The Hongkong Telegraph
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June 25, 1914.
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HOME RULE.
LAWN TENNIS.
PARIS POSTMEN,
FURTHER RESULTS."
REDRESS PROMISED,
NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
GALLANT CONDUCT.
CABINET MEETINGS.
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London. Received June 25.
Router's correspondent N Belgrade states that King Peter has abdicated in favour of the
Crown Prince Alexander.
The abdication arissa from reasons of health.
I
Not Abdication. King Poter has issued a pro olamation stating that, owing to illness, he has appointed the Crown Prince regent. This has mistakenly been read as indicat. ing abdication. King Peter has gone to the Vranja baths,
[King Feter I of Servia, who sucoooded Alexander I on the
London. Received June 25. The race for the Northuraber.
land Plate, run at Newcastle over a distance of two miles, resulted as follows:-
The Guller ..........
Bowman
"Chance Bird.....3.
There were nine starters; won
by two lengths, a acok separating second and third.
The betting was:-0 to 2 murder of the latter 01, June 11, against The Guller; 7 to 1 1903, was born in 14, and is against Bowman; 100 to 12 grandson of George Czerny, against Chance Bird. surnamed Karageorge, or Black [Mr. H. Crollan The Guller, a George, who was the first chief of five year old chestnut colt by the the Servian insurrection against Gull out of Lady Teazle, was out the Turks in the beginning of the seven times last year, securing lest contury. He was joined by two wins the Stockton Spring Milosch, who added to his name Handicap and the Cheater Cup- that of his mother, Obrons, These
the
two chiefs founded the rival and a third, being four times un- families of Karageorgevitch and placed. Ho ran third in the Obrenovitch. On the death of Manchester Cup and third in the Alexander I, together with his Ascot Stakes this year. consort. Queon Draga,
Bowman, a five year old obest- officers who perpetrated the nut colt, is owned by Mr. J. W. murder Invited the present Larnach, and is by Chaucer out of King to the Throne. King'
Sagitta. He was out nine times Peter married in 1883 a daughter last year, won the West Riding of the Priroe of Montenegro, Princess Zorka, who died in 1890 Autumn Handicap at Pontefract He has two sons -Prince George, and the Derby Cap, was third on born in 1887, and Prince Alexan-two ocessions, and was five times der, born in 1888-a daughter, unplaced. Princess Helene, born in 1884, and a brother, Prince Arsenius,
In 1909 Prince George voluntarily nounced his rights to the
"
Chance Bird, a five year old
of
Chestnut, colt by best out Jerpoint, was out thres times last
year, and was only once placed, the running third in the Wednesbury
Plate at Wolverhampton ]
succession, and Prince Alexander was. recognised as heir to Throne.]
SIR RONALD ROSS.
Scientist's Petition for Grant
or Pension.
Debt of the Public.
"London. Received Jano 25. The captain and crew of the Gothland bave remained on the ship. Their conduct throughout is said by those rescadd to have been most gallani.
NAVAL AVIATION.
NEW SERVICE CREATED.
London. Received June 24.
The Admiralty announces the creation of a Naval Air Service with its own ranks and distinctive uniform. Civiliana will be per-
mitted to enter the servicedirect. The new service will tako over
the Coastguard Service where air and coastguard' stations are at the same place.
London, Received June 25. Recently a series of Cabinet meetings have been held. Mr. Asquith to-night conferred with Mr. Redmond, Mr. Dillon, and Mr. T. P. O'Connor..
The Amending Bili."
London Received June 23. In the House of Lords Lord Crewe announced that the second reading of the Amending Bill will be taken on July 1.
fi
ROYAL VISIT TO THE MIDLANDS.
London, Received June 25....
Their Majesties the King and Quean have received a whole BARON'S TRAGIC DEATH hearted welcome while visiting
the industrial centres round
FOUND WITH THROAT CUT. about Nottingham.
London. Received June 24. Baron Horace Courtenay Gam- mail-Forbes, the premier Baron
of Scotland, was found dead with THE BUDGET TANGLE. his throat cut in a hotel at Dunder.
NEW LIBERAL GROUP.
London. Received June 23. In the World's Lawn Tennis
Championships at Wimbledon, the following results are record-
CONDENSED.
(Reuter's Service To The Telegraph." The Guller won the Northum-
London. Received June 24.
berland Plate.
The French Minister of Posts Renter's Paris correspondent has promised to redress the post- says the disorderly postmen left men's grievances. the Post Office at midnight after holding up the maila eince 5 J. C. Parke beat F. Lowe 6-1, p.m. 0-3, 6.4
M. Thomson, the Minister of Brookes beat Ritobie 6-1, 6-0, Commerce, Posts and Telegraphe, promised to redress their griev
erl:-
6-1.
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HOME CRICKET.
London, Received June 25. Hampshire best Sussex at Horsham by two wickete
Leicestershire drew with York- shire at Bradford, thus securing| three points.
Win for the "Rest."
At Lord's, the Rest of England defeated the M.OC. team which had visited South Afries by an innings and 189.
TROPICAL MEDICINE.
STATESMEN HONOURED.
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King Peter of Servia has appointed Crown Prince Alexan- der regent, for reasons of health,
The strike among the French postmen has been renewed, the men demonstrating instead of working.
It is anticipated that the U, 8. battleships Mississippi and Idaho transferred to Greece
Further Demonstrations.
London. Received June 25. Only a small portion of the will be French mails are arriving. The within a week. strike was renewed in the morn-
The Admiralty announces the ing,
men demonstrating creation of a new Naval Air Ser- the instead of working.
vise with its own ranks and dis- tinetive nuiform,
Work Resumed.
Baron Forbes, premior Baron Reuter's correspondent at Paris of Scotland, has been found dead wires that the postmen have with his throat out in a Dundee resumed work on M. Thomson's hotel. promising to receive a deputation. The loss to the Government is already estimated at a million franca.
U.S. BATTLESHIPS.
THE TRANSFER TO GREECE.
London, Assolved June 24.
The Liberal dissentients to the Budget have formed a group to shape Liberal policy in the direction of economy.
Mr. Harcourt has unveiled bronze portrait reliefs of Mr. Joseph Chamberlaia and Mr. Austen Chamberlain, as a mark of honour for their services to tropical medicine.
NEWS.
The Langkat output for yester
London. Received June 24, The Right Hon. Lewis Har- court, Secretary of State for the Colonies, unveiled bronze portrait reliefs of the Hon. Joseph) Reuter's Washington corres-day was 259 tons. Uhamberlain, and his son, Mr.pondent states that it is anticipat The Liberal dissentients to Mr. Austen Chamberlain, at the ed the battleships Mississippi and Lloyd George's financial Propos. Royal Albert Docks Hospital in Idaho will be transferred to owned about 13,700 acres of land. ala have formed a group for the commemoration of their services Greece within a week.
(Deceased was the 19th Baron, and has been a representative Peer for Scotland since 1874. Ha was born at Aberdeen in 1829 and
succeeded his father in 1868. He
is
The heir to the title and estates
Forbes, who was born in 1841.]
London. Becelyed Juns 24.
the Hon. Atholl Monson purpose of, shaping o Liberal in connection
policy in the direction of economy.
work no loss exacting aud quite as fruitful for the nation!
"Of course, the anti-vivisec tionist and anti-vaccinationist oranke, who, in my opinion, 'are
medicine.
The
Commercial news appears on
with tropical Idaho is at present in the Medi- page 9 of this issue.
BACTERIOLOGICAL
INSTITUTE.
terranean.
A Chinese boy has been injured CEO by the falling of a live electrio different samples of larvas have wire. been collected and from these 11,916 adult. mosquitoes" have
been pinned and stored.
Captain Arthur, LM.S., M.B., Tai On, has been presented with a Captain Wetherell, of the s.8.
B. So, has worked daily with me
simply the enemies of science in Useful Work in Hongkong Last on the examination of the adult gold watch, as reported on page 4.
general, are likely to oppose these suggestions; but the rational public, which has ignored them for so long, need not take their outory seriously,"
INSURANCE REPORTS.
Year.
Dr. H. Macfarlane, Government Bacteriologist, in his report for last year states:
Preparation of Calf Lymph.
specįmons and is my partner in this work.
The investigation is not vei completed and will be continued during 1914.
Examination of Rats. The total number of rats examined waa S81,043 compared with 70,838 in 1912. 248 were found to be Plague-infected (390 in 1912),
HAUL OF OPIUM,
Laid out on a Bed Ready for Sale.
sicians. The greater discoveries, "Than Parliament definitely which determine the germe that recognises the obligation of the cause disease, or the methods in which they are carried from man State to compensate individuala for losses which they have inour to man, Isad to no pecuniary re- red by devoting themselves toward whatever. Yet they are work for the advantage of the just the ones that are of most Sir Ronald fiosa, K.C.B., public. When I learned of these importance to the public.
National Obligation, F.R.S, the eminent scientist and facta I thought that this mode of specialist in tropical disessas, petition would be the best way
** I therefore take my stand on whose world-famous discoveries for scientific men to attempt to two grounde, viz., (i) that it is with malarial recover similar compensation, and dishonourable of a nation not to in connection infection and its preventive treat. I determined to try to break the compensate the losses incurred on ment earned for him the Nobel ice by adopting it for myself. If its behalf in this manner, and (ii) prize some years since, has no one starts no one will continue, that it is most unwise of a nation forwarded to the Chancellor of and I believe that there are many not to do so. It discourages the Exchequer, for submission by workers in many high spheres of searchers and inventors. The
"Nineteen calves were inocou- him to Parliament, a petition intellectual effort besides science proper way to obtain compensa-
lated (20 in '1012). The total setting forth his claims for who have conferred benefits on tion appears to be by means of
number of tubes of lymph issued financial recognition of bis work the public and have received the petition to Parliament. Mem in the shape of a grant or pension. much less in return than I have. bers may complain that they will The 78th Annual General Meet- was 8,035 (16,042, in 1912). The His action
is being widely There are, I know, some trilling be deluged with applications. ing of the Liverpool and London value of the lymph by Govern discussed in both scientific and charities available for the purpose But, in the first place, all such and Globe Insurance Co. Ltd. was ment Notification No. 380 of 1910 parliamentary circles, as the in the shape of Civil List pensions, monetary petitions must receive held on May 19 and the Chairman was $3,532 60 ($7,095.20 in general principles on which he but the principle that determines the recommendation of the Crown reported that "Profit and Loss 1912). The decrease in the issues bases his claims are ensceptible their allocation is an altogether-i.e., of the Chancellor of the account" has been credited with is accounted for by the absence Det, Bergt. Wills, and a party of application to every sphere of wrong, not to say ignoble, one. Exchequer-before being allowed €733,594 and the Income of of any serious epidemic of Small- of police made a raid at 25, Chin scientific literary, and artistic It is a question not of public to proceed to Parliament. And the Company has now for the pox.
Loong Street where they found charity, but of public indebted besides, we cannot refuse to pay first time exceeded Five Million
thirty-five tools of prepared opium "I adopted the precedent of ness.Quang
a bill because others are coming Pounds Sterling, The Anasta The method of preparation of laid out on a red ready for sale, Jeaner," said Sir Ronald Ross to
"We must clearly distinguish in, and it is up against M.P.'s have now renohed:$13,833,482 the lymph is based on the methods They arrested a man who is a a Standard representative" after between two things, compensation to distinguish the valid from the 12s 48.
ased in the Local Government cook on board the Japanese team- careful thought and consultations and reward. Clearly the first is invalid claims.
Board Calf Lymph Establishment, er plying between Hongkong and with lawyers and others, in order absolutely within the rights of *** Where two or more workers The premiums on now as England. Full use is made of Samaui. The man was remanded to bring to a head the whole the individual; the second it have participated in a die-surances during the year amount cold storage, lymph being made at the Police Court this morning question of the treatment of should be the honour of the State covery Parliament should dised to £24,788 of which £1,738 only in the colder monthe-No- until to-morrow, to allow of the scientific men in this country, to give wherever proper. It is entangle the facts as the was disbursed for re-assurances vember to March. Lymph made value of the opium being sacer-
does Edward Jenner was a medical not fair that individuale should Nobel Committee in as above, the total premium three years ago and kept in the tained, practitioner when bo discovered suffer pecuniarily for the adven- Stockholm. The national honour income, after deducting the cold store was issued in the vaccination against smallpox. In tages which they confer on the appears to me to be concerned in amount paid for re-assurances hottest months of the saramer consequence of the time spent in world or on their ration. Now this. Perhaps the best solution being £274,420. The net claims and was reported on by the Another Shipping Fusion
Reported. investigating that subject he lost the British public has the very would be for Parliament to have paid and outstanding (including Medical Officer of the Gaol as most of his practice, and, although smallest conception of the way in a standing fund and a standing bonuses) amounted to £309,128 giving excellent results. The It was reported in Dublin last he had made this
groat which scientific discoveries are committee to administer that fond of which the aim of £41,813 was method recently proposed by Dr. month that an offer had been discovery, was nearly ruined. He made. It seems to think that on petition only and this not in respect of endowment se Bloxall of the L. C. B. Establish made by Sir Stephen Furness accordingly petitioned Parliament they are picked up in idle mo- for science alone, but for all the Gurances, matured. The local ment of adding clove oil to the M.P., and Mr. Alfred Henry Bead, for compensation, Parliament ments before or after luncheon! higher forms of intellectual effort. Agents are Messrs. Wm. Meyerink Glycerinated Lymph is being of Liverpool, to purchase the tried and has so far given very team Packet Company, and that shares of the British and Irish him $10,000 in 1802, and, Whereas nearly all really great This would, in fact, be a small and Co. again, $20,000 in 1807. Since discoveries are simply the outcome development fand for national
good results. fitime Parliament has awarded of the devotion of the soientist's discovery. I suppose that pay. The report by the directors of
a provisional agreement has been entered into with the directors, a similar recompensa to George whole energies, and often of all ment would be best given in the the Standard Life Assurance William Manby, in 1828, for his his spare cash, for many years. form of useful pensions, and 1 Company-shows that the amount
The company, which is one of discovery of a life-saving appara- Only in certain branches of doubt whether a larger sum than of assurances proposed during The investigation of the mos the oldest among Irish shipping sus, and I understand that it has science do discoveries result in £20,000 a year would be required the year amounted to £3,108,416, quitoes of Hongkong has been firms, will continue to trade under given similar rewards, payments, pecuniary gain, as in patents and for the purposs. Parliament that the total revenue for the year continued during the year. This the present name. It has by. or compensation to a good sum in the smaller medical and elini gives itself, perhaps quite rightly, was 81.698,768 and the total work is carried on by the collect weekly sailings between Dublin bor of other people, both before cal observations, which increase a quarter of a million per annum available funde at the end of the ing of larve and pap which are and London, the Falmouth,
the practice of surgeons and phy. It should therefore pay for oth $year $13,808.009. and after.
bred out in the Institute -3,980 Plymouth, and Southampton.
inventiveros
gave
Investigations..
The master of a fishing junk reports an attack by a pirate junk,
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TO-MORROW.
Bijon Theatre 9.15 p.r. Victoria Theatre 9.15 p.m. Sale of Bostage Stamps-
P. Lammert's Sale Booms-5p.m. Saturday June 27. U.S. R. U. Pagal Gymkhana -3.45 p.m.
Musical and Dramatic Enter
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Tuesday June 30. Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Extraordinary General
Ltd.,
Meeting-11a.m.
Wednesday July Entries close for Gymkhana
Third
Saturday, July 4. Frivolity Freear" at Theatre Royal-8.15 p.m.
Saturday July 11 Third Gymkhana Meeting.
Monday July 18, H.K. University Matriculation Examination.