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Colonel Kirke Appointed to Falmouth.
kind to me."
Matters.
BOMB OUTRAGE.
was the Tragedy the Result
of a Love Affair?
NOTES
AND
COMMENTS.
Midlothian.
"What does he use a butterfly not? I innocently neked, and. wondered why everyone laughed
Never mind! I am far from down-hearted. Neo-Leen, Ha peon, Ko-poon, know all these, Enquiries inade regarding the The Unionist triumph at lid- Gee whizz there isn't much to but I invariably put my hand out Youmati bomb outrage leave the lothing gives the Asquith Covera At the Police Court, this morn-choose from, between the Now the wrong side of the ohuir, with motive for the affair still dark.ment the most staggering blow It is stated, on the one hand, it has received since it last came ing, a man was fined $18 for York and Hongkong Police. chaotic consequences! But, Sung] being in unlawful possession of a Both rotten, according to the works like a charm. Being able that the victim was a Chinose into office. Following as it does quantity of opium,
newspapers! That the former ure therefore to bring my trusty policeman who had offended his hard on the heels of North-West a choice lot of thugs wo New steads to u stop I feel fairly safe, assailant, some time before, while Manchester, its real significance The moonlight is superb to executing his duty. This was no is obvious. It means that the Yorkers know only too well; but
Government has outstayed its personally speaking of the latter, night. From our windows the confirmed, however, during en- as George Ado has it in one of his view of the oity, that is grey inquiriesmade late yesterday, which w-loume and is being politely fablos,They have been very its sheon, is charming. Far out included a call at the Yaumati but firmly told so by the elector ato. Truly the Unionists are across the harbour the sampan Police Station, There is a very tall mom-lights seem as a host of firefies, It was learned, on the other ow with the flowing tide. That ber of the Indian contingent and the music of the band comes hand, that a story was abroad to Midlothian (Gladstone's old soat) On arrival home from the in Queen's Road who has come to so sweetly on a luxuriously cares the effect that love and jealousy should, of all others, return a Hongkong-Singaporo Battalion may assistance when I was in dog-sing breozo. It is at such times entered into the mutter. The Unionist, is surely the strongest Royal Artillery, Hongkong, Liout.ger of being mobbed by the flower that one forgets the heat, the statement is made that the bomb argument that could be advanced Col. H. L. A. Kirke, R.G.A., will sellors, on several occasions. He glare and the raucous noises of thrower was in love with the some that the Asquithian Ministry atands disoredited in the eyes of has likewise saved me from the the day, remembering only the woman as the man now dead. take up duty at Falmouth.
onslaught of "ohere" men, and great age of the vast Eust, its am grateful. His smile is always mystery, and realizing a little the a pleasant one and his teeth are strange, laro that draws strong extraordinarily white. I'm sure men to it and keeps them there. that I couldn't find a smile any where on $15 a month. The English force also have been most courteous when I have bothered them with questions.
Major W. B. Antey.
The new Armumout Officer at Singaporo, Major W. B. Anley Royal Garrison Artillery, war formerly the commanding officer of No. 83 Company, Royal Gar rison Artillery, at Hongkong, Funeral of H.I.M. the Emperor of Japan.
KOEHN-On Soplumber 5. 1918, to Mr. and Mrs. A. Kocha, Shanghai, of His Imporial Majesty the late
MARRIAGE.
On the occasion of the funoral Emperor of Japan on 13th Sep- sember, 1912, flags will be flown at half-mast at the flag stations in
RYGGE-LOFTUSU September, at Holy Trinity Church, Hall, by the South China Command, from tho Bar, D. K. Moore, Harry Emost Riggo to Winefred Loftus,
DEATH,
STILL-Ou Sabor 8, 1912, at the Isolation Hospital, Shanghai, John Wesley Still, aged 35 years. Dasply regretted.
The object of this paper in to publish correct info-nation, to ancre the truth and print the news without fear or favour.
Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong. Telephone: No. I. A.B.C., 5th edition." Western Union
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1912.
THE LOAN TO CHINA.
to
8 a.m. till sunset.
Chan Kam Arrives in Singapore
Board of Survey.
As for the mushroom growth affairs, well they are ornamental any way.
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A QUESTION OF BAIL.
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ɑrowded than usual. That,
There was much excitement in the people. Not only has the Yaumati following the affair and constituency been consistently Wo Sung Street was even more Liberal, but a 3,000 or 4,000 majority could always be counted Itisstated that the bomb thrower upon. This time, however, the has been arrested and that he Liberal vote has decreased by was identified by the victim nearly 3,000, when compared while he lay in Hospital.
MARINE COURT.
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with the last fight, while the Unionist following has grown by elose on 500. Moreover, if the
out that the combinel Liboral-
Eleation.
The St. Leger.
In applying for bail for a Chi- neec at the Magistracy, Mr. F. X. d'Almada, informed his Worship JUDGMENT BY CONSENT. whole of the Labour vote were (Mr. Irving) that there was no
idded to the Liberal poll, there This morning, in the Summary would still be a falling off of over Of course we have not been criminal charge against his
Court, before the Puise Judge 100 compared with the number burgled-yet-nor has my hand-client,
Inspector Collett asked that Mr. Justice Gompertz, Li Lui Sh of voten qust for the Master of bag been snatched, so I suppose
of 133, Des Voeux Road Wos libank at the last General Elec- that it is not up to me to make bail be fixed at $1,000,
Mr.d'Almadalexcitedly)There brought an notion against Thron. It is easy, of course, to point romarks.
My! What fun it must be is no criminal charge against him, Man Lee Chan' firm of the sam Ohan Kim, the man who to write letters to the papers and heavy bail is a prohibitive address, suing to recover the sun. Labour vote this time is far above of $620, balance of money do- the Unionist figuro, but that is arrost in Hongkong in connection We havo ta little song entitled bail; so prohibitive as to keep my with the murder of Towkay Gaw Every body's doing it now," so client in gaol, and others, whilst posited with hor by the defendant characteristic of thron cornered Boon Chan at Pasir Panjang in I am only longing for an oppor- men are being released who have in. Originally $600 was defights. When Liberals and Lo August, 1911, was reported the tunity to take a hand with "Tuffy" committed orimes, and wore con- posited with the defendants, on bourites fall out, then, is the other day, has been brought to" Prospective Burglarees, etc, victed by your Worship. What-Sept. 10, 1911; and on February chance of the Uniruits And it over the police have found has no 15, 1912, $80 was paid on ac 8a olsace which will be sugerly Singapore. He WAS formallyoto, adinfinitum. arrosted by the Singapore police Speaking of burglars, and hav thing to do with the cass. The count. The claim was for the seized in the ouming General when he arrived in the harbour on ing road of the letting loose of question is one of my client hav-balance, board the Arratoon Apear on the short term prisoners on account of ing to be deported, and if he is, plaintiff by consent, in chambers Judgmont was entered for tho
5th inst.
the jail having no room, reminds he will surrender himself.
The victory of Tracery in the His Worship-Do you think he me of the newsboy in the gallery.
St. Leger is somewhat in the Hongkong Ex-nurse Decorated. while. Faust was being played. will surronder?
Mr. d'Almada-Ho certainly
nataro of a surprise pucket. The Tear of Russia has present-In the last act Mephistopheles
This morning, at the Marine Lomond started a very warm ada brouch with the Imperialis supposed to disappear via a trap will. He has surrondered on a Bugle in diamonds to Mrs. into the Infernal Regions.
Magistrate's Court, before Com. favourite and was coullently ex Ou formor occasion.
Inspector. Collett-Ile would munder C. W. Beckwith, R.N.,pected to win, yet Tracery led from Langley, in recognition of her this occasion the trap atuok hall services while nursing the wound. way. "Hully ` geel' the kid not be aware of those papers Wong You, Lee Hing and Cheng first to last and won by a ban ismas Un Tai wore charged with dis-margin. It is a nice speculation od sailors from the Russian yelled--" Hell's full and he can't Paving been found,
Mr. d'Almada-1 object to obeying the lawful orders of th whether Lomond's price was cruiser Varing during the lusso get in!"
Same with the jail!
these ex parte statemente on Harbour Master by anchoring based on a real belief iu hisabili More than passing interest attaches to the anouncement which Japanese War, whon Mrs. Langley has been made public by Router's Agency to the offact that negotia-at that time Miss Georgian Must you go?? my hostess asked, the part of Taspector Collott. He their junke to the west of Proty; or was partly the result of his of sporting papers in which tions which have been proceeding since the middle of July have Franklin, was a Sister at the Go-Yes, I have my marketing to must give the nature of the serpine Rook, in Victoria Harbour, owner's connection with a series
mo vornment Civil Hospital, Hong-do." She looked at in papers be has found. This is an on September 11. f culminated in the signature of a Loan Agreement between the kong. The Varing was the first stonishment. My dear, why ex parte statement and not to be All three defendants pleado. Lomond has been consistently guilty and were fined $5 enol, boomed of late, and partly due to Chinese Minister in Loudou and a London banking house. Although ship blown up at Chemulpo. don't you send a chit to a good taken into consideration.
compradore by your boy? It is
His Worship What is the the alternative being imprison- tho fat that Wootton the elder ment for savon days with hard trained and Wootton the younger Ordinance? details of the Agreemont are not authoritatively known, it is believed,
so much easier.
codo him. Whatever the reason, Bays the mesange, that the Loan is for ten million storling, bearing A Board of Officers composed
Mr. d'Almada-Nine of 1919, labour. And have him get a rake-off,
Wong Tai Hi and Kwok Mi, he appears to have failed badly. interest at 5 por cent, to be spread over a pericul of forty years, and as under, will assemble at No. 3squeeze' you call it? Money section 7.
Sub-District Barrack Stores, Na-doesn't care who has it, I know,
His Worship "The magis boatwomen, and Lam So and The St. Leger is not a race which secured by umpledged securities, chiefly the salt tax. The announce than Road, Kowloon, at 10 a.m. but I prefer to gather in what trato shall fix the bail."
Olian, Yan, boatmen, were charg-a horse with any weaknesses can mont comes hard on the wologram which we received a day or two on Friday, 13th instant, for the squeezes there are myself. And
Mr. d'Almoda-Yes, the mag-ed, at the instance of P.C. Wool-win, and the fact that the turf since from our Shanghai correspondent, stating that a soneation was purpose of oxamining and making I like the experience and fan of it letrato shall fix, but not the police ford, with being in a harbour of was newly laid this year must The polico have nothing to do refuge, the Bowrington Canal, have made the race a severe test, ́croatoil in Peking by a report that loan negotiations wore being recommendations as to the dis-bosides.
posal of a quantity of Barrack To me the market is an with the bail. It has nothing to without the special permission of
The Police Again Outwitted. carried on in London by the late Chinese Minister of Finance for a Stores considered to be unservice-endless source of interest, and I do with the police: it is the Reg. the Harbour Master, on Septem
A delightful little bit of the Jonu of the unfount now montioned by Reuter, and that the matter able-President: Captsin S. L. have trained No. 1 now so that we istrar General's arrest, and it is ber 12, and with unlawful failing
Comodie Humaine was to be wit was nearing final completion. The two telegrams obviously refer Ralph, 8th Rajputs. Members: carry on a fairly reasonable com- for him to ask any special sum, to lioonce their boats.
On making an admission of assed outside the Hongkong the samo negotiations, and it will be well to watela how the Poking A Subaltern, R.G.A. Ole Bir-versation by Jao Weber'a famous He takes the depositions of the
racks.
nathod under similar conditions, man under the Ordinance, and their guilt, they were each fined Hotel last night. We only saw "excitement" develops, now that a definite statement of the
Where Stolen Rickshas Appear "Dont talk;-make motions! "not the police. I submit $500 is $2 and $3 on the first and second the middle and the end, bat, charge rospectively or, in default, given the claw, it is proverbially eiganture of the Agrooment is forthcoming.
Ho trots along behind me and sufficient.
easy to construct the whole lion. Of late inaný, private rickehus acts as porter, for my various His Worship-Well, I know hard labour for fourteen days.
P.O. Dyke charged a boatwo-Two stalwart Sikh policemen In view of the recently-aroused fooling throughout China agave boen stolen, and mostly from | purchases. To be sure he did nothing about him, and Mr. Col the conclusion of foreign loans of any description, it would be in-
the Contral District. Yesterday not take at all kindly to it at first, lett is anxious to give me reasons man named Leung Yee, with un- were standing about ten paces. teresting to know with what precise measure of authority the Chinese at West Point, where many of bat a little mental suasion arrang why I should fix the bail as he lawfully mooring her boat within away from a rickabaw, whose
suggests.
one hundred yards of low water slufts rested on the ground and. Minister in London was invested to carry on the negotiations. That tho rickshas seem to have made od matters.
Suoli wonderful quantities of
Mr. d'Almada Yes; ho must mark in a prohibited place and whose ostensible owner maintain- a London banking house has not hesitated to sign the agreement their way a man was seen auspi-
during prohibited hours on Sept. ed a position also ten paces distant from it but in the opposite would make it appear that there was ample consent on the part of ciovely loitering in close proximi beautifully colored fish, tubs of not give it from papers.
Inspector Collett-Certain val- 12. A fiue of $2 was imposed. ty to one. At the Police Court, this them alive, coolies freshening the
firaction. The coolie the Peking Government, though we must confess to surprise that in morning, he was charged with water continually, frogs and many unble papers have been seized,
wore the police. If he took stop the recent constant references hailing from the capital with regard being a rogue and a vagabond, and other variaties of soa denizens and as to whether further action AN EXCELLENT COMEDY. playing a waiting game; so nearer to his vehicle, so did they. to the loan question, there has been no hint that these negotiations sentenced to one month. It was that I cannot oven describe. The should be taken is at present an
At the entsinment which is to Sometimes he made a little rash; Mr. d'Almonda-Whether these have been proceeding, In fact, more than once have we seen hints found that a charge connecting din and clamour is terrific, and I open question.
him with the ricksha could not woar a dark skirt now,
having
take place at the Theatro Royal ono did they. Onse, indeed, he that the discussions with the international group of bankers wore to be preferred against him. had two pioquet skirte ruined by papere have any connection with September 28, one of the principally just managed to dodge
the defendant, Mr. Collost does items is Sutro's "A marriage has be resumed, and all the way along it has been suggested that if any A New Blessing Conferred on
blood spatters.
1. kiok from the more It is most interesting to watch not say. This man is employed been arranged." The piece which tive of the two. We do not foroiga loan were to be concluded, that would be the source from
Limited partnership arrange the Chinese, woman buying: Isa thief to catcha thief, and had is an excellent comedy was first know what the coolie's offence which the money would be obtained. To those who have the welfare it is u relief to see that money will at last be available to meet the they will even be less used than by the way she actually counted erfield and Swire to go on boardLondon, in 1904 and ever since why the police did not com of Chinn at heart, and who wish to see her strike oat on right lines. ¡ments are now blessing conferred į trudged about after a funny little to go on board' to search. Heroduced at the Garrick Theatre, had been; nor do we understand or Hongkong, where perhaps old lady the other day, fascinated had an order from Massrs. But- crying needs of the new regime, and it is sincerely to be hope that in
this country, says the the number of tiny white bait that to search for stowaways and has retained its reputation as an mandeer the rickshaw and ha
excellent work. the people of the Republic will see the wisdom of the step, which "Mercantile Guardian. Limit- the various sellers offered on bits opium, and prevent smuggling, The plot deals with the
Inspector Collett-It is not cor- manevring of the distinguished The Saviour of the Situation. has been taken, though we are quite conscious of the possibilities of fed partnerships can only be sauc-of paper. At last she found one the situation, when there are scattered up and down the land louil-tioned if in the opinion of the re- that had two or three more than rect. He cannot show any papers, relatives of a society woman who We waited patiently to see how mouthed agitators who would desire nothing better than an anti-gistrar they can properly be the others, and she departed in and he was found on board when is thereby thrown into contact with long this oat and mouse business
the ship left the buoy. described as non-Chinose part- triumph with the wee parcel.
the idea of making a match. The would last. Near us stood a small foreign rising. But we have hopes that the saner and more level-nerships. How many meanings
Mr. d'Alenada-The ship loft There are so many delicious
humour is introduced into the Chinese boy, somewhere about headed men of the Republic will use their influence so ne to avert a or half-meanings can be read into sorts of fish that I find it difficult the buoy to go to Quarry Bay,
love-making of the millionaire thirty-six inches bigh. He watch catastrophe of this kind, which would only ronot on China with that provision time, and
His Worship How long has who is certainly most unconvened the proceedings with apparent ex-to keep our household expenses perience may show,
down to the limit that I have set! he got to go to surrender? blasting effect to her national development.
tional and almost brutal. It is a fisinterestedness, and anything. And in the meat market it
Mr. d'Almada Twenty four fine example of Sutro at his less like a possiblo god from Those who see beneath the surface have known far more than Whiteaway Laidlaw v. Chine is the same. So cool, sweet
a machine could not well basin- the casual observer how strained China's financial position has been
His Worship No. How long The scene is set in the corner agined. Suddenly, with a decision smelling ofoloan-killed in recent months. The Cnstöme revenue has been appropriated to At Ipoh, Messrs. Whiteaway, boof, with again all kinds of has he before surrendering, for of a huge room, which has been and a foresight, that murk him pay the interest on foreign loans, and hence not a penny of it has Laidlaw and Co. sued the choice cuts and bits. The fruit deportation?
specially designed for the purpose, out for future greatness, he made found its way into the coffers at Peking. With the unsettled state China Mutual Life Insurance and vegetable, sections remind Mr. d'Almada The Governor during the progress of a dance at two rapid springs towards the of the country and the consequent hindrance to trade, even the Co. for $182.70 value of one somewhat of the great Bazaar can hold it over for four days and a west end house. This type of rickshaw, seized oneof the shafts, receipts from this source were falling seriously, and the question furniture supplied to Mr. Max in Constantinople. Not nearly four days ad infinitum. Five
cenery is entirely new to Hoog and, before the Sikhs had done was becoming pertinent what would happen in the event of the L Friend, late district manager so extensive, but the same medley hundred dollars.it sufficient; kong; it has been carried out in gaping, had drawn the veh Customs revenue falling so low as to be insufficient to meet the of the Chius Mutual for the of fruit scents exists, and the same His Worship-Bail; $500, a. bold black and white design, sonte dozen yerde down they interest on the loans. With the conclusion of this now loan, how. F.M.S. and Malaocs. The defen- opportunities to sample: thinge.
Inspector Collett-May I make with touches of gold, orange and and handed it over to the ever, the situation looks more rosy than for some time past, for a dant company contended that Mr. (That is a distinctly Americans special application to protest phoe, which came in vogus at and, with a dnet good supply of roady money will tide over a multitude of dificulties, Friend had no authority to pur trait, to, sample()
against light bail in this case Yo We do not, of course, mean to infer that she conclusion of this loan chase the furniture whiol was for
Mr. d'AlmadaIt isn't as home, some time ago. The farmi sure, which is also of special means the end of Chine's troubles; for the amount is only a fraction of his house. The "Straits Times"
though the man was running
ade by Messrs. what is required But it will surely, have a steadying effect on the states that judgment was
He is not a criminal.
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