GENERAL NEWS.
The Late Admiral Sakural. Rear-Admiral K. Sakarai, who died in Akasaka on November 27, won considerable fame in the
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1912.
SERVICE MATTERS.
Re-appolated to the Newcastle. Engineer Commander John W. Figgins, serving with H. M. 8.
battle of the Yellow Sea, in the Newcastle, Chion Squadron, has China-Japan War of 1895. For
been reappointed to that ship on
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his sarvioss on this occasion be her recommission for further ser- ET on 2nd Floor No. 2, Ped- (FFICES TO LET.—Firai Olais, {
received the Fourth. Order of the Golden Kite.
vice in China waters. He was To Succeed General Sherman. originally appointed to the New
At the U. S. National Republi- castle in May, 1909, and has, can headquarters on October 31 there foro, been longer is that ship it was said that Vice-President than any other officer. Sherman's successor on the ticket | would undoubtedly be a man of Sir Ian Hamilton at the Straits. "progressive tendencies." The following three men were man- The inspection of the Fortress tioned as possibilities: Gov. of Singapore by Sir Ian Hamilton, Hadley, of Missouri; Senator Inspector General of Overeens
mins, of Iowa.
der Street,
One roomed Office. Apply Property foo, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. Hongkong. 22nd May, 1912. [881
central accommodation, light and airy, on First, Second and Third Floor, in new building being erected for Messr WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW & CO., LTD. Entrance from Des Vœax Road Electria Lift to all doors. Ekotrie To
'O LET FURNISHED No. 119D Light throughout.
the Peak, from middle of April The plas can be seen and all partion- til end of Octobor, 191. Four bed-lars. obtained at the Offs of Mesars, Tennis Court and Garden. | PALMER & TURNER, Alexandra Apply to ELDON FOITER, Princes" Buildings, 8rd Floor. Baildings,
(708 Floorkame, 30th Sapt, 1919.
rooms,
Borah, of Idaho, and Senator Cum- Forces, was practically concluded TO LET Tascalam, 186 Barker O LET Large furnished Room,
M. Padoux.
on the 24th ult. with the Night
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Godown situated on" water front,. East Point. For further particulars apply
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IN OCTOBER.
Road, furnished for one year Attack on one of the islands in from Let March, 1918.-Apply to Lace The "Sinm Observer," says the grey dawn. General Hamil- Orawlord & Co. We understand that M. Padoux ton then proceeded to Kuals will leave France en route for Lumpor to inspect the Malay Bangkok about this time, so that States Volunteer Rifles, and thence he will arrive next month. Soon to Penang. Of the operations, in after the return of M. Padoux, M.which many of the Garrison, and Moacbarville will say good-bye the Singapore Volunteer Corps to party Office, Jardine, Matheson & FORSALE-Box's Exobange Table to Siam where during the present the number of 225 took part, all year he has not enjoyed the best units, it is permissible to state of health. He will go to Java that, says the "Free Press," `first, in order to evade the rigoar it included
of a winter at home, and after a one of the islanda, a bit of weird
a landing month or so there will leave jungle work, culminating in an leisurely for home. He will stay attack which saw the contending in France several months before parties in close proximity, in the returning to his appointment as presence of the Officer Command-October, show a considerable Professor of Land in Egypt. 31. ing the Troops, the Inspector increase at £241,000, as com- Monoharville has been doing good General, and most of the officerspared with $189,000 in Septem- work on the Law Codes Commis of the garrison. The Volunteers sion and his loss will be great. were out all night and marched and £114,000 in August, Several
Sale of Stafford House to Sir
back to the Drill Hail just after serious casualties occurred dur- with some addition to the William Lever. ·
seven o'clock in the morning. It ing. the month, of which the premium; for the" limitation of is understood that the Inspector most expensive for underwriters the amounts effected on disburse General of the Overseas. Forces was the wreck on the coast of meats to 15 per cent. of the in- has been interested and pleased Spain of a with all that he saw in the Sing which was in tow of two tuge on of the Institute warranties in all new floating docksured value; and for the insertion
tention in buying Stafford House apore command and the defences. the voyage from the Tyne for insurances for time.
The Duke of Sutherland has sold Stafford House, through Mosers, Kaight, Frank, und Rutley, to Sir William Hesketh
Lever. Sir William Legver's in-
is, it is said, to devote it to some public or national purpose, but nothing more definite can be staled at present: Sir William has left for the Congo and will be absent some four or five months, and has left the matter in the hands of George Harley, of Liver pool, and Mr. Howard Frank, with full power to enter into the arrangements acosary to carry out his wishes. Stafford Houss occupies perhaps the best position of any private house in London, stonding as it does next to St. James's Palance and facing the Green Park,
The marine
total losses in
the value of the shipping tonnage during the present year and in the cost of repairs: The terms of the new agreement have bean discussed in some detail in these columns. Briefly, they provide for a moderate increase in the values of all vessels put forward increase in the values coupled
for insurance, or else a smaller
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Lagos. Other serious casualties were the wreck in the White. Sen The name chosen for the bat of the British steamer Southlands, tleship just launched at Devon- a vessel which had usually been
A Pretty Canadian Ideã” port not only honours the memory engaged in Argentine trade; the
A very pretty idea is carried out of the First Lord's distinguished destruction ancestor, but revives a ship-name British
by fire of the in many of the big cities of Ca which he a fine record of naval while loading oil, at Bayon-well done. That is the open lawn steamer Danholme, nada, and is most attrative when service to its credit. Iaoiden ally ne also (observes The Times") the wreck of the British steamer that would usually be described New Jersey; and the arrangement. All the large house
of the brave conduct of the captain close to where the steamer are in no way railed in. The name should serve as a reminder Katie, on the coast of Brazil, as standing in their own grounds of the earliest Marlborough, who Moorgate was lost nearly two years beautiful lawns and well-kept lost his life in battlo and received
ago: Oa consecutive days, Octo Bower-beda slope right down to of the nation by a commemoration at the expen- her 17 and 18, the British steamer the street path, giving the effect ment in Westminster Abbey, the steamer Camarago were lost in built in a well-kept path. This, monu Ralph Creyke and the Spanish of all the houses having been first voted to naval heroism by the North Sea, in consequence of writes a British Army officer's The Cigarette in Germany. Parliament. It was in the action collision, but the financial loss in wife in "Canado," is, of course, Statistics jaat published show off Toulon on February 11, 1744, each that the number of cigarettes con- between a British fleet under small. A serious casualty was a idea of privacy, but after all the .0380 was comparatively quite foreign to the Englishman's sumed in Germany has lucressed Admiral Thomas Mathews and a fire in the United States steamer little extra amount gained by more than tenfold since 1897 combined French and Spanish Berkshire, off Cape Lookout, screening one's garden off from DO THE WORK ON THE SPOT when the billion mark was pass fleet that Captain James Cornwall while bound from Savannah for the view of others is not so great
1, the figures being for 1007,
(or Cornewall) was killed. The Philadelphia with cotton. The after all, and rather reminds one 7.820,000,000; for 1908, 8,098 clion was not a glorious one for month was made eventful for of that classical ditty, "You! 000,000; for 1809, 9,508,000,000; British arms, but Cornwall carried the marine insurance markets shan't come and play in my yard." for 1910, 11,071,000,000, and for
the Marlborough into the centre by a series of representative Of course, one would not greatly 1911, 12,403,000,000. Those
of such fighting as took place, meetings held in London, at care to sit out and have toa, etc., figures include the stamped hulls used by persons who prefer to and in supporting the Namur which proposals for improving but neither do people do so much make their own cigarettes, but the flagship of Mathewe, engaged the underwriting position were in ordinary semi-detached houses who are not allowed to escape the two Spanish vessels of superior put forward and finally adopted. at home. Many Canadians have cigarette tax, and they show that strength for over three hours. The recommendations were a their hot-weather bungalows else the consumption has almost dou-when a chain shot took off both bis direct result of the increase in where, as well as their town" bled in the Inst five years. As-legs. The Real Felipe, the flagship suming twenty million adult male Isabels were both disabled, the of the Spanish Admiral, and the smokers in Germany, this gives an former losing 500 and the latter average consumption per smoker
300 officers and men killed and of 620 cigarettes a year. The
wounded, but neither the Namur great bulk of these are cigaretten of the cheapest sort, 37 per cent. nor the Marlborough were in a condition to follow up the fight, of those sold in 1911 retailing at 15 pfennig (three for a cent) or nor, from want of support from under and 35.7 per cent. falling the division under Vice-Admiral in the next grade, retailing up to Lestock, could victory be achiey- 2) pfennigs. All in all, the Ger-ed. But the part played by the man smoker, it is estimated, burns Marlborough, both under Corn- wall and under Cornwall's "no-
up 250,000,000 marke ($62,500, phew, the first lieutenant, who 000 gold) in cigarettea anuually.
succeeded, to the command and ] · The Sextuple Loan.
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