PHILIPPINE TRADE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 487, 21 April 1909, Page 7

PHILIPPINE TRADE.

fr- • BRITISH COMPLAINTS. UNITED STATES RESTRICTIONS. REBATED EXPORT DUTY. nYTSMSGDArK—rRESS ASSOCIATION—COrTUIOHT.) (Roc. April 21, 0.35 a.m.) ■ London, April 20. ; Tho "Daily Mail" announces that, tho Washington Govornmont intends to closotho Philippino Islands market to otlier nations by establishing .free.'-"trade ..between tho Philippines and the United States, to the inclusion- of other States, and that this means ruin to tho extensive and, growing' British trade. Special resentment is caused because. of tho specific / assurances' made by tho United States in '1899 ■ that no changes would bo made, injurious to Britain's oldsptablished commerce. An.export duty was recently imposed on Philippino hemp (maiiila) and a full rebate - sf duty 'was given in tho case of all hemp sent'to tho United States. Until then Lonion- was the centre of the hemp trado. • The United States also declared that all ;rado between the States. and ' the Philiplines was coastal,' and thereforo that none , )ut ships on the American register • should oarticipate therein. Till thon, the trade vas- largely carried by British ships. There are twenty British firms in Manila »lono. /;The, largest', import and expprt firms , ire British, tho leading ibanks aro British, »nd ? tho .railway -is . British, and . many of ;ho most important enterprises are backed jy British capital. [The Payne Tariff Bill, which has prised tho United States : House of Representatives,^and 1 is Senato, .provides for reciprocal free trado with tho Philippines, with a limit to the mount '.of sugar • r and 'tobacco imported duty tree. The coastwise shipping laws of the United States affect tho'Honolulu as well.as thj Philippine trade, I '-and tniade themselves -felt in tno sase of the San' Francisco service.] GENERAL CABLE NEWS, BT TBIiT.QRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COrTKIOUT.) MISSING. London, April 19. . John,.Davidson, tho poet, who is missing from his home at Ponzance, left a document saying -that he was unable to stand his sufferings from cancer. ■ It is feared lie has- committed -suicide/;'{■ ' AUSTRALIAN IMMIGRATION. - - . ...- London, April 19. Mr. 'T. A, (Coghlan,- New South lValc& Agcnt-Goneral,. in a letter to "The Times," in reply to Australian correspondents! strictures, claims-that tho New South "Wales offios tn London has prevented thousands of persons • from emigrating whose pretence in Australia' would n«t: be an advantage to that oountry. i Qn- the. othor -hand, thanks to ,tho businesslike methods of (the various Stat-es,- thousands! of excellont; settlers. have established them-selves-in/Australia in ; recent |years.i, OBITUARY. London, April 19. ; ) ■ Tho Very Rev, Archibald P"ott, ex-Mode-rator of the (Presbytenan) CTiuroh of Scot- i land; has died'at Edinburgh; :■ ; [Tho Very Rev. Archibald Scott, 1 U.D.,- was born.on beptember 18,1837. He was Jtoderator of the Goneral Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 189G.-; Among < his', publications are "Buddhisnvand Cliristianity: A Parallol and i" Contrast."]' THE LATE :ARCHBISHOP OF SYDNEY. : Sydney, April 20. . A Gazette Extraordinary invites the publio to attend tho funeral of the late Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Dr. Saumarez Smith, which will be celebrated to-inorrow. ; •WEATHER AND "WIRELESS," Melbourne, April 19. , The Commonwealth Meteorologist, while believing in .Professor David's idea as to the advantages of a weather station on the Antarctic Continent oonnected by wireless telegraphy • - withvAustralia; .thinks the money would bo: bettor, spent ,in linking up some of the r large'aroas in Australia from which no information is'yot available. , " , COLD SNAP IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, April 20. The weather is cold, and snow is falling in tho high lands. BROKEN HILL RIOTING CHARGES.' (Rec. April '21, 1.35 a.m.) Sydney, April 20. In oonTioction .with the Broken Hill rioting oharges, the trial of Matters has commenced at Albury. LIEUTENANT SHACKLETON. Sydney, April 20. i .-Tbe Nimrod has arrived, i. The Town Hall was,:d&sely; packed,to-night on the ocoasion. of tho citizens'' welcome to Lieutenant Shaokletpn, and- great cntliusiasm was shown. , "Never scratch a cow or a calf," says ' a veterinary, surgeon. : ' Tho germs" of itch aro liable to get under' tho finger nails. ; . ■ The Great Eastom Railway Company have given orders for the whole of. their steamers on tho Harwich-intwerp, service, : to, be .fitted with - the 'same system 'of 'wireless telegraphy | as is on . thoir -Hook of Holland steamers. - . Lieutenant-General , Sir . Francis Wingate, Egyptian Sirdar, has been, selected: for the Distinguished Service rewhrd. , The Scholarship for Composition, which -has'boon held in tho past.by Sir. Arthur Sullivan mnd othor distinguished musicians, has boon awarded to Mr. Eric Wil-liam-Gritton, of ltoigate. Mr; Gritton, who is. nineteen,>years ago, was formorly a chorister at King's College, Cambridge, and has been.studying music for tho past three years at the Royal College.of Music.-Thoro were sixteen ■ candidatts for tho scholarship, whieh is now of tho value of £100 por annum. ■ Tho death .is: announcwl of Sir John Watt Reid,,K.C.B., R.N.j at the ago or eighty-six. Tho son-of Dr. John Watt Reid, R.N., ho entered- the Navy ,in ISIS. In 1880 he was appointed Director-General of the Medical Dorpartment'of ;,tho: Navy; which post ho held until 18S8, when :ho retired. Ho served in the Russian War in tho Black Sea, 1854-55; in . the China.; War, 1857-59; and :in : tho Ashanti'Campaign, 1874. ,For his services in tho last-mentioned campaien ho was proi motod, arid recoived the modal. Ho was mado a-K.C.B. in Novomber, 1882. Ho was educated in Edinburgh; winter is Coming. • Sharland and Co.; Ltd., havo just landed over 200 sets of NEW LANTERN SLIDES. 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