1911-04-27 — Page 4

Intimations.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY APRIL 27 1911

on the high sons, whogovor hostilities broak out without any notification of the vessels to be so employed. Consider for a moment what this means,

Two cason of plaguo were re- ported during the day onding noon, 27th..

A bonofit performance will be British merchantmon are some-to-morrow night for Miss Vora given at the Bijou Sconic Theatre A. S. WATSON &whero, not in the immediato Forrace.

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vicinity of thoir own warships-

The Boys' Own Club athletic let us say they are in the Indian Oconn, or the North China sen-sports will take place on tho 24th of May, "Empire Day" at the when withouta moment's warning

Race Courso, Happy Valley, the Gorman vossol with whom they had but then been in friendly A motor car yesterday, about rivalry bocomos a war vossal und 5.45 p.m., knocked down a capturos or sinks thom. A para-Chinese boy in D'Aguilur Street. lysing blow might be struck to Fortunately the boy escaped with British marine trado, hr thirway a fow-bruisos. It means also that there are all over the seas of the world at this

If this danger exists whion thio Chinese colonies are in their in-

A BANKRUPT'S BOOKS. CHINESE IN LIVERPOOL. SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS OF IMPORTANT STATEMENT IN "fancy, what may be expostod when

FALSIFICATION.

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PARLIAMENT.

The Chief Justico and a jury.

It was the other day that it was continued the hearing this morn stated that the Rt. Hon. Winston ing of the case brought against Churchill has announced in the Lan Chung. It will be remom House of Commons that the quest bored that he was charged on four, ion of Chinese immigration to counts of falsification of books Liverpool is engaging the atten will intont to defraud his crodi-tion of the Home Office. tors, and a fifth, that his assols in order to deal with this question Stops which may be necessary did not amount to 25 per cent of are now being considered. his liabilities. Mr.Alabaster,acting Attorney General, prosecuted on bohulf of the Crown and Mr. Potter defended.

After some interposed evidenco Tho Bandimian Opera Com-as to the payment of $1,000 by pany, who have mado a very

the International Bank, Mr. Pottor mccessful stay in Hongkong continued his etoss examination leave by the Delta for Shanghait of Mr. Flatchor, deputy official today.

receiver,

moment potential enemies ready to proy upon British so-borno trade.This again means an onormous rise in the price of food in the United Kingdom; and ac-

With reference to the progrant cording to the League the probabi-me of Indian roliofs, 1910-11, it is notified that the departure of lity of such a riso will be vastly the R.L.M.S. "Hardinge

from increased should the Declaration of India originally arranged to take London finally be ratified, for in place on the 19th inst., has been that caso all noutral vessels curry-postponed. ing food or other conditional con

the Chinese rosidents in the

traband to our ports will be ex- Tho Chinese Consul-General posed on the high seas to, the in Canada has taken a consus of same risk of capturo or sinking as British Dominion, and found will naturally affect British mar-that only 2 per cont among 25,000 chantimen. Starvation at home Chinese are merchants and the and in many Colonies would be rost labourers. the inevitable result.

Germany is porfactly within her rights in converting her

Robert Portor & Co.'s merchantmen into ships of war, such a Stop will however, BULL DOG add enormously to the horrors

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The annual race for the Brown challenge cup will take place at Course--from Corinthian Yacht p.m. on Saturday, April 20th Club to Fonwick's Now Wharf.

Judges:--Lieut. Paris, 14.C.A.,

and Mr. Thornhill,

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they dovolop?

The London Chinoso quartor so far is small, but Liverpool's is In Overy way we are helping it very marked and over inordosing. along by our inactivity,

SPECIAL

TELEGRAMS.

YUCHUANPU LOAN

JAPANESE PUblic

EAGERLY SUBCRIBE.

"INDEPANDENT NEWS"- AOENCY.)

WAKE UP, ENGLAND? It is a very striking fact that in Liverpool including Birkonland, where the resident Chinimon'| and are catered for at shops number at least a thousand).

run by nativos-n: Chineso farin has recently been established on the outskirts of the city. It is in- tended through this agency to supply the hoods of the local colo nies in the way of foolstuffs, birt Approach the subject from any thero is no guarantee that before point of view, and it will be found long they will not be selling Board of Posts and Communica

at the cry of those who yeho- goods in keen apposition to local montly declare that the iminigra farmors. So far the public locally

CHINESE IN ENGLAND. The following conveys an idea of the grounds upon which the agitation against the Chinese : slummaries are based :-

"

Tokio, April 27. Tho-Yokolmma-Specio-Bank's

loan to the Yuchuanpu, (Chinoso

ongor.

tion of Chinese constitutes a gravo is unaware of this fact, but I Invotions), has been most successfully In reply to a question, tho witness suid ho thought menace is certainly worth atten- no doubt it represents a big ox issued. Publio applications for tho prisoner's cash book tion. Untilcomparatively recently pansion of Chitose offort. had been destroyed and prisoner there were few people who under- The romedy for the encroach

subscriptions are numerous and had tried to compile another from stood what a Chinese Inundry ments now being made is not an the ledger. His reason for this really monnt. We had had no easy one, but by means of s was that in many instances, where experience of such establishments, stricter Alious Act much can be the ledger was right, the onslibootar romoved from China, we were done. At the present timo a.

A very large amount of the loan was wrong. This could not have not troubled by John Chilaman. party of nineteen Chinamon boon the case if the ledger had Contentedly we rogarded him as a can

land in this country has been subscribed by English

the slightest ques- boon compiled from the cashbook good business man who stayed in without

his own country, or, at any rate, tion being asked They may financiers, whose applications in the ordinary way.

Mr. Potter What you have didn't trouble us, and was in be desperate criminals that their said is that the prisoner hug falsi- upright dealer.

own empire is glad to be rid of; wero in hand long before the date fiod liis books; has created now ones in order to conceal his

affairs?—I think he has..

Pause a moment. You have not charged him with inaking now books in order to conceal his affairs?-Tho official receiver has attorney general. to take the course malvised by the

Mr.

The Chief Justice-It is not

Fletcher at all.

Mr. Potter-As a matter of fact. did you not draw up the charge which was made at the police court?- helped to draw them

of war Our own merchantmen would be in worse caso than were their predecessors in, the good

A fire broke out in No. 101 Main Street, Shaukiwan East at 6.45 old days of the privateer and the

yesterday morning. The Shan-up it, while under the Declars-kiwan Brigade was immediately tion of London our noutrals would on the spot, and started to ox- be so only in name, or rather in tinguish the fire. No. 101 was so far that they might not re-practically gutted, and No. 99 'A. S. WATSON & talinto. The whole world would was damaged by water. The loss

amounts to $1,100.

in PINTS and SPLITS.

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ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

The object of this paper is to publish

bo alienated from us under such conditions unless indeed tho

ving to the effect, that they would go to war with the

The honey gun from the

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Of those applications five

They were novelties, und wo were ute-but we stand, by and say, of issue.

We welcomed those laundries." they may be absolutely dostit J plensed to be flattered by the "Welcome," enterprise and the picturesqueness The Aliens Act applies to itsuggested. Ungrudging support parties of not less than twenty. was given to them, and since then and John Chinamau is quite woll million jen has been accepted." they have multiplied amazingly. aware of the fact, and he takes In the Liverpool district alone advantage of it.

Is it not time' that something was done? Penny Illustrated, TRADE COMMISSIONERS. Paper," March 4,

LLOYD'S REGISTER.

VESSELS LOST IN QUARTER

AMERICA. APPOINTS THREE

NEW OFFICIALS,

INDEPENDENT NEWs" Aonnor.)

Tokio, April 27.

thoro are now wall over a hundred, an it is very seldom you find one having to be closed through lack of public support. At every other and Cardiff, a similar state of big port, such as London, Glasgow, things has taken place, in addition to the opening of laundries for re-

ENDING DECEMBER 31... Why did you not charge the The business bocaine so pro- "Lloyd's Register of British and moved from the shipping contros. We have receivo a copy of man with faking his books?- There are a number of charges and able to send out to "cousins," of returns of vessels totally lost, &c., perous that the Chinamon wore Foreign Shipping," showing the the fifth is very comprehensive whom every Chinniman has a large during the quarter ending Decem- If he has been dishonest ho, will number and pay their passage ber 31 last, bo punished for that.

The United States has appoint The total number is 104, the You will drop tho serious oroy for the trip from China.

This money is refunded by the total tonnage, 180,634. Grant od three new commercial com- charge of faking books?It was nowcomers by working for nothing Britain and her Calonics had

million America coming next with nourly

tonglionaru, and suo of those has Colonios have sprung up, busi- three million tons.

Germany been despatched to Japan to study nesses are boing constructed on n. had nearly five million tons. Imvo arison, with the result that the greatest number of stoamers. firm foundation, and many evils

Great Britain and Spain had conditions governing the export protests are numerous and public wrecked, namely oightsen and trade here.

six. Other countries lost little in THE CHINESE AND WHITE this way. Two British steam-

WOMEN..

ships were abandoned at soa dur-. The most conspicuous ovil ing the period. No other country In answer to Mr. Potter the which has arison through the lost a steamship in this way, tion of sitting in the case to attention which the inhabitants those figures do not take account Chief Justico intimated his inton-formation of those colonies is the With missing ships Germany heads the list with five. But morrow morning,

nover made.

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friendship of our allies was so Citadel Battery, Dover,, which that the entry of interest in that gir food for a certain num- about, twenty

line at length been embarked in a Fuk Ling Lang account had barge for Woolwich. The great boon corrected. railway company refused allowed examined defendas; gun was stranded because the

Lung How Chang, a creditor,

power

that seized their ships carrying the signal for Armageddon.

correct information, to serve the truth food w'us. And this would be it to be taken across the Priory books and found a great inny feeling outraged,

and print the au without fear, or favour.

Cable Address: Telegraph

Hongkong.

Telephone No. 1. A. B.C., 5th edition Western Union.

BINTHI.

Wright.-March 2, at. King- ston-on-Thames, wife of A. E. Wright, F.LL, P.W.D., Hong- kong, 601.

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THE

Hongkong

Telegraph

KOYOKONG, THuRs., APRIL 27, 1911.

HONGKONG DAY

BY DAY.

H. M. S. Monmouth leaves for Mira Bay on Saturday, and on Wednesday next proceeds to Wei-mi-wei.

The King has been pleased to approve of Mr. Johan Erik Ewald Hultman as Consul-General of Sweden for the Colony of Hong- kong..

Second Lieutenant II. R. B. 1. Irwin, from the unattached list of the Indian Army, has been posted to the 15th Mahratia Light Infan try, at Hongkong.

A Chinaman named Man Wah

was £50 or

bridge, but all difliculties have at length boon overcome.

The Admiralty los ordered a wook's extra leave to be giantod Merlin, who will be returning to the crow of the surveying ship. to England from Hongkong in the cruiser "Polorus." This conces sion is made in consideration of two years commission in Far their arduous duties during their Eastern waters.

occasion

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mistakes and corrections. great amount of detailed evidence regarding various entries was adduced by Mr. Alabastor.

Cross examined by Mr. Potter witness said other creditors fendunt. too were willing to prosecute de-

but not in the samo

pool on 21st ult., for keeping a district already. Any Brother not

to the several Lodges of the somuch as in the ease in question gaming house. Ton other China- nen found on the promises when Kelly and Walsh, Id., or at the on the roll should apply to Mosara

LOG BOOK. the polico raidod thom, were Masonic Hall, before Saturday. bound over.

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FAR EAST NAVAL ESTIMATES.

PRINCIPAL ITEMS OF HONG- have paid to white women, The Chinese who are horo are nearly of the por contage. This shows

KONG'S EXPENDITURE. all from the Canton province. that the greatest loss was suffered They are of a very low class, and by Russia (1.57 per cent.) and

Under the naval" estimates for cannot be called colonists in the France and Norway (60 per cent. the Far East including Hong- sense we apply the description to each). Then comes Germany the English, for instanco, who (66 por cont.). Great Britain kong, the total ostimate for quar man coming to this country doos and Japari. emigrate to Canada. A China- follows Italy, America, Denmark, tors for dockyard foremen andlesd. not being his women folk with him; he comes herculone, simply to percentages are in much the same has already been votad, including As regards sailing vossols the £4,000). For this work £5,000 ing mon is £4,000 (reduced from

to make money, and having dono

order. that, to go home to China, where every true. Chinuman feels ho ought to end his days,

$

COMMERCIAL,

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Mr. Potter-Do you make alterations in your books. Yes, This first collision on record be- Am I right in understanding

way. tween a subintarine bout of the that some one deliberately made Early this week. says The United States Navy and a mora fales catry? Well, he altered Statest on March 18, the silver chant vessel occurred before day-the ledger to correspond with the market_hocamo sory firm on buy-break last week, when the sub-cash book-Look at the cash ing for China and the price marine Shark rammed and sunk book; you will see that the entry

re-votos. The probable expendi At the ITALIAN CONVENT ou advanced from 24 5-10d. to the 80-ton Jorcha Opon, owned in the ledger does not correspond

ture up to March 31st 1911 will the 20th inst. at 0.30 pm. GOLDINA 244.

by Urrutia and Company, off with the cash book.-Well, tho

SINGAPORE SHARES.

have been £3,500 and £500 will bo BLUMENTHAL, god_0_months and 3.

The danger can be seon at once. days, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. N.

Capo Santiago, about 150 miles only thing that does not agree is lore is a man who has in him tho on the 20th reads:-Business renovation in 1011-12.

Mosses Fraser's-share-circular-allowed-for-renovation or partTM south of Manila. BLUMENTHAL..

one thing says "choque" and the inoradicable notions of his own has again been on a very limited Hongkong, 27th April, 1911.. [1686

other "goods."-Doos the date country-notions which permit scale, owing parily, however, to

The total estimate for dook. from the Freemasons of Hong: vary more or less a fow daya perfectly natural thing, and to occupied most of tho wook un- £21,000 for the oil store to be An address will be presented differ? "Oh well all accounts him to regard polygamy as a the Easter Holidays, which have yard machinery is £200, and kong and South China to His (laughter). In your opinion commit flagrant immoralities. Is der review. The demand for renovated or partly renovated. Majesty King George V. on the there is not much difference be-it to be wondered at that white some Mining shares: huts con

of his Coronation tween the cash book and ledger? women have for him a special tinued, but Rubber and In-modation for Subinarinos" £3,000 Under the heading of Accom month imprisonment at Litre Signature sheets have boon sont Well they vary a few days but not fascination, and that whenever he unstrials at Rubbe

gets the chance he will gratify

Jus bron votod, the estimate! Rubber Seafield have boon working out at £400 in excess of every desire?

In that you done during the week at €0. 2.0d, this sum.- find the reason for his abominable Highlands £5. 8s. 4.1-2d, Lann- conduct towards young girls. dron Subscribers 35s, Jugra Landing Depot (Kowloon coal sheds) is The total estimate for the Coal- A few days ago the Captain of Destitute of good morale he acts 158 and 45s 6d, Bertams s£14,000, of which £2,000 has al the German steamer" Wisma," shamelessly, but nearly always Merlimaus 58 3d, and a 1.1-2d, ready been voted. The original Good prices wore obtained for

on arrival at Cochin, reported tonnages, by lisnatural craftiness, Merlimau Options 3s 1.1-2d and estimate was £10,000. Tho pro the contents of Green Park House, scems that the authorities are crow, n German, fell overboard,

From what can be learned it the port officer that one of the to avoid the consequences, The Imperial Maritimo League, the residence of Mr. Balilios, ni making every effort to secure the being knocked down by a sling, English women are now vory United 5.1. premium, Singapore £7,000 will be voted in 1911-12 Marriages between Chinesoont Valloys 4s ad, and Singapore this year will have boon £7,000, 38, Singapore Paros 58, Pelepali hable expenditure to March 31st which is doing much good work the sale conducted by fossre. arrest and trial of the two men J. and that all efforts to save him common events and it isnurprising and Johores have changed hands in the way of drawing attention Waring and Gillow, a total of A. B. Ezra and S. Moosn who are were unsuccessful, as he sank to 800 how anxions the latter are ut to the problem of national do- £3,768 boing realised. A gold wanted in connection with the al-immediately after he fell. It is to justify their action. It is quite $11.25 Changkat

$19 to $11.25, Pajams mated to cost £27,000, of which The Kowloon broakwator is esti fouco, throws light in a recont lacquer open Japanese cabinot, leged opivas fraud, in Shanghai. thought that he dashed his head true that the Chinaman as a vale $6.75, Ayor Pahus 85 and £5,000 will bo voted during 1011-

Serdangs publication on a side of the Navy decorated in numerous colour Ines It may be remembered that against a lighter that was along treats his white wile kindly, but 85., Malakoffs $1.80 and The transfer of victualling yard question that is not generally

and metal, fotolied £200. complaint was made against thom side the vessel.

that is only part of his plan. $1.75, Ayer Moleks 81.70 and from longkeng to Kowloon is cal known. One of the great duties |

of having defrauded Chinese mor- At the monthly meeting of the chants to the extent of about Tle.

What of his other wifo, or wires, Glononlys $170 to that will fall to the lot of the Society for the Propagation of the 80,000 by means of falso delivery

in China? What about the time Pantais $1 20, Trafalgars $100,

$175, calated to cost £14,000. The ar- whon ho roturns to his own United Singaporo Gospel, held at the Society's orders for opium, and that war Navy in time of war is the House on 17th vit,, the acting rants were issued for theirarrost. was rocoived at the American wife in Eugland fas no redress; 40 conts, and Sandycrofts $23;

iginal calculation was £15,000 and protoction of our sea-horno com- secretary,

The telegram quoted below country? If ho goes alone, Iris Bukit K. B. 70 conts, Nyallas 10,000 has already been voted.

$1.32 1-2, the Rev. E. morce, and, the League doelaren Sketchley, reported that Bishop from there that they wore sup from the Manila Observatory at are soon opened and her position been done in Tronchs round $20 £4,000 will bo volod, and the total

P.They are traced to Japan, and Consulate General, Hongkong, if sho goes with him, hor oyes

Tho probable expenditure to Mining. A large business has bocu £10,000. During 1010-11

March 31st this year will hav that we are far too weak in Montgomory was expected homo posed to have embarked for 12.10 p.m. commerce-protecting cruisers, bo after his visits to the Missions of America. It is understood that Manila, April 27th, 11.40 a.m. It is a striking thing, too, that wanted at quotations and a few to be reted during 1010-11 will '«

made apparent by his real wife. ex, div. Bélats and Kuantans are cause Germany has docinred her the Far East. This speech in the the steamers on which they are Low pressure area over northern ones a white woman has lived intention to convert any of her the prominent feature of the it is reported that extradition pro- devolop in it to the E.N.E. of nothing farther to do with hor

Albert Hall on May 12 would be travelling touches Honolulu, and, párt Uhina sod. A typhoon may with a Chinaman, she will have,

bo £26,250, merchantmen into ships of war, Society's anniversary,

ceedings will bocommended there, N.E. of Paroela

own countrymen,

COMMERCE DESTROYERS.

TYPHOON WARNING.

Bruschs and Bruangs are on offer, section aro practically unchanged General-Quotations in this with little business doing

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