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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 28 H, 1918.
The Circus gives its farewell per- 1 formances in Hongkong to-day-a matinee in the afternoon and the final performance in the evening. The Circus proceeds to Canton early next week.
The many friends of Mr. Fred J. Halton, Agent of the Pacific. Mail Stenim- ship Co., in Hongkong, will be glad to learn that he is returning by the P.M. steamer Vile, leaving San Francisco on July 9th, to resume charge of the Com- pany's Agency in this Colony.
The
Of the
TELEGRAMS.TELEGRAMS,
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
FRENCH PRESIDENT IN
ENGLAND.
TRIBUTES TO THE ROYAL DEAD.
LONDON, June 27th. Sunshine again "favoured Presidiont Poincaré on Thursday, when he had another busy day. He visited Windsor, and the scenes of enthusiaan were 10- enacted in the picturesque royal borough.
(THROUGH BEITER'S AGENCY.] ·
ANOTHER SUFFRAGETTE
RELEASED.
LONDON, June 27th. Miss Kerr has been released. Thus all the Suffragettes who were sentenced at the Old Bailey to varying terms of imprison ment on the 17th inst. are now out of prison through hunger striking.
CORRESPONDENCE.
A RECENT RATING APPEAL
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]
Hongkong, June 27th. Sin--About two months ago considerable prominence was given in your columns to Rating Appeal by the Acting Colonial Treasurer against his subordinate, the Acting Assessor of Rates, with reference to the rating of a house belonging to Mr. Bryer.
The appeal was commenced and prose- cuted without notice to Mr. Bryer, then
The President placed a beautiful wreath | KNIGHTHOOD FOR A WELL-KNOWN in England or on his way thither; and, acting presumably on the principle that Is absents ont toujours fort, it was freely suggested that Mr. Bryer had made incor- reet returns to the Assensor, C
London, and was entertained to luncheon by the French Colony,
The London correspondents of the French Press describe President Poin- earé's visit no longer as a success, but as à triumph," and declare that these days will become historic. They emphasize the
INDIAN MERCHANT. .
Honourable Mr. Fazulbhoy Currimboy, partner of the firm of
The
Messrs. Currinibhoy, Ebrahim & Co., better known locally as E. Pababoy, has had the honour of Knighthood conferred on him by His Mast Gracious Majesty King George V.
As the Assessor, Mr. Chapman, was also on leave, there was no one in the Colony who knew the circumstances under which the returns and assessments had been made,
The Times of India, in some comments
From instructions we have received on the Indian honours list, remarks that the Hon. Sir Fazalbhoy Carrimbhoy is from Mr. Bryer by last mail it appenis one of the most active citizens of Bombay. that the rent reserved by the lease includes the business and industry of his house.by landlords of Penk houses, such as hot. He has for many years taken an active
permitted the Hongkong and Shanghai remainder $2,750 has been given inremarkable. spontaniety of the British He has had a large share in building up a number of fittings not asually provided
welcome.
BALL AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE
The Ball at Buckingham Palace was the most brilliant function of the season. There were 2,500 guests. The King and Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Connaught and other members of the Royal Family were among the dancers.
hardship it in astonishing that they have put up with it for so long. Has not the remedy always been in their own bands? The foreign bauks do not accept Oliu se notes at par, and couse- quently their circulation in the Colony has been greatly restricted, but the local banks bare accepted the Portuguese notes, and largely oning to a scarcity of Hongkong one-dollar votes, which has long prevailed, the Portugueso notes of this denomination would appear now to very nearly equal the Hongkong notes iu
At the funeral of a prominent Yunnan CHEMISTS, DRUGGISTS AND number. It may be suggested, incidentally, educationalist the students of the local
PERFUMERS,
that their sudden withdrawal will doubt schools at Talifu fought with sticks and less lead to considerable inconvenience stones for precedence in the procession. unless the Government is prepared to meet The physical director drew a knife anden King Edward's tomb and algo on the demand by an increased issue of one-inflicted serious injuries on some of the Queen Victoria's tomb at Frogmore. After dollar notes. We are aware that the fixed students One student lost his upper lip policy of the Lords Commissionners of the and two teeth. Ti physical director is a brief visit to the Castle, be returned to PURE CARBOLIC SOAPS.Treasury is dead against the issue of under arrest. Highly recommended by the Colonial notes of a lower denomination than Slongkni “Municipal Gazette Medical Profession
ten shillings sterling, unless for very step announces that the $20,000 which was tional reasons, but last year the Chamber of received from the Chinese Authorities in Commerce was able to show "very axe-p-connection with the apprehension of the tional reasons" why there should be au murderer of Sung Chao-jen on March increased insun of these notes in Hongkong: 20th has been distributed. Of this sum and eventually HIS MAJESTY'S Government the French Police get 80,000.
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Banking Corporation to increase its issue of personal rewards and $5,250 has been one-dollar notes from 226,000 to 350,000 | placed to the credit of the Police Recron- PRICKLY HEAT LOTION [f the necessity for this was recognised tion Fund, An invaluable and most effec-twelve months ago, it is certain that there tive remedy. Immediately will be pressing need for a further increase
Yesterday afternoon Malinį the wizard- allays the irritation.
after August ist next, when the circulation of of wagic, offered his services for the foreign notes must cease. With regard the entertainment of the orphans and school children at the French Convent to the Bill to prohibit the importation and and for fully an hour entertained the circulation of foreign silver and nickel coins, little tots with tricks that figuratively the Government appear to have hit upon & made their eyes pop out of their little Reuter's Agency learns that M. Pichon method of meeting the representations of heads.. It will be a long while before the Land M. Cambon have had long conversa- Chinese traders without sacrificing toe orphans forget. Malini. The Magiciantions with Sir Edward Grey and Sir the Bill has not yet been finally passed, an mach of the principle of the Bill Though gives his first public performance next Arthur Nicholson, discussing the Balkans, understanding on the points of difficulty H.E, the Governer has promised to murkey and practically all matters of No formal docu- have been reached, and it has been decided present, that this Ordinauce shall not come into
ment has been signed, but the views of
force until March 1st, 1914. By that time
the two Governments have been found to the junk people and residents in the interior "WE LIKE YOUR LAVENDER who are regularly trading with the Colony WATER BETTER THAN ANY will have come to understand what is ex- OTHER WE HAVE BEEN ABLE pected of them when remitting or bringing ing a robbery. The defendant entered Agency, dwells-upon the excellent impress TO GET IN ENGLAND. (Recent coin into the Colony, and we may hope that the woman's house and on being informed sion created by President Poincaré's visit. Testimonial.)
the firms to whom the proposed licences declared he had come for some medicine and says he can only reiterate how much are issued will gradually succeed in reduc-
for a sick file
This aroused the the visit has strengthened the Entente ing the importation of foreign coin into the auspicion of the woman, who made to Colony to a minimum. All who desire to leave the house, Bat before she got away see China progress will also hope that these defendant lassoced" her with a rope measures of the Hongkong Government will with a running kaot. The woman, how serve to impress upon the traders in theever, caught the rope before it closed interior the value of exchange banke, and at round her neck aul commenced to scream the same time supply in incontive to for help. Defendant becage alarmed and enlightened and outerpyising business mea. to establish thom wherever the volume of business may be ensidered sufficiently encouraging. Not only will the country be beuchted evnomically thoroby, but from what was said at the Council meeting by the Hon. Sir KAI HO KAT the stop is one which should command official interest and support if only for the reason that it would do much to remove the present temptatione to the piracy and brigandaga which at present disgrace the administration of the neighbouring province,
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HONGKONG. JUNE 2011, 1913.
The German mail of the 28th May was delivered in London on the 26th June.
Tuesday night at the Peak Hotel, when
An interesting story was related to Mr. Harland at the Magistracy when a Chinese was charged with assaulting a
woman at Matakok with a view to commit-
that her husband was absent defendant
THE ENTENTE.
Anglo-French interest.
be in complete accord.
M. Pichon, in a infssage to Renter's
THE FIGHTING BETWEEN SERVIANS AND BULGARIANS.
A SEMI-OFFICIAL STATEMENT.
SOFIA, June 27th.
It is semi-officially declared that the
interest in every public work in the city, water service, English baths, electrie rnd especially in the education of ¦ lamps, &c., and also a certain quantity of Mahomedans, for whom he has founded, furniture consisting of side-boards, cup- in conjunction with his sister, a boarding boards, soats, shelves, etc. The return school at Poons, and in the Corporation and the Provincial and Imperial Legisla. made by the landlord was a return of his It is men such as lie who are broad-basing | such fittings and furniture, live Councils he has done valuable work, estimate of the rent of the house without the future of India on economic pres- perity and public service.
The Assessor, who was no doubt aware of the whole circumstances, presumably assessed the house on a par with other tonements in the locality unprovided with such fittings and furniture.
HOME RULE FINANCE
The official memorandum issued on the financial provisions of the Home Rule Bill
The procedure adopted by the Govern- is most instructive. According to the ment in putting up an acting officer as calculations of the Treasury the expendi- respondent in an appeal by the acting cure last year upon purely Irish services head of his department, who alleged him exceeded the revenue contributed by self to be aggrieved by the decision of the Ireland by no less than £1,493,000. In face of such a figure it might imagined absent officer, savours somewhat of the that the Government would show some Gilbertian and might in a private case be anxiety so to frame its Home Rule dubbed "sharp practice." proposals as to reduce the loss on the Not working of the Irish Government.
To adopt Mr. Gershom Stewart's at all! A further calculation of the phrase, it will not work out to the ulti- Treasury shows that if the visions of the
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ran off, but was chased over the fields by reports published at Belgrade relating to Ireland under the Home Rule Bill will conducted by the Suzuki Shoten, of Koboj-
several farmers, who captured him and handed him over to the police, ¿
the fighting at Zietovo are incorrect. The engagerncat was between Servian troops and a Bulgarian hand commanded hy Abazofi, The latter on Tuesday dislodged Servians from the heights on
BELGRADE, June 27th.
A well-informed correspondent" writ gives very full details of what he describes seventy ing from Peking to the Chino Republican
as the "prepared military plan of the the right bank of the river. The fight Government" for "defence and offence was resumed en Wednesday- in case of war with South Chiva.” He says it would be wrong to describe such troublepas war between North and South, because there is no such demarea-been held. It is understood that the tion, but the trouble is between those who Opposition, except the Liberals, decided stand for democrity and those who are to support the proposal made by `M. for tyranny. According to the details Pasies, to accept arbitration of the dispute given, Kwaugtong in the event of this with Bulgaria.
second revolution" breaking out will be i
A secret session of the Skupstina has
Home Rule Bill had been in operation the mate benefit of Hongkong if an uneasy loss would have been £1,993,000, or in feeling should prevail at Home with round figures £2,000,000. But that is only regard to" the fairness of the Govern the less on purely Irish expenditure. In ment in dealing with the property and addition, as Mr. Gladstone always credit of absent landowners. Yours faith- insisted, Ireland ought to contribute her fully, fair share to the common expenditure of, the two islands on the Army and Navy, the diplomatic service. the Royal Family and other joint charges Under the Asquith-Remond Bill Ireland contributes not a penny to any of these purposes. Her fair share, on the principles Inid down by Mr. Gladstone, would be not less than £4,000,000; so that the real subsidy to that the Dairen Steamship Company, It is reported, says the Japan Chronicle,
be the huge sum of £6,000,000 a year, That is the price which English and has decided to open a regular service Scottish and Welsh people will be called Tacoma, Yokohama, Kobe, Muji, upen to pay in order to make Ireland Shanghai and Hongkong, with 'a nation." It may be that the Nation--Teikoku Maru, Pukoku Muru and two alists whom Mr. Redmond leads are other cargo steamers of 0,000, tous. The content with this bumiliation; but the Company intends to carry general cargo Ulsterinen are not. They repudiate this on the outward-voyage, and wheat, flour so-called Irish nation which claims to be and timber for the homeward voyage. supported by the charity of Great is believed that the service will be opened Britain; they demand to remain citizens on September 1st next. of the United Kingdom, and to contribute with their resources and with their activities to its strength. The only answer of the present Liberal Party is to to shoot them down. Daily threaten Graphic.
CHARACTER AND GENIUS OF MR. LLOYD GEORGE.
This diagnosis by the Rev. J. Vyrnwy
Sir West Ridgeway has returned to attacked by the first division of Peiyang, NEW GOVERNOR OF GIBRALTAR. Morgan, U.D., in the Fortnightly
London from British North Borneo and China.
It was decided at the annual general mecting of the International Swimming Club at Shanghai last week to invite Hongkong to send up a team in Septem- Ber.
which is now stationed at Kalgan, and which will proceed in Kwanghing by sea. The correspondent declares that the information he supplies is not fictitious, bat is based upon facts."
LAWN BOWLS.
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“A Reader's" letter has been received, THE interesting discussion which took but as it trenches upon a legal question
The following further results in the place in the Legislative Council on Thursday at present under consideration in a local open championship are announced:- on the Bill to prohibit the importation and courts its publication is postponed for a.W. Russell (K).... 21 W. Cainoren (P).. 20 circulation of foreign silver and nickel coins few days.
W. Fincher (C.S.) 21 C. Pryce (K). resulted in concessions by the Government which appeared to be seceptable to the Vicente Sotto were continued at the
The extradition proceedings concerning D., Cooper (K)....,, 21 J. Mrcionáld (f) 14 Chinese representatives. The other Bill to Magistracy yesterday, but they were prohibit the circulation of foreiga notes formal, the Magistrate simply revising passed through Committes without amend the evidence. ment, and apparently without discussion,
and will come into operation on the 1st of At the Magistracy yesterday a Chinese August. From that dute, therefore, the was sent to prison for 14 days and ordered notes of the Banco Nacional Ultearino, to be exposed in the stocks for four hours and such Chinese hotes as now circulate in for stealing eighteen Chinese cups valued the Colony must disappear. This Ordinance
LEAGUE TENNIS.
BURMAH-CHINESE RAILWAY.
جدید
thu
It
According to reliable report, the con- struction-of-a-railway between--Burmah- and China, a scheme which has been urged upon the Government of India, by the leading British Chambers of Commerce for several years, will soon be carried out. The present trade routes consist merely of rough mountain paths. Surveys of three possible routes have been prepared for the eBham to Tengyeh, a distance of 120. Indian authorities—namely (1) from
LONDON, June 27th.
jew is both careful and clever:-
miles; (2) by the Northern Shan States Like Disraeli, Mr. Lloyd George Railway from Mandalay past Maymyo Lieut. General Sir Herbert Miles | possesses that form of ambition that and on to Lachio; and (3) by the Southeru cannot afford to be to scrupulous. I Shan States Railways from Thazi to K.C.B.. who has been Quartermaster would not go bail to Mr. Lloyd George's Taunggyi, which might be extended General of the Forces since 1908, has been methods, to say nothing of his urbanity, eventually into China via Kentang. in case he were contradicted or any Expert opinion favours the first and last- appointed Governor of Gibraltar, vice serious attempts were made to thwart named schemes. Lieut-General Sir Archibald Hunter, who has resigned from the termination of his Irave. Jane 30th.
PRINCE OF WALES IN AN AIRSHIP.
SUFFRAGETTE EPIDEMIC.
WHY BRITAIN 18 FAVOURABLE, GROUND,
It has been left for a Viennese dior
hini. Defed or defeated one way, he would resort to another, and he would not be so mindful of his language as good breeding would-require, or of his tactics as the traditions of public life would demand. If his old associates, and even those who had been his helpers in the days of laws and philosophy, Herr Jatius of small things, stood in his way or failed Pokorney, to discover what he holds is to go the whole length, he would discard the real explanation of the Suffragette then with the san agility as he would outrages in England. turn his facs towards new friendships. Pokorny asked why modern England Lecturing in the Vienna. Uranis. Dr. has strong intuitive powers, and he offered such a favourable ground for this is quick to discover the persons and the extraordinary opinions that may help him to go
Similar conditional epidemie.
existed in other farther, He often says more than he countries, but no such discreditable out- means, but never saya what he does not breaks ever occurred in them. The true mean and nover dissembles for the origin of this fanatical barbarism. Dr. purpose of misleading the public as to his Pokorny continued, was to be found in real intentions.
the ancient civilisation of the British He has the capacity of throwing the Isles. Mr. Grahame-White has waterplaned" | whole weight of his intense nature into Among the original inhabitants of Eng-
LONDON, June 27th, It transpires that the Prince of Wales Civil Service ». Club de Recreio, Civil flew in the Army airship at Farnborough Service Ground, at 4,30 p.m. Civil a week ago. Service team:-1. H. A. Nisbet and C.
R. Sayer: 2, F. A. Biden and R. C. Bar- ow; 3, 4... Brawn and N. L. Railton.
WATERPLANING FROM PARIS TO PUTNEY
LONDON, June 27th.
at 35 cents from the godowns at Kowloon.THE BUILDING TRADES IN JAPAN-from Paris down the Scive and up the the pursuit of his object, and is never land woman occupied a domineering
is one that ought to have been on the Augustin Durand, about 28 years of Statuto Book of the Colony long ago. For age, a second... steward on the M.M. some years now-the-suomaly bas existed--of-steamer Izmand Behic-was-found-dead- a Government controlling the issue of bank in his bunk while the ship was at Yoko notes by local banks, and collecting a tax han, death being due to suffocation by
gas fumes. of one per cent. per unum on the average
GUILDS DEMAND ADVANCE IN PAY.
The Building Contractors League, aud various Labourers Cands in Yokohama bave passed a resolution demanding that, wing to the steady rise in the price of daily necessaries, the "cale of wages be raised, the new rates to be as follows en and after July 1s-Carpenters, Y. 1.25. per day; plasterers, Y. 1.25: blacksmiths and sawyers, Y. 1.30.
THE KAWASAKI DOCKYARD CO,
ISSUE OF SPECIAL DEBENTURES.
daily circulation, and yet bising unable to We have been asked why Tuesday, July prevent the circulation in the Colony of tst, has been declared a public holiday. bank notes issued by barks having no July 1st was declared a holiday for the foral habitation and paying no tax. The first time last year at the request of the Chamber of Commerce, in a commusication Exchange Banks, supported by the Com- to the Government on this subject in 1907, mittee of the Chamber of Commerce." referred to the circulation of these foreign At the Magistracy yesterday a house notes freo of tax as "un apparent hardship coolie summoned ++ European lady The Osaka Mainichi reports that the on the banks who have authorised issues, resident of Kowloon for having assaulted Kawasaki Dockyard Company and a loss of revenue to the Hongkong him and withheld his wages. After hear Government." But if, so far as the banking the evidence, Mr. Hazeland dismissed are concerned, there has been any real the summons, the complainant also losing
his wages.
Kobe,
which has large and pressing orders on
Thames, alighting on the river at Putney, BETRAYING GERMAN NAVAL SECRETS.
LEIPZIG, June 27th. A policeman named Jaenicke has been sentenced to six years' peñal servitude for betraying a naval signal book to Great Britain and France.
DEATH OF THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND.
LONDON, June 27th. The Duke of Sutherland has died from hand for building warships and steamers, heart complications following upon is in want of money, and the Company has decided to issue per cent, deberes pleurisy contracted while on a voyage
from Ceylon in February.
for the amount of Y3,000,000.
dismayed by opposition, never disposition; still in the historien period heartened by difficulties, never at a loss might be seen examples of matriarchy, for suitable repartee, always able to with which polyandry stood in the clusest.
pure.
with off the main point when very hard relation.
After explaining that in these "cf" pressed, clinging with grim tenacity to his object, even when that object seems ditions of culture woman spent her life unattainable. He is not justly free from in boundless liberty, the lecturer pro- the reproach of flattering the multitude ceeded to show how this original popula for personal and political ends, but, tion, in contrast to the rest of Western though a typical Cilt, he knows how the Earope, managed to remain comparatively It was in consequence of the English are sometimes moved by their retrogression of the Anglo-Saxon popa- emotions, and he knows how to play upon lation that the original race in England their imagination by appealing to their had become the majority. love of liberty and justice. He realises
In London, for example, only one, the value of moral forces, and he knows seventh of the people were blonde It is how to appeal to them and how to bring no wonder that 1,400 years of Anglo-Saxon them into play when the necessity arises. rule has not sufficed to keep back instincts They are the counters, as are his phrases, which for more than 4,000 years were with which he often fights his battles. permitted to develop unhindered among It is this gift, coupled with his intense the original inhabitants. moral earnestness, that has lifted him out of the line of a mere party leader and invested him with the glamour of a great Bocial and political reformer.
Dr. Pokorny concluded by warning his hearers against the terrible consequences of women's franchise, which, he said. would drive every State into Socialfem and anarchy: