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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MAY 33, 1917.

THE THIRD WHITE RAJAH OF SARAWAK.

The-Tennis-Tournament.

The Hongkong Oricket :: Club tennis tournement, just conclud- ed, can certainly be written down

"DAY BY DAY.

TELE HOPE IS SWIFT, AND FLIES ka one of the most successful of a ) WITH SWALLOWS WINGS long and uninterrupted series. KINGS IT MAKES GODS, AND There were no new features Riobard III.

MEANER CREATURES KING&- introduced this seison, but it is to be recorded that, from a point of view of thoroughly good sport, To-morrow is the 17th anniver «pectators and players alike have sary of the defeat of the Boers at

splendid matches Lindley, by Lord Methuen, provided. Apart from that aspect

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MAY 31, 1917.

THE MONEY MARKET.

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holidays.

Gold

INTERESTING ARTICLE.

The Work of "A “Liaison Officer.

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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

"The greater number of boyar born in war time, writer's co- Ever since the early days of respondent to the Daily Chronicle, the war, the British and French is surely a tardy “intervention” The Bank of England Gold re-operation has been remarkable. of Providence, incemuch so we shows incase of £608 650, as to call an the other in vain. J. ffre be raging 20 years' hence. The serve against its not jane Never has one of the Allies had may hope that this war will not compared with last week's return. and French formerly, Haig and loss of men and the disproportion The arrival of Gold is the Niville to-day, have demonstrated of sexes happens now, and has United States from Canada have and are demonstrating the unity nothing whatever to do with the very material benefit, which war{ The opening rate of the dollar in bees very large, namely of aim and ideals. To assist in present birth of babies. charities will reap, sa a result of ou

£55,000,000. New York reports this work of co-operation there" Providence" had managed the the grand and takings. Last | 2a. 4.13/81.

export movements of $5,239,000, bave been appointed officers boys 20 or 30 (or we most pro season a sam of about $600 or

mainly to Cubs, Spain and Japan. known as liaison officera- both bably now say 45) years ago, the $700 was handed over to the War

The West African Gold output French and British." The werd}" intervention" would have been Kallan Output. Charities Committee as a result of!

for February, 1917, amounted to liaison, meaning "joining" or useful. If it is really true that The total oaspat of the Kailan the tournament; this

$104 892, season Mining Administration's mines

as compared with "connection," well expresses their boys are now abounding, we must the Club will be able to spare for the week ending May 19

$137,739 in February, 1916 and function.

look for a cause, that should. no lees a sm than $2,000. smounted to 64,253 tons and the £131,655 in January, 1917. There are two kinds of Liaison prove interesting. Shakespeare's This has only been possible be- sales during the period to 73,559

Silver.

Officer. The first is an officer "Bring forth men children only" cause of the very admirable

Scantiness of supplies, to which specially told off to assist do may be a message of nature to the manner in which the whole svant

we have drawn attention recently, operation of different branches of courageous mind of women in bas been organised, and bers

hae bean indicated by the more the service. Thus an artillery | w, and that mind may have its special praise is due to Mr. We are informed by the Bightments of the price during the officer will be told tf as Liaison physiological inflaench

Officer to the infantry, his whole Hodgson, who has put in no end Reverend Bishop D. Pozzini that of hard work in stranging the three Chinese Priests will be that which is continually in force support and protection for the vidence intervenes in war-time, Silong as demand, other than object being to sasure adequate Those who believe that Pro namerne detaile, From the ordained at the Catholic Cathe. playing point of view, the tourna-dral on Saturday, June 2. The focage, contained insigni- troops covered by his gana. The when the male death-rate is high, ment bsa been noteworthy for ceremony will commence at 7 a.

ficant and fitial, the London other kind is the Liaison Offos, so maintain the normal ratio be the consistect`y good form

mrket remained iosrt, especially French or British, who is attached tween the sexes will welcome the [shown by MẸ Green, who

as the China exchange was falling to & Corps or Division in the army birth statistics contained in the Channel - Closed. Correspondents are requested to observe the rale which has now realised a long-cherished The following oldning

jaad sales from that quarter were of the Ally. It is the work of this Registrar-General's report, issued requires them to forward their names and addresses with ambition by securing absolute been made by His Excellency the fairly coodlant.

officer that I shall try to describe. this week. The figure are so communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for possession of the Championebip Governor to the Pors Regulations::

A little more general enquiry

Ata certain point on the Western remarkable that the Registrar- publization, birt as an evidence of their bona fides.

All communication's latended for publication should be addressedmier event, he came out on top nel north of Ma Wan Taland is to companied by improving rate bands. The adj ont corps at this to them. During the first 12 Cap. Besides winning the pre--Until farther notice the chan- et in on the 3let ultimo, and was front the B itish and French jin General drawe special section Class Handicap be closed to all traffic except the quotation roes sharply 1/2 to perform. They must not only affected by war conditions from from China, with the result that point have a double fonction to months in which births have been Singles; won the Professional native craft going into the villages 36. 1/22, a further rise of 5/16d. work se anits of their own great July 1, 1915, to June 30, 1918— Paire, in conjunction with Mr., situated on the mainland north Dodwell; and was ranner up cf is War. Sach craft are te recorded on the ad instant, armies; they must also operate 1,047 boys were born for every in the Handicap Doubles (with keep in shore of the five fathom, and the higher level has been with intimate relation to one 1,000 girls, while in the two Mr. Abraham) sa well as in line. All traffic bound to or from fairly well maintained. The slight another. If the French Corps is succeeding quarters, anding the Championship Doubles (with Chin Wan westward are to use the reaction may be attributed to going to make a local attack, the December 31, 1916, the ratio i the Ber. Mr. Cooper Hast). That channel west of Chung Hne Islanderal clearing up before the British must be informed. Pos- favour of boys was 1,045 and is a very fine record indeed, and and esst of Ma Wan Island.

sibly the nature of the country 1,050. it is doubtful whether there is at:

The United States Government will make it imperative for the present a tennis player in the

bought 400,000 oungas during two corpe to adranos simultan- || Our readera will be interested the week This may be followed sously. Possibly one can given the the proportions of the sexes in This is quite the opposite to Colony who can touch him for to bear that Mr. Milroy has sent by farther parchasee. all-round play. It was some nine off a farther £20 to the Werkly

other artillery support. Dating peace times, at any rate in Great years ago, we believe, that Mr. Dispatch Tobaco and Cigarette purchases made by the Secretary mutual artillery assistance was of half century the number of girls It is stated officially that the recent Somme operations Britain, where during the last Green Brat came into light as Faad, this Isteet sam to be ex-of State and also loosily in India the greatest value. winner in the H.K.C.C. tourna pended in emokes for detach since February 1916 sufficed to

bora has been consistently- mente, and since then he has ment of the Royal Veterinary provide 36 crores (824,000,000) the French Corps Has quarters well-known London doctor re- Let us suppose that, sitsobed to greater than that of boys. A on from success to sao Corps and a detachment of the of new rupees, a sum farexceeding there is a British Liaison Officer.cently mentioned the case of five ceas. Once again, the Chinese Pioceera. Up to date, a total of the fresh coinage in any similar It is his primary duty to assist in brothers who have all been killed players have made quite a good zo less than £260 has been for-period since the recommencement this co-operation. And he does at the front, and whose wives. showing, being represented in warded to the Fand named as of the mintage of rupees 17 years it in many ways, the final results by a win in the result of collections by the "Little

In the first have each since given birth to Championship Doubles and Khab Bag," which is still open represented

ago. The total weight of silver place, he must thoroughly know boys. In some districts, he added, second rauner-up in the Cham-to those who may be disposed to 123,500,000 ounces, and, taking strength and difficulties of his each girl baby.

is jast under the condition, morale, equipment, thres boys were being born to pionship Singles. Since their give, Mrs, Milroy desires to thank the average price of silver for the own corps or division. He must The other day we diosed to a lenderette the possibility of entry into these tournaments, all who have so generously con- period (necessarily the falfalfilment of a twenty-year-old prophesy that, on the death they have always been a factor to tributed in the past.

a rough know the ground they are occupy. of Sir Charles Brooke, bis heir would diapose of Sarawak to the be reckoned with, and we con-

method of calculation) the costing sad the strength of the enemy Theodor Wolf, read history If the Berliner Tageblati writer, Stole the Eggs. Imperial Government. The Beater wire which we publisbad yest fidently expect to see them come Before Mr. Dyer Bail, at the

of parabase to the Indian positions they may be called upon more closely, instead of institat- erday, however, would appear to settle that question out of hand;into even greater prominence.

Government - must Police Court this morning,

to take. So that any information ing sa historical paralled between for we read that the new Rajsh "perceives the folly of forcing

Obinese youth was charged with a profit available for the Indian by the Commander of the French would

approximated £18,000,000leaving on these points which is required Charles V. and the Taar he Western ideas and instititions on a people whose traditions are China and Her Politics.

stealing several dozen eggs from Gald standard reserve of about Corpe ander whom he is serving.airteenth century Emperor of

have wholly alien. His people will be prepared, step by step, to take Reuter sanounced yesterday the Charlee Hardouin, Defendant £6,000,000. As the stock of he can give at once.

compared the an increasing share in their government, but in their own way and that both Houses in Peking have said he weat on board looking silver in the currency reserva on their own lines. The Rajah is determined never to grant campproved the appointment of Li for some work to do and eaw an shows during the period a net any new ideas or methods which lance between their characters Germany with to-day'e German Secondly, it is bis duty to note Emperor. There is much resemb mercial concessions which do not simultaneously benefit the people." Ching-hai to the effice of Premier. Indien, From this it would appear that Sarawak will coatinge indefinitely Hr. La will probably form she had better take the eggs amount of absorbtion exceeds 40 communicate them to his own defeated at Verdun, and suffered who said that decrease of over 4 crores, the the French have evolved and and careers. Charles was badly to be ruled by its own Bajah, and to come no nearer to the Empire Coalition Cabinet." We should end sell them, as that was better crores, an enormous eam in about Corps. The French discover a heavy losses in his invasion of than beleg what it is at presenta Protectorate. In one respect awfully like to see that variety than doing nothing. The Indian thie arrangement is decidedly to be preferred. The Brooke family of Cabinet at work in showed him how to make a pocket a year.

better form of protective dag-out Freach territory. Whereupon, has become a part of the kingdom, for the oldest living Dysk can- Chics. At present we would of his jacket, and he was walking taras show a moderate addition emplacement. Then the British retrest, he rased to the ground The last Indian currency or a safer and less visible gun in revenge, being compelled to not remera ber a time when his country, was not ruled by one of its ask who the coalescing parties away with them when a lakong to the silver coin and ballion should know of it. It is the daty no fewer than 400 towns Shorty members. The Brookes are, so to speak, the property of the Dyaks, as going to be. Will the Ministry stopped him and he was taken to held in the reserve-the first time of the Liaison Officer to send in safterwards beabdicated-here the and can commands fidelity and an affection that it would take the consist of Kuomintang and anti-the Police Station. ordinary British Governor a lifetime so inspire. A hereditary form Kuomintang, for instance; ofse stated, formed part of the append comparative details:-

The eggs, it this has occurred for 3 weeks. We descriptive memorandam. Ia parallel waits upon the future... of government is the only one which they understand, and it is German and anti German: cargo of the vessel. His Worship

this way each army profits by the quite safe to say that only ander sach & form would they be of Militarist and ant-Militarist sent the man to prison for six Notes in vir

Mar. 15, Mar. 12. Maz. 51 experience and discoveries of the Aleppo, for which General or what? La Ching-hei is credit-] weeks,

other, culation...8823- 8578

Maude has been siming, was one It is very gratifying to read that His Highness has-determined ad with being an extremely able Insufficient Evidence. Reserve in

Thirdly, the Liaison Officer of the earliest of British trading to follow the same lines as those adopted by his two predecessors. men, and, since he comes of a At the Police Court this morn. silver coin

must do all he can to promote centres in the Levant, says the The people are still to be governed "in their own way." The renowned political f.mily, being, a Chiness was charged with

and bullion1917-1872 the Bajah is not only imitating his father and his great-uncle, bat ahoald know something of how to stealing $45 in money from the Gold

mutual good feeling and trust in | Chronisle We had an agent озід

the neighbouring units, He resident there in the time of Elixa.... o is taking pattern by the vast Empire of which he is himself a handle the ludicrously conflicting person of a foki. The foki said

and bullion

should be a thorough good beib, and in the following reign ubject. It is thus that Britain governs and governs with con elements in the Government and that the money was the property spicuous success millions of indigenous people, from Bangkong to Parliament. Bat, even should be of his master, and he was on Gold in Eog-

1200 fellow sad, when he has the time, one of the first factories and com

drop into this or that Battalion salates of the British Tarkey Indis, and from one side of the African continent to the other; and if prove to be an angel from Heaven, his way to pay it to another land

Headquarters and leave a good Company was eatablished in the anyone can show Britishere a better method they will be glad to hear he can do little towards the man for some pige. Defendant of it. The Dyske have their own pet prejudices; they are some of the country's permanent betterment grabbed the money from him, March consisted of about 30,600, sed courtesy of his fellow coun-output of the East India Company The stock in Shanghai on 31 impression behind of the efficiency town, linking up with the western most conservative folk in the world, and are keenly jealous as to their unless he is to receive more active handed it to another msn, and it 000 ounces in sycee and 18,700,- ryman.

at Bagdad. From the part it thus privileges and rights. Their lives, like those of the Malays, are ruled and warm-hearted support from had not been recovered. De 000 dollars se compared with Last, but not least, the Liaison played in the transmission of by adat which Hongkong people can best interpret asolo cua-the President than ever fell to fendant said that he heard the about 31,300,000 ounces in ayces Officer's duty in battle is to Eastern merchandise to Europe tom" and, so long as they possess a wise raier who will reapert this, General Tan's lot. If he is Police whilee blowing and went and 18,400,000 dollars on 24th see that the two Corps work the name of Aleppo was far more his task is not a difficult cas, The B jah's remark about" prapering really bent on helping China, he up to see what the trouble wae March 1917.

together. This is sometimes familiar in England during the them step by step to take an increasing share in their own govern will let every other considers-about and be was arrested as the An interesting anpoancement difficult. Ose of the ment is easily explained. The

twa 18th and 17th centuries than that people of Sarawak have in the world go to the thief. His Worship thousands of traditions, but

wasofa >peared in the Time last neighbouring corps may be in of many a more important city of no written history. Thas, inde for the time being, and opinion that the evidence offered Tuesday to the effect that owing dificulties, bat if it retires with the Levant while it is perfectly easy to leave Indians or Chinese, who possess will concentrate his energies on was insufficient to record a con- t the rise in the price of silver, out warning, the other will be literature, a written code of laws and a civilisation older than our bringing about his country's viction, and the MBA Was the Italian Government is exposed at its most vulnerable "The Star-Spangled Banner" own, to manage their affairs, on paper as well as by word of mouth, active participation in the war discharged. with the Dynks it is a question of releasing them very gradually gainst Germany. As a member

authorising the issue of 1 and 2 point-the fiink. The Liaison seems to be the favourite national from the leading skings, and of guiding them, gently but surely he must be presumed to here Mr. J. R. Wood, at the Police silver carrency in probibited.

life notes so the nominal value of Officer must see that his own corps melody in Americe, judging by of Taan Khai's Government, and firmly, from helplessness into independence of thought.

A Chinese was charged before 12,000,000. The boarding of is informed of such changes in the socounts of the patriotic Those who have watched the march of events in that part of

time to enable it to take mesures demonstrations which followed in the Ministerial Court this morning, with stealing Statistics for the month the world will heartily admire and appland the new Rejsh's determ declaration that it was the coun

of accordingly. In olden days, the Presidential speech. But it a quantity of old scrap brass from March are appended

he mounted his horse and rode is not an easy tans for, the laation "never to grant commercial accessions which do not try a duty to go farther than the the yard of Mears. W. 8. Bailey Highest price for caah 37.5/16 for his life through shot and shell. average voice to grapple with, and imulaneously benefi the people." That was his father's way, and mere nevering of diplomatic rels and Co. Defendant said he picked Lowest price for cash. 35.11/16 till he reached his general. Tois sually left to the band. The as one of the factors in the intense reverence and affection which tious with our

enemy; it up on s pirce of vacant ground Average price for cash. 38 423. day he rushes to the telephone North American Review tow ha Dyaks bore towards him. There is to be no land-grabbing; no hava rome little right to expect Bailey appeared and asked for nanoo - Standard ¿—– Mároh.... 30; pigeon or despatch rider, on a century of trying service The

and therefore the ising of hereditary native property, and selling it at enormous

Allies underneath some exbes Mr. Qiolations for har silver per or, if that is broken down, rends years ago suggested that **after a rices to rubber syndiostes etc. The country is to remain, for the him to carry on the good work that severe pensity to be imposed. 36. cseh, March 81.38.1/2 motor-bicycle. But the marsage Star-Spangled Beaver might wall more part, what it has always been: practically a gentlemen's private he has begun. It is surely, first These men were in the habit of cash, April 2, 36.13/16 och must go through, if as has to take be laid upon the shelf-particular.

ste, sarried on upon feudal but benevolent lines. This may be and foremost, his business to fod taking metal out purposely from April 3, 38.13/16 cash; Aprítis himself.

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* news for the people whose minds have been running on petro out who the politicians are that ships alongside, and piscing it 4, 26 3/4 dash, April 5, Tas position of Liais

mangween, coal, silver etc, and who would gladly have paid srs in German pay-there are with rubbish. These thefisere 365/8 carh; average, 36.583,5 is no sinsoura, of prions for mining emceesions, mankes whether these were various, as everyone knows—and very extensive, and were very No quotation fixes for forward ties are gron

ined by robbing the Dyak or not. Bajah Brooke evidently impesch them without more hard to trice. Laat year bay delivery tends to follow up the accepted theory of the country: that the ado, for they are China's greatest lost $2,000 by small thefts. s the people's, and that he himself is there to see that justice is anemian to-day. The way before Defendant was sent to prison for

"Bank Rate 290 2 Bar Gold P. DE.)

to all. There is plenty of room elsewhere for the speculator, him cannot be called clear, but is three months, and was ordered The quotation fold The advent in Barawak would simply as the setting of is at least, alsar enough for hint to toʻl

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