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Accident to H.M.8. $ Prince George"

London, 9th December. The repairs to H.M.S. Prints (eorge which broke away from her moorings, and collided with H. M.S. Shannon, will take three months.

The Vladivostock Mutiny. Seven Vladivostock mutineers were execute ed on the 3rd instant; twenty-one more have

been sentenced to death, and thirty-two others to various punishments. P

The Exodus from Amorion Eleven thousand aliens left New York for Europe on Saturday. /

Zulaland.

Lator.

The King of Sweden.' The King of Sweden takes the title of Gustav V.

Cricket in Australia. The match Australia England has been abandoned owing to rain.

The Kaiser in England. The Kaiser has terminated his visit to Highcliffe, and has returned to London in excellent health.'

Arrest of American Directors,

Three directors of the California Safe De- posit Trust Company have been treated for misappropriation..

liabilities amount to nine million dollars, and

the assets to four millions,

ALLEGED MALICUIUS, ARRASTE ACTIÓN FOR DAMAGES;

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 11 1907.

THE CHINA ASSOCIATION

The China Association beld its anqual dió ngr at the Whiteball Rooms of the Métropole on 5th ult, when some 240 members and guests assembled för this ever-popular function. Tar gath tipswich wit, ne usual, a very repre catative one, was presided over by Mr. R. S. Gundry, C... The usual toast list was followed by the social tearion, which, has siways been one of the most popular features of the China dinner. Ma

THE LOYAL TOANTS.

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impossibia, - also make allowance for the immense difficulties that fo in the way of a Government required to make changes whose potential effects itself cannot clearly foresor, and which are less clearly foreseen still, probably, by those who demand then. If we seem at times impatient' it is not because the Chiness authorities hesitate to pour new wine recklessly into old bottles. That is a risky, process where long- established methods and highly complex social

wo-day's Advertisements.

THE TRADE MARKS ORDINANCE, 1898

APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE MARK

TICE is hereby given that VACUUM DIL COMPANY, of Rochester, in the State of New York, in the United States of America Company daly incorporated under the laws of the said State of New York, have, on did and day of November, 1997, applied for the registration, in Hongkong, in the Register of Trade Marus, of the following Trade Mark:-

GARGOYLE

in the name of VACUUM OIL COMPANY, who claim to be the propriclors therent.

The Trade Mark has been used by the Applicants in respect of LUBRICATING, AMILLUMINATING and HEATING OILS 16 Class 479 Dated the 7th day of December, 1997

progress has been made. I was able to state,

WACKINSON & GRIST"

Solicitors for the Applicants;

PUBLIC AUCTION.

BY ORDER OF M.M. WAR OFFICE...

THE FOLLOWING AN

VERY VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY,

GARDENS) containing, an area of about Known INLAND LOT NUMBER 417 (SPRING 245,783 #quare feet had"having a frontage on Queen's Road East of 228 leat, situate at Queen Road East, Hongkong, will be Sold by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

On

WEDNESDAY;

18th day of Decembar, 1907, at 3 o'clock

in the afternoousin One Lot by' Met. HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers,

Auction Room, la Des Voeux Road,

Central,

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ances thereto belonging, held under the Crown

men. (Hoar, bear.) I chanced, a few days ago, upon the record of that inaugural meeting and noticed that, in proposing the election of A4 gentlemen as the first general committee, Mr. Sinherland expressed a belief that there would be found in the course of time a great Yeng Yan, the piopravior ofwn: barber future for the China Association-more so than ahops in Hongkong, broughton action saint those to whom he was speaking probably ex- his partner, Li Miey, at the Supreme Court,ected." It night not be decorous on our part express an opinion as 10 the fulfilment of that this afternoon, ta recover the sunt of 5500 for rophecy. But 1 need not hesitate to state the her bewilderment. (Applause.) Yet to these are tuld, in a sense unfavourable to foreign/ Sterling (172)), subject to the covenants and maliciously cusig him to be arrested and fafrely imp tinning him on the 4th November 14st. The case was heard helme Mr. Justice

Wise.

Mr. Reginald Harding appeared for the plaintiff whilst Mr. Flixon, of Messrs Hastings and Harting," represented, the defendant.

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The plaintiff, examined, said he was a bar. bes, extrying on basician 31, D'Aquilar Street He also had another place of business at 45 Mosque Sweet. He carried on the business

·with the defendant.

Mr. Heiding-What happened on the

he had me arrested,

fact that those 70 members have become 8co. (Cheering. I will even go so far as to pro- phesy on my own account that any successor

in this, chair will be able soon to announce

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The AUCTIONEERS,

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DENNYS & BOWLEY,

Salicitors for the Vendors: Hongkong, th December 1907

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Intimations

THE

ROBINSON PIANO

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INVITE INSPECTION

NEW STOCK

Steinway,

Bechstein,

Russell,

Krauss,

Romhildt,

Werner, &c.

GRANDS & UPRIGHTS

BUILT UNDER OUR PERSONAL SUPERVISION

EMBOUYING JÓ YEARS' LOCAL

Fongkong, 5th December, 1907.

The Chairman, who was warmly received on sising to propose the first loyal toast, said: The fact that we are met, this evening, noly

systems are concerned. It does not, fellow four days before it Mijany's bithday may that representative institutions which may sujt permit us to add a'thought of congratulations will suit a race of widely different tempara to the foyalty with which you will, I know, ment and traditions; (Applause.) We are drink to the health of the King. (Applause.) impatient rather because practical reforms The Chairman: I ask you to drink to the appear to be neglected in favour of bureaucratic The health of Queen Alexsudra, the Prince and What we went to see and what if appeare, to

metamorphoses and official tragspositions Dinizulu surrendered to the British author Princess of Wales, and the other members of that Chios most needs, ara good lawa sod itles on Sunday.

the Royal family. "PROSPERITY TO THE CHEEK ASSOCIATION. Food finance. (Applause). Of Edicus pointing in that direction there have been many, but of The Chairman, who had to wait for some

actual: "accomplishment-what? There have seconds for the applauso with which ha was been Edicts about currency reform; but what greind ou rising to propose the toast of the has been done? We have seen an Edich, lately, our annual dinner last year, that an Borde evening to subside, said .⠀

ment for the Kowloon Canton line had been 'ordering the unificating of weights and measures Gentlemen,-if we cannot congratulate our is six months, which indicates a disheartening ached, I believe I may say the same, this selves again this time upon a record gathering lacapasity to guage the magnitude of the task. Year of the projected lines from Tesisin to the it is fur the simple reason that this room was de capas practical conception, perhaps, is a Yangiass, and from Sonchow to Hangchos filled last year to its utmost capacity-overalled in faci, in regard to the comfort of some of the quest addressed to the Chinese Chamber of and Ningpo. (Cheers.) The negotiations have Commicice at Shrogha), that it will draw up a

been prolonged and 'wearisome" to a degree. guests; and it is impossible to score more than commercial cade. Another hopeful siga is that and the terms of the original concessions have a possible. But if the expansion of our dinner' parties is automatically limited there is, happi. the Grand Council are understood to have been modified in various respects to meet ly, no such limit to our masternoll, Nearly memorialised in favour of firdering the Provin-Chinese wishes and susceptibilities; but a con.

clusion has been practically 'reached. fostrad | t twenty years have elapsed since the meeting in cial Governments to organise Municipal Roof abulling, as originally intended, oppgshe

́ernment, general'y, in their jurisdictions-on Leadenhall-stresi (on May 1, 1888) when the the mandel, su doubt, of that which Yuan Shib- Chinking, the Tientsin line will end opposite the Association was constituted with a member-kat has established at Tientsin. Another Ediac Nanking, which will have the advantage of It has een ascertained that the company's ship of 70, 'under the presidency of Bir George promises honours and even ili peerage to en-placing the terminul opposite the terminu

repressure of in fustrial enterprise on a great construction and which has keen opened as far at the

the Shanghal-Naoking line, now in course of scale. In short, if alvation coult be accom plished by Edict there would be a wonderful Chinking. may, perhaps, also mention The Prepesty consists of

All that Piece or Parcel of Ground situaté, transformation indeed. The whole scene is that the line from Cheating to Taiyuen the kaleidoscopic, and if the tale is true that the capital of Shaasi, conceded to the Franco-at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong and Empress, broke down at a recent council, de Russo-Belgian combination in 1898, ir, registered in the Land: Office an Inland Lor cla-ing that she did not know, amid the con-understand, on the point of being openrd: 127, and a buildings thereon and appurten fcting advice with which she was .verwhelmed, The Mining Regulations lately propounded, Lease thereof dated the 7th day of April, 1855, what to do for the welfare of the Empire, we stead of expressing the sense of Art. IX. of for the term of 999 years froth the agth day of can enter iolo her anxie y and sympathies with the Mackay Treaty, have been composed, we July, 1855, at the annual Crown Reat of £150

conditions contained in the lease. Constitutional problems the Government has enterprise; and the Cade of Law which is For fasther Particulars, apply to been led to superadd a social problem of scatce make association of foreign and Chloesc ly less difficulty. The effect of the Edict de capital practicable for indujicial purposes is 1,000. You will be interested to learn, in the production within ten years appear to have in the way of mining concessions to Europeans, creeing the abolition of opium smoking and ye 'seek. Difficulties continue to be placed meantime, as an evidence of progress, that varied greatly in different localities. In some on the pea of reserving China, for the new branch of the Association has just been it has been welcomed with approval, in others Chinese, and we hear of projects for buying organised at the great and growing port practically onasticed. The net rest appests up and antionalising existing railways in ac subjects of which the Consular papirants of the thought cannot be absent from our minds that certain great cities. This duer La', however, there is little evidence that China is herself the conceit of the fly on the coach wheel I am of the worth, Tientsin. (Hear, hear.) The to be, so far, the close of the opium divans in cordance with the most advanced ideas. Yet present day know little or nothing. With there is, unhappily, à reverse to the medal involve mohibition of its safe in shops to people able or willing to produce the capital, the pre- jpchbed, to think that qui school bas contri- Ten only of the 24 who were elected to the who wish to smoke at home. There has been fessional knowledge, or the honest administra-buted in its degree to the solution of a larger first general committee survive; and of those 14th four only remain in office. We cannot bul

an attempt, indeed, to create an official monotion necessary to make mines and railways a problem. It has come to be recognised that November?-Defendant accused me of stealthink, moreover, on these occasions, of friends Paly of the trade which is open to disadv..nt success. I do not overlook the lies from Pek- the whole question of Instruction in Eastern nger that will be obvious, to alt familiar with 100g to Kalyn which traced originally by a languages in London requires considerations A 11-IOP·BLONG' and a pair of deer horns, and, who have si pften been among us in former China, and is opposed to the British and Erench foreign engineer is being built under Chinese and a Committee was formed last year, under His Lordship-in the usual orthodox maa-} Jahn Wälter, gental-and kindly friend 'alike in monopolies shall be created, of any kind Great Northern Railway; but here are two im. (Hear) In the result, an inßuential de- years, but who have left since our last meeting treaties of 1841 and 44 which stipulate that no supervision out of the abounding profits of the the chairmanship of Lord Reay, to cater inte ner-by your queue?—Yes,

Mr Ba.difg-What did he say at the sta. public and private life-(expressions of sym- Opium-smoking divans have been closed, port, nt features of foreign belp! The squabbles putation consisting of representatives of certain Tiop The entered the shop with another vakio Shanghai more than 40 years ago with their close in a jiceul ve cities. The Ply material för a comic opera; and fonds in Eastern languages had an interview with pathy with whom I remember crossing from believe, in British ocessions coincidently about the Canton-Hankow railway might sup. bodies (including this Association) interested His Lordship-Were you charged 7~~Yes., I in Pittle schooner yachts which forbiga settlement at : hanghai, with its enor subscribed for a line from Hankow to Stachoss the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Ex- sufficed their the resmic between the two moux population of some 40:0 Chinese, is Are said to have disappeared. Gentlemen, 1 chequer, and the Secretary of State for Indis, Voila & II. Pollard, who drew up the deeds in different case. The question affects the see my friend in the vice-chair (Mr. G. Jamie- who promised a Departmental Committee to colstituting the great bank in which Walter community thiest chiefly, as a matter of public son) frowning at ne ominously: but there is inquire-idio the various scattered grants which, tan his successful career; Sir Thomas Han order. It is contended plausibly that, if the one other topic to which-if I may venture to are now operating here and ibere, with a view His Lordship Whom does the razor-110kw to select a site for the school which now

bury, with whom I remember walking to long opium divans in thb pulement were closed, trespass for two or three minutes longer on their collection and to the eventual provision of a subridy which will place the University of the effect would be to Guvert every coolie your patience, I would like to invite your alte London mare on a level with those of Paris, belong to? Who bieght (i 7–1 did, fre

And the dear boins?-1 borrowed it from tex trade in Ferma and Joint here with Mar. den, and that it is better teking thould go on considerable number of young Chinese 80 Eastern interests-far greater educational facil!. bears his name: Johany Dodd, pioneer of the lodging trouse into a private, opium smakingon. (Cheers and laughter) Every year a Liend-a relative of my wife.

gary in re-cuing the wrecked crew of the Adele in licensed premises underspolice supervision abroad for purposes of education, to various Case proceeding.

st Kelung. (car, hear). These incidents, and control. However, an arrangement scams Western countries. The results have, for vari tiesare provided. ("ear,) Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman encouraged the deputation to anti- and even the names, are becoming to most of to have been come to, on the lines of the Edict, ous reasons, been so unsatisfactory in the case you, a traditir a thugh there are not a few to reduce the number of licences by one-tenth of those who went to Japan, that the number cipate that we should, when the time came, left, happily, of the day and generation, 10 every year: we shall see long before the sent West is likely to increase. A relatively be will have anything left out of the projected not God Mr. Asquith hard-hearted. Whether decade'is expired, whether the considerable small number of these students have, to far, who they recall the hey-day of youth. day, the following excerpt from the Singapore early days have been amazing; and we, who in China adverse to the drug is earnest enough largely due to ignorance of the terrain. At the age pensions, remains to be seep—or whether La, Chanza.......@ $4.50 per 100 in boxes of sa The changes in the Far East since those volume of opinion that unquestionably exists Come to England. Ti is thought that this is 3 per cent, income tax, after providing for old any incomes will, under those condiilors, are interested commercially, financially, philo.in bring about the ex inction of reppy cultiva suggestion, accordingly, of Sir John 'Jordan, a Captain Brahmar of the German steamer sophically for the Association typically tion-for there is the real crux. (ilear, hear) committee opon which this Association and the choose to remain, in England to be taxed. Gran Valor 450 Sithonia, pleaded guilty before Mr. Michell; comprehensive-cannat but watch with an it- Previous Imperial decrees, if that sense, which China Society are strongly represented and to (Applause and laughter.). It will be gratifying

to you in the meantime to know that onder Sir Espagnola ........................ senior magistrate, on Saturday, to bringing 146 teresi dashed, it may be, with bewilderment, have been frequent, have completely failed of which we have willingly granted the use of our Immigrants Into the Colony from Hongkong the political-travail which is still taking place. effect; and when we reflect that every ence / offices and address-bas been formed to draw Waller Hilliar's capable direction (loadcheers) Marca Roja na di

Who dreamed, even 25, to say nothing of in the world indulges in stimulants or sat up a schedule of information regarding educa-we are successfully paddling our own cance

Sir Robert Douglas having vacated the Chair Hosey Suckla ..... 31 and 40 years ago, of the part Port cotler of some kind, wa, must admit that tional establishments, lodgings, and costs which of Chinese which he had held for so many Arthur would play in world-politics of if the Chinese become a race of total ab- Mr. Ivan Chen has kindly undertaken to trans- ari incident world's history as the si ge of the Legations at chievement indeed. (Hear, bear) In regard help and goodwill (1 think I am entitled to BAT) have every reason to expect that our respon. Asta.

10 unheard of in the stainers it, will be a very remarkable late and which will be disseminated with the years, Sir Walter is now sole Professor of Chi El Oro

nese, classical as well as colloquial; and we. Peking? or of a war between Fussia and Japan. to the Imperial Maritime Customs, it is only of the Foreign Off to H.M. Consulates at the sibility will now be lessened by fils succession in that should change the face of Eastern politics? necessary to remark that the strenuous Treaty forts, the Imperial Board of Education the endowment which Sir Robert Douglas's re- And who will venture, with these surprises in protests aroused by the Edict of May, 1906, iti Peking, and the Viceroys of the various protirement sets free, (Applause.) And now, gentle- his recollection, to predict the outcome and had the anticipated effect of temporarily check vincer. Some are 1 am afraid, inclined still to men, I have, I think, touched on the principal Flor Fina

matters that have come before your Committes consequences the present agitation in China? ing innovation. Those who seek confirmation think that the acquisition of Chinese by Eng during the year. You will find, when the Appun (Hear, hear. It is less then ten years since of the view taken by the Association last lishmen who purpose running the career in Report comes to be placed in your hands, that I a promising reform movement, authenticated year, and I may say generally taken, of the Chios is unnecessary, and certainly we have have not exhausted the list; but I have said by a series of remarkable Edicts, Terminated intrigue of which that Erict was an expression, got along fairly well, without it, so far, at the snugh to show you that we have not been suddenly in a return wave of reaction and may be commended to Er-Manin's new book & Treaty Ports, I am inclined to think that the deadnough, I hope, to justify us in drink

ing with some confidence to “The Prosperity. persecution. The "Edicts were cancelled, the on "The Awakening of China" and, to the time has arrived when, even in the Treaty the China Association." (Cheers.) most prominent reformers executed, banished, inference he draws from the appintment of two Ports, a knowledge of Chiaese will be usefal- The toast was heirtily responded to. “ or degraded, and the Emperor himself placed superfluous comptrollers, at an alleged sulary (hear, bear)—but foreign intercourse is by way

[Continued on page 7.3. to derance. The movement has now revived, of. :£30,000 each, to' supervise a revenue of of overflowing beyond the Treaty Ports ; and, and seems endued this time with a vigour that which every shilling is known. The prestige' in the interior, the path of those who can talk defies supposition of defeat. It has, however, of his achievement places Sir Robert Hart Chinese will assuredly be smoother than that changed somewhat lo character and is accom- in a position of exceptional strength which no of those who cannot. It is satisfactory to know, panied by a feeling of unrest which is causing, successor can hope-at first, at any rate, to therefore, that the school of Practical Chinese evidently, serious anxiety at Peking. The rival. (Applause.) Rumours of bis intended which we founded some years ago in that receni Edict abolishing all distinctions and retirement are, therefore, matter of concern to conviction has fulfilled its object. "(Applause.) disabilities as between Chinese and Manchu is every one interested in China; and your] It has been availed of by men connected with practically an afmission that there is in that committee hare deemed it right to urge that banks and mercantile hopes who have gone The anticyclone rom ins over the Costiment unrest an anti-Manchu, and therefore an aoli, in view of the great, interests and responsibili, but jo Chini with a solid groundwork of the to the Noah of the Upper Yangtze, but gradj. dynastic, element. The remedy is one which ties involved-regard should be had, in salect- language on which they have built on arrival wiser matesmanship would have adopted longing a successor, lesa to states in the Customs in the country, by several army officers-ip ago. The crucial question now is, whether Service than to personal capacity and the de fact, all who for the last year or two have gone

man and stole the stuff

was locked up for the night.

charged before a mag'a'rate the case was leard harged horns & praefert the wise man and dismissed.

GERMAN CAPTAIN-PINAD,

· EMIGRANT STEAMER WITHOUT A DOCTOR,

to reference in our leading article of yester

"Free Prem of and inst has special interest; int

without a doctor. ›

Mr. Upcott, who represented, the Captain, said that the vessel's „ducior bad died at Penang, and the ship hat gone up to Hong kong and Shinghai without one. They had Captain bad not attempted to conceal the fact and had reported it on arrival here

Dr. H. J. Gibbs, acting, Port Health Offres. said it was not possiblöķ10 get a doctor at a moment's notice is those parts. The Captain had been very straightforward......

His Worship sad the Captain was liable-o a fine of $1,000, but be considered that $1 would meet the Justice of the case,

been unable to obtain a doctor up north. The

THE WEATHER,

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The following report is from Mr. F. G. Figg, Director of the Hongkong Observatory'":—

On the 21th at 12.05 p.—The barometer has risen quickly over Japan, the depression having passed to the Pacific to the N.E. of Hokkaido, It is followed by another depression which is apparently situated over S. Manchuria, a quick fall of the mercury, having taken place in N. Chinari

mins ara less steep along the China coast and

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Berlin, and St. Petersburg, wherewith far lesa

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although the Emprass hye anaounced that two service which be will have to control(Heat, now, I think, tenerally admitted that, under your Bayings Hongkong Fainfall for the 24 hours ending Houses of Parliament cannot be at present bear.) That la, I believe, the opinion, hold proper teaching, much of the (altial dificulty: 'moziba' sight:1.[C. at 10 am, to-day, 0.00 inches.

constituted but that a council of the officials with practical cosnimity by this Associsifon, of the language can be saved by a preliminary months' sight LIC

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in the Empire will be constituted to consider ; which is the same thing as to say by everyone course at home. (Hear, bear) There is a "dass wishi San Francisco & Now

mthe nghe the situation... Feath, missions are to ba fect | Interested in British commerce with China's strong consensus of opinion amongal men who is the meanting to study and enable the ruling and it is, I think, legitimate that the view d'atkorjllen to décide between the methodsoffio- | should be pressed upon the Chiper vernment pravalling in Great Britain, Germany,:, ment in the interests of that commerce and of and Japan; and if this means that an occasing thei

the Frext rakanus which it, yieldamat „South coast of Chima between Hongkop | hat bega seized to gain time, there is lille ait is gratifying to be

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