P. & 0. LABOUR TROUBLE.
Transport Workers and the
Strike
to onoh lifeboat, and also for other
station be given notice bofare leaving England. All those wore followed by a complaint with regard to the company taking men who are not in the unions,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1912.
NEWS FROM HOME.
ENGLAND.
Hampshire.
their demands were granted theroQueen-street, Portsmouth, nonr and it was stator that unless Four lives were lost in a fire in would be another general, strike the main entrance to Portsmouth
Phto managers of the company informed the unions that they Dockyard. The fire broke out
He carried his four
After a twelve months' in the whole nervous system so ad- vestigation of local elementary vantageously, that the nervous educati.n a committee of the loon] sufferer becomes conscious of an authority for Heston and Isleworth unusual and altogether unscous-
advises that special leaving classes should be formed at the schools to prepare children for their oc cupations in life
- Nottinghamshire.
tomed sonsation of energy, a
ing of vitality and a sense of vigour to which hold long been stranger. Unlike the stimula- tion produced by alcohol, this
long time, while it is followed by does not wear off with more or less rapidity, but persists for a no re-action, as is the case with
Hotels
HONGKONG HOTEL
A LA CARTE GRILL ROOM. Now Open.
Hongkong, 20th April, 1911..
J. H. TAGGART,
Manager. [96
GRAND HOTEL,
Telephone 197.
F. REIOHMANN, Propriet r.
ASTOR HOUSE
Further details are now to hand regarding the P, and O. Co.'s diff culties with its employees, to which our tolegram of May 8 alluded.
were not able to accept the cons about 1 am, in a shop kept by Bond, aged sixty-four, vicar of The "Timer" says?---
The inquest on the Rev. S. ditions formulated, and that while larry Brentman Harrison, au Woodhorough, resulted in a ver- A deputation from the Sailors' and Firemen's Union, waited they would be willing to accept upon the manger of the P. many slight modification in the outfitter, and the flames spread diet that donth was due to ex-alcohol, which mukos the nerves, Line on Monday, May f, and existing conditions, they would be with alarming rapidity. Harrisonposure, and exhaustion as the seem more "on end"-to HEB MANAGEMENT 2 ODISINS UNDER EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT; placed before him demands that obliged to defend their position escaped by crooping along a rosult of taking some strong cominon expression than before. As it stands under the Merchant parapet to a window of the next Bond was greatly distressed by ideal food for nervous sufferers, sufficient white songmon should be
irritant. It appoured that Mr. Sanatogon, in short, is, the 62] carried in the company's vessels avo in fact already conceded the months old baby with him. tho serious illnos "of his wife. and it has the additional advan-1
Shipping Act. The company house." to give two elicient white'seamon condition with regard to extraSailors and working men in the When he left lume to attend a tago that it aids the digestion of concession. On Tuesday the coay on station in reply to direct strest held out coats, and I forrison Civil Service examination at other foods. In this way it für- pany replied. in the following¡¡0presentatione inade to them by dropped the baby, which was loved his wife, was sinking. As the body, which is invariably in | Nottingham as examiner ho bether improves the nutrition of their men. In the case of the caught without injury. Another The conditions formulated by Moltan, the ship has, in addition child, Celia Harrison, was saved he did not return his family went poor condition among nervous the delegates and communicated boats certified to accommodate no wife stood screaming at the him on the roadside in a serious part, each of which reinforces the to other life-saving appliances, by the dockyard policy, Harrison's out in sosrch of him and found sufferers. It thus plays a double to the management cannot be ae. less than 959 people, which is window, but though several condition. Soon after reaching other, so that the result never cepted. The company will carry about three times the amount re-men hold out in quilt and home he died. "Death was dus fails to be, in the highest degree, out their obligations under the law, and whilst they will bo will-ired on the present voyage, showed to her to jump she to heart failure cause by the inhoneficial. Indeed, in proportion the ship will only have on refused and went back into the flammation the result of taking a to the lassitudo from which ner- ing to accept any slight modifies board about 300 persone. It was room with her son Philip, aged strong dose of sal volatile and vous people always suffer in the tions in the existing system, they explained to the unions that in four years, and daughter Sarah, exposure on the roadside. will defond their position as it addition to the olliners, petty two years. The servant, Nellie stands ander the Merchant
officers, and ten A.B.'s in each Mason, soventeen, was also afraid Shipping Act
terms:-
When this message was receiv-
'day,
Sussex..
ship, the company always carried to jump. These four were found tion of modern Danish art oponed In connection with an exhibi- sono 10 or 50 lavoars, who are doad in a room over the shop after at Brighton the Mayor of Brighton
'',
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tropics, is the sense of mental | exhilaration and physical well- Sanatogen ensures. being which the regular ne of
strikingly shown by what it did What it is capable of doing is
(LATE CONNAUGHT HOTEL)
QUEEN'S ROAD, HONGKONG.
Cuisine ander the supervision of an Experionsal FRENCH CHEF, and ENTRALLY situated, ap-to-date Hotel, Recently renovated, and ander entirely Now Management, Largs and Comfortable Booms, Excellent patte Tables, Hot and Old Baths. Electric Light throughout. Tarmı moderate, Firat Class socomms iation for Families and Tourista.
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At
PROPRIETORE.
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Tolephone No. 907.
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5 rito 8 pa 9 r.. to 11 r... Admission 50 cents. “String Band'will'ping at the above Hotal orary Sunday, osmmeucia z from
W. GALLAGHER, 'Manager.
HOTEL.
Under Entirely New Management.
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THE TAIWAN RAILWAY HOTEL.
TAIPEH, FORMOSA ·
of the allicials of the Sailors' and } born sailors, and who have the fire had been put out, Tholine received the following in the case of Madame Surah Sessions: 10 am to 12 Nos. 2. to inc Admission 25 cents. Firemen's Union and of the served the company's ships for flames, which rouched across the telegram from Sandringham Grand, tho distinguished English National UnionefShips Stewards, the last 10 or 70 years with every street, had rendered their rescueThe King heartily thanks the novelist, who writes:-Sanup.m. to 10 p.m. -Cooks, Butchers, and Bikers got redit, and many ins ances of inpossible.
into communication with their re- prosentatives at Tillmory, where been recorded. The real object chester to answer a cliarge of English guests on the occasion of do for vasos of nervous debility KING EDWARD
their devotion and bravery have
Brighton Fine Arts Committee, togen has done everything for Before going into court at Win-assembled with their Danish and me which it is said to be able to the trouble Im its origin. Tout-of the Seamen's and Firemen's tive arrangements were made for Union is the substitution of kuolt and prayed. On entering tion, for the kind sentiments to it three times a day after nearly stealing naagoids Stophon Bull the opening of the Danish Exhibi-and exhaustion. I began to take 1. and to, vessels, and about 100 English or foreign seamen for lie asked the chairman to open which your telegram gives expres-four years enforced idleness from the withholding of labour from members of the two unions did the Indian crews employed on the proceedings with prayer, and sion." Queen Alexandra also sent extreme debility, and now (after not sign on for the Moltan, which this company's ships. If this when told that they could not a tologram enging "I trust that only four months) I find myself nas achodaled to Fail on the Fri-sli were attainable, which it is listen to him he exclaimed, "Rich the exbibition of Modern Danish able to enjoy both work and play. not, for ships whose work lies and poor dwell together; the Lord Art will be in evory way a success. again, and also able to do as . Put Their Foot Down. largely in the tropics, the com-
He have two sos pictures here much of both ns I ever did.". The Transport Workers' Wedo-pay would require some 12,000 made us all; begin rightly.
carried throe Bibles, which hesaid which I could send if not to late.' ration were commiuniented with white mon, while the same proccCHS by the Union with a view to applied all round among British et he called down blessings on in the Esle of Wight to separate Living" by Dr. Androw Wilson, were his witnession. Whon fined
Write for a copy of a most In support of the action takon interesting booklet The Art of Thoroughly Renovated. action in support of the heamen's ships would mean the displace-he Beach, demands. On the following day ment of nearly 50,000 Indian
the island. f on Hampshire for which will be sont free to all
Excellent Cuisine. ̧ they put their font down on the
licensing purposes, it is pointed mentioning this paper on applica proposal of the Sailors' and Fire-
Questioning the other at out that of £21,000 contributed tion to A, Wulfing & Co., 6, mon's Union to declare a strike
Folkestone inquest on a girl, agod by the island to the licensing Kiukiang Road, Shanghai, against the P and 0. Company
one year and ten months who had authority, only about £12,000 on the manning question; as they Ex empress declines to Leave.died from ʼn supposed attack of hans bron received back. had done before on the Liverpool The Manchu Empress-Dowager bronchitis, the coronor said,W LES project for an increase of certain has declined to leave the place 'seamon's winger. The immodistojat Peking before the National trouhlo at Tilbury is therefore at Assembly has met and fixed on an end..
the Capital,
Fomen and stokers.
GENERAL NEWS.
Kent.
Sanalogen can be obtained at all chemists and bazaars.
WM. POWELL,
LIMITED.
l'hone 346.
Were you darning on Sunday? “
Denbighshire. The mother, Mrs. Godden, ro- plied, "Yes, sir,"
Parish Council's Happy Posi- Did you uso tiong.At the annual meeting of the needle again?" "No. I was nursing the deceased. I had the the Llangollen Parish Council it the neodlo in my bodice and was announced that the financial missed it afterwards," A doctor affairs of the authority had been who hold a post-mortem examina- 80 carefull; administered during tion produced the child's heart, the year that it is not necessary. DRAPERS, A largo darning neodlo was em to make a rate for the ensuing baddled in the centre, the ends half-your. Country Councillor MILLINERS, showing at either side. A verdict Trevor Lloyd Jones was re-elect-
Lancashire.
Complete
· But this incident, together Opium-smoking in the North, with that in Liverpool, makes it Opium smoking is reportoi to perfectly clear that the trouble is be on the increase throughout the only postponed until a more con- nothern pities; and in Harbin venient sonau, The Transport alone nearly 200 divans have been Workers' Foderation refused to opened and licensed in the Rus sanction aggressivoaction in these sinn portion alone. two onsos because they regarded Chinese Minister to visit Java, them as premature, and because It is said that the Chinese of hemorrhage caused by the ac-ed chairman, and the three rural OUTFITTERS, their policy is to fight the Minister at The Hague has 10-nidental insertion of a needle was
overseers who recently protested employers with big forces on a
against the excessive expenditure ceived instructions to proceed to returned.
of the rural district council upon big question, or not, at allava to visit the Chinese emi-
works that have proved failures The P and O. trouble, like grants, and to study the cause of that on
Shortly before nine o'clock one wore re-elected. It was suggested evening the entire electricity sup- that in future all projects for House Morsoy, Lho sectional matter, and it
ply of Liverpool failed without water and sewage works upon might have precipitated a ganural conflict on the manning question
the slightest warning. The streets which considerable explenditure were plunged in darkness, eloc-is contemplated shall, before be frie cara came to a sudden stand-ing carried out, be submitted to still, and all social life was help the parish council for their anc up. Some exciting scenes were tion. witnessed in the theatres. Those are practically wholly dependent place of amusement in the city
A
was
the recent disturbances in which
theas emigrants took part.
Mukden Case Postponed Indefinitely. The Wukdon case at the Mixed bofore the plans of the union Court Shanglini, in which the were ripo. A programme for a new manning scale is now being vernor of the Province alloges drawn up, and a great deal will the fraudulent nee of Tls. 10,185, -be heard of it during the next money bolonging to the Govern few months. The recent rum dae having been fixed for the gent, has been postponed, no blings may be lonkeil supon as an indication of the temper, aggra
next he ring. vated undoubtedly by the disaster to the Titanic, of the seamen and
their officials.
Statement by the Company. The P. and 0. Company issued the following statement. on May
SHOULD EAT.
A Simple Arrangement of The Diet Scheme.
upon olectricity for lighting, and WHAT NERVOUS PEOPLE the instantaneous trausiorination Interest on Japanese Foreign
Loans.
from brilliance and gaiety to According to the Japan Mail, darkness and gloom sont many the interest due on the foreign ladies in the audioncos into hy loans for the month of June steries. It was fully three-quar- amounts to 5,059,000 yen in all, tere of an hour before normal of which 4,320,000 yen is for conditions were restored. -public-bonds, -114,000-gen-for municipal and 625,000 yen for
company
loan bonds.
-Lincolnshire...”.
One-of-the-most diffienit pro- blems confronting the nervous For the fourteenth year the sufferer or his physician is what Dowages. Marchioness of Exeter
to eat. The reason is that people has bean elected people's chur- with nerves constantly suffer from chwardon of Deeping St. Jamee
to oure. (Lincolnshire) parish church. nervous dyspepsia; a condition which is generally very difficult
The domauds made upon the company by the unions, and plac od before the company's doak su-
Yuan Hung-you's Successor. parintendent on Monday, wors as As Yun Hung-you, the Tutuh follows:-(1) Two European sea of Singkiang (Chinese Turkestan) men for each boat carried; has been aasassinated at Kash- Miss Cunliffe has been reappoint that all bouts bo lowered into the garia, Yang Chen-hsin ja appoint parishionera' churchwarden at wator and be inspected and approved to succool him. Yuan Tah-St. Mary's, Worplesdon, Surrey ed by delegates of the union: (3) hus, the former Tush of Sing She has held the office for five that articles should date from the tiang, is hereby appointed Special day before sailing, and not from High Commissioner of Southern the date when the men rejoin the Singkiang-
years.
Middlesex,
ship for dock work; (4) that the A Wandering Manchu Statesman,
The misdeeds of a bulldog delegates of the union be allowed There is at least one old-named "Huster," who killed cata,
Д
fect clearness in these cases. The Two facts stand out with por-
first is that red meat of all kinds should be absolutely ruled out of much too stimulating for the ner the diet scheme, as being very
Furnishers
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27 April. 1919.
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on board the steamors at all fashioned Chineso says the "Tar including a valuable blue Persian, vous system. reasonable hours and to be pre-East." This is Tel Liang,
were related at the Middlesex The second is that from the Hent during the time of formerly Viceroy of the Three Sessions, where George Henry remaining list of foods those GRAVING DOCK signing on (5) that some of the men not chu atatesman, who is now
and paying off Eastern Provinces, a great Man Lampson, stated to be highly should be selected which are 787ft. by 88ft. by 84ft 6in.
connected, was found guilty of bland in their nature and easily Camp empty Dock in. required on board be allowed to refugee in Japan. Accompanied obtaining credit from an botol ligestible. Pre-eminent among P 8-4 box. go home instead of being on board by a Japanose he has just arrived proprietress without informing them aro milk products, and THREE PATENT SLIPWAYS as at present on the night before at Kobe under an assumed name, her that he was an undischarged supreme among milk products is king vessels up to 8,000 tans sailing; (6) that A. B.'s and attended only by a personal sor bankrupt. Accused, it was said, Sanatogon. It is composed of the displacement, providing conditions for stewarda transferred abroad to vant. The old man is drossed in brought with him no fewer than body-building portion of pure palating ships with most efficient realt other ships for station duty be the most conservative fashion, and thirty dogs, and expense was in cow's milk, olemically. combined 100-Tor. ELECTRIC CRANE OF QUAY granted 10s. per month extra: (7) wears the queue, which ho de- carred in turning the pavilion of with phosphorus in the exact ELECTRIC OVERHEAD ONES THROUGHOUT that overy man sign on for his clares he has no intention of dis the hotel into a dog kennel. He form in which it is found in the Tas Buors BATONS or to 100 Tors. rating in the stewards depart carding. It is said that continual ran up a bill of £102, and when nervous system. It is digested Estimates given for Donking, Begal é to Hull and Machinery, mant, and that the term "staw-threats of assassination compelled he was asked to leave the hotel with the utmost ease and rapidity, onstructional Work, ardhe Rubilitated for general him to leave his native land. Behe tocked himself in his bedroom and is assimilated without the MANAGER AND ASK : servant (8) that the accommode is regarded as a staunch suppor and the police had to be called to least trouble and in the shortest tion for Eurapɔan stewards le tor of the fallen dynasty, and his turo him out: Sentence was post-possible time. provided apart from tlie Goanose; movements in Jopen ere sure to pone 1 until the next sessions, ac- The result is that very soon. (9) that men requiel to go on be olosely watolied...
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