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GENERAL' NEWS

Chinese Tariff Revision:

The tariff revision question has bec tikon up by the Waiohino Pu und Maritime Customs. The

sentativos hero.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1912.

CHINESE IN BURMA.

Some Explanations of the

Increase.

HOW CONGRESS

SQUANDERS MONEY.

The last annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury con-

Prepaid Advertisements.

In the Burma Consus report tains some startling figures rolat ONE CENT PER WORD

for each loso/doc.

WANTED:

[678

loon, & or rooms, in or uvar,

foreign Diplomata havo all been an interesting reference is made ing to the 'cost of administering | notified says the "Poking Daily to the number of Chinese in the our customs servico, writes Mr. Nows." Tho Waiohino Pu will Province. This has apparently Fuller in "Lippincott's," due to draft the treaties and nogotinto directly with the foreign repre- rison from 62,486 in 1901 10 the maintenance of ports of entry

nearly 123,000 in 1911, practi- and minor offices connected there- BOARD AND RESIDENCE in King Manoel.

cally a doubling of the popula

puivato family wanted by gentle- It is stated that King Manoel tion in ten years. The Eng with at points where they are not mai. Sisto particulars te" Boardar," is alaying. at Felixstowe for the lishman" remarks that the main justified by the amount of federalfofo "longkong Telegraph."

oke of his health, which has not explanation of this large increase business which is transacted. The Hongkong, 17th Sept. 1912. time, and he is living very simply been extended, over regions on hundred and sixty ports of entry Nathan Road for about 6 wooks. Apply been quite satisfactory for some is that the Census limite have United States maintains one FU!

➡URNISHED HOUSE in Kow- in a picturesque, ivy-covered the Chinese border, upwards of house with balconies facing out 34,000 being thus accounted for.where customs are collected. It hy letter to D," Room 202. H.R. to sea, His Majesty's visit has The number that actually immi-is interesting to see just what it Hotel, given the koonest pleasure in the grated into Burma was just un-costs the gove nment to collect its Hnogic ag. 8th Sept. 1912, [678 town, whero his gracious boaring der 22,000. The disparity of the customs at certain of these ports. has not gone unobserved, and he sexes, which has been frequently The most striking example is NGLIBU, Goran or Eurasian has also attended one or two local commented upon, is as romark the port of Albemarle (Elizabeth gid wanted as nurse for ene functions. Recently, says the able as over. There are only City,) N.C. For the fiscal your child. Apply K T. c/o Hongkong "Pall Mall," he presented the some 17,000 female Chinese in onding June 30, 1011, $5.30 was Hongkong, 31st August, 1012. (029|

Talograph" prizes at the tennis tournament. the whole Province. The Census collected at this port. It cost the The South African University officer states that the extreme government $2,807.21 to collect

Scheme.

disparity in the numbers of the this amount. In other words, the Latoly have been important soxes is scoonpanied by a large government exponded $534.92 A Black and White Japanowo pup, conferences in London on the degree of inter-marriage between for one dollar it collected at to 4 months old, anewaring subject of the stablishment of a the surplus Chinoso males and the Elizabeth City, At Natchez, the name of Nikko," Finder please South African toaaliing univer-women of the Burmese race. Buch Miss., the aggrogate receipts wore return to Bay View," Kowloon, or sity. A sum of £500,000 was left marriages are regarded with groat $4.50 and the expenses wore Noronha & Co, Lunghong. by Mr. Alfred Boit and Sir Julius favour, and in contradistinction 8578.15. The cost for each Hongkoug, 18th Sept. 1912. 675 Wernber for such an institution to the result of inter-marriage dollar collected at Natchez was

Indian races, the fusion of Chinose

at Groote Schuur and towards between, the Burmese and the $128.47. the carrying out of Mr. Cecil Rhodos's original idea, which never materialised during his lifotino.

LOST.

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TO LET.

`LTIORA,' No, 60, Robieson Road,

Apply to COMPRADORE,

Holland China Trading Co. Hongkong, Sept., 17th 1912. *: (071

and Burmose strains is generally $35.43 for each dollar; at

At Beaufort, N. C., it cost A with Garden and Lawn; moderate considered to be a most advan Kennebunk, Me, it cost $43.08 rental tageous racial combination. But for each dollar, at St. Mary's, a curious result of the Burmo-Ga., $30.66; at La Crosse, Wis., Chinese marriages is that the dis- It is understood, says the purity of the sexos is enhanced $14.80; at Coos Bay, Or., $15.26; "Advocate of India," that the in an extraordinary degree. The at Brashear, La., $109.61. post of Military Secretary to the custom has become firmly estab. Compare these figures with the

Abolition of a Military Secretaryship.

dor Stroct.

MOUREENAGH, 21 The Fask. for six months from 1st Novem- Maharaja of Mysore will shortlylishod that the male children shall statistics of the port of Now York, ber. Apply Property Office, Jardins,, be abolished. When Col. Godfrey assume membership of the Chinese the largest port of entry in the Matheson & Co, Ltd, Jones Lakes love, his brother, race, while the fenlos aro United States, where it costs the songkong, Brd Bopt., 1912 [639 Col. Aubroy Jones, late of the regarded na Burmoso. It is Government only two and one-, 20th Deceau Horgo, would be addol Curiously enough, this fifth cents for each dollar collectTodos situated on vier front LET LARGE substantially buil, appointed Military Assistant to custom is not apparent from the od. Isn't it about time to con- East Point. For further particulars apply the Yuvaraj and all the Mysoro statistics for 1001 from which it solidate or abolish a few of our Property Office, Jardias, Matheson & Military Department, embracing would appear that the number of aumorous ports of entry? Why Co., Ltd. the Imperial Service Transport Chinese females born in the coon-so many ports of entry on the longkong. 18th Aug., 1912. ↑ (588 -Corps, the grass farm, the Hunsur try exceeded the number of mules. count of Mnino? Why a ̈port of

eattle depot, Government House This anomaly is probably due to entry at Alexandria, Va., and TO LET on Rud Floor No. 2. Pod- at Mysore, etc., will vost in the the jonlousy with which the Bur-another across the Potomac river, Yuvaraj,

meso born Chinaman insists on but four miles distant, at George Villages Ruined by Trippers.

his Chinese nationality, even to town D, O.? Why pay $6.57 The Bishop of Southwell, ad-the extent of assuming that he for each dollar collected at dressing a large congregation in was born in China, to remove Annapolis, when we have a port the parish church on his visitation any poraible double on the sub- of entry at Baltimore? At An- to Buxton, said that on the borders joui. The figures for 1911 afford a napolis we collected $57.25 in of Manchestor and Sheffield there much more correct representa- the last fiscal year, and at Balti- A Detriot paper reports that wore villages that were simply tion of a well-known fact, the more the customs collections Mr. Robert Dollar visited there ruined by the tripper. Mon and number of Chinoso males, born amounted to $4,700,302,80, [recently to arrange for the enter- women came out in brakes, carry in Burma, being 14,880 as against What privato individual would tainment of fifty commercial com- ing spirits and boor and often- 6,698 fomalos. So long, then, as maintain the Annapolia port to missioners from China, who are times arriving the worse for drink, as males and females of identical collect $57.257-Hubert Bruco expected to tour the United States It made the clorgy broken-heart-parontage ussume differont raoial Fuller in "Lippincott's." in May next year.

ed because Sunday after Sunday designations, the disparity will)

there was pandemonium in their continue. In Burma, as in other stroots.

Learning by Travel.

parte of the world to which China.

mon emigrato, the fornnlo element

Applications are invited by the in their ranks is very small; and committee of the Hodgson Pratt this is likely to continue to he Memorial for the travelling scho- the case.

larship of 20 guineas they offer this year. The idea of the scho- larships is that intelligent young manual workers should be able to study the social and industrial conditions of their countries, and write their impressions for the bonefit of their follows at homo. Applicants must be man or wo- men between the ages of 21 and 35 years, and regular workers in some trade or handicraft.

A SHORT WAY WITH STRIKERS.

Before setting down what seem to be the conclusions to be drawn from Australian oxperiences of in- dustrial arbitration, some mention The Wives' Brigade.

must be made, says a London Ex- Goiro, a small Sardinian town- change, of a bill which, though it ship, in the neighbourhood of never became an aot, certainly Cagliari, has lately attained fame settled a strike in very short ordor. owing to the Charge of the Wives' In 1902 the railway workers of Brigade. Four hundred women, Victoria entered upon a striko, oxasperated at the slothfulness of although they wore employes of thoir spouses in face of increased the state and had all the advantage. local taxation, resolved to make promised by state Socialism. The These an impression on the authorities. Irvino Government noted with They stormed the Town Hall, great determination. Tho striko broke down the doors, and pro-suppression bill which it drafted ceeded to ransack the archives, and passed through the lower The Brigade yielded only when house made every action calculat- the mon had actually constituted |ed to oucourage the strike a crime. themselves a deputation of pro-To subscribe to a strike fund, to tost, and had been marched by write or speak in sympathy with their botter halves to the threshold the strikers, to be present at a of the Prefect's offico.

meeting in their favour, to speak Child Carried Off by a Wolf, insultingly of any one taking the

Omoe, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.

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Commissioners, 15

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The 10,000 UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS sold to

A week or two ago the two-your place of a striker-all these were the Western Union Telegraph Company, if placed side old daughter of a Korean living declared to be offenses punishable by side, would extend a distance of 2 2/5th mlles. It in Sansongdong, was carried away with imprisonment. The provi-

and eaten by what is described sions of the habeas corpus act and would require 9 minutes for a street car running 16 as a mountain dog, but is more of the jury not were suspended, so miles an hour to pass this line of UNDERWOODS. likely to have been a wolf. The that the Government could have unfortunate child was lying fast held suspects without trial, and

If the ribbons on the machines were fastened end asleep with her mother outside could, if it had chosen, have con- to end, they would reach 85 miles. the house, as the night was very stituted a star chamber before

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