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The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1913.
THE LATEST SUFFRAGE THREAT.
The Mails,
weak and unknown man would Siberian Mail, Despatched per do irreparable harm to China's
8.8. Amazone at 6 p.m. yes future. From recent advices it
terday. would seem that Yuan Shih-kai
French Mail.-Despatched or a.. Atlantique at 1 pm to-day. Ameriona Mail-Despatolied per 8.8. Tonyo Maru at noon to- day.
holds the favourite position in the eyes of the best people of the country, but, side by side with this fact, it has to be observed that there is a deal of intrigue and party feeling making itself evident. So the question is whe Siberian Mail.-Despatched por 8.8. Tenyo Maru at noon to-day.
ther those who have the votes will oxercise their responsibility for
[SPECIAL ARTICLE.]
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A Charge of Murder Wiit Probably Follow.
400 ton steamer built in America THE PIRACY CAPTURE. for the Customs; and many a tight ran we had in her, chasing pirate janke with a 32 pounder. Generally the pirates gavo way
A cliargo of" receiving "Boom- A "Telegraph" representative pretty easily; when you came to had the good fortune, the other tackle them, there was no fighted very unlike the one that would. day, to meet with an old sailor in them. I stayed in the Customs bo expected to be preferred. man who has spent more than for twenty-five years and did vory against a man arrested in connec Gifty years in China, and who well for myself; whon I left Ition with a piracy so recent as s.s. Tai On, However, a obargo consented briefly to outline some was tide-surveyor and harbour that which occurred on board the of his experiences for publication, maator at Chung King on condition that his name was
Home Afier 33 Years. of receiving a gold watch the pro- "In all theng years I've only perty of Miss Dunk, was preferred withheld.
born flome once; that would be ingainat Lit Tso, alias Chan Tu, "I'm seventy-four years of age," he said. I ran away from about 85.. Bat I couldn't stand aged 80, at the Police Court, this Inspector Cameron, my home at Great Yarmouth be it. I'd not reon England for morning. fore I was thirteen, and shipped thirty-three years or more. There Yumati, had obarge of the case. to America. From 1852 to 1857 was nobody who remembered The prisquer, as he stood in the me, and scarcely anybody that dook, did not bear the appearence I was knocking about
I remembered; and the cold East of the superior Chinese reported and finally sailed for Calcutta in an American ship. I packed up and came back again was dressed in a shabby dork suit After wandering about in India to my job in the Customs. Pirate such as is worn by the art sin for a while, and seeing the tail-chasing was work that suited me class.
His Worship (Mr. Hazoland)—. Australian Mail-Closes per s.sond of the Mutiny, I sailed from better. In those days there weren't
Changsha and Yawata Maru Caloutta to Shanghai and, but many white mon who know the The charge cannot be unlawfal both 11 a.m. to-morrow. for one short interval, I've lived coast, north and south of Shang; possession; it must be larosny. hai, better than I did. We had The proper charge in a case of "What I've seen in China will a pilot on the Confucius who this sort, where the possession is never be printed, for I shall never had been a fisherman and know so recent, should be one of larceny tell ; I can't bear even every nook and cove, and from and not receiving.
to think of some of it, I've had to all the dodges of the pirates; had for remand, your Worship: him I learned a lot. He know Inspector Cameron :-It is only stand by, with my hands to my been one himself, like enough. sides, and watch men being tor- tured to death, wondering, all the while, if my turn was coming but I got tired of it and so came foot and hungry, glad to live on on to Hongkong. Here I oan rice-sweepings or anything else amuse myself after a fashion. I could pick up. L've been where 1 believe no other white man, has ever been, and seen sights that
the benefit of the nation as a whole American Mail.-Arrived per e.s. United States coasting vessels, winds nearly cut me to piezos, so to have conducted the piracy. He
Persia this morning.
English Mail.-Due per se. De-
vanba to-morrow.
For Consignees.
or merely in furtherance of their particular pet theories and prejudices. It is a notorious fact that the Southerners have no love for Tuan Shih-kai, and if they have their way, there will be a new recupant of the Presi dential chair; oven Sun Yat-sen's party, it is said, hope for Yuan's defeat, despite Dr. Sun's oft repented tributes to the man to make room for whom he vacated the Presidency. In our view, it will be an ill day for Chino if at to rent. this juncture she makes a change Gymkhana Entries. of President. Buoh a step would Entries for all events in the be taken by the outside world as Grat Gymkbano Meeting close an indication of national fickle to morrow. An advertisement And these are days when giving particulare will be found China can ill afford to lay herself on page 7. open to such a charge as that.
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Missing Letter.
Our
Consigness of cargo by the s.8. Luetzow are reminded that all goods remaining undelivered after to-morrow will be subject
Another Hongkong L.R.C.I."
in Obina' ever since.
next. I've wandered about bore |
no other white man ever saw.'
An Adventurous Young man. "For a while I stuck to the sea, as was natural, for I come of a very old sea-faring family.. Bi talk of sea-faring they don' make sailors nowadays. Fellows it a meeting of the Institution of feather-beds to lie on and carpols go to sea to-day have Engineers and Shipbuilders on to walk on. They talk about their the 11th inst at 0.15 p.m. Mom. bars and their friens are invited. boats; I'd back an old wind-im- steamships and their motor
mer, in the long run, against the whole lot;
"The Load Line" Tois is the subject of a paper to be read by Mr. J. Macdonald who
Masters Fined.
"After I retired I went and lived for five yeara nt Macao,
be will be charged with murder by and bye.
to
Defendant:Wai Chai gayo it
me to give it to his sweetheart with several tone of dollars.
His Worship:-Do you want
All that is my work, the bim in police custody? pointed to a number of very well executed oil-paintings) and my sight's quite good enough for reading. But soa-faring's my job
Iaspector Camoron :-No: His Worship:-One week's re- mand.
the only work I was ever cut out for. However; they don't make sailor men nowadaya.
LEGISLATIVE COU CIL.
APPOINTMENTS,
We are informed that His Ex- crl'eney the Governor, has bien pleased to confirm the appoint-
BANDMANN OPERA COMPANY.
Messrs. Joseph James Bryan (of Hongkong), William B We shall mention no names Hawkes (of Ipoh) and James A. and afford no clue to identity, but Mellroy (also of Ipoh), have been we must tell how one of an en-elected Fellows of the Royal quiring turn of mind wished to Colonial Instituto. put a question through columns to day. He has just been looking through some de- nominational atatistics taken from
Orders of the Day for Thursday'sment of Mr. P.P.J. Wodehouse as
Meeting.
Deputy Superintendent of Palico. the New York" Christian Adye
which was provisionally made cate" and he is "ahocked to find
A meeting of the Legislative in January last year when Captain figuring largo, among the list of
Included in the business before the Council is to be held on Thursday. Lyons retired. dissenting recta, a religion known
Mr Wodehouse came to the Playground for Children as the Drunkard Brethren." He
meeting is the following rosolu- Colony in June 1897 and has held We hear that the Government asks to be enlightened is taking into consideration the
tion by the Colonial Secretary number of posts, including those to the adherente and the tenets feasibility of providing a play the Taiping trouble broke out of Dollars four hundred and intendent of police, police mag- "I kept on with coast work till It is hereby resolved that a sum of census officer, assistant super- of this remarkable faith. And he ground for children in Kowloon, again in 1802; remarks that the land of Dr. the necessity for which the "Tolo- and
and then I thirty thousand an! sixty-eightistrate in the New Territories six others, Britishere and Cedte thirty ($430,068.30 (Tslands) among others. He was Dowie has given so many ze graph has repeatedly pointed and Americans, joined the be advanced out of funds in the acting Deputy Superintendent of. markable beliefs to the world out.
rebol army. I don't know what custody of the Government for Police in 1907, 1008, 1000, and that he is prepared to take this
Going, Home. latest faith on its face valus,
malo us do it, excapt that we the construction of the Kowloon-again in 1011. Among the passengers who The land of Dr. Dowie may still leave by the Kitano Maru to were out of a job. We'd got no Canton Railway (British Section) |
We are also informed thist M. hold up its head; and men from morrow for England are Mr. T. J.money, no food and next to no during the year 1913.
.. King has been appointed that land may perhaps enquire Fisher, Mr. R. E. O. Bird and that was no good except at short follow-
clothes. I had an old musket
The Orders of the Day are an Assistant Superintendent of what wrs the frame of mind of Mr. J. M. C. Galletly (of Messrs range. The Taipings were armed
Police. Mr. King, first came to the man who wrote in that strain Dodwell and Co, Kobo). Miss with bamboos, and a few of them An Ordinanco to declare the seling Assistant Superintendent First reading of a Bill entitled the Colony in 1004 and has been about a harmless body known as Gibbs also travele by the same bal old guns with bamboo terms and conditions applicablef Police since the end of the Dunkard Brothron. The boat.
springs; and,ll told, wo were alto Loans authorised to be raised October, 1911. "Dunkard Brethren "aro an old The New Hongkong Cable.. smart lot to stand up against by the Government of Ilongkong. There seems to be no limit to the folly of the suffragists hard-working, and law-abiding ments made by Bir Jolin Wolfe got some rare good British soldiers Hongkong Inscribed Stock.
sect, and a very respectablo.
In accordance with the state Gordon's trained troops. He'd and to provide for the creation of Human life, they announce, is no longer to be rasprotad. In the class of r cople. The absence of Barry, K.C.B., st the Inst general with him, as well as a whole mob early days of the movement, when the first handful of suffragists the letter "r"makes all the differ-meetings of the Eaa'era Telograph of irregulars; deseriers from An Ordinance to make provision First 1oading of a Bill entitled were dubbed the shrieking sisterhood" by a press which did not enco in the world, except that and Eastern Extension Australasia foreign warshipa. Bless you, we for raising a Loan of Two To a crowded house, which take them seriously on the one hend and which took them too regarding cause and effect.
jocular people may say something and China Telegraphi Companies, did no fighting; it took us all our hun Ired and fifty thousand included His Excellency the seriously by affording too much space to their doings on the other,
the directors of these two con-time to go marauding after chow, pounds Sterling for the purposes Governor and a Governmost cerns have now decided to lay aand we daren't go within range of of Railway Constraction. House party, the Ban Imanu such a threat would have afforded cause for laughter. To-day it has Children and Picture Theatres. new cable from Alen to long- the British rifles, to be accepted at ile face value. The suffragists have long since
A good deal of correspondence kong, via Colomboand Singapore,
First reading of a Bill entitled Opera Company gave a cipital The Talping Rebellion. An Ordicance to amend the performance last night of the po proved that they are not content with mere threats. They are just now as to the iuuence of the 6,000 miles.
is going on in the flome papers covering a distance of about! "But as for this Gordon. Offences against the Perzon Ordi.pular musical play, "The Sun determined to stick at nothing which, in their view, will help to cinematograph on the child of the
he WOR & olever
shine Girl." This was the first fellow Dance, 1865. force the Government into conceding their demands,
period. Much that is said goes
and a very cute solider, though Scond reading of the Bill on-time it had been staged in Hong. It is difficult for men in the Colonies, who have always held least does no good to the 20th RN, the masters of the s.l's regular fanatic and a bit of mince, 1011.
to show that the picture play at fare Commander Bail Taylor, much of aftorwards. He was a Mercantile Bank Note Issue Ordi. that the Company put it on re- At the Marine Court, to-day, he was made a good deal too titled An Ordinance to amend the kong, and it must be recorded
markably well. The scenery English women in great respect, to credit the fact that many of century bay, and may do Bailey, Le Wo, Wing Fat, and humbug as well. I don't think Second rending of the Bill ea- was most effective, the costumes them have become thua unsexed. That is the only word, which him positive harm. That, aa wa Ohi Wo, were charged by Capt. he deserved half the praise he titled An Ordiangco to amend the exceedingly pretty, while the describes them; for no woman worthy of the name would behave in mattor for the parents. It is sing fast to the s.a. Tosa Maru, ion.
have tried to show Lofore, is Uasworth, with unlawfully mit got for putting down the rebell-Vagrancy Ordinance, 1897. ample measure of dainty dances a manner so unspeakably shameless. The amazing thing is that the father's business to keep his boy or while under way in Victoria knee by a spent bullet; nobody An Ordinance to consolidate and combined to give to the perform." Why, he was hit in the Committee on the Bill ontitled and tuneful musio introduced suffragists, for the most part, are drawn from the educated classes, girl away from all places of public Harbour of this Colony, on April else would have taken any notios amend the law relating to the nee a brightness and charm the monied classes, the classes which have always been dubbed en to be in any rense demoralis. The defendante, who, were re of it, but he fussed about it, and powers of arrest of Revenue which appealed to all present, gentle. Uneducated mill girls would conduct themselves with more ing. At the same time the mans presented by Mr. R. G. Faithfull, so people thought him a regular Officers.
The play itself is rather thin, were each fined $50. - gentility even if they were enraged with certain people. They gera of picture theatres might well
bero. The Chinese troops didn't Second reading of the Bill en-ranning along quite conventional might be rude and boisterous, but at least they would respect the co-operate with the paren's by
liko him, either. IA Hung Ohang, titled An Ordinance to amond and lines, but the Company made the property of people who had done them no harm. In the case of the matinees for children only, from with a bed Mr. & Mrs. llatton poison, and, when the Chinese defined by the Chinese Passen- brought about by a series ofpital giving Saturday or Sunday The Tenyo Maru left to-day who was the dirtiest fellow I ever consolidate the Law relating to utmost of the material at hand, big number of passengers, saw, was na jealous of him as Chinese Passenger Shipa as kept up the humour of the piece, suffragiste, it is impossible to trace the connection between a grand which the dreds of burglare, mur stand on a racecourse burned down and votes for women. dors, seducers an unfaithfu Potte, Col. J. M. Trwin, Mr. and Emperor asked for a portrait of gere Act 1855, al concerning ward complications, in capital manner. The leading parts wors wiver might well be eliminated Mrs. Jaffe, Mr. G. E. Towns, Mr. Gordon, Li wouldn't send him Asistio Emigran's generally. is casy now to see that, if the Press at home had made less of There are hundreds of healthy A. W. W. Walkinshaw, as well as one. Ay: Li was an old scoundrel. Sooond reading of the Bill on in the capable hands of Miss May The extravagances of the sufragiste, when they first began their cam-storics, from Andersen's Fairr Mr. G. E. Charrad and Mr. W. "Who was in the right of titled An Ordinance to amend the Glenn, Miss Moyna Hill, Miss Violent Frampton, Miss Marjorie paign, they would probably have been less disposed to-day to secre Tales to Tom Brown's School Saunders, of Canton. Mr. Walk-it over the rebellion, I can't Tramway Or inance, 1002.
Cecil, Messra. Granby, McGrath, notoriety at any cost. But what might have ben is less to the purpose Days," that would reproduce well inshaw, who will be greatly missed say now; probably a case of
The Divining Rod.
Frith and Gouriet, and all invest- than the question of what is now to be done to curb their wanton thousand times more genuine transferrel
on the screen, and would give a in golfing circles has been six and half a dozen. Yoa seo,
to the Nagasaki the rebela had held the country That much debated instrued their interpretations with and wicked folly. It seems to us that what is wanted is to cease pleasure to youngsters than the branch of the Hongkong and all round about Naaking for thir-ment, the divining rod, seems to distinctive displays of talent. It giving suffragist prisoners preferential treatment. The ordinary mawkish Bluff too often offered Shanghai Banking Corporation, teen or fourteen years, and I stand a considerable chance of was a happy evening, much en- prisoner who is sentenced to six months or a year's imprisonment, them.
The late Dr. Saunders. reckon they thought they had a having its claime endorsed by joyed. passes, during that period, from the ken of the outside public. Ho
Deputy-Inspector-General right to it.
soientific opinion, says a Home To-night Princess Caprico "Executions in Wachang, becomes a nameless person, is forced to content himself with a
George Saunders, M.D., C. B. I tramped back to Shanghai, paper. At all events, it is now is to be produced. Wachang, April 2-Eight.exc-who had long been in feeble and then I had a bit of luck: occupying a considerable abare number, and lias rot his destination nor his doings in prison adcutions took place yesterday and health, died on March 6 at Tun- shipped on a Chinese gunboat as of the attention of various im- Kallan Mining Administration. vertised. If he starvon himself and is forcibly fed, the public several the day before. The per- bridge Wells, in his 90th year, second mate and gunner, and I portant scientific bodies abroad. The total output of the Kailan knows nothing of it and would care nothing if it were told, If sons executed were dislanded From 1860 he served with the had a good time for a bit. The The Congress of Experimental Mining Administration's mines. precisely the same attitude were adopted towards suffragist prisoners strife. Special troops have been as acting Frincipal Medical Off-gineer were English, but the competition for diviners" in amounted to 38,050.38 tons and soldiers who had been sirring up 9th Regiment in China and, chief mate and the olief en- Payohology proposes to organize for the week ending 22nd March; and nothing was board of them during the form of their imprison-appointel to police the neigcer at Hongkong, had to deal captain was Dutch, and we didn't Paris; while the German Society the Sales during the poried, to ment, they would most probably grow tired of their xidioulous bourhood of the Provincial Awith the great epidemic of fever always agree. However, I made of Agriculture in Berlin is dis. 44,082.05 tons. antics. There is no need for the Pill now before the House of sembly Hall, and they have are at that time. Not only was his a good bit of money at the game, cussing in all seriousness the Estate Assistant Drowned, Commons giving this Home Scorelary further power to deal with been given power to enter and work here repeatedly mentioned and then got out of it and start practical utility of the divining- Ponang, March 20. While militant s fragists. All that is necessary is for him to show day and night. There is, ap also drawn to it in the House of pretly well there, too, water, The Department of Stato assistant of the Kuala Sidem foarob the inas at all times, both in despatches, but attention was ed a hotel at longkew. I did rod for discovering suppliot of bathing in a river on Tuesday an little more courage than he h's done up till now or to cease to parents, no exsilement in the Commons and before Select bus
named Weldon, [grow tired of a Railways in Germany continually ostale Dodah, interfere at all and allow the prison authorities to handle fractions oity: the trouble is chiefly con- Committee on the mortality of shore life, and went and got a makes use of "waler-Anders" with sank suddenly and was drowned, prisoners who belong to the suffragist class as they would handle neated with tho disbanded troops, with the result that he was good job in the Chinese Customs, divining-rods in its railway The body was not recovered. The other pr.a.ners who have no claim to notoriety,
deceased was not a swimmer. soldiery.
awarded the C.B,
I was appointed to the Confucius, surveys,
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entertainment which 1hroat-
Left the Colony.