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abnormality in the weather can create such widespread outbreaks, symptomatic of discontent, we are not-lixing too near the edgb of the precipice to be exactly safe. We know that there is deep discontent among that large majority of the people known as the working-classes, and that it requires but a fow extra degrees of temperature, a few extra cloudless summer days, to cause that discontent to find an outlet in disturbances, a mad destruction of property which can avail nothing, though to give the strikers in England their duc it would appear that a large part of the destruction was due to the rowdy elements of the cities, always on the The foremost question is the food problem. There is a good deal

watch for fun,”

if

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. of profound philosophy in the "Feed the brute" of the old lady of the story, even though it be what CARLYLE would have called "pig philosophy," for it is certain that the "brutba not fed he may become

dreadful absurdity of the nations summing up and gloating over the increases of their populations while there is not enough food

SHERRY extremely dangerous. We have further the

TELEGRAMS, TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS:

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY]

WAN UNDATED MESSAGE.

very wide one. As it is, there is every indication that the coming winter is going to be a hard one, more especially for those who subsist from hand to mouth. The citizen of to-day has many more calle on him than the citizen of former days, and THE ITALO-TURKISH WAR, while the amount he can allot for food is diminishing, the quantity of food be cas purchase with the amount is also decreasing. He is being overwhelmed by the production of luxuries. The principal requisite of life is food, and the case with which food can be produced under nominal conditions isovinced by the crowded conditions of the industrial cities and the sparse populations of the agricultural districts. The producers of food do not become millionaires.

THROUGH REVTHE'S AGENCY.]

TURKEY AND GREECE. Reuter's correspondent at Athone says it is officially declired that the Turks on the 5th instant landed 500 soldiors at Samos.

LONDON, October 7th, A German correspondent in Tripoli which is a violation of self-government. reports, that comparatively little damage was done in the bombardment.

There are still 4,000 Europeans in the town.

This is Six soldiers and ten Jews were killed, left for the retailers; and the attractions of aid five soldiers and ene Jaw severely becoquing tenefactors of the race by making injured.

two blades of grass grow where only one The Musculmans were

inactivo, and

ITALIANS LAND AT MARSATO,

*BRUK.

- (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.). THE ROYALIST RISING IN PORTUGAL.

MONARCHISTS CONCENTRATING.

LONDON, October 7th. Router's correspondent at Lisbon says it

It is reported that Italian bluejackets is admitted that 200 Royalists crossed the have landed at Marsatobruk.

frontier ander Captain Comacho and occupied six small towns in the Braganza District, where they were joined by 3,000 - Monarchists who secretly concentrated.

Another concentration of Monarchists

WHERE ARE THE TURKISH DESTROYERS?

LONDON, October 8th.. The complete silence from Italy to-day

grew before are not overwhelming, more prayed to Allah that the bombardment suggests the probability that the transports has taken place at Vinhaes, where they are especially since the extra-blade of grass should be discontinued.,

may have to contend with other extra

WE can confidently recommend to go round, or, if there is, can only be regulate food supplies on scientific principles

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obtained at very high prices. The idea that the world cannot produce enough food to feed the people now dwelling upon it must be rejected at once. Man has to earn his food by the sweat of his brow, but that he can earn it does not admit of question. The trouble is that in the production of In Quality and Price they are food mankind is still almost as much at the

bottle.

$10.80 $1.45

1.1.5

unequalled.

Par dozon.

Per

A. LIGHT DRY.

B. VINO DE PASTO 17.80

C.C. OLOROSO

22:30

21.30

D. SUPERIOR PALE

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PALE DRY NUTTY 29.80

LIMITED,

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

blades on reaching the market and be sold This message, was not dated, and may at a loss. The time will perhaps come some refer only to the first bombardment. day when the State will be required to TRIPOLI FLOODED WITH with a minimum reserve in ratio to the

SEARCHLIGHTS, Reuter's population and alternative crops to guard

correspondeut at Milaa says a against failure. Looking still further ahead, wireless message has been received from it is possible that chemistry will one day Tripoli which states that all night the har make mankind independent of climatie contour and town are flooded with Italian ditions and food will be produced synthe searchlights to prevent an attack, tically. In the meantime, however, man has to get through the transition period.

His Excellency the Governor moved into. residence at Government House on Saturday,

the 7th instant...

On Saturday, the 7th instant, His Excellency dinet on board tho U 9.8. Saratoga, as guest af Rear-Admiral-Murdock.

On Thursday, the 5th instant, His Excellency

mercy of outside circuinstances as his savege progenitors, with the result that the work might be classed as unskilled labour, and is, indeed, paid for is such. It is true we have Agricultural Colleges and a Science of Agriculture, but the greatest amount of training and all the science in the world will not avail when the skies refuse to yield the 1.90 proper amount of rain, when the temperantertained Rear-Admiral Murdoch, with his ture falls too low or rises too high, or when Captains and Staff, at dinner at Mountain a gale destroys the work of months in a few hours. Man probably became a carnivorous- animal through the uncertainty of farinaceus supplies, but he has not yet reached the point when he can live on meat alone, and 2.55 even if he could, his knowledge has not yet placed him in the position to be able to increase indefinitely the proliferas of the animals he breeds. Moreover, the animals

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NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. ONLY communications relating to the news column should be addressed to Tur EDITOR.

Lodge.

Mr. C. Lacy Goodrich, the General Oriental Railroad the Western Pacific-Denver and Agent of America's Istest. Trans-Continental Bio Grande will be in the Colony for a week prior to proceeding in slow stage to the Darbar.

The following revenue officers have boon

appointed under Section 59 of the Opiam Or. disanoo, 1909, to act as excise ofloora under

that Ordinance:-D. J. Mackenzie, L. E. Brett, 8. J. Clarke, T. Sutherland and L. &. Langley, Seren Chinese revenue officers have also been appointed to not as excisa offioms,

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ard under way from home.

Anxiety is still being felt in Italy cOR- cerning the whereabouts of the Turkish destroyers and torpedo-boats, lionce the secrecy of the movements of the transports. ITALIANS AND THE CAPI-

TULATIONS.

awaiting the second column under" Captain Couceiro, who is entering via Verin.

REPUBLICAN FORCE RETIRES. The Republican forco, at Vinhaes has retired on Chaves.

LATER. It is rumoured that the Royalist colnmır. at Vinknes has heen surrounded by

wires that the Minister of Justico has REPUBLICAN TROOPS SUFFICIENT.

Reuter's correspondent at Constantinople Republican troops.

informed the Tribunals that Italians will Router's correspondent at Lisbon says tlie The Italians are garrisoning the ruins of no longer benefit by the Capitulations. Government declares that there are 8,000 They must be submitted to the common

troops on the frontier, which is sufficient to Law.

restars, order.

the Sultania fort.

LONG ENTERTAINED.

ASPIRATIONS. - *

realisation of long entertained aspirations.

The Italian Press is jubilant over the

BRITISH LAUNCH STRUCK BY SHELL

The correspondent of Renter at Periin says advices from Hodeidah state that two

town, one of which struck and sank alaanch Italian warships fired 21 shells over the

belonging to the British ship Guildhall. THE NEUTRALITY OF - BULGARIA. Router correspondent at Constantinople saya the Bulgarian Minister has assured-thie Porte of the neutrality of Bulgaria.

TREACHEROUS FIRE ON WHITE FLAG.

It is officially reported from Ron that fire was treacherously opened by the Turks from San Giovanni, on the Albanian coast, upon an Italian vessel flying the white flag.

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An extract of meteorological observations made at the Hoogkong Observatory during the maximam temperaturs for that period. was 86.1. month of September show that the avorige! The Italian destroyer Artigliere, which the average meat 81.1, and the average minimum was patrolling the vicinity, returned the fre, temperatura 774 degrees. The rainfall was The Artigliere was slightly damaged, and 6,215 inches, and we had 211 hours of ausbine,

THE TURKISH MINISTRY.

ROYALISTS REPULSED. A band of Royalists were repulsed near Braganza, there being thirty casualtion.

COMMUNICATION RESTORED. Reuter's correspondent at Oporto says

LATER. Reuter's correspondent at Constantinople saya it is understood that Reshi the Ambassador to Vienna, has renounced the Foreign portfolio in the Cabinet formed by the military nuthorities state that large. Said Pasha, and that Assim Bay, the Republican forces occupy Braganze and

the post. Minister to Sefa, will probably he offered Chaves, and that communication with Oporto

and Braganza has been restored."

GUNS FOR CATERINA. Router's correspondent at Salonika wires that three Maxim and six quick-firing guns have been despatched to Caterina.

INVASION OF GREECE FEARED.

Three men who were found tampering with the railway were shot, and many officers have been arrested:

WHERE IS THE EX-KING P Yesterday a number of French newspapery The Turkish Government is secretly constated that ex-King Manusi and his uncle tracting for large supplies deliverable at Alfonso were in Portugal, but several persons Monastic and other centres within ten days, who were interviewed yesterday evening and it is persistently rumoured that an in-stated that Manuel was at Richmond. vasion of Greece is contemplated

a

CIVILISING. THE AFRICAN CONTINENT.

banquet, at which 1,100 people were pre Reuter's correspondent at Turin says that

sent including 500 Senators and Deputies. was given in honour of Senor Giolitti who received a great ovation.

A. S. WATSON & CO.. themselves have to be fed, which, in the case of a shortage of crops, is very difficult. In England this summer owing to the failure of root crops and the purched condition of the meadows, the fooding of live stock has Leon a very serious problem. Roughly, it may be said that a failure of crops means also a failure in the breeding of live stock. Altogether we have made but little advance in the food problem, if indeed, wo have not gone backward, accepting the stories of the "rude plenty of our forefathers. We are still almost entirely dependent on the weather, and on immediate supplies, for although some attempts have been made at food preservation, and we can carry fresh meal and other perishable provisions to any part of the world, thera kas not-resulted any decrease in prices. The steady increase in the price of food supplies goes on, and we still exist-on a more or less hand to mouth supply. Nowadays, however, nations who have other sources of income besides agriculture can obtain supplies from foreign Conditions under which exemption may be ob- have seized the British steamer Orchie, which King Emmanuel and his family arrived at

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The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, OCTOBER 9TH, 1911.

THE unrest in Europe, evinced by strikes and a general discontent with the social

conditions, has been attributed to the unusual climatic conditions that have prevailed during the past auamer over the greater part of the continent. The words midsummer madness" have a deeper signi. ficance than is generally attached to them

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her commander was wounded in the foot. At to-morrow's meeting of the Sanitary Board The damage done to the enemy is unknown letters from the Government relating to the Pokfulam water supply and the offensive trade

This is obviously a censored version bye-laws will be read, and the report of the Gov-

THE UNOFFICIAL VERSION. oromont Analyst on the publle water supplies, and correspondence relative to burials in the were killed, and it is further stated that in It is unofficially reported that 300 Turks Mt. Caroline Cemetery will be considered. -

Begulations made by the Governor-in-Coun

order to avoid a repetition of such incidents oil under the Moneylenders' Ordinance are

the Italian warships in Albanian waters published in the current issue of the Gazette. have been reculled. Under them the Registrar of Companies is rp-REPORTED SEIZURE OF A BRITISH pointed Register of Moneylenders, and the Supreme Court is the office at which the latter, will be registered. The registration lee is $10. tained are set outin the regulations.

BANYS.

STEAMER.

It is reported from Vienas that the Turka

THE ROYALIST STRENGTH. According to the Spanish Press, the

SEDITIOUS LITERATURE IN INDIA. Royalists number 12,000 men, with thirty Krupp gons.

LONDON, October 7th.

Reuter's correspondent at Bombay, wires that a man named Bepin Chandrapal, on arriving from England, was arrested for

Senor Giolitti in a speech said that no uation had so speedily accomplished such a complete transformation, political, moral publishing seditious literature entities, and economic, as Italy, who now claimed ber

Etiology of the Bomb in Bengal.” ⠀ share of work in civilising the African_con- tipent.

KING EMMANUEL AT PISA. Reuter's correspondent at Pisa wires that

had gunpowder aboard, and conveyed her to that city from Racconimes, and Salonika.

acclaimed by large crowds.

PEACE WITH THE REBEL IMAM,

Reuter's correspondent at Hodeidah wires that the Porte has concluded a treaty of peace in Tamen with the rebel Imam Yalta, It is expected that the bulk of the 4,000,000 Turkish reinforcements will return to 9,000,000 Constantinople immediately.

countries should their own fail, thanks to quick transport and increased facilities of communication. We have even got so far in circulation and of spacis in reserve in Hong- Betarns of the average amount of bank notes that some nations have given up attempt kong during the month ended 30th Septem ing to supply themselves, finding it more ber, 1911, as verified by the managers of the re economical to obtain their supplies else-spentive banks, are as follows:- where and devote themselves to other work-

SPECIE The danger in this is that the supplies alse...

AVERAGE where may fail. The root of the trouble

..IN... -AMOUNT. is that food-stuffs cannot be turned

RESERV $

out immediately; they demand time. the quantity to suit the demand; we can We can make so many tons of steel, mrying bring up coal to the surface-while the supply lasts to the amount we require; but we can only make a very uncertain guess

Chartered Bank of India, Hongkong and Shanghai

Australia and China... 5,684,108 Banking Corporation 15,952,250

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Total 821,636,358 $13,000,000 THE WRECK OF THE ILSE." SEVERAL LIVES LOST.

Only the maste of the German steamer Iss.

ITALIAN OCCUPATION OF TRIPOLI

The Italians now occupy Tripoli. Admiral Boreadolmu has been appointed Governor.

Poor humanity is more apt in the summer whether our foot supply is going to be which we wrecked at Breaker Point in last season to find the eternal struggle for

The Italians landed a further force with existence-what may be called life's pin-if it is not sufficient we shall not be able to were lost. we learn, including the second engi number of Arabs boarded the flagship, suficient, and we may he very certain that week's typhoon are now visib'e. Several lives guns and waitrailleuses, and afterwards a pricks-beyond endurance, aud--in Eastern

make it sufficient in a hurry. The case of neer, the Captain's two children, their Japanese tendering their subinission and asking för parlance-rua amok. To this must be China is a notable one. Practically the amah and some of the Chinese members of the ascribed the wilful destruction of property

classes

no indus-

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CANADIAN POLITICS

was

LONDON, October 7th. Reuter's correspondent at Ottawa wires

LATER. Renter's correspondent at Bombay wires that Chandrapal has pleaded guilty to cir- culating seditious literature, pad has been imprisoned for a mouth.

STRIKE OF COTTON WORKERS.

LONDON, October 7th. Owing to the rofusal of two non-Unionists to join the Union, all the workers at the Yatefield Mill, Buruley, went on strike on Wednesday

that Earl Grey has summoned Mr. Borden. North-East Lancashire replied by threatou- The Spinners Association of Nortli and to an audience, and that the latter basing a general lock-out involving 150,000 accepted the task of forming a new Cabinet"] workmen.

WEST AUSTRALIAN POLITICS:

LONDON, October 8th. Renter's correspondent at Perth wires that a Labour Ministry has been formed.

SWEDEN'S NEW MINISTRY.

LONDON, October 7th, Heuter's correspondent at Stockholm wires

THE TURF.

LONDON, October 7th. The betting on the Cesarewitch is: 5 to I against Mirador; 10 to 1 against Martingale. and Papavero; 100 to 3 against Willonyx and Declare; 100 to 7 against Dalmatian; and 100 to 3 against Fort.

LONDON, October 2th. The Duke of York Stakes was won by formed a Ministry.

The Socialists, whose successos at, the of Honour third. Eleven horses started. Trepida, with Mustapha second and Knight

Government. polls brought about the fall of the previous Trepida wou by a length and a half, while Ministry, declined to be represented on the five lengths separated the second and third

NORTH TYRONE BYE-ELECTION.

in England, the raids on the Jews in Wales. Population depends upon agriculture for its crow. Ths Captain succeeded to saving his wife, a cessation of the bombardment, while the the dear-food riots in France, and the other means of livelihood, and that in a country but the loss of her two children drove her German Consul General requested the that the Liberal member, Mr. Staaff, has excesses which have wade this year which, for certain reasons, is peculiarly

frantic with grief. memorable one. The series of strikes in liable to suffer from floods and other so-

Admiral to asame control and restore England led the veteran. joker Punch to called natural calamities. With their crops

order, the Turkish troops having abandon. draw on its immagination for some other destroyed the Chinese are in a hopeless

the town. of strikes, among which was condition. They have no resources where emunerated a strike of school children. with to purchase food in Bufficient Within a few weeks Punch's dream had quantities from abroad, come true, and the children London and tries bringing in money which will tide other schools were out against too much over bad times all they can do is to eke out cane and too much work. The over-taxed miserable existence until the next season, brains had come to a stop, and they, too, or die. "Conditions such as these occur with were running amok against a world that was great frequency in China and Iadis, where too bard on them. Although with the and also the population depende almost entirely of the long summer the approach of normal agriculture. In Europe and America conditions may be considered as certain, the they are almost unimaginable; yet the ovente occurrences that have signalised it cannot of the past summer in the former continent of the afternoon and evening were considerably fulfil a political engagement, was met by Senor Giolitti, who arrived at Turin to but give us pause. The question that arises and the rise in the prices of food witnessed, onhanced by the attendance of a military band, large crowds and hands, and acclaimed in everyone's mind is whether, if a slight show that the margin of safety is not a which played pleasing selections of musta.

ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH BAZAAR. work was held in connection with St. Andrew's On Saturday afternoon and evening a sale of Church, Kowloon, which was well patronised. foreigner had been injured nor residenze The German Coneul stated that no The opening ceremony took place at 3.30 p.m. damaged during the bombardment. entertaining the children, who enjoyed them- and the afternoon was principally devoted to etres immensely in various games and competi

THE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE,

tions which took place on the grounds of the

LATER, Church.

Troops leaving the garrisons at Bome and The evening session proved a continuation of elsewhers to join the expeditionary force the afternoon's access. A series of interesting have become objects of frenzied enthusiasm. was a grand pyrotechnic display, which was cinematograph pictures was shown, and there admired by young and old alike. The pleasures

"A SECOND CAVOUR.”

|second Cavour.".

LONDON, October 8th.

Russell, the Liberal candidate, polled 3,102 In a bye-election for North Tyrone Mr. votes against 3,086 recorded in favour of

horses.

The betting was 8 to 1gainst Trepida; 7 to 2 against Mustapha, and 20 to 1 against night of Honour.

AVIATOR INJURED.

LONDON, October 7th.

A message from Rheims states that Mr. Herdman, the Unionist...

Beaumont, the winner of the Daily Mail Mr. Redmond Barry, K.C., was returned by self internally as the result of a premature [At the last election a Tiberal candidate,fying race, broke his leg and injured hig

a majority of 132].

descent while testing a military aeroplane.