THE PHILIPPINES.
Prof. Charles V. Piper, of the United States department of agriculture, lins been in the
"FOREIGN TRADE IN
JUNE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY AUGUST 7 1911
**POSSIBLE PEERS.'
Indiscretion of a Whip
BISLEY COINCIDENCE.
Last Year's Double Trials Victory:
· Repeated.
Tho Trado Roturns for the past of the Governmont, who takes a Thero is at Icast one official
Philippinesand will visitsouthern month aro, upon the whole, serious view of his duties and China, Java, India and Egypt, satisfactory, for it must be responsibilities. Having heard conducting special investigations for the U. S. department of agri- remembered that the working on, countless occasions, both in
daya wora muclt interfered with the House of Commons and in the (indicative of fine weather and a
culturo.
Prof. Piper's special mission to by the Whitsun Bank Holiday the Philippines has been to assist and the Coronation holidays, the the bureau of agriculture in determining the possibility. of
Iattor practically, amounting to producing lay in the Philippines, treo daya. Imports are reiluced a matter in which the war depart in value but nearly one-fourth of mont has been greatly interested. the decline is due to the lower In his opinion, the experiments- carried out during the past fivo price of rubber, and exports show months demonstrate that Rhodes considerable advanco. grass, and probably also Tunis following table shows the value of grass and Natal grass, can be the imports and exports for the grown with perfect success and month of June and for the six That during the dry season ihtore; is no particular difficulty in curing months ended June, together with theso into first class bay.
the increase or decrease as com-
Imports...
June 1911,
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moderate wind) was fluttering from the official marques, and felt still more relieved when it was announced that there is every❘ TO prospect of fine weather cou tinuing. A too brilliant sun gocà against good shooting, but stormy wether is fur worse and decidedly uncomfortable in a canvas town.
Really serious, business begins BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. to-morrow, with the various Fab- important match rifle contests, Pursuing a Progressive Policy. lic Schools competitions, three the shoot for the hospitals' chal lenge trophy, and a miniature
country (especially in the coun- try), that if the Velo Bill is not swallowed holus the House of Lords is to be swamped with 500 Toers; this industrious apprentice felt it his boundon duty as an ellicient" Whip" to draw up a list of 500 of his Majesty's licges who are prepared to sacrifico their independouce and become pledge-bound Pears.
Beinginan admirablo position to know the attractions of a peorage oven to men of firm Radical con- victions, this official appears
Sir West Ridgeway, the chair- to have had no dificulty in unke Rhodes grass planted Decemberpared with the corresponding ing out a list of possible and, as ille championship. Practically man of the British North Borneo ho thought, probable-Peera. the whole of to-day was taken up Company; presided on July 12 at 1 will yield three cullings before [[oriod of 1910:--
Having taken the trouble to match rifle competitions on the shareholders, held at the Canon- with the Bass and the. Edgo, two the 57th half-yearly meeting of the rainy season beginsis May, and
ply this long-folt, want of his will yield at least five tons and
long ranges. up to eight tona per hectare. The ..... ............................. £41,194, sa- Ministorial colleagues ho did not
The Bass datos from 1884, and stroot Ifolel, when a dividend of quality of my as demonstrated ***................. Ci,624,928 hesitate to make known his
the distances aro 1,000 and 1,100 5 per cout, was declarod, nchievoutent. in Australia, South Africa, and | Exquutse
The list cortainly answered one yards, with ten shots at each, and
The chairman, in moving the Florida is very high. Extensive :
£1,318,4957% requirement. Every name upon
a" highest possible "of 100. Con. 3,7, it was a warrant of Radical considering that the wind proved rosolution, said he thought they £309,743 +1%victions. But unfortunately it very uncertain, the shooting was would agree with him that the bal was not treated as a confidential very creditable, and there were ance shoet was a highly entisfac .......... 2311,121,06 - { document, Its proud author only three points separating the tory one. The total recaipts for the
4.82.391-087 showed it to one and another, last eight competitors in fifteen
haro and there, for their admiting
from ho first two; The best year on revenue recount amounted Home £223,66 4,207 4
to £247,559 8a. 11d., and exceed- comments, and at last it was heard scores were: ................ £ 90BIMT4%uf on the Treasury bench.
Winner of 10: 1,0001,100T1ed the expenditure by, £142,042 Report: £14*870{{ Tho indiscretioncreated instant
Mr. M. Blood (Irish. “
4s. Id. ....................... £24282T-7% panic among Ministers, who must
Rifle Ausceia- Decline in Imports
tion....... regret that they did not take their
Winner of £3; With regard to the imports, colleague into their innermost food, drink, and tobaeen declined confidence. For if there is on
Mr. K. M. Thorburn · value by £580,284, and raw thing that Alinisters wish to avoid
IN.R.C.of Scut.) 18...45-93 Winner of G: materials and articles mainly more than, any other it is the capital to establish plantations," unmanufacturo by £3,283,040, transformation of these ho told a "Manila Times" reporter. whilst articles wholly or main bogeys into realition. The least The ordinary former, Filipinoy manufactured any need by xperienced, and imaginative of or American, learns largoly by 1312,429, and mi eellaneous and officials ought to know that the serius affair, and entails tena new system of valuing the com- : cational effect of proporly culti, unclassified articles by £27,587. Government will exhaust every Geen ft 1,100 yards, Dr. Sel--ied. This will now be done every i
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236,113,150 4
Six Months ended June, 1911.
‚ domonstrations ` and exporiments | Ro-oorts.
will bo conducted next season, the largest ons being on land con- tignons to the newly completed San Miguel irrigation canal.
Prof. Piper is greatly impress od with the wonderful agricul- tural possibilitios of the Philip- pines, which he thinks are far greater than any equal area in The United States. The present: agriculture
is comparatively crudo, ho says, "The quickest and best way to develop it is to
indaco American farmors with
force of example, and the edu-
vated farm or plantations cnonot bo over-estimated.
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Esprits
Increna in Exports
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After deducting interest un debentures and bonds and tran- sferring £50,000. to reserve for contingencies, thoro remained, with a rum brought ayer, a credit balanca of 184,404 19%, B (LR.A.)......... 46.48-92 The Edge is a rather more With the approval of the auditors, shots at 900 and 1,000 yards and pany's proportios has been adopt-
Col. J. K. Miller 500
•usoured before they do anything strengthen the House of Lords They havo no intention of
As regards the exports of the In the Philippines several produce and manufactures of the of the many important crops areUnited Kingdom, articles wholly making 500 Peers. For years intimately linked with mannfu for mainly manufacture Indonee they have appealed to their turo, so that the highest develoj-by £1,777,211 and mixeens supporters in the country with the meat of agriculture depends upon an unclassified articles by Dawn with the House of tho establishment of modern £115,218, whilst raw materialsrds!" and they do not rolish factories under enlightened man- and articlos mainly unmanuletu.
the prospect of having to confess agement. This especi lly is truo declined by £508,008 (wholly their only contribution to the de- at the next general election tlut nf sugar, cocoanuts and tobacco up to col) and food, drink, and struction of the House of Lords in but to some extent it affecta uli | tòlaces by £10,285.
the creation of 500 new peeragoa. crops. Perhaps the greatest pos
Ministers know, even if their. sibility for the immediate fuite lies in the production of sugar. With the antiquntod mills now in se, wat only is about half the sugar wasted, but the product is inferior and low priend. Not only this but the yield of sugar
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data. are in 1910 annexed this too, three years, on carefully obtained The host scores returned were:
Winner of
Last year, owing to the boom $10: 0001,000 1,500 T),în rubbor, there was a record demand for land, but, although Mr. M. Blood
(LR.A.)... 48...50...70-188 | this had now decronsed, the posi-Saruzes EXTRA FEE....Y3.00 Winner of £8;
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could have declared bigger divi dond than 5 per cent, but thought it better to put a large portion of (5th Essox) 49...40...07-162 the profits to reserve, which now Mr. Blood has therefore placed need to 0104.800, and which, fany's magngemeal to us credit a double win, just really formed a dividend oqua- lisation fund. He could safely of bluff, and that thore is danger as Dr. Sellars did last your in giving it even the appearance
In compositions that go on from prodics that 1011 would be an fat. Add. Mun'etsu." of reality. What are they to do day to day pretty well through improvement on 1910, itsolf 'a
rocord year. with those applicants when there the meeting some excellent scores are no coronets to distribute? It have been made. This year the Quite seriously I do beleve is easy to imagine the clingrin and figuve target appears at 200 yards ne per hectaro is less than one- | that questions ara coming to the indignation of this deinded 500. 1 as well as at 500 yards, and in the rubber boom. Borneo rubbor i half of what it should bo, partly fruit in the years to comɔ which whose names have been inelmied the ease of the bull's-eye thehad, however, sceured 1p prices / und allo xi Chefeo, Shanghai, Hongkong, Singapore and Penang. duo to the necessity of growing
in Mincing-lano, scoring ring dimensions are less, small cane as the mills are not may lead to civil war, but I dhúnk | in the list of "posible Poera,"
An important action of the Unless I am misinformed, one yet Teutonant J. B. Caralake, capable of grinding the largor far the best chance of avoiding
member of the Government who lato 5th Somerset LI., a vetoran company was a classification
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varieties. It is doubtful if an-such a dire catastrophe is through knows the use of bogors and is a member of the N.R.Á. Conneil scheme for an impróvomentin the| other example can be found in the maons of the Referendim, ndept at inventing them hitsolfis ai senior living winner of the pay and prospects of the com- at Add **Mautotam." Co ̃e...: A. 13. C. 5th, Bl., A. 1. & 'Licher's
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bo kept says Solborso in a thought disposed to treat his rival inventor Queen's Prize (ho won at Wimble pony's servants.
Poizkont. 234- April 1911 pér nera ras to down on secount of inability to fal article on "The Uni-mist Party with official soverity, Too much don in 1808), made the "pos- and pension scheme was being handle the product. The ad-and the Reføremlum ", which he zeal and little sonso of lustinour are silo"-35 in revon shots at adopted, to which officers would vide for the future of the officer, vent of modern mills will quickly has contributed to the July num dangerous in party officials of the 500 yards, and Colonel R, Sando-contribute, and which would pro-
Rowe of Cominons. But there is, Gloucester Yeomanry, chigo this coalition of afluire berof the "Oxford and Centridge always one way of punishing another old hand, only dropped while, should be die during hi and it cannot but be helpful to all Review." planters,
them. If there are not to be 500 one point in ten slots at 900 period of service, his widow would
be looked after.. He does not profess flat the new Radient Peers there may at yards, "There seems to be among
There was to be a roorganiza- tion of the Medical Department, many of the Filipino poople #Rolerendum is free from defects, least bo-one!
COUNTESS GRANARD
and the chief medical officer would. fear that modern development in But at least it will remove the
DEFENDS HER TITLE: travel about the country in order the śray of now industrial enter-gravestmennco by which the Con-
to moliorate the sanitary condi- prises will not inure to their stitution is at present toatened benefit. It is difficult to imagine,
Dublin, July 1-Pretty little tions of the people. The question how this em possibly be truo in the danger of the Crown being
Oklahama July 1-A pick quarrels aro brewing in connec of a labour recruiting agency in the case of agriculture, ai indas dragged into a quarrel bolween pocket, closely pursued by the tion with the royal court to be China was under consideration. fry which in all countries as the two Houses of Parliament, town marshal, leaped into the hold here this month. Lord and It was proposed to reorganizo a'most wholly con lucted by small that is, into a quarrel between basket of a balloon near here to-Lady Iveagh, who have a big the railway service, so as to make the two gost political, parties." day, just as the air craft was lear-Route and large social protensions it in every way effeient, and "In any advanced agricultural To avort such a menace the ing the ground, and sailed away will entertain extensively for the possibly £100,000 would have to country it is clearly recognized House of Lord must be eco to safely.
King's visit.
be spont on this, but this would in 1016 1 that there is no real prosperity ai-structed and sunchinery provided | The balloon had been fillod Lady Ivonglt hus been going all probability be a capital charge, feas tho fariner is prosperous, for automatically adjusting with gas, and the noronaut, George around making nasty remarks, it The position of rubber and tobacco fact that has led to intimate differences between the two Harver, was in the basket ready issaid, about Up-start pooresses," was satisfactory, and the company] aud in most cases helpful re-Houses" by means of the Ite to start when the marshall die- ospecially Americans.
wonki oncourage the growth of THE lations between all the par- forendum, or ballot of the people covered the pickpocket taking a The Countess Granned linsenor-coconuts. Last year 35,189 tous ties concerned-the famers, the on a special issue.
purse from a citizen whose at- gotically taken up the cudgels in of coal wo:o obtained. transportation companies, and the The Parliament Bill, says Lord | tention was contreed on the bal bolalf of her compatriots, and has There was no recomily for opti-| manufacturers. No one of these Selborne, is "the worst possible loan. The marshal attempted to addressed a painted letter to Lady mism, Sir West Ridgeway conclud can prosper without the other. solution" of the constitutional catch the thief, and the pursued Ivergh, hinting that the Iveagthod, for there is no fear that with It therefore follows that any at-question. "No Second Climberman ran and leaped into the bas-family tree is purely fictitious, such a rich country wo erall not tempts to better Philippine agri-atall would have beeu proferablo, kot as it eloaroit the oarth. He As a matter of Euct, whon Bir increase our revenues and divi- culture can accomplisli but little because, the revolution of single- refused to heed the marshal's Edward Guinness, the brewer, dends. What we must do, how- without also inducing capital to Chamber government would be warning cry of “Stop, thief.", was created a peer, he bought saver, is to pursue a progressive catablish mills and build railways. present then.... but it would
At a height of several hundred small estate in the barony of policy. We have decided that
farmers.
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Tho fiunt boneficiaries of this will be a naked revolution. As ford feet the thief drow a revolver and Ivoagh, in the north of Ireland, each one of the directors shall, in he mainly the Filipino people. Salisbury once said, a kod pro-warned Harvey not to rolcase the in order to qualify for the title. his turn, visit Borneo, and I hope Such industrial dovolopment is cipico is a very dangerous thing, rip cord on his balloon until he Thon he set the Herald's College to be in the country within the absolutely necessary for the bit a precipico with a sham and was ordered to do so. After the to work to trace his ancestry back next six months, mul on my return prosperity and advancement of rotten parapet on its edge is more pair had travelled fifty miles the hundreds of years to the extinct to present a plan of develop the Filipino people.
dangerous still.”.
unwelcome passenger gavo the barony of Iveagh, although it ment."
"The whole problem of the The Reforandum would put a word and the balloon was lower-only really dates from a certain After some questions, the re- agricultural dovolopment of the completo check on the system of ed. Ten feet from the ground McQuiuocus who started a small solution was unnimously adopt Philippines is a very large one log-rolling, remove the instability the thief leaped from the basket brewery a century ago. As Lorded by the shareholders, as wore und involves capitalistie outer of our political system, which and ran. Rolioved of a part of Urauard, in his official capacity, proposals; to pay a dividend of 5 prise as well as investigation and arises from the absurd manner in its burden, the balloon again shot will naturally accompany the por coat, per annum and to yo education. All three of those which seats are distributed, and upward. When Harvey finally King and Queert to Dublin, come elect Sir A. E. Turner and Mr. E. agencies are of vital importance ensure thint the electors, not the landed, several hundred yards friction is likely to result, espe-Dent na directors and Messrs and all must have encouragement caucus a majority and not afrom where the thief had alighted, cially as Lady Leeagh is unlikely Turquand, Youngs, and Co. pa Bad Hupport."
minority-shall rule,
lie had appearede
to sit down quietly, muder rebuff, lauditors.
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