THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1913.
DAY BY DAY.
Friends are sometimes more village in Wales has publicly embarrassing than enemies.
The fact, as stated in Mon- day's wire, that the rector of a
A Dramatic Parson.
THE
FINEST LONDON GIN
DISTILLED BY
burned a copy of the Welsh Disestablishment Bill, ought per-
being reminiscent of the daring
and dramatic deeds of Dr. Luther
The Malls.
THE GERMAN ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
SANITARY BOARD.
The Peak Club's Application
The usual fortnightly meeting
TAI ON PIRACY.
Further Arrests Reported to
Have Been Made,
Some Detalls of the Undertaking,
A telegram received to-day of the Sanitary Board was held. We have been informed that Sir Robert Burnett & Co. haps to give us a little thrill, as English Mail.-Duo per s.s. De-reports the sad fate of some of yesterday afternoon at the Sani- two women have been detained vanha at 6.p.m. to-day. the members of the German tary Board offices, when Mr. D. W. in Hongkong in connection with Traiman presided. There were the Tai On piracy and that a and other remarkable historical Australian Mail-Depatohed per Arctic Expedition which has been also present, Lt. Col. Younan, the mon has been arrested on the 8.6. Changsha and Yawata exploring in Spitsbergen under Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett, U.M.G. frontier in connection with the Mary, both noon to-day. Lieut. Sobroeder Stranz. The Mr. Chan Kai Ming, Dr. Fitz-affair.
The police, however, state that Canadian Mail-Due per 8.8, following particulars of the ad williams, Hon. Mr. W. Chatham,
Dr. F. Clark and the secretary they have not any further infor Empress of Japan to-morrow
venture, supplied to a Home Mr. Bowen Rowlands.
mation on the matter than was Bgo, is of American Mail. Due per as. paper some few months
On the question of the applica- communicated to the press the
other day. Empress of Japan (ex Korea).
interest now that there is definite tion for permission to erect a urinal at the Peak Club coming news of the party :-
up for re-consideration, Mr. Chan The expedition "left"Tromse, Kai Ming moved that the applica Devanhaat 11a.m.to-morrow. oà the Norwegian coast, in tion should be refused. It would the summer in the sealing be a most dangerons precedent,
OLD
GIN.
TOM
DRY GIN.
UNEQUALLED IN QUALITY,
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
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personages. Yet, somehow, it does not. On the contrary, it strikes us as exceedingly child- ish. There is a good deal too much of this cheap melodrama nowadays. Bless the man; if ho doesn't believe in Welsh Dis- establishment, it's easy enough to say so, and be done with it. Wo Siberian Mail-Closes per ss. notice, further, that the reverend! gentleman proposes to through the same performance on the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral on
for the City police are brutally unappreciative of the theatrical, and will waste no time in giving this high-souled padre an un- varnished hint to "clear out"
and not to cause an obstruction in a public thoroughfare. Poor China.
to-morrow.
Body Found. The police report that a body
Lawn Tennis League: The annual meeting of the Lawn Tennis League is to be held to-morrow evening at the H.K. 0.0. Pavilion.
Mr. Carter Leaving." Mr. W.L. Carter of the telep hone company is going home on leave via: Siberia. He will be away about 6 months.
If the report of the assassination Dinner to Mr Dickson. of General Li Yuan-liang, men-
A farewell dinner was given tioned in a special telegram to last night to Mr. W. Dickson, the "Telegraph," is correct, it Managor of the Chartered bank, becomes painfully evident that by some of the lending Chinese China is still far removed from bankers and gold-dealers of the that ora of peacefulness which Colony. has so long been awaited. The
Railway. Change.
BANDMANN OPERA COMPANY.
Princess Caprice". A Big
Success.
"Princess Caprice" is perhaps one of the prettiest musical
Violet Frampton, Mr. McGrath,
(he is particular" as to the date has been found, death being due sloop Herzog Ernst, which and if they allowed it to one they
had been chartered for the had to allow it to others,
The Hon Mr. E. A. Hewalt and hour) April 10 at 4 p.m. to natural causes..
purpose. She was a stout, well-seconded. Now we are prepared to wager that this event doesn't come off,
found ship of 80 tons, with motor The Hon Mr. Chatham said his comedies in the repertoire of the power, admirably adapted for the amendment was somewhat in the Bandmann Co.. and it certainly is the most effectively dressed. work. Her owner seems to have negative, and that was, that the The great feature of the piece is sailed as ice-master. With this application should be granted as the splendid work of Mr. Victor exception, no oneon board had any the case was somewhat of an ex- Gourist as the Prince Regent. experience of Polar work, and ceptional one. There was no other His make-up last night was ex- though the equipment in cloth-place of a similar kind anywhere cellent and his witticisms hept ing instruments appeared to be in the hill district, nor was it the house and sometimes the excellent and there was said to likely that there would be another. be at least one year's food on Dr. Fitzwilliams seconded; he stage-in roars of laughter.
Misa May Glenn filled the title was sadly did not think it was an occasion role to perfection and added to board, experience:
that would create a precedent, the reputation she has already lacking.
The expedition was to make and they could grant it without for North-East Land, the second prejudice. If the president had acquired for fine singing. Mise largest island of the Spitzbergen ever been at any of the functions and Mr. A. Frith all filled their group, which is covered with a at the Club he would see" for him- great ice-cap. It is but little ex-self. There was one not twelve parts with their usual success and helped to carry a charming piece through in a thoroughly Commencing on the 12th inst.,plored, and there the Germans hours since, and he wished the significance of the affair is that
successful manner, The Hon, Mr. Hewett said that, the reported assassination took and each succeeding Saturday would be able to do good work president had been present. place on the very day of the until farther notice, the train and gain valuable experience, opening of the first Republican booked to leave Kowloon at 2.15 Failing to get along the east on general principles, be absolute
water boing coast owing toice, they ly opposed any rounded South Cape, and turned on from the mains. An- Parliament-the day, in fact, p.m. will leave at 2 p.m.. which the United States suggest- "Nolle Prosequi" Entered. ed should murk the recognition We are informed that the Atmade north along the west coast. other point that he urged was The Hon. Mr. Chatham replied Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fixed of the "Republic by the Powers.torney General has entered a nollo A call was made at the wire- that the drains were unsuitable able style; it was the most effec-
Nor io General Li
an prosequi in the case in which less station in Green Harbour on obscure personage. As the former Messrs. Y. K. Tats and Ollia their way. Then they spoke the that they were the same as used German tourist boat Victoria for conveying sullage water from leader of the Revolutionary Army stood charged with libǝl.
Louise, and no more newa was the Peak houses. and as Vice-President of the Re-
Remanded.
received until the story of the The President-I understand public, he has figured largely in At the Police Court, this morn disaster arrived this week. The these drains are similar to others PRINCIPAL WITNESS China's history of recent times, ing, a man was remanded in bail Herzog-Ernst went into winter used on the Peak. and if it be true that he has been of $250 by Mr. Melbourne, on a quarters in Trurenberg Bay in The Hon, Mr. Chatham: murdered, we may look to see charge of being in unlawful posthe north of Spitzbergen. Ap-Exactly: further unrest in the immediate session of several automatic parently they failed to reach Eventually the president moved, hearing at the Summary Court, future may be, the beginning pistols and cartridges.
North-East Land. This summer as a further amendment, that the of yet another Revolution. It is
was a very bad one, and there application be granted, conditional on there being an adequate and was much ice about...
independent water supply.
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1918.
NEWSPAPER RESPECTABILITY,
paper of those days must needs therefore be ponderous and stodgy, and the leader-writer must not depart from the obvious and the oft-said.
Due To-day.
å sorry outlook; all due to petty Mr A. H. Hatris, Commissioner political wranglinge at a moment of Kowloon Customs, is due this when all abould unite for the com- evening from Home by the 8.5. De mon weal of the nation. Happily vanha, being accompanied by Mis there is, so far, no confirmation Harris. Mr Shelton Hooper re- of the reported assassination of
turns by the same boat. General Li.
Quaint English.
madam saheb or unele saheb and about it.
Slight Fire Outbreak.
Drunk and Incapable.
Lieutenant Stranz and several others left on sledge journey (August 16), possibly to North East Land across Hiplopen Strait, On September 9 the remainder of the ship's company, under
HARBOUR TRAGEDY.
Attempted Robbery With Fatal Consequences.
GOLF.
April. Captain's Cup.
CUP.
Captain Spicer C.T. Beath
Mr.
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Mention should also be made of the exceptionally fine finale to the second act, in which pria- cipals and choras in remark
sang
tive. number of the whole pro- Tonight, the farewell per game. formance will be "Autumn Manœuvres,"
ABSENT. Among the cases down for before Mr. Justice Kemp, this morning, was an issue in which the Tsung Hing and Co, contrac- sors of No-1, Lane-Kwai Fong, sued the Kung Yuen firm, traders, of 48 Queen's Road, Wait, to re- cover the sum of $345.98 for gooda alleged to have been sold and delivered:
Mr. F. X. D'Almada e Castro appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Otto Kong Sing for the de- fence.
ATTEMPTED ARMED ROBBERY.
they got clear of the junks one pulled out a revolver, and the other a knife, and ran the boat Bahore in a quiet spot. The women cried out "save life" and attracted the notice of some men. One of the men struck one of the 79 7 72 robbars on the head with an oar 77 2 75 and he was captured: The other 95 18 77 man got-away,
A small fire broke out at 19 Captain Ritschel, abandoned the We have before now given Wing Lee Street, yesterday, and ship, and began a retreat to the specimens of quaint English in was caused by a kerosine lamp American Coal Co.'s mining set-
An attempted robbery on board "But its reapoctability was its undoing," In these words, one this column, but the latest, from upsetting. The fire was extin-tlement in Advent Bay, a distance
Mr. D'Almada asid that his of the most highly cultured journalists that England has produced an Indian to his master, takes guished by the immates and the of about 120 miles. Their reasons a junk in the harbour, early this -the Right Hon. G. W. E. Russell-bas teen summing up a period some beating. He manages to police before much damage was for this action are not clear. morning, resulted in the owner principal witness had not appear- Provisions are said to have been of the junk being fatally wound-el, and he could nos go on with- in the history of a well-known ecclesiastical weekly at Home. In pack what follows ou a postcard: dore.
"Dear Sir 1 beg my wife
short, and most of the men in the ed. The robbers got clear away. out him. He therefore asked to be
These the modern revolt against well nigh three centuries of Puritanism, dangerly ill before begain the At the Police Court, this morn-last stages of sourvy.
The police report states that at allowed to withdraw the action require farther three o'clock this morning six with leave to bring a fresh one, it is but natural that respectability" should have become a term cholera and now to much fevor ing, before Mr. Hazeland, Duncan statements
any case, men entered a cargo bost off the he paying the coste.
An order in these terms was of reproach--a synonym, in fact, for all that is dull, flat, lifeless, and any time seeing the people McCallum was charged with being explanation. In timid, narrow and, in only too many cares, hypocritical. The and any time, not seeing I think drank and incapable in Con- there was no reason to suppose Wing Lok Wharf and stabbed
so better and better and my for- naught Road West, Defendant, that Lieutenant Stranz and his the owner in the back. The un-made. respectable man of our grandfathers' daye was prim, passionless, une. She taking little food then who was a ship's officer, pleaded sledge party would not return, fortunate man died almost im-
unless scurvy had also broken out mediately. all bat soulless; he was steaped to the crown of bis head in conven- I will come taking food liitlo guilty and was fined $5.
One of the fokis called out them. It should have been among then I will come surley. Doctor's "My Eastern Dreamland."" tionality, and regarded any show of natural feeling as weak or
manition every day I hope little We have received a copy of possible at that season to shoot "save life," and the robbers, on
The police report su attempted valgar. The Press had it in its power to shake him out of all this; better and taking food then come "My Eastern Dreamland," birds for food, and there certainly seeing the other fokia, got into armed robbery from Cheung but too often the Press was tarred with the same stick, and the surley. God save Sir you kindly song popularised in Hongkong by are reindeer in that dietriot. The the boat and rowed towards the Chen. It is stated that two men Tell my best salaam Miss Cecile Stephano. The words Norwegian hunters have exter-shore. The robbers were only a engaged a village boat in which journalist who dared to speak his mind was in instant danger of for, me.
No there were two women and when being set down as either a cad or a maniac, The popular newal family." Now, we know all and melody are by Mr. James/minated them in most parts of few minutes on the boat,
Dalziel and the accompaniment Spitzbergen, but not there. When arrests have been made as yet. by Mr. A.G, Beaumont. The once, however, a ship's company A Labour Leader in India.
publishers are the "South China are stricken with soarvy, there is Mr. Ramsay Macdonald's ad-Morning Post."
little hope for them.
The retreat at that time of year dress to some Bombay students, As Britishers as a whole begun to shake of this burdensome which we published yesterday, is Rehearing Application.
would have to be on land, for the At the Police Court, this morn- yoke,
the newspapers followed suit. It may even have been the a far cay from the treasonable
An insufficiency of snow and other way about; we would like to believe that the Press set the rubbish talked by his brothering, a man was charged by Mr. fjords would not yet be frozen.
R.O.Hutchison, Superintendentof example; but, however that may be, a change came over the spirit demagogue Mr. Keir Hardie when Imports and Exports, with being growing darkness might make
Eldon Potter of journalism, and those papers that refused to accept the change There
be paid his historie visit to India, in unlawful possession of a still the work most arduous. About
Balmer Johnson is nothing in ·Mr. for distilling amshu and also with half way they crossed Wijde Bay
C.E.H. Beavis saw their circulation dwindling. Pressmen began to call a spade a Macdonald's reported speech having no licence. It was stated on the ice, and halted, at an
J.H. Little spade, and a thief a thief; and no one thought any the worse of them which any loyal Englishman that the man was believed to be Petermann till December 10. Bad weather and exhaustion accounted
A.C. Davidson for so doing, but rather the better. This happy state of things lasted would be slow to endores. In a selling the liquor. He was fined
J.D. Kinnaird till some ten or fifteen years ago, when the pendulum began to show very elever and polite mannor, $500 on the first charge and for this, but it was an unwise"
RH. Henderson, a decided tendency to swing too far in the direction of anti-that a little knowledge is a
he has told these young Indians cautioned on the second. The halt. Dr. Rudiger, the oceano
grapher, had already been aban- Captain Saxton implemente and the liquor were respectability. The advent of the halfpenny morning journal dangerous thing, and, further-forfeited and half of the fine doned, unable through frostbite Mr. F. Bevington
RE. Macdougall brought a new class of men into the professions class that mis more, has pointed out what awarded to the informer. Later to travel, with two months' pro- visions. Captain Ritschel con-
*Qualifies took pertness and cheap witticism for smartness, just as the old-ninety per cent. of us Britishers Mr. O. F. Mason, of Messrs. tinued the journey alone across
POOL. fashioned pressmen had confused heaviness and pomposity with would do well to ponder, for the wilkinson and Grist asked for a profundity; so that, all told, the modern newspaper reader may well good of our own souls: that re-hearing and his Worship fixed country to Advent Bay a most "Captain Spicer nigh for a return to the days of respectability (even using the word poses of giving short outs to per application.
phrases are often used for pur-Saturday for the hearing of the plucky feat. At Cape Thordsen Mr. F.B. MoHugh
he ate his lastcandle, crossed the
Eldon Potter ice of Ice Fjord with great Balmer Johnson. in a bad sense) as being the less offensive of two evils.
footion, but, like all short cuts,
Constable Swann showed some difficulty, and on December J.H. Little they are dubious." Mr. Mac
27 arrived at the mining oamp Captain Sarton 95. 14 81 indignation at that allegation,
· That it is possible for a fair and dignified balancs to be struck donild has got the right sow by
in Advent Bay to tell his ter- Mr. A.O. Davidson 02 11 81 and Sergeant Adlington said that between the two extremes of dulness and vulgarity, the better of the the ear this time, and we fervent
rible story. Meanwhile, [the J.D. Kinnaird 88 781 the prisoner was very drunk and Home journals have long proved, and are proving to-day. Papers ly hope that, when he goes Home,
R.H, Henderson.
01 10 81 had to be taken to the station in a Five men were brought before other men at Cape Petermann (if it be not invidious to give instances) of the stamp of the he will hammer this same valu
04 12 82 ricksha. He was carried bodily F.Bevington "Standard", the "Morning Post" and the "Daily Telegraph" or own Labourité followers.
able lesson into the ears of his Mr. C.D. Melbourne, at the Police seem to have decided to return to
R.E. Macdougall 98 12 84 up the steps to the compound and Court, this afternoon by Laspec their ship, picking up Dr. Rudiger
Winner of Pool, 43 Entries. His Worship fined the defend-
smelt honibly of drink in the opposite camp-of the "Manchester Guardian" and the
E. O'Sullivan, charged with on the way. The American en "Westminster Gazetto," have shown that it is quite possible for the Attorney General at the Straits. being concerned in an armed gineers at Advent Bay have some
ant 85, or, in default, fourteen Press to be clean and refined, yet outspoken and not wanting in The King has been pleased to robbery alleged to have been eighty miners wintering there and
an abundance of stoves, They Among the passengers who left days, and, after he was removed, humour and brightness; and thoughtful readers may well long to give directions for the appoint perpetrated at 40 Tung Street, imediately organised a relief for Home by the Kitano Maru his Worship asked Sergeant
ment of Mr. Corald Anbrey Good- on 29 Maroh, when jewellery to see the day when other papers will follow this example; when the man (Attorney-General Bar the value of $316 was stolen. It is to be hoped they are in time; and Mrs Unsworth, Mr. E O., did not believe a word the Indian expedition and left for the north. were Mr. A. Findlay Smith, Capt. Adlington to tell the constable be word" respectability,” as concerns journalism, can be taken in a bados), to be Attorney-General The case was proceeding as we but it is very doubtful,
*Bird and Mr T, Fisher,
had said. of the Straits Settlementa.
literal nonno
ARMED ROBBERY CHARGE.
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THE INDIAN'S STORY.
Not a Word of It Belloved.
Before Mr Hazeland, at the Police Court, this morning, an 94 12 82 Jadian was charged with being 90 12 84 drank and disorderly in Queen's
Road West.
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Defendant said he had a bottle 79 772 of wine and a European constable 01 14 77 asked him to share it with him, 95 18.77 and when he refused he was 84 7 77 arrested. 95.16 79