MOTOR BUS ACCIDENT.
TWO. PASSENGERS INJURED.
CHINESE CUSTOMS.
T19.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
NEW RIVER BOAT.
HANG CHEONG" TO. SAIL
ON SUNDAY.
YEAR'S COLLECTIONS,
Peking, Jan. 3-The Customa In rounding & bend on the collections for the principal ports
On Sunday night the s Kowloon City Road yesterday are as follows-Harbin Tis, 1, Hang Cheong, the latest river. morning, motor bus No. 851,115,000, Antung Tis 1,566,000: steamer to ply between hore and of the Kai Tack Company, toppled Dairen. Tls. 5,690,000: Tientsin and Canton, will make her maiden into a field near the Hongkong Chinwangtao,
7,263,000:|trip. The rassol now lies along Kiaochow, Tis. 2,659,000; Shang-the Douglas Wharf and is a trim, leather works.
hai, Tis. 23,904,000; Swatow, ap-spick and span little ship, being Most of the passengers were proximately Tis. 1,491,000: Can-fitted with everything of the latest thrown out, and two of them wore ton, Tls, 3,842,000; Nawohwang, for the convenience of passengers: seriously injured, waians 1,178,000. This represents the It will be remembered that the sustaining a broken rih, while a following increases respectively.vessel had only just been man fractured his leg.
except in the case of Hankow, launched last August when the were taken to the Kwong Wahwhich is a decreaseTls. 42,000 typhoon drove herashore off North Hospital.
TIs. 258,000; Tis. 232,000; Tls. | Point, but she has since been in 218,000: Tis. 431,000; Tis.330,000 the hands of Taikoo Dock, her Tis. 2,269,000: Tls. 149,000; Ts.builders, and she is now 癟 577,000; Tls 213,000.— Reuter.
a
SUN AND CHAN.
Both
"THE RECONCILIATION RUMOUR.
PRIEST KILLED.
WHEN BANDITS LOOT
TOWN,
credit to the' dockyard and her! Towners. Possessing a speed of 12.3 knats per hour, she will be one of the fastest on the run.
DAIRY
THURSDAY, JANUARY
FARM NEWS
An opportunity
for those who prefer.
HONEYSUCKLE
BUTTER.
made at the Farm)
She is under charter to the Wing Standing orders now being booked.
On Steamship Company and will
be on the night rus, leaving! Hongkong nightly at 9.00 and As the Yunnanese troops and General Chan King-ming's forces
arriving in Canton at about 6.30 |
on the East River have volun-
the next morning leaving Canton at 5 pm. that night and arriving tarily retired to defensive lines, Shanghai, Jun. 3. A message here just after 11 o'clock. · Under many rumours are in circulation. from Sulyuan states that the the command of Capi, William C. In some quarters it is said that Belgian priest, Achille Soença. Evans, the boat should soon be- a reconciliation between Dr. Sun was shot and killed at Hokiccome one of the most popular on and General Chan is contem-when the town was looted and the run. plated, in order that a Northern plundered by bandits. His com- Expedition may be carried out;panion, the Rev. Joseph Leemans, whilst in other circles it is stated the Yuunanese commanders have agreed with General Chan to an armistice in consequence of Dr.
escaped.--- Router.
Sua having requested Hunanese EMPIRE EXHIBITION. accommodation for about 40 first-
and Kings troops to occupy important points on White Hi
A Telegraph representative, who paid a visit to the ship: this morning, was struck by the studied comfort with which she is replete. There is.
class passengers..the staterooms being especially attractive. Each is fitted with two heds, chairs, THE HONGKONG FILMS.
washstands and mirrors, hot and One of the features at the cold water, fans, a separate read- Hongkong section of the British ing light foreach bed, whilst each Exhibition in London will be a cabin has two doors, one giving cinema film depicting Chinese life on to the deck and one on to the The following will represent and local scenery in this Calony, saloon passage-way. The saloon. Club against the 102nd. This is being made by the South though small, is equally attrac Grenadiers at the U.S.R.C., on China Sun Motion Picture Com-tive, and there is ample deck space Friday at 4.43 pm:-A.H. Roffey, Pany, on an order placed with for both first-class and second- E.G. England: G. Murray;
them by the Secretariat for Chin-class passengers. The second- accommodation should E.J.R. Mitchell: A.S. Hett: Eese Affairs. Some two thousand class Sim: H. Owen Hughes: F.C. | feet long, it will boost the Colony attract much patronage, whilst Miller: W. Woodward; G.R. in a most effective manner. More: D.H.F. McMaster
the
HOCKEY.
On Wednesday next, there will
be a match against a team of Army officers, and it is hoped there may also be a 2nd. team fixture, though as yet one has not been definately arranged.
LEAGUE CRICKET.
The K.C.C. 2nd XI will play
the third-class accommodation is equal to anything now on the Yesterday the cameraman was river mut A feature of the ship's) "shooting" the best bits from alequipment is the právision of motor car. At the invitation of the joint Chambers of Commerce. a special screening of the films took place at the World Theatre this afternoon..
DAY BY DAY.
lifebelts for all, there being four big bins of them for the third-class passengers. The boat will carry. altogether, between five and six bundred passengers. The engines are of the latest pattern with 900 normal horse-power. fitted with steam reversing gear, whilst the steering gear is also steam operated. There are cranes for hauling heavy cargo out of the holds in fact, the general equip- ment of the ship is of a very high standard.
A report from Sheki says that the LRC-om-Saturday at an official sent out by Admiral Kowloon at 2.15 p.m. The follow-Chan Chak. with a fores of about
Capt. Evans may well be proud ing have been selected to repres- 200 soldiers and a number of ent Kowloon H. Overy. W. L. gunboats. captured that city of his new ship and the travelling Weaver, A. O. Brawn. A. R. F. without any resistance being public will doubtless have a full Raven B. Petheram. E J. offered. The Magistrate. Chu measure of appreciation for this Edwards, A. J. Kew. F. W. Chuek-man, is said to have fled latest addition to the Colony's Howell, J. Fraser. E. Savage and to an unknown destination and fleet of river steamers. D. S. Green. Reserva-J. most of his officials have gone to Loog.
Macao.
FLIGHT TO THE POLE.
CONFLICTING VIEWS REPORTED.
(Reuter's American Service.)
NEW U.S. SHIPPING SERVICE.
For Silk Trade From China.
A direct Manila-Los Angele-
be inaugurated beginning the passenger and freight servie is
uter part of January or the early part of February, says the Bundle Bulletin.
Washington. January 2. Various rumours are afloat in connection with the visit by McCrary, the Commander of the airship Shenandoah, to confer with Government officials regarding a proposed flight to the North Pole next summer. For example it is rumoured that Condr. McCrary disagreed with Heinen, the German air expert, and also Weyer-
This service is the third now bacher, the America constructor, both of whom favour a flight to the Pole. It is understood that Comdr. McCrary prefers to sail along line to be announced for Manila the Pacific coast and anchor at Alaska, where he will prepare for within three months, the tw his final dash.
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MEXICAN REBELS HELP THEMSELVES.
EAGLE OIL CO'S TANKERS PILLAGED.
Mexico City, January
others being the Norddeutscher! Lloyd passenger and freight service to Europe and the Eullar round the world service.
Mr. John R. Wilson, Manila representative of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, is to be
Manila agent. He recently re- ceived advices of his optint-]
The tanker San Antonio belonging to the Mexican Eagle Oilment.
The Dairy Farm Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd.
Cafe Wiseman's
New Year Puddings from $1.50 each.
Mince Pies $1.20 per doz.!
New Year Cakes
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from $2.50 each. ·
All goods made at pur Electric Machine- Bakery
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ANIMAL TAMING.
Woman's Influence With
Wild Beasts.
woman, Miss Gladys Callow, who
来
1924.
She is shown picking up a Pondicherry vulture, holding it in her arms, placing it feet up- wards in her lap, and then tick- ling its chest. getting a King volture to untie her bont laces In a lecture to the Royal Photo and then to spring unaided into Company, has arrived at Tampico after being escorted by a rebel The new line is the United Kraphic Society at their annual her lap and settle down there. gunboat into Vera Crux harbour, where it was relieved of eight States and Steamship Company Saunders said that a remarkable her hair down with its paws; exhibition in London, Mr. J. Eplaying with a wolf till it pulls thousand harrels of crude oil for the railways controlled by the re-headquarters in New York. It series of kinema photographs had giving "Rex," the Zun's biggest volutionaries. The tankers San Leonardo and Santa Alicia, of will specialize in handling silk just been taken in the Zoo by the African leopard, a large bong the same line, have also been taken to Vera Crux to pro- from China ports to Los Angeles Zoological Society's offical kine through the bars of his cage, and vide the rebels with oil, of which they are in great need.
in an attempt to reduce trans- portation, ime. Present plans, matographers, showing & young then wriggling it out of his teeth according to Los Angeles advices,
iuto & cage with four golden are to save three days in the was a Fellow of the Zoological as he begins to gnaw it, and going some eagles and getting the biggest, transit time from China to New Society, playing with
strange pets and demonstrating Mac," to swoop down from a York.
ber unusual talent for making high perch and take, while firing, Italy has made representations opposing the Immigration Bill
The company will begin service Friends of them.
a piece of rabbit from her fingers. ow under consideration by the Immigration Committee, contending is to be the starting point.
with seven vessels. New York Miss Callow, he said, was an at a further limitation of Italian immigration on the basis of the Wilson's preliminary advices are to make friend of animals in the haps one reason which helped Mr. animal lover whose hobby it was! Mr. Saunders added that per- 190 census would constitute discrimination against a friendly nation. that Manila will be the terminal Zoo; and many of them would, Miss Callow to do these things
The proposed new immigration law contemplates restricting migration to two per cent. of the number of each country's nation point but he is not absolutely let her take unusual liberties was the fact that many of the resident in the United States in 1890, instead of the present law certain on this point. Shanghai with them. The pictures taken animals in the Zoo was hen- three per cent. of those residing in the United States in 1910 may be the terminus.
include Miss Callow sitting on pecked by his lioness. Even the e proposed measure will bear most heavily on. South European
The ships will touch at Havana the back of the threeton hip big "hippo," was under his wife's ntries, whose nationals formed a smaller proportion of the Los Angeles, Honolulu, Manila, potamus" Bob" and feeding thumb, and worse still was the ulation in 1890 than in 1910. Mr. Davis recommends the Hongkong and Shanghai and his mate, Joan," and while case of "Satan," the Prince of ction of immigrants at the port of embarcation with special re-return to New York via the same sitting there, making "Winnie, Wale's black leopard, whose ince to the economic needs of the United States and to exclude ports. They will not go to Japan. a nine-year-old Canadian bear, domineering wife, "Maud," might who are unable to become citizens under the American laws, be- All vessels will be passenger take figs with the teeth from her be said literally to give "Satan"
sailing.
now and then "a devil of a time,' lips.
ITALY PROTESTS AGAINST IMMIGRANT LAW.
Washington, January 2.
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