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Fourthly, that no reasonable grounds exist for supposing that even if a relatively cam pleto Parliament assembles in the spring the position will be any better.
Fifthly, and finally, that no international recognition is possible or advisable until the union of China, preceded by export commis- sion work, such as was seen in South Africa, has beez defined, and the central and local powers have occured proper provincial
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Those who are interested in the "manly TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
art" in Hongkong will doubtless note with interest the advertisement which appears in another page setting forth the big championship programme which has been arranged to take place on Saturday at the City Hall, the promoters being Harry Kelly and F. E. Hall.
This indictmout of the present provisional The engagement is announced of Mr. Government is a heavy one, and, as the A. D. Blackburn, of H.B.M.'s Legation to correspondent remarks, it is by no means Miss Isabelle Piry. Mr. H. J. Harding, exhaustive. "Everywhere one turns," he of HL.B.M's. Consular Service, has arrived in Peking to join the Chinese Secre- adds, "the political conditions are unodify-tariat of the British Tegation. Mr. A. WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. ing and disconcerting, from the President, an
SCOTCH
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[THROUGH REUTER'S AGEROY.)
THE BALKAN WAR.
CONDITIONS OF INTERVENTION.
Rauter learns that Towik Pasha scine
days ago asked the Powers to intervene in the interests of peace, but was told that until Turkey submitted proposals which
(TEBOUGH REUTHE'S AGENDY.].
THE POLAR TRAGEDY.
STATEMENT BY THE COMMANDER OF THE TERRA NOVA."
LONDON, February 13th. A cable from Christchurch reports the arrival of the Terra Nova at Lyttleton.
Commander Evans, interviewed, said
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
DEATH OF SIR JOHN CARRINGTON.
LONDON, February 13th. The death is announced of Sir John
Carrington, formerly Chief Justice of
Hongkong.
office which is simply a glorified vico-regal D Blackburn is to be transferred to Foo-were likely to be acceptable interventionate gallantry of Captain Scott and his 1002, and has since enjoyed a pension from
Yamen, crowded with office-seckers, down to the district collectors, who bully the peasantry, Chinese friends.... mark well that I say Chinese-daily inform me that corruption is rifer to-day than it was under the late dynasty, and that though a new sanse of freedom undoubtedly exists owing to the abolition of the super-imposed Manchu system, all know that the gulf
chow and will leave for his new post shortly.
Our Macao correspondent writes that the funeral of Mr. Luiz Fillipi de Rosario, the last of te 36 heroes of Passeleno, who died. on Tuesday at the age of 90, was largely attended. H.E. the Governor had invited the public officials and military officers to attend the funeral; the members
was impossible
Sir John Carrington retired from the Chief Justiceship of Hongkong on April 1st, companions had never been surpassed, this Colony of $2,497.50 a year. During the
five years Bir John showed a broad It is believed that Hakki Pasha is the When stearing around Cape Evans they law and that independence, impartiality and
arranged to give Captain Scott and his tributes of the Judicial Boxett.
integrity which are among the highest as He did bearer of fresh proposals..
companions an ovation. They had much to bring the local enactments up to brought up luxúries and steamed innte, nel brought out a now edition of the taws of the Colony in a handy form which has with colours flying. A large party on becu great convenience and benefit alike
the legal community and the Colony- shore cheered.. The ship's company regenently. Sir John took a very keen in- sponded, but not seeing Captain Scott, terest in the Volunteer Corps, which ha commanded from 1896 down to the time of
THE SIEGE OF ADRIANOPLE.
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A message from Constant nople reports that a violent cannonade continued all day on Wednesday at Adrianople, and
of 1 Doa, Bot, separating national idealism from national of the Senado were there in a body, and Bulgarian aeroplanes dropped bombs into Commander Evans shouted, "Are you all his retiromont, and when he left the Colony
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unity has not been bridged." Taking this view of the situation, the correspondent declares emphatically that the time has arrived for terminating "the present ama-
there was a large attendance of the gen- the city.
eral public.
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"A defence of Shylock" was the title of a lecture delivered by Mr. James Young
FIGHTING AT GALLIPOLI,
well? He then learned the inte of the party.
The total distance covered by Captain Heavy fighting took place in the Galli-Scott's party to the Pole and back was
THE BATTLE OF BULAIR.
It is officially, declared in Contantinople that the Turkish losses at Bulair did not.
to Hut Point on March 10th, but their lást message narrated their misfortunes, which it was impossible to overconte.
The Terra Nova brought, every record of the Southern party, including the
in 1901 the Corps gave him & fitting fare well. There are many in the Colony who remember 'Sir John Carrington with affec tion, and they will deeply regret to learn of his death. He was 66 years of age:]
SAINT JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.
The Hon. Treasurer of Saint John's Cathedral (Dr. Francis Clark) desires to acknowledge, with grateful thanks, the receipt of the following contributions to
minated, what is to take its place? It is that be compared favourably with the exceed 800. The Bulgarians did not go private diaries, These will be handed the Cathedral Endowment Fund. It has
an inch and only held their ground by fortifying their positions.
to the relatives.
teur régime," which, he says, is fraught to a good audience in the Y.M.C.A. Rooms poli peninsula,, but there are no details 1,54% miles, and they should have returned with great dangers und forms the road last night. Mr. Young, who has acquired to hand.
a considerable reputation in America as reason why disruptive foreign||action
a Shakespearian lecturer, interested is is an ominous. It is true that it is impos-hearers by his representation of Shylock, 21.00 180 sible to feel satisfied with the situation, but whom he regarded as something other if "the present amateur régime" be ter than a mean revengeful Jew, and asserted
all very well to say that a grave duty ether characters in the play. "KILTY" LIQUEUR WHISKY,
Great Age, Very Fine 38.00 3.23 devalves upon the foreign Powers devoted to the integrity of China; that "it is no longer a question of withholding recogni. tion in the terms proposed by the British Tibetan Note, but of acquainting the Peking Government with the impossibility of ac- knowledging any sovereign rights whatsoever until the nation resumes its former unity." Granting, for the moment, that there is less unity than formerly, what means does Mr. PUTNAN WEALx imagine would bring about that unity in the nation which he deems
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LOCAL SPORT,
CRICKET.
The following have been selected to "er present the Hongkong Cricket Club versus the Garrison to-morrow on the Hongking Cricket Club Ground, play ennmencing at 2 pad-R. Hancock. (Capt.), B. N. Anderson, A. A. Claxton, H. Dodwell, A. C. E. Elborough, J.
Thursfield W. C. D. Turner and W. E. Warburton..
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THE LEADING SCOTCH WHISKY essential before any sovereign rights can be. Lloyd, M. M. Maas, T. E. Pearce, R.
IN THE EAST.
acknowledged? We think it must be allow- el that if the nation be so disunited as is alleged above, the peace is wonderfully well
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RUGBY FOOTBALL.
CLUB. NAVY.
THE BULGARIAN-ROUMANIAN COMPROMISE.
A Bakharest telegram says it is under stood that Bulgarian has offered Roumania further concessions on the Black Sea const and that Roumania has abandoned her claims to Silistria..
THE REVOLT IN MEXICO.
LONDON, February 13th. A telegram from Mexico City states that the seven hours battle proved indecisive. The casualties numbered 1,000, An amaz- ing incident in the battle was cavalry existing régime-"amateur" though it
They were may be would be likely to bring, about" The above teams are due to meet to- charging a rebel battery.
Alarmist morrow in the second round of the rugby mowed down and almost wiped out. greater unity than now exists,
an exceedingly keen reporta appear in the Northern Chinese competition and
A later message states that fighting was Press from time to time suggesting that the struggle should result when so much de
pends on the decision. If the Club winresurned on Wednesday morning. The South remains antagonistic to the North, but they will regain the trophy, while if the rebels fired in the direction of the British what basis in fact there is for these reports Navy win they will tie with the Club, and Legation near which a Federal battery
Quite the relative games versus the Army "will· 600128 to be extremely slender. recently Faking has been alarmed by then decide the destination of the Cup, was stationed. Heavy guns hurled shell report that renewed efforts are being made Although the Club wen the last encounter, and shrapnel into the business quarter. to get the capital transferred to. Nanking, the game was very keen indeed, and was and this was taken to indicate a want of a duel between the Navy forwards and unanimity in the desire to support the the Club backs. As the Navy will have a Central Government. REUTER's corres-stronger side to-morrow and the Club pondent in Poking, about three weeks ago, wrote that the belief that a want of unani- mily between the Central Government and the provinces really exists has probably been one of the main factors in delaying foreign recognition of the Republic and in encouraging neighbouring Powers to LONDON: OFFICE: 187, FLEET STREET, E.U.strengthen their policies in bordering
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HONGKONG, FEBRUARY 14TH, 1913.
A mortuago, when it was telegraphically reported that by order of the Governor of the province of Honan a woman opium smoker was publicly executed as a common oriminal, we quoted further instances of the kind from the news supplied to the Press of the world by the quti-opium society, known as the laternational Reform Bureau, and: we took occasion to point out that these outrages had been committed ia opon disregard by provincial officials of a recent national law which prescribed the penalties for such offences. Wo are interested to note
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districts. Hence, he said, it is generally contended by Chinese circles in Peking that the South ought to sink all questions calcu- lated to revive party strife, and that it ought to assist the present Government, which possesses the confidence of the Powers to a very great extent, with a view
restoring confidence
to
in
The
THE INHUMAN FIGHTING AT MEXICO CITY.
The Diplomatic Body in Mexico have strongly protested to both President lack the services of Clark and Clas: Madero and General Diaz against the barbarous and inhuman fighting, and re- ton, the issue is very doubtful. following have been selected to play forquested them to arrange an armistice. the Club:-Back,, T. E. 5. Robson; Three-
Both returned évasive replies.- quarters: B. Chapman, V. M. Grayburn, H. S. Rouse, P. Linton; Half-Racks: A. Murdoch, S. B. P. McElderry, A. F. Deane, T. J. Fisher, D. Walker. H. G Hegarty, R. M. Austin, C. C. Stark. (Captain.)
FAR EASTERN DIVORCE. CASE.
MARSHALL C. MARSHALL AND BROWN.
The following appears among the law Chint. cases reported in The Times of the 21st
ult::-
Southern papere have given to such reports an unqualified contradiction. There are those who would welcome the removal of the capital to Nanking as being more central but it is declared that the transfar is no longar agitated by the great political parties, and that any reports to the contrary are purely mischievous. For our part we ses no indications. of any serious rupture between the South and the North, and we ean sea no way in which greater political unity is to be achieved than now chaing, except by a growing recognition on the part of the leaders of public opinion that, for some years to come, greater latitude rust
Captain Scott kept a daily record until March 24th, and spent his last day in writing a message to the publie,"
The bodies could have been brought back, but all hands. agreed that it was better to leave them in the white mantle where they worked and died.
Commander Evans was disinclined to speak in connection with the tragic sido of the expedition and did not allow his fellow officers any latitude in this
direction.
The motor sledges frequently broke
down.
Commander Evans will complete Captain Scott's story, which, will be published in book form.
All on board the Teri Nova look healthy and -show no outward signs of the hardships suffered.
FUNDS OPENED.
It is proposed that the fund for the dependents of Captain Scott should be' a
national fund, while the Mansion House Fund, which was to be opened on Thurs- day night, should be for the erection of a
rades. The newspapers have also started memorial to Captain Sealt and his com-
funds.
AUSTRALIAN FUNDS.
The Lord Mayor of Sydney has opened a fund for the dependents of the victims of the South Pole tragedy.
The Adelaide Register has started a
AMERICAN PREPARATIONS. Reuter's correspondent at Washington wires that the United States are sending Shilling Fund for the dependents of Cap- three additional warships to Mexico. Transports and troops are in readiness to protect Americans and foreigners,
tain Scott and his comrades, and a Penny Fund for Captain Scott's child, the pro- ceeds of this latter fund to be invested in South Australian bonds; the interest paid to Mrs. Scott on the child's birth- days, and the principal being handed to him on his attaining h's majority.
DIPLOMATIC CHANGES.
LONDON, February 13th. Herr P. von Huri, German Cónsul Gen- eral at Shanghai, has been appointed Minister to Bangkok.
Leen agreed that the salary of an Assistant Chaplain shall be a first charge on the interest accruing from this fund, and as this will not at present exceed some $750 per annum, further contributions are earnestly desired in order that the Church Body may be in a position to secure the entire services of a second Chaplain, for... whom there is ample work.
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THE CHINESE LOAN....
THE PROBLEM OF THE OPIUM STOCKS.
The United States is sending four Dreadnought cruisers to Vera Cruz, and As com two cruisers to the Pacifieroast, munication between Washington and the Erabassy in Mexico was interrupted This was the petition of Frederick
marriage with Violet Marshall on the compelled to change its policy and send a Brougham Marshall for the dissolution of yesterday, the Administration may be ground of her adultery with Commander naval expedition to open up communica Clifton Brown, R.N. Mr. R. M. Middleton), said that the
Mr. Barnard, K.C. (with whom was tions. parties were married on February 25, THE JAPANESE POLITICAL CRISIS. 1895, at the British Consulate, Foochow, and lived together at Formosa and in London, and there was no issue of the marriage. The petitioner was a merchant trading in China and Japan, and lived happily with his wife until 1900. In that Coalition Premiership registers an ad-koxing contest Carpentier knocked out he was now in a position to state sub- year the Boxer rising took place, and the vance in the political education of the Bandsman Like in the second-round. co-respondent arrived in China in one of nation and the downfall of the influence His Majesty's ships and made the acquain-
of the Elder Statesmen, as well as a The respondent and petitioner visited diminution of the prestige of the Crown. tance of the petitioner and the respondent,
THE MARCONI INQUIRY.
estate, where it was not convenient for
TOKYO, February 13th.
BOXING.
LONDON, February 13th. Marquis Yamamoto's acceptance of the A Paris telegram reports that in a
from mail papers to haud that the Peking Correspondent of the London Daily Tele graph, in cabling a report of one of these executious, added the comment that this sensational act had raised anew the great be allowed to the PRESIDENT than is con- England, and in 1806 were again in the problem: Is there to-day any government sistant with the principles of republicanism. East. In 1907 the petitioner in the course in China, and if so, what law really rules? Many of President YCAN SHIE-KAT'S of his business had to proceed to a ten He added:
actions have been already denounced as the respondent to go, and consequently Foreign students in Peking now generally dictatorial, but it is obvious to all careful she returned to England. In December, 1908, petitioner joined her at an address First that the employment of the term students of the situation that full-blown in Drayton Court, London, and in Febru- "Republic" is A grave misnomer, since, Republicanism in China can only follow ary, 1909, he again returned to Japan and though its general acceptance has been as sumed, and a year has elapsed since the upon some years of rule by a benevolent allowed her at first £100 a month and
later half that sum. After July, 1911, he the Marconi Inquiry, and refused to name has assembled, and no organic laws fully She has acquired the constitution, and has and March, 1012, he received two anony- defining local and national powers have been agreed, voted, promulgated, and accepted; yet to learn how to work it. This political mous letters. He consulted his solicitors Mr. Maxse to the Speaker of the House.
agree,
LONDON, February 19th. Mr. Maxse, the editor of the National Review, which has strongly attacked the Marconi contract, was cross-examined at
SHELL GROUP DEVELOPMENTS.
In the House of Commons on the 20th alt..
Mr. Ginnell (Westmeath, N., Nat.), asked the Secretary for Foreign Affairs if
stantially the terms of the proposed loan of £25,000,000 to China by the Six-Power Group; whether they included or in any way depended on the payment by China of A little over a month ago the "Flower" 210,000,000 or any other sum for the Motor Ship Company (Limited) was re- opium vent. by Indian speculators to gistered, with a capital of £1,000,000 in Shanghai
China's protests, interests, and against the Line, his brother, and other signatories. successful efforts of the Chinese Govern- We now learn, says a London paper, that ment to stamp out the opium vice; and all the capital has been privately sab-whether China's refusal to submit to pay- scribed, and that no issue will be made to ment for this article, which she did not the public. The objects are to carry on want, had been one of the difficulties in the business of shipowners and brokers, arranging loans. managers of shipping property, carriers of passengers and goods, etc., and to and Messra. M. Samuel & Co.
E shares, by the chairman of the Shell against Chinazhet
Manebu abdication, no national convention antocracy, China is a Republic only in name. had ceased to hear from her. In January his informants. The Committee reported adopt agreements with Sir Marcus Samuel all parts of the question is in the negative.
Secondly, that the commission imperially education will not be gained in a hurry. ontrusted to Yuan Shih-kai by the abdication organise with full powers a pro- .edict to "
visional Government, forming thereafter one great Republic of China, by the union of the various pooples," has not been carried
out
Council has passed many laws, the President
The French Mail of the 14th January was delivered in London on the 12th February.
Thirdly, that though the so-called National The ball to be given by the Sergeants' promulgating the same, these are virtually Mess of the DC.L.I. on the 18th inst. dead letters, while the Council is now sunk will take place in the R. E. Teztre, and so low that no quorum is obtainable, and it not in Mount Austin Theatre as at first has no further capacity even to play at law
Farranged. making.
in Shanghai, and they in turn instructed and their agents Messra. Indermaur Brown.
and Inquiries were made, he (the learned counsel) would call evidence to prove that the co-respondent was a constant visiter to the address in Drayton Court in May, 1909, staying there sometimes until 5 am and had been seen in the respondent's bedroom.
Evidence in support of the petition having been given.
The learned President pronounced a decree sisi, with costs.
TIBET SEEKS INDEPENDENCE. LONDON, February 13th. It is reported from St. Petersburg that the Buriat Djorfieff says he is going to London. He says that he has been charged to inform Russia and Great Britain of
THE ADVANCE IN OIL PRICES.
The Standard Oil Company of New York has issued a statement explaining that the higher level of oil prices is due to the world-wide increase in the demand for petroleum products, especially gaso- line; to the steadily diminishing produc- tion of those qualities of crude oil, from which illuminating oil and gasoline are commercially derivable; and to the steady the independence of Tibet and to accer-encroachment made upon surplus stocks
on hand. tain their attitude thereanent.
Mr. Acland (Cornwall, Camborne, Min.), who replied, said.The answer to
Mr. Ginnell, Does not the British Gor- ernment insist on China paying for opium she does not want?
Mr. Acland-The suggestion is perfect ly untrue, and, if I may say so, unworthy, (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Ginnell. May we assume that none of the money is to go to paying for opium?
Mr. Acland-No condition f all with
regard to opium is attached to the loan.
Mr. Ginnell-Does the British Foreign Office not insist on China paying for this opium? Mr.
Acland. No, sir, There is nothing about opium in the loan at all.
No comments yet.
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