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THE HONGKONG DAILY PONSE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6гm, 1915.
The visit to Peking, paid by the White Buddha of Kohonor, who has under his control forty-eight temptes containing over 20,000 lamias, na well as more than 10,000 laymen, is believed to be connected
it is only to be expected that the Chinese in Hongkong will celebrate their New Year with greater enthusiasm than they did last year, and the fact that, for the first time in history, they have already celebrated the calendar will affect but little the celebra tions of to-day and succeeding days. That the observance of China New Year will disappear in favour of the observance of the Western New Year is fairly certain, but it will take time. Probably the change will not be complete until another genera WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. tion has arisen in the land, but there can be
S. WATSON New Year according to the Western with the affairs of Tibet. The Hutukto
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of Laku and the Living Buddha of East Bunid and of Chabar are reported also to be ea route for Peking.
The Japanese cruiser Idzumi, recently condemned, was disposed of by public auction recently at Yokosuin, when she fetched Y80,075. The successful bidder was Mr. Matsuye Umekichi, of Nagasaki,
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ITHROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE BALKAN WAR.
BOMBARDMENT OF ADRIANOPLE.
LONDON, February 5th.
The bombardment of Adrianopla lasted
was suspended for five hours during the for four hours on Monday evening and
night, being resumed at four o'clock in the morning. The Turks replied vigor.
fashioned China Now Year are numbered. and the vessel was delivered to him on ously, but, according, to reports from
When the Provisional Government more than a year ago decided to adopt the Wastern calendar the proposal met with aomparatively little opposition, but now that it is sought to make the change effealive the people do not seem to bo so greatly examour- 1.65od of the idea. This, however, need excite
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the 18th alt. The third-class const defeneo bost Katsuragi (1,478 tons), now lying at Sasebo is to be condemned at the and of the present fiscal year, and she is The vessel was now being disarmed. built at Yokosuka in March, 1885.
CONTRAVENING PORT HEALTH REGULATIONS.
At the Marine Court yesterday before the Harbour Master, Commander Basil Taylor, a Chinese was charged at the in- stance of Dr. Grone with boarding, a suspected vessel, namely, the .$.6. Triumph, without the express permission of the Health Officer.
When
Defendant said that he was not the owner of the sampan and was not on board.
His Worship: imposed a fine of $100.
"TRILBY" AT THE THEATRE.
Sofa, the Bulgarians steadily advanced. The impression in Sofia is that the war will fast altogether about ten days, but Constantinople believes there are sur- prises in store for the Allies. Ar the realt of the now blood at the head of Turkish affairs and fresh troops, mostly Asiatic mountaineers, the Turke an on- fident that Adrianople will hold out for several wooks.
It is reported from Sofia that some quarters of Adrianople are in flames.
BULGARIANS EASILY
REPULSED."
[ ́ ́DAILY PRESS "' EXCLUSIVE SERVICE.]
JAPANESE DIET AGAIN
SUSPENDED.
POLITICIANS ATTACKED BY AN ANGRY MOD.
محورة
TOKYO, February 5th.
LOCAL SPORT.
CRICKET
The following will represent the Hong" kong Cricket Club "H" League team against Kowloon on the Hongkong Cricket Club ground on Saturday, 8th February, play commencing at 2 p.m. R. Hancock (Capt.), A. A. Claxton, S, H. Dodwell, E. A. 8. Fowler, H. Hancock,
The Budget has been issued and the A. N. Other, A. O. Lang, M. M. Mass, S. 8. Moore, Liont. Paske, D.C.LI., and Diet has been again suspended for five R. P. Thur field.
days, in order that Prince Katsura's Party may be strengthened.
ی ام و
FOOTBALL.
ILKKG. F. HM, S. “TAMAK.” Secders from the Kokuminto on
To be played to-day, at 4 p.m., on the leaving the Diet were attacked by an Club ground. HI.K.F.C.Goal, E. B. Clarke; back, J. Stálker" and "H. J. angry mob,
Jones; ball-backs, D. Macdonald, R. F Long and 'T. C. Hall; forwards, W.-B. Rigden, H. “Lowick, N. Railton, E. M. Bishop and Another.
(THROUGH EBUTER'S AGENCY.)
THE CHINA LOAN,
UNEXPECTED HITCH.
LONDON, February 5th. When the Loan Agreement between the Bix Power Group and the Chinese Govern. ment was on the point of being signed a Poking on Tuesday, the French Minister anexpectedly objected to sign nnless s Frenchman was appointed one of the advisers, This action, which is aimed
CHINESE SOLDIERS
DISSATISFIED.
least to gruinble, over the inconvenience 2.50 saused by departure from usage and custom, and so it may be coufdently anticipated that 3.40
after the change is definitely mede there will be little complaint or opposition. Undoubtedly time is required to make the The Chinese will have to
Dr. Grone stated that on the 23rd Jan- rearrange their methods of business, their contracts and their periods of settling, butuary he saw a vessel enter the harbour once that is accomplished they will doubtless lying the yellow flag. He went on board realise that they have gained something in and while examining the passengers and one with the world in the matter of cow he noticed a sampan come along. being at
side. One of the men in the sampan 1.50 time. In many parts of the Republic the threw up a hook and made fast.
officials have forbidden the people to the people in the sumpan aw witness they celebrate the old style New Year, and in fell back into the sampan. He got into Government circles the event will pass the launch and went alongside the sampan without official recognition, which presents and saw the defondant. A very violent change when compared with the former régime during which no official business could be transacted for nearly a month, the seale of the various offices being closed for that time. We notice that the Minister of the Interior has hoes pressing the Peking Chamber of Commerce to induce
Though the reputation of the Company the firm not to close their places of! business during Chinese New Year, and warranted a larger audience and the the police have been distributing pamphlets popularity of the production might have among the small storekeepera urging them been expected to have drawn a larger en on a war footing, the maintenance to do the same. Bat official disapproval; house the attendance at the Theatre Royal of which during the two months of pro- unless it extends to the drastis methods last night. was disappointingly small. tracted negotiations has been enormous. adopted for suppressing opium smoking, is However, it had no effect on the excellence it is semi-officially declared that when once of the performance of "Trilby," which
bostilities have been resumed the question not likely to be a bar to the celebration o
was quite up to expectations. Mr. Wilkie the present festival, which will be observed in the part of Svengali was responsible of Adrianople will disappear, giving by the masses of China with the old-time for the success of the play, ably partnered place to Constantinople and the enthusiasm. In Canton, too, the provincial by Miss Hunter Watts, who made a very Dardenelles. government attempted to suppress this effective Trilby. The other parts were in celebration, but the public resentment was capable hands. too strong for them, and they bare bad to give way. The Government of China must have had a considerable sentiment in favour of changing the calendar before they arrived at a decision in this matter, and under the leavening influence of that body of opinion and with due consideration for the incon- vanicus involved, the Government may expect to see the change on which they set their hearts very generally adopted before many more years have passed.
A message from Constantinople states specially at the appointment of a German that it is officially reported that the Bul-in the Audit Department, created great gerions attacked the forts north-east of consternation among Clovernment officials Adrianople, but were easily repulsed by and hankers. the garrison, which is full of courage and enthusiasm. An encounter occurred at No serious Malateppe, near Callipoli. fighting has taken place at Chataldja, but the Bulgarians burned the village of Chatacija on the extreme limit of their lines apparently for tactical reasons. BULGARIA'S JUSTIFICATION FOR REOPENING HOSTILITIES. A message from Sofia states that the Bulgarians repudiate the suggestion that they acted precipitately, and paint out that they have upyards of half a million
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The Daily Press.
To-day being Chinese New Year's Day (0.8.), there will be no issue of the Honghang Daily Press to-morrow.
A Chinese girl, who took opium, bas been sent to hospital suffering from opium poisoning.
on
The body of a child has been picked up the Taipo Road, death apparently being due to natural causes.
The annual sports in connection with
To-night the Allan Wilkie Company play "Sweet Lavender," a pretty play which the late Sir Henry Irving helped to popularise.
HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
CAPTAIN'S CUP.
The competition for the Captain's Cup in February resulted as under
* Mr. J. B. Thomson
Mr. A. H. G. Jackson....
Mr. C. E. Bearis
Mr. MacKenzie
Mr. F. C. Hall
Mr. R. E. Macdougall
Mr. W. D. Kraft
Mr. K. M. Forde Mr. C. A. Tomes. Mr. A. Ritchie ........... Captain Lindsay.... Mr. F. Bevington Mr. R. E. O. Bird Mr. B. Johnson Mr. P. R. Wolf Mr. T. E. 8. Robson
**Qualifies for Cup.
POOL COMPETITION.
02 1874 94.18 76 79". 376 868-78 05-18-179
92 12 80
84 4-80
89 8 81
03 12 81
85481 89 7 82 96 14 62 98 16 82 88 7 82
101 1883 106 18 88
The Pool Competition, which took place the Chinese Recreation Club, take place from the 1st to the 3rd February, resulted
on Saturday at Causeway Bay,
The Royal Company "de Schelde," of Flusting, are to build a steamer for the Java-China-Japan Line which will be named Tjikembang.
The master of the steam launch Li Fut.
was at the Marino Court yesterday fined 8200 on being convicted of having refused to stop his vessel when called upon to do so by a police officer.
EONGKONG, FEBRUARY 6TH, 1913. TO-DAY is China New Year, and judging from the preparations which have been made throughout the country for its celebration, official decrees notwithstanding, the obser- vance of this time-honoured festival is expected to be, if anything, more general and more enthusiastic than has been the case for some few years past. The reason for this is that the year just ended according to Chinese reckoning has been more prosperous than was expected in the troubled condition of the country, and the volume of business bas
The firing of crackers yesterday and been greater than the most optimistio bad
the lavish display of the five-striped anticipated. True, there have been years banner proclaimed the, approach of Chios when a larger amount of business has been New Year. The holiday feeling among reported, but the business of the past year Chinese was very apparent in the Colony. was distinctly good. There have been very
A concert promoted by the Dockyari fer failures recorded, and these have been Recreation Club took place last night at mostly opium dealers, who could hardly the Seamen's Institute" and attracted hope to fare etherwise in view of the altered good audience, who enjoyed the pro
as under: *Mr. A. H. G. Jacksor *Lieut Lubbock
Dr. Gröne
Mr. W. D. Kraft Mr. K. M. Fordo Mr. A. Ilitchie
Captain Lindsay.... Mr. F. Bevington Mr. B. Johnson'
* Divide Pool.
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BRADFORD TRADE IN THE EAST,
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ILE.FCI.M.S. "PAHAR,"
To be plaved on Saturday, on the Club' ground, at 4 p.m., H.K.F.C. :—Goal, C. H. Buckingham; backs, J. Stalker and H. J. Jones; balf-backs, F. C. Hall, R. F. Long, A. Mackenzie; forwards, W. B. Rigden, 0. Hedley, N. Railton, D. Larkins and Another.
"AN IDEAL HUSBAND."
The following amounts have boon handed over by the Hon. Treasurer, Mr. Northcote, from the proceeds of the per formances of "An Ideal Husband"..
To Mrs. Pattenden for :- The Diocesan Girls' School, The
Eyre Refuge and The Blind Homa
To Father Spada for :--
The St, Lewis Orphanage..
THE CLEVELAND.'
8000
300
$1,200
PERING, February 5th. Outbreaks on the part of the unpaid soldiery are feared. Forty began looting at Peking on Monday, but the majority were promptly arrested and executed.
The Hamburg-Amerika Linie's steamer A wire from Foochow states that a
Cleveland left San Francisco on her cast- bomb was thrown at the new civil gover-ward cruise around the world on the 4th counter-revolutionists. of February with about 500 tourists
nor Chang by Thirty were killed and wounded, and the Governor escaped.
ADMIRAL MAY,
LONDON, February 5th Vice-Admiral Sir William May has been promoted Admiral of the Fleet.
"..
A MILITARY APPOINTMENT
LONDON, February 6th, Major General Sir Charles Hadden has Renter's correspondent at Belgrade tele-been appointed President of the Ordnance graphs that the Servians are already transferring troops to assist the Bul- garians at Chataldja and the Montene grins at Skutari.
WELSH DISESTABLISHNENT.
GOVERNMENT HARROWLY
ESCAPES DEPEAT.
LONDON, February 5th. On the report stage of the Bill for the Disestablishment of the Church in Wales the Government only escaped defeat by 28. An amendment was moved to leave
Board.
MR LLOYD GEORGE A "HERO."
LONDON, February 5th. Another compendious life of Mr. Lloyd George has been published. The author, Mr. Edwards, M.P., portrays the Chan- callor of the Exchequer as the hero of the great movement of national revival.
THE STRANDED STEAMER "HADDON HALL."
LONDON, February 5th.
A message from Cape Town reports that all glebes to the church, and the Unionists the British steamer Haddon Hall, which trouped into the lobby in large numbers,went ashore at Saldhana Day, is breaking there being whispers of another snap ap. The crew have reached Cape Town.
division.
When the figures 20 to 290 were announced there were Joid cheers and cries of "Drop the Bill" and "Saved by the Irish again."
Three Liberals, Messrs. Gladstone, Beauchamp, and William Pearce, voted against the amendment. A dozen Liberals abstained.
A later message states that the report stage was concluded, the Government having large majorities in the evening
こ
The third reading of the Bill was to be taken on Wednesday.
ATLANTIC TRADE ROUTE.
LONDON, February 5th.
It is stated that the Government is negotiating with Atlantic shipping com- panies for the despatch of a vessel
TAXING FOREIGNERS IN JAPAN.
Abbard. She will call at Hongkong en the 15th of March and stay here until Tuesday, the 18th of March, whence sho will anil for Manila:
THE MAGISTRACY.
Twelve men appeared beforo Mr Hai Iand yesterday charged with gambling. The keeper was fined $50 and the mainder 82 each.
For matching a hat from a man in the street a Chinese was yesterday sentenced
to ono month's hard labour, and to be exposed in the stocks for four hours,
P.S. Adlington precceted against a man for having returned from banishment, Mr. Hazeland committed the defendan to prison for six months and to be exposed in the stocks for four hours,
Three Chinese appeared on remand before Mr. Hazeland 'charged with kid- napping a boy. On the application of Mr. Goldring, who appeared for the second defendant, the case was remanded; for week.
A Chinese was arrested by the police on the harbour charged with murder and robbery, but the people of the sampan on which the murder took place failed to identify him. Defendant was, however, charged with being a rogue and a vaga bond and detained.
In a kidnapping case heard before Mi According to the Hochi Shimbun, the Melbourne yesterday it was stated that Aldermanic Assembly of Yokohama at a secret session on the 15th alt, decided the boy's father was dead and his eldor to appeal to the Minister of Finance for brother acted as guardian. In September organized as legal corporations in accord appeared, and later the boy was dis Permission to impose upon foreign firms last the boy's mother and the child dis ane with Japanese law, a tax supple covered with the defendant, but the
mother could not be found. DIY The opinion of the Yokohama mani- mentary to the business or income tax.
THE INCIDENCE OF TAXATION. sipal authorities, says the Hochi, is that although the Japanese Government was
NATIONAL defeated at The Hague in the house tax. dispute, these foreign firms, being legal corporations organized in with Japanese law, ought to pay the additional tax.
accordance
'RECESSIONAL.". MANUSCRIPT OF FAMOUS POEM SOLD FOR £24.
A sheet of notepaper covered with neatly-written verse was sold for $24 at
· VERSUS LOCAL.
The terms of the National Tax Bill shows that the Chief of the National Tax Bureau is empowered with the sanction of the Minister of Finance, to establish branch bureaux or to instruct local off clels to collect taxes, subject to
regula tions to be fixed by the Minister of Finance.
The National Taxes are to be those on Land, Salt, the Maritime and Native Customs, Transit dues, Likin, Mining, Title-deeds, Brokers, Guilds, Pawn broken. Tobacco, Wine, Tes, Sugar, and
Messrs W. & C. Dunlop, in their equipped with the most powerful wireless Sotheby's. The writer was Rudyard Fish. The local taxes are to consist of telegraph installation in order to locatang, and the poem was the famous tional taxes on- Land and Commerce
Bradford Market Report, state —- i
China is gradually recovering from the resulta of the revolution, and the export market has been large but until Gay of Woollen-and-Worsted Goods to that Atlantic Ocean._____* ernment is able to place it in a sounder financial position, the situation.
and report the position of icebergs in the
to
conditions under which that trade is being gramme submitted. The artists were The harvest, however, having been excep sonducted. The trade in building materials, local amateurs and all of them met with including all kinds of iron ware, in imported success. An extended notice will appear goods, and sugar, has been very brisk, so in our next issae.
far as Hongkong is concerned, and the
than they have been for years. The com
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cannot be considered free from sanxiety. fionally good, there is every reason hope that, given a stable Government, China may again see good times,
disappoint Japan has not proved as
DISASTROUS BUSH FIRES IN AUSTRALIA.
"Recessional"
and
taxes on Cattle, Rice, Opium and Oil: also the following, which are called contributions, Licences on beate, sundry goods, shops, houses, theatres, carta, tea-shop restaurants, meat- brothers, butchers, seden-chairs and other petty Recessions1.taxes and contributions..
God of our fathers known of old Lord of our far-flung battle-line." An interesting reference to the poem is made in a letter in which Mr. Kipling Bay!:
to the
LONDON, February 5th prayer. They arrive by themselves some industrial and income taxes, property
A message from Melbourne reports that ing as might have been expected under bush fires have occurred in Victoria, and
the Now Tarifi but, the import of
Glad you like the These things come not for fasting or how. Evidently the idea must have been in the air, or men would not have taken A collection of autograph letters by to the rhymed expression of it so kindly."
The new central taxes consist of stamp duties upon the registration of wills,
money,.. The new local taxes are the transfers end the issuance of paper- house tax, the market tax. tax on the use of articles in the employment of
prospects all round are very much brighter writes: The restrictions on growth and Woollens and Worsteds is naturally come caused great damage. The country is Charles Lamb, Coleridge and Southeyvants and also industrial consumption. man, the originator of the Census, and Government does not yet levy them, but what on the decrease, and the quality of ablaze for miles, and numerous houses from the correspondence of John Dicks taxes the latter only where the Central local taxes where they injure taxation the goods imported appears to be rather and much live stock and fodder have been for thirty-eight years an official of the the Turkenpu is empowered to fortid
A number of autograph letters by
levied by the Central Government,. lower than has been the case for some
additional land industries and incone years. Taking everything into consider destroyed. The hills present a brilliant House of Commons, was sold for £50.
an autographed song by Burns, consisting taxation is not to execed the present ralos customer for Bradford and District. ion, however, this market has been a good spectacle by night, resembling illuminated George Meredith were sold for £445, and
of three stanzas of four lines each, realis- by more than 30 per cent.; 20 per cent. In the smaller markets of the East, such
and 15 per cent, respectively. as the Straits Settlements, results have been fairly satisfactory.
ase of opium are being made more severe fortable state of affairs prevailing is reflected. I cannot hear of any planting of the in the easiness with which large financial poppy in this neigbourhood, and smot transactions are being put through, and the ing is much more rare than it used to be Chinese merchants are happy in the know- Anonymous complaints may now be lodged seem against ermokers, and at the second charge ledge that all outstanding debts collectable. In circumstances such as these, the offender is to be punished.
cities.
> Splendid rain is falling in Melbourne led £49.
The