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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 6 1911

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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER cm, 1911.

LABOUR IN PARLiament.

DAY BY DAY

Mere. Man

lo's only a purso to pay her

bille

A Non-stop Watch...”, A watch and blmin together with some pipes love boen stolen from 7 Shanghai Stroot, Youmati, Naughty Boys. Two Indian boys have abscond- ed, having stolon a $50 note from their fathor. They are aged about D and 11 yours.

Chairman's. Address.

corntions, illuminations and

CORONATION SUBSCRI- BERS' MEETING.

The Chairman then proceeded general lickings. It socnied ti address the meating. A series him that those people over- Mr. Bowley's Resolution.

of committees, he said, lind boonlooked the fact that the money. As hul been anticipated, amitee had

appointed. A general com was subscribed to celebrate tho Coronation. (Applause). A coro been appointed thoroughly representative gather by the public and an execution was a great national event ing was present at the City Hall ve committee was formed which occurred very occasionally, yesterday evening at the meeting at a special meeting to draw up that it would be very many years and they all feryontly prayed An escort to take her to and fro,

which had been convened for the some proposal which would be before they would be called upon Wherever she thinks, she wants

Bedding and clothes to the purpose of deciding what should acceptable to the subscribers. to go.

Lo celebrate another Coronation value of $40 havo' been stolen be done with the surplus of After considerable discussion. It To call for her when the bridge from Kowloon Hotel, while the $20,000 from a total subscribed was decido that as the Colony (Applause.) That fund was t

game's done;

theft of hair ornaments worth sum of $70,000 for the Chrome hard subscribet very handsomely fund, and the question was how

Coronation Fund, nota.celebration!! $60 is reported from 133 Con- celebrations. The attendance the fund should be put aside and

Pay for her lits and frocks and

frills.

To sympathize with her grief or

A something, to tell her troubles

to:

To chirk or when she

thinks she's bluo,

To tako, but never to give her

advico,

•

To tell her hor horrors of hats look

nice,

To post her letters and wind the

clock;.

Small Thefts.

naught Road.

The Pure Food Crusade.

A Motor Accident.

was large and almost all the vested in three trustees, as a roto dispose of the surplus. Num- heads of the furious business serve and for the ception of orous proposals lind been put for houses in the Colony were present. Royaltes visiting the Colony heat memorials of the Coronation word by way of erecting perma

:

As

At the Magistrnoy, today, Mr. |J. R. Wood" inflicted a fine of Hon. Mr. 0.11. Ross proposed That resolution lund subsequently

$50 on a shopkeeper at 55 Wel-tut: Sir Francis Piggott take the been modified. It was not thought but no after nuether the scheines were dropped owing to various advisable that the $20,000'should ington Street, for having in his Chair possession fifteen tins of condensed The proposal was received with bo set apart for a Royal entortain objections and difficulties.

acclamation. milk, unfit for hunan food.

ment fund. The sun for the the Chairman had pointed out in his speach to the general commit- The Clairman stated that be-German Crown Prince's entertain- We regret to record that, as the fore preceding to consider the ment would amount to $10,000 too, it was thought impossible to everond Father Monnier, who rebusiness, ho would like to put be-and after the visit there would devote the whole of the surplus to sides at Pokfulum, was on his way fore the meeting a technical dili- still be the question as to wint toy one section of tho community To strap her suit case and find to Hongkong this morning he was culty, which ho would ask them do with the balonco. He moved to the exclusion of other sections.

her gloves:

knocked down by a motor ear. to solve. Those present con- that the fund be vested in three The schemes for the removal of "our old friend the Clock Tower," Aud listen to tales of her old-time The injuries to his head were stituted a large holy of people. trustees for six monitor who would the erection of a Queen's Wharf

loves,

serious enough in character it was not a corporate body but look after it on behalf of the public accessitate his being carried back to Pokfulam, whore he is now confined to bod.

And hook up the back of hier

modish frock;

In fact to do all sho may say or And he's such a fool that he loves

nak:

the task.

Life.

The E. & A. str Aldenham left Manila on 6th inst., at 6 am, and will arrive here on September 8,

nt about 10a.m. "

The douth of Dr. Samuel L. Gracoy, who has been American Consul at Foochow sinée 1890, is

server.

We have received confirmation one of the withdrawal, by the from the Colonial Segarty's overnacht of Nederlands India, of sanitary measures against

hongkong.

|

Long Vacation-

it was an assembly of individual under proper and necessary afe-worthy of the name, tad several and independent members. The guards. During that period, the others had to be dropped. Some question to bo settled was with Crown Prince would other visit were in favour of a cottage hos regard to voting power, Some eColony or the visit would be in-pital at Kowloon for the itse of

Europeans. He thought luit, poople had subscribed $1, while initely postponed. When this reme Court will commence from $300, $500 or

The long vacation of the Sup-others subscribed $5, $10, $100 came known they could then the Colony was already over Ircide what to do with the fund, supplied with hospitals. There the 20th of September and will $1,000. It was obviously unfair The Committee's idea was that were the naval and military hospi- contime till the 17th of October.at the $1 subscriber should three trustees should be appointed tal, the Peak Hospital and the

tals, the Government Civil Hospi During the vacation the Summary have, the same power the and the gentlemen whose numer Court will sit daily from 10 to 1 $1,000 subsoribor.llo had been put forward for, the Matilda Hospital. Considerable p.m. No business will be tran- posod that they should adoptimo being were the go the mint subscribed by oneh stress was unfortunately laid on seted in Original Jurisdiction.

La similar rule to that respectively of the Hongkong.

A Theatre Disaster.

Rubber Companies.

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as much N

. pro-

WIS

opted under the Company law Bank, Messrs, Jardino, Mathosen nationality, but since the question amounced in the "China Press," Times" reports that twenty-five shares. Every subscriber would Chinese member of the Legislawat se cay to meet it. He A tolegram to the "Manila with respect to people holding and Company and the senior of nationality had been raised it Dr. Gracoy wig 70 years of age. [men, women and children wore have one vote to every one share Live Council, which seemed to flaimed that the scheme ho had. trampled to death in the panic taken. A subscriber who had ton be a very representative put forward disposed altogether The new Siamese "gold coin, which followed the call of Fire!" shares had to votes. From 10 to body. If the Crown Prince did of the difficulty of nationality and which is similar to the English in a einematograph_theatre at 100 they had one voté for every

not come, as soon as the mattor on-feasibility. It was a schomo soverdige, is now realy in the Cannonsburg, Pa., U.S.A. The five shores and over 100 they had become known a meeting would which, he felt sure, would bo ne Bangkok mint, and will be put audience made the usual frenzied one voto for every ten shares e convened by the trustees to deeptable to all. The Colony of into circulation shortly after the rush for the doors, and scenes of His proposal was that a subscriber cide what should be done with langkong possessed one of the most cosmopolitan communities coronation, says the "Si Obviolence 'wore enucled. of $1 to $10 inclusive should the money. If the Prince din the world. Some claimed us

A Dying Deposition:

have one voto for overy dollar come, then the necessary amount Lion, others the Dragon as the The case in which Lai Chi Chin subscribed. From $10 to $100 would be taken from the fund. A the sum of $70,000 for damages every $5, so that a subscriber of to decide what should be done thenix as the noblest of birds. sued Tang Wong Shi to recover they should have an extra vote for meeting would afterwards be call-badge of Empire. Some regard.. ed the Eagle while othera the Labour is now actually represented in Parliament he different

falso imprisonment was continued that there would be one, rote for the Committed had submitted that ind others flourished the Star- for alleged wrongful arrest and $100 would have 28 votes. Aftor with the reninder. The resume looked to the Rising Sun parts of the world, but. except in Australia,its influence is

before the Paisuo Julge to-day, every 10 They were there to proposal was becauso they con Spangled banner. But wiiother commensurate with its numerical insignificance. The real Parlin

the afternion, the Court pro-act independently but it

sidered that the Colony they came from the eastor the west, unt of Fabour is, however, as far as Groat Britain is concerned,

ceeded to Chinatown to take the necessary that the question of the subsoribed very hudsomely, and the north or the south, there w the Tralo Union Congress, which is held annually and the dole-

ovidence if a dying witness. voting power should be definitely in view of the bad times it was tho ono kieli of intury which gates at which represent this year over 1,500,000 members of trades

settled before going to the busi-thought inadvisable to call upon nude them all akin-they were unious. In view of the fact that the qualified electors of numbers The billoon voyage from Son- of the House of Commons, number considerably less than to pills to Sanirang which was Directors of the Semeling (in his proposal would be adopted.scription. 16. therefore asked health. Each of thom hopod, if Power has been given to the rest of the meeting and he hoped the community for a second sub-not here for the benefit of their lions, it is evident that the Trailo Union Congress is representative interrupted on account of the

that the proposal should be adopt ho escaped the porceful resting- In reply to Mr. Looker, the od: He would like to explain place at Happy Valley, to give up tion. The gathering that assembled at Newcastle on Monday is of was to be resumed on the 20th pany, Ltd.,,a Shanghai concorn; Chairman said, that the seleme point of procedure. There was at last the chise of the almighty: of a body of opinion that is worthy of more than passing considera-fatal accident to Lient. Rambaldo Kodaly Rubber Plantation-Com- particular interestin view of the recent activity of the-strike bacilli inst, with Liout. Van Steyn in o enter into negotiations with the worked out this wayA SIO likely to be an amendinent, and if dollar, to roturn to his country for In coat Britan that laus caused an extremely serious epidemic of command and Liu, Baran. Yan Plantation Co., Ltd. This is a There would be eleven votos to be a grout many others. Here before laying his bones in the

Kommuting in Kodak) Rubber subscriber would have tea votos. there were one, there were bound industrial trouble. In some degree, though possibly in less than Lynden as a passenger.

a while near the halls of his ances the unofficial unionists fondly imagine, the cause of the men has

rdy stop in the right direction for $15, twolve for and theexample might be followed thirteen for $25, fourteen allowed to depart from the usual could only be attained through $20, therefore asked that he should be tombs of his fathers. That object triumphed and their delegatos meos with the flush of victory still mantling their cheeks. Whether the men have really gained Whiteaway, Laidlaw and Co. by other Shanghai Rubber Com-for $30 and so on. more than a temporary success that will only serve to consolidate the "pened a branch in Bangkok punies with advantage.

would be 28 votes for $100, wore adopted, the meeting would section of the community-the There rule and put the resolution. If the aid of that most cosmopolitan ranks of the employers remains to be seen. Many will think that the will be conducted on a purely cush on September 1. The business

Dr. Quincey...

thirty-eight for $200, etc.--- real struggle is to come and flat this belief is shared by some of thesis, and the hope has been periones of plague work

Dr. Quincey, who has had ex-

The proposal on being second amendments could be proccoded depart in pesca. I not, then the

semen. To the sailor they owed Inbour leaders is shown by the resolutions that are on the agenda expressed that this may mean a Hongkong; and is now the re- Mr. Bowloy--If a poll is asked Mr. Robertson seconded, and to these salubrious clínios end,

ined was carried,

a double debt of gratifido first with. of the Congress. The keynote of the Congress, we're told, is unal-death-blow to purchase "on the sident surgeon of the hospital on for, will this be taken after the the suggestion was agreed to

because he brought them safely gamation and an endeavour is to be made to secure a closer affiliation mod," in Bangkok-in other words the Chinese Bund, has been of-show of hunde? of the political and the purely industrial labour bodies. The the rejection of the pornicious chit ferred an important position in

secondly, because they hoped he myopie view that sees Capital prostrate at the feet of omnipotent

The Chairman-A show of Mr. Bowley's Resolution.

would take them safely home Labour, (though the gentleman who presided over the Congress lent

the Chaper Plague Provention hands will be takon first and if

again. To the sailor, therefore, or protended to lend it some theasure-of countenance) probably dos

corps, reports the Shanghai a poll is domanded, it will be amendment to the Chairman'subscribed for the Coronation of Mr. Bowley in proposing an let them give of that surplus, not afflict the intellectuals of the unionial loadors. They, with

The shareholders of the Shang-Times." Dr. Quincey is the third taken in the usual way. It would colution, said he very much our Sailor King, to the sailors of leurer vision, in all likelihood realize that one battle, though stubhai Pulp and Papor Company, son of the well-known Inspector be ter if we could avoid a poll. regretted having to oppose the all the nations and of every flag, bornly contested and temporarily disastrous to the defeated side, Ed., held their 12th annual William Quincey, head of the does not decide a campaign. Possibly even they do not quite grasp meeting on Sept. 1 and after Shanghai-Nanking Railway con-matter be sottled by a show of trusted that the Chairman and bringing hither the marchandise Mr. Looker I suggest flint this Chairman's resolution, and he who visite this great port, the fact that a successful campaign does not necessarily involve a adopting the chairman's report is stabulary,"

hands simply: satisfactory determination of a war. The fact, however, that road, they met in extraordinary American Binessmen In amalgamation is the watchword of the Congress is a proof session unil voted their company

The Chairman-Oh, yes, a show England. Labour leadors tho

understand

difference into voluntary liquidation with a

of hands the resolution." Under the auspices of the Inter- between strategy and tactics and that they recoguise that ground view of later perfecting reorgani-national Association of Chambers

The Chairman went on to say gained, has to be secured against attack against an enemy deter-zation, the forming of a new com- of Commerce, which is an organi- that the meeting was an indepen- mined if possible to uvonge, defeat and repair logare.

pany to absorb the old.

that

the

system.

The Governor's "At Home.",

Chinese Towkay Fined.

party spent a wook.in England and at the ond of their visit do- clared that they had learnt a great One of the foremost members of deal that would be useful to them

on:

-1

the Committee would not deemon which they thrived and the him. (Mr. Bowley) and his sup luxuries for which they pined. porters ungrateful for the great Their friends from the Middle ful solicme of celebration of the upon the sailor for return to Coronation. The community had their own country. Vory shortly, pains taken for the very success Kingdom did not depend so much

sation of business men through-dent body and it was on esta Most works on political economy contain theoretically valuable

out the world, ninety representablished law that in a meeting like coffers of the treasurer so profuse would only have to go as far as the

poured their dollars. into the it was hoped that each of them. disquisitions in regard to the operation of the law of supply and

tives of various American basi-hat the majority shald rule. ly that the committee, were not Star Ferry wharf and take B demand, the relative functions of Capital and Labour and so forth. home to about 200 Chinese to-day, gathering ideas and helping to proposal to go os.

H.E. the Governor will be at hossos have been touring Europe They must have some dofiuite But, stripped of the verbiage by which it has been hiddon, the in connection with the bazaar at promote cordial relationships

only enabled, with the co-opera- through ticket to his native village, position discloses itself that, until human nature undergoes a radical the Hongkong University to be anong trading communities. The denim lé, pra the absent sub-spectacles, the like of which had and arrows of outrageous For- Mr. Lau Chn Pak If a poll is provide a series of gorgeous thom, were subject to "the slings tion of the whole community, to But the Chinese, like the rest of clunge, the interests of Capital and Labour are mutually and unhold next year. changeably antagonistic. Necessarily it is so. Capital desires the

seribørs allowed to vole? biggest return safely to be secured. Labour wishes to sell itself at

not been seen before, but were tune" and many of them would The Chairman-No. the highest price it can obtain. No Act of Parliament can define a

now saddled with a surplus. succumb to "the ills that flesh Mr. Looker asked, if there wore which they did not know is heir to were it not for the was made in relation to labour in one of the Australian states, by pore, Towkay Wee Kay Siang.nl created a profound impres they were going to do. “fair” rolurn on capital or a "fair" príco for labour. The attempt the Chinese Community in Singa- in America. Tho Manchester Shin/not a unanimous majority, what what to do with. The mat munificent provision of hospitals fixing

ter had caused a good deal of for the Chinese which were a a statutory, minimum wage for unskilled

workers, was recently fined for whipping sion as a fine example of an under- but in actual working it was found that the tendency was for rickala coolies from his carriage. taking run by municipal enter of the dissentients declined of opinion. He could scarcely (Chineso friends, with their usual

The Chairman suil that if any

discussion and a great difference credit to the Colony. Their the minimum to become the maximum wage, and zeal and intelligence were penalized for the benefit of laziness, and Democracy in China.

accept the vote of the majority, imagine any subscriber, who, in liberality and public-spiritedness, stupidity. It is not speaking without the book to allirm that every In a speech delivered at the

they could get their money back. the fulness of his loyalty and the bad erected a hospital at Yau expedient for settling industrial disputes by legal moans has failed Universal Races Congress, recent

It had been established that in a warmness of his hent had sub-ma-ti for the use of about 70,000 more or less conspicuously. Wagos Boards and tribunnis of Con- ly held in London, Mes, Archi-31 to the "N. O. Daily News" ro- majority could not bind the would want hus minner back, either The cost od

A Poking telegram dated Aug body of independent persons the scribed handsomely to the fund, souls in the Kowloon Leninsun. ciliation and. Arbitration have been unsuccessful in the main, just bald Little, who speaks with ported that nur arrangement has dissentiont. It was calculated in cash in kind. (Applause). $100,000 and

hoon over as, up to the present moment, except in a fow isolated instances, in-authority on things Chinosu, aid been concluded, and will be that they would got 41 par continworthy of any loyal British become natural for every Eng- the oxtont: tornational arbitration has failed to prevent an appeal to Mars when as a deneracy, the United States signed immediately, for the

Such an attitudo was absolutely of debt over $80,000. It hind Borious questions were at issue.

could not compare with China,re lemption of mining rights in

Mr. Looker-I think it has also

subject on I ho felt sure that no liman during the last 70 years In China anyone might rise to the seven prefectures of Yuansu, been established that there is no such tuzi.thid ever crossed the couple the name of the Queen the highest position, and the which were acquirol by an unhon law by proxy (Laughter.) mind of even those who did not of England with hospitals and meanest coolio knew how to be Anglo-French Syndicate in the The Chairman-Yes,

ove allorinure to the British the care of the sick. How could have himself. It ill become your 1902, but have proved un- trial disputes and with whatever dreams of the millenium organized taught muners in their schools, of the officials and the Provincial ing taken.

The poet's fatalistic belief is particularly applicable to indus- England and America, who least workable owing to the opposition 40 to 21 on a show of hands be who had conscientious scruples of that surplus from the funds The resolution was not d by Crown. Then there were those they more fittingly vote a portion Labour in Great Britain may be obsessed, their plans of consolidato talk of teaching civilization to Assembly,

ns to the purpose for which the subscribed in celebrate the Coro- tion will bring no whit nearer the day of industrial peace. Rather the East, The Chinese lad

The Chairman then proposed money was subscribed. The word nation of the King and of cour will they ovoke similar activity on the other side and the result will always despised the soldier, and payment of Tls. 1,500,000, which vote of the majority.

Ro-lemption is effected by the that the meeting be bound by the "celebration" scened to stick in gracious Queeny then by contri probably be that when hostilities are renewed a lengthy campaign it was only now that they were will cover the Syndicate s out-of Mr. Bowley seconded and the cribers, and they could not a hospital for their poorer fellows the gorge of some of the sub- bating towards the endowment of will follow in which vistory will be almost as disastrous as defe being tought to admire him. pocket ex

propond was adopted.

magine anything beyond des colonists, the Cliiness women i

“This has beon, ând chia shall still be

Hero as there in sua ut star,

Things which are to be and will be,

Things which wota to be and are,”

priso.

Yunnan Concessions.