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DEATH.
Jacon. This morning, after a short illues, at his residence. 2, Shaukiwao Road, EwAND HENRY JACOB, aged 48. (of the Standard Oil Company the beloved, husband of Rosina Gidley Jacobs. Deeply mourned. Funeral cutere will pass the
Monument at 5,3) this afternoon..
MEMO. FOR TO-DAY. 9.10-The Hipprodrome Circus at
Causeway Bay,
MEMOS. FOR TO-MORROW.
Non-Auction of the Heng Lee" by
Mesers, Hughes and Bough.
m-Hippodrome Circus Matines performance,
p.1
1,43 p.m.—Annual Meeting of Seat
holders of Union Church.
6.15 p.at-B.K. Fotball Assoc. General
Meeting.
"
General Memeranda.
TRUESDAY, MAY 21-
Ascension Day.
Sunday, May 24:—
Empire Day,
a.m.-Excursion to Maca TUESDAY, MAY 28--
Queen Mary's birthday (1887).
3 p.m.--Crown Land Sale at P. W.D. WEDMEADAT Muy 27
Noon.-Peak TramWASH Co. Did's.
Meeting.
The Derby at Eprom, THURSDAY, May 28-
12.30 p.m.tar Furry Can Meeting. Local Stockbrokers' Settling Day. FRIDAY, MAY 29-
"Dragon Boat Festival,
SATURDAY, May 30:-
Second Gymkhana Meeting. MONDAY, June 1:-
Whit-Monday.
TEAT, June 2
Pope Puis X born 1835, WEANESDAY, June 3:-
King George's birthday (1885).
The Chinx Mail.
HONGLONG, TURNDAY, May 19, 1914
NEWS OF THE DAY.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Transport Hardinge arrived this morning with the 38th Bithe, bound for North China,
THE CHILDAR PIRACY
PRIJONTAS DISCHARGED AND
ZZLY
THE DOOR.
PEAK TRAMWAYS
ON ID
The following the Proft and La Account and the Balance Shack of the Directors Report Company Testerday, was published the
PROFIT AND LUIR ACCDENT FOR THE YEAR ENDING SÜTE APRIL, 1914.
At the Magistracy: this afternoon beform
At the adjaarsed Criminal Sensique this Mr. Wood, the tan prisoners in police afternoon, before the Pulsne Judge, Mr. custody sharg d with pirating the Justice Hazeland, U Im Lately a Childne ware discharged. “
| partner in the Tai Fung firm, was charged
on four counts with ambesaling and min To Cosis and Stores appropriating two sums, 83,000 and $1,500, Tề Churgau - honeys-of-bis-Arm on various dates To Maintenance and Repaira since the year 1909. He pleaded not guilty. To Rates, Crown Rent and
The Attorney-General (Mr. J. H. Kemp). prosecuted, and Mr.: F. C. Jinkin instructs To Saburion and Wages ed by Mr. Leo. D'Almada Castro To Office Furniture ...... defended.
To Allowance to Gener
Maungers to cover Olive Bout and Clerks Salaries
The Crown Solicitor, Mr. Rodgasa, ask. Chinese died of plaque on the paveed his Worship for love to withdraw the meat outside York Buildings at midday
| charge against all the prisoners,
Mr. Agassis, of Mens Harding and Agassiz, who appeared for the woman prisoner Kwok raised no objection.
yesterday.
Fire Insurano8, ............
people, and "announced that it had beer revealed to them that the plague was thus rampant because the god was angry. It was resolved to have recourse to planchette, in onlar really to discover the will of the god. The service was arranged. A boy of twelve years of age was selected as the medium between the god and the people. Presently the lad began to write very rapidly, and this was the gist of the message. “I, the god, am angry with the people. They lately have been turning away from the old paths and seeking new ways wherein to walk. This is displeasing to me. The people are constantly talking about freedom and about the equality of the sexes, and this also I hate. The old ways of education ars being neglected and forgotten, and so at Yuman the 16th inak, a brus A. KUALA LUMPUR TRAGEDY. been charged sooner was that he not To Balance the people are ignorant of what is | branch pipe and Dram fittings a Chinese wa
The Circus is giving a grand matinoo
· performance tośmionow afternoon abi
o'clock; sa wall un their usual performance at 9.13 p.m.
The first detailed account published in Hongkong of the fighting la Mexico and the baking of Vera Cruz by the Americans will be found on pages,2, 3 and 4
Prisoners were accordingly discharged. On leaving the Court, the prisoners were apprehended by a staff of European and Chinose detectives and marched off to the
Police Station, and it in understood that the prisoners will be brought before Mr. Wood to morrow morning on extradition
proceedings.
Fur stealing from Makers Hold% Wharf (Op
The following jaxy'was agora: Möses W. F. South, WV. I Stormer James Simpson, Manuel Baptista, J. H. Mond, George Duncan, Mok Mad Cheung.
The Attorney General informed the jury that the kileged offensei caurred in 1909, and the reason prisoner had not
anastumally disappeared. Prisoner, ku in 1909 - managing partner of thị
best for them and for their welfareto-day sentenced tơ thểnh mớnths imprison- |* The death has occurred of Mr. E Tai Fung ärn, and in this ampacity kept. F. therefore, urge you to turn back to | «econd, the ventences to-ruir concurrently. ways, says a Kuala Lumpur telegram dated the keys of the safe, which contained ca
went on the Gratcharge and kidays on the Cook, traffic manager of the FM.S._raila
the old ways. And,' further, I order you to make a scimitar, in shape like to that I was wont to use when fought in the wars of China-and it must be a large one. It should be thirty, six feet necross the diameter from handle, to point, and this must be raised in a perpendicular position in front of the steps of my temple. When this in done, then I shall be pleased to stay my hand and then the people will no longer have reason to dread the plague." Such was this message. The leaders of the people and the shop-keepers seem to believe, in the reality of the message. It is
|
The annual general meeting of the Rongkong Forticultural Society will be eld in the City Hall, on May 26, the bin jaéan being to receive the Committee's Annual Report and Statement of Accounts
to elect a new Committee for the
going your.
A memorial clobster costing £700 has boen eroated at the Parish Church, Godal: ming to the momery of John Phillips, the sistef wireless operator of the ill-fated Titanic. A portrait of Phillips in oile bas also been presented to the corporation by the past and present scholars of the Godal- ming Grammar School
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Hon. Mr. E. R. Ballifax returned to
¦
19th inst, to the "Straits Times." He was found in the morning lying dead in a long chair in the compound of his house with a bullet wound in the temple.
Me. Cook had rec.ntly been suffering
with insomnis and mental depression.
A DISHOVIST CHINESE EMPLOYEE.
and securities. When prisoner wished to take money from the mfe he did, so in the
To Directors' Foss $2,500.00 To Remuneration to General Managers,
5 per cent o
gruset earninge
5,213.70
deducting lows on subsidiary c€al=4***+4-63 By Tents
By Interest Beocir-
abla
By Low Interest
Payable
presence of one of the secountants, check. On Databer 9, 1909 prisoner obtained from the safe the sum of $3,000 on the pretext, that, he wished to repay'a loan of a similar amount advanced to the Tai Fung by the Kam Sung Bank, which had lenti the firm two inch sunis'; 'one had been by Transfer Fees repaid. Prisoner went away with the money and on his return showed the a countant a promisory note for $3,000 | Before Mr. Melbourne. this morning, a | which -wan nither 'the' one which had Chinese employed in a local office was already been redeemed or was bogur charged with the larceny of two 30 bills.” Prisoner as a matter of fact had not repaid Captain Lukhosoft, who prosecuted, the low and did not account for the money. said that he entrusted accused with the Four days later he obtained about $1,000 kays of his safe, into which he had been from the safe and $100 or $500 from the putting every night a quantity of notes shop and then disappeared and was not During the last three or four months he seen again. The firm shortly afterwards
+
the Colony to day by the Miyazaki stimated that between 20 and 30 36 bills Kam Sang promisory notes were found in Maru."
$13,068,39.
4,990.58
3,808.06.
523.36
28,554.81
353.60
8,000:00
$99,275.84 548.48
$5,081.90
2,029.02
*£,021.47
· 83.50
$102,821.24
BALANCE SHEET AT 30TH APRIL, 1914. LIABILITIES.
Authorised Capital $750,000.
divided into 75,000 shares. of $10 uch Lasud
Capital 20,000 shares.
fully paid up $250,000,00 50,000 shares. $1.
.....
paid up
50,000.00
-$300,000.00
per Lust Accounk $32,000,00 સાક મહેનતને
...... 12,000.00 Mortgags R.B. Lot No. 90 expired Season Tickets
Unclaimed Dividends... Sundry Creditors Profit and Loss Account
$9,000.00 44,000.00
4,418.00
2,080.00
11,028.66
From last your $ 1,350.31 For the year
30,801,78.
38,242.10
#428,712.85
When son in Manila in regard to said that at least six hundred dollars the 17 day service botwom Vancouver. would be needed in order to forge and Manin which is shortly to be initi-had occasionally found that the puber of went bankrupt and the books had since this large scimitar. And the money need by the C.P.R. Ca. M. D. W. notes he deposited over night did not cor-disappeared. Prisoner and affered in ex- was forthcoming. One shop-keeper dock, und traffic agent for the respond with the number he drew out inplanation, and he was therefore unable to Reserva Fund as sabscribed two hundred dollars and Far East and India, said that the chief the morning. He thought there was some comment on his defence--if prisoner had
reason for making Manila a pers of call thing wrong and that probably be bad one. another a hundred, so that there was was the many requests made to the com- de mistakes. In order to make a test,
The accountant to the Taf Fung firm no difficulty in getting together the pany by the travelling public.
he carefully put in the sale bundlegare evidence bearing out the Attorney needed funds.. This seems to be an
of notes which be laid on
piece General's statement, and nail primer told extreme case, but there are other re-
of white notepaper and he drew a line at him the sum of $1,500 was for the Enu ports which tell of the activities of
that point where the notes overlapped the Sang Bank, who wished to borrow this paper. On the following morning be found amount. The day after the prisoner dis the people in the way of staying the
that the notes had beon moved. It was appeared the safe was opened and the plague, and, in all cases that we live heard of, these people are turning to the assistance of the god of war and paying the greatest attention to what they think will plense him: In many cases he is taken out of the dimness and darkness of the dirty temple and paraded through the streets; and thus way it is hoped that he will relent and hold back his hand. The whole aspect of the case, in view of modern knowledge, is extremely depressing. After all those who have looked forward to the enlightenment
had been stolen in that way.
Dect. Bergt. Clarke said he apprehended the secured and told him be would have to with him to the Police Station as he
Mr. W. Dicks, local manager of the Chartered Bank, arrived from Shanghai by the M. M. Cordillera postarday on squmplet-wanted to search him. On the prisoner's Lam of his holiday
5.
Mr. Alex Ramsay, formerly of the Hongkong Daily Press", has been appainted Editor of the "Peking Daily New." and is expected to reach the capital this week from Scotland, via Siberis.
it. A day or two later they were laken 'to the bank and prisoner's dishonesty was
lasered.
Further evidence having been taken the
hearing was adjourned.
FINANCES.
person be found nothing, Witness took the prisoner to his room and searched it, and in a box he found a key which was HOPELESS CHAOS OF CHINA'S, duplicate of the key to the safe. Prisoner had frequently had the key of the safu in is possession to get out papers at the direction of his employer and it was quite- posible that he had given the key to someone to make a duplicate.
Prisoner esid the key belong d to a box
·Captain · A. Sommerville of the a.. of China had thought themselves Tatang has received from President Yuan justified in believing that such Shih Kai the gold medal and decoration of which he had in the country, but he could the Red Cross Saciety of Chics together produce no evidence to substantiate this auperstitions had almost, if not quite, with a diplomus, conferring upon him for Tae box, he said, was a wooden one. come to an end. There have been life the member hip of the above Society Mr. Melbourne imposed a sentence of determined efforts of the part of a few in appreciation of his conduct whilst in six week's imprisonment and four hours' of the Chinese to bring elementary charge of the Red Crome operations at stocks. knowledge within the reach of the Nanking in September 1913.-
people in this regard, and foreigners in
A Federated Malay Stakes Gover-
Deficit of £38,500,000.
Permanent Way and Concer
sion (old and new fine)..... $200,000.00
Per Inst Account $30,195.20 Sinco added. 400.00
Stations, Crown Leasehold
and Buildings (Inland Lots. 1317, 1898, 1384, 1335, 1950 and B.B. Lots -80 and 86). Per last Account Rolling Stock ......
PEKIS, April 23. Despite the constant, statements that Office Furniture loan negotiations are impossible daring the Coals and Stores in hand... present chaotic conditions, the quintuple Sundry Debtors... bankers and China's representatives are Cash in Hongkong about to hold their first official meeting in and Shanghai order to setule the main outline of the new
Mortgage B.B. Lot 21 ........
Bank
giant loan, says the Peking correspondent Cash and Compra- of the "Daily Telegraph."
dores Orders in
la a former despatch I stated categorical-
THE PLAGUE AND THE GODS. ] many ways have been trying to ennent, Gazette extraordinary formally ASIATICS ON BRITISH SHIPS, 1y that China would be justiñed in semtring |
of the
It is stated that the Board of Trade is
hond
36,081.29
27,226.00
500.00
-.006.55
1,498.88
40,000.00
$88,124.81
0,795.88
91,919.80
$428,712.85
Jon D. HUMPHREYS & Sox, General Manager.
a sufficient sum to permit her to retire at a lighten the people. Yet in their hour notices that The acting Chief Secre-
heavy dissomat the £1.0.0,000 of pro vincial MANY reports continue
currency. Sin.e then, however, to an- of calamity they have again, with a dry to Government has received with
the situation has so rapidly deteriorated profound regret the news that His High-considering the draft of, and will shortly that it seems to be clear that even such a nounce that in the cities and the complete whole-heartedness, turned Sir Ahmad Muszam Shah Thmi Al-ue to shipping offices, sular letter the grave do sest in crisis. Paper every- COTTON WASHING larger villages
would only temporarily relieve delta back to the old ways and put their malum Ali. .C.M.G.. Sultan of draigned to make as stringent as possible where has recommenced falling since last. S. GURRAY pingue continues to rage, and trust in the old gods. There is a vnet Pahang, died at his residence at Peka the enforcement of the regulation relating week. Dollar roles are now 45 cents in C. P. CHATTE Directors. its vieties are stated to be almost amount of work to be done yet before/ Saturday, May 8, at 4.20 p.m. · MATERIALS.
innumerable. One of the
According to the Times of Malaya," to the employment of Chinese on British Canton, and in other places lower,
It is estimated that two months will soo more China can be regarded as enlightened, the late Sultan of Pabang never adopted ships. It is stated that the Board intends
provi cial pepar absolutely unnegatiable, seriously stricken districts is Shiu and whatever the few intelligent European customs on dress, and romsintownforce the regulations strictly. whilst taxas.continue to fail. - China? La, Bing on the West liver. If the people of the nation may think, itd a typical Maing to the last. One of In this connection ît is interesting to indeed, mpidly rosching a point when tho Powers must seriously consider what com accomts be reliable, the more for- must be regretfully said that the galvanised iron bath as a state chair when { against the employment of Asiatic seainen" certed steps are necesary.
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his quaint customs was to use a large note that, following a protest meeting.
tunate inhabitants are the victims of toasses are still firm believers of the routes his journeys abroad. It is on British steamers, which was adda seped a real panic. They are leaving the old superstitions.
city for the country in large numbers. Many of the shops are closed and
EMPLOYEE.
DRUGGING A CHINEST WOMAN.
that none
Che
A. R. Lown, c.a.
Hongkong, 14th May, 1914.
SAUSAGE--T@R THE KAISER
Sunday Supply, Illegal✨
It has bear decided by the Berliú courta
werd
stated that he had purchased tho bath by Mr. Havelock Wilson, there was sanding June 30, dinou sterk in th Legations - The revised Bodget for the financial year in Singapore when on a visit. It took interesting sequel on 17th alto it Bull and the Press on Tuesday, showed clearly his faney, and he never used any other Docks, when a large steamer arrived in the and unmistakably that despite all the there seems to be a spirit of deep DEATH OF A STANDARD OIL CO. ads were made in the State. Flied as 1 crew of Chinamen, but the Unies penditure of upwards of £80,000,000 The table are in question, the lay with regard means of conveyance in the days before | docks. It was intended to mgn on the juggling in the waria Ghina has a toíál not that even when supplies for the Imperial
revenue ol. £30,000,000 and a mat, ex- depression and apprehensive fear
with cushions, on whooty the Sultan re officials negotiated with the captain, who scerned deficit ibis your still carried in the to Sunday rest must not be bruken.The oppressing the people with a force We regret to chronicle the death of
clined infort, the bath was shing on telegraphed to his owners, with the result books is £5,000,000, and a new deficit of out of an order for bausage and that cannot be thrown off The Mr. Edward Henry Juncos, of the Stat. polos and carried on the shoulders of
1,000,000 must be met this year. bam for the Emperor and his family and British seamen were signed one but people do not seem to know what to dard, on Company, which occurred this cookies.
When I add that the servies of the usa, which was received telephonically do and consequently they do nothing residences at No. 22, Shaukiwan Bod morning with painful suddenness at his
Under the auspiors of the National foreign loans and indecenities allows by the Court butcher from the New Palace Transport Workers' Federation's mentius Cusbons and: salt room China without prebú í
half the national revenues, namely, fil the Puradais one Sunday morning. The
will be acet
the station within was Feld at Leith on 19th alto, to protest that the Of every ten persms attacked, not Mr. Joobs, who was in his 420d, year,
landing of moony to
prohibited Apainter the employment of Asiatica on same Wholesale and far-reaching herenger, wh was told a police less than wine sucennib, and the coursed for some time past suffered from
British ships Mr Walsh, Clyde district, being exolved by all the
was intercepted mored a resolution of protest, pledging the
Pom was pleated maligens maris fover, though he
ted by the defending dens mosting to effect a remoral of, the state of
scting in concert is of Mr. UConDUE
that the order fur food, for the Empe ipternations]: Banking
1'its own interests, fa fit body immediata perforinanon of whi mers, who seconded the undertake on bratom public Interested and
krups it is empfrom the propos
provadons of he joined the Standard Oil Company Prisoner admitted that he stole the bangles, merely against obeap labour white, black,
yellow. He ould forcibly cinct STAVA Comapped Rase storie Currant I ever classes that Chinesa efvilka: He is survived by his widow and two and mid he had done so to pay back to a Asiatic from avery ship:
dignatarion hear also that there are some places sons, for whom much sympathy will be firm with whom he was cited in the white if politicians pould find proces of collapsib
-sided, howere that up to the present are almost if felt.
Ate pould be. At move at once the workers should make up the Chinese tazz being
for many decades of 70 and khez mladi-to-bare a big battle royal on save now been proved by (orpigo) not quite immune. We stated above, The funeral takes place this afternoon, gambling.
Rober that the people do not know what to
of the disease is very quickly ran actually succumbed to heart failure. He
Mr. Wood this morning sentenced a
ty
We have referred to Shiu Bing but was formerly a member of the R.G. Chinese, who, with the aid of a stupefying agained of
-Look" Labourers,
from all accounts, the prevalence of and was at one time connected with the drug, had cút vízfive pairs of bangles fetus of Dark Emir of the Nations Uniosek megane il match: it thay name- under the heading the deadly disease is by no means Ordnance Department. Some. I years a woman's wrist when she was aloep.plution, ia the campaign was not a while China: le, not yet banker than the victuals were requis
confined to this centre, though we
THE EDWARD DISPENSARY, do, and, therefore, do nothing. This
O. KAMMING & Co., LD. Chinists and Druggiste
is not quite correct. Many of them,
passing the Monument at half past five
*The Chi
storage passenger whos the Pacifia Mail stormer
in their terror and fear are turning, as illness östine
of old, to their gods, and requesting Kor
their waistance in order that the
REAT REDUCTIONS IN. plague may be stayed. The god who
PRIOP
TIONS ACCURATELY.
is most popular in this regard god of war the muns hern period of the Three
dnes, do whom. all roaders
are fuolar.
ROAD HONGKONG, - notic
case has
country.
mouths notice when everything wha
nowing
"quarter"
per cent
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other things