Page
INTIMATION
A. 8. WATSON
& CO.,
LIMITED, ESTABLISHED "A.D, 1841).
WEI
vengeance
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15тя, 1910.
STORY OF A DIAMOND RING.
At the Magistracy. yesterday Inspector Langley proceeded against a pawnbroker for failing to keep proper books,
Cherry Tree, one of Mr. F. B. Marshall | ACTION AGAINST A PAWNBROKER, ponies, won the rise for the Champion Cup at the Foochow raga meeting yesterday. At about 1.30 p.m. yesterday the fire alarm sounded, and the Fire Brigade, answering the summons speedily, proceeded to the Grand Carlton Hotel in Tos House Street There they found a kitchen ohimney on firo, caused by the overheating of a fae. The outbreak was soon extinguished,”
Inspector Langley informed his Worship (Mr.
TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS
[Protected by the folegraph Message
Copyright Ordinance, 1894.]
[REUTER'S SPECIAL POLITICAL SERVICE.]
TUESDAY'S ELECTIONS.
E. R. Hallifax) that in the 9th December & diamond ring value $315 was pawned in the Ki Hing pawnshop for 350 by a man who is alloged THE GENERAL ELECTION, to have stolon, it. The larcony was reported to the Water Polise on Friday about 10 p.m. and the notice to pawnbrokers was sent out the following morning, yet though the descrip- tion was very minate the defendsat did not return the ring, and it was not until a Chinose detective examined the books that he saw an
very informing book by Messrs BLAND and Backitouran, recently published, under the title of "China under the Emprese Dowager" we have the story of the Reform Movement set in some respects in a new light. At the time when Kaso Tr. fled to Hongkong from the of the Empices Dowager be way regarded as a high-souled patriot against whom nothing base or sordid could justly be imputed but the authors of this important contribution to history say that WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS in the light of later knowledge and of almost inivorant Chinese opinion on this subject, it is difficult to acquit Kano Yu Wes of personal 1 and interested motives, of a desire to wield power in the State as the result of his influence over the Emperor, whose emotional pliability he made to serve his
The destit is reported of the Rev. J. D. Davis, own onds. Looked at in this light, they D.D., of the American Board of Missions, ons of say his denunciations of the Erase the piouser missionaries to Japaz. Docossed left Dowager and JUNG Lu were evidently Japan in the spring to attend the Missionary less the outcome of patriotic indigna Conference at Edinburgh and from Great Britain tion than of his recognition of the went to the United States. He spent the fact that so long as Tzu Har remained in summer with friends in Maine; during that time without compensation to the defendant.
CHAMPAGNE
DE ST. MARCEAUX & CO.,
REIMS.
VINTAGES 1900 & 1904.
VIN DRUT AND VERY DRY.
PER CASE 1 DOZ. QUARTS.
$57.00
=
1.
*
པ་་-:་
PRICE.
PER CASE 2 DOZ. PINTS. PRICE ---
THE MOST POPULAR WINE IN ENGLAND AND EUROPE.
CREME
·
$59.00
Yokohama papers announce the death of Mr. Carl Bratechneider, founder of the firm of Bretschneider & Co. He came out to Japan in 1888. Owing to ill-health be retired from business last year. He was a successful merchant and acquired considerable property, samo of which is in Japan. Mr. Bretschneider del at bis residence, Sagiyama, from heart failure. Ha wes 49 years of age and loaves a widow and four children, who are now in Berlin.
entry which corresponded to the description of
LONDON, December 13th. The following are the results of Tuesday's polling-
UNIONISTS.
the ring reported lost. The ring was then pro-Bridgewater
Ancol. Moreover, the defondant · failed · to
identify the man who had pawned the ring. The Torquay "xamination of the books alan showed that North Lonsdale much as the address of the borrower was not they did not comply with the Ordinanes juss: Ross antoret. In view of the fact that the ring was Derry, South pawned for $50 bo would ask his Worship to Reigate Rye order the ring to be returned to the owner Bodmin
attendered a plea of guilty and explained that the Essex, S.E.
Oswestry
chronic heart trouble. became sonte ¿nd the end
came peacefully in the horas of relatives Oberlin, Ohio, ou November 5th.
Mr. Shenton, who appeared for the defendant,
ring was pawned by an American sailor in the namo of J. J. Smith of the Wilmington. As the defondant could not write English he asked the pawase to write his name and address on a piece of paper. This he did, and this paper was attached to the ring and an entry made in the book to the effect soe proof." He pointed out that it was as diffimit for a Chinese to recognize European as it was for a European to recognise a Chinaman,
Woodstock
powar, his ambitions could never be achieved nor his own position secured. That, so far as it goes, in doubtless true enough, but such
It is reported that the High Commissioners personal ambitions, as-KANG Yo Wer and of Naval Construction, Prince Tea Esas and were evidently inspire by patriotic Admiral Sha Chun-ping, have decided that motives, and content that he alone had's | Wai-hai-wei and Klaashow should be redeemed sufficient knowledge of European science to and turned into naval bases, and that they called direct and develop the reformation which he at the German Legation to discuss the matter had persuaded the Emperor to initiate. His no far as it affects Kinochow with the German Minister and the Governor of T-ington. The error was in persuading the
Naval Commissioners have proposed to con- Emperor that it was necessary to the struct looks for the building of men of war and succoss of the movement to put JUNG to purchase the necessary plant and machinery Lu to death, and
Mr. Shenton explained that the defondant to seize and im from abroad rort spring, Naval Colleges will prison the Empress Dowager. YUAN SHIR opened at the same time. Kai, whose apparent geniuue zeal for reform had greatly impressed the Emperor
·fatal·
be
Hi Worship-But it is a pawnbroker's |` bustuess
was absent whon the notice was served and
are
LIBERALS. Newmarket Glamorganshire, E. Govan Leigh
Partick Lanark N W Montrose Burghs Bosworth
LABOURITES. Staffs, N.W.
NATIONALISTS.
Wicklow, E. Cork Co., S.E Cork Co., Mid, Tyrone, Mid.
STATE OF THE POLL.
(Protected by the Telegraph Mirage
Copyright Ordinados 1594.]
REOTHE'S SERVICE TO THE “UORGKONG DAILY PRESS."]
GREEK POLITICS.
LONDON, December 14th, The elections for the Greek Chamber on the question of arising the constitution have resulted in the victory of M. Venizelos,
GERMAN ENTERPRISE IN YUNNAN The Avenir du Tonkin (Haiphong), referring, to the arrival of a cargo boat with Germa material destined for the installation of a blast farasce at the tin mines in the neighbour. hood of Mongtze, remarks that following upon this there had arrived from Hong- keng more Gerinan material destined for Yunnan. "It is always the great house of Carlowitz," any the journal, "that Jous business with the mandering, the merchants and the manufacturers of Yunnan. They bring in machines and inerchandise from Germany, but never from France. That important houso has already developed a
large busines ia Tunnan." It furnished more than 20 millions of war. material which passed through Szechuan to get to Yunnanfn before
The results of the election so far the railway was epono to traffio; it has
Liberal that was why no attempt had been made to Labour. It is reported, says a longlui contemporary, reture the ring to the police.
199
30.
Redmondite 59
302
8
that the Chinese Government is proposing-a On the application that the ring bo zeturned Nationalist O'Brienite I was given command of a large force of iustal wireless telegraph apparatas at least unto the owner, J J: Smith, böstswain's mate on Unionist
the coast, and ultimately throughout the Em-the Wilmington, identified the ring as his. He troops, and in a secret audience the Emperorgire, in the former case to convey message bought it for $315. He missed it on Friday:
D'EPERNAY gave him the details of the commission when the present lines got out of order, and in He kept it in a cheat on the forsenstia. It was
CHAMPAGNE OF FINE QUALITY
PER CASE 1 DOZ, Quants. PRICE
$33.00
PER CASE 2 DOZ. PINTS.
$35.00
PER CASE 4 DOZ. SPLITS...
PRICE
PRICE
·
$37.00
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
(25
NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
with which he had decided to entrust him. the latter ca o to provide a cheaper service thon YVAN promised faithful obedience, but that obtaluable by land lines. The idea on leaving the palace set out at once for to have stations every two or three hundred miles Tientsin and acquainted Jusa Lu with the apart along the east, and to instal in all the
not locked and was accesible to anybody. Ho then it somebody must have seen him pat the ring there,
His Worship said the ring would have to be
Full details of the plot. JUNG Lv lost Provincial capitala throngliont the Empire. It redeemed at full value. Applicant should look
is eridant flut something is expected, as several experts are now in China endeavouring to get the work. The German system, the Telefunken, is already installed in one or two places besides Shanghai, and the mine company is said to have received orders to erect plants ie Nanking and Peking in order to demonstrate the efficiency of
no time in revealing it personally to the Einpress-Dowager, and the coup d'etat awiftly followed. All the leading reformers who could be acized wero executed. KANG TO WE made good his escapo, but the authorities were ordered to secure his arrest its apparatus, and to see that capital punishment. was inflicted. The death penalty was also
|
better after his ring,
His Worship registered a conviction on a technical offence against the defendant and dismissed him with a caution.
POLICEMAN CHARGED WITH ACCEPTING BRIBES.
Before Mr JR. Wood at the Magistraes yesterday afternoon Indian polico lurice-sergonut
Merabers elected... to be elected
240.
to
delivered more than 300,000 francs worth of field glasses and optical instruments and al the saddlery necessary for the artillery in Yanban. The journal goes say that when the German blast furnaces get to work, the house of Chelowits, having been the importer of the machinery, will bearme.the exporter of the industrial products of Yannad. They have already been inquiring 542 act only of the French companies but of all com. 129panies at Hongkong the freight charges for the metals thoy, will soon by sending to 670 Hamburg and Anvers, All these things are cited by our French contemporary to show the mood for greater activity on the part of the Freneb mazobante in a country which by reason of the great sacrifices of human lite and money France has made in constructing the railway to Yunnan onght to be a zone in which French influence is paramount.
PARTY GAINS.
Unionists Liberals Labour Nationalist
23 19.
4.
1
UNIONIST GAINO.
Majority
acnverted,
11
50
The Unionists have gained
Late member. Torquay, Sir Francis Barrott, L Bodmin Mr. A. Gronfall, L
LIBERAL GAIN.
Hakim Singh was charged on five counts with Newmarket, Mr. H. Vorrall, U
NATIONALIST "OLIN.
accepting bribes from Chinese hawkers. tendent of Police, prosecuted, and Mr. Eldon
Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, Deputy Superia- Tyrone, Mid., Mr. G. F. Branskill, C. Potter, instructed by Mr. J. H. Garauer, TARIFF
appeared for the defendant.
We are informed by the Societe d'Aviation d'Extremo Orient, whose offices in this Colony A. S. WATSON & CO., awarded to KANO's colleague, LIANG CA'I are at No: 3E, Queen's Road Central, that their
LIMITED,
Cu'o, a scholar of the highest repute, who principal, the Marquis de Villesense, the found a refuge in Japan, and there edits a celebrated French aviator, will shortly visit the newspaper which is described us of "high clong with his flying machines. The Margais and well deserved reputation.” Kano Yui du in Salgon in a few days, where he will ONLY commumcations relating to the news WEL, we believe, has spent most of the last join Van den Born, the renowned Belgian twelve years in Mexico, but has all theiator, and proceed to give exhibitions in the art of serial fight. These gentlemen have
other types of aying machines. They intend quence of complaints made to the police that visiting the South Coast ports and will arrive the defendant was taking money from howk in this Colony about a month hence, when the ers, instructions were given to the first com given an opportunity of witnessing theso vosaels
alumn should be addressed to TuR EDITOE,
Mr. Wodehouse informed the Court that
A bribe of twenty cents on the 8th
the defendant was charged with accepting
CONTEMPT OF COURT AT SHANGHAI,
At the Mixed Court on the 8th instant, before ...120 Mr. Sau, Assistant Magistrate, and Mr. F. W.
Hadlay, American Assensor, Tang Wah-chu,
405 maunger of the Universal Gazelle, a Chinese..........
REFORM PROSPECTS charged with printing and publishing or causing newspaper printed at No. 7. Bhautang load, was again brought up on a Mixed Court warrant
to be printed and published a certain sentemp- LONDON, December 14th.
toons article and a certain insulting cartoon of The Morning Post says that it and against the complainant, F. W. Hadley,
tion of the Unionist Party. The
Harris appeared for the defence.
It will be remembered, says the Mercury, that result of the elections so far is unthe contemptuous article and insulting cartoon referred to in the charge were published some
**
Correspondents must forward their names and while continued to take an active interest with them Bleriot and Farman and possibly instant from a Chinese hawker. In conso-is impossible to ignore the grave situa. US. Mixed Court Assessor, Mr. Montagna
addresses with communications addressed to the
good faith.
Editor, not for publication but as evidence of All letters for publication should be written on wo side of paper only.
No anonymously signed communications that
in the reform movement in China, and has done all he can to promote it through the organisation he created and by the establish-
have already appeared in other payers will be ment of newspapers. Size the debacle of Hougkong-public-will, for the first time, be plainant that if the defendant went to him to fortunate, and it is an impracticable-wooks ago in a Chiness-newspaper-called the
**erică.
P: 0. Box, 84. Tolophons No. 12.
The
Daily Press
the
THE ITALIAN CONVENT.
AN APPEAL.
The Superiorces of the Italian Convent to Hongkong is issuing the following appeal :---
THE BRITISH SOUTH POLE EXPEDITION.
Koh Jeep, at the time when a deadlock arose Rehatan Mr. Puo Yi, the senior Magistrate, and
the American Assessor. When the case
old
1898 he has had the satisfaction of seeing capering in aid air. We understand sabibi get money he was to give the policeman marked Drdare for extra copies of DAILY PESAS his reform movement progress to an extent tions of straight, oireular, high and distanemoner. On the 9th, when defondant asked the proposal to submit a Tariffite Budget should be sent before 11 am. on dery of publication. After that hour the supply it which must have far exceeded his high-flight will be given, and probably, if sutinient complainant for money he was given a marked to the Referendum. The Tariff imitat. Only supply for Cash.
est expectations. What twelve years ago public interest be evidenced, we might also see twenty cont piece. The second witness to be formers had no quarrel with the Telegraphic Address: Paman.
were accounted the impractical dreams of { racing contests in mid-sir.
called also gave the defendant a twenty cent Coda: A.B.C. 5th Ed. Lieber.
piece, which ho marked. After handing over constitution, and they should make fanatic are now State policies in China. But
the marked twenty cent
pieces both that fact a starting point in their next the memory of the plot to get
bawkera rade s roport st the Central HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VODY ROAD Crid of the Empress-Dowager is probably LONDON Orrien: 131, FLEET STREET. EC much too green yet in
Police Station. Whou the defendant returned campaign. In any event Tariff Re the minds
off duty at 2 p.m. and went to the charge room, formers must immediately insist on of the Yekonala clan to warrant the
Inspector Murison asked him if he had any having a clear course in their associa- expectation of a free pardon from the Throne Recent events in a neighbouring field of Defendant said, "Yes, forty cents. tion with the Unionist party. for the instigators now in exile.
labour of the Canosaíun Sisters of Charity, who was then asked if he had it when he went out, had been established in the district ace 1675, and he said he had. The inspector, on search have led to the closing up of the institution,ng the Indian, found the two marked twenty which had boon maintained as a day and board-cents, and took them, the defendant and the ing school and foundling home, while the lower to Mr. Wodehouse's office.
both hawkes picked out the coins they last month, will make her way to MacMurdo Tha Terra Nova, which left Wellington, N.Z, Ste Enfancia Institute is being carried on joint use of Japanese and foreigners, is expected
The new cricket ground at Yokohama, for the for the care of the aged invalids.
had marked from among fra athers, Strait, whers Lieutenant Evans will give up to be opened about June next.
The greatly regretted event is accountable There was no money in the case of the other command of the ship to Ldeztenant Fennell. for a considerable augmentation in the number three charges, but on the third charge core- Linton at Evans will leave with the majority of inmates who have had to be housed partly borntive evidence would be addused by another pressed in the Terra Nova to King Edward VII. of the Western party, and Captain Scott will At the Magistracy yesterday Ko Choi Poin the central house of the Convent in Caine.
witness as well as the complainant." appeared before Mr. E. R. Hallifax on a charge Road, and partly in the district, establishment
His Worship Are you asking me to send of obtaining $6,500 by fraud. He was remanded. at Hungton,
him to the Sessions or not, Br. Wodehouse?
Mr. Wodehouse--I think not, your Worship Mr. Potter ale des red that the defendant should be dealt with summarily,
Evidence was called, and the hearing a joarned.
HONGKONG, DECEMBER 15TH, 1910.
ENCOURAGED by their success in having persuaded the Throne to curtail the period of preparation for a Parliament, the Assembly at Peking is now approaching the Throne to abandon another resolve which has been, on more than one occasion, re-affirmed. Our Peking correspondent tele- National graphed yesterday that the
The German mail of the 16th November was delivered in London on the 13th inat.
33.
7
The exact number for whom provision bas The Slianghai 3fcreury states that the led to be male since the first week in Decem Assembly is asking the Throne to grant German Emperor has conferred bigh Order ber is as follows: an amnesty to the Reformers who fled Tsai Nai Huang, ex-Tastai of Shanghai, and from the Throne's wrath in 1898, when the His Majesty has also bestowed decorations on late EMPRESS-DowLoss by a coup d'etat | Colonel Lin of Nanking, Mr. Kwai Choy, rosumed her control of the affairs of the Director of the Office of Foreign Affairs, and State, rolegating to the bakground the Mr. Chen Shekwang, Secretary to the Shanghai EMPEROE KWANG IIsu, and awarding the death penalty to the reformers who had
tical doctrines:
Taotai.
Sisters (Europa)...
(Chinese) Chinees Orphans Portuguesa Foundlinga Chinese Boys
Total:
11
-129
Thera
ST. ANDREW'S DAY IN SEOUL,
C
Land.
before the Court on Tuesday last the defendant was questioned by Mr. Hadley, and admitted that the Tastai was the proprietor of the paper's premises were lent to the Auch Jerpao. Universal Gazette and that a portion of the
A fine of $200 was imposel and immediately
jaid
CHINESE RAILWAY ACCOUNTS.
The President of the Board of Finance bas stated in the Council of State Affairs that in all foreign countries the profits of the railways are looked upon os government revenue. It is a large ram and lia a most important bearing on the national finance, In late years all sorts of
"ways already, completed and there has been fraudulent practices have repeatedly come to in connection with the management of the considerable delay and waste of money in connection with those under construction. private Baances stund greatly in need of re- At the present moment when both public and adjustment it is absolutely necessary that the offleials or by the merchants, should be inspected. accounts o
of the railways whether managed by the
It is hoped that Lieutenant Campbell and his party will be landed at the King Edward VII. Land basa abent February 1, but nobody has He therefore proposed that the Board he cm- oror succeeded in landing there. His party will railway from amongst the straightforzard and powered to appoint two comptrollers for each ons landed, Captain Scott will return to Mac. it is to examine the accounts. The members of consist of six men. When the Eastern party tenstworthy officials and gentry, whose sole duty
memorial will sily be presented to the Throns the Council are favourable to the proposal and a on the subject.
Enas will have started with a party of 12 men, Murdo Strait, but long before this Lieutenant
eight ponies, 29" dogs, and the motor-sledge to Lay depots. The depot party will be away for ten yeeks preparing depots for the great south- ern journey, which will begin in October next.
TRAVELLING.
PEKING BAILWAY SCHOOL.
The Seoul Prem gives the following account of the observance of St. Androw's day at Seoul-
Loyal Scots in Seoul and Chematpo deter THE GERMAN EMPEROR AND SEA Central
Au ind ion of the interest taken by the mined to do honour to their patron saint on
ramcat in the future of railways so completely converted him to their poli- World Missionary Cenforence in Edinburgh to that, besides the cost of removal to Hongkong, and very successful they were, for a
Mr. Ch'ong Ching-yi, who was elected by the It does not require many words to explain Wednesday last by giving an invitation dance
in Chius, arks a Consular report, is afforded to other westerners not born within the
by the establishment in September, 1901, in This amnesty would be China's representative on the permanent the bare daily necessaries for the maintenance enjoyable evening was spent by their gaosta iu of Shipbuilding Engineers on November 18th officide. The school is built for 600 students
a thoroughly
The Lokalanzeiger states that at the Cong:estions at Poking, of a school for training railway connection with the Ministry of Communica affect only two or three men, for. on committee, lus just been ordained in Poking to of such a large number of pouple ontsil on the former Custom House offices in Little West the Emperor congratulated the Hamburg en- the occasion of her seventieth birthday the pastorate of the London Missionary Society's expenditure as wholly unexpected as the Con-Gate Street, which under the able management
ment gineer, Herr Frahm, the inventor of a "pitch come from all parts of the Empire and vary in but the armber is at present limited to 350, who (1904) the late Empress-Dowager pro church in the Chinese capital. This position
of the beoul committee were transformed from ing tauk to prevent the rolling of ships, and mulgated a genera amnesty for all who has always hitherto been filled by missjonaries vent is without immediate resources to meet.
bleak loneliness into an abode of light, warmth, expressed the hope that the system would soon about thirty teachers, including une British age from eighteen to twenty-five. Thors are from England, including Dr. Edkins, Mr. cessity of appealing to your generosity for Korean Household Band was in attendance,
We are, therefore, driven to the urgent ne attractiveness and hearty hospitality. The be introduced on boaril all vessels. had taken part in the Reform movement ofeng Ching-si was born 30 years ago in sifonos. We are conscidas that, the sensor of and the way in which it rendered the soloen model the effects per demonstrating upon to Germans. Most of the teachers are returned:
one American (a drill sergeant), two French, and read a 1808, excepting only the leaders K'ANG YU Peking of non-Christian parents, but, the whola
the invention in Chinga students abroad, and the the dent WE and TANG CH'I-Cu'ào, who were family becoming Christian, he was educated at Fer is not opportune for domauds upon the tious undoubtedly added to the enjoyment consists of U-shaped tanks, extending from Thofall course is three years i
of all, but more especially to the dancera, port to starboard through the hold. The water disided into three suctions according to the students expressly excluded from grace, and Dr. Sun the Peking and Tientsin schools of the London parsos of Hongkong residents; but wo aro left: About meldnight supper was sorred, and the in them rises and falls as the ship rolls so as to foreign fasgange, English, French, or German, YAT-BEN, who is a fugitive from justice on Mission, and afterwards for two years in Glas needs impels us to have recourse to your terrig aust have been pleased to witness the neutralize the rhythmical movement of the lat taught them in addition to otkor subjects, Tha
without any option and the urgent nature of our anterera
Onslaughts made upon their confections. ter. The tanks have been tested on the two curriculum includes Chinese language, drill, other counts. We may suppose also that ew. He assisted the Ber. George Owen in charity eren at the risk of so ropeatedly impor Dancing was arried on until an early hour, and Hamburg-American liners Tpiranga and Cor- geography, history of Chinese railways, matke the case of YUAN SHID Kat is intended revising the Mandarin version of the Chinese tuning you. We hope to be excused. No dona- then previous to breaking up a scoond supper cosado. These vessels, plying between Buenos, untics, drawing, chemistry, physics, ethics of
Bible. For the last two years he has been to be covered by the amnesty the National carrying on erangalistic work in his native ange of the hundred odd persons in whose ended one of the most acostal evenings was reduced to two degrees when the tanks were electricity, workshop administration
rolled up to eleven degrees on each beam.
sommores, traffic management, railway book- This keeping, elements of engineering, steam and Assembly is now asking for. In the city,
behalf we venture to appeal.
in operation.
railway company law.
Herr Fram
amount, it will help to provide the daily ensten hands and sang Auld Lang Syne," and so tion is too small. However inconsiderable thie was indulged in, after which the company joined Ayres and Hamburg this summer without tanks
Seoul has ever known.
and