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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 16T, 1913,

It was ten years after the destruction of Mr. Hans Ludwig Beyor, of Reiss & TELEGRAMS.TELEGRAMS.

the Wossang line hafore another railway Was built in Chins. The second line was one between Tongaban coal mining centre)

and Tientsia the uoleus of the present Peking-Mulden Railway-and in 1897 the section from Poking to Fiontain was opened. Then came the scramble for "apheres of influence" by the Powers in 1898-1899, Having selected their respective spheres, the Powem proceeded as it were by tacit consent to mark them off by Railway and Mining Concessions, Russia having sẽt

Co, was summoned to appear before Mr. Justice Kemp yesterday to give an explanation for not attending as a juror at the Criminal Bessions on June 18th H informed his Lordship that the enamon was left in the office on Saturday with a junior cle, who, however, forget to give it to him on Monday, and he wout to Canton on business. The explanation was accepted, and the juror was excused.

THROCON REVTEL 6 AGENCY.]

"SUFFRAGETTE PROCESSION.

· POLICH PREVENT IT ENTERING DOWNING

STREET.

OHINESE YM.C.A. STUDENT HOSTEL

OPENED BY HE. THE GOVERNOR.

THROUGH EBUTBE'S AGENCY:}

DOUBLE AVIATION FATALITY,

The new Chinese Y.M.C.A. Student PARIS, June 30th. Hostel with playground was opened fast Whilst the aviator, Mr. Parisot, was evening in the presence of a good LONDON, June 30th, flying across a road at Liege the wing of number of European and Chinens vieitora. Following a demonstration at Trafalgar the machine struck a young man, killing by HE the Governor, The Hostel, which is situated in Bridges Street, in the midsu now advertisements to day of an addition head of a body of male sympathisers, to the ground, injuring the aviator, who modation for 32 students. It possesses a

An announcement appears among our Squaro, Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, at the him instantaneously, The aeroplano fell-

of the Chinese community, has accom roomy gymnasium and has a playground adjoining On the platform wore seated besides His Excellency, Bir Kai Connolly, Mr. T. K. Dealy, Mr. J. L. Mo- Ho Kai, Captain Taylor, Captain Pherson, Dr. Wan Man Kui, and Mr. Wong Mow Lam,

to the list of local firm-Messrs. Rudolf

An inquest was held by Mr. F. A. Hazeland yesterday concerning the death of Wong Mah, aged 45 an inmate of Victoria. Gaol, who was sentenced in January last to six monthe imprisonment for returning from banishment. The jury was composed of Messrs. J. H, W, Armstrong, John Bentley, and A. Joanil ho, Dr. McKenny deposed that the deceased suffered from a severe attack of dysentery, from whi h he died. A verdict of death from natural chuses was returned.

arrested

THE BALKAN SITUATION.

LONDON, June 30th. "The Montenegrin army, numbering. 12,000), has arrived at Tskuh, and was warmly greeted by the Serviaus,

SOFIA, June 30th

ANOTHER PATALITY.

After devotional exercises,

The Ven. ARCHDEACON. BARNETT," 10" an explanatory speech, apologised at the outset for the absence of Bishop Lander SHAKESPERIAN RECAL

and Mr. Ralphs, a member of the com mitte, and proceeded to state that the Mr Marshall Darrach,

well-committee valued the presence of K.E. known in America as perean the Governor as evidence of his nterest reciter, gave a recital of “The empest " in that building. He went on to show last night at the Peak Hotel. The audience, which included HE The

the example, in 1896, in an Agreement for Wolt de Kew, total merchants. Most of whom were dockers, and a crowd expired almost immediately. Ten persons CHEMISTS, DRUGGISTS AND the construction of the Eastern Chinese Rudolf Wolf, who is a brother of Mr. P numbering about 2,000, marched down were slightly injured.

PERFOMERS,

railway system in Manchuria. The dangers | R. Wolff, recently spent several weeks in Whitehall and attempted to break through of this development thoroughly alarmed the Colony, with such satisfactory busi-a cordon of police blocking Downing

Mr. Wight

an aviator, was flying at China, as well as some of the leading ness results as to encourage him to take Street. A general melée ensued, and the Brighton when the aeroplane fell owing to Powers, and while the Powers agreed among the step now announced in partnership police eventually drove back the crowd engine trouble. The aviator sustained themselves to abandon the policy of water with Mr. C. H. W. Kew, formerly in the

towards the Square. Five men were injuries, from which he subsequently tight compartments in China in farour service of the Hongkong and Kowloon

succumbed. of the policy of the "open-door," China. Wharf and Godown Co. on her part, shut down on the granting of railway concessions, and decided to build future railways herself with the aid of foreign capital and foreign engineering assistance. It took Chind nearly twenty years after the destruction of the Urst | Woosung line to realise the advantages of railway communications, and the years of the present century have witnessed very marked progress. China now possesses about 6,000 miles of railway, with about 2,000 miles more actually under construc tion. Europe is said to have a mile of railway for every 2,400 inhabitants; Chinn Malini, the wizard of magic and con- bas, perhaps, now about a mile for every juring, who is stated to have ap-

THE TROUBLE IN MOROCCO, 70,000 of her inhabitants.

Since the peared before nearly all the crowned

OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS SUSPENDED BY Revolution, Dr. SUN YAT-BEN has put for heads of Europe, is to give his

SPANISH CENEDAL.' ward a grandiose scheme for the construe-first public entertainment in Hong- the Peak

LONDON, June 30th. tion of 75.000 miles of railway in ten years at kong this evening,

Owing to the desperate resistance of the estimated outlay of about £600,000,000 Hotel. The booking, we are informed, has

been exceedingly large, and His Excel Moors, and the heavy Spanish casualties, sterling, and he bus the authority of a Mandate issued by the PaxSIDEST to draft lency the Governor has given the perform-

ance his patronage. On Thursday even-the Spanish General has suspended offen- plans for this railway system, and to submiting the second public performance will be sive operations pending the arrival of them to foreign financiers with a view to given at St. Andrew's Hall in the City reinforcements. raising the necessary capital, finally sub- Hall, Tickets are on sale at Moutrie's mitting the results to the Government for its approval. Moreorer, he was authorised to form and organise a Central Railway entrusted to him, and was granted $30,000 Corporation" to carry out the work a month to defray the expenses connected with the preparation of his schemes and the organisation of the Corporation Presum- ably this sum has been paid each month since FATSON & CO., the issue of the Mandate, but the world has not been startled as yet by any announcement LIMITED,

the goleme, and we fear that no such SONG AND CHINA.

announcement, need be expected for a long time to come, unless the task of preparing the scheme is placed in more practical and more competent hands. While the construction of 75,000 miles of railway,

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HONGKONG, JULY 181, 1913,

If there are among, our readers any who follow the practice of the President of the British Association (who recently based an address on a motto printed on a date sheet fora from the calendar which provides him with his daily shaving paper) they may, perchance, have noted on the sheet they tora off this morning the record that the first railway was opened in Okina on June 30th, 1876; and they will probably have been prompted thereby to reflect on the development which has taken place in this respect during the intervening twenty seven years. The particular railway referred to was, of course, the Woosung railway, of Eft 6in.guage, which was built by foreign enterprise, and subsequently redaomed" by the Chinese; but the prejudice against railways among a superstitious people

nt

CHINESE AVIATION SCHOOL.

how the hostel had demonstrated its

that Roumanin will intervene in the event small, possibly owing to the fact that the rest among the student class not on The semi-official Mir refuses to believe Governor and party, was disappointingly / Valuo in India, where in spite of the great of a Serbo-Bulgarian war in view of the recital ivas inadequately advertised. who had passed through a hostel had at abundant proofs Bulgaria has furnished Chinese students from Queen's College any time been accused of participating formed about a third of the audience. in seditious propaganda. This proved tho of her sincere desire for the friendship of Mr. Darrach gave an excellent recital of value of environment in student life. He Roumania.

the comedy, and the audience showed their then referred to the classes who would genuine appreciation of his performance benefit by that institution, those who had by hearty applause. His portrayal of no home and those who were attached to Caliban was a fine bit of work, and his schools and colleges which had no board. recital of the scene in which three such ing accommodation. They proposed that different characters as Caliban, Trinculo, the hostel should be helpful in the educa and Stofano converse was remarkably tion, spiritual, mucal and physical, of clever,

those who found a home · there. Tho speaker then referred to the donors whose bonefactions had made the hostel possible. Ven. Archdeacon Williams, of New Zealand, subsoribed £1,000, with which the land was secured. Then the late. Lord Kinnaird and Lord Overtoun subscribed £1,000 each, and two American gentle- men, Mr. Stephens and Mr. Leonard, gavo 85,000 gold end $1,000 gold respectively. The total cost of the building, with ground, furnishinga and playground, amounted approximately to $44,000. Accommodation was provided for 12 students and a Chinese secretary, and 16 Some interest is being aroused, writes students had already entered into resid the Peking correspondent of the Ceno, most of them from Queen's College. Daily News, by the mysterious endeavour HE, THE GOVERNOR said Archdeacon

THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF CANADA.

DUKE OF CONNAUGHT TO REMAIN FOR

ANOTHER YEAK.

At the last meeting of the North Borneo Chamber of Commerce an enquiry was reccived from the Government re the prob- Sisal Hemp or Manila Hemp in the terri. ability of the successful cultivation of

tory. The Secretary was instructed to

LONDON, June 30th.. say that the principal cause which would It is officially announced that the Duke militate against the successful cultivation of Connaught has accepted an extension of this product was the cost of production, of a year in the Governor-Generalship of

due to the lack of labour. It was under-Cafuda. His Royal Highness probably

stood that the success of the Philippines

A Chinese Military Flying School is now fairly organized in Peking. Twelve airships have been installed at Nanhaidza with French experts. Morning flights take place over Poking almost daily, On the 25th ult a biplane gave an exhibition over the Presidential: quarters. Shih-kai locked on with interest from his garden, while the aviator dropped a letter at the feet of the President.

A NEW LOAN REPORTED.

ALLEGED AMERICAN NEGOTIATIONS,

Yuan

indicating that progress has been made with patter was not so much due to returns to Canada in the autumn, when, of the Chinese Government to negotiate Barnett had explained so fully the objecte

large plantations as to the growing of hemp on a small scale hy the natives of the country.

An extraordinary case of stabbing is reported. Two coolics, employed by pig dealers, quarrelled in a slaughter-house at Kennedy Town on Sunday. It appears

will

hoped, the Duchess of Connaught be well enough to accompany him."

GERMANY'S NEW TAXATION.

EXTRAORDINAHY VOTING ERRON

BERLIN, June 30th. It appears that the Centre voted for

in Aerican loan. The Minister of of the institution which he was asked to

Industry and Commerce is party to the

transaction on the Chinese side but the open that there was no need for him to American lender has hitherto eluded add anything to what he had said, He+ identification.

had listened with a great deal of pleas

The figure is stated to be £6,000,000. Part of the proceeds are designed to sure to his remarks about the supervision purchase the Hanyang Ironworks for the to which the boys would bo subjected in Government, and it is said that the that building. He would remind both the security will be either certain, or the

involving en expenditure of £600,000,000 | that one of the men stabbed the other, who the taxation of the Federal Princes in whole of the, mining reserves of Man. parents and the boys alike that in Eng-

starling, in ten year a dream in which snatched the knife from his assailant, and

nevertheless at

said that a

no practical men will-iquulge, it may in tami inilicted a corere wound. Both stage has coolics became exhausted through loss of been reached in the history of China, blood, and fell to the ground, the police when we find the Government and t

the later removing them to the hospital. One people of China keenly alive to the advan of the injured men is not expected to survive, and the other stands charged ages of railway communication, and we can count with confidence upon the

with cutting and wounding. He is still progress in

in hospital, however, and is unable to railway construction which has bean so marked a feature of the last decade in apper before the Court: China being fully maintained, if not excelled, during the next ten years.

It is announced that from to-day the inhabitants in the rider main districts of the Colony will again be provided with a constant supply of water.

Lieutenant Boyes, the new flag. lien- tenant of Vice Admiral Jerram, of the China Squgron, has served afloat sineq January, 189 and was promoted lieu tenant in Sepember, 1902. He is an interpreter in Pench, is specially quali fied in signallingsluties, and has had the advantage of having seen active service on the China Station As a middy of the Inter

mistake, and the defeat of the proposal on the third reading is therefore certain, In that event the Socialists, as well as the Conservatives, Poles, and other maleon- tents, will vote against the Property Taxation Bill, involving the danger of its rejection.

AMERICA AND JAPAN,

"WASHINGTON, June 30th, Mr. Bryan and Baron Chinda have signed an extension of the special arbitra. tion Treaty which was about to expire.

THE CRYSTAL PALACE..

AN APPEAL BY THE LORD, MAYOR OF LONDON.

LONDON, June 30th,

churia.

land, and indeed in Europe, a great deal It is beedless to say that the Japanese of importance was aucted of the the Hanyang Ironworks, while neither vision of growing lads, and young men are deeply interested in the question of

supor

Japan nor Russia would gladly suffer the and boys were taught to look up to their hypotheration of Manchurian mining house master at public schools es a man rights. In view of the absence of any understanding of the local considerations put for the time being in the place of involved, on the part of the negotiators, their father, and the man to whom they the proposed transaction is not to be should trust, to whom they should taken seriously..

go when they were in trouble, as every boy who was going to be any good it all would do. Later on at the University the boys were allotted to tutors whose special care it was to look after those particular boys, When he

AUDITOR'S REPORTS

NC. Daily News

The following lettera appear in the Sir-We notice in your Notes and Commenta to-day that legal opinion ha been taken in Hongkong to the effect that went home and visited his old University? it is unnecessary to read the auditors' the first man he went to see was always report provided the shareholders at his old tutor, for whom he had the Company's annual general meeting agree

to take the report and accounts as read. greatest regard and affection, and to Your readers may be interested to learn whom he used to carry his troubles, which, that a similar question was addressed to as he was a spirited youth, were not a few.

of the opportunities afforded them in that institution. They had there advantages which were not afforded others who were

Mr. G. W. Wickersham, ex-Attorney Centurion he served with the General of the United States, and Mrs.national Expeditio, under the command

The Times gives prominence to a fund the editor of the "Accountant" in London He hoped the boys would take advantage

last year the reply of the legal contribu Wickersham were outertained at Shanghai of Sir Edward H. Se our for the relief it is opening in response to an appeal by tor, which was duly printed in the -17846 wide by the American Women's

of the Peking Legations and in the sub- the Lord Mayor of London to secure the as follows:- Club and the University Club.

Accountant of March 16th, 1812, reads sequent operations at Tiente. For his

In my opinion the report ought to be statutory duty might be proceeded against and they ought to make full use of theat as a misdemeanour. In such cases it is no He had no doubt that they would, and defence to argue that the interests of the was perfectly cortain that if they did they public are better consulted by the disregard of the statutory duty. (Beo A. G. . ..-NW R. Co., 1000, 1.Q. B. 78).”

The Chinese Engineering and MiningOrvices he was mentioned, in tespatches 500,000 sterling still required to purchase read in all cases, and a breach of the attending the same college as themselves

the fund with £1,000.

Co., Ltd., announce in our advertising and specially promoted to the rank of the Crystal Palace. The Times starts columns the payment of the half-yearly lieutenant (China medal with clasp. interest due on the 0 per cent. first mortgage debentures (Kailan bonds).

REDUCTIONS IN TELEGRAPH RATES.

The opinn farm at Macao is to be re-let From today there come into force by auction this month. The upset price is considerable reductions in the cable tariffs $400,000 per annum. The Farmers will to the Straits, Federated Malay States,

be permitted to import 260 chests for local | Philippinės, India, Africa, &e, but the use and 240 chests for re-export-a total projected reductions to Europe, &c., are of 500 chests a year. The contract will be yet in abeyance. The largest reduction let for five years.

applies to the Straits Settlements and FM.S., which will have an uniform rate The weekly return of communicable during next quarter of 55 cents ae against diseases in the Colony shows that last a prestat average of 21.08, and to Manila enteric fever; 1 diphtheria, and 2 of puer cents. weck there were 20 cases of plague; 0 of the rate becomics 30 cents instead of 15-

poral fever. All were Chinese, except the The India rate falls from $1,20 to $1.05, was so pronounced at that time, that diphtheria case. Of the 20 cases of plague and applies also to Ceylon telegramis when the final instalment of the pur-19 were fatal. was paid in October, money.

THE GRAND PRIX.

LONDON, June 30th. The race for the Grand Prix, the blue ribandist. the French turf, resulted

Brulear Opoti

Ecovien

Twenty ran. Bruteur won by a length and a half, two lengths separating second and third. The Sportsman returns the betting at 365/100, 18/1 and 1974..

MR. LYTTELTON SERIOUSLY ILL.

LONDON, June 30th. The Right Hon, A. Lyttelton, M. which is being opened for Ceylon traffic who became seriously indisposed at the

rate, from Toth July, also falls consider has undergone a serious operation. in Formosa for some years, but some an operation for abscess of the liver last ably, viz., from an average of $1.45 to an in the island, less week at the Philippines General Hospital uniform rate of $0.99, and there are also enterprising Chinese in

which institution he had been confined superstitious than the ning of their fellow for ten days pending a diagnosis of reductions to Indo-China, Persia, &c. country men on the muisland, deformined the ailment that prevented his departure A very remarkable reduction, which will

chase

1877, the rails were

torn up and Mr. Frank R. White, Director of Educa

passing by the new Penang-Colombo cabio

We are, etc.,

LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS. Shanghai, June 23,

would entertain for the gentlemen who were supervising this institution the same regard and affection as he still entor tained for the gentleman who supervised him when he was a growing lad. He was Sir,-In reference to your note in to- glad to see attached to the instítutión a day's issue on the subject of Auditors' playing ground. There was, in bis Reports the following extract from opinion, nothing which conduced more to "Secretarial Practice,' a book recently.

published by the Chartered Institute of the proper training of young men than Secretaries in London, is of interest :— thoroughly sound, hard bodily exercis

"The Auditors Report must be read His Excellency then declared the build- before the Company in general meeting. It ing and ground open, and expressed the will be the duty of the Secretary to read it, hope that it would be of great service to and, in view of the express statutery pro-

vision, it seems clear that the report must those for whom it was intended. not by agreement be taken as read.".

Sir KAI HO KAI then interpreted the

shipped to Formos. The rails lay gusting tion in the Philippine Islands, underwent on 1st July, The Netherlands Indies Foreign Office dinner on the 26th in book for the profession, by the thanks to His Excellency for opening the

to

to build a railway in Formoss, and for this for the United States at the eleventh be very welcome, occurs from 1st July, in

OBITUARY.

LONDON, June 30th. The death has taken place at Sheffield

purpose they were able to acquire the hour, Dr. P. K. Gilman performed the the rate for Press telegrams between Great of Sir Samuel Gillott, rails and rolling stock of the old Woosung operation, which is reported to have beon Britain and Hongkong, which drops from fine for a fraction of their original cost. entirely successful.

75 cents to 20 cents, or 4ld. per word “

The Inte Knight was formerly Chiuf Secretary of State for Victoria, and was Lord Mayor of Melbourne from 1901 to 1904 ]

hostel. This was seconded by Mr. WONG Mow Lam, and carried with acclamation.

I may mention that the wording of the speeches into Chinese for the benefit of clause in the English Companies (Can those who did not understand English, solidation) Act 1008, dealing with this master is similar to that of the Hongkong following this with an address,

Dr. WAN MAN Kat proposed a vote" of book was complied as a standard of the Institute, consisting of the secretaries

e of some of the largest com panica in England in conjunction with a leading authority on Company law.

As regards your statement that it is not usual in Hongkong to read the auditors' report, I would point out that it is, at Home, an invariable custom to do so. am, etc..

CHARTERED SECLETARY,

Shanghai, June 28,

The students afterwards gave an ox hibition of physical exerclaca and played a game of volley ball.

The proceedings closed with cheers for His Excellency. It should be added that the Chinese Y.M.C.A. band was in at tendance and played selectiona.