TELEGRAMS.
THROUGH REUTER'S 'AGENCY.) FIGHTING IN IRELAND.
SERIOUS AFTRAY BETWEEN NATIONALISŤ VOLUNTEERS AND THE TROOPS.
So
RANDOM REFLECTIONS.
It will
During the last few days we have been finding the weather exceptionally warm in Hongkong, though, thank goodness, the heat hero has not been oppressive as it seems to have been in Shanghai. Taking the month as a whole; the temperature in LONDON, July 27th,
Hongkong, I imagine, has beon below Naciouslist Volunteers returning interest the reader to know that no
rather than above the average. to Dublin after a successfu! gun-running fewer than 40 typhoon warnings have been fent at Howth were stopped by the received this month from the Manila soldiers and police at Clontarf.
Observatory. The number constitutes a A fight ensued and the troops fred, record, I believe, and the existence of these typhoons--though they have kept at several being wounded.
a very respectful distance from Hongkong Upon arrival at Dublin the mob-doubtless accounts, for the fact that July- followed and stoned the troops, who again on the whole has not been unbearably hot. fired near O'Connell Bridge. Several inore people were wounded, including
three women.
LATER.
Two persuns were killed and forty injured in the Dublin aftrays. The troops are confined to barracks.
ISOLATED SOLDIERS BRUTALLY ATTACHED.
After the collisions, with the troops the crowels brutally attacked isolated soldiers wherever they could be found, with the result that overal had to be taken to hospital.
POLICE REFUSE TO OBEY ORDERS.
Severa of the Dublin police have been suspended for refusing to obey orders at the time of the collisions.
LATKI
Two are deaths have occurred at a Dublin hospital, one of the victims being
a woma
It is stated that 1,200 rifles were landed from a yacht at Howth, (about eight. tailes from Dublin) where a thousand Irish Volanters overpowered the police and the coastguards, and carried off the
bulk of the guns in motor-ceTA,
The broups did not fire at the first encounter, high the Volunteers fired a few. reyolver shots, wounding a Corporal in the ankle and injuring others with the butts of the smuggled rifles, of which the troops only captured a score.
The crowd's attack upon the troops on their return to Dublin was of a very fierce nature Findy, twenty soldiers were ordered to fire a volley, and bayonet charges followed, a number of the people being severely bayonetted.
THE KHEDIVE'S ASSAILANT.
LONDON, July 27th, The Khedive's assailant, who killed, was a demented youth, the son of -an--Egyptian-judge::
OBITUARY.
LusDus, July 27th,
Was
The deatli is announced of Lord Belper, LL.D., P.C.
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Baron in
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We are all very sorry and sad, when a poor and genuinely maimed being shambles. up to us and meekly asks for aims; and very few of us can stoel our hearts to his pleadings. That is the sentimental side of quiet and unobtrusive poverty. here in Hongkong we have beggars-and beggars. The beggars here have.
all the old maxims and become fastidious peculiarity. They seem to have revoked
choosers, and the fern-laden corners of Glenealy have been selected by a really wonderfully organised body of beggars who have all had the misfortune through. accident ur design-to lose an arin or two, or a leg or so, an eye, or portions of the said arms and legs, or have had pieces of flesh taken away wholesale by, some -infernal machine, or other inhuman agency, to judge by the paper patchwork. Yet without these disfigurements there are members of this organisation who would be all the poorer. The loss of an arm, and the seemingly proudly displayed maimed limb, neans ar existence at least.
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Many complaints have reached me regarding the freedom allowed to these beg gas and inquiries are made as to whether the police are aware of the way in which residents are importuned and thus practi- cally forced to give coins in order to get rid of these beggars. I assure that the Vigilant Robert does know that "these things oceur; but perhaps he has not yet realised that it is part of his duty to see that the general public are not unneces- sarily stolested. What residents chiefly complain about is the brandishing of stumps of arms and legs, and being oncircled by the poor and maimed.
when the beggars are allowed and take one objects to assisting genuineases, bút
the liberties which they do, one is very apt to become annoyed and unsympathetic. Therefore, the palice would be doing the beggara a service by keeping them in order; also, incidentally, Robert would be only doing his duty."
Not
reagon to
The housewife has every closely watch our quick-change dollar, to judge by a communication which has reached me in a feminine hand. This indr asks to point out that the means at once a further increase in the decline in the face value of the dollar.
cost of living. It is absurd.to suggest," {The deceaser was creatțil
she adds, that the purchasing power of 1856. He was A.D.C, to the King and the low dollar is the same as a 2/- dollar. Capt. Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Armis | 'Sa 'soon as the dollar performs the [1895-1903]
monkey tricks-it has been doing during the past week the shop and store-keepers THE FLOOD RELIEF BAZAAR.
put up their prices. Of course no-one can blame them; that is a natural busi- The bazaar organised by the Kwang-less-weakness, but what I do complain tung Flood Relief Bazaar Society for the purpose of augmenting the funds for the relief of the sufferers through the dis #strous floods along the banks of the West River will be opened to-day, at
Closely akin to the subject of objection, 2 pin, at the new Tung Ting Restaurant able alleyways is the use made of the in Kennedy Town. The bamur will last verandah by some people whose sanitary. for seven days, and will be open on each arrangements are not what they should. day, from 2 panis until midnight. Admis- be. Obviously, in some instances the sion is by ticket, price 20 cents. neas firm and merchants in the Colony verandah forms the kitchen, and the Dave contributed to the stalls and in amali or cock-boy are by no means others ways and patrons of this praise particular as to where tainted fruit, worthy project will have wonderful
a and inost comprehensive collection of Potato peelings, and such cookery super- goods from which to select. Visitors fuities alight when they have been from the Eastern and Central districts thrown over the verandah rails. In one should take the trum to Whitty Street. street I know of, to be struck by several The restaurant is to the south of this ter- minus just above Belcher's Street.
Bugi-
THE GREAT HEAT AT SHANGHAI.
about is that once the price goes up it has been taken never comes down, and a mean advantage uf the housewife."
faded larchi is quite common, and frequently you have to dodge some of the inedible substances mentioned above where the things come from is a little -but the only indication you have of outhouse, puffing out steam and smoke, on a verandah sufficiently high to give impetus. the discarded fruit, etc.. quite an
odorous tar-
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUENDAY, JULY 28mm, 1914.
GUNBOAT PATROL OF THE CANTON DELTA,
Reuter's
my
correspondent
garrisoned by a detachment of Baluchis this belief found "frequent expression in the Cantonese Press. It was useless then, at Canton and is probably useless now' to attempt to combat the idea; nor, perhaps, is anything so fantastic worth the effort except from The Press has become saddonly excited, claiming that five British gunboats have
the point of view of the Chinese them fact of the matter is, however, that British able to do so until they have an efficient entered the West River unlawfully. The problem unaided, nor will they ever be selves. They cannot tackle the pirate gunboats have been stationed in the Canton Delta for some years.
Beet of river gunboats properly officered. It is For that South China will have to wait believed that the Cantonese are suspicious because the British Government has been becoming more and more highly organized. for years. In the meantime, piracy is suggesting to Peking an improvement of To regard the marauders of the West the methods of patrolling the Delta and River as a desperate set of men living. they believe that the British Government from hand to mouth is to misconceive their Consulate-General itself may exercise extra vigilance. The character altogether: They are nothing of correspondent that there has been no ploiting all river traffe and du their informs Rontor's the kind. They are a company for ex extraordinary movement of British gun-business with as much precision as any other commercial undertaking. Their hold over the country has become so strong Daily News says:
Commenting on this dispatch the N-that loading merchants pay them regular organization live, not in secluded reaches and large contributions. Leaders of the of the river-as unsophisticated Euro- peans love to imagine-but in comfortable nobody dares to touch either them or their houses in the heart of Cantan, agents. If the Chinese Government were to give half a dozen British gunboats a free hand for twelve months this organiza tion could, and would, be broken to pieces.
boats.
The suspicion thich is manifesting itself in Canton in consequence of the presence of British gunboals on the West River can only be understood in relation to one of the most genuine and absurd beliefs cherished by the Cantonesc, namely, that Great Britain intends to take Canton, either by strategy or force, at the first good opportunity.
When Shameed was
Odol
The World's Dentifrice
Cleaning
And
the teeth
with tooth powders or tooth- pastes can never, under any circumstances, preserve them from destruction.
That follows from the simple fact that the parts most liable to decay the backs of the molars, the interstices between the teeth, and the cavities in them are exactly those which remain untouched by either powders or pastes. And therefore mischief, once commenced in these places, advances undisturbed.
But Odol, being liquid, can penetrate the minutest crevices, and, as it has a real antiseptic effect, lasting for hours, arrests all bacterial and fermentation processes, which inevitably destroy the teeth.
GAMBLING IN EXCHANGE AT
SHANGHAI.
o
to fully one and half millions sterling. The whole trade of China is suffering as a result of the gambling propensities of WORST IN SICAWEI'S EXPERIENCE.
Although it is impossible for speculators embarrassment of trade may be ascribed.
The Chino Press (Shanghai) says: -
comparatively few people, and it is to them that a great deal of the present In a communication on the great heat wave which has been experienced recently
in exchange indefinitely to control a
The banks, of course, can hardly be ex- in Shanghai, the Sicawei Observatory
market, yet in Shanghai they have cerpected to relinquish what is, as a rule, a gives a table showing the excess of the men are necessary to spccessfully attend during the last few weeks to cause
Someone facetiously asks me how many tainly shown themselves powerful enough profitable form of business, but there is mean temperature above the average of to that
a remedya remedy which is in the "delightfully the 41 preceding years and comments: spraying machine, the aromatic qualities
serious disorganization. Had it not been hauds of the merchants themselves. Keen day's here are consequently 30 remariehlt of which relieved the humid atmosphere they considered themselves safe in con- expressed by the majority of inporters for their recent heavy operations, which dissatisfaction has always been felt and deg. above the average, and ten excep- this week... I watched, with bandaged weak silver in the near future, rates exchange, which tends to paralyze legi-
of Queen's Road Central for several days ducting on account of the likelihood of in regard to excessive gambling tional ores when the exoces
was above Bdog. We must look back to the year nostrils the bandages dripping with would certainly be higher than they are timate business, but it is only during the 1899 to have something comparable, and eau-de-Cologne that picturesque machine at present. even then, there were two days, between whole of this time one man only was
Unfortunately, importers last few days that it has been realised hour and during the have unwillingly played into their hands, that deeds, not words, are necessary, if June 21st and July 19th, on July 7th and doing the actual spraying; and seven
for 30 soon as it was obvious that rates the evil is to be overcome. It is under- 12th, when the daily mean was below the others, in turn, told him how to do what
were on the downward grade, they com stood that a number of the principal average, and the period ended on July he was obviously doing most satisfac
nienced to settle a long way ahead-even | hongs have agreed, in the first instance. so far as November, thereby contributing to make representations to the group of Three things have rendered this torily, to judge by the smell and to the market's weakne89. Although brokers who are known to derive their period very trying. (1) The continuity, splashings." Personally, I always avoid quite a number of foreigners-firms as principal business from pandering to the (2) the warm nights, the minimum baving geven bosses, and cannot express an likely fluctations of exchange, the Chinese clients, lf the brokers do not agres to that tar-spraying machine audits well as individuals speculate on the gambling instincts of their Uhinese only once been below 74, (3) the long duration of high temperatures during the opinion as to how many men should be are known to be the biggest gamblers in fall in with the wishes of the influentia day, the thermometer sometimes standing capable of working it. There always this respect, their operations dwarfing merchants in question, it is understood above 80 for more than ten continuous seems to be plenty of them, at any rate, those of their foreign confréres It is that a boroot will be put in force against hours."
RODERICE RANDOM estimated that speculators' operations them. Further developments are awaited
for the period August to October amount with interest.
20th.
for
SUPREME COURT.
Monday, July 24th.
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.
BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE, MR. I. H. J. GoMPERTZ.
MONEY LENT.
Yeang Chuk Cho, Wing Lok Street Wong Tung Tsing, care of The Kwong $2,000 for money lent, and interest at the Lee Bank, Maçao.. The claim was four.
rate of 1 per cent, per month from March 31st up to the date of payment or judgment.
Mr. G.. C. Alabaster (instructed by Mr. G. Norrington, from Mr. G. K. Brutton's, office) was for the plaintiff, but defendant was not represented.
Counsel briefly explained the facts and his Lordship gave judgment for the plaintiff with costs.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
BEFORE MR. F. A. HAZELAND, PUISNE JEDGE,
DOCKYARD WORKERS' CLAIM. Lam Pui, Ho Wing, Ho In. Ng Kan Au Kim, and In King Wan . Kwong Hing Arm. The claim was for the return of household furniture and wearing apparel which was wrongfully taken and carried away from the plaintiffs' premises by the defendants, or the sum of $192.45, being the-total-value thereof, and for damages for detaining the same. For the purposes of jurisdiction the limit of the claim was put as $1,000,
Mr. W. B. Hind (from Mr. G. K. Brutton's office) was for plaintiff, and Mr. Eldon Potter (instructed by Mr. 1. K. Holmes) defended.
:
Mr. Hind at the outset remarked that the claim was really only for $192.45, the $1,000 having been put in for the purpose
of preserving the form of the writ.
Mr. Potter said that the insertion of
the $1,000 had necessitated an amending
INTIMATIONS
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 St., Bradford, Varlis, Eug. ~~* Some tra gran ugo F brake aut down the side of my face with some pimples.
DEKORA
They got words and they bread down the chio of my I could aut sleep at night for stolting and scratch- ips, and also got so i would Tot go out as I was a very bad sight to look
ur.
spad to my head and the hair bogus to fall of my hend. was told it was
Bon
I commenced to try som saires and outment mat found that they dil do me any good hets-l-post work. I had several boities of medicine that-di-mobďom mo any good and I got downhearted about. шу сано,
"I happened to see an advertisement about Cuticura Soap and Oltment so i thought that I would try thom. Reforo I bad used ona sut I was pearly cured. The eccond set my eczema was gone and my skin began to rout and my hair b gan to grow again. After using four sets of cuti- cura Soap and Ginsment I am perfectly cured and my skla is as smooth and clear as before I had any skin disease."
"Signed) Frod Imesca, June 5, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold through- out the world." A sample of each with 32-p. book free from nearest depot: F. Newbor
&
Sons, 27, Charterhouse Sq.. London; R. Towns & Co., Sydney, 8.SW.; Potter Drug & Crem. Corp, Bosten, U.2.A.
a-Tender-food men should shave with Cuticura Soap Spacing Stles. Sample free.
[96-0
CHS. J. GAUPP & CO.,
writ and the question of fees would also WATCHMAKERS
be affected. The original writ was quite
a correct one.
His Lordship-At any rate it is a very funny writ.
Mr. Hind added that if he were sucrezs-
ful in his claim he would only expect
$192.45, and went on to explain that the
AND
JEWELLERS.
plaintiffs were employees in the Taikoo SURVEYING AND NAUTICAL Backyard who lived together at a mess for
the food supply of which they dealt with
the defondant Grm. In April plaintiffs
wed 349 to the defendants for rice and
INSTRUMENTS.
other food, On April 16th four of the ZEISS PRISM BINOCULARS.
men went to Canton, two remaining behind with the cook on the same day. When the two men had gone to work a member of the defendant firm named Chen met the cook and told him that all the men had run away. This the coolie denied, and Chanthon-said, "You are only a coolie, you have got nothing to do with the matter; it is a rantter between the men and myself." When these two reached. the mess Chan picked up the key of the front door, told the coolie to clear out of the rooni. which he did, and then pro- verded, to lock the door and take the key
SUN GLASSES.
SILVER AND PRINCE'S PLATE.
Representatives—
away with him. When the two men who MAPPIN & WEBB.
had remained returned from work they found the door of their own room locked against them. Evidence would be called to show that certain wearing apparel had been taken away from the room and was subsequently sold by the defondant firm, no doubt in settlement, as they thought, of the money which was owing them.
Several witnesses were called by th plaintiffs' solicitor, after which the hearing was adjourned.
OBITUARIES.
A. BEYSON.
We regret to record. the death of Mr. A. Bryson, Secretary of the China Mail Co., Ltd., which took place at Cambuslang, Scotland, on the 1st inst. Mr.. Bryson had been in poor health for some" con-
LTD..
LONDON.
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
CHATER ROAD.
CALDBECK,
Spring on leave. siderable time and went Home in the MACGREGOR&C®.
understand that
after being operated upon, a bad attack of malaria developed, resulting in hist death. Mr. Bryson, who was about 44 years of age, was formerly with Messra. Bradley & Co. He leaves a widow and three young children, for whow much sympathy will be felt in the Colony,
D. G. HACLENNAN.
(ESTAED 1924).
-OLD ENOUGH IN EUROPE,
The death took place at Shanghai last. week from & severe heat stroke of Mr. THE NEW SUMMER DRINK D. G. MacLennan, chief accountant of the
York, and when that institution closed International Banking Corporation, Mr. MacLennan came out to the East as a junior in the Guarantee Trust Co. of New. its doors he joined the International Bank. He was for some time manager of the Singapore branch, and last year was transferred to Shanghai as chief accoun-
appreciated as such, but more perhaps for MARTINI VERMOUTH tont. He was a sound business man, the NG. Daily News says, and was duly many admirable personal qualities. He was only 33 years of age.
1. W. ALLEN.
BUT ALMOST UNKNOWN IN HONGKONG!
AND
ICED WATER.
Mr. Isaac Winter Allen, one of the oldest Shanghai papera-announce the death of residents of Shanghai. Mr. Allen had. been ill for three or four month. He came out to the Far East in the sixties,
The properties of a good Vermouth render kong, went to Shanghai about 1869 and and, after spending some time in Hongit highly beneficial as a Tovic and-uppet leer; Subsequently he left that firm and joined by taking it with Iced Water-s refreshing joined Messrs. Lane, Crawford & Co. Messrs. Mackenzie & Co., with whom he remained for many years. More recently drink just "long" enough is obtained. he became associated with Messrs. Hall & Holtz, but a few years ago he retired from business.
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