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A reward of 8500 is being offered by TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
the police for the captairs, or for infor- mation that will lead to the capture of the escaped burglar:
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGITUR.]
THE WAR CLOUD.
LONDON, October 8th. A telegram from Paris states that Britain's reply to Austria's modification has been received, and the Powers are
how in complete agreement.
BRITAIN'S REPLY.
(THROUGH BRUTER'S ACROY.]
-BRITISH PARLIAMENT....
RE-ASSEMBLING OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
STATEMENTS ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND
HOME RULE,
LONDON, October 8th.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
AUSTRALIA AND THE
GENERAL.
AN EVICTION,"
OVERNOR-
LONDON, October 8th, Lord Denham received a great ovation. on leaving for Melbourne, owing to the The House of Commons re-assombled New South Wales Government having on Tuesday, when there was a large appropriated Government House for
attendance.
!
administrative purposen.. The route to lined by cheering
Bir Edward Grey, replying to Mr. the station Bonar Law, said at present, he could only make a statement of a general character.
crowds...
| Government to be roused,to a proper sense of duty in this matter? The fact that the solution of the problem will involve a large expenditure of money is no reason for refusing to consider it, with some determinal was estimated two or three years ago tion to discover ways and means of west-
that China consumed over twenty million ing the problem, or at least seeking mean- cigarettes each day. The number used while some temporary expedient. But to
now is very much larger, and Mr. E. W. continue blinking facts, to tolerate a condi- Thing says it costs the Chinese people tion of affairs which is nothing short of over thirty million dollars a year for this disgraceful, is to bring reproach upon the one item of cigarette smoking! fair name of Hongkong and to lower the dignity of the administration. Haring staled
CONCERT IN THE THEATRE,
Reuter's correspondent at Paris wires the situation ns i exists at present, we come now to a consideration of the remedy.
The MacWatters Male Quartette of that in conveying to M. Poincare the Victoria Gaol is not a modern prison. It Boston, who are on a world tour, gave British assent, Sir Francis Berbio leaves much to be desired in its construction, a concert in the Theatre Royal last night indicated the preference of the Foreign the building not being designed to facilitate in the presence of a rather meagre audi- Office for individual rather than colloc supervision and administration. Moreover.ence. The quartette have very pleasing tive representations on the ground that As the House was aware, a very critical
The Lord Mayor in 3.0 address its location is particularly open to objection, voices, but their selection of songs leaves the latter, being unusual, have the aspect being overlooked by adjoining houses, something to be desired, and had their
state of affairs existed in the Balkona, expressed indignation, and said that the which gives opportunity of communication repertoire of songs been of a higher order of a threat which ought to be avoided.
arousing the greatest apprehension, and circumstances of the departure were an being established from outside the Goal with last night's programme would have The point has apparently been conced-the Powers were taking what steps they unparalleled outrage in national hos- the prisoners, while a calculation of the space been more successful. It included edna the Temps regrets that action could to prevent a breach of the pesca.pitality. STO] per prisoner compared with Home gaols several excellent numbers, the readings is to be concerted instead of collective. They especially expressed_strong_dia- !
would further show how unsuited the and the humouresque songs being particu-since in the course of isolated con approval of a breach of the pence, as well building is according to modern prison larly good, but the arrangement of
LONDON, October 8th. The points of view tending to diminish thein European Turkey. This had already The increases in imports during the be well advised to leave alone.
been admitted by Turkey, and the past month amounted to £9,605,233 and second part of the entertainment was a authority of the advico gizon. decided improvement on the first, and Reuter learns that instead of Great
application of effective reforms ought to the exports to £0,385,216. the rendering of the Greeting to Britain delaying her answer to the pro- joyable feature was the readings con- tributed by Mr. Thutmas, who hold the the Balkans, Sir Edward Gray answered audience in rours of laughter.
BRAND
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requirements. The report of the Superin. "Annie Laurie" is one which they would versations. Turkey inay find divergent as the need for the realisation of reforms
tendent of the Prison for 1911 shows that the average daily number of prisoners in Victoria Gaol was 595, but that number has
BRITISH-TRADE RETURNS.
Decreases in
considerably increased this year, being now Spring" was most artistic. A most en-posals with regard to European action insecure Turkey in the peaceful possession imports were in cotton amounting in
we believe, somewhere in the neighbourhood of 750. The extent of the accommodation is not mentioned in the last Report, but the information is given in the reply made by BRAND the COLONIAL SECRETARY to the question asked by the Hon. Mr. MURRAY STawart. at the meeting of the Legislative Council in August last. He said that in the LIGHT ALE previous month (July) there were 786 prisoners with only accommodation in calls for 626, and it had become necessary to put three prisoners in many of the cells de signed for one. This tends to confirm the urgency of the recommendation, which His EXCELLENCY wade eleven years ago when he was Superintendent of the Gaol, that
IN PINTS AND SPLITS.
- ŠOLE ACANTO :
FOREIGNERS AND PASSPORTS,
With reference to the paragraph which
under this heading, a copy of the form
with the greatest promptitude. He only received the proposals on Saturday and Sunday, and accepted forthwith.
BRITISK PRECAUTIONS,
A Malta telegram announces
the
ppeared in yesterday's Daily Press arrival of the cruisers Cape of Good of permit issued by the Commissioner of Hope, Yarmouth, Hampshire and Wey: Customs at Kowloon has been kindly sent to us, which we append: PROVISIONAL PERMIT TO CABBY ARMS PAST
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FRONTIER STATION.
Valid for....days. Special permission is hereby gmnted to Mr.
mouth. The cruiser Barham and the Mediterranean flotilla of destroyers are expected on Friday.
REFORMS TO BE CARRIED OUT. Router's correspondent at Constanti-
M. SAZONOFF.
of her provinces in Europe. The diffi£24,005, and the increases were prins culty was for Turkey to proceed with the cipally timber, iron, steel, silk and wool. The chief increases in exports were reforms in the face of the mobilization în the Balkan. States and at the same time machinery, iron, steal, cotton and woo
manufactures. to convince the States that the reforms would be effective, securing the welfare of the Macedonians. Definite proposals were made yesterday for collective steps by the Powers to overcome these difficulties by representations to the States and to Constantinople, and Britain agreed to these, as there was the strongest desire A STORY OF THE LATE GENERAL between the Powers to see peace pre- served. Ha trusted this would guarante
the building of a new prison for convicts to pass Shamehua Frontier Station with 1 nople wires that a local agency learns that if peace were broken none of the
should receive carly consideration." Doubt-
from an official source that the Porte has
A. S. WATSON este mendation did not pass un-ission to shout, which can only be granted resolved to apply to the European
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The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, OUTOBBE 9тa, 1912.
vilayets the reforms contained in the
Powers would be involved in war, (Chsers.)
LONDON, October. sth. A message from Paris stater that. M. Sazonoff has left for Berlin.
NOGI,
DISSUADED FROM SUICIDE BY THE LATE, EMPEROS.
abet gua and ammunition, z
This permit does not carry with it per
An interesting story is told, says the Japan Advertiser, about the death of by the Territorial Authorities."
Attention is drawn to the fact that pass-
Sir Edward Grey, answering a ques-General Nogi by a certain Baron who has ports, obtainable through the Consular Vilayets Law claborated in 1889 by the. Authorities, are liable to be called for: Ottoman delegates in agreement with tion as to whether, if the present action a post at Court, and who says it was told This permit must be surrendered at bosd the International Eastern Rumelia Com. f failed, the Powers would have recourse to to him directly by the late General Baron The Hague, said he would rather not con- Okazawa, former chief Aide de Camp to
the late Emperor, template failure. If, however, they
office on expiration.
Leeded, but the project for a convict settle ment in the vicinity of Kowloon City may have been swamped by the railway under- taking and its large financial demands upon the Colony. With the passing of the years
Inasmuch as the Treaty of 1887 between the need for a penal establishment has not Portugal-and China expressly states that become less but rather greator, aid at no passport need be applied for by per- prosent it is particularly clamant. The cons-going-on excursions from the ports smallest scheme which could be contemplat open to trade to a distance not cost ed should provide for 400 cells, and if a ing 100 l, and for a period not exceed building capable of providing that accoming five days"; and inasmuch as by the modation were erected somewhere on the most favoured nation clause in the Tres- Kowloon. Peninsula, perhaps in the New ties this privilege extends to the na- Territory, it would meet the case, leaving tionals of all Powers having Treaties the presont gaol free for the reception with China, we confess we are unable to of short-asntenco prisoners. Moreover, understand why passports are liable ground could be enclosed for growing to be called for." sufficient vegetables, to supply the require- ments of the prison, thus providing useful occupation for prisoners not at present open to them. In this connection it might be as well to point out that in the last report of the Superintendent of the Gaol it was shown that 105-male-prisonora had been kept at work with crank, shot, and shot and stone, a forin of unproductive labour not now approved at Home. Agaio, in a convict establishment, such as suggested, convicts round. could be isolated, an arrangement which
GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.
The draw took place at the Club House, Happy Valley, on Saturday evening and resulted as follows:-
mission with a riew to carrying out the reforms provided by Article 23 of the. Treaty of Berlin. The law, which was thus approved by the Powers, has since slumbered in departmental pigeon-hole and has never been applict.
The English newspapers regard the Vilayet Law decision as the most promis ing break in the clouds up till the present.
THE KOCHANA MASSACKE..
the
The court-martial dealing with Kochana massacre has condemned on Mostem to death, another to penal ser vitude, and several to minor sentences.
COLLISIONS BETWEEN TURKS AND GREEKS.
First Round,
Two collisions on the Turch-Grank Mr. J. H. T. McMurtric z. Mr. CiT frontier between guards are reparted." Beath.
ACTION OF CONFEDERACY APPROVED,
The others receive byes into the second The Parliaments at Belgrade and Sofia have adopted with acclamation addresses Second Ruund.
expressing confidence in the united action. Mr. A. H. Ferguson r. Dr. Lindsay of the Balken States to secure lasting Woods.
Major Waring v. Major Caulfield. Mr. G. L. Crockette. Mr. K. M. Cumming.
Mr. M. A. Murray v. Mr. E. Davidson Mr. A. Ritchie v. Mr. R. M. Smith. Mr. A. W. W. Walkingbaw ». Mr.
peace.
.
The troops of the Confederacy continue to move towards the frontier amid ecenes. of enthusiasm.
PESSIMISTIC OPINIONS.
pannot be carried out at present, as they Mr. R. O. Hutchison 2. Mr. McMurtrie approving of speeches from the Throne work alongside short-sentence men and ansoor Mr. Beith, ciate with them in the ward and even in the cells. It is no use attempting to enlarge the present building. For one thing, there is A QUESTION which is demanding the atten- no ground available, and to heighten it tion of the Hongkong Government, and hardly seems advisable. The only solution which, as the absence of reference to it in is the erection of a convict prison. This will H.E. the GOVERNOR's budget speech seems involve considerable outlay, but financial to indicate, is not receiving the serious considerations ought not to weigh against consideration which it merits, is that of the menace to the peace and prosperity to "prison accommodation. As everybody now the Colony presented by the numerous bad kaows, Victoria Gapl is overcrowded, so characters being allowed at large, and the match so that prisoners have been dis-sooner the project is seriously taken in charged in confiderable numbers before the hand the better for the well-being of all expiry of their sentences, and we believe are concerned. still being discharged. About a month ago
we called attentioil to this state of affairs, The Hongkong Horticultural Society and suggested certain expedients for rehas issued its schedule for the 1913 Flower having the congestion, but so far we have and Vegatable Show. It provides for 114 beard nothing to induce us to believe that the classes,
G. S. Archbutt.
Rev. Foster Pegg v. Mr. F. Sutherland. On paper Mr. Walkinshaw and Mr. Foster Pegg ought to meet in the second round, and this match should be well worth seeing, as both players are in very fine form at present.
The 1st and 2nd rounds are to be played by 27th inst,
The 2nd by 3rd November.
The semi-final by. 10th November The final by 17th November.
The announcement of the reforms under the Vilayet Law do not pacify the Con- federacy, and the opinion is expressed that matters have gone too far to prevent
war.
ITALY AND TURKEY.
LONDON, October 8th.. A message from Rome states that the Italian, troops yesterday landed at Bombab, forty miles east of Derna with out restistance.
failed Britain would do her utmost to
preservo-the unity of the Powers and would not make any proposal likely to Limpair that unity.
PREMIER INDISPOSED.
Mr. Asquith, who is suffering from slight indisposition, was the only pro-
minent absentee in the House Commons,
HOME RULE. PROSPECTS.
a
of
Needless to say," says the Barou, 'that the late Emperor was a great monarch and possessed high virtues. The.
story which I am going to tall about Gen. eral Nogi is another sidelight on the
high character of the late monarchi After the battle of Port Arthur, General Nogi, crowned with the glory of victory. returned to Tokyo. Amidst all his glory, however, the hero of Port Arthar felt deep grief over the loss of so many of his soldiers, the sons of the Emperor, and he was determined on his own death in ex, piation.
"He was received in audience by tho late Emperor on the day of his triumphal return, and reported to the Throne the details of the battles at Port Arthur,
The Emperor praieed his victory, where- upon the late General reiterated that he had lost the lives of so many of his move Majesty's sons and was. determined to put an end to his life in order to seek pardon for his carelessness.
The real work of the session starts on Thursday, when the guillotine motion on the Home Rule Bill will be moved,
Mr. Asquith on Thursday will move the guilloting resolution allotting 32 days for the passage of the Home Rule
"The Emperor listened to him, but Bill through the House of Commons. said nothing. The General was about tor retire from the presence of his Majesty, There have been seventeen days' discus- when the latter abruptly stopped him and sion already. Therefore altogether the said I know your mind is grievously. Bill will he passed in 40 days as com battles at Port Arthur. But you must re- touched over the cost of the terriblo member that to dio is easier than to sur- pared with 80 days in 1893.
vive. The present is not the time for you In the lobby it is anticipated there will to die. If you want to die, do so at least be disorder on Thursday.
after my death."
THE
TITANIC” REPORT.
THE LIFEBOAT QUESTION,
"The General, who was honest ami loyal, was greatly moved by these graci ous words from his beloved monarch and almost burst into tears. The Emperor, too, felt sorrow over the pathetic position of the hero of Port Arthur and could not keep the tears from his eyes:
LONDON, October 8th. In the House of Commons yesterday, the Rt. Hon. Sidney Buxton, President of the Board of Trade, moved that the House take into consideration the Report of the Inquiry into the Titanic disaster Several Unionists and Liberals eum plained of the new rules adopted by the Masatsura, son Board of Trade with regard to the pro son of lifeboats for all on board, re- presenting that this would endanger the seaworthiness of ships..
reports to the police the love of jewellery THE SALT OF THE EARTH-MAN. THE NEW YORK POLICE SCANDAL that 80 per cent of the ships now had a and money to the value of $780. Ho suspects a honse coolie who has absconded.
authorities are giving any special thought The proprietor of the Globo Hotel to the subject. In this matter they seem committed to a policy of laissez faire, irrespective of its influence on the Colony, and regardless of its affect upon the work of maintaining peace and order. At a
A Chinese woman was removed to hospital on Monday suffering from
.
Woman, according to.. the latest. scientific conclusions, is men's inferior because of the smaller percentage of chloride of sodium in her blood. So anys
the male is more salt than that of the
:
LONDON, October 8th.
A New York dispatch states that Lieut.
"This pathetic scene was known, I was told, to no other than those who waited on the Emperor on the occasion, namely, the late chief Aide de Camp, Baron Oka zawa, the former Lord Chamberlain, Prince Tokudaiji, and a few others. The story must remind every Japanese who Dears it of the last audience granted, by the Emperor Godaigo to Kuжnoki of Masashige, when with the irrevocable determination to die Masatsura was going to his last baitio in the forefront and whenthetic peror Goda go and the power, the fi
scene than took place between Em-
loyalist, who himself was the leader of the Imperialists at that time.
Mr. Buxton emphasised that the rules.
From these facts we may conclude the were merely “draft rules." He said General after Port Arthur lived only because of his strong attachment to the sufficiency of boats and therefore it was of course he should have served the new late Emperor, and for no other reason. not a hardship to compel the remainder Emperor, and his personal attachment to to follow the example. Mr. Buxton the late Emperor must have been too position is worthy of our profound sym- it compulsory or passenger ships to pathy.
period when the criminal classes have injuries caused by a number of sugar the Matin. In other words, the blood of Becker, of the New York police, is how I also mentioned that the Bill to make strong to make him remember this. Hik shown greater daring than ever in carrying bags falling upon her while at work at female, and observation of animal arraigned on a charge connected with the be provided with wireless telegraph
INTERNATIONAL CRICKET IN
to international discussions on the subject which had been adjourned.
THE DOCTORS AND THE. INSURANCE ACT.
oat their nefarions schemes of robbery and a godown in Connaught Road. West
shows that the more salt there is in the murder of the gambler Rosenthal, who apparatus had been postponed, owing blood the higher the intelligence and turned States evidence. violence, it is nothing less than criminal.
On Monday night L-6. Wills came general development. Woman, it is de folly to pursue a praction other than that of
The selection of the jury is proving a across a Chiness carrying a parcel which clared, is inferior to man in everything-
intelligence, reason, and physical force.! repressive firmness. The release of num-
aroused his suspicion. He opened it and The indictment is even more severe. The tedious business. bere of prisoners, even short sentence found it contained six fancy mirrors: facial angle of the female, it is stated, prisoners, cannot be but subversive of law After inquiry the man admitted having more closely resembles that of the higher and order. Imprisonment in such circum taken them from the hold of the Colombo animals than does that of the male, while woman's senses are less keen than those stances loses whatever terrors it may have Mart, and examination revealed that a of man, and she feels pain less. for the wrongdoer, and it becomes somewhat consignment had been broken open. The scientific explanation is that the blood of
The return match between the Austra of a gamble, a circumstanca almost suffi- man was brought before Mr. Melbourne the femalo in poorer in red corpuscles. cient in itself to make it attractive to certain at the Magistracy yesterday and was and therefore relatively poorer in brine, lians and Philadephians resulted in the
which is the important factor in the victory of the former by 50 runs, Chinese. The question now is, how is the sentenced to 14 days hard labour development of the individual.
The
AMERICA.
LONDON, October 6th."
LONDON, October 8th. It is understood that the Cabinet has agreed to increase the amount of the medical remuneration in connection with the Insurance Act by a baillion pounds
sterling.
JAPAN'S STRONGER SEX,
A, German traveller, Felix Bauman, states that the enormous physical powers of the women are the most remarkable feature he observed in his journeys throughout Japan. Loads of do and wood-faggots are transported their backs, and they also draw or nigh beavily laden carts with swiftness and caset. In Japan a man calls on a woman, whose superior strength is accepted as a matter of course, to help him in any labourious task,