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and materials from abroad. Probably the only Chinese industrial institution that was,
Wo are asked to stato that the first meeting of the Hongkong Christiau
ARMED ROBBERY IN THE CITY, Gilman Street was the scene of a daring
in the latter days of the Manchu Empire, Union for the season will take place armed robbery carly on Saturday morn- capable of ontering into serious competition, oven in China, with the outer world, was the Hanyang Iron Works, and it is signifi. cant that a Shelfield firm found this very institution one of its best customers, and His Excellency the Governor (Sir looked for increasing purchases as the out- Henry May, K.C.M.G.) went to Macao put from Hanyang increased. The last ten by the Swi Tai on Saturday afternoon to years of the Ch'ing dynasty, may well call upon H.E the Acting Governor of mark the dawn of moderu industrial- the Colony, the occasion being the ism in China. Railways wars pushed-anniversary of the Portuguese Republic.
morning.
at St. Paul's College at 5.30 this evening. Rev. H. R. Wells, who leaves the Colony, ng, gang of six men, holding up the on the 8th inst, has kindly consented to
tenants of a house and departing with conduct the meeting,
money and property valued at over 91,000
TELEGRAMS. TEEG RL;A MS.
(THROUGH BEWTER'S AGENÖY.] TURCO-ITALIAN WAR.
PEACE AT LAST,
LONDON, October 5th. Reuter's Paris correspondent states that authoritativo information has been
the
[THROUGH HAVTRY AGENCY.}
A NOTABLE CONFERENCE.
Reuter's correspondent at Paris wires that MM. Sazonoff and Poincare had two hours' conference, the Bulgarian, Greck and Sergion Ministers successively attending
FIGHTING ON THE MONTENEGRIN FRONTIER. It is reported that hostilities—brave
As they entered the flat the robbers flourished knives, and threatened the occupants if they made a noise. Ono youth after being slashed on the hand was bound, while the other residents were received from Constantinople to apparently too greatly paralysed with effect that the Cabinet pesterday decided robbers were leaving the house with their termination of the war, booty the inmates found their voices and His Excellency the Governor has pro- used them lustily. A fireman heard their preliminaries are to be signed upon the vided himself with a motor-car. Consecries, and saw the burglars hurrying arrival at Ouchy of a special omissary, quently the picturesque processions of the away, but before he could do anything who was to leave Constantinople on scarlot-coated chair coolies to which we they boarded assampan and escaped. have been accustomed when the Governor
Friday afternoon. moves about the Colony are likely to be less often seen in the streets, on the lower levels at least.
forward vigorously in ali directions, and uo Sir Henry returns to Hongkong this fear to offer any resistance. As the to accept the last Italian proposals for egun on the Montenegrin, frontier, the
ARMED BURGLAR ON BOWEN ROAD.
The residence of Mr..J. Ross, overseer
province was left out of the scheme of lines in axistance and to be; almost every important city in the Empire had an electric light system; many towns established water- works-a doubtful boon when the pipes were laid in open sewers and jointed with pitch and tow, as happened in Faking; numerous mints and arsenals were set up. It may be remarked, however, that in some cases these were official monopolies, while. An extract of meteorological observa- in others they were supported partly from tions made at the Royal Observatory, in the Public Works Department, was official funds and partly from share capital, Hongkong, during the month of Septem- visited by burglars on Friday night, and while the mints and arsenals were, of course, ber shows the average maximum tem-at least one of the gang of three was purely government institutious. Another porature in that period to have been 85.5, armed. The home of Mr. Ross is near feature deserving of passing notice is the the mean 78.6, and the minimum 75.5
the Bowen Road filter beds, an out-of- crass stupidity and utter incapacity exhibit-degrees. The rainfall for the month was ed in the running of those list establish- 3.880 inchce, and we had 220.5 hours of iments. Quantities of expensive machinery sunshine were importe, coatly buildings were erected, and then the management of the institution wasentrusted to some unemployed BRAND toolar, whose knowledge of machinery and
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The peace Turks repulsing the Montenegrins at
Berana.
LATER.
of
Scenes of enthusiasm were witnessed in
Sofia and Belgrade at the opening of the special sessions of the Sobranjo (Bul garian Parliament) and the Skupstina (Servian Parliament), both monarchs making warlike speeches,
WARLIKE SPRECHER. War prepartions are being carried on
Thi
The reports from Turkish sources the practical conclusion of peace continue to be denied, in Rome. The semi-official
the continued Turkish tergiversations has Tribune declares that: Italy in view of
fixed the exact date for Turkey's accept most actively in Constantinople. ance or refusal of the Italian conditions.streets are-full of reservists headed by the way and quiet place where the delegates, Signor Bertolini towards Italy fornier ministers Pasha Talaat and The departure from Ouchy of the peace bands hastening to join the colours. The burglars probably anticipated no dis-and Pasha Reshid towards Turkey is Pasha Djayid, both "Young Turks, turbance. Mr. Ross, who had been believed; however, to indicate that peace lave volunteered for the front, though spending the evening out, returned home The Ministering Children's League shortly after midnight, and after he had is imminent.
they have paid exemption taxes Bazaar is to be held in the Volunteer gone to bed he heard an unusual noise
The Sultan in a speech to demonstra- Parade Ground on Saturday, October downstairs! Thinking that someone
It is believed that the peace negotiators said that God would not allow the The Management of the Bijou might be tampering with the filters, he tions between Italy, and Turkey terminat Fatherland to be trampled under foot. Joth. Sacred Books. The staff under this captansara, Pathe Freres, have kindly offered no one was in sight. Returning to the and it is expected that it will be definite- Scenic Theatre, in conjunction with went out to see, but all was quiet, and
ed in a practical agreement on Saturday, TÜAKEY'S RESOLUTE · ATTITUDE. of industry would consist of some youths their services. ALE who had studied chemistry and engineering there will be a Cinematograph Entertain-to
During the afternoon, house, he went to bed again only
That war is cortain appears to be bo again disturbed by a fall ofly arranged on Wednesday.
indicated by despatches from Constan in Japán, and the establishment would be
ment as well as a children's play entitled, glass. Rushing downstairs, he found
The Journal Geneve says that it estabtinople declaring that the Porte in resolve 7. fortunate if it also possessed one or two Bnow White and the Beren Little three men helping themselves to his lishes absolute Italian sovereignty over ed to submit to nothing but the armed foreiga foremen who could stay the course of Dwarfs."
silverware in the dining room, but Tripoli without Turkey formally reintervention of the Powers, and to listen ruin. The efficiency of come of these
they jumped through the window before` Mr. J. W. Jamieson, C.M.G., British he could capture any of them, and one
cognising it, the restoration of the to na proposals for reform nor to reduc arsenals needs no more telling illustration than the wooden bullets supplied to the Consul General at. Canton, in a letter to of the robbers clung to the silverware Aegean Isles to Turkey, and the liquida- her forces till the Confederacy deine troops fighting at Hankow a year ago.
the British merchants at that city on the which had been secured. As the men tion by Italy of the Ottoman debt, rela- Chinese official management proved as fatal subject of advancing money on railways, cleared the window. Mr. Ross heard two tive to Tripoli Otherwise neither belli. in the arsenals as anywhere, and corruption notifies those interested that the Re-shots fired, and then the yelp of one of
gerent pays muy indemnity. publican Board of Foreign Affairs hus his dogs. It would appear, therefore : and peculation, coupled wall ignorance, intimated to His Majesty's Minister that that his bulldogs, or one of them, had would soon have proved fatal to the equipo foreign luan nor mortgage in respect attempted to stay the robbers, and that ment had there been no foreign supervision of mining property can be recognised as There is another point in connection with valid unless the transaction has received the dawn in China of the age of machinery the previous assent of the Central that calls for attention and that will become Government- more important as the Republic presses on with the work commenced under the old
The steamer Rubi is new commanded by a new skipper, Captain James Miller régime, These arsenals, minta, electric
of the quartermaster's department, and light works, and so forth need expansive
AS SOON as the Zafiro reaches Manila and extensive plant, and it is to be feared Captain Smith will be relieved of his that in the past the lion's share of command by Captain F. K. Cross, now the orders for it has gone not to chief officer of the Rizal. Due to con- Great Britain, but to Germany This siderations of a strictly private nature, is a state of affairs that calls for some Captains Crosby and Smith have tendered heart-searching among British firms, the their resignation, which has been accept more so as the next few years will probably ed by the managers of the Philippine see a much greater market för machinery in Steamship Company Ching as she settles down after the upheaval of the last twelve months-indeed, we are promised as much in the joint statement of policy just issued by the President, Dr SUN, and Vice-President L.
There are doubtless many factors that contribute to this preponderance of Gorman machinery, but no one will adout that the preponder-
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THE ACTION. OF THE POWERS. The Forte on Friday circularised the THE WAR CLOUD.
Powers saying that, as it anticipated, the vigorous representations of the Powers to STEAMER COMMANDERRED IN NEW YORK,
the Confederacy have not had the desired LONDON, October 5th.
offect, The Porte is of opinion that the Router's New York correspondent tele- popular excituent in these States tan
the shots had bean fired with the inten- tion of shooting them. Without loss of time Mr. Ross ran upstairs, and securing his shotgun was just in time to see a robber vanishing round the corner of his graphs that the steamer Macedonia on only be subdued by forcible measures on house. This man was carrying the booty,
the point of sailing for the Piraeus was the part of the Powers The Ottonian hut as he received the charge of shot he commandecred by the Greek Consul. The people and Army have hoon exasperated- gave a yell of pain, dropped his load passengers and luggage woestanded. The by years of criminal agitation and are and quickly disapposred. property was worth about 2200, but most
The stolen vessel will proceed to Philadelphia for a of it has been recovered. The police have cargo of ammunition and then return to situation therefore is most grave. If the ready to accept the latest challenge. The
the matter in hand, but so far no arrests
New York to embark reservists. have been made. The robbers gained estimated that 100,000 subjects belonging forcible measures, hostilities may b
It is Powers are too long in agreeing to adopt. access to the house by cutting a pan of to the Confederacy are in the United procipated before intervention can glass in a window, which enabled them to States available for service. unlock the sash.
LATER. effected. The Porto, therefore, urges the
ESCAPE OF THE PEAK BURGLAR FROM GAOL,
bo
The Macedonia left New York for the Powers to meet the danger without a Piraeus with munitions and 100 reservists moment's delay. aboard. Another steamer followed with 1,000 on board, and a third sails on Mon- ray with 700
ROUMANIA'S POSITION.,
THE SITUATION AT BÀMÓR: -
Austria's reply is still awaited in Paris, but it is expected to be favourable to the action on which the other Powers, on-tie-intiative-of-Great-Britain, have
A sensation was created in the Colony ter ship will proceed some time nest on Saturday when it became known that ponti to Colombo-wliere-she-will be re-the Chinese burglary who has been- commissioned for a further period of ser-responsible for most of the burglaries Router's Bakharest correspondent has decided, namely, strong Austro-Russian vice on the China station. The New which have been committed this summer telegraphed a denial that the Roumanian repressentations to the Balkan States ance is inevitable. Ceteris paribus, British castle was commissioned in September on the Peak, had succeded in escaping army has mobilised, and states that it and afterwards collective action at Con- machinery should find as ready a market in 1910. By the time the officers, and crew from Victoria Gaol This appears to be is just commencing manouvres. The tantinople with a view to the Powers China as German what is the cause, then, arrive home they will thas, have been the second time in his life that the man of the balance shifting over so decisively to away a little over two years.
Las cacaped. On the first occasion, two or
Haumanian Government is watching undertaking the reforms in Macedonia, three years ago, he managed to elude the events, and on the second instant dis- It is hoped the first step will be taken' Before Mr. Melbourne at the Magiswarders and reach the bridge which patched two torpedo boat destroyers to to-day, or Monday at the latest, not certain, canse is the much more caer tracy on Saturday a Chinese was charged connects the gaol with the police com Greuce. getic way in which the German dealers in with obtaining money by false pretences. pound. He went into the lukongs machinery and engineering requisities in Mr. H. D. Haynor, of Messrs. Clark & quarters, and while the men there China push their wares. Some of the Co, who prosecuted, stated that de- slumbered and slept, he quickly ex- One of the noteworthy features that have methods adopted may be altogether fendant was formerly in the employ of changed his convict dress for béau observable in China during the last one foreign to British mercantile proced urs,
that company.
• lukong's Since his dismissal he private clothes and passed out of the or two decades has been the utter reversal of but this cannot be said of the employ-had been collecting money owing to the police station unchallenged. the attitude of the ruling classes towards tuent of agents travelling constantly company and converting same to his own On the present occasion his method has foreign inventions and machinery. It is not through all parts of the interior, which.. His Worship sent the defendant to been to pick a hole in the wall of his so long ago that official support was gives the German firm a priority in many a geol for one month with hard labour, cell. As the wall, we understand, is of accorded to the view that there was some cuntmet that would otherwise be submitted and ordered him to be exposed in the brick and not less than two feet thick, it
for tender on level torms to all. The man
must have taken him some considerable thing diabolical about such contrivances and that they owed their efficacy to some on the spot can always gain an advantage, On Saturday wórning a soldier of the time to make a hole large enough to get sort of unclean magie necessitating so the ad the differences between tendered prices KO.Y.L.I. entered the jeweller shop of through, though it may here be said that
HONGKONG, OCTOBER 7TH, 1912.
stocks for four hours.
SPEECH BY MR. ASQUITH.
The Porte has withdrawn the Turkish
LONDON, October 6th. troops from Samos.
Mr. Asquith, speaking at Ladybank, The difficulty of the European
steam said it was a long time since the inter- roller" in getting to work is evidenced by national horizon had been so threatening the inspired statement issued from Paris as it was at present. Still, he had nob on Friday evening which, though, conched lost all hope. It would be an unspeak
reassuring terms and declaring that the Powers. had agreed with a view to pacific intervention in the Balkans, admits that. Austria has not yet notified
sble calamity if war is not averted. The Powers, were co-operating carefully and loyally to maintain peace,
HOME RULE,
tale went in the case of one railway-human are now often so small that this advantage Messra, Vang, Hing & Co., Queen's the prisoner is a "slim" fellow in were adhesion. M. Poincare, seconded by the mistake they made regarding the
surprise.
bayonet
out before
the
Mr. Asquith reminded the Tories of sacrifices. It was a considerable advance having been gained by the ferman firm, it Road Central, shoved his
respect. He appears to have made his from this attituds to the policy of passive will suffice to turn the scale in their favour. through a glass the case, extracted a escape just before dawn on Saturday the Cabinets of London and Berlin, has budget of 1909.
morning, somewhere about the time been striving from the first to smooth verge of a capital mistake and he would They were now on the resistance that was prevalent a for years Expert travelling agents visiting the watch and walked ago; and a still greater advance is evident important towns in the interior of Chingastonished fukis had recovered from their when the prison guard is changed, and
Austro-Russian In Peddar Street he met ait seems probable that ones out of his
divergences, but the warn them again. Needless to say he when we find, as is the case to-day, the would, we are convinced, bring to British constable, and surprised that officer, by cell he took the way of escape which ha reports of the progress of Bulgarian referred to the Ulster question. Neither railway, electric light, telephone, and other firms their fair share of the orders that now asking to be locked up as he had stolen first occasion, though we cannot learn
followed with complete success on the mobilisation excitement is regarded as a he nor his colleagues had ever underrated foreign improvements in the remotest parts go to Germany.
Rwatch, Producing the timepiece as that on this occasion he again stole
serious symptom.
the importance nor of China. This avolution, it is perhaps
proof, the constable complied with his lukong's pricate clothes. If he did-
ever spoke, but respectfully, of the motives inspiring the not change his clothes within the pre- unnecessary to note, had taken place long
request, and the soldier was taken to thecincts of the prison, he no doubt did se Contral Police Station..
rank and file opposing Home Rule before the advent of the Republic; it does
before he got far away, and some Chinese-
Apprehensions, however, wers ill-founded not imply that there was any desire to buy
must be finding himself one suit short, the machines and apparatus necessary from
We need hardly add that public
and the safeguards were adequate and opinion is, strong in its condemnation the foreigner, but rather the contrary- there was ever present the thought that though these advantages of modern civilizu tion must be admitted and need, it was by
HE. the Governor has been pleased to to be kis aide-de-camp. appoint Lieutenant J. Wyley, K.OYLL,
On the 1st inst., 37 cases of cholera were reported in Tokio and 700 through out the whole of Japan.
Saturday last being the second anniver sary of the Republic of Portugal, Mr. J. J. Leiria, Consul for Portugal, held an "At-Home" at the Consulate in Wyndham Street, and received many callers representative of the official and
TROOPS MOVING TOWARDS FRONTIER.
LONDON, October 6th. Reports of scenes of patriotic fervour on the departure of the troops towards the frontier are coming in from all the
Continuing,
the Premier said the
of the prison authorities, and demands Eastern capitals, while slow and dificult, ample. a searching inquiry into the circum- movements of diplomacy amidst conflict- stances of this escape from gaol-howing interests and suspicions are recorded Unionists' claim was a negation of the the man came to be provided with the from Paris and elsewhere. tool which enabled him to pick a large hole through a two-foot brick wall,, and.
rout principle of democratic government. GEEAT BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE..
objectionable laws was no monopoly of Telegrams from Berlin and Paris men- The repugnance to obey inconvenient ands
out of consideration for Turkey from the the Ulster Protestants. the long- collective action of the Powers.
cherished aspirations of four-fifths of the Irishmen were not granted, they might turn round and say, "We will take the
Government's intention to place Home law into our own hands." It was the
Mr. E. Hall has been appointed a no means essential that they should be lieutenant in the Engineer Company of civil community. H.E. the Governor how it was that this operation, which must mado abroad--China was looking forward the Hongkong Volunteers with effect from and Colonel, St. John, the Officer Com-have extended over a considerable time, tion that Great Britain is hanging back to the day when she would be able to fight the Bath ultimo.
manding the Troopa, were represented by was not detected and frustrated.
The man had just entered upon a the foreigner with his own weapons in the
their A.D.C's. The Club Lusitano gave a sentence of twelve months' hard labour wercantile arena. There was not, however, Sir Claude Macdonald, British Am-ball in the evening, for which an Indian for returning from banishment, and was nor is there now, any sign that this bassador in Japan, and his Japanese military band was engaged. The "Liga to have been brought up at the Criminal eventuality need be expected for some time Secretary, Mr. E. M. Hobart-Hampden,
Portuguesa and the Sessions next week on several charges of yet, but what did happen was that-this will leave for Home on the 13th instant. Affonso Costa" held a dinner at the head-and is stated to have served six and a He is a hardened criminal activity led to large purchases of machinery left on the 3rd.
Mr. D. Crackanthorpe, First Secretary, quarters of the Liga, a band from the half out of the last ten years in Victoria
K.O.Y.L.I. being in attendance.
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Centro Republicans Democratico Dr. burglary, Republicana
GROL.
ACTIVITY IN AUSTELAN NAVY,
Constantinople despatches from Vienna in the Austrian navy, which is preparing record the fact that there is much activity
for emergencies.
Rule on the Statute book.