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TELEGRAMS.
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SHIPPING EXPERIENCES AT
HOME.
ing been buffeted about in the Atlantic for almut fifty days and then went aground way Chuennstown, has been towed off, having suffored little damage.
The furious weather continues, and a Russian barque was
wrocked off St. Mary's Island (chief of the Scilly Islands), and ten drowned.
LUCAL SPORT
FOOTBALL
BONGKONG pi 11.M.S. MONMOUTH,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17′′¤, 1918.
IRON GOODS AT HONGKONG,
TOOLS CUTLERY.
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY,
SIR HENRY NORMAN'S REVIEW.
TRANSATLANTIC, TELEPHONY.
The Gorman Consul at Hongkong states that tools of all kinds are imported from Germany and the United States. The Chinese artizan makes his own tools him- This game was played on the ground of self so that there is always a possibility
The Select Committee of the House of the Hongkong Club last evening. The of an increased import trade if favour Commons on the Marconi Contract heard The import further evidence last month in opposition match was not productive of much goodable prices can be fixed. LONDON, January 10th.
armints in value to about 45,000 dollars In
a year. The trade in cutlery in 1911 was to the ratification of the agreement The Snowdog Hauge, which after hav-football, and play was very strappy.
the first few minutes Croucher, the Club not good. Fine tabloware for the use of between the Government and the Marconi right winger, bad to retire through an
Europeans and for the hotels is supplied Company for the erection of an Imperial from Sheffield. Kuife-blades are import- injury, and the forward line was dis-ed by Chinese silversmiths and fitted with chain of wireless stations Sir Henry organised. Nothing was scored in the handles of ivory and silver. Rodgers and Norman, M.P., gave further reasons, initial half, and a considerable portion Greaves are the marks most in demand based on recent advances which had bcon Solingen razors at prices from twelve i
a final of the second moiety and elapsed before dollars dozen upwards, as well as made in wireless telegraphy, why Penuli netted with a strong shot in the English razors, are imported in fairly conclusion should be delayed still further.
Razors from
Sir Henry Norman said he would With a minute to large quantities for sale. top corner of the net. go, the sailors' insid: left equalised with amongst the Chinese. Pocket knives of Committee was largely a scientific one America and Germany find a market respectfully urge that the issue before the a beautiful shot, the encounter terminat-all kinds and from various countries. The practice of wireless telegraphy had ing in a draw of one all.
"mostly cheap goods, are in steady advanced with amazing speed, thanks demand. The import trade in Japanese largely to the work of Mr. Marconi, who knives, which was considerable for a time, had done more than any man living to has almost crased owing to the bad alapt scientific wireless to the practical Cooking knives service of mankind. But during a time The following will represent the Civil quality of the lades. Lloyds. The losses were over £7,000,000, Service C.C. against the Hongkong "A" and other blades for Chinese domestic use to be reckoned almost in months a are simply cut out of mild steel plates, revolutionary advance would appear to and would have been much more serious team on Saturday next on the Hongkong as also are scissors. Old horseshoes are have been made for long-distance wire but for the remarkably fine salvaging of/C.C. ground at 2 p.m.-R. F. O. Bird, imported in large quantities, chiefly from less. The original spark system, which I. O. Hutchison, G. R. Sayer, H. Poole, Belgium, and are used by Chinese smiths consisted in finging out into space, by the Delhi and Oceano: Altogether there R. C. Witchell, H. A. Cox, E. B. Reed, for making all kinds of knife blades. Old the discharge of a condenser across &
ing tools of all kinds. lost, of whom 82 wer: Britisli, elain was promptly and fully met.
DISASTROUS SHIPPING YEAR.
LONDON, January 18th. 1012 WILK a most disastrous year for
CRICKET.
were 0,021 casualties and 228 ships totally F. A. Hidan. A. O. Brawn, A. R. Suther, files ure nsed by Chinese smiths for makgap, trains of electromagnetic waves, at!
PORTUGUESE BUDGET.
Every land, and E. W. Hamilton,
LONDON, January 16th.
A telegram from Lisbon alates that the
The following will represent the Hong- kong Cricket Club "B" team against Craigeugower Cricket Club on Saturday, 14th January, at Happy Valley. Play to cominence: nt 2 p.m.-R. Hancock (Capt.), C. Beswick, A. A. Claxton, S.
ENAMELLED IRON WAKE.
The researches of
POSALBILITIES OF A WIRELESS TRUST. The Chairman- tus scheme is not ratified, what is there to prevent all ther various systeros-Marconi, and Poulsen,
8
INTIMATIONS
and all of them-from forming one big OVERWORK,
combination -I should suppose that there is nothing to prevent them, except the natural fealousy and desire for independence of rival inventors.
in days of combinations, and how far we Have you considered that we are living should be better or worse off than with the Marconi agreement ?-If there were a great wireless trust it would undoubtedly be necessary for the Government, in ita own defence, to make use of section 29 of the Patents and Designs Act, or if that was not sufficient to provide sorne special law dealing with such a situation; other wise they would be at the mercy of such a trust as you suggest.
and pension the
In further answer to the Chairman tho
conditions of pay witness said he believed that under proper Government would get a considerable number of men with high qualifications to start with, and the number would be added to. Many of them would doubtless be men now serving with the companies, but who would prefer State service.
TITLES WON BY MERIT.
HEREDITARY PRINCIPLE DEFENDED BY ** BURKE.''
FATIGUE,
EXPOSURE.
The Food Question
All disappear or aro alleviated by the gentle stimulus of a glass of PEMRTIN'S CLUB SHERRY'
budget was introduced into the Chamber. H. Dodwell, H. Hancock, J. W. S. Jellie. with and without decoration at 1.20 to of "shock excitation," aud it resulted Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms, the efforts.
The revenue is estimated at 79,182 contos of reis and the expenditure at 82,018
contos.
KING OF SPAIN'S ENLIGHTENED POLICY.
Socialist leaders to the Palace in order to leach their views on different political queations.
CALIFORNIA TO LEGISLATE AGAINST ALIENS.
LONDON, January 16th.
M. M. Mas, S. S. Moore, Mid. A. G. Oliver, R.N., Staff Surgeon Roche, R.N., and R. P. Thursfield.
BOXING.
SOLE AGENTS
their maximum at the moment of dis-: charge and falling off rapidly in ampli-
A spirited defence of the hereditary The trade in enamelled iron goods 19 tude and energy, was employed on most principle is one of the features of for the most part with Austria. In 1911 of the Marconi ship and coast stations.
* Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, and The delicious aroma, together with eases of washing bowls without decoration an excellent service. the following goods were imported; 1,500 For comparatively short distances it gave Knightage" for 1913.
its inviting comfort, drives away at 2.13 to 3.50 dollars a dozen; 400 cases Professor Wien pursued practically by
Though the hereditary principle is of washing howls with decoration at 4.50 the Telefunken Company produced the nowadays somewhat out of favour, says weariness and cheers on to further to a dollars a dozen; 300 cases of cups quenched spark" system, or the metho Mr. Ashworth P. Burke, who is, with Sir 1.80 dollars a duzen; 150 cases of spittoons immediately in the transmission of wire present representative of the celebrated with and without decoration at 4 to 11 less signals to much greater distances chronicler of nobility, "the influence of dollars a dozen. In addition to these with much less cuergy. The disc dis heredity is ever present and cannot be canwlled iron spittoons sorne 500 cases charger invented by Mr. Marconi accom-illustrated in the records of the families gainsaid. This natural law is strikingly of vase-shaped metal spittoons (cuspidors), each case containing three plished the same result, though possibly with which this work is concerned. Risen with less efficiency, The waves thus to bonour and nobility by high achieve- dozen, were imported from Germany..
produced, because they were less damped, ment or conspicuous merit, these families The trade in needles is in German approached more nearly to the fundamped have shown the persistence of the charac hands. About 2,000 cases are imported. continuons waves which had always teristic qualities to which they owe their Each case contains 25 tin boxes, each constituted the ideat of the wireless fame.
investigator. containing 40 packets of 10 envelopes of 25 needles rach.
NEEDLES.
LAMPS LAMP-BURNERS; WICKS.
are without
Their sons in nearly every generation have been foremost in the service of the State, in camp or in council, at home or abroad, and have made historic the names they bear, and the titles wan by their ancestors."
Twenty-five thousand individuals "com- prised in the aristocracy" find their place 3,000 pages, and each is Burke's fitted into his or her exact niche by the Guide to Relative Precedence," which forms part of the work.
H. RUTTONJEE & SON,
Wine and Spirit Merchants,
[31
Chs. J. Gaupp
& Co.,
An interesting programune of boxing muts has born arranged by Mr. Harry Kelly, Grand Hote to be contested LONDON, January 16th.
at the Theatre Royal on Saturday even
But a more striking discovery was made The chief item,
by Mr. Duddell, which was that by King Alfouse is striking out in a newing, commencing at 9.
There was no noteworthy change in the including and electric are, as seen in the line by summoning the Republican and the middle weight championship of th
Orient. between Jack Cordell (the holder) | trade in lamps in 1911. The Standard familiar are lamp, as part of an oscillat- continuous OX wholly and Gunner Evans (R.G.A., challen-Oil Company of New York, and the circuit,
undamped electric oscillations could be Petroleum Company import ger), should be productive of first-class Asiatic
lamps which have fairly good burmers and produced: and Mr. Poulsen, a Danis boxing. the former being considered a.
give a good light; these are sold at about scientist, further discovered that by pugilist of more than average ability, their cust of manufacture. For the use causing this are to burn in hydrogen gas and Gunner Evans has a worthy record of the lowest classes of the population, the heat of the arc was issipated so to uphold. Both men have been in serious laps are made by native tinmen out of rapidly that a neh greater current could
the tin-plate of kerosene cans. The be passed through the training for some time, and neither can
burners for these are imported. They physical difficulties, and that by causing A message from Sacramento states that afford, to throw away any chances. The must be of the cheapest kind, but dur- the are to pass through a powerful
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, in three bills designed to prohibit the hold remainder of the boats will introduce now able; they are seldom required for use magnetic field the strength and frequency
with flat wicks but mostly for round of the oscillations could be increased the unnumbered class of royal personages. system. supple takes tenth place, Her husband, the talent. and the usual boxing entertain-
wicks. The total import of burners The Duddell-Poulsen ing of land in California by foreignersment will be varied by a wrestling contest.
mented by the invention of high-speed Duke, in Class No. 1, takes fourteenth CHRONOMETER-MAKERS, amounts to about 3,000 cases euch case containing 100 dozen. Lamp wicks are transmitting and receiving apparatus by place. Lord Dangan-Mr. Wellesley, of
WATCHMAKERS, imported to the extent of about 1,000 Mr. Pedereen, another Danish scientist, to Gaiety who was front legs in the great advance in wireloas reindeer at the Pantomime Ball the other Cases, ench case containing 250 packets marked a
telegraphy, and remarkable long-distanco day, is in Class 10, No. 188. Mr. Lloyd of about nine dozen wicks.
communication at very high speed, with George, as a Privy Councillor, comparatively small powers, had been in Class 18, where he is No. 217. accomplished. The system was already in use to some extent, he believed, in both the British and German Navies.
and to declare them inadmissible for citizenship has been introduced in-the State Legislature.
DEATH OF A BRITISH PEER.
DEPARTURE OF THE K.O.Y.L.L
THE ALLAN WILKIE COMPANY.
"MR. WARDEN'S PROFESSION.”
TAB
TIN BOXES.
Printed metal boxes, fitted with a look ing glass, in which they keep their small belongings, such as staall silver coins, tobacco, amulets, elc, are a favourit: Printed pocket article of the coolies. tin-plate finds a market in the preserved food industries at Hongkong, Macao and Canton.-Chamber of Commerce FJournal.
COTTON LOOMS DAMAGED AT
inst.,
SHANGHAL
WIRELESS TELEPHONY,
happier or more pleasant memories than if it was as bad as was represented found siderable amount of damage done to the watts, was given some months ago, and
Eĺza
various reasons
"Koylis," as
familiarly they are
in the way of entertainment than mans of their predecessor. Singapore should I glad to have the opportunity of ex- tending a hearty welcome to the "Koylis."
| Candidly, Mrs. Warren's Profession
which it has created is difficult to find.
the performance the dramatic success
that it proved.
"TRILLY."
There are sixty-five classes in this table of precedence, and each person has a place assigned in that class. Thus
The Duke of Norfolk, premier duke, is merely given as in Class 1, with no nun=" ber. Lord Roberts is No. 212 in Class 5, Sir George Alexander is No. 289 in Class 34, and Lady Constance Stewart- Richardson No. 191 in Class 13.
FORGOTTEN POINTS.
Many curious and half-forgotten points occur in the scholarly introduction which
always a feature of "Burke."
is
ÅLBXANDRA BOILINGS,
CHATRE ROAD,
JEWELLERS AND OPTICIANS
FINE
DIAMOND
JEWELLERY
SWIBS
A SPECIALITY,
ENGLISH, AMERICAN AND
GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES.
AND SILVER BRACELET
WATCHES.
Sir William Blackstone is quoted for the dictum that the honor of persis
highly tended by the law that it is GOLD much more penal to spread false reports |
of them, and certain other great officers
of the realm, than of other men: scandal
JEWELLERY
against these being called by the peculiar ENGLISH MOUNTED CHINESE JADF name of scandalum bagnatam, and sub- ject to peculiar,
punishments by divers ancient statutes."
"Burke comments that this proceed- It has been held that words are action- ing is now almost obsolete, but adds :-
hereditary privilege of being covered in proceedings,
Barons of Kingsale enjoy the the royal presence, after having made their obeisance,
Particular interest attaches to a passage in Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, and concerning the status of In its guide to the divorced ladies. formal modes of addressing persons of title "Debretu" says:-
It would be safe to say that no play in Lesbos, January 16th,
the repertoire of the Allan Wilkie Com Lord pany has been more discussed than the The death is announced of
There remained. however, the further Ashburnham, who has been Chairman of jone produced last night, and the fact the audience only fair,
advance to be made of generating high- frequency continuous waves without the the British Romy Rule Association since that
proves that Hongkong has not been
physical disabilities of either spark or 1950.
able to make up its mind about
are, und this Dr. Koldschmidt, a German Mrs. Warren's Profession. Many who
scientist, appeared to have accomplished. He had formed a piservator when have seen it vondesna it, and many who
A daring outrage at the Kang-yik transmuted mechanical rotation directly have never witnessed its prorluction are Cotton Weaving and Buioning Mill situ-into oscillating current at a frequency of To-day at noon the transport North just as strong in their condemnations.uted on the Robinson Road near the 60,000 cycles per second for less, corres brook is timed to leave for this South, On the other hand, to express apprecia. Soochow Creek was brought to light this ponding to a wave-length of 18,000f1 or ving ou board the 2nd Buttalion of the tion of the play was almost equivalent the 10th last, when the operatives arrived more, as required by the contract), with to inviting social ostracism, and the many to begin the daily work. It was seen that out the mechanical difficulties of exces King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
small alternator, generating four kilo No regiment has left the port leaving who would have liked to have gone to see the loom room on the ground floor had sively high speed. A demonstration of
been visited during the night and con- for not being present. looms, the threads of which were cut and continuous day transinission by this was
hanging down to the floor. In all 182 carried out, he believed, from Berlin tected. They have proved a good spomust be described as an artistic produc- looms were affected and for the time being Paris. It was stated that large alterna-able in the case of a peer which are not ing regiment and have taken a prominent part in the life of the Colony. Officers and the reason for the moral panic rendered useless. All was in order when tors, generating 180 kilowatts, had been so in that of a common person, as to say the mill was closed the previous night and constructed and had successfully passed of a peer, He is an unworthy man, and locked up.
On an investigation being the test of being run at full load for many acts against law and reason.
"Peers have the privilege of sitting and men have been associated with all Miss Nore Craigie and Miss Vera Crich made by the Bubbling Well police, who consecutive hours, and that only the com- forms of sport, and they have done morton. practically held the boards and made were at once communicated with, it was pletion of the necessary high wasts and covered in courts of justice during the
the grounds from the creek side of the one in Europe and one in the United seen that an entrance had been gained to aerials, which were being rapidly erected, premises, where there was a bamboo fence. States, was necessary for a transatlantic In this a hole had been cut by the visitor
If the Goldschmidt test to be made. alternator could pat 150 kilowatts of a and an entrance to the raill gained by a small door which had been left unlocked.
pure continuous wave at 60,000 periods The actual damage done is not very much and will not affect the working of the per second into the antenna circuit, as Knightage"
was claimed, a day and night transmis mill, which is turning up on an average sion at high speed over 2,000 miles was a 850 bales of cotton yarn per week and the damaged, looms only, consume about cortainty.
Moreover, if it would do this wireless 90 bales. The damage will be fully re-
telephony would probably be accom- paired shortly and meanwhile efforts being made to find a clue to the mid-plished. The difficulty of long-distance night visitor.
wireless telephony was to devise microphone which would not be destroyed by the very heavy main current. In the the microphone Goldschmidt system: would only have to carry the exciting current of the alternator, seven or eight Through the columns of The Scoop, the kilowatts, instead of the main current. organ of the Press Club of Chicago, Mr. The signals would be untappable, except Taft addressed a Christmas message to by a special receiving, apparatus. We are informed by the. management the newspapers and writers of America, thor, an advantage of great value for the that there was very heavy booking yester in which, as the result of nearly four purposes of these Imperial stations, the day for the opening performance of the years' experience, the President says: signals could be changed in a minute bly. sentatives. Hughes Musical Comedy Company at
"The Press is essential to our civilisa-from a silent wave only readable on the Sunday tion and plays an unofficial bat vital part 6,105,920 6,195,757 the Victoria Theatre
in the affairs of the Government. The special receiver to a musical note. read- abte by any ship on the ordinary detector 896,486 300,105 night. The. repertoire for the very cipline of the fear of publicity and the and telephones of every receiving circuit. 109.835
10 brief Hongkong season is advertised restraining and correcting influence of the The purity of the wave rendered the The Manila Electric Railroad and 289,191 298.234
as follows: Opening performance, prospect of fearless criticism are of much 1,999,968 1,939,368
on a wave only differing by 5 per cent.
Dr. Goldschmidt dividend of 813 per cent. for the quarter 1.451.033 1,400,50s Sunday 19th, The Grafters"; Mon-value in obtaining proper administration system so selective that u station sending Lighting Corporation has deered a
of public 4,972,692 4,980,883 day and Tuesday, "A Day at the Mr. Tafi adds that in Washington the would not interfere.
daimed that he could receive three ending December 31st on the Capital 1,185,114 1,184,629 Races"; Wednesday and Thursday; "The standard of the newspaper correspon- 1,283,586 1,283,348
Speculators Friday, Saturday, matincodents who represent all the great papers different messages on the same aerial to stock; also an extra dividend of $1 per 5,670,817 5,670,372
and Press associatious is on the whole the same time. Dr. Fleming, the scientific cent., making a fotal of $21 per cent. per
"Such men, when they have adviser to the Marconi Company, allud- 2,277,069 2,277,414 evening and Monday, Spedelbounder's high one. 1,369,632 1,368,184 Dream"; Monday, The Grafters."
established the right to have it, as must ing in his recoat address before the share, payable in New York, on December confidence of British Association to the inventions of 31st. For 1911 a dividend of $14 per cent, 1,689,563 1,698,692 "The Grafters." we are informed, has have done, share 2,588,090
9,559,068 been the great success of the present tour, Senators, of the Cabinet, of the leaders of Dr. Goldschmidt, said that telephony was paid. Congress, and even of the President, and
the Atlantic was. quite within across 1,395,162 1,395,622 and gives the four comedians every op- these newspaper men are most careful to possibility.
148,588 148,626
portunity of living up to their reputation observe the lines which are laid down in
The points he urged were (1) that the
VOTERS IN CHINA.
NUMBER Dari ENFRANCHISED CHINESE
There should be a good home to-night to see that ever-popular play "Trilby," the feature of which is Mr. Allan Wilkie's impersonation of Svengali. Miss Hunter Watts makes an ideal Trilby, and as all the other parts are in capable hands the production, the last of the season, should be up to the high standard eat uy this Company of talented artistes.
A table showing the numbers of persotis who possess the right to vote and those who are eligible for election to the pro- vincial assemblies, as well as those of the electors and those eligible for election to the House of Representatives, in each! province of the Republic of China, is THE HUGHES MUSICAL COMEDY given in the N.C. Daily News as fol
Ju
Name of province.
Number of Number of persons for persons for the provin- the House cial assem- of Repre
¿Chilli'
Fengties Kirin Heilungkinng
Kiangsu
Aahui Kiangsi Cholinng
Fukien Hupch Hunan Shantung
Fonau
Shansi
Shemsi Kaasu
COMPANY.
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MR. TAFT AND THE PRESS.
THE CONFIDANTS OF THE GOVERNMENT.
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When a lady is divorced she loses any title or precedence which she gained by resume her marriage, and should maiden surname and precedence, with the prefxMrs.," if the daughter of
& commoner.
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OUR
SILVERWARE,
CUTLERY and
PRINJES PLATE.
With regard to divorced peeresses, the College of Arms, acting on an opinion STUDY of the Lord Chancellor, has long held that such persons cannot claim the privileges or status of peeroses which their busbands. they derived from Divorced peeresses are not summoned to a Coronation as peeresseS.
The above remarks apply to Indies who have divorced their husbands, as well as to those who have been divorced.
It is very interesting to learn that tz of the countries
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