The
Hongkong
February 21st, 1912, Temperatura a.m. 62, p.m. 60; Humidity...70, 80.
No. 8716
TELEGRAMS.
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TELEGRAMS.
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Telegraph.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22 1912.
TELEGRAMS.
HOME POLITICS,
WEATHER FORECAST,
FAIR.
February 21st, 1011, Temperaturé a.m. 62, p.m., 50; Ilumidity...40, 64."
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TELEGRAMS.
OBITUARY.
TELEGRAMS
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS.
LABOUR TROUBLES.
LABOUR TROUBLES.
ENGLAND AND
GERMANY..
AUSTRIAN POLITICS.
BRITISH ARMY.
ASQUITI'S HELPERS,
GOVERNMENT CONFER-
NAVAL PRIZE BILL, :
AN APPOINTMENT.
A NEW RIFLE.
CANON PHILIPPS,
ENCE.
[Service to the "Telograph."]
London, Feb. 21, 0.50 p m.
It is officially announced that
Bombay, Fob, 22, 7.20 san.
Both the cool owners and
[Service to the "Telegrapia."]
London, Fob. 21, 7.10 p.m.
At question time in the Hauss
Acland
at the coal conference Mr. As-miners yesterday afternoon at of Commons MrFp..
PREPARING A PROTOCOL.
London, Feb. 21, 2.5 p.m.
[Service to the "Telegraph."] | [Service to the "Telegraph."] [Sorvico to the "Telegraph.""]
Bombay, Fob. 22, 7:20 n.m. [Service to the Telegraph."]
London, Feb. 21, 7:5 pm.
Dr. Bilinski, formerly Austrian
In the House of Lords, replying
According to Renter's corres-Minister of Finance and Gover- to the criticisms of Lord Roberts
quith will be accompanied by Sircopted the Promi- r's invitation to announced that the Government pondent at Berlin, the "Lokalan- por of the Austro-Hungarian and others, Viscount Haldong sal
Edward Grey, Mr. Lloyd Georgo, Sir Hubert Llowellyn Smith and Sir G. R. Askwith.--Reator.
OWNERS' MANIFESTO.
discuss the situation.
THE MINIMUM WAGE.
The most important point in the situation is that the Engliby
owners have conceded the princi-| ple of a minimum wage, although still in disagrecine ut on a number
of technical details.
would reintrodued the Kaval Prize Bill in the presont session,
-Reulor.
:
A SOLEMN TASK
London, Feb. 21, 1.10 p.m.
London, Feb. 21, 5.40 a.m..
Mr. Asquith said that the proper
The coal-owners have issued a
This is regarded as undoubted-time to ro-constitute the Second manifesto detailing the conditionsly a success for the men, and is Chamber was not before, but aftes of their acceptance of the principle expected greatly to influence the Irekund had received freedom to
.
od.-Heuter.
·A' GLC-INDIAN MARRI-
AGE.
PICTURESQUE CEREMONY.,
41
Tests were being carried out with
n view to the adoption of a new
rifle, which, if it fulfilled all that.
was claimed for it, would be the
inest in the world if not automatic;
but opinions differed as to the ad- vantage of an automatic rifle.
Reuter.
eiger," which is frequently Buk has been appointed Minister that taking their arms as a whole inspired, Announces that the of Finaurs for the two courion, the British Arny was as well Anglo-German negotiations are replacing M. Burian, who resign-equipped as any army in the world taking a thoroughly, antisfactory course and the world would have
the best grounds for looking into
the future, with full confidence in
the maintenance of 'peaco A
kind of protocol is being ela- borated in Lonton wherein the views and standpoints of the two
gorornments on all great ques the main principles.tions are being laid down in orde The International Miners' Fed-would be followed with regirl to that every conflicting, interest cration has met in London and other parts of the Kingdom. The may in future bo discussed and Englishman, Mr. Lionel Munder, wiser line had boon decide upon, avoided. This does not institute With those lines selfied they would an entonte but rather comploto be in a far better position to deal political agreement on all possible with, the distribution of local and points of conflict-Reuter,
Imperial business, the conipovi- tion of the Second Chamber, and
of the minimum wage, which the Welsh and Scottish situations.
min.rs have rojected. Reuter.
PREMIER INTERVENES.
London, Feb. 21, 3.15 p.m.
Mr. Asquith, in a letter to the
coal-owners and miners, states that
in view of the lessening prospect of
an amicable settlement he invites
them to confer with himself and
deal with her own affairs on lines
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR, Which,
JD
discussed sympathetic action,
Reuter.
PROGRESSIONS AND PIPES
Writing to a morning contem porary on the wagos question, the relativo functions of the two Sir Hiram Masim says: "Whils|
the American bay is studying his Cliambers in the ever-growing inlgebra, the English boy is smok-responsibilities of the Empire. some of his colleagues at the Foring his pipo." The statement is
1
B
eign Office to-day. He says the
Covernment feel they cannot cllow
1
loubly interesting. First, it pro- Therefore there was 10 vides us with yot another example
more
of the terrible ambiguity of the solemn and responsible, Lask to Ruglish Innguage which contains possessivo adjectives of such a
which legislation could address it-
such a calamity as a general stop-kind that the sentence we have self.
quoted my, to an unfastidious
ping of industry without every eye, appear to mean that the
elfort being made to prevent it.
English bay takes advantage of
CRICKET DISPUTE.
AN ULTIMATUM
[Survice to the Telegraph."]
London, Feb. 21, 5.40 a.m.
Reuter's correspondent a. Sydney states that the Board of Control has
sent an ujlimatum to c.icketers wh have not answered the invitation to join the team for the triangular
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, Feb. 21, 7.10 p.m.
The Princess Peliva, a sister of
the Maharajah of Kuchbehar, bas
been married in Culcutta to an
a nephew of Sir P. Munder.
The ceremony was picturesquo, with Indian costumes and Brak
mosamaj ritos.
Lord and Lady Hardinge,
Prince and Princess William of
Swo len an i other prominent por-
songes attended.--Router.
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
BIG LOAN.
[Service to the "Tolegraph."]
London, Feb. 21, 11.50a.m.
Reuter's Paris corresponden!
wires that the Senate has voted
age of 87
London, Feb. 21, 420 p.m.
The do this rumornced of Canon Sir James Philipp at
years. Canon Philippa was the father of Sir Owen Phil-
ipps, K.C.M.G., and other distin
guished sons-Reuter,'
ANOTHER COTTON FIRE.
ENORMOUS DAMAGE.
[Service to the "Tolegraph,"]
London, Feb. 21, 9,50.pan--
.༥་ -
Reutor's correspondent at Now
York reports that 45,000 bales of
| colton, valued at $2,000,000 have
| been destroyed by a fire at Hous-
ton,
Twenty-five blocks were do-
molished.-Reuter.
[As there are mire thin twenty
| place: bearing the name Houston in the
an arifcfc in the Finance Bill äuthor. United States Reuter-·lesvor a large
fold for imaginative choi ́e. ]
}
ising the Issuo of a loan of
300,000,000 francs at four perk.
ént., redeemable at pår, for rail-
ways.-Reuter,
UNEARTHING OF Á BURIED CITY,
JAPANESE MAIDEN SHGA BY CHINAMAN.
:
In a fit of jealous fury A. Gong, o Queen Charlotta City China- man, shot and killed Kayo Kat- eura, a little Japanoso girl, on December 28. He fired twice, both bullets taking effect, Kayo died
THE OLD ALMANACK,
What becomes, one may ask, of the old almanacks? Probably they have their place in the scheme of things, They are possibly pulped, whatever that precess actually in, and presented to the purchasing public in some A buried city has just been. new form. Hut wo very much discovered in Mexico by Profrasortance. Thon, with the girl's doubt whether an old almanack Niven, membor of the New York body at his feet, and before it over becomes a new one. Such Academy of Science. This city was possible to seize the revolver. a thing is unthinkable. When was apparently overwhelmed by he turned the weapon.an himself the almanack ceases to belong a volcanic eruption, like I'mre and sent a bullet crashing through to its own year it ceases to alm in the most flourishing period of with startling suddenness. It the empire of Nineveh, and the his head. Gong had been at matches. Lord Chelmsford and London, Feb. 21, 1.10 p. m.
may conceivably be pulped and few licures at pres of excavated Queen Charoite City for some moulded into the shape of an are in almost perfect preservation. time, and he was known asɛn Mr. Smith's amendment has Mr. Warner have had a conference
instrument for extracting stones The discoverer has found a gold-ponceable appearing Chinaman.' from horses' hoofs; but to regain, smith's shop, in which all the For months he had been paying with some of the home payers, but any status as an almanack-no. instruments and objects of the
These altention to Kayo Katsura, wha Very certainly not. We do not trade are still displayed. 14 the result of the mecting is unayo (what is the use?), but comprise objects of art in gold, was but a child. Her age was 15 we all hate almanacke. We pre-silver, and bronze, and over two
the American's pre-sceapation to AMENDMENT REJECTED. smoke the Transulantic young
A BASIS OF SETTLEMEN I'. student's pipe. Sezon y, Sir
Hiram's statement throws an The papers give varying fore-authoritative light upon, the vexed and ancient problem,
Can one do sgobia ank smuko been rejected by 324 votes to 241,
casts of the Government's action.
The Daily Chronicle" says It is
nt the same lime?" I our read-
ing of the great inventor's obar-] · vation is vor:ret, we find that he
suggested, as a basis for a pro- does not hold it possible that a visional settlement, that the mini-young man can combine the al-
mum wage be given three months
sorption of a smoking mixture!
TARIFF REFORM.
London, Feb. 21, 4.10a.m.
Mr. Bonar Law wound up the
with the addition of the sum debate in the Commons with a of the squares of the first or trial, the State bearing any extra natural numbers. The calabash or speech that was loudly cheered ty the binomial theorem. The clay his supporters. He Intimated that cost incurred by the coal-owners.
or the onlculus. But not both, he would give Mr. Asquith ampic Meanwhile, both public bodies and Willie. No, dear lad; one or the
other. That, we are sure, is-Sir opportunity of defending the Ge .orc accumulating Hiram's vow. Well, some rayvernment against the charges
one thing, others say another. corruption. (Alii
individuals
..
stocks of copl. Some of the rall ways are congested with traffic and
olit as they used
known.
"
THE NEW CHINA.
YUAN FOR NANKI.U...
tend even to like the almanack, hundred terra cotta models of years. Gong, however, was not The tasteful emanations of the statues, vasca or ornaments. The encouraged. There was another skilled designer's brain are style of these decorations in unlike suitor, and the latter, in the øyes lavieled with profusion upon the that of any style which hos pré- of the maiden from old Japan, almanack. Upon its illuminated viously been saciated with the measured up better than Gong. surface ono may find Great ancient civilization of Mexico, and
Thoughts chosen carefully, not bars resemblance to the sculp-The Christmas Feskon rolled to say solestol, from classic tures of an ancient Egypt and to around, with dong still declaring writers. All to no purpose. Wo the art of Southern Asia. The his deathless affection. Again hate almanneks just as we hate interior of the goldsmith's huse wore his advances rejected. Gong breakinst. Necessity is, however, is decorated with paintings ex-drew on what envings he had and: too strong for us, We protoudecuted on a surface of polished!
to welcome both. But when an sturon-like substance, and retain with crant care muid debborntinu (Service is tho "Teleph. almannak in obsolete we do not thoir brillianes, One sèries 10-purel sard a› Christmas present dissemble. We stamp upon it. pretenta he incidents of a she-for the girl of his heart. Hoping He declared that the London, Feb. 21, 11.50 a.m.
A man went into a big shop recent-herd's life and recal's the Arca that at last the icy demeanor scleverly and said: "I went a last dian fashion of the European
almanack." The at-eighteenth century. The do- of Kayo would malt, Gong with to insist, when they were not absence of tariff reform from the
The Shanghat correspondent of year's
tendante rushed about, eager to minant colours used are red, blue, his Christmas present and most cursing us because we could not amendment did not mean that the discover the preciso valus of an Opposition was weakening. The Reuler states that Tang Shao-ki get rid of old stook, and found yellow, green, and black Un-engaging manner, repaired to the one. The man having looked at derneath the workshop the Profee residence of Kayo. There was clusive). And if Bulgeben,
it closely, said: "Thank you, I sor has made the gruesome dis- everything else in the way of work, Unionists would not have chosen has set out for Feking to conduct see that the twenty-fifth of July covery of a tomb occupied by the no change. The girl was the Yet we work and we are smoking him the leader of the party unless Yuan Shih-kal to Nanking for his and left the emporium. Which hatchet of bronze is still fixed in him or his Christmas gift, and fell on a Wednesday, smiled skeleton of a murdered man. Asime as ever. She didn't want "have "chartered two steamers to
as we write. (Dashed expensive, they knew that tariff reform would
brings us back to our original the skull. The excavation will told him so. It was then. Go instalment as President of the China point of Ingairy What becomes probably prove the most interest shot the girl and ended his own convoy, American coal to Gibraltar. these high-plaas Borneos). It
difficult problem. The be pressed without, the smallest
of the old almanack? The ing excavation yet carried out in - hesitation.===[Remierjy
Republic-Krales.
Cilobe, "
the Thames is crowded with coal laden lighters. The Admirally
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