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· HONGKONG, MONDAY, APRIL 13, '1912.

A SHRINKAGE of credit.

Now that the strike at Home is over, it is worth considering what effect it will have on trade. Reuter, in a rocont telegram, an.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1012.

DAY BY DAY.

Presumption is juoradically in- terwoven will every beginning that the world has over soon.

To-day's Paper,

A special article dealing with the career of Lieut.-Goneral Sir R. S. Baden-Powell appears on this page. On pages 5 and 8 is a special description of the V. R. O, boxing. tournament. Other local sport will be found on pago 8. The roport of the Famino Itelief Com- mittes appears on page 5.

A longthy list of additions to the Telophone Directory has just issued.

Aman nged about 30 years was "found dead on the Fukatı Maru yesterday.

Threo dead bodies have been

fouad by tho polico in different parts of the Colony.

For opium smoking in Stanley,

a man was fined at $15 at the Magistracy this morning.

A chill fell from the top floor

of 283, Dos, Vieux Road, on Sun- day evening, and died whilst being removed to the hospital.

At tho. Magistracy this morn ing oven mon wore fined $3 encli, for gambling in a house in Reclamation Stroot, Yuumati, on Saturday night,

The following-is-the-return-of- visitors to the City Hall Library Museum for tho week-ending April 14, 1012-

Library

168

SIK R. S. BADEN-POWELL,

HERO OF MAFEKING VISITING Hongkong.

SKETCH OF CHIEF SCOUT'S CAREER

LIEUT GENERAL SIR R. S. BADEN-POWELL, KC.B. C.V.O., LL.D., P.R.G,S., Founder of the British Organization of Boy Scouts

to promote good citizenship in the rising generation,

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.. which he wished to make was that

This Afternoon's Meeting.

tho vote was suddenly put before the Logislative Council, and they were asked to increase

A meeting of the Logislative the pension of the second highest Council was held this afternoon,nd only served them for sevon paid official in the colony who in the Council Chamber.

His Excellency, the Officer Ail yours. The Chief Justice had only been in the colony seven ministering the Government, the years and land, altogether, been Hon. Mr. Claud Sovern presided in the Government service 18 and thero wore also prosent :-

years, and he was rotiring with a | pension considerably oyor: £700.

His Excellongy, Major General Anderson, General Ollicer cou- manding the troops.

The Acting Colonial Socrotary, Mr. C. Clementi,

The Attorney General, the Hon, Mr. Rees Darios,

Tho Colonial Treasurer, the Hon. Mr. A. M. Thomson.

Director of Public Works, the [1]on. Mr. W. Chathuın.

Registrar Gonecal, the Hon. 3. E. R. Hallifax.

Capt. Superintendent of Police, |Capf." F. J. Budeley.

The Hon. Dr. 116 Kai, The Hon. Mr. Woi Yuk. The Hon. Mr. II.E. Pollock, K., The Hon. Mr. E. A. Howett. The Hon. Mr. E. Osborne. The Hon. Mr. C. II. Ross. The Clerk to the Councils Mr. 0. H. Croftou

Finance

The following financial minutes

to the finance commilleo.

your. They were now naked to inoronso it by 12.1-2 por cent. He could not conceive how any sound precedent could bo brought forward way to vote should be passed. Ho was op posed to it on principle and whit ever the result of that discussion. night he he would ask His Ex- cellonay to be good enough to puse the discussion upon the vote

irect to the Secretary of Stato. All the years he had boon la Hongkong e lind never known such an application come baluro the, Legislative Council, and ho could only think it was due to the high position of the official, to his persistence, and bo might say, his execssivo importunity that the mattor had over come so far as the Logislativo Council. He bogged to move

he.rejection of the minuto..

There was no soconder at first

were brought before the notice it at last the Hon. Mr. E. of the Council by the Ilon.horns said:-For the sake of Colonial Scerotury, and referred form, Sir, I beg to Bocond that.

The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock The Oliver Administering the what had fallen from the hon. mem- K.C. said he could not agree with Government recommends to her, representing the chamber. council to voto a sum of one theu of Commerce. No doubt if tho sand thron hundred and sixty-loaned Chief Justice had served sevon dollars fir and of the voto

few months longer 'he would Treasury, A-Treasurer's office, live beon entitled to the extra personal omoluments, Europon detective for protection of rovome pension, which it is proposed Museum.

under Stamp, Liquor and other swuld be given him. There was Non-Chineso......388

no doubt also that in the normal Ordinances. Chinoso.......100 2,553

The Officer Administering the course of events which existed Government recommends the when he came into the Colony, Total ..568

2,711

Some time ago we announced sion, and the same year founded conneil to vote a sum of flon served the extra time and earned the Chief Justice would have that Lieut-General Sir R.S. Baden- the organization of Boy Scouts thousaid three hundred and Forty pieces of silver, woigh-Powoll was undertaking a world to promote good citizenship in twenty dollars in aid of the vote

ho extra pension, but since he arrived a special ordinanes hund ling fifty taola onch were unearth trip in the interests of the Boy, tho rising gonoration. He has Public Works, extraordinary been passed oubling certain.

ed from a subterranean pit in Scout movemont. Ho is oxpoct written several books, including miscellaneous, miscellaneous

officials, in the Colony to bo Wuchang, not far from General oil to arrive at Hongkong at six "Pig-sticking or fog-hunting,' Li's Yamon. The sun is now in o'clock to-morrow morning by 1890;" Vedetio, "1800; "Cavalry The Officer Administering the retired at the age of 60 years the hands of the General, who the "Luetzow."

Instruction, 1895; "The Down-Government recommened the and if the ordinance had not will see that it is turned into

In an interview with Mr Crowfall of Prempoli," 1896; "The council to vote a sum of four ment was taken up, by the Chief been passed, sinos the appoint- good use for the benefit of the thor Sinith, a local Solicitor, who Matabele

Campaign," 1800; thousand dollars in aid of the Justice, he would have served public, says the "Hankow D. takes a keen interest in the Boy Aida to Scouting, 1800; Sport vote Public Works, extraordinary, the additional three months and News."

Scout movement, a "Tolograph", in War," 1900; "Skotelos in buildings, Post Oflice.

earned the pension. Ho quito. representative was informed that Mafeking and East Africa, " The Officer Administering the

Was

works.

Capt. C. B. Mullins, R.M.L.I., a telegram had been sont to 1007; and "Scouting for Boys," Government recommends the "greed with the danger of creat Plymouth division, who General Baden Powell at Shang-1908. He exhibited somo sulp council to vote a sum of oncg a precedent but he thought..

bai on bolalf of the local Scouts.ture in the Royal Academy in thousand three hundred dollars it necessary in that ease as it formerly attached to tho Tamar at Hongkong, has been In a long wire the chief Scout 1007. is recreations are given in aid of the vote Public Works, was one of exceptional character selected to relieve Capt. I. J. replied that he would profer not as pig-sticking (bo being a win extraordinary, buildings, Light-vote should be passed. Sanders, D.8.0., R.M.L.I., as Into bo met officially by the Scouts nor of the Kadir Cap), golf, polo house and Quartors, Kap Sing The Hon. Mr. C. H. Ross, also

Island.

telligence Officer at Singapore in May. Capt. Mullins is a son-in- law of Sir Henry Berkeley.

Capt. Hubert Lynes who lins

HIS CAREER REVIEWED,

and big game shooting, while he belongs to the Naval and Military, Cavalry and Beofstonk Clubs.

A Lover of Peace-

"Be Prepared."

na

DA

easily

and in the circumstancos tho

proposed.

remarked that he could not agroo Extensivo preparations had

The Chief Justice's Pension. with the Hon. Mr. Hewett. He been made in Hongkong for his arrival, and on Saturday there

The Officer Administering the thought he had allowed the idea Ho has now retired from the Government recommende the of principle to override his sense was a special parade of the bugs. nounced that in some towns a boom is expected. It is an expectation served in the Fleet for close upon

The visit is entirely unofficial army, and though once one of council to vote a arm of four of justice. The Chief Justice. that will not be realised for some time to come, and no student of a quarter of a century, has been and the news that Gouoral Baden the most famous fighting men of hundred and twenty-four dollars came here under certain rules and economies would ever anticipate a boom following an event which appointeil to the Minotaur, Powell was to vis. the Colony modern tines, Sir Robert Baden- (£37. Os. l, at Is. d. equals if those rules still existed he would must have caused a shrinkage of credit. It has to be remembered flagship of the China Squadron, came as a surprise to those in Powell is an enthusiastic beliovor 84-24) in aid of the Head Pension have been entitled the pension a for service nshore at Hankow.official circles. Captain Taylor, in world-wide peace, and as a A-Civil, Pension of the Chief for months hence. The fact that a ohango had been made that the great bulk of the trade of the world is carried on by means. He was recently promoted to his A.D.C. to the deputy Governor, result of his interest in the Boy Justice.

The Hon. Mr. Howelt at the in the rulos WAN пос his, of credit, instruments of credit forming a cheap and elastic medium present rank from command of him and extend an invitation to up by twenty different nations.

will in all probability receive Scout movement it has been taken

outset said he intended to oppose the Chief Justico's, fault, of exchange. In international trado money paymente are necessary tho sloop Cadmus.

Goevrament House.

He believes that by inter- the above minute, as he had and he, the speaker: would cating only to balance the varying values of the orders issuing from differ-

tho youth

already pointed out to His Excel- like to suports all that the Hon. Mr. W. Y. Drummond, who is

Buch

the lonoy, and he would rather mako Mr. Polloc and said. ent countries, and in internal trade the credit system enables the leading counsel in the case before

Liont-General Sir Robert organization

Before putting the question to distribution of goods to be carried on with a very much smaller the Chief Justice to-day, is af

Stephenson Smythe Baden-Powell, Boy Scouts the doctrine of uni- such remarks that he had to make, amount of gold than would otherwise be requisite. This obviates member of-the-Shanghai-Bar K.O.B., C.V.O, L.L.D., F.R.G.Sversal peaca may be more fall council than before the tho voto, His Excellency enid that financo' committee. The vote one of the reasons actuating the the serious economic evile experienced so generally in the middle This is by no means his first ap and is consequently 55 years old.

was born on February 22nd, 1857, instilled into their lives.

before them was for £37.0.0,Head Government in proposing the ages from the insufficiency of the money available to carry on dis-pearance in the courts here, for He is a son of Rev. Prof. Baden-

pensions, pension for the Chief increase in the pension was that tribation efficiently

he has been the hero of many

At the beginning of the Boer Justico. The unofficial mem-it was customary in the public When credit falls in any country its first effect is to inoroase legal fights in Hongkong in well, of Oxford and Langton War, General Baden-Powell was bers of the Council had not as yet service to grant a retiring official the wages of capital relatively to those of labour; that is to say, including the notable, ease of Manor, and of Henrietta Grace, son: to South Afrien. Following been informed of the details of three month's leave on full terest rises and wages fall. Moreover, most manufacturing and Gorham v. Potts which was fought daughter of Admiral W. Pout his belief in preparolfiess, the proposed vole, but he found salary prior to his retirement. merchantile transactions are carried on upon the marginal theory. some fourteen years back. Torty Smythe, KS. He is unmarried. the motto of the Boy Scouts is that many if not all This had the effect of increasing Thus, for example, £10,000 may be deposited as security for a years ago ho practised at the bar Following his education at Chur-Bo Prepared!" ho sot about the unofficial membera were his pension by three month's year's supply of raw cotton amounting to the value of £100,000. in Hongkong.

terhouse, he joined tho 18th to make. Mafeking, the scene fully acquainted with the service and in many cissa had When credit falls, and the manufacturer cannot raise more than the

Hussare in 1876, and served in of his command, as nearly im- details of the case. The vote as the effect of increasing the number $10,000, he can obtain only a smaller supply of raw material, and The official returns of the India, Afghanistan and Sonth pregnable as possible. Ho! he understood it practically of years of service by one. In the is compelled to dismiss some of his workmen or to work his mill on Medical Officer for the week Africa. He was Assistant Milit showed of what stuff he is made amounted to a permanent increase case of Sir Francis Piggott it had short time. Moreover, the restrictions of production, and of distri- onding April 13, records 155 froin 1887 to 1880, and held the ho hold Mafeking against a siege, over and above the pension he is full pay leave, but if the three ury Seoretary in South Africa when, with only 1,200 irregulars, in the pension of the Chief Justice not been possible to grant him. bution combine to cause a general rise in prices.

deaths among Chinese through When oredit improves, mors wealth is devoted to production. plague. The cases totalled 175, same office in Malts from 1800 led by Oronje, which lasted fram entitled to under the forms of his months, which he referred to, In other words, the amount of capital invested in industry increases. the return of communicable di 1993. Thereafter he was on October 13, 1800, till May 16, service nuder the Government. had been granted it would have The result of this is, in the first place, an increase in the total pro- soars statos that there were 30 special servicó in Ashanti, in 1000, duct, which benefits all classes, and in the second place, an increase deaths (all Chinese fram bubonio 1895 (star, brevat Lieut.-Colonel); lender of Boy Scouts ling a grim od

The sum did not seem to be had the effect of increasing his | command' of the Native: Løvies, in the production of the product received in wages by labour re-plague 1 imported: 4 destlis Chief Staff Officer in the cam-humour, the following, letter, init

That the hero of Mafeking and large one; they were ask-pension, by the sum for which the now for £37.0 9, but government now asked. That Intively to the proportion received by capital na interest. Even out of 8 casse of enteric fever pain in Alatabeleland from reply to that of a Boor general for 1012., The Chief Justice, he Government as well as the fur- WHIR An additional vole reason had weighed with the, Karl Marx observes that the faster capital increases and extends the and 21 deaths out of 27 cases of 1888-7, Colonel of Irregular who and he had hoard that Baden- anderstood, retired at the end of ther fact that the case would not more happy is the lut of the worker. The replacement of the old small-pox (1 Indinu, 20 Chinesa) Horse, South Africa; promoted Powell's men played cricket the month and presumably the form a precedent. system of hoarding money by the modern one of deposits in Burks, Commissioner of Chinese including Saving Banka, is a consequence of the development of the

from 13th Hussars to command matches on Sunday, and proposed additional vote naked for was for The Hon Mr. E. Osborne :--I oredit system in general qud the banking system in particular. It Mr. A. H. Harris, commis-of the 5th Dragoon Guards, and to send his Boera to take part, the remaining two thirde of the should like to any that when I largely increases the amount of available capital in the country, the sioher of the Chiness Customs at commanded the defence of Mafok-shows. He wrote:

year. If they passed this vota janme into the room it was with an Banks-forming reservoirs which accumulato-large amounts of Kowloon, left for Tomo by thing in 1890-1000-For-that-sor- "I live to thank you for your they were practically admitting open mind. Iseconded the motion Capital, much of which comes in in the shape of infinitesimally Delta on twelve months leave: vice he was promoted to Majo lotter of yesterday, in which you the principle that an official was as a matter of form and having It is understood that he will not General, and continued at work propose that your mon should entitled by vote of the Legislative heard the argument. I shall not

small contributions.

Customs.

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In addition to the general effects of incronse of capital, its return to the position he has just in the Tranaynal. No organized como and play cricket with mine. Council to draw a larger pension vote in favour of the amendment, accumulation in large amounts renders it possible to carry out large left. Apart from his official the South African Constabulary I should like nothing better-after than ho would have done in The Hon. Mr, Hewelt demand... undertakings, National, Municipal, and by privalo corporations, and duties which have been carried and was their Inspector-General the 'match' in which we are at ordinary circumstances, After ed a poll of the members (with it enables the services of the ablest engineers and captains of industry out with much tact and smooth from 1900 to 1903, and Inspector- prosent engaged is over; but just this year having once passed the the result that the amendment?: to be scoured and utilised, to the benefit of the country generally nose, Mr. Harris took a strong feneral of Cavalry from 1003 to now we are still at our innings, vote they would be called upon was lost by eleven votes to one A sadden collapse or great shrinkage of Credit is therefore a ser-interest in many sides of life in 1907.

200 days, not out, against the to pass a voto for nomothing like fous matter. It gives rise to a general feeling of hopelessness and the Colony, His successor is Mr.

The Boy Scouts

bowling of Oronje, Snyman, £57 por annum for the rest of the Ris Enoelleney the Ome ompanying lack of enterprise, And that is what must happen (E. G. Lowder, at present Com In 1008 he was appointed Botha, and Eloff, and we are hav-life-time of the Chief Justice ministering the Govern the result of the strike, the effects of which will be felt for some missioner of Customs at New Lieut-General commanding the ing a very enjoyable game.I which they trusted would be for dining with the Yol Asiderable time to come.

ohwang,

Northumbrian Territorial Divi- remain," ate;

many, many years. The point serves on Saturday next;