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THE HONGKONG HORTICULTURAL
SOCIETY.
ANYONE interested in Horticulture is
eligible as a Member.
Parsons wishing to join should communicate with the Hon. Scoretary,
Non-Members who intend to exhibit will receive a copy of the Schedule for next year's Show on appliestion.
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Quarry Bay,
Hon. Secretary, (1074
Hongkong, 11th October, 1915.
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N EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Members of the
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ORDINANCES 1911 AND 1913,
and
IN THE MATTER OF THE CHINA & MANILA STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.
(IN LIQUIDATION),
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INTIMATION
wonders: Hare not all the cannibals and The attention of “those of our readers wild boats of the world sought refuge in interested in horticulture is directed to Constantinople! Such massacres ory, out an advertisement appearing in the first for the vengeance of all Cbristendom. | column of this page. If people know what I know, had seen what I have seen, and board what I
Many complaints of the very unsatisfae
THE ROLE OF A MARINE.
COURT.
"NOT A LUNATIO ASYLUM.' At the Marine Court yesterday Com- mander Bookwith and a defendant had quite on entertaining passage of worde during which the latter. "wait" empha tically informed that the Court was the Committee of the British Northnot a lunatic asylum." The cusé gray Borneo Chamber of Commerce. The Score one in which W. S. Bailey, owner p tary has been instructed to address the the steam launch "Bailey No. 2 wa Postmaster-General in Hongkong on the charged with unlawfully plying his subject, with a view to seeing if the ser- steun-launch for hire to tow junks with
out a licenso vice cannot be very much improved.
have heard, all the Christian Powers tory manner in which mails from Hong still neutral would rise against Turkey kong for British North Borneo are Superior Quality and Real Merit-and ory anathema against the barbarous resized have been brought to the notice of Government and the savage Committee, as well as hold responsible the Austrings Receives Deserved Recognition. and Germans who tolerate and even aid crimes which are unparalleled in ancient or modern history. It is an unspeakable share and horror. That aby civilised baing can give encourgeurent to such atrocious savagery sooms incredible, but
THE
GRAND PRIZE
has been awarded to
RAINIER
by the
PANAMA
BEER
Lord Crews has told us that though the
British Govedanent has no official con-
firmation of German complicity, the
statement that German Consular officials
A very popular resident of Nagasaki has just left that port for Shanghai in the person of Mr. J. H. Wallace, who
is severing a connection with Nagmenki
boats.
of over twenty years. He came out from Mesra Holme home -Scotland-to Hingor & Co, and for several yeare past has had charge of their shipping depart bis daunch. ment. He is now proceeding to Mukden for the China Mutual Insurance Com-taking up my
pany.
Defendant pleaded not guilty. Rufino Rocha, Junk Inspector, said had on September 3rd he saw the steau launch "Bailey No. 2" towing cargo They failed to produce tule license when he went alongside.
The defondant plended that he sub-let
Commander Beckwith-Why are you time by pleading not guilty when you are obviously guilty. The launch was trading in Septembe and was not licensed till October. you go on speaking till. Christmas yo cannot say that you are “not guilty." I cannot go any further into this. It
Defendant-It is wasting my time, a
not merely looked on but encouraged these horrors has been freely made by American observers in a position to know. 4t all events, no one will find it difficult to agree with Lord Cromer when he says that even though there be no trust-
The T.K.K. steamer Tenyo Mark, worthy - evidence of German complicity, yet in view of Germany'e present influ which left Yokohama for San Francisco on the 25th ult., is reported to have been Ange at. Constantinople her mioral PACIFIC EXPOSITION, responsibility is unquestionable. The overtaken by a typhoon at midnight on
British Govorriment has declared its the day of departure. The vessel return-is a waste of time. intention to hold the Turkish Gover-ed towarda Tateyama for eight hours, in uent responsible for these massacres, order to avoid the centre of the typhoon well and more recently we have been told by After the passing of the typhoon, the cable that the American Ambassador nU
steamer resumed her course, but a rough sen still prevailed until the 28th, when calm weather was experienced.
SAN FRANCISco, 1915.
Rainier Beer is the ONLY Beer
honoured by receiving The Grand Prize, the Highest Award Possible.
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SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. Hongkong, 3rd Doesumber. 1914,
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OUR-BOOMED FLATS in Hanol Road,
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Sole Agents:
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& CO., LTD.,
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It
His Worship-I do not cok a fig-
You are here to about your time. answer the law. You say you are not guilty, when on the face of it you are.
Defendant-I submit I au not guilty. The Magistrate-You are the owner of
And you were not aware you would have to license it?
Constantinople has been instructed to inform the Ponte that unless the Armenian massacres cease the friendly relations between the United States and The Medical Officer of Health-reportá Turkey will bles threatened." The that during the week ending October the launch-Yes. I have some eorres- Turkish excuse for these massabres 9th fatal case of plague was reported |pondence here. appears to be that there has been some froni Mongkoktaui. Since January His Worship:--I am not going tự) wilde revolutionary activity Ju Armenian there have been 135 cases, all Chinese, through tons of staff that are not rele circles, and that what has happened must and 131 deaths. During tho last week, vant to the matter. You cannot sublet therefore be regarded as just an incident also, there have been two cases. British the launch for hire without coming.
Whatever truth there and Chinese, of diptheria, one of which under the law. might be in this allegation nothing can proved fatal; There word also uleven Defendant-1 acquainted you ima justify or excuse in the eyes of the world cases of enteric fover, on British, onediately with the foot that I had sub-let the savage and wholesale destruction of Portuguese, one. Indian and the it. I have the letters here. men, women and children, which has been rest Chinese, six of which were attended His Worship-How long have you been {. going on. In Armenia now for with fatal results.
working this harbour –Eighteen years. months with the knowledge, and it would
At Shanghai on the Lith alt, a little girl Terra WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, even seem at the instigation, of the named Lana Wilson met with a tramcar Government at Constaninople whose necidant in which her fout was crushed.
Defendant-No, I was not aware of it, deliberately conceived policy it is to rid After the accident blood poisoning set I acquainted you with the fact that; I Turkish territory of the entire Armenianin, and the exhausted condition of the bad sub-let the launch, and on receipt population Crowds of Armenians have poor little sufferer caused a delay in of your reply that al license was neces taken refuge in the Caucasus in extreme amputation which eventually took placesary, immediately took out a license destitution, and are reported to be dying The patient, however, despite every medi and told the man that if he used it for at the rate of a hundred daily, despite cal attention and nursing, was in tootoring lighters he was responsible. splendid local efforts to relieve the weak a condition to combat such a trial Defendant then held up a bundle of misery. The magnitude of the great war
un her constitution and she passed away correspondence. in Europe, with its appalling daily last week. The deepest sympathy is felt sacrifice of life, has so completely monope for her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Tished pablic attention throughout the Wilson. world that this appalling crime against civilisation and humanity in the Asiatic
Further formal evidence was given at
Magistracy dominion of Turkey has failed up to the the
yesterday in the present to receive adequate attention. enquiry into the sinking of the steam The publication of the fullest authorita launch Sui Fung. A Chinese constable WERE the times nomal the civilised tive information obtainable regarding stated that the vessel took a quarter of an world would have been ringing during these unparalleled atrocities must shock hour to sink. Some of the passengers, those last five months with execrations the conscience of every civilised com- seres viich are being daily perpetrated same time afford added proof of the wharf. The launch had about 800 piculs
when the launch started sinking, olam and protests against the appalling mats-munity and nation, and at the bered on to the awning and so on to the
by the unspeakable Turk in Armenia fact that the Allied Powers in Lord CREWE stated in the House of Lords their war against the Turk, as well recently that not since the days of as against the Germanic alliance, are TAMERLANE (the terrible Tartar con fighting for Civilisation and Humanity quacor of some five centuries ago) has against sheer barbarity. there beers so hideous a orime on such a scale as the Turks have perpetrated. during the last few months in Armenia. To coll
the details of these atrocities "shocking" is to use as mild a descrip- lion as could possibly be found far savagery so dreadful.
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PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING. Hongkong, 20th August, 1915.
THE PRINCE OF WALES' FUND, THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR BELGIAN RELIEF,
and
THE CHILDREN IN M. C. L. HOMES whose fathers have been killed in motion,' to be held in the
TO LET.
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(by kind permission of HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR),
ON SATURDAY, 30TH OCTOBER; from 2 to 6 r.M,
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R.
SPECIAL LICENCE ISSUED UNDER KING'S REGULATION No. 10 or 1915.
We on the 5th day of September, 1915, permitting all British Sabjects, Bems or corporations to trade with certain persone and bodies of persona of Ottoman・ nationality residing and doing business in China, I, Ha Britannic Majesty's Minister in China, hereby announce that the following persoas of Ottoman nationality are to be included in the list of those, persons named in the aforesaid Special Lioenen with whom all Bellish Subjects, arms or sorporations are permitted to trade, namely: J. A. David, of Shanghai, Import and
(X)HEREAS ↑ Special Licence was issued
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Care of E. PARANIY,
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The Daily Pres
·HONGKONG, OCTOBER 13TH, 1916.
THE ARMENIAN MASSACRES
A mail for Europe rź Siberia clages to-morrow at 3 p.m.
What is described as a cold snap"
boat only carried about 400 or 600 piculs of cargo or board, whereas usually the
The hearing was adjourned until to-day. Wo understand that another dead body
has been recovered.
PRESS AND PUBLICITY, SEQUEL TO SUMMARY COURT ACTION,
Commander Beckwith.-Do ovu shake
your arms and gesticulate here, or will commia you for contempt of Court, you behave yourself in a respectful manner here.
This is not
lunatic asylum, this is a Marine Court. Log me have those papers.
The case was adjourned.
SLANG ON THE STAGE. PICTURESQUE YANKEEISMS FROM ** KICK-IN."
bottle-nosed boots are striking withouf* American slang terms, like the Americani being beautiful, says the Daily News, invasion of London, though the boots could Both are feature of the American
never hope for the success which has been achieved by the slang. It has been left to the newly-imported crime play, Kick-In, to show Londoners how completely they can be captured by language which has no relation to respectable conversation on this side of the Atlantic at all. If Kick-In were as full of our native slang as it is of Yanketiems the British play-goer would
night London audience seemed as delight connection with a case, when the witnessed with the quaint talk as with the succes- wishes his or her name to be suppressed, sion of thrills which make up the action (Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz) in a Summary was mentioned by the Puiane Judge of this remarkable play,
Court action yesterday in which Chan Yes, a cook boy, sucd Myrtle Nicholas, 18, Hollywood Road, for $60, badance of wages due.
The desirability or otherwise of pub.
"The whole of brought the thermometer down to 18 lishing the name of a witness called in Probably and it tiresome. Kick-In's first
Singapore last week.
the Armenian population at Trebizond, Lord CREW informed the House of Lords, "had been taken to the sea in boats and drowned. Altogether, possibly 800,000 people had been destroyed." They have. all boon destroyed by the comparatively humane. pro- of drowning. Signor CoRLISI, who until recently was the Italia Consul-General સમ Trebizond, has
cess
not
at Shanghai amounting to 8130 was A Sunday's collection at the Cathedral
stolen last week from the Rev. W. H. Price's writing desk in his study,
Mr, E. A. Irving, Director of Education, is to open the Queen's College Recreation
Plaintiff gave evidence in support of his claim, after which the defendant
told of executions in mass" for a Club Pavilion, immediately east of the whole month before his departure at the Polo Ground, on Friday, October 22nd at handed in a letter.. end of July. Under his windows, he 3 p.m. said, passed by columas of Armeniana
imploring help, which it was impossible At the recent Oxford Local Examination to give then on account of the presence St. Stephen's Girls' College sentrin seven of 15,000 soldiers, besides gendarmes and candidates, A cablegram has now been a number of volunteers from the Com-received saying that all of them have been mittee of Union and Progress. It was successful.
1tue impossible, he said, to describe scanes of desolation, tears, curs,
regard to the meaning of the title. There Most of the critics want astray with
appears a general impression that Kick-In is to be interpreted in the sense of "getting News representative was informed by an What it really means, a Daily busy" expert at the Vaudeville Theatre, is just the opposite. To "kick-in" is to give. UP, or acknowledge defeat,
"VITID AND ILLUMINATING." The most overworked Yankeeism of His lordship said he could not see the recent times, the emphasised word "come " (the use of which, however, is claimed to He letter of a person who was away.
have had its origin in this country), occurs also informed defendant that when the infrequently in the new play and will case was first mentioned she applied soon find itself superseded." It is a to have it taken in Chatabor's because aclared the expert, and he had no doubt most vivid, illuminating language," de certain gentleman who was to give evi-that description by allusive analogy, is dence did not wish to appear in open going to catch on,
"She's the baby that keeps him with a If her witness did not wish to squeak in his shoes." Once you have the Court. give evidence in open Court he might key, it is quite easy to understand the say that he did not think it was neces-a-reference to the women whose influence sary that his name should be made of which he need be ashamed so that f on her man is such that he does nothing If the writer of the letter she does not matter who sees or hears him. public.
When you hour that "he blows a box like
The Mount Austin Mem's Society has suicides, sudden insanity, fire, shooting arranged for a lantern lecture to be gives in the streets, in the houses, and in the in the Recreation Hall, Mount Austin country. Hundreds of corpses were Barracks, this evening, at 8 o'clock. The found every day in the streets. Violated subject is: "A Trip Across Canada. The bad banded in wished to help her ke women, children carried off from their lecture will be open to all.
should came forward and give evidence, and if he did so, and did not desire his families and placed in boats, clad in
nere to be mentioned, it need not be. nothing more than a shirt, then drowned. Mr. Rupert Atkinson, son of the late Defendant-Well, I don't want in the Black Sea or the rivers these are Mr. Brenan Atkinson, of Shanghai, and His lordship-I do not know; but I
published.: Well migbh the Mrs. Atkinson, of Berkhamstead, near see no reason why the Press should pub- some of the episodes. Consul ery out in despair: "When ene London, was gazetted on August 18th fish his name if he does not wish his has witnessed for a month daily scenes let. Lieutenant, West African Regiment, for the gentleman of the Press.
name to appear. But that is a matter of this terrible character, without being and is now on active service at the The case was subsequently adjourned in a position to do anything, one Cameroons,
for the attendance of this witness.
it
no one else can, and his signature is all over the shopy you are intended to gather that his safe-opening powers are unique where. and that tracesf his work are every-
"You can't make her spill anything" means, chriously, that she won't tell-just as obviously as the phrase, "He wouldn't
wrist" means that he is a very stingy give you the right time if he had it on his
man.