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Simplicity of life and manners produces tranquillity of mind Unlawful Possession of Opium. At the Police Court this morn ing, a man was fined $4for being in unlawful. possession of opium.
Obstructors.
Soveral Ohinoso shopkeepers were fined bums varying from
3
to $5 at Police Court to-day for
using obstruction.
Command of the Troops,
During the absence on leave of Major Genoral C. A. Anderson, C.B., the command of the troops in South China, will devolvo on Colonel C. W. R. St. John, C.E.
Dismissed.
has now been raised to the status
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STEAMER CONVERSION. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL EUROPEANS BOYCOTTED. NOTES AND
$300,000 Contract for Hongkong Number of Important Questions
& Whampoa Dock Co.
to be Put.
At to-morrow's meeting of the Legislative Council, a number of questions fall to be put.
The Hon. Mr. M. Stewart will
COMMENTS.
Neglected Roadways.
Servant' Trouble Reaches a Head on the Shameen.
Information has reuoled Hong- We have before now commonl One of the biggest contracts
kong that, as the result of aed upon the bad state of some of secured by a Hongkong docking
dispute between a European and the thoroughfares of the Colony, establishment for very many years
a house boy, something in the but to seo neglect of roadways has just been placed with the
nature of a boycott has commenc- carried almost to a fine art it is Hongkong and Whismpos Dock ask
ed among the Chinese servants necessary to pay a visit to Kow Company, Ltd., after competitive 1. Will the Government, at an on the Shamoen. In fact, in many loon. On almost any of the roads tendering. It is for the conver-early date, take whatever stops instances, Europeans are left with bronching off from the main streets -
a luxuriant growth of grass, sto., sion of the cargo steamer, Kenne- may be necessary to confor upon out boys at all.
bec, inton bulk-oil carrying vessel, the Magistrates greater pazitivo It appears that the gentleman is to be observed, but the thor and the amount of the contract is powers than they at present in charge of the junior mess of oughfare par excellence, in this about $300,000. The work in possess for dealing with cases of Messrs. Carlowitz and Co's branch rogard, is Humphrey's Avenue, volved will tako fully six months, oriminal assault on children? in Canton, and occasion, to reprove which is indeed 'n stady in pas- The Kenuebes, a general cargo 2. In view of the approleneion one of the servants attached to the turos green. The growth on either steamer, was formerly owned by caused by reports of the silting mess on Aug. 14. This was side is close on a foot high and the Anglo-American Oil Com-up of the harbour, at certain bitterly rosented by the boy, who covers quito one half of the width pany, Ltd., but was recently pur points, will the Government in-turned on the European and bit of the road. So long has it been chased by the Tank, Lighter and form the Council whether nuy him in the arm. He then loft permitted to flourish, that, in A man was charged before Mr. Storage Company, of London, steps have been taken to ascertain the hong, armed with a large somo places, in addition to the E. A. Irving, at the Police Court, who are her present owners, the truth of the matter, and, if so, stick of wood. Ho had not gone grass, little bushes of various
out to with what results?
very fur, however, when a polios-kinds have sprung up. The effect this morning, with matching a She recently camo
Cases of Burglary
mon arresteil him and haled him many be somewhat refreshing in A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. gold earring from a woman. Japan with cargo of case
After hearing the evidence, his oil, and, after Uelivery of same, 3. How many cases of burglary before the court of the English these hot and wearisome days, Worship dismissed the case. came down to Hongkong for the have been reported to the Police Consular Service, where he was but the aspect of negloot and express purpose of being convert- since the lat June; in how many sentenced to three months' impri- decay is also only too apparent. Kuala Lumpur H. and S. Bank. ed for the purpose of carrying oil cases have arrests been made; sonment with hard labour, fifty The Cheung-chau Outrage
The Kuala Lumpur office of the in tanks. She is a double-deck how many convictions have been strokes of the birch, and banish- The deplorable affair on Dum. Hongkong and Shanghai Bauk twin-screw steamer of 5,077 tons obtained in how many instances mont from the Shamoon. bell Island may ultimately prove This dovelopment has caused to have done good. A striot of an Agency and Mr. Percy de O. Morriss has been appointed London, and she was built by od value of the property lost; the servants, who consider the and there is a reasonable likeli Messrs. Russell and Company, and bow do the facts compare treatment meted out rather hard. hood that the pirates may be run The s.. Marlow. of Port Glasgow, in 1902. Her with last year's records of burg- They consider that a Chinese to earth. An outrage of this kind should be tried only by a Chinese detracts from the credit of the Shipping and Engineering" length over all is 405 foot, lary during the same period?
that Messrs. Jardino, breadth 52 foot and depth 27 4. In view of the answer made court, and not before a foreign Colony in the eyes of people out- aido, and it may be taken that no. Matheson & Co. have purchased feet 6 inches.
by the Honoumblo Direotor of tribunal. the steam launch Marlow from The Kennebec was formerly Public Works to a question put As a result, most of the boys in offort will be spared finally to the Canton-Kowloon Railway for one of a fleet of four ships owned in the Council on the 13th of the service of individual gentle root out the robbers. If report. the sum of $13,000 for servico in by the Anglo-American Oil June, and to the assurances thoremen left work on August 10, but speaks truly, a hint of an intend Borneo, whither she will proceod Company, the others being the in given that, weather permitting, at that time the boys in the offices ed attuok must live reached the under her own steam as soon as Schuylkill, the Seneca and the the work on Craigmin Road would of Mosare. Carlowitz were still in ears of some people in authority, It is stated, at any rate, that a the necessary alterations have Hudson. The lust-named was oo finished in ton days, what is service.
It is generally believed in strict outlook was boing maintain- sold a year ago to the Japanese the explanation of the work ba- and is now named the Hudson ing unfinished two months later? Canton, according to our informa-ed at Tai O at the very time that Maru. These ships returned Is it not the fact that the month tion, that this boycott is the work the Cheung-chau outrage was be Tho Proprietor of the with general cargo to New York of July established a record for of some Chinese on the Shameon, ing committed. If that is true- Dragon Cycle Depot, 24 Dos and Boston and wore then in the sunshine?
rather than a spontaneous out- find wo merely give it for what it Vous Road, in the Colony of Shipping Conference.
burst on account of the incident is worth it is an interesting. Hongkong, has been appointed
of the servant in the junior moss. speculation whether the informa The placing of such a big order Solo agent for the well known in Hongkong is a tribute to the
It is thought that the passage tion was unintentionally or inten- Overland Motor Cars Sovern! confidence roposed in local dock
between the European and the tionally misleading in the one models have been ordered, and,
boy was merely an excuse for the particular which really muitored. boycott which existed at the time The Result of Kindness. of the latest advices.
Brand 3,301 tons not displace- has the property atolen been re- ment. Her port of registry is covered what is the total estimat-gront doal of heart-burning among watch is now certain to be kept
be as follows:-
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HONGKONG WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1912.
PANAMA CANAL TOLLS.
statos
hoon completed.
Dragon Cycle Depot.
Concerning Wiroless. The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock K. C., will ask
Can the Government give any are due to arrive early in October. ing ont ablishments, sad it is or information to the Council with hoped that this is the fore-runner. The Overland has the largest of many similar contracts for reference to the promised esta- sale in England of any American Hongkong. Indood
blishment of a wireless telegraphy wo hear made oar, and is sold at popular that tenders are at presont being station in this Colony ? pricos,
· QUESTION OF TRADE MARKS.
The Hon. Mr. E. Osborne, has. invited locally for work of a Certificates Oranted. Similar character, as well as forgiven notice of his intention to The following candidates were the complete construction of twe put the following:- successful in their examinations or more 8,000 to 10,000 tou tank1. Will the Government stato Gompertz, sitting in original for certificates of competency bestgamers. fore the Board of Trade, Hong- |kong, during July :--
A. Malam, Second-class engineer.
J. Collard,
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do. do.
H. Rubo, America's official attitude with regard to the incidence of the G. Taylor, Papama Canal tolls has become fairly will crystallised during the J. Barrett, past few days. A joint conforence of the members of the Senate and. Walker. Second mate.
J. W. Smith, Mastor. of the House of Representatives has given protracted ́ consideration
decisions of the conference have since secured the separate approval: of both Houses.
Kowloon.
Leave of Absence.
ENGLISH IN THE COLONIES.
A low such sentences as those passed by the Chief Justice yester day on sundry burglars and arm- ed robbers, should be the means of giving the Chineso criminal dis This morning Mr. Justice inotly to understand that Hong- kong was never intended to be a whether the progress made on jurisdiction, continued the hear- rufians' Paradise, and that there the new Typhoon Refuge up to ing of the case in which the is a limit even to British patience. the 30th June last is consistent Lam. Fat Shing firm, grass cloth It is not easy to understand why, with complotign of the work by dealers, moved for the rectifica-in timo past, Hongkong Justics contract dato?
tion of the trade mark register, has been so merciful towards Ohi- in connection with certain marks nose law-breakers. The French registered by the Wo Les firm, in Indo-China, the Dutch in indicating certain qualities of Java, the Americans in the grass cloth, washed and un- Philippines, the Japanese in Far nosa and the British in the F, M. S. the Straits and North Borneo, by Mr. G. K. H. Brutton, support-have all handled so difficult a pro-
Alleged Release of Prisoners. 2. Will the Government state whether any prisonors have been fore the expiry of their sentencoB released from gaol this year be-
and, if so, how many have boon released, and for what reasons?
washed.
Mr. O. G. Alabaster, instructa
nions, in spite of all the influences The suggestion that the Domi- tending to bind them closer to to the question, and its principal decisions are:-(1), Rejection of Stole Police Inspector's Dog. the Mother Country, are likely to the provision for the free passage of American ships engaged in fourteen days by Mr. C. D. has been roade by Professor
A Chinese was sent to gaol for drift apart from the mother tongue 3. When the designs for theed the motion, and Mr. Eldon blom with great success and, it foreign trade; (2), Approval of the proposal for the free passage of Melbourne, this morning, for A. Stanley Kidd, of the Rhodes/pow Railway Torminus at Kow-Potter, instructed by Mr. Otto must be coricoded, with wisdom,
Kong Sing, appeared for the The Law and the Criminal. loon are completed and before
What Hongkong seems to for American vessels engaged in constwise trade; and (3), A rasolve to stealing a dog valued at $50, University College, Grahaus they are finally accepted, will the respondents prohibit ships controlled by Trasis from using the Canal. These the property of Inspector Kerr, town, at the Imperial Conference Government afford the public an the trade marks in dispute wore good care to remember, is that The applicants claimed that get, and what Singapore takes of Tonohors' Associations, which Mr. Gray, P. W, I., said the dog has just concluded its sittings in opportunity for examining them? general to the trade and could the Chinese has, for untold cen- was offered to him for $4. He London. Professor Kidd thought Orders of the Day, not be appropriated to the uses turies, been accustomed to see ex-
in course The situation having developed an far, the point now is what became suspicious and deferred it possible that,
The orders of the day are as of one individual firm. Through-tromo, and often devilish, panal- out yesterday evidence in support ties served out for comparatively action Provident Taft will take in the matter. According to a report payment for a day. In the means of time, Australia and South follow-
time the polico wore communicat-Africa night deviate so for First reading of a Bill entitled of the applicants' case was given,small crimes; therefore it is hard- just to hand, he has expressed doubts as to whether or not he willed with and prisonor wasarrasto. from the standard of spoken An Ordinance to amend the Lar and continued to-day
ly to be wondered at that he re-. be able to attach his signature to the Bill, and is credited with
English that they would hardly ceny Ordinance, 1865,
According to the evidence gards a sentence of a few months' declaring that the provision for fres talls to American consting
be understood in the Mother Firat reading of a Bill entitled there are two species of grass imprisonmont, even if accom vessole is one which will soriously embarrass the United States. To affairs, to the United Kingdom, is said, there was already a tendency relief of Innkeepers.
Leave of absence on private Country. In South Afrion, he An Ordinance for the further cloth, washed and unwashed, there panied by a flogging, is matter
being four qualition of each. for no great grief. To us it ap outside observers there can be no question of the possible harmful granted to Major General C. A on the part of the Dutch speakers First reading of a Bill entitled Formerly the washing was carried pears that the insolenco of sor- effects to Amorica of persistence in this particular clause of the Bill. Anderson, O.B., from 20th August of English to avoid any rise or fall An Ordinance further to amend out at Hoilow, but as it was vants, the carelessness of coolies It may be argued that, in view of the immonse cost which the con- Station loavo is granted to out of the voice, with a result of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890. found that Hongkong water was and the audacity of house-break- D. Arthur, LM.S., from 21st curinus monotony. Whether such First reading of a Bill entitled more suitable for the purpose, era, for which the Colony is gain- struction of the enormous undertaking has meant to America-not Angust to 3rd September. The un local defects could be remedied An Ordinance further to amend some of the firms came to long- ing somewhat of reputation, have only in dollars, but in the staggering toll of human lives-it is only expired portion of leave granted by training or not, he did not like the Liquors Consolidation Ordin-kong, and washed the cloth here been due, in the past, to the too loni- fair and reasonable that some special consideration should be shown to Lieut. H. F. G. Carter, 1st Bn., to my, but he urged that the anco, 1911.
According to witness, the Wo Lee ent treatment of mon who are the to ships flying the Stars and Stripes. There would be much to be K.OY.LI, viz., 10th to 22nd importance of the correct pro- First reading of á Bill entitled and other firms used the same kecuost in the whole world to take said for this point of view had it not been for the existence of the August, is cancelled. The leave of nunciation of English had, for the An Ordinance to amend the Peat characters denoting the different advantage of what they construe
absonce granted to Captain H. K. most part, been overlooked by Office Ordinance, 1900,
qualities of cloth..
as weakness. The other day a Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, whose provisions leave little or no room for Hughes, Liout. F. J. Wyloy, and writers of text-booke on the Eng- First reading of a Bill entitled While the Wo Lee used the Singapore magistrate fined a speculation as to their meaning. The section of the Treaty which 2nd Lieut. J. A. Jervois, 1st Bo., lish language. The first step to- An Ordinance to make provision book roll as a trade mark, the coolie five dollars for absent-mind- K.O.Y.L.I., will be amended to warda reform was to train English for the appointment of and to de-Yu Mei, another firm, used the edly keeping his cigarette in his most affects the toll dispute is contained in Clause 3, which lays rend " from 22nd August to 7th teachers on sound phonetic prin fine the powers of the Crown same figure as did also the Chau mouth, and his hat on his head, on down that the canal shall be free to vessels of commerce and war of September."
ciples.-Exchange.
Solicitors and Assistant Crown Kin Hop.
ontering the court; and another all nations "on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no
Solicitors of the Colony.
sontonced a Chinese to oightoon discrimination against any such nation or its citizens or subjects in
SIX YEARS FOR respect of the conditions or churgos of traffic or otherwise, such conditions and charges of traffic to be just and equitable." Thore
BURGLARY. asa auroly be no misconstruing these words. The. United States may, or may not, have been lucking in prudence in concluding Treaty containing such a provision, but, having signed it, there is Admiral C. E. Anson, is a stop yostorday with the case in which New Revised Edition of the Law late Emperor and also hor deop-long run stand to gain by the The Criminal Sessions ended only one honourable couras open to lor-to faithfully observo its in fulfilment of Mr. Churchill's
seven men were charged with every olause.
promise that this establishment burglary. Three of these wore It is said that President Tafi favours allowing foroigu, nations shall be fully and efficiently dishlarged by reason of a nolle
maintained. Amongst the moh to lost the question in the United States Courts. With this end in who know, Rear-Admiral Carden prosequs, two pleaded guilty, and view ho has now urged an amendment by the insertion of a provi- has a high reputation for ad- Wong Fuk and Fung Taat stood
this trial, pleading not guilty. sion that nothing in the Bill impairs the privileges acquired by ministrative ability. He was foreigners. It wild appear from this that, while personally conscious specially detailed by the Ad-Tho, Attorney General, the miralty to watok the building and Mr. F. O, Jenkins, instruct Hon. Mr. Bucknill, prosscated, f the defects of the Bill, he inclines to allow of its passago into law of the Agamemnon, the first ed and Mr. W.. Crowther: Smith 98 defined by the Chinese Pas unfounded, and deolares that her Colony. As the Cable-news Ams- in the amended form, leaving aggrieved parties to test the validity battleship designed by Sir Philip defended Fung Tsat, who was sengers Act, 1855, and concerning Majesty is in the best of healtli, rican points out, Indo-China de-. of the Act in the Courts. Mach the wiser plan, we think, would be Watts on becoming Director of found not guilty. That, who was Asiatic Emigrants generally closely entering morning and bends, in the main, for itasconomet for the President to compare the provisions of the Bill with the re- Naval Construction, and he like-
Second of Bill condition on Friday existence on the cattle trade, and quirements of the Treaty and then to not according to the principles wise commanded her on her The three guilty prisoners were entitled An Ordinance to amend sound not the slightest cause for must now therefore be in indeed
maiden commission."Truth" sont to prison for six years with the Tramway Ordinance, 1002, flarm.
Ia doleful striot justion.
bard labour
The New Superintendent of Malta Dockyard.
The selection of Rear-Admiral Sackville Carden to be Admiral yard, in succession Superintendent of Malta Donk- to Rear-
!
First reading of a Bill entitled The Japanese Empress-Dowager mouths' hard labour and two An Ordinanco for effecting the Is luas been rumoured, saya the years' police supervision for what dinal revision and amendment of "Japan Chronicle," that her here would count only as a minor. the Ordinancos of the Colony Majesty the Empresas-Lowager is swindle. from 1841 to 1912 inclusive bo- suffering a breakdown from her Indo-Chinese Cattle.
Hongkong poople, who, in the fore incorporating them in the excessive exertion in nursing the
of the Colony.
felt sorrow for his domiso, and barring of Chinese cuttlo An Ordinance to make provision her to retire to bad, the authoritios bably not considered how Indo Committee on the Bill entitled her medical advisors have urged from the Philippines, have pros for the reconstitution of the Full of the Household withholding China will be affected by the pro Court.
any further particulars for foar of bibition. In another column it Second reading of the Bill discouraging the people. Dr. will be seen that a French official entitled An Ordinance to amend Saigo, an Imperial physician, who has gone from there to Manila to and consolidate the Taw relating in waiting on her Majesty, em- intercede with the government on "Chinese Passenger Ships" phatically denies the rumour as behalf of the cattle-rearers of his