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INTIMATIONS

China

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AT.IL 8ru, 1912

To travel leisurely through this vast country is an education which leaves an indelible imprese on all fortunate enough to bare had the experience Mr. WILSON's record of his wanderinga thoroughly confinees the reader of that fact We have often commented on the strange

A thief entered the Rey, NC. Pope TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

bedroom at Kowloon on Monday by opening a window, Be stole $14 worth of jewellery and other small articles.

[THROUGH “AFUTIE'S AGEBOT.]

Mr David Wood Superintendent of THE HOME RULE DEADLOCK" Accounts in the Public Works Depart

A. S. WATSON neglect in Chins to encourage the construment, and Mr. T. L Perkins, Executive RENEWED debate in the

& CO., LTD.,

ESTABLISHED 2 TEARS.

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

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tion and efficient maintenance of roads. Mr. WILSON, who spent most of his time in country too wild and too rugged for wheels, and where the only recognised mode of travelling is by means of tho sadan chair, gires the reader the benefit of

Engineer, left for Shanghai yesterday by the Ava Jaru en roule for Home, vit

Siberia, on leave,

Inspector

MeHardy prosecuted Chinese at the Magistraey yesterday for the farceny of t carpentry tools from

HOUSE

SECOND READING PASSED.

LONDON, April 7th. Mr. John Redmond resumed the Home

THROUGH UTER 6 AGINOY

BILL PASSED A SECOND TIME. The second reading of the was carried, the voting being:-

For the Bill Against)

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THE CABINET CRISIS IN JAPAN.

Tokyo, April 7th.

Baron Kiyouta has been unable to form a Cabinet, and has resigned.

["THROUGH BEUTEE'S AGENCY.]

Majority

O'Brienites

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Eight voting, 36 Labour

THE CONSTITUTION AND INTEGRITY OF KEDAH.

interesting experiences, and some observa the Naval Dockyard. The man was Rule debate in the House of Common Hon. T. C. Arar-Robartes and Sir MA PROTEST PROM THE REGENT,

tions which are original. There are, as the reader is doubtless aware, some imperial highways, few in number but of vast im portance, since they connect the metropolis

sentenced to a month's hard labour and four hours stocks.

to-day, and dwelt at the outeet of his remarks upon the great and critical nature of the controversy. The time was

LONDON, April 7th-

In the House of Cominous, Mr. L. S. Amery asked the Colonial Secretary whe

from abstained members voted with the Government, and two Liberals,

Clifford Cory, voted with the Opposition, Hundreds of Irishmen, cheering und waving groen fags, saluted the nunounce entrance to the House of Commons, and had been received, in which the latter gave ovations to Mr. John Redmond and complained that the High Commissioner other Nationalist M.P's on coming out of the Malay States had vitally changed of the House.

with the provincial capitals. These were heavy iron pump fell off a truck upon gone for mere party manœuvres, and it ment of the figures at the Palace-yard ther a petition from the Regent of Kedah

A coolie met with a terrible death whilst at work in the Kowloon Dock on Mendas,

which it was being wheeled, and descend. ed on the unfortunate man's head, which was badly crushed.

at

the

made for military purposes in early times when the Emperors were busy conquering the country and extending their territories. Mr. WILSDN. Says the grading of these

A Chinese was charged ancient highways was well done, and the whole work speaks volumes for the ability Magistracy yesterday on two counts of and energy of those old-time engineers, embezzlement, the amounte aggregating They were originally paved with great $14,000. Mr. Holmes was for the prosecu blooks of stone, often indeed they were actution, and Mr Leo d'Almado defended. WHISKY.ally blasted and excavated from solid rock, the case being remanded.

VERY OLD LIQUEUR SCOTCH

Our Celebrated Every old Liqueur Scotch Whisky is a blend of the best Pot Distilled Scotch Whiskies, It is of great age, very fine,

but to-day they are sadly neglected.

ot

Floods have destroyed them here and there, and often the paring blocks have been stolen for house-building and car purposes, and gaps of unpaved, muddy stretches, almostimpassablein rainy occur all too frequently, Sufficient of the original road remains to stir admiration for the skill and foresight of the engineers,

weather,

Yesterday the Chief Justice and the Puinne Judge were engaged in Chambers considering the question of costs in con- nection with the Chung Bau Nam anpool, and also 'n dealing with the certifying,

or otherwise, of three Counsel who appeared on behalf of the respondente.

was useless crying peace when there was no peace (Opposition cheers). It was impossible to agree to the permanent Ulater or abandon the exclusion of

rinciple of Ireland & Nation." Vague talk of federalism was misleading and mischievous Mr. Dedmond concluded by stating that although he would do and say nothing which would preclude a fair and honourable settlement, he thought that, under the present circumstances, the

House should proceed with the Bill ad it stood. (Loud cheers.)

Sir Edward Carson reiterated that f the six years limit was removed he would

UNIONISTS AND EAST FIFE. The Unionists have deferred their doch sion with regard to the course of action to be adopted in the East Fife bye-election until to-morrow.

MR ASQUITH

the Constitution and integrity of Kedah. Mr. Amery called the attention of the Government to a statement in the House of Commons on the 21st July, 1909, that the integrity had not been affected by the transfer Treaty

Mr. Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of State

Mr. Asquith has returned to Downing for the Colonies, said that a petition had been received direct from the Regent Street from East Fife.

protesting against his appointment ng President of the State Concil. It had been referred to the High Commissioner for a report.

NO CONTEST IN BELFAST, Colonel Sharman Crawford (U.) has been returned unopposed for East Belfast OTHER BILLS.

The second reading of the Welsh Dis

Mr Harcourt said he was aware

and mellow. Its superior long since dead, and to set the traveller kong Sanitary Board was held yesterday go to Ulster and submit the Government's establishment Bill will be taken the week of the statement alluded to, but - did

quality has established itsre putation for over 30 years as THE LEADING SCOTCH WHISKY IN THE EAST.

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longing for those halayon days." A feature of the country is the bye paths and narrow track permeating in all directions, and from a lengthy study Mr. Wrson has come to regard this network of bye-paths as the result of salt traffic, and more especially salt smuggling. "There are to-day many such paths throughout the Hupeh-Szo chuan boundary used for practically no other traffic than that of salt, and by these paths salt still reaches certain districts in

The fortnightly meeting of the Hong Those present were Mr. D. W. Tramen (President), Col. Irwin, Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Mr. Ng Hon Txz, Mr. Chan Kai Ming, Hou. Mr. E. A. Hewett, C.M.G., Dr. Fitzwilliams, Dr. F. Clark (M.O.H.), and Mr. E. V. Hamilton (Secretary) There was no business of public interest. There were 13 cases of small-por reported to the Medical Oficer of Health One occurred in the city of Victoria and 18 in districts other than the city. One was a British case. There were also four cases of enteric fever. The return says one was British, one English and the rest Chinese What the distino

∙last week.

proposal, The whole thing, however, was an outrage on constitutional govern ment

not understand the appointment being

after next, and the Plural Voting Bill will come on shortly afterwards regarded as a vital change of the Con-

He emphasised that the only The Government will then propose the solution was to exclude Ulster until they closure motion in dealing with the Com had won her consent. The speaker immittee stage of the three chief Bills. The plored the Government to abandon the Government intend their Ulster pro-

VIEWS ON THE SITUATION. The Unionists think that Mr. Bonar Law's offer of yesterday-bat the

stitution, or as affecting the interests and.. integrity of the State.

AFFAIRS IN ALBANIA.

MOBILISATION EXPECTED.

DURAZZO, April 7th.

In consequence of the anarchical situation

Albania, the in Southern Government has ordered a lab of the forces which will be available in the

Pro ovent of the formation of s

idea of foreing the Bill upon Ulster, posals to be considered at the conferences Sir John Simon, in the course of a most of the party leaders when the Bill goes conciliatory speech, affirmed that the to the House of Lords.

He hoped that BRANDY.defiance of the law. Very useful, if dificult,

Premier's offer would remain open up to the traveller finds these bye-paths, for

the latest possible time. the efforts which were being made to without them it would be impossible to Finest very old BROWN

arrive at an agreement would continue, House of Lords would pass the Home clamations have been posted throughout traverse some of the wildest and most infer BRANDY, Guaranteed 25 years eating parts of Central and Western China."tion is between British and English is but the Government would exclude any Rule Bill without the fresh application the country ordering a muster of all ex- age,in wood. The finest LIQUEUE

discussion of a federal solution which of the Parliament Act it, as an election Redits between the ages of 29 and 30- was merely intended to perpetuate the country approved the Bill-removes The rumours of a partial mobilisation ara BRANDY on the market.

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The Daily Press.

Prosecuting a Chinese who had just

in arrived in the Colony from Melbourne the division of Ireland into two parts, the Government's last shadow of excuse premature at present. a confusion that is bewildering." The for conveying unstamped letters, the He intimated that the Government were for refusing a prompt election.

Hongkong.

At about 3 o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out on a cargo junk in the Harbour. The fire obtained a good hold on the junk, which was laden with 450 bales of hemp, before the alarm was given, and before the Fire Brigade, under Chief Inspector Gourlay, arrived on the fire float, the crew had bored through the bottom with the object of scuttling the revel to prevent it floating among the other shipping The Brigade extin guished the fire, and the junk soon after- wards went to the bottom. The fire originated in the fore part of the junk, from

a cause at present unkown.

prepared to discuss any reasonable modi- fication of Mr. Asquith's proposals,

The Liberals declare that the limit of the Government's concession has been renched

The Daily Nerx suggests that local powers in Ulster would be better than esclusion, and urges theUnioniste to make

PENNER IN ENGLAND.

SEVENTY-EIGHT CHARGES,

LONDON, April 7th. Mr, Fenner, the English stockbroker who made himself notorious by his connec

tion with the Marconi transactions, and

tion. If the proposal to renew conversa- tions was formally made, the Opposition would accept it, but what was the use of conversations with Mr. Redmond utilising the veto for every Opposition proposal? If the Government would make up its mind as to what was a fair and proper solution and themselves accept the ræponsibility for it, the dulculties would disappear. If the Government meant honestly to consider the exclusion of Ireland as long as Ulster was unwilling no less than seventy-eight counts under to come in, the Opposition would do the Larceny Act. their utmost to facilitate & rettfernent on those lines The application of force could only end in bloodshed and would

who has been extradited from France to England, appeared at the Mansion House * Pollo Court today, and was charged on

Mr. Wilson describes the remota noun- not stated Iain fastuoses of Central and Western China as "simply a botanical paradise, with trees, abruby and herbs massed wealth of flowers which meets the eye Postmaster General (Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe) Is" astonishing and surpasses

the told the Magistrate that the defendant

Mr Bonar Law said there were only dreams of the most sanguine." In was carrying money letters. There was

no reason why they should not be sent two ways to avert a calamity: the exclu the chapter on timber trees Mr. WILSON observes that the massive timbers to either through registered post or ordinary sion of Ulster, or an appeal to the seen in old Chinese temples and houses are post. The man had been in Melbourne country, but the Government's bargain now unobtainable from the native trees of sufficiently long to know what the pot with the Nationalists barred either solu the best terms they can for Ulster.

office was. Possibly, ha humorously Chins. The destruction of timber has added, it was better there than it was in been a frequent theme of comment by travellers, but apparently volcanio up heavals have played a part in this as well as the woodman's aze. Mr. Wilson relates how on one occasion he came upon some villagers south of Tachionlu who war digging out huge buried logs in a narrow valley. They dammed up a torrent at the head, and the water, when it was let out by a sluice as required, washed away most of the soil. Some of the excavations were fully fifty feet deep. There was plenty of other limber, but only the Heiang my (fragrant wood) was considered of value, Coffins made of it cost from four hundred to a thousand ounces of silver. This tiguber, he says, is wonderfully preserved, and a more compact in texture and more fragrant than that of recently. felled trees. In all his travels in West

There were 91 cases of plague reported en China be had only seen one living

Scotch, pecimen approaching the size of these long in the Colony last week, st being fatal. buried giants. Mr. WILSON'S chapters on The official return gives them as 1o medicinal plants, the more iraportant plant-

1 Filipino, 1 Portuguese, i Indian, 1 products, and tea and tea-yielding planta | Malay and the rest Chinese (one in City of Victoris and 51 in other districts. exceedingly interesting, and so also are ported). Of the cases, 40 occurred in the his remarks on the mineral wealth of the

We notice that Yaumari furoated 38 of these The tutel for the year has been 99 try, including the probability of oil beda in Brechuan, which seem to be.

361, while the deaths have ben 201 indicated by the "firewalls of Taulju.

much lower percentage than usual ching, but opposition to the foreign concessionaire has prevented even the cum-wives from being worked properly, Sportsmen will be particularly interested in

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THE PLAGUE.

fail in its object. He cannounced

inserted

that if the Government their Ulster proposals in the Bill and carried it through the Committes and obtained the country's support for it, then, as far as Lord Lansdowne's authority went, the House of Lords would allow the

Statute-book without change and with- Government to place the Bill on the

out delay.

AN INTERESTING WEDDING

London, April 7th, Mra, Patrick Campbell was married yesterday afternoon at a registry office to dir. George Cornwallis West, who was divorced by his wife, Lady Randolph Churchill, the decree being made absolute

yesterday

CANADA'S BUDGET.

A LABGS SURPLUB:

HONGKONG AFR L 8TH, 1914.

Two volumes writen by Mr. ERNEST H WILSON have recently been published by Messrs, METHUEN & Co. bearing the title of A Naturalist in Western China." The publishers are perfectly justified in claiming for them that they contain a comprehensive description of a fascinating region, with spécial reference to its flora and fauna, to its mueral, agricultural and economic wealth, and to the manters and customs of the

OTTAWA, April 7th tribesfolk inhabiting the Thibetan border

White, the Minister of Finance in land, Mr. WILSON's travels in Western China began early in 1899, and had for

Mr. A. Birrell (The Irish Secretary) introducing the Budget, estimated that their object the electing of botanical

winding up the debate, thought they had there would be a mrplus of 830,500,000 in and the introducing of new specimans

made considerable progress. He shud 1012 Referring to the financial crisis of plaats into the gardens of Europe and

dered at the very thought of civil war, 1913 he said that most of the British North America. He has made four

and said they did not need civil war to criticism of Canadian horrowing was separate expolitions, covering in all pearly

settle the question. Ulster must be won, unjust, but perhaps it was not blame eleron years, and the natura of his work

the chapters on Sport in Western Chino, made it necessary for him to avoid the

At the Magistracy yesterday, before and her opposition to participating in worthy under the trying condi beaten track, and the couple of volumes which occupy about a third of the second

Mr J. R. Wood, two cates were called self-government overcome but this could tions in the London market. However, are of he has published, while

volume. The final chapter contains soma.

aring in which rather large not be by forre. Hence the Government's Canada could not suddenly are of genera remarks on the Chinese people, and especial value to the botani

prepared орна

proposals

He pleaded earnestly for a continue barrawing without damaging great interest to the general roader especially on their virility and industry.

In the first case, two Chinène,

previous investors who had settlement, but the Opposition must not the

Jab Tract China's peace-loving, induatejous millions who is interested in China...

nspector Murrison ton Street, we

charged press the Government to exclude Ulster supported the undertakings which must from one of the orly chapters reads: With as he blys, can never be utterly mothered her industrious, ting millions, her old or nationally effaced, and those who know

vful possession of 155 permanently. It was hopeless to ex- he finched to be productive. There would old,eivilisation, her enormous natural China best will not disagree with his connels. The second defendant was disclude Ulster permanently, because of ba no general revision of the tariff, but wealth and wondrous scenery, China alter clusion that her salvation will not be charged, and the hearing of the Case Izisa sentiment They ought to find there would be increases on rolled iron netely charms and fascinates, irritates and found in any advanced Western system of against the

a solution whereby Ulster would go out and steel, and wire rods, which at present plouges into despair, all who sojourn long government, but in a wise and liberal der Another man, arrested in a house at within her borders. No country otelde potism. That is now taking the place of Grahazo Street, was charged with being for a time, and come back upon con were free, would pay 83.50 per ton; but in unlawful possession of 80 taels. This ditions which the Government were ready there would be a drawback on wire

fencing Europe and North America is, of such the parliamentary institutions which were

to consider with the Opposition. case was also remanded. perennial inferase to the world at larga as all too hastily set up two years ago.

UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF OPIUM.

Confor

nvolved:

who were art at No. 49, Ste with being

first man was adjourned.

dis

ORIENTALS IN CANADA.

AND THEIR EMPLOYMENT OF WHITE WOMEN.

TORONTO, April 7th

The Chinese Consul-General to Canada has objected to the cause in the Ontario Factories Act Amendment Bill forbid- ding Orientals to employ white girls, on the ground that it was unconstitutional and opposed to the principles of the Treaty with China A case involving a similar amendment by the Saskatchewan Legislature is now before the Imperial Privy Council The Ontario Government, will probably withdraw the amendment

until the case is divided

NAVAL NOTES.

HMS. Brunible is expected in Hong- kong, from the North on the 24th instant. to refit

M.Sunteur sails to-day, at 5 p.n., for the North, and the flotillo, with the exception of the Felland and Ribbie, proceed in the same irection at 5.30 p.1. E.M.§. //umpshire is expected to join the others of the Northern,station on or about the 25th instant,

OPIUM IN KUEICHOW,

A correspondent of the VC. Daily News, who is on a visit to the North of Kueiyang, writes: "I have not seen any opiam grown beaus, mustard and other plants are to be seen in abundance Of course one would not expect to find any along the main roads, but yesterday and to-day I have come by a smaller rond. Last year when I came the same rond. I sew opium in several places. I have heard that in the Stuwenhsien some men have been shat for growing the plant, and today I hear report that in the northern part of this Kaichow district three or four men have been shot for the tame offence I give these reports with all reserve, us on a previous occasion offi- cial announcements of executions for opium growing proved to be untrue. Opium smoking is still prevalent every where so far as I can see. Many who say they have dircarded the drug are still taking it tin the shape of anti-opium pilla

know of several men who bave been curing themselves in this way for mouths; in one case for over a year The the north of his district uprooting opium, Kaichoy Magistrate is at present visiting No doubt a good deal is still to be found in out-of-the way places. The trouble is that when stern, measures are taken the poor suffer the rich in most cases by out to the district headmen would prove. themselves off Stern punishment meted most effectual as well as most fair.