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TELEGRAMS.

THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY:]

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14TMя, 1913.

/HE SITUATION

THE INCREASED COST OF LIVING IN GREAT BRITAIN.

LONDON, August 13th.

rise in workers' wages has been only one to five per cent. London is the dearest place in which to live and the Midlands the cheapest..

AT CANTON.

YESTERDAY'S FIGHTING.

suffer, as even if the Chinese were good marksmen, which they have shown they are not, shells would be sure to drop in the foreign Concessions,

ENQUIRY INTO A HARBOUR COLLISION.

An enquiry was held before Mr. E Jones (assistant Harbour-master) at the RAILWAY FERRIES SUMPÉNDED. The Railway forries which ply between Marine Court yesterday into the collision the lower steamer wharf and Shek Wai between the steam launch Tri Ching and Tong and Wongaha have not been run-

a lighter' in tow of the steam launch ning to-day and citr trip down river

Emerald, which took place in the we met one of them laden with troops Harbour on the 1st, inst putting in at the Bund, near the big theatre on the East Bund. It looks as if CANTON, August 13th.

LOOTING IN THE CITY.

FROM OCH BHAMKEN CORRESPONDENT.]

SUPREME COURT. Wednesday, August 13th.

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.

Berone Has Honour Mn. J. H. Keur (PUISNE JUDGB).

CLAIM UNDER AN INSURANCE POLICY.

POETRY AND AFFLUENCE,

NO GOOD VERSE, WITHOUT dooD INCOMES.

Running counter to all decent tradition. is the fact that the really successful" post of the later period of England's literary history is never a man or wontgo In a chronic state of financial embarrass- ment. The days when a genius of the stamp of Goldsmith lay abed till some Johnson brought him a guinea to help him to get ap are gone by. Grub Street is unknown to those who are enabled to carve a way to fame by means of their verse. Indeed, it would seem that poverty

Now came to Shameen this morning they had been commandeered by one side Deacon, Looker. Deacon & Harston) ander a policy of insurance dated 24th and good poetry no longer go together,

or the other.

A Blue-book, based on the recent Board of Trade enquiry, estimates the increase in the cost of living in Great Britain

VALUABLES BEING RETURNED TO SHAMEEN. during the past seven years at 10 per that the whole of Wal Oy Street had been cent., chiofly in food and clothing. Reate looted and that the looting was still going

All the morning there has been a repeti- have undergone practically no change. Then at tam. The Lak Kwan Lad, got

out of hand and started off in parties to tion of the procession of qualies bringing whatever shops and houses they took a silk and other valuables on to the Sha- I interviewed a shopkeepermeen. In many cases goods have been fancy to. who owned a tea shop there and he cx looted while being conveyed there, and plained that shots were fired to frighten there are several stories of quantities of the inhabitants and merchants but that Ecods, together with the coolies, having te does not know of any one being killed mysteriously disappeared whilst on the REVENUE BILL WITHDRAWN.

in his section of the street. He hid all way. Nevertheless the valuables continue LONDON, August 15th. the money he had and protested that he to be brought in, and the Shaneen must Mr. Lloyd George on Tuesday evening had none, but the soldiers mude a system be pretty full up.

atic search and came across everything. withdrew the Revenue Bill, introduced there was to find. Wai Oy Street is one for the purpose of remedying the com-of the two main streets in the old City

Mr. W. E. L. Shenton (of Mesars, represented Mesars, Shewan, Tomes & Co. and Mr. R. C. Faithfull appeared for the owners of the T'ai Ching,

Leung Shin, master of the Emerald, stated that on the 1st August his launch was towing two lighters belonging to the Green Island Cement Company, and when about 300 feet south-west of Kow- loon Forzy pier witness. launch's red and white light at right angles to his coarse. When it was about 200 feet away from witness' launch long blast of the whistle, and steamed ahead. The other witness gave a launch came on and struck one of the two There has been no menus of communicaighters, which were being towed along side one another, After striking the tion with Hongkong to-day by wire and lighter four blasts were given on two

TELEGRAPH LINE DESTROYED.

it is not known when communication will be restored. The line has been cut some-

plaints of small property owners and and runs straight from the East to the West Gate, while many of the principal huilders against the 1910 Budget, owing Yamers are entered from it. This mer to the impossibility of coming to terms chant's shop is quite near the Yamen and where around Tang Shan, either mali.

direction. with the Unionists and the extreme he says it was the same troops (Seconciously or by the shells falling in this Radicals. It will be again introduced Division) whe burned down the Viceroy's during the next session in a different Yamen earlier in the night. All the gates of the city are shut and it is impossible form,

ti get inside. deserted.

JAPAN, AND EX-PRESIDENT DIAZ,

Washington, August 13th.

A favourable impression has been caused here by Japan's fatimation that it will receive ex-President Dinz of Mexico only as a private individual,

Advices from Vancouver, where Diaz is awailing a steamer, state that he is going to Japan regardless of that country's nttitude towards his mission.

ATTEMPTED REVOLUTION IN VENEZUELA FAILS..

WASHINGTON, August 14th, The attempt by ex-President Castro to create another Revolution in Venezuela has failed, and the leaders in the Eastern part of the country are prisoners.

THE GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK. .LEGISLATURE ADOLF RESOLUTION FÖR. IMPEACHMENT.

NEW YORK, August 19th. The State Legislature of New York has mation in favour of the adopted a impeachment of Governor Sulzer, who is

alleged to have speculated wholesale with Electoral funds.

MEDICAL CONGRESS CLOSED.

NEXT CONGRESS-TO BE HELD AT MUNICI

LONDON, August 13th. The Medical Congress closed with

address by the Rt. Hon. Jului Burns, President of the Local Government Board, who dwelt on the relationship of medicine and public health, in which he emphasised the cosmopolitanism of niedical knowledge and the importance of preventive medi-

cine.

A number of suffragettes who were continually interrupting Mr. Baras were ejected.

at Munich in 1917.

FIVE-STORIED PABODA RIDDLED.

noticed

occasions by the Tai Ching, Witness

Tai Ching, to save life. The launch, however, did not require assistance and steamed away. The Emerald took up the tow again and when near Holt's wharf There were the damaged lighter sank.

then cast off the tow and proceeded to the

The Five-Storied Pagoda has been hit Even the Sai Kwan lain several places and there are several.710 bags of cement on board. The

holes through which light can be seen. It is a wonder that there is any of it left, and what does retain owes its existence to the bad, marksmanship,

LUNG GETS NOTICE TO QUIT,

The First Division are reported this morning to have sent a notice to Lung Chai Kwong giving him 12 hours' notice 10 leave Canton. This is only another way of saying that they will join, or very likely have joined, the Second Divi- sion.. This probably accounts for the figures given us this morning of those in revolt against Lung.

FIGHTING ON THE GUND

There was skirmish this morning

lighters were being towed to the Coment Works at Hokun Bay. Witness carried two mast-head lights and red and green lights. Each of the fighters had a white light at the stern about 15 feet high. The mast-head lights were both situated above the awning the lower one about 10 feet and the upper one about 13 feet from the The Woosung forts surrendered to the deck. Government forces yesterday. The war- ships had been horubarding the forts intermittently for several days past, evidently with considerable effect and o

SURRENDER OF THE WOOSUNG FORTS.

The hearing of the case in which Ip Tsuk Sam is suing the Po Wah Insurance Company to recover $1,000 was continued yesterday. Plaintiff's claim is as assured May, 1910, made by the defendants under their common seal against damage by fire during one year from the 24th May. 1910, to the 94th May, 1911, for 8700 on a dwelling bouse and $300 on fixtures therein in consideration of a premium of 895 paid by plaintiff.

Mr. W. B. Hind (ot Mr. G. K. Hall Bratton's office) appeared for the plain- tiff, and Mr. P. W. Goldring (of Messrs. Goldring & Bass) represented the defen- dant company.

Mr. Goldring informed the Court that owing to the troubles in Canton he could not get any of his witnesses down, and Lai Mui Ting, the last witness, was not present. He did not know whether Mr.

and if there be an occasional exception it only goes to prove this rule.

The lato Poet Laureate, for example, was never called upen to. embarrass his Muse by driving her to earn half-guineas for hi

His people were well-to-do Locds manufacturers, and from them be inherited a sufficiency that cuabled him at all times to work without anxiety, and to purchase the beautiful house which be has made famous through his prose,

has made famo

Nearly all the great poets who have died in recent years have left estates which showed that they lived in comfort- able conditions, if not in affluence. Ewinburne's property, which he left to his friend, Mr. W. Theodore Watte

valued for probate at Dunton,

Robert 24,28 Lord Tennyson left £37,206 and William Morria over £55.000. Browning's will was proved at £18,775,

Was

Hind hd finished with him or not.

Mr. Hind I have not." Isum in the and it has been seen latoly how much

same difficulty as my friend, and have certain realisable fortunes of his estate

had to eut my case short.

Mr. Goldring- am going to ask later on for a commission to go to Tientsin to take evidence.

Mr. Hind-It is absolutely too late to ask for any commission.

Mr. Goldring-That is a matter for argument after I take out my suminions. I have only two witnesses at present, the Canton agent and one of the secretaries With your of the defendant company. Lordship's permission I will call the agent first. The present state of affairs at Canton makes it very difficult to get anybody,

The Canton agent of the Po Wah Insur- A seaman on board the Emerald gave

tor ten years. The latter was a Chinese similar evidence and added that the speedance Co., said he had known the plaintiff of his launch would be, when towing, doctor, and had a firm styled the Shut about three knots per hour. He was of Wo Tong. Witness often visited plaio-

Ebout G.30 between some of Lung's Tuesday the loyal troops began an attack opinion that the speed of the Tai Ching | tiff as that firm, and on behalf of the

soldiers and other troops near the Canton Hospital at Kuklow on the New Bund. This, and other irregular firing has had the effect of absolutely clearing the Bund of people and also clearing the river. front of boats, so much so that all the sampans and junks could be covered by giving 20 as their number, while at an ordinary time the number is nearer 3,000

BAD SIODTIsa.

An eye witness of the shelling from the top of the Uniform Factory at Tung Shan informed me that the aim of the soldiers was anything but good, and that the timing of the fuse was bad. Many: shells burst in the air, and from a

sight, but could not possibly do any spectacular point of view provided a fine serious damage. The most of this firing seemed to come from a point between She Ho and the North Gate, where a considerable number of men must have been posted.

A Tuir DOWN RIVER...

I made a trip down the front reach of the River this morning to ascertain if Lung's troops were in the vicinity, and

and the rebels hoisted the loyal flag and A fort near by is still in surrendered. possession of the rebels.

CHINESE POLITICAL REFUGEES IN JAPAN,

Wu How Map, one of the many ex- Tutaths of Canton, is reported to have arrived at Moji, whence he proceeds to Kobe, where Dr. Sun Yat-sen landed a few days tgo,

-EXCITING SCENE IN THE

HARBOUR.-

·AN' ELEPHANT IN THE WATER.

defendant company accepted a risk on houses Nos. 7 and 9 for $1,000. When witness last visited plaintiff there was a signboard between the houses.

What did that signboard say?

Capt. Arthur, of Messrs, Goddard & must have been about eight knots. Douglas, deposed to examining the Tur Ching. The launch was badly damaged, principally in the bows, due to the colli. sion, the upper part of the stem being completely carried away, while the bow planking was opened up. He thought it was an end-on blow. He also surveyed the lighters and he was of opinion that the Te Ching struck the fender of the lighter first and crashed into the plank ing later about the bilge. The apced of the Tai Ching. rust have been consider-premises Only able to do the damage she did.

Mr. Hind-I don't know whether my friend can get that in evidence. It is verul evidence of a written document.

one

His Lordship allowed the question, and witness replied, "Ip Tsuk Sam (fil the Was there any other signboard over the purse). Doctor,”.

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is signboard required by a ductor.

Continuing, witness said he knew plain- Chan K, the coxswain of the Tai Ching, said the launch left Yaumati at tiff was the owner of the Shui Wo Tong, about 9 p.m., for the Central Market, because plaintiff told him so. The cost of About five minutes after leaving his rebuilding house No. 9 after the fire was $720. The contract price was cheap Witness did. There was an exciting scene in the launch struck the lighter.

because the four walls were standing. The German not see them because they had

no red

In cross-examination plaintiff said the There was one white harbour last night. steamer Tsingtau brought up an elephant or green lights.

Shui Wo Tong was a drug shop. Plain-" from Siam, which had to be transhipped light at the stern of the launch. It was into the Iyo-muru for Japan, the very dark and overcast night, and tiff told him he was the owner of the The policy was lephant being intended for the Zoologi- witness could not sea Bay stars or the shop when he approached witness to cal Gardens at Kyoto. As the Tsingtau noon. Witness first saw the white light insure houses 7 and 9. was lying in the stream and the Ing-mart when about 100 feet from the lighter. At prepared in Hongkong from a draft sent

About 5 feet from handed it to plaintiff.. at the wharves, the elephant had to be the time the Tai Ching was steaming by him, and when he received it he

to.

The sudden immersion stand by to see if assistance was required.

-over-

Witness did not wait, because he had over 40 passengers on board, and the launch was shipping water. One passenger fell overboard, and witnesa rescued him. He steamed across the Harbour to the Fraya wall near the Central Market, and about 17 minutes after arrival the Toi Ching began to settle in the water,

According to the policy only house No. 7 was shown as being insured, and Mr. Hind asked-II No. 9 had been burned

that policy?

Witness-Yes.

Mr. Hind-You are more generous than you are showing yourself to be in this

case.

The further hearing was adjourned.

THE BANDMANN OPERA COMPANY.

transhipped on a lighter. After a great about nine knots. where the gunboats wore situated. Four

deal of difficulty the elephant was got the launch witness reversed his engines. ten gunboats were drawn across the river out of the Tringtou, but no sooner was and put the helm hard to port, but it Witness sounded four at Dutch Folly, completely blocking theit on the lighter than it majestically was too late, fareway, and only a small launch or stepped over the side, plunging deeply blasts twice, but the Emerald did not down, would you have paid for it under motor-boat could pass. These boats were into the water. passed fairly closed, and I observed they put the elephant in a great rage. It was all had their guns trained on the city able to gain, however, but as the coolies its head, Only two Custorns lanches, which were

get slings tried making for the Shameen, were passed, the the animal lashed the water furiously the with it's proboscis roaring shipping being noticeably absent. Hire there was bring going on, apparently while, and creating great excitement from the Admiralty, in a Northern direc among the boating population. The The next Medical Congress will be held tion. A company of soldiers were also dificulty was to get it ashore, and this to be seen here marching along the Bund

was finally accomplished by towing it to with flags flying. On the river below Tal the police basin. The animal subunitted Sha Tou there were eight more gunboats to this quite calmly. For the purpose of moored, and at this spot, where hundreds the disembarkation of the elephant from sampans and junks take shelter, there the Tsingtat a rope had heen tied to one was not a boat to be sten, which seemed of the animal's legs, and was still on him to suggest that there had been some fight when he walked off the lighter into the water, Gaining the end of this rope, the ing around. Kaiper Island, and at the First Barrier coolics were able to take him in tow to the there were again a number of gunboats situated, but Lung's soldiers were not to police basin, where about fifty coolica got hold of the rope and pulled the elephant bo seen anywhere. Here and all the way to the slip. He walked up none the worse back to Shameen by the Back Reach·· everything was quiet and peaceful, and for his plunge and bath, and was made Gloucestershire heat Hampshire at in the small villages by the water, side fast to the capstan there, a large crowd

DEATH OF AN INDIAN PHILANTHROPIST.

BOMBAY, August 15th.

The death is announced of Sir Peerbboy Adamjec, a well-known philanthropist, whose charities amounted to upwards of fifty lakhs of rupees.

ENGLISH CRICKET.

LONDON, August 13th.

Cheltenham by 28 runs.

steamer Caital,

At the southern end of

the people were going on with their daily

work just as usual.

THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE. News has been received in Bombay of a

It is said on all sides that the real fatal accident to Mr. Claude Haines, of the Eastern Telegraph Company, while cause of this trouble is the fact that Lung bright these piratical soldiers of Wong on his way to England on the Natal line Shan's brigade with him, and that Heavy weather was had he come alone or with only a small encountered on July 20 in the Arabian company of his own as a body guard he Sea and in a lurch of the vessel Haines would not have met with any reaistance.

Attempts were was swept overboard,

hul without avail. runde at rescu Haines, who was thirty-three years of

THE 'WHEREABOUTS OP LUNG'S TROOPS.

of Chinese having assembled to witness the landing, A Siamess attendant was rather badly hurt in the effort to rescue the elephant.

The prospectus has been issued of Borneo Stock Farms, Ltd., with a capital £10,000, in shares of Ci, each of which 30,000 shares are offered for subscription at par. The company is formed for the purpose of acquiring the option from Mr. John George Puole, as granted to him by the British North Borneo Company,

At present the main iden seems to be take the offensive against the Luk Kwan, in the Kuningau Valley, British North vice fifteen years, was very popular into Wongsha from which district they will

ag, and had been in the company's ser that Lung's troops have repaired against up to six thousand acres of land

The seeman on the look-out on the Tai He said he Chung also gave evidence, was not at the end of the bows when keep ing his look-out. He only saw one white light at the stern of the steam launch when about 60 feet away.

The witness was questioned at length by Mfr. Jones as to the lights on the to his statement that at no time did he lighters and the Emerald, but he adhered ace more than the oue white light.

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While were worth in open market. Matthew Arnold could never be regarded as a poor man, he left behind him only £1,040, but Coventry Patmore's estate amounted to £8,777, and Locker-Lamp- son's to no less than £30,410.

All records go to show that even if poetry does not make money, it is usually accompanied by that useful cotamodity.

INTIMATIONS

WATERY ECZEMA ON

HEAD AND FOREHEAD

Head and Ears Were Right Raw. Red and Scabby Patches at First. Al- ways Scratching and Rubbing, Cu- ticura Soap and Ointment Cured.

College Road, I'ramilagbara, Suffolk, Eng. "My boy a head and forehead, under his ears and on his encukiers, were affected witht When he Water eczema. was about alx weeks old ho began to have it. The rasty

kept sing out on his forehead

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and cars were right ram. The oczems looked like. red and stabby patches as Art; when you touched them water ooze out of thent in raw places. It did itch very much, he was always don't think it scratching and rubbing. stopped him mich from adooping, more of day times. He was frotful at times. This uczonda took alt his half off Brat but íù bàs grown thick again since ble head has been well.

I tried first hut they did no good. Then I u the paper about Cutleura Soap and Cuticura Olatment. I used the complete treatment, both Cutleura Soap and Cuticura Ointment every morning and they cured him. Caleira Soap and Ointmen

skla." (Signed) gave my buy a beautiful Mrs. M. Woods, Jan. 11, 1012.

Cuticura Soup and Cuticura Olatment aro sold throughout the world. Á single set is often sufficient whim all else falls. Sampio of each with 32-p, book free from nearest

depot: 17. Newbury Sons, 27, Charter-

house Bu, Jandou: B. Towns & Co., Byd- ney. 8. W.; Lensen, Ltd., Cape Town: Muller, Machan & Co., Calcutta and Ham- bay: Potter D. & C. Corp., Boston, U. 8. A. BarTender-farod men should sliste "with Cuticura Boap laying tick. Sample true)

HOWARD

(16-25.

WATCHES.

THE AMERICAN WATCH

At the Theatre Royal last night, a crowded house accorded a warm welcome CF FINEST QUALITY AND HIGH PRECISION: to the Bandmann Opera Company on

That screamingly-funny their return visit for a brief season of three nights.

sousical comedy,The Pink Lady," was chosen for presentation, and the work of

The many ludicrous situa-. the Company in this piece was markedly. successful.

ADJUSTED FOR TEMPERATURE. AND

*POSITIONS.

WATCH IS FIXED

AT THE FACTORY.

tions in the comedy were brought out to THE PRICE OF THE HOWARD the full and the audience were delighted. There are many parts in the piece, but The Court found that the lights of the launch and lighters were as laid down the dominating personality throughout was Mias May Glenn, who took the title Tai Ching was solely to blame for the role with the utmost success. Her acting in the rules, and that the master of the collision, for it was apparent from the and her songs were quite up to her usun! relative positions of the launches that the standard and she was warmly applauded. lights of the Emerald must have been The hit of the evening must, howevat, go seen some minutes before the collision. to our old friend, the ever-popular and The Court therefore suspended the ticket of Chan Ki for three months, and ordered that at the expiry of that period Chan should appear before the Court for further examination.

THE SOTTO CASE.

ever genial Frith, for his topical song, which brought the house down. Every- thing he did or raid evoked mirtli, and bis reception was most enthusiastic.

Mr. Victor Gouriet fulfilled the character

WRITE OF SENT FOR CATATIQUE

· THE SOLE AGENTS:

of a Satyr splendidly; and the episode CHS. J. GAUPP

with Eis wife-a part acted with much vivacity and ability by Miss Marjorie Cecil were extremely funny. Mr. Fred Coyne, as Lucian Garidel, Miss Addie The parties in this case were informed Lennard as Augele do Verrier, Mr. Yesterday by the Magistrate's clerk that Edward Granby as Lucian's rival fö in the motion for dismissal presented by Romaine lent effective aid to the princi

Dairymaids." Mr. Gro, K. Hall Bratton solicitor for Tonight the Company stage the defence, next Saturday, at 11 am,

Bombay, especially in sporting eircles stationed at the North of the City, and Borneo, for the purpose of raising stock Mr. Hazeland will deliver his judgment the affections of Angele, and Miss Anni

He played, rugby for the Gymkhana and was one of the mainstays of the tram

he able to force an entrance. It fighting including cattle, horses, buffalves, sheep, takes place here the Shameen is sure to goats and pige.

pals.

The

& CO.,

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

CHATER ROAD,