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interesting subjest. He would be extremely pessimistic, but the statistics show very little warmat for such an attitude, Japan, be romarks, is unquestionably the most serious of Britain's competitors for China's import trade. In 1910 Japan's imports were, for the first time, higher than
the direct from the British Isles, though
still, of course, far below the geons British total from all sources. Japan's share in Chinese imports has been rising very rapidly. of late years, but it is satisfactory to note that, with the exception of textile goods. and one or two other lines, the fugrenses
The engagements of the Bishop of Victoriaj for to-morrow (Sunday) areto_am,,| preach on board H.M.S. Astraen; 18 8.716, Preach at St. Paul's Chinese Church; 5.45 preach at St. John's Cathedral.
An old lady was knocked down by a tram car in the Western district on Thursday
night while crossing from Des Voeux Road
MR. MATHESON LANG AT THE THEATRE ROYAL,"
THE TAMING OF THE SHIRLW.”
It was a crowded and highly delighted audi- ence which assembled in the Theatre Royal last night to witness the initial performance
and Messrs. Lang and Holloway's London
to Centre Street. She was sent to the hos Company in "The Taming of the Shrew." pital suffering from injuries to her head. This is perhaps one of the least interesting of Shakespeare's plays to read, and it is only The Rev. C. Bone will traverse some of when one sees it staged by a capable Com- the teachings of Pastor Russell to-morrow pany that one realises the wealth of comedy evening at the Wesleyan Church, and with which every scene is filled. Miss Hutin dead?" The service commences at o'clocic.
TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
[THROUGH BEUTER'S AGINUT.)
THE REVOLUTION.
THE DEMAND ON THE CHINA MERCHANTS, S.N. COY.
LONDON, February 2nd. Beuter's correspondent reports that the shareholders of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Co., by a majority of 24 to
are dus to linas in which Great Britain dogs again answer the question “Where are the Britton as the shrew gave an excellent 1. resolved to tmnsfor the shipa of the Coni-
not compete with her, though unquestion~|| ably they affect some of our Asiatic' posses- aions, However, the very rapid rise of
6 portrayal of the character, while Mr. Mathe-
{THROUGH | SEUTRE'S - AGENCY.] UNREST IN PORTUGAL
HOMANTIC HERTING OF TİB ̧M>KING AND PRETENDEE.
LONDON, February 2nd. News has leaked out of a secret mesting between ex-King Manuel and the Pretender, Dom Miguel, in the Lord Warden Hotel at Dover on Tuesday.
son Lang, as Petruchio, the shrew timer, pany to the Republicans as security for a sengers on the steam packet Nord and they
taché in China has been conferred upon Car Ripley as Bianca, Mr. A. W. Tyrer as was superb. They were well supported by The appointment of British Military At-1 the rest of the Company-Miss Dorothy tain D. S. Robertson, and Royal Sents Fusiliers, who will have the temporary rank
Gremio, Mr. Randell Holloway us Horten of major, in succession to Lieut.-Col. M. E.
sio, Mr. Douglas Vivers as Lucentio, Mr.. Willoughby, and Lancers. Indian Army
Charles Vane as Baptista; Mr. Douglas Young as Vicentia, Mr. F. Percival Stevens The Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Com-39 Gremio, and Miss Lucy Beaumont as of the relatives of the mon from the French and it can truthfully be said that the audience pany has subscribed £500 to the fund in aid
Curas, a servant to Petruchio,
The play lasted till nearly, luff-past twelve cruiser Friant, who were drowned in ate did not have a tedious moment, except in tempting to rescue the passengers of the the intervals. It was a delightful perform wrecked P and Q, steamer Delhi near Cape Spartel.
ance and when the curtain fell upon the very picturesque scene of the final act the audience gave vent to their delight in rounds of enthusiastic applause.
To-night the play is "Bardleys the Magnificent."
It is announced that the interest of Mr. Gershom. Stewart, M.P. in the firm of Stewart Bros. bill and bullion brokers, has
late manager of the local branch of the terminated and that Mr. Evan Ormiston,,
Mercantile Bank, has been admitted as partner in the firm.
2
A London vire of January 16, says :-The Hongkong Selangor Rubber Company, Limited, has been formed with a capital of £30ion and present issue of dog. The company acquires 1,507 acres, of which 313 deres have been recently planted. The estate adjoins Seafield.
SUPREME COURT.
Friday, 2nd February.
FULL COURT.
BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE (SIR FRANCIS PIGGOTT) AND THE PUISER JUDGE
something like 45 per cent in the trade from India and the Straits Settemente during the last three years shows that in this respect we are holding our own.". But Mr. Barsoum apparently doubts whether we can hold our supremacy much longer. "We have worked hard for it," he says It was Britain who originally knocked more persistently than all the other antione in the world at the hermetically sealed door of China. It was Britain who, in 1841. E caa confidently recommend the forcibly pushed that door ajar and inserted
following as Xeros Wines of the
the thin end of the wedge which has kept it partially
open ever Highest Class, Specially Saleoted, And since in the shape of the Treaty Whipped direct.
ports and the ceding of Hongkong to us. It was a Briton, who created that marvel- lously efficient service now known as the Imperial Maritime Customs: it was to Britons that China was indebted for her first railways and much else, and Mr. RANSOME bemoans that "now that Britain, has borne the burden and heat of the day, our compe- titors are making herculean efforts to rob. us of the harvest which legitimately we should reap, and their lover, fman- cial influence is a powerful one." It is useless bemoaning those things. The. question for consideration is: What is now necessary to be done by the British 2.05 Government or British merchants to main tain and, if possible, improve the position British trade holds relatively to the trade 2.55 of other countries. Mr. RANSOME Complaing that while the Governmaats, banks and shipping companies of Germany, the Ralph, Captains R. J. Clarke, P. de C. Lieut. Colonel A. S. Begbie, Major A. C. United States; Francs, and Belgium, Johnston, S. L. Ralph, H. C. Cutler, Lleuts, served for the decision of the Full Court.
stone unturned
to forward N. D. Place, L. Spencer, A. J. Orchard, D. The question arose at the last Criminal A. S. WATSON & CO..the interests of their respective manu Arthur, I.M.S., 14 Indian Officers, 736 rank Sessions, when two men were indicted on facturers at home, and their compatriots and file, and 77 followers, 8th Rajputs, re. charges of attempting to obtain property LIMITED,
resident in China, “ the British Government turned to Kowloon from camp at Lowit and under false pretences, and with conspiracy, confines itself to publishing out-of-date, Fanting on 30th January
One man was acquitted and the present pris incomplete, and often misleading reports Mr. G. H. Corse, Jr., has been appointed originally presented to the jury was that the
soner was convicted. concerning matters which are dead and to succeed the late Mr. Tom Mackay, gen- falar pretence was, that he represented him- The indictment as goue by the time they reach the public eral passenger agent of the San Francisco self as agent for the Quong, Yik Bank of They make no endeavour to forward trade overland route, with headquarters at No. 4 Swatow and therefore authorised by the interests in any way, either collectively or
Water street, Yokohama, Japan. in the case of the individual. The British agency covers the Pacific Mail, Southern the trial a witness for the Crown proved
Bank to obtain the papers referred to. banker, while as anxious as his competitora Pacific, Union Pacific, Chicago and North that the false pretences were not the false Western, Pennsylvania and New York Ceh- tral companies.
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THE CRISIS IN ULSTER.
calling on the Government, with whom,
LONDON, February 2nd. five simultaneous meetings in Belfast, Ten thousand Irish Presbyterians held
apart from the question of Home Rule, so many sympathised, to save the Irish Presbyterians from disaster.
LATEE.
The speakers at the Belfast meetings afirmed that the Presbyterians would not obey the laws of an Irish Parliament and would throw its demand for money in the fire. This derision was final and unchang ing.
THE STRIKE IN LISBON.
LONDON, February 2nd. Beuter's correspondent at Lisbon reports that it is officially announced that the strike is everywhere ended and that the Gorera mant is master of the stustion. The Chamber of Daputies has adopted a motion prolonging martial law in Lisbon for a
The particulars read like a chapter of a romance. King Manuel met some ten pas-
piest of terms all adjourned to the hotel. Everyone at the conference appeared to be on the hap
A journalist afterwards found a blotting pad, on which was, traced a signed "entente," indicating the abdication of Dom Miguel.
their first meeting. the two protagonists and commemorates A flashlight photograph clearly shows
for Calais and the ex-King Manuel pro- geeded to London.
The Miguel party left the same evening
LATEE.
Manuel and Dom Miguel at Dover and The newspapers publish pictures of King reproductions of the signatures on the blotting pad, which the journalist, who tracked Don Miguel from Paris, photo- graphed.
Reuter states that at the meeting between King Mannel and Dom Miguel at Dover. the latter spontaneously offered to help to to the Throne. the utmost the restoration of King Manuel
FORECASTS OF THE HOME RULE BILL
Chow Kwong it had been referred to the for the summary court-martialling of
This was a case in which the conviction of month, and has approved of a bill providing Home Rule Bill, says the Irish Parliament
The Rt. Hon. Sir West Ridgeway, P.C., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., formerly Governor of Ceylon, arrived in Hongkong yesterday by the P. and O. steamer Himalaya, Sir West Full Court. Ridgeway is Chairman of the British North
The Hon. Mr. Rees Davies (Attorney-Gea- Borneo Co. and is visiting the East in contrat) appeared for the Crown, and Mr. Eldon nection with the Company's affairs.
Potter, instructed by Mr. Lewis, appeared on behalf of the prisoner.
This
Mr. Potter said this was a question re-
At
pretences as appeared in the indictment and that the Yi Tai firm were the agents of the
prisoners in batches of 25.
LONDON, February 2nd.
will control the customs and excise, but that The Daily Chronicle, in a forecast of the
that the reactionaries engineered the strike of Anglo-Irish fres trade. Ireland will The Premier Ims reiterated his statement provision will be made for a continuance It is expected that Parliment will be pro-yearly for fifteen years, after which Ireland receive an Imperial subsidy of two millions will contribute a percentage of the revenue to Imperial expenditure. The second chamber will have a suspensory veto ovőr session, and will decido a deadlock. legislation, which will be passed in a joint
Representatives will continue to be sent the Imperial Parliament, but in much
| rogued for a mouth.
FRENCH TAXICAB STRIKE.
LONDON, February 2ad. wonthe strike of taxi-cab drivers, the com
Advices from Paris state that after two paties attempted yesterday to bring out a number of vehicles, which were escorted by latter fell and a mob of strikers rushed the cabs and overturned five, slashing them withi cuimssiers and cyclist polico. One of the
knives. The cuirassiere charged the mob,
an enabled forty cabs to reach Paris.
RUSSIA AND PERSIA.
be forbidden. fewer numbers than heretofore.
The establishment of any religion will
by the Imperial authorities for twelve years. The Royal Constabulary will he controlled
THE "TIMES" FORECAST.
The Times forecast is that the Hore Bule Bill will be the principal feature of the LONDON, February 2nd. session, and in contradiction of the forecast Keuter learns that the report that it was of the Daily Chronicle, says the. Customs Cases of dumping dead bodies are silt ong Vik Bank and had authority to ob intended to ask the Persian Government to and Excise will remain under Imperial being reported to the police.
tain from the Hongkong Printing Press recognise British and Russian protectorates control, despite the report of the Financial reports stated that the body of a Chinese 5,200 papers. On that evidence at the close in Persia, is totally unfounded. Russia and Committee.
Yesterday's male child was found in Ezra Lane, death of the Crown case. he submitted that the Britain are exchanging views having refer. being due to smallpox. The body of a indictment must fail as against the prisoner,ance to proposals for assisting Perain in female about thirty years of age was found inasmuch as the false pretences proved was establishing a more stable Government. in the harbour, death being due to natural cutirely different from the false pretences as causes. The third case of dumping was at alleged. The Puisne Judge decided to refer Wong Huk, a village near Tsam Tsui Po, this point to the Full Court, and the At- a young woman, whose death was due to torney-General amended the indictment by hemorrhage.
substituting the words that the Yi Tai firm were the agents,
FRANCE AND ITALY,
LONDON, February 2nd.
in other countries to lead money to Chies, makes no stipulation, as they do, to the effect that a portion of money so lent shall be spent ja contracts placed with manufacturers in his own country, and he refuses point-blank to regard a properly authenticated contract as a negotiatiable asset; thus at the present day we are faced with the anomaly of our bankers drawing upon deposits of British manufacturing firms for the purpose of landing money to China to be spent on Gor. man machinery.” The British adviser is thus being ousted in favour of the foreigner,
A Paris telegram says it is semi-officially and the foreigner is obtaining a larger
announced that twenty-seven of the Turks The Queen mother of Siam is going on a and larger foothold On 1st February, at No. 7, Mountain View of the modern Chinese. "That is, per cruising yacht has been ordered from Copen- the only question their Lordships had to proceed to Staz, in Tunis. The twenty as the educator tour to Japan and Chosen. A comfortable was an entirely different false pretence, and doubtedly Red Crescents, will be allowed to It was obvious, said Mr. Potter, that it captured on the Manouba, who are un" The Peak, to Mr. and Mrs. G. E. STEWART haps, the most serious of the dangers hagen, and will be in Bangkok in time to decide was whether the Judge had power to eighth is seriously ill, and the twenty-ninth, & daughter.
which Britain has to face in the MONGKONG OFF101: 10A, DR FOUR ROAD O China of to-morrow," Mr. Easone says, three or four months, and Her Majesty will pretences, entirely different from those in theed to proceed to Tunis,
start if possible in March; the tour will last make an alteration in an indictment of false whose identity is obscure, will not be allow LONDON OFFICE) 131, FLEET STRMET. EU" and it is a danger which has been brought visit various places of interest in Japan and indictment..
about by the apathy of British Governments Chosen, while the royal vessel will also call and the short-sighted policy of these who at various ports on the China coast... The admit there was any charge of false pre The Attorney-General said he did not
THE KING AT GIBRALTAR, conduct British financial transactions in the "Foreign Minister will probably accompany tences substituted, but that in the evidence
LONDON February 2nd. Celestial Empire." We do not reproduce, the Queen on this tour,
Reuter's correspondent at Gibraltar these criticisms because we believe them
It has now been of one witness he, witness, believed that the reports that the King has conferred on the decided that Her Majesty will proceed to prisoner was employed by the Bank, and Infante Carles, the Grand Cross of the to be sonad. Wide generalisations of this Europe after the King's visit next year. It therefore, that was why he gave him au- Victorian Order. In the current number of the Journal character seldom stand investigation and is probable that during the next cold season thority to get the papers. of the Royal Colonial Institute-which analysis, and it is a striking commentary
Her Majesty will visit Indiá returning early, is now under the editorship of Mr. on Mr. EANBOMe's lamentations that they
in 1913. AECHIBALD E. COLQUROUN and has are by no means recognised as justified boon re named
United Empire there by writers belonging to the nations who
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, FEBRUABY 3RD, 1912.
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Imperial Maritime Customs, Shanghai, was Capt. Theodore Jackson Eldridge, of the
the
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is a very interesting analysis of the are making these "herculean efforts" married in New York recently to Miss Hen- foreign trade statisties of China by Mr. to displace the STAFFORD RANSOME, whose name will be obstacles on which Mr. RANSOME dilates are C. A. Joy, of Columbia University. The British trader. The rietta Joy, daughter of the late Professor familiar to some as the author of a book on not those of to-morrow, but of yesterday, and scene of the ceremony was the residence of he development of Japan, entitled" Japan in spite of these alleged handicaps British Mr. Joseph H. Choate, formerly United in Transition," while to others Mr. RAN.importa increased and we see no reason why States Ambassador in London, who gave some will be known as the Editor of an that trade should not continue to increase. engineering, journal devoted chiefly to Eastern enterprises. He regards the statis. ties for 1910 as not merely interesting an a record of an individual year, but "because they represent the high water-mark of pro- gress" at which China had arrived under the régime to which a period has now been put by the revolation. Assuming, as we think he is entitled to do, that one half of China's The P. M. steamer Manchuria left Shang- imports from Hongkong are British, hai last week with a large number of
Mr. RANSOMS reckons that the British Empire's share of the trade of China in 1910
was approximately £24,000.000.
December and 2nd January were delivered The German and French mails of the ayth
in London on the 1st inst.
Mr. G. B. Dodwell and his eldest Himalaya which arrived yesterday, were among
the passengers on
son
-the
passengers who intend being present-at-he annual Carnival at Marija,
The Court upheld the conviction, and the prisoner was sentenced to twelve months! imprisonment with hard fäbour,
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
BEFORE THE PLASNE JUDGE (MR. H. H. J. COMPERTZ).
BREACH OF CONTRACE,
Hts Lordship delivered judgment in the brida away. The wedding was solemnized case in which the Macao Electric Lighting by the Right Rev. Bishop Courtney, D.D., Co. claimed $1,000 from Ng Tsun Kee, con ception subsequently held at Mr. and Mrs. tity of timber which the defendant had con- and about eighty guests attended the tractor, for the return or delivery of a quan- Choate's residence. The first part of the tracted to take from Junk Bay to Macao, honeymoon was spent in Washington and There was a counter claim by the defendant after some weeks in New York Mr. and Mrs. timber from Junk Bay to Hongkong.
for $774 for work done in removing the Eldridge are expected to leave for Shanghai about the end of this month.
WOMEN SHOULD ALWAYS REMEMBER
Mr. W. Lewis appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. F. X. D'Almada e Castro for the defendant:
ITALY AND TURKEY.
Losnow, February 2nd. A wire from Perita states that the bonbardment of the Turkish forts on the Yemen coast was continued yesterday...
THE ARGENTINE STRIKE.
THE LATE DUKE OF FIFE.
LONDON, February 2nd.
A tslėgram from Alexandria states that it is understood that the cruiser Bufolk Fife to England. will convey the remains of the late Duke of
There will be five weeks' Court mourning for the late Duko.
MR. BOTTOMLEY CONVICTED.
LONDON, February 2nd. Mr. Justice Eady has found Mr. Horatio Bottomley guilty of misfeasance and breach of trust, and, on the summons of a creditor of the Joint Stock Trust and Finance Corpora Official Receiver, as liquidator of the above tion, has ordered him to pay £36,779 to the
Corporation.
THE ESPIONAGE CASE.
LONDON, February 2nd. A telegram from Leipzig states that Bertrand Stewart, who was charged with seeking to obtain certain information, admits to having tried to get portion of it but in his defence contends that the informa tion was not secret and the attempt to obtain it no offence.
PANAMA CANAL TOLLS.
LONDON, February 2nd, The committee of the New York Chamber
LONDON, February 1st, Beuter's correspondent at Buenos Aires states that the strike continues, but the railway companies have informed the Gov. ernment that the goode traffic is normal the provisional timetable authorised by a resolution advocating uniform tolls of a and the passenger service in accordance with of Commerce in presenting to the Chamber the Government.
RIOT AT BRISBANE,
LONDON, February 2nd. Reuter's correspondent at Brisbane wires His Lordship said he did not believe the police, who were stoned, dispersed the that there has been some rioting, and the story told by the defendant that the contractorowds with their batons. A shot was fired
that Constipation is the cause of half the was from funk Roe- trouhies of their
dollar per ton on ships passing through the Panama Canal, declares that American ships cannot be favoured without abrogating the treaties with Grast Britain.
ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN CRICKET. LONDON, February 2nd..
The Marylebone team commenced their
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