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temptation for Chinese landlords to covers 47, 5 per cent. lovy by a 20 per cent. increase in rentals, and it would this be to their advantage to seak to keep the paycott going. The authorities are doubtless alivo
to such possibilities and prepared to deal with cases of the kind should they actually arise. A Chinese paper published in Shanghai has recently been asking by what moral right the Hongkong Gov this Ordinace ernment has passed
Every rational human being must admit," not warped by passion and prejudice, that if a man does not wish to ride in a trancar
WEDDING AT ST. JOHN'S
CATHEDRAL.
KËNT-HUTTON-FOTTS,
At St. John's Cathedral yesterday.
TELEGRAMS.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]
THE BALKAN WAR.
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS TO CONTINUE.
CORRESPONDENCE.
DOGS' HOME.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."} DELE SI-As my name is disagreeably prominent in your article this morning. I crave space for reply.
SUPREME COURT.
Monday, January 6th-
IN APPELLATE JURISDICTION.
Before Sir HAVILLAND DE SAUBHAREZ (Chief Judge of the British Court in China), Sir WILLIAM RESI DAVIES (Chief Justice, of Hongkong), and Mr. JUSTICE GOMPENTZ. (Puiens Judge, Hongkong).
afternoon Miss Muriel Hutton-Potte youngest daughter of Mr. W. Hutton-
At the commencement I was importuned Potts, was married to Lt. Jeffrey Har- court Kent, of the King's Own Porkshire
to help in the establishment of a Home, LONDON, January 6th. Light Infantry, the service being con
as no one else would come forward. ducted by the Chaplain to the Forces (the
Reuter is informed that as the result of Rev. W. H. Foster Pegg) assisted by the
Being busy and having already many in-
AN IMPORTANT WILL CABE, Rev. V. H. Copley-Moyle, Chaplain of the advice of the Powers tendered on Santorests I was reluctant. I promised, how-
In the matter of an appeal- by Yu This does not stages on the distinct understanding that Ifang and Li Po Kwong, alias Li Cheung
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. Bays our contemporary, “if kis judgment is the Cathedral. There was a large attend-day the poace negotiations will not be ever, to do my best in the preliminary
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ance of the friends of the happy couple broken off to-day. and the Cathedral was very prettily
he has every right to take a rickakav or decorated. The string band of the bride-imply any change in the view regarding I had no responsibility as to management | Lin, defendants in the original action,
even to walk," No one disputes this state ment, which, however, is not a complete pre- sentation of the case. The important thing to bear in mind is that the boycott which has been maintained in Hongkong now for fully six weeks is not the expression of an aversion to tramcars, or to ferry boats, but is an organised effort to maintain the ties of a foreign debased coinage in the Colony and so prevent the rehabilitation of Hongkong's own subsidiary coinage. The debasement of the coinage has been a 3.40 great factor in the increasing cost of living in the Colony, though we fear that this is not as generally appreciated as it should be No Government can remain an idle spectator of organised opposition to its coinaga for the purpose of insisting upon the free circulation of a foreign coinage inferior dozen. bottle, to its own. The Hongkong Government's ...$16.80 $1.45 action may seem "despotic," but any unprejudiced person must recognise that it
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Turkey will propose a new frontier on Monday.
THE PLIGHT OF ADRIANOPLE. The fall of Adrianople is believed to be
imminent. DISSENSIONS IN THE TURKISH ARMY.
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Governor urged me to become the medium against a judgment delivered on June 1st in favour of Li Tse Shi, who was now groom's regiment assisted in the musica! Adrianople, but it is expected that After the early negotiations H.E. the
the respondent, portion of the service. The newly married
between the Government and the Honig management, whatever that might be. I Further, pair, as they left the Cathedral, passed
consented to act temporarily. I invited donations for the two Homes in under an archway of bayonets formed by
succession and did my beat to see that the men of the bridegroom's company,
constructions were made as economically and as substantially as necessary. my letters of appeal and acknowledge ment. I persistently declared that I would not be responsible for detailed manage
After the opening in each case I came on to the same footing as any other ment. donor, except as corresponding medium between the Government and Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. on the one hand and the Home management on the other. I have visited the Home only occasionally to purchase a dog or to make a sugges- tion, as any other sympathiser might do During the last month or two I have heen busier even than previously and have Reuter's correspondent at Belgrado not been to the Home. I understand
The bride wore a dress of ivory char meuse, with a square train and bodice and sleeves of silver net, trimmed with point lace. She also carried a basket of white roses, She was given away by her father, Miesca Alison
It is stated in a message from Constan- The bridesmaids were Tulloch and Peggy Bird, who wore dresses of white muslin, set off with blue gasbes. tinople that an interference of the fficers Their hats were of pale pink straws again threatening a political crisis. trimmed with blue ribbon, while they also carried haskets of pink roses tied It is stated that a deputation represent Mrs. Potts, the ing 150 officers at Chataldja have arrived up with blue ribbons. bride's mother, wore a dress of mauve to urge the appointment of Izzet Pasha, satin crepe covered with a veil of mauve
Lt. E. de W. H. Bradley, the Chief of Staff, as the Minister for chiffon. K.O.Y.L.I., acted as groomsman. A re- War, thus replacing Nazim Pashn. ception was held at the Hongkong Hotel, where Lt. and Mrs. Kent were the reci pients of many congratulations.
The
SERVIA'S STAND.
Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., and Mr. F. Jenkin (instructed by Mr. Needham, of Mesars. Ewens & Needham), appeared for the first appellant, and Mr. Duncan McNeill and Mr. C. G. Alabaster (in- structed by Mr. Scott Harston, of Messrs. Deacon, Looker, Deacon & Harston) re- presented the second. Mr. M. W. Slade, K.C., and Mr. Eldon Potter (instructed by Mr. R. A. Harding) were for the respondent.
Mr. McNeill, continuing his opening statement, said he wished to refer to the contents of the safe which appeared to justify the claim for $100,000. The claim now presented, however, was for 954,000, and that suggested at least some suspi-- cions of its good faith. He wished to urge upon their Lordships that there was something of suspicion at any rate in the fact that whereas documents found in the
is a porfactly reasonable and justifiable honeymoon is being spent at Macao. The telegraphs that an official newspapor however, from the management and from safe appeared to justify a claim for bride's going-away dress was a white publishes a vehement protest against the neighbours who were asked to look in at $150,000, and whereas $150,000 was the
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For being in possession of a quantity of ammunition, a Chinese was at the Magistracy yesterday fined $30.
A boy, who was convicted by Mr. Mel bourne at the Magistracy of hawking without a licence, was ordered to receive six strokes of the birch.
The weekly return of communicable diseases in the Colony shows three cases of diphtheria (que fatal), one of enteric
fever, and two fatal cases of small-pox.
The godowns of the Standard Oil Co. at the Pagoda, near Foockow, are reported
cloth coat and skirt, with a burnt straw coloured hat trimmed with a black ostrích feather. The presents made a collection.
gery large,
THE ALLAN WILKIE 'CO. Mr. Allan Wilkie and his talented combination, who opened last night their return season at the Theatre Royal, arrived yesterday morning by the P.&O. str. Sumatra after an extensive tour of China and Japan which has been attend ed with a success which its great and intrinsic merits warrant. Neither Mr. Allan Wilkie, his talented leading lady
GERMANY'S MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
LONDON, January 6th.
sum mentioned in the probate, the claim. now presented was for $54,000 and all the documents found upon which the cinim should be based were in the posses- sion of the plaintiff; that was to say, wher the safe was opened there was found something which seemed to suggest a claim for $150,000, but no such claim was ever made. In this connection enquiries were made of Li Yuen Sheung when bo
| he had been so long in definitely deciding to make a claim for 854,000, representing the total of the receipts from the deposi ters and deposit notes. His explanation roughly was that he had not been able to
feeding-time that the dogs have been re- tendencies that have lately been uni-gularly and properly fed. A month or fested to enlarge autonomous Albania at so ago I was told that badly diseased the expense of Borvia and declares that dogs, which ought to be destroyed, were I wrote about retained in the Home. the latter will not submit.
this to the superintendent and later saw him on the subject. His contention was that certain dogs previously declared hopeless by some people had been cured and sold, that he had isolated the others,
heal them. On my urging that visitors that Herr Jagow, the Ambassador to declared certain dogs should be destroyed Rome, will be probably appointed the he said that rather than consent to this Germen Secretary of State for Foreign he wished to resign his superintendence.
decide for certain if that was the amount. Affairs. This is regarded as indicating As I was not prepared to assuine this onerous responsibility I urged him to
due, but there were other statements made that Herr Jagow's besitation is overcome hold on for a week or two so that we
His could carry out the original idea of get by him in his evidence which were of a and that he will accept the post. hesitation was due to ill-health, and the ting a committee of the donors to take very different kind and suggested a very over the management. To this he agreed. different state of mind with regard to this I at once wrote Messrs. Jardine, Matheson $54,000. He proposed to direct their Italian climate suited him better than
& Co., the generous and considerate land- Lordships' attention to the evidence of that of Berlin. He is 49 years of age and
They agreed that it would be a Li Yuen Sheung with regard to this enjoys the special favour of the Kaiser. He won high commendation for his ability wise step. The meeting of the donors particular matter both before the learned Interviewed by our representative this and tact in the earlier months of the will be lield, as then arranged, all being Chief Justice and, ashe (Counsel) One great thought he was entitled to do, before Sir Francis Piggott at the preliminary trial
It is semi-officially announced in Berlin was treating them and doing his best to was in the witness-box as to how it was
to have been raided by thieves who killed Miss Hunter-Watts, nor the Indian watchman stationed there,
A Chinese charged at the Magistracy yesterday with cutting and wounding another pleaded that the knife was only a little one. He was ordered to pay a fine of 825 and 82 compensation.
A British bluejacket from H.M.S. Virago was charged before Mr. Melbourne at the Magistracy yesterday with the theft of a gold-washed bangle from a jeweller'e shop, 235, Queen's Road Central.
The case was remanded.
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Arrangements are being made for the transfer of the Magistracy to the old Supreme Court buildings, the word "Magistracy" having now been painted
over the entrance, It is not yet kno: when the transfer will be inade.
their able
colleagues need any intraduction to the Hongkong public, for on their first visit here they so fully justified the golden opinions that preceded them, that they left an impression behind them which
will doubtless be demonstrated in a
practical form by crowded houses on their return visit.
Farco-Italian war, when the relations of Italy and Germany were strained owing to the German public's sympathy with Turco-Italian war, when the relations of
He has an cribed him as the ablest among the your ger German diplomatists. elegant and polished bearing, contrasting markedly with his predecessor's direct
methods.
Jorda.
PROJECTED MEMORIAL TO THE matter.
HERO OF LADYSMITH.
Criticism of the
But bad
morning Mr. Allan Wilkie expressed him- self extremely gratified by his reception in the East and was pleased to be able to refute the predictions of those Job's comforter who, when he embarked on his enterprise, avowed that there was no public for serious, legitimate drama out fore. My reception," said Mr. Wilkie, has been everywhere most enthusiastic, and I find East of Suez as great and an intelligent an interest in the theatre as could possibly be expected. Even in England, there is of course a tendency to Three men, arrested for being in unlaw. neglect the more serions claims of the drama, for the possibly more easily ful possession of opium, appeared before digestible dramatic fare afforded by such, Mr. Hazeland yesterday, and were re-entertainment as musical comedy offers,
LONDON, January 6th. manded until Monday next, bail being but out here there is indisputably fixed at $1,000 in the case of the first de reaction in favour of the legitimate
An influential Committee including fendant, and 8500 in respect of the other stage, perhaps because it opens up a feld
Lord Lansdowne, Lord which has hitherto not been adequately exploited, or if exploited at all by com-Lord Haldane. panies not really qualified to do justice Roberts, Lord Beresford, the Right Hon.
To present to the work undertaken.. adequately such authors as Shaw, Wilde, L. Harcourt, Col. Seely, Mr. Bonar Law, Pinero and Henry Arthur Jones neces the Lord Mayor, and the Bishop of trouble and: expense for London, have issued an appeal for funds infinite sitates a company whose selection involves versatility is a desideratum which it is The insurance hard to come by. That such trouble and for a national memorial to Sir George | According to intimation at the first, all
expense are, to use a colloquialism, worth White, the defender of Ladysmith, in the the candle, I have amply proved by the form of a statue. The London newspapers success of this tour, and I trust that my arrangements will enable me to renew warmly support the project.
The play selected for the opening per the experiment at an early date."
two.
The Japanese frm Kwang Lung, which HONGYONG, JANUART. 7TZ, 1913.
is described as the largest Erm of whole The official announcement that the Gov.sale merchants of Japanese goods at Foo- The crnment has marked out ton areas which they chow, has been barnt out, there being contemplate proclaiming boycotting areas no facilities for fighting the fire."
loss is given as $45,000. under the provisions of the new Boycott Prevention Ordinance will probably do more to put an end to the boycott than all the conciliatory efforts which have yet been expended on this object. It would almost
a character in which Lady Tree achieved sufficient number of doctors will be.
A good one of her greatest successes. house accorded the Company a cordial obtained for the vast majority of dis welcome, on their appearance, evidencing In many places doctors, after the fact that local playgoers retained the tricts.
The brilliant of logue and dramatic episodes refusing to serve, have agreed to work in the piece, combined with the forceful the Act provisionally, great delight.; portrayal of the artistes, gave the audience
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Mr. Blade appealed against his friend ever making use of the evidenco given in the former trial at large-that was to say, to contradict the statements of the
witnesses made in the subsequent trial, unless the particular pasanges were put to the witnesses in cross-examination, and
Mr. Blade-It was to a very slight were referred to. extent, but one or two of the passages
well, one day next week.
has promised on return to give what ad- advantage for the future is that Mr. Gibeon, the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon,nes Pig vice ho may be able. healthy. It is most welcome to me from management, of fais public institution i
join in it as a proper procedure. any and every quarter. Nay, I would the laboured attempt to make out case against me personally is another they were given an opportunity of ex
However, it affects me little,plaining what they had said. That was though I most deeply regret that there the specific rule, and he thought is righ should is apparently good ground for to make the objection at that period.
It is a eriticism on the management.
Mr. Justice de Sausmarez - How far common thing that when anyone under-
was the evidence given before Sir Francis takes to do his best in a voluntary, thank Piggott used in the trial before the re
sent Chief Justice? less task; those who had done nothing blame him for not doing everything. This does not hurt me: it is the corsmon is to do nothing, I have only been doing experience. The way to escape criticism my best at what no one else would do. The innuendo about finances is mean. What I undertook to do I have done..
the books have always been open at any time to the Government and to the A balance sheet will doubtless donors. be published by the new Committee, as, of course, the superintendent in handing over his books will naturally afford every I must add that I feel sure that the superintendent has been doing his best according to his light and ability with a great expenditure of his own money. Change and reform thought and time. wore definitely in process: doubtless your article will serve to arouse a fuller in- a large attendance terest and secure when the meeting is called.-1 am, etc.,
CHARLES H. HICKLING. Hongkong, January 6th, 1913, [We are glad to give publicity to this latter, and to note that the representations made to Mr. Hickling öncerning the state unheeded. Many of the statements in this of affairs at the Dogs' Home were not
Their Lordships conferred. Mr. Justice de Sausmarez said their present impression WES that Counsel ought not to read any part of the evidenca and rely upon it unless it was out to the witnesses in cross-examination before the learned Chief Justice.
Mr. McNeill-May I direct your Lord- ships attention to something which I have not mentioned?
Mr. Justice de Saumarez -Yes, cer- tainly.
Mr. McNeill-I contend that the trial was not a new one. Sir Francis Piggott found himself unable to continue the trial and the present Chief Justice took his place and carried it on.. Therefore, it was a resumed trial.;
Mr. Justice de. Sausmarez-y own opinion is that it is not ovidence..
notes, as it would as a matter of course, record of appeal did not contain these
will be read with considerable interest and it was quite possible that a witness We can only say with reference to the might have been called before Sir Francis innuendo about finances, which Mr. Hickling
on the property amounted to $25,000,
Four Chinese appeared before Mr. Hazeland at the Magistracy yesterday charged with being in possession of apuri- stem that the passing of the Boycott a plant for the manufacture of comedy drama "A Bunch of Violets
ous coin and also with being in possession formance was Sidney Grundy's four- aet THE INSURANCE ACT STRUGGLE, facility.
LONDON, January 6th Ordinance has been regarded among the
apurious coin at 121, Queon's Road West, an excellent example of its author's
Although the struggle between the Chinese boycottera se mere bluff; but now Mr. Davison appeared for the defence, toastery of dramatic technique. Mr. Wilkie himself played Sir Philip March- that they realise that this is quite a mis- and the case was remanded until the 22nd ant, the part which Sir Herbert Beer British Medical Association and the taken view to take, there is considerable inst.
bohm Tree created at the Haymarket Insurance Commissioners is still continu- Theatre, London, while Miss Hunter
it appears probable that stir in the boycott areas. Men, who if
The country round about Foochow is Watts Slled the rale of Mrs. Murgatroyd, ing. questioned about the boycott any time during the past few weeks would have still much disturbed. "Rebels" captured adopted a vacant, know-nothing attitude, the City of Singin on the ta vlt, and the English and American Missionaries are now apparently full of knowledge on
stationed there have been removed to the subject. Deputations, we understand, Hinghua for better protection Troops memory their are being formed in several if not in all the have been dispatched from tochow, the districts to present to the Governor-in-district in question is one in which Council reasons
for exempting their thousands of mow" are devoted to the particular
districts from being pro cultivation of the poppy. claimed. In this way it is just possible
A particularly bad case of cruelty to that the Governor-in-Council may learn
a dog was investigated at the Magistracy more about the organisation of the boycottterday by Mr. Hazeland, whe had than it has done hitherto. The longer the before him two Chinese charged with it boycott is continued, the longer the period treating a dog. It appeared that the two over which the special rate will be levied
men, who were in the Kwong Hospital, upon the inhabitants of the preclaimed were observed by Sanitary Inspector Tay- areas. If we may make a suggestion to the lor of Yaumati swing a puppy by means Government on the subject of the levy of of a rope tied tightly round its neck. Hazeland heard further evidence in the They continued this until the eyes of the the rate, it would be that some measures
unfortunate animal were bulging out of should be adopted to dispose of a prevalent apprehension that Chinese land- its head. They pleaded that they did this lords, who pay the rates ou all the because the dog was mad. His Worship property they own, will themselves profit ordered them to pay a fine of iwo dollars the occasion was taken, and the case fifteen years Chief of the German Ceneral the only sign of food about the place was in by the special levy. There will be a great each.
To-night "David Garrick" is billed for production, and H.E. Sir Henry May having promised his presence and patron- age, the house should be one to reward in practical form the energy and enter- prise of the talented actor-manager whose return we so heartily welcome.
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BRITISH BUDGET FIGURES.
LONDON, January 6th. The Daily Telegraph states that mainly owing to the increased cost of shipbuild ing and the under-estimation of the cost of the Insurance Act, the Budget will amount approximately to £200,000,000.
OBITUARY.
THE CHEUNG CHAU PIRACY. At the Magistracy yesterday Mi case in which a Chinese stands charged
LONDON, January 6th... with being concerned in the piratical at-
The death is announced of Field- August last. tack upon Cheung Chau police station in
on card the Marthal Count Schlieffen, who was for The evidence of men laanches that lay alongside the island on adjourned until to-day.
Staff.
letter
Mr. Justice Rees Davies-I am of the same opinion.
describes as "mean," that the reference Piggott but not before the present Chief Unless the evidence used in seems to us amply justified by the reports in Justice. circulation. These go to suggest that the the previous trial was used in that before Dogs' Home is a profitable institution and, the proper care of the dogs in the Home: Mr, we ought to look at it. therefore, that ample funds are available for the present Chief Justice I do not think Hickling, on the contrary, says he is sure that the management of the Home has cost the superintendent "a great expenditure of his own money." The publication of a balance sheet would settle this point. As to the statement that the dogs have been "re- gularly and properly fod" we can only say that evidence of this was entirely wanting on Saturday morning last. At least two of the dogs did not seem to have an ounce of fesh upon their bones and could not stood. They appeared to be starving and aus Kennel where a tin contained some raw potatoe and apple paring.-E.]
Mr. Justice Compertz-1 agree. Mr. McNeill Will your Lordships accept my suggestion that the records may go forward if the Privy Council may re- quire to inspect them
Mr. Justice de Sausmarez-I will mako a note of it. If you do so, you may not wish that the whole should go i
Mr. McNeill-That iɛ 80. The case was again adjourned.