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CANTON.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6TH, 1911.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

MORE TROUBLE ON THE CANTOY-KOWLOON EAILWAY.

A rather nasty incident which might easily have had serious consequences took place at tha terminus of the Canton Kowloon Railway here. on Friday last. About noon some sokliers who bad evidently got out of hand-caused-s-dia- turbance near Tại Sha Tau station, nad firing commenced between them and the soldiers on

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, the guard boats in the river, the line of fire being across the line. The carriages of a train which was standing there at the time were

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riddled with bullets and all the employees. laft their posts for shelter. Also a small sagine which was used for light work was completely - stripped of her fittings by some of the rowdies who were evidently out for loot. No ono was hurt and the servies of trains is still going on as usual, and daring the week-end all was goletness, though all the Europeana and "come of the Chinese have left Tung Shao, the

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CHATEAU MOUTON

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UKATEAU LA TOUR

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railway settlement, and have been staying in Shameen for some time now

AN UNSETTLED CITY.

The present naattled stato of the governing body in Canton is causing fo da of, applications for offcial situations under the new government, and un amusing incident occurred at the Victoria Hotel on Saturday, A Chinaman arrived, bag and baggage, and announced that he was an envoy of the Now Gorornment, come to treat with Mr. Ws, the new Governor., on official bzalness, Sororal-people-whe wished-to- see some of the now oficials on private affairs

TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

THE REVOLUTION.

["DAILY PRESS EXCLUSIVE SERVIOS.]

JAPANESE AND BRITISH

INTERESTS.

Toxro, Dec. 5th; Sir Claude Macdonald, British Minister, called on Baron Uchida, Minister for Foreign Affairs on Satur- day. Mrs Matsuda, of the Foreign Office, leaves for Peking.

{THROJGH BEUTER'S AGENOT.]

TARTAR CITY SÁCKED."

LONDON, December 5. Renter's earrespondent at Nanking states that the Tartar City has been sacked and the burned, with the permission authorities.

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GERMAN FIRMS THREATENED. Shanghai despatches statel that German firms there have been anonymously threat- oned with death if they supply Imperialists with munitions..

THE DURBAR.

LexDow, December 5.

Reuter's Bombay correspondent enbios that Their Majesties were met by joyous greetings at the children's fete held in the exhibition stadiam, in which 25,000 school. children of all castes and creeds took part. The children, clad in gorgeous costumes cheered and waved flags and sang antherus

LOCAL SPORT.

LEAGUE CRICKET,

CRAIGENDOWER U. ROYAL ENGINEERS, A draw was the result of the match played botwan Craigongover and the Royal Engineers on Saturday afternoon. Scores

ROYAL ENGINEERS,

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{THROUGH BETTER'S AGENOE.

RUSSIA AND PERSIA.

LONDON, December 5 In answer to a question in the House of Commons, the Rt. Hon. A. H. Acland said that Great Britain was informed of the Russian ultimatum before it was sont, but Major Racliffe, not out as the Brenta which occasioned its despatch 01. Pearson, J. Brags CL-Morgan, b Taylor... primarily concerned Russia, the consent of Capt. Addison, b J. Braga Great Britain was not required. In view, Capt. Campion, st Noria, la Carvalla 17

Corpl. Tavarner, J. Bragn however, of Mr. Shuster's action, Great Cpl. Godfrey, Vivensh, & Bragn Britain was unable to object to the demand Sap. Fox, not out

Opl. Davis... respecting him, and the appointment of Sape. Faro... Did not bat foreign' officers.

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Renter's Teheran correspondent states that the Mejliss has sent cablegrams up- pealing especially to the British House of Commons and the Duma and generally to the world's parliament in connection with H. Tayler the action of Bussia. The women are must. Haga

J. Pestouji.. active in demonstrations and processions, R. Braga and are haranging crowds in the morque R. Carvalho squares and smashing windows in order to onforce a Russian boycott. The Persian Women's. Society has wired to the Saffra-A. Rose, & and b Campion....

J. D. Norin, c Brown, b "Addison gista Committee in London taking the help R. Basa, b Taverner of the English women.

LATER.

In the House of Commons, Mr Aoland replying to question, said Britain made

presentations to Russia on the subject of her demand for an indemnity from Persia.

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heating of this "great man's" arrival came to sac hina and he held seroral interviews. Also gentleman, sppose to be Mr. Wa, arrived, and they had a consultation. Saspicions were aroused, howover, that ke was an imposter, and the manager, who had occasion to go into the The above Clarets, imported from the well-Yamon, inquired while thero, and found that be in four languages. The children sang the tiger killed a cow in a feld near the village. Capt. Addison

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was simply qu“ out-of-worker" who was looking after a soft job in the government and who had been turned away from the Tamen that very day. Of course he was promptly sent about his business but how much information he got by his ruse or of what nature and importance it was is not known. This only serves to show people how careful one has to be when there `is really no proper governing authority here,

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The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, DECEMBER 6TX, 1911. Eight cases of small-pox (all Chinese) were notified in the Colony last week.

Tus sa. Tentho Maru is to to launched at the Taikoo Dockyard ou Buturday.

The injury sustained by Dr Francis Clark is a fracture of the right arm, just above the

wrist.

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Hongkong Ice Co's shares jamped-up-850 yesterday on it being reported that the Oriental Brewery had closed.

On. Sasday a band of those pimtes and

Revolutionary authorities got to know of a man who had collected a hundred dollare at some shop and followed him up and shot him on the street which runs along the defenco orgek, not | 30 yards from the British Couvession. The

man was killed and the money stolen.

THE TWO BRIGAND

CANTON,

anthems to English and Indian music; after which a native dance was held. Their Majesties raade a tour of the exhibition, the children being in a state of indescribable excitement and enthusisers,

MOSQUE BLOWN UP.

LONDON December 5th. Reuter's Constantinople correspondent cables that Bulgarian revolutionaries have blown up a mosque in the town of Ishtib, in Macedonia, with dynamite. Twelve persons were killed and thirteen wounded,

A NEW BISHOP.

LONDON, December 5. Canon Thompson, reoter of Birmingham, has been appointed Bishop of Sodor and

CHIEFS AT Man.

Now that the pirates and beigands are such » numerous body in Canton (writes our Cauton correspondent), a fow remarks about the history of their leaders may not be without interest, With some diffloalty I have managed to obtain a brief outline of the career of both Lak Lan Ching and Li Tang Tung, whose evil beds have for years caused them to be a terror even in this robber-infested province, and for whose captura the late government offered astonishingly large rewards. The more redon table of the two is the former, Luk, who is a man of good family and a native of the Sam Shui district, When a young man he aspired to the ranks of the literati, but being placked in his examination

COLONIAL SILVER COINAGE.

LONDON, December 5. The Rt. Hon. L. Harcourt has appointed a committee to consider the question of a distinct silver coinage for the West African colonies. Lord Emmott is to be the chairman.

SCOTTISH SOLICITOR GENERAL.

LONDON, December 5. Mr. W. Hunter, K.C., Solicitor-General for Sectland, has been appointed to

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TIGER STORY FROM STANLEY. A Chinese constable reported on Monday that he had been told by the villagera of Hok- teul, Stanley, that on the 27the of last month, a

The cow was the property of one of the villagers.Cpl. Taverner

Campion Another report was to the effect that a pig was. killed in its sty. The villager went in pursuit of the tiger, und managed to pick up its spoor. which measured about seven inches saross, and was olearly visiblo in the soft mnd of the paddy Balds. The constable did not say whether the tiger was captured or not,

EWO COTTON SPINNING COMPANY.

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afternoon between Kowloon and the The match at King's Park on Saturday

R.G.A.. alse resulted in a draw. The

Ecores were:-

KOWLOON.

At a meeting of the Consulting Committee Lt. N. J. Willems, a and b Bagnall... 10 of the Ewo Cotton Spinning and Weavin J. H. Mead, b Bagnall, Co., Ltd., on the 28th ult. It was decided that W. L. Wenser, e Frith, b Paris... the Shareholders should be recommended to R. P. Thursfield, b Paris apportion the balanco at credit of Profit & Lose Lt. W. A. Hagger; b Bagnall A/s on 31st October, 1911, of Tls. 212,345, -as followe

Tis.

To pay adividend on the

Preference Shares at the rate of 7 per cent. p.a. Absorbing

pay a dividend of Tis. 7 per share on 15,000 Ordi. nary Shares absorbing, place to Special Repairs and Renewals A place to Equalization of Dividend Ale

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INTIMATIONS

THIRTY YEARS

OF DISFIGURING

ECZEMA CURED

Ever since I was a Ulikle girl, Ahirty yeare ago, I had suffered tortures from 'eczeni in oss of its worst forms. The disease runs in at my fanly, and mine war of a staly and most, disfiguring kind. The eczema formed in round rings, and then scales all over

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my face at Barba, Į have been smothered from head to foot. I was born in Leamington, which is Inmoils for sufpleðir Tatlıs il pump waters, and one would think that nice taking the treatment there reg charly as 1. did,'" slie disease would long ago tare bren curat, but is was not, I attruded the → Yospital for yenia and yours, so you wlit kra I gave a fair trial.

Everyone in the tavat knew of my mase, Hý face was disfigured very badly, A doctor told me that I should never get rid of it... spent pounds in destors? Dilis, and I attended several hospitals, but nothing did' re any

en one day on uude of mainc recom mended the Cuticar eedle. I took to advice, and commened to the the Cuticura Soap. To my natoulshument un koprovenienį toner set nd my hair, #lier: fað been i complete mass of sexies and seast, moun Then began to look in splendid condifon I bought a box of Cuticura Ointment, and this cleared my skin wonderfully. Bu a few weeks time all traces of the sealy eruptions had completely disappeared. Now my skin dear and healthy, and thanks to the Cutf- cara Bemerlies 1 am completely cured of eczema. All my neighbors were astounded: they knew what a sight I was, ned the manner of my cure by Cutler Remedies was nothing short of a marvel: The Cukura Remedies are worth theit weight in gold, and one zables of Cuticure Soan govs further than fout cakes of cheaper soups. I shall always keep it in The house, for it hans brought appiness mie my home." (Signed)Mrs. Butler, 17. Francis Ed., The Cotterille, King's Norton, Bir mingham, England, July 8, 1910.

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LOAN TO VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM.

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CUTLERY,

FISI KNIVES

and' FORIS,

LEATHER HAND-BAGS,

and WALLETS:

BAZOES,

| Capt. Clapham, o Ravon, b Wonser.... 30 The King and Queen have lent to the Vic-L. Wiltshire, & Waterhouse,b Macaskill 2 toris and Albert Museum and the Bethnal Green Capt. Crawford,e de Rome, bWaterhouse 25 DRESSING CASES with Muuram several examples of Chiness crafts- Lieut. Paris, b Wesser... manship which formed the Coronation presenta Lt. Bagaslle de Rome, b Waterhause 4

SILVER FITTINGS,·· to their Majesties from the Chinese Imperial Lt. Collins, not out

Lt. Thompson, et Hagger, b Foster-Pagg 11. for the aau tsoi degree he gave up his high Scottish judgeship. Mr. A. M. Anderson, Family.

The paesents to the Queen are a dressing Gr. Driver, desires and opens a school in his native village M.P: for North Ayrshire, succeeds him.

table of curved rod lasqner, with a phair and Br. Frith,

did not bat. This village and its environs were infested by a The appointments necessitate two byo-footstool to match. The gifts to the King con-Gr. Fitzgerald, ... gang of bandits who levied blackmail on all and elections.

sist of the following:-

Capt. Burgess, From the Emperor of China, a 12-fold screen sundry, and those who did not pay up came

of rosewood enriched with panels of Cloisonne under the ban of the gang. To write these

oanmel, the subjects in coloured composition, letters they employed the young schoolmaster

lacquer, end pearl inlay from the Prince Lak Lan Ching, who put auch strong terms and

Regent of China, & pair of standing screens of Pekingese red lacquer fuely carerd with Chin- terrible throats into these epistles that they

ese subjecte, and bearing on the back, in Jade, characters of lucky import, among which are seldom failed to obtain the desired result. From

variations of the appropriate sign for longevity, secretary to the gang Lak gradually rose to be

from the Spacial Representative. Prince Tat-R. R. Maonokil...... chief, and his name became out of fear to all

chen, s pair of standing soreens mounted with Rev. Foster Fe the effcicla and morchauts in the Weat River

large panels of Pekingese Cloisonne enamel in W. L. Waser.... district, where most of his crimes were carried

carved rosewood frames o Canion-work.

F. J. de Rome on. Being e-man of great furcs of will and of

shown in the Victoria and Albert Museum,

His Majesty Las allowed his presents to be W, Waterhouse person influence he ruled his gang with

where they are arranged in one of the apaesin despotic sway and purished with death the

the Loan Court. The dressing table, chair, and slightest thwarting of bis desires or any lapse

in the Bethnal Green Museums.⠀ . stool, by her Majesty's command, are exhibited of duty. Many borrible tales are told of the ghastly acts of cruelty committed by his gang upon the persons of those who failed to pay the Messrs Goldman and Forater, Unionists, blackmail and ransoms demanded. Many times supported Mr Ramsay Macdonald's amend. the mandarins tried to capture him, end on one occasion when tracked to a village he succeeded ment, Mr Lloyd George said the reduction iz

making his bride and thus eluding the rigilanos of the

escape by dressing himself as of one penny would convert an estimated offiours of the law: His gang has grown in surplus of £1,800,000 into a detait of

Sir Arthur Young, Governor of the Straits Bettiemeals, having left the Colony on leave, Me Richard James Wilkinson has been appoin-

·ted Over Administering the Colony,

"The Eccentrics" had a good reception Iast

numbers until it now rashes a total of olosa night when they presented the full opera apon two thousand men, This man has been Falka. To-night they give the pocket edi- engaged in plandering the community for about tion of "Les Cloches de Corneville."

tou years, and it is said that such has been hia success that he is now immensely wealthy. This is the man who, with the bulk of his fellow desperadom is now living in the Yaney of the Tartar General, and who has taken upon himself the teak of guarding the Eight Banner

Settlement.

Kovariok, the American boy violinist, is com ing to Hongkong on the PM strainer Mon, elia, das here from Manila on Friday, and

intends, giving a concert here, The Manila paper write enthusiastically of Kovarick's brilliant perfomances.

As the result of the revolution in China there has been a prodigious drop in the price of Japaness cotton yarn since the beginning of November. Chibs absorbs two-thirds of the exort trade, and the raw materiai comes from

India.

At yesterday's meeting of the Sanitary Board, the Chairman, Alr. B. D. C. Wolfe, welcomed

Colonel Irwin as a new member of the Board.

The other br gand chief. Li Tang Tang, is now in charge of Honom, where he has set the Is at deflance for years. He has been a robber from his youth up, and having gathered around him a large number of kindred spirits, made called Tai Teng. From this place scouts were stronghold in a lonely part of Housm

Island, daily sent out and fee travellers between the villages escaped the unwelcome attentions of these rasuals. His gang being well armed bad no for of the police or soldiers who wore from time to time sent against them, and the man

BRITISH INSURANCE, BILL.

London, December 5. In the House of Commons the report stage The of the Insurance Bill was concluded. House rejected the Unionist amendment to graduate contributions according to wages, by 175 to 105. The Liberal amendment to reduce the contribution to Territorials was rejected by 166 to 89. An amendment by Mr Ramsey Macdonald to reduce the contributions of workman auù employers by a penny was rejected by 188 to 156.

£1,200,000.

TORTE'S CIRCULAR TO THE

POWERS.

The Porta in a circular to the Powers, draws attention to the outrages in Mace donis, and to the renewed activity of the

Macedonian-Bulgarian revolutionary orga-

nisation.

It is reported that the Porte has appealed to the Powers, urging them to respect the independence of Persia.

-THE “KUALA" WRECK.

Batavia and Serabaya, and in portaps no leg®-

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CIVIL SERVICE.

degree the whole island of Java, have recently been profoundly moved by two sensations in- volving in one oase the murder of a European R. C. Witchell, and b Smith, lady, and in the other the final committal to goal for ten years of another European lady for A. R. Sutherland, Ibw, Symes,

H. Tillman, sun out"... having poisoned her linkband to death.

Foster

SPECTACLES

Hon. Dr J. W. Atkinson, o Palmer, b Accurately Fitted to

O. E. Le Munyon charged with polygamy has been sentenced by the United States Court | H. A. Cox, net gub....... at Shanghai to pay a fine of $100 gold, and to EW. Dawson, b Morton be imprisoned for one year in the jail for H.LO. Garret, b Synes American convicta at Shanghai, with the

sion that after the expiration of sixty G. MoEwen, b Foster

R. E. O. Bird, c Palmer, b 8ymes the farther execution of the sentence should be L. E. Brett, o Kissane, b Symes... suspended and what he be then released on E. Gibson, Gill, b Symes

his own recognisance for a period of four years conditioned upon his abandoning all lioit relations with the women with whom he con tracted a polygamque marriage,

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LATEST SHIPPING NEWS..

Lisut Smith, e Tillmann, b Bird. The Canadian Pacião Railway Company Requette, b Witchell, B.M.S. Emprese of Japan arrived Bhanghai at Foster, e Cox, b Bird 11.30 on Monday the 4th inst, and leave again Kissane, b Bird at 6 pm. today for Nagasaki where she is due Symes, e Tillmana, 6 Bird to arrive at 6.0) a.m. on Thursday the 7th inst

Palmer, e Witchell, b Bird The T.KK. ́3-8. Yokohama en the 2nd inst., from Ban Francisco Gil, b Bird

*ippon Maru arrived at Moreton, b Witchell and sailed thence on 4th inst. She is expected Leitch. b Bird...

Fellatt, run out The T.K.K. 6.a. Shinyo Maru arrived at San Way, not eat... The wreck has been plundered Francisso on the 30th November.

LONDON, Dececber 5th. Lloyd's agent at Aden cables that the had become such a post to society that the late crew of the steamer "Kuala, which was

goy.mcent

Colonel Irvin, he said, was not a new man to Like Offer à 220,000 for his captare.wrecked at Bocotra, has been deserted-by-to arrive at this port on about the 12th inst....

Chin, and his experience would be valuable to the Board. Since Colonel Bedford had not on the Board they expicted a great deal from the principal (militory), medical officer.

contemporary; Lak, ho appears to be a

man capable of exerting a wonderful influence the crew.

over the evil characters he controls. He also is of everything removeable and only the hull said to have amassed a great fortuno from his

various looting expeditious.

now remains.

The as. Rubi left Manila on Monday the 4th inst. and is due here on or about Thursday, 7th nst, at daylight.

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