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NEWS OF THE DAY. To-day in the anniversary of the disastrous typhoon of 1906.

CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

Robbery.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1911

THE TYPEQON.

The typhoon of which we first bad news

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TavaDAY, September 21 :-

6pm-V.BQ Aquatle Sports. FRIDAY, September 23:-

5 p.m.-V.R.C. Aquatic ›Sporta. SATURDAY, September 23:--

Noon-Ordinary General Meeting of

Douglas Steamship Co.

MONDAY, September 25:--

The Russian milway authorities will run through express trains between Vladivostock and Moscow, beginning Sept, ember 28.

The following palatable paris from the Perak Pioneer of September 5-Thore were no trussed fowl in the market this mining for sale. Possibly no birds had died över night.

There were 345 European and 150

of the Province, the implication, being H.M.S. For recommissioned at that when the decision of the Govern- Colombo on 18 Septembar for further ment is known to be against the Service on the China Station. She will

arrive at Hongkong about 27th October. -wishes of the people there will be so

mach unrest and disturbance that) H. E. would prefer that some other head should have the guidance of affairs, and some other person be there to be target for the indignation of the people. It would appear fror some further references which we have seen in the native papers that in regard to the railways of Hunan and Hupeh the Government has paid back all the funds invested by the people. If that is so, there is all the more need that the same course should be followed down here.

Now we come to the other cause

binoso visitors to the City Hall Library, and 184 European and 2,879 Chinese visitors to the Museum during the week arding the 17th Septembar..

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on Tuesday last, when it was located west The Fulco Thutz, Mount Austin, was- of lariana Islands, its direction than crowded on Saturday night whón a aplondăt boing acknows, has come within the amateur concert was given in aid of

indications it should not get very near Was Elis Excellency Major-General Ander Hougang. After a siz" weeks' absenos son while Captain W. Wodehouse Mr. of typhoon signals the rod south cone and H. F. G. Carter and Captain F. J. G, Apr drum, indicating that the disturbance was were responsible for the excellent manner to the south-east of the Colmy more than in which everything was arranged. The 500 miles distant, were hoisted yesterday band of the K.O.V.L.I., which long agu just before noon, being superseded later captivated the people of Hongkeng by its the groom, green, green lights. eficiently executed solutions, was present Later the night signsia were altered signify and gave a number of pleasing itein ing that the typhoon, bad come within the further enhancing its already high ro Mr. Alabaster said that prisoner ya 300 milos zone.. A warning received from putation: On more than one ocasión charged with having, in company with thres Manila yesterday showed that the distur-Corporal Burgess has appeared before other men, committed a robbery on August bando a post or over the Balingtang Hongkong audience as an expert in 7. On July 30 prisoner went to the shop Channel, abila the Observatory report the art of sword and club swinging. of prosecutor, the was a building con mued at, neon yesterday stated that the and on Saturday night he gave tractor in Ship Street, and asked him mouth coast of China waa threatened within most finished performance, repenting tags to Barrington to do some repairs. 43 hours.

some of the axercises blindfolded in A massage received from Manila to day response to the demand for an encors He came again two days later and they went to Bowrington some sort of bargain having at 0.20 a.m.stated that the typhoon was Senorita Delia was responsible for a de boon struck. On August prisoner again west of the Balingtang Channel, moving, in Eghtfal Spanish Sereunda and Raa recalled went to see prosecutor who asked him to gawesterly direction, which would point to while Mark Antwerp was very amuming in" to a house at Taim-tea-tot. They wont by the probability of its going south of Hong-bis Interruption on a piano." Qus of tram to the ferry the contractor paging the long. This probability is borne oat by to the most interesting items of the evening fare of both and on the ferry prisoner paid day's Observatory report, which says tho was the quartette by Mesars Enimert, the fare. They went to the house and the disturbance is situate about 100 miles south-Jones, krinishira and Doune. Mr P. J. contractor was told that same cubicles were west of the Paracels group, moving west. Want was also excordingly clever in the wanting and while he was taking the If it follows this course Hainan should feel character of a commodina. measurements four men set upon him. its fall effects. However, squally westbor They gagged him, tied him up and robbed is predicted for Hongkong. him of his property which was about $180 and then made off. Ho took about tens

minutes to free himself when he raised an alarm and prisoner was eventually arrested, Not only war prisoner identified three

timas but prisoner admitted being there.

Evidence was called

The jury returned a verdict of guilty and his Lordship sentenced prisoner to five years' imprisonment with hard labour and twolve strokes of the "eat." G

THE TULIT OF A BIND. Two men and a woman were charged with robbery and receiving stolen goods at Yaumati Bay.

The glass still keeps high, and between au and 2 p.m. to-day only dropped three points...

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

A alight operation was performed on Princess Mary on August 11th under the direction of Sir Frederick Trever. "The operation was performed at Buckingham Palace and was satisfactory in every way.

Captain A MoMann has beca Actailed for service in Hongkong in relief of Capt.

Mr Alabaster said that with regard to the B. A. Orig, R.A.M.C. Capt. Mcbíunn LAW service in the South African War female priser ho might my at once that 1901-2 and received the Queen's medal he dropped the charge of robbery against with Sve clasps. her and she was only charged with receiv

H. M. the King has been pleased to give ing. On the evening of August 13 the two male prisoners engaged a boat in the harbour directions for the appointment of Mr on which there two woman and a child. Gülbert Kozelm Trefry Purcell (Paisne They want out to Yaumati Bay and the

In the secint part of the programme Biew Walker was heard to advantage in a very catchy song cutitled The latest that Tre heart for which ja eneste was de nunded. My H. T. Jones contributūł-á- song entitled "Stie-cracker Jim '? ́and was twice encored while the Sorcrof Family, including Little Novaki, were very good in a Russian dance. "The Pierrote woning by the March Here, was indred aisusing and was a fitting conclusion, to a very excellent programme. A tubo phone solo was also given by the band.

THE WRECKED “EMPRESS.“

In atterapting to refloat the Empress of China at Shirahama, by the salvage forde of the Mitsu Bishi firm, it has boon found according to a statement published by the Japan Times, that the damage sustained by the ship to the rudder-gear, je more serious than was at first supposed. There are,

The old Star Ferry pier on the Hong kong side is now being demolished, and the inunches now arrive and depart on the opposite side to that hitherto uod tam perary landing stage having been provided. The health of the Colony continues 14.15 p.m.-Extraordinary General Meet-

ing of Douglas Steamship Co.

good. There were no cases of plugue lush p.m.-V.E.G. Aquatic Sporta. 9. Smoking Concert in V. R. O. of unrest, that arising out of the week, four occurrences of enteric fever (two Chinese and two Japanese) and ono Gymnasium.

floods and famine. Towards allay-of small-pox (a Chinese). The last-bamed Sp.m.Auction of Crown Land at Publicing the troubles of the calamity case alone ended fatally.

"Works Department.

stricken people, the various benevolent

By order of the authorities the Nippon men attacked the wonten and robbed them Jadge of the Supreme Court of the Gold

of Bierra Leone. kong have been at work, and are shortly open a new line of steamers between being a finger ring. They tied the women doing all they reasonably can to meet in the Southern Pacife. The contemplated morning the three prisoners were arrested in at prent stationed at Woolwich, haa

Japan and the Philippines and other ports up and gaggod them. The very next Captain A.-E. B.. Wood, R.A.M.C., who intash of the sea water, from the bo the needs of the people. The Peking service is quite different from that recently all in one house and the ring, which was been ordered: to Hongkong to relieve

dentified as part of the stolen property, Government, too, has done something, opened between Japan and Calcutta.

was found in an earthenware jar under the Captain E. M. J. Perry, R.A.M.C. Capt. but, in the opinion of critics, not as

female prisoner's bed. The lattor said it Wood, who received his commission in the much as it ought to do. Besides the

was her ring. One of the women identified RA.M.0. In January 1905, served as few thousand picule of rice that have

the men absolutely but the other did not, Civil Surgeon during the South African Another circumstanes was the fact that the War 1901-2. becu advanced to meet the starving,

next day the men were in the mine house in which the ring was found.

Entrion for China Mail' Harbour Raca,

close

TUESDAY, September 28:- "

-3.45 p.m.---Sanitary Board Meeting..

WEDNESDAY, September 25:--

5.30 p.m.-China Mail' Harbour Race.

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societies both in Canton and Hong-Yusen Kaisha will, mys the Tokyo Asahi | of their little possessions, amongst them Coast) to be the Chief Justice of the Colone besides, a'number of injuries to the bottom.

HONGKONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1011.we note that the Imperial Govern-rate of prices in January, 1887, at 10, and

CAUSES OF UNREST. “

mont at Peking has advanced the sum of $400,000 to be used for purchasing food for the distressed.

Evidence was called.

According to an American Consular report, prices have more than doubled in Japan in, the last, trouty years, while the purchasing value of the currency has parceptibly declined. Taking the average

the value of the currency at the same time at 100, the rate of prices in 1910 would be

The jury roturned a verdict of guilty by 28 and the value of currency 13. six to one against the met and unanimously

with regard to the female. Yesterday harvest thanksgiving wore Alabaster said there was another whees were held at St. John's Cathedral and indictment against the first man-fox at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon. At the similar offence a few days before and Cathedral the Rev. A. C.. Moreton, R. N. prisonor might ho asked to plead guilty. preached in the morning, while the Bishop Prisoner pleaded not guilty and as the delivered the evening discourse. Ab Kow- loon Bishop Lander' secupied the pulpit at Attorey General offered no evidenes the

conducted an alternoon children's servico,

whose lack

KIDSAPPING.

In order to repair all these damages, it is necessary, as the first step, to prevent the

by blasting away the rugged cluster of sub- merged rocks, among which the hall of the steamer is sticking hard. But though the work of raising is thus extremely difficulty the Mitau Blahi is stated to be confident, o,

success

Even if the ship should be pulled off the rocks with sucoesa, it is thought porbable that the stearer will no longer be fit for distant ocean voyages, though it may be subjected to thorough repair and refuting.

JAPANESE TEBEL ASHORE,

Lieutenant M. B. Blackwood has been posted to the command of the river gun bosh Woodcock, Chris Station. The new skipper of the Woodcock joined the naval The steamship Kashima Maru 2,387 tona, arvice in September, 1898, and reached Lulit in England, belonging to Mr Saksi of his present rank in September, 1904. He Otaru, Hokkaido, went around on Sept. 6, was latterly in command of the destroyer net far from the stranded Empress of Janus at Hongkong

China near Choshi. The hall of the ship boing of steel platos she is believed unt to have been seriously damaged

It is with regret that we chronick the death of Mr S. G. Kennedy, an Asistant

The agents in Tokyo, Mours. Lids &

Hokkaido, to be used as railway sleepers.

THE outlook in the Chinese Empire It is the exent of this grant which just now is none too bright. The has called forth some severe critic rice famine is sharply felt by the isms on the part of a section of masses of the people, floods have the native press; and it cannot but folk homeless and utterly destitute, to incense the people still further the morning survice, the Rev. H. O. Spink Jury returned a verdict of not guilty on his at Messrs Butterfeld and Beiro's. The C.. have made arrangements with the rendered thousands of the common be that such writings will do much

Lordship's direction.

deceased, who was a popular young man, revalt has openly broken out in the against the Government. Attention and the Rev. Crols Rées, RN,, preached and imprisomront cach and the Shanghat Office, and was only transferred which are now attempting to nor the The mala prisoners were sentenced to had been for some few years in the firm's rage steamers, Arima and Oura Mara, Province of Szechuen, and marked is called first of all to what was at night.

woman to six months,

to Hongkong some air months ago. Four Empresa, to save the Kashima Maru. The The woman maintained that the ring anensiness is manifesting itself in done by the Government in Japan Mr R. O. Davies, who acted as election

or five weeks ago he was admitted to the steamer left. Othru on the 9th inst. with a Kwangtung. Undoubtedly the

a short time ago under similar cir-agent for Mr Masterman in North-West was her's, and she did not wear it often as Fenk Hospital suffering from glousy. He go of 1,200 tons, chicity timber from the chief factor contributing to the cumstances. It is sud that them at the last General Election, and her husband was a gambler. She affected was, it was thought, making rapid, recovery

of care in compiling the sloo to put it on her finger, and, having done so, when on Saturday he suddenly took a tum

Details of the murder of Mr James, feeling of angry discontent on the Government at Tokyo advanced tion accounts was responsible for the it fitted her perfectly. The ring had pre- part

afternoon, from heart failure. The funeral district, Scathorn Nigeris, show that of the populace,

more $100,000 for the distressed, and it useating of the Liberal member, was last viously boou tied on by prosecutrix and it for the worse and passed away during the Provincial Commissioner of the Forcados

took place at Happy Valley yesterday tribesmen ambuscaded his boat on the Rio. particularly in Kwangtong and is asked if a Government of so com-month found dead in a tunnd near Stat. Sitted her also on the same finger.

ford. The hearing of the election petition

and was largely attended by detonand's Szechuen, is the policy of the Peking paratively small a country as Japan brought out the fact that Mr Davies had Taang Muk was charged with kidnap colleagues, while the firm's house flag and des Forcadon, which falls into the Bight of authorities in regard to the railways, could do so much for people whose for some time kaen auffering from nervous ping.

the ensigns from the firm's vessels in port. Denis. Mr Jages was voyaging down the My Alabaster said prisoner was charged flew at half-mast as a token of respect.

river on district business when a volles especially their manner of carrying distress was not so bad as that of breakdown, due to overwork.

with kidnapping a child of eleven years of

was fired at his boat from thick bush on the out that policy. The ugly situation the Chinese is at the present juncture,

bank Mr James, two nativo constables, We have received from the Sociological age. The mother of the child would any in Chengtu has arisen out of this how much more should the Chinese Sucietyn Botable booklet consisting of a that on August £2 the child was left at

had three boatmon were killed by the question, and we have the Viognor of CANTON declaring that unless the Government come to the assistance symposium based upon paper on house when she want to work in the mom Aldershot to encourage singing among the ralley. The Governor of Bouthern Nigeria "Savings and the Social Welfare" by. Miring. At clock in the evening: the troops, s custom almost universally, prachas despatchid a military expedition from PINK AND RED ROSE SPRAYS subject is carefully handled in of the starving? But the criticism Goorge Paish, Editor of The Statist. The child was wulking on the tramlines when tied in foreign armies, as tending to keep Sagos to avenge the murder.

prisoner came up and tapped him on the does not end here. A native writer symposium was arranged Kwangtung the outcome in his Pro

unclo. They went along together and camp. The Naval and Military Musical VIOLETS, etc. vince will be even more serious than goes on to forcefully point out that Penes, and it included by the Bociological

they remained all night. On the following authorities an offer of the Smith-Darrien ve Chamberlain's Colic, Cholers and the black developments in Szechnen. in Peking huge sums of money are some of the most sminent authorities in sat down pear. Elie Harbour Office where Union has now intimated to the Aldershot TOR bowel complaints in childrou always It is well-known that these two being: spent by the Government England, Tie sabject dealt with in morcing they crossed over to Kowloon and Soldier's Home to present a oup for au Diarrhoea Remedy, and esator off. It le attracting widespread interest in Britain were about to board a train when a Chinese annual singing competition by units, and cortain to effect a care and when reduced Provinces have been in communication simply to make the royal residences just now. The price of the booklet is one constable spoke to prisoner, and, not being Lieutenant-General Sir H. Smith with water and sweetened is plant to satisfied, he arrested the man. Frisoner Dorfien has directed that steps shall at once lake. No physician can prescribe a better said he know the mother and that he be taken to ascertain to what extent unite remedy. For sale by all Chemists and with each other for some time over more beautiful, and this, it is argued, shilling

naked him to sell the child, and they would is mercly a waste of money. "Crystal

We have received a copy of the report divide the spoil, after which he could steal would enter for the proposed competition: Storekeepera | this vexed qupation of the transference

"pulaces" are being erected, and of the Tungkun Medical Mission Hospital-him book again, and that he was about to of the railways from the people to the

do it when he was arrested, Now the officials, and seeing what is taking out merely for the enjoyment of the huis. Mission. Bocisty. The following rudder their verdict, mat on retaming beautiful gardens are being laid and Policlinic for 1010. The institution is mother had gone back on the bargain and conducted under the auspices of the said he was stealing than the jury rotirel place in Szechuen there is a wide fenr

rulers of China. The Government, number of patients were recorded in the the foreman announord, that they were that something of the same nature; or

says the writer, can thus lay out Hospital daring the year 1910-In the divided in their e even worse, will break out in

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bospital, ,730 patients (628 men, 210| Canton if the orginal intention of the of this kind, which are of little user zien 2,042 women). There were 140 women); in the policlinic, 4,356-patonta Government is enforced.

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