIONAL OVER-SPECULATION in the commodity on the ball side, will doubt less give many variations to aoy opward move. prevailing-loßpeace mast ba toward bettering ment in the price. But the parsistent-the

It is now possible to realise how unfortun ale, from the manufacturers' point of view: was the sensational rise to the price of rob, ber, and how welcoms would be same declina the raw rubber retained for consumption bas of the quotation. In the first half of 19io

weight as lauded at the ports. When it is rast cost us no lass than £33.8s. par hundred membered that there was a time when we only had to pay o ̊5s. par hundredweight, and that the average price for the past fifty-five years has never exceeded £14 178. (taking quinquen-: nial averages), it will be seen how severe is the handicap our manufacturers bare now to work under. So tremendous an increase in prica must tend to restrict the development of the trade in many of its brancher, though wealthy motorists and similar epitomers are not likely to reduce their purchases much, and it must ba admitted that the consumption of rubber to Jana this year shows a very substantial in. crease as compared with the same period of last year. Still, it is undeniable that with tubbar at a reasonable price the trade would There is another way in which we can obtain Bave a far better chance in all its branches, a rough idea of the total autpat of rabber and even if a fall of 50 per cent. took place all manufactures, and that is by cca:idering the property managed plantation compacies would home consumption of the raw material, Ofbe able to make very handsome profis, course, all the raw material has to be imported In the Gest lostance, and he amount retalnad for home consumption can be accurately stated for the past fifty-five years Iram the official re- proportion of the material used by the mann. cords of imports and re-exports. But a certain

facturers each year consists of old rubber, which I re-made into inferior classes of robber goods and of this material we have no record. It most, however, be considerable in quantity, and following table showing the consumption of is worth bearing in mind when copsidering the

Year. raw rubber by British manufacturers ;—

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IMPORTS AND JRICES.

Quantity, Valna, Prica per

cwt.

1855-9....... 1850-438,100 312,00

cwt.*

18,100 113,000 $

3 1865-9

70,700 $94,000 89 t870-4............. 94,500 1,043,900 11 B 1875-9 .............. 75,00 766,0ca to 4 1885 42

93,100 1,386,010-16 17 18359...... 98930 1,145,000 II II *1830 4.****

1895 .....

1900 4.. 1505-9...

months to June, '1

118,200 *,$4,0.3 13 160,430 1 883,000 11 10 ..... 173. 03 4,305,000 13 274 500 $,913,000 14

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THE INTERPORT SHOOT.

GREAT SCORE BY SHANGHAI, The Shought Mercury has the following:-- On account of the outbreak of disturbances here it was feared that it would be impossible for Shanghai to bring off its shoot lo the Foter- port Rifle contest by the 15th, which is tha circumstances Hongkong, Singapore and Fen last day allowed, and to view of the pecullar aug wore wired asking for an extension of time, Fortunately this has not beea necessary, for yesterday morning the team shot, putting up a record score. In answer to the wire Hongkong cabled back agreeing to an extension, but so far no reply has been received from Slogapore, while the reply from Penang was in codo, and until yesterday it had not been translated. How ever, the local disturbances bavlog subsided it was possible to get the team together yesterday morning, though on account of the extra Police duties it was Impossible to sècare the a ten- dance of both Captain. Barrett and Captain Hilpa-Jobts, The latter was absent, and of this po doubt weakened the team, though inspite of this the splendid total of 561 was achieved this belog a record, beating that put up by Singapore last year by seven points.

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741.50 7,83,000 3 Bo *O. i. f. values at ports.

This gives us a better Idea of the progress and present volume of the entice rubber mautfic- turing trade (for koma aud.foreign sale) than can yet be obtained from any other set of facts. The enormous growth in quantity used-from 18,10 ct. to 274,500 cwt.is sufficient proof of tifh splendid progress of the trade, and the fact that for the past five years our factory owners paid £1,913,000 a year for raw rubber rubber and other materials used by the trade) as landed at our ports (20 may notblog.of old

Is sufficient indication that the entire amusi output most have averagad Li0, 00,002 at the least, and may have considerably exceeded this som, Of course, so long as robber remains at its present abnormal level the value of the trade's output will be much greater; for it will bo spea that for the first half of 19′o the raw Jabber retained for home consumption has cost as more than £7,750,000 sterling,

THE SENSATIONAL RISE,

It is manifest, therefore, that the trade is

The news about the proposed ship canal te- tween Yokohama and Tokio is not clear, even to the Japaness Consulate, but the probabilisthe ties do not favour the idea of di giog a water. way between cities which are already connect- ed by a bay. It is more likely that the bay channel is to be widened and deepened.

The distance betweeo Yokohama and Tokia is about twenty miles, but above the former the demand and therefore stimataflag the price. now of great importance, and that 'extremely poit the bay grows shallow. Small consting-For-the-rest-an-additional demand for the wide interests are threatened by the sensational steamers go to the capital, and in Commodors Perry's time it was so practicable tɔ send

white metal from the coming development of rise in rubber prices, which became acute in sloops of war there that the Shogun 'p otected

the silver-using countries to the south of the the latter half of 1979 We must not, however, the approaches to Tokio by forts built on astir up the variegs elements and circumstances do if we failed to remember the mitigating in United States may be looked far, Samming overestimate the effects of that rise as we should Grist islands. But glace then-the-channel has that make up the present position and pro-fluence of improved methods of manufacture and become less negotiable.

E. andCi Ez31881. suppression of the white matai is at an end. cow do not generally contain nearly so large a specis, the conclusion seems to be fully justi- of economias in the use of the raw material. fed that the era of extreme depression and It is well-known that the goods manufactured proportion of ruse rabber as did the groda made twenty or twenty-fire years ago. A STRAITS BERTAM TRANSFERS.

Judicious mixtora of diber materials reduces to a minimum the quantity of pure rabbar requie- DISHONOURED BY COMPANY IN LONDON,

el, while preserving to the folshod product all ths valuable properties of rubber. When this Penang, November 12.

factor is (taken into consideration, as wall as

Straits Bertam Rubber Company, stating they the receipt of a cable from London from the hundredweight in the price of rubber may take Messrs. Adams and Allan, solicitors notify ture, it is seen that a rise of £4 or és per improved and cheapened methods of manufac

Worked out it would erable Tokic to do the the Japanese Consulate, is entirely feasible. The project, if its nature is as surmised by

business on its awa account which it is now the railroad for land transit. forced to do through Yokohama, employing

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Works, Nagasaki, bave a considerable quantity The Mitsu Bist Dackyard and Engins of work on bond, including vessels far the Daring the present year, says the Nagasaki Impedal Navy and bos for the Chinese Nave, Fress, they have launched and completed for Kaiths, viz, Panama Maru, 6,057 tons, 5,216 sign of the zeal and thor ogbness with which sea two largo vessels for the Osaka Shoten

The larger view is that the canal, or wider and deeper channel, the case may be, is a barsa-power, and Mexico Mar;16,063 cas, 596 horse-power. These steamers are now

Japan is proxecuting ber commercial warfue in service between Hongkong and Tacoma, power, but as a manufacturing ad carrying She emulates England, not only sa a zaval carrying have some good passenger accom going torpedo-boat destroyer and two steam modation. Before the end of 1910 an ocean-

terprise now reaches far. She has steamship trawlers will be launched. The destroyer will

Haex to Europe, Australia, India, the Far East Pic of shares in the company. be fitted with Parsons' steam turbines. One of deepened, channels improved, breakwaters or

generally, to South America, Canada and the bearing th watermark of the Usio es It is allege that the forgeries are on paper the trawlers, the Fakotomi-mare, will be of

United States. When barbours are to be Pets, Singapore 216 tons cross and 460 harte-power, and is upon to do the work, in fali kaowledge that zen barbours built, Japan may be depended being built for Mr. Hashimoto, of Nagasaki.

commerce pod the industries whica it makes

days of Augustas Caesar, a'd it was contra y via Japan, and while specially built for freight-nation, and does pot mind the cost. Her as have received forged transfer receipts In res. Place with ɔut increasing the pricas of the finish.

to all the laws of beaven and earth for iwasach to mate. The giri's mother with a long kalfe, n wild eye and a stomach full of words, threaten ed to cut off the foreigner, and her posterity for p'caping such a marriage. There was fire and smoke and no ead of wild shriek and foaming fit, but the marriage came off, far the Westein- by was set léo in her way. Ths, family like was swined, and the o'd woman took herself off to Maxico with a "ot of emigrants to escapa the shame of it.

A ramour almost got abroad a few years ago that the royahiss "of Europe intermanied, crossed and reclussed, concias and second cousins. Had it truly become knows, England might have had to walk with a lasà bịgh end mighty galt. One of these days it will take alt of Great Britain's backing to stand the shock of it.

ed products at all. Indeed, we know from the of rubber boots and shoes exported was £1.38 Beard of Trads records that in 19or the prico

per dezen pairs, while in 1907 it had fallen to 4 par dozen pairs. Now, In 1901 the price of raw rubber retained for home consumption was £12 181 per hundredweight, and in 1907 it had risen to 15 39; 10, while rubber prices price of rubber boots and shoes bad actually fallon by about as per cent. It is plain, then, that rubber prices may advanca by £4 or 65 per hundredweight without actually fucreasing fermarently, at all eve.ts) the prices of the nearly £5 per hundredweight took place in the finished products of our factories. A sise of early eighties, as shown by the abeys table;

assembled at the Kargo along with the umpires, At seven o'clock in the morning the team. who were Major Brodie Clarke for Slaagpare, Captala. G.R, Wingrove, Remove to Hongkong, Guoner L.A. Chill for Penang, and for Pie. RC. Young for Shanghal. The conditions were excellent, there being a bright and slight

three o'clock" wind. follows:

W. Brand G. Kings C. Mills H. J. Linde........ Capt: Barrett... A. M. Collaco

The scorta wore as

$3,34 34 tex 34 35 4

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33 31 3' 3 33 35 31-30 34 ****** 3 24 399 D. MCA ister. 78. 34

R. Brock 33 27 33 J. Park... 30 39 32 S. A. Ransomci 3.9

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Bull's-ases made... 137, 685 laners.......RETIROKCHOTAHçAIs 59 235 „Magpies- ma* 13 30

Outera...... Las: year Singapore wen with the record score of 955.

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The only results as yet known ara Hoag- kong 819 and Shanghai 952,

A match had also bean arrangeito take place between Shangha and the Malay States Guides, and before the shoot a team of eight had been selected. For this it was decided to to drop D. McAlister and S, A. Ransom, and the scores of the eight others were 780, making

rait, who made a possible at 60s yardı On average of 97.5 per man. A pool shoot was also held and this was won by Capt. Bar-

ROIC Rescue AT YOKOHAMA,

YOUNG FOREIGNERS SAVE OCCUPANTS OF DISTRESSED JUNK.

The other, ordered by the Steam Fishiɔg peвsible are the sum of her material salvation tenilva even than the recoat Duff forgeries. I had increased by £2 51. pez kundredweight the bami, a Japsoase fank with six occupania

Company of Nagasaki, will be of 193 toas gross cludes the constraction of the following and 40 horse-power. Other work in hand in vessels :--

stroyer with turbina engines,

Yarakeze, an ocean-going torpedo-boat de.

turbine engines;

Second class cruiser for the Imperial Navy,

Three steel water buits, 02ch of 24 lons, for the Imperial Navy;

sistership to the Teayo Matu and Chiyo Maru, Shioyo Maru, for the Tojo Kisen Kalaba, a 13,700 100s, 16,150 horse-power, turbine eng. ines;

Gunboat for the Chinese Navy: Kaisha, 6,cco tons, 5,500 horsepower; and +Shellor deck steamer for the Nippon Yaren Canada Maru, three-deck steamer, 6,costos, 5 co horie-power, for the Qlaka Shoten Kalaha.

Bestam shares, to which brief allusion was

The public are wamed accordingly. The forgeries of transfer receipts of Straits made on Saturday, seem to bs much morsex-

the Pacific, what does it propose to do toward Singapore alone and there is no ssying how this rising young empire the trade dominion of mating to,co shres sta under suspicion in

If the United States is not going to leave to

At tho prasat moment a number approxi restoring itsmerebant maríus ?—S. F. Chronicle.

many more bave not yet come to light. ANOTHER WEIRD STORY.

The fact that such forgeries did exist was fiat conveyed to Mours. Reuben and Guston, KOWLOON "TIGER TALE OUTRIVALLED

of The erade, on Saturday morning, by HY LATEST INVENTION,

cable from their London agents, The Go, abost October 15, had perthased 2,000 Ber. but it was coincident with a greatly increased consumption of the raw matemial showing that tams on transler recoip, and had sent it did act seriously stock the development of them home to be registered. Then, on Satur the trade. day, came the cable ataisg that the shares purpor.ing to be transferred word already segistered, In the oams of quite a different individual to the vendor and the transfers ap- peared to have been forged

grown up within the last week has just had o The crop of extraordinary stories which has rather werd addition. The Chinese now say that a solitary rat about a foot high and thras feet in lengib has brought the plague from Hongking to Shanghai, and that it is now from Hongkong is reported to ba bera and roaming about the infected area. A doctor the house so house inspection which was made is said to have been a search at his lustigation for the quadruped. Having exhausted every

At about ball-past six Thursday evening (3rd fest) when a terrific storm came up at Yoka. aboard was sighted in distress off the Burd carts Grand Hotel, the man aboard shouting lustily for help. A large crowd gatherad and several attempts wore mide by byssudois to aid the endangered man but the rescuers ap parantly were facking nerva to dare the roating sea. The palico as wall as various sampas men then tried to save the fishermen without success dalill three members of the Yokobama Yacht Club, Hossen, 9, A. Vincent, R. H. Box and F. Stone maared a dingle and with great riak made the junk and took the six men aboard, landing them amidst the applause of a farge number of bystanders at the new Hatoba, daring the last forty yeate, when the average

We may consequently fairly assume that The names of the rescued could not be obtai

seriously affected the prices of rubber manu Brave

ed, as it is repsried that in their excitement and £4 176. per hundredweight, it has mas foreigners who had saved them from a walery price of rubber has fluctuated between to 4. they even forgot to thank the brave, FOODg.

the mare excess of exports over net imports bas Stone will be rewarded shortly by Governor. factures as a whele. Daring the last five yeaTS It is stated that Mestis. Vincent, Bpx aud

auy of the lasira down to the end of the nine saving The Japanese papers are bigh la been greater than our entire experts were for Sofa In accordance with the regulations for life

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MANUFACTURERS,

Some families are bura of eggs, some liks the Ko's Too's and Yangs come out of the rocks and gros d. The egg shells have mouldered fato dust, but the world still shows you whera the Kopoorgangs first manifested themselves to the light of day in the island of Quelpart. Re- cently an official from Seout went poking about and tapping with his walking-stick the sacred rocks where these ancestors had come finth. It all but caused a sist; this light treatment of so grave a matter. In the old families the records are kept and written ont gentration after all of the Parsons' trpa and will be built at bathing that mig: hava had the remblance of a log.

The tab ́as cogices refered to abova aro generation.

Eutico Works, Akancura, the Miso Blibl foundation, the paître mind now seemed to What will gapexation do with the old family | Company possessing exclusive rights to the have turned to the ludicrous for its micatat its of other shares, Malaka Finda and Mellier. It should be noted that the average pace their praise of the young foreigners who 19

pateat in Japan.

gympastiça.—Shangkal Stergury,

en victimises and a number of chetties are Other broking firms, we undersient, have believed to have taken usaitis transfers as socurity for loins. The pelea ere investigate Ruzours are also current in regard to forger- mau belg mestioned. —Strails Times:

of raw rubber imports for home consump. I bravely titked their livel—Jopan Advertiser