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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY DECEMBER 18 1909
more need be said on the subject. But that tris estimated that Mr. Valentine Cary's future no answer at all. The same sort of Aip.income, even should rubber come down to pant reply could be given with reference to two-and-nix per ib., is as much as £50,000 per any and every financial vote and the publicanum. Mr. Carey has four sons, and there would be just as ignorant of what imperiall be plenty for them to do in the Straits in
Times of Maloys.
NOTES BY THE WAY,
THE VR C. REGATTA.
of the solitary A. D. C. parmitted to Colonial Governor.
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"Probably no married man op earth, and last of all a newly married one, could adequately discharge the duties of a State Gov duties of one in attendance on the Gov. Gene
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CABLES SNAP LIKE THREADS.
A mishap, similar to that which occurred to
A. S. WATSON & CO. Policy was or what was really being done with future years should they wish to do it, says the of the Victoria' Recreation Club, will band. ernor's A. D. G. They bear no ielation to the the steamer" Longships at Fulo Brani, some
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ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841,
AERATED WATER
SPECIALITIES:
The money arever. All they would now would be that in obedience to the commands of some official poteplate in London, supported by some other official luminary in Hongkong, the taxpayers should be called upon to pay for what might be more or less an unknown quantity. From the official point of view that may be all very well. It is admitled that all the people are useful for is to pay taxes and look happy. Not theirs to reason why, let theni "stump up" and sigh and no ques tions allowed. If they do ask embarrassing MANUFACTURERS. questions they are fobbed off with the curt reimark. "It is imperial policy." Of course it can always be urged that any accele. ration in the delivery of mails is of value to the merchants and through them to the general public at large. And that no doubt is a fact, although the ordinary individual never thinks about the Siberian route at all. But what we should like to know is what additional expenses amounting to the very large sum of $47,000 have been incurred to becure those advantages? The suggestion would seem to be that the Colony is throw log away, money in order to maintain the Siberian postal service, and the more letters that are sent by that route from Hongkong the greater will be the drain on the finances of the Colony. What will it be when the day arrives permitting letters for the United Kingdom: lobe sens" from Hongkong Canton, Hankow and Peking? Will that, involve a still further putlay, and, if it docs, if there a corresponding outlay on the part of the home Government?. No at- tempt was made to offer any, explanation which could be deemed in the least degree satisfactory and Dr. Ho Kai did not press the question. The fact that the vote way the very last item on the list of business
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After the lapse of a number of years since the last water carnival held under the auspicos mmitted that Saturday's regatta was no degli ACCORDING to the Stamp Amendment Ordi-fied success from every point of view. Some nuco, 1909, ao and after the 1st day of Je-light biches, it is true, occurred during the quary, 1910, the stamp duty will be 5 cents on progress of the day's aveats, but these com- receipts or discharge for the payment of money retemps, as sometimes happen in important or or in acquittal of a debt paid in money or other,ganisationis, were unavoidable, and bad to be wise, when the sum received, discharged, or
borne cheerfully by those on whose shoulders fell the biust of the work. There was a great acquitted exceeds 50.
deal of heartburning over the results of certain H15 Excellency the Governor bas given his races and the air was thick on Saturday after set, in the name and on behalf of His uous with united cries of the might have beens, M: jesty the King, to the following Ordinances but, needless to remark, that was hardly the passed by the Legislative Council:-Ordinance spirit with which to view the results of hard. No. 44 0.19:9-An Ordirance to amend the fought races. Vague insinuations were made Stamp Ordinance, 90. Ordinance No. 45.of in certain quarters that there was going 190g.-An Ordinance to amend the Squatters to be a general scramble among certain com. Ordinance, 1890, Ordinance No. 46 of 1959-petitors for the capture of gilded cups, a regular An Ordinance to send the Liquor Licences pot-hsoting expedition, as it were, but these Ordinance, 1898, and the Liquor Licences Ex-haderous inpuendoes bad in point of fact no tension Orikpance, 1908, and to repeal the fundusan „And there is little doubt that the Liquor L celices Amendment Ordinance, igos, best men in each race came out victorious. Considering the success which attended the Min Jovi, though so well-known geographi-aquatic festival, it is up to the Colony's sports- cally, is still a promising field for explorers. men to try and sustaid the V.R.C.'s sporting For instance, Dr. Danis, of the University of reputation. It is to be hoped that the old Club Prague (Kobemiş), 'is now busy in research to will send out representative men to participate study the singular river system thero, The in the Governor's Regaṭṭa, which can only be streams in the mountain region resemble rivers accomplished by full interest being sustained in their upper courses, but lower down they in the sports, disappear among rocks and do not turn up again until near the sea shore. He and a fellow-scientist will also turn their attention to certain peculiar grottoes there.. After bringing their researches to a fiaith, they will proceed
to Australia.
A CHINAMAN, who is a washerman by profes siog, appeared in the Police Court this morning on a charge of the alleged unlawful possession 83 ting of corned beef. The tias were found created in a bundle of jipen which the man was carrying and are said, to have been un
awfully obtained from the military stores at Lyeman Barracks. The dolie's explanation was that he had bought the tins from a Euro- pean soldier for the sum of $4 and the latter on being questioned said that he bad given
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AN OVERWORKed department. What hard times our local magistrates are having. The other day an overworked staff hud to patiently wait and see a case through at an our which bad, perhaps, seldom beco experi enced by them before. There was not even an occasional Plowdenism to cheer those who had perforce to remain in the Court room but what might have struck the attentive listener, was the popping of mysterious battles, extremely fantalising to the ear, in the Court-room, which was afterwards discovered to have been caused by
the Chinese employees who proceeded to regele Themselves in the usual manner ofter the day's
work. Outside it fluences were a bit diversified by friet sounds of scale, practice on a plan which must have seen its best days. The "meows" of the Police kittens also helped to
months ago, happened to the slamet Hendon a. For every Blind-Paralytic Association Hall on Saturday, while discharging a cargo of
of the G. G. and staff at least 47 institutions | Singapore Free Press of goth ult. Ail was well which is formally opened under the supervision Indian coal at the sams berth, reports, the of the kind are started in the presadce of up to 2.30 pm, on Saturday when the first the State Governor and bis only A.D.C. When sign of trouble, owing to the strong ebb tida not superintending at the birth of Blind-Paralytic ruolog, was the weakening of a mooring Associations the State Vicolegals are bard at post, which eventually, under the tremendous it inaugurating Sales of Work, Flower Shows strain, gave way, and the ship began drifi. with the current, Half the coal Asylums for Incurable Freetraders, Abernethy ing
OD board and half Tabernacles, Plansant Sundry Yelps, Homes workers were left
the vessel glided away and for Decayed Elephants, and a thousand other hors as affairs of the kind. And always the lonely over dropped anchor at once. Exita precautions worked A.D.C. it there, smiling in baggardwise had been taken to make the vessel secure, new and trying to look as though he didn't hate the wire bawsers and the stoutes: Manila hemp whole business with a completa curse. The State being employed, but these breke like pack DC's pormal day consists in attending with threads when eats came, and it was a his chief at anything from ento half a dozen case of going' «ground a little further on but, "openings," apdiken appearing 110 Unlicensed happily, beyond a clock or two being knocked Victuators' Ball in the evening, after (possiblý). out at the stern, the steamer bas suffered so a formal disver at the Commercial Wanderers' damage whatever. As soon as the accident.. Club. It is calculated to give any young man was reported the steamer Farung was despatch- who has not that complete captaincy of souled and Pilot Wilson was also on the spot to and absoluie feisure which go with celibacy, a reader all necessary aid, The steamer remain. ed aground from 2.30 to 5.30 p.m. and when the flood tida set is, the Varuna succeeded in towing the steamer off. It is an agreed point that something in the shape of proper special" mooring buoys must be put down at Pulo Brani to prevent danger to vessels, and this being the second within a few months; the time to do it is imperative. It may be mentioned that a new "dulphin" post. put in some time ago with. stood the strain but the wire hawser con- necting the ship with it, unfortunately, broko away, It is also pointed out that extra strong ballards might with, advantage, be fixed to the what. Capt. W. D. Lewis, in command of the Hendon Hall, remarks, that Saturday's accident was about the last thing be expected and that it naturally caused him great anxiety
mervous breakdown within a month or less."
In India, of course, too much is known of what is demanded and expected of the A.D.C. for one moment to even contemplate bim as a Benedict. The very nature of bis duties to wards the feminine population would make life insupportable-if he had a wife of his own,
CASUAL CRITIC
CAMION DAY BY DAY.
VICEROY VUAN, MU-HSUN.
[From Our Own Correspondant]
Canton, 17th December. A tomout is corrent in official circles in this city that H. E. Yupu Shu-hsun appears desircus of relinquishing his position as acting Viceroy of the Liang Kwang Provinces, and it is likely that he will apply to the Imperial Government for transfer to another post elsewhere
LIKIN COLLECTIONS..
for the day, that members were already them away: The case was remanded, pooding intersify the general discord and all things to the-Viceroy by the Likin officials, amodnig packing up their chattels preparatory tonquiries by the military authorities. leaving the Council for the Christmas holi daya, that the last session has been the most arduous experienced in years, and that every
Tun Minister for External Affairs (Mr. L. E. Graum), has granted. the application of the Chinese residents of Sydney for a teacher of
combined would undoub edly have proved a regular inferno bad the sceng been laid in the sweltering summer months.
CHRISTMASTIDE.
The collection of txikın dues in Canton during the last ten days of the loth moon, as reported
to 69,783.000 lacle, which is nearly twice the sum collected in the preceding ten days.
• RAILWAY ACCIDENT, "At so o'clock in the morning of the 16th
Wangsha koocked down agnan sixty-four yearí, of age, near the Sun Kai station. The poor man had one lek us over by the train and was so badly injured that lie is not expected to live. The man was removed to the Captop. Fong Fin Hospital for treatment.
when be found bis fine vessel drifting. The Hendon Hall is now discharging another lot of coal at the East Wharf, and will fish the ba lance of cargo, later po, at the Smelting Works.
AUSTRALIAN COAL STRIKE.
CHINA DOESN'T WORRY, "Someone...bas. been drawing upon bis imagination," said a leading member of the
representative of ibe Dally Telegraph yesterday afternoon (gtb uk,) regarding a statement that the Chinese in Sydney cabled the news of the Chinese coalfields."
make excellent refreshing beverages, body was surfeited with legislative business their lengnage to enter the Commonwealth and it are revived happy recollectings of our child. instant a train going sa Pa Kong Hou from Chinara Merchants' Society, when seen by a
may account for the lethargy shown över this question but it certainly deserved more
that "It is imperial policy."
Guaranteed to be made from the than a mere quibbling answer to the effecting, which interested itself in the matter, bas
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An attempt to assassinato, the President of the 11 Chin Hai Society, at Senul, has been pre- vented.
Christmas day is fast approaching and with remain these for three years, An undertaking bood days. This is a time which we are wont has been given that at the end of the period he will return. The Chinese Reform Associato describe as bearing peace and goodwill to all men and whether it be in the darkest depths of India or in the bosath of Far Cathay, the occasion bai the same fascination for young and old as it has exercised for centuries past. The Colony's shop-windows have for weeks past displayed those particular objects which bring gladness to the little ones and remind the grown-ups of their little obligations to friends abroad. Hoogkong, as other places where civilisation bas spread iti blessed wings, is doubtless preparing for "A Merry Christ
CONTINUED activity is being shown by the Hunghulis (native mannted bandits) in the districts traversed by the Antsog Mukden Rail way. INVITATIONs have been issued by the staff of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., for the annual ball at the Kowloon Docks, on Frieaving the district the Bishops were present at the half-yearly meeting of the Chinese Church day, the 31st inst., at F. 30 p.m.
Council-Communicsted,
written a letter to Senator Pulised, thanking him, on behalf of the association and other Chinese for the active part he had taken to bring the matter before the Government, and secure an alteration of its first decision. THE Right Reverend Bishop lagham in com pany with the Right Reverend the Bishop of Victoria returned to-day from a week's visit in the country districts east of Canton. During the tour Bishop Lander dedicated three chur-mas" ches in different villages. There buildinga had
ENGLISH AS SHE IS WROTE, "been ancestral halls and after being renovated That curious product known as Japanned at the expense of the residents, they have been English is by no means confined to the land of handed over for Christian worship." Larga || the Rising Sun, for we can find beautifu) ex- numbers of those who, were interested in the amples of murdered specimens, of the doorstep. Gospel attended at every service and before King's English at
As observant individual could hardly he a local shop.window a failed to astice on placard which bore the interesting announce. ment of "Cheep'sale". 2nother enterprising next week to settle the details of the Russo-RECENTLY, says a Chinese report, Prince shop-keeper went one better with Window Kung, The Chidi Anti-Opium Commission, blinca" while a third sought to attract cus in considering the question of opium prohibitomers with "New goods for Christmas pre ties in the way of suppressing opium in Kansu sent. Those are some of the pleasures ́ol province: 1. That nearly seventy per cent of walking through Hongkong's streets. the population were, npium smokers; 2. That Opium growing in the means of living for å
NEGOTIATIONS are to be opened at Harbin
Chinese Agreement regarding the administra. tion of railway zones in North Manchuria, FOUR new members were admitted to the Shanghai Stock Exchibge during the past wee, and the result has been a large increase In the number of transactions recorded.
tion, printed out that there were four difficul-
His Excellency the Governer has kindly prom-re portion of the people; 3. The futility of ised to epen the new wing of St. Stephen's the methods inaugurated by the former Vice.
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PITY THE POOR A D.G. Ao lodian sporting journal bai beso laying are in gloomy vein to a weary world the trials and vicissitudes of Colonial A.D.C.'s Most
EXECUCIÓN.
Yesterday the notorious robber Wong Ah Woo, who was extradited, to Chinton from Hongkong some time ago, was takep out of the Nambol prison to the execution ground and was beheaded in the presence of the Namboi Magistrate and other officials The British Consulat Capton was communicated with to Witness the criminal undergoing the capital punishment,
OPIUM PERMITS,
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We have not donb it," pursued the repre- sebrative Chinese. "Some private person may -bave done so, but, that does not involve the
Choese of Sydacy,"
It was further pointed out that the strike at present could not affect China in any way. Ber foreign supplies are drawn from Japan, as was stated yesterday, but the evplation of industrial affairs within the Empire will naturally caRITY with it the development of the Empire's icon- ces Railways will be the main factor in bring. ng this about. There is the capital with which to put the coalfields into effective working trim, bus transport facilities are absent.
The Canton Government Anti-opium Bureau has establised a branch office in the Hlog'
The province of Kwang-si, close to Canton, Long streit.where triplicate permits are issued is one of the many provinces of China which to opium merchan's to cover their purchases bound in coul, but the transport down the oc importation. la cast of tran•i' to the western river jo steamers of light_draught will interior fiom. Canton, such permits must be put permit of the output being readily placed applied from that off to cover the ppiumaupon the market. Hongkong is the bearest day before shipment..
port, and the journey" will pccupy' the most of' the working days of a week. Under these re- stricted conditions the Kwang-si coal mines could not do much to cope with any serious skoringe that might coms in the wake of a
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protracted strike by Australiau inicis.
* we had the Cinton- ankow line con-
The Hongkang Oelegr College on Monday afternoon at 3pm. These toy, Sheng Yung 4. The turbulence of the people fondly imagine that ad A., especist with the port and Admiral the tion. Sir Bed famine in any part of the world. Bast until these
HỌNGKONG, Saturday, December 18, 1909
THE SIBERIAN "MAIL ROUTE,
It is not exactly satisfactory to learn from the figures referred to at the Legislative Council the other day that the increasing popularity of the Siberian mail route has
who are interested are cordially invited to at. / People, who are not amenable to order. insufficient slock of good looks and that amiable
trud.
-view of these drawbacks, he deemed it neces-
sary to adopt other plans of working, in order THE largest British-owned sailing vessel afloat to secure more effective results. The Govern has arrived in Bombay in the Brilliant, 3,607 | ment concurred with the Commissioner' ros, owned by the Anglo-American Oil Co.. opinion on the subject, which took 114 days on the voyage bem New York.
AT the meeting of the Sanitary Board os Tuesday; next, a report of the Committee appointed to inquire into and deal with com
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.
ly of the Colonial variety, has only to have a
disposition described by newspapers with the aid of the magic epithet "genial." But according to the journal in question, an AD.C's life is by
no menos all beer and skittles. This is how itsambles through its columas on the subject:-Mr. Aberlgb Mackay and other un- intentionally cruel people have girau as from time to time little thumb-nail pictures of the *gorgeous Viceregal A. D. C." and presented hind to the world as a gay and insouciant boisy
person is bespattered with gold lace, and in his our of cast, the most beautiful of multi. He is held up to us as the embodiment of all that is omamental and, parenthetically, in
involved the Colony in an increased hardenplaints against the Kowloon scavenging and the 25th December, and Monday, the 27th whose path is bestrewn with flowers and whose
of at least $47,000. Already 5100,000 had conservancy contractor will be considered:
been provided in the Estimates for 19og for 17 is reported that 620 Korean hishing vessels
transit charges and here we have another go
* per cent. advance, which is surely out of all were wrecked off Siape, South Ham-gyang
OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION. It is notified in the Gozitie that Saturday,
December, 1979, and Saturday, the 1st January, 1910, will be kept as public holidays, and Thursday, the roth February, 1910, will be kept as a Bank holiday in the Colony. His
GERMAN FLAGSHIP ÄKRIVES,
H.LG.MSCHAR HORST "IN" PORT. The Germ in cruiser Scharahırıl, flying the flag of Rear-admir Ivon Ingennb), commandér. in-chief of the German squading in the Easi pleted--but that will take at least two years arrived this afternoon, Salutes were exchanged we could sep is and help to ease any coal worth Lambton. The Scharnhorst was founch. facilities are at our disposal we 810 not quite ed at Hamburg in 1906 and is an armoured able to supply our own demands. We' scarce- for funarlied cruiser of 11,601 tons displace ly konw our own power yet," said the Chi- me01. On her trial she did 14 kants. She neie merchants' representative," but when we curries eight 8-inch, ix 5-inch and twenty have railway facilities we can supply the 3-inch guns, with four torpedo tubes, and her world, and the more strikes you have in Aus
tralia the tetter it will be for us. In 18 pro- complement, all told, is 650 mas.
vinces of Cbian coal is to be found in plenty.. and as far north as Manchutla there are rich depositi. This would, of course, have to be shipped at Vladivostock, and it would scarcely come into competition ip the Australías maṛ. kit as against the mineral from the more closely-situated southern ports. The people of
HOCKKY.
QUEEN'S COLLEGE BOYS V HONGKONG
LADIES' HOCKEY CLUB.
a number of boys got together and formed a
strike,"
It is many years ago since the Queen's Collage boys played a hockey match, Recently China have no need to worry over the minors' hockey team. They played against the Hong. CHARGES AGAINST SHIÉPING
AGENT.
⚫ proportion to the general rate. That the province, Korea, during the storm on the 29th Excellency the Governor has been pleased to effective. All that he is supposed to require is | kong Ladies' Hockey Club yesterday afternoon
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ultima. Many other vesselsfaro plo.said to
RECRUITING of Javanese labourers for plant: ing work in Cochin-Cólon bas begup in Java. permission to that end having just been secur- ed from Government. The first batch will be 25 strong and will be engaged for labour on a rabber exato at Phu quoc...
Siberian route is proving of immense value have been wrecked along the coast of North to the mercantile community we have not the Eastern Korea.
lightest. doubt, for if you can send a letter to England and receive a reply in six weeks why wait two months for it? But if the corre spondence which is passing over the Siberian route has been diverted from the sea, there should be a corresponding decrease in the transit charges by the latter. It cannot be On November 8, a pitched battle took place suggested that the Colony is paying for a Dunkirk, on the British steamer Walminster, service which is not given, that it is paying just arrived from Saigon, between Eglish the same to-day for the carriage of a sailors and the native crew. Bludgeons were less number of letters carried by the used, and about a dozen of the combatants were steamer lines. But no light was thrown injured; two of the natives being seriously hart. on the many interesting and important THE Boo. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial questions which will occur to the reader's and Affiliated Hospitals begs to acknowledge mind is connection with the passage with thanks the following donations to the
fundraf the hospitals → of mails over the Siberiau railway. lo- deed, the matter, would have been passed over without comment if it had not been for Dr. Ho. Kaj, io inquired whether it was DURING the coming week Bishop logham's Just that those who make use of the Sibe-Time will be occupied with engagements in and rian route, should have the excess cost paid rhund Hongkong. On Wednesday at: 5.30 p.m, he will address Church Workers in S1. by the ratepayers who did not make use of John's Cathedral. The Bishop and Mrs. log- it?. The only answer to that was that impe-¦ ham will leave for Colombo by the s.s. Dalla rial policy was at the bottom of it so ao on Christmas Day,
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Friday, the 11th February, 1910, to be observed appoint Monday, the 3rd January, 1910, Bod
as a public and a Bank holiday respectively, in addition to the above holidays.
in a friendly game at Causeway Bay on the lat-
The game was a fast and exciting one and was watched by many interested spectators. The ball was driven all over the field, and both teams tried hard to score, but with no result. At oun stage of the game it looked as if the Boys would score, as they were attacking all the way along, but the ladies were too watchful for thing occured, and it ended in a draw. Nit them. In the latter part of the game the same
all, with good play on both sides. The ladies were "captained" by Miss Briggs and the boys by Master Felix Ellis.
a beautiful figure, and pleasing smile, and a vast store of good-temper and money. Like ter's ground, many another thing there is a reverse to this |bright and glittering medallion. Beer and The Police Magistrates' Department is ex-akittles are not the end-all and be-all of the A. cluded from the operation of the Holidays D. O's existence, and though in India bis sad Ordinance, on Monday, the 17th day of Decem-wife his some moments that are groes, and bar, 1999, Monday, the 3rd January, 1910, and ovon pink, no one has ever re. lly disclosed the Friday, the 11th February, 1910,
long grey patches that form the background, ed A. D. G., who was longing for bed but who We remember, for instance, a case of a wretch
had to remain because His Excellency (of a past time we would particularly specify) was having a good time and showed so siges of leaving the mergy revel at which they happened to be. The poor young officer strolled languidly into the buffet and mesting, a‘gay and irresponsible ļot of friends who were living supper sald in a voica punctuated by cavernous yawns :—
daily from to am. to 1 pm during the Christ- The offices of the Supreme Court will be open
mas vacation (which commences on the 24th instant and terminates on the 1st January, 1919), except on public holidays when the offices will be entirely closed.
CRIMINAL SASSIONS.
FORMALLY ADJOURNED THIS MORNING.
The Criminal Sessions were formally opened before Mr. Justice Gomperts, Pulsus Judge, in the Supreme Court this morning and adjourned until Monday. The list of cases to be tried is as follows:fiu Hon Fung Kam, Leung Fat and Leung Sang, detalning children with intent to sell and deprive parents of possession ; Chao Sse and others, robbery; Li Kwal, accessory to robbery and receiving stolen goods; Cheng Fuk, dataining person with intent to sali..
* Has mayona seen my old Imperial sports. man anywhere?" Hardly had he got the words out of his mouth than a voice of chilling and foarfal politeness rose from behled a big pos palm and said.
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THE COLONIAL TYPE,
STEAMER "GERMANIA”
ASHORE.
Mishap at thE GILBERT ISLANDS.
News was received in Sydney on 10th ult. that the German sicamer Germanio bad been ashore at the Gilbert Group.
The vessel was proceeding from" Sydany to' the East, via the Islands, and according to the account le band she maden blind passage at Batari-tari, and suck hard and fast on the coral. After being ashoid for four hours the vessel got off apparently uninjured, and pro-
But in the Colonies they do not have pren so good a time as all this, zod wo read in a Sydney paper the following sccount of the drsary (ie | ceeded to Jalait
New York, Nov. 5. 'The first of a number of indictments, which, it is believed, involve many other Transatlantic steamship companies, led to "the "atrest yek-"" terday of Mr. Gips, general agent of the Holland-America Lise, on the charge of the violation of the interstate Commerce Law by receiving rebates from three railways. Mr. Gips entered a ples of Not guilty," and was admitted to bail in $10,000 (£1,000). There are two indictments, containing ten and 20 counts respectively, and he is liable to a maximum fine of $20,000" (£4,000) and two years' imprisonment on each count. Accord log to the World, the rebites were obtained on. shipments to inland points after arrival in Naw York, the, foreign shippers delivering goods into the company's charge for transmission, to
their destination." (Times Cor.),
TYPHOON WARNING,
The following telegram was received at the American Consulate-Generál from the Manila Observatory at 1040 am, 10-day
December 8th, 10 am Cyclops or typhoon near or over Felow. Islands, moving W. or WN.W、