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BONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1912,
MORE QUESTIONS.
DAY BY DAY?
What's uno womnu's' news, another woman's troubles.
Arrived To-day.
Mr. C. F. MoWilliams arrived in the Colony by the Minnesota to-day.
A Royal Birthday. To-morrow is the birthday of Hor Majesty the Queen of Spain, who will be 20 years of age.
Orass Fire.
A grass fire west of Pokfulam. has been the cause of some trees und a large ores of grass being consumed.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1912.
COMPANY MEETING:
Canton Insurance Office,}
Limited,#53
NO PERMIT
Discussion In the Removal of Stone Case,
NOTES ANDE
COMMENTS
The Hon. Sir Paul Chater, and Messrs. D. W. Oraddook, F. Moit- and, H. P. White and B'Shellin wore re-elected members of the
Our Burglar, consulting committee on this pro-
Mr. Edwards, of the FW.D. Mr. Pollook wants to know The thirty-first ordinary moor position of Mr. Ho Kom Tong and Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, of Messrs. what kind of instrument was ing of the Canton Insurance seconded by Mr. M. R. Walker, Dennys and Bowley, attended at used by "Our Burglar" when he Ofico Ltd., was held day at Mr. Barton proposal and Mr. the Police Court, this morning, to escaped from Victoria Gaol, nearly mooi, at the head offices of the Puntret secunded that Mesare. hear the decision in the case heard three weeks ago, and how (as far company-Messrs. Jardine Ma-. l'oroy Smith and A. K. Lowe yesterday in which a junk owner as can be ascertained) he manag
here elected anditors:
and contractor were charged at ed to get hold of it. The answer theson & Co.
This was agreed to.
the instance of the Government, to the first part of the question is sidni, others prosent boing Sir, The Chauman That is all the Paul Chater, Nr. E Shellin, Mr. business, gentlemen, Dividend D. W. Craddock, Mr. II. P. White, varrants will be ready to-morrow Mr. Maitland, D. Landale Mr. morning.....
The Hon. Mr. C. H. Rosa pro-
Walker, T. C. Hall, A., P Pumfrett (consulting committee) Monaro, J. Barton, D. V. Stoaven-| Story Untrue..
enn, Ho Kom Tong, Ho Fok, The polies are now informed Chen Chan Nam, Lo Cho Shui, that the story of the fortuno tel-Chan Sun. Wong Leung Him, and ler playing the confulenco trick Mr. L. N. Loefe (Secretary, on a troutan in Possession Street is not true.
The Frost's Descent," The Festival of Shuang-chiang ("Frost's Descont") falls due to morrow. All tho mine, wo don't. anticipate any opportunities for skating in Hongkong.
Due To-morrow.
Thompson.
Telegrams to Southern
Philippines.
ROUND THE WORLD.
with removing stone from So Kum Wat forcahore, the property of the Crown, on Oct. 8th.
generally known. The instru mont" was the handle of a soui- tary bankot-but not "Our Bur Mr. Bowley defended.
glar's" own bucket. How he got Mr. Irving-Do you want to hold of it-there's the rub! Dons.. say anything?
the Government know-and will Mr. Bowloy-It is not necas-it tell? Just as important, too, sary if your Worehip has decided what manner of supervision was to dismiss the charge against maintained in view of the fact According to the story told to Tung Foo (the junk owner), but that ho found time to dig bis way R Telegraph" representative if there is any doubt on the sub- out unobserved; and what kind
Mr. D. F. Robertson's Trip Proves a Great Success,
The Chairman said: Gentlo-to-day by one of the members of ject I should like to make some of walls, aro those within, which men, the report and accounts have the party that are cinling the further observations.
prisoners in Hongkong aro been in your lands for some days, direction of Mr. D. F. Robertson, decision about it,
globo under the auspicos and Mr. Irving I havo come to a housed? We have seen jerry-built houses in a London suburb which and I will therefore, will your permission, take them as rend. the trip, so far, has been a great Mr. Bowley-Would your would have given the escaping you will have noticed that thous
Worship allow me to put in a man aboat as much trouble as he form in which pur accounts are torday, per the s.s. Minnesota, are many of the quarries scattered getting olear.
They arrived in Hongkong yes- permit. He has a permit covoring appears to have experienced in presented has undergone somo alteration, this is in consequence at the Hongkong Hotel, and about Sai Wan to Castle Peak, The Late Robert Barr.
have enjoyed themselves tre- mendously.
"The tour of the world, says a decision. onriinformant, "is 30,836 milos.
The s.s. Hol Sangi:
Mr. Robert Barr, whose death Come to a Decision. of the New Compaui » Ordinance, Owing to the delay on the part which has become law since we
Mr. Irving said he had como to is announced over the wire, waa
liko moet Scots Americans-iman of some Chinese in paying duty last mot. We present the position
Mr. Bowley said that in this of many parts. He was one of on the cargo, the ss. Hoi Sang of the office as on 30th June last, will from Canton, which was tinued to which includes of course a state- We left Los Angeles, California, on case the servant was acting con- tho lundrode who, from the teach arrive at Macao at 7.30 this mornment of the working account for the 12th of September, and-by trary to the master's instructions; ing profession, drift into journa ing, did not put into port til the curront year at that date. Iour itinerary we should reach be did not mean to say he did so lism and thence to fiction writing. 10:30 a.m. *
am glad that we have so satisfac there again on Sunday, September wilfully, but in ignorance, in The next generation will know taking stone not covered by the him more as a magazine man than tory a report to present. Our 15th-of next year.
"The trip from Hongkong on permit issued to him for places as a novelist, for he was certainly Among the passengers due to promium income shows a sub- arrive to-morrow by the English stantial increase, and wo bave includes Singapore, Penang, from which he could take siano. a gronter success in the former. been. more fortunato in Rangoon, (visiting Mandalay, Tung Foo could not be respon- role than in the latter. Asareal mail Roamer India are Lady the ratio of losana, which this in Frome, and spending several days sible for the acts of the junk novelist, a producer of strong, live Campbell, Commander Colin
the Irrawady,) Calcutta, master who went to a place other fiction, be belonged to the big McKenzie, Brigadier General come las had to sustain, than W. L. White and Major. J. F. R. has been the case for some years Darjeeling, Benares, Lucknow, than that to which he should have group in which we may include past. You will have noticed also Cawnpore, Agra, Delhi, Jeypore, gone and to which he was direct- the authors of "Humphrey Clink- that losses on account of previous Bombay, Madras, Tanjore, Tried to go by the contractor. As far ker," "The Cloister and the yours have been well within our chinopoly, Colombo (visting the as the junk master was concerned Hearth," "Hypatia," "John In- "Loras Doono” and expectations as evidenced by the places of interest in Ceylon) it was a mistake that had been glesant"
The Story of an African Form;" Mr. J. M. Beck, superintendent condition of the Underwriting thence to Aden, and proceed mado; he had mistakon the marks, of the Eastern Extension Austral- Susponse Account.
You will through the Suez Canal to Port He was looking for a white mark, a group of people, each of whom asia and Ching Tolograph Co., I trust approve of the proposed Said, Cairo, Naples and Rome, and he mistook the marke. If bis wrote one great book, and one Ltd., advisos us that telegraphic manner of dealing with the sur-thon Genos to Algiers and Worship would recall him he only. Barr's one book, was with communication with Iloilo, Cebu plus of $585,008.44. We carry
would tell him that he never went out question, "The Mutable Gibraltar. und Zamboanga, &c., is restored.à slightly largor sum than that of At Gibraltar we leave ship into that district before; he Many" perhaps the most power the two preceding years, to credit and go by train and automobiles always wont outside Lyaman or ful handling of the "capital and of the Underwriting Sesponse through Spain, France, Switzer Kowloon Bay. It was his first labour" question ovor ponned: Account, which, after the appro-land, Austria, Germany, Holland, visit these and he mistook the priation of $305,098.41 will Belgium, Denmark, Norway, marks. That was the case for the stand at just about 4 lace, and Sweden, England, Ireland, Scot- junk master.
ever attempted anything further. in view of the fact that our exist land, Wales, and at last ve
stoam from Liverpool on Septem- Mr Irving:-If defendant two English in the Philippines. ing custom requires us to rent bor 1. 1013 for Now York had authorised defendant one to
A doal has been heard of lato have run off, it is imperative that arriving there on September the tako stone front catside his quarry of the demands of Filipinos in defendant two would clearly have Manila to be more widely taught eighth." this provision should be large. Exchange is ruling much higher
"I cannot say enough of the been guilty of counselling or the English language in the now than during 1911, and to beauties of Japan; it is an ae procuring defondant ono in com- schools there, and one notes with make provision for possible de tonishing land, but we Americans mit a branch of the law. He did gratification that the educational preciation so caused to our gold only admire progress in the ful-not do that; but he did what authorities have shown thoz
amounts to the same thing, he selves thoroughly responsive to we have added $100,000 to the investments as expressed in silver, lest sense of the word,"
When asked his opinions of took not the slightest paine to this very laudable and praise- show where the boundaries of the worthy request. Meanwhile, how account which was inaugurated China, our informant mid Inst year, and which in future "It looks dead-and-alive to me, quorry were. Defendant two was ever, it is more than merely in- will be designated as the "Invost-and from what we hear in Cali equally indifferent. I find both toresting to note that in one of defendants guilty and fine them the Manila daily journals the Account." It is satisfactory that 5.8.ment and Exchange Fluctuation formis, the fat is in the fire.'"
report of the Director of Edu- $25 each..
cation is headed in big black type, after making all those necessary
Schoola House 620,685 Kids, recommend a dividend of $18 per sbaro which in an increase of
Bank Note Trick.'
It has been reported to the police that a coolie employed on the 8.8. Kwang Sai was relieved of $304 by means of the bank note trick, about one o'clock yesterday, Two men men are alleged to have perpetrated the trick.
Food or Medicine.
Bax Lost or Stolen.
Decorations for British Naval Officers
our accounts before all our risks
'There is'nt a big enough man
in China to bold her down; even 'Teddy' could'nt do it, and he'd dare almost anything!
"Canton has borrowed
or
The Decision.
Mr. Bowley-I shall probably give notice of appeal, later, your Worship,
Mr. Irving:-Very. well, I will $2 on what we paid last year. rather is trying to borrow money want the customary foo to be
deposited. do not hrish to say much about from ue-wo Western Capitalista
"
Into this ho seems to have thrown sufficient of his literary anorgies
to justify us in regretting that he
If this is the kind of "English" to be taught the natives, we can anly say that the point is most illuminative. But wo imagine this is hardly the "English" the
A man who was hawking lizarde without exposing his license board, was lined at the the Police Court, this morning. The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock is in a fair way to becoming spokes- was hawking them as food, though It was believed that the defendant
man-in-chief for the public in the Legislative Council. Spokesman is he told the Bench he sold them perhaps not the word most descriptive of an unofficial member who as medicine. 'puts pointed and fairly numerous questions, but it will gerve. At to-morrow's meeting he is again to return to the question of-brakes Eastern has reported to the police
A passenger from the upon tracks, and this time he gets right to the heart of the matter, that a box containing survoying Are brakes on trucks tested when the trucks are loaded up, and instruments and engineering appropriations, we are able to what regulations are in force making the use of brakes compulsory books, bus either been lost or under a penalty? That is the whole point. There may be regula-of A.A. Cook, "
stolen. The box bears the namo The value of tions of the strongest and clearest regarding the provision of brakes the missing articles is slated to bo I on trollies, but except steps are taken to see that the brakes are $584.
the current year at this early and we believe that Southern TEAL MUSICAL COMEDY Filipinos desire to naquire. What used, these regulations might as well not exist. We have made that
date. It is one however which China is good" for the money.
COMPANY.
about the educational function of must always be noteworthy in the Whether she is, or is not, remains observation more than once in these colamine, and we have hopes
We learn from the "Japan Muil" | annals, of marine insurance to be seen.".
The Raymond Teal musical of a newspaper now?
The New Spelling. that it will be fully appreciated soon. But the really essential point, that Admiral Sir Alfred Winsloo, owing to the loss of the Speaking of this round-the-comedy company quite lived up The Fall Mall" comments our informant to its roputation last niglit in with some severity on Mr. H. G. as in this case, is often overlooked, in other places than Hongkong, Commander of the British Chinn "Titanic" whish appalled the world tour,
"My Friend from Anstralia," at Wells having introduced the perhaps because the average official mind is better trained to make Squadron, who was recently in whole world. From that disaster SV
"It's a great idea, because the Theatre Royal. The members Simplified Spelling into his new Japan to participate in the Im-we fortunately escaped, in spite of rules and regulations on paper than to translate them into setion porin Funeral, has been decorated the considerable acconut which there is no more liberal education of it may lack, in some degreo; book "The Star. Well it may. and make thoin operative.
with the insignia of First Order of wo write in London, but I would in the world than travel. I am a the neater points of musical The man who states that a star, Even more important are Mr. Pollock's questions regarding the the Rising Sun, and the Comm-mention that for some time past collego man-Yale-(nover mind comedy, but they make up in roes with a whist globe in frunt anders of the Minotaur, the Keat, a very close watch has been kept the year!), but I maintain that sheer fun and merriment and ov it" is as nearly as possible past gool. They cover a wide ground and ask for particulars as to how and the Monmouth with the insig- upon a section of our business the knowledge of men is best mirth-provoking situations. "My praying for. Had the offender prisoners managed to escape as wall as for information regarding nia of the Third Order of the there, from which experience has acquired by rubbing elbows with Friend from Australia" is nothing been some fourth rate modern the the general conduct of the gaol. Especially interesting in the Rising Sun.
taught us it is very hard to make all kinds and conditions of them, of a story. It draga a deal towards writer trying to capture the Chaffeurs Fined. profita. The rate at whigh the and there is no better way to do the end, but the story matters public by mere vulgar trickery, question of how many prison officers, European and Indian, have A European and a Chinese Titanic" and her sister ship it than to travel, use one's even less than the music and the dan- the offence would perhaps have left, or been dismissed from, the prison staff during each year since chaffeur were before Mr. L. A word covered in London is now and ears, and study conditions as sing and the clever dialogue.
Honours last night wore fairly wells! The man who would write beon more excusable; but H. G. 1002. Our own information, set forth in an article which appeared Irving, at the Police Court, this admittedly inadequate, and it one sees them,
We leave here on the 30th of evenly divided. Mr. Teal him Mankind in the making," and in the columns of the " Telograph" some little time ago, was to the made out against the proprietorn underwriter to be dis-this month, by the N. 'D. Lloyd Belf as " Felix" was at his best, morning, to answer summonses was due to the refusal of our
Tono-Bungay "Tong it effect that the number of resignations and dismissals was large of the Exile Garugo, on account sunded from that juiginent thats. Derflinger, but we intend to and that is all that riced be said seems that when a man's work enough to point to some considerable disaffection on the part of of two of his cars causing an obs-the Office did not share in this he seen in Macao, and Canton of him. As "Michlo Finney
Mr. Charles le Roy was clever front of present-day litera atanda admittedly in the fore wardem, and to-morrow's reply will be awaited with interest. The traction at the cornerof Cochrane calamity 1912 has up to dare before we steam.""
and finished to a degree, and more
tures, it should be his business
that when he asked, the drivers have a long way to go yet, Your
served.
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question of the hours at which the sanitary coolies go round, and Street. An Indian sergeant said progressed well; but of course, we MEDICINAL OIL STOLEN- might have been made of him into preserve the dignity of the under what supervision, strikes at an alleged grievance to which we to move away, the European consulting committee has had in A man charged by Inspector the second not. Mr. Le Roy is language in which he writes; in- had already directed attention. If the statements made to us were used abusive language towards contemplation the revision of the Dymond at the Police Court, this one of the men one wants to see stead of which, Mr. Wells is hol- fully reliable—and we had no reason to doubt them-the sanitary him. The European was fined Company's articles. In many res morning, with stealing a bottle more of. Mr. Fritz Fields made ding up a fine language to ridi. arrangements between Saturday at 11 a.m. and Monday morning or $10 and the Chinese $5. stole our existing articles are out of medicinal oil, was sent to gaol the most of a part which gave him cule. If English was a good hot anything like what they should be. At least--and the reserva- Alleged Cruelty to Chickens of late, having been framed to for three months bard labour, by fewer opportunities than he de encugh medium for Fielding.
Bergeant Adlington charged a meet conditions very different to Mr. E. A. Irving. tion may be worth noting they were not at all good prior to the man at the Police Court, this chose which exist to-day The It was stated that the defendant The ladies were excellent, and it should be capable of expressing Scott, Thackeray and Meredith, publication of the article, in these columns, already referred to. It morning, before Mr. EA: Irving, passing of the Companies Ordin-eras employed at the Government special mention must be made of all, that Mr. Wells, may have to may be possible to present replies to these questions which shall, in with inflicting unnecessary pain anca:1911/hr accentuated the Civil Hospital as head dispensary Miss Claire Davis. "As "Matilda" say. Few people, we think, will some degree, minimise whatever weaknes exists while yet offering on chickens by having them over-necessity for the rovision and the cooljo and that it was from the she was clever as the clayey be found who can tolerate even a front of seeming frankness. We do not say that this will be done, crowded in a basket. When the Company's lawyers have now the hospital that the oil wastolen. in search of work she was more the finest story in the world who though some recent replies have not erred on the side of stating too fendant did not appear, and Mr. date 1 chope to day before you
case was called, however, the de- work in hand, which at an early
than clever, because here she pressed in the spelling of Josh BILLIARDS. challonged comparison with many Billings and Artemus Word. manah; but, whether this is likely or not, no reply can disguise the Irving estreated the bail, The Belote moving the adoption of The billiard tournament at the and she came out of it with others who have played the part foot, made evident by recent events, that something is radically bondsman appealed to the Bench the report and socounts I shall the Grand Hotel, begins to-day
flying wrong and requires immediate attention. It is a matter for satisfac. to grant a remand, until he could be glad to gnawer any questions with thirty-two entrants, {';
colours, Mr.Teal annou tion therefore, that questions on this and other matters of strong find the defendant The Megin aring from them, which thare The Handicap Committee met
for alen publio interest are being asked and followed up in the Legislative rate withdraw his former de ballers many desire to put last night, and decided on aver eision and gave the man antil Council. It is a sign of quickening interest; and that is a hopeful tomorrow of find the defcr
There were, no font, and ages,
will be glad to s ndidgi and refreshing sign..
before he treated the bail.
shi'acobuild were adopted," "ill baj mend interestin
rein
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