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MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1912
THE CHINASMATE
BY TELEGRAPH. BY TELEGRAPH. BY TELEGRAPH. SECOND EDITION
(Router's Service to the China Moll:) | (Reuter's Service to the China-Mail.)
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THE BATTLESHIP NEW
ZEALAND.
A LONG CRUISE,
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DANISH STEAMER
WRECKED.
15 LIVES LOST.
LONDON, Dec. 29. The Danish str. Folmer was wrecked
LONDON, Dec. 29. The battleship cruisor New Zeahew?) leaves at the end of January for in a gale last Thursday, 15 of the prolonged cruise. She will call at craw being drowned. The Captain Et. Helona, Simone Bay, and Hobart, and another were picked up in a boat and will spend two to three months 50 miles south west of the Lizard by Li Sev
Zealand. She will be trawler and landed at Newlyn. Jommanded by Captain Halsey, who The crew took to the boats, one of "was in charge of the aaval guns during which swamped, nine of its the Boer War. Commander Gruce occupants, being drowned, and six were washed out of the Captain's boat...
son of the famoas cricketer, has also been appointed to the ship.
ROYAL CADET'S CRUISE
LONDON, Dec. 29. Prince Albert als shortly with other ondets for a six months' cruise In the West Indies on board the Cumberland,
Wha
LORD HARDINGE,
"NOT FIT FOR WORK FOR SOME TIME."
LONDON, Dec. 20. Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson, Finance Member of the Vicoroy's Council, will preside at the meetings of the Council TARIFF REFORM POLICY.in place of Lord Hardinge, who will
DIFFERENCES STILL APPARENT.
Opinions Of Home And
Australian Press.
LONDON, Dec 28. After Christmas the Conservative papers re-started the discussion on Mr Bocar Law's tariff policy. There is no aige of any disappearance of the differances
probably not be fit for work for some time.
AUSTRALIAN CRICKET.
#INTER-STATE MATCH.
LONDON, Dec. 29.
(Reutar'a Service to the China Mail.)
[CopyBrout:] SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS.
**MANURE HEAP" ELO- *
QUENCE.
LONDON, Dec. 30. Renter's Pretoria correspondent states that a demonstration has been ball in favour of Mr. Hertzog, who as the bead of the extreme Dutch Party, brought about Mr. Botha's resignation of the Premiership.
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THE GREAT STORM,
TERRIBLE STORIES OF SUFFER- ING.
Lospos, Der, 80. The storm is still raging is the Bay of Biscay and outward bound vessels which have been compelled to return owing to the daninge they have sufered or the fact that most of their officers have been injured continue to arrive at Plymouth and Southampton.
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Mr. Pewat, speaking from'a manure heep, said that he would prefer to be
In several cases the decks of the amidst the people on a manure hearvessels have been swept almost. than on the most brilliant platforma clean, huge seas taking the boats, bul among Foreignerà. Mr Hertzog, he works and bridges overboard. The said, was the only ministar representing repairs to the majority of the vessels the people, who were among the most will take weeks to exente. loyal in the Empire, but they did not want to take off their coat and give it to Englishmen.
Note:-Mr Dewet is evidently a Boer. In his manure-heap eloquenes about taking off his coat, he seems to have forgotten that his country was won by the British and that he and his fellow countrymen were given a place in the reconstructed Government by an act of unparalleled magnanimity on the part of the British,
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THE PEACE NEGOTIA- TIONS.
CONFFENCE RESUMED.
Compromise Likely: Turkish Couster Proposals.
LONDON, Dec. 28. Reuter understands that the Turkish In the inter-state match at Adelaide, commenced on the 3rd December, counter proposals were to be submitted South Australia ran up the grund on Saturday at the Peace Conference. which Mayne both. parties presenting maximum The Morning Post emphatically total of 549, dactaron that food taxes 1-97 nos bei contributed 101, Chamberlain-102, and demands with a view to mutual dropped, as they were vital to Imperial Preference.
The Daily Graphic states that Tariff Reform, must be got out of the way for the next election. It must wait.
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Steele an unfinished 113. New South Wales replied with 276 for the first innings and followed on, making 240, At Melbourne last week New South Wales made 84 in the first innings in the second innings, and 239 Victoria responding with 181 in the first innings and 137 for four wickets in the second,
The Daily Telegraph urges Mr Eonar Law and his colleagues to re- consider their methoda in the direction of appealing to the country for rati. fcation after a TT Bill is introduced. It prints long extracts from Australian comments on Me Bonar Law's speech, THE DISABLED P. & O.
of the the following being some quotations:-
THE "NARRUNG'S" THRILLING EXPERIENCES.
The Melbourne Argus-Mr Bonar Law's proposals are most dangerous.
The Adelavin Advertiser--The Dom-Passengers Knee-Deep In Water
LONDON, Dec. 2 The Narrung arrived at Gravesend
intons never asked the Motherland to impose duties that would be burden- some on the British people.
Concessions compromise is therefore likely. Reshid Pasha was to preside
The newspapers are fall of thrill ing stories. One of the most bar rowing was that told by the survivors. of the wreek of the Volmers yester day. The first boat launched was swamped and smashed, and the cup- tain's bout which followed capsized. The crew of nine men clung to the keel and eventually managed to right the bort.
Thev were frequently washed out of their water-logged geraft but clung to the gunwales until they were able to empty her. All were quite without food, agonised by thirst, coll, and starvation they died
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one by one and were put overboard. EVERY PAIR GUARANTEED. An engineer went riad and attempted to strangle the Captain. He was nverpowered and lushed down, with great difficulty but died soon after- wards. The survivors were practic- ally in the water for fifty-one hours.
FIRE ON A LINER
CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE.
LONDON-Dec. 34.-
4 telegram from Trieste states that
« Cleopatra
at Saturday's meeting, and was thus by a fire in the forehold of the airantageously placed for defending Austrian Lloyd liner the Turkish claims. A lively debate is forty wagon loads of four, sugar, certain.
carpets and other goods have been LATER. destroyed. The damage is consider. The Peace Conference me at 11}able o'clock on Saturday and adjourned at 12.25 till Monday at foar.
"DAN THE NEWSBOY." Reshid Pasba presided, and submitted
Childrens' Successful Per- the counter proposals, which proved
formance. }· unacceptable. The Turks thereupon declared they must communicate again
The jullity of the Christmas season, at with Constantinople. The Turks pro Taikoo was greatly added to by the child- posed frady, that the Vilayet and Adrianople remain Tarkiah, accondly, res, a large party of whom presented on Christniss eve and repeated on Saturday a that Macedonia be converted into a
pretty little children's play written by Mr principality with Salonika as the capital. C. Grieve. F. E. I. S., entitled "Dan the under the auzerainty of the Sultan and Newsboy?" The performances took place under a Protestant prince from a in the spacious concert hall of the Taikoo neutral State chosen by the Aliles and Clüb, which on each occasion was filled by
The Syley Herald advise Mr with a heavy list to starneaed, and iminated by the Saltar; thirdly Bonar Law to devote his energies to with bulwarke and device much dam-Albania to hire an autonomuus sover- a more profitable channel.
aged. She home'e y, sign of eu, eignty ander the sovereignty of the The Sydney Daily Telegraph-The countering terrible
Sultan and under a prince of the Arrange westy. Dominions have no business to advisements are being rude to accommodate Imperial Ottoman Family to be chosen Great Britain on her tariff policy. Mr the passengers in tiravesend and for five years with the possibility of Benar Ln is only trying to bamboozle London. The cargo in the forehold is the people on the faltering policy of reported to be damaged.
fond taxes.
The Melbourne Age--There are no genuina Tariff Reformara is England since the Chamberlain policy is only possible by food taxee.
Captain R. Bidwell left the bridge for the first time since Thuraday morning A representative of the High Commissioner of Australia was
Bong the first to go on board. The Globe (London) publisher Accounts of the passengers on the letter form. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Narring recall woman of the most which points out the success of Lord thrilling passages of Clarke Russell's Lausdowne and Mr. Eonar Law at rumances. The ship was bufleted by
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to commend it, nad on the whole the children gave a very good account of GREAT REDUCTIONS IN themselves Several of the principal parts | were taken by boys and girls who, it- to remain Turkish; fifthly, that Crete their stature was a reliable guide, were was not a matter for the Conference but very young, and who said their lines for Turkey and the Great Powers.
and sang their son with hardly any At the Comference a general discussion assistance from the prompter, Master P Smith, & diningrice laddie in kits, as Inky took place on the mibject of the feuill was excordingly dali. and his Ottonian proposals. The Allies emph-nitural senes of. humour quckly infected the audience, who were highly amused asised the point that the Turks had not by his end Stotch Master J. Grimshaw Holler 11, Masters H. Young F. Young recoguised the facts of the situation, and T. Smiths he did excordingly well particularly regarding Macedonia, and the older girls, Misses D Hardwick, P. requested freak Turkish proposals which Templeton, R. Anderson, A. Dicken, 31. Melatgro and R. Mitchell as deserve of the Allies. The Turkish Delegates
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-the Albert Hall and affirms that the terrific waves on Christians uight, and would take into considerazion the tercessful as it was, the piece would Mlle. Lantelme, the well-known acres,
Unionist leader's speech at Ashton a mountainous sea struck her on the was pupplementary and explanatory morning of Boxing Day, awamp thereto. There was ro contradiction ing the whois ship wrecking the and no discrepancy between them, and tackle, and flooding all the pas
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DEATH IN HOSPITAL
R. Dickson and Mrs J. Mitchell, directors.
Mr Grimshaw, taga manager: Mrg J. Weie pianist; Mrs Grimshaw And Mi
Three cases of infections disease were
Remarkably high prices ware paid recently at a sale of the jewels bolnaging to the late
who was known as the most photographed refused to give a definite answer who have benefitted by a little more rehearsal. ther the proposals submitted were their especially of the mass, the words of many
of the songs being inaudible. The play woman in Paris, The sile took place at discussion so Macedonian reforius was enhanced by excellent scenery. Much o last word. The Allies pointed out that as well staged, the fact being greatly the Hotel Drust, and the highest bid was £3,912 for a beautiful pearl neck'aco. An due to the organisers, who must have deciding the details of Colonial Pre- the passengers were prostrated acceptable at this stage.
sacrified much of their leisure in training omerald and diamond brooch realised £950, the children. Those who wers principally and a sapphire ring £409. Two diamond ference consultation and conference sea sickness, bot the 1IM I Heted
responsible for the entertaintients were Bir Kracelets realized £424, with the Colonial representatives splendidly. Azired only in pajamas,
There will be a mesting of the United would boneessary. The Unionists they helped to bail out tire, cabina
The Chinure who is alleged to be the Farrell, mistressas of the robes; and Mr Services Football League, in the Soldiers seek from the people the power to where the women and children were
man who stole 38,000 worth of jewellery J. Weir treasurer, arranga reciprocal Preference within standing in their night attire knee
from the Globe Hotel, Hongkong, last The full cast of the play is appended: Club, at 7 p.. to-night. certain nits. All parties to such an deep in water and silently weeping October, and who was arrested in the Dau, Master J. Grimaline The Laird, of Arrangement must retain autonomous and waiting for the worst. There was interior by Chinese authorities, has died in Cockpen, Master H. Young; Duncan Gray, Master F. Young: Pedy Legit, Master H. rights. We have no more intention no panic. The crew hehu ved splendid the Government Civil Hospital. Death Toleton Indy McQuill, Master P. notified is the City during the past work Smith; Jeanie Grey, Miss L. Hardwick; two of which wars fatal. A Chinese died to fix Colonial duties than the ly, the stokers working waist deep in, was due to a bullet wound in the knee Dominions have to fix ours," Mrwator daring the operation of turning which the man received at the time of Charlie, Master W. Hardwick: Polly, Miss from enteric fever, and one from paerparsl
D. Dickson; Mistress Jean, Miss K Austen Chamberlain adde, but we
Hardwick Jeans Netiles, Miss 31. fever. The other case was of a British McIntyre Leczie Lindsay, Miss.ubjees who came to t'e Colony entering believe that commercial union would
Mitchell; Bertie Loo, Miss R. Dicks from enterio, be to our mutual advantage.”
Kiraty, Miss P. Templeton: Mysie, Miss K. Anderson. Pheny, Mia A. Dickson; An employee at the Kowloon Docks Policean A. 1. Mancor T. Smith; Jirg
Bing, Meter J. Goard: Shampoo, Master on the Naval Yard, recreation ground on mamed James Duncan Bruce has been Drammont Buki. So, Mire G. Hill the 4th January, the following events are found dead on the varand in of his house. Wish Washiu, Bisa N. Porgy on; Kow The deceased was found by man anused Chow, Miss D. and Tong Long, Aias oven-One mile-open to Navy, Army, Police (K.O.Y.L.I Isaac Turner, a head watchman. Then B. Hardwick Loeri Law, Miss C. Pulley; Volunteers and
Wagati WA, Miss N. Smith; Darsie No, barrudy; post entries, Boley race-open DEATH OF AN ADMIRAL. were no marks of violence on the body. Miss M. Hill; Keoki Do Mis L. Binion to Native troops in Garrison; post entries,
and there is no suspicion of foul play Chuckle Chung. Miss B. Ferguson Bi LONDON, Dec. 28.
although the cause of death has not been Master W. Bonts; Jim, Master A, Gowrd; The death is announced of Admiral Ascertained. The deceased man was about Hob, Master W. Poilay; Ned, Master B.
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