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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1912.
wages bill. But the lessons of the great strike have not serve to give the country relief from strikes for long. The business of the port of London has been seriously interrupted for a fortnight now by a strike among the dock labourers, who are defying the agreement made their behalf scarcely nine months ago. They came Cont 00 strika by way of protesting against the employment of a non-unionist watchus, and though they have not succeeded in paralysing trade so completely as they anticipated, yet they have inter- rupted it to such an extent as to again emphasiso the necessity for legislation which will deal more effectively with do- velopments such as these. Great Britain has gone one stop in emulation of the oxample set by New Zealand and the States of Australia, by establishing Wages. Bards for the voluntary seattlemont of disputes, and the time han arrived when the Government must consider whether it is not desirable to draw more largely on
the experience of the younger democracies in this matter. Beyond such voluntary A BLEND OF THE FINEST PURE methods of settling disputes as Wages Boards, there are in New Zealand and
MALT SCOTCH WHISKIES.
For over 30 Years WATSON'S "E" has maintained the re-
of the FINEST putation SCOTCH WHISKY in the
FAR EAST.
A. S. WATSON
& CO., LTD.,
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
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At the Magistracy yesterday the hen-TELEGRA MS.[TELEGRAMS. TELEG RA MS.
ing of a charge of indecant assault by a Chinese upon a European girl of five years of age was adjourned owing to the absence of one of the principal
witnews.
Sir Henry May was to leave Fiji at the beginning of this month for Sydney on his way to Hongkong. H will probably be coming on the E. & A -steamer St. Albans, which is due to reach
Hongkong on the 25th inst,
To commcnurate the Royal visit the Hon. Sir Sassoon David has placed at the disposal of the Government of Bon- boy a donation of Rs. 8,900,000 for the establishment of vernacular agricultural schools and the improvement of agricul Lural methods in the presidency.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGEKOY.]
THE RESULT OF THE DERBY.
LONDON, June 5th..
The Derby was run, at Epsom this after- poon with the following result:-
An
Mr W. Raphael's Tagalie Mr. L. Neumann's Jaeger Mr. A. Belmont's Tracery
1
22
B
following
the
earlier telegram güve
IN probable starters :-
Clark;
Earl
Absolute, Aleppo, Chill October, A. Templeman; Catmint,
A concert at the Theatre Royal -by--William- Griggs-Cylba, F. Templemas the famous Russian operatie baritone, Farman, Rickaby; Hall, Cross, Saxby: Eugene Ossipuff, from the Grand Opera at Moscow is announced for Wednesday next. Mr. Dennuna Fuller and Mr. B. Timinerscheidt are assisting at the con cert the booking for which is now open at Moutrie
The Chinese Minister's daughter bap
Australia Industrial Courts of Appeal tise the new Chinese cruiser, Feihung, presided over by a judge of the highest as the vessel was launched on 4th us. Court, and consisting of assessore chosen by from the yard of the New York Ship
The the two sides in the dispute. The penal building Company at Camden. clauses of this legislation have been made cruiser, which will be used as a train- · stringent. Not only are heavy fines imposing ship, is 320 ft. long, and of 2,000 to ed for disobeying an award, bat in some displacement. It was originally ordered casan imprisonment without option of a fine by the Impérial Government. may be inflicted on one who instigates a strike. The funds of unions way bear the fines, and, should they not suffice, a lavy pro rato may be made on members of the union. It is obvious that the trade unions of Australasia are in a far more responsible position then those of Great Britain, which, since the passing of the Trale Disputes Act, are placed outside the law and cannot have their funds attached or be made re- sponsible for the conduct of their officials
Moreover, a fax stricter watch is kept by the
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From the detailed programme of papers and discussions at the Congress of the Universities of the Empire to be held in London in July wrote that on July and one of the papers will be The prob lets of Universities in the East in regard to their influence on character and moral ideals," by Sir Frederick Lugard. Chan- cellor of Hongkong University.
Sir Samuel Evans and Trinity Masters in the Admiralty Court
on 3rd it.
awarded £2,000 to two steam tags and
£100 to a Trinity House pilot in respect uf salyage services - performed to the Pisngun a few hours after the collision, with the P. and O. stearier Delhi, near Folkestone, tus vale of the Pisayar and her cargo of nitrate, it was stated,
Government au Antipodean trades unions, which sovet submit accounts for official in spection; and ifa ballot of members is desired, evidence of bond fides may be demanded. Notwithstanding all this, says the authority to whoo e
in lebtel for these was 14,083. particulars, it cannot be contended that
An official report on the Assant from- compulsory arbitration is an unqualified tier tribes admits that Mr. Williamson was auccess, for serious strikes still taken a political mission to enquire into the place. The truth in that experience extent of Tibetan influence when innr- has proved that the penal clauses in strike dered in the Abor country. It adds that legislation cannot be successfully enforced Mr. Williamson previously visited the on 1 large body of men acting in Mishui country, where he found that the If they choose to defy the law Chinese had annexed all the Tibetan had planted flags at and refuse to pay a fiue it is a practical villages and
But their Menikrai to signify that it was a Chi- impossibility to imprison them." leaders aul instigators could be fined and wese town, · imprisoned, as is now done in Australia. It has begu assumed by any who have dis eussed this solution of labour uurest in Great Britain that the workers themselves are bitterly opposed to compulsory arbitra tion, but we have only the word of a few well-paid agitators for this, and we imagine the general budy of the workers are them selves se heartily sick of these recurring
The address delivered at the Colonial Institute last February, by the Ven, E. Judd Barnett, M.A.. Archdeacon of Hongkong, un "Hongkong's Part in China's Reform is reproduced in the May issue of the United Empire, the ournal of the Royal Colonial Institute. In replying to the short discussion which followed the reading of the papër, Arch- deacon Barnett said: We have to re-
HONGKONG OFFIɑs: 104, DES VOUX ROAD strikes that the Government would be well gard the Chinese not as a warlike, but LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLANT STERI, Oupported in any effort it made to set up
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, JUNE 6TH, 1912.
NOTWITHSTANDING the many attempts which have been made in Great Britain in recent yeard
Jaeger, Walter Griggs; Javelin, Higgs; Jingling Geordie, F. Wootton: Kus-
eiuska, Winter; Lorenzo, O'Neill; Mordred, Wheatley; Orchestrion, Henry Pintadean, H. Jones: Royal Mail. Howits; Sweeper II., Maber; Quantock. Watts; Tagalic, J. Reiff; Tracery, Bell-
house: White Star, Stern Wisenoл,
Broadwood; Bryn Trigg; Haddon,
Mawr, Scourse.
THE WETTING.
The Fatest Derby betting is: 5 to 2 against Sweeper 11, 7 to l ́against White Star, 100 to 12 against. Tagalie, 10 to
against Jarger, 100 to 9 against Mordred, 100 to 7 against Jingling Geordie, 20 to 1.
against Javelin, and. 25 tot against
Lorenzo.
His Majesty received a hearty welcome.
on his arrival at Epsom on Tuesday afternoon. The weather was uncertain, sunshine and showers alternating. Wednesday's race is the topic every- where, owing to the openness of the com- test and the intenso popular interest in the King's horse Pintadeau..
The weather is fine after the overnight rain, and the going is good. There is An enormous attendance.
THE BUNGARIAN ARMY BILL
EXTRAORDINARY, TUMULT IN THE CHAMBER.
LONDON, June 5th. Renter's correspondent at Buda Pest telegraphs that owing to the strenuous persistence of the President, Count Tisza, the Lower House adoptéd the Army Bill
amidst tremendous, tunalt.
LATER.
Count Tiszà put the vote on the second
as a literary race, who' want to develop | und 'third reading of the Army Bill in Industrial Courts of Appeal for the settle-along those lines. They are a commercial rapid succession and declared it carried. ment of industrial disputes. In any case, people also, who, although they will 29k The uproar was such that most of the it must be admitted that "it is a distinct you unblushingly three times the price advantage to the country as a whole to have they expect to gut, ret, at the same time, ambers were not aware that the Bill legally established Courts in which these if they give you their word that they will | bad been read a third time. The sitting labour troubles can he decided, instead of all supply goods up to n certain standard the complicated machinery of conferences, or pattern you, any rely on the goods Home Office intervention, and secret-negering up to that loxel Ludeed I have. to regulate the relations tuation, as exhibited to an astonished nation own an ordinary small trader walk back a mile in the dark to refond me a between employer and employed with the in the recent troubles in Great Britain." special object in view of avoiding the dis-
dollar I had overpaid him inadvertently, organisation of the country's trade and
The next Gymkhana at the Happy and I have never known that done in our industry by labour strikes, the and, as the Valley has been fixed for Saturday, July own country." alegrains recently hare made us painfully 6th. ware, is yet far from being achieved. The fuancial loss to the country, owing to the scent strike of coal miners and the conse-
quent check suffered in other industries and Irades, has been variously estimated at from This strike £20,000,000 to £30,000,000. conveyed, no doubt, a lasting lesson to thou ands of men who had light-heartedly throwe down their tools, and though it may bt bat the lot of many has been somewhat improved in consequence of the meistres the strike blige the Government to initiate, yet the have been lvantaga gainet cannot
at all commensurate with the great burden of loss the micers suffered by the strike; far not only was the faunciat position of thair trade unions seriously weakened, but thousands of men exhausted their small private savings and were reduced to a state of destitution. Moreover, it has been stated in the trade papers that any wage benefit derived from the recent industrial struggles as not been to the advantage of the whole lody of the workers, for employers in various trades have been obliged to reduce the oum.
เ
During the year 1911 there was an excons of 9,527 Chinese immigrants over emigrants in the State of Peruk.
was then suspended. On the resumption. the Opposition assailed Count Tisza with att måler of insuits. Thrice be give op the contest and again suspended the sitting. The sixty police entered the Chamber and removed 21 deputies, includ. ing the leader of the. Opposition, M. Just). The latter's son resisted violent- ly, but the rest went out quietly. After wards an attempt was made to proceed with the business again, but the Ministers were yelled down, the House being in a' state of regular patidemonium.
(İKROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] ·
THE LONDON STRIKE.
LONDON, June 5th. The strike leaders had conference with the Government at the Home Office, and afterwards the Government had a meeting with the masters.
The Port of Landon Authority is besieged by men willing to work, but the stevedores remain firm, consequently the work is confined to unloading and handling goods on the quays.
Separate conferences between dock strikers and employers with Ministers continue, but apparently little progress is being made,
The National Federation of Transport Workers to-night declare that the men will not resante wiles a joint concilia- tion board as approved by them is established.
LATER.
The employers, including the Port of London Authority, yesterday resolved to inform the Government that its sugges tion of a federation of the employers was impracticable and that no sugges- tion by the Government with a view to a settlement could be entertained until work was restined.
DISORDER AT TILBERY. Some disorder took place at Tilbury in consequence of the employment of in- ported free labourers. The police, how-
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
THE CONSTANTINOPLE FIRE.
LONDON, June 5th. Constantinople messages slate time over 1,000 houses, four mosques and ten schools were burned. Fifteen thousand people are boneless. Soveral perished in the flaines. The fire originated in a house in course of construction.
A fire occurred later at Pers, wherg 20 houses were destroyed. A high wind and scarcity of water assisted the con- flagrations.
MP RESIGNS.
LONDON, June 5th. Mr. H. J. Wilson, Liberal M. P. for Holmfrith, has resigned.
This cessitates a bye--dection;
The Liberal majority Over tho Unionist at the last contested election WALK 1,296.]
A SOCIALIST APPEAL.
Losnes, June 5th. A Sydney telegram states that the Full Court upheld the appeal of the Broken Hill socialist who was fined on the 13th of last month for refusing to allow his son to take part in the drills under the compulsory military training clause of the Defence Act. The Court found a Haw in the indictment.
HOME CRICKET.
LONDON, June sth. The Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire
ever, dispersed the eroid. The strikers at the duckyard gates stoned the police: and injured two of them. The strikers and Middlesex matches have all been
abandoned. also held up the food supplies for the dockyard, and overturned a van load off ALLEGED, IMPORTING OF ARMS
INTO THE COLONY. eggs, rolling the driver in them.
THE LONDON TAILORS' STRIKE.
EPROPEAN PURSER CHARGED.
LONDON, June üth,
The West End tailors, who went on strike on the Red May for improved con- ditions and increased pay, have decided -to resume work without having obtained
their demands.
RIOTING IN BELGIUM.
سم
At the Magistracy an interesting case was heard before Mr. Melbourne yester day, when George. White, chief steward of th British steamer Persiu,„ was presented at the instance of L. S. Wils with bring in possession of 60 revolvers and 2,400 rounds of ammunition and. with importing the same. Mr. F. B. L Bowley, of Messrs. Dennys & Bowley, appeared for the defendant,
CHURCHES AND CONVENTS ATTACKED.
L.S. Wills stated that xb Boun (1
Loxbox, June 5th,
Tuesday he boarded the s.s. Perate and made a search. In the chief steward's Reuter's correspondent at Brussele
cabin he found 60 revolvera and 2,400 serions telegraphs that
rioting and rounds of ammunition under clothing in strikes have occurred in different towns | his locker. The chief steward was pre- in Belgium, owing to the Socialists sent, He wrined to receive a shock and resenting the Clerical triumph in the Baid they were not his. He said his boy
must have put them there.
elections,
The rioters at Lärge used the tramcurs as barricades and stoned the potion, who repeatedly charged with drawn swords. Ultimately the rioters and police engaged in a furious combat with revolvers, and A socialist cafe was riddled, the casual-
The troops huld the principal streets. ties being four killed and 20 injured.
Serious rioting and winduw breaking took place in other towns. Mounted gendarmes charged the rioters at Muns, wounding several,
Catholic convents, etc. are especially attacked. The strike is spreading to the iron and glass works and collieries in
the Charleroi district.
Cross-examined by Mr.. Bowley-Was the gangway down when you boarded the ship Yes. The tugs wereé alongside. Did you go in a launch or sampan ?— In the police launch.
Do you
know when the Persia arrived!-Last Sunday.
Where did she come. From Her Inst
port of call was Manila,
Did you go into the saloon, when you boarded her 7-Yes.
I understand the waiters and cabin boys are Chinese -Yes, The user in
European.
Who did you speak to-1 searched the "storekeeper's cabin.
Did you search the stewardess' cabin? ...Ye's
Did you search any other cabint- Every cabin amidship.
Have you Yes.
secur these guns before? LATER. Rioting was renewed, "at" Liege" "and"
Are they the sort of gun that would be Brussels last night. Besides naahing popular with the Chinese 7-Yes, they windows the mob set are to the
I wo want thein badly.
LEGISLATIVE COUN AL
Following are
Orders of the Day for to-day's meeting of the Legislative Council:-
The seven days' sale of Japanese colour First reading of a Bill entitled, “An prints and illustrated books, the property Ordinance regulate the ascents, of Sir Frank Swettenham, realised descents and flights of balloons, airships
£2,510.
During the course of the bearing of
to
aeroplanes and parachutes."
Committee on the Bill. entitled, "An
a larceny caer at the Magistracy yesterOrdinance to make provision for the re-
day afternoon a Chinese doctor said be rescribed for one of his patients by means of mystic writing,
constitution of the Full Court.”
The second reading of the Bill entitled,
ITALO TURKISH WAR,
LoxDon, June 5th.
In the House of Commons Sir Edward
An Ordinance to amend and consoli-Grey said there had been an informal Jate the Law relating to Chinose discussion with regard to an endeavour to The Chinese cruiser Hai Chi arrived at Passenger Ships as defined by the end the Turco-Italian war, but there was Singapore last week from Colombo under Chinese Passengers Act, 1865, and con- Rear-Adinira! P. K. Ching. She drop-cerning Asiatic Emigrants generally," no definite result up to the present. ped anchor in the roads and exchanged will not be proceeded with at this meet- salutes with Fort Canning.
As a sequel to the heavy rainfall of the last few days, it is announced in our advertisement columns that a constant supply of water will be turned on in the rider main districts from to-day.
ing.
The second reading of the Bill entitled, Ordinance, 1002," will not be preceeded An Ordinanc: to amend the Tramway
with at this meeting.
LOCAL SPORT.
INTERPORT (RICKET.
In reply to an, invitation extended to
THE GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
LONDON, June 37h. In the third round of the Amateur- Golf Championship. Mr. Elwes, of the Haral Devon Club, beat. Mr. Crabb Wait of Singapore, by three up and two to
lor of their hands, and on the railways and vonport, has been appointed to the the Shanghai and Straits Cricket Cluba Play. Mr. D. Brown, Isle of Wight, who
Mr. A. R. Whibley-Heading an of stores at the R. W. Victualling Yard, De- in the wines economies have been effected Victualling Department at Hongkong; and fewer men are now needed. In other and Mr. A. Blowey, leading man of stores words, the result is that the employers have at Hongkong, has been appointed to the been able to circumvent an increase in the R.W. Yard, Devonport. -
Mr. P. M. Hodgson, Hon. Secretary, plays usually for the Straits Settlements,
has received letters from the Secretaries beat the American player Herreshoff in of both clubs accepting. There will
therefore be a triangular contest about the second round by two up and one to
November both in cricket and tennis.
play.
churches in Brassels. Gendarmes charged the mob and dispersed them, They also succeeded in extinguishing the fames.
THE DUCHESS OF CONNAUGHT
LONDON, June 3th. Reuter's correspondent at Quebec wires that a bulletin states that the Duchess
of Connaught is suffering from a mild attack of catarrhal appendicitis. Her Royal Highness is being removed to the hospital at Montreal for observation.
THE BRITISH MINISTERS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.
MI LONDON, June 5th Mr. Asquith and Mr Churchill-have left Bizerto and have gone to Marseilles on board H.M.8. Suffolk,
PORTUGESE CABINET RESIGNS.
LONDON, June 5th.
A Lisbon telegram states that the Cabinet has resigned
The sort of thing they would pay a big price for ?—Yes.
George White then gave evidence on his own brhalt He said this was his first trip on the Persin. He was former- ly second steward on the Koren. What the sergeant said about finding the ars in his locker was correct He opened it himself. Before it was opened he had no idea there were any arms or ammuni- Most of the bedroom boys
tion there.
I had keys which would open any lock on the ship. On the previous day he left the locker empty with the boy in the
He did not lock the cupboard. It was after midnight when he returned" to the ship. His boy washed out his room. that morning and had not been seen since. He had never been charged with anuggling arms before.
His Worship discharged the defendant,
THE EMPRESS OF CHINA" SOLD
The C.P.R. Empresas of China, which rau <TI the rocks off Shirahama last September, and which is now at Urago, bas bonn sold through Messrs. Jno, W. Hall, of Yokohama, to one of their Japanese clients.