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The Hongkong Technical Institute. evening classes re-open on Monday next. An announcement, giving the subjects taught, appears in our adverstisement columns,
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
ANARCHY IN NORTH CHINA
LONDON, March 6th.
The Times discussing the anarchy i North Chins pays a tribute to the loyalty
The case in which six Chinese were charged with having assaulted and obstructed L. 8. Attewell and a lakong in the execution of their duty on board the s.s. Sui An came before Mr. Irving- at the Magistracy yesterday, D'Almada e Castro) appeared for three Mr. Eldon Potter (instructed by Mr. of the defendants, and Mr. Harding for undefended. one of them. The remaining two were
Mr. Potter asked if the inquiry into-
with her to safeguard the rights and interests specified in the Preamble of the Treaty, when.. these are
remenaced. The
(THROUGH REUTRE'S AGENCY.}. objects of the Treaty include: (1) the consolidation and maintenance of the
THE MINERS STRIKE. general peace in the regions of Eastern
LONDON, March 6th. Asia and of India; (2) the preservation of
the transport workers and railwaymen The Miners' Executive have informed the common interests of all Powers in Chien
that a sympathetic strike is unnecessary. by insuring the independence and integrity of the Chinese Empire, and the principle of The Directory of Protestant Hission-with which the statesmen of Japan,
despite all difficulties, have observed the seaside resorts descriptive of the holiday, The papers publish telegrame from the equal opportunities for the commerce and aries in China, Japan and Korea, an-
letter and the spirit of the Anglo-Japanese making of the miners, which is in strik industry of all nations in China. Before nually published from the Hongkong Alliance. It emphasises the dangers and ing contrast to the distress of the other Great Britain can be accused of being Daily Press Office, at the price of one dol- inconveniences of foreign intervention, workers, of whom it is estimated that the death of the man shot by the Lance- faithless to the Allianca it has first to lar, cloth bound, is now issued. It is abut says the situation may develop so as to be proved that Russia has taken such book of 188 pages giving the names of compel the Powers, of whom Great Britain 350,000 have been rendered idle, causing action as makes her authority supreme in Missionaries first under the headings of and Japan are the most immediately co Unions for unemployed pay, which, in inst. I will not fix the hearing of the case Mongolia that Great Britain has declined to their respective Missions and at the end of cerned, to concert measures for the take, jointly with Japan, the measures con- the book they are repeated in alphabetical restoration of order. The Times still the case of the railwaymen, is greater hopes that the sturdy commonsense of the then on the occasion of the railway strike. bulk of the Chinese people will enable Mr. W. Proudlock, who went to Eng them to maintain order and unity within
A crowd raided.a coal depot at Ryhope, land from the Federated Malay States in the Empire.
Sunderland, and looted three truckloads. LATER. an effort to obtain a roopening of the cass
EFFECTS ON THE CONTINENT. of his wife who was tried for murder at Router's correspondent at Weihaiwei The industries on the Continent are telegraphs that the Republicans are gain-seriously affected. As an instance, the Kuala Lumpur in Juno last, has been iu- formed by the Colonial Office that no reing the upper hand, and driving the re Spanish orange expert is practically nesses? calcitrants to the south-west. One thou-ruined. opening is possible. Mra. Proudlock was
sand have been killed.
Strikes are threatened in Germany sentenced to death for shooting Mr.
The conditions at Peking and Tientsin France, and Bohemia, Steward, a mine manager, but was after-tend to encourage the malcontents.
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The Singapore police dog to whose exploits reference was made in a recent paragraph has been killed by a motor car.
متحجم
Dr. Percy James Kelly, of the Govern ment service, Hongkong, has been offered, and has accepted, the important position
Jon.
The steamer Lyeemun reports that on 5th March dense fog was experienced. from 4 mm. till 11 a.m. and that Gap Rock did not give the signal until in sight
of the vessel.
order.
wards granted a free pardon. Mrs. Proudlock declared that she fired the re- volver in defence of her honour.
Leading seaman Edward Abrahams, of H. M. 3. Tamar, while, playing in a foot- ball match at Happy Valley on Tuesday, was knocked down and sustained a frac tured skull. But for the fact that among the spectators was the medical officer of H.M.E. Minotaur, the seaman might
have fared worse than he did. After hir wounds had been dressed by the surgeon, the injured man was removed to the Naval Hospital. He is progressing very favour ably.
The Hon. Dr. J. M. Atkinson, Principal Civil Medical Officer of Health, and Mrs. Atkinson, who had intended leaving for home later in the year, have changed their
plans and are leaving to-morrow, travel-
ling via Siberia. We regret to learn that the change of plans is caused by news of the illness of their sons who are at school at Home. The community, we are sure, will: share with us the hope that Dr. and Mrs. Atkinson when they reach home may find their boys quite restored and be cuabled to enjoy with them a pleasant holiday, Dr. Atkinson goes on eight months' leave
·THE PROTECTION OF SHAMEEN
AND WESTERN SUBURD
AT CANTON.
A Chinese correspondent sends ús the following
MANCHESTER BY-ELECTION.
CONSERVATIVE VICTORY,
----
LONDON, March 6th- The by-election at Manchester-
ix's
consequence of the appointment of Bir Haworth as Junior Lord of the Treasury resulted as follows
Glazebrook (C)
Haworth (L)
-7,051 6,472
The defeat of Sir Arthur Haworth caused a sensation only to be compared with that caused by the defent of Mr. Gerald Leder on a similar appointment, which was the precursor of the fall of the
Balfour Government.
Liberals are despondent and admit the
The Conservatives are elated, but the it is a very grave how
Sir Arthur Hawrth, in a speech, said his defeat was ine to the misrepresent strike, and to the suffragette outrages in tion of the Insurance Bill, to the coal
London.
an enormous drain upon the funds of the
LOOTING "COAL...
The Pennsylvania owners have refused the demands made by their men on the 8th ult.de
THE PROSPECTS OF A SETTLEMENT.
The secretary of the Miners' Executive has stated that the men are still in an an- compromising mood, and that there is no men in the federated area wish to resume truth in the ramours that many of the works
Despite the foregoing statement, the papers generally are hopeful of speedy
state that Mr. Asquith hopes to meet butė action tending toward a settlement, and sides to-day.
The coal owners are re-assombling in London after holding meetings in their districts at which their attitude was re
affirmed.
Sergeant had yet been fixed.
Mr. Irving-Yes, for Tuesday, the 12th
until after the inquiry.
Mr. Potter-Is your Worship prepared to allow a representative of the deceased to attend?
Mr. Irving At the death inquiry f Mr. Potter Yes.
Mr. Irving-Yes, it will be held in open Court.
Mr. Potter To cross-examine wit-
Mr. Irving I shall follow the usual course of the Court.
The case was remanded until Wednes. day next at 10 a.m, each defendant being allowed bail in 2800.
The inquiry will be held on Tuesday next, at 2.15 p.m.
KWANOTUNG PROVINCE.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
MO-CHU, March 1, 1912. able to Yuan Shi-kai as President than Public opinion here seems more favour-
seemed possible some time ago. It seems to be recognized that he is the one man who can cope with the situation.
After four months under the new con
stitution the people do not seem to look back with longing to the old order though no very great progress has been made. The Miners' Executive met in London Life, and property have been fully pro- yesterday to consider the district reports,tected and there have been no very serious The Times correspondent at Cardiff disturbances: The friction between the states that the Executive of the Seath civil and military officials is less than it Wales coal owners have been summoned to has been. The Chu-chong has pursued a authoritative action as they were pre- London. Their departure is attributed to conservative course which has out the ap- :
probation of the public and is now in a viously determined not to go to London position to carry out some of his plans for
the benefit of the people..
Mr. Glazebrook unbuted his victory to unless officially invited the fact that Gove, ament rushed the
The Daily Chronicle states that the Gov- Insurance Bill through Parliament, andernment will introduce a Bill to-morrow. attempted to pass Ilome Rule without consulting the people, and also to Weis discstablishment.
THE SUFFRAGETTE MENACE.
establishing a minimum wage. After its first reading it will be submitted to the coal owners and miners twentives, and they at their district conférences will fix the minima. The Bill will probably be passed in a fortnight.
The arrival of five hundred soldiers from Canton helped us to get over the kind. These soldiers are all from Kwang- New Year without disturbances of any
si and all are Hakkas. Their commander, Yug Chong-k'in, is a native of this place. He has with him a Red Cross corps with doctors, nurses, etc,
All schools will be unusually late in start- LONDON, March 8th.
ing this year. The threo Middle School The Royal Palaces have been closed for REAR-ADMIRAL HONOURED.
we had last year will be anulgamated with the Normal School in one school and
Miss Christabel Pankhurst will be charg-a Knight Commander of the Victorian teachers have gone to Canton or Manking fear of the Suffragettes. It is stated that
that, it is feared, will not be very well- LONDON, March oth Mr. and Mrs. Pethwick-Lawrence, and
attended. There will be fewer schools of Rear Admiral Craddock has been made lower grades, partly because so many
ed with conspiring to incite malicious Order. damage to property.
LATER.
of Registrar of the Medical College, Cey-leaders of the Volunteers, General. Lang At a recent conference held by all the
Chi Kwong undertook to afford protection to Shameen and the Western Suburb of Canton, and on-the-spot-made an arrange ment with all the leaders that the Vol- unteers should be strictly disciplined and the Woman's Social and Political Union The police seized the headquarters of when armed with any weapons, bombs or in London and arrested Mrs. Pethick other dangerous articles should not be Lawrence and her husband. It is under- allowed to approach the district understood that Miss Christabel Pankhurst has General Lung's protection, and that even been arrested in connection with the raid. when any of them is despatched to that district on commission, an official letter should be produced, ac as (a) to prevent the committal of burglary and other crimes by others falsely representing themselves as Volunteers, (b) to protect the reputation of the Volunteers them- selves; and (e) to encourage the wealthy residents and merchants to retum to the place and resume their business as before, with the approval of Europeans bat would This arrangement would not only meet
Two men were charged before Mr, Irving, with the larceny of a quantity of alothing. The first defendant was sentenced to three weeks' hard labour and the second to six weeks.
L. 8. Attewell yesterday charged thirty MONGKONG OFFION: IGA, DHE Vœux ROAD four men with having been found fro LONDON OFFION: 131, FLEET STREET. Eequenting an opium divan at 48, Lower Lascar Row. The keepers were each Fined $200 or three months imprisonment, and the others were each fined $2.
The Daily Press.
on the 5th-inst
SELF-GOVERNING COLONIES OR
DOMINIONS:
...] to seek their fortunes, and partly becaUSO.
of the uncertainty of the political outlook.
THE DEATH OF MR. E.-S. LINDSEY.
The following obituary notice of the Inte Mr. Lindsey was published in The Timer:-
[This presumably is in recognition of his services to the Royal party on the occa sion of the wreck of the Delki-ED.].
OPENING OF THE UNIVERSITY.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE OERAT BAZAAR..
The bazaar which will be held during the whole of the week in which the Univer
sity is opened, will be on a scale un- paralleled in the history of the Colony.. The official opening will take place on the 11th inat. at 3.30 p.m. and thenceforth LONDON, March 6th.
there will be a round of festivities and ing of the Colonial Institute, eaid if the who take part for many years to come,
Earl Grey, speaking at the annual meet-gaiety which will be remembered by those Institute was to be a real factor in the home of every family the self-governing Hall on Tuesday, to be followed by a con: A State dinner will be held in the Great
the seven years he had been in Canada the dinner, to which he has invited a colonies must change their name. During cort H.E the Governor will preside-at-
News has been received at Tiverton, Devon, of the death at Grindelwald of Mr. Edward Sargent Lindsey, M.IQE,
chief resident engineer of the new Kow-
loon-Canton Railway..
After having finished this railway en- terprise, for which he had been lent to China by the ladian Government, Mr. Lindsey was on his way home from the Far East for rest and medical treatment when he broke his journey to join his wife's family. (Mr. and Mrs. Levine) in
Wednesday Switzerland. While there he was taken ill with pleuro-pneumonia, and died last
On-leaving-Blundell's School in 1887
An inquiry was held on Tuesday into the circumstances connected with the also increase their friendship with the he never referred to Canada as a Colony party of 14. There will be restaurants for engineers in Westminster, whence he went
HONGKONG, MAnca 7th, 1912.
death of an unknown Chinese woman who AMONG the telegrams published to-day is was knocked down by a tram car on the one giving the substance of a Times leader 22nd of last month. Mr. Irving entered on the situation in China, in the course of
a verdict of death by misadventure. which the leading London journal has paid
tribute to the loyalty with which the noticed that the flag of New China ja The Peking Daily News says it in to be
A
·THE OUTRAGE ON MB. ROTHSCHILD,
Chinese. It is also reported that before but as a Self-Governing Dominion. the end of June this year, all the "Kwai" and "Tsi" soldiers under General Lung's command would be fully and properly
would then be in order, and that the equipped with uniforms, leather boots and other military necessaries, and everything
Europeans and Chinese, and a dinner will be provided every day. Six bands will be in attendance every afternoon, aud will play in various parts of the buildings LONDON, March 6th.
End grounds. A number of spacious The man who fired a revolver at Myrooms have been set apart for the use of
being erected, to contain fruits and. He is a manufacturer's agent.
He was brought before the Magistrate flowers from Cantor, Shanghai, England, and remanded, his solicitor stating that Canada and Australia. This will be in he had been overstudying.
charge of Mrs. Ede, who will be assisted bysa large number of young ladies.
responsible statesmen of Japan, despite being more and more displayed in Peking soldiers would also be required to wash Leopold de Rothschild is named Tebbitt, stalls, and a fruit and flower pergola is
themselves daily so as not to make them. selves the laughing stock of others, and that lastly with a view to protect their health Dr. Mak Kut Po, of the Tsai Kwan Ambulance Society, has been requested to
all difficulties, have observed the letter The Chinese post offices no longer fly the and spirit of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. dragon flag, while the words "Imperial" The tributo is fully deserved, the more so and Ta Ching" have disappeared from because, under a misapprehension. which is the sign boards of the said establishments, not altogether inexcusable, au important
The progratame of reliefs for the Army section of the Pross of Japan has during next winter has been issued as a special look after them. the last two months been representing Japan's ally as "faithless to the principle of local interest: The 2nd Duke of Corn- Army Order. The following extracts are of the Allianes," bor policy as selfish, and wall's Light Infantry South Africa to
A NOTE OF REPENTANCE.
In the hearing of a case for mainten-
THE RIFLE DISPUTE.
A cinematograph show will be included among the long list of attractions, and concerts will be held on the roof of the The National Rifle Association has building, on which also will be a number cabled to the Canadian Association of other attractions, Admission to the
LONDON, March 6th.
Mr. Lindsey was article, whence he went
to Spain for service on the railways com- municating with the Rio Tinta copper mines. From 1822 to 1897 he was on the Assam-Bengal Railway, first as assistant engineer and later as executive engineer, being at that time the youngest holder of such an appointment throughout the whole of India Eater he became execu tive engineer of the Travancore branch of the South Indian Railway, afterwards serving as engineer-in-chief of the Travancore-Madura Paniban branch, In 1905 he was appointed deputy chief engineer of the South Indian Railway.
PHILIPPINE INTER ISLAND SHIPPING GRIEVANCES.
her friendship sad only nominal value. Hongkong; the 1st Yorkshire Light Infan-ance brought before Mr. Justice Gompertz"} approving of the designs of the sights of roof of the University will be $1. A novel grown up in some sections of the archi
Kent Regiment Singapore to India; aid the 1st Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Tient sin to India.
In order to preserve the former home
at the Supreme Court yesterday, one of the productions was the following curious statement:
"I, Chin Siu Cho, the maker of this note of rapentance, now know that it is improper to strike and scold the legal wife as I have usually done. Hereafter I dare not trump up cuses at will to strike and scold her
ex-
We have said this criticism is based upon a try Hongkong to Singapore; the 2nd East misapprehension. It was provoked, in fact, by the news that Great Britain's only reply, to the threatened absorption of Mongolia by Russia-the Power of whom Japan still stands in mortal dread was to manifest similar intentions in regard to Tibet in Japan of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the former Though this has been advocated in many Republic, negotiations were completed provisional President of the Nanking. quarters, Great Britain has made no aggres whereby the Chinese residents have pur frequently neither dare I owe her any sive move whatever in Tibet, nor has any phased the honse and ground in which Dr. responsible British statesman given the least
Sun: lived while in exile in Yokohama, part of the monthly sum of $130 for fami indication of such an intention, Moreover,
ly expenses it shall also not be allowed and from which he spread the details and it may confidently be stated that the British
when her parents, brothers, sisters, rela facts for the present uprising. The house Government would not dream of any monace
known as No. 121, Yamashita will in tives, etc., come on visit to treat them to the integrity of China except with the future be used as a Chinese Club and the impolitely. If I violate the terms of this consent of her Ally, with whom she has room in which he worked will be kept as note I shall willingly undergo heavy punishment. I therefore come before solemnly agreed to communicate "folly he had it arranged when forking for the and frankly" and to take common action cause.
your Honour's tribunal and voluntarily
make this note of repentance.”
THE "MAD MULLAH” AGAIN.
It now appears, says the Manila Cable- news, that there is to be something done to remedy the serious conditions that have
the Ross rifle submitted to them. This form of entertainment is being provided
pelago as a result of the enforcement of enables almost any sight to be used with in the shape of a continuous cinemato remembered that several of the interisland the new constwise shipping law. It will be
the Ross rifle at Bisley.
graph show in a railway car, which is shipping firms found it impossible to con- an absolute replica of a pullman observa many of their boats owing to the terms tinue in the public carrying business with
tion ear. The visitors who purchase from of the law; they therefore used their ver the various stalls will be catered for by sels to carry their own goods but refused the Post Office, which will deliver goods in to take passengorb or freight as common any part of the city at a nominal charge.
carriers. The effect of this on people in the small ports that have been depending To judge by the progress made in the
Lon these vessels to carry their passengers arrangements, it is evident the and produce can be more easily imagined hazaar is going to big sug
thau described. The hardship was doubly great because the coastguard beats had GRANDMOTHERURE FOREN COLD been taken off their former runs.
On his recent trip to Cebu, Governor was a hot bath followed by a purgative at General Forbes took occasion to look into bed time. The same remedy froide good now,
LONDON, March 6th Mr Harcourt explained in the House of Commons yesterday that the despatch of troops to Berbera was due to the Mullah having recently had an unusually sucessful skirmish with the "friendlies."
ITALY IN TRIPOLI
LONDON, March 6th. Alegram from Rome states that the Italiams lost 60 men killed and 179-wound
ad at Derna on the 4th inst.
but instead of a purgative use PINKLETS, the matter at that place. Cebu and sub- the little Pink laxative. Tiny but thorough, sidiary ports have suffered a great deal as as gentle as nature. 60 cents a tube of a result of the complication. The Glov- Chemist The Dr. Williams Medicine ernor General had the facts in the situa Co., & Szechuen Road, Shanghai, post tion presented to him and is now studying them with a view to extending some re-
·lief.
from