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TELEGRAMS

(TUZOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BIR PATRICK MANSON TO RETIRE.

LONDON, July 13th. Sir Patrick Manson will retire on

Adviser to the Colonial Office, and will be aucceeded by Sir Rose Brandford.

Sir. Patrick Manson'kas been awarded the Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George in recognition of his services in connection with tropical disease.

THE RIGHT OF THE MAJORITY.

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LONDON, July 14ta.

RANDOM REFLECTIONS.

THE HONGEONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 15ra, 1912.

HAMBURG LETIER,

DAILY PRESS."]

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.

Hongkong ought to feel highly honour [SPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR THE "HONGKONG. ed that its Observatory is henceforth to be known as "The Royal Observatory.” | 1 The Royal Observatory correctly pre': dicts Royal weather we shall he still more satisfied.

lost nothing through falling on a Banday, The tricolour was much in evidence. It is noteworthy that the two great days in the history of the two great Republics of the world, America and France, are only separated by ten days. Americans celeb. rate Independence Day on July 4th and the French celebrate the fall of the Bastille on July 14th.

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June 8th,

The

DYING LIBEL ON A LIFELONG HELPER.

WIFE'S INFATUATION FOR HUSBAND.

feld near Southend, having been killed

in the case.

the past, and he felt sure the jury would express their very deepest regret that bis name should have been inentioned.

The foreman of the jury at once did so, and Mr. Watson thanked the coroner which he was sure would undo a good and the jury for their sympathetic words,

The verdict was that Halliday murder. deal of the harm that had been done,

TWO-MINUTE WEDDING.

The following, New York dispatch is jalb

taken from a Londou paper of the 17th

steel, whereas the production of the British Isles dow not exceed 8,000,000-tons Besse- mer a million and a half of basic steel.

Bremen, the most important cotton market in Europe next to Liverpool, whose rules and bye-laws, modelled on Annan, Dumfriesabire, attended the ad Mr. Charles Watson, solicitor, of those of the latter, have been adopted by journed inquest at Southend last month The reduction of the rate of discount the trade in most continental countries,' into the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Hallied his wife by shooting her and then com- by the Reichsbank from 5 per cent. to and form the basis of nearly all contracts day, whose bodies were found in a wheat mitted suicide, Yesterday our French friends celebrated 4 last week has failed to stimulate busi imand with them, has for some time been by revolver shots. After his statement, *August 15th from the position of Medical "le quatorze Juillet," and the occasion ness in the stock markets, where caution considering the feasibility of opening & the coroner and the jury expressed the i

market for transactions in “futures" with fullest sympathy with him for the way continues to be the watchword.

a view of socuring a portion at least of in which his name had been mentioned demand for money for commercial and the extensive hedging" business that is means being done in Liverpool and New York industrial purposes has by no

by importers, merchants and spinners on in her own handwriting, stating:-" Í On the body of the woman were papers, abated and is expected to increase no the continent and for whieh vest sums harvest time draws near, when the are annually paid to those markets in the have given my husband leave to shoot mo It has been loft for an English girl, requirements of the agricultural interests shape of commissions. According to the and end my life," and "Charles Watson, Miss Jessie Halliday, of Harrow,n newspapers, the plan has now matured, Green Croft, Annan. It is at his door artist and Suffragetto, to show her Ameri- bays to be provided for. The pros pects of the several crops are good and at the beginning of the new season in He has been the sole cause. He has done ing can be.

Can sisters how unconventional a wedd- and it is intended to commence operations lies our taking our own lives. justify the hopes of a continuance of a the suturin. Whether Bremen will be his best to rain my husband, and She was married yesterday to Mr.

Edmund Trowbridge Dana, grandson of brisk and prosperous trade all over the able compete with Liverpool and New succeeded."

York, where the American crop is sol! Mr. Watson, in reply to the coroner, the poet Langfollow, in the garden of country, unless political complications or

uny times over every stasou, may wa (Mr. C. Edgar Lewis), stated that he came the poet's house at Cambridge, Massachu serious labour troubles should arim. be considered doubtful.

to London to arrange for the interment setta. Not only did she dispense with The idea has hitherto prevailed on the of the budies, and was unaware of the a church ceremony, preferring to be Fortunately, the strike of the transport

continent that aeronautics had been letters found until he read them in the workers in London scem about to neglected by the British Government in a evening papers, James Willmore Halli- collapse from want of funds; it has met nost inexplicable manner and the several day was about forty years old, and his with little sympathy on the part of their successful attempts with dirigibles haut wife, Elizabeth Nicholson Pool Halliday, trades, and the national strike proclaim-strengthened this belief. The wonderful about the same age. Thus belonged to performances of fiyers at the recent naval Anuan. Mr. Halliday had followed ed by the leaders has been quietly ignored review have opened people people's eyes, many occupations in his time, and was in nearly all the ports of the United owever, and they are now ready to admit last a rubler planter. Kingdom. In the meantitar the stocks that, as far, at least, as aeroplanes, parti of rye and wheat in this country are

cularly for naval purposes, are conceznal, England has by no means lagged behind, rapidly deceasing. Exports of the former if she has not actually taken the 1 ad. have been remarkably heavy this seAZONI, something like a million tons, whilst imports show a falling off of 150,000 tons, viz., from 450,000 tons during the same period last year to 200,000 tons this year; there appears little chance of abundant If this conflict of testimony were possupplies from other sources, for the sible among men who may he said to be moment, although large quantities are experts in giving evidence, it can he understood how great would be the said to be stored in the interior of Russia, other. Many mills in different parts of Germany are, it is stated, already stup ping work owing to the scarcity of rye. Wheat, too, has been in great demand for export, particularly for France, where

Committee for the Defence of Universal Suffrage has been organised by MM. Coaches and Clemenceau. It has issued a manifesto denouncing pro portional representation, and declares that henceforth the majority principle will succumb to the blows of the victorious minorities, and then the popular disgust will proceed to acts of violence. Hence the formation of a committer is necessary to bring revolutionaries, Royalists, and Clericals into their proper place as minorities.

AIRSHIP RECORD)..

LONDON, July 14th.· A message from Hamburg states that

There was a curious conflict of testi- mony in the evidence given before the Magistrate Inst Monday in the cARE against the miscreant who made an attempt on the life of H. E. the Governor. The European sergeant of the escort said it was he who diverted the shot, while the evidence of the Sikh members of the escort was that it was one of themselves who did it. But may it not be that Sir Henry May really owes his life to what he did himself: When a man sees a re- volver pointed at his head, he doesn't try to look down the barrel of the revolver, and I rather fancy that Sir Henry's life was saved by his dodging the shot. He would naturally throw his head back when he saw the revolver pointed at him.

THE TRAFFIC OF THE SUEZ CANAL.

DUWER RATES AND INCREASED TRAFFIC.

married in the open air, but also neither. clergymaa, bridal veil, orange blossoms. bridesmaids, nor best man graced the pro cending and no honeymoon is to follow.

The service, which lasted two minutes, was conducted by a justice of the peace, and the brief ritual was the work of the bride herself. Instead of having a prayer-look, the justice of the peace, a then read a statement he had prepared. Parker, produced a typewritten document At the coroner's invitation, Mr. Watson Boston lawyer named Mr. Edmund M. It said that Mrs. Halliday belonged to from his pocket and quickly married the one of the oldest and most respected young couple by reading the questions families in Dumfriesshire. About twelve and answers which the bride had pre- years ago she went to Singapore and was pared.

HUSBAND'S FAILURES.

the airship Victoria Luize made a record / divergeners if civilians had been called which are held back for some reason or activity which has reigned throughout Through my instrumentality Mr. Halli-' the bridgroom appeared

overses trip of 400 miles.

INTERNATIONAL LAWN TENNIS.

LONDON, July 13th.

In the Davis Cup Competition, Dixon and Barrett (England) beat Gobert and Laurentz (France) by 0-0, 0-1, 01,

6.- 1,

heat Gobert 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3, Britain now merts America.

OPIUM. TRADE.

LATER.

COMM-

nese, his Majesty's Government proposed

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to give evidence concerning the affair. In deciding to adhere to police evidence, the Crown have undoubtedly exercised a wise discretion, as there can be little doubt that the facts of the setual clearly told than they have already been related in the Police Court,

oecurrence are not likely to be more the military authorities, having ruceived corresponding to the reduction of the rates this country he was dismissed by the

be all that can be desired,

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EXTRAVAGANCE.

He tried to induce his

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married to Mr. Halliday. They return- The bride placed a heavy silver ring ed to England, and with his wife's muzey on the third finger of the bridegroom's he started there successive busindases, all left hand. The bride's father, Mr. of which were unsuccessful.

Henry Halliday, was prosent, but his The following extracts are from the

I was interested in Mrs. Halliday, as daughter did not allow him to give her report presented at the general meeting the daughter of an old client and as an away, having undertaken that task her- of shareholders last month:-

intimate personal friend, for whom I was self. Benefiting by the great commercial anxions to do everything in my power. The bride wore a tennis costume, while 1911, the traffic on the Canal shows, in day got an appointment in Borneo, start flannels. of 10 per cent. In order that the loss a few years to £1,200, with free quarters cumparison with that of 1910, an increase ing at £400 or £500 a year and rising in resulting from the lower rate should be and perquisites entirely recuperated, an increase of seven They returned to this country in

cent. would have been sufficient. about two years. "In consequence of par Therefore the decrease in the receipts Halliday's misconduct in Borneo and in Permission of the Government to pur has been more than recompensed during directors from his situation. That was chase their requirements abroad, svent the year by the growth of the traffic about six years ago, and he has had no Without attempting to determine what permanent employment since. After- to have taken a special fancy to the has been the precise effect of the lower wards, at his wife's request, I paid his The attack ON His Excellency the quality of last season's Lierman wheat rate on this growth, we will content our- passage and other expenses to Singapore, Governor was revived in many minds and have bought and are still buying selves by stating that once more the but he had not been there long when his when it was reported that a local gentle large quantities of it. As all articles im-sacrifice agreed to by the shareholders has wife reesived letters from him stating

at the same time furthered their interests that he had a revolver under his pillow Chs. In the Davis Cup Competition, Dixon man was suffering from poisoning reported for account of the Government and those of the clients of the company and would blow his brains out if someone ceived, in his food. The two incidents enter the country duty free the prices The greater part of the commercial dis- were connected because it was understood stand somewhat below those of French tricts tributary to the Canal, and all did not cable money for his return. Her classes of shipping, have contributed to money was exhausted, and she came to that the gentleman concerned bad taken wheat. It is to be, hoped that the crops the progress of trade. This is the more me in great distress to see if I would a snapshot photograph which revealed may not only be plentiful but early as remarkable in that it has been obtained advance the amount. Out of regard for the presence of another conspirator armed well, in order to prevent a passing in spite of the diminution (due principal her I cabled the necessary funds to bring

ly to accidental causes) of certain chan him home. with a revolver. I am gives to under-scarcity in the autumn.

nels of trade of the first importance. stand that this is not the case, so that As stated in my last the textils such as rice and oleaginous grains, We "On his return they lived in Reading, In the House of Commons on the 18th another picturesque story has to be con- industries are well under orders, but have also had further occasion to prove Moffat, Keswick, London, and elsewhere. ult., Sir J. D. Rees asked the Secretary for tradicted.

there is little doing in the way of fresh the diversity of the elements on which Although out of employment, wherever the growth of traffic is dependent, and he went Halliday fived most extravagant- Foreign Affairs whether, in view of the

These hot days and nights, with open

business. Both wool and cotton are which provides that, when certainly. About a year ago he got a pro-Always have on hand a very large completer greater moral obligation under which the British Government lay to the British verandah doors and windows, offer in owing to the extensive consumption, firmaterials of commercial exchange suffer, visional appointment in the East, and a set-back, other generally provide a I again advanced the money to pay his Indian subjects of the Crown as

lucements to the wily Chinese thief who in price, the latter rather inclined to

His employers told me that compensation, Contrary to the general passage, pared with their obligation to the Chican climb pipes and pillars and reach the advance, as the accounts of the growing rule, progress has mainly shown itself when he arrived he was suffering from upper storeys. One or two burglaries crop in the United States are not from north to south. European consign- delirium tremens. The firm intimated

of anufactured gooda and that they had no further use for his ser- SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS have been reported during the week, and altogether satisfactory, although the ments

material for railways to the British and vices, and he cabled to me that he was to delay the operation of the agreement it behoves householders to take precan prospects in Texas nad Oklahoina may Dutch Todies and the Far East have stranded, and asked for funds to bring (Transits, Levels, Plane Tables, Prismatic and

tween India and China until the protions and not go to sleep with a sense

grown even in proportion to the demand im bumar. visional Government in the latter Empire!

The sugar market shows signs of weak from those regions, enriched as they have. On his return he came to live with Sight Compasses, Hand Levels, 50., &v.) was succeeded by a settled Administrn-of security which is only fancied and tion, which could formally adopt and not real. I have heard of irate house-ness, an abundant erop of cane being been by their abundant productions in his mother and wife in the house of his

recent years. American petrol exports, sister-in-law. successfully enforce the obligations of the holders, who were disturbed at night by expected in Cuba, whilst the outlook of too, have been forced, in consequence of sister-in-law to sell her house and divide late Imperial Chinese Government in the footfalls of Indian policemen ordering beet on the continent pretty generally is the large production in the United States the proceeds with them. He suggested DRAWING respect of the cultivation of opium.

The statistical and keen competition in the European Mr. Montagu, who replied, said:-It is the men away from their precincts. This considered promising.

Annan and that his sister-in-law should combustible in Asiatic ports. Consequent come and live with them. I pointed out true that the welfare and interests of is not quite right. If the footfulls are position of the article, however, appears markets, to sell large quantities of this! that the aunt should go into lodginge in British subjects everywhere are a first rather beavy, they ought to be tolerated favourable, the stocks at present being, ly, ballast navigation, responding to the that the house could not be sold, and that charge upon the care han Majesty's for the protection or security which they according to Herr F. O. Licht of Magde demand for tonnage capacity shown in any case in the interest of his sister. (

atave, in India, has experienced a Government, and they have in this sense. greater moral obligations to British represent, and a greater degree of toler burg:

to unknown activity. The development in-law I could not permit such an 1912. 191 1. 1910.

arrangement. His conduct became most Indian subjects than to subjects of for- ance

exorcised generally

of traffic from south to north has been, objectionable, and both his sister-in-law Tons. Tons. Tons.

as we have just said, diminished rign nations, but it does not follow that towards buth Indian and Chinese police, these obligations will be best discharged who

-1,662,422 1,970,202 1,728,925 certain extent by the decrease in the ex- and her aunt left the house. His sister- are handicapped through their

Trade in Soya beans, which, as you know, had to explain to Halliday the posi- 211,000 264,401 380,737 portation of rice and oleaginous grains. in-law came to me in great distress, and s rapidly attained importance, has per, tion. Eventually he and his mother left 7,000 ceptibly fluctuated in consequence of the, the house and his sister-in-law and aunt

grave epidemic of plague which has raged returned. in Manchuria. Further, the march of From that time be nod his mother events in China, which are the subject of have been labouring under the delusion such great hopes for the future, has been, that it was I who had turned them ont crippled by the political crises which have of his sister-in-law's house.I took no

MANY ADVANCES OF MONEY, agitated the country, but numerous sources partisan part in the matter." of commerce have combined to conteruct

Mr. Watson stated that in December these decreases.

accident We must above all signalize the great Halliday met with activity of Indian exports, as much on, London, and was in hospital. His wife He the eastern coast as from Calcutta. Ship-was asked to go and nurse him. ments of corn, notably, have attained an (witness) advanced her the money to go Dutch Indies, too, has developed to very repeatedly for money, and though on eil to the effect that the resumption of described Shanghai as model in every On the spot... 1,760,600 2,064,30 1,780,400 qualled figure. The trade of the to London. From London they wrote large proportions. Consignements of several occasions he sent some, latterly he The culture of opium was unchecked in respect except the "manners and morality Afloat 13/6

A momentary pause seems to have setsugar, owing to the poor European crops, refused, as his advances for many years China; that in several of the most of the Europeans. important of the provinces free and

in in the iron and steel trades likewise, as have nearly doubled, while benzine, the were already for too heavy. They then "unrestricted cultivation of the poppy It was a curious coincidence that in proceeded; that the present Chinese the running competition at the Olympic is frequently the case in the summer reduction of which we commented out in wrote to their relations and others whom

proportions. Japan, whose mercantile Government was evidently unable to Sports, which are being held at Stockmonths. The increase in the production preceding reports, bas regained its normal he knew and obtained mons. Hun last few months all expressing apprecia- secure the observance of treaties by its holm, that there should have been a little of steel during the last forty years, is marine grows ceaselessly, continues to letters from Mrs. Halliday within the own provincial authorities; that Chinese unpleasant episode between American and truly marvellous: in 1870 the output of extend her relations with Europe, while tion of what he had done. Mr. Halliday

Aastralasia has also contributed to the

always had an ill-will towards him merchants who had bought Indian opium British competitors just as there was at were being obstructed by the provincial the previous Olympiad held four years strel pigs in the whole world amounted volume of trade. Postal trade has, as in because he did not approve of his wife's

It was all the more to no more than 300,000 tons, of which previous years, benefited by the introduc authorities at the instigation of the ago in London. principal authorities and refused to ad regrettable that it should have happened 250,000 tons were manufactured in Great tion of more and more powerful units, marriage to him, and he believed that This wife to write what she did. He never mit it, in defiance of existing trenties; after what we read about the British and

Brilliant as have been the result of tried to separate Mrs. Halliday from her and, if so, what action was being taken American competitors endeavouring to Britain, 170,000 in Germany, 100,000 in military navigation has also slightly in Halliday, out of revenge, prevailed upon in the interests of British trade and promote the must cordial relations and to France, 39,000 in the United States and British-Indian taxpayera.

forget the animosities that prose four 22,000 in Austria-Hungary. The intro- previous years they are still surpased by husband. He did suggest that she ought those of the first months of the current to return to her own comfortable home duction of the basic proces led to an en- Mr. Montagu replied-The Secretary of

ormous increase in the following ten year. In spite of the fresh reduction in with her sister until Mr. Halliday got a tariff the receipts up to the 20th of May permanent appointment. She, however, State is aware that a memorial to theeffect atated has been presented by certain

years, the total amounting to 4 million show an increase of 1,900,000fr. Economi- decided to act against that advice and the

A letter found in Mrs. Hallida Indian opium merchants to the Govern

GREAT BRITAIN AND TIBET. tone in 1880, of which 1,250,000 tons were cal tendencies appear more favourable advice of all her own relatives ment of India. Inquiry is being made

Marine enter rooms was read by Mr. Watson, showing contributed by Great Britain, 1,200,0os than ever to the maintenance of strong

commoreial movement. into the facts, and the matter is engaging

In the House of Commons last month: the attention of his Majesty's Govern- nent. His Majesty's Minister has already Sir J. D. Rees asked the Under-Secre- by the United States and 780,000 tons by prises in most parts of the world show an that recently he advanced £30 to get the Freights show that the tonnage afloat, in had done his best for the couple through runde, and will-continue to make, repretary for India whether his Majesty' Germany. In the next ten years this out.activity without precedent, and takes on bailiffs out of their flat in London. He the Chinese Government Government and the Government of put was trebled, reaching 19 million tons, spite of its considerable growth in 1911, out. He did not believe Mr. Halliday against the obstructions placed in the India were adopting any measures to whilst since the further improvement in bas no difficulty in finding employment was a party to the accusation against way of the trade in certificated Indian bring the presont unsatisfactory state of the processes of manufacture have again Ballast navigation, which has much sur- bim at all. Her husband was an adven- apium by the provincial authorities, but affairs in Tibet to a conclusion,

the year that which has ever before been family. the difficulties of enforcing our rights whether its previous policy remained raised the production to a most remark passed during the first four months of turer, despised and distrusted by the

the unchanged. under existing treaties are for

Mr. Montagu-It is not proposed to

recorded for a similar period, and which moment greatly increased by the fact, mentioned by the hon. member, that the take any steps of the kind suggested.

still continues, is one of the happy omens The general situation appeare, then. Provisional Government in Chipa are There has been no change in the policy

which augur well for the near future. unable to impose their will upon the pro of his Majesty's Govermanent in regard

very satisfactory, and one may be per- -to Tibet.

mitted to hope that the year 1912 will "not be less brilliant than its forerunners. vincial Government.

by delaying at this moment the operation

should be

of the opium agreement with Ching, and ignorance of the English language and

I cannot therefore answer the question in of the habits and customs, likes and dis- the affirmative.

likes of foreigners.

In reply to a supplementary question

as to the effect of the present conditions, Not without reason, I think, does a

Chinese complain in a northern news- paper of the notice which until recently

Europe

States, 19/0 Cuba Afloat, 2/6..

385,000

155,000 242, OCO 34,850 41,800

2,386,272 2,527,356 2.401,602 Mr. Montagu said that, though he was

Mr. C. Cemnikow's figures are the same not prepared to adopt the particular sng

for the United States and Cuba, but gestion of the hon. member, the whole inatter was under consideration, and was placed at the entrance to the Public somewhat larger for the stocks held in the Gardens in Shanghai Dogs and Chinese negotiations were proceeding:

European markets and slightly sinuller It was unnecessarily On the 20th uit., Sir J. D. Hees asked not admitted."

1912. 1911. 1910. the Under-Secretary for India whether offensive, and it is to be hoped that for the quantities afloat, viz:--

Tons. Tons. Tons;

he was aware that representations had foreigners will not be guilty of such bad

been made by the leading opium mer taste again. No wonder, the irate Chines chants to the Governor-General in Coun-

sentations

years ago.

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RODERICK RANDOM.

Br

*19,500. $4,980 14,000

able extent, but, unfortunately, England has lost the lead, the United States now figuring for 10 million tons and Germany for 6 millions, besides 150,000,000 tons and 5,000,000 tons respectively of basic

creased.

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JUBORS' SYMPATHY. Two jurymen expressed their hearty sympathy with Mr. Watson.

The coroner said he was very glad to

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