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AN UNFOUNDED RUMOUR.
LONDON, May 31st. The Times correspondent at St. Peters- burg states that King George, while in Berlin, accepted an invitation to visit the Czar, possibly at the end of June. It is believed that His Majesty will go to Kronstadt in the Royal yacht, and if
he lands it will be the first visit of a British sovereign to Russia.
Reuter learns that there is not the slightest foundation discoverable for the report that the King is going to Russia. Provident Poincaré's visit in June would make it impossible. Nothing is known at Buckingham Palace of any plan for a Russian visit.
THE ALTRINCHAM ELECTION.
LONDON, May 31st. "Elution is a mild terin with which to describe the foolings of the Unionists over the result at Altrincham, which is variously described as an encouragemont to Ulster, a breach in the Northern citadel of Free Trade, a revolt against the Imaraner Act and an expression of general discontent at the policy of u tottering Administration. None expected such a majority is the successful candi- date secured, ne the Labourites were working for the Liberal,
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The increase of 3,000 in the electorate since 190 is emphasised by the Liberals, who point out that the politics of these.
additional votes
.unknown quantity. They also declare that Mr.' Hamilton, the Unionist candidate, declined to fight on the question of Tariff Reforin, and hence Free Trude was not an issue, while the electorate was probably affected by the militant Protestantiam of
the country.
Moreover, as
with the
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THE SUICIDE OF AN AUSTRIAN COLON EL.
VITAL SECRETS. BOLD TO RUSSIA,
VINNA, June let. It is believed that Colonel Redl, the
suicide on the eve of his arrest for selling officer of the General Staff whe committed
secrets to a foreign Power, has betrayed vitally important military secrets to Russia, He was especially entrusted with the detection of espionage and it is stated that a further arrest has been mado, and that others are expected,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 2xD, 1913,
RANDOM REFLECTIONS.
With the advent of June bathing, becomes more general, and the various wharves are now crowded in the evening by companies of people waiting for launches. Cherry brandy and ammonia are still found among the up-to-date parties.
suggested that, the measure should not come into opération until after the next China Now Year and the Dragon Boat festival, the two great settling days among the Chinese. There is every reason indeed to believe that the change will work as smoothly as the suppression of the Chinese copper coinage last year.
It is satisfactory to observe that the Considering the number of people who garden plot in front of the Law Courts use the elevatora in the larger buildings has been turfed and is now being laid out plans to inquire what supervision, if any. But how long is the finest site" opposite in the Colony, it might not be out of in parterres of flowering plants to vie with the Bank's garden plot opposito. is exercised over lifte in Hongkong. It Club to remain a sorry contrast to hoard the other day that an elevator the neighbouring beauty spots?
Government it I remember rightly, de dropped from the second floor of a clined to turf this plot because it would tain building to the bottom, but for cost too much. Now things rank and tunately the emergency brake obviated the gross in natura" possess it merely. been Woods are growing there two feet high. nasty smash that might have
It is, I understand, through the personal anticipated. Other stories of lifts stop-
interest of H. E. the Governor that so ping in lofty regions have been told of much has been done during the last six Late, and the question naturally suggests months or so to beautify the hillside on itself: How often are these means of either side of the Peak Tramway, and I transit tested and how often are they feel gure if His Excellency wore to see the neglected state of the. finest site in examined by any Government official!
contrast with the trim condition of Royal Square, on which it abuts, he would give directions for some improvement to be made there while the plot is a-begging for
purchaser,
The conduct of the military authorities. virtually compelling Colonel Real to commit suicido, is sharply criticised on the ground that the trial night..havo
Everybody remembers how the great revealed important clues and brought to
conjuror a year ago was held up in a lift light his accomplices.
in the Hongkong Hotel Mansions, and Red's espionage is believed to have not long ago some very weighty members of the community in putting in a bolated been going on for 14 years.
appearance at a company meeting ax plained that the lift had refused to act.
SUPPOSED SUFFRAGETTE
OUTRAGE.
LONDON, June 1st.
A signal box near Wendover has boon burnt down. It is supposed to be the work of Suffragettes.
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A cardboard box, filled with cotton wool and rags, soaked in oil, was found in a room in the Royal Academy. number of burning wax tapors was tied to the box. The outrage is attributed to the Suffragettes,
MRS. PANKHURST AGAIN RELEASED..
LONDON, May 31st. Mrs. Pankhurst, the Suffragette leader, who was re-arrested a few days ago for a breach of the lisence under which she released from prison after her was
hunger strike," has again been released and has been removed in an ambulance. It is stated that her condition is serious.
SERVICE
labourers at Newmarket, so with the VOLUNTARY SYSTEM NATIONAL clerks of Altrincham, they stampeded, by way of revenge on their employers, against the Insurance Act.
THE LIBERAL REPLY,
LONDON, June 1st.. There have been various criticisms di
the projected debate between Colonot Seely and Earl Roberts from different
Sir J. A. Simon, the Solicitor General, speaking at Oxford said the Liberal standpoints. It has now been decided reply to Nermarket and Altrincham must be a prompt and bold advance all along the line. The time had arrived to tackle the task of raising the level of underpaid labour.
ENGLISH COUNTY CRICKET.
LONDON, June 1st. Kent defeated Northants by 10 wickets.
versity.
that Lord Roberts will dine at the Eighty Club, and the War Minister will propose his health.
THE KING AND QUEEN AT THE OLYMPIA.
LONDON, June-ist. Their Majesties the King and Queen visited the Naval and Military tourna-
and competitions, including the officers" Warwick drew with Surrey, and jumping competition for the King's Cup. The King presented the cup to the winner,
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This proves that defects are constantly manifesting themselves, in the mechanism and consequently the public should have Homo assurance that the lifts are "safe"] In a letter which appeared in the Daily Press a few days ago reference was made to the heavy weights which chuir coolice have occasionally to carry, Might it not be fair when a corpulent individual, who turns the scale at about twice the weight of an ordinary man, attempts to enter a lift that he should be compelled to wait for a special trip on his own? To have und or more such men entering a lift with two others of ordinary weight means that the lift in carrying tore than it is in
tended to carry.
The British mails continue to reach the Far East vid Biboria with annoying irre- gularity, despite the many complaints Authorities in Hongkong and which have bono seat Home by the Postal other China ports as well as by the Japanese Postal Department. Some of the trains by which mails are conveyed across Siberia seem to be abnormally slow. Many people, for instance, are still awaiting the arrival of a mail dispatched from London more than five weeks ago, though I learn that the official advices received by the local Post Office da un show any bags to be missing. It is never theless, a fact that the mails ria Suez live brought duplicates of several letters, the originals of which were posted to go via Siberia, and those originals have failed
to turn up yet.
THE NEW EASTERN CABLE
REDUCTION IN RATES.
INTIMATIONS
Some particularly interesting informa- JOHNSTONE'S tion cancerning the new partially laid cable between Coylon and the Far East direct-which is to be extended during
the course of the next nine months or so
to Aden and through the Red Sox to Suez to join the Mediterranean cable from Alexandria to Gibraltar laid some months
Adamson, who is at present in charge of ago-was given to a representative of the Timra of Ceylon on May 16 by Mr. J. E.
Telegraph Station
Eastern
M.P.
in The the
Colnbo.
It will be remembered that, a few days ago, the end of the cable from Penang- which is eventually to be carried to Singapore and as Far East as Hongkong was brought ashore at Colombo by the cable ship Colonia. As soon as the cable end was landed here, said Mr. Adamson, we were ready to transmit messages to Penang, but the arrangements here for the transmission and receipts of messages are merely temporary. However, nego- tiations aro at present proceeding in | Londort and in Ceylon concerning the charges for cablegrams by the new route, and we are waiting until these are com- The best that quality of ingredients plete before we inaugurate the service between Ceylon and Penang. The idea of the negotiations is to obtain a reduced and age combined with experience tariff for Ceylon and to equalise the rates between India and the Far East and and skill can produce. Culmalo and the Far East.
Writing of flowers and gardens reminds use of a further suggestion in regard to the removal of the Clock Tower. It is that if the Government creates an "island" there, as suggested by Mr.
Shelton Hooper, it would be an ideal place for the flower sellers who now con- gregate in Wyndham Street.
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At the present time messages from Colombo to the Far East have to be sent
Medms and, naturally, the cost of transmission from Colombo to the Far East is considerably more than from A recent announcement in the Gazette Madras to the Far East, for the simple has created a good deal of talk relative reason that Colombo users have to pay to the qualifications or rather disqualifi- for the use of the Colombo to Madras land cations for the office of Justice of Peace line. When the new cable from Colombo in the Colony. The purport of it all may
to Hongkong is complete, messages will be summed up in the question: Is that
be transmitted direct and, if the present all the revision that is deemed to be neces-negotiations are successfully completed, sary 7
the blegram charges from Madras and Colombo, respectively, and the Fur East will be equalised.
The General means to have us up early to-morrow if we wish to see the parado on the Cricket Ground, in honour of the King's Birthday. Those participating have to be on the ground at 7.30 am, and the public cannot afford to be much later.
RODERICK RANDOM.
THE DERBY.
The near approach of the Derby (which is run on Wednesday) makes the follow ing notes on the Two Thousand by the well-known Sporting writer "Uno" of interest :--
There was an intensely exciting finish for the Two Thousand Guines, and Mr. W. Raphael's Louvois beat Mr. Bower The Ismay's Cragancur by a head. two-year-old colts of 1912 which stood out alone were Craganour and Shogun, and Craganour bad always shown himself to be the better. The two met for the first time yesterday as three-year-olds, the result was the same. Craganour in cach one of the two-year-old races referred to beat Shogun by three lengthis, no more and no less. "Craganour appeared to have made up his mind that whenever he met Shogun the pound of floch ho demanded was contrred as three lengths. The form worked out almost true to an ounce yesterday, when Shogun, pulling up, was some five lengths behind Craganour, who for the third-time in his life was filling socond place. Mr Ismay'a colt was beaten at Goodwood as a two-year-old by Rock
This will naturally mean a big reduc tion in the rates from Colombo to the Straits Settlements and beyond. Speak- ing roughly I should gay the saving would be about three pence or four pence per
word to the Far East.
Mr. Adanson added that the Ceylon Government would continue to take
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COMPLETING THE CABLE
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ADJUSTED FOR TEMPERATURE AND
Fallowing the completion of the Penang to Colombo section of the cable the Colonia has now returned to England to fill up with cable. She will Frobably OF FINEST QUALITY AND HIGH PRECISION. return to the East at the end of next month to lay a further section from Pegang to Singapom and Hongkong. This completed, she will again return to England to refill with cable and will then proceed to lay the Aden to Colombo section, which, it is expected, will be completed in December. When the Red Sea section from Aden to Snez has heen laid the new cable will constitute an entirely new route east from Gibraltar to Hongkong, for the Colonie has already laid a Mediterranean cable from Alexan- dria to Gibraltar.
Touching the subject of mails, I learn that the British Postinaster-General has
Before the cable is actually laid a vesicl recently made a change in the dispatch Flint, and at Liverpool as a three-year is sent out to take soundings for depth of the mails which used to come East bydd by Flippant. These thres animals, and for temperature at the bottom of the French mail steamers. Instead of Rock Flint, Flippant, and Louvois are the ocean, as well as to take samples of mails now consisting the only animals which have ever beaten the bottom. This was done in the case sending these
of the Penng to Colombo cable, and the chiefly of newspapers, so far as tho Far him, East is concerned to the port of Mar- I said to Saxby, "Is there anything results are most satisfactory. Starting you would care to say about the race from Colombo to Penang the depth 2 Yorkshire drew with Cambridge Uni.ment at Olympia, and witnessed displays seilles to cach the M. M. liners, they are Saxby said, “I won by a length, and miles out was six fathoms, but this i
now being sent to Bombay riá Brindisi. was frightfully pleased, and the hay dropped to fathoms, then to 1,100 They are conveyed across India to running to lead the horse back asked me fathoms and from that to 2,200 fathom. Negapatan, and thence by stearer to what had won, and I said. We have The bottom continued at this depth for
rose again as the shore was approached. Penang or Singapore, where they will won, and he was as pleased as I was some hundreds of miles, but gradually Then somebody came and said No 12 was arrive, as a rule, in time to catch the Ger- in the franc My number wes No. 3. On the other side, from Adn eastwards, man mail steamers eastward bound. This always make a point of looking to see the results of similar preliminary investi- happened last week, for the first time. A what my mumber on the race card is gation have been equally satisfactory. before leaving the paddock My fool Leaving Aden and passing Cupe Guarda gain is thus made of four or five days inings were that i had had some bad luck fui the bottom slopes down to a depth of ļ
However the transit. For many years the British in my time, but that this was unnatural" 9,200 to 2,500 fathoms.
the The Hon. Mr. George Smith, C.M.G.. | maila við Bucz have been brought by the I interrupted Saxby to ask, "Do you water got shallower again near Colonial Secretary of Mauritius, has bron P. & O. and the .. steamers. I mean that if yon had known there was Islands. The temperature at the bottom was 35 degrees Far almost freezing another half-length or length to make up future we may expect them by the P. & tould have done it? Baxby answer point. The bottom, in this cas gazelted Governor of Nyassaland.
O. and the German steamers; but how ed. Not that at all. I had been asking practically white clay all the way without INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.
did it hannen, I wonder, that yesterday's the horse to do everything he would put any rocks. Experts think the nature of French mail brought some. British maila in. He could not have done any more. to Hongkong?
All I am saying as that I felt certain we had won."
claimed the points.
(iloucestershire gained the points in a drawn game with Bussox.
INTERNATIONAL POLO..
BRITISH TEAM'S PINE DISPLAY.
NEW YORK, June 1st. The British polo players played the fastest and most brilliant game since their arrival when they beat a strong scratch team on the Piping Rock ground by 17 goals to hil
The American polo player Milburn was injured in a practice game at Meadows brook. His pony tripped over the mallet, and kicked Milburn on the head. He was carried to the Club-house in a barely conscious condition.
THE DERBY.
LATEST DETTING.
LONDON, May 31st.
Vulcain was scratched at five o'clock on Friday.
The Intest betting on the Derby, to
Wednesday, June 4th, is
on
follows:-
5 to 2 against Craganour.
to 1
7 to 1
9 to 1
20 to 1
20 to 1
20 to 1
23 to 1
25 to 1
100 to 3
100 to 3
50 to 1
Shogan.
Nimbus.
Louvois.
Day Comet
Gront Sport. Prue. Bachelor's Wedding.. Radiant.
Sun Yat Sen. Harry of Hereford. Rock Flint.
be
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NEW GOVERNOR OF NYASSALAND.
LONDON, May 31st.
WASHINGTON, May 31st.
Mr. Bryan has announced that Great Britain and France, Tinly, Russia, Sweden, Norway, Brazil, and Peru had responded favourably to his peace plan, but liad asked for details. No nation had replied adversely, though some requested time to consider the matter.
THE MURDER OF A SĂBADAR AT SHAMEEN.
CONDEMNED MAN GIVEN LEAVE TO APPEAL.
As a result of the interesting point raised by Mr. F. C. Jenkin (Counsel for the defence), that the Court had no jurisdiction, in the case at the Criminal Sessions in November in which an Afghan Sepoy, named Ibrahim, serving in the. 126th Baluchis, was charged with the murder of the Subadar of his Regiment while stationed at Shamees, a telegram has been received stating that the Privy Council has granted leave to Ibrahim to appeal in forma pauperis.
It will be reuiembered that the jury diangreed in the first trial of the man, but he was found guilty by a second jury. The Chief Justice sentenced the man to death, but stayed the execution of the sentence until his Majesty's pleasure was known.
The introduction of legislation in the
the bottom and the depth of water on both sides excellent, and the opinion has been expressed that there should be no trouble at all with the cable for many years to
As far as appearance went Shogun was unquestionably the king of the paddock come. this was nothing. He was sweating and was fretful, but Fairy King, who, like Craganour, is a son of Desmond, is evarse horse, which Craganour is not. Shogun is all quality with a freedom and range about him which is indescribable.
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Legislative Council for prohibiting the circulation of Chinese subsidiary silver coinage will be received with plonsure by those who have held it to be a disgrace that so much foreign money should current in a British Colony.
Loarois victory, I believe was entirely The Chuese traders here anticipated this unexpected, and he carried not more nelion for some time, and I understand than a few suvercigus of stable money, that provided a fair time be given for the these odd sovereigns being invested on the completion of contracts on existing bases off chance of success, but as his trainor Dawson Waugh, said to the writer, "He there is not likely to be any great is a son of Isinglass, and you never know objection to the Ordinance." It is what singlass's sons are going to do."
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the British munication between Japanese Governments for some years past. The Japanese Government com. with the direct decision of The flague award, but they have not accepted the views held by the British, French, and German Governments as to the fndirect consequences of that award. Negotiations are, however, proceeding. with a view to arriving at a permanent settlement of the honourable member's question. As regards the latter part of the honourable member's question, I have received a report from His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokyo that the Yokohama Municipality had levied municipal busi- ness and income taxes on certain British Had other foreign firms owning premises built on perpetual leasehold: lots, on the ground that such firms being registered as Japanese ordinary partnerships are subject to the same taxes as individual Japanese. The matter has been brought,
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