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He Excellency Visits Shaukiwan
BIG SEIZURE OF COCAINE,
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1911.
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A big seizure of cocaine was this morning THE DECLARATION OF TO VISIT ENGLAND.
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mada by Revenue Oflcar Wilder. Boned. ing the... Sui an ay she was coming alongside from Macao, ho found in the possession of a man no less than four IMPORTANT STATEMENT BY thousand bottica of cocaine, representing 500 dances in all. He arrested the man and took porencion of the comine
His Excellency the Governor, accom anied by the Bumble the Director of Public Works and Private Secretary visited the village of Shtakiwa yesterday and inspected the mullah in the cinity and also the Police Station,
At the Magistracy this morning the full The improvements in the villages of Taipaualty was indicted on the defendant, a Hang and projected works in the Wong fine of $2,000, or one year's imprisonment, nichong Falley and other public works being imposed, and the whole of the cassins warn also inspected.
called into existence to inect the exigencies of latter-day requirements in purely industrint and com- mercial centres. The nucleus of the Hongkong University is, as most folks who have taken the trouble to reap the paper connected with it, the Hongkong Medical School and the Hongkong Technical College Both these institutions are doing excellent work and when they are incorporated in the University they now Hair Factory in Sterkiwan Road and will undoubtedly find ampler opporthe various processes were described by tunities for expansion god widening the Manager to whom the Governor ex- of scope. So from the start the pressed his cordial thanks and intorost.
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MEMOS FOR TO-MOKROW. Emperor of China's Birthday. 11.30 a.Meeting of Hongkong Rope
Manufacturing C3. 2 p.m. Royal H.K. Yacht Club's
Regatlu.
9 p.m.-Concert at City Hall,
By: the courtesy of Mr Percy Smith, Managing Director, the party visited the
MILITARY WEDDING IN
HONGKONG.
Mearns-Kcogh.
In the presenca of a large and fashionable:
of men which China so urgently requires at this crisis of her development-medical practitioners, civil and technical engineers. It is still an open question, we be gathering in srecedingly pretty military lieve, whether, an Arts Course can wedding was
yesterday solemnised at the also be inaugurated at the beginning in Eiloes Mary Keogh, augliter of the St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, when of the University's career, though of into Mr T. Monahan Kegli, of Warrann, course that will have to come. It is Chonamble, N.S.W., was runrried to a matter of funds, however, and we Captain William Anderson Mearns of therefore await with considerable in the Tmperial Medical Service. The core mony was performed by the Rev. Father tercat Sir FREDERICK LARD'S DEX, Naval Chaplain, Sad-amorges pronouncement on the subject. At the invited guests were Major General any rate, apart from the upbuilding and are Anderson, Col. and Mrs Bedford, Famong the students of high standards Lieut. Col Sir Josephs and Lady Fayres, Lieut. Col. and Mrs Camilleri, Capt. and of Danly rectitudo and moral churau im Pasell, Capt. Siuchi, Fleet Surgeon ter-for on this. His Excellency A. H. Jeremy, RN, Surgeon Wilson, rightly and most stranously insists-R.N., Dr. and Mrs Forsyth, Mts and it will be seen that the University Lindsey, Dr. G. D. R. Black, Dr. and Mrs Bunbordy, "Mr and Mrs Thomson, the Misses Wilkinson, Moses F. R. Carpenter, 1.3.8., J. M. Macedo. (Consul for Perth F. Jansen (Consul for Belgian), RR. Hyrd, and others.
(was confiscated. '.
POLICE AUCTION.
PREMIER.
(Reuters Service to the Chirea Mail:
LONDON, February 10. The Premier (Mr H. H. Asquith) has intimated that the Port of London
Declaration- and the Naval Plizo Bill will not be debated until they hayo been considered by the Imperial Con- ference.
He added that the Crown would not be In the Polica compound his morning advised to ratify the Declaration if A sale of unclaimed and confiscated goods
took place in the prescure of a large crowd the House of Commons voted advarsel of Chinese buyers. Amongst the articles on the question. offered for sale were numerous opium-pipes and lamps which had been seized from illicit divans, and these were readily bought un by the Chinese...
We wish to again draw attention to this
proceeding. The Government enforces the shutting down of divan, seizes the ap auction and later, perhaps, prosecutes the paratus, then offers it for sale by open
buyers for the public use of the goar. The low prices realised at these auctions for tho
THE KAISER IN- DISPOSED.
A COLD BUT NO FEVER.
(Reuters Service: tu the China Mn.) LONDON, February 10,
H. I. AL the Kaiser has been confined
fever.
SENSATION.
(Independent, Ners Agency's Service
to the Chima Mail.)
TORTO, February 10. The Japanese Diet bas passed the appropriation for the sending of tườ warships to England to represent, Japan at the Coronation.
THE PLAGUE IN THE NORTH.
(Independent Neica Agency's Service
to the Chinn Mail)
TOKYO, February 10,
The Imperial Diet has approved the proposal set out in the supplementary budget for the provision of money for the suppression of plague in Manchuria, It is reported from St. Petersburg that the Russian Government has de cided to stop the transportation of emigrants to the Far East owing to the plague.
SNOW AT MUKDEN.
HOPES OF DECREASE"
IN PLAGUE.
Wak Tea Yat Bo's Serviced...
PERINO, February
raging it Mukden,
and it is hoped that this will have the effect of staying the plague ravages.
smoking implements is a direct inducement indoors for several days with a cold, to the Chinees to buy the things up which, however, is not necompanied by. wholesale and commence opium-smoking clubs which cazrat-se the brigands and regulations now stand to suppressed THE NEW YORK BANKystorm if the Government is really scalevouring to aid in the suppressing of the babit, and is not merely concerned to see that one type. of divan ceases to exist irrespective of the springing into existence of similar catà. briments, then why are the implements seized not destroyed! This would be a far more satisfactory method of procedure with one hand and to afterwards offer them to the same people with the other.
9 p.n.-Royal H.K, Yacht Club's Smok starts from a very practical base. If Kelly, Mr and Mrs Hamilton, Mr and than to snatch the pipes and lamps away
jog Doocert.
General Memoranda. MONDAY, February 13 :---
Emperor of Japan's Accession Day (1867). Non-Property Sale by Mr Geo. P.
Lammert.
TUESDAY, February 14:--
Race Meeting. 11.45nm-kubang Bunks clie WEDNESDAY, February 15-
Kacu Meeting.
founders intend it to be of use and service to the toiling millions of China by providing them with trained men capable of spreading the light of medical science and of guiding the cause of advancement along scientific lines in the matter of engineering and allied projects. The superficially frothy products of some universities which we could namewill never, wo kope, becothe a feature of the Hongkong University; while we hope that as the years roll on and its endowments gradually accrue it will be able to found Chairs for original research which will reflect Fasting honour on the men who had HONGKONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1911. the foresight, political inspiration and
THURSDAY, February 16:--
Race Meeting.
| Saturday, February 15 :--
Of Day-Race Meeting.
The China Mail.
THE UNIVERSITY PROJECT.
PUBLIC opinion in the Colony is sharply divided into two camps in SMOUTRIE & Co., Ld.regard to the advisability or other
Hongkong, April 16, 1907..
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wise of founding University in Hongkong. On the one side we find a very considerable portion of the community who are entirely opposed to the project, holding that it is superfluous, unnecessary, a mistake.
wise courge to erect the university on solid and lasting foundations in the face of much apathy and ill-disguised opposition.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Tuesday is St. Valentine's Day. The Oxford and Cambridge bont mice this year will be rowed on Saturday, April
A suggestion of Lord Rosebery. to They argue that the necessity for restore Linlithgow Palace as a memorial to such an institution exists only in the King Edward has been tentatively adopted imagination of a few enthusiasts in Scotland.
And that Hongkong will eventually
ric the day that sees the University Schucekert's flexible airship, the largest in
IFEMS AT THE COURTS."
A Japanese stowaway who had stolen his passage on board the s.. Japan from Moji was to-day sent to prison for six weeks, **
For kicking a horse and thereby causing, it injury two Indians were fined $3 each at the Magistracy.
/
SENTENCE ON ABSCONDING CASHIER.
PRINCE CHING
CENSURED.
(Wah Tes Yat Po's Pervice.)
PERIG. February 9. Prince Ching has been censured an ten counte. by a censor, but the
(Recuter's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON, February. 30.
New York branch of the Russo-Chinese Wider, the absconding cashier of the
Bank, has been sentenced to nine years' imprisonment, and has been ordered to memorial has been allowed to remain be re-arrested on expiry of his on the file unanswered,
"the" sentence in order to be tried on other indictments..
SECRET - COMMUNICA- TIONS.
PERSIAN AFFAIRS:
THE REGENT RETURNS.
(Wah To Yat Po's Service.)
PEKING, February 0.
The Prince Regent has declared his intention of having a telegraphic install- (Reuters Service to the China Mail)ation fited up at the Palace for use in
The bride was attired in a cream cystor panne gown, with an overdress of silver and parzt nat finished with silver bugies and diamond and pear fringe. Her beautiful Court train was lined with silver and embroidered with pearis and true. Brussels not veil was worn, surmounted by lovers's knots. An exquisite real lace and
a very becoming Charlotte Corday cap of About one hundred Chinese were brought orange blossoms and Scotch heather. She was attended by two bridesmaids, biss up at the Magistracy to day for contraven Eileen Dann and Miss Bods Baker, both of ing the regulations in regard to cracker. whom wore pretty white charmeuse and firing and the throwing of bent, and lace frocks with dainty Charlotte Contay small fines were imposed in each instances. to the capital. caps. They also were wreaths of daisies jadestone pendants were the gif of the and carried posies to match. Their Chiness
bridegroom, while they also wore boomerang and Kookaburra brooches, the gifts of the blooms consisting of apple-blossoms and bride. The bride carried a sheaf of choica
ferns.
Captain W. 3.-E. Bell, R. A. M. Q., war **best man."
At the conclusion of the ceremony the newly-married couple. left the sacred building to the strains of wedding music played by the band of the 13th Rajpate, which was stationed outside, gausing under an arch of steel formed by the swords of the bridegroom's brother officers,
The reception was held at Kingsclure, in the grounds of which the Rajputs
and played appropriate selections. The usual toasts wers honoured and the bride cut the wedding cake with the
were a choice collection, were viewed
Mr Justice Hazeland, at the Supreme
LONDON, February 10 secret communications.
A mastage from Teheran saya that the Regent, Nasr-el-Mulk, has returned
Court this afternoon, gave judgment for THE OPIUM QUESTION, defendant in the case in which, the Man Chun fin sued Shu Yik Chow to recover for money lent as well as for 8141.00 898.60 being balance due from defendant
on the counter claim. The question of costs was reserved in chambers."
ARGUMENT IN HOUSE OF COMMONS.
RIOT IN CHEUNG LOK
Cheung Lok-is situated in the north of the province of Kwangtung Apparently there has been a serious riot there. Tho cause was the elopement of the wife of a shop-kooper with a sergeant of the local police. It appears that the policeman is a bully, and apparently the woman was com pelled to go with him. In any case sho was living at the local police station, and the sergeant baldly paraded the connection. This naturally exasperated the husband of it no longer, he went and told his story to the woman, and at last, when he could stird before Mr Justice Hazeland, Wong Kwong the Colne Valley Division, asked in some of the other shopkeepers and enlisted. sued Kong Sing Leo to recover $237.50, the House of Commous what stops their sympathy. He then went to tho Mr FL.K. Holmes appeared for plaintifare being taken to release China from police station and demanded his wife back. Defendant said the shop was to be her treaty obligations to admit opium, The inevitable altercation ensued, and the assigned to-day His father had died and he was only the manager. Judgment was tary Secretary to the Foreign Office, Knivta were used and a good many wero Mr. McKinnon Wood, Parliamen plase was soon filled with people, some of whom took one side anti some the other. given for plaintif and $30 costs with replied that both the Imperial Govern wounded, some very badly. This so stirred immediate execution.
ment and the Government of India the whole town that the business people
At the Supreme Court this morning,
(Reuter's Service to the Chine Mail.)
LONDON, February 10. Mr. C. Leach, Labour member for
A Berlin message says that Scamens. bridegroom's sword. The presents, which Kam Kai was fined $50 or three months' to Yoduce the export of opium, though further business done till the womIY Wag started. This attitude of mind ex- the world; has made a successful trial trip they included a piece of regimental plate Commander C. W. Beckwith, R.N., at the the Chinese Government had not, up handed back to her husband for chastise-
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the proper authorities. The district magie-
The master of the licensed steam launch were carrying out their undertaking what their shops and stood upon the defen- sive, insisting that there should be no imprisonment with, hard labour, by
the 105th Mahrattas, an oil painting of carrying one hundred passengers in excess corresponding reduction in poppy trote beppened to be away from the town from the 13th Rajputs, a rosa bowl from Marine Court this morning, for unlawfully to the present, furnished proof of a tent, and the police sergeant punished by Hongkong Harbour from the H...K. S. B. of the number allowed. A similar penalty growing and opium manufacture. when the riot took place and the matter. R. G. A cigar box and cigar lighter was imposed on the muster of the team Negotiations on the whole question had to b
had to be taken up by his substitute, ho from the R.A.ALC., and i silver card case launch Che Loy for a like offence. Fines were now proceeding at Peking with meeting of the enraged shopkeers, whose
called thing possible. He from the Military Nursing Sisters at the of 326 and $50 was also imposed on tite Albany
master of the steam launches Hoi Kong view to meeting the wishes of the hair stood on end, and whose eye corners The honeymoon is being spent at Macso, and Hoi How respectively.
Chinese Government in a liberal is not yet settled. It is not clearly stated were prized widely open, but the matter
spirit
how many were wounded, it apparently Several were hurt, SOCIAL AND PERSONAL,
To-night the Hongkong Volunteers hold
plains why the subscription list con- with twelve passengers. The airahip is able tains so few individual nanies belong to carry fifty. ing to the European section of the com-
An extmordinary scene was witnessed animity as compared with the donin the Bank of England the other day ations given by big corporations and when a lunatic ohtava entrance to the commercial bodies. To listen to the building and was the cause of considerable men who adopt this attitude one en commotion. Fortunately he was accured counters the statement frequently made before any damage was done. that we are merely sowing the field
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice with dragon's teeth, and the gener- Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals begs to their annual Ball,
Everything Reduced.ation which will have to reap the acknowledge with thanks the following
Bargains
IN ALL
Departments.
· A BIT OF NATIVE LIFE.
An expectant official in the Weichow district Ins brought a charge against a relative of the same clan, charging him with Saturday is the anniversary of the birth returning from abroad and bringing into 850 of the Emperor of China.
harvest will have no cause to bless us donation to the funds of the Hospitale -
From the outset the China Mail Standard Oil Co.
The anniversary of the late President Lincoln's birthday falls on Sunday,
of
Monday is the forty-fourth anniverary the necession of the Emperor of Japan.
Another very successful “At Home
was given at Government House on Thars day evening, when Lady Lugard received
the country revolutionary ideas, which he
SUBMARINES FOR
· HONGKONG
DEPARTURE ANNOUNCED.
in propogating at all possible hours. In-so (Reuter's Service to the China Mail), doing he is surrounding himself with people
LONDON, February 10, who are becoming impregnated with the The there submarines have left same noticas. The sun was also charged Portsmouth for Hongkong. with being in Correspondence with others, believed to be revolutionary, in their
sympathics, and also with stealing hero and there. When the mingistrate received this, information, he requested the gentry
PORT
has always been a strong advocate The Christian Union Meeting on Mou of the University and it sees no day will be conducted by the Rev. 8. W. reason to abandon los position dyne, who tankitty boysoned to give a Must. Iniversity projects, no matter series of addresses. The meeting will be in what lands they are started, held usual of Rutherford Hall, St.
Stephen's College, at 5.30 p.m." have encountered similar hostile criticism. They have invariably been
When a charge of neat stealing was Wm. Powell, Ld., held superfluous and unnecessary by about to be hard at the Swansen Quarter the man who prides himself upon
Sessions, the man charged with the offence a very large number of guests.
of the neighbourhood to investigate the matter and report theroon. The result being exentially "practieni." Forensered song the grand jury, helping to meumonio pingue at Mukden, was the They find that the man arrested is quite
was found to be miwing. He was due Des
Dr. Jackson,
who succumbed to has now been forwarded to the yamen. tunately for the world at large there decide whether there was a bill against son of the late Bir Robert Jackson, of innocent of the charges laid against him. have always been' men who take himself or not. Ife cxplained that he Liverpool, for many years a missionary
On the other hand, the son of the expectant officía! CINEMATOGRAPH THEATRE, longer, views than their fellows, whose thought, the jurymen, were all prisongen. the English Presbyterian Mission in insalted some women of the clan, It is AT OUR
was wild in his habits, and recently He was found not guilty, and discharged." Rajputana. He went out to Blanchuris to not clearly stated what he did, but the an age but for all time." We are The Dufy Telegraph foreshadows that
aasist the well-known Dr. Christie Justice as they thought it, ned, and so neighbours interferol and administered.
decided that the father should be
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thought and provision is "uot for
of
punishment. The father, anarting des
The British steamer Prometheus ended a somewhat adventurous voyage when sho arrived in Singapore the other day. She I took aboard at Jeddah 644 pilgrims who had concluded their visit to bletta. During the voyage to Singapore elevan persons died one birth was registered and, τα στόπε Jobn's Island & case of small pox was dis when the ship was brought up off St
"covered. The whole complement of pilgrims was landed on the island, the ship was thorongly dinnfected and the ey vaccinated.
WINES & CLARETS.
Rise in Prices in EUROPE in consequence of the complete failure of the 1910 Vintage..
We are prepared to meet local demande
OLD PRICES,
and to supply Wines in Bulk
AT THE SAME PRICES,
of opinion that the University, when the House of Lords will return the Vets The Japanese official history of the late my took away some of his buffaloesan. once it has started, will soon silence Hill to the Cannons, embodying reform of Ran-Jarunees War, the compilation of the double irritation ansing in the
the Lords, mentioned in the preamblo, as 9.15 to 11.30 r. ita detractors and critics, for the mon the only way be secure political peace area which was first commented at the loud action of his son, and the less of his (for the same quality of Wines as were charged to residents
make a lappy Coronation year. The West 1000, te reported to have been completed. charge against one of the men holeci quarters of the Military Stad on April 13, buffaloes, brought as an act of revenge the minder Gazette believes that the Bill will It is expeated that the whole of the work
nusiated ziz nuininistering this rough, and will be printed this month or next month, make such progress before Easter that its It is afated that the greatest portion of the jussmage will be completed before the history will not find its way into print.
characteristic of the Chinese, " Cormation adjournment.
SPLENDID PROGRAMMES
IL NIGHTLY.!
Mas DOLLY SWIFT.
Mr DENNIS CARNLY.
who are drawing up its constitution can betrusted tosteerclear of the rocks upon which Indian education has come sucli woeful shipwreck Sir FREDERICK LUGARD,” the principal drifter, we Friday, and for a few Nights only, know, has long been at work on this
The Grand Film d'Art AIMASSALINA."
constitution and from remarks which be has dropped from time to time
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TELEPHONE No: 135.
Uth February, 1917.