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LOCAL SPORT,
V.R.C. AQUATIC FETE.
The second evening agnatio fête held at the- V.R.C. on Saturday was an improvement on the first, not as regards the programme of events, bat in so far as the attendanes was concerned. The number of occupied seats round the bath THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE EXCHEQUER. | bore testizaony to the popularity of those OVER- ing entertainments, and so long as the dom- PERING, August 1st.
mittee of the Club run them with the same ability The President of the Board of
as they have the first two fêtes, there is little Finance is about to resign, owing to fear of a decline in the sport. The Increased the difficulty of obtaining the neces-attendance on Saturday night made it apparent that the inaugural meeting was greatly spre
was a bright moonlight night, and the bath, under the glare of large are lamps, left nothing Boldog, the commitee factual point of view.
to be desired from a spect soular
not likely to attain the importance that it diversion, tuvalag er alteration in level of dont reports that Sir Wilfrid Laurios y funds for the re-organisation and dated, and augure well for coming events. It
has informed the Labour Unions of development of the Navy, and he Vancouver that the Government would recommends H.E. Cheu I Shun, the
Prince Ching recommends Sheng consider the question of increasing Viceroy of Szechuan, as his successor. the head tax on Chinese immigrants, Kung Po (the newly-appointed Vice but it was unable to entertain for one President of the Board of Communi
cations). moment any proposal to subject Jap- anese immigrants to the indignity of a head tax, even if it involved the downfall of the Ministry.
ought until it is clearly demonstrated that Hongkong with all ita fortifications and regular soldiers, not to speak of the Navy, able-bodied Britons dwelling here Then, and not till then, will volunteering be taken seriously. In Shanghai, where there is no garrison, the able-bodied mon of the com munity are impressed with the import- ance and the necessity of salisting in the Volunteers. They are made to realise. that it is their duty to do so, and so gener. ally is this duty accepted that the corps has attained an efficiency that is a credit to the Settlement. Admittedly, the conditions in the two places are different, but it should not be impossible to make them such that
A mange from Harbie states that the Chinese Government have decided to extend its colonising policy in Manchuria and Mon- golia. In order to introduce greater mathod into the colonisation operations the Prince Regent has ordered the Ministers of the Interior, Agriculture, and the Colonies to frames de tailed scheme of settlement. The prospective settlers are to be takon obiefly from the dis- triste of the South Provinows which have saffered so severely from floods.
Mors. Ellis & Ellis of Hongkong, in their Weekly Rubber Bharo Circular, any: When Para ross from 8/3 to 9/5and closed at 9/ at the last rubber sales there was considerable excite strongly in sympathy, the demand putting up
ment. manifested in London and shares rose
MR. ROOSEVELT.
LONDON, August 20th. The American papers allege that the rejection of Mr. Roosevelt for the
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The Princo Regent has the matter under consideration.
SERIOUS DEVELOPMENTS IN EASTERN TURKESTAN,
PEKING, August 21at.
A mutiny has occurred among the Chinese soldiers in Eastern Turkestan,
prices of the sterling shares in the local market Chairmanship of the Republican State and bad characters have seized the
was no delay or mistake in connection with the programme. Results of events were as follows
Two LENGTHS HANDICAP:-First heat, J. C. Barretto, "go," 1; C. H. Lyson and J. A. S Alves, owed 4 seconds, dead hest for second. Becond bent, L. G. Cordeiro, owes 6 seconds, 1 ; R. A. Carvalho, owes 3 seconds, 2. In the final Barretto boat Alves by about half a length. Time-37 seconds.
EIGHT LENGTHS:-An eight lengths exhibi- tion was introduced to test the speed and andurance of a fow of the foremost swimmers of the Colony. The starters were C. J. Cooks and
Ceil Humphreys, and it is understood that the latter entered the bath to pace the fornier. Humphreys stepped in the sixth length, und
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NOTWITHSTANDING the many efforts which have been made during the past few years
to rouse
individual responsibility for national defence. The danger is apparent to the least obair aut, and it should not require any great appeal to patriotism and the use of duty men to the realisation of their The word "Volunteer" is obligations. perhaps responsible for the erroneous con- ceptions, which have formed in the public mind during the past generation or two. Volunteer suggests the possibility to many of a man being given the opportunity of choosing or refusing to serve his country by making himself militarily efficient, but this impression is entirely wrong. Every man in Britain, as in any other country, is liable to be called upon to defend his country. It is a duty cast upon all who are physically fit, and to elect to perform what is really obligatory is perhaps a pleasant fiction, but the sooner it is exploded the better for the Empire. Hongkong, so for as volunteering is concerned, has blown hot and cold, and it probably will continue to do so until another generation, trained at
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has subsided, and prices on the whole are lower.
Para continued to advance, sud was wired at 9/7 He is seeking an excuse, the papers rebellion.
say, to separate from President Taft from London on Wednesday, at which figura it eloses to-day, Business in sterling-quoted shares during the week ander review has been of small and the Conservatives, prior to assum- compass only and the market closes weaking the leadership of the insurgent After the mild panic in Singapore last week, Republicans. when first-class scrips' were being offered at aboardly low figures, the inevitable reaction has since taken place, and apparently our Southern neighbours have gained heart again with the advanos in price of Plantation Babbor. Then the United States is that Mr. more notable advances in Singapore stocks Roosevelt will run as President in
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ACCIDENT TO COLÓNEL BAYARD.
LONDON, August 21st. A feature of the Republican split
1912 if he does not then like the official Republican policy.
ANOTHER BATTLESHIP
LAUNCHED.
LONDON, August 21st. Lady Winchester launched the battleship "Orion," which is the most a powerful in the world,
We regret to record that Colonel Bayard, the commsuding officer of the Buffs, met with serions riding accident at Causeway Bay on Saturday afternoon. While playing polo his Chips pony tripped, fell and rolled oa bim. The Colonel, when picked up, was sean to be mar station was summoned, and Police-Sergeant hart. The sasistence of the police at the Bay View Pitt and the Hon. F. G. Scarlett conveyed the injured gentleman in a riobaha to No: 2 station at Wanchai where an ambulance was obtained, and Colonel Bayard was removed to the Royal Naval Hospital.
Ou inquiry at that institution last night we were authorised to state that Colonel Hayard. was "progressing favourably."
RUBBER LABOUR..
THE SLAVERY ALLEGATIONS AT HONGKONG.
The Straits Times of the 13th isst, say I will remembered that some days ago wo quoted from a Hongkong paper an article published under flaming headlines about "lavery in connection with Chinese coolies employed os rabbor estates in Malaya. From the text of the article it looked as if the which the Hongkong source of information
teen upon the Planters Labour Barsan, which journal had scted was fir, Walter Jackson, who represants has its headquarters at Ipoh. Immediately on was sent from the Barean to
to Mr. Jackson the article being quoted here, a communication
à
The battleship will have ten 15.5 guns, a displacement of 22,600 tons, speed of 21 knots, and she will also have a range of four miles. carry the new 21-inch torpedoes, which
IMPENDING VICEREGAL
CHANGES.
PEKING, August 21ts. the Viceroys and Governors,
Many changes are impending among
OPPOSITION TO REFORMS,
PEKING, August 21st. Prince Ching opposes the reform
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although Cooks continued alone he covered the
fact, to show up well in an intérport struggle. FIND-YOUR-PARTNIE-W. J. Carroll and C. H. Summers, L.
In this agent all the competitors--were-blind folded, and it will be readily understood that a game of blindman's bluff ashore is not so amus ing as it would be in the water. In the
arsh for partners rivals hugged one another
ad lib, and there was much swimming before the winners came together and removed the bandages from their eyes.
EGO AND SPOOK. RACE E. C. Witchell, li 5. A. Lopes, 2.
Even when running this is a difficult race,
strong stroke as well as balance the difficulties are entanced. Witobell, however, had a way which the other did not possess, and he thur-
policy, including the cutting off of the but in the water when a man has to keep up a queue which has been recommended by Prince Tsai Tao (who has just completed a military mission abroad).oughly deserved his win. BRITISH NORTH BORNEO RUBBER
TRUST.
FOUE LENGTH Handicap:~E. J. White; 1; F. M. Cruz, 2 Time-1 min. 18 secs.
From the start the entrants in, this made the pace, and in the final length it was apparent that the race was between White, Crim and Colond Iver Ross. It was a big struggle, and White just
winchester House, London
The statutory meeting was held last month at Philippe, presided, pubilo lusus 760,668 sod, said that at the were allotted to 2.142 applicants the options, with confidence that the board had done of ours, in addition. He thought he might good work already on the shareholders' behall There were proposals now before them which The cost of the ship will be over they hoped would lead to still further useful business. They had not yet decled to make a two million pounds sterling.
call, but would do so as soon as they found useful opportunities for using the money.
THE
"IKOMA'S" OFFICERS
IN PARIS.
LONDON, August 20th. The officers of the Japanese cruiser "Ikoma" are visiting Paris..
a
The Minister of Marine attended luncheon given in their honour at the Embassy.
CRETANS AND THE GREEK ASSEMBLY.
LONDON, August 20th. A message from Athens says that
Home in its duties to the Empire, succeeds ing him of the bad impremion crested in view of the representations from
the present generation.
The Fanch mail of the 19th July was delivered in Londen on the 19th inst.
Two Chinese have been arrested in Manila
to stimulate the young manhood of Hong on a charge of smuggling opium to the value of kong to make the Volunteers an affective P. 6,000. force, it has to be admitted that the results
Mr. K. E. Greig has been appointed a am disappointing, and that the hopes of
aurveyor of boilers of unlicensed steamshipa those worthy citizens who devoted sounder 50 tons burden, much time and energy and enthusiasm to
and asking him, if he was responsible, to
80, and if not to let that fact be known. A the Powers, three Cretan leaders will wire has now been received from Mr. Jackson in which he
withdraw their candidature for the By:
Greek Assembly.
"We have no connection with newspaper
articles. Please do what is necessary." [The repudiation will interest a good many people in Hongkong, who had similar notions regarding the source of the informationTMED., H.D.P.]
MR. GERSHOM STEWART, M.P., AND THE KOREAN QUESTION. The following is from the Times Parlamon tary report on July 29th ----
PERSIA AND RUSSIA.
WEATHER REPORT.
CHINESE RAILWAY CONTRACTs.
In the House of Commons on the 25th ult.:- Mr. Barnes (Glasgow, Blackfriars, Lab)
and the Secretary of State for Foreign
Aftab's whether the British interests in the Imperial Chinese Government railway contracta
managed to win by a touch, while there was little to spare between Crat and Rose,
SWERKING IN PAIRS (OND LENGTH);—R, A, Carvalho and A. H. Carroll, 1; A. R. Ellis and ́ ́ M. A. B. Sours, 2.
DIVING FOR OBsacra ; - F. B. Silva, 8 pointa,, 1; E. L. Braga, 6 points, 2.
TEAM BAOE :—Witchell's team, 1; Petersen's team, 2.
The winning team was composed of R. C Witchell, La E. Lammert, W. J. Carroll, A. V. Barros, J. A. S. Alvos and E. A Carvalho. Petersen's men had the advantage most of the way, but Witchell's man proved speaker in the
final spurt and won a good race.
WATER POLO-The evening's entertain-
had yet bean settled; and, if so, would he take ment ended with a water polo match between an early opportunity of making a statement on teams representing the white and the blue. The
teams were: the matter
Mr. McKinnon Wood-I am unaware of what contracts the hon. member refers to, but if he is alluding to the Hankow-Szechuan and Hankow Canton Hallway Loan, an arrangement was come to in Paris in May last between the four financial
Foncerned, representing British
to matter, ph the basis of an equal division of the Line
four
groups. Among the The question has been submitted to the Chinese Government, and is now under their considera.
tion.
NIGHT IN A CHINESE VILLAGE.
WHITES-L. E, Lammert, F. K. Tofa,
A, S. Ellis; C. A. C. Rodrigues, L. E. Chunyat, J. M. C. Lopes and M. A. B. Sonza.
BLUES:—A. V. „Barros, A. H. Carroll, F. L. Rosa, H. W. Feterson, B. A. Carvalho, H. J White and A. R. Ellis.
The tests were very evenly matshed, and as consequence a fast and exciting game resulted. Until the final stages there was every indication of a pointless draw, but on one occasion A. 8» Ellis took a long pass from Lammert, and before the keeper of the bites realised it, swung the leather into the not.
FINAL--Whites, 1; Blues, nil
BOARD OF TRADE AND CHINESE BEAMEN.
In the course of an article in the Badminton Magazine on Shooting Trips in North China" Lieutenant Beigne gives a realistic description of the village inas to be met with in that Dountry. They are, he declaros, "both dirty the traveller would often do and noisy, well to seek out a temple, where the priests will as a rule be glad to takes him in for a considerssociation recently a letter was read from the Marine Department of the Board of Trado t any rate, he will find less noisy recommending that Chinese seamen should not tion. Here, at and decidedly cleaner quarters.
be employed on vessels trading to Americas,
and
At a meeting of the Cardiff Shipowners' As
"A Chinese apartment does not, more espe eports cially in the cold weather, strike one as the The attention of the association was called to assenes of comfort. The badly. Biting doors
and shutters, and the paper, generally in shreds, the circumstances in which four hump. od overboard from the stea Mand in lieu of glass on the windows, are by no
Monarch when the means edoctive
ive in keeping out either wind or
Philadelphia, and were rein.
At. 008 and of the room is the Esur or Bion of the Chines
1882 scamen at
stove-bed build of bricks with fireplaces running American ports, and this often occasioned
provented masters landing Chines underneath, on top of which the bedding is serions discontent among yellow crews, who
ZES
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued spread. In the winter the fires Thimo ng insisted on going shore. In these circumstances
rals, with dried grass, and BS MADY
LONDON, August 20th. Reuter's correspondent at Teheran says it is understood that pourparlera Mr. Stewart (Cheshire, Wirral, Opp.) asked are in progress for the withdrawal of His Majesty the King has not been advised the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the Russian forces. the inauguration and development of the to exercise his power of disallowance with whether his attention had been onlied to the movement are not destined to be realised respect to Ordinance No. 8 of 1910, entitled creation of Colonial Board in Japan to Such a view is not anduly pessimistic. It is An Ordinance to amend the Squatters' Ordin-superintend offairs in Korea, Formess, and the
part of
of Baghalion whether his merely a frank recognition of the facts, and ance, 1890
Majesty's Gow
Government
this, of Inferred from bad reason to believe from other information, whether the explanation be that the
Investigations show that the defalcations at that the formal annexation of Karon by Japan the following report Volunteer movement cannot expect to the New York office of the Russe Chinees Bank was contemplated; and whether, io such event On the 21st of 11.35 amThe depression possible huddle together on top, very often the Board made the recommendation.
would take develop into a healthy organism in a com amount to £120,000 in bonds and stocke partly his Majesty's Government rights treat moved to wards N.B. and reached the neighbour.
to lying over the Yangtze valley yesterday line fe practically their only means of keeping warm nearly suffocated by the smoke. This
treaties
Owing to the various noisos of the right, merchants
hood of Weihaiwei, where, the barometer has sleep is often a matter of extreme dificulty to munity. conscious of the feeling that it held as securities and partly belonging to the saleggar Korea secured by arinting! bank. Of the amount, £16,000 was in railway between Great Britain and that country.
THE PROFOBED BUTT ON FOREIGN GOODS, fallen rapidly.
lor. The bonds and £104,000 in stacke.
village dogs the weary traveller.
show Sir E. Grey (Northumberland,
A Berwick)
Japan
The following semi-official statement was Foreign Devil" in their midst by incessant issued in St. Petersborg, on July 23rd :— Eressure is still high, but Confirmation has now reached the Colony of of Kores by Japan being decided upon, his N., Japan,
Affirmative. In the event of the snubration
giving way over
howling, and another disturbing element is the "In connection with the conference held at the Ministry of Commerce, on the Zist inst. to in the Britons who have made Hongkong the telegraphic report of the death of Mr. J. B. Majesty's Government would carefully consider Fresh S.W. winds may be expected in the watchman who patrals the streets, banging
in order, I was told, to frighten consider the introduction of a tranail duty on all their commercial
Formosa Channel and over the northern shores urnes their more or less temporary home, there Van Buren, on July 11th, in the harbour of the best means of safeguarding
[ away thieves. of the China Bem.
Manchuris ola foreign products going On one occasion .my follow traveller, can be no doubt, from the point of view Naples on board the ss. Prins Eitel Friedrich, interests in the country,
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending offer fresh from India, incensed by several 1909, a discussion took pla
eller, an Siberia, it is now pointed out that on June 18th,
preki at 10 am. to-day, 0.09 inchse, of those who are keenly susceptible to the Mr. Van Buren was the Agent in Hongkong of
sleepless nights, with the aid of our. Chinese
sacrifices enough in the form of the military contribution, or that the sense of responsibility to the Motherland weakens
www.
The surwer to the first question is in the second depression lies off the S.E. coast of their resentment at the appearance of the
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company from 1891 LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. needs of the Empire, that Hongkong presents to the end of 1902, and subsequently became a state of affairs which is far from satisfac: the General Agent of the Great Northern The C. & M. str.-Bubi loft Manila on the
Steamship Company with headquarters at Hong 20th rust., and is due kare to-day at 3 pm. tory.
The 0.8.K. six. Tacoma Maru from Tacoma, Valuable as any assistance rendered by kong. In a residence of nearly twenty years in the Volunteers in their varying forms might the Colony, it is scarcely necessary to say, Me, left Moji for this port vis Manils on the 19th instant, and is expected to arrive here on or prove, it cannot be regarded as all-important Yan Buron mado many friends and acquaintances about the 30th inte
who havo sympathieed with him in his recent The I.G.M. air. Prins Ludwig left Shanghai for the defence of the Colony. At Home, the-heath and regret to learn of his death at the vis Foochow on the 20th instant, at 7 pm and
may be expected bare on or about the 24th inst Volunteers ronlisod that they had a definite
at 7 pm.
age
to-day is as follows ----
Hongkong & Moighbourhood
Formosa Channel
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the
RUSSIA AND MANCHURIA.
to
under the
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon Sirsant wrote out and posted proclamation in door of the Minister of Finance on the quartion the village square to the effoot that the watol Manchuria vid Vladivostok. It was decided 13.W. winds, mo man was hot to perform that night, as it at the time to collect the necessary statistical derate to tree; Lord, and, further, that all dogs found barking of this material alone to determine whether
disturbed the repose of the great
Foreign
this traffic, and on the basis concerning material air to showery. Lo 18.&3.W. Winds, after a certain hous would be summarily shot. the imposition of a duty on
ench foreign *** Freehu
This was proclaiming martial law with a dacts was expedient and on what goods Buch South coast of Chins between Same sɛ No. 1.
vergenaco ; it had, however, the desired result, daty should be levied. The Custers Depart Hongkong and Immooks. }'
for that night comparative peace and quiet ment has now gathered the statistical mustariat Bouth coast of China between 18se No. 1..
reigned in our part of the village, and we and has laid if before the Ministry of Com- secured a much-needed sloop." Hongkong and Hainan...
merce."