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GENERAL NEWS.

The Dollar as Unit-

It is understood the ChineBO Ministry of Finance has officially

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1913.

THE TRADE OF INDIA, SABATIER SENTENCED.

Great Expansion In Imports,

The Director-Gonoral of Com-

adop of the dollar as the mone-moroial Intelligence; in his review tary unit.

of the trade of India in the year 1911-12 80y6:

Manual Training for Chinese

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counterfeiting plant on Sicenwei contributed to produce Sebastier all that time. So far with a thorangi kursledge of to know what will shortly appear in

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In the Supreme Court of Singa pore on August 1 the Chief Justice sat to finish the above The year under review has, on case, the result of which was the whole, heon a good one. But briefly told in the Telegraphi" listurbing and depressing in columns last week. There was of a Girls' Manual Training In-luences were not absent. In again a very large attendance of stitute in Paking and has been Europe, labour troubles were the general public. Banctioned by the authorities. widely experienced, and inter- M. lo Corte do Bondy was call- Shanghai Counterfeiters. national complications impaired ed and said his had boon Consul The trial of the 60 workmen, confidence. Drought in Europe General of France in Singapore who were arrested by the French a general sluggishness of for the past, uine and a half police in the raid on the alleged trade in the United States years and hand known accused PEQ

DEQUIRED at a Bookkeeper | Road, Shaughni, was to opon in serious decline in the value us he knew he had always madunt. Cool Tontimonials essential. the French Mixed Court at the securities; and, although borne and excellent reputation Non worker need not apply. Box French Consulate on the 2nd inst. money was for the most part and he had never heard a word | A.D C., 0/1 " Hongkong Telegraph.

America's Heat-wave. plentiful, high bank rates during against him eithor officially or Hongkong, 3th July, 1912. (654 During the first week of July part of the year cramped opera-privately, fo was a hard work- the castera cition of America were tions. Perhaps the factors most ing man and was noted for his visited by the worst hot wave generally felt have boon the fall readiness in assisting any French that has been experienced for the in the price of cotton and the subjects in distress or want. He CMPETENT Stonographer and

Typist (Male) for Solidlter Offical"} last twenty-five yours. Twonty high loval of freights. The great was, to use a French expression, Apply Box," A., o/o. The "Hag deaths occurred in ons day, in rise in the price of sugar musta man of goldon hoart" and kong Telegraph," New York and there wore numor- also be remembered as a distino was over ready to aid genorously Hoogkong, 10th July, 1912. Fo ous cases of hout prostration tivo feature of the year. Indeed those in want. He believed he throughout the affected area.

1911 was charnotorised by a no-lost a good deal of money in this Sentence to be Served at

table increase in prices generally, way. Tsingtau.

and in the cost of living. Sauer- beck's index number for 1911 is 80 against 78 for 1910 and 74 for 1000.

Carl Bunze, the German who was recently sentenced to six months' imprisonment at Hun- kow, for, shooting Chinoso, WAS brought down to Shanghai on the 2nd inst, on board the str, Meidal a subsequently sont north to Tsingtan, where he will servo

his contence.

Labour-aving Dovices for the

Fushun Collieries,

The Grand Totals. In India the imports of mor- chundiso ross from £80.24 to 0.38 millions, while exports rose from $130.92 to 151.83 millions, and the total trade from £220.10 to £214.21 millions, Those hest figures show at

Mr. Gaunt thon asked His

Lordship to take into considera- tion all that he, Counsel, or the French Consul General had said, on behalf of accused.

The Deputy Public Prosecutor said he would liko iu add that Sabatier had given the police all to help he could in connection with the affair and bad handod over certain documents which would be of help to them in

An official of the South Man-ingrause of £18.05 millions or following out the matter. churia Hilway Company ne

per cont In rate of progre »sion) His Lordship then addressed been sent to Germany to study India, therefore compares well prisoners Sabatier and Muller, up-to-date methods of coal-min- with any of the principal count and said: You have both of you ing. On his rotura larbour-evries, but in the amount of her just boon prevented in the nick ing appliances will be installed increase she falls short of those of time by the action of the police nt the Fushun collieries, and it is onumoratod.

from defrauding the Govora- | anticipated that the daily output India's grand total of Exportsment and the public in all pro- will be increased to 6,000 tons.

and Tuports, stated in Indin ca-bability to a very large extent, rency, was 130.1 crores as and as far as you Sabatier, are ngaiasi 1386 08 eroros, in 1910 concerned I have listened to what 11, the increase boing one

44.05 crores or 11.11 per cent, Bondy have said, and I have your counsel and M. le Comte de also listened to what the Deputy

Tea Chewing

An American Consular report states that in Siam, instead of iholog used for a beverage, the leaves of the tea plant, after The total includes suns 1978

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boing formented, are rolled into crores (£42,520,000) at gold and Public Prosecutor has said, but I balle, one of which is placed in silver, imported nud exported, cannot blind myself to the hollow of the chesk and al-and 16,03 croros (24,018,000) of fact, as I mi yesterday, that CHINESE IN MANILA,

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the country, al as I say you members are "juramentados" to Export representeil 55.4 par wore within an ace of grossly take revenge on those of their July 27 show 290 deaths, a ratio cont of this grand total and tefrauding the Government and conatrymen who are assisting the por muille of 45.6. Of the savon amounted to R238.11 deaths from cholera, three were (e158,738,000), as against 1217 possible to blin one's oye to secution of some Chines rascalse. Crores the public generally. It is im- authorities in any way in the per- imported. One death from botic crores (£144,007,000) in the pre- and if lucitol people do Several days ago, handwritten plague, 35 died of malarial fever vious year. The increase here those things what can we expect lampoons appeared posted in pub- and 21 of lever not specified. 28 was R21.11 orores (£14,073,000); from others who are less educated lic places in the Chinese district died from dysentery and the same and this represented 47.0 per and less able to understand the ec-and especially at the north end number from phthisis, while 20 cent of the total increase in trade riousness of their offence. On each of Calle Nuova, Binondo, The died of bori-beri. 2200 out of the and 9.7 per cent on the export of you sentence of five years will lampoons were written in Chinese 290 were Chineso:

Sgures for 1910-11. Imports had

be passed for forgery, and three riddle, the translation of which undershirts, a total value of R102 crores (£128,000,000)

years for possession, the sentonces has shown that they contained no' agains!

to run concurrently.

torrible menaces of death and R169,00 crores (112,706,700). n 1010-11, the applied to the Court under the bors of the Chinese community The Deputy Public Prosecutor destruction against certain mem. advanco hero being 122.01 crores Procedure Code for $2,000 to be and a converted Chinaman. Fer- (15,300,000) or 13.6 per cent. obtained by execution on the pro-nando Lopez, a wealthy merchant

Exports of Indian merchandise represented 51.5 per cont of the perty of Babatier to meet the ox- from Cagayan city residing in huma total trade, as against 53.3 por ment for the prosecution. He

penses incurred by the Govern- Manila. cost on 1910-11. These exports mentioned that the Government that Lopez has in Cagayan a lot

The tale, as it goes on, statos HOTEL CRAIGIEBURN. roɛu from R205.02 crores had paid the informer $2,000.

of "good friends" who for sove. PLUNKET'S His Lordship declined to make ral reasons which have not been etatod were anxious of getting him, all their attempts in this direction having been frustrated so far, thanks to the protection. that the true friends of Lopez have accorded on such occasions.?} ·· And now that Lopez is living in

War Dog for the Norfolks. By permission of the Gonoral' Officer Commanding Aldershot District, the Norfolk Regiment has roquisitioned one of Major Richardson's trainel war dogs. The dog is to be use for sentry work by night or by day in dense country, also for accompanying patrol at night. He will be ex perimented with at the annual brigado and divisional training and the annual maneuvres.

2137,081,000) to R221.72 croros (c173,813,000) which implice a the order. 18219,888 in Bankruptcy. rise of K16.1 crores £10,733,000) According to the report of the British Consul-General, the com-

per cent. This accounts for or 7.8 36.5 per cent of the total increass mercial failures during last year in the United States numbered in the year's trade.

Re-exports of Foreign mer- chandise advanced from R4.26

| urores (£2,841,000) in 1010-11 to|

AN ABNORMAL

CONDITION.

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13,441, with a defaulted indebted- mess of $88,212,333, m'nguinst 12,502 insolvencies for £10,351, 16.03 crores (£4,018,000), the Philippine Customs Brook all Manila it ie suspected that 419 in 1910. The opening quart increneo hore being R1.76 crores

his Cagayan enquies have resort- er of the year showed the (1,177,000 or 41.4 per cent.

ed to the supposedly existing hoaviost failures, the middle six for the second year in successionlections were broken last month plish the vendetta for them. The All customs records for col-Manila secret tong," to accom- months showed an improvement, but during the last quarter the large quantities of cane sugar at the ports of Cobu and Iloilo matter is in the hands of the police ratos against rose sharply. Bank-Wore re-exported to the United

according to the telegraphic authorities who expect to have it ing failures numbered 107, the Kingdom and other countries. liabilities being £5,102,321,

The movements of treasure reports made to Manila by the cleared up in a fow daya. An

collectors of those ports.

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