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Captain K. Nada, formerly of the LELEG RAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
Tamba-marn, has been appointed Com mander of the new N. Y. K. American liner Yokohama-mace (6,520 ton), which lepres Yokohama for Seattle on her maiden trip to-day.
The Duc de Montpensier," younger bro- ther of the Duc d'Orléans, has recently returned Home from the Far East, where he possesses vast tracts of land overlook- ing the Bay of Anuam in Indo-Chin. A Home contemporary observes that the mantle of his cousin, the late Prince Henri d'Orleans, appears to have fallen upon the Due, who is an explorer of un- known corners of the earth.
support for Reciprocity; and its publica. tion last month is the outcoms of the bitter political warfare waged between the President and his immediata predecessor at White House. Mr. Tart, who himself made the letter public, wrote:-It (Reciprocity) might at first have a tendency to reduce the east of food somewhat, but it would certainly make our supply-reservoir much greater, and would prevent fluctus In the meantime the amount of Canadian prochiets that we would take could produce a current of business between Western Canada and the United States that would make Caunda, only an adjunct of the United States. It would transfer all Canada's important business to Chicago Major C, 6. Pritchard had booked and New York, with their bank credits and passage for Hangkang by the P. & O. overything else, and would greatly increase steamer Multe, which was scheduled to the demand in Canada for our manufactures. leave London on May 16th, but owing to I see that this is an argument against the outbreak of a fire on board while at Reciprocity used in Canada, and I think it the docks, the ship's departure was delay ed. Mr. C. Pemberton was booked to is a good one." When Mr. CHAMP CLARK, | leave
011 May 31st by the ateamer WHISKY the Spater-elect of the House of Represen- fajolica, which lous been in difficulties
tatives, made a sonsational speech in the wing to the strike at the docks. House last Fehrary looking to the ultimate nhsorption of Canada by the United States, A BLEND OF THE FINEST PURE the speech may be said to have been received in Great Britain and in the Dominion with a broad indulgent suile. It was too extra- vagantly worded to he regarded seriously Mr. CLARK said: "I am for Reciprocity because I hope to see the day when the American flag will float over every square foot of the British North American posses. H" has maintained the regions clear to the North Pale.
Captain no doubt whatever that the day is not far
the IIou Clive Bigham. of the FINEST distant when Great Britain will joyfully see C.M.G., who has been appointed secretary putation
all her North American possessions become to the inquiry into the loss of the Pitanic, SCOTCH WHISKY in the
part of this Bepublic.
We had the over which his father, Lord. Mersey, is Reciprocity Treaty with the Sandwich presiding, has had a singularly versatile FAR EAST.
Islands because from the very beginning we career as soldier, diplomat, and war cor- The respondent. He took part in the first proposed to swallow them whole." publication of the PRESIDENT's letter shows Peking expedition of twelve years ago, having previously acted as British At that Mr. Clark was in fact but dotting Mr. taché in the Chinese capital, us well as
Mr. Tarr's "and crossing his "t's".
at St. Petersburg, Constantinople, and FOSTER, the acting Prime Minister of
elsewhere.
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BIRTHS.
Ou the 3rd inst.. at Quarndon, No. 2, The Peak, the wife of GERALD A. TISDALL,
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of a son.
On May 28th, at Shangbai, the wife of 3. W. JACKSON, M.B., of a son.
MARRIAGE,
(THROUGH REUTER'S 'AGENCY.}
THE LONDON STRIKE.
LONDON, June 4th. A much larger manber are working to day.
{THROUGH BEUTER'S AGEKOT.]
FIRE ON THE P. & O MALTA."
LONDON, May 16th." The P. & O. Liner Multa is on fire in the Albert Dock. Šix engines are in
(THROUGH REUTER'S 40ENCY.]
THE KING'S BIRTHDAY.
LONDON, June 4th.
Their Majesties spent the King's
Hundreds of men, varying from the ob- attendance. They are getting control | Birtliday quietly at Buckingham Palac,
vious labourer to the black-conted unem- ployed clerk, assembled in a long queue in Leadenhall Street outside the office of the Port of London Authority, who en- gaged hundreds to unload ships.
At the East India, and Millwall Docks the crews unloaded several ships.
STAMPEJNING BACK TO WORK.
The Port of London Authority has already secured 1,000 men. One company, which wanted 280 men, received 1,500 ap- plications.
It is officially announced, that the Port of London Authority secured 5,500 men in the morning, 2,000 being permanently engaged.
A dock manager has described the men
The Peking Doily Vers is informed that, acting upon the report of the special ist who was out in Tientsin last year for the Haiko Conservancy, upon the question of the possibility of keeping. Tientsin as stampeding back to work. open through the winter months, it hasMASTERS UNFAVOURABLE TO CONCILIATION, been resolved to attempt the plan sext The masters mot to consider their reply winter, and tenders are naked for two
to the conciliation proposal. ice-breakers, the details of which will he given on application to the Haiho t'on- I have servancy offices.
Canada, in a speech at Ottawa Inst month,
declared that this revelation had buried
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It is stated that the shipowners their meeting with the members of the Cabinet yesterday offered a firm resist aner tu compulsory arbitration, but dis cussed the possibility of forming a federation of employers so as to seeure uniform conditions of employment.
NEWSPAPER REFOUSING38.
Several newspapers in their editorials are rejoicing at the apparent collapsi of the movement. It is the first of the recent great strikes not to achieve a Speedy victory. They declare that the leaders overshot, the mark in drugging
of duckers and carmarn, whose heart 'was never in the dispste.
over the fire.
The fire on the as Jute was extin guished after #ve hours of the hardest work. At one time it was thought that the ship must sink. Twenty-eight feet of water was puinped into the hold. Num. ber 3 huid was severely damaged.
THE FRENCH IN MOROCCO,
LONDON, June 4th. General Iyautey, owing to the friend. liness of the inhabitants of Fez, has de- vided to remit, the war contribution levied on the town. This has caused great satis- faction.
where the telegraph operators had been increased to deal with the mass of world wide congratulations. The celebrations were general throughout the Empire
President. Taft wired good wishes for His Majesty's personal health and hip- piness and the continued prosperity of the Empire over which he reigned.
ILLNESS GF DUCHESS OF CONNAUGHT.
LONDON, June 4th,
A
Montreal message states that | Surgeon Barrow and nurses left in a
special train at 9.10 last night to operate. on .R.H. the Duchess of Cannaight,
LATER.
GENERAL ELECTION.TA EELGRİM:-
Losnos, June ith. who is reported to be suffering from
·Brussels | appendicitis. Reuter's correspindent at wires that the sections for the Belgian Chamber have resulted in a victory for the Government, all the Ministers being elected. The Catholic majority over the united opposition is sixteen compared with six.
The worktown in the industria) dis- trieta have struck in protest against the Clerical victory. Rioting took place at Liege, where the gendurmes fired, killing three people and wounding fifteen.
THE CUBAN REVOLT.
Lospos, June 4th. Renter's correspondent at New York telegraphs that the Cuban rebels sacked
and burned the town of Samaya and after-
attacked a hamlet near San Luis, out- raging and looting the inhabitants. QUEEN WILHELMINA IN FRANCE.
Mr. J. E. Bingham, of Messrs. Lowe, ac- Reciprocity for ever, because it had proved Bingham and Matthews, chartered it to he "an attack upon our nationlood countants, has come down to Hongkong into the lightermen's quarrel, thousands wards retreated to the hills. The negroes and our imperial connection which will from Shanghai in connection with a peti- tion to the Supreme Court by Dr. Nijhuis pavor be forgotten." The elections last Sept- for the compulsory winding up of the Biak ember afforded splendid proof of the loyalty Indrapoera Co. A paragraph in the peti of Canada to the Empire, and there can be no tion says: "It further appears from docu- doubt that Mr. FOSTER is amply justified in mentary facts that Mr. J. E. Bingham, declaring that the publication of President the would-be liquidator of the Siak com- TAFT's confidential letter to Mr. RoOSEVELT pany, must be held liable by the Siak com- pany for their liabilities to an amount bas buried Reciprocity for ever.
of guilders 323,604.03. Dutch currency." Since the exhaustive hearing of the case The new Manila Hotel is to be opened brought by Dr. Nijhuis, in Shanghai, this on the 15th insk.
is stated to be the third development in Hongkong,
The issue of postage stamps other than d. and id, bearing the King's portrait will probably begin this mouth.
At the sale of the late Mr. Charles Wertheimer's collection at Messrs. Chris- tie's rooms on the 9th uit. £2,310 was paid for a pair of Chinese porcelain jars and covers of the Kien Lang dynasty.
Messrs. Vernon & Smyth, sharebrokers, inform us that they have received a cable from their London agents stating that
PLAGUE IN THE COLONY. The plague return for last week, though high, shows an improvement over the pre-
vious week The cases qumbered 140 and the deaths 110, compared with 199 cases and 168 deaths in the previous week.
Of the 140 cases 138 were Chinese, one being Malay and one Indiari,
KING'S BIRTHDAY.
the output of the Tronoh Tin Mines for THE SIKH COMMUNITY AND THE May anounted to 197 tons, or, say, 3,210 pieuls.
The return of communicable diseases in the Colony notified last week wore, apart from plague, one case of diphtheria (Chi-
On the 3rd inst., n: 4 p.m., a special meeting of the Sikh Community of Hong- kong was held at the Sikh Temple, in honour of the birthday of His Most Gracious Majesty the King-Emperor. After singing the holy hymns, the Priest
STRIKERS' LANGUAGE. Meanwhile a manifesto issued by the
Strike Committee describes the repre- sentatives of the Port of London Authority as clumsy Bars "la refer- che fa the number of men who have assumed work, and asserts that a few more than a thousand are blacklegging at the docks, and they are imported, whereas the number of these on strike
ime increased.
LIFE SAVING AWARDS.
LONDON, June 4th.
LONDON, June 4th.
A Versailles message 'states that Queen
Wilhelmina attended the manœuvres,
President Fallibres entertained Her Majesty to lanch at the Chatean.
LATER.
A Quebec telegrans states that the Duchess is improved, and an operation may not be necessary.
LORD HALDANE.;
Lexpos, June 4th. Lord Haldane is returning to London without visiting Berlin.
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THE MAGISTRACY.
ALLEORD THEFT FROM A STEAMER.
A man charged with the theft of elec- tric fittings and copper from a steamer. was remanded. ·
AN INTERESTING PROSECUTION. On May 20th Inspector Withers valereď the French store in. Queen's Road and asked to be supplied with a particular bottle of brandy. The shopkeeper ves fused to do so, and the proprietor was mummoned yesterday to explain why. Mr. Goldring appeared for the plaintiff,
and obtained un adjournment,
נזיו
THE WRONG MAN. Mr. Crewe appeared before Mr. Med. bourne
behalf of the principal occupier and tenant of a house in Queen's Their Majesties left for Home and were Road who had been summoned with three given a cordial send-end off. SUEZ CANAL.
LARGE INCREASE IN RECEIPTS.
LONDON, June 4th. A telegram from Paris states that at a has awarded the silver medal meeting of the Suez Canal Company it for life-saving to Rear-Admiral Cradock
The King has
others for issuing anstamped revcipta. His Worship made inquiries and found that the summons had been served upon the man by mistake. He dismissed the salmon and expressed regret that the man had bern-put to that inconvenience. BERTING A SCHOOLBOY'S DIGNITY.
A Chinese charged before Mr. Irving with disorderly behaviour and assaulting a Dioursan schoolboy named Graen was
watching boys swimming in the harbour, and as he was leaving the wharf the defendant gut in his way. He asked the Chinese to get out of his way, and received a blow. He retaliated, and a disturbance ensued.. His Worship in- formed the schoolboy that he must not expect prople to get out of his way at his command.
was announced that the receipts amount- and seven naval officers, including Comed to nearly £5,521,529. This is an in- mander Niles of Gibraltar, and the bronze crease of £173,360, and exceeds expecta-fied two dollars. It appeared that the medal to three officers and fifty-three tions in view of the reduction of fifty complainant was on the Douglas wharf bluejackets who under noble boarding centimes on the tariff. There will be a officers at Gibraltar rendered services in similar reduction from January 1st, 1912 connection with the wreck of the Delhi.
BIG FIRE IN CONSTANTINOPLE. AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.
LONDON, June 4th. LONDON, June 4th. Reuter's correspondent at Constantin- ople telegraphs that fire broke out in The amateur golf championship was of the Temple, with all the others pre-opened at Westward Ho. A surprising Stamboul at ten o'clock yesterday morn- sent, prayed to the Almighty for the long result in the second round was the defeating and was still burning at eight o'clock Mr. John Jolinstone on Black Ivory won life of their Must Gracious Majesties of Mr. Harris, of Acton, who was re
last night. It swept a lane three-quarters the Kinngwan Champions' Cup at the In the King-Emperor, the Queen and the
of a mile long from the old seraglio to ternational Recreation Club's meeting at Queen Empress, as well as for the exton-garded as likely to be a finalist, by Mr. Shanghai last week. The cup in one pre-ion of the British Sovereignty through Crabb Watt, of Singapore,_by_six_up sented to the stewards by General Li Huen. Hung, the view President of the Republic out the world. After distributing Karah- and four to`play. of China
On May 5th, at Jesselton, British North nese), one of enteric fever (American), Boruto, WILLIAM CHABLES Moones and three of small-pox (Chinese), the WEEDON, of the North Bornce Civil Ber-last-named all proving fatal. vice, to LUCILLE IVER, only daughter of J. Iver M. DRUMOND, of the Imperial Maritime Customs, China.
DEATHS.
Du May 18th, at Antung, South Man- churia, JOHN LEWIS WILSON, of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, aged 41.
On April 14th, st Bombay, MARY HER uner ( Bowen); the dearly-beloved-wife of W. S. N10BOLLS, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Bombay.
In the Garrison Orders issued yesterday, HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VOK ROAD C it is announced that His Excellency the LONDON OFFIes: 131, FT STREET, EC] Officer Administerin- the Government has
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, Juge 5тH, 1912,
parsind (sacred food) the meeting was brought to a eluse.fommunicuted.
DESTRUCTION OF COTTON GODOWNS AT TIENTSIN,
FEATHER WEIGHT CHAM- PIONSHIP.
round:
دیدا اے
LONDON, June 4th.
At the National Sporting Club the been pleased to express his very great
world's featherweight championship and satisfaction at the appearance and turn- A fire broke out in Messrs. Liddell Bro- aut of the troops and their soldierly bear-thers' cotton godowns at Tientsin on the a stake of £1,200 was contested between ing on parade on June 3rd,
morning of the 22nd ult. and burned qutil the evening. When the alarm was given Jin Driscoll and the Frenchman Poesy, Messra. Stanley Paul & Co. are about to fire appliances were hurried to the stene The latter, was knocked out in the twelfth issue the Baroness Albert d'Anethan's from all the Concessions and British, Ame rican, German, French, Russian and The London papers by the latest mail give work entitled Fourteen Fears of Diploma-Japanese troops hastened to the spot. good deal of prominence to what magic Life in Jagun... The volume consists of The work done by the troops and the fre well be described as President TAFT's the diaries of the Baroness d'Anethan, brigades is highly praised by the Tien- tain newspapers. The cause of the out- “amazing revelation" that the real purpose widow of the Baron Albert d'Anethan, break in not known, but the loss is estimat- of the Americau-Government-in-negotiating Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pioniri at Tls. 500,000- Reciprocity with Canada was to make her potentiary of the King of the Belgians at
United States." the Court of Japan. "an adjunct of the
This was the view an overwhelming majority
The Rov. C. H. Hickling requests ns to
CONSTERNATION AMONG PHILIP- PINE SUGAR GROWERS. An Iloilo contemporary says Amillion.
THE DERBY
LONDON, June 4th. The latest betting the Derby, run at Epson on Wednesday, 18 në follows:-5 to 2 against Sweeper II.,
on
the Agasophia Mosque, which escaped.ried on for some time, resulting in the
THE VISITING MINISTERS.
THEFT OF GAS PITTINGS.
The extensive theft of fittings belonging to the Gas Company, which has been car-
Several other mosques were badly dam recent prosecutions at the Magistracy, was only brought to light through the fact aged.
that the thieves fell out among them... selves, and the information given to the police ended in ́a number of houses being raided and property to the value of some 8700 being recovered. Yesterday & jobbing gasfitter, who was charged in connection
property, receiving stolen property and. with the theft with having stolen certain with being in unlawful possession was found guilty by Mr. Melbourne, wha ordered him to pay a fine of $100.
LONDON, June 4th. Mr. Asquith and Mr. Churchill have arrived at Bizerta and were cordially
welcomed. They visited the dockyard and are to be entertained to a banquet on H.M.S. Enchantrée to-night.
LATER.
Mr. Asquith and Mr. Churchill left for Gibraltar last night.
THE NAVAL POSITION IN THE *MEDITERRANEAN.-
LONDON, June 4th.
Le Matia publishes. statistics relative to 7 to 1 against White Star, 8 to 1 against the naval position in the Mediterranean. Tagalie," to 1 against Mordred, 100 to 8 These show that till 1920 France, without
to 1 against Javelin, and Go to 1 against
OBITUARY.
STEALING & DEAD BODY.
The wiles of the Chinese are beyond the European mind. The story of the boy who while at the gaol on an errand stole the chief warder's umbrella u Laimust capred by the incident of the.. coolie who went off on. Monday with a dead body from a police station and took it to the public dispensary, which gives
one dollar as a reward for bodies re
of the Canadian electors took of the policy, montion that it has been decided to adopt though they wore not aware at the time the suggestion that accommodation should and a half picula of sugar remain in the against Jaeger and Pintadeau, 100 to 7 the aid of Great Britain, could hold it claimed from the street. It appears that ... t at such an eventuality was deliberately be provided for cats as well as dogs at bodegas of Iloilo and they cannot be dis against Catmint and Jingling Geordie, 20 salute supremacy. planned by the Government in Washington. the newly-opened Dogs' Home, at Cause posed of at any price. Sugar is now It is not till several months after the sweep-way Bay. Any sympathiser willing to quoted at something over five pesos. 2 ing defeat of Reciprocity at the polls in contribute towards this extension may The sudden drop in the price has com
picul, but the price is only a tentative one. Kosciusko. Canada that this little sidelight is permitted send donations him or to Mr. F. K.pelled many of the baconderos to borrow
Derby Scratchings:-Kempion and Lom to illuminate the history of the movement Tata, Queen's Buildings. In addition to money, which has become dus, and the at 9 a.m. on Monday, Mr. TAFT revealed the iden-or:"plot" as private sales, as hitherto, it has been de banks have renewed many of the notes for three months through absolute necessity. the Canadian papers prefer to describe itcided to sell dogs (and eventually cate There is no prospect, however, that there
Lorenzo is quoted at 25 to 1 and Balblair in a, confidential letter to Mr. ROOSEVELT also) by Dutch auction every Saturday at will be any relief at that time, and con-
sternation reigns in the ranks of the sugar at 40 to 1. last January, claiming Mr. RooNETELT'S 5.30 p.m.
growers'
LATER.
LONDON, June 4th. The death in Lonounced of Bishop Sheepshanks, who was Bishop of Norwich from 1893 to 1909, and who was formerly in Mongolia and Siberia.
one man took the body to the police station at West Point and reported hav- ing found the body. The police sent for the dead box, and an officer went outside to view the body, but was surprised to find that it had disappeared. Inquiries led to the coolie who lifted it being traced, and he was arrested and will be charged with removing a dead body with-
ut a permit.