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House or the country at large with the condemnation of the increase which the motion implies, Its inaptitate lias in the fact that it ignores the rapid naval expan- sion of the other Powers. 83 long m the other Powers continue increasing their armaments, it would be criminal folly of A S. WATSON & CO. the part of the British Government to place the great and wide-spread interests of the country in jeopardy by a policy of inaction. However friendly her relations may bo with Foreign Powers at the present time, the fact cannot be ignored that Great Britain owes her commanding position in the world to the recognised power of her Navy to defend the interests of the country, and it is not difficult to perceive that a similar lius of thought dictates the naval
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As the result of a quarrel over a girl at Sheltontani, a Chinese stabbed nuother through the hip and in the log with a dagger. He was brought before Mr. Wood at the Magistracy yesterday and was sentenced to three months imprisonment.
In view of the great domand for seats, and in order to prevent disappointment., all those who have booked tickets for the "Triple Bill" on Saturday are requested to kindly take up their tickets without delay at Mesara. Moutrie & Co. so that the plan may be closed.
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"THE DECLARATION OF LONDON."
DEFINING CONTRABAND,
LONDON, March 22nd.
EIGHT DREADNOUGHTS
DEMANDED.
Mr. A. J. Balfour said nothing less than the laying down of eight Dread- noughts" in the most speedy manner possible would satisfy the country..
'AUSTRALIA'S ENTHUSIASM. There is widespread enthusiasm in Austrália over the Dreadnoughts meetings which are projected at
various centres.
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SUPREME COURT.
Tuesday, March 23rd.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
BEFORE HI HONOUR ME. H. H. J. GOMPERTZ (PUISNE JUDOK.)
A DEFECTIVE FARTY WALL Action was brought against G. Bertolone by the Fong Kee Trading Co, to recover” $172.26 for alleged damage done by water leaking inte
their premises.
Mr. H. K. Holmes appeared for the plaintiffe, and 'Mr. E. J. Grist (of Mears. Wilkinson and Grist) for the clofendant.
Mr. Holmes said the claim was for damago
The agreement concladed at the OWNERSHIP OF THE PRATAS caused by water which persolated the party
recent Naval Conference will be known
The German ornisar Leipzig, accompanied by as the "Declaration of London,"
It constitutes a remarkable advance the aaval transport Titania, left Manila
ISLANDS.
TOKYO, March 23rd. The Japanese Government has
wall dividing defendant's and plaintiff's pro- mises. Defendant's premises backed on the houses in Chia Loong Street Plaintiffs buil a Godown at No. 3, Chin Loong Street, and the
CHAMPAGNE policies of other progressive Powers. Quite for Apia, Samoa. Vice Admiral Coerper, com-towards the codification of inter-announced that as China claims the wall on the Queen's Road side was the division
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national law.
The Declamation settles what is contraband, what is conditional and what is not contraband. Coal has
Pratas Islands, she should furnish proof of ownership.
Further, she should take stops to
wall betwoon that godown and the defendant's promises. On or about January 9th water perco- |lated through the lower portion of the wall into the plaintiffs' godown, in which a quantity of goods, mostly non-perishable, ware stored.
could not maintain her interests intact and Those who attended the circus here will read been placed in the second and Cotton protect Japanese citizens resident Certain of the perishable articles were injured
ensure respect for her “just demands" un less these were backed by something more than mere diplomacy. It is to be observed that President Tarr and the Emperor of
Germany share the belief that big navien are necessary for the settlement of-or perhaps we should any, preservation from-inter-
that is to say in 1915. Unless one of
the following paragraph from a Manila paper with interest: William Schultz, the loop-the- loop man of Harmston's cirons, who shakes for beers with destiny and peers into death's jaws,
according to Bob Love, was Snel Pesos 20 in the municipal court yesterday morning, for using insulting and vile language to Auns
Weingarten."
It is stated that admira! Coorper will be relieved of the command of the China squadron in the near future and return to Germany, He is to be acceeded by Rear-Admiral In- genobl, due to arrive et Bhanghai, from Europe, on May 23. Admiral Ingeucht is a brother of
Factory, Manils, and was previously in com Eastern waters.
in the third category.
A compromise has been effected concerning blockades. Henceforward blockade runners can be arrested any where within the blockader's radius of action.
Neutrals carrying contraband can only be sunk when that step is absolutely necessary.
:
there.
by water. The defendant, sometime after his tenaney commonood. had certain alterations
The Japanese Minister at Pekings to the rear portion of his promises, and a has been instructed to endeavour to slop sink was put up at the corner abatting on arrive at an amicable settlement of this party wall. the questiou.
THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT AND -THE PRATES ISLANDS.
His Lordship-There has been some money paid into Court; so the liability to some extent .. is, I suppose, admitted ?
Mr. Grist said he did not admit any liability
the contracting parties has notified to the mand of one of the German warships in Far were in agreement throughout the hitherte supposed the Pratas Islsus to belong damage at once, and to have minimised that
Archdeacon Meulo, of Niugpo, announces that
ovar
iu paying the money in, because, had the eliont notice at the national controversies in the Far East. In
The Japanese Consal yesterday received on plaintiff given his official telegram in the Japanese language on the time he suffered the damage, they would England the possibility of international
subject of the Pratas Islands reported in the bave been in a position to inspect it, as well trouble in the East is regarded as extremely
But he did the wall complained of. SA Admiral Sakamoto, of the Japanese Chinese press to have been "asized by Japan." $54.00 remote for there is nothing at present aither i Great Britain or Japan to
by Mr. T. Matsuda, who represents in Hong to his landlord, who had the wall cementer. So indicate that the agreement of alliance
Navy, interviewed by Reuter in regard The English version of the telegram as translated nothing of the kind: he simply complained will cease at the earliest date possible, Mr. Lugenohl, manager of the Oriente Cigar to the Declaration said he was very kong the Tokyo Independent newsagency, is far as defendant could tell, no further damage : was done after that. Undoubtedly it was the The Imperial Japanese Government has daty of the plaintiff to have ascertained his glad that Great Britain and Japan as follows:→→ Conference and he paid a warmto no particular country, and had never re- damage se much as possible, Instead of
Had hs taken "dos tribute to Great Britain's spirit of cognized it as a part of the Japanese Empire. this he allowed the matter to start conciliation. The result of the Con- This being the ease, if it can be shown that the until January 9th, when he wrote in a ment will not hesitate to recognize Chinese sover.diligence, opened the cases at once and seen" ference, he said, would be of inestimaland belongs to China, the Japanese Govern-letter claiming 8172.
eignty over the Island. In that case, liowever, what damage was done, in all probability due protection by the Chinese Government is the damage would not have amounted to $25. Unless ho had taken that particular action, Mr. ] evidently required for those Japanese who com
menced their pursuits there bona-fide, in the belief Grist submitted that he was not entitled to that de facto no Power exercised sovereignty, recover damages at all because he so contributed The Imperial Japanese Government has a few towards the damage as to make what damage he The Emperor Francis Joseph has ays ago given the necessary instructions to the did sustain unsscertainable. received in audience H. E. Tang Minister and Conends in China with a view, in Shao Yi, the Chinese Special Am-communicating the above opinion to the Chinese Gorerament, to reaching a fair settlement of bassador to Europe.
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other twelve months before the expiration of the ten years term the intention of terminat- ing it, the agreement will remain binding the Bishop Hoare Momorial Chapel in Trinity until the expiration of one year from the College, Ningpo, will very shortly be com day on which sither of the High Contracting menced. A very excellent design for a Chapel Powers shall have denounced it. This latter to seat 150 persons, he says, has been prepared able benefit.
The inclusive provisa is usually overlooked in the references by Mr. H. M. Tarrant, of Shanghai and which are made to the question. It in early cost of the building, with seating, lighting etc., yet to say what may happen in regard to this will be about 19,200, towards which $7,400 kas matter în 1914, but in naval matters, as already been received. Archdeacon Moule is the experts tell us, it is essential to take quite sure that the remaining $1,800 will be forthcoming, as soon as the need is realized by
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the following given by an expert in s recent London paper will doubtless carry ite due weight, "I repeat" he says, "and it cannot be too often repeated, that the time (29-against which we have to make provision now, is the time when we shall have to keep a great feet, estimated by Germans at 40 per cent of our armoured strength, in the Pacific. It is not in the least implied that our relations with Japan will become unfriendly, but either we or the Americans have got to provide a counterpoise to the Yellow Empire, and if we leave the task to No anonymously signed communications that the Americans, to the Americans will the have already appeared in other papers will be white men of Australasia tura." Interest- inserted,
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TANG SHAO YI IN AUSTRIA.
LONDON, March 22nd.
THE U. S. EMBASSY AT TOKYO.
LONDON, March 22nd.
Mr. Thomas O'Brien will remain
The "Star" Cinematograph of Wyndham Street gave their initial performance on Monday night to a large audience. There is no doubt the show will become a popular competitor in the fight for public favour and when the opera tor of the Cinematograph apparatus fully under- stands its mamputation the entertainment should the United States Ambassador to attract, for the pictures in themselves are good. Japan (a position which was offered Four artists have bean engaged and they are all worth hasring, particularly Mr. Linton by President Taft to Mr. Oscar David, solo pianist, and Baby Daughtry, whose Straus, a member of the late Cabinet), sweet little voice is indeed charming, Miss
.. DEATH OF A RUSSIAN Oatley is good in her Scotch songs and dances aud Miss Verà Vaughan sings the latest London
anccesses.
The cruiser Fuerst Bismarck, the flagship of the station ever since coming out here in 1900,
the year she went into commission, returns to Kiel in November of this year. She will be and the Colonies to maintain at all costs au effective Navy ut a two-Power standard. thoroughly overbauted and then attached to There is no need to fear the alienation of the German home fleet in Baltic waters. The Scharnhorst hay been the Colonies. Their attachment to the first-class erniser Motherland has been proved in the past designated by the German Navy department as In this de- the Hagship of the Eastern station, to take the and is being provel again.
PRINCE.
LONDON, March 22nd. The death is announced of Prince Khilkoff, who organised the Siberian railway traffic during the war.
JAPAN AND MANCHURIA
A GIGANTIC FRAUD.
CANADIAN CUSTOMS EVADED,
A very clever fraud has just come to light in
replaced by a bogus material which is practically Hongkong as the result of which a consign ment of opium worth about $10,000 has been worthless. A few days when the steamer Gymeric had arrived here from Vancouver Mr. Hoggarth and a party of excise officers, accom. panied by a police constable boarded the steamer and took possession of twelve cases, each case containing 105 boxes and each box five tacks. The chief officer said he was glad to get rid of it as it was leaking,
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Plaintiff, after giving evidence as to the extent of the damage to his goods, was cross- examined by Mr. Grist.
What class of goods were these ?--Papers and corn and bunion plasters.
How many cases did you bavè?-One. Was it in the same state when you opened it as it is now ?—Yes. 2
Why didn't you approach the defendant så
soon as you discovered the damage? Why should I approach him? He is of a different
caste.
Ass unstter of fact you looked to your land- lord to make good the damage?—Yes.
And it was only after you could get no matie- faction out of the landlord, who is a Chinaman like yourself, that you attempted to get the money out of the foreigner?The person who has caused the danzage is the person who should pay the money,
In cross-examination witness said the water and percolated through the party wall.
Benior Sanitary Inspector John Reidio de- It appears that the consignment which was marked "K.M.H. Macao," was sent from Hong-posed to inspecting plaintiff's godown on Janu- kong to Vancouver some time ago, but it was ay 13th and fading about two inches of water
en the floor. refused admission into Canada and was stored in a bonded warehouse whence it was
Prior be reshipped back to Hongkong. LONDON, March 22nd, to its reaching Hongkong it had been The Rt. Hon. Mr. MacKinnon to Japanese ports and Maulie. Naturally it was expected the royalty would have been but the Opium Farmer harued through an informer that the contents were merely
HONGKONG OFFICE: 101, DES VEUX BUAD.Omand for the maintenance of an effective Place of the Fuerst Bismarck. The Scharnhorst | Wood, Under Secretary of State for paid on the consignment on returning here,
LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STARET. EC | Navy the
The Baily Press.
HONGKONG, March 24th 19097-
THE statements on our naval position made in Parliament during the past week by the Premier and the First Lord of the Admiralty afford food for many and various reflections. Shortly after the Parliamentary Session began an Amendment to the Throne was tabled by a group of members described as the Reduction of Armaments Committee
--the dreamers probably referred to in the Premier's remark that "there are.old women of both sexes who dream of petes asking the House to express regret that "despite the continued and increasingly. friendly relations with Foreign Powers, and the repeated promises of Ministers to effect reductions in the outlay on armaments an increase in that uutlay is foreshadowed in the Gracious Speech from the Throne.".
Colonies are recogoi ing their obligations and the enthusiastic
support
is a modera warship, of recent constraction,
heavily armed, and displacing over 13,000 tons, Foreign Affairs, answering a question will, a contemporary, says have the distinction in the House of Commons, said the which is being given in of being the largest war vessel maintained on Government had no reason to believe Australasia to the proposals to present to the Chinastation by any of the Powers, Thishow- or three Dreadnoughts to the Navy shows ever, is not quite correct. His M's King Alfred that Great Britain is well able to hold her for instance has a displacement of 14,100 tons. own in what Mr. BIRRELL has called this game of beggar-my-neighbour.
By direction of His Excellency the Governor the next Meeting of the Legislative Council stands adjourned till the 1st April.
Thomas Daily, a vagrant, was sent by Mr. Kemp at the Magistracy yesterday to the
House of Detention.
Ox her voyage from across the Pacific this time the Tenya-mare gut into communication with Japan when she was 1,350 miles out.
Thres more cases of plagae were notified yesterday-two from Kowloon City and one from Taim-sha-tsiu. These bring up the total for the year to 17.
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LORD AND LADY METH IN HONGKONG.
Lord and Lady Meath and Lady Violet Brabazon arrived yesterday morning by. 8.8. Kleist, and are the guests of His Excellency The Governor.
During the forenoon yesterday Lord Meath, attended by Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe and Captain Taylor, A.D.C., visited Victoria School and Kewloon School and addrossed the pupils on
that Japan was assuming or attempt. ing to assume territorial juris diction in Manchuria.
THE BRITISH NAVY.
OFFERS OF DREADNOUGHTS FROM AUSTRALASIA.
LONDON, March 22nd. The Navy continues to be the chief topic of discussion.
Renter's Wellington correspondent
decoction of opium. Examination confirmed
Sanitary Inspector C. E. Frith said he visited
the godown on January 14th and found sullage water percolating through the wall Notices were served on defendant when he started the business that he must comply with the bake- house byelaws.
After hearing farther evidence, his Lordship
MARINE MAGISTRATE'S COURT,
Tuesday, March 23rd. BEFORE COMMANDER BASE. H. TAYLOR, R.N. (MARINE Magistrate.)
this, the alleged opium being nothing more than reserved judgment.
had apparently been taken out of the bores and treacle and opium water. The genuine opin found its way into Canada and the concoction pat in its place and sent back to Hongkong. Where and by whom the frand was committed is not known, but whoever carried it out dil so very cleverly. Now the steamboat agente are trying to find an owner for the consignment but nobody seems to care to claim it. The opium authorities will probably ask for its forfeiture and destruction,
A RECORD TRIP.
The Toyo Kisen Kaisha Bs. Tenyo Haru made the trip from Nagasaki to this port in 2 days and 18 hours She left Nagasaki on here yesterday morning at 9 s..
LACK OF LOCAL KNOWLEDGE. The master of an unlicensed best 'was pro- secuted by Lance Sergeant Edwards for using his boat as a curge beat without the necessary, licence.
The evidence showed that defendant's breach of the law was discovered through his crygging
the racing course at the regatta.
to
He told the Court that he didn't know he had® have a licence, neither was he aware that a
the meaning and hopes of the "Empire More wires that the Government of New Saturday the 20th inst. at 3 p.m. and arrived regatta was being held at Laichicok.
mont." Lord Meath's request, the pupils of both schools were granted a half holiday by the His Excellency and Lord Meath, attended by Inspector of Schools. Captain Simeon, watobed the finals of the
defray the cost of a Dreadnought, and Zealand has offered to immediately
another, if necessary.
Mr. C.-H. Oliver, who resigned from the baseball team, after which His Excellency At Melbourne, the Lord Mayor, in handed to the winning team the Cup presented co-operation with other Mayors, is calling a meeting to consider the gift by the Committee of Entertainment.
At 3.30 p.m., Lady Meath presided at a meeting of the Ministering Children's League of a Dreadnought. held at St. Paul's College.
The Tramway Co. announce by advertisement
The following guests were invited to dinner that the Service men invited to luncheon to-day at Government House at 8.15 p.m. this evening and to-morrow at the Happy Valley will beSir George and Lady Errington, General carried free on all cars between the Post Office and Causeway Bay
To discuss such a motion would have been Imperial Maritime Customs service last year, theer waste of time, and apparently in has rejoined with the rank of Commissioner deference to some such view taken by the and has been appointed Chief Secretary of the Speaker, the supporters of the amendment Customs at Peking. acquiesced in a suggestion to defer this discussion to a more suitable occasion, such as is afforded in the debate on the Estimates for the Nary. Possibly they have had their little say, but their
Aanese who murdered Mr. Kaiser, a Swiss carried DO protest has
weight. If
subject, ten months ago, has just been executed the amendment they formulated were at Bangkok, in the presence of several represent meant to be a mere academic expression of tatives of the German Legation (which bas regret that an increase had become necess charge of Swiss interests there), and about half ary, it would receive unarimons assent, a dozen other foreign residents at the Siamese but there will be little sympathy in the ospital.
"OLD WOMEN OF BOTH SEXES," The Premier (Mr Asquith) do-
LONDON, March 23rd. EFFECTIVE NAVY VOTED. The Commons voted an effective Broadwood, Captain Heathcote, Mr. and Mrs. Navy without a division. Darid, Mr. and Mrs. May, Mr and Mrs. Pol look, Bishop of Victoria and Mrs. Lander, Sir Henry Berkeley, Mr. Wilder, Admiral Harber, |- Fing i ientenant Leahy, Captain Fairfax, Judge nounced the absurd, mischievous, and unpatriotic agitation, and said and Mrs. Thayer.
The Earl and Countess of Meath and Lady there were old women of both sexes
who could dream of peace. Violat Brabason proceed to Europe by ... Kleist this morning. "
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A fine of $10 was imposed, in default a month's imprisonment.
"AN ILLEGAL ANCHORAGE: The master of a licensed trading junk was proceeded against for anchoring his vessel with--- in the limits of the Central Fairway.
His exouse was that he dropped his anchor because his mast and sail wors broken.
The fine imposed was $10; the alternative, month in jail.
Siz T, Shaughnessy has written a letter to Bir Wilfred Laurier pointing out that during Railway has added to its rolling stock at the rate of 14 freight cars every day, one passenger car
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daya, and one locomotive every three a days; and yet such is the volume of trafle thes passos over this giant system that the Canadian Pacific Railway has the atmost difficulty in keeping pace with the demand made upon it. It three junks for failing to report their arrival in has been calulated that the combined freight carsport at the Harbour Master's office. on the Canadian Pacific Railway have a dead- The first defendant said he had just arrived, weight capacity equivalent to the weight of the and had not been in Hongkong since he bought entire population of England.
the junk from another man.
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DILATORY JUNK MASTERS,'' Inspector Dymond prosecuted the masters of
The second said nothing.
The third mid his junk was a new one, and hadn't s licence
The first and second defendants were fined $10 or a month, and the third $20 or fix wonky” [262 imprisonment.