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'THE QUALITY OF MERCY."

Hall-Caine's New Play.

Play

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH TUESDAY

Mr. Hall Caino has written for the Express" the following story of the plot of his new play,The Quality of Mercy," which was to be produced for the first time on Supt. 4 at the Theatre Royal, Manchester.

Act 1.

his wife's entreaties that he should with the nobused man, how so far carry out Crow's plan as to Captala Arnasson pleads for fly off to the whale fishing on the Lawrence Chancellor on overy Greenland sene.

ground of meroy, how at last he

reveals and defends himself and

OCTOBER 3 1911

To-day's Advertisements

By the timely arrival of the midnight mail coach at the mo demands justice, producing the FOR SHANGHAI, KOBE AND discovered and the hue-and-cry ave sent him to his death, and ment when the tragedy has been treacherous letter which would

MOJE. has been raised, he is able to es how the new law which permits THE Steamship cope, passing through his pura prisoner to testify on his own suers by a smart device and being behalf now, makes his evidence sent off in pursuit of himself.

Act III.

“ARRATOON APCAR”

legal and his acquittal certain-Captain G. F. Hudson, will be des all this must be left to the play matched for the abova ports on SUN itself to tell.

DAY, the 8th instant, at Daylight."," The Steamor has superior accom the old warrant and the happy throughout with Elootsie Light and The end is, the destruction of modation for passangars, is installed restoration of the long-oxiled man aarrics duly certified doctor. to the bosom of the family that RETURN TOURS TO JAPAN loves him.

Twenty years have passed when Tho play opens in Pickering, the third act opens on the deck of in the North Riding of Yorkshire, the whaling schooner The Pro twenty miles south of Whitby.vidence, anchored off the coast of The period is the last days of the Greenland. The skippen is Law

ronce Chancellor, known as Cap- stage coach.

tain Jon ArnaaH1, an Teslander,. the hold in the highest honour as á just and upright man, and always

The Executive Secretary of the called upon in that lawless com-

Insular Government on Septem munity of whalefishers of many races outside the reach of civilisa-ber 27 sont 1,000 sacks of rice to quarrel or crimo. tian, to act as judge in cures of Cobu por steamer Romulus. Mr. Carpenter said that the cargo of rice ordered from Rangoon would of be in Cobu early in October and that port to points in the southern islands, where it was the most

Lawrence Chancellor, young squire, has by a prodigute life made himself penniless. He is married to Lucy, the daughter of a county family (who have cast her off by reason of her a charge of issuing a false medi-choice), and they have one young cal certificate that there had been child, as called Lucy. His Contato is being sold by auction no case of infectious disease on when a former suitor of his wife,

board.

It is alleged that forty or fifty bodies of persons who had died

from cholern were throwny

board during the voyage, includ

ing several that were dumped"

in Singapore Harbour'.

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AT YOKOHAMA,

[" INDEPENDENT NEWB" AGENCY.].

Tokyo, October 3. British warships, the Monmouth

and two others, entered Yokohama

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In the interval since he fled from England he has heard nothing what has been happening at home, and from fear of disclosing his Captain Henry Crow, a prosporous wife and child as well as himsoll identity (and thus involving his Greenland whalefisher, returns in trouble), lie has never dared to from a long roaidence in Iceland, inquire.

whoro ho had married nu Icelandic-

A young owner of whale-ships wife, who is now dead, leaving a arrives to wind up his father's busi- young son, Harry, whom heness. This is Harry Crow, son of brings home with him.

Captain Orow, ΠΟΛΥ five- and the supposed Icelander aud-twenty, and between him

affectionate. friendship springs up, in the course of which the exile, under protest-of- unving known Lawrence Chan- celler, hears that all interest in that all possible witnesses against his, alleged orimo is gone, and him are dead.

Inspired by a secret dosire to got rid of Lawrence Chancellor, in order to possess himself of Luvy, Captain Crow offers to aid the husband in his extremity by sending him, to the whaling, well knowing, or believing, that after his self-indulgence at home, he must succumb to the hardships of. He also hears that his wife, life on the northern seas, and after long waiting for nows of Chancellor, moved "chielly by him, has passed way, but that dosire to atone to his wife for the their daughter, Lucy, a beautiful suffering and shame he has brought upon her by a career of extrayagauog, which has left them homoloss, accopts the offer.

He is making known to Lacy is intention of going away for

a

ng woman, is to be married to Hairy himself on his return to England, the young people hav ing buried the blood-foud bo- tween their fathers and wade a band of love between themselves.

that it would be distributed from

needed.

DON'T FORGET.

Tuesday, October 3. Organ Recital, St. John's Cathedral.

Salo of noodlework, Italian Convent.

Wednesday, October 1. Sale of noodlework, Italian Convent.

Opening ceremony, Kowloon-Railway.

(occupying 20 days), Relurn tiokols are available by the Tado-China Blaam Navigation Co.'s Steamore. Fare for round trip $120, For Freight or Passage, apply to

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MAGISTRACY.

No. 6. 271.

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Tis heroby notified that a meeting of the Licensing Board will be held in the Council Chamber on WEDNES-

Canton-DAY, the 1st day of November, 1911,

Thursday, October 5. Sale of work, City Hall.

Friday, October 8, Hongkong Football annual general meeting.

st 2.16 r., for the purpose of con- sidering applications for Publicans' and Hotel Koopers' Adjunct Licencos for the year 1911-1912 under the Liquor Lisences Ordinance, 1911..

Forms of application may be obtained Club's jat the Magistroy, All applications. must be forwarded to the Magistmey on or before SATURDAY, the 14th day of October, 1911, and must be accota-

Saturday, October 7. Dairy Farm annual general meeting, 12.30 p.m.

Hongkong Jockey Club most

Polo Club Gymkhana, 3.30

Deeply touched by this turn of events, the Teoland captain (Law while to recover his fortunes and on October They remain until spif-control-when-shop-who still young Harry Crow for his roturn rence Chancellor) is preparing

the 15th inst.

loves her husband, in spite of the home when he is confronted bying, noon. rain he has brought upon her, one of his crew who has tried in revoals to him the motive of vain to carry out a vendetta Captain Crow's proposal, as he gainst Captain Crow (for caus- P

ing by gross cruelty the death of has gathered it from the whaler his Icelandic wife) and now seeks ing, himself. Euraged by the trea- to execute his vengeance on the chery which has given itself the sOIL. appearance of bonovolence, Chan- cellor sets off late at night for

ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE.

Quartermaster Pays the Penalty.

At the Marine Court to-day, before Cominander C. W. Bock-Captain Crow's rooms, intending with, O Coil, quartermaster of to ohiargo him with his duplicity," the R.M.S. Monteagle, was charg ed at the instance of the Chief

Act II.

Taikoo Rifle Club Range opon

3 p.m:

Tuesday, October 10, Extraordinary-gonoral meet- Douglas Steamship Com-

From this peril Lawrence Chun-ing, cellor, in a violent scene, saves the life, and sends him safely back to young man at the risk of his own

рацу.

Wodnesday, October 11, his daughter in England, promis- Chinn Light and Power Com- ing in answer to his warm pany's annual general meeting, entreaties to visit them there some St. corgo's Building, noon. day.

Act IV,

To-day's Advertisement,

Q.

panied by a deposit of Three Dollars.

Applicants for transfers of new licences and persons objecting to such applications must appear before the Licensing Board in person.

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Officer F. L. Davison with un- The second not opens in Captain lawfully absenting himself from Crow's rooms, where ho is soon on board the ship without Ipave writing the treacherous letter from the lat until the 2nd inst., which Chancellor is to carry away. Nearly ten years more have in Victoria Harbour.

to Iceland in order (as the victim passed, and Lawrence Chancellor, Defendant pleaded guilty. has been led to think) to make his still bearing the name of Captain Comp'ainant gave evidence to lines easy in the far country, but Jon Arnasson, the Icelander, re- the effect that the defondant was really to instruct the skippor of turns to his native place full of absent from his ship from the the whaler-in which he is to sail a yearning desire to see his afternoon of the ist, until the for the Greenland sons to exposo children. He finds everything afternoon of the 2nd. There had him to the greatest hardships, so clianged, the old civilisation that been trouble with the defendant that he may never return home to preceded the adoption of steam PARTICULARS and CONDI before over the very same thing his wife. ‹

and electricty having given place TIONS of the letting by Pablic and he had even been absont from It is then that Chancellor to the new, the old ways of life Auction Sale, to be held on MON- his post of duty, when he ought to arrives, and, thinking he comes being gone, the generation to DAY; the 9th day of Octobor, 1911, have been on watch. Then he according to appointment to which he belonged being dead; at 8 pm, at the Offices of the Public had threatened the defendant that receive the letter, Captain Crow only himself remaining alive, and Works Department, by Order, of His he would take staps to have him is proceeding to make such final he is old und altered.

Exeo lency the Governor of Ons Lot punisho if he so offended again. arrangements ne, will leave his

Asked what he had got to say, coures clear with Lucy after news seems to him to be a reincarna 76 years, with the option of renewal at offices of the Corporation on and after He soos his daughter Lucy, who in the Colony Hongkong for a term of this Loan will be payable at the

of CROWN LAND at Kennedy Towa INTEREST due and dmwa bonds off

the defendant said that he had not of her husband's fate has come tion of his dend wife. He sees a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Sur-30th Septembar, 1911. List of drawn been accustomed to ask for, leave back to England, when Chancellor her child, a young boy who is vayor of His Majesty the King, for one boads can be obtined. on application in any other ship he had been on, bursts out upon the man with au christened Jon Arnasson in faither term of 75 years, when he wanted to go ashore. exposure and denunciation of his affectionate memory of his own as- PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. treachery. The result is a violent suined name on tho. Groenland scene in which Crow struggles to seas. Finally he meets his son-in- recover possession of the incrimi- law, 'Henry Orow (now. nating letter and Chancellor to magistrate and a power in the retain it, both men fighting in county), who is at once overcome their consuming rage until a shot with joy sud overwhelmed with from a revolver in Crow's own confusion at the sight of him. hand leads to his deathrm -

He was sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour with the proviso, however, that, if the ship sailed *before the time fund expired, ho

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Here comes the last trial of his A Japanese answering to the Feeling no guilt in his share of life and the final tug of the dramu. name of Matsua, a musician in the tragedy, Chancellor im- Unknown to himself he had been the band of conjurors at the City mediately sots off to the police identified in his true character of Hall, appeared in a very woo-authorities to tell what has occur Lawrence Chancellor on landing "begone condition at the magis, red, but he is intercopted by his at Whitby, and an old warrant Hogkong. 2nd Dc, 1911. traoy this morning. He was wife, who explains to him his for, his arrest on a charge of considerably bruisod about the position in the eye of the law is causing the death of Captain Tace, and lind to answer a charge the sole witness of Crow's death Crow nearly thirty years before GREEN ISLAND CEMENT JOHN THOMAS COTTON. of behaving in a disorderly man and apparently the only cause of had been unearthed and shown nor last night, It appears that it

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