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but Mr. T. H. Kiko, the assistant Super- intended of Police, was understood to give his Worship the assurance that the prisoner entered upon his sentence in May. Then, as Mr. MELBOURNE wanted further information, the Assistant Superinton-

Here was a man

For failing to take proper precautions TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

while carrying on blasting operations a Chinese contractor was yesterday Üned $100.

(THROUGH HEUTER'S AGENCY.)

The Consul for Bussia, who is in charge THE FUNERAL OF THE EMPEROR

dent of Police said he could explain, but of the Austro-Hungarian Consulata in instead of explaining so that those in Hongkong during the absener of Mr. Von Court might hear, be passed over to the Wiser from the Colony, announces tient at the Austro- Magistrate and whispered the explana- he will be "At Home' tion. What was it that he told his Wor-Hungarian Consulate to-morrow morn- ship? It would be interesting to the ing, on the occasion of the birthday of H.M. the Emperor Joseph. His Majesty public to know. sentenced in May to six months' imprison will be 62 years of age. WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS meat for housebreaking, let loose upon society in less than three months, and is again before the Magistrate charged with a new crime! How many men, we wonder, have lately been discharged from the gaul before their æntences have half expired? Does this account for the ra- markable serica of burglaries in the Colony during the last few months? Does it explain the light sentences

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MARRIAGE.

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Government, to make adequate provision, even if they have to rent additional pro- perty. Surely there are buildings in the Colony that can be made to serve the tem- porary purposes of a gaol until more Adequate arrangements are made; and it may further be suggested that the time has arrived when a branch gaol might be built in the New Territory and con- vict labour employed in road-making or otherwise developing the territory. The whole matter seems to be one calling for

CHINESE WOOD OIL.

Mr. Frank Browne, F.I.C., Govern- iment Analyst of Hongkong, contributes to the Chemical News what will doubtless prove to the profession a very useful article on The Heat Test for Chinese Wood Oil." The quality of this oil, Mr. Browne says, is determined to a large extent, particularly in the United States, by its behaviour to heat. The oil has the well-known characteristic property of forming a jolly when raised to 250deg, C. for a few minutes. Different observers, Mr. Browne says, employ usually different temperatures, so that the results are not "seemed easily comparable, and it has very desirablo, in view of the large and increasing export of this article to so arrange a heat test which could be repeated by both buyer and seller in any part of the world." The test is fully described by Mr. Browne in the article.

BURGLARY AT CRAIGIEBURN.

THIEVES' DIG HAUL,

& value of

OF JAPAN.

LONDON, August 16th.

An Admiral and probably a Field- Marshal will accompany H.R.H. Prince

Arthur of Connaught to Tokyo, His Royal Highness leaves for Tokyo on the Both inst, viu Siberia.

General Lebon will represent France. LATER. Field-Marshall Lord Methven and Admiral Sir E. S. Poe will Recompany Prince Arthur.

LIFE-SAVING AT SEA.

REPORT OF THE MERCHANT SHOPPING ADVISORY COMMITTEE,

LONDON, August 10th.

A Bluebook has been issued containing the Report of the Merchant Shipping Advisory Committee on the subject of life-saving at sea, euphasises the view expressed in its previous report, (1911) regarding the necessity for ensuring the There is toyaney of the vessel itself. no evidence, the Report says, that there has been a loss of life owing to lack of boat accommodation since the introduc tion of the existing regulations in 1987. The Committee recommouds that gross tonnage shall continue to be the basis of the number of boats and davits, but that special provision be made in the case of vessels longer than 610, feet. The Com- mittee thinks that additional collapsible boats and rafts should be provided.

ALLEGED SPY ARRESTED AT GALWAY.

LONDON, August 16th, A Belgian, named Quetalet, has been arrested at Galway on suspicion of espionage.

was

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

FRANCE AND RUSSIA.

THE VAN EASTERN QUESTION.

LONDON, August 16th.

A message from Moscow states that the Russian Premier and Foreign Minister are going to Paris in September to re- turn M. Poincare's visit.

The Grand Duke Nicholas will attend the French military maneuvres.

Reuter's correspondent at Paris -states

that M. Poineare in an interview with the Japanese Ambassador informed him that a perfect agreement existed between France and Russia regarding the loan to China and as Great Britain completely agreed with Japan the four Powers were at one for the defence of Russian and Japanese interests,

SUPREME COURT

Friday, 16th August.

IN BUMMARY JURJEDICTION.

DEFORE MR. H. H. J. GoмPERTZ (PUISNE JUDGE).

HOTELKEEPER'S CLAIM.

F. Reichmann sued C. Nickarts for $120.85. Mr. Reader Harris, of Messrs. Wilkinson Grist, appeared for the plaintiff, defendant being represented by Mr. Russ, of Messrs. Goldring & Aar- low.

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Mr. Rusa asked for particulars. dates were given, nothing except the bara fact that the sura was due.

Mr. Harris suid he would give his the documents. friend inspection of There was $100 for board and lodgings He asked his and 220 odd for chits. Lorkhip to fix next Friday for the hear- ing.

Mr. Russ said he could not advise his client until he knew the nature of thứ claira.

M. Harris replied that 11 Was forge board and jolgings and chits as stated. It was defendant who had informed him. His Lordship Doesn't your client know ?

THE EX SULTAN OF MOROCCO,

LONDON, August 16th. Mulai Hafd has arrived at Marseilles, Re was received with military honours, THE DISASTER TO THE SPANISH in a hurry.

FISHING FLEET

London, August 18th, One hundred and forty-three. Spanish.

fishermen were drowned in the storm.

CRICKET AT SHANGHAI,

WAYFOONG ». TAKOO.

Mr. Harris-Yes. The writ was issued

His Lordship-Botter gise him - partà- culars..

Mr. Harris--I will do so immediately. The hearing was fixed for Friday.

CLAIN BY A CHAIR COOLIE.

J. L. Crackett was sned by a chair coolie for $10.50.

Defendant saïd the plaintiff was forms erly his head chair coolio, and the claim was for wages. He had been dismissed on account of disabedience. He was told to come to the Peak Tramway Station Defendant was not inclined to pay him anything. In any and did not do so.

case the writ was wrong, as he had re- ceived an advance during the month.

This annual fixture was played on the Shanghai Cricket ground last Saturday afternoon and resulted after a very keen contest by a victory for the Wayfoong re presentatives by 99 runs. The event was witnessed by a large number of friends and admirers of both teams, and feeling,

Plaintiff said he was dismissed on th on several occasion, Tan very high,

His master gave orders for. especially when some brilliant individual 29th Jaly. effort was made by competitor in the the chair to be at the Peak Station at endeavour to secure the victory. Way-six o'clock and his wife gave orders for Foong batted first and with the aid of 30. He reached the station late, and H. P. Sharp (52), H. F. Muriel (48) that was the reason why he was de T. M. Leitch (3), and M. W. Wood (23), uissed. were able to bring the score to quite a respectable total.

Mackay and Lawson bowled well for Taikoo and between them took the hon- ours in the trundling department. Taikoo followed, but against the deadly bowling Robinson, to put up a moderate score. who, if we remember rightly, has been the saviour of his side on several previous occasions, again had the honour of com. piling a valuable score (22) which was greatly appreciated. H. L. Beckett with thirty to his credit headed the batting list.

There have been rumours in military Mr. G. A. Caldwell is the Intest vietineircles that a foreign Power en- of the Hongkong burglare, his rooms at Craigieburn, The Peak, having been endeavouring to procure a map of the of Fergusson and Leitch were only able tered by thieves on Thursday night and Galway coast. articles stolen representing close upon $600. The room occupied by Mr. Caldwell is on the ground floor, and has an enclosed verandah, All the win- dows were closed, when Mr. Caldwell re- tired, and it is believed that someone ou the premises must have been in collu-

the earnest attention of the Government.sion with the thieves, while the fact that

The meeting of shareholders of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank takes place at noon to-day, at the City Hall.

We observe that three pupils of St. Xavier's Institution, Penang, have left to enter the Hongkong University.

Hoihow has been released from quaran tine regulations by the Governor-in- Council.

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THE FUR SEAL CONVENTION.

AMERICA CÓMPENSATES GREAT BRITAIN

AND JAPAN.

Reuter's

LONDON, August 16th. Washington correspondent

wires that President Taft in a message

restriction of

Mr. Caldwell slept through the opera- tious of the intruders would suggest that to Congress recommends the appropria- tion of £80,000 bell to be paid to Great measures bad been taken to induce protracted slumber. When Mr. Caldwell Britain and the other half to Japan as awoke in the morning, he noticed that the room was disarranged and several of the compensation for the verandah windows open. Examination privileges under the Fur Seal Conven. proved that the fears to which these tion. circumstances gave rise in his mind were well founded. The premises had beenTHE QUEEN ON THE CONTINENT. visited by burglars, who collected some 40 or 50 articles. The mantel-piece was strip- ped of all the silver ornaments, Mrs Cald well's silver toilet set was taken, and a wires that the Queen and Princess Mary number of silver cups and bowls, sport have arrived. They were welcomed by ing trophies won by Mr. Caldwell, had the Grand Ducal Family and other dis-

su disappeared. Nothing that had inscription was removed, a discrimination tinguished people. which shows that the thieves must have proceeded with their work with some de-

LONDON, August 18th.

Reuter's correspondent at Neustrelitz

Sixty suffragettes, headed by Miss Shen Pei-chong, have approached the Advisory Council, demanding the right to have a voice in political matters.

Dr. Sun Yat-sen, late President of the

MINERS' MINIMUM WAGE®. LONDON 097105: 181, FLEET STREET, EC. Republic, was duly elected a director of the China Mutual Life Insurance Com-

LONDON, August 16th. pany at a board meeting held on the Sthree of leisureliness. A piece of plate pres- ented to Mr. Caldwell's father fifty years

The Conference of the Miners Federa inst., at Shanghai.

ago was also stolen. Fortunately the

tion at Blackpool denounced the adminis- thieves did not discover Mrs. Caldwell's jewellery, worth from $3,000 to $4,000, tration of the Minimum Wage Act as which was locked in a drawer. Finger-most upsatisfactory. prints discovered on some of the articles tay help the police in tracing the thieves. Great sympathy is felt for Mr. Caldwell, whose wife is at prosent lying seriously ill in hospital.

HONGKONG, AUGUST 17TH, 1912.

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Freda Meher and Sarah Solomon were at the Magistracy yesterday charged with Are refusing to pay legal ricksha hire. They .Is Victoria Gaol over-crowded?

were fined one dollar each and were prisoners being liberated before their sentences have expired? We have been ordered to pay the coolie fifty cents each asked these questions several times duras compensation.

On the ing the past couple of months.

At the Magistracy yesterday P.S. other hand, we have been told of com- plaints of a considerable number of men, Edge was summoned by an Indian for It was arrested with a view to banishment, being beating and assaulting him. detained at the gaol week after week alleged that the officer pushed the com pending an investigation into their plainant and beat him. The hearing was antecedents. The two stories have scored adjourned until next Thursday. to us scarcely reconcilable, but a little

A Japanese amah was charged at the incident occurred in the Second Magis instance of Francis Cruz, residing in trate's Court on Thursday last, which Haiphong Road, Kowloon, with the theft suggests that some justification exists for of two gold rings, a gold watch and asking the question whether the gaol chain, and 815 in money. Mr. Lewis accommodation is adequate to what appears to be the growing need of the appeared for the defence, and the case

was remanded.

A number of landslides have been re- ported from various parts of the Colony. Two occurred on the Jubilee Read, which

"TRUTH" ON HONGKONG'S

MOTOR REGULATIONS.

Truth has the following comment on the motor regulations, as issued some six weeks ago, which, we should add, have since been satisfactorily amended:-

is now dangerous for motor traffic. The island, but judging Press there was no

NEW LAMP FOR MINERS.

LONDON, August: 16th. The Home Office prize of £600 for the best electric lamp for miners has been won by a German named Farber of Dortmund.....

A HONEYMOON TRAGEDY.

LONDON, August 16th. Mr. Humphrey Jones, a Cambridge

"The Hongkong Government has issued some regulations for motor car trefie in that colony which seem to be practically lecturer, and his wife, while on a honey. aimed at its prohibition. By one clause,moon trip, have been killed in climbing for example, motorists are absolutely ex-

the Alps. eluded from the Jubilee Road, which was Colony. We learn from a spectator who

constructed by public subscription to Mr. Jones was a member of the Com- commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond was in Court that an old criminal came before Mr. MELBOURNE ON a somewhat

Jubilee. There may have been need for mission on Oil Fuel for the Navy. serious charge. After the evidence in the

a stricter regulation of traffic in the : '

from statements in

TSAR OF BULGARIA'S JUBILEE. the Hongkong case was heard, the man's previous re-

It showed a long first landslide is near Telegraph Bay and sort of justification for the drastic courso

LONDON, August 16th. cord was put in.

the the other is a little distance beyond. The that the Government has adopted in the list of convictions, the last on

interests of horsemen, and it has natural-

Rejoicings are taking place in Bulgaria list being one of house-breaking, for road from Aberdeen to Hongkong is ly aroused a great outery among the

motorists.

in connection with the jubilee of Tsar to six badly cut up by the rains, and on the sentenced

Ferdinand, who reviewed the army' in months imprisonment some time in May. road from Aberdeen to the golf course

the ancient capital of Ternavo, and in-a Yet he was before the Court again on there have been several small landslides. The Another landslide took place near the another charge on August 16th.

The Government at Lisbon has managed speech emphasised the need for a pacific Magistrate, we are informed, noticed and Hon. Mr. Murray Stewart's residence 113, to raise a loan from several Portuguese queried this record, thinking that the pri- The Peak, where a portion of the retain banking firms of £500,000 to be used for policy. The speech had a tranquillising

the building of railways in Portugal.

effect on the population. soner must have been discharged in May,' ing wall has given way.

which

he was

PORTUGUESE LOAN."

The hearing was adjourned until Friday.

TITLES OF HONOUR IN CHINA,

By a Presidential Mandate, the Law, governing the bestowal of Titles of Honour le promulgated. From the native Press we learn that these titles of honour are distinguished by six nomes denoting six degrees of nobility of the persons enjoying them. They are really titles for nobles, although the Govern ment avow that the bestowal of then should only be made upon persons who

The full Beprès and analysis are have done meritorious service to the

appended: -- WAYFOONG.

H. P. Sharp, b Robinson

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B. E Muriel, b Mackay-

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T. J. Pentycross, b Beckett

16

A. G. Stephen, h Beckett

2

A. Fergusson, e and b Lawson

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33

T. M. Leitch, b Lawson

V. M. Grayburn, Mackay, & Lawson 14

A. Boyd, not out .......

C. H. Holland, not out

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M. W. Wood, at Mackay, b Lawson 23

F. B. Winter, is Mackey

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R. A. Lawson

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A. L. Beckett

G. A. Robinson ..... 3,5

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A. Parkhill, b Leitch........... 12 C. M. Forrest, st Sharp, b Leitch ... 11 R. A. Lawson, e Bentycress, h Leitch & E. F. Mackay, e Winter, b Fergusson 1 W. A. Willis, Sub, h Fergusson.... il D. L. Ralph, c.Holland, b Vergasson | 0 A. L. Beckett, e Boyd, b Fentyorass... 90 F. H. E. Hedges, b Muriel

S. Agassiz, not out

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Total

101

Bowling Analysis.

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31.

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A. Fergusson T. M. Leitch H. E. Muriel T. H. Pentycross

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CAUSES OF AEROPLANE ACCIDENTS,

Republic of China. The first title is called " The Title of Great Merit,” which is to be given to such men as Dr. Sun Yat-sen and General Li Yuan-hung; and regarded as equivalent, to that of a Prince. The other five titles are deemed! in honour and nobility to equal those of a Duke, a Marquis, an Earl, a Viscount and a Baron.

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Commenting upon the abow inneva- tion,

is Shanghai native emphatically of opinion that such titles of honour are inconsistent in a Re- publican nation. The 9th Article of this Constitution of the United States, Ë America clearly prohibits the usage of any titles of nobility, which prohibition agrecs exactly with the principle of republicanism. In the case of our country," it says, "there are stipulations for generous treatment, and, of course, it would be impossible to abolish the titles of honour of the noble families; but these must refer to titles of the noble families of a foreign State. By law, or by logient interpretation of the American Constitu- tion, they should be regarded in the same extegory as foreign titles which may be accepted by the pertaission of the Parlin- wont."-.-C. Daily News.

THE RICE HARVEST IN COCHIN- CHINA.

The Governor of Cochin China has issued a circular to the chief officials of the provinces. The rice season of 1911-12, it states, has bad a very meagre output, and in certain regions there will be dis- tress. It is assumed that the stock avail- able for export will not exceed 500,000 tons for the whole of Cochin-China. A return of the crises experienced the year before is not to be dreaded this year. In 1911 the harvest was deficient in the whole of the Far East-from India to Japan. Paddy suddenly reached un- heard of Agures and cultivators emptied their granaries without thinking of keep- ing any reserve for their own needs. If A report on the causes of acroplane the harvest has not been good in Cochin- accidente bas just been presented to the China this year it has been excellent in French Ecole superieure veronautique Burma, where one catinate places the by Major Renard. Be classifies the crop at two and a half million tons. fatalitica as follows: 25 per cent. due to Without having been so satisfactory in the want of natural aptitude on the part other countries it has, however, been of the aviators; 13 per cent. due to the better that in 1911. It may be presumed, insufficient training of the aviators; therefore, that the exports of the Saigon per cent, due to the desire of aviators market will be much less important this to show off;" 6 per cent, due to rashness year. But it is necessary that the Ad- and want of foresight on the part of ministration has at its disposal in each aviatore; 13 per cent. due to imperfec- tions in the designs of the apparatus; 20 per cent. due to favs or weaknesses in the machinery; 10, or possibly 12, per cent. due to atmospheric currents and similar disturbances.

The latest addition to the wonders of the world is to be called the Woolworth Building, and is situated in the Broad 7501t, and it is to consist of ifty-five way. Its height is eventually to be some

stories.

province sufficient funds to be prepared. to acquire the necessary provision for the population therein.

necessary the public works in the various districts must be postponed in order that reserves of money may be created. The officials are also asked to send in a programme of works to be scarcity. carried out by the people in case of

The officials are movement of paddy prices in the foreign directed to follow very attentively the markets as well as the exports towards Saigon.

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