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commercial debts of one dollar or more infest these islands are the enemies of THE PREVENTION OF COLLISIONS TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
AT SEA.
Mr. Tse Tsain Tai, of Hongkong, is in
(THROUGH REGTER'S AGENCY.]
THE BALKAN TROUBLES.
THE KOCHANA MASSACRE.
shall be made entirely it notes, and it is both colonies, and they are equally a declared a punishable offence to refuse such menace to the whole trade and com
(THROUGH ALUTER'S AGENCY.] payment (as, apparently, has been done in merce of the Canton Delta. It would the past by the District Magistrates them not greatly improve matters if they are receipt of a letter from Sir Hiram 8.
THE TERRIBLE MONTH" IN alves). So much for the need-what driven from the islands over which Maxim, of London, whom he regards aa Portugal oxorcises a disputed adster-Jan old friend, describing his latest in-
GREAT BRITAIN.. Mr. Sune's remedy! Put briefly, it is to cignty unless they are at the same time vention for the prevention of collisions redeem twenty million dollars worth of provented by the Chinese authorities at sea. Ships' captains need not fear
Lospos, August 27th.
LONDON, August 27th. notes, and then jsme sixty millions. The from finding sanctuary in adjacent ter- fogs and the darkness in future, as they A message from Constantinople states.
Agricultural experts estimate that the. stumbling block that he, with others, faila ritory over which Chinese sway is undis-will be able to discover objects miles that the preliminary report of the Tur-August rains have already cost the to surmount is the difficulty of redeeming puted. Chinese co-operation in the ahead by using Sir Iliram's apparatus: kish Commission of Inquiry into the farmers £2,000,000 to £7,000,000. the great excess of paper on the market crusade is essential to its success, and Imagine the number of ships and the Kochana massacre shows that the civil stuffs will be dearer this winter.
Foul
Thes
without incurring a dead loss to that extent.we trust that the arrangement made a millions of lives which will be safe-
weather prospects are described as the According to the memorandum, the Provin couple of years ago between the Govern- guarded by this wonderful invention-aad military authorities failed in their WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS eial Government has issued $20,000,000 ment of Hongkong and the Government modern miracle! It was to Sir Hiram duties and that the troops participated
worst possible. worth of notes. Assuming these figures to of Canton for the rendering of mutual 8. Maxim that Mr. Tse Tean Tai sent in the massacre. The Porte has therefore
LATER. bo correct, the only thing for the Provincial assistance in the prevention of crime is plans, etc, of his dirigible airship pre-ordered the guilty to he court-martialled,
The weather is the subject which and is distributing £1,000 among the receives greatest prominence in the Government to do is to recognize that it still effective, and that the combined pelled by fan-propellers, in 1894.
sufferers. has received services or supplies valued at efforts of the three Governments will
papers, and the news puts all other result not only in, the arrest of the twenty million dollars and that it is in
horrors in the buckground. debtor to this extent, when it would follow pirates concerned in the daring outrage that the debt should either be repaid in full, at Choung-Chau, but also in more effec tively safeguarding life and property or else constituted a standing charge on the aflat and ashore throughout the Delta.
province should be freed from this debt without paying anything for the relief, and this happy result is to be achieved by lend.
Our Brandies are
GUARANTEED exchequer, Mr. Spra's desire is that the
TO BE
PURE GRAPE ing 830,000,000 to a Railway Bank that is
SPIRIT.
A-SUPERIOR
Capsule
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Per case Par
to be set up, and then making the Bank | refund $60,000,000-twenty millions to note
holders; ten millions to the Provincial Government; and thirty millions to the
Rear-Admiral von Krosigk, command- ing the German Far East Squadron, has been paying visit to Peking.
UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG.
We are informed that 41 candidates entored their names for the Entrance
MONTENEGRO'S ASSURANCES. King Nicholas has assured the Powers that no Montenegrin will be permitted to
cross the frontier in future.
LATER.
Examination to the University, and that 39 attenuled. The Board of Examiners
A message from Cettinje states that have passed 23 of these students, and they will accordingly be admitted as mem-the Powers have made vigorous repre- bers of the University. In addition to sentations to Montenegro whose Govern. considerable number of nont assures them that it will not act
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The intest news is that Norwich, Cromer and sevoral villages in Lin- colnshire are cut off by floods. Passen- gers for Cromer yesterday could not proceed beyond King's Lynn, where they were deposited on a flooded platform and had to find lodgings in the town.
THE LATE "GENERAL" BOOTH.
LONDON, August 27th,
Lieut. Col. H. L. Kirke, N.G.A., Hong-the abov kong Singapore Battalion, Hongkang, students who are exempt from the En has been ordered to Falmouth for duty. trance Examination-by virtue of hav-contrary to their wishes, and disclains ing passed the London University Matri- any idea of aggression. But the Govern- For stripping zine from the godown
culation or the Senior Oxford or ment declares that it cannot tolerate of 1dos. Bot. foreign loader. If all financial problems being demolished at Kowloon a Chinese Cambridge local examination-have ap Turkish frontier fortresses in Monteno- oral '
was yesterday at the Magistracy-plied for adatission, and practically the whoir of the students of the College of A Corman engineer residing at Row-Medioine will transfer to the University, loon reports to the police having lost his so that it is expected that the University pocket-book at Kowloon containing a 100 will open with at least 50 to 60 students. mark note, a steamship ticket, and other
could be settled in this blessed way, the PALE, Bed
post of Chancellor of the Exchequer would .....$28.40 2.45 be a sinecurs.
Of all the parties to the transaction, the only one that has any reason 1-SUPERIOR OLD COGNAŬ,
Blod Capente ... ...31 40 2.70 to feel dissatisfied is the Bank, but Mr. Suvo bus even thought of the Bank. The figures WATSON'S * * COGNAO,
Golā Capsulo .......
31.40 2.70 quoted so far showit a loser by $30,000,000,
SUPERIOR OLD LI. QUEUR COGNAC, Gold Capsule
but in consideration of this it is to be given. the care of the Canton Exchequer for a 37.40 3.20 period of ten years, and will also have carte blanche to issue notes to the tune of sixty DVERY FINE OLD PALE LIQUEUR COGNAC,
millions, with none of those irritating Gold and White Capeale... 43.40 3.70 | restrictions, requiring a reserve fund of 40 per cent, of the value of the notes in ready D-FINEST OLD BROWN
money and 60 per cent, in substantial sood- BRANDY, Gold and White
49.40 4.20 rition, that were found in the Bank-note Czprule
Regulations of the Manchus. The Bank thus comes in for its share of the fat things. too, and indeed might well make more out of the transaction than anybody-it would A. S. WATSON & CO., probably levy a commission of some sort on ita exchequer transactions, and a note issue LIMITED.
of sixty millions should also give oppor tunities for profit. The ons weak point is that the deal is to come to an end after ten | years, but then there will be three times as
(The above Prices include duty.)
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papers.
The Taiyuan and Changsha have been purchased by Messrs. G. 8. Yuill & Com- 'pany, Limited, of Sydney, and will in future continue the service from Sydney to Hongkong in conjunction with the Guthrie.
on
A list of the successful students is post- et at the University and a copy can be seen on application to the Registrar at the office of the Director of Education Each student will ho also informed by letter whether he has passed or failed.
ROBBERIES ON THE PEAK.
RESIDENCE.
grin territory and appeals to the Powers to settle the dispute.
Reuter's
TURKISH CONCESSIONS.
correspondent at Constan
tinople wires that it is announced that the Government has instructed the valis of all the European provinces to apply the concessims made to the Albanians throughout their districts. The same megaures, it is understood, will be in- troduced in the Anatolian vilayets.
The lying-in-state of the body of "Gen- Beoth continues to-day. tip till
The now 71,000 have passed the bier. body will be conveyed to the Olympia on Wednesday, "General" Bramwell Booth conducting the memorial service It is expected that 25,000, including mem bers of the foreign corps, will follow the coffin, which will be draped with the flags of the respective nations.
Every town and village in the United Kingdom where there is a Salvation Army corps will be represented.
Their Majesties have send wreaths.
The report of the attack on Sjenitza is Mr. B. F: C. Meater appeared at the REPORTED ROBBERY FROM CAPTAIN DADELEY'S Magistracy yesterday
behalf pf
doubted here. The exodus of Servians is Messrs. Butterfield & Swire to prosecute During the past few days burglaries believed to be due to the Abanians re- NEWS FROM THE SEÀ QUEEN." four Chinese who had been stowod away or Ingenies have been reported from turning from Ukab, having sacked the PARTICULARS OF THE UNFORTUNATE START. on beard the s.5. Guthrie for Australia three or four residences on the PeakGovernment magazines of rifles en route, and at Sydney had been transferred to The houses victimised are those of Mr.
The foreign community of Yokohama.
The
ceived
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fraternity.
little
attention
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the
RICSHA COOLIES PROSECUTED.
BROOD.
A WATER-PLANE RACE.
LONDON, August 27th.
the s. Changsha and brought to Hong, P. J. t. Bisschop, General Manager of and manifesting their satisfaction in kong. The case was remanded. the Java-China-Japan Lijn; Mr. A. II. Albanian fashion by discharging their
At the Supreme Court yesterday his Barlow, sub-Manager of the Hongkong rifles and frightening the Christians. Lordship the Chief Justice was to have and Shanghai Bank; and the Hon. Mr.
DR. MORRISON MARRIED. heard the action by Mrs. Margaret H. E. Pollock, K.C..
With an injunction to "tell it not in Terrace, Ogilvie, Knutsford
against
LONDON, August 27th. Major Walton, Station Hotel, Kowloon, Cath," nor to Publish it in the stroots
Dr. Morrison, of Peking, was married many notes on the market as there are now for the recovery of 932.67, damages to of Askelan," we have been informed so presumably the Mr. Suse of that day, furniture and effects hired from plaintiff that the residence of the Captain in London yesterday to Miss Blobin, a will preposs starting again ab initio ou s to defendant at Hennie's Mill from May Superintendent of Police has also re-lady who is well acquainted with China, larger scale, and so on indefinitely. The 7th, for which defendant was responsible,
whither they return after their honey wholo project is, of course, farcical, and The case was not called, as it was under- would be unworthy of notice were it not stood that complainant was too ill to af for the fact that it is men of Mr. Suro's tend. calibre who will fill the seats in China's Parliament and will then claim a definito Theatre after the Bandmann Opera Co. next Company to occupy the
A European named Williams appeared In the race for water-planes from St. share in the moulding of her financial will be a powerful London Company before Mr. Melbourne at the Magistracy Malo to Jersey and back, four finished --written-on-own-sida-of-paper only, Policy, though their financial experience which Mr. Allan Wilkie, the eminent yesterday in support of
Las not hitherto gone beyond the numerous
actor, is taking on a world tour. They against ricsha coolie for demanding and night fell into the sea.. and complicated borrowing and leading are to play here for six nights .com. more than bis legal fare. Complainant transactions that are such a feature of mencing on September 12th with "The informed his Worship that he engaged Chinose private and commercial life, and School for Scandal." A list of the plays Francis Street. He paid the coolie five
is in the spirit of these buckstering the Company propose to give during dealings that they will approach questions their season here will be found in our cents, the legal fare, and the latter, asked for more, and created a disturbance when involving millions of pounds. The fact of advertising eolunms. The booking is ‘at ; the matter is that China is still lamentably Robinson's. deficient in men capable of handling-or
His Worship-The man says he asked even appreciating large financial issues.
A. Chinese Jack Sheppard was brought for cumsha. before Mr. J. R. Wood at the Magistracy
Complainant-He bus no right to ask Oil Co made a donation to Mr. RooRe- THOUGH there is no information up to yesterday on a charge of escaping from for cumsha.
velt's compaign fund in 1904. T His Worship -- What actually hap the time of writing that any of the prison on the 13th February, 1911. pirates concerned in the outrage nt appears that he had heen serving sen-pened? Cheung-Chan have been captured, it is tences of three years' imprisonment for Complainant-1 am fighting this case not to be supposed that all hope of larceny and one year for returning from for the sake of the women of the Colony, The banishment and escaped from Victoria not only my wife. My wife is afraid to capture has yet been abandoned.
Ne anonymously signed communica tions that have already appeared in other papers will be inserted.
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The Daily Press.
HORIONG, AUGUST 28TE, 1912.
Is view of the time to come when China
THE CHEUNG CHAU PIRACY.
·REPORTED-ARRESTO,
summons
the ritsha at Blake Pier and went to St.
it was not forthcoming.
He started to make a
THE ROOSEVELT CAMPAIGN SENSATION.
LONDON, August 27th. The Sebate at Washington has finally passed & resolution in favour of the
Campaign Funds Committed investigat ing the charge made that the Standard
TO HONOUR THE DEAD.
LONDON, August 27th. Prince Arthur of Connaught and the Garter Mission, including Mr. Lampson, of the Foreign Othen, left for Tokyo, travelling across Siberia.
TROUBLED MOROCCO.
is keenly interested in the attempt of three residents-Capt. Voes and Meurs. 8. A. Vincent sud F. Stone-to voyage round the world in a Bft, yaelit. The Japan Herald prints the following ac count of the unfortunate start: --
"Algawa, near Sendai,
August 11th, 1912. We left Uraga on the morning of the 9th July, and all went well till mid-day on August 1st, when a heavy gale suides.. ly sprang up. So strong did the gate become that we were compelled to have recourse to mur sea-anchor and mizzen. While the gale lasted wo passed our time not at all unpleasantly, cocking our food and amusing ourselves with the grame- phone, which certainly dispelled all monotony. We lay to for a day, and on the 2nd instant again got under way. When we took our bearings we found that we were about 600 miles off the coast, and appeared to be weathering all that camo
in the way of blows. along
with
flowever, on the 5th instant was ret an accident that shook us up rather badly at the time, although it is almost forgotten. In the morning heavy breeze sprang up, and quickly freshened. In less than an hour a gale, experienced, was upon as, and we had the like of which we had not previously A huge see struck r very bad time, tiny vessel on the port quarter, heaving her up on her bear ends, and the follow ing wave broke over as swamping the cockpit and almost fling the cabin. However, we escaped with a wetting, and como broken crockery. Not wishing to take any short cats to Davy Jones' locker, we at once put out the sea-anchor, and rode through the storm for time.
One
"About an hour later we noticed that the anchor was not keeping the boat so well up as we had expected, and an ex- amination showed that the canvas had been torn to ribbons by huge shark which we had noticed hovering around the Sea QueR.. The shark probably though there was something inside the LONDON, August 27th.
canvas, and must have been badly disny- Defendant was fined two dollars.
Reater's correspondent at. Tangiers pointed. The storm, however, continued, and as we had several narrow escapest Trumpet Major Elliott proceeded states that the delivery of the Frenchmen from being washed overboard, we spent to the care of the Pretender Eliba isoma time in rigging up temporary sea- against a riesha coolie for refusing to ac
anchor, which certainly had the effect of cept hire at Kowloon..
Complainant said he hailed the ricaba causing great anxiety in official circles. steadying our craft. coolie, who was at Knutsford Terrace. There are still vague hopes of saving them, The coolie ran down towards him, but though the negotiations between El Hiba when within twenty yards of him turned and the Khalifa may be suspended at any back and ran away. Complainant, who moment.
will possess a properly organized Parliament reports of the affair gave the indication Gaol when he had served about five go out because of these men.
that the pirates departed in the direc- nonthe. Recently he was arrested at His Worship What actually hup and parliamentary government will be the tion of Colowan, and though the Macao Macao, and when an officer from Hong-penot ? order of the day, it is of interest to acquins Government has acertained that none of 'kong went over to take him ime custody Complainant-I paid him. He said it some idea of the capabilities of the men wlw the pirates lauded on the island of he learned that Lam Sing had again sue was not enough. will compose this body, and in this connection Colowan, it does not necessarily follow ceeded in breaking from gaol and had row. You know what those Chinese do. the memorandum on the finances of the that the report that they went in that escaped. He was arrested at Yaumati, Province of Kwangtung, a translation of direction is incorrect, for it is notorious and it is stated that he attempted to which we print in another column, may be that pirates infest the adjacent islands.excape from his cell during the night, found worthy of consideration. Mr. Sure, It will be learnt with much satisfaction but without success. He was committed they author of these proposals, is the Vics from a telegram appearing in another to the Criminal Bessions for trial. President of the Provincial Assembly of column that in response to representa- Canton, so it is not unreasonable to suppostions made by H.E. the Governor of that he is representative of the Chines Hongkong to H.E. the Acting Governor parliamentarian of the future. The scheme of Macao, the Portuguese Government set forth by him is nominally based on the is sending a cruiser to search all the Portuguese Islands and to exterminate Yuot-Han Hailway, or on the Kwangtung the pirates if they are found there. As spetion of it, but in reality it scarcely no Portuguese cruiser is at present in affects the railway, which is only brought these waters the Acting Governor at forth as convenient security on which to Macao has been instructed to begin raise the capital necessary for a financial active naasures with the resources juggle,
The real problew that Mr hand, and these, wo take it, will be con- SUNG sots himself to grapple with tinued until the erniser arrives, Pre that of the deprecated and discredited sumably, the intention is that the Patria paper currency of Cantou.
The urgency shall turn here from Timor, now that of this problem is witnessed to by a pro- the revolt in that island is officially re- clamation issued a few days ago by the ported to have been suppressed, because Financial Commissioner: some time hack, Portugal's other serviceable cruisers are it may be remembered, a plan was prescribed all in Home waters.
"We suddenly noticed that the Se paces appeared to be making water, and on examination we found to our disap pointment that the vessel had strained herself in the violent buffating she had The French Government is gone through and had sprang aleak.
to The su expedition
amount of water the vessel made was not very great, but as it necessitated
We learned at a late hour last night lived about six minutes' run from the
anxious to avoid that ive persons-three meri and two ferry wharf, as a rule gava ricsha coolies women-have been arrested by the Macay five cents, the legal fare, but people who Marrakesh, not only because of the lack baling about every hour, we decided to Authoritics for being concerned in the could afford it gave more.
of forces, but because of the excessive steer for Sendai, this being, according to our reckoning, the nearest land available. piratical raid at Cheung Chau last week. All the persons arrested, we understand,
beat in that district. It is feared, how-We were fully aware of our position,
at were found in a sampan.
In taking these
It is believed that the pirates split, up into three parties after the raid, and it is understood that some are hiding in
British territory.
1.
TYPHOON WARNING.
• Defendant was fined one dollar.
THE BANDMANN. OPERA.
COMPANY.
**THE COUNT OF LUXEMBOURG”
The Bandmann Opera Company was greeted with a large and enthusiastic audience last night on their presentation
ever, that Colonel Mangin's success will result in vindictive measures being taken by the Pretender's forces...
ROOTING OUT THE PIRATES.
ACTION BY FORTUGUBLE GOVERNMENT.
LONDON, August 27th. The Times correspondent telegraphe
but could not even hold our own against. the violent gales, one of which had pre- vailed for full three days and nights, and these, in callusion with the current, and conspired to carry us north.
"While we were beating up for Sondai, our stove went out of action, and a later discovery was that our chronometer was out of order. However, we made Aigawa without further trouble or dangor, and put in here to refit and repair.
"In spite of the minor mishaps we have experienced we are not the least bit down-hearted and are having a jolly good
It will take us about a week or time, all being in remarkably good tea days to refit, after which we shall again leave for the Marshall Islands, and present location is not so badly situated for the Island voyage, as a reference to the map might convince landsmon."
The telegram quoted below was re
of "The Count of Luxembourg," which that in response to the Governor of Hong by which all payments wore to be made easures Portugal is but fulfilling an coived from the Manila. Observatory at
was rendered with fine effect, the dramatic kong's representations to the Governor half in notes and half in silver. This obligation under the old Anglo-Portu- 6.30 p.. yesterday:
sending a cruiser to scarch all the health. method of coping with the difficulty hasse Treaty, which was re-affirmed by Cyclone or Typhoon W. of northern element being well brought out and the of Macao the Portuguese Government is the Republican Government of Portugal Lucon more than 100 miles distant. musical numbers given with much accept- resulted in a fiasco, and notes are as much
in March last, proving inter alia that Direction unknown.
The principals did their work ex- Portuguese islands and exterminate the at a discount, as “over, so now Mr. Laag neither party will give asylum to the Cyclone or Typhoon near or over the ceedingly well, and encores had to be pirates. The Government has instructed this time we hope to make them, as our
the Governor of Macao, to begin active CHUNG-KA, the Financial Commissioner, enemies of the other. In the present northern Jadrone or Mariana Islands, acknowledged. has decreed that all payments of taxes.or of instance; the pirates which are known to Developing.
ance.
To-night the Company produce "Peggy, measures meanwhile.