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·BRITISH IMPERIAL WIRELESS.

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LONDON, October 9th.

Postmaster-General, will move in tho House of Commons on Friday for the appointment of a Select Committee to investigate the circumstances of the con- cinsion of the Marconi Agreement for the provision of a chain of wireless telegraph stations and the desirability of ratifying the Baine.

OBITUARY.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10TH, 1917.

THE MURDER OF A SEPOY.

At the Magistracy yesterday Safaraz Khan, a private in the 128th Begiment of Baluchis, was charged before Mr. C. D. Melbourne with the murder of Maya Und Khan, a sepoy in the same regiment, on the 28th September."

Prisoner pleaded guilty,

SHIPPING NOTES,

A fire took place on board the N.Y.K. Tutomimara, 3,412 tons, at Kobo, last week, a large part of the cargo of which was burned.

ORITICISMS BY OWNERS.

Trasatlantics between Barcelona, Cadiz, THE NEW RULES FOR SHIPPING. and Central and South America. Messrs. Swan, Hunter, & Wigham Richardson

Now that shipowners are beginning to were among the brat to advocate the combination of reciprocating and turbino study the new Board of Trade rules. engines in order to effect savings in fuel respecting the safety-of-life at sea, it is consumption in vessels of considerable becoming clear, says the Times, that On receipt of the news in London of size and speed, and it is understood that certain of the proposed changes will be the total loss of the Dacre Cantle, the their experiments have inclined them to subject to very close oriticism. Many of to be mainly interested through reinsur rather than three screws, such ation of the type of lifeboats to be used, are distinctly technical, but they are of anees from Japanese offices, though it is already fitted in certain vessels.

immense importance to the companies. four-serow arrangement was proposed by now definitely known that there are direct interests on copper, which soon them to the Compagnia Génesale Trans- run into large sums. It is hoped, how-atlantique of Paris, and adopted by that ever, that there may be some satisfactory Company with successful results in their Atlantic steamer Rochambeau. The salvage of the metal. *

Reina Victoria-Eugeniu is 500ft. long,

the

The

At the outset it is as well to remember

Mr. P. M. Hodgson, Assistant Crown The Right Honourable Herbert Samuel, Solicitor, who conducted the prosecution. Times said; So far the market appears favour an arrangement of four screws the points involved, such as the descrip-1

informed his Worship that part of the regiment was quartered in camp at Sha Kong Mui in the New Territory on About 10.40 p.m. on September 28th. that date the deceased, who was then lying on his charpoy, was shot by the defendant. The first witness would tell the Court that he was-wakened by the shot which caused Maya Dad Khan's The special telegram published recently and has a speed of 17 knots. The hoilers, which are single-ended and saven death and saw, the defendant standing in the Daily Press respecting with his rifle in his hand and with the foundering of the Japanese Volunteer in number, are fitted with forced draught Howden's system. With this hayonet fixed. Defendant ran away and turbine steamer Umegan-maru mention-on witness went after him. He caught hired that she was insured for one million machinery very economical results in upad made a dash at his feet. At the yen, at Lloyds. It now transpires that cont consumption are anticipated, and it same time the defendant tried to shoot 28,000 yen was held by the Nippon Kaijis expected that there will be a minimum

of vibration. him. At all events a shot was fired, the and the remainder by Lloyds bullet passing by the head of Subadar Nanyetsu-maru, which sank oft Fermosa, Zarin Khan. The Subadar, alter fall was insured for 120,000 yen with the ing, grazed his head against the bayonet Nippon Kaijo; and the Koan-maru, of defondant's rifle." The second wit which ran ashore off the Pescadores and ness, Jemadar Mahomed Aslam Khan, can be salved, for 130,000 yen, also by would corroborate the evidence of the the Nippon Kaijo. first witness. He sized the defendant by the head and held him, and another man assisted him to arrest the sepoy, who was then deprived of his rille. As he

LONDON, October 8th. The death is announced of Mr. Bostock, the well-known showman. Death followed an attack of influenza.

HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB.

THE SUBSCRIPTION QUESTION.

The

The "Umegaka-maru was owned by the Imperial Marine Association and was chartered by the Railway Board. It

CANADA'S FAR EASTERN TRADE.

that many owners are by no means in sympathy with the decision to have life- boat accommodation for all. Their attitude towards this question is little short of cynical; for while they reason that it may never be possible again to launch all the boats from a sinking ship, they admit the strength of the public demand for beats for all, and have thought it desirable to accede to it.

At the conferences held at the Board of Trade after the loss of the Titanic, ship- owners enunciated two principles. The first was that the primary consideration must be the stability and seaworthy qualities of the vessel. In the language of the report of the Advisory Committee, **every provision made against possible disaster is to be subordinated to this primary consideration." The second principle was that in time of disaster the first line of defence should be boats attached to davits, and the second line of defence, collapsible or other hosts of approved description,

was being secured, defendant remarked has not yet been settled whether either practically no trade between Canada and lem of finding room for all the boata

An extraordinary general meeting of members of the Hongkong Cricket Club was held in the pavilion last evening, Mr. Frank Maitland presiding.

The CHAIRMAN explained that the ob ject of the meeting was to make certain to the first witness, "You are very lucky. amendments in the rules of the Club with I fired two-shots at you and you have regard to the subscriptions payable by escaped. Go and look at Maya Dad, members. Ho stated that it was pro-whom I have killed." Defendant, be posed to increase the subscription to en fore he was secured, fired three shots in able them to redeem the debentures "apon all. Whom the third shot was meant for the pavilion. They were under contract he (Mr. Hodgson) did not know. As to to pay off $1,600 a year, but for the past the words spoken by the defendant, two three years they had paid corroborative evidence would be given nothing, and the Club had actually lost by other witnesses. Defendant had, he money. If the proposed alterations were believed, pleaded guilty in that Court, agreed to, non playing members, includ- but he would have to put the evidence ing croquet players, would pay a sub-before his Worship. scription of $10 and no entrance fee; while civilian playing members would pay an entrance fee of 20 and $3 per

or

His Worship-I must take the plea. Be pleads guilty.

Mr. Hodgson said he would submit the

of these parties or the underwriters shall undertake the salvage_The_contract between the owners and the charterers contains a clause to the effect that the loss of the steamer shall fall on the former unless due to gross error or negligence on the part of the Hailway Beard or the crew. As soon the origin of the nocident has been deter mined tile Railway Board's liability will he decided, and after that the liability of the underwriters.

A deputy from the Board of Finance was expected to arrive in Shanghai last Saturday in connection with the pro-

In an interview published in the Canadian Mail, Sir William Whyte, who was until a year ago Vice-President

THE STOWAGE OF BOATS, of the Canadian Pacific Railway, is re- ported as saying: "Before we built that collapsible bouts are not to count in The present decision of Mr. Buxton bouts for the Pacific service there was

future very meiously increases the prob- the Far East. We believed that much a trade could be developed. We began by necessary on passenger liners, but it chartering three vessels, the Abyssinia, cunferences that owners should at least seems to have been understood at the the Batavia, and another, the name of have freedom to arrange for the stowage which has escaped me. These sailed from The new rules provide that the davits to Fort Moody in 1886 laden with cargoes which the lifeboats are to be attached of cedar shingles and with bones of dead must be placed. "amidships." They Chinamon taken bome to be buried. This stipulate that in the caso of screw was the beginning of Canada's trade with steamer having more than one propeller, the Far East, on the strength of which an davits shall be fitted on the quarters Vancouver, which had no existence in but in the case of a single screw the 1886, has been built up as a Pacific port; Board of Trade may exercise a discretion and has become one of the great cities of as to allowing davits to be fixed there. Canada."

In many of the best linera of to-day boats Talking of the old days of the C.P.R., are stowed ready for launching at the Sir William remarked that the share stern, and it is feared that there may be bolders of the Company owed a deep grave difficulty in finding room for all debt of gratitude to the executive. boats amidships. No doubt the Board Everything bad gone to them in lands, of Trade, in framing the rule, anticipat lovators, steamships, town sites. The ed the danger of launching boats on to

month for eight months from September evidence, and his Worship would have posed Government subsidy for the China stocks had been kept high thereby. "The the screws of the vessel, a possibility to

no option but to commit defendant to the Merchants S. N. Co. It may be remem- company encouraged coprit decorpus--which some authorities attach little im-1

1st each year; Present Royal Navy meta- bers and Army members would pay $15 entrance fee, and $3 per month for eight months from September 1st; or, at their option, without entrance for, 80 per month, with Be proviso that should a

Criminal Sessions, where he would course be defended.

Evidence was then called.

of

INTIMATIONS

3 CHILDREN HAD

ECZEMA ON FACES

Began in Red Places, Spread Rapidly. BrokeandMade RawSores, Speed- ity Cured by Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Have Had No Return.

"My three children had an outbreak of notes on their faces. It began with the eldest, thirteen years old. After using a sample thi of Cuileura Obatanent for him, by gently apply. Ingevory_night and morning and Lathing warm water, I found the scabby soms began to dry up and fall away, and before, I had finkhod to sample he was complotely cured.

Then I found my other two children, Arthur, twelve years old, and sybil, nivo, haď #breaking out on their faces. It began with 'red place and then in a few days it broke ons a lot of litle mattery places about as large as pla bends which burst out 'into raw notes, A neighbour told me it was cozema that the children haf. It begas to spread rapidly. I tried several ointments but they only acemed, to make it wome. As their cases memed moro obstinate I got a tablet of Cutleum Rozp as well as a tin of Cuticura Ointment and at the end of threo weska all their faces were per- fostly clear and smooth, and they have had no return of the complaint since.

"Just after that, Sybil feil and broke thei akin of her knoe by falling on some rough. gritty stones. I think she would have had o very bad knee but I persevered with Cutinata Soap and Cuticura Ointment which drew ali the discharge and dirt out. I have recom mended Cuticlan Soap and Ointment-la ser- eral of my friends and shall always keep them by me, for they completely cured my threo children of eczema." (Signed) Mrs. R. Ed- wards, 2. Woodview Cottage, Heywood, West- bury, Wilia., Eng., Aug. 11, 1911.

Cuticura Beap and. Ointtient are sold throughout the world. A liberal sample of each, with 32-p. buok post-free from nearest depot: Patter Drug & Chem Corp., sole props, Boston, USA; Nowbery Bons, 27, Char- terhouse Bq. London. R. Tow:19 & Ca., Byd-. ney, N. 6. W.; Lennai, Ltd, Cape Town: Muller, Mccles & Co., Calcutie and Bombay -

89.12

Chs. J. Gaupp & Co.,

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGA,

CHATER ROAD.

among its servants," added Sir Wil portance. bered that several weeks ago the

"When 1 lium.

was superintendent, Then the new rules provide that if the announcement was first made of I know nearly every man serving under eboats attached to davits are not suffi prospective subsidy; and the arrival of me. We have had only one serious labour cient to accommodate all the persons for *the remaining lifeboats. shall be stowed, After the examination of the first wit-a representative of the Government, to trouble with our men, and that was in whom the lifeboats have to be provided, meidbar desire, after joining, to pay an questions to put, and he replied "I did given, has been anxiously awaited. William referred to the coal strike in side or beneath the lifeboats attached to Siways have on hand a very large co

ness defendant was asked if he had any investigate on what lines it should be 100% when a few men at the head of the

50 far as practicable, immediately along- the davits If this is not practicable the remaining lifeboats are to be stowed abreast of the davits. This appears to

entranco-fee, he might do so and be grant

not fire at him."!

ed a reliate of 83 per month for any

Recently it transpired that the Board of months for which he might have paid $8.ovidence, again remanded the prisoner.

His Worship, after hearing furtherance was to appoint two deputies, the Non-resident Royal Navy members and.

first of whom was expected on Saturday delivered by trades unions when leadere rule out the present arrangement where

Army members would pay 26 per month,

tut not more than 324 in any one play THE FUTURE OF NIGERIA. ing season. He proposed the adoption of

the alteration suggested.

Mr. H. A. NIBBET scconded. Mr. J. W. LEE JONES moved as

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DEPARTURE OF SIR FREDERICK LUGARD.

The Times, of the 18th ult., says To-day, Sir Frederick Lugard leaves

The N.-C. Dasty Nous quotes" with due caution" a report that the Government proposals will be extremely advantage- ous to shareholders, and it is said that the subsidy is to take the form of a contribution sufficient. bring the

to

trades union caused a strike." Hore Sir England, and spoke of the serious blow to national prosperity that could be were unscrupulous. Governments became paralysed through fear of losing the labour vote, thus trades unions wielded a very great power.

by a number of boats are stowed across

stock of

SCIENTIFIC AND

the deck, a plan which is considered to have the great advantage of enabling the SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS boats to be launched from cither side of the vessel. It is anticipated that such This talk of the labour question brought points as these, which are likely to give up that of Oriental labour in British rise to dificulty, will be laid before the Columbia. Sir William was of the Board of Trade, and will form the sub

ASIATICS NEEDED,

F

SOLID OIL.

FUEL FOR STEAMERS.

amendment that the subscriptions remain this country for West Africa bearing two annual dividend up to ten per cent. opinion that the Provincial Government ject of further discussion. as at present. "He was the oldest playing commissions, those of Governor of should the profits not be large enough. member of the Club, and it seemed to him something to be marvelled at if a Club Northern and Governor of Southern At present there is no mention of any with an annual income of about $6,000 Nigeria. It is understood that he will bounty being given directly for the could not pay its way.

He thought it devote the next six months to an examina- extension of the company's business was up to the committee to go into the tion of the situation in the Protectorates, question of ways and means. By con-with special reference to financial re-

The P.&O. Company have placed

was mistaken in trying to keep out Asiatics. The cost of white labour was impossible to get domestic servants. far too expensive there, and it was almost Oriental labour therefore became necessity. For his part he would, as a concession to public opinion, confine

&

Mr. J. Tarlotton Armstrong, at the

Transits, Levels, Piano Tables, Prismatic and Sight Compasses, Hand Levels, &c., &c.)

alco

D LAWING

AND MATERIAL

· INSTRUMENTS

tinually increasing the subscriptions they quirements. In the course of his tour orders for four new steamers, two with Oriental immigration to those who were oil conference at Olympia, London, lagu (T Squares, Bet Squares, Straight Edge, might keep out some young members, and Sir Frederick may find means of elaborat Messrs. Cammell, Laird & Company, and engaged in agriculture, horticulture, month read a paper on the "advantages

they had to remember that the Club was ing a scheme for the amalgamation under two with Nesers. Caird & Company, one Government of the two Nigerian each of 8,000 tons register. These ships

not now the only one in the Colony.

domestic service and laundry work; and on these immigrants there should be no restrictions, because they were absolutely

of solid oil-fuel over liquid oil-fuel," which is especially interesting in view of the recent appointment of & Royal of using oil fuel in the Navy.

Mr.Armstrong summed up the advan- tages of solid sil-fuel as follows:-

It is equal to if not more valuable than liquid fuel oil as a heat producer.

Sales, Inks, &a, &a.)

Mr. A. O, BRAUN seconded the amend-what will be the greatest African depen- are designed chiefly for the Indian trade necessary for the development of the Commission to inquire into the question+ AGENTS FOR....

was declared lost.

The consolidation of the Nigerias into

nient, which on being put to the meeting doncy of the Crown, with, as it may be and, while they will possess a large huped, Sir Frederick Lugard aamount of cargo space, they will have Governor-General, would represent our accommodation for about 150 passengers An amendment that croquest players be most considerable administrative work in in the first and second saloons. considered playing members was lost; the tropics, India excepted.

as was a second that tennis players who. A noteworthy change has characterized

***

Steamers finished, laid down, or pro Colonial Office towards West Africa.jected by the P. & O. Company since the

did not play cricket should pay 82 of recent years the attitude of the instead of 23 per month.

a place in the interport team.

tal and over-valuation of the assets.

Province.

THE GAMBLING CRUSADE AT SHANGHAI.

HODDS BELEASED..

was

It occupies very little more spaco than fiquid oil, and is much cheaper to carry than coal.

It can be stored anywhere, and is not affected by moisture.

No necessity for tank steamera of special unstriction, or tanks, pipe lines, or rail- way tanks. It can be handled practically in the same manner as coal.

Not nearly so detrimental to the boilers as liquid oil is.

Any installation as now constructed, with very minor alterations, can be used for the It produces no slag, and only a negligible quantity of ash. burning of solid-oil fuel.

It does not run when lighted, and retains its term like coal.

An echo of the recent gambling crusade, The original motion was then put to This change first made itself appar beginning of 1011 includa, in addition to which William Hodds was arrested the meeting and carried.

during Mr. Chamberlain's tenure these vessels, the Medina, Maloja (each with Arthur Harper at the Belmont Club The Chairman said he hoped cricketers office. It was due to the promptit were practising hard for the forth-coming and resourcefulness displayed byr of nearly 13,000 tons), Nankin, Novara, in the North Honan Road in August, as 93,000 and deported and Hodds fined interport contest, and that a good team Chamberlain, Sir Frederick Lugard, and Nagoya, Nellora (each of nearly 7,000 a result of which Harper was fined would take the field to uphold the honour Sir George Goldie that a hundred years tone), and Kaiser Hind (11,100 tons), be- $500 and ordered to be deported, was of the Colony. He hoped other local of British enterprise in Nigeria were not sides five vessels cach of 11,100 tons for heard last week, when Hodds clubs would send men to practise, so that irremediably compromised. The settle-

Judge H.B.M.'R His Lordship some of their representatives might get cut of the difficulties with France gave the branch line to Australia by way of brought before Mr. F. S. A. Bourne,

the Cape. It may be assumed that by M., Assistant

Supreme Court, and an impetus to the policy of railway con struction initiated by Mr. Chamberlain, the spring of 1914 there will have been said-William Hodds, 1 sentenced you to which Mr. Churchill materially con added to the company's active fleet in on the 29th August to a fine of 8000

Is consumed without any explosion pre- THE BANK OF BURMA FAILURE.

tributed by sanctioning the proposals of the four preceding years 16 vessels repre- and to be deported for your connection

with the gambling charge on which you duces no sparks, and has a long, bright Sir Percy Girouard. Thus events paved.

Subsequently it was dame. THE DIRECTORS TO BE PROSECUTED.

were convicter. the way for a fuller realization of Im-senting tipwards of 150,000 tons..

found by H.M.'s. Consul General and

Last year the greatest quantity of Mr. Justice Robinson at Bangoon has perial responsibilities in the administra

The Times of the 16th ult. says: the Crown Advocate that previously to liquid old fuel imported into Great! ordored the prosecution of the directoration of West Africa. At the request of of the Bank of Burma, on charges, inter Bit Percy Girouard, Lord Crewe appoint Our reports again record exceptional you having been found guilty and con- Britain came from the United States, victed of the offence with which you were Russia being second, and Roumania alia, of payment of dividend out of capi ed a Committee to examine the question strength in the freight saarkets owing to charged you had been a law-abiding third, and not one of these countries is Had this been a British possession. Mr. Armstrong of Northern Nigerian land tenure with a view to legislation. The initiative thus the very keon demand to charter boats citizen for some years. taken has been followed by Mr. Harcourt, chiefly for the homeward trades. There known at the time of the trial, the Court urged the Government to look to the severe solid oil fuel made from the shale in the THREE VC HEROES IN ONE

who has nominated a Committee which is a general scarcity of steamers, and in would not have passed such a FAMILY:

has been entrusted with the task of cover-

ascertained the Court thought it its duty Australia, and perhaps Canedo and General Sir Charles Gough, V.C, ing the whole field of West African land the principal markets the recent high sentence as it did. On these facts being Transvaal, New Zealand, Trinidad, and G.C.B., whose death is announced at his tenure This problem beyond all others rates have been exceeded. The figures to lay the facts before His Majesty's Newfoundland, where there was practi residence, Innisionagh, Clonmel, was in must govern the nature of our relations for cotton from Galveston to Liverpool Minister and a telegram was received cally an unlimited supply,

sentence to a fine of 8500 and your own he said; we are approaching the era leis eighty-first year, and was one of a with the 20 million West Africans under show a marked advance. Compared with from him this morning mitigating the "Ap enormous change is impending

a week ago there is a rise of 48 in the recognisance for the sum of $1,000 for of oil power, and we can tell you that family of Victoria Cross heroes: He won British protection.

rates for lumber and grain from New one year. On this being given, you will the British Government is not behind in the distinction himself in the Indian

But you are warned that what it is doing in the fuel question, and Mutiny, being recommended for it for

York, while advances of 25. are being be released.

own personal knowledge bas} four separate deeds of gallantry, in one

paid for chartering grain from the Black should you come before the Court again from our

on a charge of being connected with any something up its sleave, and it may be of which he saved his brother, and in

Sea district.

gaming house you will be severely dealt hoped that Great Britain will be where another rescued Brevet-Major St. George

with. It is by a special act of grace she should be in front. Auson His brother, the late Sir Hugh Gough, won it as a member of Hodson's Sir Hormusjee Nowrojce Mody, of

The first steamship to be built in Great that the sentence has been mitigated and the Court hopea that now that you have Horse, in a gallant charge which he led Victoria, Hongkong, merchant, of the against the rebels at Lucknow. His son, firm of Messrs Chater & Mody, the Britain having four propellers and a been warned, that you will lead a more Colonel John Gough, won it nine years donor of the buildings of the Hongkong combination of reciproesting and turbine careful life in the future and be a useful TELEGRAPH RATES TO THE EAST The managing director of the Eastern ago in Somaliland. under curious cir University, who died on June 18, 1911,

you sign the bond you will be released. He was in command of a left personal estate valued at £7,840. The machinery is now in course of construc member of the community. As soon as column, and assisted two of his officers to value of his property in Hongkong istion at the Neptune Shipyard, Walker-The prisoner said he would remember Telegraph Company announced bring a mortally wounded comrade stated for probate at £169,365. He on-Tyne, of Swan, Hunter, & Wigham chat His Lordship said. He was then month that on October 1st the rates The officers were awarded the VC, directed his trustees to carry out the Richardson (Limited). The vessel is to taken by acting chief gaoler Elvins to between Great Britain and Indis and the office of Mr. W. Strickland, chief Burma will be reduced from ad. to 4d., but hade no mention of his own con-

obligation, entered into by him during his duct, which was only afterwards brought for the erection of a university he named the Reina Victoria-Eugenia, clerk, where he signed the necessary between Great Britain and Ceylon from to notice, He was then awarded the building and a seamen's home at Hong and is intended for the passenger and hond in the presence of Mr. G. W. King, old to did, and between Great Britain

Compania H.B.M.'s Registrar, and kong--The Times.

released from custody.

cumstances.

Cross.

THE LATE SIR HORMUSJEE MODY'S WILL.

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