THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY MARCH 5 1012
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To-day's Paper. Page 1 is to-day exclusively ncoupied by tolograms, the Coal Crisis and the Peking Outbreak supplying several of groat in torest. On yngo 3 will be found Woman's World, while on page B is an account of an experience of the Duke of Connaught in the rolo of an engine driver.
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The French cruiser Klebar arrived in the harbour to-day at 2 pm.
S. M. S. Scharnhorst left! Hongkong this afternoon at 1.45 o'clock,
H. M. S. Hawko with relief's for the China Station has arrived [nt Colombo,
moro
TOKYO HOTEL PRO-
SECUTION.
Alleged Contravention of Licensing Laws.
was no broad used, and there was NOTES and commenTS. no bread on the table.
Did anyone come to the table
with bread whilst you were in ?The Latin Anthem. No, I never saw anyone.
The Farewell Address.
Shoots are lying in the prin- oipal Clubs and in Kelly & Walsh's and Lano Crawford's
Mr. R. Uyelsuki, the licensee stores for signature fi connection of the Tokyo llotel, was summoned with the Address which will be before Mr. Irving, at the Ma- prosented to the Governor on the gistracy, this morning, to explain day of his departure from the why he had contravened the differ --No. Colony. The time for preparing laws governing his permit to sell the Address boing short it in hop-
Wo published yesterday what Do you know the usual price purported to be Mr. Clementi's for thus beer?-All the hotel's Latin Anthom which is to be sung charge the same thirty conts.
at the oponing of thio University. Are you certain 7-Thore is no exception made in Japanese beer. Soveral discrepancies with the
Don't the prices in the hotels true version crept in and wo↑
| thorofoto,-with-Mr.—Clemonti's- What! Would you not pay ed that signataros with be affix-spirituous liquor, Mr. W. 13. Hind,moro in the grand bar of the permission, ropublish the onthem
Hongkong Hotel than in the low-in ils correct form. ·. Inspector Watt, who prefeired er class bare 7-The same price.
Finis hic perum Damus the charge, said that the defen You don't pay uny oxtra for dant was the possessor of an the superior accommodation?-I ndjunct or conditional Jiconco don't see that there is any dif whereby ho could accommodato feronce.
ed at the earliest possible mo ment.
UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG.
defended.
boarders, provide meals, sell Well, you see that the beer is drinks to those boarders and put down at twenty conts a bot- We are asked to state that the friends in the dining-room only. lo-Yes (looking at the hotel public are invited to attend the Un the 28th ult., about 10.30 list produced) but it looks like ceremony of the opening of the p.m., during the interval at the twenty-five cents altered' from University, which will take place Victoria Theatre, he noticed twenty. on Monday, March 11, at 230 twelve men go into the promises. It does land at twenty now? p.m. in the University Hall. As He followed them, and on anter-Yes, after correction.
Mr. Charles Henry Dodd was The accommodation in the Univer-ing the dining-room found threo
Stat potens Academise,
Unde ab neciduis recens
Ampliore fluct pirgis
Mox detrina inestu,
Fons ubi est sapientiae?
E, scientis, qui fates ? Pontus has negat in suis Subdites latebrir, Degat
11s so Terra tenere.
BA Dui reverentis,
Hvec scientia! Qui maliu Absinet, sapit. Hoc did Mucero assidue valentern
Exercete juventam!
-I'indita ostia! Im Den
Gratias agimus. Dei Semper auxilio novum
Splendent sapientiae
Lumen ex Orient!
Tho polica roport that soverality Hall is limited,, admission local men being served with beer called on behalf of the prosocation dead bodies have been will be by ticket of invitation without meals. On the table there and he said that he was one of the there plates containing three men served roforred to by found in the street,
only. Application for tickets were may be made to the following tongue which was not touched the polico. He wont in the hotel on Hot, Dr. Io-Kai, CMG by the pupilo served with the night in question with some Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk, C.M.G., tha beer, and which was not friends and they asked the waiter Mr. Lau Chu-pak,
worth any more than five cents for some boer. He was asked if Mr. Chan Siu-ki,
in either of the instances. Threo ho wanted draught beer and he customers were charged ninety said that he wanted three bottles to the Registrar.
cents for. the three bottles of of beor. The beer was brought| Singing Suffragists. boor. They never called for any and threo platos containing The suffragists who, according food and food was never mention-tongue, were placed on the table,
to a tologram to-day,`riotod in
At the Magistracy, this morn- ing, three men were fined $5 cr soven days for stealing coal.
It is remoured that King or Nicolas, of, Montenegro, will shortly pay a visit to the Sultan of Turkey.
1. E. the Governor will lay the foundation stone of the Chineso Y.M.C.A. student hostel at noon on Saturday next.
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HUGHES COMEDY COMPANY.
A Welcome Visit.
The company is under contract to Mr. II. Fraukel, who is now here making ngrangements for the Plans will bo open at Moutrio's,
At the opium sale at Calcutta on Febuary 6, 310 chests of the Behar drug were sold, the highest lowest Rs. 2,500, givingan average of Ita, 3.461-8-8 per chest. There beginning today, every day up to were 930 chests of the Benares 5 p.m., and after that hour at the drug, the highest price por chest theatre. realised being Rs. 1,290 and the lowest Rs.2,500, givingan average
drink. There
Ho
Amen
it
that defendant should be disita way, but at shout the fou
arged. The licence had not spell of imprisonment "Iloine beau produced stating the con- Sweet Home" is much more ditions of sale and though they suited to the mood of the ind ally, what the particular licenco did contain in the way of ent conditions, the procedurs of not producing it was not orthodox. It had not been proved that
The Indian administration is, the room in question was not apparently, in somewhat of a the dining-room and that food difficulty as to what to call the was not supplied. He admitted
Boc" or Not?
ed to them by the person serving | but were not touched. He was not the drinks or anyone else. The asked to live food, neither did hotho yard at Holloway gaol and
any notice men had drunk some of the beer, see
requesting sang the Marseillaise, have a and from what was left ho took customers to purchase food | sense of humour. They ohioso à with fine, martial tune anyhow. We The Hughes Musical Comedy three samples (produced) and he before being supplied Company who are now playing proved it was beer: When the intoxicating
men had paid for the beer they might have been a notice, but shrill expect next to hear that Tonders for upholstery, clean-to record houses in Shanghai, left the premises. They did not he did not see one and was not they kept the gool lively by a
had the largest attendance
was charged rendition of "John Brown's ing and dyeing work for II. M.
their opening night of "The take any of the tongue. Ho (the shown ono. Naval Establishments for one Speculators that Shanghai hins [uspector called for the proprie ninety cents for the lot. He did body." But we have an impres year from April 1, are invited in
over seen. Standing room was tor and told him he would be not notica what other people in at premium.
summoned, the nature of the the room were served with. Hesion that if they continuo their our advertising columus,
The company will arrive here offence being explained to him. thought nothing about boing misconduct, in the way of The agitation in certain Japa- on the 12th and open on the He replied that he hind supplied served with the tongue because window-smashing and attempted Hoso newspapers against the 13th in the Victoria, Theatre the three men with cold tongue, he had been in other places incondiarism, for enough they British Alliance does not repre- with the great farcical comedy for which he had charged them where light refreshments wore aro likely to get tired of imprison- sent the feeling of the Japanese "The Speculatora," which is a ten cents each. The Inspector served with drink. The pro-
stato Government, from whom the scream from beginning to end. wout on to
that the prictor did not serve, neither did ment before their judgos got ti-ot of sontoncing thein, Tho most cordial declarations were! Judging from the Shanghai licence was granted on No-ho come to him.
Mr. Hind contended that the Marseillaiss" is a fino tano ip fortheming only recently, I papers, the company is the best vembor 8 last and allows! de & C. Express.
musical company evor scan. in fondant to sell liquor only in con-caso had not been proved and junction with menis. The room the East.
where the drinking took place was at the top of the staira und was not the dining room, think this room
in room at the top of the stairs is not the dining room? Because it has not the appear ance of a dining room.
Has it not long tables ? Yes. Might it not bo used for a din. LAST NIGHT'S CONCERT, ing room?-Yes it might be used
for a dining-roon. There was a that the men were served with ow western province of Bengal. long narrow tablo about eight foot drink, but at the same time The only name so for seriously in length.
argued that they were served suggested is the Now United The ordinary hotel dining table? | with food according to law. | Provinces, which is very far from
dining- There was a very good attend. It might be used for a
Mr. Irving said that in any
the Prime Minister declared that the day was not distant when the
evening when this band of S. M.8.dining-rom table.
Do you know that this room is Government would make themselves responsible for a minimum
Scharnhorst with the aid of anmo wage for all the workers of the country. That. Mr. Asquith may
well known local amatours gave used for the serving of regular avory successful concert. With meals in the establishmont- Mr. Hind.-If I bring the The difficulty is that the new. have said something in Invour of the principle of a general minimum
strings, wood, wind and brass an breakfast, tiffin and dinner?-1 licence the police can go to the province consists of three quito wage can easily be believes; an experienced politician sometimes
Mobilisation of Local Troops. finds it necessary to say something that will put him in Record with Hongkong comasacad this morn and to say that those
hotel and if the people in charge different and unrelated divi- immense range of possibilities is cannot say. Mobilisation of the troops in at the disposal of the conductor
If that was so it would be one cannot produce the licence on Hous-Boltar, Chota. Nagpur, The Calcutta his hearers without dofinitely committing himself to any course of ing and will, we understand be utilized to the fullest extent, is
of the regular dining rooms ?--It demand they can be proscented and Orissa Woro
would not be the regular one. action. But it is scarcely conceivable that a man wit's the respon continued throughout the week.only to give thoderato praise to the
for selling liquor without the papers, which evolved two or Why do you suggest the other licence.
three years ago the preposterous "Ebaskom" As 1 oon- sibilities that Mr. Asquith carries on his shoulders would voluntari- The last time the troops were Toutonic performers who occupied on and not this is this regular
Inspector Watt I will vouch name ly declare for a policy that even the most advanced of the inbourites mobilised was about three years the platform yesterday evening, dining-room ?-Because the other that no such thing will be dono. traction of istoru Bengal and Assam, have been trying to evado. would be chary of putting forward,
ago and the scheme is that troops The renderings of Tannhauser set out with tables just like a should be so stationed as they and "Iustin" in particular are
dining-rooni.
the difficulty of reference to the would he were Ilongkong in worthy of special mention.
western province by provisionally danger of being attacked by an
and flippantly styling it "Boo, a word composed of the initials of
Gambling Raid.
Road.its three divisions. The most convenient thing to do, though it would not please the people of the
· HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1912,
A MINIMUM WAGE.
Most people will find it difficult to believe that Mr. Asquithi mado the astonishing announcement attributed to him in roforence
of Rs. 2,933-1-0 per chost.
Successful Appearance of the
Scharnhorst's Band.
to the minimum wage. According to one of the minora' delegates rec, with two deaths, and ance at the City Hall yesterdayroom table but it is not the usual case he would not give higSatisfactory. It is cambrone and
.
The City's Health. The weekly returns relating to communicable diseases give tho number of cases of bubonic plague as 8, with 0 deaths, enteric fever, small, with the deaths. The total number of cases of plague to date for 1912 is 35, and of these 20 proved fatal.
First Steamer at Tientsin.
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decision that day and he would would load to endices confusion journ the cass until Thursday, which adjoin it to the north-west, with the United Provinces proper, as he wasted to see the licenco,
FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT
Walled Cities.
Like a good many other things the theory of a minimum wage,
So is this. Can you find any ragardo solely as a theory, is attractive. The idea is that no man
One of the disappointments of difference between this room and should givo his labour for less than a certain wago,, the minimum enemy.
the evening was the non-appear-
the one you call the dining. ́boing ́sufficient to enable him deror tly, to himise, clothe and food
ance of Mrs. Schofied. Sho was room? Yes, there was a larger Man Killed In Connaught bingolf. That a man should work for leas scene wrong, and it in At the Magistracy, this morn- to have taken the place of Mrs number of tables.
No difference but for the extra A man was knocked down by southern parts of the province, wrong--but unfortunately the remedy does not lie in a minimuming, ton men were charged with Gordon, but a cold prevented chairs and tables, and being at the motor car belonged to the would be simply to adopt the
gambling at 61 Queen's Rond[her from singing and the vacant wage. The inevitablo tendency of a legally established minimum Central.
head of the stairs, I suppose - Dragon Garage, in Connaught naine Beliar, which happons to be space was filled with another wage is that it should become, if not the maximum, at least the According to the ovidence of orchestral selection. Miss Xavier doesn't seen the position for a Road west, yesterday, and died the equivalent of a vary Indian standard. A moment's reflection will show that this inust bo so. Of Inspector Watt they were playing and Mr. Danenborg gave a pleas-dining-room.
shortly after removal to the kingdom. three workmen say one is worth to his employer fifteen shillings a day, paikan and $124 was at stake..
Mr. Irving. This is a sort of hospital. The police have arrest- ingrondition of Saint-Saen's varia- the second ton and a third five. The minimum is fixel, say, at oight. $5, but the keepers of the house and thoroughly deserved the
The defendants were ouch finod tion of a. theme by Beethoven hall at the top of the stairs. ed the driver of the car and he Mr. Hind. Is it larger than will be brought before the If the employer raises the man worth five shillings a day to eight, lo were not punished. All the fines plaudits of the appreciative And do you know that what you causing the man's death,
what you
call the dining-room? Magistrates and charged with Rendors are swaro that in will certainly reduce the second man to eight and the firat man to were paid.
dience. Mr. Danenborg's second
China, notably at Canton and
fourteen, or probably less. This is, of courte, a very rough and
Shanghai, the historic old walls, The defence was conducted by item "Concerto for Piano and call the dining-room is in fact Orchestra in minor" with or not the dining-room 2-I cannot
which havo stood for centuries Mr. Goldring. ready example, but it showa with suflicient exactness how the
chostra was remarkable for bril-ay..
A most important step of the are disappearing. They are minimum wage works in practice. ·
Tinney of technique though some-
In fact you cannot say whether new Canadian Administration is deemed to have survived their The minimum wage principle as applied to overy form of labour to put in an appearance at the
The first steamor of the season what lacking in feeling, but Mr. this is the dining-room or not?— an Order-in-Council appointing usefulness and the Now Spirit except mining, in which the conditions are unique, is designed Tientsin Bund was the C. E. and Timmerscheidt's violin and solos have never been there before Mr. A. B. Morino, K., of cannot tolerate such a reminder Toronto, Mr. G. H. Becharme, of of a past that it is desired to theoretically to assist the loss quick and skilled labourer to earn a M. S. Kwangping, which crossed were everything that could be de-o I cannot say.
Now with regard to the ques- Montreal, and Mr. R. S. Lake, of forgot. So far no suggestion has living wago. In practico it works to the detriment of this class New Year's Day and arrived at lows-
tho Bar at 1.30 p.m. on Chineso The programmo was
As fol- tion of meat and drink, did you Saskatchewan, as a Royal Com- been made in regard to the walls of labour. An employer from feelings of compassion will the Tangku Customs Station at
830 any such notice as this (pro-mission to continue the work of of Poking, but those who are keep on less capable or aged employees at a moderato wage, rather 6.10 p.m. after a hard tussle with Duet for 2 Pianos, Variations on
Tannhacier, Wagner: ducing a notice stating that drink the commission of 1907. They nothotically minded will hope could not be served without aro to inspect the Canadian Civil that they will be preserved, 1t than turn them adrift. Whon, however, the law maya that he will the ice at Yuchiapu. She then theme by Houthoven," Buint-Sacus. Mr food). No, I did not see it. It Service, the methods of depart-ia interesting to note that the be punished for his compassion by being compelled to pay such proceeded up river and after Fit Daneuburg and Miss Xavier; was not in a conspicuous placo. montal administration, the ox-stone walls which mark the being stopped at Koku and liny-Selection, Madam Butterfly," Focci- You did not see that on the penditure of public inoney, and legal limite of the French capital employees a much higher wags than they can possibly earn, he neing to let go her bow anchors in: Ballet Music, Austin," Marschner table?-No,
general conditions of the outside are also shortly to disappear, and cessarily determines that charity begins at home and that if he must order to break the ice reached Violin Bolo, (a) Molitation, Moaronto!, And you did not lcok round service. The Civil Service Act that the fortifiantion territory pay the waga ho must also secure for it an amount of labour that the Bund at 7.15 p.m. on Monday, (1) Ans dor But, Sintang. Mr. Tim-to
Bee if there Was such of 1908 rovised the insido service is to be transformed into a garden remunerates him. Ostensibly, a protection to the slow, feeblo or ebruary 19, The I. C. 8. morchscheidt: Concerto for Pino and a notios? There was no such under the presidency of Professor vity. The space made avail loss capable Inbour, in reality the minimum wage workp to their arrive, reaching the Bund about Dansatory; Overture "Mignon," Tho- whilst you were there? No, there for the outside services
Woosung was the next steamer to reestra in G minor, (n) Scherza, (b) notice on the table in question. Adam Shortt, and it is hoped the able by the removal of the breast-
Posto Saint-Sens; Piano, Mr. Emil
Did anyone come with bread now commission will do the same works is to be made into a broad. detriment.
15 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 21.
-belt of verdure,
sirad.
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