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SENSATION IN RUSSIA.
Attorney-General v. Birkbeck-The word (issue) moans the de- Tho "Hankow Daily News" livery of the notes to persons who are willing to receive them in learns that owing to the trouble exchange for value in gold, in bills, or otherwise; the person who at Chengtu, Mr. Pontius, U.S. delivers them being prepared to take them up when they are prosent Consul at Uhungking, has been ed for payment. But we find on studying that judgment that a recalled. The telegram recalling
At the Criminal: Sessions, this little further on in the same page is the following When they give him reached him midway ou his such notes against value received they make themselves liable to the train journey-to Poking.
morning before Mr. Justice M. STOLYPIN'S DEATH- person to whom they give them if he presents in due course to Dirk-
Rice at Shanghal
Gompertz, Acting Chief Justice, beck & Co., and they dishonour thou Hence they fall On the strength of telegrame Ng Tez Sau was again indicted within the definition of issuing just given." The Magistrate received on Sept. 13 by the Shang-on several charges under the evidently regarded the word proparel, not as it used hai Chamber of Commerce telling Bankruptcy Ordinanco, of alleged but as it would be understood if of the shipment of 10,000 picultorial misstatements in a state- logal tenso, # a person said "I am prepared to go to Japan next week on a of rice froin Hankow and 60,000 holiday."
." Lord Coleridge, were he living, would be somewhat piculs from Hun the price of most of affairs whereby certain aghast at such a construction being placed on a word which, later cereal in Shanghai ›dropped" to figures were altered to represent on in his judgment, be plainly stated meant bound," or "under a $10.80.
fetitions losses, Defendant on- legal liability." The saning by a person of a bill or noto
tored a plon of not guilty on all necessarily imports an undertaking, or liability, on his part to the The etiquette af drinking us the counts. It will be remember- holder of that bill, or noto, to take it up on presontniont. It cannot, understood by the serving-man of course, bo suggested that au notion could be successfully brought in certain Highland households ed that at the last Sessions, there against Mr. Apcar to recover from him the value of a bank-noto of in formor days was sometimes was a majority verdiet of four to the Banco Nacional Ultramarino of Macau, and yet he has been outraged by historious guests three, whereupon the jury was theatres closed and the churolies- convicted of issuing suoli notes! It would be a great pity in At Castle Graut when a carousing discharged and a re-trial ordered were crowded at the requiem the public interest if the matter wore allowed to stond at this party was on two Highlanders before a fresh jury. unsatisfactory position that has been reached..
DAY BY DAY.
Bad Manners!
Ho
[VIOR. TO THE ** TALHORAPY,
Darban, Sept. 20, 8.25 am.
M. Stolypin's death has caused costernation in Russia. Tho
wore always in attendance after midnight to carry guests upstairs,
Mr. C. G. Abss services and services for the wel it boing understood that none tor, Attorney-General, instructed could by any other means arrivo by Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, of
fare of the Emperor who has been at their sleeping apartments: On Mesara. Poucon, Looker and flooded by telegrament hounge,
The jury was as follows:-
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NATIONALISTS' VIEWS.
A meeting of the Nationaliste
Things and notions are what I connection with the foun- one occasion when two of the com- they are, and the consequences dering of the pile-driver reported pany, either from their abstinence Deacon, who appeared on behal! of them will be what they will bo. in our columus yesterday, it is or their superior strength of head, of the Official Receiver, prosecuted, reported that two men engaged on walked upstairs, declining the and Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, the machine have been missing proffered assistance, the attend KC., instructed by Mr. L The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will the necessary permission Hung, pilo-driver went down.
For using a bakehouse without since Monday evening when the ants, astonished and indignant Alinda, was for the defendant.
exclaimed: "Ach, itssaifchanged Fat Lau was fined $10 at the
times at Castle Grant when gentlo- Peking's Population. Police Court this morning.
The population, of Poking no-men, can gong to bed on their nin Mesara. L. V. Langstoin (lore-in St. Potersburg resolved that The rates per quarter and por mensam, proportional. Subscriptioris
cording to report is returned as feet, whatever."
man), H. Rum, O. P. Heclitel, 0. for any poriod loss than one month will be pharged as for a
Echoes of Great Tragedies. 1,017,200 qud that of the metro- 1.M.C Appointments. Rudlow, H; Wusserfall, J. Smirke full month.
the slightest concession to the The following appointments From "Answers Coires-politan district outside of Poking
to The daily issue is delivered free when the address is accessible to pondents" in "Pearson's Week 4,054,219. The population of have been announced in the and W. Taylor.
The Attorney-General stated revolutionary elements in Russin messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered at ly:" "Dolly Vardon. You did Maneburia is given as 14,917,000,"Customs Gazelle issued on.
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20th, 1913.
THE COLONY'S CURRENCY.
E, Pung Shan, Tartar noral designate for Canton, is pected to reach Canton next week, and will probably receive the seal, of office on Tuosilay next.
Cook's Tour.
Yesterday a money changer
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Naval News.
Bread on the Waters
A residuary bequest which will probably amount to £3,000 has been left to charity in England by
mnaster General undor the Y-another, and really there were four chuan Pu. Piry, Theophilo, main charges. A section of the Postal Secretary (Commissioner of Ordinanco stated that any material THE CHINESE AIRMAN Customs), Inspectorate General of misstatement constituted
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Posts, Peking, Vacted position offence. Defendant was charged UNAPPRECIATED IN CHINA.
a retired congregational minister na Commissioner of Casioms and
Queon's Road · Central sent his cook with a $50 note to the bank in England as an expression of Postal Secretary on appointment with making material misstate- to got change. The cook has not gratitude for a low shillings given to Yu-ch'unn Pu as Postmonter ments with intent to defraud. ¡It roturned.
to his family from a public fund Goneral.
was not for him. (the Attorney- when he was a boy.
Typhoon Warning The following telegram ras received by the Amorican Con- sulate General from the Manila Observatory at noon to-day: Cyclone or typhicon south of Naha moving N.W.
The Sacred College.
Share Quotations.
The Cause of Strikes.
The following wore, the altera. General) to prove intent, but the Mr. Rider Haggard, speaking tions in Share Quotations to-day:
burdon lay on the defendant to
THE "TELEGRAPH " CokresfordENT}
Canton, Sept. 18.
As alrandy reported, Mr. Fung Ya, the Chinese airman whỡ.
a Primrose League fele at Dit-Banks 800 sellers, Unions 822 satisfy the jury that he had - no chingham House, Norfolk, anid 1-2 Buyers, Hongkong Fires 300 intent to dofraud. The material accomplished a series of flights in strikes arose through the Socialist, Sales, China Fires 125 1-2 Buy- misstatements covored eleven Canton on his aeroplane, thos, the agitator, the politician greedyers, Ching and Manilas 11 1-1 counts. There was another see-through the Viceroy, applied to for votes, sowing the evil soed in Sales and buyers, Douglases 23tion which stated that if any the Army Board for the allocation
yas
notes would be lo refuse to recognise them. The suggestion has been represented may be mentioned to have her trouble settled by her 10 pesos, or 17 or 18 Mexican "faked" his own books it informs the Viceroy that to allow
NATIONALIZATION OF RAILWAYS.
AGITATION IN KWANG, TUNG.
THE “TELEGRAPH ” CORRESPONDENT')
Canton, September 19. 11.E. the Viceroy hus discovered
comprised 64 members" when the utted, were often not too well Sales, Chins Sugars 140 Sellera, tions losses oftor a Receiving of the construction of these flying. Of the Sacred College, which die hearts of people who, be it ad-1-2. Buyors, Steamboats-261-2 man attempted to work out ficts of some funds to defray the costs.
paid and often enough led squalid Luzons 20 Sales, Docks 60 Buyers, Order was made against him, he Pope was elected, 32 remain. fivos in bad social conditions. Dairy Farms 23 1-2 Buyers; Groen would be guilty of an offence.uchines, for the use of the Can- Sixty-two took part in the elec-They told them openly or covertly Islands 3.50 buyers. One result of the recent proceedings against Mr. Apear in con- tion, two being unable to attend. that they only had to stretch out
The fictitious losses covered the ton army. As the Army Baird ucction with what was held to be the unlawful "issuing of The luyen is. Cardinal Capecola- their hands to seize everything
next eleven counts. There were has failed to comply with his banknotes has been to exeito renewed interest in the whole question tro, who is 87 years of age, and they saw.
On Monday in these columns three counts of forging two rough of the Colony's currency. In regard to the proceedings themselves the youngest member is Cardinal
Dusky Lady Godiva. wo published a statement to the cash books and a deposit and loan request on account of the state of nud to the decision of the Magistrate there has been some speculation. Merry del Val, who is only 40.
A Now York telegram dated effect that the Headwaters Min-book, and the remaining three the country's finances, the Call- It has not been made quite clear at whose instance the proceedings Daring the eight years of his Aug. 21 is as follows: Aing Co. cleined up 300 ounces of counts were in respect of uttering ton Viceroy hans telegraphed, to were taken and for whose benefit it is sought to prevent, the circulation Pontificate Pius X. has held four Tuscaroran maiden who is to-day gold from 6000 tons of quartz, those books. Defendant lind made the Army Advisory Council, that of Portuguese notes. The banks of issue in the Colony can scarcely consistories for the creation of in the care of the police matron the return equalling $8 per ton. alteratious in a large number of the airman intends to return to find the matter one worth their consideration, and, if they did the cardinals. There is no Jesuit in here, will be sent back to the The dollar mentioned is of gold books. It had been laid down by America. In reply, the Council speediest and most effective method of checking the circulation of the purple. But among the orders Tuscaroran reservation this week and the return is equivalent to the Chief Justice that if a man made that the proceedings against Mr. Apear were in the nature of a one Carmelite, one Augustinian, own people. The girl came to dollars per ton.
not forgery, but if a non present this airman ki roturi to America test caso to assert a right which the Government possesses. If this ono Capicliin, two Franciscans. the attention of the police follow-
ed a book and called it a rough is ut, the discretion of the Viceroy. be so has not the Government in u sonse exhibited a disposition to Neither of the Franciscans woars ing the receipt of several tele- The friends of Mr. T. T. Wong, cash book, when, in point of foot, straia at a gnut, while showing a cheerful roadiness to swallow the red hat as a representative of phone messages from suburban says the "China Press," will be it was not, it would be a forgery. camel? The amount of Chinese, bank notes of uncertain value in his order, but one as Patriarch of district saying that a young giri glad to hear that he line been ap-There were many items in the circulation in Hongkong is enormous. What are generally known Lisbon and the other as Primate was being driven nude through pointed Commissioner of Chinese boks which were genuine. The as Kwangtung notes are the common paper currency medium of Spain. Mgr. Vasgardy receiv- the streets. A motorcycle police students to the United States, by details of the case were these. In in circulation in Chinatown. The bulk of the trade in that portioned the purple not as a Boucdictino man hurried put and soon located the Peking Government. Mr. the last two days before the de- of Victoria is carried on by means of these notes, and we learn from but as Primate of Hungary a well-informed source that millions of dollars are represented by
the disturbers, who proved to be Wong, it will be remembered, has fendant's bankruptcy, the latter Faction Fight in Shanghai three Indiana An aged squaw beon Secretary and Chief Trans- received large sums of money this dubious paper. As is well known the local foreign banks Lave
Yesterday afternoon, says the and a young brave of about 25 lator of the Shanghai-Nanking (about $40,000) from the country, to pay a tax on their note circulation while these Chinese notes pay N.-C. Daily News of Sept. 16, years word riding slowly along in Railway administration for the It was necessary for the Crown no impost of any kind. The class by which these notes are principal- all sorts of rumoura were current wagon, and the girl, destitute last five years, and has been also to know what had been done with ly handled do not avail themselves inch of foreign banking facilities that there had been an outbreak of clothing, was walking along actively connected with the Chi-the money. The Crown's sugges consequently the banks do not possess the means of discourage among the shipping coolies, on ahead of the horse. The older reso. Y.M‚O.A, and the Worldtion was that the defendant was ment necessary effectually to deal with this competition. It may the French Band in connexion woman explained that she had Chinese Students' Federation. He in possession of most of the money that the society for the protection be noted in this connection that preferential treatment to the with the dear price of rice. As a objected to the attention of the was Chairman of the YM.U.At the present moment and was of railways Kwangtung 13 Chineko modium is also extended to subsidiary coins. The Govern- matter of fact, some troublo, ngcos young brave, her second husband, until this year and is still hold- trying to conceal it. Defendant celioing the sentiments of the ment withdraw its issue, thus allowing the Chinese coins or tokens sitating the intervention of tho had been paying to his step ing the Vice-Presidency of the had to give un account of his book people in Szechuan, and has to circuinte more freely. At present the Government is periodically police, did take place in the daughter, and took this method Federation. calling for tenders for the purchase of the British subsidiary morning; but it had nothing to do of punishing the girl, in accord- coinage in amounts of $50,000 to $100,000 at a time. The with the price of rice, and on ance with an old tribal custom. sale price is fixed, of course, by the operation of the law of inquiry it turned out to be a fac- A Bitter Controversy supply and demand, but the loss on every sale ranges from 5 tion fight among the coalies. On The Shakespeare-Bacon con-] per cent, to 7 per cent. The Government, however, takes theab the China Merolants Wharf the troversy formed the subject-of coins-back-in various waya at par, consequently if the Govern- coolies employed include a good debate at a well-known theatrionli mont sells $100,000 a month at an average loss of 6 per cent. muny different provincials, and in school not long ago. On both and redeems the coins at par it loses $72,000 year on this instance the feud was between sides. the orators were would-be terclub Howling is as follows $1,200,000-an ocoentic bit of finance. The remedy is not far the Shanghai and the Hupol men. actresses, and pro and con the to seek. The Government should prohibit the circulation in the To start with, two were engaged in discussion was feminine and colony (under a penalty), of the Kwantung notes and Chinese the quarrel, their dispute arising furious. It seemed at first, says subsidiary coins illegal tender and institute a note issue of its out of some gambling that bad the "New York Tribune," that own, freely exchanging its notes for British dollars and vice versa, taken place the previous day in the ardent partisanship of the There are diffoulties in the way of carrying out this course, which a few-cash were involved. fair opponent would preclude the O. Moyer but they are not insuperable.
A point in the judgment given by Mr. Hazoland in the o'clock the dispute was renewed, clusion; but the last speaker, J. Hooper Whilst at work about eloven possibility of harmonious con-P. Kunze case of Mr. Apoar is deserving of more than passing notice. the Shanglui coolio informing in the nervousness The definition of the word "issue," if it is to be tako a precedent, the Hupeh man that he had no first public speech,.., suggest H. Humphreys
of hor H. Hunter would render unenviable the position of every merchant in the right to come to work here. od common ground. "Ladies," Th. Christiani Colony. The general effect of the Magistrate's decision seems to be Words led to blows, and soon she sail, speaking rapidly, "IT. Martin
(1) that any person who does anything at all which appertains to men were being seized by the think there has been much mis F. Steinhoff
the business of a banker such as receiving money which he queues and thrown about. The apprehension as to the real truth: Haasemann undertakes to repay on demand, negotiating bills of oxchange, Shanghai and the Hupek men of the Baconian theory: Istand. U. H. Gale exchanging bank-notes for cash etc., iscurrying on the took sides, until about fifty were ready to show that the great plays. I. Matson business of banking," and that any person who exchanges for cash, or otherwise pays, been prooooding for some time ten net by. Shakespeare or by P. R. Wolff
engaged. After the racket and we know so well were writ H. W. Bagnall a bank note which he is subsequently willing (prepared to the polico came upon the scene, Bacon, but by Bacon and Shake H, H. Eggora take back, and give value for, is guilty of issuing that note, and took twenty of the men into speure in collision 1."
Amid R. C. Hutchison should he remarked that the Magistrate quoted custody, putting an end to the laughter and applause the debate H. Adam Coleridge, Chief ustion in the
the trouble,
C. Gregoreen
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SPORT.
Interclub Bowling.
debts, and he mentioned the names telegraphed to the Central Govern-
of eleven firms, but refused to givement for instructions how to art. the exact addresses of those firms. In reply, the Central Government merely stating their districts. Two informed the Viceroy that H. E. of the accounts were entirely false Shum Chun Heun had been ap from the beginning to the end. pointed by the Throne as commis The other nine accounts were sioner for the suppression of the
The result of the September In- gonuito ones, increased by altern-revolt in Szechuan, and requestorl tions, The defendant had thus the Viceroy to take every precaus multiplied his book debts. The tion against similar outbreaks. result was that he.had accounted occurring in the province, Tho for about $0,000, which, he said, Governnient also warned this WBA owed hiin.
Viceroy against resort to hasly Evidence was called and the measures in dealing with those
adjourned.
who oppose the notionalization of railwaysand
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1568 Sor 1508 1482 80 1502| 1542 Sor. 1542 Inspetor. Witeliall prosecuted. 1480 40 1020 morning for having in his possos- tions took place in England, un- 1432 100 1032 Tak Wo, at the Magistracy this During the last year 840 craina 1408 100 1508 sion 14 tine of food unfit for against 855 for the previous year, 1492 Ser. 1492 human consumption. The de 1366 100 1404 1378 100 1478 foudont was fined $25.
1284 200 1484
During the last five years the strides made in the American' dus! 1283 200 1483 The bodies of two unknown tomobile industry have boon gi 1423. Scr. 1423 the mortuary. One was floating 1335 120 1456 Chinese have been conveyed to gantio,
1263 150 1413 in the water of the Standard Oil There are more sujoiles in 1304 100 1404 Co.'s Wharf, Kennedy Town, and Jajun; în proportion to its popula 1240 150 1399 the other was found on the sea tion, than in any offer oivilized 1888 150 1368 wall near Waterloo Road,
yountry in the wouldade