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A Night Aquatic Fete is to take place TELEGRAMS.|TELEGRAMS.
but we have had it in evidence that unless an architect or his forowan, er the Gororn- ander the auspices of the Victoria Re- A capital ment building inspector sits upon a building creation Club on Saturday. in course of erection, and tests every bit of programme has been arranged and as the mortar.put into it by the Chinese contracentries for the several events are very
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THE MAGISTRACY.
! MUNDER CHANGES,
Kan Chai was charged before Mr.
tor and watches closely the bonding of the numerous, the Fêto is expected to be a THE SUFFRAGETTE CONSPIRACY: THE GOVERNORSHIP OF CEYLON. Hop, on Jabilec Road, between Saturday'
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Lord Milner last month paid Sir Frederick Lugard the compliment of saying in a pubtis pooch that he belonged to a class of men to whom we owed it not only that we but acquired úr vast tropical possessions, but to whom we owed it also that those territories had been a blessing and not purse to us,
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TRIAL
SEVEN PRISONERS SENTENCED.
Losnos, June 18th.. The Suffragette Conspiracy trial at the Old Bailey has been concluded, and the
women have been sentenced as follows:- Miss Kerr, 12 months; Misirs Lake and Lennox, six months; Mies Barrett, ning months; Miss Sanders, 13 months; Mise
BIR ROBENT CHALMERS APPOINTED.
LONDON, June 18th. Sir Robert Chalmers, K. C.B., formerly Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, and now Permanent Secretary of the
F. A. Hazeland with the murder of Kau
night and Sunday morning. The caso was remanded for a week.
Four men were charged before Mr. Melbourne with the murder of Chan Ying Hui at the Central Market on the 27th May, in the course of a fight.
Mr. J. H. Gardiner defended, and tho case was remanded, "e
the soundi ess of construction. Certificates have been granted in years gone by on a most superficial inspection of the completed Since the present Buildings Ordinares came into force in 1908, giving the building inspecter the right to cut into WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, a wall for the purpose of an examination, it is probable that the granting of certifinates by the Building Authority implies a better guarantee of their soundness the was learn that he has lost one of his eyes. Annje Kenney, 18 months. The chemist,ant, M., would receive the appoint Wellington previously the case. Prior to 1988 there. Hartigan was out hunting and was only oue building inape for for the received a scratch on the eye from a feaf whole of the Colony, To 1002 a great for a twig. Not till about a month after- number of collapses occured in the Colony wards did the trouble become serious,
SCOTCH
Old residents of Hongkong who remem- bei Dr. Hartigan will be grieved to
Clayton, was sentenced to 21 months' imprisonment. All the prisoners will be confined in the third division, and cach
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Mari Giuliano, 29, formerly a leather merchant's manager, at Hankow, and lately living in Bloomsbury, was found in Trafalgar-square, London, last month suffering from a bullet wound.
He died
THE GOVERNORSHIP OF CANTON,
IMPORTANT CHANGES.
of the prosecution,
WOMAN SUFFRAGE,
CHINA ADMITTED TO MEMBERSHIP OF INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS.
LONDON, June 18th, China has been admitted to membership of the International Women's Suffrage An Congress, sitting at Budu Pestli. announcement to this effect was accoun- panied by the presentation of the Chinese Sufrage banner to the Congress, amidst great enthusiasm:
THE WHEELER CASE IN JAPAN.
LONDON, June 18th.
In reply to Sir Mark Sykes in references totle recent case in which W. A. Wheeler, of Messra, Cienz, Wheeler, & Co., of Loices- A Peking telegram states that Mr. Wuter, was sentenced in Japan to four years
charge of obtaining imprisonment oa u Hon Man, the present Governor-General of Kwangtung, has been appointed a
Treasury, has been appointed Governor of Ceylon, Sir Robert was Secretary to the Indian Currency Committed in 1806-0.
A telegram a short time ago reported that it was probable that Mr. Harold Ten
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A GREAT HANDICAP." A man named John Allen was charged before Mr. C: D. Melbourne yesterday with being drunk and disorderly. in
Street. Defendant. who
denied being drunk, said he had a sore leg, and had frequently to sit down, His Worship Your leg was sure when last you were up here.« Defendant-Oh, no, it was not. He was fined $5 or 14 days in dofanity-
LONDON, June 18th. The Cabine considered the procedure to be adopted in the Margoni debate, after
THE CLOWN AND THE COOLIE, Which Mr. Asquith angunced in dies
Stelan Dumitresen (Rococo," of the House of Commons liat, he did not Hippodrome Circus), was charged with propose to put down Government acting in a disorderly manner in Pedder motion regarding the Marconi report. Street on Tuesday afternoon. Inspector It is presumed in the Lobby that the McDonald said the defendant had some Government will either treet the 0 posi-trouble with a risha coolie, and would tion with a direct negative or support not belanve himself when asked to do so some resolution from a member of the by the police. He had to be taken to the station by P.C. Doddington. Defendant, Liberal back benches.
who was on bail of 3, did not appear, and the bail was ordered to be estreated.
It is reported; however, that there may be no division after the explanations of Sir Rufus Isaacs and Mr. Lloyd George -WIDESPREAD CONSPIRACY IN
TURKEY.
"A BAD PRACTICK?
Before Mr. F. A. Huzeland at the Magistracy yesterday, a Chinese' was charged with removing a number of... bottles of liquor from his bonded ware- house without paying the duty.
Mr. W. B. Hind (of Messrs. Brutton
Hett) appeared for the defence, Mr. Hind said he pleaded guilty. No earthed a widespread conspiracy to ever-iquors that were stored in a bonded throw the Government by assassinations. warehouse could properly be removed
WHOLESALE ARRESTE.
CONSTANTINOPLE, June 18th, The Police state that they have un-
and two more building inspectors gore | removed. added to the staff of the Public Woks Department. Iu 1908 we had a typhoon which did more damage to building property in the Colony than bad hon dous in the previous twenty years. Many lives were fost by the collapse of buildings, and in hospital. At the inquest. Mr. Gudo $22.50 $1.90 corover's juries ia, some cases brought fu | Clerici, a silk mrretant, of Bloomsbury,
verdicts of maahnghter-in öne
case said Giuliano had been trying to find Grant Ago, Very Fine 38.00 3.25 against an architect and in another employment. The deceased had been in against builder. We had, too, financial straits, but was more worried THORNE'S BLACK SQUARE 23.50 9/0
a declaration by Chief Justice Piccorr about his father's suicide three or four
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23.50 26.tlut if the Gotemino. chose to ako years ago than about his financial troubles
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witness had received a letter from Ordinances providing duties for its Depart-liane which indicated that he intended ments and did not supply any Department i
suicide. A verdict of Suicide during with proper officers to carry out those duties
"was returned. then there was negligence on the part of temporary insanity the Government and certain officials would be consequently liable, and it would be perfectly possible to bring home a verdict of manslaughter against any of them for neglecting to perform their dutica! This is a view of the law which has not been put to the test. No doubt when the inquest comes to be mellow. Its superior quanty held into the circumstances connected with Special Commissioner to proceed to Tibet £10,000 by selling obsolete knitting Many leading men have been arrested, without a permit, granted, of course, on the latest collapse, the question of negligence with a view to a settlement of the existing mchines above their value in Japan, also the thirty men who had been the payment of the duty. The defendant he must admit-of sending liquor from and responsibility will be investigated as political difficulties Mr. Chan Kwai Sir Edward Grey said-As the case, appointed to murder Shefket Fasha, had been in the habit--an improper se, thoroughly as in the previous cases to which Ming, who was Mr. Wn Hon Man's which is one of considerable difficulty, is Talaat Bey, Djemal Boy, and Astini Bey his licensed warehouse, and then asking
predecessor in the Governor-Generalship wo have referred. Ia to present case we
appointed subject to "uppeal, I would rather not all of whom are Young Turk leaders in during the morning for permits in a of Kwanghung has been gather that the houses were much older Military Governor of the Province, and express an opinion on the judgment at the Cabinet. than these concerned in the calamitios of Mr. Chau Chia Sheung, the present present. It will, however, be carefully A. S. WATSON & CO.. 1908. We are not aware that any legal Governor of Kirin (Manchuria) has begu obligation rests upon the Government to appointed Civil Governor of Kwangtang LIMITED,
institute the closest inquiries into the con- Pending the Intfer's arrival Mr. Chan dition of every building in the Colony; Kwai Ming hans becha directed, to act as
LONDON, June 18th. which would need the constant employment Civil as well as Military Covernor of the
It is understood that an application of a whole army of building inspectors, for if Province. - the evidence givennt previous inquiries proves On receiving news of his appointment will be made to Mr. Justice Eve in the anything it is that only by constant inspecMr. Chan Kwai Ming wired to President
Chancery Division on Friday that tion and by a wholesale cutting into of Ydan Shih Kai asking permission to walls is it possible to say that this or that decline it, but this is regarded merely as Messrs. Weatherby and the owners of "official exiquette.". Mr. Chan Chin horses placed after the objection to wall is perfectly safe. Cases have bee Sheung is also reported have Craganour be restrained from parting quoted in which the mortar used in one made a similar request to the Pre- part of a wall was perfectly good, while insident, and it is stated that his with or receiving any part of the Derby another part of the same wall it was found reason for not wishing to take up the post Stakes.
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to Dr. Eun Yat-sen's party. The people of the province appear to welcome the appointments and numerous telegramis have been sent to both men begging them
not to decline.
Mr. Wu Hon Man, it is stated, desires to hand over affairs to-morrow, if Mr..
to beabsolutely rotten. It is only fair to the is that he does not belong to the same Building Authority to point cut that the an-political party as the general body-of nual reports of the Public Works Department oficials in the province, whe all belong show that the condemting of dangerous structures must form a by no means unimportant part of the Building Authority's duty. The Report for last year has not yet been issued, but turning to the Raport for 1911 we find that notices relating to structures in a dangerous condition were served in no fewer than $30 cases, which affords some proof that when defects are brought to the notice of the Department eithor by the building inspectors or any member of the public, there is no neglect on the part of the Building Authority to cause investigation to be vando and to take the uction that the circumstances require.
A Chinese buy was drowned whilst bathing at the Aberdeen ferry wharf on Tuesday.
Tue collapse of buildings in Station Street: involving the death of twenty-five persons and the injury of many others once again calls public attention to the danger which lurks in Heaven knows how many baildings in this Colony. It is by no means the first
Five cases of plague, all fatal, were time within the last ten years that the reported yesterday. The total for the Government has been told in the local Press that it is its bounden duty to make year now stands at 146. "the closest inquiries into the condition of We are officially informed that there overy building, old and modern, and rigidly will be no meeting of the Legislative to condeшua every one wherein thers can be|Council to-lay,
the least possible doubt as to its safe condi
watched.
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THE BALKAN NEGOCIATIONS.
LONDON, June 18th. Bulgaria has consented to the Servian proposal to demobilise the troops on the frontier to one fourth, but stipulates that the disputed territory in Macedonia be occupied by the Servian and Bulgarian troops in equal numbers until the Tsar has delivered the arbitral award,
Servia, Greece, and Montenegro have accepted Russia's invitation of a meeting of the Premiors of the Allies at St. Petersburg,
BELGRADE, June 18th. The King has refused to accept the for on resignation of M. Pasics, and consequent ly the latter continues his policy.
LONDON, June 19th.
The Ascot Blakes were Tuesday with the following result
Rivoli
Catmint
Junior
2
THE ULSTER SCARE.
LONDON, June 18th. A case of riffés and bayonets was seized Twenty-two ran. Winner won by aon a steamer at Londonderry.
LATER. Chan Kwei Ming is prepared to accept length, a length and a half separating
office.
THE GERMAN CELEBRATIONS AT
CANTON.
second and third.
Betting 100 to 7 against Rivoli, 100 to o against Catmint, and 100 to 8 against Junior,
A METROPOLITAN POLICE APPOINTMENT.
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Accession of the German Emperor, William II., the German community at Canton attended on Sunday the 15th a thanksgiving service held in the church of
LONDON, June 18th. Mr. Basil Thomson, Secretary of the the Berlin, Mission, opposite Shameen. The official recognition of the occasion Prisons Commission, has been appointed took the form of a reception at the Ger-
man Consulate in Canton on Monday the to succeed Sir Melville MacNaghten as 10th, which was attended by the Foreign Assistant Commissioner of the Metro Consuls and the members of the German politan Polico. Colony, with their ladies, as well as by a large number of well-known residents, numbering in all more than two hundred. At noon Consul Dr. Roessler, in a few well-chosen words, proposed the toast-in- Several of the persone Who were injured | honour of His Majesty William II., which
THE DECLINING BIRTHRATE IN
FRANCE.
PARIS, June 18th.. Statistics which will appear shortly
tion," but we recol'ect a statement being in the collapse of the two houses on Satur; was heartily responded to, The British shows that the birth-rate in France for
A Chinese, aged about 50, was knocked
flag in honour of the day. In concord with the wishes of His Majesty, the Ger-
other festivities, but instead had made community had refrained from any
arrangements to bring together a fund. which shall serve national purposes.
FRENCH AVIATOR'S BRILLIANT RECORD,
made in one of the Courts of the Colony | day have now been discharged from destroyer Offer then saluted the German 1011-12 was the worst for 115 years.
Few years ago to the effect that if spital.: every wall with a crack in it were pulled down Hongkong would soon be demolished! Within the past twelve years residents have down by motor-car No. 31, in Queen's been made familiar by many cases in the Road East on Tuesday, but his injuries
were not serious. Courts with the conditions responsible for
There seems to be no limit to the daring- calamities of this description. In the old days houses were erected without any and ingenuity of the Chinese thief. adequate supervision by the Building Turing Tuesday night a Chinese, with Authority or the architects, and even in the aid of a long bamboo pole, extracted quite recent times we have had instances of from a bedroom in Xs. 4, Blue Buildings, the collapsing of houses within five years Praya fast, a bed cover and a shirt, with after they had been completed to the satia slove links and studs. faction of both the architects superintending
THE BRITISH SJUADRON IN CHINA WATERS.
ST. PETERSBURG, June 18th. M. Moulinsis, the French aviator, has arrived here, completing a wonderful flight from Paris to St. Petersburg. The last stage of his journey was against half He intends to return to Paris a galo.
i Helsingfors, Stockholm, and Copen-
We learn that H.M.B. Yarmouth will he leaving England in August to relieve H.M.S. Flora, which will proceed to hagen. England.
M. Thomas, the Hongkong Agent of the H.M.S. Trinarph will leave England at their erection and of the Building Authority Messageries Maritimes, left for Home on the end of August, to relieve the Temar who, in due course, after inspection, granted leave by the Paut Lecat on Tuesday, and and will also bring out reliefs for H.M.S. the necessary certificate for their occupation: M. Saint Clair de Bussieurro, who has Merlin and losario,
H.M.S. Monmouth will be proceeding That negligence has been shown both by the been acting agent ut Singapore, has architects and by the Building Authority arrived in Hongkong to assume charge direct to the West Indies station to join
the Fourth Cruiser Squadron: in granting such certificates is undeniable, here during the absence of M. Thomas.
THE AUSTRALIAN NAVY'S NEW COMMANDER.
LONDON, June 18th.
The Commonwealth Government has appointed Rear-Admiral Patey to the command of the Australian Fleet.
The Trish police have seized four large cases of rifles and bayonets arriving by steaner at Drogheda.
lump. There was no attempt to defraud the revenue in any way, because defens dant was always liable to pay for any deficiency found.
His Worship-It is a bad practice. Mr. Hind-I have told him s Inspector MeKenzie said defendant first of all got duty-paid liquors out on the 7th, and on the 13th he (the Inspector) wont there to check some of his stock. He
selling a lot of beer, and that he would. go through the beer. Defendant later told him that he thought he had been
said he was very sorry, but he had taken several things out and that his stock would not correspond. The amount of the duty was S61.09. Witness agreed with is Worship's suggestion that defendant would have been detected eventually, unless he had some means of mixing things up that they had no knowledge of.
Mr. Hind-I am informed that the same thing is going on frequently in the Colony,
His Worship-That does not improve your case (Laughter.).
Mr. Hind-No; it only shows to what extent this practice has been springing up. Defendeut was fined $75, or in default one month's imprisonment.
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THE HIPPODROME AND CIRCUS.. Capital performances continue to be
WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT.
LONDON, June 18th. The Welsh Disestablishment Bill passed its second reading in the Honse of Com-given at the Circus. mens by 357 volės to 258.
OBITUARY.
LONDON, June 18th. The death is announced of the Rev. Samuel Augustus Barnett, Canon Westminster since 1906.
say
STEAM TRAFFIC THROUGH YANGTSZE RAPIDS,
of
To-night the performance will be in the nature of a benefit for the popular touring manager of the Company, Col. Bob Love. A first-class programme is promised, and doubtless the general public will gather in large numbers as a compliment to this veteran of the ring. The management is to be congratulated on its practical interest in local sport, us evinced by the offer of a handsome trophy to the winner of the 100 yards swimming ruce at the Victoria Recreation Club. The trophy will be presented by Mr. K.
Bysack at the Circus on Monday, when the programme will again be changed.
The Hippodrome will leave for Canton at the end of the month,
LAWN BOWLS.
Mr. Acting Consul Hewlett, in his report for 1913 on the trade of Ichang The steamship Shutung of the Szechuan Steam Navigation Company, which runs between Ichang and Chungkiang, cora pleted 35 round trips since she first starter! în 1910. This wonderful record cou pletely vindicates those who have con- sistently claimed the feasibility of steam traffic through the rapids, swirls and
? render navigation whirlpools which between Ichang and Chungking because must he conceded, however, The first match played so far in con- that the result is almost entirely due to the skill and intrepidity of Captain nection with the open championship took Plant, master of the Shutung, whose 12 place last night between A. Ramsay years experience of the river, command of the Chinese innguage, patience under (Kowloon) and B. Duncan (Civil Service), exceptional difficulties not only from the the former winning by 21 points to 18, accord with his Chinese crew, all combine pponent lay game. rapids but from being supplied only too drawing the winning shot when his
to enable him to combat with success the cintless difficultics which beset his path.
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often with indifferent coq, and complete
The owners of the stearnship Shutung The first anthentic and official report of inter placing another steamer on the the American Government's investigation rum, but it is extremely doubtful whether
not
she can be completed in the United King of the Friedmane tuberculosis vaccine, dom in time to begin work in 1913, and it declares the results of the Public Health will probably be April, 1914, before she Service or errations so far do
The first trip of the justify that confidence in the remedy which has been inspired by widespread from Ichang stearuship Shulung starts running. Chungking was on May 1.
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