The Hongkong
January 17th, 1913, Temperature a.in. 62, p.m. 69;, Humidity...98, 83.
No. 8997
麟二十月二十年子壬
HOME RULE BILL
PASSED.
FINAL FEATURES OF HISTORIC DEBATE,
MR. REDMOND'S APPEAL TO ULSTER PEOPLE.
[Reuter's Service To The Telegraph."]
London, Jantiary 17.
In the House of Commons on
the final reading, on the fifty second day, of the Home Rule.
Features of Voting. The majority in the voting was composed of 248 Liberals, Nationalists, 10 O'Brienites and 27 Labourite. Mr. Nanetti was
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SATURDAY,
TELEGRAMS.
SARAWAK.
ALLEGED INTERFERENCE.
Reuter's
(Service to the "Telograph."]
London, January 17.
In the House of Commons Mr: J. A. Remnant, Unionist M P. for Finsbury, drew attention to a
Telegraph.
JANUARY 18, 1913.
TELEGRAMS,
WEATHER FORECAST
FAIR
Barometer 30.16
January 17th, 1912, Temperature. u.in. 53, p.m. 64; Humidity...87, 80..
六拜確
TELEGRAMS.
八十月正英港香
TELEGRAMS.
JAPAN & S. AMERICA.
LEVER BROS.
CONCESSIONS REFUSED.
LINER WRECKED.
FEARED LOSS OF LIFE.
Rentor's
COUNT NODA'S TOUR.
Reuter's
Router's
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, January 17.
'Mr. Harcourt announced in the
[Service to the "Telegraph."
London, January 17,
$86 PER AMELYNEK -
SINGLE OOFY 10 OENTS.
TELEGRAMS.
A MASS OF WRECKAGE.
STEAMER'S PLIGHT.
·Reuter'a
[Service to the "Telegraph.”]
London, January 17.
Reuter's correspondent at New. The Avala, which belongs to
at Loixoea Venezuela.
Bill, Sir J. S. Simon, Attorney tho. only Nationalist who was being an infringement of the Brothers in British Colonies were but their efforts were fruitless.
General, remarked that the Irish
demand had not weakened, but that tho enthusiasm in the Unionist rank and file har slackened. Though the Irish Unionists had fought the Bill in the most courageous and most single-mind. ad manner, outside Ulater, Irish Unionisty themselves had begun
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, January 17, The British linor Veronese,
to South York says that Count Noda, the tho. same lime as the Snowdon House of Commone on Thursday which was enroute that the Liberian Senate had re- America with 130 passengers. Secretary of the Japanese Logo Rango (the latter arrived at jected the concessions reported mostly steerage, was wrecked tion at Rio de Janeiro, has arrived Quaenatown the other day after letter from the Governor of the to have been granted to Mesars.hilst endeavouring to shelter at Caracon and is proceeding to being adrift for 50 days) and It is stated that which was bound for Boston, has Stradle Settlement to the Adminis Lever Brothers, and the rights from the storm trarer of Sarawak, regarding the which were granted or promised Attempts were made in boats and Japan is desirous of improving returned to Queenstown a mass
in view of the completion of the solling price of opium at Sarawak, to be granted to Meers. Lever steamers to assist the Veronese her relations with Latin America
in no wise similar to those they Communication has been es- Panama Canal.
tablished with the shore, but it absent, being ill with paralysis.Treaty of 1888, which secured
were seeking in Liberia,
is feared that sixteen passengers Mr. J. S. Kelly, Nationalist the Raja against British inter-
[A mossage received on Wed-
to land. It is hoped that the M.P. for Donegal, was branght forence Legarding internal affairs.nesday stated:-Messrs Lover have been drowned in attempting from the Dublin Hospital in
Mr. Harcourt said the Raja had Brothers, of Port Sunlight, have
concluded an agreement with the remainder will be saved. charge of a nurse, in order to vote.
The octogenarian Budical, Mr. shown him the letter, which was Liberian Government empower- Robert Cameron, M.P. For written by the, Governor in the ing them to acquire by succes Houghton-le-Spring, an invalid. capacity of the British Agent for sive stages a lease on 12,000 square miles of the Republic, Commons to vote,
the whole country. By the agree~ ment Messrs Lever will enjoy the following monopolies:Oil palmis, timber, use of the land in any form, and all trade with the natives.]
GIFT TO LONDON.
to feel that timea had changed. Was carried into the House of North Borneo and Sarawak, hop- amounting to over a quarter of/ NORTHERN AUSTRALIA. Michael of Russia is about to
He quoted the success of Home Rule in the case of the self- governing Colonies. · ·
American's Testimony to Its Value for Settlement.
6
NEWS FOR BUSY HE I
The bridge, dook cabins, fitt of wreckage from stem to stern. ings, and boats are all demolished. Every compartment was flooded for three days during a hurricane. The paptain was swept of the bridge and bad some ribs broken. Threo ethor officers and several men were badly injured.
The Avala is a Furness Line The Manchester Guardian " states:that the Grand Duke steamer of 3791. tons gross, and
was built in 1890.] present North London with an for electric motor ainbulance Mr. Joseph Chamberlain paired. ing the opium farmers might be
public purposes. This generous There were nino members of required to raise their prices to
offer is the outcome of a remark the Opposition absent through the prices fixed in Brunei and
by Sir William Colline at a re- illness. There were no Liberals Labuan, with the object, doubt
cont dinner iu aid of the Hamp absent and none paired.
The normal Government less, to prevent the smuggling of
Mr. William Halley, one of the steal and North London Hospital opium from Sarawak into Labuan
party. of American Inudseskora at which the Grand Duko was and Brunei, where the price had
who went to the Northern Terri-present. Sir William Collina luð, tory, considera that, once the spoken of the crying, need for a been raised in pursuince of the
Transcontinental Railway is built, swift and ready ambulance mer- policy to which his Majesty's.
that part of Australia will come vice in the populous areas which, Government was pledged by the
into its own. "With its fortile the hospital serves. The failure Opium Convention and to which
Roil, its undoubted mineral wealth, of the London County Council to
The Liberian Sonute has re The passage of the Home Rule tho Raja had also adhered. Mr.
the grand harbours and haya nas its powers for the provision Bill was Welcomed with Harcourt added "I am unable to thusiasm both inside and outside admit that a suggestion by the
along its coast, and its close prox-of public ambulances under an ected the reported concessions to the Houses of Parliament. There British Agent in the interest of Last year in the Telegraph". imity to the European markets." Act which Sir William was in- Mossrs. Lever Bros. were demonstrations in the South Irco intercourse between Sarawak writes "Xaverian." I gave some he proceeds to say in a report, strumental in passing through of Treland and Belfast but there and its neighbours would con-hints on holding the cus. Those there is no country that I know Parliament has created a coli-
stitute interferenco ". were no serious disorders.
Mr. F. E, Smith said the Government were all optimista and, if they were wrong. others paid the penalty. Mr. Asquith did well to trust the Nationaliste majority was 105.
they gave him. Walsh mainten and he gave them Ulster. Lot the Liberals ask Mr. Birrell who knew the number of arma im- with the minority ported into Ulater?
The Liberal M.T.'s, Hon. F. Agar Roharles (St. Austell) and Sir Olifford Cory (St. Ives) voton
Scenes of Enthusiasm.
The crowds in Iondon were
most good-humoured.
The crowd in the outer lobby
A Striking Calculation.
BILLIARDS.
Pose at the Table.
re
Wae
TELEGRAMS.
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
Mr. Redmond's Speech. Mr. John Redmond :-"Speak
Great enthusiasm has been ing on behalf of thoso we re- present in Ireland and outside
remarks are now borne out by of at the present time whose tion of things in North London shown at Home over the passing Ireland, we cordially accept the
"Ivor " of the "Sporting future prospects are so bright; which urgently needs attention, of the Home Rule Bill,
in these days Bill as a great measure of con-
Chronicle" who writes :- and the man who settles here specially
The Farness liuer Avala en ciliation and freedom, and as a
Good cueing depends absolute now is sure to reap the benefit of when accidents through motor rapidly inorens- final settlement of the ancient in
route to Boston has returned to ly upon your pass at the table, its great progress. The country traffic ternational quarrel. I solemnly of the House of Commons waved declare that, I and the vast umbrellas and tossed their hats ILLITERACY IN FRANCE Unless you can control the body has been much maligned, and in ing. This Grand Duke majority of Irishmen, notwithin the air and many women who
and the legs with it your striking this sub-tropical part of Australia moved by Sir William's appeal Queenstown a "mass of wreak green,
will be faulty. This means that there are immenso arena of land to make his offer, and on Satur-age:" tanding the past, will regard were present. wearing
instead of hitting your ball in capable of intense cultivation and day he accompanied Sir William
The Home Rule. Bill has been Ulaterites as brother Trishmen joined in the cheering. We invite them to join us in Despite the icy drizzle the
the middle your ene tip will land of supporting a large white Collins to inspect the City Cor M. Faure, the French, Senator, omancipating and governing the crowds outside outside sang and
and formerly Minister of Public above, below, or wide of the population. The crying question poration ambulance. The Grand read a first time in the House of cheered for Ireland.
magical centre-point. At once, is a railway to tap this central Duke Michael is a popular figure Lords, and will be read a second common country.
There wore similar scenes out, Instruction, publishes interesting Continuing, Mr. Redmond re- ferred to the millions of Trishmen sile tho. National Liberal Club; details concerning the education then, you are doing something you portion of Australia and connect in Hampsteal, where he has oc- time on the 27th inst
master of you instead of you Despite its being the dry seasoD, Kenwood House, once Lord Mans Regiment at in the Empire and in the United there were no speeches there, but a state of the 892 recruite of the do not intend to do. The hall is it with Sydney and Melbourne.cupied for many years the famous States who were eagerly awaiting, Mr. F. E. Smith addressed the 51st Infantry the passage of the Bill for B demonstrators at the Constitu-Beauvais. These are part of the governing its motion, and, with it was marvellous how green and held's sent, on the pleasant slopes complete reconciliation with tional Club, declaring that the data that are being compiled at this, the course it takes. So to fertile the country looked, owing on the way to Highgate, England.
fate of the Bill would not be de-the French. Ministry of War in play the game of billiards into night dews keeping the ground thoroughgoing fashion one must moist and invigorating the pas termined by the House of Com accordance with the law presed
is to transform yourself into a adapted for sheep-raising, the mona but on the streets of Bel-last year which provides for the tart at the beginning. The idea tares, Besides being marvellously
examination on uniform lines of
statuesque form. Keep in as tablelands make idea! country fast.
tho educational standard of all compact a pose As you can, with for horse-breeding. On leaving recruit auuually incorporated the ens running evenly under the tablelands and striking the
Ulster Must Succeed.
Prolonged and enthusiastic Unionist cheers and ironical
Revolver-Firing in Belfast.
RUBBER IN QUEENS- LAND.
The Home Rule Bill passed its third reading, in the House of Commons by a majority of 110, two Liberals voting against it.
Count Nodo, Secretary to the Japanese Legation in Brazil," is touring South America, to im- prove the latter's relations with
The demonstrators at Ballant with the army. It appears, both eyes, sighting right along lower conatal country, we come In the annual report of the Japan.
of Agriculture, are some-Department, what different. Here we have Queensland, for the year 1911-12.
Questions regarding the matter on to the object-ball.
Personally, I have no doubt boundless lovely plains, where (presented to both Houses of
against the opium regulations in elementary school which ab- that the "English" stance, with the rivera rush along between Parliament) appears the follow of punishment of transgressors solved them from the necessity the hack leg held taut to take banks of jungle and bambooing on the rubber industry- to undergo the examination. The the whole weight of the body, This is indeed the country for "The demand for this product China have again been asked in remainder were examined by the and the fennt leg bent at the knee sugar-cane and rice cultivation," is so great and the cultivation of Parliament. military Educational Committee is preferable to the almost lying!
Nationalist cheere greeted Mr. Bonar Law, who said the Govern was some revolver, firing the the 802 young soldiers of the rent had maneuvred into a cartridges were mostly blank, said regiment only 470 were in position to carry the Bill against but one man was shint in the back possession of a certificate from! the will of the people. Mr. Rel-Fand had to be taken to the hospi- mond know that the Bill was only tal. temporary. The Government know that Ulster would rebal; and Ulster would be bound to succeed because her people would be ready to give up their lives in
the cause..
Mr. Birroll, Sreretary of State for Ireland, said he did not deny that Ulatermen disliked the Bili,
OPIUM PUNISHMENTS.
QUESTIONS IN PARLIMENT.
A
with the result that 220 were fund to he of sufficient education to neal no attendance at the
down and flattened out kind .of Australian" playing position in
troduced by Genge Gray. Itismore HUGHES MUSICAL graceful and, in my own opinion
COMEDY COMPANY.
more
it so easy, provided one can afford
Belfast demonstratore burned a to wait until the tren is pro- ductive that
interest copy of Home. Rule Bill, and should have been taken in subsequently revolver-firing was its cultivation, if only as a sub- indulged in, one man being shot
stitute should it be necessary for in the back. a farmer to give up the enltivation
but he did not know how anyone T. D. Roos put questions, in the toarnt at school; 17, or 2 per ton". Smith, who is its chief-do-Opening Performance To-morrow of the sugar-cane. Though the
euld say that the present mode of government could continue in délnitely,
Amendment Rejected.
Mr. Balfour's motion rejecting the Bill was negatived, the voting being:
Against the amendment 368 For the amendment
Majority Against...
258
110
regimental school; 155, or 17 per London, January 17.
cent, no longer remembered any more effectual for all-round hii- Mr J. R: P. Nawman and Sirthing of what they had once liarda. Certainly young "Darling. Fouse of Commons, raising ngajn cent, had at one time been able monetrator now that Gray has the question of punishments for to real but could no longer do so; left us, strikes his ball with opium offences in China... They and 30, or 4 per cent, could neisplendid certainty. But I know instarend the bangings and he.ther read not write. M. Faure that he would find compensation healings and argued that the re-observes: "It will he seen from for being able to throw all his medy was worse than the disease these figures that the total num-weight on the table and bridge and was the result of preganre ber of those unable or almost arm with the greater ease of a In exercised on China in connection unable to read amounts to nearly rigid stance, gaving him quickernight. with the agreement with Great 23 per cent. Such a ratio of illi-scoring powers. Britain.
terates or semi-illiterates would
Night.
for
LOCAL
The British liner Veronese has area under crop is not yet suffic-been wrecked while endeavouring ient to arrest the attention of the to shelter in a storm at Leixões, Government statistician, it is no and it is feared 10 passengers The following is the pro- new thing here, the first plantation are drowned. ramme for the opening perform having been make by Messrs.
An alleged infringement of the ance of The Hughes Muscioal Seymour and Allan as far back Comedy Company at the Victorians 1800 on the banks of the
the awak against British interference chose Theatre to-morrow (Sunday) Mearilyn Harbour. Unluckily Treaty securing the Raja of Ser-
them, they The Grafters,
wrong variety, and their venture in internal affaire has been men- Sacrameto Ike, Lodi Mike, was destroyed by a hurricane. tioned in Parliament, be appalling if it were to hold
Bakersfield Pete, Three Tramps, In 1898 this department imported China's Affair.'
Mr. Bert La Blano, Mr. Frank plants and has also received con Sir Edward Gray said that he good of the entire youth which is
Vack and Mr. Dave Nowlin. signments on many occasions had nothing to add to Mr. Aslands annually summoned to the colours,
Smoking Concert,
Will Chestam, A grafter, Mr. since; but no material interest
The Philharmonic Society has The Ministerialists and Nation- answers on January 14. He said and would illustrate in a most whatever measures the drastic fashion the extent of the
Yesterday evening a very enjoy-Carlton Chaos; Rube Skaggs, has been taken in it, particularly
arranged to render German's allata displayed indescribable that enthusiasm when the figures of Chinese Government had taken to danger which threatens us from able smoking fconcert was given The Village Policeman, Mr. Harry in its natural country to the north the final division were announced. stop the consumption were her the non-application of the law on in the pavilion of the Civil Servier Burgess; Mrs. Grafter, A widow, of Mackay, though rabber-grow-errie England" on Saturday
compulsory education and from Club, Mr. C. Bond was in the Ming Gertrude St. Clar: Mazien, ing trees are to be found on the total lack of all means of chair, and à large attendance A.' lady golf caddy, Miss E Lethe coast from north to Bouth Feb. 8, at the Theatre Royal,
The Chinese sporting circles education between the age of thoroughly appreciated an excell-Blana; Grace, A visitor, Miss T. of Queensland. At present it Martin James. A waiter, Mr.may be estimated that there are The figures on the motion for
leaving school and that of joining ent programme.
Frank Barker; Golfers, Villagers, about 60 acres under Para rubin Hongkong are interested in the third reading wore:--
ber; but this area compared with the teame to be sent to take part For the Bill................ 367
French Education Act of 1882 Mears. Wright and Horubr. Act 1 Time, present. Outskirts the industry in New Guines is in the Olympiad at Manila, Against ............... 251
ward Grey," that it is time the
imposes upon the education inform us that receipt of a small town called Watta; but infinitesimal. There, thongh - House put a check to the the authorities the duty of forming of ruler they are in recent A6 2. Time, present. Grounds the opportunities have been but Mr. Haywood who has come to of a much more recent date, the Hongkong to acts as managing Government Majority... 110 deney to make out that the Attendance Committees composed agents advising them that the of the Hotel Watts, The Bill went. forthwith to the British Government is respons of members of the comraune: new issue of shares in the Lon- The plan will be at Victoria planters have begun to ship tojolerk to Mr. Leo D'Almada e
this morbing, House of Lorde where it was road ible, directly or indirectly for The provision, however, very don Venture Corporation must be Theatre (Phone 894) to-morrow Europe, while, Queensland bas Castro, was nimitted to practibo
first time. The second outrages opsurring in any part of often remains & dead letter.
| applied for by 10th February! sunday
The Vote:
own affair.
A Rebuke. Mr. J. King nrged an en-
the regiments."
quiry into the facts with a view
to arcertaining Chinese opinion.
"I really think," said Sir Ed
- rending will be on the 2yili (hu), (the world,"
It may be observed that the
London Ventures.
sto.
L
lagge bellad."