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Indians was in the main against two grievances an Act passed by the Natal Government in 1895 which imposed on indentured Indians who have completed their service of indenture an annual licence
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 7TH, 1914.
The Peking Government Hospital in TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
tends to introduce at an early date obligatory vaccination of children against. small-pox
Several prominent
A. S. WATSONx of 3, and, secondly, against the Hongkong returned from Swatow yester
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{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.
rema of THE NAVAL CONSTRUCTION THE HOME RULE QUESTION.
QUESTION IN JAPAN
ANTICIPATED BREAKDOWN OF NEW CABINET.
TOLYO, April 6th,
DEB OSTASIATISCHER LLOYD”
SERVIOR.1
CHINA SERVICE. UNIONISTS INTERPRETATIONS OF
POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT. MR ABQUITH'S SPEECH,
PEKING, April 6th Nearly 850,000 worth of prepared
LONDON. April 5th.
The new draft of the Constitution pro- opium, together with
quantity oE
Unionist opinions on the speech at vides that the powers vested in the cocaine and morphia, was publicly do The anticipation of dificulty in Ladybank are very divergent. While the President shall include the right to stroyed in Tientsin a week ago.
Daily Telegrapă interprets Mr. Asquith's declare war and peace, and to negotiato Mr. A. W. U Pops, until recently the
remarks as adding the whole weight of his treaties. He will nominate the Chiefs of
attitude of the South African Government towards the marriago customs of the Tndiana. The tax has long been a source of trouble, and modifications in it have wen made from time to time with the object, amongst others, of exempting such WINE& SPIRIT MERCHANTS. Women as were not in a position to pay,
the tax was undesirable and burdensome General Manager of the Suanghai-Nan- with the new Naval Minister, Baron authority to the anti-Army agitation, the Army and the Navy, and the Envoys, and, in the words of Ford HAUDINGE, king Railway has been appointed Adviser Kate, on the expansion programme and the Atorning Post says it is clear that Mr. and be entitled to create new offices, aince the complete cossation by order of the to the Board of Communications on is feared that the Cabinet will go to Asquith will have nothing to do with an Besides the Council of Advisors for the
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but it has been folt for some time that
Government of India in 1912 of all inden tared immigration to Natal the retention of the tax and its capricious enforcement, even though it is not levied on more than a small number of those liable, has been a constant source of irritation among Indians in Natal" When the Immigration Act of last year was passed and this objectionable impost maintained, the storm broke. The Commission recommends the repeal of the
WHISKY. tax. The other problem we have mentioned
old
to
railway affairs.
To-morrow, being the birthday of HM. Albert I King of the Belgians, Mr. Janssens, Consul-General for Bel grum, will be at Dome at his office from 11 a.. to i p.m.
The Corps Shooting Championship of the Hongkong Volunteers has been won by Capt. W H. Scott with a score of 93. Sergt. Sorby came second with 93. It was
open sight shooting and the scores are
thus very creditable
H.E the General Officer Commanding has expressed his appreciation of the work done by the officers and men of the local Volunteer Corps during the recent manoeuvres, and of the spirit in which they carried out their duties.
is a more delicate ore. The South African legislature has hitherto shown disinchuation Our Celebrated Every
to give any form of legal recognition to Liqueur Scotch Whisky is marriages performed according to the rites a blend of the best Pot of any religion which permits the practice of polygamy. This attitude, is the Distilled Scotch Whiskies. VICEROY OF INDIA has observed, has been It is of great age, very fine, necessarily extremely embarrassing and mellow. Its superior pians in South Africa whether married to one or more wives who desired to obtain quality has established its re-recognition for at least one wife. The Report putation for over 30 years as of the Commission contains numerous THE LEADING SCOTCH recommendations intended to meet the B. Wells will read short papers con-
reasonable requirements of Mahomedans and Hindus in respect of this difficulty The substance of their recommendations is
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NEWFOUNDLAND SEALING
TRAGEDY.
A HARROWING TALE
ST. JOHN'S, April 5th. The Bellaventure hived with to
survivors of the
aboard, together with eo dead bodice. - A
land's crew
Router's representative gathered that on Tuesday morning the open-air barometer an approaching storm. indicated Four ships had put out, with 1,000
and to promote or degrado: officials.
d to promote or
anti-Army campaign.
Federal Court of Chancery and the Board Meanwhile the headline “Army versus of; Audits, he may issue new Ordinances; People has disappeared from the and will have power to curtail the liber- Liberal organs, which are ceasing their tics of the people during a state of war or during warlike conditione. He has, finally, the power of granting rewards and the right of pardon.
attacks on the Army itself and are con centrating on the alleged unsuccessful Unionist conspiracy to seduce it.
The Vice-President will assist the Precident in the Administration, and will act for him in his absence.
TANG BHIYI
BTE-ELECTION IMPROBABLE.
Mr. Asquith has returned to Landon Though the local Unionists will not decide upon their course of action until DE PEKING, April 8th
The And Ji Pao says that Liang Shi-yi intends retiring from the post of today, the general feeling in East Fife after consideration of the Ladybank Secretary-General. The President is speech of Mr. Asquith is that a contest is trying to persuade him to continue in the
a improbable,
THE DEMONSTRATION IN HYDE
nboard, to seck seals. The blizzard broke at noon, and 150 of the Newfoundland's crew wandered about in blinding drifts unable to find the ship. The blizzard raged all Wednesday but abated in the night
PARK
A laten message concerning the Hyde Park demonstration states that Mr. A. J Balfour appeared unexpectedly on the
The Captain of the Bellaventure was scene, and in the course of his speech preparing at daylight on Thursday to said, We are on the edge of a great
will be followed by a great national dis. A meeting of dog fanciers will be held send out nicu on the iceflces to hunt for national crime, which, if perpetrated, at the Astor House Hotel on Thursday,seals when lo sighted strangers approach-
uster
at &.16 p.m., for the purpose of transacting. Their enfeebled gait betokened some ing preliminary business in connection with a dog show which is proposed to be
disaster. The work of rescue lasted all
that a law should be passed provia ing for the appointment of marriage odlcers from among the Indian priests of different denomina- tions whose duty it would be to solemnise futore marriages in accordance with the held shortly Officers and committee will day. The last man saved had been 50 be elected at this meeting, at which all hours adrift without food, yet he was interested are invited to attend.
religion of the parties to the transaction and duly register the same. Only one marriage in each case may be so solemnised and registered, and it will then have the
unscathed, though he went blind the day after he was rescued. The physicians are confident, however, that he will recover his sight.
The Suffragette procession attempted to enter the Park and were good-bumouredly hustled by the crowd Mrs. Drummond and another suffragette were arrested but sabsequently released.”
Simultaneously with the Hyde Park gathering a Syndicalist Don't Shoot"
demonstration was held in Trafalgar Square, when the soldiers were exhorted
There was no disturbance anywhere.
FENNER EXTRADITED TO
ENGLAND
A summary of resignations from the tarantage of ranking entirely with Philippine civil service since November any other marriage contracted under the lot, given out by that Bureau last week; indicates that 283 employes have severed
Most of the survivors are frightfully laws of the Union. Existing actual moro.
connection with the classified service in frost-bitten. One man had gangrene in gamous marriages are to be similarly the Philippines during that period. Of recognised by this law and further provisionis number 20 are designated as " volun.both feet, and they had to be amputated not to fire on the workers:
a
number of the voluntary resignations were of school teachers returning to the United States.
bodies were chopped out of the Fien with axes, and several men died while their rescuers were
LONDON, April 6th Mr. Fenner, the well-known stock broker, whose name came into prominence
office
THE ABOLITION OF THE LAW COURTS.
PERING, April 6th. There has been a violent collision of the Conservatives and the Progremists in the Political Committee over the abroga- tion of the Law Courts. The Conservar tives intend leaving intact the Espreme
the Ministry of Justice.. Court only and to connect even this with
THE CONSTITUTION.
PEKING, April 6th. The Constitution Convention will not have the Draft of the Constitution ready until the 20th April
REPORTED VICTORY OVER WHITE WOLF
PEKING, April 6th. The Peking Pao reports the victory of the Government troops over White Wolf" at Siao-y in Shansi,
CHINA'S PETROLELA DEPOSITS.
PELING, April 6th, According to a report from Hsiung Hsi-ling there are 23 petroleum springs în Chihli, 17 in Yunnan, 13 in Kueichow, 8 in Shensi, five each in Kiangsu and Kiangei, four cach in Shansi, Hunan and Fengtion, 3 in Szechuan, two each
is to be made for the admission into the tary the remainder resulting from Others lost Angere, toes, ears, noses, and Union along with her minor childran of one number of causes, including chiefly parts of their bodies. Two men had their wife in the case of any Indian who is mar-reductions in personnel. • A consulerable brothers die in their arme. Many dead ried according to the tenets of his religion, whether it recognised polygamy or not, out side the Union of South Africa, provide that she is the only wife in the country The King has been pleased to give and Further, and this the Victor regards as grant unto Mr. Ardon Henry Hyland taking them to the ship. No tower in connection with the American Mar noteworthy and important proposal, it is His Majesty's Royal licence and than 43 bodies were taken off three small recommended that Indians, after registering authority to wear the Insignia of the Ros The rescuers piled the dead in one wife in the manner already referred to. Fifth Class of the Order of the Excellent groups, and planted Bags above them, extradited from France to England. He THE GERMAN EMBASSY IN PARIS. should not be debarred in any way from Crop, and anto Mr Herbert Dixon for a steamer to collect, as it would seals, contracting other marriages according to their own religious rites, though it will, of Mr. William Walter Ritchie, Postal Com Many of the dead aro frightfully con course, be impossible to accord to such missioner, Chineso Post Office Hankuw, forted, while many men went insane, OUTRAGE IN A LONDON CHURCH. Foreign Office, and Prince Hatzfeld goes
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marriages any form of legal recognition P.O. Boz., 84. Telephone No. 18
whatever. Other minor grievances against Bongsong Open: 104, Des Vaux RADO. the recently-enacted Immigration Act LONDON Orvic: 191, FLETT STREET, K.O.
were also investigated by the Commission, who make recommendations which appear to mestall reasonablerequirements of the Indian community without infring sa interests of the white population it may be that the
The Daily Press.
HONGYONG APR L 7rm, 1914,
We have heard so little of the Indian problems in South Africa of late that wo may assume that the recommendations of the Commission appointed to investigate the grievances of the Indians embody proposals which are acceptable 10 both sides. We may at least take it that they are acceptable to the Indians we should have been made acquainted with their dissatisfactiou. It is three weeks since the recommendations of the Commis sion were made known, and the VICEROY OF INDIA in a public speech stated that he found in them a very complete
Summers, District Postmaster, and unto
coni transactions by Ministers, has been
is to appear at the Mansion House Court
to-day.
Lospor, April 6th. A bomb exploded at midnight in St.
His Majesty's Royal licence and authority their ravings terrifying their comrades, to wear the Insignia of the Bixth Class Others had battered their faces on the of the Order of the Excellent Crop, which is, and their bodies were almost un Martin's Church, Trafalgar Square, and decorations have been conferred upon
them by the President of the Republic recognizable One committed unteide by of China in recognition of valuable jumping from an ice orag services rendered by them.
When the survivors reached the Many old residents will have noticed eller fare their boots and clothing had
acceptance of these recommendations like regret the announcement of the to be cut off.
be sorely against local prejudices, but it "ER show that the legislature of the Union 1
capable of rising superior to local pro judices wlion the ocasion calls for proof of imperial patriotism.
The Colonial Secretary's Office informs us Shanghai has declared Hongkong an infected port,
A male, ridden by an Indian soldier,
knocked down and severely trampled upon Chinese at Kowloon Old City, as a result of which the latter had to be
removed to hospital.
A European pulles constable warned & young Chinese street newspaper-seller for pestering passers-by, and the latter suddenly threw his slipper in the con-
table's face and ran BWAY-
of
death
Mrs. J. D. Humphreys which appeared in our yesterday's issue. Mrs.
suspended
The whole Colony is in mourning, and there will be a public funeral on Monday Humphreys lived in Hongkong for up. John's, where business has been wards of thirty years, but had resided in England since 100% when she left the Hope has been abandoned of the Colony with her husband. Mr. J. D. Humphreys died-the year following their Southern Cross It is regarded as cer- return to England, and his widow thus tain that she has foundered near Cape survived him seventeen years. She died at Race, with all aboard. Brighton on the 5th ult. from heart failure following an operation,›
LATER
While none of the survivors ars expect-
Humphreys had decided to come to Hong-d to die, the loss of limbs through frost kong this year on a visit to her son, Mr. it will be terrible. Henry Humphreys, who in his sid and unexpected bereavement will have the Rympathy of many old friends.
THE GOVERNORSHIP OF MAUAO
SENHOR BANCHES SUDDENLY CALLED O
LISBON
Three of the survivors will lose both their hands and both feet, eight will lose one foot, eleven will lose ono band or the Angers of cus or both hands
two stained glass windows and a pow were shattered. It is supposed to be the work of Suffragettes.
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The General Manager and Committee bog to present to the Shareholders the Eleventh Ordinary yearly report of the Company
The accounts show a prost of $120,801:18. From this has to be deducted Tess to Consulting Committee – 4,000,00
Leaving available for appro
priation pr $110,801-18
The Consulting Committee re- commend that a divideml of 81.20 per share on the Sub- scribed Capital be paid to » Shareholders
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and satisfactory attempt to arrive at a final solation of the dineullies that have arisen in South Africa, and his Lordship took opportunity of expressing the warm appre
THE CHILDAR" PIRACY. cution of the Government of India of the broad and
atatesman like manter, in
Senhor Sanches, the Governor of Macso, Detective-Bergt Brown arrested a man which the difficult questions they had to
came down to Hongkong yesterday alter and a woman at laumati on suspicion consider were dealt with by the Commis
According to the story of a married noon on the Tarchan and leaves Hone of their, being concerned an the piratācal attack on the Childur recently, A aum- woman living at Shaukiwan West, a thief kong to-day for Portugal, having suddenly ber of pawn tickets relating to certain 610. The views of the Union Parliament hare yet to be leamt on the subject, but nantered her bouse on Banday by wrench-been recalled to Lisbon. It appears that property were found in their possession. the Commission way one appointed by the 4g the padlock off the door, and stole a telegraphic instructions to this effect
INTERNATIONAL COLLISION REGULATIONS. Government of South Africa, the terms of hox containing bine articles of jewellery, reached Macao on the 1st of April, and settlement, it may be assumed, will prove worth over $200, and nearly $50 in money having regard to the time-honoured asso-
ciations of the day the public did not Before the Marine Magistrate (Com) As acceptable to the public opinion of South
It is stated that the proposed extension
yesterday, Africans to that of India, and if of the harbour limits of Newchwang up Arst get abroad.
unreservedly accept the report when it mander Basil Taylor, N.)
Captain Robert A, Birus, master of the endorsed by the Umon Parliament there to the new 9. M. Railway Wharf, as
Taben, summoned the master of the Senhor Martina Pereira, commandant 7 Lee Captain James Wilcox, for will be no renewal of the outbreak of
ded by the
of the river gunboat Macau, has become failing to observe International Collision passive resistance and of striksa by Luciana Customs with the concurrence
acting Governor pending the arrival of Regulations on the 29th March, while in Natal whish, last November, raised an Consular Body, was approved by the Senhor. Jose Ernesto de Carvalho Crate under way between Cheung Chat and have been audited byr, F. Maitland
logo Patang The Tas Lee is at present who was in Macao a year ago as the aground off Kongmoon, on the West second commandant of the gunboat River and the Magistrate adjourned the
rase uulil the return of the steamer.
Imperial problem which if dealt with in the Diplomatic Core Peking, and also
rong way might have led to very serious Mr Aglen (Inspector-General of the trouble au Inda, The protest of The Chinos Maritime Customs).
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EUROPEAN SERVICE
BERLIN, April 5th. Herr v Radowitz, First Secretary of Embassy at Paris, is transferred to the
to Paris in his place...
A ROYAL BETROTHAL
BERLIN, April 5th. A St. Petersburg dispatch reports the engagement of Prince Carol of Roumania with the Czar's daughter and states that the wedding is to take place in July at the Castle of Peterhof.
BRITISH ROYAL VISIT TO RUSSIA.
BERLIN, April 5th. The visit of the King and Queen of England to the Czar and Cesrine is announced to take place in June in the
Finnish Archipelago.:
A PERVERSE INTERPRETATION.
BERLIN, April 5th. The Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung Bays it is absolutely untrue that the Kaiser's letter to the Landgrave of Hesse on the occasion of the latter conversion to Catholicism stated time the Pres maintained hostile attitude towards Catholicism,
brands The Norddeuts
perversion of the tass as an irresponsible letter
THE POWERS AND ALBANIA,
BERLIN, April 5th. The Great Powers will not intervene a present in Albania, as the Prince has not asked for help.
The Dutch officers at Koritza are in possession of proofs of the implication of the Greek metropolitan priest. -
GERMAN AIRMAN'S NOTABLE FLIGHT.
In accordance with the Articles of
BERLIN, April 5th. Association, Mr. J. W. C. Bonnar retires. from the Consulting Committes, bus offers
The German airman Hirt performed the himself for re-election.
flight from Gotha to Marsailles in elevers Auditor. The accounts under review
hours, thus ing the Frenchman' who offers himself for re-election,
SAW G. DARBY
Brindejon time by one hour. French General Manager pavors point out the superiority of Hongkong, 6th April, 1914.7
German motors...
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