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THE HONGKONG DAITY, PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 29TH, 1912.
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India once more coming under poppy. relied on the good faith of the Chinas enese was yesterday fined $25 by Mr. Mel Government, but the Chjuse central bourné.
Before Mr. Irving at the Magistracy yesterday a Chinese was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment for anateking a gold earring from a woman at East Point.
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BRITISH COLONIES;
STATEMENT BY MR. HARCOURT.
LONDON, June 29th.
In the House of Commons last night, Mr. Lewis Harcourt, Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, reviewed the pro- blems which have been engaging the attention of his department.
THE EASTERN COLONIES. Mr. Harcourt stated that Ceylon's
of
had tea
increased to
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ebievous form of human folly. In deal- ing with the study of tropical medicine, he paid a tribute to Mr. J. Chamberlain, It was largely due to his encouragement and activity that the Liverpool and Lon- den Schools had reached their present offerncy,
TRIKUTE TO THE COLONIAL SERVICE.
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NOMINATIONS.
THE DEMOORATIO CONVENTION.
LONDON, June 28th. A telegram from Baltimore states that a further trial of strength between Mr. Woodrow Wilson, Governor of New Jersey, and Senator Champ Clark, re-
The right hon. gentleman conclud sulted in a victory for the former by ed with a tribute of aufeigned and 839 votes to 437. The surprising feature. miration for the splendid work of the meeting was that the Conserva- of the whole Colonial service. They tives, including the Taromanyitos, sup-
age appertaining to the service and their
The sensation of the evening was caused by China may be broken with the same throwing the passenger ont. Defendant eighty-four million rupees, and the ox-caped few rewards, except the advant-ported Mr. Wilson..
cwn good name, but they had at least by Mr. Bryan moving that the Conven- was fined 825 and ordered to pay $10 ports of rubber to twenty-four million.
The revenue of the Straits had risen to she testimony of the civilised world to tion is opposed to any candidate indebt- compensation.
was
authorities have lost control of their For stealing two umbrellas en board provinces. As the Chinese Government have the s.s. Hai Tong, a Chinese was yester THE ADMINISTRATION, OF THE founded on half-knowledge were a mis. been unable to fulfil their pledges to stop day sentenced to three months' imprison- poppy cultivation, the two Opium Agreement and four hours' stocks. ments of 1907 and 1911 are practically dead letters also." Now the question is: What right of redress have the merchants? The Times pays: "If Great Britain could insist on the right of entry of Indian opium, the
Mr. Lionel E. Laoning, of Shanghai, merchants would have no cause of complaint. Great Britain cannot do so, because there and Mr. Harry F. Nutter, of the is no central authority left in China capabic Federated Malay States, have been elected of enforcing the right." That meets a sote-Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute what dangerous doctrine to preach, for if
Mr. Irving had before him yesterday China is at liberty to break the opium agree-a chauffeur charged with careless driving. ments without being brought to book, all The car which he was driving collided export other international agreements entered into with a ricksha, badly damaging it and impunity. Surely the Indian merchants are reasonably entitled to be indemnified by the
Two young men and two girls appear WHISK Y Chinese Government, whose failure to fulfil
their Treaty obligations threatens them willed befors Mr. Irving at the Magistracy ruinous losses. No one doubts that the yesterday, charged with stowing sway on Central Government earnestly desires to the 8.9. Mathilde. It transpired that the BLEND OF THE FINEST PURE accomplish the total suppression of the first defendant, who was the elder of the opium trade in China; they fully approve two mon, was responsible for the trouble. all the measures adopted by their predeces. He was fined 860, and the other defer
dants were discharged. MALT SCOTCH WHISKIES.
sors in office to this end, but they evidently do not possess at the present time The Lisan's passengers from Shanghai the power and strength to anforce them were Miss Montieth and Mr. Murphy." with the same success. While it may be au The latter was Detective-Sorgeant. Mur- E has maintained the re-exaggeration to say that "China to-day-is-phy and Miss Montieth his prisoner, who growing as much opium as ever she did," has been brought down to serve in Vic the FINEST putation
thore is no room for doubt that immensely toria, Goal the sentence of nine months' imprisonment with hard labour which the the larger areas are under opium cultivation Court at Shanghai passed upon her for SCOTCH WHISKY in
this year than last, thus justifying, in this chtaining money from the Hongkong and respect, at least, the assertion which The Shanghai Bank under false pretences. FAR EAST.
Times makes that "the great moral revolt-
AGROUND. tion in the Middle Kingdom has suffered an ignominibus eclipse." Failing to obtain any
News has reached the Colony that the immediate redress in China, the merchants,
For over 30 Years WATSON'S
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10,000,000 dollars, and there material increase in the imports and ox- ports of the Federated Malay Stator. He also dealt with the opium question, narrating the steps taken to reduce the consumption in the Straits Settlements, Hongkong, Weihaiwci, and Ceylon, and pointing out the danger of over-rapid prohibition leading to the more deadly
vices of morphia "and cocaine.
THE WEST INDIES,
- Janica had made a rapid recovery from the earthquake, and anticipated a sur- plus of £200,000 at the end of the current
Trinidad was yearly producing: sixteen million gallons of erude oil. ·
AFRICAN COLONIES.
Star
their probity and humanity.
CRITICISMS BY MR. LYTTLETON. Mr. Lyttleton, Secretary of State for the Colonies in Mr. Balfour's last Ad- ministration, appealed for a return of the old rule
for filling governor- ships from the Colonial service. He called attention also to a Bill intro-
dueel in the Union Parliament by the Premier's Secretary for regulating the
ed to Messrs. Pierpont Morgan, Ryan and Belmont, and other members of the privilego-seeking classes, and demanding the withdrawal of delegates representing such interests. He declared it was an insolent attempt they were making to sell the Democratic party into bondage for the money of despots.
The debate which ensued was tumultu-
holding of land-by natives, and described us, and Mr. Bryan was equally cheered
and hissed.
it as tantamount to the introduction of
Messrs. Ryan and Belmont are both forced labour. He understood that the
delegates and the former stood upon a Bill had been dropped, but if it were re chuir in order to be seen.
presented to be the settled policy of the
Ultimately a motion by Mr. Bryan to Union Government, he pressed upon Mr.suspend the rules requiring a two-thirds Harecurt to use his diplomatic influence
majority for a Presidential nomination The revenue of Nyasaland had risen to impress upon the Union Government was adopted by 689 votes to 106.
in despair, havo appealed to the Govern- steamer Telemachas, which left Honga to £114,000, but the grant-in-nid had heen what he believed was the unanimous
ment of Indi to atop the opium traffic to on the 22nd inst. with coal for Swatow decreased to' £5,000 for each shire. The opinion of the House. The consequences reactionaries; we can now proceed with
China at once and for ever by making no more sales. They would thus be able, they their stocks hope, gradually to lear in China, and would in any case not
become involved in further ruinous losses. But the Government of India have budgeted for a revenue of over £8,500,000 from opium during the current year, and a good portion of that sum represents anticipated sales for China. They have further caleu Iated upon a surplus sux of £1,500,000 on their whole Budget for the year. If they stop selling opium for export to China, this
has grounded on the bar at the entrance to Bwatow harbour.
highlands railway was being extended to the Zambesi, and southward to Beira, The revenue of Uganda had risen from NEW VOLUNTEER DETACHMENT. £$1,000 to £232,000, and the grant-in-aid A meeting of the staff at Kowloon | had fallen to £45,000. The export of cot
to $3,000 Dock was held yesterday evening to conton had risen in three sider a proposal for the formation of
en ts. The revenue of East Afries had a detachment of the Hongkong Volunteer
rien to £180,000, and the grant-in-sid Corps. Mr. R. M. Dyer presided over
good attendance, there being also p was steadily diminishing. Sugar and its sent Lieut. Col. Chapman and Major products accounted for about 90 per cent. Macdonald.
of the exports from Mauritius, which in
years
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THE POKFULAM MURDER CHARGE.
He referred also to the improvement in the health of West Africa, where the death rate of European officials had fallen from 21 to 13 per 1,000, and the invaliding rate from 66 to 25.
Mr. Bryan said: This eliminates all
would be either a native rising, with the election of a Progressive and go out which the British garrison would have to to win. deal, a trek into the towns, or an exodus
OPPOSING THE INSURANCE BILL from the Union, increasing the shortage
LONDON, June 29th. of labour.
The Countess Deshart presided over a Sir Gilbert Parker, complained that disonstration composed of ten thousand the constitution of the Imperial Trade people, at the Albert Hall, organised by Commission was one of exclusion, and the Servants' Tax Registers Defence preference. its consideration. He moved Association. It was resolved to refuse to a reduction in the vole, but this was recomply with the Insurance Act. jected by 200 votes to 11%.
Mr.
IMPERIAL TRADE COMMISSION.
At a non-political meeting held at the COLONIAL GOVERNORSHIPS. - '......
residence of Lady St. Helier's yesterday, on the motion of Lady Selborne, a com- Lewis Harcourt, replying on
that mittee was appointed, of which Lady agree the debate, declined to Colonial Governorships must be filled Selborne and Mrs. Harcourt are members, exclusively from within the Service. The to form a special Insurance Society for Government must be free, under special female domestics. circumstances to select distinguished men from outside, but it was always his in- tention to consider all possible candi- dates within vacancies occurred.
the Service whenever
THE UNION BILL.
THEIR MAJESTIES IN WALES.
LONDON, June 29th. Their Majestics have had a splendid. reception in the South Wales coalfields They were most interested in the opera tions in the Rhoudda Valley, where they inspected a triumphal archway composed
SLEEPING BICKNESS. Mr. Harcourt, dealing with sleeping sickness, referred to the way in which the hopes for its eradication had been dashed to the ground by the discovery that the glossina morsitans, the most common and most, porvasive of the teetse flies, were
Many Referring to the Union Bill, he said als carriers of this infection. animals, wild and domestic, had fallen that if Mr. Lyttleton's fears were correct of cont decorated with picks and safety under the almost proved suspicion of
regarding the consequences of land hold | lamps being the life of hosts of deadly trypano- some, and the realisation of this too horing by natives, he might be quite sure that the Union Government would act rior development evoked a too previous detand that all suspect species of rightly in the matter and would not be
influenced by him (Mr. Harcourt).
THE TRADE COMMISSION. mals should be ruthlessly destroyed, But the time had not yet come, for the proof was not sure. "My hesitation,"
AN APPEAL FOR INFORMATION. - he continued, “is not in the interest of so-called big game. * Indeed, it is quite likely that infection may be equally con
eyed by small vermia. It is true that as
LONDON, June 28th.
THE PRINCE OF WALES.
LONDON, June 28th. The Prince of Wales has returned to Paria.
DEFENCE OF THE LATE SIR GEORGE WHITE.
LONDON, June 28th.
The CHAIRMAN explained the object of into a defeit. What, asks The Times, is the staff to form a unit of the Hongkong every that Indian Finance Minister to do? The Volunteer Corps stated answer is obvious, and we find it supplied facility would be given to the men. in the concluding words of the article, viz.: LIEUT-COL, CHAPMAN said that former "The Government of India sold a Governly Kowloon Dock furnished a strong unit ment product at enormously enhanced of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps, and prices, on the strength of an Agreement the he hoped they would again' come forward. fulfilment of which they cannot now pro. They would be given every facility to put cure. They pocketed their profits gleefully, in their drills at the Dock, an instructor and in common fairness cannot now proceed being sent over from Hongkong, and two It is maxim guns would be placed at their to ruin those who trusted them." clear that for a long time to come it will be disposal.
This book was then sent round and the Chiueso impossible to rely upon the Government fulfilling the terms of the signatures of 20 men were obtained.
An infantry-maxim detachment will Opium Agreement. A few days ago the
It is expected Accordingly be formed." Minister for Foreign Affairs made an that a number of others will join the
Onl the subject which unit. is likely to be as futile as similar previous steps of the kind have been.
He proposes, in the first place, the report says, "to negotiate with the British Minister at
The case in which four Chinese were.. Peking not to grant any import of Indian opium without a certificate." What this charged with murdering another Chinese was resumed before Mr. maana we do not quite know, as only cartiat Pokfulam feated opinn is entitled to admission into Irving at the agistracy yesterday.
Mr. P. M.-Hodgson (Assistant Crown We have had during the past week, in China. It is a grievance of the large opium Solicitor), prosecuted and Mr. Shenton
Lord Roberts, in a letter to the Times, brief telegram, a very ample explanation of
The list of questions which the Trade merchants, na shown in a letter addressed
(Deacon, Locker & Deacon) represented the delay of the Powers in formally recog- by Hongkong firms to the British Minister, the defendants. nising the Republican Government of China reproduced in our columns yesterday, that
A brother of deceased stated that he
Commission is drafting to be sent to says that Mr. Mason, in his article of Mr. ACLAED, H.R.M. Under Secretary of cheap opium is being imported into the himself was taken to hospital sufferings naturalist 1 should be very foth to ex-Chambers of Commerce, Trade Associa-the 20th inst., was unwittingly doing an State for Foreign Affairs, has announced Portuguese Colony of Macao and the from a knife wound. It was imposable terminate a species which can never be tions, etc., invite auggestions from every injustice to the military reputation of a He can hardly in the House of Commons, when speaking Chinese port of Kwongchowan in quantities for everyons in the house to escape the
destruction of wild fauna if and when I proving trade, particulara of any legisla-believe that Sir George White subordinat- with reference to the Indian Opium trade, far in excess of their legitimate requirements,feur prisoners, and it was a wonder that restored, but I would hesitate at no part of the Empire as to methods for im-distinguished soldier. that the inability of the Chinese Govern the inference being that it is smuggled inte he was not more seriously injured, ment to enforce the observance of the recogChina, owing to inadequate police control
Inspector Diamond said that when one am convinced this holocaust is essential tion, etc., that may be considered detri-ed his military judgment to the fear of
a problematical native rising. He mental to trade, together with the rea- nised Treaty obligations, both in this and on the boundaries, and since this uncerti- of the prisoners was brought to the Police to the elimination of the disease,"
had been receiving frequent reports from sous therfor, suggestions of amendment,
AEROPLANE EFFICIENCY. other matters in the Provinces, must, 50fied" opium-measing opium not certified Station his left hand was bleeding.
the Commission in Nyassaland under Sir and also concrete instances hearing there-
INCREASED SIX-FOLD IN TWO YEARS. long as it continues, delay Great Britain's for importation into China-is sold by the had in hs possession an electric torch, a a quantity of
David Bruce, and he was watching on. дет Government. recognition of the
Indian Government at about half the price length of string and
LONDON, June 28th.. · Doubtless the Chinese Government has that certifieil opium fetches ut
the pepper.
almost daily the development of their The case was farther remanded.
Reuter's correspondent in Paris tele- boon kept well informet of the efforts which auctions, the les mate mordinats are
diagnosis. He would shirk from
graphs that the Minister for War, speak- have been made repeatedly during the past placed at
an ¿tional disadvantage
A LIQUOR PROSECUTION.
action which seemed to be dictated by as-
POLICY OF THE NEW MINISTRY.
ing in the Chamber of Deputies, said that few months to impress upon the British
of such smuggling,
The Yuen Woo firm, of 187, Queen's artained facts. The Commission which
LONDON, June 28th.
the co-efficient safety of aeroplanes had Government the seriousness of the position the continua
Another proposal of the Minister of Foreign
The created by the failure of the Chinese Affairs into wire all the provinces to Road East, were summoned before Mr. the British South Africa Company sent
Melbourne at the Magistracy yesterday to Rhodesia was obtaining valuable re- A Wellington telegram states that the increased six-fold since 1910. Government to faithfully fulfil ite Treaty obligations in regard to opiuro. Stock strictly prohibit the cultivation of poppy for selling rum which was not up to the
sults, which would materially assist the Premier, in a speech at the opening of greatest care had been taken in the selec of Indian opium to the value of six million and opinn smoking." If we can believe
Mr. Needham, who appeared for the work of the Commissioners in Nyasso- Parliament, outlined the policy of the tion of aviators, many of whom were pounds sterling have accumulated in Shang- the Chinese papers, telegrams of this nature
i-alone as a result of this breach of faith have been repeatedly dispatched to the defendants, asked for an adjournment land. After referring to the increase of new Ministry. It included the building veritable masters, (Cheers.)
the fly in districts where game ones was of light railways to act as feeders, numer- on the part of the Government of China, provinces: and we can see no reason why sine die, to enable them to obtain a cer-
ous land proposals, the establishment of
TO CHURCH ET AEROPLANE. The Times has succinctly stated the position the latest should have more effect than its tificate from the place of origin. He
LONDON, June 28th in a recent leading article in which it says predecessors. Thirdly, the Minister pro-asked if the firm would be allowed to sell plentiful but was now non-existent, Mr.
interests of civilisation it was best to perimental farms, reciprocity with Aus the Indian opium merchants" have a right, poses to engage Mr. THWING as adviser. the rum until they received the certificate Harcourt expressed the belief that in the agricultural colleges, and additional ex- under the Opium Agreement of May, 1911, Mr. Tuwing has been engaged by some from the place of origin,
Mr. Melbourne I do nothink I have destory the morsitanei, not by the removal tralia and differentiation between earned Mr. Grahame White, the famous avia- The age of tor, has been married at Widford, near to dispose of these stocks in certain pro-body to give the Chinese Government vinces of Chins, but are improperly stopped and people advice gratis for two or three the power to do that. You must discuss of the game, but by the cultivation of the and unearned incomes.
soil. He described the many precautious women pensioners would be lowered to Chelmford, to Miss Dorothy Taylor, & The bridegroom and think if you explain the circumstances to or obstructed by loual mandarins. In the years past. Can it be expected that his in the matter with Inspector Withers. neantime the famous Anti-Opium Edict of fluence in the matter will be any the Captain Badeley, you will find him not that were being taken pending the re-sixty. The policy also includes anti-trust New York girl. the Manchu dynasty has ceased to be greater for being the paid servant of the unreasonable. Government? operative, and all through China land is
*tandard.
The case was adjourned sine die,
He
I
no
NEW ZEALAND PARLIAMENT
OPENED.
FAMOUS AVIATOR MARRIED.
zults of the inquiries, and begged the legislation, and the establishment of co- some of the guests aeroplaned to the
church. House to believe that keroic measures operative farmers' banks.
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