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BONGKONG, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1912.
THE MARCONI CONTRACT.
DAY BY DAY.
A bot tomper, requires cool
treatment..
V.R.C.
Left for Manila,
Insufficient Accomodation.
Public Library.
Fatal Immersion.
THE BOYCOTT."
Denials by Hongkong Chinese
and Japanese,
ally tinted.
Are we to read the boycott! story by the light of the above? a well-known Chinese financier informs the Telegraph" that
FERRIS HARTMAN COMPANY.
- Last Night's Performance of **The Campus, "
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SANITARY BOARD.
The Pakfulum Catchment Area Agata.
The fortnightly meeting of the Sanitary Board was held this after noon at the offices of the Board,
lows.
NOTES AND
COMMENTS,
E. E. and Volunteering.
how to bear arms in defence of
their country if, and when, the call comes. Actively he takes his 23 Oct. 1012. own share in the work-rather I am directed to acknowledge more than the ordinary share, we
His Excellenoy's strong interest in volunteering was again made. The Hongkong correspondent The annual meeting of the of the Tokyo," Asahi" Łas wired To Britishore, unfamiliar as
manifest by his attendanto with Victoria Recreation Club takes his paper to the effect that they usually are with the condi-
the Volunteer Reserve us Castle Mr. R.O. Hutchison presiding, Pook on Sunday. It is gool to find place to-morrow evening. Chinese merchants in Singapore, tions of life at an American uni-
A letter was received from the that the Governor does moro than Fell off a Platform, Hongkong, and Canton are re- A man 34 years of age was ported to be organising a boy-versity, such a play as Mr. Walter government, relative to permite merely preach the need for young accidentally injured at the Green colt of Japaneso goods. The mode Leon's "The Campus" has for obtaining building material men (and men who are not so very Island cement works Hok Un, by vement, he says, began in special attractions and when and turf from the Fokiulum young, for that matter) learning. falling off a platform whilst he Singapore among the leading presented, as it was last night at Catchment Ares. It was as fol- was working.
Chinese residents, and is spread the Theatre Royal, with essential Colonial Secretary's Office ing rapidly. He adds, according Among the passengers who left to the Japan Chronicle care and taste, it becomes even by the s.8. Coblenz for Manila The Chinese Press in Hongkong fascinating were Brigadier Cloneral Foreling; a strongly anti-Japanese, and The first and third acts take the receipt of your letter SB.O.should judge and his example is Mr. HP Winslow, manager of placards are posted about the city place on the edge of the college. No. 6793/12 of the 25th Septem-bound to have its effect. The the British section of the Kow-porting the public to boyocit campus, outside the gymnasium, ber forwarding a copy of resolu- value of volunteering, in a Colony hou-Canton Railway and Mr. Japan. One snol placard quotes and the second in college aption adopted as a meeting of the like Hongkong, alike to the Ca-i
and, H. Percy Smith.
into each Sanitary Board held on 24th Sep-lony and the individual, we have the statement that the Man-artments;
act, numerous peculiar, fea tember on the subject of permits pointed out before now; and it Street Fighting,
churians had applied to the Japan- Before Mr. E. Aleving, at the
in for obtaining building materials seems certain that that value is to Lures of 'varsity life ese Clovernment for annexation,
America Bre Police Court, this morning, two and declares that the Japanese
inoidentally and turf from the Pokfulam be more generally appreciated by menable to bear arms, as the re men wore charged with street have incited certain people in packed. The comedy has little Catchment area.
2. At the present time theresult of His Excellency's untiring fighting at West Point. The face Manchuria to this act, and that it pretence to any definite story or of one man showed signs of severe is only a part of Japan's ambitious plot, but itsucceeds-worthily and are only six permite in oxistence efforts. punishment. They were each schieme for proclaiming a protec-deservedly by virtue of the briak for the area in question. Four of Gunpowder Plot. bound over in sums of $50 to keep torate over Manchuria and par- repartee of the various artistes, these, will shortly be no longer We wonder how many people the exceedingly catchy songe and required, and the remaining two in Hongkong remember that to- the peace for six months. -
titioning Mongolia."
For the guidance of our readers choruses, the graceful dances, and are in the hands of the Military day is "Guy Fawkes Day"? A Chinese was fined $25, at we may remind them that; at the the general contagious jollity of Authorities.
Like many another old English the Police Court, this morning time of the attempted assassina-it all. People are forced to laugh, 3. Every possible care is taken custom, the celebration of the for not providing adequate kit- chen accommodation at houses tion of Sir Henry May, reports whether they will or no. No one before the issse of, & permit to fifth of November is falling into The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will numbered 18 and 20 Heclamation from Hongkong reached certain can be stiff and proper in presence ascertain whether any objections dosuctude at home, for ting sto Japanese papers to the effect that of the light-hearted philandering exist, and His Excellency the when the anniversary of the sup Stroet. He was also ordered to El. E. defended himself with his uf Bobby Short (Mr. Walter de Governor does not consider that posed plot to blow up Parliament make the required accommodation
was the occasion of much festive or to sea that the first and second stick and that his assailant sub- Leon) and Nelly Perkins (Miss any useful purpose would be
"Muggins" Davies), and any served by referring applications diversion by the populace.. sequently committed suicide in
Originally the burning of Guy floors wore let to two persons only. his call. From this: it would house must rock to Mr. Roscos to the Sanitary Board.
Farkos in effigy was a coromony Following is the Heturn of appear that Hongkong "news" Arbuckle's impersonation of the Dr. Fitzwilliams minuted:
"Fat" Tellman. Miss Minta Durfee, done all that is possible in the The daily issue ià delivered-free when the address is accessible to visitors to the City Hall Library in the Japanese press is occasion- burly, jovial, and withal love-sick The board seems now to have much ia vogue, especially among.
messengor. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered at and Museum for the week-oading
to the too, the girl whose charms have matter and the responsibility of the lower classes, hut n vadays Moreover, on referring their residences without any extra charge. On copies sent by the 3rd- November.
Library Museum: Japan Chronicle" for July 6, we penetrated the adipose-laden heart any epidemic disease from this it is confined chiefly to school- not so popular as in days gone by. post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage.
find the "Asahi," reporting that of the fat hero, was unfailingly source must now be shouldered boys, and oven with the n it is Non-Chinese 484 172
by the Government and authors Long years ago the burning of The postage on the weekly issue to any part of the world is $1.00
The Governor struck the would-gracóful and captivating. Chinese 235 3,750
It was, perhaps, matter for of this refusal to stop a dangerous "a good guy was a scene never be assassin with his fist....... , per quarter,
to be forgotten by those who The "Asahi" correspondent was some regret that so fine an artiste practice. Totol 719 3,922
Mr. W. L. Carter-I agree witnessed it, and old people recall one of the witnesses of the excit-na Miss Josie Hart should have
It is Playing Fan-tan.
molestly confined herself to quite with De Fitzwilliams.
upwards of two hundred bartloads At the Police Court, this morning scene." !:
minor part, though even into obvious that the all "possible ut fuel being used to make and ing, before Mr. E. A. Irving, a man was charged with playing
this she contrived to throw an care" taken in issuing these per- feed the great bonfire in Lincoln's fan-tau in Des Voeux Road rester
amazing amount of cleverness. mits has not proved sufficient in fnn Fields, and more than thirty "guys being burnt upon gib- Mr. Ferris Hart uan, as the col the past. day morning. Defendant was
Mr. F. B. L. Bowley-Section. said to be playing with six others, there is no truth in the story; and lage janitor and one-time Gor- One of the gamblers broke away
a prominent Hongkong Japanese man university professor, had by 21 of the Public Health andata between eight o'clock at from the ollicar. Dafend int ways the same thing. Don't no means chosen the leading Buildings Ordinance authorises night and midnight.
Speaking of the Gunpowiler the mits: make fined $5 or in lefault furios you think wo Chinese merchants rolo; but only a master in his the P.W.D. to grant these por- Myth or Fact?
in view of the importance days.
would be the first to bear of such profession could a thing, if it were true?" asked part at once so lifelike and so of protecting the Pokfulam water Plot, by the way, did such plot A unknown Chinese male aged the first, reasonably enough; laughable; only a real artist supply no permit should be grant over exist at all? So much of the 25 was engaged a rowing boat at while the Japanese gentleman, which title no one who has seened without the consent of the English "history" that was ag- the Un On Wharf, yesterday, and after drawing attention to them would deny to Mr. Hartman) Governor-in-Council sa the Gov-copied in our fathers' daya, and twenty years ago, has had to be when be get about fifty yards from fact that many of the statements could, moreover, lave so subtly ernment refuses to refer "ap-even as recently as five and the shore, jumped into the water. made in the Tokyo Press, as touggested the underlying note of plications to the Board.
An application for a licence to re-written, that one may be par He was rescued by some boat-Chinese matters, must be received pathos which belongs to the part
of a man of Bismark's" type." sell pork, fish, and vegetables atloned for feeling sceptical. Im- An extra word of praise should 132 Wanchai Road ground Boor partial readers of our country's Au interesting statement regarding the contract between the men and taken to the hospital with some amount of reserve,
story during the past three or four Marconi Company and the Government for the erection of a world where he died shortly after being hinted that the rumour may have
admitted.'
had its origin in the trilling dishe added on behalf of Miss was considered.
Muggine" Davies. Her buoy- Mr. Chan Kai-ming minuted:-centuries, are now fairly well pate between Chinese and Japan-
plots wide chain of wireless stations; in which Hoogkong is interested, Steamer Reports,
The 8.8. Kamchow, from Saigon, ese which took place in Swatow aaney, both mental and physical, I am opposed to the policy of satisfied that half the appears in a Home paper. There have been hints of a scandal, of
is remarkble; she cannot walk licensing premises attached to recorded by some historians were jobbery and corruption on the part of several Cabinet Minister. reports moderate to fresh N.N.E few days since.
to N.E. winds and moderate sea; Various tales were afont locally on to the stage or speak half a dwellings, for the sale of pork, no plots at all, but purely the There has been a recent great rise in shares, and because Mr. cloudy and fine clear weather to as to this dispute, the facts of dozen words without oharming fish and vegetables, as they are invention of informere in the pay Godfrey Isaacs, the managing director of the the Marconi Company, latitude of Paracels, thence to which were simply these: Some everyone in the house, sad liable to contamination, especially of those who had some political may safely say that in time of plague, to say nothing xe to grind. During the time in store of the difficulty of supervision. of Elizabeth and the Starts, the is a brother of Sir Rufus Isaacs, the Attorney-General, it has been port-light E.N.E to E: winds, Japanose sailors, under the in-one
smooth sea and fine weather-finence of drink, engaged rick- big future is openly suggested that Sir Rufus Isaacs, Mr. Herbert Samuel (the The ss. Yuensang, from Manila, shows in Swator. The coolies, unt for this highly gifted young If it is considered desirable to discovery of so-called conspiracies the was a very profitable occupation; bave such stalls for actress. Postmaster-Gonoral), and other ministers let the deal go through reports fine weather throughout being able to understand what was
inhabitants and hundreds-nay thousands of Tonight the Company produces convenience because, with their early information, they all made quite a deal of Thess. Hein Kong, from Shang-said to them as to direction, stop: The Toymaker, which Mr. in
the locality, I would of innocent persona went to tor- a while, anxious hai, reports fine weather through-ped after money out of the rise in shares::
to make sure that the fares would Hartman and Miss Josie Hart suggest that a temporary wooden ture or to death through being "denounced by scoundrels of The facts are more pleasing. The contract with the Govorn-
Sampari Capsized.
be said. A crowd collected, the regard as one of their special shed with a few stalle be put up
likely that the gunpowder treason meat was not concluded until March of this year, whereas the rise A boatwoman reported that at police intervened, and immediate-successes; and if the choruses, the on Orown land quite apart from the Titus Gates staip. Is is not in shares commenced upon a judgment being given in the Company's two o'clock on Monday afternoon ly the word went round the town staging and the acting are only any block of dwelling houses.
Mr. F. B. L. Bowley-These may, in the near future, find a favour in respect of a patent action. That was in February, 1911 whilst four passengers were that the Japanese sailors had half.os good as last night, there The riso continued until November, 1911, when the Company issued hoarding her hoat at Blake Piar attacked the coolies. The im-should yet again be a crowded premises appear to be half a mile place on the same shelf with the by road from the nearest market. Reverend Titus Oates' memorable 250,000 now shares at El premium. The shares then stood at her sampon capsized and threw mediale consequence was
think the application should be discovery P £2-6-0. Early in February they reached to more than double her and her two children along attempt at boycotting Japanore
granted under section 77 at a rent that figure; and if, following the acceptance by the Government of with the four passengers into the goods, which however only lasted
equal to the rent in the nearest the Company's tender, on March 7, they rose rapidly to over £7, that water. Two seamen of the Post till the Chief of Police at Canton Was no more thin usually happens where a successful company Office launch, assisted in picking wired to the Swatow authorities Directors and their Liabilities The Hon. Mr. W. Chathan:-It appears to secure a monopoly. At anyrate, it seems clear enough them out of the water, apparently that the whole incident was to be now that not a single member of the Government was ever interested none the worse. for their experigcored. in the Company to the extent of a ponoy piece.
So much for the boycott, whether It is good to have it made manifest that the hands of British Cabinet Minisiors are still clean, but we look in vain for any steps This marning in the Summary
London. The returns for 1912 being taken against the accusers of Mr. Samool and others. "At Court the cnas was to have been
show that 1,001 Moderates have the right time and in the right way," measures are likely to be heard in which the Yung Sai
heen elected against 361 Progress taken, we read. The right time is at the start. Scandal must be Lung of Queen's Road Central
sives, these figures contrasting gripped, if it is effectively to be gripped, before it grows and sued the Sai 7ik Chan of 68 Con-The following marriages have in to-morrow's and Thursday's ALLEGED STABBING. with 1,007 Moderates and 355 spreads to considerable dimensions, and members of the Cabinet, naught Road West to recover the been arranged and the usual issuos. This short serice is com-
Progrosaives in 1900. The change above all people, ought promptly to take measures to dissipate the sum of $65.68 being the balance notices posted at the oflices of the plementary to, and provides a
The three Chinese who stand in party ropresentation, therefore, Gitting conclusion for, the articles first whiffs of malodorous gossip. Aside from the duty to them due for goods sold and delivered. Registrar Generali selves, it is a duty they owe to the public to prove that their bands Mr. Gardiner who appeared for MP W. O. D. Turner, of the on this and the kindred subject charged with assaulting and is almost nil, and little, if any, are clean.
the defendant said that he under Hongkong and Shanghai Banking of Shareholders which appeared stabbing another Oliness in the significance attaches to the slight "Already," we road, two or three months have been lost be stood that the matter was settled. Corporation, to Miss Annie Mary weekly in our columus between market at Wanchai, were again increase in the Progressive vote.
The case was struck out.
Canningham, of Edinburgh.
July 29, 1011, and June 8 last remanded at the Police Court, The strange point is that the cause the Government felt it undesirable even to appear to bej
Mr. Richard Maxwell Saker of The three articles now appearing this morning. London Borough elections have in rushing this contract through." Was ever anol a preposterous Seamen's Institute Concert. 4 Peking Road to Mary Gibson will be found of strong interest It was explained that the com- recent years gone contrary to the attitude before adopted by a responsible Government? For strategic
Yesterday evening a very fine Bilby of Singapore
and essential value, more par- plainant was taken to the hospital prevailing Parliamentary com purposes these stations ought to have been erected before now, yet concert, arranged by Mrs. H. E. Mr. Charles David Janett Bell, ticularly to those who followed and the doctor had given a certi- plexion of the Metropolis, inas ficate stating that he would not much as ever since the time that the Government has delayed the ratification of the contract, ap Pollock, was given at the Seamen's Hongkong Hotel; to Miss Daisy the earlier series.
be able to attend the Court until the Liberals came into the parently because things had been said concerning certain Ministers Institute and was well attended. Rosamund Agnes Poohin, who is
the 10th: and it did not care to lend colour to them. That is the only reason- The artiste of the evening was tavelling to Hongkong on the able assumption. We are not forgetful of the fact that, some three undoubtedly Mr. Jones whose Mantua, connecting with the weeks ago, Mr. Samuel brought forward a motion that a Select to encores were thoroughly des Devanha at Colombo. Committee be appointed to enquire into the circumstances attending erved. The Hon Mr. Claud the conclusion of the agreement, that Mr. Lloyd George and Bir Severn, and Mr. Boswick also did! Full pay for Chinese Officials. Butas Isaacs vehemently repudiated insinuations of jobbery, and well, while the Hon Mr. H. E. Anative paper says that owing that Mr. Samuel promised the fullest investigation. This display Pollock, K. O, gave two excellent to the reduction of the official of courage came late in the day and after quite unnecessary delay recitations. Mr. Sandercook at salaries passed by the National Owing to the guns and Howitzers ing, in an had been caused by the Government's weakness its unwillingness, the piano was in great form,Mr Council, the members of the not being available for drill 24, Main Street East, occupied the Councils. However this at least to take a strong stand where it was needed. The business Worcester in an Irish jig fairly Cabinet are thinking seriously of purposes this week the drills for by a bamboo awning maker be accounted for, the is too important to be dragged into party politics and to be delayed emplared her audience and My giving the officials in each minis- the remainder of the weak will The fire was caused by because Ministers have been talked about, and have not courage Worcester in a couple of com'e try their full pay. It is now re- engaga to come forward with the truth at the earliest possible songs had his and once con- ported that in all probability tha
tinually in laughter,
moment.
out.
bience.
Settled.
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London Borough Elections.
If the re
results of the Borough Elections in London, which take place triennally, are to be taken
is proposed to construct a market ne an index to the political temper for the sale of vegetables near of the Metropolis, the latest On page 10 of this 1880s will No. 2 Police Station, as soon as figures demonstrate that Conser be found the first of three articles the depot on the site of bed No vatism is still a powerful force in dealing with Directors and their 3 Police Station is completed Liabilities, Duties, and Powere." Possibly provision for the sale of The remaining articles will appear pork eto could also be made there.
VOLUNTEERS.
Corps Orders issued by Major D. Macdonald state
Artillery battery-parades:
OUTBREAK OF FIRE..
sscendency in the House of Commons, the Moderates have steadily gone forward in the Borough Councile electione, A small fire took place at Shan-whereas previous to the General kiwan at 7.20 on Monday morn Election of 1906 the Progressiv
in an outhouse behind No had a commanding ma
be as follow: Tuesday 5.30 p.mplaying with matohes any Drill: Wednesday 6:30 ignited some palm leav Company Drill; Friday 6.80 fire was extinguished p.m. Semaphore Signalling
child figures cannot be of
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a parly view point 18,
"regarded na importan