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NEW JAPANESE CUSTOMS TARIFF.
REMOVAL OF THE WAR TAX.
The Japanese Government, considering that the Customs Tariff of 1897 is no longer efficient, has decided to effect certain amendments, and Bill to that end has been submitted to the Diet. The Government states that the development of foreign trade and of home industries demand corresponding alterations of the tariff. The Japan Chronicle gives some of the principal goods affected by the new bill, showing the ad valorem duty imposed under the regulations of 1897 and under the amended scale.
Rice
Wheat
itr
New Tariff.
free 15 per ct.
Large beans (Daizu)..... 15
Flour
044
Sugar, under No. 8,
988 88
Existing Tariff. 15 per ct.
15
15
T
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
THE DEFENCE OF THE NORTH EASTERN FRONTIER.
have submitted a memorial passing a Budget The Waiwapa and the Board of Revenue for the North Eastern Frontier for the 32nd year of Kuang Hsü. 2,000,000 taels, to which is added a supplementary The principal sum is sum of 500,000 taels, which is allotted to the account of the new indemnity. The sum is to be raised from the Provinces as follows:-
Shantung Land tax Shausi Land tax
Principal Supple-
sum. mentary
sum.
[March 19, 1906-
LANDSLIP AT QUARRY BAY.
Was
A landslip occurred at Quarry Bay on the killed and several others injured. The soone 17th March whereby one Chinaman
of the occurrence WS the construction gang of coolies, under Mr. J. Cree, had resumed works for Messrs Butterfield and Swire. Å their duties after the breakfast hour, when, without any warning, a portion of the earth gave way and the men suddenly found and and stones falling upon them. There was no chance of escape and three of the men were covered in the debris which must have weighed Taels. several tons. Fortunately the accident was 24,0.00 | observed by another gang of men, who spread- 20,000 ing the alarm Boon brought many willing 16,000 hands to the rescue. This was no easy task, 10,000 but after considerable labour two men were 100,000 20,000 | excavated.
They quickly recovered when 80,000 16,000 brought to the surface. Meanwhile the rescuers 80,000 16,000 redoubled their energies to save the third man, 80,000 16,000 who was buried under à great mass of sand. 50,000 10,000 At length he was reached, but on the body being 80,000 16,000 brought to the surface life was extinct, death 80,00 16,000 being undoubtedly due to suffocation. Mr. Cree 80,000 16,000 was fortunate in escaping with only a few
bruises.
BISHOP WELLDON IN HONGKONG.
Taels. 120,000 100,000
Chekiang Land tax
Kiangai Land tax
80,000 50,000
Anhui Land tax
"
警察
Kiangsu Likin
30
25
**
Kiangsi Likin
Dutch standard
Cheklang Likin
40
30
19
""
Anhui Likin
Furs
50
510
30 11
"
Hunan Likin...
Sole leather
20
20
"
Hupei Likin
Raw silk (for weaving
Fukien Likin
purposes
15
10
11
Grey shirting
Shanghai Customs
6/10
30
15
13
11
Woollen cloths
Foreign Import duty
00.000
20,000
30
15
11
19
Hankow
Customs
Coal
6/10
free
5
"
Pig iron
Foreign Import duty
100,00
20,000
5
por ct.
5
11
Kaei Kusa Native Customs
Iron, bar and rod
30
10
11
duty
40,000
8,000
10
#1
Hupei
Tribute
Rice
Equivalent...
40,000
20
11
Petroleum ...
50
韻备曲
30
10 50 15
t
Foochow Customs
100,000
13
Hupei Grain Treasury
40,000
**
"
Szechuan Salt-tax ..
150,000
A most remarkable change is observed in
comparing the duties on the following articles;-
Lianghuai Salt-tax
120,000
Szechuan Official Allowance
Now Tariff Existing
80,000
8,000 20,000 38,000 30,000 24,000 16,000
Was
Shantung Grain Intendent
Tariff
Treasury
Margarine...
*60
50,000
10,000
per
ct. 30 per ot.
Sugar, under No. 15,
Kuangtang Likin
80,000
16,000
Dutch standard
Canton Customs 6/10 Forsign
Leather, for shoes
50
free
20 #
11
Import duty
120,000
24,000
15
All Customs
Gain by
"
Exchange
10,0000
Galvanised sheet iron 25
Railway cars (goods
and passenger)
Blankets
Pig leather..
Animal bones
Shells
Silk cocoons
Gunny bags Rags
Waste paper
**
Mineral ore...
Clay
Emery powder
**
Gold and platinum
watch chains
+
Waste and powdered
glass...
Magic lanterns and ac-
cessories
11
11
10 per ct. free
5500
10
10
"
frae
15
15
19
15
19
31
5
33
10
10 10 10 10 0
60 ct. 30
11
per
free
+
5
"
50 por ct. 15
5
60 per ct. 30 50
"
20
11
Raw Indian rubber free
"
all
Perfumed waters, eto... Toilet soap It is proposed to remove the war tax on goods with the exception of rice, on which the duty will remain for one year from the conclusion of peace.
1HE JAPANESE NAVY.
The following Japanese warships are expected to be launched or completed during this year :-
BATTLESHIPS.
Kutori (15,000 tons).-Due from England in
August
Kashimu (15,000 tons).- Due from England in
August.
Satsuma (19,000 tons). To be launched in
October.
ARMOURED CRUISERS.
Ikoma (13,000 tons).-To be launched in March. Kurama (14,000 tons). To be launched in
August.
DESPATCH BOATS.
Mogami (2,300 tons). To be launched in July. Yodo (2,500 tons).-To be launched in July.
Adding new destroyers, etc., the Japanese naval strength will be increased by about 90,000 tons at the end of the year.
In addition to the commenced of the battleship 4ki, of the Satsuma above vessels the construction will shortly be type, the armoured cruiser Ibuki, sister ship of the Kurama, and the despatch-boat Tone, sister- ship of the Megami.—Japan Gazette,
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Taels...2,000,000 500,000 The principal sum must be remitted to the Board and the supplementary sum
to the Shanghai Customs Superintendent in due time, or the officials concerned will be severely impeached.
Imperial Rescript: Let it be as proposed.- Tientsin Times.
A DESPERATE FIGHT IN THE
PHILIPPINES.
SIX HUNDRED MOROS KILLED.
One of the bloodiest and most terrific engage- ments in these islands took place yesterday, sayı: the Cablenews of the 10th inst, at Mount Dajo, about five miles from Jolo. Six hundred of the most desperate element of the Moro out'aws, who were apparently impregnably intrenched on the top of an almost impassable mountain, were slain before they would lay down their arms. The dash and grit which obaracterized the advance of the American troops. under every adverse circumstance, is unequalled in the history of this archipelago.
Zamboanga, Mindanao, March 9, Severe action between troops, Naval Detach ment, Constabulary and hostile Mores at Mount Dajo, near Jolo. Opening on the afternoon of March 6th and lasting until morning of March 8th. Action involved the capture, of Mount Dajo, a lava cone 2,100 feet high with crater at summit. The cone extremely steep and rugged. Last five hundred feet. lying at an angle of from fifty to sixty degrees. The last fifty feet lava ridges covered with heavy growth of tim- practically perpendicular, approachable only by ber strongly fortified. Fortificatio as generally invisible from a distance.
Officers and mea engaged in this expedition cannot be too highly commended for the mag- Total casualties all sources, eighteen killed nificent manner in which they took this position. fifty-two wounded. Subject to på esible correc- tions.
WOOD.
A large congregation assembled in St. John's Cathedral on the 11th March, when the preacher was Bishop Welldon. Selecting as his text the words in Acts xvii., 26—“ And bath made of one
blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth,” his Lordship pointed out that humanity one-one in its need for religion and one in its capacity to wor. hip God. The difference, he said, between Christianity and other religions was that other religions might guide and inspire but Christianity was the only faith that could
Unfor tunately the preacher did not make himself audible to the majority of the congregation.
save.
AMERICA AND CHINESE IMMIGRANTS.
Mr. Metcalf, Secretary of Commerce, at Washington has approved the report of the special committee providing for radical revision of the existing regulations regarding the entry and residence of Chinese in the United States. The alterations provide that there shall be no delay in the admission of Chinese, that the Bertillon system of identification shall be dis- continued, and that Chinese labourers or the exempted class shall be notified on their departure of the conditions as to their re-admis- sion. Twenty-four regulations have been excised or amended.
APPOINTMENTS.
approve of the appointment of the Honourable His Majesty the King has been pleased to
Henry Edward Pollock, K.C., to be an Un- official Member of the Legislative Council of Hongkong, vice the Honourable Sir C. P. Chater, C.M.G., resigned.
The King's Exequatur empowering Mr. H.M. Perez to be Consul for Panama at Hongkong has received His Majesty's signature.
Mr. D. J. Mackenzie is appointed a plague inspector in the Sanitary Department. Acting-Consul for Austria-Hungary.
Mr. N. Post is provisionally recognised
An interesting feature of the passenger list by the homeward German mail, apart from its great length, is that it includes the names of six consuls-five German and one British. who has been serving as German Minister There is also a Minister-Count Arco-Valley,
Tokyo. Baroness d'Anethan, wife of Austro-Hungarian Minister at Tokyo, is also & passenger. The Baroness is a sister of Mr. Rider Haggard, the well-known English nove-
Mrs. E. Shellim, Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Thomson, list. Among the departures from Hongkong were Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Playfair, Mr. and and Mr. A. H. Skelton. Altogether there were 291 passengers in the list, exclusive of children.
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