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THE HONGKONG DAIZY PRESS, TURSDAY, SEPTEMBIE 17xx, 1912.
WATSON'S in the tomb in pinco of living attendants,
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VERY OLD
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WHISKY
It is officially announced that the Mr. F. E. Schnorr, of Shaugliai, whose TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS
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to the hut in which a bear is kopt, played with it for a while before giving it food. attack upon Mr. Schnorr, clawing him The animal became angry and made an about the legs and inflicting injuries of
wailed day and night. At last they died and rotted. Dogs and crows gathered and agreement of Mr. William Jolly, as Sec. uncommon collection of tamed animal ats them.” That appears to be the last re-retary of the Hongkong and Whampoa pets is a feature at his residence in Sze- corded instance of the kind, for the Dock Co., Ltd., has been mutually archuen Road, hins suffered somewhat Emperor was no filled with pity" that hominated and that Mr. G. A. Caldwell has severely from injury inflicted by one of ordered his officers to devise some substitute been appointed Acting Secretary. them. It appears, saya the N.-C. Daily for this ancient custom. This substitute
News, that on the 8th inst, he was feed- The new wing of the Peak Hotel is wing them at the usual time, and on going took the form of clay images being set up practically completed. It adds to the Hotel a much-needed lounge, a reading and the Emperor decreed that this should room and a ladies' sitting room, as well henceforth be the practice, and men were
as ten bedrooms, and altogether forms not to be harmed. Bat though human a very useful extension of the Hotel. sacrifices thereupon ceased to be part of the Imperial funeral rites, voluntary sucide, in order that a faithful retainer might follow his master in death, was a common practice for many centuries. To this day no incident in the ancient history of Japan is more widely known among the people of the country than that of the Chuskingure, or The Forty-seven Ronins," as it is called by MITFORD in his "Tales of Old Japan." It is the story of a feudal lord who was ɛo | him.
Temptation proved too strong for a
toki in the employ of the Yuon Hing hong in Bonham Strand. He had been sent by the managing partner to cash a draft for $25,000. He obtained the money, but he failed to return with it.
been sent to hospital sick and destitute. А Енгорска named Broadbent has His wife informed the police that sh had no money and could not support He was living in Haiphong Road,
rather & severe nature. He was treated
at his residence for the injuries, but on the 11th inst. it became necessary to send him to the hospital to undergo an operation in consequence, it is under stood, of signs of blood poisoning hay ing been detected.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] ORANGE AND GREEN.
SERIOUS KIOTING IN BELFAST.
LONDON, September 16th. Fifty-eight people have been sent to
with revolver shots, and some in a critical hospital in Belfast, Ovo being wounded
condition, as the result of a riot on the
(THROUGH REUTKA'S AGENCY.]
BRITISH POLITICS.
LONDON, September 18th, The results of recent thres-cornered contesta are causing concern among cer-
branches of the powerful Amalgamated tain sections of the Labourites, and
Society of Railway Servants have passed Celtic Park football ground on Saturday resolutions condemning the action of the afternoon, when a longue match was being Labour Party in forcing such contesta played between Belfast Celtic and Ling-which are detrimental to the interests of field. At half-time the latter led by one
the workers, and threatening to withdraw goal to nil, and the partisans of the Celtic their support of parliamentary funds. unfurled a greon and white banner and
started parading. The supporters of Lingfield replied by displaying a Union Jack. Immediately the playing pitch was transformed into a battlefield.
Stones,
EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS AT
VIENNA.
LONDON, September 16th.
gromaly insulted in the Shogun's palace by Kowloon. The police had him removed attractive than "David Garrick," and, as bricks, and huge clinkers came hurtling 11th instant, concluded with a great re-
to the hospital,
EXTENDING THE FRANCHISE IN
HUNGARY,
THE THEATRE ROYAL. "DAVID GARRICE." There are few plays new or old more
A message from Vienna states that the so ill-uatured courtier that he attacked
Eucharistic Congress which openɛd on the him with a dagger, inflicting some slight
was to bo, expected, one of the largest wounda.
audiences the Allan Wilkie Company has through the air, and thousands of com-ligious procession along the streets in For this momentary fit of anger
Among the latest cholora patients at yet had assembled Inat night to witness batants were engaged in the strife. Mon foudal lord was ordered to com- Shanghai are the Lady Mather Superior its performance for the first time, we fell bleeding, and several revolver shots the mit karakiri (suicide in a traditional but of the convent of the Sisters of St. Paul beliere, in Hongkong. The story, briefly
which the Emperor and the Imperial peculiarly revolting manner), and his bouse in the French Concession, Mr. J. D. told, is thus related:-Ada Ingot, the were fired. The spectators on the grand-
family participated, becanie extinct. His retainers, who thus Hughes, and Mr. R. Jones, of the local daughter of Alderman Ingot, a wealthy stand stood watching the affray spell became ronin-Samurai without a lord- / P. & O. office, Captain Jones of the Indo-East India merchant, visiting the play, bound. At first the police were powerless
socs and falls in love with David Garrick, the famous actor. ing her secret, and angered at her refusal they succeeded in separating the rioters. Her father discover to cope with the mob, but being reinforced to marry her cousin, a worthless, good- Ambulances were busy picking up the arian Parliament in June last Promier natured boor, enlists the help of Garrick himself, who promisca to attend a dinner wounded. No arrests were mado. The Party at Ingot's house and there, by his city was quiet in the evening, conduct, to destroy deliberately any girl- ish infatuation she may have for him. The evening arrives and Garrick discovers
LONDON, September 18th. in Ada, too late, the object of his own
Reuter's correspondent at Peking tele-mocratic character, which would give the affections, though undeclared and un-graphs that Sir John Jordan has inform. Socialists twenty to thirty seats. realised even by himself. But honour
A. S. WATSON Bribed in
& CO., LTD.,
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
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On September 10th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and MTH. B. H. DASTUR a daughter, On September 11th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. W. A. HOɛAN, a daughter. MARRIAGES.
On Saturday, at 11.30 a.m., at St. John's Cathedral, by the Rev. H. Copley Moyle, FLORENCE LAURA CORNELL, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Howell May to FREDERICK WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM EVERETT, of London, Eng- land.
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China Co, aud Mr. A. Ehlers.
A suspicious looking character who was found in the early hours of yestor day morning with an iron bar and some pepper in his possession was brought before Mr. Irving at the Magistracy yes- terray charged with being a rogue and vagabond, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.
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THE CHINESE LOAN.
THE PANAMA CANAL,
LONDON, September, 18th,
LONDON, September 16th. As an echo of the scenes in the Hung-
Lukacs has announced that he will gut- mit a bill providing measures for render- ing police intervention in Parliament unnecessary, He intimated that the franchise would be of a distinctly de
THE TOLL OF THE AIR.
LONDON, September 10th..
A Chicago message states that the aviators Mestache and Gill faced each other and collided at a height of 75 feet. They fell to the ground, and Gill waa
and his promise make him carry through ed China that Great Britain does not the sorry farce and with drunken laugh- favour the proposed loan with British plays the besotted reveller in Ingot's ter on his lips and sorrow in his heart he private banking intereste, house. Ada orders him to leave the house and acquaints her father with her will- ingness to wed with her cousin. Chance, howover, reveals to her her father's plot
A message from Washington reports killed. It will interest the many friends of and Garrick's true nature, and she flies
tows her, and witnessing unseen the Panama Canal will be opened for traffic to Garrick's room where her father fol- that it is officially stated that the actor's honourable conduct in advising her to return to her father and to forget in the Autumn of 1913. she has ever met him, is so impressed that coming his son-in-law. he asks Garrick to honour bini by be-
The caste was as follows: — David Garrick
Mr. Allan Wilkie Ingot Mr. F. Stafford Dawson Hon. Richard Chivvy... Mr. Philip Gordon
Mr. Stuart Fuller, formerly American Vice-Consul in Hongkong, to learn that he has been appointed to
vent the American Government in the matter of the suppression of the atrocities on the rubber estates in Putumayo and that his appointment has becu accepted by the British Government.
H.M.B. Minotaur, cruiser, flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir A. L. Winsloe, has, states the Nural and Military Record, retained the gunlayers' shield for the China Station, as the result of the heavy gunlayers' test for 1912, in which she made nine hits out of 16 rounds with the .2 in. guns. and thirty-eight hits out of fifty-eight rounds with the 7.5 in.
A BLEND OF THE FINEST PURE swore to revenge the death of their master, and when they had accomplished the death MALT SCOTCH WHISKIES. of their master's enemy, they all laid down their lives by harakiri, the custom of the day. This incident in history has formed For over 30 Years WATSON'S the theme of innumerable novels, essays and dramas, and its influence apou the has maintained the bangination of the nation is so real that "E"
scores of people still worship at the tombs reputation of the FINEST of these men. But though we still read A mean theft was committed at Ken
occasionally in the Japanese papers of nedytown on Sunday. While a Chinese SCOTCH WHISKY in the people committing harakiri, it is very rarely was bathing at that point a man came that the net is prompted by any motive along and stole his clothing on the bench FAR EAST.
differing from those common in all ¦ and made off, leaving him naked. The countries in cases of suicide. The voluu thief was captured and yesterday he was tary sacrifice of their lives by General committed to prison for one month and Noor and his wife Was inspired by
to be exhibited in the stocks for four motives with which modern Japan has hours. grown unfamiliar. General Noor is de Japanese counterpart of "Who's Who" 29"one of the most soldierly of soldiers, perhaps too strict sad. Spartan for this offeminate and finien? age." It is because the Western world has got some such impression of him from his exploits on the battlefield that it will and difficulty in reconciling the man with the dood he and his wife bave committed. General Noc was 64 years of age, and had spent a lifetime in military service. He fought in the Satsuma rebellion, where he was severely wounded in the leg, but stole out of the hospital at night time and joined his comrades in the fray! He took
prominent part, as a Major-General, in the capture of Port Arthur from the Chinese in 1904, and ten years later he took Port Arthur again, this time from the Russians, after a six months siege during which tens of thousands of lives were sacrificed. Among the dead were the faneral's two sons. When he returned from the war covered with glory and honour he became President of the Peers' School in Tokyo, and a recent Japanese writer has said: "It is touching to think of him in his old age-a childless old wan, looking with fatherly care after the children
In April last a British tourist lust a of others!" It is more touching still to gold ring set with diamonds in the think of him-as his countrymen ever will Hakone district. Later it was picked up think of him-as yielding up his life and by a lady tourist from Scotland, and sent that of his wife in the belief that he may be to the local police. The authorities, who able still to serve in the other world the forwarded the ring to its owner in Eng- EMPEROR whom he had faithfully served land, recently received from him a isitor for so many years in this. It is pathetic of thanks, and 10 yen as a reward. The and dramatic-and in that respect alone it Police, however, decline to accept the may be considered
*magnificent," ke money, and the British Consul-General REDTEE says it is regarded in Japan-but to Kencha to return it to the sender.
at Yokohama has been requested by the the Western world it eaunot be any hing but pitiful and amazing that a man of General How powerfully in Moders Japan the Noor's calibre should have sacrificed bis life imagination of
race is still influin these days of progress and enlightenment enced by mythology and ancient custom from motives so illogical and perverse, has been most strikingly exemplified in the awe-inspiring and imposing cere monies connected with the burial of the late monarch, than whose reign there has been none more distinguished and more glorious in the annals of the country. In nothing is this old-world influence more vividly shown than in the voluntar, sacrifico of their lives by the distinguished General Nog and hia wife in order that they belongings in the sinking of H.M.S. might follow their beloved EMPEROR into Waterwitch. admization the deed has evoked through- Dr. Sun Yat-sen dined at Peking on out Japan. In ancient days in Japan it the 11th inat, with Prince Pu Lan, the was the custom or the death of a member Manchu prince who was once nominated of the Imperial family to bury alive with heir to the Imperial throne, him his personal attendants and horses-to
On September 11th, at
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Shanghai ROBERT CAMPBELL AITEENHEAD, Engine HAMBAY, daughter of J. Allan. Esq., Manager, Oriental Ice Co., Shanghai.
On September 11th, at Weihaiwei, ERNEST EDWARD CLARK, to ELSIE, only daughter of the late JOHN WEIR MACLEOD, of Hillhead, Glasgow.
C.M.S.N. Co., to JEAN MACPHERSON
DEATH.
On September 11th, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, SYDNEY REID LEM PRIELE (Messre. Geo. McBain & Co.), aged
years.
Hongkong Ornies: 101, DER VEUX ROAD C. LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLEET STREET, E.C.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, EXPTEMBER 17TH, 1912.
the
the other world," as
well as in the
The English mail of the 17th August was delivered in London on the 14th inst. suffering from injuries through being A Chinese was admitted to hospital knocked down by a tram-car at Gresson Street.
The Singapore Free Press has opened a fund in aid of those who lost all their
A Chinese from the s.s. Fatehan who bad gone ashore to procure a $100 bank note for a friend was carrying it in a behind and snatched it from his grasp paper in his hand when a man came Fortunately a district watchman saw what happened and giving chase cup- tared the thief, who was, at the Magis tracy yesterday, sentenced by Mr. Me bourne to one month's imprisonment and four hours in the stocks.
Mr. Atkinson, solicitor, of Bangkok (formerly of Hongkong), had a narrow escape from being bitten by a snake at Suphanburi recently, He was visiting a temple, outside the gates of which are two large stone lions. Mr. Atkinson put his hand inside the month of one of the lions with the idea of moving the ball
astonished to see a snake's head dart out, which is placed therein, and just missing his finger. On examination the snake was found to be of a particu- larly venomous nature.
WAS
Alderman
THE STRANDED CRUISER.
LONDON, September 16th. The British cruiser Talbot, which went shore in the Suez Canal, was towed off Mr. Tatfallow
Mr. J. Lemaire after being lightoned 150 tons, Mr. Grabshaw Mr. Sibley Hicks Mr. Snilkins...********* Mr. Rex Barrington Mr. G. F. Weir Lugot's Servant ............. Miss Tabitha Crabshaw...Miss Vere Crichton Garrick's Servant Mr. S. Norman Mrs. Tatfallow Miss G. Littlewood Ada Ingot
Miss F. Hunter-Watta The play was roost admirably staged,
EARTHQUAKE AT CONSTAN-
TINOPLE.
LONDON, September 10th.
A message from Constantinople states
LINKING UP AUSTRALIA.
ני
HOM THE "MANILA TIMES." NEW YORK STATE CONVENTION,
SYRACUSE, September 8th. Oscar Straps, former Secretary of Commerce and Labour, and former Min- ister to Constantinople, was chosen as the Progressive candidate for Governor at. the State Convention in aession here to day. The nomination was made by clamation
DEATH OF GENERAL M'ARTHUR,
MILWAUKEE, September 8th Lieut. General Arthur MacArthur, retired, died here to-day from the affects of a stroke of apoplexy. He was stricken yesterday while attending a reunion of his old command, the 24th Wisconsin, with which he served through the Civil war, and passed away to-day. He had
as a great shock to his family and comrades.
The veterans wore to have hold a banquet last night, but because of their stricken comrade abandoned the plan and all other entertainment.
and the acting of one and all so exceed that four slight earthquake sbooks were ingly good that the players received an experienced yesterday morning within ovation after every act. Mr. Wilkie simulated the drunkard, and the churl at seconds. The population was panic-been in good health and his death came the supper given by the Alderman, with stricken, and many families camped in great success, and nothing could have boun more mirth-provoking than Mr. the open all night long.
whom her father had wished to see her Philip Gordon's impersonation of the Hon. Richard Chivvy, Ada's cousin, to married, Miss Hunter-Watts has so dis tinguished herself in all the plays the
LONDON, September 18th. Company has staged that it will go with telegraphs that Lori Denman,
Router's correspondent at Adelaide
of Ada could not have been in more ernor-General of Australia, turned the out the saying that the important part
Gov capable hands. Mr. F. Stafford Dawson first sod in the construction of the rail- took the part of Alderman Ingot and
[General MacArthur is best known to his countrymen because of his service in the Philippines, although his record is a long achusetts, he was reared in Milwaukee, and distinguished one. Born in MAS
Ho served to the close of the war in the
and entered the Civil war as a lieutenant.
cd the performance from beginning to took it well. The house thoroughly enjoy way between Port Augusta and Kal-24th Wisconsin and roso to be ite lieutenant end.
THE NEW YORK GAMBLING "
SCANDAL
goorlie. The King sent a message er To-night, Bernard Shaw's "Candida."phasising the importance of this great
OSCAR WILDE'S PLAYS.
national enterprise, and telegraphed his congratulations. SALOME" AND "A FLORENTINE TRAGEDY." The Allan Wilkie Company, as already announced, is to-morrow night producing two plays by Oscar Wilda at the Theatre Royal. The better known of the two,
LONDON, September 18th. "Salome," in its original French may Reuter's correspondent at New York fairly be regarded as the most audacious and successful exercise by an English telegraphs that the arrest of "Gyp the dramatist in any foreign language, and Blood" and "Lefty Louia" reads like a the English version, the work of a friend detective romance. The wives of the men and fellow-poet, preserves most of the strange beauty of its phrasing. What is were persistently shadowed and the tele- most wonderful in the play and what roraains longest in the memory after cer- phone wires wore tapped by the police. Gautier and Baudelaire, is the sinister cented in & room over a cinematograph atmosphere evoked with supreme cunning tain verbal pictures, surpassed only by Indications pointed to the men being con
by the simple dialogas at the beginning. show. The police smashed the door and The theme is, of course, biblical, and the
is drawn very largely from Holy Writ language, condemned by soi-disant critics entering with drawn revolvers found the as the diseased language of decadence,"
wanted men taking tea with their wives.
GERMAN SOCIALISTS.
LONDON, September 16th. A message from Chemnitz reports that
With reference to the charge plagiar- They surrendered without resistance. iam brought against "Salome" and its author, mention may be made of a per- Mr. 8. R. Lempriers, of Shanghai, who complained to him one day that someone sonal recollection of Robert Boss Wilde sustained an injury in the polo fald on in a well-known novel had stolen an iden August 10th, died at the General Hospital of his. He pleaded in defence of the last week. The immediate cause of death culprit that Wilde himself was a fearless the Social Democratic Congress was literary thief. "My dear Robbie," he
AMERICAN SHOOTING.
was pneumonia, following upon an in-said, with his usual drawling emphasis, opened in the presence of 600 delegates. jury to the spine. On the afternoon of when the accident a match had concladed and wonderful petals in someone else's garden, in the discussion.
see a monstrous tulip with four The dearness of food figures prominently some scratch chukkas were being played. I am impelled to grow a monstrous tulip Fourteen mon were charged at the Two paies collided, and the force of gied his grave, as the waying was, with a Magistracy yesterday with bathing and the impact caused Mr. Lepriere to lose with only three petala" That was Oscar with fire wonderful petals, but that is no reason why someone should grow a tulip living hedge. Mr. J. R. Loseroan is his trespassing in a mallah near the Univer-his seat. He attempted to recover, but Wilde. "Salome" will be played by Miss
LONDON, September 16th. Story of Old Japan" quotes the record of sity, and were fined $1 each, the alterna at the same moment his pony roared and Hunter-Watts, while Herod, in the hands Reuter's correspondent at Ottawa wires a funeral of the brother of an Emperor | tivo boing, five daze in prison.
Mr. Lempriore was thrown heavily to the of Mr. Allan Wilkie, should be a per- who died in the year 2 ac. - Following the
A Florentine that America won the Talma Trophy ground.
formance of interest. He was at once conveyed to Tragedy," which precedes "Salome," is a the Nursing Home, being afterwards re-
with a score of 1720, Canada's score being one-act play, totally different in concep- moved to the General Hospital, but from tion, but of wonderful beauty of dramatis 1712. Both scores are world's records for the first his condition was seen to be strength, so the play-goers of Hongkong ifteen shots at 900, 900, and 1,000 yards extremely grave.
may anticipate an evening of no ordinary
for teams of eight, interest.
Only one case of plagas was reported old custom "his attendants were as in the Colony of Hongkong last week, sembled and were all buried alive, but there were seven cases of enteric fever, opright, in the precincts of the tomb. five proving fatal. There was one case For several days they died not, but wept and of diphtheria and one of small-pox.
colonel. At the close of the war he was appointed to the regular army, in which ho had varied service until the outbreak of hostilities with Spain. He came to the Philippines in the summer of 1898 and com- manded the first brigade of the first division in the advance ou Manila, In the subsequent insurrection he directed the northern advance, later assuming the som- mand of the department of northern Luzon. Be relieved General Otis in May, 1900, as military governor and ecamander of the division and held the command for fourteen months. He entered the war a
brigadier general of volunteers and emerged from it a brigadier of regulars. Subso quently he was made a major and then a lieutenant gonoral. Bis last important duty was as special attaché to Japan during the war with Russia, He woo a medal of honour for gallantry at Missionary Ridge.]
INTERPORT CRICKET.
We are otioially informed that the Straits and Shanghai interpart cricket teams will arrive here on the 7th Novam ber next and that the matches will begin on the following Monday, the 11th.
TYPHOON WARNING.
The telegram quoted below was receiv. ed at the American Cansulate General, Hongkong, from the Manila Observatory at 11 am, yesterday:
Cyclone or Typhoon E. of Bashi Chan- nel moving N.W.
Cyclone or Typhoon near or ever Guam moving W. or W.N.W.
H.M.S. WATERWITCH “· RE-FLOATED.
The work of raising the Waterwitch was successfully completed at Singapore on the 10th. Having got the vessel on an even keel two days previously the workers, during low tides, patched up the hole in The pumps were then applied. As the her side with mats and wood and canvas. load of water got lighter the vessel gradually rose until she was at her
She has been towed t normal level. Tanjong Pagar for survey and repairs.