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for the accommodation of the better- The plague return yesterday wala class Chinese. This Report, of course blank. refers to the conditions prevailing in 1912, but this building activity continues in many directions in the Colony, and we have very good reasons for predicting that the

A Chinese was at the Magistracy yester- day sentenced to one month's hard labour and four hours' stocks for stealing a muit

of clothes,

An interesting "Aeronautical view of the Panama Canal has been published by the Japarses Chamber of Commerce at Yokohama.

Mr. George W. Guthrie, the American Ambassador, will sall from San Francisco on the Mongoliu on July 16th, arriving at Yokohama on August 2nd.

steward on board the s.s. Top Maru,

Three Indian seamen belonging to the Laichikok met their deaths Standard Oil Company's ship lying off 151 board' yesterday. Particulars of the tragedy

understood that the men entered one of have not yet been made keown, but it is

the tanks and were aftrwards found dead,

The Water Return for July ist, eir culated yesterday showed that on that date the water in the storage reservoirs on the island totalled 540.03 millions of gallons as compared with 441.36 millions on the corresponding date of last year. At Kowloon the supply was 317.85 million gallons as compared with 212.55 millions on the same date last year.

TELEGRAMS.

(THROUGH RÄUTER'E AGENOT.]

WAR IN THE BALKANS.

THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAMSHIP 00.

A COMIZADORE'S DEFALCATIONS.

CHINA ASSOCIATION.

A meeting was held yesterday at the offices of Messra, Jardine, Matheson & Coi

It will be observed from an advertise of the local branch of the China Associa ment appearing on page 4 that the Extra-tion, for the purpose of re-constituting ordinary meeting of shareholders, con- the branch.

ROUMANIA'S POLICY.

vened by circular for to-morrow, has been Mr. M. W. Slade presided, and there Reuter learns that Roumania intends to cancelled and the meeting is now called) were also present the Hon. Mr. David occupy territory from Turtuksi, on the for the 21th inst. A resolution is to be Landale, the Hon. Mr.

E. Shellim, Danube, to Baltchik, on the Black Sea proposed in favour of treating the freights Mesars. J. W. H. Bonnar, W. G. Hu Moreover, she will not permit any dis- Compradore and unaccounted for by him, Lowe, H, W. Bird, C., W. Barton, C and passage monies collected by the late phreys, N. J. Stabb. P. Tenter, A. R. turbance of the balance of power pre-amounting (less commission) to $75,94.11 Bessick, G. T. Edking, E. L. Krauss, C. judicial to herself. Therefore, her Army as a loss to the Company to be written off Lafrentz, H. R. Hancock, J. H. Beck,

the-accounts accordingly

-RH.-Holyoak-nud E-X: Leofa Chan,

secretary).

will intervene in favour of Servia" or

éither Bulgaria if threatened.

is dangerously

FIGHTING. “ALLIES” DESIRE PEACE.

A POISONING TRAGEDY. A poisoning tragedy took place on the Gennan steamer Mache on Wednesday It is reported in Vienna that Bulgaria afternoon. One of the Chinese members has intimated her readiness for peace.

of the crew brewed some herbs in order

com- The Servian and Bulgarian Com-to make tes, but when he and a manders are negotiating for an armistice. panion partook of the decoction they were seized with violent pains. One man The losses are so enormous that there succumbed, and the other was taken to are fents of cholera.

pospital, where he lies in a sérious condi-

THE MOST SANGUINARY

BATTLE."

According to a Belgrade telegram, the

tion.

HONGKONG SUBSIDIARY

CUINAGE.

The CHAIRMAN said it was three years since they had had a meeting of this Association in this Colony. "Meanwhile hath the Chairman and the Hon. Seco tary had left the Colony, at about the same time, and in consequence the recorda of the brainch had get into a state of some confusion. Certain gentlemen interesteil in the work which the Association and in hand met together and took steps to resuscitate the branch. They did not know whom the members were, nor did they know who constituted the old Committee. Notice was sent rondd to find out who would really become members of the Association in Hongkong, response to that circular was very good, and some 80 gentlemen in Hongkong and Canton signified their desire to he members.

The

building boom is likely to continue for some time to come. As a farther concrete illustration of the Colony's growth we might divest attention to the bank-note circulation. The Report under notice uien. tions that the circulation of notes of the three Banks having authorised

jasues on December 31st, 1912 was $25,610,211. Turning back to the return for December By ArroINTMENT TO His Excellexor | 31st, 1903, we find that the bank-vote-

THE GOVERNOR.

circulation then was $16,880,562. The

Sentence of four months" imprisonment increase is, in fict, greater than these was yesterday at the Magistracy passed figures show, because these returns take cogaisauce only of the issues by the autho.pon a Japanese for stabbing a Japanese rised Banks, while, as the Report on the Blue Book does not fail to mention, e "large number" of one-dollar notes, issued by the Portuguese Banco National Ultra marino, and payable at Macao, are also ia circulation, as well as "a certain num- ber" of notes issued by the Republican Government of Canton. There were nu such notes in 1903; so that we may conclude that the notes in circulation in PRICKLY HEAT LOTION the Colony are now about 60 per cent. An invaluable and most effec- more than was the

case ton years tive remedy.

A third test of progress may be Immediately age. allays the irritation.

found in the shipping returns. In 1903, the total of the shipping entering and clearing at the ports in the Colony was returned as 24,039,862 tons; in 1912 the total tonnage was 36,735,149-au increase of nearly 12 million tons. It is YE OLDE ENGLISH frequently said, however, that the growth LAVENDER WATER.in tonsage passing through the port is no An exquisite Perfume, Put sure index of the prosperity of the Colony, in Elegant Bottles, makes as it is well-known that a great deal of up a delightful adjunct to the trashipment business, affording emplay. ment to thousands of coolies, has been lost to the port within, the past ten years, the cargoes boing now conveyed direct to or While this is perfectly true, it does not from the nearest port of the actual market.

now is less than it was before the "direct address to the Court, submitting the last war in Thrace. follow that the actual busius of the port appearing for the defences, continued his ople, resembling that at the time of the demonetized, amounts to some $37,432,370 The total issue of these coins, less those

shipment" movement set in; all that can

nominal value, and they were up to the year 1905 readily absorbed at par, large be said concerning it is that the volume of

quantities being taken by the neighbour business is not so great as it would have

ing provinces of China. During 1919 The first point he dealt with was that of It is officially reported that the Bul-twenty and ten cant pieces of this face Montague Ede, Mr. M. W. Slade, Mr. been bad all the transhipment business jeudiente. lle cited a recent iudgmentgarians had successes yesterday all along | were shipped to England for purposes of G. T. Edkins, Mr. P. H. Holyoak, and value of 240,000 and $1,000,000 respectively N. Stabb, Mr. W. G. Humphreys, Mr. been maintained. For the purposes of handed down by the Privy Council of the whole front, repulsing all the Servian demonetization. The discount which has Mr. H. R, Hancock, with Mr. L, N, Leefo estimating the prosperity of the Colony it London, in which a German subject was attacks with enormous losses, and then prevailed since 1905 may be attributed to as Hon. Secretary,

discharged. The aise was the follow- is unfortunate that there are no complete ing:-A German committed a crime in routing them with counter-attacks, the which has latterly been minted at Canton, the immene quantity of similar coin In 1905 the Hongkong Government ocased to issue any subsidiary coin and in 1906 it began a policy of demonetising all its subsidiary coin received as revenue. This policy has been continuously followed siner except during a brief period in 1911. Coin to the face value of about $7,000,000

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THE SOTTO. CASE.

THE CASE FOR THE DEFENCE.

The bearing was continued before. Mr. F. A. Hazeland yesterday afternoon of the application of the Philippine Govern- ment for the surrender of Vicente Sotto, editor of The Philippine Republic.

Mr. Geo. K. Hall Brutton, who is

two points of his notion asking for the discharge of Sotto.

for the same crime. When the case came

Servians have re-occupied Ishtip after the most sanguinary battle in the Balkans. Aprague the passing of the Ordinance prohibiting the importation and circula- The Servians, with Greeks, are advane-tion of foreign subsidiary silver coin in ing from Strumnitza and are pursuing the Colony of Hongkong from March the Bulgarians,

next year, the following extract from the Report on the Blue Book for 1012 is of much interest:-

The wounded already arrived at Bel grade exceed the total for the whole Turkish war.

WARLIKE ACTIVITY IN TURKEY.

The circulation of foreign copper coin is prohibited by Ordinance No. 1 of 1912 And there is now none such to be found.

The rate of discount The Bulgarian plenipotentiary, M. subsidiary coin

on Hongkong varied during 1912 Hatchevitch, has arrived in Constantin-between the following limits: ople for the purpose of discussing the 50 cent pieces 1 per cent, to 4 per cent, Porte's demand for the evacuation of the 20

térritory.

There is warlike activity in Constantin-

CONFLICTING STORIES.

Bulgarians being in pursuit towards Egripalanka,

Kochana, where the Servians were

A sanguinary battle is in progress near

pulsed with considerable losses,

re-

The

attacks by the Greeks north of Durian were repulsed with great lows.

A report from Belgrade states that

returns of the trade of the port. Approxi- Berlin and went to India, where he was Inately accurate figures are obtainable only in a very few articles of trade the Magistrate refused to accept some arrested. During the hearing of his case, and these show that the general trend evidence of the defendant, who was then of the trade is towards expansion. The committed to gaul. The defendant applied increase in population, in the circulation of for a writ of Helices Corpus and was. currency notes, and also the increase in released by the Supreme Court, on the cost of living all point to growth in the ground that there was error of proced- business of the port. We do not forget ings. Afterwards, the German went to that the Revolution in China in 1911 London, and there he was again arrested the Bulgarians were drive back along pretically converted the Colony into a "Juge refugee camp" and that we conse-

up before the Privy Council, this high the entire frontier of Bervia with con- quently had a very large proportion of tribunal discharged the German, on the siderable losses. drones in this hive of industry. No doubt ground of resjudicato, Mr. Brutton the proportion is large still, but a note-

then subunitled to the Court that the Sotto worthy fact is that according to evidence

ose was completely identical with that given last week by the Medical Officer of

of the German. His Worship now bad Health the pressure of the Chinese popula.vidence which were presented in the first before him the same case and the same tion upon the available house accommoda- tion is still very great, and consequently crowding. We take it that nee business there is oven now a great deal of over

in some form or other must have been HONG KONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VEUX ROAD Cercated in the Colony to keep a large. LONDON Orvice: 191, FLEET STUET, E.C.

The

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HONGKONG, JULY 11TH, 1913.

which Sotto was discharged by the Full extradition procedings in March last, in

there was no evidence, and, therefore, it Court of Hongkong, on the ground that

was a case of res-judicata.

The second point was about the Order- in-Council. Mr. Bruttori stated that the prosecution, not having produced the Order-in-Council, his Worship could not decide whether or not an Extradition. Treaty exists between England and the United States.

The hearing was further adjourned.

THE HOME RULE BILL IMPORTANT MOTION BY LORD LANSDOWNE

LONDON, July 10th.

Lord Landsdowne has given notice that

Second Reading of the Home Rule Bill he will move, on the motion for the

shall decline to consider the Bill until it in the House of Lords that the House

has been submitted to the country.

SCOTTISH TEMPERANCE- BILL.

LONDON, July 10th.

The Scottish Temperance Bill has passed its third reading by 284 votes to 366. This is the second passage under the Parliament Act.

proportion of the refugees hore. The activity in the building trade possibly has absorbed some of the surplus labour, and, in any case, the needs of an increased -population-necessarily demand additional labour to supply then. We regret that THE public at Home has been regaled

we cannot discover from the Report that Jutely in the Times with some account of

the Industries of the Colony the "amazing prosperity" of Hongkong-

have Perhaps the most eloquent yet concise absorbed much of this labour. There illustration of this progress is to be found have been no new industrial develop- in just two lines of the Acting Colonial meats, and the established industries Secretary's Report on the Blue-Book for ehow no marked improvement in their Society, recently, D. L. A. Bauer, direc-i 1912 now published. For the period 1903-business, except in the case of the cotton tor of the Department of Terrestrial University by four wickets. 1912," it states, "the assessment of the spinning factory and in those producing New York, described the result of the:

MAGNETIC SURVEY OF THE WORLD.

INTER-VARSITY CRICKET,

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Copper coin 8

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has thus been redeemed. The total issue by the Hongkong Government was of the face value of about $44,000,000. It is calculated that about half of that amount has dropped out of circulation.

NOTES AND NEWS,

Princess Louise Duchess of Argyll is now the only member of the Royal family Posessing a residence in the Isle of Wight Kent Cottage. The King, of course, owns Barton Manor, but as His Majesty has never lived there, but has always lent it to friends, it cannot quite he called one of his residenens.

the Vineteenth Century

the contributors to the first uumber of Lord Avebury was the last survivor of

Tennyson, Gladstone, Cardinal Manning and Matthew Arnold were among the other contributers, who formed among them the most brilliant list over gathered together on the title page of a review.

The niceting was purely a formal one for the purpose of consituting the branch afresh, and for electing a Committee so again. He hoped it would do the work as to get the brunch into working order equally as well as it had been done in tho past under the able guidance of previous Coonittees. The funds were adequate, and accordingly, on the circular which was sent round, prospective members were notified that the subscription would be 82, but it had since been pointed out that the subseription at the end of this year would be raised to $10.

On the proposition of the Chairman, seconded by Mr. BONKAR, the following. were elected as the Committee:- The Hon. Mr. D. Landale, the Hou, Mr. C.

THE RUSSIAN MILITARY BUDGET.

HARBIN, June 28th. The following telegram is publisher in Northern papers :---

Telegrams from St. Petersburg report that during the discussion on the Budget of the Ministry of War, Delegate Prote- popoff pointed out that in the Far East there were occurring changes of such n character that we anticipate su outburst of political events, for which tirely pre- parutions must be made, The Russian Government must take Grm and definite steps to strengthen the Russian position in the Far East. Recent experiences have not been sufficiently taken notice of and the Far East again appears to be forget- ten, while our territory in Siberia remains for us merely an asset for national colonization, for loss of which we shall be held responsible by future generations." In comparing the under- the Russian frontier Province takings of Russia with the rapid invasion

Chinese, with the development of Yellow navigation, the extremely rapid und China, the unceasing arming of China successful military and trade reforms in and Japan, sie annexation of Korea and the influx of yellow nationalities and finally the Russian policy of adopting the Mr. Cecil Chesterton, who has been saw evident danger in the situation and line of least resistancz, M. Protopopoff defendant in the Old Bailey-libel-case; considered that the protection of out- is still in the early thirties, and a few lying territory by troops that had to l years ago he achieved the distinction of conveyed there when needed would ho being referred to by Punch as that impossible. He, then pointed out that the beanish boy." He has written a life of number of troops stationed at Omsk, Nell Gwynn and a book on "Gladstonian Irkutsk and the Priamur military dis Chosts," the latter being a vigorous tricts was bot sufficient to inspire in the indictment of Liberal policy.

Russian population confidence of safety nor to convince Russia's neighbours of England is the garden of the world. the danger of aggressive undertakinge on That is the opinion of Sir Albert Rollit. their part. With reference to the sitna- Speaking at the Royal Horticultural tion on the Russo-Chinese frontier the Hall, he said that as a result of his speaker next emphasized the necessity to knitted socks and vests. The Revolution

experience as judge at exhibitions both establish a Russian protectorate over se u phenomenal increase in the the brigantine Galdee and the yacht

magnetic survey of the oceany made in ENGLISH COUNTY CRICKET. in this country and abroad he was con- Mongolia with view to binding the vinced England led the world in Mongoliaus strongly Russian economi- port of cotton, including cotton yarn and Carnegie. He said that the Carnegie will

LONDON, July 10th.

horticulture, whether it be considered as cal interests. He pointed out that the cotton piece goods, and it is mentioned that cruise by the end of the year, and then complete a four years circumnavigation

a science, an art, or an industry,

important problem for Russia. to consider. Kent defeated Warwickshire at Bir

was the defence of the Priamur, while the this large increase--51.4 per cent.-does not the two vessels will have voyaged 140,000mingham by an innings and 51 runs. include the large and increasing quantity various parts of the world, and it had miles. Special tests had been made in

M. Albert Tuxpain, Professor of Physica necessity of providing Vladivostok with of native-grown cotton spun in the Colour, tion with the instruments, absolutely non-

Sussex draw with Essex at Leyton'.

at Poitiers, has just solved an interesting water also required, attention. In this been conclusively shown that in connec

problem in wireless telegraphy. He has connection.he reiterated that decisive mea- and re-exported as yarn. In this connec

Northants beat Yorkshire by 20 runs at made possible the photographic registra-sures were needed. He contended that the tion we note that there are now six factories The result was that the observationss were

magnetic conditions had been secured. Leeds.

tion of the hour signals sent out by the value of the Priamur had not falten, but.. Eiffel Tower. He has succeeded in this the danger of its loss was growing. in the Colony producing knitted vests and being supplied to the loading hydrogra- Surrey beat Lancashire at-Manchester by the employment of very sensitive relays The Chief of the General Staff replied. socks, “all doing a considerable business, to

phie establishments with a promptness.

of wire only ten hundredths of a millimetre with reference to the shortage of water meet the large and increasing lees! demand

thick, and by the use of extremely sensias Vladivostok that the garrison, the for- heretofore impossible. I addition toy 108 runs. the work at sea, expeditions are sent

tive galvanometers.

tress and all places connected with those for these articles." There is a fine fiold where few ar

to the regions in all parts of the world,

departments were provided with water, for industrial development within the previously been obtained, and the total says a Paris message,

no magnetic data, havé

Among the passengers in the Titanic, Lord Justice Farwell, whose retirement but that the townspeople, specially Colony of Hongkong, especially on the magnetic elements were determined dur resided at Bethune.

number of land stations where the

French is announced, will go down in legal during winter, were not, though the woman named Madame Brenys, who annals, apart from his more solid claims Ministry of War was doing all in its. Kowloou Peninsula, and we have little ing 1005-13 is about 2,000, Comparisons Belgion, aged thirty-eight years, having to read Daudet's Sapho for the pur

Her husband, a to remembrance, as the judge who declined | power to clear up the question, doubt that 10 the years to Сорав

The Financial Committee approved of a have been made of the magnetic standards read her name among the list of those pose of determining a literary case before law for the maintenance of free trade factories of one kind or another of department with those of the prin- who had perished, formed an alliance him a line of action which subjected him with Mongolia in goods of Mongolian and

cipal magnetic observatories and organ- isations making magnetic surveys.

with another woman and took up his to considerable criticism at the time. The Chinese origin on It

the frontiers of will thus be possible to

residence some twenty railes magnetic dats of every country in the Bethune About a month ago on receiving did not see why he should read it. And tan Governor-Generalships,

reduce the

from work was repulsive, ho declared, and heYenisisk. Toms, Stepney and Turkes- on the same standards with sufficient accuracy

news that his wife was among the rescued so the duty was delegated to Sir Squire grounds that such free trade had been for all purposes.

The department co- and that she had returned to France and Bancroft instead as an agreed-to referes- necessitated by the new treaty relations expeditions, loaning instruments, train distraught that he killed the woman with how the learned judge persuaded himself expressed a wish to extend free trade to operates with Arctic and Antarctic was searching for him he became so though it was never made quite plain with Mongolia, The Committee also ing observers, and furnishing the whom he was living, and attempted his that it was right to ask Sir Squire to do the Mongolian frontiers of Irkutsk and required directions.

own life.

what he had declined to do himself.

the Trans-Baikal provinces.

whole Colony has risen from $8,788,063 to $12,312,306, an increase in value of 40 10 per cent." Evidences of further growth are not wanting. We are told in the Report that the year 1912 was chiefly noted for the sale of a considerable number of building lots adjacent to the City, chiefly in the neighbourhood of Kennedy Road, on which blocks of European-style residences are being erected by the purcbusors. More over, the Report mentions that there has again beer a considerable increase both in the zumber and valucot private properties which have changed bands. The total purchase moneys paid amounted to $19,029,986 as against $15,813,284 in the previous year. The prices given in many instances, the Hun. Mr.-THOMSON observes, appear to be much above the value of the property as an will become a much greater feature investment, whilst in other case the value in the prosperity of the Colony than they of property adjoining has remained more or are at the present time. The history of the less stationary. Many old buildings are past, and the indiertions of the present, been pulled down and have been rebuilt give warrant for us pessimism regarding with modern terracos and dwelling houses the future of Hongkong.

At the rooms of the Royal Geographical.

Magnetisma at the Carnegie Institution,

LONDON, July 10th. Cambridge University beat Oxford

was a