The
Hongkong
August 30th, 1912, Temperature a.m. 81, p.m. 88; Humidity...74, 83.
No. 8879
TELEGRAMS.
"GENERAL"
BOOTH.
AUSTRALIAN TRIBUTES.
Reuter's
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, August 30.
The Salvationists in Melbourne
hold an imposing procession syn- chronising with the funeral of "General" Booth in London..
At Bydney a memorial service at the Town Hall was attended by an enormous gathering.'
CHINA.
FRENCH MILITARY ADVISER
艴九十月七年子壬
TELEGRAMS.
THE HOME FLOODS. THE COST TO NORWICH,
Router's
[Service to the Telegraph."]
London, August 30, The river at Norwich has fallen
five foot and the city is resuming its normal asp t.
The oleo.rio light at Norwich has been restored. ·
The damage done to the city is ostimated at £100,000.
HARVESTING EXTRA- ORDINARY. Accounts of the agricultural losses throughout East Anglia and the Midlands are heartrending,
As an example of the situation. the farmors in the Peterborough district are harvesting by boats, the shoves being landed on London, August 30. higher ground. The mon aro Reuter's Paris correspondent mowing up to the knees in water. wires that it is stated by the The river Welland in Lincolnshire "Journal des Debuts" that Gene is literally aboked with hay, ral Brissant des Maillot, which is being ontriod sonward. RESTORATION MEASURES. been appointed military advisor to China.
Later.
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SATURDAY,
TELEGRAMS.
MR: BORDEN.
A HEARTY FAREWELL
Router's
[Service to the "Telegraph,""]
London, August 30, The Right Hon. Mr. Borden and Mrs. Bordon suited for Canada today, being nocorded most cordial farewelle
PANAMA CANAL TOLLS.
AMERICA TO OPPOSE 'ARBITRATION,
at
London, August 30. Router's correspondent Washington says that although the State Department does not nuthorise a statement to this effect, it is understood that the Admini-
-AUGUST – 31,
TELEGRAMS3.
THE S.S. COMET.”
SCOTTISH CELEBRATIONS
Reuter's
[Service to the "T
London, August 50. Glasgow is elaborately celebrat ing the centenary otille launch of the steamer Comet. Ata banquet, mon bers of Parlament and Coun cillora eulogised tlice uvantor, of the boat.
To-morrow (Saturday) will be a general holiday in West Soot- land and a great Shipping Pagoant will be held at Gre snook, in which warships will parti cipute, while ovary town will have its local festivities.
NAVY MATES.
Telegraph.
BATHER SHOW
Barometer 20.532
August 30th, 1911, Temperature a.m. 86, p.m.; 86; Humidity...00,
TELEGRAMS.
1912.
大洋禮、
就一卅月八英浩審
TELEGRAMS.
THE TURE
BELEGER BETTING.
Router's
[Service to the Telegraph."]
London, August 30, i The batting for the St. Leger, run at Doncaster on Septem- 11th., is as follows:-
to
be
ber
9 to 4 Lomond.
5 to Tracery
8 to 1 Maiden Erleghi.. 9 to 1 Hector. 100 to 8.Pintadeau,
BBITISH FOREIGN. TRADE.
Improvement in July, The figures for July are:- Imports
SUGAR CONVENTION.
ITALY TO WITHDRAW.
Roufor's
[Service to the "atograph."}
London, August 30.. Renter's correspondent st Rome states that the Government
has notified that it will withdraw from the Sagar Convention on September 1st,, 1913.
MILITARY AVIATION.
war office aWARDS,
£58,304,351
Increase ou 1011 7,200,170 Exports
$41,080,300
London, August 30..
Inorons on 10117,378,724
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Sutera Corr 10 CHтa,
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NEWS FOR BUSY MEIL
TELEGRAMS.
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
Mr. and Mrs. Borden be sailed for Canada."
Lomond beide the list in this latest St. Logor batting quotations,
Scotland is elaborately celebrat ing tho centonary of tho launch of the steamor Comet,
The Italian Government has notified its imį ending withdrawal from the Sugar Convention.
Mr. Jolin Borns has visited
Several War, Oftoo awards in connection with the Military Aviation Competition are. nounced.
stration will decline to permit the New Promotion for Lower Deck. Re-Exports
7,008,880 The War Office awards in the Norwich and conferred with the question of the right of this
Decrease on 1911 1,085,050 Military Aviation Competition are authorities regarding restoration United States to relievo Amorienà
Aa July contained only four as follows:£4,000 to a Cody measures, The details of the scheme, an- shipping from tolls for using the nounced by Mr. Churchill when Sundays against five last year biplane; 12,000 to a Doperdussin Tho Night Hon. Mr. John Panama Canal to be arbitrated introducing the Navy Estimates, there was one working day more, monoplane; £500 each to a Burns, President of the Local upon. It is stated, however, that whereby select warrant officers but even with that allowed for, British Doperdussin monoplano Government Board, has visited this position of the Government and men in the Navy are to be the Board of Trade returns are and to two Bristol monoplanos. Norwich and conferred with the will not be developed fully for promoted to commissioned rank, sensibly botter, business since the The prize of £1,000 for British have been issued by the Admiralty branking up of the strike at machines was awarded to the THE CHINESE REPUBLIC.authorities concerning restoration on time.
Meanwhite the English Press Two now ranks, noting mate and the Docks baving revived. The Cody biplane, which alone com Doctors are inspecting the is criticising at considerablo
ing to 14.23 per cent, hos flowed houses, all of which will length the American position,mante, are to be catablished in the increase in the imports, amount pleted all the tasta
particularly in view of President
Candidates selected will not extended to nearly all the itame. be thoroughly disinfected,
|Taft's repeated advooney of arbi- Shopkeepers ro uirendly an-
Raw materials improved £2,619)- than twenty- moro tration. nouncing sulvage enles.
five years of age and will be 317, of which no less than £1, AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE. Iands of agricultural losses caused chosen from the list of gaunate, of oil seeds, nats, oils, fats, and 240,377 figured, under the hoad torpedo-gunners, and boatswaios, and from mon" who hold the gums. Hides and undressed rating of petty officer and have skins gained £301,767; wool, A MILITARY CONFERENCE, mowing hay up to kuses in wate passed the examination in sen- £237,057; paper making rate- manship for, waurant rank. Arials, £132,032; and iron ore, recommendation from the captain scrap iron, and steal, £114,970, increwed, about will be indispensable, and the Raw cotton
EXECUTIONS DELAY
RECOGNITION.
(From Chinese Sources.]
Poking, August 30.
The British and American Ministers at Peking have scon President Yuan, and informed him that on account the axe-. cutions of Qoneral Chang Chun- wu and Fong Wai, the recogni tion of the Chinose Republic in dolayed.
GOVERNOR RESIGNS. Tok Man-wai, the Governor General of Anhui, has telegraph. ed to the Peking Government
tondering his resignation.
"Shat Po."
THE PREMIER'S LEAVE. Shanghai, August 30.
President Yuan has granted Promior Lut another 10 days
leave. As soon as the oxtonded leave expires, the Premier will resume office.
MEDAL FOR SUN.
THE NAVY,
EXPEDITING CONSTRUCT.
ION:
London, August 30.
PHILIPPINE COPRA.
BOFVICO.
bo
of.
Unlyersally Increasing Demand. The Admiralty is expodiving According to the collector's re- the launching of the Iron Duke port, the most prominent fonturs names recommended will also be 13.3-4 per cent. in quantity, aud in the record of Philippine ex-submitted to a committee of 43-4 per cont. in value. Food, ports for the year is the extent of officers of the squadron.. the copra trade. There has boon
Tat Portsmouth by a month.
PARA TIMBER AS FUEL.
PHILIPPINES AND OPIUM.
Exchange.
MANILA.
TELEGRAMS.
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
question of the Panama Canal
Hoart-rending accounts come from East Anglia and the Mid-
by the foods, Farmers in the Peterborough district are her- veling by boat and man are
LOCAL.
The Consul for the Netherlands was "at.Home" this morning on the occasion of the birthday of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland.
Thieves laat night visited the Law Courts and removed sixteen electric globes from their fittings in the corridors and in the Courta themselves.
We understand that, as a result of the Cheung Chan outrage, the authorities are taking stops to
London, August 30.
Router's correspondent at Mel- Stops are being taken to put drink, and tobacco increased bourne states that the Hon. Mr. the European cemetery at Stanley The slip will thus be earlier
Selected candidates will under- £2,470,651, moat figuring for Pearce, the Minister for Defence, in good order. available for a new and larger
grain and is calling a conference of Com supor-Dreadnought.
a universally increasing demand go preliminary courses, and after- £891,844, and
Many manding Officers in Australia' for this product, and the new and them will be given the rank of four for £770,284. profitablo uses to which it is be acting mate, proceeding to Grisn-factured articles improved 2-with the objrst of eliciting viewa ing put have resulted in a steady wich for six months' instruction. 166,828, iron and steel being on the new defence scheine. TO ABOLISH LEKIN. In "Tropical Agriculture" re-improvement in prices, That the They will be classed as ward- up £348,165. silk, £217,200; The Ministry of Communica-ference is made to experiments car-islands are profiting by this grow room officers and will receive 28. cutlery £107,703; leather £159,- tions intends to abolish the lekin ried out on the Periyar Rubbering demand is attested by the a day messing allowance and 8s. 193; apparel, £127,797; mac stations in the various provinces, Estate with a view to testing the increase of $6,615,202 in the a day pay. After a further ex-hinery, £127.334; and wool, NEWS FOR BUSY MEN. and has asked the Ministry of fuel value of the timber of Parn value of copra oxports during the amination they will become mates, £120,880,. We received more Finance to support its proposal, rubber trees cut out in thining past year, which represents more and after from two to three years wheat from Canada, the United operations. One cubic yard of the than 40 per cent of the total in-service as acting mate or mate, States, Argentina, and Turkey, dried timber. weighed 803 lb., as crenue in export values. Copra they will be promoted to lieuten but loss from the British East against 721 lb. per cubic yard of shipments during the fiscal year ant's rank, and will thereafter be Indies, Russia, Australia, and four from dried jungle wood, and when 1912 totalled 100,342 tons, valued eligible to promotion to com-New Zealand. Our receipts of Canada, Australia, and, Germany burnt in the furnace of the estate at $16,514,746, compared with mander exactly as other lieuten- wheatmeal and "drier" lasted seven hours, as 115,002 tons with a value of $9,-ants.
A further regulation provides were langer, but reduced quan-
The entries for the V, R. C. against eleven houra for the jung-1890,157 in 1911. le wood. The rubber timber, France still maintains her posi- for the promotion to commission. tities came from the United States
fets to-night promise exciting however, is far more easily cut, tion as principal purchaser of this ed warrant rank, where such Bad from France. Argentina sent
It is reported that General events. The winners, except in with the result that the cost of product in the islands, shipments exists, of all deserving warrant us a large total of size against President Yuan has despatched the two classes of timber is up to that country amounting to officers after fifteen years service. il last year, while none was Brissant des Maillot has been the Ladies Nomination race, will received from Canada, and appointed Military Adviser to most probably be the chosen Chang Kwok-kam to confer aproximately the same. The ad- 97,084 tons, valued at $9,585,031
the consignmente from the China.
representatives for the coming modal of the highest degree on vantages resulting to the plants- Those figures represent approxi-
United States, Russia, and Rou-
interport feto. Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
tion from the removal of the foll-mately 57 per cent, of the total
CAMBODIA CATTLE IN mania were smaller. Rubber ed trees must also be taken into shipments of copra and show O
imports increased 28,632 cwts., or decided increase over' 1911, al- consideration.
about forty-nine per cent., while
It is stated that the United though in that year shipments to
the value was £661,483 higher, or States will decline to permit the France constituiod slightly
The steamer Binh Thuan ar about sixty-eight per cent, greator, proportion of the total rived at Manila on the 24th from
The value of our exports for the copra trade.
Paom Peuh, Cambodia, with a month increased 21.32 per oont., More Trade with the States. cargo of 626 head of cattle. When the improvement being chiefly A most interesting fosture of Dr. Ward of the bureau of agri- noticeable in manufactured arti- the Manila collector of customs the past year's trade, however, culture was seen as to this ship-oles, which gained £6,059,584, Cot- A conference of Australian for 1912 that the secret service has been the further inorenee in ment and its coming in spile of ton goods increased £2,350,420, commanding officers is to be up- department of that bureau has the demand from the United the cessation of all imports from iron and steal £964,317, woollens pointed with the object of elicitment Gazette that His Excellency been doing good work: States. Although an unusual the China coast, he explained the 2559,956, machinery2535,895,oping views in connection with the
"During the fiscal year 1012 growth characterized the figures matter as follows.
parel £220,160; railway carriages new defence scheme. there was legally imported into of 1911, when they were more "Those cattle were under the and trucks, motor cars, cycles, etc., the Philippino Islande for medi- than double those of 1910, the observation of an employs of the 2217,085; and chemicals $171.- cal purposes, 28 kilos of opium, past year has witnessed shipments bureau of agriculture in China 700. New ships, however, fell off
Shanghai is excited over with a value of 8717. This re of twice the quantity of 1911, and for 27 days and, when ship-4249,080. In raw materials the The Diplomatic Body at Poking presents an increase of three the increase is price has brought ped, were not suffering from increase amounts to 81,866,146, rumours of action by Germany in
disease, They paid a visit to Dr. Sun Yat-sen at kilos over the quantity so import the total value for 1912 up to an any
kre brought about mainly by the regard to Shantung, by Japan in Ying Pan Kou, a famous Chinesa ed in 1911, and of $250 over the amount representing 227 per cent renohed Manila, however, sut largor shipments of coal. Wo ex- Manchuria, by Russia in Mongolia At the Supreme Court, this morning, before the Chief Justice boarding house in Peking, on the value for that year. The high of the value for the preceding fering with foot and mouth ported 2,228,353 tone more, the and by Britain in Tihot.
disease and are boing landed at difference representing £1,000,-
the case was resumed concerning prices which opium and similar year. drugs command in the local Coincidont. with the declino Tanduay corral, by water trans-833. The increase in quantity:
Chan Pui Shang, trading in the name of Chung Sun Chang Kee, markels, however, serve ae a each year since 1907 of the importation and will be kept there was about forty-three per cent., Shum Sik-shun, or Heu Yan-sharp incentive to attempts at portance of hemp in the export under rigid quarantine until the and in valus about fifty-nine per
Sir John Jordan's Memoran- 118 Hollywood Road, booksellers, yusn, will probably be appointed evasion of the prohibitive restric- trade, to which referenco has disease shall have run its course. cont.
dum regarding Tibet states that versus Choy Wo Shi, trading an Superintendent of the Canton tions placed upon their importa- already been made, has been the "They are the property of 8r. Imports for the seven months Britain recognises the suzerainty the Chung Hung, booksellers, 112 Custome.Sai Kai Kung Yiktion, and the work of suppressing steady growth in relative import. Evangelista and were among increased seven per cent, experts rights of Chine and does not in- Hollywood Road. The claim this illioit traffic necessarily ance of copra. In 1907, when those purchased by the importer 3.40 per cent., and re-exporte 2 95 tend! disturbing the "status quo," was for $1,000.73 being as
** 1/2 = 16 8881.94 for goe
goods sold and SUN'S BODYGUARD, laims a large part of the time hemp formed G1.7 poncent. of the prior to the recent exclusion order per cent.
The delivered $87.53 for work done Peking, August 30. and attention of the secret service total exports, oopra reprezented and are being imported ander imports Seven
Months 8 412,232,874
and material supplied $281.26, The bodyguard of Dr. Sun Yat- agents of the bureau of customs, 11: 6 per cent, and each year, as the arrangements in force at that
Melbourne Salvationists held Increase on 101127,005,138 |
anʼamount paid by the complain- son has twios passed through the by whom 283 seizures were made the figure for hemp has decreased, time. According to those ar
an imposing procession syn ants on behalf of the defendante Legations, and the Japanese during the past year. There copra has assumed a more in-rangements the cattle, if passed Exports Seven
Months... 267,298,405 chronising with the funeral of and at her request, THƠ HARMIK Minister at Peking has written to were recovered 1401 kilos of portant position until in the pre- by an employe of the bureau, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs opium, 20.8 kilos of morphine, sent report both products are China and found to be diseryd Increase on 10119,023,472" General Booth in London, waived the sum of $0.73 in under protesting against further tres- and 6/73 kilos of cocaine, of a credited with a percentage on landing they were to be Re-Exports while an enormous gathering to bring an soilba withi
A Months or 404.027.390 attended emorial service in Summar“ “Jurisdictions ONT by these mon. Sai Kai total value in the local markets fraction above 32, the advantage admitted onder quarantine?
of approximately $104,705." being in favour of coprn. * f Osbianews Americas. Kupik Po
Increase on 1011301,987 Sydney Town Hall;
The CAPITAL... Dr. Sun Yat-sen has advocated the removal of the seat of Govern- ment from Peking, nud suggested that Nauking should be the first choice, Wuolang next, and Kai- fong the third." Shat Fo."
NEW APPOINTMENT.
Shanghai, August 30. President Youn has accepted the resignation of Vice President
Li from the post of advisor of the
General Staff, and will oppoint Fung Kwok-choung as his suc-
cessor.
COMPLIMENT TO SUN.
20th inst.
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CANTON CUSTOMS,
It is evident from the following extract from the annual report of
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reinforce the out stations. In this connection two extra Europeans are being stationed at Stanley.
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and
It is notified in the Govern
the Governor has been pleased, acting under instructions from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to appoint Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher to be Official Receiver.
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