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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1913.
-DAY BY DAYêume
MANILA-CATTLE TRADE.
THE OPIUM OUTLOOK.
Do not be an imitator; be yourself.
Dopadi.Revenu
The New Year Honours,
The New Year' Honours as out- lined in our telegraphic columns hould give general satie faotion if only because of the variety of interests which the favoured personages represent. A man was fined $30 at the Hongkong is especially gratified Polise Court, this morning, for that its popular Chief Justice, Mr. being in unlawful possession of Roas Davies, has been given a opium. Knighthood. We tender our con- gratulations to the new Knight
aliko on the honour and
Lady de Sausmarez.
Officer Missing.
Stenting Wood.
Opinions of a Well. Known Dealer.
NEW YEAR CUSTOMS.
Hongkong, Merchants Awaiting Some Old English Superstitions
Developments.
Recalled.
Mr GM Look, of the firm- of The position in regard to the From the earliest agee the first Lack and Davis, Manila, when in Chinese Government and they of a new year has been a time terviewed by a representative of opium question remains practionllyfestivity and rejoicing among the "Hongkong Telegraph" to-day unchanged, nor do the merchants people, and history, hus much said that the cattle prospects for special developments until after
in Hongkong look for any further tell of the varying customs Arved at this, time of the year. Lady de Badsmarez, the wife 1913 were good, if, (he emphasiz- the sale which takes place on the is this to be wondered at, for of Sir Havilland de Saumarez, ed the "if") the Islands are 7th inst. In Canton, we are in italy natural that man should, his forthcoming wedding. It is arrived from Shanghai to-day by granted independence by the New formed, no smokers' licences have in me, special, manner die also gratifying to see that the s.s. Delta. brother of Mr. C. D. Wilkin
Demooratio Government. In that been renewed, and all the Chinese in the day, which begins ports are closed to opium, which, on the great divisions of his of the son, in the person
Great the natives would let down of course, amounts to a public life.tterly New Year's
Year's Day British Consulat Hankow, has The captain of the .s. Kum
.has celebrated with but little been similarly honoured. The Chow has reported to the police the bars" and permit of the im- rejeation of the Agreement.
that his Chief Officer named Ery-portation of cattle under proper Meanwhile the merchants in publativity, though time was knightood is well deserved, for
Shanghai and Hongkong are still when occasion was marked during the 30 odd years he has am has been missing since the restrictions, of course.
and ceremony. asking what is to become of their by groomp been in the Chinese Consular 30th ult.
The Islands are badly in need stocks. The general feeling and is a wet boognised fact, however, Servico Mr W. H. Wilkinson has
of good cattle, Mr. Lick added, ong them is that it is the business that in cotland old customs in done much solid work for hist. At the Palics Court, this morn- and he did not вее how of the Indian Government to see this rod still die very hard, country. A feature of the Honoursing, a man was sent to gaol for the Philippines were to get that the dealers are not the losers, and the day ip even yet
along without them. Cattle The Indian papers endorse this time.
merriment V distinot are very ecarce,
fostion- everybody prosent idea, urging that the opium is and and such as they have are of grown under Government super keeps it holiday, and visi inferior quality
vision, that much of it is manu- congratus and the When asked as "to the pos-factured at the Government fact of press are still sibility of Argentine cattle being ory, that it is sold at Govern- features of a year's beg
aning, brought through the Panama ment auctions and shipped on a In contrast this, the only open Canal so as to infuse fresh blood Government certificate, and that joyous, destration on New in the Islands, Mr. Look stated the proceeds of the sales and of Year's Day Gogland nowadays that he thought the distance too the right to export goes to the may be sa to be the sound of great and the heat too excessive, Indian exchequer,
morry paalom the church bells As to Uhina's action in the as they ring at the Old and ring though he admitted that importa tion might be possible if the matter, one Caloutta paper in the New cattle were carried on desk, observes frankly: "If German "The animale that we hope to subjects had been treated as the
is the recognition of the laboure month and ordered to be kept in of leading shipowners and mor- the stocks for four hours, for chants at Home and the only stealing wood at Taurasti regret, if there be one, is that Found.In, the Harbour,.. mon of art and letters have been.The dead body of a Chinese left out in the cold. But this is a female aged 18 years, has been workaday world, and whatever found in a decomposed condition qualms may be felt in this direc-in the Harbour Death was tion are more than balanced by apparently due to smallpox the other faot to which Children's Bodies Found. 170 bavo alluded, namely
industry have been honoured.
FINLAY MILLER—At Glasgow, on the 1st January, Winifred the way which the masters of Elizabeth, younger daughter of J. Finlay Miller, Hongkong..
·The object of This paper is to publish correct information, to serve the truth
and print the news without fear or favour.".
Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.
Telephone: No. 1. A.B.C., 5th edition Western Union
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1913,
THE HOME RULE QUESTION.
The University and Engineering.
In
The body of a Chinese male child about one month old has been found at Bung Hom. The body of a Chinese male child has been found near Sam Shui Po. pe- :-Dled-in-the-Street,
at
THE CHIEF JUSTICE.
Announcement of Approaching
Wedding
Quan Beliefs.. Confining melves to
Eng
our issue of yesterday The body of Chinese male Chinese ports, and specially been, then the Chinese, Govern-call come of the more quaint of got in Manila will come from British opium merchants have land, it will be of interest to re- we printed a preliminary list of apparatus presented by British aged 35 years of 1, Peel Street, from the West River districtment would speedily have been the superstition customs which formerly obtained in vari jus parts engineers to the Hongkong has been found by the the police where the breed is a good ons brought to book."
of the country, }
but which, un University. Quite evidently the at the junction of Wellington and has been well kept up by the
happily, are toy very seldom larger firme at Home are ready to Street and Stanley Street. Deceas- Chinese."
Mr. Lack want on 'to say that
observed. It usually the rule support the efforts now being ed fell and expired.
to commence New Year gele madé to introduce scientific Harbour Gollision iu the event of President-elect methods into China. The list, The master of the trading junk Wilson declining to grant Philip
brations on Near's Eve, and one of the oldest a rural indeed, is so considerable and the T., 413-1. has reported to the pine Independence the natives the have threatened to hold up all
dietriots was for poorer class apparatus so valuable, that the police that at midnighton University seems in a fair way 18th alt, when anchored at Ken-ships that attempt to import cattle. A marriage will take place in of people to caround the was known to possessing a collection of hely Town, the steamer Oa Ham
Mr. Lock is on his way to March between His Honour Sir W. neighbourhood w machines and experimental ap- collided with his craft.
Washington to try and bring Rees Davies, K.O. the Chief Jus-as the Wassail-B This was paratus quite unique in its way. Constable's Serious Injuries about an investigation of cattle tice, and Hilda Kathleen Chaplin, gaily deoked with ribbons and Professor Smith has epared no Constable Phillips who was in-alairs in Manila which, he says, second daughter of the late W. garlands and thosho carried effort to ensure that the University jurel by a Portuguese sailor is greatly needed. He alleges that E. Blennerhasrett Atthill, Esq.,it went from door door beg shall fully meet the growing de-named Pinto, has been removed conditions are extraordinary, to of Faversham, Kent, and grand ging to have at Gd. It was mand for scientific education to the hospital, the injurios to say the least, as animals are par-daughter of the late W. J. customary for the amongst the Chinese, and his hout having beeno uro mitted to enter from some ports Atthill, Esq., of Bean liston Hall, sing a ditty at each
and are debarred from others. Norfolk.
and the words of o salts which have, so far, attended Kailan Mining Administration. must be congratulated on the re- serious. mulig
With regard to the question of
common in Glouceste somewhat as follows: his labours.
The toil output of the Kailan the Independence of the Philip
Come butler, bring a bowl of Mining Administration's mines pines, Mr. Lack and that most
the best for the weak ending 14th Dec. people in the folande expected it
This remarkably versatile com-I hope your soul in raven will Fast amounted to 38,833.52 tous eventually. Mr. Wilson has bination of high-class entertainers rest;.. and the ailes during the period, shown a strong tendency to closes its season here to-night, But if you bring us a boy of the
this end, and having and if the house were packed to to 38,456.37 tons:
It is apparent from the telegrams telling of the concluding stages of the passage of the Home Rule Bill through the House of Commons that the Government does not intend to wayer in its intention to see the measure placed upon the Statute Book. Whether its hopes will be realised, however, is another matter, since it is more than possible that the Bill will be promptly thrown out by the Upper Chamber. This is & possibility which Me. Asquith and his New Year in London. colleagues must have all along foresson, and though they may have
One of yesterday's wires stated that thousands of enthusiastic in mind the existence of the Parliament Act to enable the resistance Scots assembled round St. Paul's of the Poors to be overcome, they must yet feel that very little Cathedral to see the New Year in. We wonder if they were Sote probably that of many of our It has been our experience, and roaders, that the crowd that cul- lects round St. Paul's to koop thing bat Scottish. Here and there a Scotsman may be seen, but by far the greater number-of persons there assembled horn south of the Cheviots, if not within the sound of Bow Balls.
satisfaction can be attained along these lines, inasmuch if the Lords continue their opposition to the misure, it would take two years before the Act could automatically come into force. And long before-that time the present Ministry may have been compelled to hand over the reins of office to their opponents now occupying the Hogmanay ja, as a rule, any Opposition Benches,
wero
nor common
Warde
sion
"THE COURT CARDS."
small.'
sailers to use visited, of theas, hire went
wl and
one:
a Democratis House of Repreren- its utmost limits, this would be. Then down fall butler, "Royal Colonial Institute." “Amongst a long list of newly-tatives behind him; the result nothing more than they deserve. Tall ofec'ed Fellows of the Royal seemed almost a foregone conclu-There was a better-sized audience Among the many sup
rstitions Colonial Institute are Mr. Cecil Clementi, of Hongkong, and Mr
last night thin previously, and reported from the lele au is "From a despatch that I saw the programme went with a rare one very picturesque in dracter Piry May, of Borneo, Mrs. Monday last" Mr. Lack said, ewing from start to finish. There which was formerly obsed in Ponelope Olomanti has been elect. I gather that the proposition is were no dreary waits; three many of the upland cottas. It that a Provisional government hours of solid, continuous mor was the habit for the hot wife shall be installed for eight years, riment and harming were pro-. an Associate of the Institute.
just before getting in bed. A Summary Court Record. As an idea of the enormous ad if, at the end of that time, it vided. And everybody thorough- on the last day of the Old mount of work done in the Sum-is proved successful, there will
ly revelled in the feast of good fear to spread the ashes from mary Court, we understand that a complete abandonment of the things served up for their dle the fire smoothly over the in all 2,037 writs were issued last Islands by the U.S.A. At present lectation. Above all, the qu or in the hope of finding year. This, we learn, creates an capital is being invested by tertainment, ason previous nights, next morning, the track of a pot; record. There wore over 40 yone, as all are waiting to see a
throughly "clean" in should the toes of this om cases in the list be dealt with what is going to happen,
deed, the refinement of the print point towards the door,en the today.
company is one of its chief char it was believed a member of
jöf acteristics. It would be in family would die in the cour vidions to single out any one of the year; but should the he of the seven artistes for special tion, then it was believed that
the fairy foot point in that die 0- mention where all are so clever and talented in their respective family would be augmented
ing the twelve-month. spheres. All that is necessary
Major Fitzwilliams
water and two Women were
Mrs. F. J. Hunter, me Flate obligato Major F. J. Hunter. 3-Song Nirvann .... Adame.
"Some few days ago it seemed as though a way might have been found out of the present impasso. The Unionists made a strong and dignified appeal to the Liberals to agree to a compromise by which the Bill should pass into law, save that its provisions should not apply to Protestant Ulster. In their appeal, the Unionist M. Preferred to the Liberal party's traditional regard for liberty The Labour Party. and justice and asked for most serious and earnest consideration of the
Another interesting wire is to suggestion. But their plea fell on deaf ears, and the amendment embodying the variation in the Bill was throwa oat by a majority the effect that the Labour party of close on a hundred. It is clear, in face of the Premier's speech discipline among its followers. arrived to-day by the mail
is urging the necessity for batter Ainong the passengers who M. OSSIPOFF'S CONCERT, on the amendment, and from this result of the division, that the Well it may, for, so far as one steamer India from Home was Government came to the debate in no spirit of willingness to listen
Following is the programme of to the pros and cons of the matter, but with its mind already fully may judge by the Home papers, Major Fitzwilliams, who relieves made up. To paraphrase an old saying, "Convince a Government och individual Labourite ap- Major Taylor in command of the M. Eugene Ossipoff's concert at against it's will, it's of the same opinion still. Hence Mr. Asquith's pears to be a law to himself. AA. S. C. Major Fitzwilliams, is a the City Hall to-morrow night :-
Part 1 agreement to a whole day being devoted to the discussion of the well-organised and thoroughly brother of Dr. Fitzwilliams,
well-known Hongkong 1-a. Aris Rigoletto. point turns out so have been no concession whatever; what is inore,ional programme based on a
united Labour party, with a rat-the
......Verdi. practitioner.
b. Prince Ivan'a Song it was simply making a mockery of Parliamentary debate. It was
Boat Capsized
F. Allittsen. significant, however, that both the Prime Minister and the power at genuine desire to serve the work-
A fisherman has reported to the ing man's boat. interests, might the back of him, in the person of Mr. John Redmond, went out of be a godsend to the country; but, police that at Kato Island, off Sha- 2-Berceuse de Jocelyn, Godard
Engene Oasipoff. hair way to acknowledge the seriousness and magnitude of the
hitherto the party has had to-kok, near Mire Bay, his boat, Position to the Bill, This fact, coming hard on the heels of
noither unity
with twenty passengers, was cap Inisterial darision at the Ulster movement, surely shows that the sponsors of the ill-drawn measure are experiencing qualms of senae, and the general impression sized on the 31st. ult. All the conscience as to whether after all justice is being done everybody, which it gives is that however passengers were thrown into the We are quite willing to accept the dictum, expressed in regard to good friends it members my rowned. One of the bodies was another measure by the present Chief Secretary for Ireland, that be to themselves, they are none minorities must generally suffer; it is the badge of their tribe." to the working inan. But there are also other occasions when the rights of minorities may
We have been informed thất be respected without injury to the majority, and in making the ples
Messrs G. A. Watkins and II, that Ulster be allowed to romain whore she is, Sir Edward CarsoD
Kelly, the latter of the Grand Carson struck a reasonable note. Mr. Asqaith in his reply made
Hotel, Hongkong, have purchased boast of the so-called “safeguards” whión had been inserted to
tho Boa Vista Hotel, Macao, and protect the majority, but surely the most adequate and complete To judge from a somewhat are to run it on the most up-to- safeguard to a people to whom the whole spirit of the Bill is re-bysterical circular the Chinese date lines. The catering is to be pugnant would have been their exclusion from its cordially disliked boycott of the Russo-Asiatic Bank of the finest, and visitors are 86- provisions.
showe signs of extending "to sured of the best attention and Shanghai says the "N. China comfort that the management Another point of interest in the debate was Mr. Asquith's query Daily News." The circular can produce. as to what the attitude of the Unionists would be wore the Bill alleges that Russia's military Commander Carey. submitted to the electorate. Such a question must either spring policy and diplomaoy in the East Commander G, V. W. Caroy, from the contemplation of an immediate Dissolution on the Bill, or are dependent upon the Bank for who has been appointed to the of its suburission to the popular vote the event of its being re- their success. The Bank, it says, Tamar, receiving ship, at Hong-&-Elegia.C. jected by the House of Lords In any case, the mere
ng of has been reported by the Chinese kong, for special service there, the query is proof that the Government is a little sh
the Prosa to have asked the Chinese has been, afloat since January, question of the once much-boasted mandate." We
Chamber of Commerce to come to 1890, says the "L. and 0. Ex- indeed surprised were the Unionists to so far expose the
assistance in the matter of the ress," when he was appointed a to pledge themselves to any course of action by giving a
gth. The circular concludes cadat He was promoted sub- reply to the Premier's "drawing" question. Let the G
apon all Chinese to lieutenant in 1895, lieutenant in 10-a. submit the Bill to the country the answer will be plain
the Bank by boycott 1807, and commander two years And when it is made there will, we imagine, be little
is signed Men later, and for the past 18 months worry about the attitude of the Unionists. It will be
ad how to treat has been serving aboard the Home Rule and to the party which fathers it.
Tamar as an exequtit officer
THE RUSSIAN BANK OYCOTT:
afterwards recovered."
Macao Hotel Sold.
Good and Bad Luck. to say is that each and all do
Years ago in the North of E marked credit to themselves and
Innd it was considered "unluce to the company as a whole. The
for any inmate to go out of show is certainly the very best of
house until someone from wif its kind we have ever seen outout had entered it; and the fi East.
foot across the threshold wi watched with great anxiety, f A YARN TRANSACTION. should a female or a light-haird
male be the first to enter, This morning in the Summary was supposed to bring be Mr. George Lammert. Court, before Mr. Justice Gom-luck for the whole of the yea 4-a. The dream of Love, Liszt. pertz, the Chi Cheung Co. Ltd, Various precautions were taken b. March of the Dwarfs 59 Bonham Strand, sued Tsang to prevent this misfortune: hence Grieg. Tez Hi, of 15 Hillier Street to re- many male persons with dark Mr. Emil Danenberg. cover the sum of $667.98, money hair were in the habit of going 5-1. Chanson "Le prince due from the defendont to the from house to house to take the
Igore". Borodine. plaintiff, on an account delivered new year in."
For this, in many b. Blow thou Wind on Sept. 81910... The claim show instances, they were treated with J Serjeated the purchase of 72 bales of liquor and presented with a Eugene Ossipoff. yarn for $10,875,47; to the de- small gratuity.
Part II.
fendants who sold the same: There used to be an old cas for 80,908,51. The defendant when midnight of December quantity later to the plaintiffs tom in Herefordshire that having paid $300 in cash, it was 31st, struck, rush was made alleged that the sum claimed was to the nearest spring of water, part of the difference between the and price at which the defendant enough to firet bring in the bought, and the price at which cream of the well," na it was he sold to the plaintiff.
termed, and those who first tast Mr. W. B. Hind appered for ed it, wore assured good Inck the plaintiffe and Mr. JH. Gar- through the coming year. A very diner for the defendant.... similar custom also existed in Plaintiff in the box doposed to Scotland, only the girl who was the sole of the yarn to the defend-fortunate enough to obtain the ants in 1910 and the subsequent first pail of water was supposed repurchase by his firin. Set to have more than a double chance Mr. Gardiner called no evidence of being wedded to the most and judgment was given for the desirable young man the paintiffs with costs.
parish.
6. Aria from Eug, Onegine.
Techaikowsky...
b. Romance ... Bleichmann.
Eugene Ossipoff. Aria "La Reine de
Saba"...... Gounod.
Mr. W. Gook.
Mr. S. H. Dodwell. 9-Duct Barcarolla "Tales
Bohm.
of Hoffmann...Offenbach, Mrs. F. J. Hunter and Mrs. W. Gsk. Epithalamo "Nero"
Rubinstein.
Toreador's Song
Carmen " Eugene Ossipoff
Bizet,
whoever was fortunate