THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH JANUARY 27, 1914.
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HONOKONG, TUESDAY, JANUARY, 27; 1914
BIRTH.
HARRIS On the 27th inst), at 86, The Poak, to Mr. and Mra, Roader Harris, a son.
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MAN-On January 15, 1914, at the Chartered Bank, Hankow, the wife of H.M.S. Man, of a sɔn.
DEATH.
THOMAS.-On January 22, 1914, at The Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, Thomas, only son of the late Thomas Wood, of Shanghai and England, aged 22 years.
THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW
The Malls.
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CHINESE NEW YEAR.
THE "TELEGRA PAʼS”. ACROSTIC.
CHINESE NEW YEAR,
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A USEFUL IMPRovement
Levelling the Space Opposite-
the Cricket Ground,
the
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one who was in no way interested CELESS THINGS GOLDEN SYMPA in policemen, would it not readily. TES, RADIANT FACE, GLOW Chinese adopted the
ING. AND GRATEFUL, HEARTS. attract the attention of an inter- osted party? Burglaries are not f quite so common in the Colony' as they were some time ago, but honsebreaking and the like is quito sufficiently in evidence to justify an attempt to deaden the sound of policemen's feet of nights. The hous breaker a "n anxiety is to moko no soul, and it abould be made pna-ible for tla man who is asked to capture him to creep upon him soundlessly Pubber-soled bots would the purpose admirábly and would give the policeman a chance. He annst be expected in o'pture criminals who can hear him a
01J Customs Suli Malatalzed.
hat we were tal 1.
usta recently
For some daya paal 'i nny") people who have occasion to pass [Ungatan. Calendar, and There
the vacant space opposi e weio to be no furthor calebrations
Cricket Ground and next to Mur- of the old en tom, the contrary
ray Barracks, have board Auerican, Canadian and Siberi- the fact, There has been
throbbing mechanical arrange- precisely the same oracker-firing, an Mails-Left per
|ment which has caused curiosity Mongolia at noon, to day.
Tearing and holiday making, and
as to its purpose. It is merely a the same bargaining and purchas Notes. (1) Colophon, a Greek motor roller, quito an improve- French Mul-Lafi por 9.8.
ing of new goods for the New City whose cavalry wero Boment on tho old cumbersome, Dambes at 1:30 p.m. to-day. Year. Tiuo, there ware tot skilful that they could always bernd rller which for yeare we Siberia M-Due por 8.8. NO many Rtalls
give a finishing have been along relied on t
accustomed to Tokushima Mora o morrow. Queon's ad, as in previous stroke to an affair" Hence the
latost eo steam-driven. This years, and though the thorough- word is used for the printer's development, however, des not fare
address, etc, on the last page of a thronged in book (2) The two lines are from blong to the Military authorities, 10 be the same purchasing by burne's Atalanta in Calydon," them by the Hongkong Tramway the evenings there did not appear the celebrate i chorus in Swin-we are informed, but was lent to
Europeans in one has found o On second thoughts, I am by no Company who are the actual· previous occasions. The abief moana certain that this species owners.
starce away; but that app out y is the idea of meeting
eutoness with cuteness.
Eraeli Mail-Dan par 8. Ma
gellan to-morrow. Siberian Mail.-Close per 8.8 Magellan at 5 p.m. to-morrow.
Rifle Shooting-
WAB
We have been informed that reason for that was, that the prices of transposition can correctly be The vacant apot referred to than is every 1rospect of an asked by some of the stall-bol ter's termed hynullage. Perhaps some has been a parade and recreation inte egimental rifle shooting which the goods, ou'd have word(4) Marshal Neyle but time and constant uso have were higher than. *those at reader will give me the right ground for the men of the Service, competition taking place about the end of next month.
beon purchased at other times brave des braves was shot in of the year as the shops. The Paris in 1815. It was said that not improved it. Arrangements Lard Sales.
taioment were well patronised, spared; but the Duke refused to. the Chinese hotels and places of enter-interfered, he might have been improvement of the land, and of the Duke of Wellington had were mile recently for the work of adjusting and hundreds of people journoy-(5) "In heaven yeleped Euph-t was rat in the capable ha de ad both by steamer and rail to rosyne" Milton's L'Allegro, lines of the Engineers. It was with different parts of the country. | 12-13, (6.) The two knells a view to carrying out this work One noticeable feature of the called the French and English efficiently that the machine re- i4 $184. 01 the 9tb. prox. festive season was the absence of Arapiles were most fiercely con-erred was areured. · The Inland Lot No 2000, Wengne-drunkenness, and though one tested during of the battle. (7) chang, is to be robl
rund has been the scene of The area ea thousands of Chineso stroll. Whittier, Questions of Life' is 14.500 sq feet and the up-ing the streets thers was very lite right at commencement.
great activity of late, but owing o the call for camp, tools have et price $4,350.
ben laid down for a time.
Garden Lt No, 44, Craigmin Rom, the Tak, a to be sold by nation at the P.W.D. ofices on he 2nd prox. It is 3,600 square feet in extent and the apset price
Counterfeit Coins.
ign of horse-play or disorder-
'y conduct. In anticipation of
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CHINESE CREW QUESTION.
A man was charge this morne, protraction of the round of ing before Mr. J. R. Wood at the enjoyment that the Chinese were Police Court, with being in posikely to indulge in, most of the esin of 27 conterfeit coin, centres of el labour closed
lown until Wednesday, and this Ila was remanded.
meant a big exatus of Europeans What the C. P. R. Propose to do. to Micao and to different places
Seekers After Knowledge.
Only the other day a note in this columa remarked on the fact int rome Chinese had 'a habit ol king rather loudly in the Public Library. There was no oiso inside the library this orning, but there was quite les outside. It was shut; sO WES the museum; and a goodly crowd gathered ouvida hopefully des pite the notice which stated that the library and museum would shut on Monday and Tuesday, These seekere after knowledge- or a place wherein to chat at their 9388-had a soe disap pointment when one European arrived. They gathered ari und promp ly; but he was on other business bent, and their hopes were dished. Still, the fact that ther were 81 many waiting or 'und shows that thore ATH people who find the library Bathe naeum useful, if o ly as a place
I rest and quiet.
The Kiyo Maru.
The K to Maru, the fine oil but that is now lying in the Har-long the railway line where golf, hooting and walking could be baur, has been in the Hongkong enjoyed. and Whampoa Dick and had a good dressing of paint.
The Cathedral, The anal general meeting of etholders and subscribere
of St John's Cathedral takes.
it 5:30 pm to-morrow, in the
NEW THEATRE
A pragraph in a home paper
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The ground when finished will be as level as the proverbial | billiard table, and will be ex' emely suitable for para os and most branches of letice. The ground has been excavated -pecial drain pipes have been laid A depth of three feet and
expeditiously to carry off the rein water which played so much havco. with the ground in the past. When the energetic Engineere are free work will be resumed and everything put in order,
old Ch mber at Uumu re röYaumali Especially Catered for. Con my Bith vessels Hy het, no doubt, cricket could be
at the City Hall.
The Canadian Pacifo Railway Company is, says Reater' Victoria (B.) correspondent, substituting Chinese for British
It may be remarked that the crews on their 'Pacific liners the ground will be of very little Empress of India and the Em-se for cricket, as it went break. press of J pan on grounds if to readily, being sndy. With a
B'ue Ensign and carry the mails 'ared, but it is hardly likely that An enterprising company of
From the office of the Canadian 14 branch of eport will be indul For aleating eighteen bats from incal gentlemen, realising the nced Fadic Company, the Telegraphed into any great exient as far
for a c'pentitograph theatre on informed this morning, that this ground is concern 1. the other side of the wate, he announcement simply moans have arranged for iho wants of the that the ramen only will be people in a mst satisfactory changed for Chinese: The look- manner. The theatre that hast men, the quartermastes, the be i Lut
namel the carpentere, and the man who fi
the more important grades of Tai Ya, and, is a perman-
A Corner in Hats.
a stall in Paddy's, Market, Chinese was selecced to six weeks' imprisonment and fou hours sticks at ie Pulice Court this morning..
New Poctor?
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HABEAS CORPUS.
Hearing of Interesting Case Continued.
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In the Supreme Court to-day,
Suffragists' Year's Work.
The New Year is a time of trospect a time when wo to'nl the happenings of the twelve nonths that are gone. Some of The Home
newspapers hiva herefore, been calculating the. The name of Jue Fung Lee, innt structure which will accom-service will be Eurore xtent of the past year's depred private practice, has been added modisto four banfred and sixty hero fore. It is in the cise d tions by the militant suffragists in the lie of melical practitioners persons. The emergency exits he ordinary sailor only, that the
in Western medical tre all that can be desired from change is being cfctel. Reckoning by the Chinese calendar, another year has dawned. They generally agree that the trained
The steamere, the Empress mount of damage done by these acience who are authorised to the point of view of safety, being India, the Empresa of Japan, ane Sir William Ress Davies (Chief What it has in store for China, politically or commercially, no-one lear ladies' more serious attieks grant death certifi ates in Hongue with special emergency the Enprosef China are to remain Justice) nor Mr. H. H. J. can foretell. But it is a common characteristic of the people of all on property cinuot be less than kong.
holts that throw open the doors fret class boats, and the only Gompertz (Puiene Judge) sitting nations to take off a rosy optimism at New Year time. The old the respectable total of over
in the merest inside pressure. this means that in the event of intermediate boat run by their Full Court of Original Jurisdic yoar, with all its disappointments and its unrealised hopes, i- £10,000. Large brugh this
nount is, it by no means repre- The number of authorities fire, the four doors would open Company will be the Monte gle. ton, continued the hearing of an a sealed book. Its taló has been told. And we all like, to be'ievė
enta the full ocet of the quoted in the ixtradition case, autwards and the theatre would for the first twa mentioned bonte application for Habeas Corpus that better and brighter, Imppenings will be recorded on the new ampaign against property, for the Supreme Court, must be be emptied in a few seconds, there is a reduced rate of page. volume whose clean, white pages fio open before us In our heart attempt has been made earing a record, for the laws are There is only one for and it but they are first class steamers of hearts, of course, we that the bravo months will bring its rive at the total cost of the table this morning was groanings sloned towards the stage 30 an „record of adversity as well as of sucre ei; but for all that, it is uses and business establishBity volumes.
image done to windows of beneath the weight of well over to permit of a uniform and unobstructed view from all parta haps just as well that we at out on the new journey is a modnants, go'f gr ons, some works of
of the building. The slago is n which minimises the in-vitab'e hadship and magnifies is posible, or even the orchids at Kew
large and roomy one, and if Gardens," pleasures and deligina. Hope springa ebrasi is the human breast;
desired the management opul and never do we realise the truth of this saying with greater furco
easily arrango for music hall thin at the corotnencement of new
year.
A Feeble Government.
Many Authorities.
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Cime for His Clothes.
A Chinese who in December was sentoicul to one month's imprisonment for stealing a pair of boots and was banished, ap peare-l at the Police Court this
turns.
The operating room is especial- ly fitted and danger from firo morning on a charge of returning barely exists, so wel. thought out from banishment. After he had
Proof Wanted.
road, The pic'u'es shown
nevertheless...
MITFDER OF IUNG KWE-SHING,
Sensational Revenge in a Train.
It is officially confirmed here,
6.
rising out of the Magistrate's decision in the case in which Chung Sau-Nam who is ordered to wait, in gaol, His Excellency's order, is charged with misappro piting $150,000, the property of the Kwarginng Government.
Sir Francis Piggott and Mr. U. Alabaster, iustricted by Mr. W: B. Bind, Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton) made the application, Toking at ek of the year just concluded, we fin't ample facts
and Mr. E H. Sharp K O., Mr. Eldon Potter and Mr. F. O. to warrant the judgme: ± that, to local Chinese, it has been a trying and anxious twelve mons. I opening promised well from o busi On any other anbject, it might explains that he had come back are the arrangements. The struc- says the N), Daily News Peking Jenkin, instructed by Mr. It. F. O. nose standpoint, but at its close there was, fion all scarcer, the concluded that the fault forto get his clothes Mr Hazeland lure is away from the general correspondent of January 20, that Master, of Messrs Johnson Stokea buildings in the district, the man who was murdered yes- *nd Master, and Mr. P. M. Eodg. much of his dent notion lies at sentence him to six months' im same verdict of the non-fulfilment of expectations. The adjacent the door of ineficien police prisonment and four hours stooks, close by the Kowloon Cityterday afternoon in the train 807, Assistant Crown & licitor, Province of Kwangtung has maintained its unsettled con lition, and Bat we think that is hardly a
frem Peking to Tientsin was opposed the application. are to be the finest oiroulating. Long Kwa-shing, the instigator Sir Francis Piggot, cortinaingi the unrest has, very naturally, st ongly uilitated ugajast extensiv just conclusion. It rnly demor- business operations. Then there have been the Singapore and strates the utter incapacity of the Antice issued by the Re and the patrons of the house are of the assassination of Sung bis address, urged that there waa no property in the Kwangling Bangkok financial crises, which have very markedly affected local Executive, for it will be exceed gistrar of Companies calls upon to be catered for in excellent Chiu jap.
The deceased was discovered Government na alleged. The the General Merchants Associa style. The floor being an earthen bat na Government has ever Chinese commercial circles; while as a further hindrance to trade proved itself so feeble in an curr tion (Chinese) and the Chinese one, concreted, permits of clean-alon in a compartment with two allegation of property WES my, bo cite the extremely low value on the market of the notes rank of crime. How often hanter of Commerce to furnishliness, as the place is swilled down awr le sticking in his body. Two material to the charge but of no issued by the Canton Government. With such a record na this to it been the caso that when the him with proof of their existence with disinfectants daily. The men who were travelling in his importance in extradition pro He referred to it its account, it can readily by understand that our friends the Chinese offen lere have been tracked down within three months; otherwise Foating accommodation is commpany, supposed to be de-ceeding..
however, because the offences have had a year of uneasiness and anxiety.
by the police, the perpetrators of steps will be usken to declare fortable, and the prices one tectives, have been arreeted.
third of those na
here had this side that they have ocaged to exist.
Further details are not yet
been cast info It says mush, however, for the stability of local concerns th it the
the grossost outrages have been
of the water. Naturally dur- available, but the general assump the form of an English Ebrated from confinement and To-morrow's Meetings. year has passed without any big failures. We may be sure that sime exempted from punishment be
ing the recent holidays the tion is that the crime was the charge. Applying the non-rer To-morrow there are quits a place was packed, and on Satur-work of the revolutionaries in re- ognition argument to prove that of the business honses have been in rather straightened circumstances, caso of the timorousness of the batch of shareholders' meetings, day--the opening day-the min vengo for the death of Sung there was no bat it is matter for prido and entiefotion that they have been able to Government? It is bitter irony that of the Hongkong, Lund agement were surprised at their Chisojn.
Kwangtung Government on these tide over a depressing period and liave kept their heads above water to read that a year which has clani tion to. takes place at box receipts.
Reuters agency reports that obeques and notes, Sir Francia seen such a succes in of out- 11.30, West Point Building Au to the future, the general tone at the moment is one of hope. rages closed with only one suffra- Co. at 11.45 and the Hongkong is a Saudsy matinee, from four to rested. IIe is stated to be ane Crown to show, among other A feature to be arranged the alleged assassin has been ar-argued that it wrs necessary for The one great bar to botter business is the chaotic state of the Oangist in gaol ton currency, though the view is widely held that the Centra sending a happy Christmas noon; while at 12.30 the extra-will be well inside fifty cents for thought to be at present in Tokyo. ed and what it was 2, to show
The rent were Land Investment and Agency at six, for Europeans. The charges emissary of Chen Chi-mei who is things, 1, that the province exist Government will soon come to the ail of the neighbouring Provinco holiday, the hilarity of which ordinary meeting of Hongkong adalte, and children will he per-
what the provincial Government with fands for the redemption of its deb001 notes. For the sake enjoyment of the ridiculo into
was much heightened by their Hotel shareholders taken place, mitted free that is if they
was and that there was such a of trade between this Colony and Canton, it is sincerely to be hoped which they had brought the
thing; and 3, if it did exist at all, that this belief will blbssum intulity. Ilere a point to be re-Government.
to show that it was capable of having property and servants to membered is that in a very few weeks only British coin may be oir- culated in Hongkong, auil no doubt this new factor will have a considerable cffct on local trade and may also tend to improve the ourrondy outlook in Canton. Anyhow, we hope for the best for our Uhinese friends who have made this Colony, the hare of their com «méroial operations,' but we wish for them a brighth, and succeñsful
year!
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Latest Advertisements.. The 8.8, Torilla loaves for Shanghai and Japan on the 29th.j inst Page 5.
Maud Allan in coming to Hongkong-Page 5.
are acompained by adults.
Police Rifle Club.
New Reservior.
Great strides are being made
Poperty in the
in respect to the damming of the look after it, simpl
new reservior close by the exist The Crown had to show that ing one out beyond Yaumati. A tho Province of Kwangtung exist Kaiser's Birthday.
This aftern on at the King's great change in the locality based in such a minner that the the Kaisar'e birthday, the cuss function to take place at the shoot for the Police Club only, ing to those who have not been ance of it
To-day being the anniversary of
A notification regarding a King's Park Range, a practice been effected and proves surpris court could take judicial cognie tonyalutes were fired,
German lub to-morrow appears takes place.
The case win again adjoprzed
on Page 6244
oat in that direction for some time.