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NANKING AND THE RAILWAY.

Future Prosperity.

In his report on the-trado of

Nanking for the year 1910, Mr.

F. E. Wilkinson, II. B. M.'s Con- Bul there, has the following:-

Pukou.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY JULY 12 1911

MANILA'S SHIPPING.

botween individual shippers by requiring the shipowner to carry Protest Against Generaf, Tariff for all comers upon like torms to

The proposal of the Board of the capacity of his vessel gives

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The communication of the Shipowners' Association has sinco been endorsed by quité ono hun- dred firms in Manila.

Prepaid Advertisements.

$2 for ons week.

Entimations

SOUTH MANCHURIA R

1200, Kowloon. Apply to-The Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co., Ld.

(1104

INDIAN CURRENCY

POLICY.

BETWEEN

RAILWAY

SHORTEST & QUICKEST ROUTE

THE FAR EAST & EUROPE, via DAIREN.

SUMMER SCHEDULE.

(Effective from May 1, 1911)

. NORTH BOUND.

In Class

Farca

$10

Shanghai (Steamer)...... Lv. Dairen

T14.00

J

Mukden

19

+1 2.Ard (S.M.R. Train)...LV

...A L

6.00 n.121, 1:50 p.m.

Thurs-Sun. Sat. Tugs. Sun. Wod: Fri,

2.05 "

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8.80 "

71

11

Mon. Thurs. Sat.

Yi,50

R 0.00

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(Russian Train)... 9.30 Harbin

...Arl 9.10...

less Pukou is opened to trade promptly, and the sale of land permitted to foreign and Chinoso. business firms, in whose interest it will bo to develop their land at Rate Regulation at Manila to the public ample protection 25 WORDS $1 for 3 insertions or once, the line will be complotod establish a now gonoral tariff of against the danger, which would before any facilities for trade rates for the earringo of passen- otherwise exist, that the small other than those provided by gers and goods by sen is being merchant would boat u disadvan- HOUSE TO LET in Knutsford Ter- the railway can be made avail- strongly opposed by the various togo as compared with his more able. That the Chinese directors shipping organizations.

The powerful rival in the transporta- of the line are alive to the Shipowners' Association in partition of his merchandise.. The construction of the southern necessity of facilitating the tran-cular have sent a very longthy believe that any further regula- suction of the Tientsin-Pukou Rail-sport of passengers and cargo to letter, endeavouring to show why

tion is wholly unnecessary,' way, which is hilt with British and from Pukon would soom there should be no gonerul tariff evident from the fact that they instituted, to the Board, from capital by British engineers,

are negotialing at l'cking for the which the following aro has, during the last two years; construction of a railway forry tracts: considerably increased the pro- neroes the Yangtze connecting It is to bo prosumed that the THE FLOODS IN HUNAN.

As a crowded moeting of the portion of British goods amongst the Pakon station with the tor-Board, in exercising the powers

East India Association at tho ninus at the port of the Shang conferred upon it by Act 1779, is the foreign imports, about sixthai-Nanking Railway. Whether actuated solely by n desire to con- the "North China Daily News" June 14 Sir James Wilson, lato The Yiyang correspondent of Caxton Hall, Westminster, on per cent, of thio material imported the through tralie will for some for a benefit upon the public in writes:- for the line being of Britishorigin, years justify the heavy cost general and in particular: upon

Financial Commissioner in the Lately we have a honvy But for this item the position which a ferry will entail is shippers of goods, and is neting loods, in this and adjoining Punjab, read an elaborato and excellently equipped Slooping, Dining and 1st Class Cars, is operated between THRICE WEEKLY EXPRESS TRAIN. SERVICE, composed of taken by the British Empire matter of opinion. The expendi- upon the assumption that the rates districts. Hero, in Yiyang, the valuable paper on this subject. Dairon and Changchutu in connection with the Trans Siberian Express Trains sure of a emilerably smaller now being charged by the carriers water has been higher up in the He showed that great advantage and with Dairon-Shanghai Dirst Steuer Service by the S.8. Kobe Mara", would have been considerably-

amount on the development of are unfair. It is belioved, how houses within the city wall than and accrued to the country from ad "Saikio Marn" (each 2,877 tons) a fullows; below the average of recent years, Pakon would in all probability over, that this assumption is un-people have seen before. After as the decline in cotton, the back- bo more immediately beneficial warranted by the facts. Act 1770 having land cooland rainy weather the policy initiated in 1893, and bone of our trade, has been inain to trade and bring greater has been law for more than two all through the month of May and urged that when Government had ly at the expense of British good profit to the railway. It huy yours, and has offered a constant the first half of June, wo awoko acquired a suflicient resorve of As it was, howovor, rather more garded as possible alternative to the community to invoke the aid this month to find that the water choico as to whether it gavo gold be, however, that the forry is re- opportunity to overy member of on the morning of the 13th of gold it should exercise liberty of than half the foreign goods in the opening to foreign trade of of your Board in the correction of had entered our premises, and ju ported cams from the United

any unfair practises in the matter the course of this and the or rupees in payment of cur- Kingdom and her colonies.

Effect of Rallway on Nanking of charges or regulations on the following days the water rosa rency notes or Council bills, and Tientsin Pukon Railway.

To Nanking the completion of part of any common carrier. We constantly, till it stood about three should cease to be bound to give During the your muder review the Tientsin-Pukon Railway will are informed by your Secretary, feet high in our chapel and cover-

rupacs for gold. The import the construction of the southern or | ho of vital importance, for on this Mr. Minturn, that so far as he is the platform and drenched our British section of the Tientsin-line depend her prospects of aware an, complaint whatever of organ, which has, howover-mira-duty on silver should be further Pakou Railway, which was come futute commercial prosperity, that kind hau been received by the bilo dietu not lost its voice. Our enhanced, and arrangemonta menced in January, 1909, made As a distributing centre this port, Board. It would seem that this Lutheran Mission's day schools should be made for coining sover- steady progress, and it was found owing to inferior communications is strong proof that there is no dead to he stopped, as the class eign in India and for the tonta- possible in February, 1911, to at with the interior, has been mand or losire on the part of the rooms were full of water, the tive issue of a lon-rupeo gold coin. tachi passenger cars to the con-funablo in the past, in spite mercantile community for Clavern-Wesleyan schools in the third; struction trains running botwoon of a more favourable geographi-mont intervention in the ward were in the same condition Sir David Barbour, who was in Bakou and Lipimaikwin, a dis-eal situatimi, to compete with regulation of rates of carriera and the Italian priest had to take the chair, gave an outline of the tance of ninety-four milos. Rails its neighbours, Chinking and by sea, and that the fact refuge in his Chinese loft, | history of the closing of the Mints | Javo actually boon laid as far as Wulm, so that its trado has hither-that there is no such de- The country about the city was in 1893, when he was Financial | Ilsuchoufu, which is not much to been almost entirely a heal mind or dosire is proof that there also flooded to such an extent that more than thirty miles from the one..

Member of the Government of The new railway should has not been in the past and that the inhabitants in some houses point at which the line joins up bring down to Pakout for exporters is not now, anything unfair had to remove tiles on the roof, in India. For years he was opposed with the German section, and the produce of the whole of the or oppressive in the altitude of order to get a breathing space to the closing of the Mints, and it there is every hope that the whole country north of the river, for the shipowners toward shippers. above the water, and many other was advocated by many persons of the British soctions, which is which the line must also become "To build " competing houses were buried with their in-before he took it up. When the 236 miles in length, will be avail- the means of supply. Assuming line of railroad requires a per- habitants. Wo went out in bonts fall in the price of silver first ablo for trafic by about tho therefore, that no official obstaclos manout investment of capital and with buckets of cooked rico and middle of 1919. The construc are placed in the way of the lovel- a mistake in judgment as to the distributed in several houses, occurred in the seventies it was tion of the railway appears to opent of the traffic of the rail-amount of business which such a where the inhabitants sat shut up univorsally held in England be presenting rather inorn difway, it seems almost certain that line can control may result in the in their lofts, without being able that the change was duo to fientities than were anticipated. Nanking must become, next to absolute loss of the money ex-to obtain food or do any cooking what was called depreciation of For many miles the line travels Hankow, the most important com-pended in its construction, but Afterwards the river police and through a plain lying several feot | mercial contre on the Yangtze, the owner of a steamship to invade the magistrato also distributed a silver. But when the matter came below the lovel of the adjacent

the territory of a competitor re- large quantity of cooked rico. to be more carefully investigated rivers. These are guarded by)

quires but the exponditure of a The Surrounding Country. it was found that the chango was high flood banke which are liable

few tons of coal. This is especial-

After three days the water, in gold prices, which had fallen to burst in flood-time and inundate!

ly true of the Philippine Islands, however, wont down to its or the country, so that, to ensure the

in which the coastavise trade is dinary level, and we hoped that lurgoly, and that silver prices Bufoty of the railway, it has been Details of the Indian Budget open to any vessel whose owner the district had got off better were nearly stable. In view of found necessary to support it on 1911-12 were issued recently is ready to comply with the very than we expected. For although this fact, and of the further fact att embankment 2011. high with Parliamentary papers. Sir simple formalities attendant upon some of the smaller dykes lad that the production of gold was TL Add. Mentetsu." Codes: A.B.O. 6th. Ed. A. I. & Lieber's Owing, however, to the marsliy Fleetwood Wilson, obtaining a local registration." given way, and the fields about nature of the soil on which it! Quy

It follows, therefore, that both the city had been inundated, still stationary or dwindling, it was rests, this embankment is con-introducing his financial state-by reason of the inherent nature the larger dykes had kept the out of the question to think of tinually subsiding and has to boment, estimated tho revenue of the business and the extreme water out. Since then, however, establishing a gold standard in as constantly raised again. In at £77,027,600, and the ox-enso with which the local fleet we have still had constant rain, india. An attempt was then! other places the train passes penditure (after provincial ad-can be augmented by the intro-so the prospects are getting made to go back by international through rock districts where cut-justmonis) at £77,183,800, leav-duction of additional vessels, darker. From the adjoining dis-

Pukou.

So far no arrangements have

been made for the opening to

foreign trade of Pakon, the Yang

tsze terminus of the line, which

INDIAN BUDGET.

opera-

Sinto Wa Bisto Ex-. gon Ex- pross Lits for press

lor Mos- for St, MOROOR OOW. Fat'g.

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SOUTH BOUND,

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press

R 0.60

Y11.50

X14.95

Mukden

Dairen (

Shanghai

Th

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Changeliun (

Jon

8.25 p.m. (9.M.R. Train)... 10.30

5.10a.m. J...Ar )... Leve 5.20 Joseli

1.40 p.m. Eleamor...

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Fri.

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Tuos. Thurs,

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Tuos.

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Mon. Wed. Fri.

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Russian Tmin Time is 23 minutos ahand of the S.M.R. Timo. For instance,

Gp.m. by the formar is 0.37 p.m. by the lattor. Supplementary Charges on DAIREN--CHANGCHUN Sarvice. EXPRESS EXTRA FER....Y3.00 SLEETING OAR SUPPLEMENT...... Y5.00 TICKET AGENCIES--The Company's railway and stemmnor tickets are obtainable at all the Agencies of the International Sleeping Car & Express and Reiseluaran der Hamburg-Amerika Linie. Tmins Co., the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Shanghai, Mesṣra. Thos. Cook & Son,

RAILWAY HOTELS-YAMATO HOTEL (Tel. Adı: "Yamato ") at Dairen, Port Arthur, Makden, Pushing and Changebun, all under the Com-

SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY COMPANY

pany's management.

DAIREN.

FUSHUN COAL

THE BEST STEAMING COAL IN THE FAR EAST.

Output 3,500 tons per day. Fresh stocks alwaye on hand at Dairon, Nowoliwang and Tientsin Depots and also at Chcfoo, Shanghai, Hongkong, Singapore and Penang.,

MINING DEPARTMENT,

SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY COMPANY,

Hongkong, 29th April. 1911.

The 10101

JUST

DAIREN,

ARRIVED

Prinzess Alice." A NEW CONSIGNMENT

For $.S.

of

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CIGARETTES:

$2.20

per 100

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tings up to 40ft, in dopth alternate ing an ordinary surplus of 2563, competition, actual and potential, tricts there comes news about agreement to the old system of with high embankments with 100, and a special surplus for is constantly operating to keep much worse condition of things double legal tender, and the con- numerous bridges and culverts. opium of £180,100. The ordinary the rates charged for the carriage than hiero. In the Lungyang dis- Lost lasted for many years and with zurplus is somewhat smaller than of goods and passengers by son trict two-thirds of the rice fields fluctuating fortunes. In the end be usual, but a part of the spare within reasonable limits. Any are reported to be inundatod, had to confess they were boaton, revenue has been set aside for the attempt to charge more than what practically all the dykes having but ho still believed that it would Tel. Add. "Mantetsu." Codos: A. B. C. 5th. Ed., A. 1. & Lieber' reception of their Majesties in is necessary to obtain a fair return given way. India, and for the cost of the Delhi | upon the capital invested would, A Fresh Water Sen. yet be acknowledged that it would Agents: MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD is situated on the northern bank Burlar.

of necessity be defonted by invit From Siangyin I hear that 150 have been botter for the world to of the river, opposite to Nanking. Omitting opium, a moderatonlling the immediato competition of houses have been washed away have settled the matter by inter- The idea of the Chinese authori- round advance is anticipated in other vessels.

with their inhabitants, without

national agreement. When, how- ties, if they open Pukou to trade the classes of receipts which are The necessary and inevitable loaving a trace. In the district at all, which, in their solicitude, directly affected by the agricul consequence will be that no mat- between the Tzi river and the ever, depreciation of silver began on the one hand, for their sover-tural conditions of the country.ter how carefully the tariff of rates Siang river, the steam-launches for silver prices were distinctly eign rights, and, on the other, for The difficulty of estimating, with may be drawn unleas, indeed, have been plying away over rice rising-ho recognized that by their likin revenue, they soom ny dogros of certainty, the re- the maximum is high enough to fields and homesteads, all dif- changing to a gold standard at a very reluctant to do, but which, it venue from ophum, was due to the allow of adjustment by the ference between the canals, the the railway is to be a paying lack of means of judging wint tion of competition, as at present dykes and the fields having been rate considerably below 28. India ussot, is an absolute necessity, is pricos or exports may be in 1912-it will be found that it will not effaced in one large sen.

would oscape the effects of gold to make the placo a separate The Government have to await the be profitable for vessels to call at If the rainy and cold weather appreciation, and at the same treaty port rather than extend results of Sir Alexander Hosie's the smaller ports. As to some of is still to continue for some time, time by closing the Mints the area of the treaty port of Nan-inquiry, and of the negotiations them, it may ho that only at cer- we shall probably again lave the king so as to include Pukou with now in progress nt l'oking.

to unrestricted coiungo would Lain seasons of the year will this district swarming with beggars, its limits. The latter course would The total proposed expendituro effect be produced, but whether and have high rice prices, riots escape, in some degree, the *oom, however, the more practical in 1911-12 is composed of the obstacle he permanent or tem- and troubles, as we hind last year, depreciation of silver. of the two and would certainly £51,024,000 in the Imperial, and porary, the result will be that it further investigation should proposals for a gold standard savo a good deal of confusion £27,615,000 in the Provincial ac will be impossible for shippershow things to be very bad in our came from him and wore referred The site of the future business count. Compared with last year desiring to ship goods to or from district, we shall, perhaps, also by the Secretary of State to Lord quarter of Pukon will be along the Imperial expenditure is osten- those ports to do so at will have to issue an appeal for famine the foreshore of the river on either sibly £846,000 higher, but the The maximum tariff will be

reliof funds. side of the railway terminus, roal riso is approximately found too low to induce a vessel

excoption that the rate was fixed THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF SILVER WARE IN THE which is situated immediately 11,400,000, of which £940,000 to call at such a port, and yet

at 18. 4d. per rupee instead of the opposite the so-called foreign is reserved for the Coronation the shipper will be unable to settlement of Nanking. At this Durbar at Delhi. Detailed esti adjust himself to the requiremesting of the International Mints were closed, and after u At an extraordinary generalls. 6d. ho had recommended. The point the Yangtaze is only some mates of the Darbar, or of the monts of the situation by offer-Cotton Manufacturing Co., Ld., 1,200 yards in width, so that the military concentration which willing to pay a rate sufficiently high held on Friday last at the Sze: period of doubt and uncertainty two places must in any caso accompany it, or of the minor to overcome the difficulty. The chuon Road offices, Shanghai, re-the gold standard established share the same anchorage, which opisodes in the Royal Progress, practical effect will be, so far as solutions passed at a meeting on itself automatically without cost- makes it almost absurd that have not yet been obtained; but in the smaller ports aro-condorned, June 15 were confirmed. The ing a penny, and to the great "The Beer That's Brewed to Suit The Climate" they should be separate treaty the Budget the sums of £83,300 to cut them off entirely from re-resolutions, which have already benefit of the people and ports. The delay of theauthorities for the civil and £306,700 for the gular communication with the been published, provide for in the trade and commerce of the in coming to a decision on the military expendituro have been farger ports. As to others, the crossing the capital of the Com-country. Ho hnd not calculated point is likely to prove projudicial provisionally entered.

effect will be to compel them to pany to Tls, 1,050,000 by the what the total direct gain to to the interests of the railway, for It is hoped by the hon. Finance accept the service of a lower typo creation of 4,000 now shares of Government in the matter of ex- the foreshore at Pukou is pório- member that the Council will of vessols. The maximum rate Tls. 75 oach, and confer power to change had amounted to since the dically invaded by the river and, not consider the figures to be will not permit the botter class of cronto further preferential sharoa, Alints were closed, but, it must bo to be above flood level, will have higher than tho people of Indian vessels to call it such ports, and the aggregate not to excesi ono- enormous, possibly seventy or to be raised on an average about would wish to provide for the be no matter how willing the ship-half the paid up capital of the eighty millions sterling. (Cheers.) Lwolve feet. The filling in of the coming cplebration of a great per may be to payaliglior rate for Company. The resolutions wore. Yet at the time there was no com- land will, as the experience of the historie ovent."

a botter service he will be unable confirmed on the proposal of Mr. petition for any share in the pos railway has proved, be a slow and The net increase in expenditure to do an,"

Jas, Jameson (who presided), no-sible future glory of being con- costly undertaking, far beyond of the ordinary typo is roughly "Under the provisions of the conded by Mr. F. Ayscough. The nected with the reform, and many the means of its prosent owners, £460,000. The financial outlook | law as it now stands the prohibi- attendance at the meeting was eminent financial authorities pro- po that it is quito certain that, nu-"is utisfactorya," -

tion of unfair discrimination representative of 1880 shares.plosiod nothing but disaster,

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