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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 17г¤, 1913,
The Japanese squadron, Which has bees in port for about a week, left yesterday. afternoon.
of
ne death has occurred at Glasgow of Mr. Hugh Wylie, who very nearly half a
TIN-MINING ENTERPRISE IN THE NEW TERRITORY.
COMPANY TO BE FLOATED.
We understand that a Company is to
aequire an area of one square mile in the New Territory forming part of a tract of land for which Messrs. Barretto & Co.
ment same time ago. Messrs. Barretto &;
TELEGRAMS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] THE FRANCHISE BILL.
LONDON, January 25th.
The House of Commons was crowded on
strict neutrality in face of a revolution in it. The training of Chinese to foreiga raust have been a task calling for much standards of efficiency and a sense of diplomacy and tast, especially when the responsibility is constantly going on, and its victorious revolutionary forces attempted to fruit is to be seen in the ever-increasing interfore with the working of the machine number of Chinese who are fitted to take crackers during China New Year are he floated locally within a few days to
The regulations for the Bring A. S. WATSON by thrusting censors into the Post Offices, up independent posts, or posts where the published in the Gazette.
or by placing nominees of their own over supervision is practically limited to súditing & CO., LTD.,
the foreign postmasters. It is interesting, the accounts. Every new Post Office that
that it was at one timo arranged should be ment of another Chinese official · in adopted to give a visible mark of this administrative post, where he follows and who only two or three years ago Co. have spent a considerable sum in Bill was proceeded with. neutrality the surcharging of the postage western methods, and the success that this paid a return visit.
prospecting work on the land. Some The Rt. Hon. G. Lyttelton moved an WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. staraps with characters meaning "provi- system bas attained in the case of the Post
aional neutrality "-an expedient for which Office gives every reason to believe that it Church Parade yesterday. Müstering been obtained from every one of them in "person" should be substituted for the forty-shafts have been sunk and tin has entendiment to the effect that the word quantities which leave no
informed, doubt of the remunerative words "male person.” nature of the enterprise, Samples The arguments which followed were on
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in passing, to recall the curious device is opened in the interior means the employ century ago was a resident of Shanghai, secured mining rights from the Govern- Friday when the Committee stage of the
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The Volunteers held a very successful it would be difficult to find a procedent. would be equally successful in other nearly 70 strong at the headquarters, And in this connection it may be remarked departments of administration in China, they proceeded to St. John's Cathedral, that China has been notably successful It is, however, necessary to point out that, under Captain Skrimshire. The Bishop in giving philateliste mementoes of her although the annual deficit appears to be of Victoria (Dr. Lander) was the preach historical events during recent years, for, diminishing, the institution is still noter, and took as his subject, Ideals of not to mention the "China Expeditionary solf-supporting, while recently there have Empire." The Rev. V. H. Copley Moyle Dozen. Battle. Force" stamps, with their rewinder of the been complaints (whether well-founded or intoned the service, and Mr. A. Bryer 813.40 $1.15 madness of the summer of 1000, still used not we are not in a position to say) that the read the Lesson. A verse of the National
1.65 by the British Legation guards, we have British element in the service is being the issue commemorating the accession of placed at a discount that all British the Huan-t'ung Emperor, the provisional subjects have been removed from the neutrality issue, the Imperial stamps with Inspectorate General of a service that owes VIOLET SEAL CAPSULE 29.80 2.50 the superscription "Chinese Republic," and its inception to an Irishman. Reports finally the special issues celebrating the such as this tend to give an unpleasant revolution and the establishment of the impression, and though we do not question
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have been sent to the Straits Settle-familiar lines as to whether the Bill whic ments and elsewhere for analysis and the results have been highly satisfactory.
was adding adding 2 millions, mainly
a few days we understand the precomposed of youths and persons of uncer tests will be issued, and it will doubt-tain residence, would not be improved by less embody some account of these results, the addition of a number of women. The capital of the Company is to be
Mr. Harcourt said he was against any $750,000, of which Messrs. Barretto & Co. form of suffrage to women because it will take two-thirds in fully paid-up shares under certain restructions regard-
would be bad for the State and bad for Twenty-five thou-the women themselves.
(Cheers.) He sand shares of $10 each are to be issued ridiculed Sir Edward Grey's views, to the public.
The mining district is in the valley of consulted, and asked why were there not. especially as the country had never been
women Ambassadors and Foreign Office clerks. (Laughter.)
The French Municipal Council at Shanghai lus just authorize the opening their disposal. ing of a privately conducted hospital for the treatment of opium-pokers. will be established at No. 13, the French Republic. Dificult, however, though the that the incident is fortuitous and arises Bund, a rather large and unique looking Undong, close to Deep Bay, and if tin maintenance of neutrality combined with from special circumstances, it may be building, hitherto used as a hotel for the efficiency must have been, it must have been pointed out that, in an international service, accommodation of Chiness passengers the least hint of favouritism to or neglect of responsible for the starting of this enter the subjects of Buy one country. prise is Mr. Liu Chang-yu, compradors of Messrs. Racine, Ackermann & Co., and his efforts will be watchod with consider. able interest.
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ing the many complications that the revolu. tion and the subsequent period of disorder produced in the mechanical part of the organization-the maintenance of hundreds of miles of courier routes and the transport of mails. We see in the present Report 1.90 how one expelient after another was re sorted to, and fresh routes adopted as soon as the regular ones became unsafe or im- passable. In one case the postmaster is lat 255 in and out of the city by a ladder lowered from the wall; in another, the Post Office is transferred to houseboats; and others show us the Chinese staff burying the stamps underground, the mails carried on motor-launches convoyed by British blue- jackets, couriers replacing railway trains, with many more instances of a similar nature. To the outsider, there is a peculiar A. S. WATSON & CO., interest in the tale of the courier servics, which seems to combine the romance of the LIMITED,
past with the utility of the modern world. With communications in China in their
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The German mail of the 25th December was delivered in London on the 90th inat, H.E. the Governor has been pleased to appoint Dr. Aubrey to be a Member of the Merlicul Board during the absence on leave of Mr. Murray Stewart.
returning to England, and will leave Sir Francis and Lady Piggott are Peking by the next train-de-luze via Siberia, says the China Critic of the 15th inst..
The Rev. W. H. Hewitt will speak at the meeting of the Hongkong Christian Union at St. Paul's College this after noon at 5.30 o'clock. At the close of the meeting the committe for the present year will be elected.
Two more robberies by the confidence trick have been reported to the police. A fishmonger reports having lost 8187 by trick, and a house coolie living in Bon- ham Strand being relieved of $1,000 of his master's money by a trick.
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It is notified in the Government Gazette
present primitive stato, this is necessarily very important part of the postal service, and there are, it appears, well over 100.000 miles of courier line, over which letters are carried at a rate of sometimes nearly 100 milce a day by relays of foot-messanger, who travel by night as well as by day. The that information has been received from Correspondents must forward their large part that this form of transport plays the Government of India, to the great is shown by the fact that the total distance that the quarantine regulations imposed traversed by mail routes in China amounts in Orissa Porta against arrivals from to opty about 127,000 miles, and the efficiency Hongkong have been withdrawn. of the organization of this branch of the service cempels admiration. These routes At the Marine Court on Saturday penetrate even to Uramtehi, in Turkestan, Commander Taylor, R.N., fined the Chi- the 2,000 odd miles from railhead at
bese master of the steam launch Cerf Honanfu being covered in about 26 days. 8100, or two months' imprisonment, for The longest of these lines was that connect.carrying 21 passengers in excess of the ing Peking and Idaea, the transit from number allowed by the boat's licence. Peking to Chentu occupying 18 days, Cheugtu to Batang about 13, and Batang the marriage of Sir Alexander Hosie to that this long overland line might be Rev. W. E. Soothill, late Principal of to Lhasa 20 days more, and it was hoped Miss Dorothy Soothill, daughter of the brought to a sufficient degree of perfection Shansi University and Principal-elect of to compete with the sea route vit Calcutta, the proposed new University in Hankow. but for the present all postal work in Tibet has ceased. The efficiency that the Chinese for the trip to Manila to see the Exposi- Many Shanghai residents have booked Office ins attained, and particularly its tion in February by the steamers leaving efficiency along these lengthy overland lines early next month, Included among the where by far the greatest portion of the sightseers will be the Hon. R. H. Thayer, work is in native hands, furnishes an Judge of the U.S. Court for China, and effective answer to the critics who deny to party.
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On January 18, at Shanghai, to Mr.
and Mrs. J. G. BILL, a son.
MARRIAGE,
On January 20, at Shanghai, Frank H. STUART, Pacifc Mail S.S. C., of lowa, USA to MARY MILLA, of Seattle, Wash. Bongsong Office: 104, Das Vœux Road C. LONDON OFFRO: 181, FLUIT Brazz, E.C.
The Daily Press.
Honokosa, January 27th, 1913,
the Chinese the ability to conduct properly
a public service. With the constant open-
News has reached Peking from home of
-
The man
Mr. Harcourt's speech delighted the
can be dredged in the quantities which we
are given to understand the experiments already mande amply justify the promoters in anticipating, wellouse by its sarcastic humour at the ex- may look forward to Hongkong becoming pense of his colleagues, a tin-mining centre of considerable im-
CABINET IN A DILEMMA. portance in the world, because, owing to The Cabine sat for an hour and a half the favourable situation of the mine, it after Mr. Harcourt's speech to consider
the dilemma.
SUFFRAGETTE ACTIVITY.
The Suffragettes are angry and declara We that they have been tricked and that the
The death is announced of Mr. Thos.will be possible to ship the tin to the Adkins, which took place on December 21 European markets at a rate with which at the age of 78 Mr. Adkins joined the the other tin mines in Asia-to say. Consular Service in China in 1858, and nothing of the newly-opened mines in was attached to Lord Elgin's mission in Nigeria cannot possibly compete,
Squadron under Admiral Hope at the public that, so far as experts are able to 1858-0, and was employed with the British
can only leave it to the prospectus when Bill is doomed. capture of the Taku Forts in June, 1859. pronounce upon the subject, the tin is it is published to satisfy the investing
He accompanied Lord Elgin's staff in the there in richly paying quantities and that advance on Peking in the autumn of 1860, the Company's shares will prove a safe and subsequently remained to superin investment. tend the arrangements for the residence of the British Minister in the capital. He was afterwards at Kinkiang, Shang- hai, and Formosa, and retired in 1879 when Consul at Newchwang.
On Saturday night, at the residence
H.E. THE GOVERNOR'S VISIT TO CANTON.
active. Delegates are arriving in London from all parts of the United Kingdom on The Suffragette organisations are most
what is described as "special duty,"
PROSPECTS OF THE BILL BEING BROPPED, The dilemma of the Cabinet is now re garded as greater than ever, and lively scenes are expected on Monday,
Mr. Asquith is spending the week-end in the country.
whip, as there is a prospect of the Fran- The Labour party have issued an urgent
chiee Bill being dropped on Monday and
the Trades Union Bill taken.
A later message states that the "Reform
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S VISIT RETURNED.
of Mr. E Jacobs, Wong-Nei-Cheong Road,panied by the Colonial Secretary and His Excellency the Governor, accom- the "Wong-Nei-Cheong Kiddies' Dramatic Captain L. R. E. W. Taylor, Private Tronpe" performed "The Beauty and the Secretary, and Captain the Honourable Beast" before a delighted audience. The Fitzroy, Somerset, Aide-de-Camp, visit: piece was nicely ataged and the dresses Canton on Friday in order to return th ver prett". Throughout the three acts everything went without a bitch, the call made upon him by the Governor Gen youngsters showing evidence of careful oral of the Kwangbung Province some Bill doomed," the heading in a Radical training and natural aptitude for their little time ago.
nowspaper, chrystallises the comments on Miss Stairfield was delightful, whilst and Vice-Consul went with His Excel being as to whether the withdrawal will respective parts. As "Beauty" little
His Brittanic Majesty's Consul-General yesterday's debate, the only question Master Tong as the Beast and Master lency, and the party were entertained at be announced before or after the division Jacobs as Cassin acquitted themselves very luncheon by the Governor-General, the creditably, and the rest of the caste sbly heads of the principal departments of the fulfilled their parts. Great credit is due Provincial Adminstration being present, to Mr. E. Jacobs, who arranged the play, Mrs. Richards as stage manageress, Mrs. Jacubs as wardrobe mistress, and Mr. W. H. L. Warrener as musical director.
sale by auction on Saturday 10 lots for Mesars, Hughes & Hough offered for
Government Ground adjoining the Race- the erection of booths and matsheds on the course, north of the grand stand en- closure. The lots were sold as follows
T
No. of Amount of
Rent.
Allotment.
Name of Accepted Tenant Jockey Club. Jockey Club. Jockey Club Unity. Unity finity. Unity.
R. J. Remedios.
1
..8430
2
480
1
370
4
700
703
3
900
700
A financial statement in the current
R
8820
770
10
630
11
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19
530
.... F. Ribiero.
was
13
460
14
450
of
15.
470
16
450
17
450
18
450.
19
420
92,780,421.76.
selected to prepare the plans for the
Mr. Hubback is the architect year. railway station at Kowloon.
It is notified in the Government Gazette that the American Board Mission Church,
THE NEW SINGER AT THE BIJOU.
Sir Edward Grey's amendment. The Cabinet will meet again on Monday morning and announce its decision in the afternoon. Probably it will also intimato that facilities will be given to the Women's
By many of the regular patrons of Suffrage Bill mrly next session, thus ful-
sant breaks affording the necessary rests desire. Sir Edward Grey's amendment to picture shows the musical turns on the filling Mr. Asquith's pledge to the non- programme are regarded merely as plea militant suffragists, who now do not however, the Bijou management have be pressed to a division, believing that it for the eyes. In Miss Cecile Stephane,
in her ease the musical interlude at once understood that the Government will pro- sccured a singer of undoubted ability, and would be better to wait. Meanwhile it is becomes the star item in the programme. ceed with the Plural Voting Bill, which
diss Stephane's voice is that rarest of
all vocal possessions-a pure contralto. was read a second time carly in 1912. Powerful, especially in the lower notes, sweet and sympathetic at all times, per- fectly produced, we predict for this lady a great success in the East. Her opening number was Jude's "The Mighty Deep," naing well calculated to display her mas-
The Radicali do not disguise their anxiety as to further skirmishes between the Ministers of State. Mr. Harcourt's speech created a most disagreċable impres- sion, and it would not be edifying if Mr.
A. Ritchie. tery of the vocal art, and in which she Lloyd George retorted in his most flash- Ah Tong Why takes a range of two octaves-from G to ing vein. One of Mr. Harcourt's gibes L. H. Xavier. G. For the encore so enthusiastically was that Mr. Lloyd George was a suppor-
SIBERIAN MAILS.
Yerra, demanded she gave a bright rendering of ter of Mr. Dickinson's amendment, which Rozock. Mattel's "Yes or No." Rozock.
would exclude four million wonen Al Ou.
"My right hon.
Ah On.
Ah On.
Ah On.
The following notice appears in the Shanghai papers:-
Tar much belated report of the working ing of new offices and consequat engage-issue of the Government Gazette shows of the Chinese Post Office in 1911 which ment of additional Chiness employees, the that the revenue of the Colony during the has just been published is a highly interest. proportion of foreigners on the staff is month of November last year ing account of the progressive development becoming progresively loss, and there are $653,843.02. The expenditure WAS of a great public service and an instructive wide areas over which the whole of the $560,099.63,
leaving a. balance record of advance accomplished in the face work is carried on by Chinese alone, with of extraordinary difficulties. Plague, flood, no other check that the presence of u famine, civil war so raus the tale of woes foreign postmaster at the provincial capital, gives an excellent picture of the Mahom The Building News of December 13 for 1911. but in spite of all these obstacles hundreds of miles away. One of the argu- medan Mosque at Kuala Lumpur, of Comparison shows that the total is there is a great increase reported in evory the Salt Gabelle uuder foreign supervision back..
ments that has been adduced against placing which the architect was Mr. A. B. Hub. about $4,600 above the figures for last branch of working. There were 5,357
is that, however advantageous the foreign establishments in 1910, and 6,201 in 1911; 355 million articles were carried in the Customs administration has proved at the former year, and 421 million in the latter, Treaty ports, it would be impossible for the number having more than trebled itself foreigners to exercise an affective control in five years; and so on in every depart-over a service operating in the interior. Hongkong, is deleted from the list of ment, with the desirable exception of nativa There may be some ground for au argument clubbed maile, where there is a healthy based ca the greater difficulty of foreign nization of marriages, and that the China Siberia through the Chinese Post places of worship licensed for the solem- notice, forward mails for transmission The infant service (its existence supervision over a service operating in the Congregational Church in Hongkong of Office every Thursday evening, the hour as a separate department, independent of interior, but this argument, based on the Customs, dates only from May 28th, comparison with the Customs, is shattered 5, Ladder Street, has been substituted.
the American Board Mission, situate at of closing being advertised in the Mail 1911) has undergone a test that might well when the case of the Post Office is considor-
Notice. These mails will be additional to prove a severe trial to many a much oldered. The working of the Post Office might
those sent via. Tairon. It is officially announced in our adver- institution, and it has emerged from it with indeed be taken as an example of the way in tising columns that as only one nomina flying colours. The most striking feature which foreign assistance can be made of tion has been received for the temporary to be observed in the Report is the elasti. most service to China in her work of vacancy city and adaptibility the organization reorganization. In the early days, the created by the Hon. Mr. H. E, Pollock, the Legislative Council showed in coping with the many emergencies, foreign staff formed a comparatively large K. C going on leave, there will be no political and mechanical, that arose in the proportion, and their work consisted not sly meeting of the Justices next Friday. Mr. trying days of the revolution. The main in establishing the service on a firm basis, C.
Montague Ede has been duly tenance, by a Government department, of
decrease.
but also in training Chinese to occupy posta nominated.
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British Post Office will, until further We are requested to announce that the
THE MAGISTRACY. At the Magistracy on Saturday Mr. being in possession of opium dross ang Melbourne fined a junk mester 384 for prepared opium.
Inspector McDonald charged a man with being in possession of a quantity of lottery tickets. The case was remanded, bail in $500 being allowed.
workers from the vote.
On bor second appearance she sang Scotch songs in hon- our of the night-January 25th-with an accent as perfect as her vocalisation. We friend does not hesitate to take three- the services of such a fine artiste, and we he hesitate to take their opinion?" congratulate Mr. Stephenson on securing pences from domestic servants. Does trust the public will suitably reward his
Mr. enterprise.
Harcourt also declared that the inclusion of women in this Bill would be an abuse of the Parliament Act.
THE TIBETAN QUESTION.
LONDON, January 25th.
VICTORIA THEATRE.
witness the production of
This place of entertainment was again filed by an enthusiastic audience to
Musical Comedy Company, and the per- Burian, Djorjieff, recently quitted Urga "Spedol- A telegram from St. Petersburg states
formance was, highly creditable. bounder's Dream" by the. Hughes that the Novoye Vremya says that the
for Europe to solicit Russian and British recognition of the independence of Tibet.
ACTOR'S TRAGIC DEATH.
On Tuesday evening there will be a Chorus Girls' contest, in addition to the usual performance.
The Company is booked to appear at Canton on the 29th and 30th inst, return- ing to Hongkong for three nights only,
LONDON, January 24th. opening on the 31st inst. with "The at Brighton, whilst enacting the part of a Auguste Van Biene died on the stage Grafters," and following with "Spedel-
Hans Nick" on 2nd February. bounder's Dream" on 1st February, and penniles dying musician. He was play- will be matinees of the last two-named the audience thought that the death was There ing the last bars of his 'cello solo, and
plays on both dates.
part of the performance.
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