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CANTON
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May 20th.
RÉPATSIENT OF LOAN.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 23RD 1912.
When this province was declared. in- dependent money was greatly needed and the Government in a very tight fix, so that when $700,000 was raised as a loan in Hongkong among sympathisers a pro- rise was given to return the money within a year twofold. Now that the exchequer is little if anything better than it was then and that the day of reckoning is at hand, it has been arranged to Pay 50 per cent. interest only and to repay the whole sum on the 20th inst., which is to-day.
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GLAM-FUNTING.
In the F* Yuen district from time to. time there is trouble caused by family feuds which sometimes last a long time and cause a lot of loss and damage. Just late
SUPREME COURT,
Wednesday, May 22nd
IN SUMMARY JURJADICTION.
BEFORE MR. H. H. J. GouPERTZ {PUISNE JUNGĖ).
PLAINS FOR WAGES..
LONDON UNDERWRITERS AND MI. ISMAY.
THE MESSAGE OF SYMPATHY.
The signatures of all the London under writers on the Titanic ware appended to a note expressing sympathy with Mr. Bruce Ismay. In addition to these finan- Chan and another, managing partners of support the action. The terms of the note, Three Chinese claimed from Cheong Wocially concerned, a few others desired to the Hong Hing Steamship Co., the sams which were telegraphed to Mr. Ismay, of 8282.40, $190, and $100.70, balance of were an follow wages alleged to hi due to them as eme ployees of the firm.
Mr. Otto Eong Sing appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr. Shenton (Deacon, Lookers & Deacon) for the defendant Cheong Wo Chau.
Mr. Shenton--In this case I made an
VERDGING THE RIVER *Numerous complaints have been received lately about the shallowness of the river in places and the manner in which sand is allowed to silt up at various points. People have been agitating for some time for dredgers to do this work, but the Government did not see its way to expond the inaney,
Now it is stated that a second-band dredger has been procured at a cost of $7,000 and is capable of doing this work slowly. There are parts of the river which call for immediate action, specially that part from the boat-house on Shameen to the U.8. Navy buy. The two clars have been at each other's merchants are very noxious to see this cats about practically nothing, and the work, put through and it will be an in. Qovernment has decided to take strong client to appear to-day. proveinent much appreciated by shipping have sent up a regiment of soldiers to action to provent any recurrence. They TAXING THE RIVER POPULATION.- ¿ Quite a hundred thousand people or disarm the whole of the village and take more ve on boats of all sorts and de. prisoners any suspicious characters or scription on the river, and these people any men whom they think may be the enjoy several privileges denied to their cause of the trouble. brethren on dry land, They have no police tax to pay to the same extent, and the different street ievies for one thing and another do not bother them, so the Government in their search for ways and means of rising sufficient revenue has decided to impose a monthly tax on all loats in the Canton River. It is proposed
MR
HIPPISLEY ON THE
REVOLUTION.
PREBENT CONDITIONS AND FUTURE..
OUTLOOK.
application to your Lordship for my
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THE SIAK CASE.
A FURTHER DEVELOPMENT.
One more development, says the Y.-0, Daily News, has taken place in the tangle arising out of the Sink Indrapoera Babber Concessions, Ltd. This latest offshoot was conveyed in a telegram received by the liquidator of the com- any Mr. J. E. Bingham from his Hongkong olice on May 16th, the telo gram being as follows:-
Nijhuis has issued a writ against rm, Bingham's conspiracy to obtain property of Oost-Sumatra, falsa pré-
tencca.
We, the nudersigned marine ander- writers, desire to express to you our very, sincere sympathy in the pain ned loss which the disaster to the White Star Steamship Company's stormer Titanic,rary) thin amounts to has brought to you.
In reply, a telegram in the following terias was received by Messrs. Morgan, Grenfel, and Co., from Mr. Ismay;---
Upon the face of it (adds our contem-
A criminal charge, and in this connection it is inter- esting to recall a hearing upon a writ of mandames which eccopied the attention of the Supreme Court here, when Dr. Nijhuis endeavoured to have a warrant upon a similar chargs issued, It in uniforstood that Mr. Bingham willshortly proceed to. Hongkong in person to defend the case.
THE JUDGMENT.
Please convey to the marine insurance companies and Lloyd's underwriters my sincere and heartfelt thanks for their kind message of sympathy, which is deeply appreciated. -Bauer IBMY.
It may be remembered that at one of The main signitionner of such an inter- the last hearings in Shanghai of the Siak change of messages, the Times says, is that
cas Mr. J. G. E., Douglas, "commel for it is believed to be unique. Underwriters the Siak Co, mentioned with reference starting under a serious loss are not to the shitreholders, that they would prob to the proposal to distribute the assets accustomed to sign spontaneously a letterably insure the judgment against boing. of condolence to the ownors, and it is safe reversed upon a possible appeal. Inquiry to assume that they would never have done has since been made with refermée to so in the present masc but for the events of the matter. One company which formerly the previous few days at Washington. It did business of this sort has replied that would be imperativg from their point of it no longer lakes the risks, while in the
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His Lordship-Is your client not here? Mr. Shenton-No, he is at Wuchow, and I see no reason why there should not be an adjournment of this case.
His Lordship-Will it be necessary for ine to take evidence to-day?
Mr. Shenton-In regard to two of the cases the evidence is the same, but in regard to the third the plaintiff is the pilot of
a ship, engaged in a different
way.
Mr. O Kong Sing-In this action a At a meeting of the Central Asian writ was issued against the defendants, vier, even were it not so for the safety of to tax every kind of vessel from trading Society on the 24th ult, Mr. Alfred E.ho, it is alleged, were partners in the the travelling public, that a searching in- to & cents per month is the range of the Hippisley, the well-known ex-Commis Hong Hing firm of shipowners. Accord-quity should be instituted into the less tax. This should bring in quite a respec.sioner of Maritime Customs in China, ing to the instructions of the firm, the of real value de investigation must be table sum of money and should also help lectured on The Revolution in China: two plaintiffs were engaged by two conducted by man possessing thorough In one case the autical knowledge and must be im- wonderfully in controlling the boats on
Present Conditions and Future Out- different employers.
partial Not a little of the weight look." Lord Ronaldsay, M.P., presid-claim was for $106.70. The plaintiff was attaching to the note is due to the fact the river. There are places where crowds ed. Following is an amplification of the of boats fie moored together for no other digest of the lecture which was cabled employed at $15 a month, and received that the signataries represent companies In the and individual underwriters who are now apparent reason than that the Chinese are out last month.
certain payments on account.
finding the best part of £800,000 in pay- more gregarious than the average people,
ether case, the claim was for $2.40, due ment for the hull and a great many and these portions of the river are often
to the plaintiff as a clerk in the employ thousands of pounds for cargo and val- of the arm. I think it will facilitate alles sunk, and who, it can be said with completely blocked. A certain amount of control is exercised, but especially with
matters if I take the two cases together, hesitation, were never so hitterly pans there is room for great improve to the accidental explosion of a bomb in because each man will give: similar evi. Í disuppointed with the way a risk ran es vield to one pauaces. The final cause is i
they were with the Titanic. The low level of the premium and the re- The hearing was adjourned until Junegurances on other large vessels at higher
junk down to dug-outs, and from 84 down
ment and the present seems to be a good time to taki this up.
KNOCKING DOWN THE CITY WALL
Some time ago we reported that the soldiers, Engineering Soldiers as they are called, who have been for the past five months engaged in knocking down the wall and arrying away the stone and refuse, were to be dismissed and the work given out to contractors. On the 18th inst, these men were completely disbanded And tenders received. The soldiers were
dence in his own case.
10th..
GERMAN RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION
IN CHINA.
of no groat use and simply did as much Political cap trap. The vast bulk of the section extending from Tientsin to Likuo
of the Titanic, but they know that to be
rates that are now being effected are proofs of that. Many of the signatories have lost friends or relatives in the dis aster, and have paid dearly for taking on trust the builders' and owners' unlimited those considerations do not overrule the belief in the strength of the ship; hut underwriters' sense of fairplay.
case of Lloyds, where this business is still undertaken. de reply has been received until after taking the opinion of King's" that they do not now grant such policies
Counsel, It is understood that. in alt likelihood no further stops will taken to have the judgment insured.
SEA-SICKNESS.
The causes of this form of disturbance,
The nerve is dis-
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according to a comprehensive treatise just published by Dr. Ludwig Beblich: in Ucher Land and Meer are ton various to the disturbance to the pneumo-gastric nerve, and has nothing to do with the digestive apparatus, turbed by a successive series of rhythmic shocks, which upset its equilibrium sud- derly, very unch in the same way that the disturbance to the pneumo-gastric
tion of mechanical strains leading to a produces a charge of frictional electricity. There is in the one a gradual accumula-
kind of plesion; and in the other an accumulation of irritation to the pneumo- gastric nerve, or to its telegraphonic centre in the brain by irregular pendu- Jum movements. These movements may act in more than one way. The rhythmic WATCHMAKERS, shacksamay affect the brain, which is all too loosely hung in the skull; or there may be irritation of the rarves at their
dowly and wore constantly getting them.volutionaries it was because they had been has been so great owing to enormous exoner early starved owing to my exit from the skull or, again, there may
selves into trouble with the owners
of
houses and shops, with whom they deal in very high-handed manner. It is esti- nated that 9135,000 have been spent on the work for which little or no return has been made. Merchants, shopkeepers and householders near the wall and whose property is involved are all anxious that the work should be done by private contractors, which is in itself significant. CHAN KWING MING.
ALEXANDRA BILD: NOS,
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JEWELLERS
OPTICIANS,
DIAMOND JEWELLERY-
“LARBY' AS A GAMBLER.
Some more old and entertaining stories of Mr. Labouchere appear in Truth Writing in December, 1877, he says → passion for gambling. I was an attache be an irritation of the nerve endings in at Washington, and I was sent by the the body owing to the pendulum swinging Irish of the voyager's interior organs, or yet, Minister to look after some
again the series of shocks may be patriots" at Boston. I took up my
source of irritation to the ganglions in residence at a small hotel, and wrote down"Smith" in the hotel houk as my the skin of the abdomes. This does not TINEST QUALITY
In the evening I went to a exhaust the possibilities. A special scuse name, gambling establishment, where I incon of equilibriumi is located in the semi- tinently lost all the money I had with circular canals of the inner ear and it me except half a dollar. Then I went to is to this prevision that we owe our ability to orientate ourselves. Affection of the morning the bailiffs seized on the hotel inter car roh the sufferer of the power of for debt, and all the guests were requested balance. A series of rhythmic shocks to to pay their bills and to take away their ther canals, in which float fibres of the
I could not pay mine, for an auditory nerve, frequently provoke a kind ENGLISH, AMERICAN luggage. expallent cause, and so I could not take of reflex action in the nervous system: The my luggage to another hotel. All that I irritation of the optic nerve contributes to could do was to write to Washington for the disturbance, and the shaking of the remittances, and to wait two days for brain, by cutting off the supply of blood their arrival. The first day I wandered to the blood vessels, contributes to dis- about and spent my half-dollar on food. aster. It will be seen that while one or It was summer, so I slept on a bench in other of these causes may be checkmated, it is hard to deal with them all, and Dr. the park, and in the morning went to the
Schleich grately surveying the situation has nothing to recommend beyond lying CLOCKS still and tightly winding bandages about
Mr. Hippisley hrst traced the cause of the revolution, and showed that it had been long and carefully planned to take place in December last, and the fact that it broke out two months earlier was duo
a house at Hankow, where boabs wore being manufactured. The revolution was the most bloodless in history. But there had been regrettable massacres of Man- chus, and a deplorable feature had been the frequent use by the revolutionaries of bombs to asassinate leaders on the other side. A company of bomb throwers in Press (Shanghai) some days ago that The report published in The Che uniform actually formed part of the re- volutionery army. The statement of the Germans had secured control over the Provisional Government in the January northern section of the Tientsin-Pukow manifesto that the establishment of Railway is declared inaccurate by an Republic was the formal declaration of official connected with this railway. The the will of the Chinese nation" was mere report, he said, originated from certain, misconstrued circumstances. The northern naticu know nothing about different werk as they pleased in whatever way forms of government, and if many of the has been financed and constructed by Ger man engineers. The initial capitalization they pleased. They were progressing very people had appeared to side with the re-
bufooled with promises of a Utopia, in penditure defrayed in costly buildings and which trade would increase by leaps and stations that an additional such must be bounds and taxation be reduced to a obtained to continue the construction. minimum. The intellectual classes were The impoverishment of the Chinese, gor almost to man against the Republic, and ernment has rendered it difficult to font its only supporters were the military more bonds in Europe: The German officers and students educated in Japan syndicate was therefore approached to and some of those educated in America. advance £900,000 for the railway. But It was true that the administrative owing to the present loan entanglement system hitherto followed in China, under the German syndicate demanded special which the provinces governed themselves, supervision of the sum to be advanced to had rendered the adoption of Parliament sen it is devoted to the railway construched, satisfied with my prowess. The next ary institutions there less difficult than in tion. The Chinese authority considerad any other Oriental nation. It was not the condition reasonable, but proposed that the institution of Parliamentary govern the chief accountant, who is a German, Chan Kwing Ming in his old positionment so much as the-baste with which it might be instructed to sign for and super continues to use very stern and strong was being introduced that constituted the intend the expenditure of the m All mensures for the extermination of robbers danger to the country.
this was simply a temporary discussion and pirates in the City, Buburbs and The revolutionsrita were optimists and the negotiation so far has not been Delta, and be has executed over a hundred almost to the degree of being visionaries. carried out. The railway officer explained They were satisfied with the superficial that perhaps this proposed advancement erininals during the last few days. As
appearance of things, and did not trouble might give rise to the report. before when he was Governor, a certain themselves to study fundamentals. They section of the people who do not know bad as a rule contented themselves with what is good for them are up against his destroying the old Government, and over vast sections of territory absolute anarchy high-handed manner of dealing and his prevailed. To restore order large mili ovident cheap regard of human life. They tory forces were required, and these have sent a petition to the Provincial would entall heavy expenditure The rais How strangely imagination may anti- Assembly, not this time to request his die-ing of further large foreign loans seem cipate history has seldom been more re- ed inevitable, but how could the fands markably shown than in the disaster to missal and punishment, but to request required to cover the service of such loans the Fifonic, says the Daily Mail. It was that he he instructed to be more lenient, be raised except by a more honest system foretold in many of its details in a curions and their petition is receiving attention: of collection than at present! The Cau- little novel by Mr. Morgan Robertson, It is no ne saying one thing and doing tone, who had chiefly engineered the entitled "Futility," published in the other, and the Government, who are present movement, were mistrusted in United States fourteen years ago. The Central and Northern China. The story tells how a monster liner, the pledged to put down piracy and robbery growth of inter-provincial jealousies and Titan, was the largest craft sloat re bound to support. Mr. Chan, for a tendency on the part of each province and the greatest of the works of men. In hough his methods are at times severe, to place its own interests above those of her construction and maintenance were still, as examples they are necessary, and the nation had becoms increasingly mani involved every science, profession, and She was fest in recent years. It now threatened trade known to civilisation. he is consistently stern, and does not separation, if not general disintegration. believed to he unsinkable, indestrae pander to any section. The very people There were also the dangers of a militarytible." She carried 2,000 passengers, and who are complaining of his actions are dictatorship and of foreign intervention she started on her voyage across the
The Powers sincerely desired to allow Atantic in Aprit. the ones who will reap the benefit, and China to work out her salvation in her She was running at full speed when “a those merchants who are objecting must own way; but, if anarchy continued long shout from the crow's nest polit the air.. have bad consciences or something of the they might be forced to intervene not only Ice, yelled the look out ice ahead. in order to protect their own interests, leeberg. Right under, the bows. The but for the sake of humanity and in the first officer amidships and the captain, interests of the Chinese themselves. China who had remained there, sprang to the would be indeed fortunate if she could engine-room telegraph... In five set up a stable Government without pass seconds the how of the Titan began to ing through an intervening period of lift, and ahead and on either hand could be seen through the fog a field of ice several years of strife and bloodshed.
which arose in an incline to a hundred
kind:
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EDUCATION.
FORECAST FULFILLED.
] THE TITANIC'S
FATE FORETOLD IN A NOVEL
Nea to wash myself. I felt exceedingly independent of all the cares and troubles of civilisation. But I had nothing with which to buy myself a breakfast,"
WITHOUT FOOD AND PENNILESS.
the
the waist.
KIPLING AND ULSTER
"I began to feel exordingly hungry, and," Mr. Labouchere proceeds, "this feating increased to such an extent
In connection with the Home Rule towards evening that. I entered a restaur ant and ordered dinner without any very Campaign, Mr. Rudyard Kipling has clear dea how I was to pay neat published some spirited verses entitled by leaving my cont, and possibly my
**[lster, ** from which we take the trousers, in pledge. In Boston
following restaurants are in collars, and there is a bar near the door, where sits the pro- As I con- prietor to receive payment. sumed my dinner Lobserved that all the waiters, who were Irishmen, were staring and pointing of me. A guilty conscience made me preserie that this was because I had an impcéunions look, and that they were discussing whether my clothes would covoi my bill At last one of them approached me and said, I beg your are you the patriot pardon, sir,
Now this patriot was Mongher t gentleman who had aided Smith O'Brien in his Irish rising, had been went to Australia, and had escaped thence to the United States. It was my business to look after patriote," so I put my finger before my lips and said, 'Hush'
though I saw a vision of Erin beckoning crashing over ico Forty xe to ms. It was felt at once that I was thousand tons deadweight rushing Meagher." through the fog at the rate of fifty feet perpendicular wall the elastic resistance
second had hurled itself at an iceberg. Mr. Labouchere thus ends his story
Had the impact. been recived by a
GENERAL HANDSHAKING.
The new Commissioner of Education is already making his presence felt. He has observed that the funds for education, and the upkeep of the Government Schools live since the revolution, been partly, and Mr. Byron Brenan said that he Was feet high in her track." There was a while I cast up my eyes to the ceiling as aften wholly devoted to other purposes, ven on pessimistic as to the outlook deafening noise of steel scraping and than the lecturer. The provinces had and that consequently education in the heen largely independent of the Central province has taken a step backward. Now Government, and their antagonisms would all these funds are to be fligionsly make it almost impossible for China to restored and more money granted, as one be divided into three or four different
The choicest viande were placed before be one nation again. It would probably thing the new Government is very strong Governments. The main danger of for on is the need, the immediate need. foreign intervention would probably arise of bending plates and frames would have me and most excellent wine. When I had overcome the momentum with no more done justice to all these good things I from the Powers encouraging their bankers and financial groups to lend shaking up, and to the ship than the
damage to the passengers than a severo approached the bar and asked boldly for my bill. The proprietor, also an Irish Roney, and when funds were not forth. People are still being arrested daily for coming for the service of the loans the crushing in of her bows and the killings, said, 'From a ninn who has suffer- being in possession of revolvers and Powers would be urged to put pressure have backed off., and, slightly down by take no money allow a brother patriot to a man of the watch below. She would ed in the good cause. like you I can pistols, etc., without a licence, and several upon Chias to provide new sources of the head, finished the voyage reduce to shake you by the hand. This allow systematic searches live resulted in good taxation.
Med I further allowed all the waiters to The Chairman said one effect of the But slow beach, possibly formed by shake hands with me, and stalked forth finds of this description. At Sin Nu
rovolution was likely to be the inability the recent overturning of the bergre with the stern, resolved, but somewhat. Street in the old city the other day a
or unwillingness of China to carry out ceived the Titan, and with her keel cut condescendingly dismal air which I have search was made in a boarding-house her part of the Opium Agreement with ting the ice like the steel runner of an ice of which there are many here, and result Great Britain. If that were so the whole boat and her great weight resting on the ed in the arrest of several persons and purpose of the Agreement would be ren starboard bilge she rose out of the sea the capture of a considerable amount of dered nugatory, and India would have higher and higher then she heeled over
lost a large revende under unfair condi-balanced, and crashed down on her side | with some money in it, and breakfasted. arms and ammunition.
tions.
to starboard
education.
ARMS AND AMMUNITION.
seco assumed by patriots in exile. Again
I slept in the park, again I washed in
the sea. Then I fent to the post office. found a letter for me from Washington
The dark eleventh hour Draws of and see us sold To every evil power We fought against of old. Rebellion rapine, hate, Oppression, wrong, and greed: Are. loosed to rule our fate, By England's act ind deed. The faith in which we itand, The laws we made and guard; Our honour, lives and land, Are given for reward To Murder done by night. To Treason taught by day, To folly sloth, and spite. And we are thrust away, The blood our fathers spilt, Our love, our tails our pains, Are counted us for guilt. And only hind our chains, Before in Empire's eyes The traitor claims his price. What need of further lies t We are the sacrific. »
We askul no more than leav To reap where we had sown, Through good and ill to cleave. To our own flag and throne, Now England's shot and steel Beneath that flag must show How loyal hearts should kneel. To England's oldest foe. Believe, we dare not boast,, Believe, we do not fear- We stand to pay the cost In all that men hold dear. What answer from the North One law, one land, one throne If England drive us forth We shall not fall alone.
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