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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
DAY BY DAY,
A LUCKY JAPANESE.
Lenient Magisterial Decision.
RAISING THE WIND IN PEKING.
Great Railway Scheme. The Acting Mayor of Canton
The Chizotangpu' has issued has appointed Dr. Chen Chun
An over-indulgence in his the following "Reorganization the Canton Hean, Head of
·Private Hospital. sa commis-native drink, sake, led to K. and Construction Plan." sioner of the Health Department. Nakaya a Japanese, appearing before Mr. R E Lindsell this A Chinese woman, the cox.morning on a charge of assault- cubire of Chinese merchanting a Japanese woman named living at No. 114 Des Voeux Mrs. Sesu Yamamura. Rost Central, was attacked by Defendant, it was explained by an unknown min as she was des Inspector Blackman conducting coding the stairs yesterday, the case, was "beastly" drunk Corrosive acid was thrown in the one night last week and the wo- voman's face, and she was badly man with whom he lived, had to purst about the face and body and go to a neighbour's house for had to be removed to the Govern-protection. Defendant came to ment Civil Hospital.
the Colony in a distitute condi-
Reduction is the personnel has tion, and, being of a kind disposi-been effected and will save up- tion. the woman took him into
The Chiaotongpo is making earnest effort at retrenchment and reorganization of the various de partments. As a result of politics the formar Ministers of the Chizo- tungpa ware in debt to upwards of $60,000,000 to domestic and, foreign creditors. Mr. Kao Eo- hung, therefore, intends to avoid politics and his plans centre on the question of how to raise the revenue to pay off the Ministry'e huge indebtedness.
Coincident with the disappear her house, fed him and in fact / wards of $3,000.000 yearly while!
ance of a foki a report
WIS
staffs will anya a further $15,000,-
prietor of a shop at No. 97 nothing but getting continually 000. Instead of continuing to received yesterday by the pro-worked for him whilst he did the reduction in the railways
Wendham Stree; that a sum of 3.00, which bad bean collected rom various customers. was aissing. The Police are making
nquiries.
drunk.
The Magistrate, in reply to a question he put was informed by the defendant that he assaulted the woman as a result of losing his temper.
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lavy the goods tax, the collection; of which necessitates the tablishment of a separate organ, the Cabinet bas sanctioned the abolition of this tax, and propar- tionately increasing the freight A robbery took place during the His Worship: Yes, you charges on the different lines. week-end at No. 16 Newman saulted her and made her black This is estimated to give an in- As the Street. The female tenant woke and blue all over the body. Why crease of $10,000,000. bp to find three strangers in her were you not in the Court last postal charges are also compara-
ubicle, who proceeded to bind week? I did come up.
tively low, it is proposed to levri Ber and bundle ber into
an additional one cent on all the Chinese Court but at a late hour. He was
is ex- now in police custody having pected to yield $500,000 yearly. been arrested on a warrant and The Department of Telegraphs the being unable to put up the bail will be reorganized and
charges for messages in foreign languages will be readjusted which is expected to realize $2,500,000 yearly. The additional charges are not expected to indict hardships.
Inspector Blackman said that
3 rear room. Whilst one kept the defendant did come up to
mard over her the two other obbers ransacked the place, and tole moner, jewellery and cloth ng of the total value of $106.
Filipino
money.
letters passing Post Office. which
Filip Anzuelo, the
To the defendant, his Worship who is alleged to have been said: I have told the Inspector surprised in a burglarious attempt there is no use in fining you on the offices of the Pacifc Mail because you have no money. The Steamship Company, was again complainant does not want you lo The increased revenues will femanded by the Mazistrate this be sent to jail. You can consider
serve as a sinking fand, for morning. Mr. E. W. Hamilton yourself very lucky. You will be the redemption of outstanding expressed a desire to visit be bound over in a personal toad of obligations. Short term domestic scene of the incident. before $100 to keep the peace for twelve loans will be secured on the bearing the evidence, and accord-months. If you touch this woman ingly the case was pat back sili again and are brought up here I Tuesday next, at 2.15. in the will sentence you to a long term of afternoon,
imprisonment, you understand Sow behave yourself. When you are summoned into Court again, you come at the proper time.
Five Chinese were charged on remand at the Magistracy this morning with being in possession You can go." of 109 Mauser pistols. 9 Smith- Weston revolvers,
two
other
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Admitted This Morning.
pistols, 25 cleaning rode, NEW BARRISTER FOR 15,000 rounds -of XRover Ammunition, and 1,300 rounds! Colt's smokeless, ammunition.į Three of the men were membersi of the crew of the .. President Grant and they were arrested as they were caught transferring this staff from the ship to a sampan. All the men were to-day sentenced
to one year's hard labour each.
In the Supreme Court, before.
increased railway freight charges amounting to $60,000,000 and on the additional telegraph charges amounting to $10,000,000. It is anticipated that domestic and| foreign obligations to upwards of $60,000,000 the principal and in- terest of which are falling due ini
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Saya London paper: Ons of the photographs of the Prince of Wales in Japanese costume Do W being published shows him in the Macdonald clansmen are taking livery of a rickshaw coolie. The steps to do honour to the memory motorcar is. of course, common of Flora Macdonald on the bin the Land of the Rising Sax
tive
employes is embroidered. They have wonderful speed and endar ance. Ten miles au bour is not an uncommon pace, and two men, alternately taking the past of leader and wheeler, will keep it up for 50 or 60 miles. Still, it is said that the life of a rickshaw pace that kills, and it used to be coolis did not exceed ten years after he took to the road.
With regard to completing the centenary of her birth. A marble, but many of the more conserva-{
Japanese retsio their the Chief Justice (Sir Wm. Rees-uncompleted railways, new plans tablet is to be affixed to the mond
Kilmuir, in Skye, where rest in ornate carriages. Rickshaw man Davies), this morning, the Atare contemplated. For example, ment standing to her memory stables" of human beras and
the Caston-Hankow Railway torney-General (Hoo. Mr. J. when completed will bring in round the remains of the. Young
rather deserted-looking burying in private employment often Kemp) made an application for
west $40,000,000 additional revenue. Pretender's saviour. A dozen
bandsome uniforms, on the admittance of Mr. Elsley Since the suspension of opera-miles is Kingsburgh farmhouse,
which the crest of the Zeitign to practise as barrister in tions io 1915 the Chan Subang, whose pro-the Supreme Court of Hongkong.s
property
close to the site of the old depreciated $35,000,000. frasional address is at No. 7
farm residence where Prince Mr. Zeitlyn was called to the The
between the gop Sairmen Lane, is an exponent of Middle Temple in May, 1906, it
Charles spent such a happy night sections is not more than Chinese boxing. In the preach was stated. He read with the sailes. It is anticipated that with old Macdonald of Kings ing of his prowess Cban usually present Lord Chancellor, then
burgh-and where Dr. Johnson. seems to have a remarkably ft. F. E. Smith, M.P., and went the whole line will be completed thirty years later, haard from the thick hide, but this failed him to the Northern Circuit, to the resumed. This gap will require then Mrs. Allan Macdonald)
two years after construction is
lips of Flora Macdonald berself critical stage one day last week. membership of which he was
an outlay of $40,000,000 but & when he went through the per- proposed by Sir Rufus Isaacs, according to the terms of the the story of her of this prince formance of stabbing himself now Lord Reading. He was
marvellous escape of the Prince. The pupils he was teaching were reconded by Mr. F. E. Smith now original contract & fresh agree Over Flora's grave there was sgbar: to see blood flowing from Lord Chancellor, and was supportment is not necessary for erected some years ago by public the wound inflicted in his stomach.ed by Sir Lancelot Saunderson,
subscription a hage modern The truth then became know now Chief Justice of Bengal
monument, and on this the bi- that Chan, without intending to The Chief Justice 'granted the
centenary tablet is to be affixed. do so, hard wounded hireself. He
application. was taken to the Government Civil Hospital and latest reports state that be is registering good progress.
FIRE AT PANYANG BROS" SHANGHAI PREMISES.
FATAL LAND SLIDE.
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amusing and
in
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wore blue hate with
Although green has appeared supplementary loan. The com-
recant weddings," generally pletion of the Lungbai Railway will increase the yearly revenue,
speaking, brides and bridesmaids by $30,000,000. The western
are as superstitious sa ever, re- section has been constructed s
marke a writer in the Daily far as Sbenchow and the eastern
Chronicle. Green has always been section bey and Sutsien. Since the There is AN
considered the emblem of fickle- diversion of 820,000,000 of the authentic story of one of Queenness, and we should not look Lungbai funds in 1916 for the ser-Alexandra's haspisal experiences across the water for stability. vice of President Yuan Shi-kai's which may be appropriately re- When Sir Patrick Playfair was Coolie Killed at Hunghom monarchical ambitious inter called on Rose Day. When chat married a few years ago the old! Twenty tons of rock and earth rupted the construction pro- ting with a small patient in a rhyme was adhered to: "Some Fire broke out yesterday marn- were brought down in a collapse gramme of this line it has suffered London hospital she asked the thing old and something new, ing in the premises of the on the billside to the rest of an annual loss of $5,000,000 in the child where she lived. "Near something borrowed and aome. brides- blue." The Nanyang Bros.' tobacco factory Wabu Street, near Lo Loong depreciation of property and in Whiteley's," was the reply, "and thing in Deat Road, Shanghai. The Fire Hung, at Hunghom. on Sunday. interest The sum required to where do you live?" As "Marl- raids Brigade received the alarm at A squatter's but at the foot complete the whole line is borough Boase" seemed to convey borrowed feathers, while one of 12.13 a.m., being apprised of the of the bill was completely buried estimated at $20,000,000. The nothing to the child ber Majesty accurrence by the Gas Works and efforts to reach it and dig out completion of the Shanghai-paused a micute, then with a branch office in the vicinity, and coolie who was known to be Hanzchow-Ningpo Railway and sudden inspiration added. "near on arrival it was found that the inside had to be temporarily aban-be construction of the Chientang Gorzinge's, you know." And the firemen employed by the factory doned when another slide River bridge will increase the child's face at once signalled had been at work on the occurred and threatened to bury annual revenue by $5,000,000. understanding. outbreak for half an hour pre- the relief workers in the same This line was nationalized in 1914) riously. The factory brigade bad manner. Yesterday the debris after which there has been a loss six jets of water directed on to was cleared and when the im- of upwards $1,000,000.
Sir Kingsley Wood, the third story of the building in prisoned man was reached he was which the re was located, and found to be dead. The remains launched to carry through the presiding at the lancheon beld to the result was that there
City-road Was were removed to the Kowloon above programme of reorganize-inaugurate the scheme for the about six inches of water on the Mortuary.
tion and reconstruction within restoration of the floor, The Municipal Brigade
The P.W.D. has now pronounc- two years and the revenue derived Chapel, quoted latter from Johu from the railways will then Wesley, as illustrating bis in amount to $75,000,000 yearly, interest in political affairs. The which case there will be revenus letter was written on the occasion not only suficient to meet the of an election at Bristol in
1769:- Ministry's obligations as they fall due but also a surplus which At a bearing held in Seattle on could be devoted to extension
had the windows thrown open ad the hill to be "dangerous and an investigation made, and until the top ridge is cut away. it was then found that although
the outbreak here was trivial, the
BILL
Serious efforts
fire had taken a good hold on the SEATTLE AGAINST SHIFFING fourth food. Immediately the facts of the case had been ascer- fained the Municipal Brigade kot July 13, before members of the purposes,
BUREAU.
being are
1
whee
Dr. Mr. Mason.-If, as I am
them wore green silk stockings. Green was becoming a regular election colour until an inquiring canvasser discovered the old superstition attaching to it, and it is doubtful whether it is to be found in this country at the pres- eat time.
NEW CHINESE RAILWAY HOTELS. The Tientsia-Pukow Railway
are opening three model hotels aathorities announce that they at Tsinanfu, Taianfo and Chufou, respectively.
MEMBERS OF THE OLD PARLIA MENT IN SHANGHAL. In many respects our Members assured, Mr. Gregor is a lover of of Parliament are indefatigable. King George and the present There are in Shanghai more than administration, I wish you and 150 members of the old Parlie- all that have votes to assist bim ment who have declined
President Li Yuan- ia the ensuing election. Your answer
to
to work on the fire, among other U.S. Shipping Board, the Seattle DISASTERS INVESTIGATION appliances the 85 ft. turntable Chamber of Commerce opposed
acape being brought into use the enforcement of Section 28 of A Disasters Investigation affectionate friend, John Wesley.bung's call to Peking to assist The best and smoke were very the Shipping Act because it was Bureau has been established in The president of the conference, in getting things going again, zreat, and as a consequence bold that the clause giving pre- Kioto, ander the management of in a subsequent speech, told. Bir but in spite of this refusal they couple of hours' work was requir ferential import and export rail the Kioto Imperial University, Kingsley and the Prime Minister ze by no means idle. They have ed to reach the beart of the blaze.rates to goods carried in Ameri- The new institution has in view that. Mr. Wesley's candidate was decided to form themselves into Thereafter it was speedily put in can boats would drive foreign the prevention of disasters by not successful: this could not have society to be known end to. No reason for the fire shipping to the Atlantic seaports. scientific knowledge and exper-been, altogether displeasing to the Association for the Protec can yet be assigned, nor can the
fence. According to a return him, when we remember that the tion of the Laws. No doubt such damage at present be estimated,
published by the University, head of the Administration, at a body has a useful career in front The greater part of the damage]
Japan suffers a loss from disasters that date was the Duke of Graf- of it, although outsiders might was, however, done through water
of various kinds of Y.200.000,000 ton, whose character secured im- have thought that there was more prior to the arrival of the Mani.
Garofood for seven years,
per annum. The cost of the new mortal fame of a kind in the scope for protecting the laws In cipal Brigade, N. C. Daily News,
Peking than here N.G.DN "MOUTRIE'S, Chater Randbureau is estimated at X 300.000, Letters of Junios. August 2
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