SATURDAY MARCH 80, 1912.
BY TELEGRAPH BY TELEGRAPH.
[Corrina)
THE COAL STRIKK.
MEN ADVISED TO RASUME.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
London, March 29.
[COFFIEGAT. UPHEAVAL AT NANKING.
EXTENSIVE LOOTING.
The miners' leaders are now in their Reuter's Serckes to the China faid) district impressing the importance of
Lonas, Match 30. the concessions gained, and advising the
Henter's corres- man to return to work, pointing out that
A telegram from
RAMBLINGANOTIS.
Ball the Hangbong Di quenter the Bandmann Opera: Company, Hongrong can not complain of the dearth of public entertainments these days, our of the high handant of excellence which is maintainedy "The Gondolient' will remain in the memories of most of us as one of the host things which the A.D.Q: have put on, and I hops that the success achieved will encourage them late giving us something in similar rein next BRUPT..
The long list of musical plays which are are offered for the delectation of thestro
HE CHINA MALL.
to the days of Hood Ha bean sunt in. -
Las
Some years ago I read in the Specta of an excellent, puh made by « ganblumas after hearing a fute performance by the onlarated player Lazara It male be clever dog that could lick that, baggar."
When the poet Coleridge was calling one day on Campbell, the author of Roher Noded, be fall done the sales and Campbelling hiring replied, Sir (iser), rolling rapidly.
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a bäre majority in the ballot is suficient pondent at Peking states that tale-goers for the next three weeks or so include Haddon Hall" One of the chief men of Į
to and the struggle.
FURTHER KIOTING. Attempts to send down a few men at Harborough, Great Wyrley, and Walsall
yesterday resulted in some rioting and atoning of the police.
The miners at Chirk and Littleton were working quietly yesterday in the presence of troops
STRIKE PAY FIGURES.
It was at a rehear
was at a reberal of amateurs for grama received from" Nanking report several old favourites, but there are also the Society was telling the company that serious disorders,
apzo new pieces which should attract con- there had been no volunteers. fat that parte The soldiers are looting on an ex-
siderable attention, such as "The House," of the pagos. Ha know, he said, the dif "The Quaker Girl," The Chant of Ludculty was that of the costume the tensive texle.
xembourg," etc. Lovers of musical comedy were shy of the "breeks."--but he assured them the dresson were handsons, pretty will be well-served, indeed.
ke Up jumped Ma of the Suci jolly and stout, and asked fornle
WOMEN'S VOTES,
CONCILIATION BILL
REJECTED.
LONDON, March 29,
The miners' anions have disbursed (Better's Service to the China May £1,043.250 in strike pay. The balance ramaining is nominally £950,900," most- ly belonging to Durban, Forkshire, Derbyshire and Nottingham.
The funde in North Wales, Warwick hire, Cumberland, Somerset and Bristol are exhausted, and the fands of other unions are vanishing.
Numbers of collieries were opened yesterday, but only a few men offered to expectation, Contrary 10. 10,000 Warwickshire mipers did not
TIKUMA.
resume,
AUSTRALIA'S REMEMBRANCE,
A Sydney telegram states that Premier McGowan has telegraphed, authorising the Agent-General in London to expend £1,000 to provide 50,000 meals for sufferers from the Coal strike,
GLAD NEWS.
Later.
Everywhere there are signs of re sumption of work, even in South Wales and in Scotland.
Mr Hartshorn, speaking at Maesteg, aaid resumption would not mean, sur render, but, would be merely a test of
hat they had won.
Other leaders" recommend. the Act being given a trial.
THE END IN SIGHT.
LONDON, March 30. The Secretary of the Minera Federa tion advises the men to ballot for resumption of work."
The Scottish coalowners hare con- ferred and arranged for the opening of the pits.
GRAND NATIONAL.
WIN FOR JERRY M.
(Beuter's Service to the China Mail)
LONDON, March 29.
The Grand National Steeplechase run st Liverpool to-day, over a distance of
4 miles 850 yds, resulted as follows:-
Jerry M. (Piggott)
Bloodstone (F. Lyall}
1
2
Axle Pin (Anthony). .................. 3. There were twenty-four starters, and the winner got home with six lengtha to spare, while four lengths, separated Bloodstone and Axle Pin.
The Conciliation (votes for women) Bill was rejected by 299 votes to 208. This result was a surprise and was received with tremendous enthusiasm, the House of Commons having passed the second reading of similar Bills by large majorities.
The minority included Mr Lloyd George, Mr Birrell, Sir Edward Grey, Messra, John Burns, Rancing, Balfour, Bonar Law, Lyttleton, Wyndham, and the Labourities.
1 do 1" *** Wall, no, Mn, instantly supli- ed the chief You see, we want a not a volume
The return cricket match between tha Press and the Police, looked at one tua as it it would be an eney thing for the wielders of the pan. But then, one De a certain town ja the "Mortli of ot. them a remarked as he left land ther the ground *8metimes
a page gets Some years ago, during a severe hollie Dzi (AL being apable to non his dog-aker, rigged pled just as you go to press, It was the op a aleigh and started off to try and at extreme tail end of the police team who patient whom he had been unable to see piod" the Pressmen's hopes on Wedpes- for some days. On his way through the day,
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town he met B, the rival doctor, who shouted out," What are you up to A my hand at sleighting," replied & nothing now with you," said B. been at it ever
or since you
1 came here
Fite in Stubble, by the Baroness Orezy. The weather is warming up, and an
Jouse of Cariboo by Roger Pocock. fortunatoly the humidity of the atmosphere
Roddies, by B. P. Neumann." ** increasing too, so that lighter clothing is
Across the Footlights, by Fargo Hame again an imperative nooossity for the Hong Scens Whitefriars Club, suveral years Marie, by H. Rider Haggard, the
by Claude Farrare kong resident. Well, we have had a fairly ag David Christie Murray was relating A Glorious Lie, by Dorothes Gerard
from which be bul just returned. By Ms Wycherleys Warda, by La A+ 1 long spell of cold weather, so we should anecdotes pf, lecturing tour, in Canada, The not grumble, though of course if we didn't constantly interrupted by a quan who want The Way of an Xagle, by EM, Dell, grumbla we should not ba human, should" ed to know all about the working of the The Red Flour de Flors Duel
| then new Canadian Copiri-bt Act, and who' Maid's Monda
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I always read with the deepest interest the speeches of Hongkongites in the Homeland, especially when they have any reference to life in our little Colony, once it was with marked avidity that I dived into the full sccount of Archdeacon
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aked eventually, Why is the working Whon War in of the Act entrusted to the Minister for Agriculture?" Mury fashed out. Well, Mr. is it not, after all, largely que ion of serials (cereals)"},
RAMBLER
“THE MOUSME.
by May
Harker
by T. M. Pocock.
by In C. Kenny
Mary and Jane by Penny
*inciater. Kuter Bridget, by Thomas Gobla. Flower of Grass, by Kachlyn Rhodes, The Evolution of Sara, by Evelyn Erarstė-
Groen.
An Accidental Daughter, by Commo
Hamilton Bermadu, by
The majority included Messrs Asquith Barcourt, Hobhouse, McKenna, Buxton Churchill, Samuel, Austen Chamberlain, Smith, and the Nationalist party. The action of the Nationalists was due to fartitute on the attractive, theme of Crowded House Expresses Great Bingham
Barnett's address to the Royal Colonia desire to save the Government a weekHongkong's Part in Chion's Reform." of Parliamentary time.
· THE FUTURE.
The Suffragette Societies are staggered at the defent of the Bill, which they say will not allay further agitation in the slightest.
A DEMONSTRATION.
It was certainy an able statement of the case, permented with marked Imperial sentiments, but it is clear that the reverend gentleman was, in the eraberance of his onthusiasm, carried a little off his feat tempted to paint the pictures rather overs rostly, he succombed, I'm afraid.
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It was a junior åttache to the Japanese busy to London who, in that spicit of excessive and well-meaning polits
which characterises bla zation when asked for opinion by foreign friend, doclared that "The Moreover, be didn't tell all he knew Moasme" was the most true reflection of. that's quite plain. In his desire to illustrate Japanese life evar pat upon the Western the moral effects of British justice stage Well, if "The Arcadians" can be ou the Chinese, the Archdeacon refurred to taken as a true refection of London the surprised satisfaction of the native suburban life that opinion in sound. Press when the law in Hongkong sonds to But be that any as a musical comedy the gallows the whiteman who murders a pure and simple The Moosme" is very Chinese just as it does a Chinese who mur-much above the standard of its class. Its der another. But he did not continue the underlying motif, the unselfish sacrifice of analogy when he came on to the offence of gambling, to which he simply made a pass idg reference among other vices made punishable by law.". Why, I wonder, did not the worthy lecturer let his hearers into into the secret that Europeans enjoy an licensed freedom in this regard whereas A-record-collection-of-£10,000-(2) was poor. John Chinnman, with bit iatorn lors
The militant suffragista held a demonstration at the Albert Hall, those present including Mr and Mrs Pethick Lawrence, who were released yesterday on a £7,000 bail..
A message was read from Miss Christabel Pankhurst, written by her on the 10th inst., in which she defied
the Government.
taken.
"A
of a little "flutter", is harassed out of his life by the authorities in the latter's dator. mination to do him out of his often quite ROYAL GEOGRAPAI-harmless bit of fun Perhaps he forgot!
CAL SOCIETY.
HONOUR FOR MR CICUL
CLEMENTI.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON, March 29,
masters's
woman to sava lored one from gnomy and shame without any thought of compense, ir her motives even being un- derstood, is certainly Japanese whatsoever, bat the manner of felling the story is of the West, Western O Hana-san (Mis Marjorie Tompeat) is a singer is the temple at Tsumura, and of two rival lovers | abo prefera. Captain Fujiwara (Dr Wm. Farmer). To ruip Fujiwara, Colonel Yamaki (Mr E Granicy) foista on him a gabling obligation to considerable amount. Knowing that this would mean
I was surprised to learn from the ruin to Fujira, O Hana-san redeems the Archdeacon's remarks that even the debt by selling herself to ten-house evolie is compelled to carry home as a geisha. She sends the receipt for the the Jive. fowl. for: his
debt surreptitiously to Fujiwars and be dinner in a basket and net with head Proceeds to the Russian war. When the trailing groundward." Que has indeed to war is o'er he and his comrades, in arms go abroad for news. My observations lead return to find the erstwhile temple singer me to the conclusion that if there is any the most popular geisha in Tokyo. Fuji- The Royal Geographical Society has regulation on this point it is humoured war is astounded, not knowing the cir awarded the Founder' medal to Mr mors in the brosch than otherwise. And Camstances, but the intervention of Mio advanced ideas on the astringe question, even those unhappy chickens we so often Komp. (Miss Violet Frampton) daughter of General Okubo, who has some very: eventually brings the lovers together again
Charles Montagu Doughty," a well-es lying in a banket, sandwiched in be On the field settling down, Rathnally known author os travel; the Patrons' tween the raw beef and vegetables bought ied but fell at the third fence. Elood medal to bír Douglas Carruthers, a at the market appear to me to have none stone took the lead at Becher's Brook traveller in Mongolia, Turkestan and too bright a time of it. with Jerry M. well up. Two fences Ruwenzori; the Victoris Research from home Jerry M. went to the front medal to" Mr George Darain; the Another eloquent passage in the report and held the adrantage to the finish. Only seven finished.
to 1 agst Axle Pin.
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Miss Marjorie Tempest, the fortunate Possessor of's splendid voice, made a most accessful first appearance in Hongkong. She played vary sympathetically, Ab Murchison Request to Capt. Macfie, before me says: Here the lecturer charmingly, and won almost at a bound a referred to the completion of the new Law warto place in the hearts of her audience. Uganda Topographical Survey; the The betting was to 1 agst the Gill Memorial to Captain Bailey, for Courts in Hongkong. Ah! wouldn't I She was admirably played up to by Mr
give something to know what he said on Farmer
scorn undeserved winner, 40 to 1 agst Bloodstone and 20 his travels in Brahmaputra and on the this burning topic? What a chance the War: their pathetic pathing before the which he heaps deluded by while Yangtze, the Backe Bequest to Sir Archdeacon had of illustrating the Bise stones, and her cheerful acceptance For a place the betting was 5 to 4 William Wallace, Administrator of colority with which public buildings are of the undeserved treatment were all agst Jerry M, the others proportionata Rhodesia, and the Cathbert Feck erreted in this armor of the Empire A's finely pourtrayed.
Several of their lyrics had, to be repented Grant to Mr Cecil Clement, of he exhibited a slide of the structur
villain, made an scalent Hongkong,
one can imagine him proudly exclaiming
The lighter side of the comedy was in with beaming smile and a swoop of the
Tha: maisacholy-fos-- excellent hand-All this built in less than twelve tured but extremely mirth-provoking Mr eth as Hashimoto, the tes-housekeeper years!". Only one other point in the Frith an Hashime
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not every Beauty SOCIALIST MENACE, perch struck my eye statement by the hi
use Mr. Bobby thing "was simply immense) Archdeacon of how a Chinese trader once. Roberts But, the fortune-teler walked back over a mile to return a dollar the also bad a splendid song, dealing with the speaker had paid him in mistake In his supposed death which he sang most realistically), and Miss Kitty Barlow as the words of the poet, "I don't fink."
Mitau, the mistress of the geisha, provided
of England and a goodly portion of Europe were encored, as they deserved to be
The coal strike absorbs all the thoughts uproarious marriment whenever they wato on the stage. All this songs and dances today, judging by the papers brought out The scenery, as is usual with a Band Beuter Agent at Brishens wires by the mall and the cables sent by Boatermann production, was very effective and
the earthquake Paffects most glaverly. that the State Premier, addressing a
The distress at home must be very terrible
managed Bat it would be more in accord by now and the dislocation of bratia, com-
with real life, if this geisha and the meeting announcing the Government plote. This strike has been more terrible house, girls underskirts were red and policy, reviewed the recent strike and in its effects than a big war, and I fear not the green and other colours now NOTT
ahendi also wOBS I denounced the Strike Committee's re- that it will he years before the old country Tanaka the journalist,
recovers from the knock-out blows Hashimoto's style of clothing.
more eambre garb, preferably black while
The winners for the five previous years'
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This year's winner is 4. bay gelding by Walmsgate-Luminary. His achievemon be Joring the 1908-1913 season were-Second in the Open Chase at Newbury; firatin Lavor poci Trial Chase at Sacdawa Park and
STRAIGHT TALK AT BRISBANE.
Fecond in the Grand National to Jenkins (Reuter's Service to the China Mail) kowa E. 0.M).
GERMANY FAND CANADA Beuter's Service to the China Meit)
LONDON, March 29
Beuter's agent at Ditewn states that any has again approached Canada
☀ view to Beciprocity arrange
NEW ZEALAND TRAM WAY STRIKE.
UNION FINED
- LONDON, March 29.
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