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SUPREME COURT.

Monday, June 17

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE (HON. ME. Rees Davies).

ALLEGED SREACH OF CONTRASI.

This was aense in which the Tung On fru claimed from the Wing Yue firm and Hung Man Chun, managing partner therein, damages to the extent of $3,450 for alleged breach of contract.

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THE HONGFONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 18rn,⠀⠀1912.

HAMBURG LETTER.

ESPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR TRE "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]

May 2nd.

THE STATE OF TRADE. The remarks of Herr von Gwynner in the Prussian Upper Chamber last week

THE LARGEST STEAMER AFLOAT.

WONDERFUL LONDON.

THE RUB OF THE NEWSPAPER WORLD.

The romance of Fleet Street is strewn with the wreckage of these undaunted ones, whò, even in their last bare hours

of fascination which rarely loses control, once it has got its grip on a man. Once Fleet Street is entered by the pre- destined journalist nothing will convince Antiquaries who dabble in romance him, that success does not await hin would lead one to believe that the fasci- | round the next corner. · nation and wonder of Fleet-street ended with the days of Doctor Johnson and Oliver Goldsmith, and the innumerable literary fenststof reason and flows of animent of more material fare, and the pating of churchwarden pipes, the of Cheshire Cheese and the Old Cuck

Taverns, in the eighteenth century.

I do not deny the romance of history, and Fleet-street contributes consideralls [more material to this romance than most

But the important streets of London.

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dream of the Eldoradocs of to-morrow. the pen, is its eternal romance, and its most romantic figures are its unrecog rised scribes Hotнiton JACKsos, in the Daily Mail.

The Imperator, the largest stentner ever init, will be hunched to-morrow at the shipbuilding yards of Messrs. Blohm & Voss, Ltd. She measures 276 metres in length, 30m in width, and 19m, in height to the lower dock, ber displacement being 50,000 tons; she is a four screw turbine on the uncertainty of a continuance of f boat and her engines will be of enormous soul which took place with the accom Yes, the lure of Fleet-street, the call of

Everything is being done to power. ensure perfect safety by means double bottom and a complicated system Two frat of watertight balkheads. officers will be appointed from amongst company, the Hamburg-America Line, on of which will be in special charge of the navigation and the safety appliances. The crew will be little short-of-1,200-an Needless to unusually large number.

the present buoyancy in trade, following so closely on the warnings pronounced by minent German financiers not long ago, crrated a momentary panic in the stock

According to the statement of claim. markets on Saturday, causing quotation the most experienced on the books of the famous streets even among the famous

Pr

Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C. (instructed by Mr. Hinder Harris, of Messrs. Wilkinson & Grist), appeared for the plaintifls, and proof of service of Sammons and statement of claim having been given, his Lordship gave judgment in favour of the plaintiffs for the full

say that she is fitted up in a must luxurious style and with all possible.com: fort. for the passengers; a gymnasium is provided not only for the first-class passengers, but for the second as, well.

THE LATE KING OF DENMARK. The sudden death of the King of Den mark in the streets of Hamburg last week when taking a walk unaccompanied by any of his household has caused general consternation and called forth ferlings of deep sympathy amongst all efasses of the population. He was a frequent visitor in this city and seems to have been in the habit of walking out alone.

TERRORISM IN SHANGHAI

THE FOREIGN TRADE OF CHINA.

For the first quarter of the present year fact about Fleet-street, from the point of view of romance, is that her rimaner, the revenue of the Chinese Maritime Cus is not merely in the past; it is as alive toms amounted to Tls, 7,028,253, as com to day as over it was.

True, the romance of to-day has not pared with Tis. 7,877,076 in the corre The fol had in the past, for modern conveniences lowing figures, comparing the revenue at quite the same personal flavour that it sponding quarter of last year. of transit have made it possible for the southern ports, may be of general literary men to live far away from the interest throbbing of the machines which give their wares publicity. Were Dr. Samut Shanghai Johnson alive to-day, he would probably Boochow live in Kensington or Chelsea rather Hangehow than Gough-square. But in spite of this Ningpo segregation of the literary personality Wonchow tion, the essential romance of Fleet Foochow from the machinery of literary produc Santuo

3 moy street is greater to-day than ever it was,

THE MIGHT OF PRINT.

No

9,763 2.819

997

1012.

1911. 2,301,100 2,555,281 27,236

39,767

103,237

$4,215

97.758

4,913

Railway

97,077

24,011

150,086 173.631 250,903 104,352 404,721 339.761 890,052 850,405 |

3,791 117,623 60,711 04.093 70,363 134.795 24,253

27,380

31,367

10,965

22.343

LEFT-HANDED LEAGUE.

Swatow Canton Fleet-street to-day is full of the

Kowloon: ronian co of transcendent power.

Collection other streef in the world, not even

Kangra Threadneedle-street, ንጉ

Wall-street. Sanishui stands for quite so much as Fleet-street. Wachuw It is true in a sense that money rule Nanning the world, and it may be more or less | Klungchow true that money rules Flect-street; but Pakhi in the last resort, Fleet-street is master of Wali-street nid Threadneedle-street, and any othry streets which are the gathering plices of the Lords Finaner.

the defendant-firm, by Heng Mar. Chun, of some of the more speculative securities made a contract with the plaintiffs for the to give way to the extent of, in a few sale to the plaintiffs of five chests of Patna ¦ instances, 3 per cent.. and even more, ---pies at-the-price-of $61.50 per ball. By. Since then, however, calmer counsel has. the contract, full delivory was to be taken | prevailed and a rally has taken place by the plaintiffs within thirty days, on sufficient to bring prices back to the level before September, 65, 1911. On before the scare, although speculation is August 31st, 1911, and again on Septemno active and the public show little 8th, 1911, plaintiffs applied to the de- desire for investment. It is a significant feralent firm for delivery of the opium, feature of the present financial situation but defendant did not deliver the opium that, whereas the Bank Rute in London The market price of us declined in uiual at this season of on either occasion. Patua opium per ball on September 6th, the year and now stands at 3 per cent., when the contract was alleged to have the Reichsbank in Berlin still maintains bren broken, was 978.75, and as cachs of it at a per cent. This is, no doubt, due the chests should have contained 10 balls to the briskness of trade, at any rate, so than to an excrasive The total market prier would have much, store amounted to 15,750, the contract price speculative inovement; but even this may

The plaintiffs eventually become a therefore being $12.300.

source of danger, accordingly claimed 834.50, the difference | although so far there appear no signs between the contract price and the market [ of a slackening of the demand, except in

The Ye some of the produce markets. turns of the foreign trade of the country are exceedingly satisfactory:-Imports in the month of April amounting to 1976.8 million Marks and exports to 720.2 millions, and for the first four months

Another case of illegal interference of, the year to 1,485, and 2,787.2, rispe with refugere in Shanghai has been tively, as compared with 3,060 and 2,553.2 brought to light. Although members of The the Republican party are said to be the during the same period last year.

unprepossessing thoroughfare, There is an organization in New York prosprets of the growing crops, cereal instigators of the affair, in official quarters from, say, the Temple to Ludgate circus; comprised exclusively of fat men, with it is denied that the Republicans have that anything momentous was happena president and committee duly elected, and others, are stated to be very satis taken any part in the matter. The fol

nanes of the great newspapers on either ganization limited to left-handed peuple, factory in this country, so that the home lowing extraordinary story was gathered To be sure, there are the significant and now there is a prospect of an or hand, and there is a crush of traffic, both or south paws," as they are often called trade may be expected to continue good yesterday.

About four months ago à Manchu, hold vehicular and pedestrian, although this in the United States. during the sonamer. As regards this

ing office under the Government, made last is no greater than that in any other By special request, left-handed persons cultivation of best-root the International his way in disguise to Shanghai, where important City street, and not nearly no attended a service in the Orange Metho Association for Sugar Statistics issueshe took refuge. Shortly afterwards he feverish as the traffic of Cornhill or dist Church, New Jersey, and heard from the Rev. Dr. William Frye, the pastor, the following returns from 1,5 mills was joined by a long retinue of servants, then sids

Its just one of the familiar busy who himself is left-handed, that all bing members. The arta planted his wife, and a number of other ladies.

A large house was purchased fromediately canyons of London, a conduit for au south, paws" are geniuses. Dr. Frye arounts in hectares;-

off the North Szechuen Road Extension, evermoving throng, each anit uburbed | (says, Telegraph correspondent) and here the Manchu, his family, and re- 1012.

101. Increas

tinue took their residence. From then the importance of some immediate preached from the text: --- 538,363 agst 507,118 6.9%

day that he arrived in the Settlement the destiny. It could not be imagined that ex-official has been a marked man and he this street and its adjoining thorough- 401,000 8.8% has been subjected to all manner of fares were actually a perpetual cinemato graph of every recordable incident taking 224,850

Annoyances. $1,050 6.8.

place throughout the whole of the world It would be difficult to iamgine the vest machinery that went to the completion of the printed idea or news paragraph or picture. BEHIND THE WALLS.

amount,

THE PRODUCTION OF OPIUM IN CHINA.

In the House of Cominons on the 20th uit, the Earl of Ronaldshay (Middlesex, Hornsey, Opp.) asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he had any reports showing that the production of pium was being carried ou unchecked in certain provinces in China; and, if s*74 had he any information to give to the

House on the matter.

Mr. Acland (Cornwall, Carnborne) who replied on behalf of the Secretary

In of Stata said Reports have been ce ceived that opium cultivation is proceeds. Germany ing in certain provinces of China, over

Austria which in the present circumstances the Chinese Government are unable to exer- eise any effective control, His Majesty's Government are, however, confident that with the full restoration of order the Chinese Governant will take the neces sary steps to ensure the enforcement of Russia The suppression of the cultivation of Sweden

pium throughout China.

Hungary France Belgium. Bolland

440,000 925, 140

60,000

06,870

+

יךָ

54,583 22.5% Decrease. 776,400 787,850 1.

27,700 29,044 4.6% The acreage under beet in countries that Sir J. D. Bees used the Under have not joined the Association is Sreretury for India whether official re-estimated as follows in hectares:- ports had been received by the Secretary

On the following day,

if State or by the Government of India

the effect that the poppy was now Denmark once more largely grown in the provinces Italy

55,000

of Kanou, Yunnan, and Szechuan; and Spain 37,000

Chinese Republic had

whether the

In answer to further questions put by Sir J. D. Rees,

Sir E. Grey said-We understand that the present Chinese Government is as uch in earnest as the late Chinee Government with regard to the rapres- sion of opium snking. It is only a provisional Government at present, of course, and if there is any reluctance on their part to take over the obligations with regard to the suppression of the pium traffic it will raise the whole ques- tion of the agreement that has been cone

LASCAR SEAMEN.

PREFERENCE OF A P. AND O The Board of Trade inquiry into the

OFFICER..

tries

27,230

In 1910

Or

The aluminium industries seem to have ninde tremendous strides in this country during the last five years; the imports of the raw material are reported as:-

301:7 tons in 1907, Jan. to March incl

יז

478.8 1,190.6 9,005 1,567.8

100%;

1909,

1910.

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[9]). 1912,

3,006:9

in 1011 and 31.1 tons in 1912.

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'ATTENTED BLACKMAIL OF A MANCHU,

and the

iH.

No one could imagine from a casual. uninformed walk down this. on the whole

As

PEGULIARITY A SIGN OF GENIUS.

the

But when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord mised them up a deliverer, Ebud, the son of Ciera, a Benjarite, a man left-handed.

Most great genitues, though not all," are left-handled. There said the pastor,

NEW ZEALAND'S GIFT.

BATTLE CRUISER FOR HOME WATERS.

Following statement was issued from

If

INTIMATIONS

PIMPLES COVERED

FACE AND CHEST

Festery, Irritating and Sore. Inflam

mation Caused Unsightly Blotches. After Three Years Tried Cuticura Soap and Ointmentand Was Gured.

splé

"The parts most affected were my face and chest which were al theos covered with. festery pimples and were very irritating and I have been to various doctors with them to try to get them cured using the last two or three years with out success. They told me li arane from blomsch troublé and gave me medicine for it,

i no goot. The pluples sa iny face used to discharge for some time and were surrounded by a greal dent of flanzenation which caused very unsightly blotches.

A friend of mine adrised me to try the Cuticura kinap and Ointment for my trouble. I thought there would be no harın bi sending for a sample of Cutleum Olstment and I am now very pleased I dit so. I have only used three boxes of Quileura Oluiment and a tiko amount of Cullenta Soup and am very pleasod to say I am cured. 3 shall certainly recois- mend the Cullenra Remedies to anyone. I. know that suffers from skla trouble." (Signed) U. S. Bailey, Oak Mead, Kimberley Rd., St. Albans, Herts. Eng., Aug. 10, 1917.

No stronger evitinee, thanĩ this could be elven of the success and economy of the Gutleurs Remedies in the treatment of að forms of eczorggs, rashes, itebings and feri tations of the skin and scalp, · Á eingia hat bath with Cuticuro Hoap and a gentle aunint- ing with Cuticura Omniment are often aul- cient to attori immediate relief in the most dlatressing come. Sold throughout the world. A sample of each with 2-p, book free from rearent dopot: F. Newbery & Sons, 27, Char- ierhouse Sa., London; R. Towns & Co, Sydney, N. B. W.; Lennon, Lid., Cape Town: Mullor, - Mactan & Co.. Calcutta and Bombay; Potter D. & C., Corp., sole proge.. Boston, U. 8. A.

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A month or so ago certain individuals called at the house and peremptorily

are right-handed is that the left. lour of demanded a contribution to the funds

is a real reason for it. The reason people The Manchu

the brain is more developed. There is a Always have on hand a very large complete of the revolutionaries.

distinct advantage in having the right politely but firmly declined to accede

lobe of the brain more developed. to the request, and the deputation with-

The details of this machine as at that side is more developed you are left- drew only to call again and repeat the

"Left-handed people are right-brained request. Again the demand was denied and complex. Outsiders catch a hint of handed. revolutionaries retired after them frum lorries laden with monstrous

They SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS making various threats. Five days ago recls of paper, from processions of carts people, and out of the ordinary.

unusual the Manchu received an anonymous letter, hearing the names of famous newspapers, are apt to do interesting or

Do you know that, among the Transits, Levels, Plano Tables, Prismatic and 30,000 agat. 25,000 20% more which pointed out that unless the cause from cyclists darting perilously among things.

of the revolutionaries was not very the wheeling traffic and scattering prints great baseball pitchers, the smartest are fellows

Sight Compasses, Hand Levels, do, do) 60,000 6.3% less

matorially supported he would be de- hot from the press to the wayside news-left-handed? Those south paw 30,000 23.3% more nounced as a Munchu spy and a plutter vendors. In side streets and dim alloys are in the ratio of six to fifteen of the against the good Government of the visitors may hear the rumbling of the great players, have conceived a plan a rumbling of distant for organizing left-handed folk into a formally adopted the obligations of the Other Coun. -

6.6% more publican party, The communication also presses, *2,373

The sign of recognition is Inte Imperial Chinese Government in

added that the Manchu had been guilty thunder, making the very earth tremble, fellowship. respect of the discontinuance of the the entire total being 2,253,513 hectures of arousing discontent in Shanghai. The and symbolising in material vibration to shake with the left hand."

Dr. Frye says he has gathered data that growth of the poppy,

Sir E. Gre answered the question against 2,206,263 last year, showing an letter was eventually handed over to the what will presently vibrate throughout

increase of 3.8 per cent. The number of Police and Dict. Sgt. Kiloh was instructed civilisation in the forra of ideas. And will strengthen every assertion he has

to investigate the matter.

the passer-by can look above him and already made, as well as a lot of new He said would refer the ron. mem- ber to the reply which was given yester-sugar mills in operation is about 1,240,

The letter also suggested that failing inarvel at the network of electric wires ches. By general circularising he has got (T compliance with the requests made, the which are the nerves of Fleet-street and into touch with all the left-handed people day to the hon. member for Hornsey,

Manchu would suffer in a certain way,

An amuni parade each year, followed by a bangurt. the officer laid a trap the Manchu stored

But even then he will have little con- and it was this that offered at clae. Whilst realis further what this romance really in New Jersey, and it is hoped to have away his valuables, which are said to be worth a large amount. On Tuesday Det.ception of the energies behind these Sgt. Kiloh, neting on certain information, things. To realise then he will have, as it were, to think mechanically; he will arrested two well-educated Chinese and charged them with being concerned in have to call up before his vision, hage writing the letter. On the same day, by and strangely complex machines, lino- a singular coincidence, one of the favourite type and nunotype casting furnaces, endless wheels and cylinders in ceaseless appeared, together with an amah and a whereas the exports of refined aluminiuman of the Manchu's retinue dis- and colossal rotary presses compact of and aluminium goods finished and partly private riesha conlie. The woman ap- and bewildering travail of the printed the Admiralty on the 20th ult. :--

The Admiralty have recently been in frished-during the first three-months are purently had laid her plans well, for the pages. He will have to think of hundreds succeeded in taking with her valuables-of-dectrical instruments ticking off upen returned as 77.7 tons in 1907; 84.7 in worth nearly Tls. 30,000, including rings, endless ribbons of paper the news of the communication with the Government of 1008; 117.4 in 1960; 155.7 in 1910: 234.8 earrings, bracelets and other jewels of world; of messengers running to and fro, the Dominion of New Zealand upon the the finest workmanship and prized for of rooms full of sub-editors classifying, employment of the battle cruiser which their antiquity, also pearl and diamond correcting, constructing what is to be the is now building at the charge of the I am indebted to one of your contem

lady decamped to Soochow

ing, and initiating. And even then his Navy. It had been intended that this poraries here for the following interest-ornaments. It has been stated that the printed idea, of editors deciding, guid Dominion for presentation to the Royal The two natives charged with writing conception of Fleet-street will only be a vesed should be stationed in the Far ing figures regarding the number of sheep

land have, in response to Admiralty in the world and the total yield of wool. the letter have appeared before the Mixed partial one, for. he has taken no stock East, but the Government of New Zea He an inquiries and suggestions, expressed their They have been-compiled by an American Court, and whilst one has been committed of the equally complex methods of dis-

to prison-for-a-month with herd labour, tribution and of advertising.

derstands little of the curious organisa wish that the Admiralty should employ statistician well acquainted with the the other was discharged with a warn

tion of time in Fleet-strect, and it is this vessel wherever fer services-can-be- trade and are believed to be as reliable ing as to what would happen in the

not easy for him to imagine that the most useful. His Majesty's Government as they can be expected to be, considerent of a repetition of the offence.-1.-

C. Daily News.

production of his morning paper pre-bave gratefully accepted this intimation. ceeds at fever heat behind the walls of As the British squadron on, the China Station has recently been reinforced by Fleet street when he and the City are

the Defeare, the Admiralty have decided resting after the normal day's work.

that the battle cruiser Few Zealand en DARING RESCUE AT NIAGARA.

best at present be employed in home All the great London papers are print waters. She will accordingly, as soon as BAVED BY A LIVING CHAIN OF MEN.

ed and published in its vicinity, month-she is completed, visit the Dominion of ly, weekly, daily, and evening papers New Zealand, probably in the early part The Now York newspapers publish full issue from its offices to be scattered of next year, after which she will join reports from Niagara Falls of what is broadcast, not over the British Isles the First Cruiser Squadron in the First described as the most daring rescue in alone, but over the Empire and the Fleet, which brz arrival will complete to. the nawals of United States history. A world; and a walk down Fleet street to its full strength of five ships. man named Henry Smith fell into the day with eyes scanning the signs on the river above the falls, and though only a tall buildings on either hand, and the little distance from the bank, he was swept multitudinous letterings on their many down towards the brink of the torrent, windows, is like glancing through the But it is pages of a press directory. But three men who were lower down the not only the names of London papers about 1,309,400 tons, equal to 8,347,880

river bank, and had seen Smith's plight, that such a saunterar would read; he Australian bales. Australia being

rushed to the water. The first, throwing would read names of all the important- credited with 36,567 tons, Asia will hiruself in, was held by the second man, papers of the Empire; for each town 121,940, North America with 150,800, and the latter sway from the hank, South America with 222,790, Europe he in turn was held by the third man, who with 363,430 and Africa with 78,000 tons. ripped his feet firmly-with both hands. A human chain was thus formed, and The total number of sheep is calculated the man furthest out was just able to to have been 520,883,135 in 1865 and grip hold of Smith, who was being swept 451,006,930 in 190, but it appears doubt-past in an unconscious condition. ful whether the increase since then is due entirely to natural causes or in a great measure to more comprehensive and care- ful statistics.

loss of the P. and O. liner Ocean off Beachy Head on March 16 was resumed on May 20th. The evidence was again mainly confined to the accident to the first lifeboat lowered, in which seven passengers and eleven of the crew were drowned.

The second officer, Henry George Wild- ing, said that he did not hear of the ling the enormous aren, parts of which accident to the lifeboat until he was

permit bat of rough gnesses. For these being taken off the Ocene in the tug.

Mr. Dumas (who appeared for rela and for countries from which no returns tives) questionel the witness as to the

were obtainable the number of sheep is length of time occupied in getting the

the put down, as 100 millions, whilst from the boats away, and asked: Is not

countries where reason that the lascar crew are hopeless data received from

by unreliable and useless in a moment statistics are kept the total is computed of excitement ?

The Witness: Nu.

ut 601,691,272, or, in round numbers, Why did the passengers have to go in 700 millions altogether. They are distri- of the later boats? There was buted as follows: Europe, 181 millions; nobody olas handy.

Australia, 118; South America, 99; North Was it not the reason that the lascurs, who should be handy, were packing their America, 68: Asia, 92; and Africa, 50. hugs and were very anxious to go The total yield of wool is estimated cannot Bay.

Was not the real reason that lascar crews are unreliable and useless in cases

of emergency -No, I should say they are all right.

Wouldn't you prefer a European crew-No.

Do you mean that 7-Yes Able-Seaman Carter, one of the three persons saved from the overturned boat.

said that he scrambled back up one of the bont lines into the Deeand, and then threw lifebelts to the people struggling He did not report the in the water. accident to the officers because he thought they must have heard the screams,

The inquiry was adjourned.

and his doom seemed inevitable.

JOURNALISM'S LURE.

THE PORTUGUESE BUDGET.

SENATE COMMITTEE INVESTIGATION.

The Committee appointed by the Senate from Glasgow and Newcastle to Mel to examine the Budget recently presented bourne and Sydney, from Leeds and to Parliament by the Minister of Finance Liverpool to Calcutta and Montreal, has for the financial year 1912-13 declare that its newspaper represented in this world. Some of the revenue projects are more centre of opinion, this hub of the jour than problematical and others absolutely impossible. The Committee calculate that alistic univers Journalism is a great adventure, and there is a deficit of £1,468,000, which is nearly double that shown by the Minister Several persons on the bank who had Fleet Street its happy hunting ground of Finance, and expect this lefcit to be been holding on to the feet of the last man

There is a charm, a lure about jour-

further increased. men to Inake then drew all four to the bank in safety. nalism which causes

of personal comfort and The spot where the rescue was effected sacrifices was only a few yards from the brink of pecuniary reward in its intorest, It the falle.

draws them on by some mysterious power

It seems that the Minister of Finance, to reduce the deficit as much as possible, cut down the general expenditure to an impossible extent.

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