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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH 4TH. 1912.

TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

{"DAILY FRESA" EXCLUSIVE SERVICE.]

LOAN NEGOTIATIONS BY

CHINA.

TOKYO, March 3rd, Commissioners of the Nanking Government are here in connection with a big loan to which Japanese capitalists are favourably disposed.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

JOINT ACTION IN CHINA.

Lovoos, March 2nd.

[THROUGH AEUTER'S AGENCY.]

PLURAL VOTING.

LONDON, March 2nd."

1.

The Government declined to my at this stage whether they will adopt the Bill.

AERIAL FEATS.

LONDON, March 3rd. Reuter's correspondent at St. Louis tolo- graphs that Captain Barry ascended as a passenger en a biplane to a height of 1,500

RANDOM REFLECTIONS.

*

I believe, that Leap Year was celebrated in a few places in the Colony during the last week, but I am not in a position to

announce any new engagements.

The Walsh community of Hongkong foregathered on Friday to celebrate St. David's Day. Though their number be

and I have no doubt that the toast of

W CHINESE RECREATION CLUB.

OPENED DY H. B. THE GOVERNOR.

ceremony

1a short season before she leaves for Eng- land with your Excellency. Our grateful thanks are due to your Excellency for having granted the ground for the use of the Club and to the Honourable the Director of Public Works and the Queen's Recreation Ground Committee for the kind allotment of this site and for

Reuter's Washington eorrespondent states fect and jumped out with a parachute. He shall, they have no lack of patriotismus and we feel your kindness all the more that I feel that this is one of the last, that Great Britain, Germany, Russia and dropped about 300 feet before the parachute Dewi Sant" was proposed with that is of late so fully occupied. Nothing but will be my privilege to congratulate you

At Fau the aviator Vedrinh monoplaned 164 kilometres in an hour. This constitutes

Japan have responded favourably to Mr. Secretary Knox's Note inviting joint action in

China

without seeking individual advantage.

Austria, France and Italy have not yet a record. replied.

SILLY SUFFRAGETTES.

LONDON, March 2nd.

The Suffragettes to-day carried out another window-smashing campaign over a wire area extending from Oxford Street to the Strand, and also at the Government offices.

LATER.

SCOTTISH IRON COMPANIES AMALGAMATE.

opened. Then he slowly desconded to the eloquence which is the natural gift of the

sons of the Principality. earth, which be reached unharmed.

It's a mad world, my masters. Here is Great Britain, which has hardly recovered from the shipping and railway strike which paralysed the trade of the country last year, in the throes of another strike which threatens to have almost as dis satrous effects. Any shortage in the coal supply not only expokes the vulnerability of the Kingdom, but it inflicts hardship and suffering upon the innocent and the undeserving. As if that were not trouble enough, the Suffragettes have to take the opportunity to make another of their stupid ebullitions which by some process of reasoning known only to themselves are considered to be in the nature of protests against the franchise being withheld from women. When we read the news which has been sent across the wires from all

LONDON, March 3rd. The Times states that thirteen Scottish iron companies have amalgamated under the title of the Scottish Iron and Steel Company. It has a capital of £1,000,000.. PROPOSED KREE ENTRY OF SUGAR

IN AMERICA: Many arrests have been made.

LONDON, March 3rd. The Suffragettes armed with hammera A message from Beuter's correspondent concealed in their reticules simultaneously at Washington states that the Democratic aseniled the windows in the lending streets caucus has ratified the Bill presented by in the West-end of London at the busiest the Ways and Means Committee of

the

This

INTIMATIONS JOHNSTONE'S

M.P.

WHISKY.

better than M.P

H. RUTTONJEE & SON,

time of the evening. The shopkeepers and House for providing for the free entry parts of the world during the last two reply to my remarks that the ground last time that I was able to snatch an WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

police had no time to put up a defence, and datuage amounting to £1,000 was done.

Mra. Pankhurst motored to Mr. Asquith's residence and broke the windows with

stones.

Arrests to the number of 115 were made.

LATER,

Mrs. Pankhurst and other suffragette leaders have been sentenced to imprisonment; mostly to two months. The police estimat- ed the damage at over 25,000. The Public Prosecutor dwelt on the disgraceful schnes and emphasised the fact that the time had come to inflict the maximum imprisonment. Ho suggested that cases where the damage amounted to over 5 should be sout to a higher Court.

THE OPIUM QUESTION.

LONDON, March 2nd. Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson, Financo member of the Council of India, in present- ing his Budget, referred to the opium que tion and paid a tribute to Sir John Jordan's skill in Peking in securing a settlement alike fair to India and Chino. He stated that The Hague. Conference had enabled a “Convention to be drafted, which he hoped

the Powers would accept, preventing the consumption of morphin and cocaine. The evil already done by traffic in these drugs was great, and only the most drastic Govern ment control would prevent the growth of a degrading vice.

THE FIGHTING IN TRIPOLI.

LONDON, March 2nd. A message from Reuter's Rome corres- pondent states that official details of the fighting at Mergleb on the 28th-ul show

·

of sugar.

NEUTRALITY IN MEXICO.

days we may well ask, what is the world coming tol

who

No wonder we envy those who are going Home at present. The weather we have The newly instituted Chinese Recrea had for the past week or so is not caltion Club at Causeway Bay was opened culated to produce an exuberance of by H. E. the Govenor on Saturday after The Bill introduced by Mr. Harold Baker spirits, and it takes an effort to withstand noon, in the presence of a large gather many acts of courtesy and consideration. the depressing effect of the gloomy skiesing, including many residents. His Ex-Most respectfully I ask your Excellency Liberal M.P. for Accrington, to provide and the misty atmosphere. Still, as the cellency was welcomed by the Hon. Dr.

to open the pavilion with this silver key, which I hope you will deign to keep ne for the abolition of plural voting has passed old song has it, "The sun may be shining | Ho Kei.

a memento of the auspicious occasion. its second reading in the House of Commone to-morrow, although it is raining to-day," DE. Ho Ka, addressing His Excel-

HIS EXOELLENOY, in reply, said:-1 Jency, said:→Before neking you, cannot refrain on this occasion from allud- by 223 votes to 142.

the to perform Sit,

ing to what is uppermost in my mind. of opening the pavilion may 1

When I recall how often, since-l-have-been- be permitted to express to you the cardial in the Colony, it has been my privilege on and grateful thanks of the General Com-

similar occasions to this to preside at the mittee and merabers of the Chinese Relaying of a foundation stone or tha opan. creation Club for your great kindness in coming here today. We fully appreciate scribed by the generosity of the Chinese ing of a building which has been sub- the high honour you have conferred upon of this Colony, it is with very deep regret. when we know that your valuable time perhaps the last, occasion on, which it. your Excellency's well-known interest in on the completion of an enterprise, and the education of the rising generation of I wish you success in it. I am glad that Chinese in this Colony and the sympathy my name will in some way be associated and support you have always accorded to with this Recreation Club, and that among all efforts tending to promote the physical other institutions in this Colony I hope as well as moral and intellectual develop it will be held in kindly remembrance, ment of Chinese youths can justify our

and for my own part I can say that presumption in trespassing upon your although His Majesty has called upon me already too scanty leisure hours.

to do different work in a different Colony, Club, Sir, is a distinctively Chinese. in a very different country, I shall always Club. It is a first attempt on the part of look back in the years to come upon the the leading Chinese to organise a per- time I have spent in Hongkong as one of manent institution for the recreation of the most pleasant and interesting in my their young men in manly sports and life. I shall endeavour always to keep in Our argument is there is nothing athletic exercises; and it is a direct touch with you by getting the Hongkong answer, though a tardy one, to the invita papers sent to me, and I hope from time tion of an old and much esteemed un-

to time by having letters from my old official colleague in the Legislative Coun- friends here, both European and Chinese. cil, the Honourable Mr. Whitebead, But sir, I am digressing from the task issued to us when he moved the third which I have been called upon to do. reading of a Bill reserving this newly to-day, which is to open this pavilion and reclaimed site as a recreation ground. In to wish you hearty success in it. The should be reserved for all nationalities hour for a little recreation a Chinese irrespective of race, creed or religion, he marker at the tennis courts gave me a said as follows: I can assure the handsome beating every time. I thought 38 AND 40, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL; ›

that my A.D.C. and myself would take honourable member that the men take part in recreation down there will on two of you at tennis, but as the wea senior member who represents the Chi- give it up. welcome with free arms not only the ther is so very bad I am afraid we must I wish you most hearty nese but the junior member if they would success in this Club. I am sure that it come and take part in our recreation and will be a thoroughly successful institution, might have a wonderful effect on the Club will be able to challenge at any Their example and that before long the members of this. health-giving exercise. Viceroys in various provinces and on the game any other Club in the Colony. Ministers of the Tsung Li Yamen. I ven- (Applause.) I shall be glad to declare thank you most ture to hope that at no distant date the the building open. representatives of the Chinese and their heartily for the memento you have given friends will come down to take part in

It is very handsome, and it shall the manly recreation which goes on at always remain as one of the mementoes Causeway Bay.. The

• distant

which I have of Hongkong. (Applause.) His Excellency then formally declared date" turns oul to be just little over ten years which jo, as the pavilion open." things go, not quite such a bad time for this, Colony. The reason was, neither my colleague, Mr. Wei Yuk, nor myself could take any personal advantage of the invita- tion, as we were then not quite so young FOR PROBATE AND FOR COMPENSATION. as we looked and had become a little too rotund for active exercises of that nature. Much was made in the recent arbitra- Besides, Sir, there were numerous ditition of the fact that a distinction had culties, chiefly financial, to be met, and been drawn by the appraisers between a the result was an unavoidable delay valuation for payment and a valuation am: happy to say, however, that in this for compensation. His Lordship the case, no blame is attachable to any per Chief Justice in the course of the very son, either official or unofficial, architect lengthy judgment he rendered in the or contractor, agent or department, and arbitration (a summary of which appear no commission of enquiry is required, ed in our Saturday's issue) referred The Club, Sir, made a start in the Autumn of 1910 with 44-life members, to this subject, and it will doubtless full members, 41 student members and prove of interest to many renders if we a certain number of honorary members quote the reference. His Lordship said: signally football were freely indulged in deal with the question so much insisted on Games of cricket, tennis-and very occa-

"It will be convenient at this point to by the members, and in the Summer of by the Counsel for the Government, that last year, swimming and aquatic sports; it was wrong (I think they wished to use intter sports that the members of the Club one estimate of value for probate pur and it was while engaged in one of the & more emphatic word) for experts to give had to mourn for the loss of their most poses, and another for compensation pur energetic and brilliant Secretary, the late poses. It sounds, of course, when it is put Mr. Wong Po Shau, who met with a fatal crudely, quite iniquitous; but if the prin accident while taking part in the diving ciples on which compensation may legally competition. The sorrow caused by the be assessed are as I have bave just stated untimely death of this most promising them, the two questions stand on quite young member is still being felt by different planes. Potential value may be many of us up to the present day taken into accounts in the assessment of Since the commencement of the Club compensation; but I doubt very much no great progress has been made in any whether anyone would suggest even that one direction, and this is due largely to this is necessary for probate purposes. Yesterday, says the Victoria Colonist of expected from the public servants of the the want of a club-house or pavilion for The point was not argued at great length, eary of the awakening of the Canadian Pacife Railway in regard to the com-

for the convenience of some 700 Chinese the members and their friends and experts for a criminal offence, but as the visitors. A determined effort was made mattor stands I see no objection whatever, mercial value of the trade with China, passengers, not to speak of the needless last year in supplying this deficiency, and, probate daty as I conceive laviable on pre- if such an event could be said to have a interference with the riverine shipping, | thanks to the large beartedness of Mr.

LONDON, March 2nd.

A Washington wire reports that President observe neturality in Mexico, and instructs Taft, in a proclamation, urges Americans to

officers to use their utmost diligence to prevent violations and to bring offenders to justice.

INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL.

those

That the Horticultural Society of Hong- kong has justified its existence by foster- ing a love of gardening and developing engaged in that occupation is admitted a healthy competition among

by all who are in a position to compare the flowers and vegetables of to-day with those of ten or twenty years ago. During the last year or two quite a number of floral novelties have made their appear ance at the annual exhibition, and the Scotland beat Wales by one goal to nil in vegetables shown on Friday and Saturday the international football match

represent a big advance on those grown Edinburgh.

in the Colony years ago. It is a pity that the Exhibition on Friday and Saturday was not favoured with better weather, as it was certainly worth a visit of inspection by those who have given the subject any thought.

LONDON, March 3rd.

CORRESPONDENCE.

AFFAIRS IN MACAO.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE

DAILY PRESS."]

"HONGKONG

at

March 1st.

The Legislative Council commenced DEAR SIR--In your yesterday's issue a business for the session on Tuesday with the heading of Affairs, in Portugal," but very sensational article was published under Aome ten new bills, all of them important it corroborates what the Libertas some time

no doubt but none of them involving any ago published under the heading .of new principle likely to prove - controver- Chronica sanguinolenta "- series of sial, The meeting was interesting by horrors that seem incredible in the present century in a civilized country;

reason of His Excellency's announcement Macao-also has its quota of prisoners of his transfer to Nigeria and the appoint officials, who have been in custody for about of the bills the one likely to command awaiting trial, amongst them being two ment of Sir Henry May as his successor. a year without trial.

most popular interest is the Holidays

Luckily, they are not ill-treated or insult. ed, as in the Ligroeiro. What the fate of Ordinance, which proposes a very ser- these two unfortunate officials will be sible re-arrangement of the holidays nobody can tell, until the immaculate justice," so solemnly proclaimed by the new

during the year and the establishment régime, ceases to boast of its title.-Yours, of two new holidays in October and -etc.,

November, thus affording a welcome A READER.

break, in the long interval from the THE C.P.R, AND FAR EASTERN

August Bank Holiday to Christmas. TRADE,

The display of official thoughtlessness arising out of the Heungahan incident last week is one that we should not have

THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY.

no

me.

PROPERTY VALUATIONS.

that 5,000 Turks and Arabs were engaged January 28th, was the twentieth anniver- Colony. To have shown such a disregard the accommodetion and convenience of and I am not trying any of the claimant's

hy the Italian forces, and it is estimated that 500 of the enemy were killed in the attempt to recapture the heights.

The

wounded.

专

FIGHTING IN MOROCCO.

LONDON, March 2nd,

of the Corporation of which he is now

in normal circumstances based on the

Italian losses were 14 killed and 100 specific date. On January 27th, 1892, Sir is a moct deplorable incident and we may Lara Woo, our contractor, and the skigent actual value, in the estimate being T. G. Shaughnessy, then Vice-President well anticipate that we have not heard and energy of our architect, Mr. Raven, Government assessment of the property, this commodious club-house which I am It is hardly necessary to have recourse to about to ask your Excellency to open the well-known legal principle that an ad became a possibility of the Taission may be made use of against the

and is now LE accomplished fact. erection of the pavilion are defrayed by party making it; because the assessment

Bhip.

THE EX-SHAH

LONDON, March 3rd.

the head, returned from a trip of inspec the last of the affair. Medical men as a tion through the Orient. On his return rule are very unselfish and give them he announced that he would at once begin selves readily to the noble work to which moted Capt. Stillet, at that time master

business

staff,

Reuter's correspondent at 'Casablanca to develop the Chinese trade. He pro they have devoted themselves, and that voluntary gifts by certain members and is made by the Government with the best reports that, the French troops were heavily of the Empres of China, to the position makes the incident all the more remark supporters of the Club. There is as usual materials at its command; it has a very engaged with the robellious tribesmen at of marine superintendent in the Orient, able. A greater elasticity in health regula a big deficit, but supported as we are by competent assessor; it accepts, after due Sukelarba. Many were left dead on the and Mr. J. f. Halloway, general com tions is necessary, otherwise their object the leading Chinese of this Colony and his life the statement surdo, and there- field. The French casualties were six killed mercial agent there. Heretofore the

having na life-members such public and 30 wounded.

in the East had been done will be defeated

spirited and generous persons as those fore I see no reason why, as I say, in through commercial agencies. Sir Thos.,

gentlemen whose names appear in the list normal circumstances, an estimate of Shaughnessy decided that trade could be. I have heard a good deal of comment on

which I hold in my hands and to which value accepted by the Government for worked up in the Orient which would the appointment of Sir Henry May to the I beg to refer your Excellency, I have no one tax should not be the proper basis make the putting on of the three new Governorship of Hongkong. It is urged doubt whatever in my mind that the for another tax. But it follows, from Empress liners justifiable. He stated that we should have a man who has an deficit, large though it be, will be wiped what I have said, that the criticism is A St. Petersburg telegram states that the that his visit had impressed him more open mind on all local questions, and that out in a few months. It depends now ineffective, for the increased values

than ever with the future of the trade it is inadvisable to have one who may or

entirely on the active members of the which were given to the properties by the ex-Shah is proceeding to Baku'on & Russia between Canada and the Orient, and that may not have formed, unconsciously it may Club, the playing members I shall call experts formed only one part of the cal- some of the produce which went to feed be, certain prejudices or decided opinions. them, to make the Club a great success culation; the real criticism should have The Persian Government has granted him the 400,000,000 mouths of China should That is without doubt an objection, but the and a credit to the nation to which by been to the method on which the estimate spension of £7,000 sterling.

come from the Dominion..

special circumstances prevalling at present race they bolong. I am assured that in of values for compensation was arrived The result of this policy has been that which call for someone at the head of the all their efforts and endeavours to place at; but, the flaw in the experts' reasoning his corporation has for the past ten years Colony's affairs with an intimate knowledge their Club in a satisfactory and flourish does not seem to have been detected by been able to take their pick of the exports of these outweigh that objection; so that ing condition they will have the experi either side. The probate valuations made of China for transport across the Pacific, those who consider the appointment entirely enced advice and kindly assistance of the by different firms which were put in evi Mr. J. S. Arkwright, Conservative M.P. and yet load to overflowing their vessels on its merits will freely admit that the European honorary members. As a great dence wore of course available for pur- returning to the Orient. Under the agency Imperial Government has acted in the best English General has said that the battle poses of general criticism of the amount for Hereford City since 1900, lak resigned of Mr. W. T. Payne, nów General interests of the Colony, by recalling Sir Henry of Waterloo was won at the playing fields of the claim, but they were also used for of Eton, so may many a young member of the specific purpose of criticising the ori- his seat on grounds of ill-health, and Mr. Manager in the Orient, who has scores of, from Fijl to preside over the destinies of a

thia Club be enabled in the future to ginal values given to the properties by W. A. 8. Hewins, the Secretary of the sub-agencies ander him, silk and tea, Cotony which he knows so well.

ascribe the achievement of many great the experts. The first step on which the picked from commercial centres through- Tariff Commission, will contest, the sent in out Chips, reach British Columbia per Contrary to the general opinion, the successes to the physical training they

the Empress linore. It has been estimated mosquito, it seems, is more numerous in have received at the recreation ground at claim was arrived being as 1 think wrong, With regard to the valuation given by that the traffic of the Empress steamers the Arctic zone than in the tropics. The Causeway Bay, I cannot conclude, Sir, I need not refer to these valuations again. American Consul at Dawson City, without expressing our great regret at and the Monteagle between the Orient Yukong, eave there is no country, where the unavoidable absence of Lady Lucard Messrs. Leigh & Orange in 1892, I am and Victoria and Vancouver, measures $40,000,000 a year. The passenger the insects are so large and so numerous whose presence would have been heartily bound to say, as so much stress was laid traffic has become too large for these as they are in the Klondyke. They must welcomed by us all and would have added on it in cross-examination, that it was Grossmith, sear, the famous actor and Emprenses have been ordered, and it is we know are not so troublesome in the tion. We all unite in the hope that she ciple, having in view the prospect of re-

cold weather,

will soon be restored to perfect health clamation, and that the criticism of it entertainer.

possible that the old three may still re

and will be enabled to come among us for was ineffective."? main on the run.

ANOTHER BYE-ELECTION.

LONDON, March 2nd.

the Conservative interest.

DEATH OF GEORGE GROSSMITH.

Lospor, March 2nd.

The death has occurred of Mr. George vessels, with the result that two bigger be a special hardy variety. The insects much grace and enjoyment to this fume based on & spuud and intelligible prin-

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