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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APBIL 20ru, 1914,
TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
"DER OSTASIATISCHER LLOYD" SERVICE.]
CHINA SERVICE.
CHINESE PRIME MINISTER'S PROGRAMME.
THE FOSTERING OF INDUSTRIAL AND
·AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT.
PEKING, April 18th Hsu Shi-chang has made known his political programme for the future.
He will, in the first instance, foster industrial"
-ore
"DER OSTASIATISOKER LLOYD":
SERVICE
-AUSTRO-ITALIAN ENTENTE.
BERLIN, April 18th, The meeting at Abbazia of Count Berch. told and the Marquis di San Giuliano has shown their entire agreement on the Albanion question, also on the spheres of interest in Asia Minion understanding on
the Mediterranean question has not been made.
LADY MAY'S BEREAVEMENT,
SUDDEN DEATH OF GENERAL SER GEORGE DIONY BANKER.
in 1853, the late General became an
years later he served in the Persian
"CORRESPONDENCE.
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG
DAILY PRESS.
RANDOM REFLECTIONS.
fined their feelings to a mers showing of disgust. When they see this greed of the cabby, however, their feelings cannot be restrained, and many scenes have result ed. I am on the side of the ricshas. The above the legal number, for in addition gharries should not be allowed to carry to it being grossly unfair to a by no means hucrative section of labour, there is also the element of danger, though the fall will not be a long one
THEFTS OF MAILS AT MANILA,
A mysterious pilfering of the mail in the Manila post-office, which has puzzled the postal officials and baffled the skill of the post office inspectors for nearly two years, has been solved by a clever piove of work on the part of Inspector & L Kidder, and the alleged offender, Rosendo Tason, trusted employee has been
arrested.
Chief yeoman J. E. W. Blake, until on the U. S. S. Supply, now languishes in recently detailed in charge of the mails" the brig of the vessel awaiting trial before a invel court at Guam. He will
charged mail entrusted to his caro. Offoers and enlisted men aboard ship, says a Manila contemporary, unite in characterizing his work as crude. For the past two or piitoring the mail, throwing the opened. three months, it is alleged, he has been letters in a pile in his office until nearly two sacksfull accumulated.
RUBBER COMPANIES.
tion, but only for industrial aims. The intend, with the agreement of Germany appointment arising out of his services little carriage is loaded with a neu of salt. When the tourists from forward £9,320. The proposed amalgama-
notes.
finance policy will find expression in the redemption of all the provincial notes and a unitary edition of the Government The coinage reform is to be effected with the aid of a foreign loan, The Government will aim at the promo tion of good relations with foreign countries.":
1886.
bumams as it is
Araerican views of things in general must always be taken with that wonderful the land of big things" visit Long kong, well, they talk, and Hongkong is described in all sorts of original ways. This past week Uncle Sam's sons and
who had
the misfortune the Colony
have considerate enough to
A special telegram to the Straits Times from London, dated the 10th inst., gives the following information:- vent, puts to reserve £10,000 and carries Highlands and Lowlands pays 7 per
tion with Ayer Kuning is on terms of one Highlands sharo to four of Ayer
Changkat Salak pays 10 per cent, Anglo-Malay 20 per cent, to reserve £12,500, forward "£8,500. ***
Kuninganna
Eastern Produce declares 10 per cent. Allagar per cent.
There is every probability of a faction fight enlivening Kowloon, due to the greed We regret to record the death of General
of the cherry Filled with the healthy Sir George Digby Barkor, G.C.B.
spirit of competition, the cabby of the father of Lady
took May, which
Hongkong, 18th April, 1914.
gharry is ondeavouring to apply place suddenly at his residence, Clare DEAR SIR, I have been so busy enjoying squeeze; not only dods ho decoy Priory, Clare, Suffolk, on the 17th inst., Sermons in Stones and the commente a legal number of fares by his cry of all at the advanced age of 81 years.
thereon that I have not had time before the way for ten cents," but he adopts the The deceased had a distinguished this late stage to invoke your aid in principle of "let 'em all come," and military career, and during his long years assisting to put down what promises to herein lies the root of the impending of service he bronie intimately associated be a big blot of cruelty that has Intely trouble. The ricsha coolies are naturally with Hongkong, both as Commander of een started in this section of the Fur not on the best of terms with the recent
East. exista sud in Shang-importation, After leaving Clapham Grammar School ha, I suppose, for many years, to that City's everlasting shame, but I hoped we A communiqué issued regarding the Am. Ensign in the 78th Highlanders, and four should escape it. I see one of your contemporaries has made sonte suggestions and agricultural development on a grand bassadors' meeting at Abhazin once more campaign, for which he secured a medal, to its being put an end to her, and scale. He furthermore contemplates, a preves the existence of that entire agres In the years 1857-58 the late Sir George weight of your paper also to this end, I venture to hope that you will lend the reduction of the expenditure on the ment between Count Berchtold and the Barker was experiencing active service I refer of coness to the agly, heavy, Army, Navy, Education, and Justice Marquis di San Giuliano which has in the Indian Mutiny, securing a medal to the lowest possible level. No been conducive towards a solution
and two clasps, and being made Brevet ponderous little vehicus calmly described furtier foreign loans
to bo of the Balkan problem,
Major. He was at the first relief, defence as "gbarries," and even described as Imbued with taken up for urposes of administrariutual confidence both these statesmen part in the battle of Cawnpore. Another one poor miserable pony is supposed to and capture of Licicnow, and, also took on all correspondent, which
be strong enough to draw when thie same to adhere to the present rule of conduct in the Mutiny was that of D.A.Q.M.G.
gay and work in such a way that the sympathy 1st Division of the Lucknow Field Fore, I myself say one of these instruments of
to crowd into it o of public opinion will steadily develop 1807. He was first in the competition for towards a desire for intimate relation admission to the Staff College in 1864, torture disgorge Myself and my wife, between the two Governments.
and was similarly successful in the com- my sister and her husband, evidently, and petition for degree at the Staff College,
four children," two good-sized heavy Among
numerous subsequent hassocks, a big bundle of overcoats, a daughters who appointments were D.A.Q.M.G. Southern tiffin basket and various other odd trifies, to be District, 1869-73; Professor of Military
the aggregate weight of which must have been Art at Staff College, 1674-70, Assistant been appalling. You see "Myself" had many nice things of a city which they Director of Military Education, Head got on in life and was able to afford a expected to be made up of a collection of quarters of the Army, 1877-84, AAG gharry, Western District, 1884-87. The promotion In Shanghai the Brokers ponies (I do embryonio skyscrapers to Major General come in 1987, and then not mean those privately owned-of specimen opinion:-"You've gut e followed the Commandership of the course they have a much better time-button here; it hit me right off. Guess my Forces in China
the hired variety) live in a perpetual heil calculations were all wrong somehow. and Hongkong, 1890-95;
It's a small Noo York you've got here, any and Acting Governor of Hongkong from of everlastingly going on, which made me
became a General in 1900, and from 1896 May to December, 1801. The dosed wretched to observe, and when I anw these ways and I've come all the way to are
deac little carriages appear in Kow that But your climate, Englishman, it CHS. J. GAUPP to 1902 he was Governor of the Bermudas loon, my heart sank, and I wondered how darned silly got no mind of its own." Now that is a wonderfully compact de In 1899 he was created a C.B., a K.C.B. soon it would be before they would get
& CO., in 1900 and G.C.B. in 1912, and was over to the other side; never I do trust, scription, and only an American could for though involving no cruelty, that have been so beautifully concise. He Colonel of the Seaforth Highlanders. first in 1862 to Frances, daughter of the
The late Geners! was twice married, noisy cumbersome pantechnicon-looking added a remark, relative to the energy of WATCHMAKERS
"carriage" of the Dairy Farm, Limited, late George Murray of Rosemount, Brass causes enough noise to satisfy the most shire. There were two daughters and aggressively progressive citizen, whose son of this umon, one of the daughters main idea in most countries seems to being Lady May, and the other is the consist of plenty of noise, for I just tell wife of Major-General J. C. Dalton. The you that these aforesaid little carriages first Lady Barker died in 1900, and are labelled ae "Progress" also. subsequently the late General Barker Of course we boast that English folk By absurdly funny grimaces and gesti- THEODOLITES AND LEVELS. married Katherine Weston, daughter of and the people enjoying the protection of culations the coolies endeavour to attract Mr. E. G. Blues her of our Flag ang fres, but surely not free to
In his retirement the deceased acted in the capacity of J.P. for the counties of Essex and Suffolk. During his connec tion with Hongkong, the late G.0.C. was much esteemed and his departure was the cause of general regret.
THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT.
FOUR NEW DEPARTMENTS TO HE CREATED.
PEKING, April 18th-
It is intended to creato four new departments in the near future, viz., the Fu Wen Yuan or Council of State; the Shen Chi Yuan, Court of Audits; Zi Fa Fran, Senute; and the Tsan Cheng Yuan,
Council of Administration,
EUROPEAN SERVICE.
THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO.
LONDON, April 17th. President Huerta, in view of the demon- stration by the American Fleet, hus given in and promised to salate the United States
flag.
THE TRIPLE ENTENTE..
RUSSIA AND GREAT BRITAIN'S COLD RESERVE,"
BERLIN, April 18th.
A report to the Paris Matin from St. Petersburg says that Bussin has at present in no way bronched the question of changing the Triple Entente into an Alliance.
The l'emps reports that Russia is sur prised at the sold reserve on the part of Great Britain towards the suggestion. Acting upon the proposal of Sir Edward Grey that all diplomatic action should be taken collectively in the future, Russia has at different times tried to smooth the way for more intimate relations with the British Government, but without success BO far-
THE NOTE TO GREECE.
SIX POWERS IN AGREEMENT.
BERLIN, April 18th.
In Great Britain, however, the opinion prevails that the Mexican difficulty has not
The Powers of the Triple Alliance have yet been overcome and continues without handed to the representatives of the decrease. The Pross suggests to President Triple Entente Powers a reply assenting Wilson that it would be advisable even now to the draft of the Note to be handed to recognize Huerta as
President of to Athens.
Mexico, otherwise after his enforced dis missal the duty of creating order would devolve on the United States.
President Huerta's complacent behaviour is ascribed at Washington to the good -offices of the French and German Govern- ments.
FRENCH CHAUVINISTS AND THE
BRITISH ROYAL VISIT.
LONDON, April 17th.
INFANTRY REGIMENT RETURNS TO ZABERN.
BERLIN, April 18th. The 99th regiment of Infantry has returned to Zabern.
OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.
It is unnecessary to say that in their sorrow His Excelleney and Lady May and family have the sympathy of the whole community.
THE CHILDAR
PIRACY.
LARGE NUMBER OF ARRESTS.
Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe to act as Colonial eighty persons who are believed to be
ور
say
mud hats, and found to contain numerous
chair coolies.
Here is a
This anxiety of chair coolies is a sore point with puint with visitora who arrive in Hong- kong for the first time from the other side of the Pacific. It is really amusing, to
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Beremban 3 per cent., to reserve £11,000, forward £8,000,00
Sapúmalkande pays
per cent. The Ayer Kuning profit is £1,500) |
INTIMATIONS
AND
JEWELLERS.
the spectator, to witness what happens SURVEYING when a party of tourists are discovered.
thefe tares Then if one of this past
carry on commercial dealings involving gives the slightest indication of wishing cruelty to animals, therefore, if these to chair it a tornado of chairs and pretty little carriages must exist, coolies seems to have been suddenly cannot some stringent police law be made released, and the party is heromed in. Of that not more than a certain (and I hope the gathering is unceremoniously dis course, if a policeman happens to be near vary limited) number of people are turbed; but Robert is not generally ubiquitous. This rushing, however, is a allowed at one time in them i
must disconcerting performance to people who do not know how to deal effectively with chair coolies.
One of the March: Spheres gives a full-page portrait of one of our thinking men, who is calling the world's attention to that terrible smudge on the escutcheon of animal-loving Englishmen the con- tinued export of worn-out, sick horses to the Continent, and here we are starting
the same way, wearing out these wretched poairs in just
I must tell you, too, that while the family party I mention above were dis embarking, a mafoo was holding tight to
more likely to lie down from sheer exhaustion. It was too absurd, but my heart ached while I laughed.
and
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The other evening I was present at some boxing contests, and one event in MAPPIN & WEBB particular jarred on the feelings. A coloured boxer and a white man were Posing each other, and it was cbvious from the opening of the first round onwards that the dark man was the superior boxer; his opponent did a lot of rushing which invited punches, fanded but infrequently. This went on until the Englishman was revealing evident signs of distress; and the coloured
the house came the jarring ery. Give the treatment. Then from different parts of white man a chance and unsportsman like remarks were addressed to the referee, whose fairness was beyond question. This is a happening which is bound to bring out the worst side of boxing, and sports- men who cannot restrain their feelings
that the dato of the Royal visit, although Pensions, and Mr. R. O, Hutchison to have been identified as having been on the that it, was in the columns of Roderick when a fair light is going against a
The absence on leave of the Chief Justice (Hon Sir Wra Rees Davies K.C) also necessitates a reshuffling of posts, as follows:-
favourite of theirs would be much better at home. And the introduction of "black and white" is a very questionable procedur when un audience cannot remain quries. Of course, the remarks did not come from the ring-side.
Wholesale arrests have been made in connection with the daring piracy of the The following appointments are Childur. It is evident that the Chinese enuounced in the Government Gazette:-authorities have been energetically search- The Literal Press protests against the Mr. A. M. Thomson (Colonial Treasurer). Up to date, they have arrested no less than bolt, wifen the poor creature looked much
During the absence on leave of the Hon. ing for the gang with surprising sucothe, pony's head, as if afraid it would an icemed to be sympathetic in his
way in which the French Chauvinists make
Treasurer and Collector of Stamp connected with the piracy, and these are use of the British Royal visit, beginning Revenue in addition to his duties as detained in Canton pending trial. In next Thiesday, for the French electione com- Postmaster General, and also to act as a addition to the prisoners, about. 21 clocks, The Press regrets Director of the Widows" and Orphans' two gold rings, and European bille, which
A tiresomely exact memory reminds me mencing next Surday.
act as a Member of the Licensing Board. Childar at the time of the piracy, have andom where first saw the carrings also been secured. At present the Childar described as "pretty" and Roderick is is at sea, but when she returns the a fine friend of mine, who on Black crew will be afforded an opportunity Mondays starts me off as well as may be of identifying the men under arrest. It with his always delightful Reflections, is supposed that included among them are but perhaps someone gave him that hit to five ring-leaders of the gang.
put in ? I hope so, anyway, Apurt from the persons detained at Apologising for the unconscionable Canton, seven men are also under arrest Jength of this effusion.-I beg to remain at Macao on charges of piracy, and are awaiting proceedings in connection with their extradition. These have been! identified by a member of the Childur's crew, and they also had in their possession some of the property stolen from the Four Chinese are also under arrest at Yaunati in connection with the piracy
fixed without any reference to an election, has made these misconstructions possible.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO A UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
BERLIN, April 17th. Rector Ahlwardt of Leipzig University has died in consequence of an accident he sustained while out driving.
His Honour Mr. H, H: J. Compertz to Act as Chief Justice
Mr. F. A Hazeland to act as Puisne
Judge,
Mr. J. R. Wood to act as First Police Magistrate and Coroner.
Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne to act Fecond Police Magistrate.
Other appointments are:- THE BALKANS.
Mr. R. Baker to act as Manager of the British Section of the Kowloon-Canton vessel BERLIN, April 17th Montenegro has called up the reserves Railway during the absence on leave of in the frontier districts and incorporated Dr, J. T. Smalley to be a Surgeon them with the Albanian tribes on Mos-Lieutenant in the Hongkong Volunteer tenegrin territory, as they were restless.
KAISER AND "THE UNITY OF GERMANY.!!
BERLIN, April 18th. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniver sary of the battle of Duppel, H.M. the Kaiser, in an Imperial Order, expressing his thanks to the Army which parti- cipated, says: The marches in the morning twilight of New Germany to the battlefields at Duppel and Alson have brought as the prize of victory the longed for unity of Germany
Mr. H. P. Winslow.
Corps,
POLYGLOT CITY
Only 21 per cent of the population of New York City claim. English as their mother tongue............
This information is published_in} gives New York's total white population a report by the census bureau; which
ns-4,659,162, divided by mother-tongues as followe
English Yiddish
-German
Italian
Per cent.
18
The other 30 per cent, is divided among all the nations of the earth-
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A LOVER OF ANIMALS.
Mr. Theodore Howard, of Westleigh, Bickley, Kent, vice-chairman of Messrs. Howards and Bons (Limited), of Strat- ford, E., manufacturing chemists and quining manufacturers, left estate of the gross value of £54 945. He left 2500 to The London City Mission and £600 to the China Inland Miss200.
PERTUSSİN.
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CATARRH, ASTHMA, &a which bas been recognised
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HONGKONG.
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
CHATER ROAD.
CALDBECK,
MACGREGOR&Co
(ESTABLISHED 1864),
SOLE AGENTS POR
The trees, the tigers, and the statues and monuments continue to retain public interest, though personally I am rather weary of the four To make these subjects interesting in a different manner this has to happen new trees have to be. planted in avenue form; the tigers have, to be killed, or sent home; the statues have to be cleaned and railed off, and the monumenta thoroughly scrubbed. Those who refuse to deal satisfactorily with the tree problem should be made to hunt the tigers until one or other becomes. inactive, and, likewise, those who remain ndamant in relation to the statuts should be compelled to take buckets and serab- bing brushes, and do penance at the feet of the maidens they have so flagrantly PILSENER BEER disillusioned. Such happenings as thess would be truly interesting.
For domet
some time past certain Chinese, probably servants from houses in the vicinity of Macdonnell and Rožansan Roads have been potting indizeri minately with spring guns at the singing
FALCON
now exported to the East for the
Erst time,
and other birds that inhabit the trees 15 THE ONLY GENUINE PILSENER
4sperts
that neighbourhood. These generally go about a batches of three or four and certain of the parties are deputed to give warning of the approach of the Police or others likely to be vested with authority. In view of the fact that an Ordinance exists for the protection of our feathered songsters, this ruthless slaughter of the innocents surely a matter for the Authorities to take up, and I trust that my protest will not go unheeded by those whose duty it is to me that the Wild Birds Protection Act of 1885 ia duly enforced in this Colony.
RODERICE RANDOM
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