Canton on business. The con- in this country is still sought by tents of those packages were quite some officers in the Colonial Sor harmless it is thought, for the vice as a means of bringing their man who packed them helped in services to the notice of the Secret carrying them to the junk. If ary of Stato with a view to con dynamite, or any other explosivo,.sideration for promotion. hd beon included, it would The objection to such pro naturally follow that the foki cedure is obvious, but, as it would not have helped, thereby doos not scom to be sufficiently realized in somo quarters, I shall risking his life."
first was fined nine dollars.
On the Amur River.
Steamer in the Typhoon The United States stommer
It is notified in the Gazette that Calloo has come into port with a information has been received blackoned fannol due to the metal from the Consul for Russia at being burned. She encountered Hongkong that Chinese subjects the typhoon off the Tiger Island, are prohibited from landing on but experienced no dilliculty in the territory of the Government weathering the storin.
General of the Amur Itiver with out a pissport vissed by a Russian Consul
Garrison Orders,
Local Ordinances.
"Then how do you account for bo glad if you will take steps to its prosence?"
make it known again to publis That is a question which officers serving under your Go-
Detail of olieers for the ensuing work :-Field Officer for the week, and visitor, detention Burrack
H. M. the King has not boon cannot at present answer, we shall (vernment, that this procedure is Captain A. 1 Barrett, 128th advised to exercise his power af have to await the return of the disapproved. Among other means Baluchistan Infantry. Next for lisallowance with respect to the gentleman from Canton for an this and the preceding circular daty Captain H. LG, Bell, following Onlinnees --Ordin-explanation, though not for should be published in the fo farish Night Guard at Kow-ca No. 15 of 1911, entitled an minute do I believe him guilty of Gazette. ! leon Military Hospital during en Ordinance to end the Census any plot." Buing week, 8th Rajpats,
Ordinance 1881; Ordinance No.
Sanitary Board Election.
Nothing Suspicious.
a
farming business. His luggage). has been taken to the Police Office, and being granted an examination of it, we found it to contain a lot of wood, and certainly nothing of
suspicious nature.
Arrangements are in existenco
in this office which, onsuro duo
WRECK OF THE "EMPRESS OF CHINA."
Company's Annduncement.
The Canadian Pacific Railway's Steamer "Empress of China" vai
What might have been a serious conflagration involving probably the gutting of a valuabila property.
Indian Constable's Misfortune 16 of 1911, edtitled an Ordinance] · It is true, as our repre- consideration of tho claims of all and the contents therein, in thei very heart of the business square, constable charged a
The other day, an Indian Police to amend the law with respect to sentative found · on visit Suitable officers on the occurrence ricksha Persons carrying on business ns to the Police Station, that of vacancies in the service. The was unrrowly averted by the timely olie in the employ of Ir. Jordan Money-londers; Ordinance No. 18 from what is known there attempta which havorecently been In our issue of this evening there is published the first arrival of two members of the for obstruction and the defendant of 1911, entitled an Ordinance for the gentleman now in Canton is made to obtain promotion by irre of a series of articles on the rights, duties and liabilities of police who had beon auramoned to issued a cross-summons for as-regulating the supply of Electri-apparently a farmer, and luas been gular means have not been of ad- sharobrokers. As the writer of those articles states, there pan extinguish an incipient fire. It fair was that the constable was poses within the Colony of long-other things connected with the
sault. The short result of the Pity for Lighting and other pur to Hongkong to deal in seeds and antago to the officers concernod. be very little doubt that the majority of persons in this broko out in the old Hongkong fined $5 for the assault. Yoster-kong and its Dependencies. Colony dealing in shares low little or nothing either of their Club building and originated in a day, Mr. E. R. Hallifax, Assistant own rights, or of the rights and liabilities of the brokers kitchen near the Bijou Theatre Superintendent of Police, applied
It is notified that, by command whom they instruct. The brokers themselves, or many of them, are and immediately behind the flower for a re-hearing. The case was
of His Excellency, the Governor, romanded. probably equally without such knowledgo. Tho general idea stalls in Wyulham Street. The
and pursuant to Section of the Attempted Armed Robbery.' appears to be that a broker is at liberty to not for as many kitchen, we believe, is attached to
Public Health and Buildings Or- A Chinese was charged at the dinances, 1203-1009, an election presence of the explosive our Still being dissatisfied as to the principals as ho plenses, however antagonistic the one to the other, a new Chinese restaurant which Magistracy yesterday afternoon of one member to the Sanitary representative made further in- a submerged rock off Boalan in their interests may be, or he may sell his own shares to his principal; lias just been opened in the old with attempted armed robbery at Board will take place at the City quiries as to the contents of the Tokyo Bay on Thursday morning, and further, that if a contract is once made in accordance with legal promises on the ground floor at 10, Queen's Road East, Fourmen fall on Tuesday, the 8th day of remaining 39 cases. Wo were anded and proceeded to Yoke- Both passengers and mails were requirements the principal who has signed it is bound by it, although, one time occupied by Cafe Weis- took part in the abortive outrage, August, 1911, commencing at 4 assured that they were quite ans, while the Japanese warship if he chooses to do so, he can back out of a contract which contains mans and recently vacated by the of whom only the defendant was 'clock in the afternoon.
harmloss, and did not contaie no numbers of the shares agreed to be bought and sold for future Vienna Cafe. The occupants of arrested. The man was committed The following persons will be anything which might result in distressed steamer,
"Asó" proceeded to the aid of this delivery, and is ander no legal liability either to the broker he lus one of the upper flours observed for trial. Inspector Korr prose-entitled to vole at the election such another cat istrophe as that employed, or to the other principal, in relation to that contract. smoke issuing from a narrow lane ented.
Sach persons as are induded which happened yesterday. That The real position is, however, very different from that which we be and on looking into it saw that a
in the Special and Common Jury was as far as we could proceed liove it is generally supposed to be, for it may be gathered from the window was allume. The alarm A Chinaman was arrested at Lists for the year 1911. (b) Such this morning, but last night wo articles we are publishing, and from the authorities therein cited, was at once raised and an Indian West Point yesterday for stealing persons are exempt from serving were fortunate in scouring the that so long as a broker acts honestly towards his principal, and in and a Chinese constable in the cloth worth 27 dollars, Ho had on Juries on account of their pro- details which wo give below. accordiner with his principal'a instructions, and if has no neighbourhood promptly rushed om arrested previously on a fessional avocations or on secount The packing case in which the confirming the report that the personal interests of his own in the transaction, which in and reached the kitchen by similar charge and had been of their being Members of Council explosive was placed was encared "imptes of China" had gone. nay possibly be opposed to those of his principal, he is entitled moins of the first floor. Fortun-banished. He was now sentenced on account of infirmity or of with wood and was filled with more at the entrance of Tokya both to his brokerage, and to be indemailed by hiately there was a plentiful supply to six months' hard labour, and a their being over the age of sixty joss sticks and paper. Apparently were landed and both arrived in By. The Maile and passengers principal against any loan ho may
sustain in the of water available and several period in stocks, is confederate yeara,
the explosive was placed right in transaction. The contract between a broker and his principal is backotfuls emptied on the burn-was discharged.
the centre of the jar. The noise 28th, it is expected that the mail Yokohama yesterday morning, the ontirely independent of the contract put through by the broker for ing window succeeded in extin Gagged and Bound.
An international motor-car race of the explosion was not so great salo and purchase of shares. It is a contract of indemnity which is guishing the flames. More fortun implied from the relationship between them of principal and agent. ato still was the fact that the out-were found gagged and bound on will be held towards the end of the bombs, warning residents of the to their destinations by the The occupants of a Bampan from St. Petersburg to Sevastopol as that which results from the for China Ports will be forwarded But to ensure the rights of the broker under such an implied contract break occurred betweon 8.30 and board at Yaumeti last evening. suminer, says flouter,
N.ILL. a. "Laictzow," leaving approach of a typhoon, and ex- it is necessary that his conduct should be absolutely fair and 9a.m. to-day when people wore When released they said three
Yokohama this morning, the 29th.* open towards his principal, to whoni he must disclose any fact about. Had the fire taken place men, armed, jumped on their boat, cipated, and it is hoped that there have been packed loosely, else the details covering the actual ac
At least fifty entries are anti-peris say that the explosive must
I might mention that I have no within his knowledge which may affect his principal's interests. when the business promises were secured them and robbed them of will be more Britial competitors rosult might have loon much, Under no circumstances, as a broker, may be sell to his principal his closed, there might have been nearrings, bangles and hair picks to than on the occasion of the last big worse,
fehlent to the ship.~Yours truly, own shares, or staros in which he is personally interested. As a different report to record.
D. W. ORADDOCK. principul himself he may, of course, deal in such shares in any way
July 20, 1911. he pleases, but he must state the fact that he is a principal, and not lot it be supposed that he is douling with the shares as a broker merely, and that he is therefore entitled 10 claim a commission or brokerage on their sale price. To a brokerage on commission under those circumstances ho would certainly not be entitled,
WARNING TO NAVI- GATORS,
Stealing Cloth.
Russlan Road Race.
We live received the following.. branch of the Company- jommunication from the local
Dear Sir, nu in receipt of advice from our Yokohama Öffica ·
the value of 27 dollars. The boat Russian road raco. The Gorm
Police Information. was then taken alongside the and French automobile clubs are As regards Polico information wharf at Youmati and the robbers taking a netive interest in the we learned that the Detective! ran away.
event.
Department had been in close
Cavalry Officers Should Star Ferry's Now Matshed. The daily rons have been ar-touch with the Canton authorition! Own Service Sword.
The Army Council er nsider A now natalied, smaller inrangod sa follows: St. Peters in the endeavour to prevent the (THE “TELEGRAPH" CORRISPONDÉNT ¦¦
size, to place the old and burg, Novogorod, Moscow, Orel, imprtation into the Chinese city, thaia cavalry soldiershould at all. This, brielly, appears to be the status of a sharebroker and of
Canton, July 28. [dilapidated ONG which was Kharkoff, Simferopol, Sevastopol, of arms and ammunition through times use his own service sword. his principal in share transactions-a position which wo venture to II. E. the Viceroy lus tele-blown down by the typhoon on A considerable portion of the Hongkong. They had no know for all practices except mounted believe has not been understood by many in the Colony. It is pos-graphically instructed the com- Tlustradny, is siow being orected route, notably from Kharkoff into goof the absolute presence of combat, and have decided to Ter sible that not a few transactions in shares have boon put through munders of gunboats and the in the "Star" Fery Pier, The Simferopol (500 miles), foll es this explosive in Hongkong, ex-mit such use as a tentative mea which might have been repudiated, or which would not have taken deputies in charge of the different thanks of the public, especially unmetalled roads, and, consecept that they had received in-suro, pending further experience place, had the parties been aware of their rights and duties; and Pokin stations to order all the those living in Kowloon, are due quently the solidity of the ma- formation that some wore stored na to the damage which may be other transactions may have been repudiated by persons who errone-coxswains of steam launches to to the Co, for having taken im-chines will be severely tested. in critain boarding houses on the caused to thawords thereby. ously believed that they were entitled to do so. We do not suggest reduce their speed when their mediate steps to put up this now for a moment any moral delinquency in the majority of instancos crafts are proceeding up the West shed, otherwise passengers will Czar's Cup, open to amatours.
Among the prizes offered is the | Praya frons.
has, however, been decided to re Toy ridicule the idea of a pre-strict this use of the corvica. in which contracts might have, but have not, been repudiated, but River, as the dykes might be have to suffer some inconvonisace One of the conditions is that any ranged homb outrage. The sword to trained men only and to merely that the position luns not been properly understood, as it must easily broken by the waves caused in having to stand on tho pior in necessary repairs must be effected cise was only one of ferty bearing isana twenty swords, pattern 1898, in future bo by those who take the trouble to read and consider the by the motion of the launches at this hot and trying weather with with appliances carried on the a trade mark that belonging to to each regiment for the use of prtioles we are publishing,
louta ny shelter.
full speed.
Qara.
a brand of condensed milk.