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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 6TH, 1913.

TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.] RANDOM REFLECTIONS

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

THE SUFFRAGETTES,

CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY.

LONDON, May 3rd. Seren suffragists were charged at Bow Street Police Court on Friday with conspiracy. A detective gave evidence to finding, during a raid on the 30th alt, tocuneate planning attacks on public buildings, timber yards and cotton mills. All were remanded, one being allowed

bail.

CHARGED WITH INCITEMENT, M. Lansbury, ex-M. P., charged with inciting in connection with his public

spreches, was bound over for twelve months and to find two suretics for £2,000. He declined to find sureties and was wentenced to three months' imprisonment.

(THROUGH REUTER'α AGENCY.] CALIFORNIAN ANTIALIEN

LEGISLATION.

PUZZLING SITUATION.

on

LONDON, May 3rd.

the

fornia is most puzzling and confused, but it appears that, after all, the Bill, which

WILB adopted

30th April, introduced by Mr. Webb, the State Attorney-General, provided that aliens eligible for citizenship may own and lease Other aliene property like Americans. may own such property as is indicated in the Treaties with their respective

A number of bathing parties have gui under way with the beginning of May.") but those who went out on Friday had some of their ardour cooled, as the atmosphere was decidedly chilly and she water was cooler than most expected.

REPUDIATION OF THE LOAN.

DEFIANCE BY THE SENATE. -

From the mail papers we learn that the resolution passed by the Senate on the 20th ult, by 102 votes tó 69, was in the, following 'torms :--

"We do not recognize as effective the action of the Governmens in signing the Quintuple Loan, because it has never been

COMPANY MEETING.

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO.,

LIMITED.

The 24th ordinary yearly meeting of the shareholders in the above Company was held at the offices of the Company, St. George's Buildings, on Saturday.

Mr. J. W. C. Bonnar (chairman) pro-

I noticed in a Home paper recently that The Parliamentary situation in Cali. Mr. Gershom Stewart, M.P., had given passed by the National Council and there sided, and there were also present:-Sir notice of motion that voting by ballet for such action is a transgression of the Paul Chater, C.M.G., HoR. Mr. C. H. should be permitted in certain circum-law and the loan shall not be effective."" stances in the House of Commons. I have

A COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY." not seen how the motion fared, but the Bubject seemed to me to be peculiarly i teresting in view of the fact that the legislators of China have discussed a similar proposal. The advocates argued that it would give greater freedom for expression of opinion, but the majority thought that it was not in accordance with the responsibilities of their office and pre sumably their duty to their constituents, This argument is, no doubt, of consider able weight, but, on the other hand, it has to be realised that were voting by ballot

party system of government in most coun-

countrice.

The correspondent of the Times at Washington states that the Bill as

Ross, and Mr. S. II. Dodwell (directors), Dr. J. W. Noble, Messrs. S. R. Carlill, G. J. B. Sayer, J. McCubbin, F. Smyth, PERING, April gath T. Clark, F. Graham (manager), A. M. The Senate, to-day, requested the at- Baptista, L. E. Ozorio, Wong Loung Him, the lean was signed, but Chou Hsuch-hsi A. M. Silva, Leung Yan Po, and Leung tendance of the Cabinet to explain why had gone to Tientsin, while Chao Ping-Shia Lim. chun sent a note stating that he was ill. The notice convening the meeting hav-

A member of the Kunghotang asked by ing been read by the manager, what authority Chong Chi and C. T. Wang had telegraphed to the Tutuhs about the loan. The President stated that they had done so in their private capacity

The point as to whether the Provisional Assembly had received an assurance that Chou Hsueh-hai would refer the final contract of the loan to the Assembly was

was appointed to investigate the question,

The CHAIRMAN said-The report and ac counts, with the auditors' certificats at tached, having been in your hands for some time, I will, with your, permission, adopt the usual custom and take them as read. At our last meeting I said that

the reduction made in price of current

INTIMATIONS

JOHNSTONE'S

M.P.

A Really Recherché Whisky-

Similar charges against Mrs. Ddum adopted and expected to pass is regarded | permitted it would tend to break down the then discussed, and a special committee your directors were fairly, confident that The best that quality of ingredients mond and Miss Kenney were adjourned by Californian patriots as sufficiently tries, as members would enjoy a greater as it appears that no records were kept at aine die in view of the later conspiracy discriminatory to suit their purpose. The liberty of action, being practically un- the secret meetings of the Provisional would be more than made up by an in- and age combined with experience

charges.

Mr. Lansbury has given notice of appeal and has been admitted to bail.

PUBLISHER AKRESTED.

Despite the official warning, the news- Paper Suffragette is still being sold.

Mr. Drew, the Manager of the Printing Company by whom the Suffragette is printed, was arrested on Friday.

A

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A PROTEST NEETING..

"Protest" mesting of Suffragists held in Caxton Hall. Defiant speeches were made, asking for volunteers

Bill is outwardly at least milder than most of its predecessors.

A message from Sacramento says that President Wilson has telegraphed the State Governar calling attention to the

fettered by the claims of party as against their own opinions.

Assembly.

A CASE FOR ARITHMETIC.

crease in the number of consumers, and

the figures placed before you are ample and skill can produce.

evidence that such has been the case, During the year we have connected up over 1,200 additional consumers, and cur rent used has increased by about 35 per cent. Of the two Diesel engines ordered

State Attorney's Bill, involving an appool opium pipe, and would take to cheap and Loan was pereniptorily denied on the last year one is in course of eréction and

to the Courts on a question of Treaty rights, as possibly bringing on a long and delicate litigation. The Governor replied that he had referred the matter to the State Attorney General, asking for suggestions to meet the objection.

The Californian Senate has adopted the

PERING, April 29th. There was great excitement at the meet- ing of the Senate to-day. The right of the Government to conclude the Quintuple ground that the conditions, were other than those agreed upon with the Sox- tuple Syndicate. The Advisory Council had consented to a loan at the price of ninety, bearing, five and-a-half por cent. interest, but the price was now fixed at eighty-four and the rate of interest at five per cent. The Senate resolved to hold responsible the three Ministers who had signed the loan and to demand an ex- planation at Tuesday's meeting.

As tho

the other is due this month. demand for current is still increasing your directors have placed orders for two additional engines, the first of which wo trust will be running for next summer's load and the other a few months later. You will observe from the accounts that there is a Lalance of $270,099.08 available for appropriation, and I trust you will

to act in the militant ranks, so as to show Alien Land Bill, permitting Japanese to ness among Chinese, but that it is pain- President is protected against any attack approve of the directors' suggestion and the Government women's pitiful opinion

dispose of it as follows:-

OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE.

H. RUTTONJEE & SON,

Wine and Spirit Merchants.

What Sir Frederick Lugard feared would follow upon the closing of opium divans in the Colony is apparently taking place. He anticipated that people would fly to more harmful experiments than the deleterious spirits. Whether there is the demand for such cheap spirits as te im agined, cannot, of course, be said, but it is apparent that the Chinese in Hongkong are acquiring a liking for liquors other than samshu and are imbibing more freely than they have done hitherto. A drunken Chinaman was formerly almost unknown, but nowadays an occasional one comes before the Magistrate on a charge usually associated with Europeans, that of being drunk and incapable. The Courts, how- The situation is regarded with consider ever, are not a true index yet of drunken-able calmness by the officials, as the fully common is known to most people and is completely master of the situation. who have any dealings with Chinese.

A LETTER TO THE NATION.

The Speakers of the Senate have ad- including sne from Mr. Housman, the states that the Senate, after a debate last police force on the Kowloon side was car dressed an open letter to the nation which ing for ten hours, passed the State Atried out on Wednesday afternoon. The has been forwarded to all Tutuhs, Civil idea was to test the readiness with which | Governors, Provincial Diets and tho torney-General's Bill by a majority of 30 the police could turn out in the event of Press. It emphasizes the inadvisability riots or other emergencies, and the of the loan and the danger of foreign con- promptitude with which the men fully trol. It asks the nation to avert the armed and equipped reached the points danger, and points to the secret meeting of duty assigned them was very creditable of the Advisory Council on December 27 Europeans will note that the principal with the Minister of Finance, saying that feature of the scheme as carried out on the Advisory Council arrived at an under will no doubt be appreciated and, follow ZEISS Wednesday was the concentration of men standing with the Sextuple Syndicate ng out our usual custom, ample, but so as to protect the European residential with regard to the principles of the loan. area. The manner in which all sections At that time the Advisory Council ex necessary, allowance has been made for of the force responded to the alarm should pressly reserved the right to give its con- fepreciation of plant and property, and inspire the public with greater confidence sent before the loan was finally signed.we are able also to add another $30,000 in the police of the Colony.

Ostasiatischer, Lloyd, s

of them.

Several contributions were announced,

novelist.

FURTHER SUSPECTED OUTRAGES.

lease lands in California for a period of three years.

A later telegram from Sacramento

The Trafalgar shed on the Midland to 2.. Railway at Bradford was reduced to ruins in an hour on Saturday by fire,

A Washington message states that if the The Californian land ownership dispute be not settled within three months, Japan will probably request arbitration by the Hague Tribunal.

blaze was terrific. Practically every pound of whol stored as well as the dress goods were also destroyed. The damage is estimated at over £100,000. The fire broke out in several places simultaneously: It is noteworthy that the fire in a neigh bouring waggon load of straw diverted attention from the larger outbreak. Suffragettes are suspected, but there is no evidence against them.

Sufragettes burned a portion of a public school in Aberdeen.

SCOTTISH HOME RULE.

WELSH MINERS ON STRIKE.

OBJECT TO NON-UNIONISTS.

LONDON, May 3rd. Fifty-two thousand Welsh miners have gone on strike as a protest against the employment of 5,000 non-Unionists.

The strike follows an extraordinary May Day demonstration gerade" unionists which influed the speeches of the mendera, who vehemently affirmed that they would not return to work until every non-unionist had joined the Federation, The men returned thinking everyone had

joined the Federation, but they soon found there were numbers of non-unionista and the strike resulted. THE DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE. LONDON, May 4th..

A message from Melbourne states that the Canadian Minister, Mr. Foster, in

The Colony must have felt interested to learn that a successful mobilisation of the

How many people. I wonder, rose early on Thursday to wash their faces in the May dew the virtues of which, for im proving the complexion of the young, was accepted in our earlier years.

MAIL SUBSIDIES.

30,000.00

To pay a dividend of 16 por dent.... 96,000.00 To place to reserve .... To write off plant account for de-

preciation To place to property account for

depreciation

To place to furniture account for

depreciation

To pay a bonus to staff

106,675.01

16,218.71

133.60

5,326.02

To carry forward to next account. 16,945.84

$270,099.08

The increase in dividend of 2 per cent

to reserve to provide for contingencies. A bonus to the members of the staff of 10 per cent of their salaries is only a 12 fitting recognition of the excellent work

12 they have done." I shall be pleased to answer any questions to the best of ty ability.

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PRISM

BINOCULARS

AT HOME PRICES:

16 Power

...£10.10.0. (new model)......:£10.10.0

*.

.....

£9.5.0

£8.10.0

6

(large field)..

£7.10.0

6

£0:0.0

6

(small mod

25.18.4

3

£5.8.0

In the House of Commans on April 8,

8 If truth Mr. R. L. Outhwaite (Lib., Hanley) asked the Secretory to the Treasury the amount of the subsidies agreed to be paid to the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Com pany by

be told, I am afraid there were no may who remembered that Thursday was May Day they thought of any kind of ow it was more likely to be "mountain dew.”

When we rend of the Suffragette ter rorism being waged at Home we are led to think that there must be something wrong in the modern attitude of man to

women.

Such a view is held by Dr. Waugh, dean of Bennett Medical College, Chicago, who declares that wife boating is a proper and wholesome discipline. He

her When you find your mate, take her; she is expecting it. When you have her, live for Ber; she demands it. When she awakens your jealousy beat her; she needs it. According to the physician, some women require beating. Through the lack of it they escape from their bus band's control, and are incapable of controlling themselves. They and by the absence of the beatings that their hus bands are not their masters. Therefore,

the

There being no questions, the CHAIRMAN Imperial Government proposed the adoption of the report and for the conveyance of, mails under cont contracts entered into during the period. when the Earl of Selbourne was Under- Secretary of State for the Colonies and First Lord of the Admiralty.

Dr. J. W. NOBLE, in seconding, said: It has been my pleasure and privilge on several occasions during the past few Mr. J. King (L., North Somerset) had years to congratulate the management of similar question on paper. Mr. H. Samuel, Postmaster-General, this Company on the excellent results as answered that the sums payable for the shown by the report, and also te con- conveyance of oversea mails were stated gentulate them on conserving their re in the contracts submitted for the ap sources, which is so very necessary in proval of the House of Commons. The Companies such as this instead of paying

Parliamentary contracts appeared in papers, to which he referred the hon. everything away in dividends. I am very members

glad to have this opportunity of again Mr. Swift MacNeill: Was not one subsidy for the mail to China increased congratulating the Company on à success. ful year's work. Long may it continue. during the period by £10,000 per year!

(Hear, hear.) I have much pleasure in seconding the proposition that the report and accounts as presented be adopted.

The motion was carried unanimously. On the motion of Mr. McCunsin, seconded by Mr. WoxG LEUNG HIM, the action of the management in appointing Mr. S. H. Dodwell a director vice Mr. Medhurst, who has left the Colony, was confirmed.

Mr. H. Samuel: I should like to have notice of the question.

There were some

LONDON, May aru.? The Scottish Liberals' Home Rule Bill has been issued.. It provides for a Single Chamber of 140 members representing existing constituencies, except the Univer- sities. This Parliamentary franchise and representation to the Imperial Parlia ment will remain as at present until the devolution of England and Wales. The Scottish Parliament will have all the powers as under the Irish Bill except the control of the Post Office and Customs.

the course of a lecture on "Ourselves and then seek other masters, since their con-nary interest in this class of subject will the Empire," declared that the Dominions tempt for their husbands has reached its GENERAL HUNTER HONOURED.

When things have come to this cannot longer refuse to share the burdenpass, the doctor advises, the time has ar LONDON, May 3rd.

of the general defence of the Empire as rived for the husband to kill his wife. Lient.-General Sir Archibald Hunter, well as her own special defence.

The most devoted wives, states Dr. give notice of that, Waugh, "are those who fear their hus. K.C.B., Governor of Gibraltar, has been

According to a telegram from Ottawa, them and to win their approbation. bands. They plan day and night to please gazetted Colonel of the King's Own Mr. Allen, the New Zealand Minister for "If death takes away the brutal wife- Lancaster Regiment.

beater," he says, "his widow erects an Defence, addressing the Canadian Club, altar to his memory at which she wor-

ships." emphasised the importanes of arousing

ALASKA ALIEN FISHING BILL.

LONDON, May 4th.'

The Governor of Alaska has vetoed the Alien Fishing Bill, unanimously passed. by both Houses, designed to prevent Japanese fruin fishing in Alaska,

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNOR

GENERAL.

LONDON, May 4th. Lord Denman, the Governor-General of the Dominion, arrived at Sydney, on Friday, and was received by the Governor of New South Wales, the Premier, and the Lord Mayor. His Lordship was most enthusiastically welcomed, and the streets, were profusely which were crowded, decorated with flags. He reviewed from the Town Hall & procession, extending to five miles in length, of 20,000 cadets.

These being no official residence, the P. & 0. str. Mulwa was delayed for six hours to enable His Excellency to embark for Melbourne.

popular interest in the Dominions in the common naval defence of the Empire.

A GIFT TO THE NATION.

STAFFORD HOUSE TO BE A MUSEUM.

LONDON, May 3rd. It is announced that the difficulties regarding Stafford House have now been overcome, and that it will be used as a guest-house for distinguished visitors. It is understood that Their Majesties take a great interest in the project.

Willian Lover had withdrawn his offer to present Stafford House to the nation, on the ground that suggestions had been made in the House of Commons during his absence in the Congo that he was actuated by mercenary motives.]

[Lust month it was announced that Sir

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It is announced that the famous

Cherniaysky Trio-Leo (violinist), Jan (pianist), and Mischel (vellist) are to give two performances at the City Hall on the 8th and 10th inst. The booking is. At Robinson's.

limit.

I remember bearing it said that women, like dogs, are ready to lick the hand that beats them. The older married men in Hongkong might not care to make such an innovation, and some would probably like to try it very much provided the law would support such a theory, but the young benedicts who are not hampered by precedenta might like to take the hint.

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RODERICK RANDOM.

increases and some decreases.

Mr. King In view of the extraordi-

the right hon. gentleman consider the issue of a return going back a good num- ber of years, and giving all these

The Speaker: The hon. member must

·MAJOR-GENERAL ANDERSON'S NEW APPOINTMENT.

Mr. J. W, C. Bonnar was re-elected as a director, on the motion of Mr. BAYER, It was mentioned in our columns some seconded by Mr. LEUNG SHIU LIM. "months ago that Major-General Anderson, CB, who has been in command of the

On the proposition of Mr. CARLILL,

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troops in Southern Ching during the seconded by Mr. Suva, Messrs. A. C. past three years, was marked for the com- Hynes and W. Hatton Potts were mand of a Division in India. The ap- elected auditors, at & remuneration of pointunent has now been made. Major- General Anderson succeeds. Lient. Gen- $100 each. cral Sir Brian Mahon in the command of the Lucknow Division, which includes the gentlemen. Thank you for your attend- troops at Lucknow, Fyzabad, Allahabad, and Calcutta. The British and native anca. Dividend warrants will be ready troops in the Division number about on application on Monday. $30,000.

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THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE.

We have been officially informed that it having been found inconvenient to continue the system of holding annual meetings of the Canton Insurance Office, Ltd., in October, an ordinary meeting of the Company will be held on Wednesday, the 21st day of May, 1913, at 11.45 am, to pass the report and accounts audited to the 31st day of December, 1919...

The general agents and consulting com- mittee have declared an interim dividend. of $18 per share, payable on 22nd May,

out of the balance of $1,546,422.06 at credit of the working account for the year [12.

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