A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.,
ESTABLISHED 1811.
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
SHERRY.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY DECEMBER 16 101
We can confidently recommend the following as Xores Wines, of the Highest Class, Specially Selected, and Shipped diroot.
In Quality and Prico they are unequalled.
Por-dozen. Per bottlos
$16.80€
$1.45 1.45 -1.90
A. Light Dry
B. Vino De Pasto
17.80
C. G. Oloroso
22.30
D. Superior Pale Dry
24,30
2.05
·E. Finest Palb Dry Nutty
29.80
2,55
A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd.,
ALLSANDRA BUILDINGS.
Hongkong, 1 ore1er, 1910, ̧
NOTICE TO SUBSORÍBERS.
DAY BY DAY.
Unspoken sympathy sinks deepest. A pressure of the hand or on the arm conveys more then, a wealth of words.
Auction sales of Crown Lands
are to be held at Taipu on Dec. 27
and at the offices of the Public
PASTOR RUSSELL
Visit Hongkong::
Pastor lussoll' of the Brooklyn
NOTES AND COMMENTS:
NAVAL NEWS.
SHARE REPORT
H.M.S. Minotaur to Return: A fair amount of busitons has The Rebellion.
been put through during the
The Rebellion la-fallen from H.M.S. Minotaur will be recon-wook and there has been a geits high estate as a nowa“ fontaro.“ The three days armistice has rive in Hongkong on January 9missioned in the early part of neral improvement.
Rubbor is quoted at 4/4 per lengthened out and novent of im- and spend a few days here before next year for further sorrico on
fall of Nanking a fortnight ago,
and London Tabernacles will ur-
going on to Manila. On his re- the China Station. H.M.S. Inslo 1b., a decline of Id. in the week; portance has taken place since the
Works Department on Dec. 18 and turn from the Philippines he will mitable will not religvė" H,M.S. | the prices of shares have gone up, rt is still impossible to dotormine
GRISLY MURDERS IN
FRANCE.
Dec. 27.
give a free public address in the Minotaur as flagalijp on the China City Hall, his abject boing Station, as previously stated. Mosers, G. Falconer & Co., we "Where Are the Dead" At 11 M. Tug Atlas left to-day for noto, are offering a fine selection 9 p.m. he will conduct an open Pukhoi. of diamond brooches, Indios' gold wartoli, bracelets, pendants, and public Bible question meeting at fancy jewelry. These have just which questions by anyone in arrived and are of the latest fashion attendance will be answered. They are especially suitable for These meetings, were very popu Christinas and New Year gifts and are now on view at Messrs. Fallar in Great Britain Pastor Russell's war is under the aus. coner's bandsome premises,
pices of the International Bible' Students Convention, and ho and Mr. and Mrs. Haynes, who are six lay assistants who accompany leaving Canton to manage them were appointed by the Con- King Edward Hotel, are to barvention to investigate foreign recipients of presents from the missions.
[28 friends they have made at Sha- meen. Mr. Haynes is to receive
a gold cigarette case and Mrs. Haynes & gold wateli bracelet, by Mosers. . Falconer and Co.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, DEUEMBER 13, 1911.
THE NAVAL PRIZE BILL.
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tives of such contries as Paraguay, Bolivia, Luxembourg, Costa Rica, Santo Domingo and Haiti would have as much weight as those of Great Britain, Franco Germany and the other great Powers. It would certainly be risky, not to use a stronger expression, for Great Britain to be compelled to submit hor interests as a belliger- ent or a neutral to a court so constituted..
GRAPE FRUIT IN HONGKONG.
We have had the gratification
a
of seeing what appeared to be fine specimen of grapefruit grown in the Colony, which was
Bludgeon Employed in two
Fout Crimes.
vory considerably in some in-
stancas, The London market definitely the actual lentier of the has been very active during the revolutionaries, and this may be werk.
the opportunity for Sun Yat-sen,
·Bar Silvor is quoted at 25. who is now coming north. That 9-16 for ready and 25.3-8 for astute gentleman refused, at first forward delivery steady. Ex-to be interviewcil' at Singapore. change on London opened at on the ground that "ho wirled 1. 10.3-8.T. T.
to be hilly acquainted with to Banks-Hongkong and Shang situation before he came to any hai Banks are in good démanil'nt fixed conclusion. Of Sun's hotnal 8855, but there are no shares ob, capacity as an alministrator-noth committed in France recently quotation is £80.
Two dreadful murders were tainable under $800; the London fing is known. He has been suc*.
resssful as the proscribed leader and curionsly the instrument used in each c18e was a bludgeon. Marino Insurances. Unions. of the anthorn malcontents-and At Igornay, a little commune A few shares have changed hunds he has certainly been phlo to win near Autun, Jean Dessertenne, at $825, and theroare further bay- the enthusiastic support and log- bellringer and churchwarden, went to the church to ring the or at the rate. North Chinas arealty of the southern Chinese, It Augelus at 0.30 in the evening. quiet at $145. Cantone have may ho that when he arrives at Some villagers noticed that the buyers nt $185 and Yangtzes are Shanghai the other revolutionary
Irarlors, whó ns has been prévious-.. Angelus did not ring. Next wantol in Shanghai at $210. morning the old mah was found
Fire Insurances-China Firosly suggestol, pro not a particular, murdered on the stops of the altar.
There was blood all round, evou are in strong demand at $125 y Juppy family, will ask him to In the current number of the Yellow Dragon" is a letter from Mr. (: C. O, Anderson in which ent by Mr. Ho Tung to a friend, the communion table, being bes-and Hongkong Fires remain same the leadership on the best pinothinit of ending jealousies ho montions that he took part in The apposuice of the specimen petiere. The state of the church stendy at $352
Shipping Hangkong, Canton among themselves. The position, the opening meeting of his Col-hal gained in attractiveness ow-left no doubt that the crime had lege Debating Society at Caming to the care taken to cut off been premeditated. A number bridge. It will be remembered sufficient length of the branch, of clinire had boon tied togethern Mou to Steamboats have been apart from the question of Sun's that loss than a year ago Mr. and artistically arranged in and placed across the aiste lead-dono and $27, and the markot clo- fitness, is no enviable one. Evid- Anderson, was Hon, Secretary of Japanese baskot it looked very ing to the belfry. It is conjectures with buyers at $26.75. Indo-enco is accumulating to show that the Queen's College Debuting So-inviting. We believe this to be od that when the bell-ringer en Chinas have risen to a buying it is becoming increasingly diffi
the only specimen grown in the tored his progress was stopped by ciety in Hongkong.
Colony. There were four of the the chairs, and it was there that quotation of $60, the London cult for the revolutionary leaders selling quotation is £8.2; China to keep their men in inad. This fruit on the tree from which this he was attacked,
Matilas have changed hands is scarcely to be wonderod at when one was taken. The grape fruit or shaddock),grows well in the Malay States and is essentially tropical fruit,
A telegram from Jolo, dated Doe. 10, states that peste had again settled over Jole; the 300 Moros who took the war path ton days ago had surrendered, the strongholds established by the hostiles had been dismantled, and the authorities had gathered in more than 300 rifles to ho added to the store of guna piling up in Jolo as the result of the disarma-
1 ment order.
construction of roads and
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CANTON NEWS.
["Telegraph Correspondent]
Canton, Dec. 15.
Be-
Ile endeavoured to escape to the sacristy but was overtaken as
uire revolutionaries, bandits and he was running past the commun at $10.25, and there are further it is recalled that, apart from ion table, and thero struck down. sellers at the rate, Shells are
His hat and the church koys quoted. from London at 81s. Gd. griminals of all kinds have attack-
ed thaniselves to the movement. were found on a bench near the Star Ferries have sold at “$27.50| door, and an enormous bludgeon, and more sharon can bo pineød at | clotted with blood and hair, was
The Test Match.
found under another seat. There the rate. The new shares are The first test match has begun, were also cords with slipknots wanted at $17.
and the Australians, by scoring which the murderers had left be- Refineries.--China Sugars have 317 for five wickets, have at least hind, and which probably werealvanced from $98 to $110. unsured that the Englishman intended to strangle the victim
and make it appear that he had Shares have changed hands at have a tough job ahead of them. thio latter rate, and there are fur-Trumpar is still not out, with 95- committed suicide,
Robbory appears the only mot-ther sellers, Luzons are in de-already to his credit, and so long ive of the crime, for old Dresser-
as he remains, there is work in tonne was known to be a thrifty
and at $29.50.
man, and to carry his savings Mining-Raubs have buyere about with him. Not a single coint $2.50. Langkats are in strong
demand in Shanghai at Tls. 63. The murderers had taken every Docks, Wharves and Golowns. could be found in his pockets. thing.
store for the English folders. It
is good to read that in previous matshow the English fielding has been keen, for this way rogarded at Home as the team's wenkest
It would appoir that the War
Unrest, as a result of opposition to the existing form of goverment Insular Government's Finances. in Canton, has broken out in many The accumulated surplus of part of the interior, and some days ago a body of 500 revolutionaries currency on deposit in the Philip were despatched to the affected pince Treasury over the amount areas where the people had broken required to be reserved by the out in active revolt. This body Act creating the Gold Standard of troops was unable to maintain Fund amounted on November 30 The House of Lords, as way anticipated, has rejected the Naval to P. 2,677,000. This amount is order,being overwhelmingly ont in excess of the P. 18,108,000, numbered, and as a consequence Prize Bill. This measure amended and consolidated the existing which is 35 per cent. of the total 2,000 reinforcements had to be
sont up yesterday. They have The second crime was commit--Hongkong. Docks are a weak point. There Is been no re- enactmenta relating to naval prizes of war in order that effect might enrrency issue, the percentage that taken ten mountain feld guns to the same afternoon near Ver-market at $48, Shanghai Decks inder, it would seen, of the be given to the Convention for the establishment of an International has to be reserved. Governor with them and if the people fail on in the Sarthe. Mme. Lusseau,
Gelded for hours one day at third” Prize Court. There was much opposition to the Bill in the House of General Forbes ham issued to benefit from the friendly aged 75, a farmer's wife, was alaro stendy at Tis. 57. Kowloony of the Sussex autour who Commons. The main objection to the measure was that it was claim-orders releasing P. 800,000 for advice that the soldiers are one in her farmhouse when two Wharves are in demand at the man and finally dropped off to to offer first, they are to soldiers of the 117th Regiment udvanced rate of $55 after sales-leep. He was rudely awakened ed that it would operate in the direction of rendering useless our bridges; P. 365,000 for part be dealt with as stringently as Molot and Tissenu-entered and at $56. Honghew Wharves have by a catch dropping on his head. naval supremacy. Other nations regard their navies as one of their works and 275,000 for construe military usages pormit. asked her to give them something doulined in the north to Tls. 90. hence it dropped to the ground. lines of defence and that not the most important. The Navy is the provincial governments will re-soon have a public work depart-
tion of insular school buildings.
His comraded in the field said....... The Government at Canton will to eat for 50 centimes.
The old woman sot aboat" pre-1 Lands, Hotels and Buildings more or less polite. things, and first, and in a sense the only, line of defence of the British Empire.ceive portions of the P.800,000 for mont in full working order, and paring a meal, and it was then Hongkong Lands have sellers at oue, highly cultured, murmured, the farrow musing The safety of the Empire is dependent upon the superiority of our construction of roads and bridges, Floot and our ability to make the most serviceable use of that all of the allotment going to the experienced engineer in the that she was attacked by Molot, $101. Kowloon Lands and "He in
person of Mr. Ching-Tin-tau has who tried to strangle her.-
West Points are unchanged ands," If the English team Christian provinces. Added to been appointed to take chrge. Mme. Lusseau escaped from his superiority when the occasion rises. The Naval Prize Bill hamper the F. 15,000 already released, the
avonds, any hint of that sort of “ The Educational Board in clutches and implored the sol- $30 and $48 respectively thing it may put up a big light our freedom of action in marine warfare and enables our actions to total amount released to. date for Canton is endeavouring to on-diers to spare her life. She offered Hainphreys Estates are wanted in this match, handicapped as be reviewed, if not dilated, by an international court consisting of port works is P. 400,000. This courage scholars to enlist, Yos- them money, but Molotoried, "Went $6.50. Hongkong Hotels are it is. fifteen members. The point in the Constitution of the court to money, is to be exponded by the terday a meeting of the varius must finish her." Tisseau, de quiet at $119 and $75 for the
secretary of commerce and police educational societies was held and cording, to his story, landed a which most exception was taken was the fact that the representa The P. 275,000 goes to the secre the opinion of the meeting was heavy piece of wood to Molot, and oll an now shares respectively. Wanted-A Military Aeroplane.
tary of public instruction, for uso in erecting Insular school build generally in favour of the policy with this he bent out the victim's Shanghai Lands have declined to
Offico Iris, at long last, decided brains. All that the murderers | Tls. 14. of the board.
to favour the envier-tlian-air m ings throughout the archipelago.
The management of tlie Canton- got by the crime was about 13s.
Cottons--wo are quoted hind. It has wasted more time The Battleship Lion.
Hankow railway has complained The two soldiers then returned that soldiers are in the habit of in the barracks of La Fleche. Tistrom Shanghai by cable at Temoney, and it has broken more. Trouble continues to be ex- trespassing on the linn and the seau paid a bill which he owed to 9. Hongkong Cottons are quiet promises over its unfortunate di
rigible, then might by now have In the peculiar state of Home Politics the actual merits or de-perienced with the turbine Governor-General hins issued the canteen. "I had to get money at $4.75. merits of the Naval Prize Bill will probably be largely disregarded machinery of the cruiser Lion, proclamation forbidding the cou-sonishow," he remarked when Miscellaneons-China Provi-pt it well in a line with othor when the action of the House of Lords in rejecting the measure is which is being, completed at tinuance of the practice.
arrested, "but the murder was not lost have solfers at $8.35 sono humerous journalist christ- nations. That vast ship, which reviewed. There is a section of the Liberal Party that would be Devonport Dockyard, says "The
pormodita'. 1."
Coment, ufter sales at 3,50; close ened' he "Mayfly" to the fierce dis- satisfied with nothing less than the denial of all power of revision Times of November 8. The or rejection to the Upper House. They would, of course, profer its official trials, to which great im- There was very little business
in demand at this rate. William gust of the serious persons at the entire abolition, but the constituency at large recognisce that the portance is attached owing to the at the Magistracy this morning. A
Powells are in demand at $4.50 of white elephant Has the War Office, was the hugest kind value of the bi-cameral system has been proved in every country in vessel's enormous horea-power of Chinese was fined $50 for selling
Dairy Farms have been placed at story reached Hongkong of how the world in which Parliamentary government obtains and the 70,000 units, were to have taken dress opium without a licence, section that would sooner end than mend the Lords knows that it place early this month, but one of and another was sent to prison for
St. John's Cathedral. Hong- $20.86. Icos are quiet at $210 the correspondent of a luge is powerless to carry its wish into effect. All their energies will, the shafts had to be removed, as six wooks for stealing some kong, 17th December, 3rd Sun- A firm offer of something con- geney, weary of waiting at therefore, be devoted to stripping the Peers of all reat power and it was found to be slightly out clothing.
day in Advent, Holy Cramunion thus establishing in fact, though not in name, single chamberof alignment. Since this defect
(8.15 a.an.) Matins (11 a.m.): siderably under this rate would-row, wired jocularly to the ****** effect that it was being ohristened government. It will be represented to the elector that the House was remedied it has been
Responsen Foria!; Venita: probably bring shares
out, the "Mayfly", of how the sub. of Lords has again wilfully flouted the wishes of the popular cham- necessary to regange the tur
Quito a storm is gathering in Crotch; Psalms: of the 17th Watsons have sollore at 5 50 and editor in chargo failed to see tho bar and all the force of class animosity will be directed against bines and also to readinst their Scottish Masonic circles round the morning; Bonediote: Frost in D.; Chian Bornes are quiet atprint of n joke, so elusive and of how the news was wired to, those who voted for Lord Solborne's motion to reject the Bill. At turbine blades so as to prevent recent initiation of Jack Johnson, Benedictus: Langdon in F.; An- $10. such a critical time the wisdom of Lord Lansdowne's advice to the waste of stenta. The readjust the famous pugilist, as a member them: "Praise His Awful Nume,"
Holy Communion
paper) It never flow. News Lords not to improve the Insurance Bill, but to allow it to become monts are of a delicate nature, and of Lodge Forfar and Kincardine, Spohr.
paper monin the know law with all its imperfections thick upon it, is apparent. It would be it is not expected that the Lion No. 225, at Dundee. It may be (11.45 am): Kyrio: Somervell London are:-
£80/1, middle allaged, time and again, that it impossible for the Lords with the time at their disposal to knock into will be ready to enter on her recallad that Johnson's initiation in F Minor: Hymns: 217 and Banks,
nover would fly and that those in reasonable shape a huge measure that was guillotined through the programme of trials till the third was accompanied by scenes and 51. N.B-Palin 86, versos 1, Shella
authority know it. ⠀⠀ Be that as it Commons Without broadly speaking-consideration and discus-week in December, which will be circumstances not usually asso-2, 9, 10, 14, 17 in unison; Paalm Tronos
nny, this decision to offer £11,000 sion and it would be better to let the public realize what would be nearly 25 months from the date ciated with the masculo craft, and 87, versos 1, 4, & U. P. in uni- Anglo-Malys
stirling in prizes in a competition, the effect if important measures were placed on a Statute Book after on which she was laid down. it now appears that they did not son; Hymn: Psalm 88, verses Osos Unites
open to the worlil, for this pro being rushed through a plumber the members of which are voting According to an official state-commend themselves to all the 8, 10, 14, 18 in unison. Evou Bukit Merlegume 21
duction of a military neroplan automata. By rejecting the Naval Prize Bill the House of Lords ment made some time ago it was members. Accordingly the whole song (5.45 p.m.); Responses Enstern Intotunnin töl
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Tuggests that the War has earned the thanks of the more intelligent people of the United hoped that the Lion would be circumstances have been reviewed Feriel; Panims: of the 17th even-Hen woods
lecided to BLOO Kingdom and it can safely roat at that. To reject the Insuranos ready for service in 26 menthus by the Grand Lodge of Scotland at ing: Magnificat: Bart; Nurg, London Aciation 10/3
the question and to Bill would probably have been playing into the hands of the Goy from the date bon she was laid Edinburgh, at the head of which is Dimittis: Telton Hymas: Ce United Langkats 97/***
the Marquess of Tullibardine. 10, 40
United Berlangs 107
aɔxique businadu ernment in the peculiar conditions that now prevail.
Idown namely, November 29,1909.1
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