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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 27TH, 1914.

TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AUKNCY.}

HOME RULE CRISIS.

FAILURE OF THE CONFERENCE

LONDON, July 25th.

The Irish Conference est for seventy minutes. and the Speaker, the Unionist delegates, and Mr. Dillon remained at the Palace, after the Conference broke up.

Mosers. Redmond, Asquith, Dillon and Lloyd George exchanged visits at Downing Street. Mr. Asquith Bummoned Mr. Churchill to attend.

The Cabinet, after eitting for an hour and a half, went to the House of Com- mons, whore Mr. Asquith said that the Conference had considered the possibility.

of finding an

which could be excinded under the Home Rule Bill, but the Conference being unable to agree with the principle or the details of such an area they brought the Conference to

RIER

a close. The Speaker would'thus- report to the King.

(THROUGH REUTER AGENCY.]

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE KHEDIVE.

ANARCHIST SHOT DEAD BY ESCORT.

CONSTANTINOPLE, July 20th.

[” DEB OSTASIATISCHER LLOYD" SERVICE]

CHINA SERVICE.

THE POWERS AND LIKIN

PREINO, July 25th. The British and U.S. Governments handed a common protest to the Waichia.

pu against the decision that Nantao

* SUPREME COURT.

AM Saturday, 26th July,

ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.

GOMPERTZ.

CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY/

NEARLY FIVE HUNDRED AMERICANS. DROPPED,

that in the new Memorandum had been THE PHILIPPINE CIVIL SERVICE. included the power to invest the funds of the Company in practically any way that a prudent man would invest his own money. There was no statement in the old Memorandum as to powers of From October, 1813, to June, 1914, thore BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE, MA. H. H. Jinvestment, therefore they must be such have been 480 separations of Americans,

from the service for all causes, resigna- tion, abolishment of position, separation for cause, dropped for absence, deatha, transfers and for other causes. voluntary and others asked for; 30 cases There were in all 280 resignations, some in which separations were caused by the abolition of the position beld; 78 were

were dropped because at the termination of their leave of absence they failed to return or report their intentions; two were relieved; one was murdered in Java, and five died-Cablenews (Manila).

On behalf of the China Fire Insuranco Co, Mr. Sharp, K.C (instructed by Mr. H. J. Gedge, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & Master), made applica tion for the sanction of the Court to an

ciation for the purpose of extending the abjects for which the Company was

as wore implied in the case of a Company carrying on a businces of this nature. It was manifestly necessary that an insurance company should have its fund invested in a really accessible way. The Company had implied power to invest its surplus profits, and was not bound to

holders

A man attempted to assassinate the Khedive as he was leaving the Grand Vizierate in the afternoon. The anarchist should be excluded from the Likin from alteration of the Memorandum of Asso pay away all its earnings to the share separated from the service, for cause; 83 was shot down by an escort.

The Khedive was wounded on the cheek

and atm, bpt the injuries are not dangerous.

HOME TURF.

THE LIVERPOOL SUMMER CUP.

LONDON, July 25th. The race for the Liverpool Summer Cup resulted as follows:--

China Cock (Donoghue) Nassau (Ledson)

Junior (W. Huxley)

Nine started; won by a length and a

area at Shanghai.

PROMINENT MEMDERS REFUSE TO SIT

Three British protesta relating to formed Líkin questions have bren left Mr. Sharp explained that the applica- unanswered by the Chinese Government. tion was really a potition to sanction certain alterations in the Memorandum THE NEW CHINESE COUNCIL.

of Association of the Company in accord OF STATE.

ance with special resolutions which had been passed and confirmed by the Com pany The matter had been before his Lordship in Chambers and he believed his Lordship required information upon two points. He had furnished this informa- (Secretary to the Company), the two mais tion in an affidavit by Mr. Peraberton,

points being the extension of the objects and reasons, and the power of invest ment. With regard to the first of these

PRKING, July 25th. Although in receipt of autograph letters from the President, Yet Yu Shi Mei and La Hai Huan have definitely refused their appointments to the Tsan Cheng Yuan. They have also returned all the valuable presents received from

Subsequently his Lordship intimated that he would like to consider the matter, and reserved his decision. His Lordship also directed that the minute book of the Company should be produced to him in Chambers. -

THE BANK CONSPIRACY CASE,

Further evidence was given at the

Magistracy on Saturday in the Bank con spiracy case.

Abdul Rahim Kader, a clerk in the Post Office, said that on 6th May a lottor addressed to "Richards, Singapore," was

copy of the receipt which was given. He

it to him. could not remember the man who handed

Yuan Shih-huen, A cousin of the President of the Chinese Republic, has arrived in London, and, with the Chinese Minister, has paid a visit to the Foreign. Office, where he had a long interview with Sir Edward Grey..

half, three-quarters of a length separat the President and compared themselves points, he asked his Lordship to look at cogistered in Hongkong. He produced a of manslaughter and sentenced

Mr. Asquith announced that the seconding second and third. reading of the "Amending Bill would be

taken on Tuesday.

Mr. Bonar Law concurred, and the House was adjourned.

MR, BIRRELL ON THE IDEA OF

...CIVIL WAR,

Betting 7 to 1 China Cuck: 7 to 1 Nassau 2 to 1 Junior.

jokingly to widows of middle age, for whom an eventual marriage would not turn out to be an unmixed blessing.

Liang Ting Fen, the Grand Secretary Chu Chung Chi, and Chao Ching Pen Stewards Cup, to be run on the 28th refuse likewise to take seats in the Toan

Cheng Yuan

TILE GOODWOOD STEWARDS' CUP The betting for the Goodwood

inst., is-10 to 1 Lord Annandale; 100 to

8 Jameson, Jarnac II. and Castellan; 20 to 1 Voldy; to to 1 By George and Wise

INTERNATIONAL TENNIS.

“THE OFFSPHING OF WHISKY." Mr. Augustine Birrell, the Secretary of State for Ireland, speaking at Cam-Symon; 100 to 3 Quantock. bridge, and Viscount Haldane, in London, regretted the failure of the Conference and emphasised that the Government would go forward with their proposals unflinchingly.

Mr. Birrell said that it was the duty of Liberals to see that Mr. Asquith was not interfered with by a dissolution, until the Home Rule Bill, subject to acceptable exclusion, became law. Mr. Birrell added-" There may be rows in Ulster, the offspring of whisky, but the idea of civil war is unthinkable."

Two Belfast Regiments of Volunteers paraded last evening with rifles and machine-guns.

TWO LONDON NEWSPAPERS CHANGE HANDS.

LONDON July 26th... The Standard says that Mr. Gardner of the Sinclair, Managing Director printing Arm of Dobson, Molle & Co., has purchased the Pall Mall Gazetle and The Observer.

THE BISLEY MEETING.

LONDON, July 25th. Sergeant Evans, of the Malay Volun Shield, teers, won the Elkington for the best aggregate score, after a tie.

Private Fulton, of the Queen's West minsters, and Sergeant Dowary of the Royal Scots, tied for the King's Prize, cach registering 300.

In the "decider" Sergt. Dewar won,

LONDON, July 26th. The St. George's Cup was won by Corrie of the Highland Light Infantry, with a score of 114.

Seven Australians, six Canadians, and five representatives of India are included in the King's Hundred.

POLO PLAYER KILLED.

LONDON, July 25th. Captain White, of the Wiltshire Regiment, has been killed by a fall from bi pony, while playing polo,

GENERAL HUERTA AT JAMAICA. LONDON, July 25th.. The ex-Mexican President, General Huerta, has arrived at Jamaica with a party of his supporters.

THE ALBANIAN DIFFICULTY.

POWERS TAKE UMBRAGE AT INSURGENTS"

BEHAVIOUR-

DURAZZO, July 25th.. The Powers have resolved not to answer, the insurgents, who have insulted the Prince and threatened to make Durazzo a battlefield.

PRESIDENT POINCARE,

STOCKHOLM, July 26th. President Poincare has arrived here. THE RUSSIAN STRIKE.

CHICAGO, July 26th."

In the Davis Cup doubles, Brookes and Wilding (Australasia) bout. Powell and Schwengers (Canada): 6-4, 6-3, 6-4.

The former meet Germany in the semi-

final.

ENGLISH COUNTY CRICKET.

LONDON, July 25th. Kent beat Middlesex at Maidstone by an innings and 45 rung.

Playing at Southend, Essex beat Sussex by an innings and 119 runs.

At Worcester, Somerest buat Worcester by 72 runs,

Surrey beat Hante at Portsmouth by 8 wickets.

The matches between Gloucestershire. and Notts, at Nottingham, Yorks and Lancashire, at Hull, and Leicestershire and Warwickshire, at Hinckley, were all

drawn.

GERMANY'S DECLINING

BIRTH-RATE.

NO DETERIORATION, IN PHYSIQUE,

The commission appointed by the Ministry for the Interior to inquire into the causes of the striking decline in the birth-rate in Germany has, according to an article published in the Kolnische Zeitung, arrived at the conclusion that there is no question of deterioration in the physique of the nation. The declino is to be attributed rather to economic reasons, and, to some extent, to the circumstance that there exists a growing disinclination to marriage.

It is pointed out in the article that the recruiting lists for the Army prove that the German people are not becoming de- generate. For years past the physical qualifications that must be fulfilled before a youth is accepted for service in the active Army have been augmented, and, nevertheless, the physical conditions of the youths presenting themselves every six months continus to show improvement, The commission draws attention to the fact that the birth rate has been declining universally for the past twenty years, and

that the decline has not been so noticeable It is also contended that the decline can not be stemmed by legislations

in Germany as in the Romance countries,

the affidavit, and it would be convenient the reason for the extension of the if he gave a preliminary explanation of

objects.

His Lordship would recollect that by the old Memorandum the objects of the Company were restricted to fire insurance and all that was incidental to fire insurance. It might reasonably be argued by this at the objects, in view

NEW EQUIPMENT FOR HANYANG of the changed condition of insurance

ARSENAL.

PEKING, July 25th. Complying with the request by the Governor of Hupeh, the Hanyang Arsenal at Hankow will be refitted with American machines.

A SUBSTITUTE FOR LÍKIN.

PERINO, July 26th. Acting upon a suggestion from the Minister of Finance, the Financial Con- ference at the Presidential Offices have concluded it. would be advisable to substituto a Tung Chuan tax for Likin,

This project has been submitted to the President for approval.

SINO-JAPANESE-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY:

PERING, July 26th. The Peking Jih Pao says that Yang Shi Chi intended to resign the Presidency of the Sino-Japanese Society.

EUROPEAN SERVICE.

THE BRITISH LEGATION AT PARIS.

BEELIN, July 24th,

to

A telegraur from Victoria (BC) states that Jack Kong, the sixteen year old Chinese servant who in April last killed Mrs. C. Millard, the wife of a Canadian. Pacific Railway official, was found guilty imprisonment for life. According to the story told by Kong at the trial, he had displeased his mistress, and shay brandished a knife at him. He thereupon- struck hor, and after killing her dis- numbered the body and burned it in a furnace,

INTIMATIONS

-Cameroo-Peerbhoy, another clerk, gave evidence as to the dispatching of a registered mail to Singapore by the Mishima Maru. In the mail was a letter addressed to “N. Richards, Singapore.”

Mr. N. L. Smith, Assistant Postmaster- General, deposed to receiving the methods, extended as far as the objects addressee's receipt for the letter from they were asking his Lordship to add. | Singapore. ⠀ The new Memorandum added, generally speaking, all kinds of insurance carried on in connection with fire insurance, except, of course, life insurance and sickness und personal accident risk, which were in a different category. The reason financial statement for the month of WATCHMAKERS for this application was that insurance May methods, sa the affidavit showed, had

HONGKONG'S FINANCES.

[The Gazette publishes the following

1914

KEVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.

altered since the formation of the Com-Balance of assets and liabilities pany, and nowadays insurance com on 30th April, 1914 panics, especially in the Far East, tut Revenue from Ist to 31st May, also at Home, he understood, did not The specialise as they formerly did. tendency was increasing for companies | Expenditure from 1st to 3lat to take various riska Life insurance was

May, 1914. on a different footing. The ordinary

Balance objects of insurance had in recent years so increased that people insuring nowa- days would not take out separate policies in different companies, but insisted on doing all their business in one office. As a__natural_corollary they insisterl -ra going to the office which could do it all, and closely restricted not extended their objects as most of thom bad recently done would lose their business, even in their own line.

His Lordship A man who insures his honse against fire likes to have, typhoon insurance in the same Company?

CHS. J. GAUPP & CO.,

AND

$2,792,477.23 -

297,180.63

JEWELLERS.

83,639,057.89

633,818.07 SURVEYING AND NAUTICAL

INSTRUMENTS.

83,055,839.52

"BRITISH OR" ENGLISH!!

An Englishman-writes to the Saturday Review on this old, old subject of dis

which had cussion:-

Mr. Sharp said that was exactly the

The Celts will be busy talking, no doubt, to the end of time, but all their vanity and loquacity will not reverse a settled babit of language. Mr. Cole, in your last issue, explains that "we never talk of the English flag. As it happens, the one writer of recent times who has appealed to the English-speaking race all over the world does so talk. In Barrack-room

ZEISS PRISM BINOCULARS.

SUN GLASSES.

SILVERAND PRINCE'S PLATE.

Representativos-

It is reported from London that it is position, and the principle was carried Ballads will be found a poem which MAPPIN & WEBB.

probable that Bir Arthur Nicolson will be replaced at the Paris Legation by Mr. Bertie, and that Lord Hardinge will later on probably take the post.

THE KING OF GREECE

BELLIN July 24th. H. M. King George of Greece will ntive at Friedrichsdorf in the Taunus Mountains on the second of August.

REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT -

IN RUSSIA.

BERLIN, July 24th. The Russian police at St. Patersburg have arrested the committee of the strikers, Labourers called out to their French guest, “Vive. In République !" whereupon the Cossacks mercilessly cut into the fighters at the barricades, who gave up their resistance. The Forwarts announces further revolu tionary outbursts..

FRANCE AND RUSSIA.

Every endeavour is being made in Ger- many, by encouraging the youth of both sexes to take more outdoor exercise, and by study and the adoption of hygienio principlea to strengthen the stamina of the race, It is furthermore pointed out in the article that a nation which can supply 38,000 young men, in all respects physically competent and capable, for whom there is no room in the Army, when President Poincaré on board the French even so largely increased as it has been

BERLIN, July 4th. The farewell toasts of the Czar and

this year, cannot be described as cffete flagship France, speak of a proposed mutual There is certainly evidence on every hand course of action of Russian and French that the youth of Germany is applying itself with obvious delight to outdoor diplomacy. exercise.

The Giornale and Roma both emphasize

This tendency has also developed in the Army. Hitherto, sport among officers has the view that President Poincaré's visit to been mainly restricted to riding, while the men have been kept to exercise in gym St. Petersburg can hardly bring about the nasia attached to the barracks. Football realisation of all French plans, in barrack yards is now not unnaval, and to-day there was a great display of sport- ing finala before the Emperor in the Ber- lin Stadium, in which hundreds of officers and mon participated. Many thousands of cadets and troops were present in the

and to watch officers running flat races,

A PROSPEROUS SAMOAN CO.

BERLIN, July 24th.

The Samoan Forsyth Company's head Stadium on Saturday to witness the heats office at LONDON, July 25th.

ice at Hamburg have declared a dividend The strikers are resuming work at swimming and jumping and non-con of 18 per tent. The prospects of the St. Petersburg.

Society are declared to be of the very best

missioned officers running obstacle races and taking part in other contests,

very much further than that. Other com- panies had as a matter of fact altered their memoranda and objects, and if his Lordship for any reason withheld his sanction this Company would bs in a position of serious disadvantage, and business increasing disadvantage, in against other companies with wider powers,

Mr. Sharp read an fidavit by Mr. . WC. Pemberton (Secretary to the Company), which stated, among other things, that the Company, in addition to its present. powers of carrying on the business of fire insurance, desires to be able to carry on all other branches of the business of fire, zarine, typhoon, accident, employers' liability, fidelity. earthquake, transit, burglary and other. combined with fire insurance, and the insurance which can advantageously be

Company does not desire to carry on the business of life, sickness, peraunal accident, motor or acrin! business or insurance of Royal lives, or against the contingency Insurance business, such as

happening of any untoward events such as multiple births.

His Lordship You are enlarging the scope of the Company very much. Would it not be requisite to make some altera- tion in the name, such as the addition of and general."? I see that in the case of most companies, where the scope has been extended in this way, it has been done

F

Mr. Sharp said he was in his Lord ship's hands entirely on this point, but he would realise that it was objectionable to change the name of a well established Company like this. It did not only do business locally, where any change of name would be understood, but at a distance, where the change might be mistaken for another Company His Lordship would see from Mr. Pember ton's affidavit that a large number of the Home companies bad retained their namies. As to the second point, the powers of investment, it would be seen

begins

Winds of the World, give answer!

They are whimpering to and fro And what should they know of England

who only England know? The poor little stroot-bred people that

vapour and fame and brag, They are lifting their heads in the stillness

to yelp at the English fag! This poem is called "The English Flag, and its second line is one of the few in the poetry of to-day or yesterday that have become classic. True, it is generally misquoted, but that is only an indication that it is classic. It is part of that poetry of Empire which is not often worthy of its theme. Tennyson wrote such poetry, and I note that in his splendid "Odo on the Death of the Duke of Wellington he did not say that

He called Wellingtan

"The inst great Irishman in low.?!

* England's greatest so He that gain'd' a hundred fights, Nor ever lost an English gan.

"AVERAGE LENGTH OF LIFE.

INTERESTING FIGURES.

LTD..

LONDON,

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

CHATER ROAD.

CALDBECK,

MACGREGOR&C®

What is the average, duration of life in England and Wales? That question has THE been put to Mr. Herbert Samuel as President of the Local Government Board.

In reply Mr. Samuel states that the comparison of the average ages at death in different periods is misleading because they depend not only on the mortality at different ages, but also upon the age constitution of the population.

The form average duration of life,"

(ESTABLISHED. · 1864),

NEW SUMMER DRINK

OLD ENOUGH IN EUrope,

BUT ALMOST UNKNOWN IN

HONGKONG

he continues, is sometimes used to denote MARTINI the "expectation of life at birth" of a life table. Life tables are not constructed by the Hegistrar General upon the mortality of a single year, but two life tables based, respectively upon the mortality in England and Wales in the ten years 1901-10, and, in the three years 1810-12, are in course of preparation, an

These tables show, provisionally, that

VERMOUTH

AND

ICED WATER.

The properties of a good Vermonth render the expectation of life at birth, based it highly beneficial as a Tonic and appetiser, upon the mortality in the ten years 1901-10- was 18.53 years for males, 32.38 years for by taking it with Iced Waters refreshing females and 30.42 years for persons

respective of sex. On the mortality in drink just "long" enough is obtained. the three years 1910-12 the expectations were 51.50 years for maloa,35,35 for females, and 38.58 for persona.