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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 18102

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NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

North Borneo Advancing,

DAY BY DAY

THOU LITTLE THINKEST WHAT A

NOTES ON THE CRISIS. NEWS FROM THE NORTH

LITTLE FOOLERY GOVERNS THE THINGS IN THE NEAR BAST. (From Our Own Correspondent.) WORLD Jeha Belden.

The Amendment of the Mining

The Weather." Lower level 8 a.m. Temp: 85;

Those Peace Proposals,

clear.

At the Peak & am. Temp. 77. clear.

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Count the Columns,

Welare just received a newly- published Manual of Statistics in connection with British North Borneo, and from it, it would sp pear that the very marked im provement in the administration of that Protectorate to which we alluded last year is still going on. Up till some five years ago, the country was looked upon as more or less past praying for. Then, gradually, things began to move Yesterday the Telegraph in a sound direction, and, though published 344 columns of solid we cannot believe that it has yet reading matter. To-day there besome altogether an Elysium, will be 8394 published. it is very certain that the Chartered Company's official have Siberian Mail. Due per done really great things for it of late. The Manual shows that among other things, system has obtained a real foothold in the affaire of the territory and it is possible to gain `almost," at # glance, from this well-arranged Tittle publication any item of} information as to taxes, revenue, Public Works, railways, local meteorology ato. Persons in- terested in the country should

btain this useful pamphlet.

An Interesting Anniversary,

It is interesting to note that it is just seventy-nine years to-day sinos the reduction of the daty on newspapers from four pence to one penny. Nineteen years later the tax was abolished, though the sit]

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1915.

MINING IN CHINA.

The Malls.

..

6.6.

OF WALES FUND.

Subscription List No. 44

A. & F. M.

850 The Ying Aoe Biokshaw Shop (four monthly

260

(107

321

Paking, August 1.

He would be a smart man who

The Ministry of Commerce and Mr. B. Swanson could sift truth from gossip and Agricniture has decided to make Collected in the boxes idle cackle in all this mixed up amendments in the existing at the Grand Hotel... 39.27

Taikoo Dockyard Stoff, heap of talk ss to Germany's han-Chinese Mining Law so as to

July kerings after pesos. There is enable foreign financiers to invest nothing moreasonable in the Gor their surplus money in the dere. Mr. R. D. Harvey's Fund

Collected by Master JU man people's wanting pesce, and lopment of the vast zalural

Kay (Kongmon when we say the people we recuroos of China. The import- Yingshow to-morrow. include the bulk of the army as ant amendments are as follows: Mr. & Mrs. Smith... English Mail.-Closes per well. They, poor wretches, have The extension of the sphere Mr. W. B. Makay

Malta to-day at 5.00p.m. made little enough out of the war of foreign investments in Chinese Dr. J. A. McDonald Siberian Mall, Closes per and have liule onough to mining enterprises, in order to Rev. Duncan McRae

8.8. Luctor to-morrow at gain by ita continuence; and draw foreign capital for the deve Miss 5.00 p.m.

the only wonder is that they lopment of Chinese mineral have delayed so long in resources. trying to bring pressure to bear 2 The method of superia on their rulere in the direction of teading foreign mining companies, Banks. $850, sales and submission. With the Governor companies which have foreign ment and the army chiefs it is, of ospital, so that there shall be no $378 course, quits another matter, bindrance to the introduction of They have encompassed the down- foreign money in future, e fall of their country through & The protection and encour Dr. Forayth 160, their twopenny-halfpenny pesagement of both Foreign and Mr. Mauricio

(we beg their pardon-theig suð. mant of the Chinese mining Hr. F. Meokinto cook vanity, and whether posee Chinese ospitalists to the develop

Up to the Minute-Share Market News,

Closing prices

buyers.

Canton Insurances.

-.bayers.

North Chinas.-- Tls.

buyers."m

Agnes I Dickson Mis Ethel C. Beid e Miss Florenos H. Langrill Dr. Josis A. MacBean Master Jack McKay

Collected by

#Square:--

ME Whits Mr. Martin

Mr. Overy

A.

Unions, 8950, buyers. China Fires $158, buyers.

Combined 153 a.mission) is made to-morrow coramandaatry in the various provinces. couple of months hence would 4 The reduction of miring Indoa..

57 b. Preferred

make but little difference to this taxes for the encouragement ur Doferred: 90 b.

section of the community-if it foreign and Chinese investors. Douglas's $57, enele. Shell Transporte.-88/ sales. distant, ancestral ape" in them given to Chiness merchants who

were not for the fact that the 5.Special facilities shall be Mr. Douglas. China Sugars.-8129), sellere.

is continually arging them to do can introduce foreign money for Collected by Mr. R. D. Star Ferries-$381, buyers.

all the wanton mischief possible mining purposes. Luzona.-844, sellers.

before capitulating.

and Raube-83.90, sellers. : Tronohs-31/- bayers.. Shanghai Docks.--801, sales. Shangbai and Hongkew W.

Co. Ld. Tls. 90, buyers, Shanghai Lands. The 100,

buyers

Ewos-No. 4175, buyera.

6.-Special regulations rales shall be drawn up for the government of the owners of min A Winter Campaign,

ing lande or hill so as to prevent There seems truth enough in bad characters from patting obs the suggestion that the German tacles in the way of the formation soldiers themselves are extremely of Sino-Foreign Mining Com- aby of another winter campaign: The existing mining law is still panies for their personal ends.

Harvey:

Staff Holt's Wharf

(Kowloon) in

Mr. J. McGregor. L. S

Already acknowledg

Kung Yiks.-Tis: 15, sales and and no wonder; for it in they under the careful consi teration of "ed Linin 1/43

- sellers, Shanghai Cottons in S'hai-

„Tlo, 100, buyers. China Bornece-$11, sales, Light and Powers.-

843,

sales and buyers. Green Islands.—28.20, buyers. Hongkong Lands $110,

buyers.

retained for portal purposes until 1870. This abolition was carried oat at some sacrifice to the State, for, even as far back as 1885, nearly thirty-three million stamps were sold in a single year. Perhaps if the old Commisioners could have foreseen the immense output of newspapers of these latter days they would have henit- ated before abandoning such s useful source of revenue. It was not long after the reduction of the tax that newspapers began to multiply in the Provinces, though the London Press itself seems to have been slow to profit by the improved conditions. The first London daily paper founded subsequent to the reduction (in. 1846, ten years after the new system was introduced). waa the Daily News, and this was To-day is the 79th anniversary followed, nine years later, by the of the reduction of the stamp duty Daily Telegraph and the Daily on newspapers. Chronicle. The latter was at Band Night at the Belle View first little more than ́s suburban The band of the "Siberia trade paper and dalled itself, in will play at the Belle View Hotel addition, the Clerkenwell News. on Sunday, August 15th from

fill: 11.30 p.m.

p.m. Naval Yard Theft:

to

Ropes. $30, sales and buyers,

The_Dollar, qadi The rate of the dollar, on demand to-day in 1 9 8/8d..

6.00

To-day's Anniversary,

aad not their well-fed and com.

for the Fatherland; but the said should be made and presented ed Lists 1/43

the

President

obstacle.

sanction of the

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$61

05.10

8822.77

281,090.97

8261913.74

434.25

54,725.21

55,159.46

$317,078.80

Remitted to London

£17,000 at 1/9. 5/16

87.000 at 1/91 and 1/10 £2.000 at 1/97 290.117.47

Balance in hand... 26,955.78

N. J. STABB Hon. Treasurer. Hongkong August 12, 1916

POLICE RESERVE ORDERS

Guards,

fortably-housed rulers, who have this Ministry and Mr. Chou Tsu- fo bide the brunt. It is all very ohi. Minister of Commeros and well for the Kaiser to be prepared Agriculture, is very anxions that Monthly subscriptions to sacrifice millions of his men

those necessary amendments Already acknowledg millions may not use the matter for quite in that light. There was a fairly distinct stamp of authen- possible in view of the coming ticity about the news which came mining activities of the Japansee through, a couple of months ago, in South Manchuria and Eastern to the effect that the German bank. Inner Mongolia and the absolute ers had demanded an interview necessity of introducing Western with the Potadam Incurable on capitalcepecially American this very polat-that the country into the Chinese mining industry could not stand another winter without the least delay. In campaign. But, beyond that, the fact, the Chinese mining law shall bulk of the peace talk in con-be amended in such a way as to tradictory to the verge of the shto give all necessary facilities ind tie. For instance, Germany is advantages to foreign investors aid to be magnanimously offering without further hindrance.or the Russians what does not belong to her (the Dardanelles etc,) and A tinamith employed at the proposes to give Egypt (which Japanese Ambitions in China,” It will be seen from our Peking correspondent's roles in another The Press of To-day.

Naval Yard, Kowloon was sen- also does not happen to be hers) column that the Chinese Ministry of Commerce and Agriculture has

Peking, July 28.- tenced to six weeks' imprisonment to the Turks. This is simply

In addition to the establish- decided upon some alterations in the existing mining laws of the

at the Police Court, this morning, Gilbert and Sullivan fadge I

Polios Reserve Orders immed country which should clear the way very considerably for foreign Odds and ends of new your for stealing copper from the yard. and flapdoodle; and we doubt ment of the Taingian University to-day by Mr. F. C. Jonkin, D.S.P. speculators. The history of Chinese mining, like that of the Chinese nalistic ventures were started and Servants Lessage if the Times story from Hilan by Baron Shibusawa and Okurs, Reserve state:— railwaye, in full of muddles, aqueeze, superstition and a hundred other fell through in those days just A servant at the Sanitary In- is worth taking much more Japanese Buddhists and Con- drawbacks to the pursuit of an industry which, if rightly undertaken, sa to-day, and there was little spector's quarters at Ma-tau-kok, seriously. If it were a matter for fucianists are planning the estab would in course of time convert the new republie from a poor coun-done in the way of founding reports to the polios that some Austria alone there would be lishment of Buddha and Con (Central Police Station) 9.45 try into one of not inconsiderable wealth. Cina as a whole may newspapers that ·were now be said to have lost her fear of disturbing the spirits of the Inst antil the eighties (with person has stalen from his place nothing out of the ordinary in facinu sobools and colleges in p.m. Saturday, August 144

a clock and clothing valued at her approaching the Pope; but Shantung, South Manchuria and British 1 Sergeant, and 7 men, earth and to be bent upon business." This fear was, at one time, the the exception of the Pall Mall

$14.

Germany is quite another matter. Inner Eastern Mongolia for the Portuguese 2 Sergeants and 10 door which cat her off from progress, and it loomed so large in her 1865. and sundry financial and

promotion of Japanese Civilisa- men, Chinese 1 Sergeant and 10 Kallan Mining. vision that it blinded her to other possible hindrances: notably the sporting organe.) The popular We are informed that the total

The Turks:

tion in China. There are several men, Indin 1 Sergeant and 7 chance of her country'e being exploited by foreigners. Her old press as we know it nowadays output of the Administration's

Japanese Confucianists included men, 0.0. Guard, Sergeant Major objection to the men from the West was not it is only fair to say-naturally awaited the inoressing mines for the Week ending 31st There is far more that is feasible in the members of the commission Raylance, an based on grossly selfish ideas; it was not that she grudged the interest shown by the people in Jaly amounted to 522.37 tons and in the Renter wirs from Sofs, of Japanese Buddhiste who will Sunday, August 15th, British foreigner a share of her wealth, such as it was, but that she really acquiring the art of reading the Bales during the period, to received this morning, which shortly visit this Country with a Sergeant and men, Chinese believed that he might bring bad joes to her and her people. When the results of the Education 330.38 tons.

speaks of the growing "ware of view to securing the right of Sergeants and 14 men, To-day Chica still believes, to some extent, that the foreigner Act of 1870 began to show, news Ocean Wireless News," depression" in Constantinople preaching Buddhaism in Chins 1 Sergeant and 6 men. may be in her territory for reasons that bode no particular good to papers began to multiply, and We have received No. 1 and 2 and of persistent reports as to the and the establishment of mission Sergeant and men, 0, 0. Guard her; but, at the same time, she has the uncomfortable consciousness gradually it occurred to owners of the tenth volums of Ocean serious less of the splits be hospitals and echcole after the Inspector D'Almada. that she cannot do without him; without his capital, his knowledge that it was possible to produce a Wireless News"-s very daintily tween the Germans and the model of the Roman Catholica Monday, August

isof and his general resourcefulness. Every act of his may contain four halfpenny paper and still to reap get-up magazine for travellers, Turks, Your German and your and Protestants of Western p 2 Sergeants, and 7. parts of good for him and one for herself; but she knows that she big gains. The early halfpenny in which are inserted the daily Turk will no more mix than will Countries U

garse 2 Sergeants and cannot afford to spurn sven that one; in fact will be only too thank ventures were not a particularly wireless messages and news items the proverbial oil and water. The local Chinese Coafuvianists Chinese 1 Sergeant fal to get it. The new law which the Commerce and Agriculture huge financial success; indeed come published on board the Pacific Turkey more or less dislikes all and Buddhists of Shantung, South Indian 7 men, 0.0, Gua Daperiment is introducing does not lack frankness; it anticipates were rank failures. And though, Mail Co's 8.8. Kores. Such a foreign races, and by this time

Mancharia and Inner Eastern Sergeant EvaEM the need for foreign financial help, smoothe the path for would-be when the star and the Evening magazine is a great boon to per- she has probably come to realise, Mongolia, have been requested by Investors, administers s epiteful little side-slap to Japan and finishes News came, it was clear that they sous on a long ees trip and it also to her own bitter cost, that the Japanese to co-operate with among foreign capitalists, for the were going tɔ "stay " it still afforda most entertaining reading no "foreigner" born - can come them in the establishment of these American variety for option for noomed out of the question that a for thong on shore.

Britishers do not seek, German-like, to grab every possibility halfpenny would ever buy any in China for themselves, but that is scarcely any reason why they thing but a single-sheet evening should stand still and see themselves entirely excluded. The paper. In course of time however, Americans start with a big advantage over capitalists, for their we got the halfpenny morning consuls and their missionaries are far from being saleep and rarely paper--and, though this has prov lose an opportunity of pushing American waxes or capital. Handi-ed a good speculation monetarily, adviss us that the Langkat output capped though our men may be, however, there are golden oppor- it is safe to say that its advent for the current month is as tunities for them if they choose to put them to profit; and to make has by no means benefited follows- good use of past experiences. British investors should be ready to the public. Hitherto halfpenny take full lesson by the commercial activities of the Germans in papers from every point of view Chins in past days, and should resolve forthwith that Germany shall except the great financial one, never retain a foothold in Tar Esstern mining, since she has made have proved a mournful failure in it so clear that she was intent on the "freezing out" polioy that Britain; and one feels one would would have driven away all other foreigners with special reference like to know

How is it that{

papers

LANGKAT OUTPUT.

Mesare, Wright and Horat

August

|within birente” of the German schools. Many of them have re-

so far as aggressiveness, brutal fused to do so. indifference to the stubeptibilities

of others, and well bad manners Chinese Permanent Constitution, generally, are concerned.

Vice-President Li Yuan-hung.

is finding out what the B and the French knew years, sgo: that" the "German" in

urop

prize osd, bounder, outsider hooligan; and even the YouD Tarks, leave alone the old-fas hioned ones, can soarcely have much time for a people

to ride roughshod over

a manner that. Husals; in the

249

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214

243

211

22900

220

$225

216

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1:240:

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to the men of our own country. With reasonable look our enemy the French can will have little enough either of money or of energy for a few years, at that price and yet employ some when the war is over; but there are other trade rivals--friendly of the first ones, we are happy to reflect whose-polioy, though it is not of the world when extremely aggressive sort favoured by our German friends, is a re with us Britishern markably go ahead and wide-awake one, and is therefore calculated regarded an aggr automatically to exclude Britishers, if they choose to allow them is petty, and semi selves to be so excluded. There is enough for all in Chinese min shouldn't wonder if

Chins and foreign speculators can benefit with mutual fairness, are to be found in the respective ings and there need be neither jealousy, misunderstanding nor grabbing readers themselves. if everyone chooses to play the game--and to abandon all hypocrisy

ver have

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1

Tuesday, August 17th, Sergeant and men, Portug Bergeants and 13 men,

2

Sergeants and 14,men.

Gaard, Chief Inspector Ma

Uniform Regulations leather footwear is not

in his capacity as Chairman of

Jolo the Tean-chen Toan or State The following Council will become the Chair W. G. Williams man of the Committee of the Constitution drafting membera who held their preliminary meet

ing on the 25th, instant to Chief Officer of Military consider all necessary matters. It monte. Cola

has been decided to use the Con- end to Ghibli and of he stitation of the United States of for invest

North Amerios as a modeliszt,

**Military Requirements!

In addition to the appo of Lieut-General. C) hang, former Tatal, Kisogon, as a Director Ga the Obinese Army, t has appointed""Imo

the Oft

of reo

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