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HONG PENG SCARE. CORRESPONDENCE.
THE KONG NING ASHORE:
H.M.S. CICALA STANDING BY.
SALVAGE PARTY REQUIRED.
H.M.S. SEPOY AS ESCORT.
BLAS BAY PIRATES AGAIN CACTIVE?
Calling at Messrs. Ho Thong & Co., the local agents for the 8.5 As the result of a mishap which Rong Pong (or Fung Ping as it is. occurred when the vessel was on pronounced in Cantonese), our re- her voyage to Wuchow on Tuesday presentative was informed yester- evening, the 8.8. Kong Ning, which day that all is quiet and well on is one of the most favoured vessels the vessel and that there has been on the Hong Kong-Wuchow run, no break in the hi-bourly radio now lies holed and beached near message sent out by the vessel, It Yuet Shing, just above Samshui. will be recalled that a message ro- The vessel left Hong Kong atceived on Wednesday brought the about a p.m. for Wuchow on Mon-news that there were some suspects day with a little cargo and a few on board and it was feared that passengers and all went well till the vessel would be attacked by about 11 p.m. op Taesday when, pirates. after passing Yuet Shing, she struck a rock and was holed. The
vessel sprung a leak and the master (Capt. McCarthy) deemed it wise to beach her. This was according- ly done but in spite of this the vessel still continued to make water. At this time, H.M.S. Cicala was in the vicinity and she helped in the effort to pump the water out from No. 1 hold.
Salvage Party Wanted. Capt. McCarthy has since sent a message to the agents of the vessel, the Tung Yiek S.S. Co., to the effect that he is unable to cope with the leak. The message also asks that a salvage party be sent to the vessel's aid.
4.
A Naval Escort.
In connection with the scare, a Naval” wireless message issued yes terday states:-
Another message" came through" later that the vessel was making water rapidly but that H.M.S. Cicala was standing by and was helping to pump out the water.
"Information has been received from as. Hong Peng that she ha, suspects on board.
"As the ship is provided with guards and grillea it is consider- ed that there is little danger of a piracy, but as a precautionary ensure H. M. S. Sepoy left Hong Kong last night to meet her and escort her into harbour."
We have been informed that the vessel is due to arrive at daylight to-day when she will proceed to a special anchorage when police officials will go on board for investigations which will probably result from the Captain's report.
For obvinics reasons, the identity of his correspondente must be known to the Editor, All letters intended. for publication must be ·raccont- "panied by the name and address of the writer, not for publicatiän, uzs less so desired, but as evidence of good faith. Correspondents, who do not give this information will not ses their letters in print.-ED.]:
THE VEHICULAR FERRY.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "KONG.KONG
DAILY PRESS."] SIR-It seems strange that the two Unofficial Members should hold up, even for n short time, a scheme for which we have waited so long, but perhaps they know that private enterprise is ready to prot de this service without costing the Colony a cent. instead of the Government scheme costing 880,000 a year in interest on the loan that would be required..
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They may also know that private enterprise would have this service running in a year, whereas we shall have to wait three years if the, Government do it.-Yours, etc.,
JOHNSON LEE. HONG KONG: September 10.
SULTAN'S NEPHEW
---KILLED.
SHOT BY CHINESE.
Naws reached Singapore last work of a tragedy which occurred in Trengganu on Wednesday last week, when a Chinese ran amok and shot dead Raja Hizam (s Bias Bay Gang Again.
nephew of H.H. Sultan of Perak), Information from a rehable a sub-inspector of police in Treng ganu. Two constables were also Bource brings to light a notable cirahet, one of whom was killed. cumstance which would appear to On inquiry at the office of the Secretary to the High Commissioner indicate that the Bias Bay gangs last Saturday, the following state The agents said that the first are again active. This is that ment, which had been received from intimation they received of the several of the gangs have disap- the British Adviser, Trengganu,
was communicated: mishap was when the naval autho-peared from their usual haunts in rities forwarded them a message re- the Bias Bay, districts, and it is garding the accident.
thought that the desperadoes are abroad once again, going to points whence they can board ships in the guise of passengers.
The Harbour Master has issued a notice to the effect that the Kong Ning now hes bearbed at Yueb Shing and that she is in 'n position dangerous to navigation.
We understand the vessel is HOMELESS LORD MAYOR covered by insurance and that the salvage party left last night on the 5.4. Chung On.
P. & O. LINER AT THE SHETLANDS..
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Great difficulties, are being en- countered by the committee of the City Corporation which has been charged with the responsibility of Ending a residence for the coxt Lord Mayor of London.
"Sinee the closing of the Mansion House for improvements was sng- gested by the late Alderman. Carl Hentschel in 1911 it has been as
"I deeply regret that Raja Hizam, sub-inspector of police, son of Raja Ketchil Sulong and a nep hew of B.H. the Sultan of Perak, was shot dead by a Chinese amok last night (the 3rd instant). Two constables were also shot, one of whom was killed. The Chinese was arrested."
POLITE ESCAPED PRISONER.
SOUVENIR PHOTOGRAPH SENT TO. GOVERNOR.
Jean Fournier, who is under a sentence of two years' imprison- ment in Lyons; is a young man
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His conduct in prison was exem plary, but one Sunday he walked out of prison without being missed..
The recent call of the P. & 0. liner Viceroy of India, at Lerwick was the occasion of a celebration by the inhabitants of that town, which sumed there would be little diffing Fournier's prison garments.
VICENTE ATIENZA & CO. took the form of a small water culty in housing, the dispcasessed pageant. As the liner came to her Lord Mayor in one of the beauti. anchorage she was approached by fully appointed balls of the City the authentic reproduction of a livery companies. Now that the Viking ship, manned by Norsemen closing of the Mansion House has in Viking dress, including axes, been actually decreed the committee shields, coats of mail, and winged has discovered, that no hall has the belmets. When the ship, by com- necessary accommodation, which parison a mere cockle-shell, made fist alongside the liner of 20,000 tons she was joined by another craft in which wore Shetland girls, dress ed in the old and handsome costume
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must, of course, include room for the Lord Mayor's staff. Moreover, while there would have been no dif ficulty about vacating one of these balls thirty or forty years ago, thig
of the islande, who carried keshies could not be done now without in- (straw baskets) of peat on their terrupting the useful work which backs and were seen to be indus the guilds perform. triously plying their knitting
Through the committee that re needles. The Norsemen and their presents them, the guilds have in- lassies mounted the accommodation timated that they will gladly place. ladder and were ceremoniously their halls at the disposal of the welcomed on the vessel's deck by Lord Mayor-apbanquets, lun Captain Ohlson, the commander.cheons, receptions, etc., and in them Afterwards they paraded the decks,next winter'a Mangion House very much to the interest of the functiona will take place. passengers, and demonstrated the manufacture (and salt) of Shetland for the Lord Mayor remains un- But the problem of a residence hosiery.
The visitors were introduced by the Lord Mayor should live
olved. By immemorial custom, Mr. Robertson (the shipping agent the City, and in the old himself a native of Lerwick)," who said:"Commander Ohlson and days all the chief magistratex all you good people, of the Viceroy who did not hire a hall of India, Skol! We welcome you lived at their homes which were to the north land. We welcome you invariably within the City boun
daries. But to find a house in the to: Ultima Thule."
The speaker claimed that his com-
City Bd mayoral residence ig 20- panions, although British subjects, possible, and there does not appear were yet proud of their Norso des- to be a suite of rooms, of the cap cent, in proof of which they had acity needed, available. commissioned and manped the war The hiring of a suite of rooms galley. He commented upon Loral a city hotel is now being con wick as the birthplace of Arthur sidered, but the choice appears to Anderson, a founder, nearly 100 be limited. The lenders of the years ago, of the P. & O. Co. and corporation, are fully determined remarked that ashore were the rd that the Lord Mayor, who in any mains of the house of Cruister, event will be put to great, incen- where Anderson, seryed bis firstvenience, shall have an official fo master in a humble capacity. Across sidence of some kind in the City, the harbour, where the great P&O but it may well he that they will liner, now lay, Anderson hal labori: be driven to modifying the altern ously pulled his master's bout when tions to the Mansion House to en the latter had had occasion to visit able a few rooms to be kept open, Lerwick A penniless boy, he últi¦ as a residence, though it would be mately became chairman of the P. mostly nominal, and the Lord Ma-. &O Line and MP for Orkney for would generally sleep at his and Shetland.;
own home.
The following day the governor received a polite letter of thanks from Fournier, who enclosed a photograph of himself as a souvenir, and a registered package contain He said he was staying with a
The police harried to the woman friend, whose address he address, only to find a disconsolate young woman, who said that Four- nier had gone to Switzerland and did not propose to return.
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A marriage which was to have taken place in London had to be postponed because the bride bad forgotten to take a copy of the banns with ber,
Miss Kathleen Silver, the bride, of Burnt Oak; the bridegroom, Mr. Ernest Sewell, of Edgware the Vicar of Edware, the Rev. H. A H. Lea; and the guests were pre sent at Edgware Church, and the, marriage service, was about to start when the omission was discovered. The banns had been called in the
neighbouring parish of Burnt Oak, but the parties had forgotten to bring the certificate to this effect.
The vicar suggested that a copy of the certificate, or the original certificate, ahould be obtained, and relatives, were dispatched at once. But three o'clock came and the marriage could not take place,
We were expecting the relatives back every minute," Mr. Lea told reporter. To get a copy of the certificate seemed quite simple. matter. It was essential that one should be obtained before the marriage could be solemnised. The instructions on this point are very a strong. It was very unfortunate, and no one felt more badly about it then I did
- The marriage took place at 12.30 the next day.