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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 61μ, 1913.
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THE PEKING-HANKOW
RAILWAY.
A BRIDGE SUBSIDES.
PERING, August 5th. There has been a wash-out on the Peking-Hankow Railway extending for forty miles, and a bridge has subsided,
SHANGHAI RED CROSS
SOCIETY.
DONATION FROM THE PRESIDENT.
PERING, August 5th. President Yuan Shih-kai has sent a donation of $20,000 to the Shaug hai Red Cross Society.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PANAMA CANAL SHIPPING
HUMOURED NEW BRITISH NAVAL CASE.
WASHINGTON, August 5th.
A port that Great Britain contem- plates making a great Naval base at the Farmudas is keenly interesting official circles. It is stated that Great Britain enquired regarding America's plan to protect the Panama Canal routes, and it is suggested that this indicates an intention to safeguard the shipping Through the Canal, as in the Mediter- rii tito The oficials realise that the
problem involves the very life of the Mouror Doctrine. atlær European uations will probably follow Britain's tak
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LATER.
The Bermuda report, which the Ameri- can Press is magnifying into a scare, is apparently based on the despatch of four cruisers to the West Indies, which the Admiralty announced weeks ago.
|THROUGH REUTZNn'a ADENOX-] MEDICAL CONFERENCES IN LONDON.
LONDON, August 5th. Besides the International Congress of Medicine of 5,000 delegates, including the world's most prominent doctors, which
Prince Arthur of Connaught opens to- morrow, two other Medical Conferences are meeting in London.
Mr. Asquith yesterday, at Westminster, opened the Tuberculosis Conference of 'ho National Association for the prevention of. Consumption.......
Mr. John Burns was the chief speaker at the English-speaking Conference yu Infant Mortality at Coxton Hall.
Dr. Mackenzie of Brompton Hospital, and. Dr. Sims Woodhead and others of Westminster contended that the partisans of Tuberculin had not made out their
case.
EXPRESS TRAIN AND MOTOR CAR
COLLIDE.
MILLIONAIRE KILLED.
NEW YORK, August 5th. While the American millionaires · Mr. William Vanderbilt, Mr. Osgood Puil and others were returning from a dinner
party at Long Reach, an electric express dashed into Mr. Pell's car killing Mr. Pell, the chaffeur and a guest ramed Laimbeer. The latter's wife, who was a noted beauty, is badly hurt.
THE HOME RULE QUESTION.
LONDON, August 5th.
Sir Edward Carson inserted 3,000 drilled Clubmen, and addressed an open air demonstration at Portrush at which he mentioned that there was a rumour that the Government had issued a warrant for his arrest, but he was certain that it would never be excented.
Inquiries in Londen do not confirm the
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President | Wilson, when interviewed, [report of the issue of such a warrant. pointed out that Great Britain always had a naval station at Bermuda, and that she was now only strengthening fer ships, and not her fortificatious.
London papers state that the cruisers in question return home annually for the
TTELAIYONAL VIS.
THE BALKANS.
ARMISTICE EXTENDED
LONDON, August 5th.
A Bucharest telegram says that the Conference has extended the armistice for three days, and adjourned until the 5th
inst
BRITISH SUBMARINES MISSING.
-LONDON, August oth.
Two submarines participating in the Naval Manœuvres are missing, and destroyers have left Rosyth in search of them. According to the Admiralty, the failure to report themselves is probably due to ignorance of the fact that the
ended unexpectedly ·
Junœuvres
Saturday.
on
THE CAWNPORE RIOTS.
SIMLA, August õtá. Sir J. S. Meston, the Lieut-Governor, visited the hospital at Cawnpore and enquired as to the condition of the wounded, and also visited the gaol, where the arrested number 100. It is believed that were killed. There is no doubt that Moslem agitators caused the riots. Former municipal improvements have
often necessitated much greater altera- tions, without serious objection. There is practically no excitement in Cawnpore generally, and moderate Moslems were arranging a deputation in the Lieut- Governor. Meanwhile focal Moslems are taunted by outside agitators, who held a mass meeting on Sunday with unfortunate results.
BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ORIENTAL IMMIGRATION.
VICTORIA (B,C), August 5th. The Premier of British Columbia, Mr. McBride, has declared that his Govern- mer could conceive of no Treaty right or influence entitling anybody to interfere in British Columbia's supreme authority in regard to the ban on Orisutal imunigra.
tion
LONDON. August 5th. Mr. Thuanus, Chairman of the Cam- brian Coal Combine, in speech at Cardiff, said that the total quantity cí oil in the world available for fuel was less than two per cent, of the production of cool, and bit would not take the place of coal in this or the next generation.
THE PIT FIRE NEAR. GLASGOW,
TWENTY-TWO BODIES RECOVERED.
LONDON, August 5th. Twenty-two corpses have been found in Cadder Pit, near Glasgow, where a terrible fire broke out. One man only was "extriented alive,
A HUMANE BILL.
LONDON, August 5th. Mr. Hobhouse ras introduced a Bill prohibiting the importation of the pluisage and skins of wild birds,
HOLIDAY FATALITIES IN ENGLAND,
LONDON, August 5th. Twelve more bathing fatalities were reported in England on Monday.
YACHTING AT COWES.
A ROYAL SUCCESS,
London, August 5th,
King George's Britannia, which has not raced since 1809, was an easy winner from scratch in the handicap for yachts over 75 tons at Cowes. The King and Queen and two of Their Majesties' child- ren were aboard.
BOXING.
BOMBARDIER WELLS AGAIN SUCCESSFUL.
LONDON, August 5th. Bombardier Welly Knocked out Pat O'Keefe in the fifteenth round at Black- friars.
MANILA AND THE HAMBURG- AMERIKA LINE.
From the Monita Cablenors: -? Com- mencing in October, 1914, the Hamburg- American line will inaugurate an East Asia passenger service in competition with the Nordeutscher. Gloyd was the substance of a message received by the insular collector of eastoma yesterday from the bureau of insular affairs in to Washington by Theobald Dahl, Euro- Washington. This information was sent
pean agent for the Philippine customs service, who recommends that the Philip- pine government and the allied chambers of commerce combined request that the Hamburg American line have their vessels of this new service make Manila a port of call.
THE MAGISTRACY.
CLOTILING STOLEN FROM A JUXYK.
THE UNLUCKY NUMBER.
Before Mr. F. A. Hazeland yesterday Inspector McHardy charged 13 men with gambling at No. 1, Man Ming Lane. The Rest man, alleged to be the keeper of the premises, was fined $50 or one month, and the remainder were fined 83 eath, or ten days' imprisonment.
1,800,000dz., while the import from Australia receded by 500,000dz. The Sir Francis Oppenheimer, Commercial import of raw cotton from India Attaché at Berlin, in his report on the receded by 220,000dz., that from Egypt
A Chinese was charged with stealing trade of Germany in 1912, says that the by only 40,000dz. The import of Canic figures of the Gorman native and foreign dian apples decreased by nearly 60 per quantity of clothing from a junk at trade show that the country had her full sent, the import of Australian apples Yanmati Bay, and was sentenced to one share in entisfying the universal bunger increased by over 100 per cent. There was month's hard labour and four hours' for merchandise. The value of the Ger- an increase of imported beef from the man export amounted to over 9,000,000,000 | United Kingdom. In various industrial | stocks. marks, against 8,200,000,000 in 1911; and towns a lively interest has been aroused the value of the German imports to for frozen meat-but the import was 10,700,000,000 marks, against 10,000,000,000 impeded by the existing "ment laws marks in 2011. The German production and their rigorous measures of control. of coal amounted to "177,000,000 tons, The import of frozen mutton from Aus- against 100,000,000 tons the year before; tralia is possible, bat it must be effected the German production of raw iron in whole carcases. The continued high amounted to roughly 18,000,000 tons, prices for native meat will bring this against 10,000,000 tons; the German con- question of an Australian import to the sumption of iron amounted to 10,100,000 fore. It will be assisted by the fact that tons, as against 8,900,000 tons in 1911. the goods trafic between Australia and The Balkan War damaged pre-eminently Germany bas in recent years grown more the export of German woollen goods, but lively. more especially as the number of it directly assisted the German export of shoop in Germany is rapidly declining. automobiles, leather goods, and an bulance supplies. The British, German trade showed some remarkable changes. As far as the expert from Germany was concerned raw heet sugar receded by 40 per cent. The oxport of rye receded by roughly 30,000dz. (double contner 230,4lb.); the export of peeled rice receded of wheat increased by 110,000dz. in 1912, as by roughly 50,000dz. The German export the British milling industry could ad- vantageously use the salt German wheat for blending. The export of oats increased by over 240,000dz. The import of whent from Cauatin inereal by
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A SHIPPING COMPANY'S REPUTATION FOR GENEROSITY.
Fines of $40, or in default one month's imprisonment, vere imposed uper four Chinese for
board the Kutseng, bound from Singa being stowaways On
pore to Hongkong.
One of the defen danty coolly stated that he had heard that the shipping Company, was pleased to grant free passages to Chinese who wished to return to their native land,
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that the Company's vessels could not cope with it, so that several outside steamers had to be chartered, which resulted in considerable loss, owing to the high rates at which the boats had to be hired. The shipments of sugar from Java to Japan increased considerably last year, owing island of Formosa, and the traffic with to the failure of the engar orope on the Shanghai was also much risker. On the. other hand, the transport of rice from the failure of the rice crop. The report Rangoon ceased almost entiroly owing to goes on to say that, in view of constantly. increasing traffic in both directions, and the difficulty of obtaining chartered ves- sels, even at high rates, the directors, resolved to add a ninth steamer to the feet, to be of 12,000 tone carrying capacity. She is being built at Flushing, for delivery in June, 1014. Another boat of the same dimensions has this year been ordered to be built at the same yard. For the payment of this new tonnage an in- crease in the share capital will be neces kary. The Sit saved through the year amounted to 24,023-florins, which Company's system of self-insurance last
sum was added to the insurance reserve, and in view of the contemplated extension Boring was added to the insurance reservo of this system, an extra sum of 30,000 out of last year's profits, which brings that furid up to 106,470 florins.
As the steamers are expected shortly to undergo extensive renovation, a reserve of 150,000 florins has been set apart for that
The Library of St. John's College Cambridge, where over three hundred volumes have been found mutilated, con- taias few books of special interest, apart from an edition de luxe of the Great Bible" of 1540, but architecturally it takes precedence of all college libraries, magnificent building was the benefaction either at Oxford or Cambridge. The of John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, and Keeper of the Great Seal, and was com- picted in the early part of the seventeenth PROSECUTION UNDER THE STAMP purpose. The book value of the Beet century,
Odol
The World's
Dentifrice
Do you
realise
ORDINANCE.
stands in the balance-sheet at 4,319,570 florins, the total gross register tonnage EMPLOYER'S LIABILITY FOR THE WRONGFEL being 37,014 tons. The share capital is
3,800,000 florins. --Pairplay.
ACTS OF HIS SHROFF.
Mr. C. D. Melbourne gave his decision yesterday in the case in which Messrs. Montric & Co., Ltd., were charged, as the employers of a shroff whé refined to į duly stamp a receipt, with an offence under the Stamp Ordinance. Ilie Wor ship said he found the defendent Coni- pany guilty, and asked the police if they pressed for a full penalty.
An officer replied in the affirmative. Mr. P. W. Goldring, who appeared for the defence, said it seemed to him that it was a very ungracious thing that, owing to a dispute between a prominent į member of the community and a busi- 1 ness firm on a small matter of $3.50. the police should ask for the full penalty. It was not us if the case amounted to n Crown prosecution, where the offence had been going on hundreds of times.. It had not been suggested that they had done anything of the kind before. The shroff was supplied with an unlimited quantity of stamps, and received implicit | orders to stamp all recsipts over $16. He did not know what more an employer could do. He thought nothing more than a warning should be given in the casi. He felt that there was some difficulty in this case in regard to the finding at Home by which they would be bound. He thought they were not on all fours with Hongkong. It seemed to him at the police. were arting most unfairly. and he suggested that it would be adequate if his Worship were to register a conviction and give a cuation. Otherwise, people who were in business in the Colony would have to go out and see that their shroffs had stamped receipts, or employ a second shroff to follow up the first for
INTIMATIONS.
THE BEST
THE BREWER'S
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WHEEL" BRAND
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SOLE AGENTS FOR CHINA:
the same purpose. His Worship with H.
agree that air. Paine (the manager of the defendant firm) had acted perfectly bona-fide
His Worship said he gave his evidence in a most straightforward manner, and he certainly believed everything be said. Mr. Goldring also said the conditions
the immense importance of the unique superiority of in this Colony were utterly different to Odol?
While tooth pastes and tooth powders can, at the best, be effective only during the few moments of application, the anti- septic and refreshing power of Odol continues gently but persistently for hours afterwards.
Odol being liquid, penetrates into the interstices of the teeth and
permeates the gums and mucous membrane of the mouth.
those prevailing at Home, and where everything was done on credit) as it was here, there was an enormous amount of work for the business people. The shroff
had implicit instructions from his em-
ployers, and bad admitted he was to blame. --He asked his Worship merely to: record a conviction-such as it was-and
discharge the defendant with a caution, or inflict only a nominal penalty.
RUTTONJEE
& SON,
14, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL..
HOWARD
WATCHES.
THE AMERICAN WATCH
The members of the Press were there, and it i would go through the Colony, and some-] altered. It spomed to him that this was one would come along and get the law or FINEST QUALITY AND HIGH PRECISION.
a case where n punitive fine should not be
inflicted. Of course, had it been a private
he
individual and not a limited Company would have been able to go further. His Worship said he must inflict a line
The teeth are thus safe and accordingly imposed a penalty of 310.
guarded and preserved from
decay, and in such a thorough
way as no other dentifrice can
THE JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LINE.
The accounts of the Java-Chinn-Japan
effect, not even approximately. Line of Amsterdam for 1912 show that
PERTUSSIN.
Is a harmless and efficient remedy against all diseases of the respiratory organs. especially WHOOPING COUGH, CATÁRRH OF LARYNX, ACUTE AND CHRONIC BRONCHIAL CATARRH.. ASTHMA, &c, which Eus er engnise unequaled by the highest authorities.. Also, the AFFECTIONS OF THE LUNGS will be greatly relieved by the use of it.
TO BE HAD AT EVERY CHEMIST.
IMPORTERS:
S. J. BETINES & COL
TIENTSIN AND PEKING.
the gross income, including the State. subsidy, amounted to 1,792,933 foring, of which sum 35,348 florins were paid away. as interest, 437,375 florins were written off for depreciation, 50,000 florins were set apart as an extra reserve, a reserve of 100,000 florins against losses on charter- ing was created, and a reserve of 150,000 florins was set apart as a repairing fund, so that a net profit of 1,020,240 florins
ADJUSTED FOR TEMPERATURE AND
PONPONM.
THE PRICE *OF THE HOWARD
WATCH IS FIXED
AT THE FACTORY.
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rematitied, and a dividend of 8 per cent. CHS, J. GAUPP
is paid (against 6 per cent for 1911). The report states that in the course of the year eleven voyages were performed in the China line and eighteen in the Japan line, as well as four in the co bined line. Besides these seven voyages were made outside of the contract. The good results realised last year, the direc fors add, are attributable principally to the Bourishing condition of the freight
VOELKEL & SCHROEDER, LTD.. market in Eastera Asia, and in the second
SHANGHAI,
half of the year business became so brisk
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