WATSON'S
E
VERY OLD LIQUEUR,
SCOTCH
WHISKY:
A BLEND OF THE FINEST PURE MALT SCOTCH WHISKIES
For over 30 Years WATSON'S 'E' has maintained the reputation of the FINEST SCOTCH
A.
WHISKY in the FAR FAST.
S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
be as follows a
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
ו'
Daily issue-$30 per annum. Weekly ine--$13 per annum.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1912.
DAY BY DAY.
If a man is clean pliysically, it ie eher for him to be morally
elenk.
Minotaur Returns.
Plague.
Six inore dead bodies have
been found in the open by the police, and in four instances death was due to plague.
Crown Rent Die. Owners of property are ro minded that Crown Rent for the H.M.S. Minotaur is duo to arrive first half-year of 1912 is payable in the Harbour to-day.
at the treasury on or before the 24th instant.
Malls.
The English and Fronch Moils of the 11th and 7th May wore de [livered in London on Juno 7.
A Nuisance.
Birch for Boy-
Sale of Crown Land- •
"
be
LAW IN CHINA.
MAGISTRATE'S NOVEL
COURSE.
Victims of Robbery in a Temple.
"A CURSE TO THE HARBOUR.'
Ship's Navigation Impeded
by Junks.
NOTES" AND
COMMENTS.
Shanghal's tond Attempt...........
Hongkong naturally hoped that
I have just boon favoured with a One of the serious disadvent-the Interport Rifle Shooting Com-
A "Tolograph" reporter writes:
Shanghai, whon they re-fired in
conversation with one of the public officials of the Colony, who coming into the harbour has to they did on their first effort, ages that the master of a craft polition, would, not do sy well as told mo a very interesting story put up with on occasions, is the
A sale of Crown Lind is nounced for Friday, June 21, to At the Police Court, this moralot consis's of 3000 square feet held at the District Offices. Tho ing, a man, was fined $1 or in Lot No. 706 Cheung Chau Dis default, Give days for acmmitting trict. The up- price is $30 and a nuisance.
the annual Orown rent $3 53.
New Regulations. At the Police Court, this morn-
the burler line of the Colony, to her berth, but at the eastern appears on our front page, how This rock's Government Guze- ing, a youth was rentenced to re-tle contains sets of regulations is but eventually they fell foul of rounded by cool juuks, which, re-shoot, they did 21 bettor. So was troubled recently by robbers, end of the harbour she was sur over, it will be seen that, on the freiva rix spoke of the birch for sued under the Privato Vehicles the people and were put under besides inconveniencing the mae it's good-bye to the honours co being in unlawfed possession of a Ordinance 1895, the Vehicles arrest. There was some differ-ter in the performance of his jacket.
| Regulation: Orilinnuto 1890, and Reporting Sickness.
rules under the Scoties Ordin-people as to how the robbers dunge to the vessel.
ence of opinion amongst the duty, actually did considerable for us. Hongkong is concernod Addition regula ions relating anco 1911 together with a 4 of should be punishod and as to who
this year. Shanghai's is certain- to the reping of sickness on societies exempted from retstra- should punish them.
As a sequel, three junk masters ly a line score, averaging over 95 hoard ships catering the colony tion.
appeared at the Marius Court this per man, and it looks as though are published in the Government
A vote was taken on the mat morning before Commander Othey will again carry off the of them being tried by a maging fast to the ss. flupoh while host our Northern friensie as and those who wore in favour W. Beckwith charged with mak-championship. Well, if we can't C. PR. Preslleni.
to outnumbered those in favour the was under way in the waters shooting, we must see wlint can by two to one. The magistrato, of dealing with thiqm on the spot of the colony,
of how a Chinese magistrate surrounding of his vessel by whon, taking two "practico actod recently when petitioned various kinds of junks, that make shots" and a sighter (the latter for information as to how they and render safo navigation into a counting shot), they pled by the residents of Sa. Tau Kok fast while ho is still under way, being allowed to be converted should deal with treo robbers untter of considerable difliculty up 931. From a folegram by our they had succeeded in catching. This morning when the s.s. Hupe Shanghai correspondent which The locality, which is just over came into harbour she proceeded
Gazette. 29
Sir Thomas auglin sy, K.C.V.O, President of the Can
Sir Charles Eliot.
The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Folegraph" will dian Pacific Railway, has raived in England, and is staying at the Savoy Hotel,
Sir Charles Eliot, riipal of the University of Hongkong, is dus to arrive here, by the Kamo Mars, the 19th inst. Ho is travelling oastward via Indin.
The rates per quarter and per neusani, proportional. Subscriptions for any period less than no mouth will be elirged is for a full month. The daily issue is delivered free when the vhlross is meossible to messenger. Ponk subscribers can have their copies delivered at their residences witherif'any dxtra charge. On emplos sent by posa additional $1.80 per quarter is clurged for postage. This on the weekly issue to any part of the world is $1 (X)
Jer quarter. Sing's. Cepas, Daily, jel cents. Weekly, twenty-five cents (for
1
Payable Advance.)
My Order,
....
"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.”
DEATHL
General Superintendent of CPR dena.
of the OP.R.
Offered for Auction
|tweenBon bon' and Park Roads,
of
Or: June 17 a plot of land be about 12,000 square feet, will be offered for action at the offices
be done in tennis and cricket. of the P.W.D. The annual ront who resided a good distance regalo entered November when the Triangular Captain Tuckor, muster of the Our opportunity will be in is $00and the up-sel pricn $2,680.
between away, was duly petitioned, but the harbour and was ondeavour contest
Hongkong, On the ame day.lat No. 1921 after taking his time over the ing to come to his anchorage at Shanghai and the Straits takes offered. The ren 46,017-squared to live nothing to do with the by a fleet of big coal juuks below Kennedy Rom will also be ft., annak tent $42, and apsot matter. In the meantime two of which
course he was to follow, he decid-Wanchai when he was surrounded place,
price $303.
hour.
vame alongside and, The Oaks Surprise. the prisoners managed to escape, despite orders to the contrary, The Colony's Finance.
S Tagalio did not win the The fanncial statement, for the and another petition was sent up maite fast to the vessel,
Daks aftor all. Sho we not Comm indor Beckwitlr:-Ani by the Government is as follows: was still in captivity and asking mavigation was impored of money was lost over hier. month of March, 1912-issund explaining that one of the men
even placed, and no doubt a pot News roaches us from VancouRevenue and Expenditure:The knight of the ponce again
what should be done with him ertainly was. verf the death, last month, of Bal incesof Assots and. Libilities
For how long?About half another wrong with this form; or Thero must be something alto- Mr. James Uburne, general super on 29th February, 1919, $2,111, replied that he did not wish to intendent of the Pacific division 536-34-Revenue from 181 farther explained that his decision teame up the central fairway to an incomparably finer hor
concorn himself in the mattor and
the result may be due to the What did you do then? change of jockeys Johnny Hoiff 31st March, 1912, 3580,308.51:
was in consequence of the fact West Point and, during that man thun Stern and is much more --Tetal $2,710,844,85.
that, when his name was put time, one of the junks did damage likely to get the last onnee out of aniong others, for the post; to the after rails to the extent of mount. people of this particular locality $50. I stayed there till abou were against him.
By the time this was received cool down, and then woat back to outsider romped home.
8.30, thinking that they would, a warm odds-on favourite has gone down and a long-priced by the vengeance seekers, the Wanchai. It was not quite ring, it is fairly certain, has done Tho arned guardover the remaining bad this time, but still they well over this year's Derby and. REVOLVERS ALLEGED TO BE Prisonor ran away from his urrounded the ship and came Oaks, nul Tagalie has stood by
post and gave the third man alongside while she was under the pencillera on cash pccasion, an opportunity to escape. He did Way..
Mines Output. The total output of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Con pany's theo mines for the week ending 25th May, amounted to during the period, to 21,233,85
BOOKINO June 1, 1912, at No 3 Kangping toad, 30,237.85 tons; and the Sules Shaghai, the Rev. Anthor Hockin, J'r; B.X., agod 32 years, of typhus fever...
"
The object of this poppe in to publish correct information, to serve the truth goud print the news without fear or favour.
Cle Address: Telograph, Hongkong.
Telephone: No. 1
with
A.B.C., 5th edition. Western Union The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1912.
CHINA'S FINANCIAL OUTLOOK.
ions
Shinyo Maru's Passengers The T.K.K. liner Shinyo Maru, carrying a large party of Hawaiian born Japanese, wue due at Yoko- hama on June 4th. The visitors will stay in the fatherland about ⚫larce nthe.
Expenditure from 1st to 31st March, 1212, $449,332.05.
Balu co, $2,201,612.80.
ARMS ON A JUNK.
OVERBOARD,
Fishing for Guns,
Two men and a women were charged at the Police Court, this The Youth and the Cigarettes. morning with having in their At the Police Court, this morn-possession a number of rifle batts ing, a youth was sentenced to From the Evidence of the roceive ten strokes of the birch police it appeared that a Chinese
not like it, however, and he was
Tho first defendant denied, that
Whatever the roa-
left to be dont with according to his junk was alongside at all The ex-Governor's Speech. the decision of the villagers whils the other two averred that Speaking of Sir Frederick Lu Another meeting was called, and the anchor had beeen dropped gard's recent speech in London the result of the consultation was when they made fast. that the prismer was allow ! to
apon the University of Hongkong On this point the second officer, tho "Malay Mail" remarks that 59. The men were as her being Mr. E Thompson was called, he could not have had a better Tynched as any who remain and lio gave evidence corroborat platform from which to fire his and to be detained for forty-eight of er baarde the junk owned unlynched havo over beon,
opening gun than that supplied hours for being in lawful pos by the first defendant and con-
Another story concerning thing that of the master.
In the result, the defondants by a Celonial Instituto banquet. Bossion of cigarettes.
men led to 831rch for army. Bano village was that a gang of wore fined $100 or, in the al-To begin with, most.of his imme.
the robbers a
Lot for Sale
Organ Recital.
In the meantime the
.
a fine.
Lot 1918, at the base of Mor-third defendant pulled him back temple and, as thifty market months wilt hard labour, and had spent many years in different The first republican Buigot for China, that of 1912, prepared
rison Hill, is being offered for and would not allow him to gtown, they pulled them into the ages of this nature came before hers present would have know.. people were returning from the were warned that, if any other quarters of the Far East, while anle by the P. W. 1 on June 17d wn. by listung Hsi-ling, Minister for Finanen, is by no means surpris. The area of the lot is 59,700 man want into the hold temple and rabbed them. They the Court, the defendants would tedge, more or loss personal, of ing, except insofar as it does not, on the face of it, give the casual square feet, about, with a rental and brought out a number of re-temple, and when they ha I fille conviction, without the option of empire. He woull thus, as a afterwards locked them in the be sent straight to prison, on nearly every quarter of the British observer much of an idea of the aetal faani-positim of China, of $680-in-an-upsst price-of-valvors which were entangled in their offers to their satisfaction To get some sleur and helpful impression as to how miters stand $20,895.
string, ond throw them overboard.
specialist in his own particular they made away, beaving their al prosent, it is as well to review, roighly, the lost budget for whiel'
They were hanging over the side
Commander Beckwith to the line, asan Empire-builder and a Mr. Deunan Failer will give suspended by the string. The victions imprisone in the place interpreter-Tell these people spreader of the English tongue of the old regime was responsible—that of 1911. To that year the an after dinner organ recital in woman eat the string and the
of worship. estimated income was-according to Whitaker-Tls. 235,600,000 St. John's Cathedral on Wodne revolvers sank. le secured the the temple became rather suposo take lako means to put a closest attention.
The next day a man passing to the Harbour "nud that I pro- specialised audience worthy of his that they are becoming a eura the first rak, be addressing a an expenditure of Tlu. 208,188,000, or an excess of Tis day June 26 when the choir will rifle butts, producol. 33,000,000 over revenue. The total dost was T. 1127,200,000 on Prayer" and the Latin anthem not see any revolvers, bat admitt-outside the temple. Ha force ! render Mendelssohn's "Pear My
Another witness gaid he did pioions when ho noticed the which the avenge interest was 1 percont, equilling Tlx. 43,080,000, composed for the opening of the ed ho saw the butts, Honid they his way in, and there, in a room,
number of market baskets op to it.
Efflorescence of Human Feeling." which, together with the excess of expenditure over income, make University.
dragged thom up as they were found the victims of the robbers
The secretary of an Adelaide a total deficit of Tle, 70,080,000. These figures are reduced from
ishing just beyond Shaukiwan.
insurance company has received amounts sterling, with the Tael equal to 2.74.
secured.flo liberated them and, The Police argued that that
the following letter from the For this year the estimated income is T4, 207,000,00), which, in passession of sixteen spurion junks of the size of the ons in ing a man was charged with being was not a fishing ground for
untivo raprosentative of the com- pany at Culoutin :-"My dear despite an estimate 1 loss to rovenna of Tis. 50,000,000, through the ten cent pices. He said he was question, which had a capacity of
Salib-it is with efflorescence of abolition of certain 11208, is a sangaing unticipation of an increase fresh from Canton and had found|1,127 picule.
human feeling that I venture to of Tis. 30,000,000. Under the heading of exponditure the mar. them in a bag.
Fist defendant was fined $250
pon a fow expressions to your chical estimate of T1+ 350,000,000 is adopteil, but additions, ull of sible he trad foun i them and die; whilst the second and thirdd de- Mr. Melbourne sail it was poor in the alternative, three months,
At the Police Court, this morn-honour, Mr.—has bonovalently ing, two coolies were charged passed in your mach' valued do which may be tormed "extraordinary," total Tln. 220,520,000, mik-charged him.
fendaals were discharged with a
with being concerned in the liverance of thought, and I feel ing a total of Tle, 570,520,000,· To this is to be added the follow-
caution.
A meeting of the Water Polo dumping of a body and removing deep-rooted to receive samo, and ing items; Foreign, debt Tla, 20,800,000, Pay for Troops Thà
According to the meteorological There was a further charge of League was held Inst evening at the same without permission." can only thank you kindly for 19,200,000, Tensions, and Compon ution T14. 6),000,000 or Build return for May, published in the assault against them, but this was the Victoria Recreation Club to Mr. Irving said there was no your pathos. Mr--has perhapa inga Tls. 10,000,000, miking a totalexponitur of Tls. 584,520,000, rainfall for the month was 3.910
Governinent Gazette, the taldi missed.
make arragements for the ensuing evidence upon which he could enlighissed you of the enormous season. Mr. H. A. Carroll, acting convict.
strides our company has brou or nearly double the revenue for the year.
inches. Throughout the month MANSLAUGHTER CASE. present representatives from the stable saw him dump the body assure your honour that we sla heorotary, prosided and there were Inspector Dymond:~The con- taken of tardy years, and I sin
Discharged.
At the Police Court, this morn-
Weather in May
wehnd 178 houre' sunshinenci 107
Two Men Remanded.
וי .
though a lus and ery was made in the village, no arrests have hava been made.
THE WATER POLO. LEAGUE.
THE COOLIE AND THE CORPSE.
:
Inspector and the Spread of Plague. Case Dismissed.
It will be said; and rightly an, that 1912 is plion monal, the hours cloudiness; the averige aftorninth of a huge upheaval, but can it by urged, with any show barometer reading was 20.85 in
Boys' Own Club, the. V. R. C., the The man who swopt the streets feel. immensely truly highly in 87th and 83rd Cos. B. G. A.; the ind no right to interfere. Flere ominence when we look upon our of reason, that the outlook is favourablo? Ws venture to thick it che, the highest temperatura on
K. 0, Y. L. L. and the R., E. is a man removing a body lofty and palatial premises now cannot, and that the negotiators for the six-power loja havo beon May 25,835 degrees, and the rear of the Hongkong Hotel to enter the Water Polo Shiold Hetook it to the dispenstry and was in Olive-stroot, I cannot expostu Arising out of the accident at These six signified their intention in which douth was due to plagne, in £0.0.E.' (couras of erection) more than justified in their firm stand on the question of the super. The prevailing wind was. E by in which a Chinese lost his life, competition this year.
lowost on May, 5. 70.1 degreas. vision of China's fianes, China staude pledge I to n aurrenay re- E with an average velocity £127
likely to mix with his own friends. flate in too resonant terms of your two coolles appeared before the The first round in the contest is Then you wonder at dinesso honour's kind inquisitiveness as I form, besides small reforms, for which huge sum will be required. miles per hour.
Mr. E. A. Irving at the Police to be played off between July 1spreading, your Worship. He is truly believe that
your honour On the other hand, definite promises for the withdrawal of obnoxi- Figures About Notes.
Court this morning. No evidence and 0, while the whole com- not disinfected at all,
must forget me. I am infeed our taxes, and the suppression of the opium trado and its attendant
was taken and the men were re-petition of five rounds with three Returns of the average amount mondod,
Mr. Irving: It is a regulation deoply honoured at your inquiry. huge revenue, mean a further shrinkago in the national income. of bank notes in circulation and
matches in sach is to be finished approved by the Government. about my female offspring. I can There is, it is true, an allowance of Tla. 50,000,000, made to meet during the month ended. May 31, of specie in reserva in longkong.
by August, 3rd.
Inspector Dymond: Then they assure you, sir, that your kind-- This will give the mon time to have no regard to that fact, yourness has stretched my bosom to this contingency, but the sum is'omaidared in bo at least half of 1912, as cortified by the mansiae in Hongkong this Evening.fixtures with Shangliai. Though tainly ought to havebeen inform-can feel that my heart-strings are: train for the Interport Swimming Worship, Mr. Irving You cer- double swelling no doubt, and I' what will be required, so that Chias in all probability will find her gors of the respective Banka, áro
the invitation sent to Shanghaied of that,
filled with sparkling joy. Sir, I wolf, at the end of 1912, something like Tis. 300,000,000 on the ad-as follow:-Chartered Bank of The deuschment of the 120th to visit Hongkong has not yet Inspotor Dymond:-But that hear that you have been bot India, Australia and Ching, Baluchistan Infoetry, which has been definitely accepted, it is man deliberately takes the boily with God's greatest felicitation, Average amount 80.174.012; been stationed on the Shamoon generally, thought that a detach from my door. Formerly we used namely, the fatherly care of a Tho obripus deduction is that the time for rapid reform is not specio-in-raterva $4,000,000 since the beginning of January, ment of swimmers will come down to engage coolies to take these helpless daughter and I can 98- yes ripe, so far as the new Republic is contorno 1 and, though we longkongnad Shanghai Banking is due to return. The dotsoliment, from the northern port this year. bodies away for us, but there was sure you that I trust no cur bear in mind the-of-i-dags, that 4 Chancellor of Exchequer is $10,384,530, apecie in reservofficers and men under the com- practice match will be played at ing, so wo left it to the Sanitary your wife's happines. With theis Corporation, average Amount which consists of some 150 On Wednesday evening as likelihood of the diseass spread, mudgeon will thorn your life or
few thoughts I will dessoumy ex too heavy to allow the Republi- amount $25,558.351; specie in rejoin itaregiments headquarters V. Bt. O. and 83rl Co. G. Mr. Irving The codiles are postulations and alossi Belleros
reserve $18,000,000,
tals evening.
discharged,
mo, ever your rozpectable friend i
vorse side.
ignorant of his business, if a
TROOPS RETURN.
the burden of the defoltalanos is uyaginitana, woʻthink $14,000,000.” Total average mund of Máfor 'R. 8: Paul, will the V, B, C, bath, between the coollen to remove them t
can infant to tan before it can walk,
comiñencing ai 5.30 o'ologk..