INTIMATION
8. WATSON
TAMTHEID,
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841,
THE HONGKONG DAILY
The Chefoo present the inner harbour as the Tastagal,
of France are best able to realise the sad picture which the
river, which is here from 800 to 500 wide, rising up to the parapets of some of the bridges, flooding the Champs Elysées and the Esplanade des Invalides, and spreading 60 until Central Paris is a veritable lake
the world-renowned buildings surrounded by water; roaring torrents rushing through the tunnels where the citytmins are accustomed to run; people isolated for days in the upper stories of their houses starving and appealing for food; and finally the sacking of
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
WATSON'S
E
VERY OLD LIQUEUR SCOTCH
WHISKY
BLEND OF THE FINEST PURE
MALT WHISKIES DISTILLED IN 900TLAND
GENUINE AGE
AND
FINE MELLOW FLAVOUR.
ROB1. PORTER & Co.'s
BULL DOG
BRAND
facing the water Poing Bampant experienced ing in making headway thr
A Peking telegram in slanghal- paper states that the Prince Regent has asked the Grand Commissioner whether the problem of abolishing the extraterritorial rights of the foreign Consuls should be placed before the next meeting of The Hague Tribansi.
The fourth and last performance of “La Mootta" was given by the juveniles at the Club Laritano on Saturday night. All the
The feature of the bright service at St. Peter's Church yeterley morning was the attendange of some 290 bluejackets from the Zedford who shope by people whom the ever-encroachinged heartily in the singing, empecially the waters have made homeless and hungry favourite hymn "The Church's one foundation. The picture is one which commands the
Bishop Lander preached the Sermon, sympathy of the wide world, especially as in these days of travel no city of the world, unless it be London, probably visited by a larger number of strangers than is Paris. Our telegram mentions the opening by the Lord Mayor of London of a Mansion House Fund, to which His Majesty the King has contributed a thousand guineas and Her Majesty the Queen a thousand pounds. Doubtless a large fund will be available for distribution in a very few days.
The opening of this Fund will recall memories of previous occasions on which the people of England have shown their sympathy with France at a time of national distress. We believe ve are correct in saying that the first Mansion House Fund was the Fund opened for the relief of the sufferers by the seige of Paris in 1871, a
nereas which characterised the efforts of the performers on the opening night was on this occasion conspicuous by itabop, and the Interpretation of the opers was excellents-
MONDAY, JANUARY 31st 1910.
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THE GENERAL ELECTION.
LATEST RESULTS.
LONDON, January 30th.
LIBERALS
UNIONISTS
272
271
LABOURITES
40
事
NATIONALISTA
79
Total elected
(662
8
At the last meeting of the Kalangen Munt cipal Connell, Amoy, the question of engaging the services of a qualified purse, sa Municipal Visiting Nurse, was further discussed, and it Wes decided to set seide the sum of $700 in the Badget for 1910 for such a purpose and to refer the matter to the ratepayers in the Council's annual report for 1909. The terms of angags. mant, fem to be charged, &c., being left in the hands of the Health Office.
An inquiry was held at the Marine Magis. trate's Court on Saturday, before Commander Ball E IL Taylor, H.N., into charges of negligence preferred against the master and fund which amounted to £126,609; buter of waterboat No. 7, batengang to the fifteen years previous to this, when immense damage was caused by inundations in the South of France, subscriptions amounting to £48,000 were raised in London for the relief of the sufferers. Within the last cen tury France has on three or four occasions experienced great inundations, bur nover before, we believe, has Paris itself suffered
GUINNESS' STOUT y serious damage from such a cause
IN PINTS & SPLITS.
Fortunately we miss in the telegrams which now claim the world's attention any news of loss of life or of the collapse of houses, such as are often incidental to extensive inunda“: tions of this description. When in 1875, A. S. WATSON & CO., for instance, a large part of Toulouse was destroyed by the rising of the Garonne,
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UNIONIST GAINS
LABOURITES LIBERAL GAINS
UNIONIST GAINS.
Bateshure
Droitwich Huntingdon (N)
FULL RETURNS.
UNIONISTS.
Lowes
Buteshire Huntingdon (N) Honiton Antrim (8) Stamford
Droitwich
Union Waterboat Co., La. The muse of the Dublin (8) inquiry was the sinking of the waterbost in question at North Point through, the corswain alleged, the water getting into the engine- danied by the room. This allegation
After hearing the evidence his anger. Worship announced that he could not come to any conclusion as to the cause of the ossualty, bat the coxswain, by his admission, showed that
he
was guilty of gross carelesenos, and his oerti- would be mumpanded for the months.
BALLOON ASCENT.
The postponed balloon scent took place on Saturday afternoon near Holt's godowns at
Buteshire... Droitwich
LINERALS. Mansfield
Westbury
Fifeshire Osgoldcross Invernesshire Frome Dumbartonshire Bosworth Eifion
670 127
Rose and Cromarty Forest of Dean Jarrow
NATIONALISTS
Kerry (N) Fermanagh (8) Туголе (5)
UTIONIST GATES.
Mr. N. Lamont, N 120 Mr. C.B. Harmsworth (L) 564 |
Hantingdon (N) Mr.A.C.Foster Bariton L391
•RESULTS TO COMER, A
Of the eight results which have not yet come Tam Tam Chol under ideal conditions. So to hand four are in Ireland and four in Scotland great was the interest in the rent that the the Boottish Universities poll having ret to be He declared, as well as that of the scattered (alands afternoon and the numbers of people who went
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THE DISASTROUS FLOODS: IN FRANCE.
FOOD RIOTS IN THE CAPITAL.
MANSION HOUSE FUND OPENED.
LONDON, January 29th. The Seine is still rising, and the waters have reached the parapeta of some of the bridges.
The floods have flowed over the parapet of the Quai Conference and are flooding the Champs Elysees and the Esplanade Invalides,
The Lord Mayor of London has opened a Mansion House Fund..
The Pope of Rome has sent to the Archbishop of Paris a large donation.
LATER.
There is incessant rain and the floods are steadily spreading.
Central Paris is a lake. All the notable buildings are surrounded by water, and trees and lamp-posts are falling.
RANDOM REFLECTONS.
Election excitement Ems boon woll sustained during the weak, but it is not unlikely that it will subside in a day or two, as the practical reenit is now vertsin. The Ministerialiste go bock to office, but the whip hand being held by the small parties they are pertain to neb it, and the duration of the next Parliament depends on the patience of the Liberals towards their piendo supporters, the Nationalists and the Labourites. Though the latter are numerically smaller than in the last Parliament they are stronger than bafore because of the weakness of the Ministerialists.
Apropos the present general election and the principal issue at stake, I am reminded of the small boy who on an examination paper de- zoribed Guy Fawkes as a "wiso and generous man who tried to blow up the House of Lords. The people who nowadays are trying to blow no the House of Lords" are
are not anally described as wiss and generous.
Hongkong's election for the three seats on the Licensing Board was very dill." One man
tells me that when he looked into the polling
booth he found thres officials, two Chinese olerks, a doorkeeper, and one candidate, all
looking with interest at the man who had come to cast a vote. But perhaps my informant was onvious because he was not one of the elect to exercise the franchise on this occasion.
The Volunteer Dance, always regarded sa s pleacant little affair, has this year calipsed all Its predecessors, and the event must now rank as griday night's gathering seemed to be almost one of greater social importance than before. as numerous as at St. Andrew's Ball. Both
shalls were orowded with dancers, and some now.
and beautiful costumes word worn by the
ladies. The Volunteers have little to learn aş
Water is dowing in roaring torrents through the tunnels of the Metro- - hosts. politan railway,
The inhabitants in Rue Dominique have been without food since Wednes- day. They are thronging at the windows crying for food.
The first food riots occurred this morning, two shops being sacked, Revolver shots were fired and a woman was wounded.
_____H M. King Edward has sent to the Mansion House Fund a thousand guineas, and H. M. Queen Alexandra has sent a thousand pounds.
The floods were due originally to the great rivers being swollen abnormally
The balloon assent on Saturday afternoon directed the thoughts of mert peoplo to the triumphs which have recently been achieved in the air, but it reminds me of the Australian story of the small boy who was found by his mother looking rather disconsolate. She asked him what was the matter, and ho replied: "I ̧ was out in the paddock flying my kits, and it went up and up and up, and then God mesked
"It is wall nigh twenty years since there was a balloon ascent in Hongkong befoto. Then it
took place in the neighbourhood of the Happy Valley. On that ocasion the parachutist wh
made the descent bevario entangled in a tree on Morrison
Hill Road
the band master overheard. A spectator
It may have been à coincidence, or it may be
about a thousand lives were lost, and the 86,y launches were kept runsingeline of Crkney and Shetland and ons of the groups by heavy rains, aggravated subsequent- standing near the place where the balloon went
converted Cyprian quarter
into a sepulchre The damage done in Paris seems to be con fined entirely to property. As to the extent of the destitution which the Government of France has so suddenly been called upon to
on
TYPHOID FEVER FROM EATING OYSTERS.
We take this headline from a Home paper which reports in antion tried recently in the High Court, resulting in a Chatham hotel- keeper being mulcted in heavy damages for
NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTE, ONLY communications relating to the neut Delemen should be addressed to Tax EDITOncope with as a result of the floods, the cables Correspondents must forward their names and have given us but little information, but what Editor, not for publication but as evidence of to-day s telegrams tall us of a food riot and most exciting, event, was the balloon leaving supplying to a customer oyster which led to him
andreitas with communicatione addressed to the
de of people who have been without food since All letters for publication should be written on Wednesday last, crying out for supplies
ly by a fall of snow which melted rapidly
SNOW AND GADES IN EUROPE.
LONDON, January 29th. Snow and gales are disorganising the telegraphs in England and France. There have been a number of wrecks
up on Saturday remarked that it was a pity the band could not play some appropriate musto. Just then it struck up the old air, “Up in a
balloon, boys,”
The Governor did well at the price distribution the other day not to magnify the boys who lift
prices, and his words of couragement to the unsuccessful were very wise indeed. The bright schoolboy dose not always turn out a genius, and if we remember our stories of great men wo
No anonymously signal communications that from the upper stories of their house, serve rise the balloon with his weight, and his assist and the Far East generally at this time of the on the French and Spanish coast, and recall that most of them were rather dail in
good faith.
ane side of paper only. have already appeared in other papers will be inserted
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Telegraphie Address PEZ. Codes : 4.B.C. 5th Ed. Lieber.: P.0. Bom, 36, Telephone, No, 18.
BIRTH.
On the 29th instant, at Amoy, Mrs.
of a daughter Shangh
DEATH
to show that the inhabitants in the in undated parts of the capital have reached a state of desperation which calls for urgent relief, and explains the opening of the Mansion House Fund. Wherever the news in road there will be genuine sym pathy for France, and if the need for the relief of suffering is shown to be greater Haud mere urgent than local resources can adequately meet, ready aid could be counted upon from all parts of the civilised word. Meanwhile, let us hope that the full tale of the disaster has already been told, and that the next news may be of the abatement of the flood as rapidly as it arose.
LIVINGSTONE, papers please copy..
At Pakboi, on 29th instant, the wife of Gmo. A. FORSYTH, Tidesurveyor Pakhof Customs
Shanghai papers please copy, A
HONGKONG" OFFIC®: 101, Des Vœux HOADC LONDON - OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, EC.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, JANUARY 31st, 1910.
- Mr. Bandmann while at Shanghai last week was making investigations with a view to building a theatre in the Settlement.
The appointment of Messrs. D. W. Craddock, T. F. Hough and A. Shelton Hooper as members of the Licensing Board is gazetteil.
Mz. B. A. Hartley having rosigned the post
of assistant to the Secretary and Capt. Supt. of Police at Kulangau, arrangements for engaging e successor have been left to the incoming Connoll
The 3rd Brahmins will relieve the 13th Bajpate in the first week of next year, and the 8th Rajpate will take the place of the 105th Mahrattes,
It has been decided by the Kulangsu Manl cipal Counoll to form a sinking fund for the redempt on of debentures Two thousand dollars, to be sat aside for this purpose are out. of the surplus carried forward from 1909,
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serious illness Frees typhoid fever. The case will have an interest for readers in Hongkong year, when there is a demand for Amoy oysters, Two cases of typhoid fever in Hongkong many people have been drowned. recently have been attributed to eating TAW craters, and we reproduce the report of this HUNGARIAN POLITICS. action in the High Court because it gives a much-needed warning to those who sell oysters as well as to those who eat them.
over must have amounted to several thousande, of boroughs, All the available points of the various lands were cosupted, but unvor-- theless fully a thoumad people paid for sumision within the encloure. Here the spectacle of indsting the balloon and preparing the parachute was witnessed, but of course the
the earth. Mr. Baldwin was of the opinion that he had not a sufficient impply of gas to
ant, who is more lightly balls, took his place. The ascent was beautiful. Theopsphere, with the parachutist suspended, ross quickly when i berated at half past five. There was little or no wind, sad it ascended within five or six minutos ton height of about three thousand feet. Then the aeroanat detached himself from the balls and most immediately the folds of parachute spread outwards and the daring man slowly descended. He swayed cozaderably and the thousands of spectators gazed with wondar and amazement, at the plucky aeronaut. The conditions were so perfect that not the slightest fear seamed to be entertained, and the downward course of the parachutist was followed with the keenest interaat. He alighted in the water some distanse in front of the godowns and not very far from the place where he went up. Five launches had been in readinges in various parts of the harbour to plok him up and he was taken
the
If oysters must be eaten, they should be well
cooked Then they may be innocnone. The report reads --
NO CONTIDENCE IN THE CABINET.
LONDON, January 29th. The Hungarian Diet by a large majority passed a vote of no confidence in the Cabinet on the 17th inst.
M. Hoderveny thereupon read a
Ansation was recently tried before the Lord Chief Justice and a special jury la which the plainti Leslie Cardiale, a liontenant in the Royal Navy, sued Henry Klockenbusch, hotel-kooper at Chatham, for negligence in replying him with oysters at dinner from which he contracted typhoid fever. A brother officer, like himself in Decree adjourning the Diet until command of a torpedo boat destroyer lying on March 24th. Sheerness, who dined with the plantif on the eatan, had also been taken ill with typhoid fever night when the oysters were alleged to have been and had died. The plaintif was the only witness as to the fact of his having osten o ystern st the defendant'e inn on the night alleged, his companion being dead, suil the fact that the had eaten them was denied by the defendant, happening whose books did not show that any oysters had First been applied to customers on the day camed. Ample medical evidencs, however, girl as to the filmses of the plaintiff, as to the dates on which both oneers were frat medically attended
arily. Meanwhile the smoke isquing from the balloon
The gua or the top
the cover
by this time the balloon
turn
feet, as to the nature of the contamination of
AN AUSTRO-RUSSIAN RAPPROCHEMENT
LONDON, January 30th,
early years. Bome were eran daffers, but they showed their mettle in Inter life when they were not compelled to conform to the uniformity of school discipline.
To say that the Magistracy in its present locality is inconvenient is of course to state the obrions, and it will not therefore be outof place to ventilate the hope which has been expressed. more than once than when the Supreme Court vacates the present promises for the now Law
Courts that these will be utilised for the Magistracy. Of course, I have no expert pro- fessional opinion to guide mo, but it ecoms to an dinary lay mind that there is plenty of
socommodation for all the needs of such an establishment. It might be less convenient perhaps for the police than the present, but that objection should not be insuperable,
The Chinese have original ways of viewing certain subjects. During the revent trial of one of the many counterfeiters a witoses de- Reports of an Austro-Russian rap-soribed the sparious coin as pence money." prochement are confirmed by a state. Asked to explain the meaning of the phrase, ho pakett said, that it was called peace money because ment published at Berlin, which says you did not worry if you lost it". _ _The_Solo-
monic utterance, of course, produced a mile.
to the normal period of incubation of the that though it is too early to speak of somersaulte, Soon" the descent sphere of Liesse, se to the absence of other in the formal negotiations, there is no doubt lapsed, and then it shot down Ike
dragons oysters, and tenace. The madined offer that the rapprochement has been the with a tail directing itu zig zag course. This of heath of Chatham also déposed to the fact descent was quite pictureque, but the wonder that certain areas in the Modway were liable to subject of diplomatic conversations. which it cansed was of Khort duration. Its be infected by sewage from "Rochester and The German Government views the this fight accelerated and then it dropped into the Chatham, and that oyster beds had been closed Be some way from the godowns and was retxiered by one of the Isuzohen
br
by
A BRIGHTON EXPRESS
A DERAILED. –
PASSENGERS KILLED AND INJURED, I ONDON, January 30th An express from Brighton was derailed while travelling at forty miles an hour near Stont ® Nest.
Ir the estimate ROUTER has given us of the damage caused by the floods in Frans be at all approximately correct, the terrible calamity which has just fallen upon the people of France can be set down at once as the most expensive, though it may not be the most extensiva, in the lengthy list of such disasters which the history of the whole civilised world affords. There have prob.
order of the Fisheries Commission. The rapprochement with the utmost bene ably been inundations in many parts of the
dhamberlain of the Rochester fisheries was also volence. A witness with regard to the contamination of world, and even in France, affecting more
certain beds, which he sperited, in the sigh- extensive areas, but there is no record of a
TROUBLE ON A PO LINER
bourhood of Chatham and the steps tokerto RED FOR DISOBEYING
prevent dredging from them. It was contended TASCARS IMPRISONED similar disaster anywhere which has entailed
on the part of the defendant that he had tere damage to the enormous extent of forty
Fourteen coloured man, firemen and trimmers all reasonable cars and that i was not proved million inds sterling. It is four or five
on board the F. & 0. Imer Sumk, loading for that the illness of the plaintiu: wax due to his The hangkat Mercury says We greatly Chins said Japan in the Bond Albert Dock having eaten pysters on the date plleged at the days since that estimate was formed. The
were charged at the East Han Police Court defendant's home. The guestions left by the floods were thon believed to have done their regret to learn that Mr. James Mokie, of on December 3011, with fully disobeying the Lord Chief Justice to the jury very as follows: typhoid fever from worst, but news still comes of further disas. Mesara, Jardine, Matheson and Co., it at prosent law in commands of the officers of the ship. In Did the plaintiff contre
endent Dle the ement of the ter, and presumably the original estimate sally ill in hospital, but having such a strong September the agied on the hip, st Bombay say oyster supplico
serve the serpany for twelve months plain rily on and robust constitution we hope soon to bear December 27 and 28 the fourteen the defondant to has had to be daily emarged. The telegra
that he has recovered. *****
supplied refused to go to work as board the only Load
the do So far received have been silent
saying that on the
to Baghod by the, defendant - At the meeting of the Sanitary Board to be the moond engineer had both very sul fondant, or wer the damage done in the country,
held to-morrow lottar from the Government tothom. The engineer in question domed that RealP The shore questions, Beue flows for nearly five hundred miles relative to the emplying of the Albany reservoir he had ever strack any of the man, and then bility of the defendant was before it enters the English Channel at will be read. The Head of the Department other onloors of the ship said that no com
had ever been made to them, the chief- Havre, it is extremely probable that the vill submit a minute relative to the conser rang riverine districts for scores of miles have and scavenging contest for Kowloon. Cog that he believed it was a pour
get rid of the second engineer. The shared the deplorable consequences of the plaints against the city and Shankiwan sovengengineer added that it was cold hip to
I treatment and of loss of LONDON January 30th. ing contractor will be dealt with, and a report and the men did not want to go there
I think the best thing I can do is pay due to the line. Tad gment, no guaika - H-M King Edward his promoted abnormal rise m, the river which 18 by the Colonial: Votorisey Bargeum of a case
send them to gol 1
I for Louron day The the above smocuts a stay of execution being With to leave the Sun ? And yet inbloot to the money being paid into Prince Henry of Prussia to be an
Admiral of the Fleet.
se the
followed inordsant rains and the melting of of anthras at the Kennedy Town cattle depos snow. Those who know the beautiful capital will be considered.
this woak they will have stiäiked their object.
It is a festure of the progressive age that Chinese nurse should advertise for a position of looking after children on the vorage to England, as he wishes to further sincate horsall. Such thirst for knowledge ought not to be discouraged.
The Sanitary Department is quite daring, It proposes now to in moduce ballooks for pulling trucks instead of the coolies who do duty at present. There seems little re440 why the experiment should not prove sucessful, though I can imagine that we might hear complaints
pront, a to depriving men of their boliere the innov tion is to be tried on the Kow
Eighteen (2) persons were killed LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. and twenty injured.
The C & M str Rubi left Manils on the [The cable reads "Fight ten," - which riay 29th insty and is dus here to-day at 6 pm mean "eighteen "ör alght or ton,
reto all answered in the allematis
KAISER'S BROTHER ADMIRAL as this constituted a finding for
ss to the damages was buffed--namely OF THE BRITISH FLEET Sinolada £100 in addition to the special ve ram The Isteri ware made m
fe
t
The NYK. str. Kanagawa Maru (European Line) lett Bingapore on the 28th must, and is expected here on the 3rd proxy
The P. & 0. strage left Singapore for this port on the 29th Justant, at 7. pan, with the patward, Endiah: Male, and is due Leno on Friday the 4th prox, at about 6 am
The Ben Line sir Benleurs, from Leith, waddlesbro, el London left Bingapore on the 29th ist, and li doo new or about the 5th
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