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Mr. Clementi Leaves.
There is general regret in the Colony at the departure of Mr.. Cecil Clementi to British Guiana, the while there is general estia fnotion that a civil servant of more than ordinary ability should
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Yingchow this morning.
27, 1913.
LEAVE.
MR AND MRS CLEMENTI vice proper of arother Colony sufficient testimony to the, deep appreciation in which your past services to the Crown have been held by His Majesty'a Government.
Many Friends Bld Them -
"Farewell.
DR SUN YAT-SEN,
Absurd Story of his Flight.
We give the following story
It is unnecessary for us to from the Shanghai China Press. T-Tay there left the Colony Mr enumerats, your distinguished | of August 23. Ceoil Clementi, Assistant Colonial services to the Government, or "Sun Yat-sen's flight from
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Sequel to a Quarrel.
Magel-
Hearty congratulations to the
A Chinese woman is alleged to Tramway Company on another most successful open-air band have attempted suicide by throw
Presentation of Address.
to insisted that his life was in im-
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pained by Mrs Clementi. and to the personal interest which there was seen dressed as a coolie Colonial Servico, he will be sent
There was quite o large you have always taken in us. We by a gentleman, who was inter back to Hongkong. Yesterday!
gathering at
Blake Pier, to cannot recall a single instance in viewed by a "Uhina Presa" re- he remarked to the junior and
farewell to Mr and which, consistently with your presentative in Shanghai yester subordinate civil servants in the
Mrs Clementi, and when the Hon. duty, you denied us your help day afternoon. Colony that he bade Hongkong
Mr. Claud Severn, the Officer when we sought it; or in which Sun Yat-sen got to Foochow goodbye, he feared forover; it is
Administering the Government, you did not give us a patient and all right, but he did not go called for obeers, three lusty ones sympathetic hearing when we straight on to Japan. First of to be hoped that his fear will not
were given, with an extra one for consulted you on any matters all he transhipped to Canton, be realised. It is not given to many men to have a tributa so
A schopthoy who residea at 56 Mrs Clementi. Mr and Mrs concerning ourselves. By your the place for which he was sup- generous paid to them ne was paid to Mr Olementi yesterday by Bridges Street fell over an hamboo Clementi siri ved at the pier in a departare we feel indeed that we posed to be making, though it the men who had worked under structure at the Nom Wo Temple motor car in the company of the will lose not only a just and sp was understood he, shunned it bim; and probably the sincerity and injured his head. He would Hon Mr Gland, Severa, Ostriving preciative Superior Officer, but a because of its sudden change over alongside the special launch, most kind and sympathetic friend. to the Government side-but how of the words then spoken will be not go to the hospital:
Mrs. Clementi was pressated ⚫ It is therefore with the deepest he got there is not quite clear. one" of his most treasured mem- The Wrecked Steamer.
regret that we now take leave of" "However, when there he went ories. Good luck to him.
The 8.8. Lyeemoon which arri- with a bouquet."
Among those present were: you. We respectfully wish you straightway to the commander of wherever he goes, for a fine and ved in port yesterday from Saigon. Colonel St, Jobu, Captain Taylor, and Mrs. Clementi happiness, a French gunboat, for whose modest gentleman and a man of reports being in communication
with the wrecked Japanese stea. Captain Connolly. Captain Chur-health and every success in your benefit he recited some passagoe brilliant parts.
mer Mataura Maru, lying on the chill, the Hon Mr. Thompson, [new sphere of work, and wherever of international law. He remind- the Hon Mr Chathum, the Hon you may in the future be called od the commander that, if a Mr Hallifax, the Hon Mr Fietsber, to serve your King and Country, political, fugitive asserted that his Mr M. Slade KO, MUD, Hongkong, 20th August, 1913, life was in danger, it was not the Melbourne, Mr Woodcock, Mr Mr. Clementi, in reply, said - privilege but the duty of any IH, proportional. Subscriptiona!
Be for a for any period less than ne month will be charged
concert at North Point last nighting herself into the Harbour GN. Orme, Mr Biden. Mr Reel, I am deeply touched by the kind-neutral who had the power to It was good to see each a number When rescued by P. C. 261, sha Mr Rees, Mr Green, Mr Carpen-ness and goodwill towards me afford him safety. San Yat-sen month.
Mr Hutobison, MrE.A. Irving which has prompted you ter, The dally intus is delivered free when the address is accessible to of people, of so many different said she had a quarrel with bar Mr. Tratman, Mr Dillon. Mr address me in terms so Hattering, mediate danger, the French offi
messanger. Peak subscriberà can have their copise delivered stofngsa, enjoying themselves our husband. She was sent to the Wright, Mr Goldsmith, Mr Nesbit I am also very sensible of the cer alone could save him at the their residences without any extra charge. On copies sent by of doors; and their readiness to hospital.
the Hon Mr. Mol Messer, Mr P.P. honour which you have done to moment and therefore he de Killed by Fall of Rice. poat an additional 81.80 per quarter is charged for postage."
do so merely bears out the "Tele
J. Wodehouse, Dr Clarke, Mr me and, through me, to mymanded a passage on the gunboat A Chinese was accidentally Perkins, a large number of milit brother cadete, for with your per to Hongkong. The postage on the weekly isime to any part of the world is $1.00
graph's" oft-reiterated contention
"The commander thereupon per quarter. Single Copice, Daily, ten cents. Weekly, twenty-five cents. (for that Hongkong is willing enough killed whilst working in a godownary and naval offers and many mission I should like to regard
this Address as a token of the took him on board and at Hang- to take its pleasures in a reason- No. 153 Connaught Road West
ladies. cash only).
cordial relations which exist kong there landed a personage A large number of the junior between the cadet officers and dressed in coolie rags, with a wide Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fixed able manner when it can find through some bags of rice falling someone ready to lead the way. on him. Another man who was period will be continued until countermanded.
Attempts at al fresco entertain injured by the fall of the rice, bas and subordinate civil servants as the junior branch of the Hong-brimmed hat and his face and
sembled in the Council Chamber kong Civil Service. It is a great limbe stained. (Payable in Advance.)
This was Sun ments on the Oricket Ground been sent to the hospital. Haul of Notes..
yesterday to present to Mr Cecil pleasure to me to have this Yat-sen. have not happened to be parti-
was walking We have been informed that Clementi an illuminated Address, cularly successful hitherto, though there is still hope; but those at the police at Yaumati have made and to bid farewell to him and opportunity of meeting you through the streets when an and of thanking you American gentleman, who is now Shaukiwan, the Botanical Gardens a large haul of brand-new Kwan Mra Clementi.
in person for your willing inShanghai, thought there seemed Mr R. H. Kotewall, First Clerk and efficient assistance. and the Catholic Cathedral com-Tung $5 notes totalling in value
No something familiar about him. Four men are in of the Magistracy, in making the one can know better than the As A few seconds thought recalled pound have all attracted large $64,800. numbers of people, and have been custody whilet enquiries are presentation on behalf of the sistant Colonial Secretary how the man to mind. He had known aignatories said:-Mr Clementi, greatly the Government depends Sun Yat-sen for many years and productive of much genuine being made.
On behalf of certain junior and on the loyal, intelligent, and in there was that about him which pleasure. The next thing we Gambling at Yaumati.
subordinate civil servants of this dustrious co-operation of the could not be disguised even by a Colony, I have the honour to ask clerical staff, and, as I look over coolie habit. you to accept an Address in which the work in which we have shared, "He overtook the fugitive and we have endeavoured to express realize more and more how spoke to him by name. Only a the great esteem and respect in much has been due to your con- few words passed, but they were which we hold you, and our deep stent and salf-effacing help. Be sufficient to prove to our infor
having to regret" at
bid lieve me, I am very grateful to mant that he was not mistaken you and Mre Clementi farewell, you. Gentlemen, after almost and he deemed it kinder not to It was the intention of some of us 14 years spent in Hongkong, dur prolong the conversation. Sun to confine the Address to only ing a period of more than usual did not remain long in Hongkong such offices as have had the interest-the first part of which and, indeed, it is surprising why honour of serving under you saw the New Territories acquired he ever went there. The earliest But when the doonment was and brought under the British boat to Japan had him booked as We have before commented on the wonderful recuperative
printed, and was being sent rule, while the last years have a passenger and he boarded her round for signatures, some officers witnessed the effort of China to carrying nothing more than a who did not come within this advance on entirely novel lines small week-end valire." powers of the Chinese trader and we touch on the matter again
category desired to join. The re- you will easily understand the [The story is a good one in its because the trade retures of Hankow, for 1912 display figures that are very near to being marvellous. Hankow, it will be remembered,
sult is that the Address is largely great regret with which to-morrow way and reflects soras credit on was the heart of the first revolution. Around it raged the beaviest Service pensioners are concerned
signed, and signed by officers of all I shall bid good-bys-as I fear the inventive abilities of the part of the native city was in ruins. So great was the desolation/even monthly, payments would attention of the police, the flames will be glad to hear that one man I have bad my official training, and on the "guilelesmen of the of the when was the greater the American gentleman interviewha were subdued before damage became all the way from the New whose every hill and barbour have newspaper man who believed his add to the work of the Pay yond $60 was done. The fire Territories in order to add his delightful memories for me, yaza. Dr. Sun, as we all know, and so gloomy the outlook that the Commissioner of Customs, Departments, and that the sums writing at the end of March last year, remarked that it was difficult due were too small to do a man any was caused through coffee roast signature to the document; and where I leave so many friends went ashore at Focchow after
ing.
another, although on sick leave, and where I met and married the leaving Shanghai and, from there, Bathing at North Point. called at my office yesterday for lady who is now my wife. She proceeded to Japan via Formosa, to say anything of the future. It is hard," he wrote, "to prophesy good unless they were allowed to mount up for three months;.
The band of the 25th Punjabie the same purpose. This hearty and I will always look back with never coming near either Canton when Hankow will recover-an old, experienced Chinese merchant all of which is, of course, absurd. were again in attendance at North and spontaneous tribute shows a wistful sense of loss to our first or Hongkong. The American holds not sooner than 30 years; the writer, with, eight years ex-Wo wonder if the authorities are Point last night, when another how bighly and widely you are home in this island and we shall gentleman must have been think- perience of its growth under great difficulties, expects that the third aware that the quarterly pay day
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1913.
CHINA'S TRADE REVIVAL.
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would like to see in a similar Two Chinese were fined attempt, with the Praya, opposite feach, at the Police Court, this the Queen's statue, as the scene morning, for gambling at New of action and, following that, a Market, Yaumati. Inspector Ger. few open air concerts at Kowloon rard said the Chinese gathered Starting from such, small begin groups, and sent out watchers to ninge, Hongkong may gradually look for the police. cesso to deserve the title of the: City of Gloom.
Quarterly Pensions.
We reported yesterday, in our General News column, that a London coroner had had the good sense to protest publicly against the system of paying army and navy pensioners quarterly instead of weekly. The argument where
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Cigar Store Broken Into. We are informed that Mr H. V. Parr, the manager of the Hong- kong Cigar Company, 18 Queen's Road Central, had his premisies broken into last night, and that cigare and cigarettes to the value of $100 were stolen.
Fire Outbreak.
Shortly after midnight this morning, a fire broke out at the rear of Messrs Ruttonjes and Sons
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Ex-Tutuh Chan
year of a settled Government will see its trade greater than ever." is, in hundreds if not thousands pleasant evening was spent on entered by the junior branch carry your good wishes with us sa ing about
the beach by bathors, and others of the servics. In presenting our surest help and encourage-Kwing Ming-bat oven he did
bangers-on
EX-VICEROY SHUM.
the other hand, he looked "quite the gentleman."-Ed.] CHARGE OF KIDNAPPING.
At the Police Court, the efter noon, before Mr. G. N. Orme, three Chinese were charged with kidnapping a Chinese male child, aged six years. A
Mr. Dixon, of Messrs. Wilkin- son and Grist, defended the fire defendant, Mr. Otto Kong Sing the second defendant, whilst
The case was proceeding we went to press. i,
KIANGSU'S INDEPEN-
That prompeof as to the third year seemed too optimistic at the of cases, the occasion of in "big who went solely for the music you, sir, with this small token ment in our new life in Demerara. not arrive here as a coolie: on
drunk." with the poor wretches
our respect, we do so which was up to usual good of time; as a matter of fact, it was not optimistic enough.
in receipt of these pensions; after standard that this band has not merely because we have had The actual figures of last year's trade are nearly incredible, which there is not a sixpence left. set up for itself. Last evening the honour of serving under In spite of the fact that during the first three months of the year We do not excuse such offendere, brought quite as many down to you; nor because some of us have little business of any kind was done, the figures actually exceed but we feel more ready to pity the beach as on previous occasions the privilege of knowing you those of any previous year. The Chinese did not sit down and than to condemn them, for their and the consistency with which personally. There is another and weep amidst the ruins of the city. They faced the catastrophe teraptation is great. When their the attendance has been main stronger reason. That reason An Appeal to Great Britain, stoically and set to work to make the best of a bad business. The pension is paid weekly there gross value of the trade is the largest on record. The total exceeds will be far more likelihood of tained only serves to show how lies deep in the hearts of the
popular this form of enjoyment signatories, and will le patent to Peking, Aug. 22-A Pre 155 million taois, against 134 million taels in 1911 and 152 million its going to meet the rent than has become. Quite a slight spice all who know you, I need say sidential Mandate in this morn taele in 1910. Comparing the net value of the trade, we find that to benefit the publican and
was added to the fun by the sud no more; and, with your permising's "Gazette" reviews the con- crowd of the figures are 135.03 million tools in 1912, or a gain of 17.07 toele
den failure of the light on twe sion, I beg now to read to you the duct of Teen Chun-hsuan, (Ex over 1911 and practically the same as for 1910. Putting aside 1011
occasions, this deficiency being Address.
Viceroy Shum) deplores his per as a year which saw the start of a revolution that disturbed trade, Uniform Motor Signals.
greeted with roars of laughter. Following is the text of the fidy and declares that his we find that the last nine months of 1912 were responsible for a Á movement is on foot, we no-
The Coolie's Tale.
Address:
criminality is on a par with that greater amount of trade at this port than the previous best year on tice, to standardise traffic signals A house coolie st 46, Pottinger To Cecil Clementi, Esquire, M.A., of Huang Hsing. The Tutuhenspector, Watt prosecuted. record. That has been accomplished under conditions which are in Paris by forcing vehicles not Street reported to the police at 11. Oxon., Aistant Colonial of the provinces are ordered to generally admitted to have been unsatisfactory and with the country drawn by horses to adopt motor 30 last night, that at about eight
Seoretary and Clerk of Councils seize him for punishment. under a" provisional" Government.
horns of a like type. It is pointed o'clock last night two men entered in the Colony of Hongkong. The Chinese Government has out that two-thirds of the street his house, one armed with alohop. Sir,-We, the undersigned, addressed to the British Legation In the report newly issued, the Commissioner of Customs makes accidents in the city are due to per and the other armed with a Junior and Subordinate Mem-a request that Teen Ohun-hausn one pertinent observation. The country, he remarks, could not the diversity of sounds used by piece of wood. He states that bera of the Hongkong Civil should be refused permission to have been in such a lawless and disordered state as many alleged, motorista. Every vehicle has a dif- they bound and gagged him and Service, who bave had the stay in Singapore on the ground or these figures could not be produced. There was trouble over ferent note, and owners of private that they took $20 from a box. honour and privilege of serving that his presence so near to China the disbanding of troops, to be sure, and some brigandage; but cars seem to take a pride in the They packed him underneath a under you at different periods and where so many Chiness.re: brigaudage is not a new development in China, and it was perhaps possession of horns which give bed and told him to keep quiet during your long and distingu-side in a political danger to not so much greater laat year than in some previous years. The forth bitherto unheard of sounds. They are said to have remained ished service in this Colony, China. point to be noted is that more light was shed on every event than The same evil, we might remark, in the house half an hour and beg to wish you a hearty farewell The matter is being referred over before; mora interest was taken in every occurrrence alike by is making itself apparent, on a and then to have cleared off in en on your departure from these the Home Government. native and foreigner. Allow for the general excitement which smaller scale, in Hongkong. unknown direction. At eleven shores, and to offer you our re- China Daily News." prevailed when the Republic was formed, discount the consequent Some of the motor cara carry o'olook he was rescued by an- spectful congratulations on your exaggeration and distortion, and it will be found that the ovente o borne which emit fearful and other inmate who had just return appointment to the important last year were very much like the events of previous years, bu wonderful sounds, and; instead ed to the house. There poat of Government Secretary in
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DENCE.
Another Declaration.
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A despatch has been received Shanghai-from Ho Haiming,
the rebel commander at Nanking, enclosing a notification to the Neffect that the province of Kiangsu had again declared independence.
A Piece of Brasa,
At the Police Court, this morn
The police are looking for a man ing a Chinese was fined $15, ne
reported more sensationally than before. However that may be of effecting the purpose for which was another coupant of British Guions. This promotion who is alleged to have injured a in default one month, for being fo the retorns show that, with a settled Government and a succession they a are intended, the fantastic the house, but she was in from the nasalant headship of years of peace and quiet, the Chinese merchant and trador may combinatidas of notes generally, the cookhouse. The police do not of a Department to
the Chinese seaman at 11 Amoy Lane, unlawful possession of a piece of
be trusted to institute an era of commercial and industrial prosperity, starts and confuss the pedestrian, place much reliance in the story, ghest post to the Civil Sax. the latter being in the hospital; bram, at Yozmal