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FREDERIC HARRISON A NONOGENARIAN.

Living Link With The Past Of England.

Erasures,

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JAPAN'S FINANGES.

Address by Governor of

Bank of Japan.

AT HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH

EXCHANGE

[Opening Rate : closing Rate

on Page 11

SELLING

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Mr. Inouye, the Governor of the Bank of Japan. spoke before la menting of Osaka baukers as follows

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Mr. Frederic Harrison reached his 90th, birthday is4 month.

Ninety not out is not a bad record. Bat" ninety not out" is *The foreign trade of Japan still better when you keep up has continually shown a balance firm wicket and send the ball to against us since the end of the the boundary every time. For Great War, and is has been not Shanghai

4 m/s Mr. Frederic Harrison is not only ably so in the current half year. TT Bingspor.......... still alive, but he is one of the when foreign goods have been most live men among us.

brought in for domestic consump T/T India......

TIT Japan Whatever he thinks, he thinkstion simply by reason of their strongly. His pross has still the cheapness as compared with the

Demand, India power and spirit of the best Vie Japanese products rather than for

T/T San Francisco Į

5334 torian time, when there were finishing

New York.j re-exportation T/T Java ...............DE LAT Bod giants still alive,

This

14936 axcesa of imparts over TT Marks You may differ from

Mr.exports

Nom. bas

hitherto Frederic Harrison on vital issues, met somehow with funda hald

FA Franc

6.75 but you will always and that he abroad by the exchange banks,

Demand, Paris ............ Sgbts a clean fight. If he hits but these fanda are growing short!

BUYING. hard, be never hila

below bow, and as our miscellaneous the belt. Ho certainly international receipts have now

is one of the most wonderful old been diminished to about men of our time.

He has settled himself in ons 300,000,000 yen during the war.

150,000,000 yen a year as againstd. Sydney and 2/1014 of those splendid Georgian houses the above exchange funds are which the Woods built at Bath fast decreasing and will avideatly at the end of the eighteenth become very scarce 8000 Sven

NOOL. century, and he has. filled the though the excess of importa house with his books and his over exports should

7.35 5 m/s, France............... 7.55 Large hereafter. Like all old Bathonians, I feel shortage will have to be re-

Demand, Germany. honoured that Mr. Harrison ba plenished then with a part of the IIT Bombay

Demand, Kerr York 53 chosen our beautiful city for bis specie held by the Government Demand, Bombay ... home, writes an interviewer. He and the Bank of Japan, for the exTT Calcutta has chosen it, not as a second portation of gold is still banned; Demand, Calcutta 194 best, but

with that splendid and this will have an effect on Yokohama....... 1121 enthusiasm for great and beauti-proportionately contracting cur ful things which is part of the reacy

Jamand, Manila 113 here similarly to what amand, Singapore. Ill energy of his nature.

occurs by the exportation of Demand, Batavia 14912 specie. As the above specie will n Haiphong

No It is a liberal education to visit have to be paid for by the ex him and to hear his views on the change banks with money raisen Bangkok

In Saigon passing show. He combines loog in Japan, the effects it may work Sovereign and varied memories of the past on

the money market will be with an extraordinary freshness more extensive than in the cass and openness towards the events of rbe flotation of of to-day.

bond The recent decrease of Mr. Frederic Harrison is bim-exports and increase of im- self a living link with the past fits are ascribed to a falling England. He is perhaps the only off in the foreign purchasing man alive that has known a man power and a rise in commodity -ho knew Dr. Johnson. That prices here. The latter thing man was the great. Dr. Routh, off was caused by the immense riches. H'kong 50 ct pieces Oxford, who knew Dr. Johnson in which Japan procured during the his old age, and tutored Mr. Har-war,have expanded our purchasing rison in his youth. That fact and consuming powers ever since. Canton sub.cuine gires you some idea of the long There is, however, another reaso span of time covered by Mr.for it, and this reason is mos Harrison's career..

VARIED MEMORIES.

Nom

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Gold leaf per Tael... 47.20 Jar Silver, ready... 34, national: forward

3478 Sunk of England rates 5% Tew York/London ... 41844

powerful of all. I refer to the

It is a span which includes speculative, loose and luxurious, eat changes in the life of Eng-habits of the Japanese in the past

wealth

too

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land, as Mr. Harrison has himself several yet, when they have PASSENGERS DEPARTED. shown in the fresh and vivid acquired articles about the past which helThese habits have created the easily. has recently published. He has present regrettable situation. it) eschewed honours and Kep: which foreign trade shows sub Strachan. H. Lille, M. Green and UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. out of political life. Fle is essen an unfavourable balance that ix. Green, Mrs. R. L. Darmah. tially a type of the literary man compels the Government and the Comd, and Mrs. R. M. Stopford of affaire. But none the less e Bank of Japan to part with and

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has played a leading part in many portion of their specie holdings and son, Maj. and Mrs. H. Grean THE GREAT NORTHERN TELE- for its settlement. It is even awar and 2 children, Mr. E. G. R. TRADE UNION PIONEER. feared that unless the people at Macdonnell, Lt. R. N. Beauchamp, Take that great crisis in the wakened 1000, all the wealth.. Mr. H. A. Maxwell, Mrs. nistory of the Labour movement Japan earned on account of the Hamilton Berners, Lt.-Comd. and grams are lying here - achieved his trade union rights, ing a great change in our inter-rs. P. N. Stopford. Mr. H. P. Mr.

Frederic Harrison was a national economic strength. No Handreap, Mr. and Mn. G. W. member of the Royal Commission one can deny a close relation Outhit. Miss G. Outhit. Mr. A. on Trade Unions far back in the between commodity prices and Lemercier, Mr. and Ms. H. P. sixties (1865-8), and he was chief currency.

The question is Kaapp, Mr. E. H. Hooper, Mrs. legal adviser to the Labour mea how currency can be con-

C. B. Parker, Miss L. E. Parker, of those days when they drafted tracted. I would be & great | Mr. M. E. Hobson, Mr. I. Nathan. those early trade union Acta mistake to simply rely upon un-Mr. M. Cohen, Mr. E. D. Kemp, which embodied the recommenda-feasible means for the solution of Miss A. Le Roas, Mrs. E. J. Ross tions of that Commission.

the question, and there is perhaps and 2 children, Mr. and Mr. E. E. The trade unions of to-day are to better plan than reducing ex Deacon and 2 children. Mrs. FWest, from Tokyo. built up upon the Acts of 1871 penses. all round. There is ample Woodhead and 5 children, Mrs. G.j for retrenchment and L. Smeaton and 2 children. Miss very largely the work of Mr. economy in Japan. Some people P. A. Barclay. Mrs. D. Epheck. Frederic Harrison and his friends, argue that not much economy Mr. G. S. Liverman, Mr. G. For in those days the Labour can be effected so long as there men were raidy and quick to use exists a ready purchasing power Baker and 2 children, Mr. H. Latimer, Mr. and Mr. E. W. the brains of the sympathetic among the peoble. But this is middle-class men, and had not an erroneous idea, and if it were Knowles, Mr. J. Trees, Capt and passed into that phase ofsuspicion followed, we should have to re- Mrs. R. Henderson and 2 children, which has since marked-marred adjust our finances and econo-Miss M. Malcolm and Bro. E. J.

their movement.

faics only when we had lost all Noctor.

and 1876, and those Acts were room

As one of the leaders of the our riches amassed in the War. English Positivist Group. Mr. We cannot leave ourselves to Frederic Harrison was always such a fate."

as internationalist, one of bis in-

ternationalism bas always takeo

the form of a leaning towards reaction. He has always hated France. From very early days disorder, and he bates it now. he warned the country against He has ever stood trus to the two the gospel of force being preached great points of the

Positivis:

in Germany, and he was one of doctrine-Law and Progress,

The very few men who wanted England to intervene on behalf

of France in the war of 1870.

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Temperature on the 13th 69 Lowest

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T. F. CLAXTON, Director.

* High Waar

Hongkong

Lori Wster

Houghing

His trenchant vigour daring crose one of the few survivors Temperature ..... the recent war is in the memory of a great epoch. He has written Humility of all men. But it was only the library of books-essaya, bio Wind Direction fulfilment of his life view, and graphies, addresses, and even Wind Force his critics bad forgotten that his novels. He has been a great opposition to Germany was no lover of the mountains and is a new thing, but was part and great Doctor of the Law. parcel of his earlier teaching.

On the very eve of hie 90th. To the gospel of violence, in birthday he has published two any form, Mr. Frederic Harrison articles in the October reviews, has always been unalterably and is writing another. He is opposed. Liberty has always been giving & reading, and has just his friend, and he can look back to finished a new book for publics- long memories of days when betion"Novinima Verba.”

beltered in his London house) Altogether. I take Mr. Frederic refugees from afflicted countries Harrison to be, perhaps, the most! -from Italy in the days of versatile of living Englishmen. hear that Garibaldi; from France in the and I rejoice to

iose of the Commune; from nearly a hundred of the most DIED OF STARVATION WITH £200. Fr. 16 10 5 Russia in the days of the eminent living men bava to-day Tears - from many countries presented him with a Birthday Found dead in his cottage at Bat. 17 m 11 47 AT ther oppressed and now free. Address, in which they have done Middleton, near Driffield, with

8 15 To-day, as then, he is the justice to his achievements and £200 and some jewellery lying. steady friend of reasoned Uberty ble fame. For indeed it is part near, Wm. Cuingwood, 16, was in every country, and 1 cannot of the greatness of a nation to raid at the inquest to have died find in his views any sign of honour its great men.

fof starvation and old age.

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Mon. 117 #

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SCHEREINA -BOILEDERE, "DIE TEUX ROAD,

1st. 97.20 inches, against so average of 82.45 inches.

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Forecast.

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N.E. winds,

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The ball is hoisted half mast at the 55th minute and full mast at the 57th minute. Should the ball fail to drop at the correct time, it will be lowered at five minutes past the boar and the ordinary routine repeated at the "following - hour, if possible.

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order the above routine will be Should the time ball be out of carried out with the flag "Z", on the storm signal mast,

Time signal are also given at night by means of three white lamps mounted vertically on the Observatory wireless monat. From 8b. 56m. 0s, to 9h. Bas. Os. p.m. the lampe $70 extinguished momentarily at the even seconds,

except as the 2nd. 28th, 50th, 52nd, and 54th of each minuts. moderate; Standard Time (8 hours of sast The hours refer to Hongkong

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