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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 28TH, 1911.
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rice, which under the Statutory Tariff that came into force on tk: 17th of July had been raised, was again temporarily reduced to its old level, while it was hinted that if this did not improve matters the duty would bo suspended altogether. Whileonthe surface
- Messrs. A. 8. Watson & Co., Ltd., haverocently this precantion seemed a wise one, it was led to their list of productions a most palat- soon shown that its actual effect was peable and refreshing beverage called Too Croom tically nit.It was pointed out that the rice Beds. This particular water bida fair to become merchants would hardly be induced to import most popular, for we are informed that slready rica by a merely temporary reduction of the
great-demand-for-it-has-sprang up,... duty, since by the time the shipments arrived the duty might be restored to its
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Haraton for the marriage of Miss Gladys Rolton to Captain A. W. Waring, E.AM.C., at St. John's Cathedral to-morrow. The marriage of Miss D. Hooper to Mr. J. Macgregor takos place on Wednesday:
TREOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE STRIKE MOVEMENT,
THE ATTACKS ON JEWS.
"LONDON," August 26th. „The Jewish Chronicle deeply deplores the present attacks on Jews in South Wales, and points out that the causes are obvious. The
old figure and the merchants thus suffer a British section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Jews are largely engaged in business, in
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FRANCE RECOGNISES PORTUGUESE
REPUBLIC.
LONDON, August 26th. A Paris message states that Presidont Fallierenla
congratulated President. Arrings of Portugal au kis election.
France has recognised the Republic..
FRANCE AND GERMANY.
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LONDON, August 26th, The French Goverument has unanimously
Leavy loss. Further, for shipments of foreign rive to produce any effect on tire markot considerable time was necessary, so that the measure of the Government as WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. temporary expedient for reducing the price of rice was bound to be a failure. Such in effect it was, the result on the market being inappreciable, and prices" continuing to go steadily up. Now, 23 Last resort, the Government has suspended to the Pokfulam water supply: Minute by the be elsewhore. The oppression by Russia is in Morocco.
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LONDON, 27th Angust. Under the auspices of Paris journależ man named Jagere Schmidt has completel a tour round the world in 394 days, which is a record.
THE U.S. TARIFF.
LONDON, 27th August.
President Taft, speaking at Seamirt m Massachusetts, said that when the Tariff
which they are keen and assiduous; Welsh- man owe them money and are sometimes sued for it; thus creating irritation. Tho Jews also collect rents, and all, this does approved the Foreign Minister's intructions not improve the fooling towards them. The to M. Julea Cambon, French Ambassador Board issued its report on wool and cotton journal concludes that the Jewish packannt. Berlin, regarding territorial compensation in December ho would recommend to Con- is a product of Russian terror: to-day ho is to Germany in the Congo in exchange for gress the revision of both schedules,
an absolute recognition of France's rights attacked in Wales, and to-morrow he may
ANOTHER NEGRO LYNCHED IN
PENNSYLVANIA..
thus a world-wide oppression.
BIOTING IN WALES. .- There was more rioting at Bargeod laat night. The police and ailitary dispersed by the President of the Sanitary Board relative the mob, who did much damage. to the introduction of small fish in the waters of the Colony to destroy mosquito larve; Report
of the Select Commitles relative to the training of nullahs; Report of the Committee re com- plaints against the city conservancy contractor.
SHIPS AND SHIPPING,
The Douglas steamer Haimus, which has been chartered at Saigon to run between that port and Bangkok, left for the French port yester day.
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LONDON, August 27th. Owing to the attack on Jews in South Wales numbers of Jowish refugees havo arrived at Cardiff, having endured consider able efforing and frightoned for their lives The rioting at Bargoed and Gilfach con- tinues. It is described as a guerilla warfare against the police and the infantry.--
Two Jewish shops were burned at Senghenydd.
LATER.
Reuter learns that the era of convorsa-
LONDON, 27th August. tions concerning Moreen will be succeeded The authorities at West Chester, Pennsyl next week by what may be regarded as vania, have arrested eight men and boys in negotiations, both muce and Germany connection with the lynching of a negro at knowing what-is likely to be offered and Coatesville. given in return.
The victim while trying to escape was LONDON, August 27th. N beaten back into the flames with fence The French Press is optimistic regarding rails. the latest Franco-Gorman negotiations. It is believed that Germany is not yet entirely satisfied with France's offer of compensation, but it is hoped that the differences will soon disappear.
AUTOMOBILE DISASTER.
LONDON, August 27th. In an automobile race at Elgin, Illinois, Mr. Buck was travelling at the rate of biă. miles an hour when the car overturned;
A statement of the approximate tralle on the
from 1st to 31st July places the total number of passengers for that period at 21,268. Coaching realised 87.486.15, while $470.56 is chown under the heading of goods and $1,582,22 under the heading Miscellaneous. The total realised for the month was 89,348.93. which, with the previous total adjusted, brings the grand total of the earnings of the railway to 3112,678 63.
The agenda for to-morrow's meeting of the Hongkong Sanitary Board includes the follow- ing items: Letter from Government relative forward transactions on the Tokyo Rice President of the Sanitary Board relative to th Exchanges, and has warned the remaining general surface scavenging and the removal of four exchanges in the provinces that excrétal matters from the larger villages on the similar step will be taken in their cases un island of Hongkong; Minute by the President less speculation ceases. The result of this of the Sanitary Board relative to repairs to atein measuro Jet remains to be seen. may be noted that the suspension does cover spot transactions for cash. The Government's action is looked upon with some degree of complacency, although Cortain of the Japanese papers express mis givings, and think it would have been better to reduce the freight rates ou the cou- modity ou the Government railways, no AB to induco the transportation of larger 316.80 matities of the coral to the chief centres. It is pointed out that the closing of the Exchanges, partial though it be, doprives sellers of their chief means of getting rid of their stoels, so that "instand of proving a 2.05 help to increased transactions it will actu- ally prove a hindrance. On the other hand, the authorities hope the measure will Cauno the speculators to.. disposa of a large quantity of the rice now in their hands, and thuis. restore the equilibrium between demand and supply Bven if this follow, however, the restorationing Works, for the use of the Dock, made a highly ordered all strikers, including the dockers A, S. WATSON & CO., of the old quotations for rive is extremely satisfactory trial trip. Her measurements are
problematical. In view of the smallness of 154ft. overall by 25ft. x 13ft. 6in. monidad. Her to resume work to-day. LIMITED,
hore power is 1,400. She is designad on the All the disputes at Liverpool are now the capital with which the speculators were nos of the most modern salvage and towing settlel. The shipowners, stevedores and newspapers are urging consultation (with feet to an angle of 85 degrees. working and the nature of the commodity in which they were trying to form a corner, it seems reasonable to conclude that there are gone other reasons which made the operations practicable. Corners in wheat have been attempted in the. West, although always with disastrous effcets to the specu- lator, but a corner in the principal food-stuff in Japan is something quite now, and it may be strongly suspected that in the natural course of events Japan has arrived at the stage where she is no longer able to feed horgolf. That such a time would come eventy- ally has long been foreseen. While Japan luus made great strides as an industrial nation,
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The Daily Press.
Honorona, August 28th, 1911.
We learn that an order has been placed with the Taikoo Dookyard and Engineering worke for a Blue Funnel" steamer, about 200 ft in length for the Singaporo-Deli run. It in a high compliment to the Taikoo Dosk that the ship is to be bailt without supervision by
the arm.
On Saturday the how twin-screw tag, built and enginal by the Taikoo Dook and Engineer.
The Telegraph's special correspondent as the result of a lengthy inquiry says tliat the tales of extortion are absolutely devoid of truth.
WORK RESUMED AT LIVERPOOL.
LATER.
The Liverpool Strike Committee has
vessels and has a large cargo hold for carrying salvage gear.
Saterday's trial showed that porters reached a satisfactory agreement when opened out she can do 14 knots. A large this afternoon. company was on board, including Mr. J. Reid, the dockyard manager, Mr. R. Mcgregor, local Secretary, Mr. K. E. Greig, chief engineer of the dockyard, and many others prominently identified with the shipping of the port. The tug bears the same Taikoo.
THE NEW SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE,
Mr. L. Gibbs, as honorary transuror of the Seamen's Institute Building Fund, conts us for publication, by instraction of the Committes of the Seamen's Mission to publish, the
as an agricultural nation she has stood still, following statement of accounts in connection
if not actually recoded. There was a good with the building of the new Stamon's deal of truth in the answer of the Japanese Institute at Wauohai: statesman who, when asked why Japan Purchase of Land
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books Obeque Interest at 6 per cent. to 30 Jane, 1911 Crown Rent to 24 Juns, 1910. Printing, &c.
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was so ~ backward in agriculture, replied, Forchase of Land, Deneys & Bowley
foo "Because we are an agricultural people."vik Loong for pulling down old All the offorts of the authorities, all the building Dongkong Office: 10A, DES VEUX ROAD C teaching in Agricultural Colleges, all the Cost of new building less $2.759.84 paid directly by the late Bir H. N. object lessons on experimental farms, have Mody scarcely moved the Japanese farmer from Leigh & Orange, Commission
Furnishing his old-world methods of agriculture. At Sign Board .. the most a few chemical minures have been Overseer, wages introduced. During the last twenty-four year the population of Japan has increased JAPAN is just now confronted by a problem by over twelve millions, yet the production which, though it may be of a temporary of rien has not only not increased, but, in uaburo, is yet sufficiently serious--so serious, some years, has shown a decrease compared in fact, that the Government has felt called with the production of twenty-four years upon to take somewhat drastic inexatirea, ago. Yet the Japanese hold foreign rice in The problem is nothing more or less than a poor estimation, and its use is mainly con remarkable_increase in the price of rice. tined to the poor, to whom the difference in Some time ago a group of speculators ou the price means the difference between starva- Tokyo Rice Exchange endeavoure" to form tion and satisfaction. Under these cireum- a corner in rice, and although their efforts stances the rise in the price of rice is not were not altogether successful they obtained only natural but inoritable, and the wisdom. nough hold on the market to send the of placing a duty on foreign rice, even price of rice far above the normal level, though it be merely for purposes of revenue. Under ordinary circumstances, such mani-is open to extremo doubt. pulations would have immediately rosnited
in an extra inflow of rice from the provinces,
A SHIPPING MYSTERY...
LONDON, August 25th. The newspapers give prominerice to the seizure by the authorities of so-called "mystery ships," two steamers, one at Erith and the other at Barrow. The fittings of the ships are said to suggest that they were intended to carry cargoes of war material. Numerous conjectures are being made as to their intended destination, which, it is generally believed, in South America. The
the South American Republics ?).
THE BLACK PERIL. LATER. At a Labourite meeting held at Trafalgar
LONDON, August 26th. The recrudescence of lynching in the Square it was resolved to protest against the Government employing military during United States, coupled with the "black strikes. The demonstration was poorly peril" incidents in South Africa, is attract- attended and there was
considerable ing attention, according to the Daily dissension.
Express, of American and British statesmen, who regard this as a grave question.
THE INDIAN CRICKETERS.
BIG DIAMOND ROBBERY.
LONDON, August 26th.
It is reported from Paris that a diamond merchant travelling from Paris to Antwerp 237,800.00 was robbed of diamonds to the value of £7,000 by two men hustling him in a train.
75.00
550.00
57.046.83
3.176.53
1,962.37
TEST CRICKET.
LONDON, August 26th. The Mhas invited Vine to accompany 20.00 te English Cricket Team to Australia. 54803 Werner has accepted the captaincy of the 462.79 English team. 264.00
3.75
12.30
Total Cost...$101,921.52
RECEIPTS.BUILDING FUND. Collected by the late Bishop Hoare, Roy, A. G. Goldsmith and Rev. J. H. France
March, 1903
Collected on appeal for subscriptions Bank Interest Gift of the late Sir H. N. Mody
FURNISHING FUND,
Collected by Rev. C. E
Thompson Part proceeds garden füte... $862.37
furniture..
...$1,100.00
Total receipts...
BALANCE SHEET.
Total cost of site, buikling and
Total receipts Balance due to H. K. and S. Bank and
bearing interest at 6 per cont.
$11,585 30
26,285.95 221.95 50,000,00
$88,094,20
1,962.37
890,056.57
THE ST. LEGER.
LONDON, August 26th. The betting for the St. Leger is a follows:-
11 to 8 against King William.
4 to 1 against Lycaon.
5 to 1 against Prince Palatine.
CANADIAN POLITICS.
LONDON, August 27th. The all-Indian Cricket Team drew with Lancashire.
AMERICAN RAILWAY DISASTER.
LONDON, August 27th." Thirty-one are known to have been killed by the dorailment of a train on the Le High Valley Railroad between Manchester and New York.
THE WRECKED
FIFESHIRE."
MORE RESCUES.
LONDON, August 27th. The Messagories Maritimes steamer Adour reports having picked up a drifting boat in which were a number of the crew and passengers of the Fifeshire. On the evening of the wreck the officer said there were three other boats drifting. The Adour searched for three days and rescued another with twenty-seven persons on board in su ex. hausted condition. The same evening the Captain's boat, containing twenty-four, was
The chauffeur was crushed to death and
Mr. Buck has also sucenmbed to the injuries he received.
QUN TO DESTROY. AIRSHIPS.
LONDON, August 27th.
A Washington dispatch states that naval experiments have been made with a naval gun to destroy aeroplanes.
It proved accurate to a height of 10,3***
THE LONGEST DAY'S FLIGHT,
LONDON, August 27th.
At Chalons-sur-Marne, Helles How 750 miles in 15 hours, winning the Michelin Cap
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This is the longest flight mude in y one day.
GRIMSBY TRAWLERS FOR JAPAN,
· LONDON, August 27th. Japanese agents have bought four Grims- by steam trawlers and have engaged Grima- by fishermen to introduce their methods af trawling into Japan.
MOTOR DISASTER IN ENGLAND.
LONDON, August 27tļi.
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A motor brake with thirty-three pussõu- gers on board ran away at Consett in Durham and collided with a tree. The motor was smashed to atoms, ten people were killed, and several were injure.
LAWN BOWLS.
A friendly match between Kowloon and Tai- koo was played at King's Park on Saturday afternoon and resulted in a win for the home term by the uarrow margin of two points.
THE TOKYO-YOKOHAMA, QANAL.
A charter has been granted to the Tokyo- Yokohama Canal Company, mooted by Mr. Okada and other promoters, and the prospectus will be issued early next month. The charter is said to cover the first portion of the programme, the cost of which is estimated at 5,000,000 yea. The promoters confidently believe that it is possible to dechres 10 per cent. dividend on completion. The plau comprises a scheme cutting 隐 canal Borosk Haneda for Point and the shore at Kawasaki, extend-
the canal will be 90 feet and it will keep a depth of 8 feet at normal tides. It is predicted that the canal will greatly facilitate jonk traffic be-
the dangers of the voyage of Haneda Point.
LONDON, August 26th. The Times correspondent at Toronto slates that Sir Wilfried Laurier, speaking at St. Eustachie, Quebec, said that every picked up. There was a strong masuoning for 22,700 foot in length. The width of 101,921.62 vote for the Nationalist leader, Mr. Bour-and a rough sea at the time. 90,056.57 assa, was a vote for Mr. Borden and JAPANESE CHANGE OF MINISTRY.
twenty-five million dollar tribute for the He declared that strong boxes of London.
$11,865,05
tween the capital and Yokohama by eliminating
PREVALENCE OF APPENDICITIS.
New regulations made by the Governor-in- which in itself would have sufficed to send Council under the Sale of Food and Druge prices down. A disquieting fact in the pre-Ordinuuss, in connection with milk, are sent cast, however, is that no euch inflow published in the current issue of the Gazelle, took place, with the result that prices not
Friday last was observed as a public holiday only maintained their high level, but actually in Mano to mark the election of Sr. Marcel
Losbos, August 27th.-) continued to rise. It seemed impossible d'Arriaga as President of the Republic of
The Times says that though the resigna that a group of speculators operating only Portugal. A sainte of 21 guns was fired from the LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. he was not an Imperialist, or an anti-
Imperialist, but was a Canadian first and ftion of Count Katara was perhaps in
"At the witting of the annual conference of The 1,G,M. str. Buelow, which left here on
evitable, the change in the premiership may the British Medical Association, in London Wednesday, 23rd inst, 5 am., arrived at always. Shanghai ou Friday, 25th inet, 2 p.m.
LATER. bo regarded with some anxiety Count July 28, DJordon Lloyd, Professor of The P. & O sir, Pelma is expected to arrive
Surgery in the University of Birmingham, Reuter's correspondent at Ottawa tele- Katsura directed the policy of Japan within the course of an address on surgical opers. tions, dealt with the increasing prevalence The professor estimated
Monte fort.
in one market should have been able to affect the price of the cereal all over the
The King has been pleased to approve of Herr country, and suspicions wore aroused as to Carl Feindel, as German Consul-General at
whether there were such large stucks of rice in Singapore for the Straits Settlements, includat Pouang on the 29th instant, at 7 a.m. the provinces as was generally supposed. ing Labuan Island, and their dependencies Although the suggestion had never been made (Cocoa, Keeling Islands, and Christmas Islands),
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before, and is now strenuously denied insome Johore, the Foderated Malay States, the British the port on the 25th instant at 6.30 p.m. with graphs that the Canadian electoral campaign conspicuous succese, and his successor, of appendicitis.
quarters, the authorities began to ascriba Protected States of the Malay Peninsula, Kel- part of the abnormal rise in prices to a bad autan, Tringganu, Kedah, Perlis, together with barvest in the preceding year, which had the Langkawi Islands, and in the Island of Bor. left the country short of rice. Accordingly, no, the State of North Borneo, Brunei; and by specjał Ordinance, the import duty on
Sarawak.
The P. & G. str. Delta left Singapore for
outward English Mall, and is dus here on the 30th instant": at about 6 a.m.
has been narrowed down to a straight though possessing many brilliant gifts, lacks that in England and Wales alone 2,276 per- The N.K.K. str. Bombay Mara (Bombay party fight, there being practically no his experience Line) lett Singapore for this port on the 25th opposition to reciprocity on the part of the Aug. and is expected here on the 31st Aug
Liberal candidates.
The LG.M, str. Prizs Sigismund left Sydney on the 26th instant, at 11a.m., and may be ex pected hore on or about the 19th prok
The Times urges, the Saionji Ministry, if it wishes to achieve success at the cloctions, Sir Wilfrid Laurier will retire if defeated. to devote its energies to financial reform.
sons died during lust year from this discuss, and that in the United Kingdom 40,000 operations for appendicitis were performed. With respect to general suruical operations Professor Lloyd estimated that 60,000 wore annually performed by the medical profession without fee or reward."