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liable, though he probably conceived the not the least of those dificulties lay in the TELEGRAMS.control of the House. Both would be
hope that so there had been ton similar Japanese themselves. Bir FRANCIS recalls
crimes perpetrated by Koreans since the Assassination at Shanghai in 1884 of a member of the Korean Government down to the murder of Mr. STEVENS in San Francisco
an admonition given by the Prince at a gathering of civil servants at Beoul: Always remember, gentlemen, that you are not here to serve Japan, or to promote Japanese interests, you are servants of
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ARMY AND NAVY, CHALLENGE · made matters of confidence in the Government, and the resolution would The B. E. failed to raise a team for the semi-final of the above competition, and the. not be sent to the House of Lords at match was awarded to King Alfred. The final
all, but would be subsequently em- will take place this afternoon on the Naval
CO in 1906, without one of the murderers having Kores," and. Sir Frazers, remarking that GRAND COUNCILLOR DEAD. bodied in a bill which would be dealt Ground between Buffa and King Alfred at3 p.m.
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Fruffered the death penalty, be, too, might have the good fortune to escape the vengeance of the law with equal success In this, however, he failed, and it is to be hoped that the sentences imposed by the Court at Port Arthur will convey a lesson to the associates of the men who approve the bomb and revolver method of poli- tical warfare.
The man's statement as to what led
through tribulations nations, like na, sometimes come to great prosperity, con- cludes his tribute with the following words "If I am right in thinking that there are very many Komans whom that spirit has touched and who mourn with Japan as for a friend, looking on his death as a common loss, then the murderer of Harbin will have invested the Iro legend with such renewed vitality that the Prince himself would not
PEKING, February 22nd. Grand Councillor Tai-hung-tsz dead.
with before the end of the session. The removal of the veto was a Home is preliminary to discussion.
Rule was the only controversial pro posal this session besides, the veto of the House of Lords and the new budget
CHINA'S BUDGET.
PEKING, February 22nd. The total income for the provinces
Mr. Asquith proposed to redeem thirty millions of the war loan, due on
Gunner Marsh will' reforce.
¡H,K, FOOTBALL LEAGUE,
Second Division.··
call for explanations from A. Coy, and 88 Coy. The Emergency Committee have decided to with regard to the match between these teams being cancelled last Saturday.
ALLEGED FRAUD ON A SOLICITOR.-.
The hearing of the sharges proferred against
two Chinose, one a clerk in the Land Offes, in
up to the crime is worth recording, as have wished it otherwise." Three months is Tis. 662,500,000 and the expenal April 5th, by means of Exchequer connection with obtaining, from Mr. John.
after the tragedy it can be said that this is ture Tle. 581,500,000. precisely what has happened.
The Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, C.M.G., Dicestor Public Works, Mr. and Miss Chatham returned to the Colony yesterday.
it probably represents the views of the large number of compatriots who are opposed to Japanese intervention in Korea, and throws Light on the insurrectionary movement with of which the country is still afflicted. He reminded the Court, that on going into war with Bussia, Japan made a declaration that she was determined to preserve peace for the Far East and independence for Kores This, he said, instilled in him a sense of
The Rev. R. G. Winning, Assistent Chaplain of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, | and
{DEUTER'S SERVICE TO THE “HORAZONG DAILY PEWS."
OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.
THE KING'S SPEECH.
bonds, and asked the authority of the House to renew twenty-one millions Treasury Bills. The revenue showed a decronse of £9,338,000 compared with 1908-09, and the expenditure exceeded the revenue by £18,741,000.
Socretary of the foreign YM.C.A., has buen LORD LANSDOWNE ON THE GOVERN Subject to slight changes be would
nominated to a chaplaincy in the Indian Army,
▲ BLEND OF THE FINEST `PURE gratitude towards Japan, and, with a band the Magistracy yesterday fined $150 for carrying
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ask the House to sanction the Budget retrospectively.
Hastings, the sum of $24,000 with intent to defraud, was continued before Mr. J. R. Wood at the Magistracy yesterday afternoon, ́.
Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor, pro- secuted. Mr. W. E. L. Shonton (of Messrs. Descon Locker & Deacon) appeared for the first defendant, and the second was represented by Mr. H. J. Gedge (of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & Master), Mr. P. M. Hodgson (of Messrs. Ewene & Haraton) watched the case on behalf of the Yuen Fat Hong.
Mr. Ng Hon Tez, a clerk in the Yuen Fat MR. BALFOUR'S CRITICISM, Hong, 8 and 10, Benham Strand West, stated Mr Balfour welcomed the increase that godowns Nos. 1 to 5 in Kai Ling Lane had in the Navy, but said it was impossible belonged to the Tuon Fet Hong for sixteen years. They had not been sold, and, so far as he for the Liberals in the House of Com-knew, co application had been made for u now Crown lease. The godowns had not been
the Croma had sub approached his sisms with
Cross-examined by Mr. Gedge, wit
reference to the issue a new Crown lease. His firm had never had any communication with
MUNT'S ALDACITY.
The coxswain of the launch oz Ning was at,
LONDON, February 22nd. of his compatriots, he did what little ho 147 passengers in excess of the number allowed Parliament was opened to-day. could for the Japanese troops. They were by the certificate. The craft is entitled to carry
The King's Speech referred to the overjoyed to see Japan come out the winner, 135 only...
friendly relations with Foreign Powers and looked forward to better days for Korea. The death is announced, of Mr. Kenneth To their disappointment; however, the late Tweedie, who represented Jardina, Mathesou, and to the union of the South African mong to say that they represented the Pup and Korea which deshed all the dear for the previous four days from pleuro he was sending the Prince of Wales on could safely be given unchecked Prince Tra conchided Conventions between and Co., Ltd., at Poking. He had been suffering Colonies. His Majesty announced that country with such certitude that they hopes of patriotic Koreans to pieces, and
an extended journey through the South power to alter the constitution. roused in him the bitterest gall against the Sir George William Des Voeux. G.C.M.G. African possessions before the open- ME. REDMOND'S DEMANDS. Prince. He viewed these conventions as aim of 35, Cadogan-square, Cheless, Governor of
Mr. Redmond said Let Mr. ing at the absorption of Korea by Japan, and, Newfoundland, 1886, and of Hongkong, 1387-ing of the new Legislative Assembly moreover, he looked upon Prince Iro as act-91, who died on December 15, left £4,669. The there. The Speech also referred to Asquith give reasonable assurance of will, donchies of the John Randers place the extension of Legislative Councils his ability to carry the Aali. Veto ne.
in Indis, which had entered with good solution into law promise upon the enlarged duties and responsibilities entrusted to them.
The Estimates for the ensuing year, His Majesty said, had been framed with the utmost desire for economy. but the requirements of the naval defence of the Empire made it nccess
ing in this medzer contrary to the wishes of
the Emperor of Japan. Therefore, he set himself to rouse the public conscience of his compatriots to the dangers of the situation But he did it from a safe retreat in Vladivos
tock, and it does not appear that his in fluence extended beyond the little com munity of Koreans in Vladivostock among
whom he had elected to dwell. Poli fically their company was evidently con A. S. WATSON & CO., genial. Asked in Court for an explanation of the loss of part of his index finger, he LIMITED,
stated that laat Spring a dozen Koreans met in a small town in North Korea and registered a solemu yow to devote their
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widow, a daughter Sir Pender,
Captain F. J. Joslin, of the Queen's Own
(Royal West Kent Regiment), had en nonvaated by the Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in India for admission to the Staff
College at Queita, which he was expected to join on the 19th of this month.
Cheung Tal, a Queen's Road compradore,
witness old-
the Land Offloor with regard to a new Crown
Re-examined by Mr. Bowley, witness said the
lear3.
Kuma-pit. Hong, hot, over, dealt with this
and the property in any way.
Nationalists will support the Budget, They do not seek to break the Govern-
ment, bat refused to walk blindfolded.
PRESS OPINIONS.
The Liberal newspapers take the
gloomiest view of the situation. The "Morning Leader" predicts that the life of the Government hangs on
thread..
a
was at the Magistracy prosecuted by Inspector Gourlay for having 45 cases of spirits of wine stored of his premiacs without a dangerous goods licence. A fine of $10 was imposed, and to propose a substantial increase the spirits of wine, which is valued at over $300, in the cost of the Navy. The expendi-
The Conservative journals talk of a ture authorised by the last Parliament
still-born Parliament which will short was being duly incurred, but asly vanish into a fiasco more complete Unionist had dared to con-
was confiscated.
efforts to the interoate of the Far East/Chine, whose extradition was, sought by the revenue was required to moot it, al
At the Magistracy, yesterday afternoon s
Chinese Government on charges of armed rob boxy and kidnapping, was committed to prison for arteen days to await the decision of. His Excellency the Governor regarding his ex- tradition.
A sensational affair took place over at Kowloon
thau any ceive..>
the
Mr. G. H. Wakeman, Land Ofleer, then
antared the witness, box for cross-examination.
In reply to Mr. Gedge he stated that there
question. lying in the Land Office, assigned in like manner. Unisened Crown lenses were kept in the strong room, but he did not know whether it was common knowledge in the offer that
were other Crowns leases similar to the one in
there were animated Crown lenses. The second defendant if he had known this property could
have discovered from the index that it was still
unregistered.
There was nothing in the
register to show that there was an unissned Crown lease to be issued for this property, but the fact might have been discovered from
the
rent roll, or from other papers in the office. Clerke in the office had access to nearly all records. There was no record in the office why the lesse in question was not issued.
had not been provided by the imposi
LABOUR RESOLUTION. tion of taxation, recourse had been had
Is there any method or principle in the Land A motion by Mr. Barnes Ume wineoby Crown leases outstanding are to temporary, borrowing. Arrange- ments must be made at the earliest House of Commons was adjourned to brought to determination --Crown lasses.
* ready to be completed. Proceeding, witness Son that either he or possible moment to deal with the enable Labourites to consider there never ined use
situation arising out of the speeches Mr. Jack ware supposed to gow financial situation thus created.
Recent experience had disclosed of Mr. Asquith and Mr. Redmond. serious difficulties due to recurr-
and as a sign of good faith each man cut off part of his own index finger and wrote in the blood that flowed the four Chinese characters representing Independence of the Korean Empire." He now calmly told the Court that he took the life of the the other night when Mr. Hunter, residing in Lochiel Terrace, dissoyared a native in his house Prince in the cause of Korea's indepen-who had come with anything bat friendly in- dance and the peace of the Far East." tentions towards the cook. A loaded revolvær History and especially the history of the and a knife were found upon hita, and the man last few years has made the world well is in custody on a charge of attempted murder. ing differences of strong opinion THE CAIRO ASSASSINATION.to do it. acquainted with fanatics of this man's Yesterday Sir Henry May appeared at the between the two branches of the calibre, but it remains a mystery how men Magistracy to prosecute a Polish woman for Legislature. Proposals would be laid with all convenient Secretary informed his Worship (Mr. E. B..
LONDON, February 22nd. Boutros Pasba, the Egyptian Pre-
who do not seem bereft of the powers of coosting him in the street, The Colonial before Parliament velations of the mier, has succumbed;"
HONGKONG OFFICE::10A, Das Veux Roan Cvolent ends they have in view i
reasoning fail to porocive that the benefar) that when in Queen's Road the pre- speed to define the
are not likely vins evening he bad been accosted by three LONDON OPTICHI 131, FLEET STREET. EC to be achieved by the weapon of assassin women. The defendant was fined $25, House of Lords and the House of
tion, but are much more likely to be de- is no doubt that the nuisance created by these
The Daily Press.
Dress.layed and perhaps absolutely defeated. night hawks is greater at present than it has
HONGKONG, February 23rd, 1910.
It should have been patent to the been for many years, meanest intelligence that the commission of By kind permission of Col, Prior and the THE Korean fanatic who fired the fatal this atrocious crime would have the imme-Officers, the Band of the 1320d Rajpute will play shots at Trince Iro us ho was alighting diate effect in Japan of creating a desire for the following programme of music at the King from a train at Harbin last October seems to vengeance which would take the form of a Edward Hotel during dinner to-morrow (we have shown at his trial at Port Arthur this demand for the definite annexation of Korea. So, in fact it did, and it month the same indifference to his fate as he did when he was seized on the instant of stands to the credit of the Govern
ther permitting): "Quickmarch. "Jerman,” Overture Poet and Fessarzt
Sullivan.
Commons, so as to secure the undivid
ed authority of the House of Commons
LORD CECIL'S UNIVERSITY SCHEME.
over finance, and its predominance in
LONDON, February 22nd. legislation. These measures, in the
Yesterday 600 members of the opinion of His Majesty's advisers, should provide that the Lords should Oxford University met to promote the be so constituted and empowered as Oxford and Cambridge scheme for
the safes and the strong room were locked at nig
You depated two coolies to do the duty- did not specially depute them. It is their duty
It was their duty through old custom- There was nobody else to do it,
Is it their anty from old custom -I was not there when it was instituteil.
Did anybody ever inquire as to whose iluty it was to lock and unlock the safes-Not that I know.
Supposing both these coolies were out, would the sales remain unlocked ?—No.
Has it ever been reported to you that a safe has remained anlooked? Never.
-Further evidence was taken and the hearing adjourned.
ARMED BOBBERIES;
The value of the articles stolen in the armed
Valeo...Gold and Silver Suppe. to exercise impartially, in regard to the establishment of a University 10obbery which took place on a junk at Deep
Selection "Trabizondt,"
Serenade
the commission of the dastardly crime. He ment of Japan that, notwithstanding Picaroon...
the recrudescence of the so-called "insur- admitted kis guilt with no sign of regret,
rectionary movement" in some of the but rather seemed to glory in it, and the only line of defence open to the barristers provinces of Korea that has followed On the assassination of the late sident
Piccolo Solo,"
Hartmana.
China, Franz Lebar,
Offenbach Proposed legislation, functions of Beckett initiation and revision, and, subject to
the safeguards, of delay.
proper
LATER. Lord Lansdowne, speaking in the
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Lord William Cecil spoke of the favourable reception of the scheme in China, and appealed for help in the collection of the funds needed for the establishment of the University.
PRESIDENT.
Government on its decision to give priority to question of finance. DEATH OF THE REICHSTAG'S The opinion of the Opposition regard. ing the Budget remained unchanged, but if the proposals were again passed by the House of Commons, their Lordships would not only be ready to pass but to expedite the Bill to the utmost.
Lord Lansdowne added that the Government's programme thereafter
whom his friends had engaged to appear on General, and in spite of an influential with thanks the following donations to the funds House of Lords, congratulated the his behalf was to claim for the principal assassin and his three accomplices the right agitation in favour of annexation, there to be tried under the Korean Criminal Code has been no departure from the emi- and not under the Code of Japan. There mantly sound methods of treating the are no provisions in the Korean Code Korean problem laid down by the wise dealing with crimos perpetrated abroad, and and far-seeing statesman whose life was so the benefit of this Code was therefore tragically ended by an ill-informed and claimed for these Korean subjects. But misguided Korean patriot. The extinction
of Korea's-nationality was absolutely foreign The comparative immunity from accident the ples met with no success. Alter i full and patient trial the principal assassin to Prince Iro's purpose or thoughts. He which the Star ferrios have enjoyed for a long was sentenced to death, and his thres laboured to preserve and to strengthen time was broken yesterday when the launch reaching the Hongkong side had a mishap. accomplices to terms of ponal servitude the national idea, and looked forward to The gangway had been lowered before the ranging from eighteen months to thres Korea being the friendly ally rather craft was detually at a standstill, and several years. Englishmen may read with astonish than the Colony of Japan. In an article in passengers had disembarked. But to the alarm the Nineteenth Century on Twelry Legal of those on board the launch backed out from ment that the men who so actively assisted from the pen of the Chief Justice of Hong the side, with the result that the gangway fell his plans as these men did, ahould have with Iro as his legal adviser when drawing iron supports and smashing the woodwork of escaped so lightly, but, unlike the low of up the Constitution of Japan, the ideas the gangway itself. Fortunately the passen England, the Japanese Code draws a clear which animated the great statesman's workers who were alighting saw the danger and distinction between the actual porpettor in Korca are concisely stated in, as near as moved off quickly. The remainder had to of a murder and his accomplices the possible, Izo's own words. He hoped- to latter felt their position acutely, but the reach the heart of the Korean nation by actual assassin Listened to his senterice compelling the gratitude of the individual, without betraying a sign of emotion. He and twenty years, he thought, were not too had long sherished the design, and was long a time to devote to the task. Ho intelligent enough to understand the con- realised far more keenly than his critics the sequences to which his action rendered him difficulties which stood in the way, wid that
LONDON, February 22nd. The death is announced of Count Stolberg, President of the Reichstag
LOCAL SPORT.:
BUGBY FOOTBALL
It will interest sportsmen to learn that it has
Bay the other day was $1,493.
Another armed robbery on a junk is reported from Castle Peak The junk was an its way to Hongkong when it was held up by seven men in a boat. They were armed with knives and drove the crew into the hold and took away a large amount of valuables.
HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
A meeting takes place to-morrow. Among the business is a report on opium, its nature, composition, preparation and methods of cun- sumption by Mr. F. Browne, Government Analyst.
Hon Colonial Secretary will propose the following resolution "That by law No. 3 contained in Part 1..of the Slaughter Houses. and Slaughter of Animals Bye-laws made by the Banitary Board under the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, on the 26th October, 1999 and approved by the Legislative Connell on
the 11th November, 1909, be repealed.
The Orders of the day are: First reading of a Bill, entitled "An Ordin=” First reading of a Bill entitled "An Ordin-
1909"
was to sterilise the House of Lords been arranged that a series of metahes shall be once to amend the Pension Grdinance, 1852 in order to clear the way for Home played between teams representing the Navy,
the principal assassin in the development of kong, who in former days; was associated from the wharf downwards and fore out the Rule,He was amazed at the anda. Army, and Hongkong Football Club, for the Anco de inrther amend the Liquors Ordinance,
disembark from the steps below.
Rugby Championship of the Calony. city of the Government making such splendid Challange Cap, to be competed proposals on the strength of the result for annually, has been subscribed for by a num- bar of persons interested in the welfare of the of the elections,
game,
LATER THE GOVERNMENTS PROGRAMME.
How to be Beautiful Roep your Mr. Asquith, in the House of Com- plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Créme Charmante, Lait Charmant and Special Skin Tonic and Poudre mons, and the Anti Veto Resolution Charmant will enable you to do it. Her Specialities for the Skin are the study of a would be discussed before Easter, and Hfetime. A.B. Watson & Co., Ltd., Sole Agunta before the Budget passed from the
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The fret match will be played on the Club Ground brow at 5 pm,
The following players will represent the
Bayly, Charton, Joseland, Larter, Robertson Hongkong Football Club-Shaw, Oliver, Allby, Temperley, Courtney, Haronbil, Neilson, Hut. chison and Mellraith.
First roading of a Bill entitled "An Ordin-
ance farther to amend the Magistrates and Criminal Law Amendment Ordinance, 1909.
First reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to-regulate the Law as to Oathe..
First rooding of a Bill entitled "An Ordin- ance to amend the Official Signatures Fees Ordinance, 1888,"
Procedure
Becond reading of the Bill entitled "An Ordinance to amend the Code of Civil
Second reading of the Bill entitled "An Ordinance to amend the Tramway Ordinance, 1902.
Will not be proceeded with at this meeting,