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"Party of Morality”.
A large mumler, of members of the Chinese Pliament hr ve been enrolled in a new party called the| Taotebbai, or Party of Moral ty, eligible for men of pure character who consider morality more im portant than money or intinence Ohao Aing-chun is a leading
member.
A Jasolent Prisoner At Carnarvonshire Assizes, Wil-
HEARTLESS WAR
OFFICE
Plight of a Widow and Five Children.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH; MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1913.
HOTEL COMFORT IN KOBE.
A correspondent writes :) The Tor Hotel in Kobeseems little koown to the intending tourist to Japan. It was only by accident that I discovered it, and I think a short description of it may inter-
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ed, Nathan Food, KOWLOON, inquest, be says, the jury decided once fascinated by the beautifal
Kowloon Marine Lot No. 48 that Hawking died from a "new surroundings: waterfalls, sbrube, liam A. B. Russ, 35, described as growth of a malignant character, trees and the quaint bridges and MEIRION, No. 9 & 10, Peak,
with Wharf. o baker, was indicted before Mr. and his death was hastened by gates, in the midst of which the
unfurnished, 6 Rooms. Road, Kowloon.
HIGHLANDS," Kimberley Justice Bankes for chapel break-
Six rooms, ing and gram at Llandud blend-poisoning contracted during hotel stands like some fairy Cheap Rental, from 1st December Tennis Court, from 1st December Pallholi. The prisoner pleaded
newly painted and colourwashed. next. paloce. his employmont."
The manager, Mr Lutz, showe loon, unfurnished.
R GATE, Austin Road, Kow- Guilty." Being asked if he had
you with pride all the modern anything to any, he replied
No. 68 Peak, Mount Kellett. accessories and comforts, the Church Mission Society Bunga "The Court can do as they like They can hang me if they like
spacious and artistic hall and low) from 1st October, 1913, 11 The Judge said he did not think in was employed in mixing large cool dining room. A band 30th May, 1914, partly furnished. Rots was mentally deficient. He paints, "the most likely, of all is in attendance at t fin and Cheap rent. had said he was going to continue occupations to lead to plumbiam," dinner and the bill of fare is one to appeal to the most fastidious breaking into churches and burn-read-poisoning.
five years. The prisoner. "Thanke, awfully, old chap."
Yet, Mr. Flle says, the War Office refu-es con pasatin to the poor widow and helpless children, For eleven years law
FOR SALE or TO LET. In April 1913 Hawkin's panel palate. ing those where there was no doctor certified him as incajab'e
(From 1st November, 1913.) The rooms, about a hundred in money in the cffertory boxes. Hef work by reason of load poison-number, are beautifully furnished; Bungalow containing drawing, No.1 Gough Hill, No. 103 Peak, mdat go to penal servitude for Before this a f etoty ir-and quite an ideal bath room, dining and smoking roome and
ing. spector had found him to be fitted in while enamel, is attached five bedrooms. Wittr ground for Buffering from plumbism, nd 10 each. The kitchen, laundry Tennis Court World's Longest Bildge. Dr. Bosworth Wright, who lad and electric light installation are It seems probable that next Examined him while he was in all perfect in their up-to-dateness. year a commencement will be apspital, with an abdominal made with the construction of the tumpur, came to the same con railway bridge between Ruzenclusion
Such a hotel is a novelty in the Far East, I may add that, eveu in
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FOR SALE. the United States, I have not seen part of Kowloon Inland Lot 1154. HARTING and ROGATE, on and the mainland, which will bo Workmen's Compensation Aut, with beauty to such an extent as flawkins worked under the hotel which combines comfort the longest in the world; excern the Portem uth and Dis. this. And the greatest surprise ing even that over the Hobanglo, with its 3,580 yards, the Bortnict Government Labour Union of all was that my bill only tame took up his vise, The Warto eight dollars a day, which Mr correspondent of the Telegraph Ofice took the bitter to the Lutz Basured me was the average staten. The cost of this great engineering work is not expected untry court, the registar of charge for all this comfort. A to amount to more than $1000, which appointo a medical re-more ideal sanatorium could not IOLET Furnished for seven 000, or less than a third of that ferce to examino Ilanking. The well be imagined; and I certainly in March 1914: No. 54. The Peak. of the Forth Bridge. When the medical referee decided that recommend everyone journeying-Apply to G. M. HARSTON bridge, which, it is said, is to ip- lawkins was not suffering from to Kobe to make for the Tor Hotel, Hongkong, 31st Oct., 1913. 1997
plumbiem." Referring to this,
fair to state that Dr. Bosworth Wright stated at the inquest that
clude a track for redestrains, decision, Mr. Falle says it is only though none for road traffic, is completed, it will substantially shorten the journeys between Berlin and Hamburg on one the band,and Stockholm and Chris- tions on the other."
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lawkins his should have expected as a result of bis treatment of
the lead to bave been oleared oat. of the system at the time of death," some four or five weeks only after the cxamination by the medical referee.
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The Cordon Bennett Cap race, wn. at Rheims Aerod- cluding the weight of the machine roo, was won for the second year the total weight in the air was to an optician of doubtful ability in succession by Frenchman, 3,800lb. (over 1 tons). The to purchase glasses upon which "But who will dare to say,"
ears the Paris Correspondent of machine was the hage Grahame-your eye-sight depends." anys Mr. F. Ile," that poor Haw the Daily Mail. The victor was White biplane known as the Personal attention is given to kins's syst m was not brought so. Prevost, steering a Deperdusein "aero-bus which is fitted with the examination and the fitting low by plumbism that he foll an monoplane with a 100-li.p. Gnome a 120-h.p. Austro-Daimler engine. of lenses that will relievo all
ay prey to a new growth of a motor. malignant character which he
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Note:
Mr and Mra Dani al II. Ferguson, who had been visitors at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel, Phila- delphin, recently sailed on the Glebeek to New Brunswick. They decided to leave behind them un til their return in six week after
He started off at a great speed. Mr. Loraine Flying Again. säiling all baggage not wanted
Mr. Robert Doraine, the actor- on the voyage and at their jour might never have suffered from The first round (64 miles) wee ney's end, but owing to a mistake had his employment and cur-vered 2min. 58 2-5sec., repre-airman, resumed flying at Hen- Mis Ferguson left behind her in roundings been of a character Benting a speed of over 126 miles don on October 2, after a lapse of one of her boxes her jewel case. tess dangerous health? an hour. As he passed the pylon, nearly two years. He made a They had with them, however, a
"The Government disregard M. Prevost "banked" to an angle good flight in a Grahame-White orate of carrier pigeons, which the evidence of its fantory in which sent a shudder through the biplane. la September 1910 Mr. пого destined a presents inspector, of the surgeon of a loyal spectators, When he finished Dorsine tried to fly across the
The Only European friends, and as there was no wire-hospital, of the panel doctor; it the total distance of 124 miles Irish Channel from Holyhead, bat less apparatus on
board the sweeps aside the verdict of a tried the distance from London to fell into the sea when only a few Optician in D'Agullar St. Telephone 1292. Glenesk Mrs Ferguson decided to professional servant, the coroner Stafford-in 59min. 45seo, the hundred yards from the Irish. liberate one of the oarrier pigeons of a great town, and of ac inde- delighted crowd surged forward coast and had to awira ashore.
As hel and surrounded him. and fasten around its neck a pondent jury, and throws a young
Mr. Hamel reached a speed of mosage asking for special care widow and the children of an old jumped to the ground M. Prevost just over 87 miles an hour in a to be taken of the box in questicntervant out into the street."
caught bis mother in his arms flight in his Morane-Saulnier The pigeon returned to the Fer-
and kissed her. One of the local monoplane. He beat the British guson farm, from whence it bal
deputies, M. Lenoir, was next record for the kilometre. (about been taken, and was discovered
rmbraced, and then it was the 1,094 yards) held by him since by the superintendent, who
tura of the airman's father. 1911. 'captured the bird and thus learn- of the mishap to his employer's jewels. He at once informed the hotel manager, and the box was as once found and placed in the hotel safe.
Miss Braddon at 76.
A few odes of Horace, a short
story by Anatole França, a clap
ter or two of D'Annunzio, and
SIR HENRY IRVING'S
MEMORY.
It may be noted that an express train takes over two hours to go from Paris to Arras, four and a half miles less than the distance flown by the nirman in an hour.
. Em lo Vedrines, brother of
Notice
Thoffectionate remembrance in which Honry Irving is held by is, faithful friends was again exemplified on the eighth anniver- last year's winner, flying a Pon- sary of his death, nt Westminster nier monoplace, was second. His Abbay. The fatal tibutes in time was 1br. 51sco. Mr. Gil Embroidered Screens
from these bart, in a Deperdusein, was third
eluded souvenirs
friends and admirers of Sir Henry 1br. 2min 55seo.
Irving who have never missed
The speeds in miles per hour in
Speed.
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little Italian or Spanish-the this manner of testifying their the previous Gordon Bennett races are an average day's reading for affectionate regard since the day are given below: Misa Braddon, the novelist, who of his death, October 13, 1905. has ja-t celebrated her seventy: There was the castcmury wreath Bixth birthday. Her first novel appeared in 1880, the year in
accompanied by the words" Rose- which Thackeray wrote "The mary for Remembrance"; some
red dalilies bore the inscription, 1010. Adventures of Philip and Dickens"The
From my garden of dear 1911. Uncommercial memories"; a beautiful wreath Traveller." Since then Misa
of rosemary, carnations, and
1012.
Braddon his produced, on an violets camo in "ever-loving re- average, one novel every eight membrance" from old months, and she is now at work with much energy and pleasure Lyceum Pittite"; a burob of red on her seventy-fifth book. Across was incoribed-
1013.
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Bleriot m.
601 Weymann, Nieuportm. 78
Vedrines, Deperdus-
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105 Provost Deperdus- ein m.
1241 Flying Party of Ten, A merry party of ten went for a fight in a biplare, in the dark and in a thunderstorm, at Hen- don in the evening of October 2, says the Daily Mail. Mr Williera Winter, the doyen They flew for only a few
"I shall remember while the cording to an intimate friend she light lives yet, has always kept abreast of current literature, and in addition to the works of the modern English wri
And in the darkness I shall not forget."
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