TELEGRAMS.
TRIPOLI WAR.
STIRRING SEA FIGHT.
[Service to the Telegraph."]
Hinhay, Jan. 12, Zhiva
Red Sea gives a graphic descrip- tion of the fight (reported in our issue of Saturday 2
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDA.
JARY 15 1912
TELEGRAMS.
FIZNCH POLITICS.
NEW CABINET
[Service to the **Telegraph."]
Bombay, Jan, 15, 7.55 Bar
Router correspondent at Reuter's Paris Correspondent Rome sys at a dospiteli Trgin | Hay that the new Cabinet is con
stituted as follows:-Premier and to' Iralina ovinmander in the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Poincuro; Minister of Justice uni Vice President of the Cabinet, M Briand Minister af War, M. Millofan; Minister of Marius, M. Deleusse; Minister of Finance, M. Klotz; Miuistor of Colonies, M. Lebrun; Minister of Labour, M. Bourgovis..
Ho'anys he was convinced that the gunboats wore concealed in the Farson Islands, off Lolivia, and he determined upon a driving movement with his available war- ships which was also intended to dislodge the large forces at Lo- hein, Midy and Kunfuda,”-
SCOURING THE COAST.
WELL RECEIVED, The new Cabinet has been generally well received and the Republicana hail-it as a great
The cruisers Calabria and Pag-uational ministry capable of lia bombarded Loheis and Midy rehabilitating France in the spes to divert the enemy's stention. of Europe. The Opposition von:- Meanwhile the Piemonte mud two monts are remarkably temperate." destroyers were scouring the
PREMIER'S PROPETSY.
SMOKING TOBACCOS
LAWLESSNESS IN SHANGHAI.
A Daring Scheme.
Large Selection of Loading Brands in Stock.
The following is from the 'cost of Jeddah southwards. M. Poincato in the course of At the Mixul ("ourt yesterday N. C. Daily Now" of Jan. 9:- They sighted a yacht and gunn interview said that if the particulars were given of author, boats. Action was opened at Chamber would support the daring attempt within the Entle 7,000 metres and developed ra- Government they would soon adment to abduct a prominent | pidly, the land batteries support-a solution of the presont ing the gunboats.
ENDED AT NIGHTFALL. The engagement lasted three hours and ended at nightfall by tha putting out of netion and defeat of tho gunboats, which retired:
Some of them ran ashore and the demoralised crews landed under cover of darkness carrying ammunition and flags."
RCOMPLETE DESTRUCTION.
cultios,Routor.
THE ABDICATION.
Revolutionary Generosity.
diff-Chinese, and carry him off to the
City. The intended victini on this occasion was an ox-Thotai who was formerly in charge of the mint at Canton, and it was only by the vigilance of the police that the suhome of the kidnappers was foiled.
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barded the gunboats, completing e with all the dignity attaching that an opportunity offered for the trade, and the lol Chinese
The Emperor shall be treat-but it was not until eight o'clock
J
Sir William Simons, German- English physicist, engineer and inventor of the latter nineteenth coutury.
P
In view of the reported abdica tion of the Emperor the extract from the "N. C. Daily Newe" The affair occurred on Satur: The following is from the "N. given below, is interesting and day, and was evidently very cop-C. Daily News" of Jan. 10:-With)
Sir Honry Bessemer, the English may be explanatory:-
ly laid. The ex-Tabtai eithof lived the deadlock in the peace noguti-eemer steel process in 1856.
engineer, who invented the Bos- The following extremely geo-with, or was visiting, a friend inations the little movement thore crona proposals for the future un alleyway at the corner of Ohe was in trado has almost com lurgist, whooriginated the method David Mushot, Scotch metal- position of the Emperor, the kieng-and-Foochow Roads, for, Those were seized by an Italian others, has been telegraphed a carriage drove up to the en- there is a very small trade done used,
Court, Manchus gouerally and about one o'clock in the afternoon, pletely disappeared, although of aasaying iron oros generally landing party in the morning. to Peking by the Provisional trance and waited, for hours the with the North. The Yangtze Christopher Columbus, dis- when tho warships again bon-Republican Governmout
vehicle remained in attendance, Valloy is absolutely closed to coverer of America.. tlinir destruction..
James Watt, who invented the to the Sovereign of a foreign carrying out of the scheme At dealers who bought in the ox-condensing steam engine in 1705. The Turks have abandoned nation on Chinese soil.
that hour the ex-Tantaianda friend pectation of cargo being removed Runfuds. The Italians avoided 2. Tho Court shall reside at the walked out of the alleyway. The from that quarter, and the native developed the telephone into u Alexander Graham Bell, who Summer Palace. (This apparently latter was not paying particular banks that financed them, are hitting the mosques,
moans at Jehol.)
commercial success... Without incurring any losses
hoed to what was going on around, the Italians bombarded and seat-liberal annual allowance, the companion was no longer with comfortable position. There is invented the collon spinning 3. His Majesty shall receive a and suddenly he found that his finding thomasivos in a very un- Sir Richard Arkwright, who tered columus of troops amount to be settled by the Na-him, and that the carriage which not the slightosenfidence in froine. camels proceeding to L shein.
tional Assembly. (The extraor-had been standing at the door the permanency of peace among dinarily liberal figure of Tawas driving away.
the merchante in the interior, demonstration that lightning is Benjamin Franklin, for his 10,000,000 has been suggested, What happened was that an and it 18 practically impossible to a dischargo of electricity. but this amount which is more soon as the ex-Totai etepped out induce them to do any business. than twice what King George of the alleyway he was seized by receives would seem to exceed a couple of men and bundled into pensity for hoarding is alarming-ed the oscillating steam engine On the other hand the pro- William Murdock, who invent Heavy Insurance,
the necessities of the case... the carriage. The door was ly on the increase Gold and and made the first practical use
4. All thoir ancestral - slammed to, and the pony driven sovereigns are being bought in of illuminating gas in 1705. soleums and templos shall be off. One of the men roumined increasing quantities and every James Hargreaves, inventor in About 1.40 yesterday morning secured to them. a fire broke out in the top floor
inside with him, and forced him available cent is being With-1764 of the spinning jonny. 5. The person of the Imperial to the floor, closing his mouth drawn from the banks and other of 72. Ko. Shing Street. The Family shall be fully protected with his hund so that lowas channels of trade. The site
George Stephenson, perfector room, which is used as a medi-and their property and wealth unable to cry out. The mafoo looks very "black" indeed for of the locomotive, gine store, was gutted. The floor retained to the Mauchtis. immediately below
had been bribed to drive to the trade, especially so when there was very 6. Manchus, Mohammedans, City, and but for the crowded is
William Symington, British seriously damaged and the ground Turkestanose and Tibetans will condition of the streets no doubt Yangtze Valley and there is not structed a working steam road no military netivity in the inventor, who, in 1780, con- Hoor und stock was damaged by be treated ne Chinese citizens and the plot would have succeeded, much chance of there being any, carriago, water only.
their private property protected, As it was the people rund Moreover,, so far tho establish The brigale-were-soon-on-the 7. The Eight_Banners shall about-immediately got wind of ment of a new Government at spot and for the most part continue to draw the same pen the affair, and the news spread Nunking has not had the effect concentrated their off a ts in pro- sions us heretofore, until further like wildfire. The policeman in inducing the merchants to re- vonting the fire spreading to the means en bo dorot-of living on the bridge learned of,sume their usual ocupations," adjoining property.
The former restrictions put upon -it-is-of-interest to know that the Binne men's right to track the room in which the fire broke and to reside outside fixed local out is insured with two local sies are rooved.
FIRE AT WEST POINT.
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The situation
Carnegie's List.
and when the earringa drovanlong making for the French Concession, WORLD'S GREATEST MEN. he attempted to hold it up. He failed to do so, but did the next Sungkiang Roud, and here it one best thing, diverted it down
and Chinese policeman were in he vicinity, and they brought it
firms to the extent of $8,400.00 retain their titles wul property 8. The Imperial Princes shil In instince the policy was for $1,000.00 and in the other under the protection of to the end of its journey. A Sikl
$4,400.00.
Mr. Dudley Ward stated in the House of Commous that the estimated total cost of roairing: the damage done to the windows of public offices by Suffragettes on the night of November 2 wae $90.
Chinesa Government.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie gives the following as haclist of the twenty great: molio, have to a halt, releasing the ex-Tantai made the world what it is:-
The proposed University fer from his uncomfortable captivity Chim is to be supported by the and arresting his captor. Loulou Chamber of Commerce. Just at that moment a Chinese arrived on the scene, and address-
.
The new wireless telegraphy station at Colombs will have range of 450 miles under favour able conditions,
a
• the
William Shakespeare, greatest English dematist,
William T. G. Morton, Ameri ing the constables said that it was tered other as an anesthetic in all right, and that they need not
can dentist, who lirat admi
bother about the affair. He also 1840.
told them to let their prisoner go.
James B. Neilson_the_British
DON'T FORGET,
تم
Tuorlay, Jan. 16, Sanitary Board,
Wednesday, Jan. 17.
Auction of Booths and Mat aheda on the Spot, by Mosars, Hughes & Hough, 3 p.m., "
Thursday, Jan 18 Criminal Sonalons,
Friday, Jan. 19. Sanitary Board Elections, Lectures at City Hall by Pastor Russell;
Saturday, Jun. 27. Medical Congress.Oponed.
Tuesday, Jan. 23. Edward Jenner English phy Cool though the attempt was it sician, who discopored vaccina subsoribers in
Meeting of southolders and Mr. John Claude White read a Peking on January 1 of Mr. their business too well, and
The death is announced at did not succeed. The police know tion in 1706.
St. Andrew's, paper on December 18 before the Harold O. Henry, Mr. Heory was promptly took the man into engineer, who, early in the nine-
Churgh. 6. p.m. East India Association at the a student interpreter of the Americustody. When the police station teenth century, invented the use The Hohgkong Land Reclama-
Thursday, Jan. 25, Caxton Hallion. "A Short Des
Eleventhi Ordinary Meeting of oription of Siklim, Lhasa, and can Legation.
was reached they took off his of the hot blast in smelting tion Co., Ltd., 11.30 cm. Part of Tibet." Sir Robert Ful
long gown, and beneath fennd furnaces 15 rolazanoesje del ton presided.
The death is reported by the the fall uniform of the revola-Abraham Längöl, who, as "Poking Daily News" of Lieut. tionary army. The mafoo was resident of the United States, ing of The West Point Building Twenty-fourth Ordinary Moet- MacAlister, an officer attached to also arrested, and all three were An advertiser in a Shanghai the British Légation, Peking, from yesterday brought up at the freed the slaves in 1802 Co., Ltd., 11.15.a.m. paper, who wanted peste saarlet fover on January 1.
Mixed Court. assistant ina neroantile
Robert Burns, the Scotch Tyrie Twenty-fourth Ordinary Meel Mr. C. G. Kirk prosecuted post of the eighteenth century, ing of The Hongkong Land In to work and has no objection to King of Siam to be an Honorary the ex-Trotai identified tho un accredited as the inventor of
The King has appointed the and in the course of the hearing Johannes Gutenberg, generally vestment and Agenor Co., Ltd. aslary." There should be some Member of the Civil Division of formed man, as the one who had printing in the fifteenth century,
Tuesday, Feb. 6. thing of a rust after a man glue the First Class of Koights Grand hustled him into the carriage. Thomas A. Edison, whose ind yearly meeting of the Hongkong
Ninety-first ordinary
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