WEST POINT GODOWN FIRE.
Damage to Sugar and Rice.
OBITUARY.
Mrs. W.B.A. Moore.
Deep regret will be felt at the
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
CHINA'S VICE-MINISTER
OF FINANCE.
Peking, Fab, 27.—The Govorn- En-yuan's resignation and to ap ment has decided to accept Liu
Finance Beater.
This afternoon a fire broke out naws of the death of Mrs. Moore, paint Su Hsi-ti as Vice-Minister |
ir a godown situata under the To
Yuen Restaurant, West Point, and, a consequence, consider able damage was caused to con- sigaments of rica and susar stored on the premises.
It appears that coolies were engaged in arranging bags of Jugar in the godown when one of them upset a kerosene larap which was used to illuminate the place. A fire broke out, and the Fire Brigade, under the charge of
the wife of Dr. W.BA. Moore, Government Medical Officer. Mr. Moora has bad a long and painful illness and her expected. The end came to-day. demise was not altogether un at her residence, 2, Carnarvon |Buildings, Kowloon,
of
THE 21 DEMANDS.
A Peking Enquiry. Peking. Feb. 27.-The House of Mrs. Moore returned with her Representatires will tomorrow busband from Home as recently discuss the abrogation of the 45 November, and the sad news Twenty-One Demands and an- of her death will be a great blow quire what the Government bas to the wide circle of people with done since the previous resolution
Mr. Moss. was soon on the spot. whom she came in contact. The was passed.-Beetr The dames were without mucb jutmost sympathy is felt for Dr. difficulty extinguished after about | Moore in his bareasement.
twenty minutes, but on account of the large volume of smoke created, the firemen could not enter the main door and bad to operate their hoses through one of the windows at the side.
The damage caused by tire was 001 very greef, but that done by water
was very considerable.
in the godown.
Over a thoussed bags of SUST were damaged, as also were many of the 500 bags of sugar also stored The sugar and rice contained in the godown were insured with the South British Insurance Company for $150,000. The by the Yau Wing and Woo Hing sugar was imported from Java
firms.
Another alırm of fire was
WAYSIDE FRUIT.
THE BOXER INDEMNITY.
A Spanish Request. A Lesson from Germany.
Peking, Fab., 27.—The House of It has been proposed to the Representatives will tomorrow Harrow Council that on their new discuss the gold franc. It is re- housing estate fruit trees should ported that the Spanish have ask. be planted along the roads, and ed that their share of the Boxer all unsightly fences covered with Indemnity be paid in gold pesetas. blackberries, and loganberries, but it is stated that the Chinese writes "Wayfarer" in the Party Government intends to reject the Chronicle
demand, stating that the coc
Such pleasant notion is alession to the French was granted ready sa accomplished fact in in return for concessions regard- tricts the most striking feature of other nations.-fleuter. Dermany, where in country dising the Banque Industrielle and education, and is no precedent for the landscape is the roadside fruiti tree. For miles you will pass
given from Fourth Street. Wes: Poing this afternoon, but it fen either side with plùm, walnut, turned out to be only a chimnes OD fire.
| along straight bighways bordered | CRUELTY TO CHICKENS.
apple, or pear trees, and a very
casual examination shows that Fine for Overcrowding.
At the Police Court this morn.
they are well cared for.
When I was last there, in Oc-ing, before Mr. R E. Lindsell, Amongst the passengers who tober, the pears, apples and wal- Wong Tse-king, master of the left for Home by the Kashims
nuls were being gathered, trees of Eung On Poultry Depot, was Maru to-day were Mr. and Mrs. earlier fruit having been already prosecuted by lospector Fisher, Morton Smith, Mr. and Mrs. F. Å stripped. The picking was up of the S.P.C.A. for overcrowding H. Crapnell, Mrs. E. R. Dovey.parently a family affair, some-three crates of chickens on the Mr. Richard Hancock, Mr. A. times involving three generations. 20th. instant. Morley, Mr. W. L. Pattenden und Mr. J. Colin Owen.
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A VICCROLA.
Ack Moutrie ́n about their" tany jaymon!
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and it was clear that some of the. Inspector Fisher said that one pickers had come from a consider-crate of a size sufficient for 45 sble distanze, for the nearest vil-chickens contained 69, another a mile or more away. sufficient for only 36 contained Alfirst sight the stranger might 41, and another which should well be puzzled to see unprotected only hold 20 contained 45. There and heavily-laden fruit tree was one chicken dead in the stretching for miles along the largest crate.
ANOTHER GERMAN PROTEST.
New Territory Taken Over.
rulers Service. ¿
Montmund from Paga ..
Berlin, January 27.
Defendant, who stated that he was only a purveyor but who admitted the overcrowding, was Sined $25.
RACE WEEK COMEDY.
Fairbanks at the Coronet. Race Week is here and it finds the Coronet management giving
The German Government has sent a fresh not to the French & programme at the popular Government protesting against the various acts of violence alleged little picture house which fits in to have been committed by French and telgian troops in the Rubr.plendidly with the festive spirit
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It asserts that these are so numerous that they cannot be dealt with abroad 20 this season when ENGLISH MADE individually, but quotes variods examples.
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London, February 27. celebrate their good luck and The Rhineland Commission has decided to take under its Punters who have invested un- authority from February 26 the new territory occupied by the French wisely are in search of solace. between the Cologne and Coblence and Coolence and Mayence
Whether one is out to make the bridgeheads. Lord Kilmarnock abstained from voting.
most of one's little moment of joy or to get rid of the feeling of failure, there could be no more congenial companion. in the enterprise than Douglas Fair- banks, who is appearing at the Coronet all the week in "When the Clouds Roll By,
BOCHUM IN MOURNING.
Bochum, February 27. The town is in mourning on the occasion of the public funeral of a workmasa shot dead by the French on the 23rd. inst. Shops were closed along the route, which was lined with big crowds, despite French measures to prevent the increase of people from the neighbourhood. The French guard saluted the passing cortege.
THE INTERNATIONAL COURT.
Washington, February 27.
The Foreign Relations Committee passed a resolution calling on President Harding to state whether be favours an agreement obliging
The very title of the film strikes note of cheers optimism which is steadily sustained throughout the picture. Superstition its theme, the picture carries with it!
wholesome sermon to the pes- simist who thinks that because bis "boy" bress shaving mirror on Derby Day that ends big chances of drawing the right number in the
smashes his way through the nat of superstition that is draws around him as the picture pro- gresses and emerges with bis famous smile not a bit less broad and bearing.
the Governments, which have signed the Protocol creating the Inter-cash sweep. 1 be genial "Doug." national Court of Justice, to submit all disputes unable to be settled diplomatically.
U.S. MERCHANT MARINE LEGISLATION.
Washington, February 27. With the failure of ship sussidy legislation this session, the Administration is likely to abandon the effort to obtain Government aid for the mercantile marine but to embark ou a policy of trans- ferring vessels to private bands.
U.S. SECRETARY OF INTERIOR.
Washington, February 27. The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Postmaster- General Work to the Secretaryship of the Interior in succassion to Mr. Fall.
A ROCKEFELLER PURCHASE.
New York, February 27. Mr. John D. Rockefeller, junior, has bought in London six Rochefoucauld tapestries, it is stated, at a price of a million dollars
U.S. NAVAL OIL RESERVE.
Washington, February 27.
Mr. Fall annonaces the withdrawal of twenty million acres of land in Alaska to form a new naval oil rezerve,
NEW U.S. MINISTER TO HOLLAND.
A PUZZLE A DAY.
A cornerstone of an old build- ing was replaced following col- lapse of the structure. By ac- cident the cornerstone was re- laid upside down, but no one noticed the differenca. What was the date of the cornerstone?
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