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TELEGRAMS.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]

THE GERMAN AIRSHIP DISASTER.

ROYAL FAMILY ATTENDS FUNERAL OF VICTIMS.

BERLIN, October 22nd.

The Kaiser and Kaiserin. their six sons, the Chanceller, Count Zeppelin, and Herr Smits, together with a large number of prominent Naval and Mill tary officers, attended the funeral of the victims of the recent airship disaster. The fuuoral was most impressive.

THE AISGILE DISASTER,

DRIVER FOUND QUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER.

LONDON, October 22nd.

At the trial of the driver of the second train in the Aisgill disaster on a charge of manslaughter, the jury returned a vordict of guilty.

They supplemented their verdict with a recommendation for inergy. Sentence has been deferred.

DOM MANUEL'S CONSORT.

MUNICH, Oetober 22nd. Don Manuel's Connort has gone to Sigmaringen.

WIRELESS STATION FOR HONGKONG.

The following correspondence has been forwarded to us for publication by the Secretary of the Hongkong General

Chamber of Commerce.

Letter to the Government. Hongkong, th September, 1013. Su-With reference to the correspon- dence which has passed between this Chamber and the Government during the past 2 years us to the pressing need for a suitable Wireless Telegraph Station being erected in this Colony in order to chable vossejs at sea to communicate with Hongkong, I am directed by my Com- mitter to ask if any further information has been received from the Secretary of State for the Colònies on this subject.

The arguments in favour of the erection of a commercial wireless station are well understood and need nob here be recapitulated; they wore, however, fully set forth in my letter of 25th April, 1911. I would especially beg to bring to your recollection your letter of Ifth December, 1918 (No. 1400/1910), the final paragraph

of which reads as follows t

His Excellency the Governor now proposes to ask the Secretary of State to call for tenders, through the Crown agents for the Colonies, for a a kilowatt stution."

And would ask if the Hongkong Govern ment is in a position to make any further statement on the subject and whether they. can assure us that the desired steps are being taken to carry out this important work.

As we are now situated the Hongkong Shipping Community is still dependent. upon such merchant vesels equipped with wireless installations as may be in the harbour for sending and receiving messages to and from ships at sea. And it, not infrequently happens that for several days consecutively no such vessels are in port.)

Vessels to the Sontir are thus entirely cut off from any communication with Hongkong, while those to the North are dependent upon the good offices of the Formosan Government, who occasionally pick up messages and transmit then to us by cable vid Foochow.

This is, of course, a most unsatisfactory state of affairs and one which reflects adversely on a port which in point of tonnage ranks as second in the world..

The prevalence of so much bad weather in the neighbourhood during so large a portion of the year, as caused by the typhoon season in the summer and strong gales during the winter months, ronders the need for a wireless station of even greater importance here than possibly at many other large shipping centres.

CANTON NOTES.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23RD, 1913.

ARMY AND POLICE PAY.

A proposition to pay each member of {FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS, month in subsidiary coins, instead of the military and police forces $8.00 per

CANTON, October 20th: RUMOURED OFFICIAL CHANGES. One of the newspapers to-day reports that it has learned from official sources that she Central Government, believing | that measures for the pacification of the province and the reorganisation of the Government can be batter conducted by an official who is au far with the conditions of the province, proposes appointing Ling Took Pang to the post of Civil Governor of Kwangtung. Mr. Li Hoi Sin, if the proposal is finally ratified, will be appointed Civil Governor of the neighbouring province of Kyungst

what they have been getting in paper currency, has been laid before the Tutuh by Civil Administrator Li. In his com- | munication, Mr. Li says that the current value of. à 81 noto is 75 cents in silver coins, and this in spite of the many efforts made to maintain the noto cur rency at par. Therefore it would not be treating the military and police with con sideration if they were allowed to suffer this logs indefinitely, bearing in mind the laborious nature of their duties. Besides, it is to be feared that trouble may ersuc as a result of altercations between them and the merchants over the acceptance of these discounted notes. If the proposition ..⠀ TØR SUPPRESSION OF BRIGANDAGE.

is adopted, their monthly pay will work The Governor General has ordered two

oul more than what they are now reonly: regiments of Chai Kwan soldiers to being, and at the same in more gains will stationed in the Nam Hoi, Pun U, Shuas direulated in the market, which may Tak, Houngshan and Sun Wai distrids, help to enhance the sale of the paper for the suppression of robberies.

currency

instin

THE COMPENSATION QUESTION,

COMPANY MEETING,

HEADWATERS MINING CO. INC.

"A STATE OF BANKRUPTCY,”

A meeting of shareholders in this pany was held yesterday at the Hongkong Hotel.

Reporters were not admitted to the meeting, but the following report was subsequently supplied:

SHANGHAI ST. ANDREW'S

SOCIETY.

June last. Messrs, Smith, Bell & Co. did not see their way to continue the risk after June 30th and on this date their At the annual meeting of the St. active support in this direction ceased. | Androw's Society at Shanghai last wook The mine is now in the hands of a Mrz, W. S Livingstone was elected president of the Society and Mr. C. E. Cum-native caretaker, whow pay is 50 pesos a Anton vice-president. Mr. W. Laidlaw month. The Treasury is empty ad was olreted hon secretary, and Mr. A. there is no money available to pay oither. Downie hon. treasurer. A member. wages, anch

mentioned the ease of a young man "of DE the

wages of a true Highland parentage whom three caretaker, or salaries For to pay members had refused to put up for mem- any expenses which may from time bership of the Society because he to time crop up, such as interest on happened to have been born in England. Chairman said there had been a mortgages, assessinent work which it is misapprehension which should

be not only necessary but imperativs shall removed.

Every person of Scottish parentager eligible, no matter where be done within the next few months, or

all your rights to the mine will be for St. Andrew's Day with a Ball, to be held he was born.It was decided to celebrate on the Friday preceding St. Andrew's There are two mortgages on the Day, which falls on Sunday, and it was left to the committed to arrange the property, the face values of which Burns birthday programme.The moet amount tu. 72,000 pesos. No interesting voted $200 for the bursaries for has ever been paid on either.

Scottish boys and girls.

The first mortgage is for...P.55,000. The second

Interest to June 30

Those present

were Dr. J. W Noble (president) in the chair, Sir el Chater, Very Rov. Father Robert (directors), Misers, Hu Fook, C. E. War reu, and Geo, T. Lloyd (shareholders),

Dị. NOBLE, Enid :-Gentlemen :-We | feited and lost. are called you together, to-day to as certain your wishes as to the future of this Company. You now have in your hands the Balance Sheet signed by the auditor and ending December 31st, 1912 and a statement showing the financial position of the Company on June 30th. 1013, a supplied to us by Messrs. Smith, Bell & Co. General Managers, who worked the mine on lease for a consider À protest has been lodged by certainable period under conditions which I will shops which were looted during the sent refer to later. On 16th February, 1912. mutiny against the scale on which their. Filberd, of Baguio, who held a first Police Department was a couple of days mortgage of 40,000 pests against the reported to have proposed to distribute Readators Mining Company took steps compensation. The original proposal, to foreclose that mortgage and enter into Many notorious rubber-chiefs have after all; turns out to be somewhat dif possession of your property is reason surrendered und gangs of pirates Insoferent to what has been reported.

for such notion was that it that date no also availed themselves of the opportunity The suggested scale, in fact, is as interest had been paid to him with to change their profession. But the follows! -^.

respect to this mortgage which was at chance thus offered has templed many a man of a questionable character to pre-not tend to be a ringleader and recruit men in the hope of becoming a military com mander. This has cono to the notice of the Commissioner, who, in 4 circular telegram, arges the arrest and punish ment of all such persons and notifies that henceforth no more pirate hordes shall be He says he has allowed to surrender. gives them enough time to do so.

One of Viex-Commissioner Lang's plaas for the extermination of brigands bas been to allow all ringleaders and then inen, who would either surrender their arms or undertake to disband their mon, to enlist themselves, and special deputies have been sent, cut to induce them to do su,

THE DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.

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40 per cent to a shop whose lasses do that line overdue.. He also applied to the Court to have a Receiver appointed, exceed $1,000.

nominating himself for that position The Court teceded to his request, and he was forthwith appointed Receiver of the Company and took possession of the wine.

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40 per cent, on $1,000, plus 20 per cent. on the remaining amount to a shop whose losses are between $1,000 and 85,000.

percent, o $1,000, plus 20 percent on 34,900, plus 10 per cent, on the remaining sum to & shop whose les amount to over $6,000.

The following ligeras inay be read with interest, interest:---·

Daring the recent mutiny :

12 civilians were killed and 26 injured. To the survivors of each of the former a compensation of $100 will be paid and to each of the latter $20.

175 "buildings were damaged, to the owners of which 50 per cent, on the extent of damage done will be paid es compensa were built,

A further investigation into the disaster reported in Monday's issue discloses that the destructive fire first started on the premises of a wooden house on the large piece of spare ground in front of the 11th Police Station; Heaam, around which a considerable number of wooden dwellings and cottages occupied chiefly by scarfering people Some reports state that between 600 and 700 of these structures destroyed. There appears to be no official means of checking these estimates, but they seem approximately Correcti Twenty-three of the adjoining shops have been utterly ruined.

have been

CANTON, October 21st.

A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR.

HE. Tsui Ngok, the Governor-General

of Yunnan, arrived here by train from Hongkong yesterday afternoon; and was received by a guard of honour at the station. Tatuh Teoi, who is the guest of Governor-General Lung during his visit, is reported to be on a tour of investiga tion to the various provinces in connec tion with military affairs. His stay in Canton will only be a short one.

THE COMMISSIONER OF FINANCE, The Civil Administrator has telegraph ed to the Board of Finance urgently requesting them to at once dispatch Mr. in Ke Chee, the Finance Commis- sioner-Designate, to Canton, as Mr. Woo Ming Pun, the acting Commissioner, is at present on official business at Wuche w and the onerous and diverse duties of the post cannot for one day be left

Mr. Yim, it is under stood, has been in Peking during the past fortnight discussing various questions I am further directed to take this opportunity of again drawing your attenregarding Kwangtung's finances with the tion to the urgent need of a wireless Minister of Finance. He was expected station being set up on the Pratas Islands to leave the Capital yesterday and will and trust that an early opportunity will probably reach Canton in the early part be taken by H.M. Government of again

of the coming month pressing this Authorities.

honour to be, ote..

проп

The

Chinese

unattended to.

PRIMARY EDUCATION.

My Committee would beg that His The authorities are in receipt of a Excelloney will again bring this must despatch from the Board of Education to Fimportant question to the notice of the the effect that it has been decided to

Secretary of State and trust that at all grents before-simther tyrlion season is divide each province fato eight "primary upon us we may see a suitable wireless school districts," in which 120 elementary station set up this Colony-I have the schools are to be established. When this is accomplished in every province, there (Signed) A. R., LOWE,

Acting Secretary, will be 21,130 primary schools in China, Half of the requisite funds will be pro- vided by the Central Government, the remaining half to be supplied by the local Government, who has instructions to make arrangements forthwith..

The Honourable,

The Colonial Secretary,

tion.

780 shops and houses were looted, the total value of the booty being valued at over $1,300,000,-

THE BOXER INDEMNITY.

According to northern Chinese paper the Department of Finance has wired to the Shanghai branch of the Bank of China to collect the contributions from the provinces towards the payment of the. Boxer Indemnity for the month of October, which reach Taels 17,600.000, and also ordered the provinces to pay the contributions to the said bank as Shang hai. The amounts to be paid by the pro- vinces are as follows:-

Kiangui Szechwan Kwanglung

Tuels, 2,500,000 2,200,000

2,000,000 1,400,000 1,400,000 1,200,000 1,000,000 800,000 500,000

Kiangan

Chekiang

Hupeb

Anhwei

Chibli

Fukien

·Hunan

Shensi

700,000 600,000

Shantung

500,000

Hone Sharsi

500,000

New Dominion Kansu Kwangs! Yunnan Kweichow

300,000 400,000 200,000 300,000 300,000 200,000

wages

Total

.P:17,650-

P.72,630.--- P.14,813.12

P.87.403.12

one is

FOOTBALL

HONGKONG ASSOCIATION; "LEAOPE.

S: Ellis or Bomb. J. F. Woods.

A detective who was on duty at the Forry Wharf noticed a Chinese with a his possession. rather larre bag in

went .KP Lü the LISELTA

and e

Inside were requested him to open it. found two blankets, which, it eventually transpired, belonged to the French mail At the steamer just in from Home. Magistracy yesterday, Th steward board the vessel gave ovidence of identi fiction and the defendant was sentenced to a month's hard labour and four hours stocks.

INTIMATIONS

on

As only four teams have entered for the reund division of this competition, it has been decided to extend the time for For eighteen months past this property entering Suitable cluby especially has not been carried on by the share-civilians, are invited to send applications bolders but by others whose support, has to either of the Hon. Secretaries, Mr. A. how been withdrawn. As 10 willing to advance to the Company. The funds necessary to pay even the wages of the caretaker who is in charge of the pro- perty, it is for you to decide what shall be done with the property

Thore eris several courses open to you, you can abandon the property entirely (as you have practically already done by your non-support) in which event the mort gagees must do something to protect them selves, or you can put up the capital debts and to necessary to pay your develop and work the mine. The debts, The amount the Company owed

now long uverdue, amount to about to Mr. Hibberd at that time

144,000 pesos. If you abandon the mino .P.40,000. was 1st Mortgage

the shareholders will lose everything. claims for brought up by him, etc., 8,820.95 Those who have advanced the money on mortgage have as yet received no interest A total indebtedness of P.48,825.95 on the money so advanced. For eighteest O uth November 1911 we called you months past all exponses bave been met by together in the offices of Messrs. Deacon Mesars. Smith, Bell & Co., or by the Looker and Dencon and there die

mortgage holders, or by your. Directors. cussed the raising of funds to pay Messrs. Smith, Bell & Co. do not see off Mr. Colo and salaries and their way to continue these payments, wages then due The shareholders neither do the mortgages, nor the Direc at that meeting subscribeil 30,00 and tors; therefore these payments have your Directors guaranteed an overdraft ceased. For two years you have not put of $4,598.83 (not yet paid) in addition, to mest sundry argent cxpenses which had to be met at that time to enable if Le to visit Hongkong. Since then the Board of Directors have guaranteed and ad- vanced various suns of money amounting with the overdraft, to u 70 pesos, without any security, shitover but with the undertaking on the part of the Comm pany that the wordzait und amount advanced by the Diecezys should be raid before other clams

1:

The Board consisting of Sir Paul Chater, the Very Reverend Father Robert and Doctor-Noble to mate Hibberd's: claim and to free the property, sub- seribed 45,000 pesos, Messrs. Smith. Bell

one penny towards maintaining this Property and it has been carried on without money from you

Thert is your Directors consider, but one course for you to pursue if you desire to retain the property and that is to put up now capital. Are you prepared to do this? II so to what extent The capital at the moment is divided into · 65,000 shares of 10 pesos each. If you elect this gourse," which is the simplest method of dealing with the situation, you most. Provide enough cash to pay your debts,

which amounted on June 30th, 1913 to Pesos 144,793,85. ̈

You must then have capital for de-

still

mine

That gold can be taken ont we know, yet we have.

& Co, and their friends in Manile subveloping and working the mine.A scribed another 10,000 pesos, a total of large amount of developing, work mat

be done before this 55,000 posos cash, with the object of pay can be said to be "proved." ing to Mr. Hibberd the amount of money due him on his mortgage etc., and to have him transfer the mortgage to them, but he refused to make the transfer. A new mortgage was then made in favour of the parties just mentioned.

not made it a paying proposition. Whether gold can in the future be taken out in payable quantities or not we do not as yet know; we can only tell you what has been done in the past.

PIMPLES SPREAD DOWN SIDE OF FACE

Could Not Sleep At Night for Itch- ing and Scratching. Spread to Head. Hair Began to Fall Off. Cuti- cura Soap and Ointment Cured.

20, Frederick A., Bradford, Yorke. Eng. The Homo two yenza agó I broke out down te alde of my fare with some pimples. They got worse and they BOSEURO II Chu du an nay I could not sloup at night for freiung and scratch-

also For 50 I

50 I would -not go out as I was a very ~Bad sight to look at. It

AEROCL

hi

and

spread to my head work, the

har began to Jell off my I was told it was I commenced to try some mives

and bitemeat but found that thus, cik not do mộ any good but I got worse. I had several bottles of medicine that did not do ke any good and got downhearted about iny casa).

"1 fupponed to see an advertisement about Callcara Soap and Ointment so I thought that I would try them... Before I had used one set I was nearly cured. The encond set my crema was gone and my skin began to heal and my hale began to

· grow agudi. · After using four sets of Cutle cuza Boap and Ontment I am perfectly, cured and my skin in

in on smooth and clear dis before I had any skin itsense." (Signed) Fred Imson, June 5

• 5, 1912.

Cutleurs Soap and Ointment wold through- out the world. A sample of each with 32-p. book free from nearest dopot: F. Newl ery & Buns, 27, Charterhouse Sq., London: B. Towns & Co., Sydney, N.S. W.; Potier Drug & Chem. Corp., Boston, U. S. A.

Tender-faced men should shave with Cutkura Soup Sharing Stick. Sample Tree.

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APPIN&WEBB,

LIMITED.

NEW CONSIGNMENTS.

STERLING

SILVER WARE.

PRINCE'S

PLATE

(GUARANTEED FOR 30 YEARS).

Shortly thereafter a proposition made to the Company by Mr. Philipson of If you are willing to find P. 250,000 in Manila was accepted and an arrangement, cash that will be sufficient to pay off your come to with him whereby he leased the debts and leave a balance which will, we mine from the Company and agreed to think, be sufficient to enable you to prove. work the same, on terms which were very whether this mine is worth spending more. favourable to your Company, inasmuch money on or not. That a certain amount as the Company ran no risk whatever in, of ore, was blocked out is true, but ELOPING BRIDES “CUT OFF, the event of the failure of the mine to nothing like the quantity we were led to

E200 EACH IN FATHER'S £300,000 WILI.

pay expenses, Mr. Philipson assuming all believe, all statemente to the contrary responsibility as to that Mr. Philipson notwithstanding. That it is a gold mine estimated value of the estate of the late

Three hundred thousand pounds is the worked the mine on this so-called lease for

that can be profitably worked as a busi- Mr. Wiham Gaynor, Mayor of New & few months after which Messrs. Smith,

Des proposition has not been proved"," York, whose will was filed for prohate Bell & Co. of Manita assumed all

it is, we consider, still really a prospect, recently

responsibility for this lease and carried but a good prospect. The caretaker's Of this sum only £200 each is bequeathed to his two elder daughters, on on the same lines that Mr. Philipson wages for July, August, and September, Edith and Gertrude, who were the had formerly done. Messrs. Smith; Bell &

were paid by Messrs. Binith, Beli & Co. heroines of two runaway-matches. The Co. since that time, at considerable risk in July, August, and part of September. Mayor never fully forgave them--for cloping, though both marriages proved to themselves, worked the mine under The pay was P. 155. per month; they happy and prosperous ones.

their own supervision until the 30th of absolutely refuse to continue these pay residence, together with shares yielding

Mayor queathed his Brooklyn June on which date they ceased work ents and in this we thoroughly sympa- thise with ther There is no reason why an incorr of some £3,000, to his sidow, having terminated the lease by giving they should and they cannot be expected The remainder of the estate is divided due notice to your Directors of their to do so. The October wages will soon be duo who will pay them? The present between his three unmarried daughters intention so to do. and two sons in the pr portion of one

position is this Your liabilities amount seventh to each of the wormer and two-

One of the conditions of this leage was, o P. 144,000. There is no cash in the sevenths to each of the latter...

that all the expenses of working were to treasury. Assessment work must be done at unce or the claims will be jumped and. by borne by them and any surplus after restaked by otisers and the property lost paying the expenses of working as to be to all now interested therein. This makes utilized in reducing the debts by paying imperative that money must be put up off if possible the unsecured creditors and by you, or you will lose the mines. A confráre of the Press, sends me a

Directors. You must recognize the fart, you do not put this money up the meet- capital story which has the mere of being a fact, that the ting. Mr. gagoes must take steps to protect them- absolutely true. A gentleman was.

selves: this means foreclosure and the ond observed at Landon Bridge with a bass- Hibberd foreclosed his mortgage your of the Headwaters Mining Company. entrance to the South-Eastern station bankrupter. The Company, though in a us know your wishes. basket in his hand standing at the Company was in a hopeless state of Now gentlemen, what will you do? Let After much. Lesitation he made a pur

Dr NOBLE I may add that I have in chase of a haddock, which was hurriedly state of bankruptess then and now, this box all the papers, facts, and figures CHS. J. GAUPP thrust into the basket, After renching been carried on through the support that the directors poc in connection the platform at London Bridge quickly drew from his pocket some given to it, not by the shareholders, but by with this Company. I have brought them Tutuh Lung, deeming it necessary to pheasant's feathers and threst them into Messrs. Smith, Bell & Co. of Manila and with me so as to be able to answer fully strengthen the forces, has sent Sin Tun Half an hour later he was seen carrying by Mesars Smith, Bell & Co. was two interest, as there are only three present.

the basket so that the feathers protruded, by your Directors.

~{i} gift ombrices you may pak I regret to The support given ze that shareholders take so Little (Tutuh's Senior, Deputy) and two mgi-" his purchase towards bis suburban mental Commanders to Kwangst to residence in triumph. To take home a fold; first in providing a portion of the We have carried on hoping against hope recruit several regiments of soldiers in haddock and make your neighbours money with which Mr. Hibberd's claim till now-being entieed as it were by pro- order to augment the Chai Kwan Army believe that you are taking home

times have not come That is all the by five regiments. which will bring the suburban wank, Mr. G. R. Sims in thesponsibility under the lease by which the busines, gentlemen. Thank you for your pheasant is a delightful instance of was entished, then by assuming all mises of better times in the futura Those strength of this army up to 20 regiments. Referer.

mine was carried on until the 30th of attendance.

Beply from the Government, Hongkong, 15th September, 1913, SIR,I am directed to acknowledge: the receipt of your letter of the 11th Sepiein-

NO FOREIGN CAPITAL. ber, in which you ask if any further The Board of Industry and Commerco information has been received from the has notified the Government that no -Secretary of State for the Calonies on the

subject of the proposed Commercial registration of any mining concern shall Wireless Telegraphic Station at Hongbe made by the Civil Administrator

·kong.

inless, a guarantee pole has been issued Thero brag been no recent communica- by the magistrate of the particular dis tion from the Secretary of State on this subject, but as the Crown Agents for the trict in which the mue proposed to be Colonies were instructed December operated is situated, certifying that such

last to call for tenders for the erection concern has no foreign capital.: of the installation it is reasonable to

MORE KWANGSI SOLDIERS. suppose that there will be no great delay in carrying out the work.

A copy of your letter is being sent

to the Secretary of State.I am, Sir,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) A. M. THOMSON,

Colonial Secretary.

The Secretary,

Chamber of Commerce,

Hongkong.

SUBURBAN SWANK,

ก

CUTLERY

From the

SOLE AGENTS:

& CO..

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

CHATER ROAD.