THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1913.
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1913,
THE SCAVENGING QUESTION.
T
is
Baluchis Arrive. Forty-two men of the 126th Baluchistan Regiment arrived by the 8.8. Delta to-day.
No License.
At the Marine Court, this morn- ing, a boatman was fined $3, for fishing her that a license.
Whit Monday.
Monday next being Whit Mon
A FAMOUS JAPANESE ABTIST.
THE CHINESE LOAN.
"Threats of Repudiation are Silly."
TWO SUITS
| Solicitor in a Pecullar Position.
This morning in the Summary Court before Mr Justics Kemp, on the William Showen, trading_aa W. Shewan and Co., sued the Kwong
Interview with Mr. E Kato.
The name of E Kato is known
The National Review not only to persons in Hongkong, (Shanghai) commenta Chins and Japan, but to art-Loan aituation as follows:- critics and collectors all over the
world.
Many of our readers Many things have happened. Hon Co., claiming the sum of may recollect that, some seven The Loan Agreement has been $392.30 being the amount due years ago, Mr Kato's wonderful signed, and there is much ado and par by the defendant to little water-colour sketches of respooting it. If there was ofthe plaint for goods bargained
for and sold.". ľ citement before, there in fover Japanese life and scenery were
"Anotheraction was also brought exhibited in London, and were now. Every opponent of the Pre- spoken, of with the highest praise.sident, every "expectant" official against the same defendants by Mr. E Kato (the E is not an and their name is Legion-is Messrs Piederer and Jenkinson, piling a Pelion of vituperation on who claimed $300, being losse initial but a name) is now staying an Ossa of complaint. In a word, and damages sustained by the de- in Hongkong for the purpose of the anti-Yuan party is in a whirl fondants failing to take delivery sketching local subjects, and,
'Force Majeure."
Mr Leo D'Almada e Castro,
this morning, a member of the wind of passion. There is all the end to pay for goods purchased for /. "Telegraph staff was fortunate more reason why we should be them. enough to secure an interview all the more calm. Let us look with him. Mr. Kato produced & at this first particular happening appeared for W. Shawan and Co. Mr A. H. G. Jackson of Messrs number of sketches, all dealing the signing of the loan agree Johnson Stokes and Master for with Hongkong, which at once
ment-without passion or pre- 1 a proclaimed themselves to be judica.
Mesars PAioderer und Jonkinson, Mr. P. W. Golding for the new the work of no ordinary man. One immediately thought of We have opposed it from Mr. Golding said he was in a
Kwong Hon Co. Whistler at bis-well-most com- the start, not because China had peculiar position as the Kwong prehensible, while the daring no need for money from the out on firm no longer existed, so that yet dainty colouring of here and aide, but because attached to the he could not say he represented there, one might have been offers of the Tuplicities, there the defendants. Elis olients were Ladovici's own. Mr. Kato next have been conditions which we successors of the firm, and they showed some odd pieces, done on thought unfair. We are glad to ceme to ene bim yesterday stating board ship during his journey know that some of these that they might possibly be able.. down here; each exhibiting the have been at least modified to come to some errangement with day, the Exchange Banke will be/Pame combination of strength and But the first and most important the plaintiffs if he could get an delicacy as those painted in point we have to consider adjournment. When the new Hongkong. Then came a mis-is why the agreement was signed firm took ever the old business be Has not the Home Press done
cellaneous collection of work at all? That is a question which asked for all existing cotracts to enough mischief already in foster
Among the arrivals by the P. done in Shaugbai and Japan, should especially be asked by he sent in for re-chopping. The ing the cause of the suffragists by
many of them so rich in colour those who most object to the loan plaintiffs did not do so, and the its faithful chronicling of their end..
and so full of suggestiveness as And the answer comes in two new firm was unaware of the various orazy actions during the Cherniaveky trio, who open almost to take one's breath away. words Force majeuro.
The contracts. past few years? Apparently it to-night at the City Hall.
The abiding impression made on Government has done what the does not think so, for on the top A Chinese was knocked down the beholder by Mr Kato's best weakness of the country has com not consent to judgment. He Mr. Goldring said that he could of everything else, we find it now by a motor car in Oains Road work is one of entire reality. The palled it to do. Had the provinces would like his Lordship to adjourn ready to give them credit for prae- yesterday, but fortunately he was distances, the light, the effects of been able to send supplies, had the case. tically every disaster, small or only injured about the ankles. mountain, aky and atmosphere, as there been unanimity in the coun
Mr. Jackson opposed the ad- great, that has taken place in Britain during the last few days. He would not go to the hospital. wet, are queasons weld of sels of the newly-elected Assembly, journment. Mr. Goldring, he detail, are such as one would have had paltry domestic differences said, was not properly before the We are not saying that suffragiste In quiry to-day as to the condi- to go to the big European im- been ignored in face of over-court. His clients gave him notise did not set fire to St. Cathar-ion of Dr. Mueller who on Mon-pressionists to match.
whelming difficulties threatening of the claim as for back as Janu- ine's, Hatcham : they are doy under went an operation for
Through an interpretar Mr Kato from the outside, there might aty. fanle enough for anything;
Hasty Suspicions..
closed for the transaction public business..
Famous Musicians.
were 8.8. Delta
Fortunate Escape.
Dr. Muller's Condition.
Arrived in Tokyo.
of
but it is quité as likely, that appendicites at the Peak Hospital, gave a brief acount of himself. have been a different tale to tell. Mr. Goldring:-No, it wue
I am forty years old," he said, But what could the administra-wound up in December. and this is my first visit to tion do, threatened with menaces Mr. D'Almada :-The new firm Hongkong. I began to paint when as they were from within and from took over the old coutracts of the was still a child. On looking without, which an empty excheq old firm and therefore, they were back on the work that I did as per and no sign of immediate liable. quite a young man, I can see help from their own people? The
His Lordship You want little merit except in one resp:ct: alternative was to act as they have judgment? and that is that I evidently had done ог face the threatened
extent.
The Shanghai Indignation
Meeting.
The Astrea,
I
painter."
Mr. Jackson-I want judg ment, but I don't suppose it will latter be worth fifty cents to me.
THE CHERNIAVSKYS.
A great deal has been heard of
elicited the statement that he was the affair was a pure accident.doing well, Just throw your mind back to your own childhood, on one of Router's Tokio correspondent your naughtiest days. If, after states that Sir West Ridgeway and you had been as cheeky and ze General Sir Alfred Turner have mischievous as you dared be, and arrived in Tokyo. The former is had threatened to do what you investigating Japanese methods dared not do, the nursery chimney of forest culture.
a good grasp of light; I suppose bankruptcy. With such assets had caught fire accidentally, how
it was horn in me. I have never as Chinn has, the it would have delighted your air- The Becond class cruiser been to Europe; I studied en was as ridiculous as it would have Mr. Goldring: When the fal young heart had you been sc- Astres, Captain Sykes, Jats on tirely in Japan. I worked at the been disgraceful. There have partner instructed me, he did not ensed of the crime! The parallel the China Station was to leave Fine Art School in Tokyo, en- been States who have repudiated explain the matter fully. He is rough, but it holds to some England at the middle of April tirely under native teachers, and their obligations. China is not handed me the letter from Messrs.
for the Cape Station, where she I received my final lessons from one of theni.
Johnson, Stokes and Master, and will take the place of the cruiser Mr. Kubotn, the well-known
Government Unsupported.
instructed me to answer it. Forte, a sister ship.
Mr. D'Alraada:-It is for my D.C.L.I. Vacant Captaincy Filled. On our representative's hint-
We repeat, the loan agreement Shanghai papers report that
bas been signed because the Go. friend to show for whom he is The vacancy in the Cornwall ing that his work at times sug-vernment did not receive the sap-appearing. fifty thousand indignant Chinese Light Infantry for a captain has gested Whistler's influence, Mr. The replies given by the President to Mr. Bowley's questions, have met, in that city, to protest been filled by the advancement of Kat said:
Mr. Goldring:-I have put my port which it had a right to ex at the meeting of the Sanitary Board, were briefly discussed in our against the loan. Reckoning the Lieutenant Thomas R. Colville, Unfortunately I have never
pect. Instead of combining all position before your Lordship, I columns yesterday. But the matter deserves more through ex- entire native population of Shang-Quartermaster of the 2nd Batta-seen any of the great European their forces to meet the serious think an adjournment will assist amination than could be given to it in the course of a short note. hai sa about equal to that of lion Mounted Infantry Regiment pictures, except in reprint, and complications with which China is the defendants to come to some It will be remembered that it was decided last year "for reasons of Sheffield or Leeds, or a little in South Africa, Captain Colville even the best reprint gives one rembly has spent its time in
threatened, the newly-elected As-arrangement.
Mr. D'Almada :-I thing the economy and efficiency to carry out experimentally the acavenging under half a million, this was commissioned in "The but little ides of the work of men discussing formalities of infinite arrangment had better be made of the City and Hill District" on the expiration of the existing con- is quite a formidable number. Dukes" in July, 1904, from like Whistler. I have seen maga- littleness when compared with the after the judgment. tract. That contract expired at the end of 1912, and during the past Even if we say that a good half Sandhurst.
wine reproductions of his pictures real issues at stake. They have their cases, and judgment was four months the scavenging has been carried out by the Sanitary were merely uninterested loafers,
The plaintifs formally proved Commemoration. Stamps. and of those of Pavis de Clay- Department, The words economy and efficiency" are worth we still leave five and twenty
The Chinose Post Office, Can-annes; they impressed me enormtunities in a hundred potty ways,
frittered away. time and oppor- given in their favour. noting. Those most conversant with the matter, who judge from thousand who were there with the to informs us that all unsold ously, but one can learn nothing and have sacrificed the strength internal and not external evidence, are satisfied that there has been set purpose of demanding the rocks of Commemoration Stamps from them-except that there are that might have opposed outer an increase in efficiency. But even asanming that that is the repudiation of the Loan, the of the issue of 1912 have been painters in the West whose work dangers by wrangling over minor case, the point is not whether there has been more efficiency secured dismissal and impeachment of received by the Office from Inland is far shove that of any Japanese internal affairs. as whether all possible efficiency has been attained. He would be a President Yuan, the disobee ying establishments and the following artist. I can safely say that what occupied their minde, not with the the great progress the famous
People have bold man who would claim that it had.
of all orders coming from a series are held for sale to the ever suggestion of European style This brings us immediately to the question of economy. Last military source, and the ces public as long as the present thore may be in my water colours burning needs of the day, but young Russian Musicians. Leo, estion of remittances from the limited stock lasta:-Series No. developed itself naturally and been admirable had the country have made in their violin, piano with discussions which would have Jan and Mischel Cherniayaky year the scavenging of the city cost $58,000. The estimate for the Provinces to Poking. Such a (1) 3.5, 8, 10, 10, 20, ata.-62 eta.; unknown to myself.-Yes; _I present year is $54,099, or a saving of $4,001. The purchase of 34 meeting, does not promise well Series No. (2) 3, 5, 8, 10, 16, 20, like Hongkong immensely. Its been in a condition of profound and 'cello playing of late years. bullocks accounts for $2.425 and the conversion of 17 handcarts for for a peaceable settlement of 50 cts, 81-82 12; Series No. (3) sunrises. sunsets and mountain perity. Such men are evidently satisfaction of hearing this same. peace and abundant pros-To-night we are to have the bullock traction for $425 more; and these are items of expendi-difficulties, and, when taken side 3. 5, 8, 10, 16, 20, 50 cts: $1.2. 5 views ften remind me of Japan.ignorant of practical statesman- So perfect were they years ago ture which will not recur annually. The sotual saving, therefore, by side with the decidedly frank 89.12; All Stamps, except the 1 The light here is beautiful, and ship. They ignore palpable facts: that there seemed little room for may be set down at about 86,000. There are only 233 coolies em- statements in native papera and and 2 cent denominatione, can there is so much fine scenery that they follow an impracticable ideal. improvement; yet such must be ployed How as against 431 by the contractor, and, if the work is as with some of Dr.. Sun's recent fed before, the entire balance of
also be bought sinzty. As noti-I scarcely know where to begin." efficiently done as before, it is obvious the work of supervision is
the case, for the greatest European pronouncements, it is calculated
Mr Kato's work ie, in great more thoroughly carried out. Now the sanitary coolies are paid to make people think that they this stamp issue remaining unsold demand in Hongkong. We are
critics have declared this to be do. The statement that the signa-En brilliant are: the fascinating $108 ach annually no that the addition of fifty to the present may still be seeing the beginning on the 31st of July. 1913 will be informed by his agent, Mr Komor, ture of the loan agreement is brothers in their various lines of number (which would be equal to one hundred under the old instead of the end, of the Chineas withdrawn on that date from cir- that he has sold a hundred Kato illegal might wy regime would hardly bring the cost up to what it was last year Revolution. The Chinese people culation and destroyed.
Auswered art that many musical enthusiasts Anden fifty coolies more would taske all the difference in should congratulate their Presi
piotures here and..could sell a from many sides. It would regard them as the spirits of thousand if he lad them.be
nice problem some of the great composers.. deat upon having seoared the The Admiralty have given in- Personally Mr Kato dislikes mak-in equity to consider what Lo's violin work has a fire and Is 308,000 too much to pay for the ecavenging of such a city as signatures of the various structions for the 27-koot desing mere sketches, but the public is and what is not legalunder the dush about it that recalls in a Hongkong? The revenue of the Colony is roughly $8,000,000. Bankers to the Loan Agreement wogers Handy and Jauus, which is in too great a hurry for his immediate conditions in China. weird manner the untamed daring The assessment is just over $1,500,000, and of that only $64,000 is and the payment of the first were built for the Royal Navy pictures to wait for his more There is as yet only a Provisional Russian nature. Jan favor devoted to scavenging. It appears to us that the eum is quite in- instalment of. This act on the twenty years ago at the works of finished work. In addition to Government, and this derives Chopin's compositions and playa adequate for the needs of such a city as Hongkong, and we doubt part of President Yuan Shi-kai the Fairfield Shipbuilding Com having exhibited in London, Patis power, curiously enough, partly them with, the brilliancs olya whether any other city in the world, of like importance, in scavenged should be the first step towards barova and Palmer's Ship- and Vienna, he gives an annual from the deposed Manchus, and great composer himself. Misobel's so cheaply in proportion to its revenue. The public are crying out peace and property; not rebellion. building. Company. Jarrow-on-show at Mr. Komor's Gallery in partly from the Nanking agree-cello playing in marvelled as by Tyne, respectively, to be sold out Yokohama. His work is to be ment. There is no Constitution gestest musicians of the day. To for greater efficienoy, and it can hardly be doubted that the public:
of the Royal Navy as unfit for seen at the Japanese Court and as yet. Those who arguo illega- hear artists of suoli morit and would be willing to pay a little more to secure this end. The cost would not be so grant as to be burdensome or even appreciably
further services, The Handy and in almost every house of any lity, therefore, would have no renown is an unusual treat, and Janus have been employed for standing in Japan; felt. Everyone is willing to afford the now system every The now C. P. R. liner. Empress some years past in the Far East,
little difficulty in proving their one that should and will opportunity before oriticising it too harshly but we are bound to of Enssis is due here to-morrow at having been under the command exhibition at his establishment in of the loan had all done their duty music lovers of this town. Their Mr. Komor proposes to hold on thesis. If the native opponents he eagerly seized upon by the Bay that we are not too hopeful for the future when we find the noon on her maiden voyage. She recently of Lient Commander Des Voeux Road, in about a fort there might have been time and lost South African tour Liss President remarking that the city cannot be made so clean or to has a large complement of pass-F. G. Bickendon and Lieut-Com- night'a time, of work recently done opportunity for other arrange-eclipsed. all records of Musical full of regulations that Chinese will not live in it. No man ever engars, including the Hon. Mr. mander Edye
aw w standard deliberately aimed at without an inferior result George E. Foster, Canadian Min- Whethom respectively, and on colourist. A small sum (which a matter of fact the arrangement ceived phenomenal patronage, K Bodom by the great Japanese water ments. They did not. And as Stara. Thoir, conceria have re being attained. The President's point is clear enough, but the Sani- inter of Trade and Commerce; and April 1 were paid off at Hongkong will be paid over to local charities) come to is entirely in secord with They achieved the greatest re- tasy Department need not fear on exodus of Chinese provided always Baron Lady Nunburnholme, to- to be prepared for sale, The will be charged for admission, the arrangement sanctioned by cord in the history of South they trist them, properly and considerately. What it bag to aim at gether with meantime la providing a city well and expeditously seavenged in daughter, the Hon. Charles J. placed on the China Station by an opportunity of seeing end Talk of illegality is, therefore, cember 3
son and Handy and Janus, have been re- and our readers will then have the Council in December last. Altica at Johannesburg on De. Which europeans can live with every comfort. After all, the owners Wilson and the Hon. Cecilis Miro destroyers of the River" parchesing some of the baputi waste of breath, and threats of They open to-night at the City of the Colony should have a little consideration.
WilsonXAN
tal little works of art.
repudation are even more silly Hell: Booking in at Robinson'■.
efficiency.
Distinguished Visitors.
their
H.M.S Handy and Janus
A Nice Problem.
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