INTIMATIONS
votes
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7TH, 1913.
were recorded, the Intast tele- gram shows a total vote of 80. The first telegram made no mention of votes having been recorded for Dr. W TING FING. If the first telegram be correct then it is clear that, three-fourths of the
AT THE WELCOME DINNER | members were not present; if the Intest
of the
MEDICAL
legram showing that 860 votes had been east is correct and each member present gave only one vote, then it is clear that the requisite number of members was
· present and that YTAN Suin-1 obtained over two-thirds of the votes recorded, and thus was duly elected. Contrary to expectation, General Li YEAN HUNG,. the Provisional Vice-President, was run in opposition to YEAN SHI-KAI, though CHAMPAGNE General La has repeatedly declared his
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refusal to allow his name to be put for- ward for the post while Yaw remained a candidate. The fact that so large a majority of those present voted for YOME SKIN-RAI-makes it fairly clear that Parliament is not now so antagonistic to him as it appeared to be down to the ime of the outbreak of the ** second révolution." Indeed it is a most note-
CHAMPAGNE fret that YVAN's chief rival in
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chise for the Presidency Anstead of YUAN SHIH-Kat, and it is to be hoped that if yesterday's proceedings were indleler- uinate, the fiasco will prompt a larger
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number of members to attend their duties, and ensure a decisivo vote for YUAN SH-KA to-day. Then it may is hoped that all the blessings will come to China which the Chiness themselves expect to result from the election of a
Work has really begun on the Canton TELEGRAMS.[TELEGRAMS.
Bankow Railway, at the Hankow end.
ME. T. F. Hough returned from Home yesterday, haring travelled out onl Siberia.
The Government at Peking has decided to appoint delegates to institute investigations in the provinces with view to a reform of the Land Tax:
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HM.S. Chelmer, Colne, Jed, and Kennett will leave Malta on the 11th October to replace the 30-kaut destroyers on the ina Station. The Forn leaves for England about the 23rd October.
Wo understand that a sum of about $2,000 was raised as a result of the bazaar
at St. Andrew's Church on Saturday in
[FROM THE CHUNG NOOI BAN PO."]
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
AN INADEQUATE VOTE 4
PEKING, October th. The election of the President of the Republic of China has been postponed until to-morrow (Tuesday), owing to there being an insufficient number a members in
aid of the fund for furnishing the hand-the Houses to-day. some new Hall, given by Sir Paul Chater.
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospituls ́ bega to acknowledge with thanks the following donatios, tu the funds af the Hospitals:-
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.8.25
Harmaston's Circus, which is just closing a succesful season at Peking, is expected to arrive here by the end of the inonth, and will open at Causeway Bay with an up-to-date and attractive pro-
grande.
one German case of enteric fever,
The voting resulted
YUAN SHIH-KA!.............. 475 LEYUAN-BUNG........147
A later Shanghai telegram gives the figures ns: Yuan Shih Kar, 471; Li Yuan Hung, 154; Wu. Ting Fang 35. These figures total 660, which is more than the number necessary to carry through the election. The subject is discussed in a leading article-Ev.
(THROUGH RACTER'S - AGENCY, }
IMPERIAL DEFENCE.
Three cases of plague, six of cholera and eight of enteric fever constituted the
NAVAL, CONFERENCE POSTPONED BY PREMIER,
full list of cases of communicable disease.
LONDON, October 6th. notified in the Colony last week. All The Daily Telegraph says that Mr. wern Chinese cases with the exception of Asquith, as President of the Committee of Imperial Defence, has decided not to simmen an Imperial Naval Conference, a meeting of which was expected shortly. The journal adds that the decision is
the United Kingdom.
At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the North China Insurance Co., Ltd., held last week, they recommended a final dividend on accomit of 1012 of 10 per cont.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,] THE BALKAN SITUATION.
ALBANIANS. DEFEATED,
Luspos, October 6th.
A message from Belgrade states that the Albanians were defeated at Prizrend, and are being pursued towards the frontier.
WEARY OF WAR.
SUPREME COURT.
Monday, October 6th.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
BEFORE HIS HoNoun Mn. J. H. KEMP (PUISNE JUDOS).
$1,000 DAMAGES CLAIMED FOR ASSAULT. Action was brought by Fong Shun against Loung See and Leung Mak Bul to recover $1,000 for assault.
Mr. P. Sydenham Dixon (of Mesars. Wilkinson & Grist) appeared for the plaintiffs, and defendants did not appear and wore not represented.
M. Pasitch, the Premier of Servia, who
Dr. J. 0. Dalmahoy Allen was called has returned from abroad, has declared and sworn, and testified to medically his conviction that there will not botoxamining plaintiff on September 22nd any further conflicts in the Halkans, as all and making the report which was put in. are too weary to begin fresh complica been caused by kicking, and the most Some of plaintiff's injuries might. lave
tions.
The Torkish Plenipotentiary has arrived at Athens to re-open the negotia-
tions.
serious ware about the abdomen, When witness saw her she was in considerablə pain, and unable to walk. He did not seo hor until four days after the oecur- rence, and then she could only move with the greatest difficulty.
Plaintiff said sho lived on the same
The semi-allicial Norddeutsche Allge meine Zeitung (Berlin) sags, that the past week shows an improvement both inflat as the defendants at No. 3, Hai- phong Loud. On September 17th, ab the Sorbo-Albanian and the Graeco-
about 11 p.m., when she was passing. Turkish difficulties, and the danger which defendants' cubicle they accused her of seemed to threaten the work of Peace, attempting to steal their goods and owing to the premature opening of the chattels, She denied the accusation, and Aegean Islands question. has apparently shortly afterwards the first defendant kicked and abused her. When she shouted "save life" the second defendant put her hand over plaintiff's mouth, struck her on the back, bit her hand and scratched her face. She managed to raise another shout of save life," the moon-
been averted.
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CHINESE Y.M.C.A'S BIG EFFORT.
$10,000 TO UN RAISED IN A FORTNIGHT,
The sixteen teang, each with a captain, pants in the first floor blew a police canvassing on behalf of the Chinese whistle, and an Indian constable arrived, Y.M.C.A. in its efforts to raise sum of The first defendinut ran away, but tho second was taken to the police station. on the paid-up capital at ex, 2/9 5-16 and doubtless due to the political situation in $50,000 by the 15th inst., have so far met Thore plaintiff was advised to take out
a bonus of 15 per cent, to contributors.
Two pieces of brass rod were found tied round the leg of a Chinese workman as be was leaving the Taikoo Dockyard. The man was prosented and received sentence of month's hard labour and four hours' stocks at the Magistracy yesterday.
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STABR-On October 6th, at the "
42, The Peak, to Mr. and Mrs.. N. J. STABB, SON. TIEFENBACHER-On September 30th, at
Mrs. Mr. and
H. Shanghai, TIEPENBACHER, a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
to
RAVAN-HOWE.-On August 6th, at Christ Church, Bradford, by the Rev. F. A, Miller, AraHUR RORERT FENTON, of Hongkong, eldest son of ARTHUR DOUGLAS RAVEN, of Toronto, to VIDLA, elder daughter of the late WILLIAM Howe, and Mrs HOWE, 24, Dakroyd Terrace, Bradford.
[1104 CALDERWOOD-BRAMWELL-At Kensington
WILLIAM MITCHELL CALDERWOOD, of Shanghai, to EDITH HELEN, younger daughter of SAMUEL BRAMWELL, J.P of Taddington Hall, Derbyshire, and 4. Cork Hons, Kensington, W., Eng. Jand.
DEATH.
lente as their motto, the Government may yet hope to save the nation from the "Anancial disaster which so many observers.
sey tooming ahead.
UNDER the heading of “Company Acconuts " wo roproduced on Friday last from The Times some comments by a legal correspon- dent on this subject which should prove of considerable interest to local Joint Stock Companies. The interpretation of Sec. 26 (8) of the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908 (which corresponds with Section 27- sub-sec. 3, of the Hongkong Compaulos Ordinance, 1911), by such authorities us Lord ALVERSTONE, Mr. Justice PICKFORD and Mr. Justico Avony in Galloway . Scuill Seebohn & Co., Ltd. (1912) 2K.B., 354, must have an effect on the future foris of Accounts and may had to further legislation. The Times writer summarizes the finding of the Divisional Court as follows: (1) it is ust enough to give a total figure for fixed assets with regard to one part of which one mode. of arriving at the valus has been applied and with regard to the other part of which another mods of valuation has been applied; (2) TE one lump sum is stated, which in- cludes both tangible and intangible assets then such particulars are not given as dis- close the general nature of the assets (and the requirement of the Act is thus ignored); HONGKONG Octover 7TH, 1913.
(3) Separate figures must be given for different classes of assets, because otherwise ACCORDING to Chinese telegrams which reached the Colony last night the Pro- there are not particulars which disclose sidential election proceedings at Peking the general nature of the assets. yesterday proved a fiasco, though we are framers of the Act intended that separate unable to make out why YUAN SHIH-KAI | values should be given for different
since not dela red elected,
he kinds of fixed assets, for the purpose appears to have secured the necessary of the provision is the disclosure of majority of votes. The law requires certain material facts for the information
not leas
of creditors and shareholders, It has been the custom, locally at any rate, to
· Lores. On October 1st, at Shanghai, OLYMPIA ISABEL LOPES, aged 72 years.
HoXULONG UPŸidë; 101, Das Vaux ROAD G. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, B.C.
Was
The Daily Press.
three-fourths
that
then of the members of ench House must attend the election and that the
The
xuccessful candidate shall be the one who utilise a copy of the balance sheet called for obtains two-thirds of the votes of the by Sec. 77 (5) for the purpose of complying members present. The count yesterday with Sec. 27 (3). It would appear that is said to have showed that an insufficient unless the Shareholders' Balance Sheet number of members were present on gives such particulars "as will disclose the
If this important occasion.
it BO, general nature of those liabilities and assets would be the crowning illustration and how the values of the fixed assets have of the lack of interest, which so many
been arrived at” in the some of the above members of the Parliament have shown decision, the Ordinance requires a more in the duties they were elected to per- detailed Balance Sheet to be flied with the form, and for the discharge of which they
Amal Summary, have voted themselves a salary exceeding. that paid to legislators in any European country we believe. But the figures given in the latest telegram show, as a matter of fact, that the requisite three-fourths of the membership voted and that YUAN SH-KAI received the majority necessary to elect him. The total membership of the two Houses Is 962, and while one trlegram from Peking shows that only 022
Mr. and Mrs. C. Montague Ede, returned to the Colony yesterday from a visit to Japan.
An Osaka. dispatch says twenty-three persons. connected with the Dojima Rice Exchange have been arrested on a charge of speculating in rice,
A Chinese who arrived in the Colony by the ss. China was ined $250 or three months' imprisonment for being in possession of a piet and rounds of Inspector Kerr told the Magistrate that the pistol and ammani- tion were concealed in a mattress.
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A disturbance was caused outside a matshed temporarily erected for theatri- cal performances au Hunghom, through
the Company announcing that, owing to the non-arrival of their musical instru- ments, they could not perform. A number of disappointed people threw stones at the matshed, but the police intervened before anything serious was done.
Au armed robbery is reported from
in
a lending article, the Telegraph vigorously condemns the subordination of the affairs of the Empire to the politi- eat exigencies in Great Britain.
THE HOME RULE CONTROVERSY,
LONDON. October 6th.
Sir Edward Carson and Mr. F. E. Smith have left Belfast for London. They received an ovation from crowds of people who sang the National Anthem and Rule Britannia."
summons against both defendants. which she did.
with gratifying success, and the total contributions up to date reach the sum of $27,629, as a result of only three days. work. Included among the latest sub-know what to do about the absence of the His Lordship said he did not quite
scriptions are sums of $1,000 from the
defondants. It was just possible there Eng Hock Fang, $500 from the China Hong Nin Insurance Company, and $500 was some mistake on their part as to the date of the henxing) and the question of from the Lin Yik Insurance Company. It is rumoured that the directors of damages would depend upon plaintiff's several other Chinese companies are also conduct before the actual assault. considering the matter of contributing to the Fund.
Mr. Dixon imagined the defendante had run away, but he did not object to ← an adjourninout,
The further hearing was adjourned until Friday.
CLAIM FOR MONEY LENT.
The object in view. is to build a Chinese Y.M.C.A. Hostel. Dr. J. R. Mott has undertaken to raise from friends of the movement in America no less than Bir Edward Carson, in a speech at $150,000, provided the members themselves
The action brought by Surain Singh Armagh concluding his campaign, said
secure $50,000. The Hongkong Govern-against Li Ming to recover $401 concluded the Government had not suggested ment has also promised to reduce the before his Lordship. The claim was se price of the proposed site in Bridges to $40, amount due for money lent, and Street, opposite the present Hostel, by as to the balance being principal and 825,000 if the ahore, conditions are ful-balance of interest due under a promis- filled.
sory note dated the 10th September, 1912.
conference or compromise, neither had the Opposition, and he advised the Volunteers
to continue their work
PRESIDENT POINCARE VISITS
KING ALFONSO.
PARIS, October 6th:
President Poincaré. has started on a
Shung Moi Tin, a village in the New visit to King Alfonso ai Madrid. Territory. Seven or eight men broke in
the door of a house and three of them walked inside, One of the men held a revolver at this head of the occupant, and persuaded her to keep quiet, while the other two rifled two boxes. The robbers got away with clothing and money to the value of $109.
Karly yesterday morning น thief climbed the scaffolding erected, outside
SOUTHEND RAILWAY TRAGEDY.
LoNnov, October 6th. Major Murdock, who together with a young nurse was decapitated on a railway line at Southend, enlisted in the Norfolk
and regiment forty years ago, speedily promoted.
He served in the first South African
the Wai Hing boarding-house, 171, war, in Zululand and in Egypt, and hes Connaught Road, and entered the pre-been recently suffering from the effects of mises through an open door. He stole a
asun-stroke.
box containing clothing and two watches, AUSTRIAN GRAND DUKE TO VISIT valued altogether a $42. Clothing, a
pair of spectacles, and a watch, of the total value of 830, were stolen on Sunday from the cubicle of a Chinese shopkeeper at No. 41, Connaught Road Central.
BRITAIN.
LONDON, October 6th.
We understand that the members nee conuing their appeal for aid to Chinese only.
Mr. F. X. d'Almada é Castro'apprivred for the plaintiff, and Mr. H. L. Deunys of Messrs. Dennys & Bowley) for the defendant.
His Lordship entered judgment for $352 and costs.
AN OLD OFFENDER.
Mr. Dennys asked his Lordship to make INDIUZANTLY DENIES CHANGE OF THEFT.
an order for instalments. Defendant gou A coufie" appeared before Mr. F. · A. a salary of $50 a month, and plaintiff Hazeland at the Magistracy yesterday on knew it when he lent the money and took a charge of stealing
Besides, defendant. pair of boots, the the risk. a private in the 120th married man. property of Baluchis
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The owner of the boots deposited them at the door of the Indian temple at Kowloon, white he entered for devotional exercises. The defendant saw him take them off, and, as soon as the soldier had entered the temple, picked them up and was russing away with them when he was Seized by other Baluchis who witnessed the theft,
Was
Hi Lordship-Do you soake any pro posal?
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Mr. Dennys-$10 a month, and that is a large sum out of $50,
Mr. d'Almada Defendant has no other judgment against him at present, and be as free lodgings. I think $25 a mouth would not be too much.
Mr. Denys-I think 810 is reasonable. Mr. d'Almada-I do not. I would ask. The accused, when asked by his Worship your Lordship to make it $20 or $25. if he had anything to say, informed the I would ask your Lordship to make an The Austrian Grand Duke, Franzi
Court that he spent ten cents a day, and order with regard to costs.
Mr. Deunys-I would have consented to asked why a coolio who could afford to judgment if the plaintiff had only con- Ferdinand, arrives at Windsor early in
spend ten cents a day should attempt to ducted his case properly, but he put a November, accompanied by his morgana steal an old and worn-out pair of boots. wrong address on the writ
tic wife. He will afterwards stay with the Duke and Duchess of Portland as
Welbeck.
EARTHQUAKE AT PANAMA.
PANAMA, October 6th. Another earthquake shock was felt at five o'clock this afternoon, and lasted
A are recently occurred at Tientsin on | the China Navigation Company's steamer Chinkiory. The ship was loaded at the time with 740 head of cattle consigned to. Nikolajevsk, at the mouth of the Amur River Captain Ainsley was the first to noties amoke issuing from. the ventilator of the lower 'tween deck hold. The alarm was at onee given and it was found that the hay stored in the hold was. on fire.. Tho Russian police and the from ton to fifteen seconds. Buildings Tientsin Volunteer Fire Brigade turned were severely shaken, but reports stato cut and the hold was flooded. Only eleven of the cattle were suffocated or
that the canal zone was not damaged.
drowned.
VENEREAL DISEASE IN GREAT BRITAIN.
During the first eight months of this year it is stated some sixteen steamers, representing 70,000 tuns, were imported into Dairen and other ports of the Kwangtung leased territory. The majority of these steamers were over ten years old, and if the tariff rate now in
force in Japan Proper were applied at the rate of Y10 per ton, the Exchequer would benefit to the tune of 700,000. It is stated that the Communications Depart ment in Tokyo is now considering the question, and will shortly open negotia- tions with the Japanese authorities in Kwantung with a view to devising measures which will put a stop to this evasion of the duty.
THE COMPOSITION OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION,
LONDON, October 6th.
that The Morning Post says
the appointment of a Royal Commission on Venereal Disease will be announced in a few days. There will be about 16 mem bers on the Commission, some of whom will be womens
It is reported that according to the investigations of the Japanese Con. sulate, tho aggregate Japanese losses at Nanking are estimated at Y1,200,000.
His Worship, aftor referring to defen- dant's record, asked-How often have you been in gaol 7
Defendant-Twice.
Mr. d'Almado-That is my mistake.
Mr. Denaya-My friend admits it is his mistake, and he has got to pay for it. In every case of this kind it is the duty
· His Worship-And you were banished of the solicitor to search the Money for five years
Defendant-After
serving the
Lenders Register, and the address given first on the register in this case does not agree sentence I was banished for five years, with that on the writ. The defence would but the second time I was not banished probably have compromised these proceed- at all.
ings much earlier but for the misleading. His Worship You will be banished this manner in which plaintiff conducted his time. One month bard labour and four | casa, hours' stocks, and (to Inspector Kerr) let hin be banished
BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA,
HOME REMARKABLE SUGGESTIONS.
Mr. d'Almada-I don't think they would have compromised.
His Lordship said he was not prepared to make any special order as to costs, but made an order for instalments of $15 month.
LONDON, October 1st.. REVISION OF CUSTOMS DUTIES. The Peking correspondent of the Daily Telegraph suggests that further changes
Tho Premier and the Minister of in British policy in China are iteminent. Finance have jointly reported to the In an article covering several columns he recommends the strengthening of the President concerning the establishment of a Committee in the Ministry of Finance alliance with Japan and the exchange of Weihaiweż which China desiros as a naval for the reformation of the Customs duties base in the north for an island of the and other taxes throughout the Republie, Chusan archipelago. The latter would to be composed of officials specially form a splendid roadstead for the selected by the Ministers of Foreign Yangtze and could be made practically a Affairs, of Communications, of Industry, second Hongkong and a base from which and of the Inspectorate-General of the could be furthered Great Britain's Maritime Customs. Each Ministry will economic claims in Central China delegate two of its officials as representa- Ostasiatischer Lloyd.
tives-Peking Gazette.