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BIRTHS. LESTER.—On July 19, 1912, at “Perivale," 190 Route Fer- gusson, Shanghai, Chino, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Lester, a daughter. SPUNT. On July 11, 1912, at Consular Road, Tientsin, to Mr. and Mrs. J. Spuut, a daughter who died 3 hours later.
HUGAt Winterthur (Switzerland) on the 5th July, to Mr. and Mrs. J. Hug, of Penang, a daughter.
MARRIAGE:
HARTNELL-DUSTAN.-On the 12th June, at St. Saviour's Church, Jersey, in the Havil. Canon Luen, Rocior, Mark Alan Hartnell, Imperial Plier Burma (retired), to Mary Blanche Dustan, only daughter of the late John Dustin, Brigade Surgeon. A.M.D. of Oaklands, St. Saviour's Jerady.
DEATHS.
THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 15, 1912.
DAY BY DAY,
The idea of utility is alwa inimical to the idea of wit."
German Mall:: The German Mail of June 12 was delivered in London on the July 13.
Raub Output.
...
A Quiet Time, No cases have been fixed for hearing in the Courts of Justice this week, until the Criminal Sessions on Thursday. The caso provisionally fixed for to-day stands over.
Merrie England."
We We are informed' that the next work that the Philarmonic Society will present will be in-Morrie England" when instead of St. George's Hall, the Theatre Royal will be used.
Opium Divan.
Mosers, Wright & Hornby form us that Raub output for last month is 994 ozu, of gold,
Dumping.
A doad-body has been picked up in Sam Shui Po: Death was apparently due to natural causes.
.Personal.
Lieutenant Richardson, 12th Baluchistan Infantry, Tientain, has qualified for retention in the Indian Army.
Escaped from the Hospitali A patient loft the hospital on Saturday, in hospital clothing. He was arrested by an Indian in Hospital Hont and taken back.
"To Drive the Devils away." A man charged at the Police Court, to-day, with assault, said he kept a sword to drive the dovils from his house (laughter), Tho Rov. Fr. Spadin hos reported to the police thinta thief has forced au entrance into nis quarters, and has stolen two covore, two quilts
pair of aloos.
'Thief in 'Priest's Quarlers.
Lamp Thieves.
a
Lamp thievos are busy again, according to the police reports. A number of incandescent lamps have been taken from West Point and Yaumati,
Disorderly, Coolie.
MUNRO-On July 10, 1912, at Dalmuir, Scotland," Annis
A coolic who was arrested af Morris, the beloved wife of William Paul Munro,
VAN SOMEREN.-At the Mansion, River Valley Road, Sing-West Point, whilst acting in a pore, on July 8, Samuel Alexander van Someren; agen 62 years. disorderly manner, was fined $2 MERRICK-At the General Hospital, Ponang, July 4, Captain for in default seven days, at the
Police Court, to-day. Morrick, late lighthouse keeper, l'onang Harbour.
TAN-On Sunday, July 7, at his rosilence No. 17, North Bent Quay, Tan Ah Hang, J.P., (Johore), father of Mr. Tau Tiang Yow.
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, JULY 15, 1912. -
PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION.
Opium
At the Police Court, this morn- ing, a man was fined $50 or in default six weeks imprisonment for being in possession of opium and for solling.the same. Wonian Stabbed.
Disorderly,
Morphine.
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THE ATTEMPTED AS-
SASSINATION,
WILL THE PRISONER BB DEFENDED?
Who and What is He?
ARRESTED IN MANILA. NOTES AND
An American Charged with Missppropriation
COMMENTS.
The Everlasting Rubber Question, It will be seen from one of At the Police Court, this morn-Router's messages that our Consul- ing, an American named Charles!
and for the magnifying of made for possible exaggeration, isolated, casos,, this fresh pioco of intelligence will not be received by thinking English❤ men without some few qualpis of abaue. Wo have said recently that the Home Government has unquestionably tried to do its
general at Rio reports a state of We have boon informed that Friderick White, marino, was affairs on the Peru rubber there is every likelihood that the with converting $318, whilst in estates which must be described as somothing more than gravo. an Li Hun Hong will be defend- bailee, to his own use. od at the forthcoming Criminal
The man, it appears, loft According to Sir Robert Caso ment, hide-strips, mutilations On the Colony for Manila and wOR Sessions which commence
and ignited kerosene are among Thursday next. It is also stated arrested there on the receipt of in the town that the money is to callogram from the Hongkong the arguments that are being the Police Court this after-be provided for the defonce from polico... Iu arrival hero on the employed with the workers, who noon two men were charged with subscriptions by Chinese. The Tai Yuon this suorning, and was are West Indian negroes and, for being concerned in the kooping polico ura concorned to know taken into custody by L. S. Wills, the most part, British subjects. of un opium divan. The first more of the paragraph that up- The money is sileged to be the Even though full allowance bo defendant was discharged and peared in the "Telegraph" stat-property of Esther Itushinstein of the second was fined $150 or in ing that the sister, wife and the Astor House Hotel,
ohild of the prisoner have made a Defendant, pleaded not guilty default six wooks.
visit to Hongkong for the pur The police made an application pose af seeing him bofore he
for a short romand, stande his trial.
Mr. Melbourne 'reminded the Gossip has it that Li Hun caso until Wednesday. Dofen long is the son of a formordant was allowed bail, the security interpreter employed at the being fixed at $400.
uty, both by man and by master, Supreme Court; but wo are in-
in our own lerritories where na- formed that there is greator truth
tive labour is employed on a largo St. John's Cathedral. in the conjecture of the au-
scale; and it might be added We understand that arrange-thorities that he in the son of a
that that duty has been rendered At tho Police Court, to-day, amatorially more difficult by fool- men's have been made, whereby former policeman in Hongkong the lessons read at matins and who was found in a disorderly evousong, in St. John's Cathedral for gaming house in Wanobai and Chinese was fined $600 or, in ial scaremongers at Ilome who will be taken in rotation by Ron. was in consequence dismissed default, three months for being never saw a plantation in their mace eight tools of propared ored it their boundon duty to Mr. Claud Soveri, Col. St. John, from the force. This, needless to in unlawful possession of three lives, and have theroforo consid- and Mr. A. Brger. The last nanied explain, was many years ago. has been render for a good num- ber of years past.
Road Repairing.
Attempled to Bribe. At the Police Court to-day a woman who tried to bribe a Chinese constable by offoring him 20 cents when arrosting her for carrying exposed pigwash was fined $0 for so doing and also fined $1 for the nuisance.
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A REAL OPIUM
SMUGGLER:
But while making tho allow--
If the nan Li Hun Hong is do- opium, 100 tools of compound foam at the mouth on Chinese fended the onso will have all the opium, several hundred emptylavory canards and like mares' more interest anil there will no boxes, ut quantity of false trado nosis. Quito a quantity of road repair-doubt be some remarkable rove descriptions, books referring to The Case for the Native Worker.
the preparing of opium and the ing line been. in progross in the lations,
auces quoted above, we may not Colony for the past few weeks Day by day the belief that he sale of opium, and a number of and as a result the surface of somno is the agent of a secret and unlawtine made to fit round the body.
The arrest was made in a house blink the fact that English lands have not always been clean in of the throughfares shows a dis-ful, society becomes firmor. Bis tinet improvement, especially statement that the Chinese of the in MacGregor Street,
the matter of dealing with the native. Too often, following the Quoou's Road. The latest stretches Colony are concerned over the
hoice example of the Spaniards, to be taken in hard are that op replacing of Chinese copper
and the still more atrocious one posito, the City Hall, which is coine by Hongkong copper cents,
offered by the Dutch, the Britishor being renovated with asphalt, and is not without some foundation. Ico House Street, where concrete Enquiries among the Chinese have is being used.
olicited the information that the(The "Telegraph" Correspondent.) has, in times pust, regarded the coloured man aan obaltol, o Canton, July 13. poorer Chinese coming to the
machino, and a convenient vont Two days ago the Chinose for the-ill humour engendered by THE CHURCH AND THE Colony from the country do'not un-
MASSES.
derstand this substitution and look papore in Hongkong and Canton disordered liver. The fact is upon the abolition of Chinese published a tolegram from Te that the European is not always copper coins as an injustice since king which stated that Premier Lu himself when transplanted to a many of their purchases are made intends to appoint General climate and an environment for We are Shui-ching, former Command-which neither nature nor up- with copper coins.
Clergyman replies to a
Newspaper Article,
Į
artny
RIFLES AND CAR-
TRIDGES.
CANTON NEWS,
Groundless Reports
A woman has been removed to the hospital from Yuuuuti, sulfor · Yesterday ovoning the Rey W. also informed by a ship's captain er-in-Chief of the Republican bringing is fitted him. The ing from a stab wound. The man Foster-Pogg,
chaplain, that last week he took five forces at the capture of Nanking, heat and the excessos born of alleged to have inflicted the preaching in St. John's Cathedral, hundredweight of the Chinose as Governor-General of Canton it, are apt to stir the dormant on place Mr. Wu Han-man, who boast in him, and BO tho wound is now in iustody,
mado a reply to a leading article coins back to Wuchow.
As regards the alleged attempt will be transferred Poking man who would be sober and which appeared some time ago in A Sanitary Board water cart a local cantonporary. Dealing on the life of a resident of the The tologram further stated thint moral and charch-going at Home driver was fined $6 at the Police with the opening words of the Colony who has taken rather Yuan Shu-fun, former Viceroy of
may become very much the Court this morning for acting in article: Ia an ago which ne- good photos of the attempted Canton, will probably be appoint-roverso in quatorial ogions. It is an arresting fact, worthy of more than passing notico, that a disorderly manner at West knowledges that the Church is assassination, it is said that, e as Military Commissioner Again, more than half the trouble at the present moment both England and France aro grappling with Point, on Saturday evening. the question of electoral reform. In the British Parliament a Bill A Defended Obstruction Cuse.losing its hold on the masses of the dospite other published ramours of Kwangtung. Yesterday, the is due to the extrawe youth and people," the preacher asked whe- to the contrary, on analysis it was Seventy-two Moreliants' Guild and inexperience of the Europeans has boon introduced which will swoop away miny anomalies and A man was fined $3 at the thor it would not be equally per- found that the food did not con- the Commercial Organ despatch-who are sent out as plantation- absurditios attaching to the exercise of the franchise, while almost Police Court, this morning, for tinent to make the phrase read, tain any poison. The house-boy telegram to their represen assistants. For one uct of do- simultaneously the French Chambor has approved a measure of causing an obstruction in South-In an age whichi acknowledges has been released by the police tatives in Peking enquiring into orate or curolese cruelty on tho oloctoral reform which is largoly based on proportional representa-ern Street, Inspector Dymond
reply has now becu received sayquote live where youngsters, who tion. But while France is thus seen to have done to a definite proved the charge; Mr. Lowist the masses are losing their since nothing could bo praferred the truth of these reports. Apart, of an old stager, we can'
hold on the Church", maintaining against him."
ing the reports are groundless. have not four their feet, are that the latior, statement wie decision on the question, our own Parliament has yet to pass the defendol.
Cheeper Rice.
concerned. We are well aware monsare al present before it. Moreover, the Franchise Bill is only
A rickshaw coolie who was aqually true with the former. If
Evon in good years the supply that coolies are not to be handl- part of the Asquith Government's scheme, inasmuch as it is to be
of rice locally is insufficient to with kid gloves, and that followed by a measure providing for a redistribution of Parlin- found in possession of morphine the allegation, wore true that the
At the Police Court to-day, a meet the needs of the people. thote are times when judicious mentary seats. With the rise of democratic ideas it is only natural valued at 60 cents was fined $25 Church was losing its hold on th man908, they were really reaping that franchise laws should undergo great revisions; for "the voico or in default a month, at the the aftermath of those days in man named Yuong Chau, an ac Thus Canton doponds on Sism, corporal punishment is the only
Polics Court, this morning by childhood, whon children were conntant of a passenger junk was Annam, Bangkok and Wuhu. of the people" is a voice which will make itself heard.
in the name of manhood, or, During the education controversy some few years since, the An Unlicensed Money Changer,
taken to services, with their charged before Mr. E. A. Irving The rice in Wulin cannot be policing for their sickness but, then Minister for Education (Mr. Augustine Birrell) coined the A man who carried on the busi- elders, which they never really with unlawfully being in posses- shipped to Canton on account of railor of common decency, lot famous phrase:—" Minorities must suffer; it is the badge of theirness of a money changer on board undorstood, and when the toyssion of five rifles, 1,200 rounds of its enhanced price, while the aupthese occasions be kept at a tribe." But, despite this declaration, statesmen still continue to hips in the Harbour without a in the nursery were placed ba- ammunition, and four boxes of ply from Siani and other places is minimum, and let the flogging limited. This season the crops flogging, and not holl-torture analyse schemes aiming at proportionale representation of all parties licence, was brought before Mr. youd the reach of the child's fin- priming caps.
Mr. Lawis appeared for this in Kwangtung have been almost -as too often it has been. or groups. And it is thus that the merits of Proportional Repre- Melbourne, at the l'olice Court gors. However, the preacher would defence.
totally destroyed by the floods, sontation are in these days being given so much consideration. to-day by L. S, Wills and fined not admit that the suggestion was There are various forms of the system, though in principle they are $10.
correct, and, to refute it, he L. S. Cooper stated that at 7, 30 with the result that the price has St. Swithin's Day, allied, and it is interesting to note that already Belgium, Switzerland, Constable's Smart Capture.
pointed to the movement in con- p.m. on the 14th inst. he went ou advanced considerably and caus- Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and Wurtemberg are among the P. O. Patrick Lanigan vory
noction with the Church of Eng board a junk in company with od hardship to the poor people, countries which have actually adopted it, while the principle also cutely stopped a man in Western land Men's Society, which was two informere, and there aw The Chinese residents abroad operates in Beuatorial, provincial and municipal elections in the Street whose clothes seemed to rapidly sprending, and remarked defendant coming from the have, however, come to their as. He (witness)sistance and remitted Tls. 20,000 South Africa Union. Its advocates assort that representative bulge suspiciously. He took him that, in many instances, religious starboard sido. government cannot be a reality where the system does not apply to the station and it was there eagerness caused worshippers to wout into the cabin and there for the cheap disposal of rice. It is only in recent years that Proportional Representation has come found that the man was in posses- go to church half an hour before found five Minchester rifles and The Wei-chai and Anping vie to the fore in England, but, thanks to its strenuous advocacy by sign of 750 rounds of ammunition. service was due to commence, in the ammunition produced. Wit. depots intend to sell their stopk mon such as Lord Courtnoy, and by the holding of model olections At the Police Couri, to-day the order to secure a seat. When suel illustrating its advantages, it is gradually adding to the ranks of its man was fined $100 or in default things occurred could it be true, adherents. The system is worked by dividing the country up into six mouths.
he asked, that the Chirch was constituencies returning several members. This is an essentinl General Anderson's Future
losing its hold on the masses? feature of all the varying schemos, as it is only, when a number of
GOVERNOR OF MACAO.
Mr. Melbourne.
1
Command.
Victoria Theatre.
ness asked him if he was the master at a cheaper rats for this purposs, A committee for the cheap dis and he replied in the negative.
Mr. Lewis-This man is the posal of rice has been formed at accountant?-Icould not say.
the Oi Yuk Hospital. Ho is not the mastor--No.. Now in this cabin there y two bods?-YOR.
And the informors
woro
went
Is in St Swithin's Day to-day, which brings to mind the old proverb which says:
St. Swithia's Day, if thou dost
rain, For forty days it will remain; St. Swithin's Day, if thou bo
fair,
For forty days. 'it. will rain
na mair,
At Home, whero forty days! continuous rain would put n Foolish Reperts.
lamper on the holiday son, Recently some evil-loers cir culated a rumour of a proposalsuperstitious folk still regard, the wenther pros acts on th's day by-the-Canton-Government-to-
with fear and trembling-Bat- straight to the bed where the offer a handsome reward for the Hongkong won't worry mi-h, we rifles were?-No, they wont to arrest of many well-known mer think, whether it rains or no, chants in Hongkong, including St. Swithin, it will be recalled, Dil you see any other mon on Mr. Fung Wa Chuon, J. P. Mr. was Chancellor of the Exchequer Wu Han Mao, the Governor in the time of King Etholbert,
You have not arrested any
seats are available that representation can be divided between the A successor to Gen. Pearson different parties oxisting in a constituency in proportion to their has not been boon officially an-
By the Inte boat last ovoning, strongth. When it comes down to putting the principle into nouncoil, but it is understood practice there are various methods possible, but that most favoured that Major-Gen. C. A. Anderaon, His Excellency the Governor in England is what is known as the Transforable Vole, which has who is now General Officer of Mauno, and Sonhora Mae- the supreme recommendation that every vote cast in an election Commanding in South China, hado arrived in the Colony the front cabin first: counts-not as now, when a successful candidate often polls humireds with headquarters at Hongkong, from the Portugess Colony, ne- of votes more than he netually needs to secure a majority, with the has been selected for the com-companied by the aide do this junk?--Yes.
The informers asked this man General, las already issued and he is the great Patron Saint result that the murplus is wasted. The vote under the new plan mand of a division, and he will camp Mr. Soares, and a valet. being transforable, the elector is allowed to indicate to whom he probably go to Lahore, says the The party proceeded to the Hong to come back to the cabin --No, proclamation contrulicting the of the cathedral and city of Win
ramour and intending to bring hoster. There is another quaint wishos it transferred in the event of the candidate whom ho most "Globe."
kong Hotel, where they will stay | E did.
those evil-doors to justice, as a saying which is to the effect that favours not needing further support. This is done by the elector
until to-morrow, leaving Hong. marking the man ho most favours by the figure 1, and indicating Well-advised seekers of a good, kong by the French Mail 88. other men who were on board? direct proof of good faith of the when it rainson St. Swithin's Day, Canton Government. Mr. Fung it is the Saint christening the his second, third and fourth choices by the figures 2, 3 and so on. digestion-promoting laugh will aceanien for Home, where they-No.
Not the mastor?--No, ho waste other day and paid visits to have a pinus belief that unless Wa Chuon went up to Canton apples. amphiremen, indeed, As to whether the new Redistribution Bill will bring any of not fail to see Mr. Billy Eldid&Co. will remain on leave for about a
before these artistes bid farewell year. these schemes into operation, fow at present know, but it is well to to the above theatre to-morrow The Government or Macho will remember that the Royal Commission appointed some four years ago on this general question expressed the view that of all schemes night. Not only is the trick-oyol-bo administered by Capt. San- for producing proportional representation that of the Transferable turn fully equal, in paint of ches Miranda daring the absence Mr. Irving:-Why, the defend ant was in the cabin where these Vote would have best cluance of acceptance, though the Commis-interest and cleverness, to similar of Senhor Machado.
things were found, items offered by the best Halls at sioners were unable to recommend its adoption, in the then existing Home, but the miniature Jack
Nuval Veteran's Do`th:' Mr. Lowis contended that the New Engineer C.O. far Singapore. circumstances, for elections to the House of Commons. With the Johnson himself is worth walk-
Lieut. Ool. D. H. Ridout, Com- Tom Thomson, a naval voleran, A Kobe roport says that some defendant was not the master of franchise on a new basis, however, and a redistribution of seating some miles to see, The cases of dysentery appeared in the junk and had nothing to do manding Royal Engineer, Dublin eighty-kuree years of age, slied at affected, the conditions would be much altered, and we may thus
Distriot, goos to Singapore in the Grangepona, Bones, recently, even yet see the system recommanded by the Government of the cinematograph films, too, are Mihara-gun, Hiogo Prefecture, with the charge.
After loaring the evidence his coming trooping season to take lle was a noted, character in the day. If not, we doubt not that the time will speedily come when exceptionally good just now; lately and 53 persons have born the experiment will be tried. For such is the tendency of the hour notably that one entitled "The attacked by the epidemic, which Worship fined defendant $250 or up duty as Commanding Royal district, and had served in the ! Baltio during the Crimson War: Engineers Goldan Balt."
threatens to spread:
în default six months.
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Dysentery in Hlogo.
not there.
I will nak your Worship dismiss this case?
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to
the Governor-General, the Com-St Swithin does his duty in this nissioner of Finance and the respect there will be no apple- Commissioner of Police in con- nection with the matter.
harvest.