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NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
TWO DIAMOND RINGS.
WILL
BROAD BASED UPON HER PEOPLE'S The re-taking OF OSTEND. AND COMPASSED BY THE INVIO-
LATE SEA-Tennyson.
The Draloage Question.
Newcomers to Hongkong, as well as visitors passing through, invariably have one complaint to make against the Colonyamely the lack of a proper system of water-Buabing as applied to draine. It is an old question this, but it is being made abundantly clearer day by day that the mat. ter is ono which will soon have to fine. be taken in hand and dealt with on comprehensive lines. There fine. are some members of the Sanitary-
The Weather. Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 78; At the Peak 8 m. Temp, 08;
The Malls.
Sibarian Mails Due to arrive
to-day.
Mail from Earope-Expected to
day.
American Mail-Due to arrive to
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Siborian Mail-Closes to-morrow
at 3 pm.
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Count the Columas.
Question of Ownership Before the Court.
INSURANCE PETITION.
Application by the Hongkong
Fire Insurance Co.
Keeping an Eye on Wily Turkey.
An intereating case, involving the ownership of two large This morning, the Chief The telegrams of the past diamond rings, was commenced Justice, Mr. Justice Gomperts, twenty-four hours have brought
this morning, in Original bad before him an application in us a variety of wer news dealing Jurisdiction, before the Chief respect of the Hongkong Fire with the situation both on land and
| Insurance Co., Ltd. * on spa at practically all poists of Justice, Mr. Justice Gompertz.
In connection with the owner- The onse took the form of a Board who realise that point, as the
contact. To us one of the most ship of the rings, Tong Yiu, a petition on behalf of the discussion at yesterday'e meeting
interesting and important of the howed. Chief of there is Dr.
messages is that from the London partner in the firm of Tsung Company that the alteration of Fitzwilliame, a man to whose
Morning Post's correspondent Hang Co., Macao, brought on the Company's objects, proposed opinious due weight should be
tolling of the re-capture of action against the Captain to be effected by a special re- given. In bis view, Hongkong is
Ostend by the Allies. In point Superintendent of the Police of solution passed and confirmed by not an up-to-date sanitary city
of fact we have had no direct Hongkong, claiming that he meetings of the shareholders, it is one which is labouring under
fficial announcement of the detaine, and was detaining, two should be confirmed by the Court, ad antiquated system which has
fall of the famous watering-place diamond rings, and asking for pursuant to section 10 of the many deficiencies. That submis Yesterday the Telegraph pab as yet, though, following a report the return of them or their value, Companies Ordinance 1911, or that such other order might be sion is one which will, we are liabed 37 columus of solid from Amsterdam to that effect, it $4,500. sure, be endorsed by pine-reading matter. To-day there was notified from Paris on Sunday order was made by Mr. Justice Court might seem meat.
Arising out of that claim, an made in the premises as to the tenths of the inhabitants of the will be 35 published.
that "the German troops in
Mr. C. G. Alabaster, instructed The Dollar. Colony, who have suffered too
western Belgium have not passed Gompertz that the rings should long the inconveniences of exist
the line Ostend Thourout-Raulers remain in the custody of the by Mr. H. W. Locker, of Messrs. ing methods for the disposal of
Menin," which, of course, was in Captain Superintendent of Falice Deacon, Loker, Deacon and By the 9.8. Chias, there itself a 8: fficient iudication that and that the costs incurred by Harston, appeared
the Germans were in cconpation him in the matter should be a petitioners. in Hongkong, on a brief visit.
Li Yau, a pawnbroker, claimed was a petition by the Hongkong have been levelled against the general manager of the Cable writing there is no ornfirmation that he was entitled to the rings, Fire Insurance Company Limited
The main objections which Mr. P.G.M. McDonnell, editor and of the place. Up to the time of first charge upon the jewellery
of the Morning Post's story of the adoption of the water-drainge news American (Manila). Mr. The catan of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph," will system in Hongkong are that the McDonnell is leaving again
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A NEW CHINESE MOVEMENT.
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Mr. Alabaster said that this
worth noting that the information and it was consequently ordered Ordinance 1911, for the approval has been secured on excellent that an isane should be tried by the Court of an alteration in root of the city, but it is and Tong Yin disputed the claim, under section 10 of the Companies
formation comes from a trustwor thy source. The Post was, in fact,
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The view of the oase which be took was that the Court should be informed of Macao law on the subject and with that end in view,
Was
RECKLESS CYCLIST.
Passenger.
On Friday, October 30, Mr. authority. And a point not to between Li Yan-obuen se plain- the Memorandum of Association. be lost sight of here is the fact, and Tong Yia as defendant, The petition was filed on August The rates por quarter and per mens:m, proportional. Subscriptions able for flcabing purposes. Bat J. W. White, acting-organist of thatthe journal named is not in the for the purpose of deciding which 20. The effect of the resolutions for any period less than ne month will be charged as for a Dr. Fitz williama disposed of these St. John's Cathedral, will give habit of giving out news without of them. was entitled to the rings, which had been passed by the
contentions very quickly. He a recital, at 9.15 pm., in aid of
Court was engaged to-day.
combine, with its fire insurance Mr. Eldon Potter, instructed business, insurance business of The daily issue is delivered tree when the address is accesible to showed how in a flat place like the Prices of Wales' Fund, Brat satisfying itself that the in-It was with that point that the Company was to enable it the their residences without any extra charge. On copies sent by/advantages of Hongkong so far Prelude and Fugue in the firet to make the announce. by Mr..W.E.L. Shenton, of Messra, other kinda which can be nossenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered at Osiro, which has none of the Among other items will be
as drainage is concerned, such a Minor." Bach; "Land of Hopement of the fall of Antwerpa Deacon, Looker, Denoon and conducted by a fire office, not. proposed The postage on the weekly issue to any part of the world is $1.00 system operates with excellent and Glory," Elgar: "Sound on day before the official intimation Hars on, appeared for the plaintiff, It
results, and he might have come Alarm," bandel; and variatione-and the Press Bureau permitted and Mr. 10. Jenkin, instructed to conduct life business, but nearer home and pointed also to on the National Anthem.
the circulation of the statement, by Mr. G.R. Heywood, of Mr. it was proposed to carry on most the case of Shanghai. Then he
though itself it had had no con- Leo D'Almada o Castro's (fice, oiber kinds of insurance business, A similar application was before firmation thereof. So we may represented the defendant.
Mr. Jenkin very much regretted his Lordship in connection with the same physical formation as LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. take it that the present annoucoe
ment has some basie in actual that he would have to ask his the China Fire Insuranos Com- Hongkong, and indicated how
fact, especially since it follows the Lordship for an adjournment of pany, and he did not know of any well the system worked there.
marked progress the Allies have the case, but he had to do so for material difference between this to'drain, Hongkong is an extreme-
made in this locality of late. Far from being a difficult place
reasons which neither ho nor his one and that. olient had in his control. The case His Lordship remarked that, ly easy one. Then, too, the doctor
Fine Endurance. ! pointed out that sea-water is
Touching the advance of the turned upon the possession and the there was the investment power. Afr. Alabaster said that that atilised for flushing in many A meeting of the Legislative Allied forces in Belgian territory, right. of possession of The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve places with excellent resuits. Council is to be held to-morrow, the fact deserves some prominence diamond rings which were given point arose in connection with The fact is, of course, that it is when a vote to the Prince of that the Belgian Army has again to a man by the plaintiff, with the China Fire case, and he the truth and print the news without fear or favour.
all a question of money, but that Wales' Fund will be moved and being showing up extremely well. certain powers. The man went believed that there was an under- should not stand in the way of a when the Budget Bill will come The enemy has made a series of to Macao and, gambling, pledged taking given that they would solation of the problem. The on for frat reading.
fresh attacks to drive back the the rings in a gambling house at retain the original capital in strict Colony's bealth should be the first
His Excellency the Governor oncoming troops, and it is placed Macao. He lost the rings, and the security. They were prepared to consideration of the Government, will move the following resoluen record from French head-owner of the gambling honso give a similar undertaking in this whatever the ccat.
quarters that in the successful came to Hongkong for the purpose cace. He proposed that the terms. "That A contribution of repelling of these onslaughts the of realising on the rings and of the order should be drawn up Trafalgar Day,
$100,000 be made from the Belgians have played a notable went to the identical paweshop, sad submitted to his Lordship in Thongh all that could be said
fonds of the Colony to the part. This is most refreshing the owner of which had entrusted chambers.
This course was agreed to: about Trafalgar was said before
National Fund instituted by news, especially so seeing that it them to the man who gambled. It any of us of this generation were
His Royal Highness. the may be taken os. a certainty that was from those circumstances born, it seems hardly" the thing" Prince of Wales for the relief the Germans thought they had that the present caso arose. to let the anniversary of it pass
of persons in the British Isles broken the spirit of Belgium's without at least some mention.of
who are dependents of men Army once and for all, It has him who gave his life for England serving with His Majesty's long since been made evident Forces and of those who that Germany has the cream of The other day we commented on the encouragement which the a hundred and nine years ago.
suffer from unemployment her Army on her Right Wing, they had retained the services of Upsets Ricksha and Injures Lady Government of Japan gives to industrial and especially agricultural Assuredly Nelson was one of
caused by interruption and but this availe her nothing, for it a Portuguese lawyer, Mr. Nolasco. development, and remarked that in this respect Chias. has much to those who being dead, yet
dislocation of trade and in is here that she has been most He had informed them on Sunday The that he had two cases coming on learn from her near neighbour. Of course, it is not to be assumed speaketh," and the officers and
dustry or otherwise are consistently driven bзok, the simpler arte the people of China have shown a remarkable likely to forget the spirit of that all Chinese industrial methods are primitive and rude, for in-day who are keeping
England's end up at sea are not plunged into poverty and endurance of the Allies in this in Macao on Tuesday and Wed-
distress in consequence of zone and particularly that of the nesday; he would do his best to A boy was charged this morn ingenuity. In handicraft the Chinese have no superiors, while in the Trafalger hero's last signal.
French troops in the vicinity of get them adjourned, but yesterday ing, at the Police Court, with agriculture their methods, if & trifle crude, are certainly, most To-day will be a busy time. The orders of the day are:-- Arras, where fierce fighting hae he cabled to them and said that riding a bicycle recklessly in ingenious. Where the need for improvement is most evident is in round about Trafalgar Square. First reading of a Bill entitled been going on for ten days with-it would be impossible for him to Nathan Road, Kowloon. It ap regard to those industries the products of which come into compet- Those of ition with the products of European skilled hands. The people have lived in London will re-exceeding Nine million Eve future. Soldiers who can fight of the facts of the case had been to ride a bicycle, sud although a our readers who An Ordicarce to apply a som not out a halt promises much for the come to Hongkong. The whole paara that the youth was learning themselves, as a whole, have not the initiative to seek out and fellow member that, even at the most hundred and sliten thousand eiz like this will be deterred by admitted, and the only question, in passing rickeho gave him more the lessons of the West; hence the necessity becomes greater for the peaceful times, when warfare by hundred and ninety-two Dollars nothing from a steady pursuit of their view, turned upon the state than half the road, he ran into it, Government to take up the task of encouraging well-ordered
ses sermed farthest away from us, to the Public Service of the year their task. In the long ran they of the law, the main part of their upset it, and threw a lady pas progress.
are bound to win through. 0180. being founded on Maoso senger into the road. Mian Lopes," Before the desired end can be attained, the public has to be the celebrated column was never 1915.
allowed to go without its offerings
Turkey and the Cruisers. Second reading of the Bill
the passenger in question, sus educated, and we notice from the National Review, which is in close
We said the other day that Tur- Mr. Potter objected to an ad.lained scratches on the arm. touch with official Chinese life, that the Minister of Agriculture and of wreathe and its hundreds or entitled An Ordinance to amend
thousands of visitors. This year the Jury Ordinance, 1887.
key was asking for trouble over journment, for many reasons. He The lad was fined $10 by Mr. Commerce, who himself is a practical cotton grower and spinner, the monoment hes a significance Second reading of the Bill her attitude concerning the was quite ready to go on, and J. R. Wood. has presented a memorial to the Government in which ho advocates such as it has never had before. entitled An Ordinance to provide cruisers Goeben and Breslau, and they were prepared, if necessary, the provision of funds for experimental work in connection with the Ships and methods have changed for the formation of a Special yesterday's telegram giving the tocall a Portuguese lawyer to day, development of agriculture, the culture and treatment of cotton and since 1805, but the men remain Police Reserve.
latest developments of this in The case had been put off from of sugar cane, as well as for the introduction of forestry contres and the same, and what Britain bas
oident confirms that opinion. time to time and the date was $2,000 paid into court se security Brit.in, we are told, has made fixed long enough ago for the for costs. That security provid representations on the subject to defendant to have got his witnessed more than a 'sufficient margin stations required an expenditure would be involved which the Advertising and the Wor
the Porte, which has fually do there. He would also like to see to pay the costs of the adjourn present state of the national finances would not permit, and he Not only do the Home papers
clined to discharge the German the cable.
ment, and he suggested that they. anggests, therefore, that at the moment, attention be devoted to the contain no news. but war news,
crews from these warships. We Mr. JenkinDoea Mr. Potter be paid out of the amount more important claims-those of cotton, sugar cane, forestry aud
but nowadays the very advertise
shall be surprised if the matter is doubt my word? I have the cable provided for security. cattle raising. He goes into the proposals on these matters in some
allowed to rest hero. Either the
on my table.
Mr. Potter remarked that the cruisera are Tarkish boats or detail, and suggests that to begin with a sum of $300,000 shouldnt columns breathe of very
Mr Potter: I do not doubt recurity would not be sufficient, be allotted for the purposes proposed. His idea is that for cotton loss closely connected with
German. If they are the former, Mr. Jenkia's word. I have a If his Lordship ordered the coste Telegrams to the Call news what are the German crews doing Portuguese gentleman here who to be paid out of the $2,000, there there should be three experimental stations at an initial cost of the war. We aro writing $120,000, including purchase of land. As to how the funds should with the front page of a recent world series of baseball matches should be diamantled and intern- reason of what he said to him recure the coats of the action. A American give the results of the on board? If the latter, they knows Mr. Nolasco and it is by would not be anfficiens left to be assured, the Minister ad visos the imposition of a small tax Times under our eyes. The played at Boston, and which ed in accordance with international that I want to see the cable. on cotton at one of the stages in its manufacture. This tax, he
bill had been produced to his believes, would suffice to meet the initial expenses in connection with larriago notices include two inlanded in the Boston men beating usage. We have, of course, a pretty
The cable was shown to Mr. Lordehip showing costs amount, the cotton experimenta. The other proposals are along similar linos stances of "very quietly, owing Philadelphia by four straight shrewd idea of the game Turkey Potter:
ing to $2,300. If there were an except that the initial outlay is to fall on the Government.
Much good would undoubtedly result to the country it schemes rooms army officare); under fet game: Boston: 7, Phil. 11e play gamely, the giving of Mr. Potter said that if an adjournment, the costs should be
Deaths are seven amouncements
facilities to Germany to operate adjournment were granted, paid forthwith, becaure if they Auch as those outlined above were properly organised and put into of sub-headed "Killed in Action; "
Boston 1, Phil. against Russin in the Black Sea he would ask that the costs of the were not they would never get Boston 6, Phil. 4 But that sort of thing cannot be adjournment be paid forthwith them. Th foot. But it is to be questioned whether the people will stand for further
two whole columns are headed tomation in order that such proposals may be put to the test. Already" Prize Courts," and there is the The third game was played imaging it will not be long ore be proceeded with. The other left to the Regis Tan
Beaton, 3, Phil. tolerated for a moment. And, wo He thought that the ass could The question of the cute was thy ore bearing big burdens of taxation, and they might very well qual number of appeala liom before, a, dowd of 50,000 feng Turkey is made thoroughly con people had sufficient time to take Mr. Potter baik ho, was quite kick against the weight being increased, especially, since they must charitablo, bodies that have This is the largest baseball orond avions of that fact. regard experiments of this kind, at first, with a measure of suspicion.
precautions against this thing prepared to submit now that If the ordinary revenue of the country were properly accounted for, ang into existence since fight in history. The attendence at
ing broke out, Furthermore,
happening, The fantan shop Macao law could not be consider it would doubtless be found that there would be a balance sufficient Madame Tussaud advertises "life: the first game was only 20,000,
was no longer in existence, ed on the facts of the case, and, ly large to cover undertakings of this kind. As we say, the idea of like portrait models of the defend. The largest attendance in 1912 The German firm of Carlowita His Lordship said he was afraid secondly, that the law which shey taking some serious steps to revolutionise agricultural and in-
was 36,602 this game was the & Co. and Arnhold Karberg & he would have to have the costs should prove would be in their era" etc, and about five sixthe fourth and was played dustrial methods is a most excellent one, but if it is to beected upon of the Agony Column consists of York. In 1013 the largest attend Makden, page the Peking Day
at Now Co. have closed their branches is paid before the next hearing.. the people must not be expected to foot the whole of the bill, and matter that would never have
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ance was 36,682 at New York what is more, there should be some guarantee that the scheme is
appeared but for the wa marked by Mally qualified and trustworthy men.
the fifth and last game.
for the encouragement of scientific breeding of cattle. The proposer done befcio she can do again.
of these fohemes realises that to set up the many experimental
little olte but matters more or
to the war" (and both bride.
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