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traius such as the International Wagon A European has reported to the Police TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS,
Lite and the Russian State trains, and that certain mails catel slow trains which are aide-tracked to permit of the passing of the expresass. We do not think this suggestion
A. S. WATSON quite accurately represents the position,
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ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
So far as the limited nenommodation for mails on the Wagon Lits and Russian Stato tins allow, the Russian postal authorities take the fullest advantage of it. None of these fast trains come to Eastern Siberia without mails. It has seemed to us
that he lost a $50 note at the Gymkhana on Saturday. It was taken from us pocket by a thief while in a crowd at n paying out booth-
The Royal Arthur left yesterday after- noon with time-expired men for Home, As they passed the T'anar and the Dock- yard the men on board cheered, answering cheers coming from the men left behind.
The Hankow Spring races take place on April 28th, 20th and 30th, Thirty-two
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THE BALKAN WAR.
THE BLOCKADERS.
A message from Corfu states that the blockading warships have arrived at Valona just in time to avert a famine, The plight of the inhabitants is increased by their fear of an attack by 25,000
VINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS and we think this will be found to be stables are taking part, and fifty-three fauished Turkish troops encamped near
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the real explanation of the whole matter that the mail traffic across Biberia has out grown the facilities that at present exist for its rapid transit. This general Irregu- larity of which so much complaint has been heard during the past twelve months dates from the time that all letters outward were dispatched by the Siberian route, whether marked "röt Siberis" or not. We notice that the Postmaster General recently stated that the estimated weights of mails annually exchanged hetween the United Kingdom on the one hand und China and Japan on the and other, vi Siberia, were 261,000 lbs. of letters and 88.000 lbs, of other correspondence, while of Suez the
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ponies, comprising thirty-nine griffins and fourteen old ponies, will run. Total entry fees amount to 83,204, which is the record by-815, | |-
Attempts were made at Shanghai last week to raise the US, transport Lecum, which sank at the Old Dock Wharf on August 25th of last year, and though only partially successful the result satisfied the management of the Dock Company that their method of procedure was correct.
Mr. Melbourne yesterday imposed a
of $2.50 upon two men for allowing their cattle to stray on a Government plantation. The younger man said that his brother was dumb, and some amuse-
At the Magistracy yesterday a Chinese was charged before Mr. Melbourne with. assaulting a woman at Yaumati. The woman, whose face was badly battered, aid that the defendant had thrown her down a flight of stairs. Inspector Gerrard said the man was a bully, and lived on women. Defendant was fined 85 or seven days, and was ordered to pay $2 com- pensation. He was further ordered to bound over.
be
the town.
GREEK SQUADRON OFF PORT SAID
A message from Port Said states that a Greek Squadron is cruising off Port Said, apparently with the object of preventing another raid by the Hamidich in the Mediterranean. The Turkish battleship is at present in the Red Sea. -
CONFEDERACY BREAKING UP. According to the accounts published the tension. between Bulgaria and Servias becoming dangerous and acute,
A Bulgarian diplomat told the Daily
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CALIFORNIAN ALIEN LEGISLATION.
JAPANESE MORE OPTIMISTIC,
LONDON, April 21st,
A message from Tokyo says that the feeling in connection with the Californiah Alien Land Bill is more optimistic in
SUPREME COURT.
Monday, 21st April..
IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.
BEFORE THE CHIEF Justice (Sin W. REES DAVIES, K.Ø.).
ALLEGED ARMED ROBBERY.-
After a hearing which lasted all day- the charge against Lau Chi Ming of taking part in an armed robbery, which was committed in a house in Square Street occupied by four wonds was found view of the telegrains from the Ambassanut proved, and the prisoner was dis The jury returned with e charged. der at Washington that President Wilson verdict of four to three in favour of the was unofficially working, together with prisoner, but his Lordship said he could the Governor of California, in opposition not accept less than a five to two majority and asked them to reconsider their to the Bill.
verdict. They returned shortly after- wards and the foreman intimated "that' they found by a majority of five to two- that prisoner was not guilty.
GALLANTRY IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.
THE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY'S MEDAL- AWARDED.
BEFORE THE Puisne Judge (MR. J. H. KEMP).
THE "CA" FOR LOBBERS, Sentence of five years' imprisonment with hard labour was passed upon five
Chinese who pleaded guilty to robbery
last. They were also ordered to receive fifteen strokes each with the "cat"
THE RODDERY AT MR. HO KOM TONG's. Su. Ming was indicted for being con- cerned with several other men in the roh bery with violence which took place at the Kom Tong. residence of Mr. Ho Prisoner pleaded not guilty.
The following jury was empanelled :- Messrs. G. Bird, I. Rumjahn, A. E. Alves, F. A. Barradas, F. F. Rozario, B. Busere, tad rare. F
On 7th September, 1912, at 11.10 p.m., A.B. Patrick Delaney, of H.M.S. New castle, was accompanying a young A.B. named Lenard, of the ss. Empress of figores ars 5,000 lbs. and 881,000 lbs.ment was created in court when the Telegraph's Vienna correspondent "If Japan, to his ship, who when going up the with violenco in Victoria in February
gangway fell into the water striking 21.00 1.80 respectively. "Other correspondence" means, dumb man admitted that he spoke Servia does not evacuate the towns she heavily on the side of the sampan as be
of course, rowspapers, samples, books, and Hakka.
occupies which belong to us by Treaty we fell. It was very dark and there was n 22.50 1.90 postal parcels, which are not yet carried from
shall send troops to occupy the towns strong tide running, but Delaney im or to England vii Siberia. Then it hus
mediately jumped in after him and with 38.00 2.25
to be remembered that heavy mails come
considerable difficulty held bim up. They 22.00 -1,85
to the East by the Siberian route from
without a declaration of war.”
The Daily Mail's Belgrade correspon-were swept some hundred feet or so from Germany, France and other European
deat wires that the existence of a secret the gangway before the sampan could let countries, and in addition to these formige
Austro-Bulgarian Convention has been go from the ship and get to their assist They then were towed back to the mails there must be a heavy traffic in
revealed through the indiscretion of &ance. Russian local mails deliverable at all points
subordinate diplomatic official. It pro-gangway and were got sufely on board. Our Celebrated Every old along the line of route. The entire responsi- Liqueur Scotch Whisky is ability for the irregularity of the mails
vides for the recognition of Austria's Lenard being stupified and having to be unquestionably rests with the Russian blend of the best Pot Distilled authorities, who should be induced either Scotch Whiskies. It is of to put on more fast trains or to afford formed in Londen to sellest subscriptions support to Bulgaria's aspirations in great age, very fine, and greater accommodation for mails on the and arrange for the erection of a bronze Macedonia as far west as Ochrida.
Sir Frank Swettenham, The Daily Telegraph's correspondent at mellow. Its superior quality existing traine. Similar complaints are statue to
to com- Athens states that the utterances of Bul. has established its reputation made regarding the delivery of Homeward G.C.M.Ğ, in Kuala Lumpur, as THE LEADING SCOTCH mails from the East; but the irregularity is memorate the eminent and unique sergarian politicians in claiming Salonike WHISKY IN THE EAST. probably not so great at that end as at this, vices rendered by that brilliant admini-
for the reason that there is less likelihoodstrator to the Colony of the Straits are rendering a difficulty of M. Venizelos of the mails for Europe being shut out at Settlements and, more conspicuously, to task in restraining popular passions.
the Federated Malay States." About
AMERICAN TARIFF REVISION. Vladivostock or Harbin, by heavy local £350 have already been subscribed. A.S. WATSON & CO traffic, than is the case, presumably, with
LONDON, April 21st, outward mails reaching Moscow from LIMITED,
European points. Until the whole Siberian track is doubled, enabling the Railway authorities to run more express trains, the
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Shanghai No, doughter of the late DAVID BRAND and Mrs. BRAND, of Shanghai.
DEATH, KINDBLADO April 17, at Shanghai, AXEL EDWARD Kindelad, Assistant, Chinese Customs, aged 37 years. HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VEUX ROAD 0. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET SHAYT, EC
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HONGKONO, APRIL 22ND, 1913..
Ir will be noted with satisfaction that the
A provisional committee has been
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special interests in the northern Albanian littoral. Austria promises diplomatic
A message from Washington states that the Democratic Caucus of the House of Representatives has approved by an
practically carried up the gangway.
There was no doubt that had Delaney not acted with such promptness Lenard would have been carried away and in all probability drowned
Mr. P. M. Hodgson, Crown Solicitor, in opening the case for the prosecution, said this was a case of gang robbery which occurred at Seymour Road in one of the
residences of Mr. Ho Kom Tong. At that For this act of gallantry A.B. Delaney house there lived tro ladies, two amabs, has been awarded the Royal Humane and a maid servant. On the night of the Society's bronze medal and parchment 14th February the Indies accompanied by
certificate.
FIRES IN SHANGHAI.
an amah and the maidservant went to the theatre. On returning home in the early hours of the morning they proceeded to their rooms, and were suddenly attacked by four men who gagged and bound them and took away a large quantity of money and jewellery, some of the latter being very valuable.
Last Thursday morning a fire broke out in a Chinese houso in Szechuan Road, Shanghai, at the back of the Chinese Post Office. For some time the godown of Messrs, Jardine, Matheson & Co. seemed that the man in the dock was one of the in danger, but the Fire Brigade succeeded in confining the outbreak to two Chinese four men,
The Crown contended
Counsel was sorry that the
only hope of improvement would seem to be wire reporting that the Company's ship overwhelming majority of the Tarif houses, and in neither case was there al others were not there, but they had not
in the success of an effort being made to induce the Russian authorities to give priority to the dispatch of maile to Eastern Biberia, China and Japan, by the express traina, sending all mails for points West of Harbin by the slower trains. Looking at the matter from the Russian point of view, however, we cannot but expect the Russian authorities to regard it as of equal import auce to their own nationals in Siberia to have a rapid service of mails, as it is to foreign residents in the Far East. It is, at least, satisfactory to know that the matter has been taken up by the Hongkong Government and the Genend Post Office in London, and we can only hope that their representations, united to these made by Japan and other interested countries, will result in some determined effort being made by the Russian authorities to improve the mail service to the Far East.
Mr. J. Forbes Cale has been appointed secretary of the Shangbai Cricket Club..
The Customs authorities at Nanking burned thirty catties of confiscated opium last week,
There were only three cases of plague There reported in the Colony last week These bring up the total for the year to 26, of which 25 have proved fatal.
The professional bookmaker is to be. suppressed in the Straits Settlements. A new Ordinance which has this for its ob- ject comes into force on January 1st, 1914,
administration under
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce has recently been in communication with the Government regarding the persistent irregularity of the mails from Europe
A consular telegram states that the dispatched vid Siberia. We have ourselves main object of the recent Hankow con- called attention to the subject on many spiracy was the establishment of a strong occasions. Complaint is not confined to Anhui-Kiangsu Hongkong, but is voiced in every port north Huang Hsing. of the Colony, The Japanese Postal Administration appears to have made many representations to London and St. Peters burg, but no improvement has been effected Mails continue to reach the East with exasperating irregularity. While they are
The Chinese Government is reported sometimes in the Colony in seventeen or
to be endeavouring to conclude, if pos eighteen days from the date of their dispatch sible, the loan with the Five-Power Syndi from London-as they should do invariably cate before both Houses of the Parliament it not infrequently happens now that meet in ordinary session. The Kaoming- maile take as long coming vid Siberia astang, however, is emphatically resisting
this intention. vid Suez: A case of this kind happened
Major-General Anderson, Commander in-Chief of His Majesty's Forces in South China, is now in Shanghal for the purpose of making his annual inspection of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps,
A. R. Marty and Co, have received a Hue is stranded near the entrance to Kwong Chau Wan. The tag David Gillies has been despatched to her assistance.
THE LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT, Three matches were played off last night in the lawn tennis tournament promoted by the Hongkong Cricket Club,
The most interesting was the struggle between Major Bowen and A. N. Joseland in the third round of the championship copipetition. It was a ding dong tussle, running to five sets, and though Joseland reached the semi-final there was only a difference of one game in their totals. Bowen gained the first set by 6-2, but Joseland equalised in the second by similar figures in his favour. Then the officer got away again with a 6-2 verdict, and Joseland replied in the next set with
6-3 win. In the last set three all was: called, then four all, and Bowen secured a lead. One game would have given him the match, but his serve failed and several double faulte spoiled his chances. Jose- land won the next game, putting the players on a level at five all. The service of both men became faulty, but Joseland recovered, and meeting with success when he went to the net as well as placing cleverly, he ran out winner. The score was 2-6, 6-2, 2-0, 0-3, 7-5.
D.
In the Singles Handicap. "B" class
Revision Bill, which removes all tariffs from many articles of food and clothing and reduces the tariffs on all necessaries
The entire Bill as amended in a few minor. features was adopted.
Mr. Underwood again introduces the Bill in the House on Monday and it is expected that it will be passed by the 11th May.
IMPENDING MARRIAGE OF EX-
KING MANOEL..
LONDON, April 21st. The Berlin papers announce that a marriage has been arranged between the ex-King Mancel of Portugal and Princess Augusta Victoria Hohenzollern of the older non-reigning branch of the House
of Hohenzollern.
MR. PIERPONT MORGAN'S WILL
LONDON, April 21st.
Mr. Pierpont Morgan's will does not mention the exact amount of the estate. The authorities are of opinion that it may take a year to do so.
THE NANCY AFFAIR.
LONDON, April 21st. A message from Berlin says that the
E. Clerk (owe 3/6) beat A. H. Crook semi-official organ, Nord Deutsche, re (owes 15) in the third round 3-6, 6-3, 6-1,
Hancock and R. D. Stewart beat H. A. Nisbet and H. R. Phelips in the second round of the Professional Pairs
6-3, 7-5.
cognises that the French Government took action in the Nancy affair without delay, and therefore the political aspect is satis factorily settled, though the question of damages is reserved.
total loss. The buildings were insured been caught. The evidence he would sub- for a total sum of Tls. 0,000. The godown mit in support of the contention of the of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co, which,
Crown was evidence which he had no as already stated, was situated close at hand, is understood to have contained doubt the jury would accept as true and cargo valued at over Tis. 1,000,000, and upon which they would find the man this remained intact.
On the afternoon of the same day the guilty, because he had been identified by Fire Brigade were engaged for an hour each of the four people. Moreover, he was and a half in dealing with a fire in the arrested on the same morning at the: West Hongkew district. The fire was Ferry Wharf with a large quantity of the of sufficiently large dimensions to call for jewellery which was claimed by the ladion,
a number of streams, for not only was it Road, where a number of shops were the statement made by him in the charge burning on the north side of Kaifeng But if that were not sufficient, there was alight, but also the south side, where room in which he said that he went with straw store first blazed up and in turn set fire to a silk filature owned by Mr. the adopted son of the amah left in charge. Char Lai fong. The fire had started in of the house to commit a robbery, and the upper storey of one of the houses on that the adopted mother opened the door the north side of Kaifeng Road, Au old woman had been cooking, and some fat to them. She was to receive two shares flaring op had set the house alight. In of the proceeds of the robbery. the Blames then spread rapidly, attacking alarm, the bolted out of the house, and Nos. 44 to 50. All these burnt rapidly ultimately setting fire to the premises on the other side of the street. Nas. 14 to aged, out owing to the flimsy natute of 49 were gutted, and No. 50 badly dam their construction the damage was incon siderable. It is believed that they were not insured. The damage to the silk filature was comparatively slight.
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MAIL FACILITIES AT SHANGHAI.
The Chinese Post Office at Shanghai now close & mail for Europe vid Pukoy and Tientsin every Sunday at 9 p.m. in addition to the mail which closes on Thursdays. The mail which is despatched from Shanghai on Sunday nights connects with the train-de-luxe which leaves Tiont- sin at 1.25 a.m. on Wednesdays It is also stated that the Chinese Post Office accept for transmission newspapers, printed Biberia at the union rates plus local post- matter and samples for Europe vid age, and that such articles properly stamped with Chinese postage stamps may he posted at the bead and sub-offices as well as in the pillar-boxes.
PROMISING SUGGESTIONS.
After hearing the evidence, the jury returned a verdict of guilty, and prisoner
was sentenced to seven years' hard labour and ordered to receive ten strokes with the cat.""
KIDNAPPING.
A woman charged with kidnapping a child five years old from the Colony picaded not guilty.
Mr. Hodgson, in outlining the case to the jury, said that the child kidnapped was the nephew of the telephone clerk in the Central Police Station,
He was missed on March 1st and on March thi was seen in charge of the prisoner at the Kowloon Railway Station.. She had a ticket for Sheklung.
Evidence was heard, and the jury having returned a verdict of guilty his Lordship passed sentence of five years' im-
prisonment.
THE BEYMOUR ROAD ROBBERY. A woman named Chan Tsun, who was employed at Mr. Ho Kom Tong's residence in Seymour Road as an amah, was charg- ed with armed robbery, the offence being. committed on the occasion when four men
The following jury was empanelled: Messrs. C. Schlater, C. A. Lopes, G. E. Lacs, A. V. Barros, J. F Millar, A. G. Bufliad, and J, U. Barretto,
A NEW BRITISH CONSULAR POST.
A telegram from Paris says that 34 the QUINTUPLE LOAN NEGOTIATIONS. raided the house. She pleaded not guilty. The Foreign Office has decided to raise the existing post of His Majesty's Vice result of an interview between the Ger- Consul at Shanghai to the rank of a full mau Ambassador and M. Pichon on Sun- Consul.
The first occupant of the new post will day the Nancy incident is considered be Mr. Herbert Phillips, His Majesty's politically closed, Consul at Wucliow, who has been trans- ferred to be His Majesty's Consul at Shanghai as from the 1st instant.
ENGLISH MAILS TO THE FAR EAST
AMERICAN FLEET TO CRUISE THE MEDITERRANEAN,
LONDON, April 1st. According to tidings from Washington, the entire Atlantic Fleet of 21 battleships, including destroyers, will make a three
Mr. P. M. Hodgson, who prosecuted, When beginning negotiations with the Quintuple Group, last week, the Minister of Finance stated that China was pre- said that it was not necessary for the pared to appoint Sir Richard Dane Crown to prove that the woman actually Adviser to the Salt Inspectorate, and M.took any of the property away. He would part in the robbery. D. A. Konavaloff Adviser to the Audit prove that she took
The evidence of the Chinese ladies was Department
M. Konavaloff is Commissioner of Mari-to the affect that accused, instead of being time Customs, and is a linguist of unusual in her room waiting to be summoned, attainments. He was Sir Robert Hart's opened the door to them when they re
Subsequently, during turned from the theatre.
Prisoner was found guilty and sentenced Secretary in 1900, the Russian occupation of Newchwang, be
was Commissioner there;
ontire satisfac-
ouly last week, when mails dispatched from The Italian cruiser Marco Polo arrived weights of mails annually exchanged months' cruise in the Mediterranean, fulfilled his duties to thhile there he to three years' imprisonment.
London on March 19th riú Siberia and a Singapore last week and left the fol- mails dispatched from Berlin on March 19th end Suez arrived in the Colony on the same day The Chamber of Commerce suggests that a possible explanation of the general irregularity is that the Post Office authori ties ignore the existence of special express
lowing day for Saigon. Her destination is Yokohama, where she will represent the Italian Royal Navy at the forthcoming coronation of the new Emperor of Japan in Tokyo. The Varco Polo is well-known. in the East.
DEATH OF AN MP
The Postmaster-General, in a Farlia mentary printed reply to Sir Cuthbert Quilter, MP, stated that the estimated between the United Kingdom on one hand beginning in January. and China and Japan on the other were: via Siberin, 281,000lb. of letters and 88,000lb. of other correspondence; and viá Suez, 5,000l. and 831,000lb, respectively. The corresponding figures for the routes via Canada were 1,700lb. and 171,700lb. In the case of the route via San Francisco market, has died of heart failure after the figures were 1,900lb. and 54,000lb.
going up in an aeroplane at Hendon.
LONDON, April 21st. Sir C. D. Rose, Liberal M.P. for New.
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
tion of the Chinese Government. He was the first Chinese Commissioner of Customs
It seems that an effort is being made at Harbin, where again he safeguarded Chinese interests while maintaining good by the supporters of Yuan Shih Kai's Russo-Chinese relations. At present he is candidature for the Presidency to get the on furlough at Vladivostos, where he is election postponed until the details of of the Constitution have been discussed and temporarily assisting the College Oriental Languages. M-Konavaloff has settled by Parliament. received the Russian orders of Et. Stanislaus and Saint Anne..
In that event the Presidential election may not take place for three months..
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