THE
INTERNATIONAL BANK FAMOUS K.C. TO RETIRE.
Dividend of 6 per cent Declared Sir Edward Clarke's Fifty Years'
Record.
The Manager of the laterna- tional
Banking Corporation
HONG KONG TELEGRAPH
Sir Edward Clarke, speaking t informe as that he has received a banquet given to members 1. a telegram from bia Head Office the legal profession at Fishmon- at New York to the effect that ager's Hall, London announced bi- dividend has been declared for early retirement from the Bar. the halfyear ended 31st. Decem ber, 1913 at the rate of U percent. per annum and that the undivid- ed profits oarried forward are Gold $773,088.61.
CROWN LAND SALE.
NATURE'S MYSTERIES"
our senses,
Of Space.
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He was called at Lincoln's In on November 17, 1804, and on the conipletion of his fiftieth year in the profession he will retire {roru practice.
His withdrawal will rob the Bar of one of its most brilliant personalities. No career in public
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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1914.
SPECIAL CABLES.
(From Our Own Correspondent)
THE TROUBLE IN THE NORTH.
TROOPS IN LEAGUE WITH SECRET SOCIETY.
Shanghai. Received April 14. The Governm at troops have refused to obey ordere at Sianfu, boing in league with a decret Society. "White Woll" is advancing on Sianfu.
Continued Expansion of Company's Business.
い
last
tion
OF TAXCOLLECTORS.
GERMANY AND, ENGLAND'S COALFIELDS.
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"CROWN PRINCE' AND "LORD HOPE.".
ing
tary
HONGKONG FOOTBALL
ASSOCIATION.
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Examine any candidates for
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Story of a Great Society Hoax. Three Collierles Purchased!'
Who is the "Crona Prince of A sensation has been caused in the mining world by the an-Wurttemberg who went for an Mr. nouncement that one of the new seroplane flight with collieries to be be sunk in the Grahame-White at Hendon? And South Yorkshire coalfield coalfield who is "Lord Stanton Hope" dnct of a player. is to be a German undertaking, who introduced Mr. Grahams- and that the contract for the White and a number of other position of official referee.
The names of any · can- mrohinery, costing nearly well-knows people to "his Royal
aidates are to be forwarded £200,000, has been let to the Highness" at the Aerodrome?
These questions are saked by to the secretary as early as German firm, Rheinische-West-
A faliacho Schthaa Aktiengesells. the Standard in describing an possible so that arrangements chaft, of Essen, says a Home extraordinary hoax which has may be made for their teas.
been played on society. The fee of one dollar must be paid for Crown each candidate before he can be The place of projected develop Hendon visit of the life has shown a more striking FRASER AND NEAVE, LTD. WHOLESALE EXECUTION Paper. combination of high talents, esli
ment is Harworth, a few miles Prince" was duly reported in the examined, but this does not apply from Doncaster, on the borders papers, but the truth has come to re-examinations of candidates who have already eat this season. A sale of Crown Land took reliance, and steunch conviction.
of Yorkshire and Nottingham out. place this afternoon at the oflicea
Six Edward lins been called
There is no.Crown Prince of of the Pablic Works Department, the Bayard of the Bar," and he
Suchien, March 31. shire, and the principal figure in
the transaction is Herr Hugo Warttemberg, but the story of the when Farm Lot No. 81. situated has fought his battles with a fine
The annual general meeting of
There was an execution of sixty. Stianes, one of the mining hoax perpetrated by the man who at Pokfulum was offered for mac perseverance and chivalry, not tion. This plot of land which only in the courte, but on the Fraser and Neave, Limited, was bas an area of about 40 quare widor fields of life and politics held on the 6th inst. at the men at Haichow recently. Forty magnates of Westphalia, and a passed under that title and the and many belonged to the Continental market. He man is one of the most amusing feet, with a rental of $4 per an-le reached his prefossion by registered offices of the company three of these men were Buchien targu exporter of British coal to other less distinguished English-
possesses his own line of steamers, that has ever gone the round of Yekobama for Hongkong, via Manila on leading families num, was sold for the upset price means of a dauntless ambition, to Singapore. The shairman, Mr.on.
W. H. Macgregor, presided, and
For days no one could got any and it is anderstood that he will the olubs. A peer who enjoyed the Sth inst The mails from the United of $32, there being no com- backed by untiring industry. petition, to the Dairy Farm Co. At the age of thirteen he lefthose present were Messrs. A cohereat or probable story of the when the colliery is in working the society of the "Crown Princa" States are being conveyed to Hongkon Ltd.
sehool to assist his father, who Dieho, E. Brumall, A. Blood Bagg, affair. The bodies are being order, be able to transport the told a Standard representative.an to arrive at this port on the 20th Insting kept a jeweller's shop in King directors, T. G. Scott, W. M.. Willinia street, Ho worked hard Foreman, Alex. Proctor (cecretary; brought home and the account whole of the output for supplying extraordinary story of the events, which left San Francisco on the 17th Mar t evening classes, got a clerk and W. P. Plummer, {for, the that, has the widest currency here the demands of his Continental from which wo take 'the' follow-la expected to arrive at this port via
"On Sunday I went with Lady Various new methods, om- ship at the India Office, guice auditors, Mesars. Derrick and Co., the following: During Chang customers. tho Tancred Law Studentship, The resolution adopting the sun's Tatuhship someone get
to collect taxes on the circles in this country, will be were a great many distinguished Sir Oliver Lodge On The Ether and in 1804 was called to the report and accounts was proposed or pretended to get his authoriza paratively little known in mining to the flying at Hendon. There
Bir at Lincoln's fan,
by the chairman who, briefly fishing boats at Haichow. Later, introduced at Harworth by the visitors present in the enclosure. reviewed the position of the Com: the permit was withdrawn (if it German company, who bave taken The Crown Prince of Warttem Sir: Oliver Lodge, lecturing His First Success. pany: In the first place he pointed had really been given.) The sixty up a new systom of freezing, berg' was said to be among them. before the City Temple Literary.
for the positions and were loth to water in the sandstone strata ed a wish to fly. To this gratles FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG Society
Ether Wale waiting for a practices that the item buildings, in the
againet $101,000 of Space,' said that as distinot ko noted as a reporter in the accounts, stood at $169,204.7%, men had paid good round sums which, it is claimed, can deal with it was stated that he had express- give them up before they had more economically than by pun man, who spoke with a strong from matter we could not move Gallery of the House of Com- ether, and it mado no appeal to aïons, but his legal work gradual. year, bus id this latest figure collected any money. They got ping: The process consists in German accent, I and "Lady-
was included the total cost of theint, trouble and were accused making a number of boreholes in were introduced by 'Lord Hope.' (Taking cargo on Through Bills of ly increased, and in 1877 his con-
new Malacca factory. As they before the highest official at Hai-a circle around the centre of each We were told the latter was "bis He had tried to move it. He duct of the defence in the Penge had, no doubt seen, that factory bow, who happened to be a proposed shaft and and injecting Royal Highness's private secre-
case brought murder
hi was opened on January 1, and member of the President's family. frezing mixture, thus oreating had a delicate optical arrange- ment whereby, it it moved, he into full view of the public as he was glad to say that there was
From this time
They were accused of belonging every prospect of a successful could have detected a very, very coming man.
forth he figured in many leading venture there. The plant ond
to the Yellow Socisty and some slow movement. He had span large steel disce like cicular saws triala, and his finest efforte, alike machinery stood at $127,680.43 mile it under torture. Many people at Suchien think that this hundreds of times a second, söf'n speech and cross-examination, as against $116,000 last year charge was preferred. as a sure anknown in this country, for it as 'Sir.' 'Lord Hope was a 1p.m.
shown perhaps in the and in this figure, also, was 'iu- that they were of flying were
re in danger of the famous Baccarat case, where he cluded the cost of the installation able med. No ons in Suchien dares way of gotting rid of objection to pieces.
at Malacca. From both build- ether in their immediate neigh appeared for Sir Wiliam Gordon- Cumming. Mr. Asquith once
ags and plant depreciation had to chirp or peep..
Chong B and his Tufei still bourhood by the optical means.
he was the most perfect example sale. The investment account Daily News. slightest degree...
There was no friction between at the Bar of "courage which, now stood at $1,000, although in
The earth though always undaunted, never matter and ether. travelled through the ether with blustore; persuasiveness which out any friction whatever. Ether seems to win rather than could be strained, but not moved. capture assent; eloquence which People strained ether every time never sacrifices light to best." they bent a bow or wound a watch
difference very big spring. Gravitation was a puzzle.
two entries tho People thought leaac Newton
In politica Sir Edward's cireer
directors thought discovered it, but Newton himself knew better. What he did was to was remarkably full of incident,
Meantime, the Crown Princo apply it to astronomy. It was not although he never reached wiser policy to write dawato explained. It was, perhaps, the the heights sometimes gained by the item to the present figure. Boke
men much his inferior in talent. The item, sundry debtors, $110, resident in this Colony and for man syndicate already practically dropped cut of the adventure next big discovery that requined He began by winning Southwark 557.87, might seem somewhat thirteen was a member of the controls a colliery in South Wales, We saw nothing of him, but our to be made in physice, and inany for the Conservative Government large but, in view of the large board of the company. He always while another German company friend Lord Hope excused him- ing 20 days.) people were working at it. in the spring of 1880-the erea number of accounts they carried took a keen and active interest is at work at Dover. Germany self from staying late by saying
Science," he declared, "is only a thing of yesterday. Three which is asid to have induced | on, he did not think it could be in its affairs and when they part- wants more steam coal: from us, he had to go to the German Em-the Indo-China Steam Naviga- Ined from him it was with the hope and the meaning of there moves bassy. I have sinos made inqui- tion Co.'s Steamers Fare for Lord Beaconsfield to dissolve. considered unduly large. hundred years ago men were fighting or gathering in the kind. But at the General Election he connection with this he would that they would most at home. is that her leading men are trying ties at the Embassy, and I find round-trip $120.
lost his seat, though he was in a like to say that the question of It had been ordered otherwise to get some of the English sources not only that there is no such anything but investigating.. very short time returned for untatandings and the constant and Mr. Becker's death had left of supply into their own hands. person as a Crown Prince of to have got a long way on, but there Plymouth. Within the space of mangonents of directors and with him a feeling of deep, Far-There seems no reason to doubt Wurttemberg, but that no person
five months he came through three managements of the different sonal loss which he felt sure was that at Harworth they have of the name of Lord Hope has Hongkong, 14th April, 1914.
had any dealinge during the week elections branches, and the item might be shared by them all. He thought secured a very good thing. fiercely-contested -
considered quite all right. The it was fitting that they should One of the features to be in with the official staff there.. which is probably a recor
"Another escapade of Lord Sir Edward was Solicitor profit for the year amounted to express their feeling at that troduced at Harwerth when the General in the Unionist Govern $144,576-3. An interim dividend meeting and it was for that reason shafts have been sunk will be a Hope' was, I am informed, to call ment of 1888-92, but the strength of 12.1/2 per cent, was paid in that he ventured to refer to the new method of raising the coal. on a marchioness, who, in the Lastead of each shaft having only course of conversation; said that and independence of his opinions September last and the directors Mise N. H. Webster's "The put him out of the running for and commended Conta divi Mr. Diehneeconded the adoption one winding engine and one large she wished to buy a new motor: THE Undersigned has received
He end of 12.1/2 per cent and a of the report and accounts, the drum, there will be an engine car. The Lord Hope (of Hen- Sheep Track," is an honest little higher party preferment. book designed to tell of the dissented from the policy of the onus of 6 per cent,making with motion being carried. The appor- on each side, and the two sets of don) arrived at her house next Public Auction on. boredom of the apper-class girl Boer War, and in consequence the interim dividend paid in tionment of the year's proflis, as cages in the shaft will be raised day with a magnificent vehicle, who is penned into the ballroom retired from Plymouth, and after October last, 30 per cent. por given by the chairman in his and lowered independently of of the build of which she had the 18th, April 1914 commencing
Rooms, Duddell Street. and cannot get out except through being returned for the City of aanum, be paid, ab orbing $03, speech, was also agreed. Mr. each other, By this method it is spoken, and took her son, Lord at 12 o,clock noon at his Sale
"When he was at the house the 27 cases Bass Pale Ale (pints)" the church-door, says the Daily London in 1906, he resigned owing 000, that $10,000 be added to Diehu and Mr. J. A. Milne (of claimed that an output of 4,000, for a ride.
to a difference with his constitu- general reserve, which will then
telephone rang,
ng, and a voice said: 16 cases Younger's Ale (pints) board.
5 dases John Begg's Whisky It is understood that the Cer. Is that Lady-87 Marriage, like the useful bee, ents on the subject of Tarif stand at $210,000, that $7,000 Bangkok) were re-elected to the tone a day can be got out of each
Terms: Cash on delivery. employees' be transferred to
Messrs. Derrick and Co. were
GEO.P LAMMERT. bonus account, to be alloted at
Auctioneer sweetnesa from every flower."-
the discretion of the directors, re-elected auditors to the company man principles of town planning was the reply. I+ Mr. Somebody. we know of no such persor Jeremy Taylor. "The reason
Of recont joare Sir Edward that the sum of $6,450 be voted in Singapore and other places will be applied in the laying or other there with a motor car
to projected pit.
been wishing ever sincs that she is because young ladies spend Clarke has been a prominent for directora fees for the gear apart from Bangkok, for which out of the colliery village, for No, their time in making nets, not in leader of the Protestant party in 1913, and that the balance of place Mr. Donaldson was again with a alte had been chose near here, said Lady She had making oages."--Dean Swift the Church of England, and has $13,128.83 be carried forward to vote of thanks to the Chair- Another innovation will be in could remember the name given."
man, proposed by Mr. A Hond regard to the provision of baths Wives beuch a provoking class shown great activity in the cam The business of the company
head. By law the miners can Lancashire. By an ingenious of society, because, though they paiga against Romanising prac
close.
decide by ballot, if they wish, to arrangement the miners clothing be never right, they be never tices. In this, as in every public continued to expand and it might Begg, brought the meeting to and drying chambers at the pit
have baths provided, in which is caught up on wires and en- more than half wrong." Thomas question which he took up, he be necessary before very long to consider the now extensions.
event they contribute to the cost apended in the upper portion of of maintenance.
the drying chamber, round which La the Colliery Guardian of are ranged a number of baths January 2 was published an for the men's use when ascending article dealing with the extensive from their work below ground. baths erected at Atherton, ins
They did not move it in the said of Sir Edward Olarke that been written off on a very liberal hold ihs Loswahu section-N. C. improvement on that tried in this Prince has been rieking his life) Hongkong, 14th April, 1914 [1200
ly fruits of the Earth-doing
is very much to learn."
MARRIAGE LORE OLD AND NEW.
News.
A Historic Election
builds a house and gathers Reform..
why so few marriages are happy
Interest in the Church,
to
a solid wall of 11 feet thickness Thinking she was indeed in in the sandstone, through which the preconce of royalty, Lady-
on being introduced, curtsied and the water cannot penetrate.
The freezing process is bot addressed the Crown Prince' King (of Wurttemberg, preeum Sesham Harbour and at Easing bly) will be furious if he soos in has been tried successfully at sort of chap. By Jove," he said, "the ton; but the German company the newspapera that the Crown patent is understood to be an country and in France and in an aeroplane.'
⚫ Sunshine of Royalty. Belgium.
The company are nader a After the flying was over penalty to carry the shafts at Lord Hope' said he would like
There were others THE Barugh and company, in which upon. In the meantime the share- Harworth through the water to call on us concern they held a preponder holders might rest sesured that as bearing strata within a fixed present who evidently enjoyed ance of the shares, There was a 8000 66 any definite decision was period, and the progress of the basking in the sunshine of Capt. C. J. Swanson, R.N.R., will arrived at they would be duly work will be watched by colliery Royalty, and Lrd Hopo' talked be despatched for the above ports, informed. There was one personal owners and mining engineora in freely with them all, and, it on Saturday, the 18th instant, at note Mr. Macgregor, said that this country with "keen interest. appears, asked them if they would daylight.
The Steamer has superior ac it the he would, in conclusion, like "It is a most significant an care to allow the 'Crown Prince'
commodation for passengers, is touch upon. Mr. Hans nauucement," "observed a City and himself to call.
lor many years authority recently "A Gor-
the last balance sheet the figuro
was $11,300. This sum repre- sented the company's interest in
a new account,
between
but
the
Hardy. These wise sayings are hes alown the unswerving coul-Having this object in view the taken from A Short History of age of conviction and indifference directors had had under con- Marriage, by Ethel Urlin (Rider, to personal consequences. As a 3a, 6d, not), in which is given an fearless fighter for principles, it sideration for some little time the interesting summary of the would not be easy to find his question of increasing the capital marriage customs of some of the parallel in the gallory of English of the company, but nothing defaite had yet been decided principal nations of the world. public men.
matter.
appointed.
a
Arrived from New York, Mr. E. Randolph a prominent resident of New York is staying at the Hongkong Hotel,
pit.
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SATURDAY
instructions to sell by
the 18th, April 1914,commencing. lat41:30 am. at his Eales Rooms.
Diddell Street. 6000 Indian Cigars 5000 German & Dutch
THE Undersigned has received Public Avesion on.
Cigars
(in fine condition) The above will be put up in lots to suit purchasers, ver
Terms-Cash on delivery.
GEO. P. LAMMERT. Auctioneer.