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for three hours near the Kowloon wharves, to carry into effect the proposal made by Sir and that in the same week there was a FARDERICK Lugard, the Secretary of State the journey to Tokyo wid Vladivostock, great stirring up of mud by the P. and O. for the Colonies has intimated to H.E. THE whence he intends to go on atesmer Devanha as she left her usual Govenkon that, as a temporary measure, theH.G.MS. Scharnhorst to Japan, moorings, showing that her propellors Bill must be passed practically in the form
For failing to register the birth of a. were churning the mud in the central in which it was first introduced. This was child a Chinese was yesterday fined by
The Government's reply to done by the weight of the official majority;
Mr. Melbourne. Amusement was caused the Hou. Mr. MURRAT STEWART's the two unofficial legal members abstaining question, which was apparently based on from voting, and the four other unofficial when the defendant said that his wife did these two facts, leaves these circumstances members registering their votes against not tell him to do it. unarplained. It evades the point to say the Bill. Their action in this matter we that in 1986 the conclusion was reached take to be not merely an expression of that no material silting had occurred during opinion that the arrangement will prove the preceding period of 60 yeaIE, The unworkable, but a protest against the set WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS real point would appear to be, nettlement of the matter before the Conncil whether there has been any silting, has been given an opportunity of con but whether this harbour in the sidering the proposal. We asked some- parts indicated provides a sufficient depth time ago whether the arrangement was of water for the modern liner. The Reports a reciprocal one-that is to say, will the of the Harbour Master show that the aver- Chief Justice, be required to go to Shanghai age topoago of occan vessels entering the to sit with the local Judge in the trial of port is yearly increasing. During the past appeal cases in the same way that the Judge twenty years the average tonuage of ocean of the Shanghai Court is to come here vessels has increased from 1,181.1 tons to four times a year if necessary, we believe GUARANTEED 1,915,5 tona." This extract in from the
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Colony this year-due, perhaps, to the fact that the proportion of robberies from Europeans has been larger than in previous years; but
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As there is no French mai! steamier leaving Boxt week, the Hongkong Weekly Press published to-day instead of Monday, for transmission to Europe via Canada,
A shopkeeper in Des Voeux Road who left his riesta on the public street un- attended at night discovered next morn- ing that it had been stolen. He expects the police to find it for him.
F. Reichmann of the Grand Hotel obtained judgment
the Supreme at Court resterday against a man named tickats for $120.55, money due for board and lodging and chits.
A ricsha coslie, whose careless driving resulted in a girl being knocked down on the Praya. Fest and receiving injuries. was fined $5 or ten days' imprisonment
and ordered to pay $1 compensation.
The case in which Mrs. Ogilvie sued Major Walton for $32.67 was mentioned before Mr. Justice Gompertz in the Summary Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court yesterday. The hearing was fixed
for Tuesday.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
THE SITUATION IN CHINA.
BE. MORTISON PROTESTS AGAINST HYSTERICAL FORECASTS OF DISRUPTION.
(THROUGH BEVTER'S AGENCY.)
AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL
· CAMPAIGN.
LONDON, August 23rd.
A Washington message states that the LONDON, August 23rd. indications point to a hot political cam- The Times publishes a lengthy letter paign owing to the allegations made in from Dr. Morrison, who is now in the Senate by Senator Penrose of London, protesting against the alarming Pennsylvania that the trusts had contri- reports which come from China and the bated large sums to Mr. Roosevelt's hysterical forecasts of disruption appear- campaign in 1901. Mr.. Roosevelt pub ing in the English Fress. Dr. Morrison lishes letters showing that he had for. states that when he left China the con-bidden the acceptance of much contribu- ditions everywhere were improving, and tions.
be dwells upon the cordial relations of! President Yunn Shih-kai with General Li Yuan-hung and Dr. Sun Yat-sen, as well as upon the high character of the present members of the Government and
upon the administrative reforms which have been introduced.
EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA,
NEW YORK GAMBLING SCANDALS.
LONDON, August 2ard. A message from New York is to the effret that $6,000 reward has been anonymously placed at the disposal of the district attorney for the, arrest of Lefty Louis" and "Gyp-the-Blood," wanted to complete the round up f LONDON, August 3rd.
· persons suspected of complicity in the The Hon. W. L. Builleau, Minister of murder of Rosenthal, The police are Public Works and Health, Victoria, in not eligible for the reward. The district a communication to Reater's Agency re-attorney is receiving written threats of garding the growth of emigration to death. Australia, points out that in nine years the number of immigrants-nearly all from Great Britain has risen from 500
Three Americans named J. Allison,, W. Timmermann and E. Stanley have to 100,000 annually. Unfortunately Aus- been arrested on warrants in Shanghai tralia was handicapped by lack of ship. in connection
with certain highway ping accommodation. Official returus, robberies in Shanghai lately by three men published yesterday, show that 154,344 wearing maske.
emigrants left Britain in the first soven months of 1912. Canada is decreasing, while that Australia is increasing.
At the Supreme Court yesterday be fore Mr. Justice Compertz the claim by a chair coolie against J. L. Crackets for $10.50 was heard. Mr. Harris appeared for the defendant. It was stated that. had declined to go to the Teak Tram' the complainant with the other coolics Station when ordered. Judgment, was entered for the defendant,
John Charles Polluck, alias Percy J.
THE SITUATION IN ULSTER.
A LIBERAL SUGGESTION.
LONDON, August 23rd. The Westminster Gazette in discussing the question of a separate assembly for Ulster says the Liberals would willingly listen to any reasonable argubents on The emigration to that subject. What the Imperial Govern
to ment cannes contemplate is defiance like the Ulster covenant, which would put an end to orderly government. It believes that the Ulster Parliament would not leg long for the same reasons which brought Natal within the union of South Africa.
ALLEGED SPY DISCHARGED.
GERMANY AND THE OLYMPIC GAMES.
LONDON, August 23rd. The Daily Mail states that the Berlin Government will probably make a grant o£ 5,000 (7 marks) annually from now to 1918 to ensure worthy representation by Berlin at the Olympic Games.
THE LATE GENERAL" BOOTH..
LONDON, August Med. The Belgian named Quetalet, arrested at Galway on suspicion of espicamge, has been discharged, there being no evidenco
gainst him.
THE IMPERIAL TRADE COMMISSION,
We come now to the last question with which we propose to deal to-day, namely, the vote of $23,000, in settlement of a claim by the contractor for the building of the Post Office. As we reported three weeks ago, this money had been paid before the Coun. eil had had an opportunity of voting on the question, and we are not surprised that the Hon. Mr. MURRAY STEWART should have asked of what use is the Finance. Committee if accounts are to be brought before it only after they have beco paid. The reply of the COLONIAL SECRETARY was that accounts as a rule are submitted before they are paid, but in this particular case the contractor demanded immediate payment as a condition of his acceptance of a reduced suu. This auswer is much too naive to be regarded as satis factory in view of all the public discussion which has taken place regarding the excea- sive cost of this building. In the circum- stances, it was to be expected that some Brown, an accountant from Shanghai, inquiry would be made concerning the report who was arrested yesterday morning by of the Committee which Sir FASDELICS, Wills on the arrival of the 5.5. Learn appointed to inquire into the con- Kaifeng from Manila, was brought up at sous for the excessive cost of this building, the Magistracy later in the day and re- see the comparative return of cases of day as well as of the Law Courts, and the manded on a charge of criminal asmult [light robbery from houses for the same causes of the delay in their completion. upon a girl under 16 years of age at period. In the reply to the Hon. Mr. The Chairman of the Fiuauce Committes Shanghai. Pollack is a native of Aug- MURRAY STEWART's question, we assume (the Hon. COLONIAL SECRETARY) was tralia. the distinction between house robberies by evidently embarrassed by the question. It, day, and by night is carefully drawn we appears that the report has been presented got the number of burglaries, properly so and is being withheld from the public. called; but the answer is ailout regarding Rumours to this effect have been current the number of cases of robberies from recently and inferences dmwn which we houses during the day. The small success hope are unfounded. Surely the few reve- nchiered by the polica in capturing these lations made in the discussion on the vote criminals and in recovering the stolen pro- call for publication of the report. It trans- party is deplorable. It is not a big jump pired in the discussion that the contractor from this question to the one relating to had made a claim, among other things, for
of the Salvation Army will be maintain- the overcrowding of the goal, to which we
interest on belated payments, amounting to Mr Melbourn at the Magistracy ed. He believed there was still an recently drew attention in this column. $100,000, extending over a period of 27 yesterday sentenced a man and a woman
immense amount of work to be done in In mply to a question asked by the mouths, these payments not having been to twelve months' imprisonment each for Hon. Mr. OSBORNE, the Government made because the work done by the con- having kidnapped a girl from Kowloon, the lowest strata of Buciety and also in admitted that "last month the Superie tractor had not been measured! Why had The police have not been able to recover the service of foreign and colonial gov. Balkans. tandent reported that the gaol was vory it not been measured if
A sad feature of the case in ernments. The Army must do something Is the Public the girl. On 20th inst., on board the s.8. Arcadia, overcrowded," and it would appear from Works Department understaffed ? Here that they know where the girl is, but her for Cluins. "I think," he said, "we will LEONARD CHARLES CHILD, aged 33. South the oficial statement that within a month we have it that, on one building alone, the custodians demand a ransom of $150, to make that one of our next steps." He African papers please copy.
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or six weeks no fewer than 409 prisoners Government is paying away a sum of money raise which the mother said she would
expressed thanks for the world-wide HONGKONG OFFION: 104, Des Vœux Road Cave been released without having served equal to the salarios of three executive have to sell her other two children. LONDON OFFIOS: 131, FLEET STREET, E.0. the full term of the sentence imposed upon engineers, because there has been neglect to
messages of condolence received, and con- thom! Wecould have wished the Hau. Mr. | measure, the work done by the contractor.
A tram conductor has reported to the eluded in these words. My message it OSBORNE's question had been supplemented What happened, we suppose, was that police that he was assaulted by a passen that the spirit of the old 'General' will by another, as “How many of these released when the contractor applied for payment ger on Thursday to whom he had occa- prisoners have since been returned to gaol, for a certain completed section of work, he
sion to speak because he would not take still go marching with the Army. Te my coavisted of new crimes ?" It would be
his proper place. The man alighted from soldiers I say 'Let us honour Christ and was paid about fifty per cent. of the amount the car at Tai Yuen Street, and when the live to have Him."" THERE were several matters of public instructive to know to what extent this due to him, and this uppears to have gone ear returned the man with several others
wliose on for twenty-seven months. interest dealt with at Thursday's meeting wholesale release of criminals, of the Legislative Council on which we forms have not expired, has been reponsible uabusinesslike state of affairs which stands
for what appears to be the abnormal preva self-condemned, and should like to offer a few comments,
lence of larceny and kindred crimes in the Report of the Committee makes recom presume the especially official statementa
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LONDON, August 23rd. Reuter's correspondent at Brisbane wires that, on the motion of the Pro- sident, the Assembly passed a resolution of sympathy on the death of "General" Booth by standing up.
A SALVATION ARMY CAMPAIGN IN CHINA
A Bhanghal Committee has decided that the proposed memorial to the Inte Sir Ecbert Hart shall take the form of a bronze statue, erected on & design furnished by the English sculptor, Mr. Henry Pegram, A‚R.A. The exact site has not yet been decided upon, but it is highly probable that it will be some- where in the immediate vicinity of the there is no doubt that the military syster
Customs House.
boarded the car, assaulted and best the
CONTEMPLATED.
The Daily Chronicle publishes an in- terview with Bramwell Booth, who says
Instructions have been given for the
conductor, and then made off. The con- body of "General" Bouth to be removed ductor bad to be removed to the hospital to Clapton for the lying-in-state to- to have a wound over his eye stitched. morrow and Saturday. A movement is like to know what the Government propose Department. A year or two ago the
on foot to have the deceased “General” in these columns. We take first the
Twelve men appeared before Mr. Irving buried at Westminster Abbey. to do in the matter. It is absurd Government's answer to the question to be sentencing prisoners to a month's trenchments throughout the departments. gated together for an unlawful purpose. Government made much ado about re- yesterday charged with having congre- asked by the Hon. Mr. MURRAY STEW ALT with regard to the silting up of the imprisonment if they are to be released in harbour at cortain points. Mr. STEWART tion must be provided, or graster use must
Those appeared to counist mainly of petty From information received the police a fortnight. Either more gaol accommoda.
dotaile, but here we have as itlustration of raided the house at 112, Queen's Road a pure waste of public money on a large West on the 6th August und found Conncil whether any stops have been taken
| possess to inflict corporal punishment, which | to ascertain the truth of the matter, and if has a far more deterrent effect on the so with what result. The answer to that Chinese criminal than imprisonment. Some somebody's part, or the Public Works cals found on the premises were pro ed, were stopped near question was, in part, as follows:
The
TROUBLED MOROCCO.
LONDON, August 23rd. Europeans trom Marrakesh,
LONDON, August 23rd. Mr. Arnold Morley has confirmed the report that the Commission has com pleted its preliminary arrangements, and when it re-assembles in the Unitesi Kingdom in October it will take eri- dance.
THE STATE OF THE BALKANH.
LONDON, August, 23rd. France has accepted Count Berchtold's proposal for an exchange of views he- tween the Powers as to the state of the
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from Berana.
A Constantinople telegrain states that the departure for Europe of Ferdinand, Tsar of Bulgaria, and M. Gueshoff, Presi- dent of Council and Foreign Minister, and also the departure of the Austrian
Ambassador on a holiday is regarded as reassuring.
KID M'COY.
LONDON, August 23rd. The Magistrate at Bow Street has exonerated Kid M'Coy, who was arrest- ed on
a warrant charging him with larceny at Ostend, and dismissed the
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TEST CRICKET.
ENGLAND WINS.
asked if the Government would inform the be made of whatever powers the Magistrates scale from one of two causes: either there material which suggested a bomb factory where the Pretender has been proclaim. fallen heavily overnight,
The
question of the silting up of the Harbour formed the subject of an exhaustive enquiry
has been inexcusable neglect of duty on
The case was
A bomb shell was found, and the chemi-
nounced by the Government analyst to further announcement on this subject Department is understaffed. The Com- will be awaited with interest.
munity will eagerly await the publication be highly explosive, in 1904-6. The conclusion arrived at was interest before the Council was the question Inquiry to learn, what, in their opinion, is
Another matter of considerable public of the Report made by the Committee of remanded. that no material silting has occurred during of the reconstitution of the Appeal Court of the correct explanation and what measure, the preceding period of 60 years. The the Colony. We have ou previous occasions are suggested to prevent a similar waste of waterway leading tadhe Kowloon Wharves
pointed out certain very obvious objections to public money in the future.
- had been recently sounded and the Harbour Master is satisfied that there is actually more
the arrangement now to be carried out,
oag of which was mentioned in the die.
The body of a boy in an advanced stage water than is charted. The central fairway cussion on Thursday by the Hon. Mr. of decomposition was found on the fore- is... constantly sounded by the Harbour
Ross. A committee which considered the store at Stanley on Thursday. Department. The soundings agree with the chart." When this subject was last subject, we learn from the ATTORNEY- mentioned in the Daily Press, about a
GENERAL's remark, entirely changed the
Information has been received that Shanghai has withdrawn the quarantine
recent matriculation examination at, the
Saf and com-
pelled to pay heavy ransom,
Reuter's correspondent at Tangier wires that the Pretender El Hiba has entered Marrakesh after fighting Kaid El Glawi, Frank Dealy, the oldest son of the Head-who is remaining loyal to the French, master of Queen's College, has passed the The Pretender's troops besieged the house London University. He has been in the in which the French Consul and the Jesuit College of Stonyhurst for over French police instructors were gathered.
rhetorician, he
In his last year, ad
Was vice-captain of INTERNATIONAL LAWN TENNIS. the School and captain of the football,
LONDON, August 23rd. He is now hockey and erickot teema.
America has withdrawn from the Davis leaving Stonyhurst to join the Rose
laide, in South Australia.
seven year.
on
LONDON, August 23rd. In bright weather, after rain: had, the Test Match was resumed at the Oval Thursday. There was an attendance of 12,000, The wicket was difficult, and England concluded their second innings. for 175. Fry scoring 79 and Douglas 24. Hazlitt had seven wickets for 25 runs, taking the last five for one run. of which Macartney made 30. took four wickets for 19 Woolley five wickets for 20.
England therefore wins this test match by 410 runs to 176, a majority of 234. Had England put in Australia for their second innings immediately after the first venture, there is no reason why they
England secures the triangular cham- pionship.
Aus- tralia's second innings only realised 65, Dean
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month ago. it was stated that the NY.K.Bill, but it now transpires that as the Home restrictions against arrivals from long worthy Agricultural College, near Ade Cup, and, Great Britain thus meets should not have won by an juning. liner Mishima Mart had stuck in the mud Authorities have made all arrangements
kong.
Australia, the holders.
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