Juno 23, 1914,
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The Hongkong Telegraph
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驍十三月五年寅甲
TELEGRAMS.
THE BUDGET.
PERPLEXING SITUAȚION.
TELEGRAMS.
(ESTABLISHED, 1881)- Copyright, 1914 by the Proprietor.
TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1914.
TELEGRAMS.
HINDUS IN CANADA.
KING'S BIRTHDAY.
A SERIOUS SITUATION.
TROOPING OF THE COLOURS.
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Leadon. Hécélyed June 23. In the House of Commons & perplexing situation has arisen Over the Finance, Bill.
Many contended that the Local Taxation olauses were outside the limits of a Money Bill and demanded that the clauses be dropped or the Bill withdrawn.
The Speaker suggested that the proper course would be to pass supplementary resolutions validating the clauses.
Mr. Smuel intimated that the Government, to meet the views of dissentients, would, after the second reading, invite the House
at
London. Received June 23. Router's correspondent Ottawa states that the Dominion Government has received a tele-
gram from Air. Stevens, member for Vancouver, intimating that the situation in connection with
the Hindus aboard the Komagati Maru is so serious that it any necessitate the calling out of the Militia.
Sir. R. L. Borden, the Premier,
to take the Bill in two partais giving the master his personal firstly, net taxation; secondly,
the proposals regarding local attention.
grante. Then the House would have to deal with two Tiusace Bille and a Revenue Bill. It would be impossible to pay the local grante ibis year, and con- sequently the increase in Income Tax would only be one penny. This, however, was a reprieve, not an acquittal..
Mr. Holt, on behalf of the dissentients, said he was entirely satisfied.
LIFE OF A CONSUL
*
Amusing Picture of Its Vicissitudes.
OBITUARY.
MR. MORGAN WILLIAMS,
London. Received June 22.
The death is announce.i of Mr. Morgan Williams, D.L., M.I.C.E..
Chairman of the Rhondda and
Swanson Bay Railway,
years
under the inte Sir John Hawkshaw, 38 consulting
received several marks of invour engineer. During this period he from Czar Alexander II; was for some time general manager of the Dunsburg and Wirepsk Railway,
ceremony
London. Received June 23. Sunshine favoured the principal King's Birthday the trooping
in connection with the the colours of the Royal Horse Guarda..
of
The parade was attended by Their Majesties, members of the Royal Family and members of the Cabinet while the prominence of the Dominion and Indian' visitors was a festurs.
THE STORSTADT.
ORDERED TO BE SOLD.
London, Received June 23. Reuter's correspondent at Montreal states that. the Admiralty Ourt has ordered the sale of the .. Storstadt, which collided with the Empress of Ireland, by auction.
GREECE & TURKEY.
SETTLEMENT HOPES.
TELEGRAMS.
MEXICAN AFFAIRS.
ANOTHER CONFERENCE.
TELEGRAMS.
AVIATION.
ST. PETERSBURG TO PEKINO.
June 23, 1913,
TELEGRAMS.
LAWN TENNIS.
WEATHER FORECAST
RAIN
Barometer 20.83
Temporature Ga.m. 82 pm. 77 Humidity
WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP.
London. Received Jigna 29. The World's Lawn Tennis Wimbledon in sunshine and in Championships have opened at the presence of unusually large orowds.
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London. Received June:33,"
London. Revolved June 23, Reuter's correspondent at A Frenchroan, M. Jeazuoir, States has invited the representa burg to Peking in July, proceed. Niagara atates that the United proposes to fly from St. Peters tives of President fluerta and ing via Cheliabinsk, Irkutsk and General Carranza to meet at an Kalgan. informal conference in the hope of securing the pacification of Mexico
President Huerta's delegates have as ontodi.
NATIONALIST
VOLUNTEERS
AN IMPRESSIVE PARADE.
London, Received June 23.
At Carrick-on Shamuon there was a patade of 3,000 Nationalist Volunteers, most of whom, in -London. Recolved June 23.
uniform and carrying rifles, Reuter's correspondent at arrived in jaDating care, brakes Constantinople states that the and motors. Purte hos countermandad ita. decision to mine the Dardanelles.
Green banners were displayed, The hopes of satisfactory and Irish Americans among the sotilement with Greeda are spectators premised contribu- stronger.
tions.
it was purchased by the Russian fashionable
Government. Since his retire such
tourist
88 Nice
ALBANIAN AFFAIRS
WILL THE REBELS SURRENDER?
There is a representative in- ternational entry.
J. C. Parke beat C, P. Dixon by 11-9, 6-1, 63, showing a most welcome return to form in view of the coming Davis Cup at Competition.
London. Received June 22. Reuter a correspondent Darazzo states that at the request of the insurgeat leaders, the Prines has agreed to a two days' armistice. It is stated that the rebels are inclined to surrender. It is understood that the Dutch officers of the Gendarmerie 'dis approve of the Prince's Botion.
London, Received June 23.
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DEVOURED BY LION.
CIRCUS TRAINER'S FATE.
London: Received June 23.
Reuter's correspondeut Durozzo atatea that the Govern- maut troops have been fighting Renter's correspondent at Chic- the rebels at Karabunar and ago states that a circus trainer Luchino since Saturday. The entered a cage of six lions in the rebala drove them day to
the River Semeni, and Mejor darkness and was devoured. A to lion escaped and terrorised the Kroon has ordered a steamer bring them to Darazzo.
oity.
it boa
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NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
CONDENSED.
It is stated that the Albanian rebels are inclined to surrender.
A circus trainer who entered a
age of six lions in the darkness of Chicago was devoured.......
Mr. Morgan Williams, promin- ently identified with Russian railways, is dead.
Three thousand Nationalist Volunteers have paraded at Carrick-on Shannon.
The French aviator' M. Jean noir proposes to fly from St, Petersburg to Peking in July,
Hopes of a satisfactory satile. ment of the Turco-Greek dispute are stronger,
Court The Admiralty
at Montreal bas ordered the sale of the Storstadt by naction."
The World's Tennis. Cham- pionship has opened at Wimble- don, there being a representative entry.
It is stated that the situation in
connection with the Hindus on erions that it may necessitate heard the Komagata Maru is so the calling out of the Militia.
A telegram outlines a perplex- ing situation which has arisen over the Finance Bill in the House of Commons.
The Albanian rebels, after
troops since Saturday, have the driven the latter back.
NEWS.
The Langkat output for yester day was 257 tons,
Commercial news appears on page 9 of this issue.
The teams for to-morrow'a water polo match appear in this issue.
A charge of allowing a dog to go unmuzzled was heard to-day at the Police Court,
General news appears on page 3 to-day, log book on page 6 and "Our contempo aries": on page
2.
DON'T FORGET.
Mr. Lloyd George Explains. On Mr. Walter Long aking for a clearer stalement, Mr. Llord. George explained that a penny
awing back, how to secure the disciplined by gólf; while as a fighting with the Government would be taken off the proposer
(The deceased, who was for 20
proper cooperation of body, arms, physical exercise Vice-Chairman of the increase in unearned Income Tax Metropolitan Bank of England
and eye, that have all to be supreme virtue of being equally, from 1s. 2d. to la 4d. The and Wales was born in 1825.
mae' ered before it can be satisfact- good for the young, the middle. It is understood that the Dutch increase would thus be only a He was in his early days
orily accomplished. The problem aged, and the old of both sexes. oflicers of the Gendarmerie dia- penny. This would make associated with home rail ways as barricade in the form of a coun- than 30 years ago was the esoteric of dispatching that insoleat ball veteran of fifty-five with a touch approve the nation of the Prince difference of £2,576,000, while a civil engineer and also with tor, i seething and unsavoury spert of the Scots and has since in the desired direction becomes of lambag defeats a champion of Albania in granting an the non-payment of the proposed railway 'work in Italy. He mob of Lascars, firemen, trim then conquered the civilized suddenly terrifying. Men wrestle of twenty-seven; a boy of twenty armistice. grante would save £2,189,000. constructed many hundreds of mers, grensers, and other horny world. If ever in some austerer wish it as with a refractory collar disposes of famous and seasoned The King and Queen attended Be budgetted for a surplus of miles of railways in Russia, and uncouth sons of the sea, of future an anti-golf crasadé were stud. The most even tempers are masters of the game who have the trooping of the Hores Gaarde £250,000. There would thus be being chief resident engineer every colour and nationality, to be organized and were to carry uffled by its perversities. Pro been playing it longer than he colours in connection with His a net, deficienuy of £144,000, but
clamout to be signed on or its point, etranded towalets, now digies of resolution and will-power has been alive. People may point Majesty's birthday. he anticipated the всея in Custome revenue over anticipa-
or the boarding-house, or the bas brought them would sink on the golf-linke to keep their product of our soft and leisurely signed off, or to go to hospital bursting with the prosperity it in other spheres cannot remember at the golfer ass but too typical tions would cover this.
Devil, as the case may be. back into stagnation, properties head down and their eye on the age; but golf itself, no long as it In his Budget speech last
"By no means is the Consul's transformed by the ubiquitous ball. Weak little men with hardly remaine a gape and d not month. Mr. Lloyd George said
life a bad of roses. Even the pastime into ministars gold mians an flot send it Bring sixth of grow into a disease, needs no the Income Tax' would remain and subsequently a director until amenities. of residence in would lapse into their pristine a mile. Huge barly fellows, with excuse. unchanged on earned incomes up to £1,000, while between £1,000
resorts prairie value, and multitudes of a blow that woull shake St. and £3,000 it would range from ment from the engineering pro-
or Cairo are men and women would miss one Paul's, hit it 30 yards. It is the 10,1-28. to 1s. 48. On unearned fession he has taken an active impaired by the vexations of their main interests in life and most baffling, tantalizing, veza- incomes the tax would be raised to. | part in the public life of South demands of the holiday traveller. be utterly at a loss how to turnovitiate is passed, there are daya |
tions of games. Even when the 18.44, and a super-tax would be | Wales. His first wife was It is a sad fact that many worthy their leisure hours to account. operative from £3,000 upwards Constance, Baroness von Walf, citizens, who should know much Golf is more than a game; it is ofinfinite tribulation when nothing on a graduated scale. rising to daughter of Ceneral Carl von better, regard their country's re-n social question-and one that will go right, abyemal lapses of Is. 4d. Thus some incomes would Manderstjerna, Military Gover-presentative abroad as little better threatens to become more for- of forms and loss of instinct such pay 26. 8d.]
nor of St. Petersburg.]
than an agent paid to attend to midable with every year that 86 never afflict one in any other their petty passing needs. It is passes. No sport has yet beer in- sport, useless for the Consul to explain vented that eats so insidiously into But if the sorrows of golf are repaid every penny of their the difference between his line of the day's routine or makes atter-great, so also are its rewards. The Chinese who appeared on passage money from Athens to business and that of Thomas Cook tion to business and affairs seem There is a feel and a glow about Saturday before Mr. C. D. San Frivolo and a mest touching and Son.
ao much to resemble a ohurlish a clean-hit drive, or an approach Melbourne on a charge of beg- Lotter of thanke, beginning "Old ladies insist on his indicat form of asceticism. By pleasing that dribbles ap to the hole, that snatching was before the court
Honourable Gentleman, and ing the emporium most appro- gradations the Saturday half- very few strokes at polo, cricket, concluded by wil ever pray, etc., priate for the purchase of hairpins, boliday of the beginner expands lawn tennis, or billiards are able again this morning on remand.
colonels into a round and then a couple to evoke. In the course of a two was the sequel to temporary relief fasey Anglo-Indian afforded to a scion of the old enlist bis services in the recovery of rounds on Sunday; an "after hours' round a player las every ed and he was sent to prison for No further evidence was offer- Maltese nability, who was ill of lost articles of luggage, and noon is soon filched from the variety of chance to cover himself twelve monthe, with four hours' advised enough to attempt suicide vulgar persons of every age and middle of the week; there follows with glory or disgrace. It depende stocke and twelve strokes of the by rat poison during an em. ex pester him with frivolous the discovery that by leaving the altogether on his own skill and birch... barrassing hiatus in his profes- inquiries quite outside his pro- office a little earlier in the sum- nerve and selfcontrol. One suffers sional engagement as coal vince, and have even been known mer months a game in the for one's own
to approach him for the purchase evening is always possible; and one profits by one's own prowess that quite recently there had been of postage stamps. Trouble with Sailors,
as the spell is woven more olceely with just enough of luck and seven cases of auatching, from Luckily, however, for the and the conscience hardens, a chance thrown in to "remind five European ladies and two "The shipping industry pro- Consul, his duties are not solely full day off or a whole week-end one of the mutability of life. And Chinese. vides a whole sen of troubles for the connected with the relief of becomes first contrivable, then to many people this sense of Vice Consul in a maritime contre, distress."
natural, and finally a thing to be standing on one's own merita or Skippers are notoricusly rough-
resented if it has to be forgone. defects, and of being solely re and-ready in their methods and
Such is the facile descent now sponsible for victory or defent, is have a disconcerting habit of
being trod by thousands who part of the attraction of golf. It Shanghai Policeman in Trouble. damping undesirable members.
twenty years ago really worked comforts the diffident, it inspires of their ship's company on the
and felt bound to apologize when the self-reliant; and the essential John James Hedley, a constable nesrest available Consul, Stow.
caught in their chance hours of companionableness of the game in the Shanghai Municipal Police, aways, plague patiente, madmen, murderere,maticeers, all are hand-
relaxation; and there are thon-saves it from egotism. Even on was charged that on May 26 he sands more who think, play, and, the black days of remorseless feloniously did forge's certain *Please arrange. Aot at once; ed over to the 'Consal' to 'deal Though the American invaders worst of all, talk golf from week inc.pacity there are consolations document for the payment of Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., he is extremely artful."
withgenerally in the small have not won our Amateur to week and year to year. "A telegraphic appeal to stop hours of a winter's morning or Championship, says the Times,
in being out in the open air, in money, to wit, an acknowledg Ltd., Extraordinary General What is the secret of its the scenery and surroundings, in ment of a debt, purporting to be Meeting. 11am. a prodigal son from running during the Sonday afternoon they have shown themselves to fascination? Probably at bottom the absolute escape from mun an acknowledgment of various Wednesday July 1. away to sea was thus worded by Biesta. A world of marine he splendid golfers, and not least that it looks so easy and is so dane worries, in the jolly aporting amounts owed by one A. Naitby Entries close for Third distraught
and
semi-literate humanity peoples the Consular by the spirit of good sportsman hard. Nothing can well seem spirit that blows over the links, to the Point Hotel for goods Gymkhana. parents: Plesse prevent our Joe Shipping Office. At a long office ship with which they have accepted simpler than hitting & stationary and in the consciousness that by supplied to the said A. Naitby, |- Saturday, July 4, living by sheep (leaving by table, with little battered band defest. It is sportemanship such ball with a club. But in actual to-morrow one's good shots will with intent to defrand, contrary
Frivolity Feear at Theatre ship). No allusion to a surfeit bags containing their ship's as theirs that justifies the ascend fast the human body proves to be remembered, one's bad ones to the Forgery Act, 1913, section Royal-9.15 p.m. of mutton diet was intended. papere at their elbows, ait the any of golf, Special trains, be curiously ill-adapted for any forgotten, and hope again in the 4. There were similar obarges Saturday July 11
The table of fraud includes skippers, puffing at the choice cohorts of correspondents, thous auch taak. Nature does not point ascendant. Judgment and con- in respect of chita signed at the
Third Gymkhana Meeting. redeeming exceptions. The cigars of the Indies as they pore anda of insatiable spectators, and the way: proficiency in other centration and the courage never Savoy Hotel and the Hotel des Monday July 13.
Thru Fran Frons (whose ap with the shipping clerks over sympathizers, all testify to the games is no paceport. There are to submit or field; and evenness Colonies. Defendant wes.com E.K. University Matriculation pearance was all against them) official blue forms. Behind a popularity of a game that less subtletica of how to stand, how to of temper, these are all tested and mitted for triol
Examination,
A member of our Consular
Service draws an amusing picture of ite “vicissitudes." in the London Morning Post.
"One of the principal duties afp Consul is to 'render Baaistance' to the subjects of the country which he represents, and it followe that Lis routine duties are diversified by many queer epi- Bodes, pazzling situatione, sod fitness for bis calling is tested by several ordeals in the examination room, but the most accomplished of officials is not prepared to cope with every situation with which he may be confronted in the course of his professional career.
Husband gone "again', ran the pencilled appeal on the vaiting card of an ill-used wife.
trimmer.
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THE FASCINATION OF GOLF.
What is it's Secret ?
shortcomings; Inspector Fenton remarked
TO-DAY.
Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre 9.15 p..
TO-MORROW.
Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.
Victoria Theatre 9.15 p.m. Salo of Furniture etc.-G.P. Lammert's Sales Rooms-2.30 p.m.
Friday June 20. "y Sale of Postage Stamps G. P. Lammert's Sale Rooms-5)
Saturday June 27. Musical and Diamatic Enter- tainment, Peak Club.
Tuesday June 30.