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Technical Terms, English and Chinese. Shang-
hai: Presbyterian Mission Press. THE terms have been prepared by the Com- mittee of the Educational Association of China (the Rers. C. W. Mateer. A. P. Parker, and W. M. Harris). The Editor briefly alluding in the preface to the question as to whether, in general, technical terms should be translated or transferred, holds the view that in case a brief and expressive term can be found. it is the best, and generally preferred by Chinese scholars; but rather than use a long or awkward term, or one that does not strike the essential idea in the case, it is better to transfer the sound of the term used in the west, as this method is popular with commercial men. The list contains a considerable number of terms of this kind. though they are but few in the aggregate. The labour involved in the pre- paration of this list must have been very great indeed, but the result is a volume which will prove extremely useful alike to Chinese and European students, and especially to teachers of western science and other studies to Chinese pupils.
A Guide to the City of and Suburbs of Canton. By Dr. KERE. Publishers: Kelly and Walsh. THIS useful little guide has been re-written and brought up to date. No visitor who wishes to see Canton can afford to be without this little handbook of information. So far as concerns the City, the Guide enumerates the principal streets and mentions what they are chiefly noted for. In this street one sees in the shops the finest specimens of jadestone jewellery and orna- ments; in that the visitors will see the ivory carvers at work; in the other the bronze workers; the gold-beaters, the silk and damask wearers and so forth. With Captain Lloyd's Book for the Globetrotter" and Dr. Kerr's Guide to Canton the tripper may make the visit to Canton one of great and enduring interest. It requires about a week to the city and suburbs thoroughly, and Dr. Kerr gives at the end of his book lists of the chief places to be seen. There is an outline of a tour which will enable the visitor to skim the City in a day and other tours are mapped out suit- able for a stay of two or three days or a week.
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Messrs. Benjamin Kelly and Potts are in- formed by telegram that the Astor House Hotel Company, Limited (Shanghai), has declared & dividend of 10 per cent. ($24 per share) for the year ended 30th June, 1904.
The Standard Oil Company, who have recently opened their own agency at Tientsin, have been busy raising land with the object of having a wharf between the I.C.R. and the Lu-Han railway wharves, where steamers will be able to discharge cargo.
A Tokyo despatch values the damage suffered by Japanese companies through the Vladivostock squadron up to the present at 15,000,000 yen. The foreign steamers now chartered aggregate 200,000 tons, and when these are idle the loss incurred by the charterers must be very great.
From the small quantity of fuel consumed by all the silk and cotton mills in Japan in the first half of this year it would appear that the spinning industry has been greatly injured by the
war.
The following is a comparative table of coal consumed by the spinners from January to June of this and the two preceding years: 1902, 449,437,670 lbs.; 1903, 436,807,890 lbs.; 1904, 364,874,019 lbs.
Experiments made in camphor growing Ceylon appear to be turning out well. We know, says the Ceylon Observer, of several estates on which there are flourishing camphor clearings one 12 acres in extent and we have seen cam- phor trees in Ceylon 30 feet high. Little is known of the manner of distilling and prepar ing the raw camphor for the market, and growers can only obtain their information by experiments and at some expense; so that they are naturally reticent on the subject. The present writer has handled Ceylon-produced camphor valued by a home firm of experts at 116 shillings per ewt. No doubt before long the first shipments of this new product will be made from Ceylon.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
The many friends of Mr. F. M. Tegner, of Messrs. Vivanti Bros., No. 168-b, Yamashita-cho, King of Denmark has been gracionsly pleased Yokohama. will be interested to learn that the to confer upon him the order of Ritter of Danebrog that is to say. Knight of the Danebrog. News of the bestowal of this honour Angust 3rd. hat Mr. Teguer has already received only roached Yokohama on the evening of hearty congratulations from many quarters on the well-merited decoration.—Japan Mail
The Asthi Beer Company at Osaka unaui- nously adopted the following accounts for the
first half of this year: Net profits Brought from last account
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Chengtu has been ordered by H. E. Viceroy The Director of the Bureau of Commerce at
Che-kiung to plant in the distric's which are Hsi-Liang to purchase 10,000 mulberries from suitable for the purpose so that silkworms may be reared on foreign methods with the view of promoting the silk enterprise in the province of greatest exports in Chinese commerce, although Szechnen. Silk and cocoons are still the one half of the trade has been taken by foreign merchants. The magistrates of the various districts have been commanded to exert their influence to persuade people to plant mulberries, Yen.
and they will either be rewarded or punished 60,322.76 | according to their merits or demerits. In 1.316.40 addition His Excellency is going to engage some experienced Japanese silk workers of both 61.639.16
sexes to act as instructors to Chinese silkworm 2.848.55 learers at Chengtu and other districts. 5,000.00 3.381.85 50,0 0.00 408.76 An American trade review states that eight hundred motor equipments have been ordered from the General Electric Company, of New York City, U.S.A., for use on the cars of the Tokyo Street Railway Company's electric traction system (the new The power station, which will be the largest high level ?) electric generating plant in the Far East, will have a capacity of not less than 7.000 kilowatts. The equipment will comprise four Curtis turbines of 1,500 kilowatts capacity each, and two of 500 kilowatts each.
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It is proposed to convert the business of the well-known Hotel Metropole at Shanghai into a limited liability company with a capital of $200,000 Mexican, divided into 2,000 shares of has induced Mr. Biddle, the proprietor, to sell $100 each. It is stated that the reason which his business to a company. and offer a part of the share capital to the public for subscription, is that he requires funds in order to improve the appearance and structure of the Hotel, and hotel will soon become one of the leading, and he is confident that if this can be done, the оп account of its position. most attractive hotels in Shanghai, and its earning power will consequently be greatly increased. Mr. Biddle has agreed to manage the business for five years. A dividend of 13 per cent. is anticipated. We understand that the stock is being largely taken catered mostly for Americans. up by the French community. The hotel has
Intelligence was received by wire on the 13th inst. by Messrs. Butterfield & Swire of the death, in London. on the 11th inst. of Mr. Mackintosh was well known both here and in be made at Singapore, plans and estimates for Edwin Mackintosh, partner in that firm. Mr.
Some big harbour improvements are about to the firm for many years in the Far East. Mr. being under consideration by the Government. Shanghai, having been a resident partner of the work having arrived from England, and Mackintosh came to Hongkong in 1880, and At the same time the plans for the extension remained until 1895. He was an active member of the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company's wharves of the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce. have also been submitted, and are in the hands of which he was Chairman during 1890, 1891. of the directors. Both schemes are immense and 1892 and was Vice-Chairman in 1894. Mr. engineering undertakings, which, when com. Mackintosh was much respected for his business pleted, will place Singapore at the head of the capacity, and under his direction the Taikoolist with harbour facilities in the Far East. The Refining Co. was started, and the shipping Tanjong Pagar works provide for the trans- interests of the firm greatly extended.
permanent structures of steel and concrete. formation of the present wooden wharves into reaching from the town end of the docks to the coal handling and freight handling appliances, end of the Borneo wharf. Modern warehouses, will be installed for the rapid dispatch of the long will also be constructed so as to be capable deep-water vessels. A new wet dock 3,000 feet
of another 3,000 feet extension whenever neces-
long. construction of an immense dry dock 800 feet sary. The improvements also include the
The possession of Samoa does not seem to afford that amount of satisfaction which Germans in general had expected to derive from it. The small landed proprietors finding that rezidence in the islands is becoming more and property and emigrate to America. The heavy more unprofitable, are beginning to sell their
import duty. is a very serious matter to the cost of freight, coupled with the 10 per cent.
the German Colonial Society is endeavouring smaller business people. On the other hand. to induce Count von Bülow to take steps towards obtaining from England and America the sum of m.500.000 awarded by the King of Sweden and Norway as compensation for the damage colonists there by Euglish and American guus done to Apia and to the property of German in March, 1899. It is said that some of the poorer colonists have almost been ruined by the non-payment of the amount awarded.--Nagasaki Press.
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It was not so many years back since the presentatives of the river steamboat companies merchants engaged in the river trade, the re- and the British officials in Canton and in endeavour to combat the practice Peking, were engaged as one man in a strenuous part of the "Hoppo" in Canton, then in vogue, of favouring shippers of goods in Chinese bott: ms to the detriment of British steamers
with Sir John Lister Kaye representing the
The Waiwapu has concluded an agreement officials was often represented, says the P. & T. The practice of the Canton native customs
Lang-hua Company, regarding the working of and a distinct violation of the most-favoured Times, as a gross injustice to foreign shipowners mines in Tang-lin district in Anhui. original draft made in 1902 gave the company remedies then thought to offectually remove the The nation clause of the treaty. Amongst the many the right to work mines in dix districts in that injustice complained of was, that the post of the province, but the company has now relinquished hoppo" or native customs superintendent of five of the places and will only work mines at Canton should be abolished and the duties Tun :-kuan Shau. The agreement provides appertaining to that office merged in the that the mine will be worked under the name commissionership of the Chinese Imperial of the An-yu Company with Sir John Lister Maritims Customs. Diplomatic representations Kaye as chief agent. After the sanctioning of through a succession of years resulted in failure. Board will communicate with Sir John Lister determined that decided steps should be taken the agreement by the Imperial Government the Her Imperial Majesty, however, is pow Kaye, who will then have the right to despatch in this direction, and therefore commands, by engineers to explore and work the mines. Six decree of the 10th inst., the abolition of the posts company in exploring the mine, but a similar Canton, and that of Superintendent of Customs thousand pounds has already been spent by the of the Hoppo" or Customs Superintendent of amount will now be raised for working expenses. of Hunian in Kiangsu province, the duties of The capital will be limited to one million ster- ling or Tls. 7,000,000. One English and one Viceroy of the Two Kwang provinces. Also, as "Hoppo" in Canton to be undertaken by the Chinese manager will be appointed, the former the Commissionerships of the Imperial silklooms to have charge of the works and finance and { of Kiangning and Soochow are both in the one the latter to be in charge of affairs of inter- i province of Kiangsu, the first-named Commis- course with Chinese authorities.
sionership is abolished.
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