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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1911

· RUSSIA AND PERSIA.

DAY BY DAY

Charity covers a multitude. skins.

The 8.8. Shinyo Muru, bolong ing to the Toyo Kison Kitisha, wluck was recently in this port after her maiden trip, hins beon | classed 100-AI at Lloyds.

Wa are asked to announce that the boxing match between Jack aphum und Terry Martin is "off" as Capham is unwell, and will not be able to appear.

W

DAY OF DAY

Kaub mille crushing for November was 4,000 tons of ore, and the' result 7680zs, of gold.

An exhibliken of Okinoso paintings and bros will be held in Shanghai from the 14th to 20th December.

Soromban qnauluded recently, when The Anti-Oplum Conference at

it was decided that next year's con ference should be held at Mulacon....

11. 10. Richard Jones Wilkinson is to be Officer Administering the Go verument during the absence from the Straits of Sir Arthur Young,

The master of a stone junk was

Recently about 200, Chinese, at Bangkok, discarded their queue, which were then tied to a fagstal and, amid great rojdicing, "hoisted *

the top under the flag of the Revolu tion

Typhoon Warning..

UNREST IN HONGKONG. A BROTHER'S DEBTS.

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NOTES AND COMMENTS,

The Socotra Wreck,

Exemplary Punishment.

Dispute over Guarahies

The wave of disorderly spirit In the Supreme Court this mora-

In view of the tokigram pub- which has boon passing throughing, before the Chief Justico, Sir Francis Piggott, and Mr. Justice the ranks of Hongkong's rowdy Gomperts, the trial was commerc lished elsewhere in regard to the element was responsible this ed de ore, of the cuse in which looting of the stormer Kusin at

conviction at the Police Court. morning for a prosecution and Li Pohang sued the Yik Lung Socotru, the following from the Bunk, Li Ting-shi, LiPo-lun, and Straits Timos" of "Nov, 28 in 14 Po-yung, for $82,212.40, be- The case was one in which uning amount paid by plaintiff int reference to the wreck, is of in- 18-your-old housony in the em-the Imperial Bank of China, to terest: This ogourrance is the ploy of a Parsee reading in the gather with interest, in l'oxponses most sorious happening that has Central Hotel in Queen's Rond incurred by the plaint if in raise befallen the Straits Steamship Cp. rris charged before Mr. E. Aing the said amount on mortgage for many years, if not for tho as súroly for the Yik Lung Bank Irving with throwing an earthen-under a contract made in 1004., period of its whole existence. The we basin at a Police picket lust By this contract plaintill who was Kuala represents the highwater night. Fortunately a lynxoyed aminor, guaranteed thorepayment, mark in their progress and is un- Chinese detective who was fol- to the Imperial Bank of China, of

prosecuted at the Marine Court yes forday for unlawfully using's special permit for a further poriod than the time therein mentioned. A he oflowing the pickot some distance which might thereafter become piny has yet acquired. She was

sinis to the extent of $150,000 doubtedly the finest boat the com insposed

behind with the object of main- | due to the Yik Lung Bank. launched from the yard of tho

7:

Owing to an outbreak of measles on board H.M.S. Flora, the poncert.

At a meeting of the Consultingtaining a lookout for any suspicious Hon. Mr. H. E. l'ollock, K.C Calodon Shipbuilding Co., Dun-- Committee of the Ewe Cotton Spin- ping and Weaving Co., Ltd., held in obaracters, caught the offender and Mr. C. G. Alabaster, instruct-doe, on Septombor 6. The not The British steamer Yi Loongs" Shanghar, it was decided to recom-red-handed in the act of hurlinged by Mr. Bontis, appeared for built to the order of Mesars. Goo L. med dividend on the preference the strange missile in the midst the plaintiff, and Mr. Eldon Pot-of rolossing her from the stocks Shaw and Co., of Antung, at Sunder shares at tlie rate of 7 per cent, por if the picket. This morning, the and Hets, appeared for nil the de-ville, of Edinburgh, and she wus tor, instruote by Messrs. Bration was performed by Miss H.Somer- land, England, will be despatched in annum, and a dividend of Tls.7 per

share on 15,000 ordinary shares. man was brought up before Mr. fondents, except the Yik Lung christene! by Mrs. McArthur. early December the Far East on

Irving at the Magistracy and Mr. Bank.

.:་ Captain Sunderson, who was on her maiden voyage

P. P. J. Wodehouse, Deputy At the outset, before pleidings leave, took charge of the vesse which was to have been given by the Superintendent of Police, asked were opened, Mr. Potter raised for the voyage to the Est.

the point that the case against Florettos at the Siamon's Institute his Worship to order 24 strokes one of the defendants, 14. Po Kuala is built on the 1 on Thursday has been unavoidably of the cat, as a lighter sentence cliun, had been withdrawn by the of the recently acquired ste postponed,

would scarcely constitute a doter- plaintiff since the hearing of the Klang, which has been re The total output of the Chinese

ty withdrawn the notion against inginering and Mining Company's font to future offenders. His rst trial. They had deliberate- Lireo mines for the week ending No-. Woraliip remarked that as this signatory of the guarantee, a month or two. Built to t vember 18, 1911, amounted to was the first case of the kind, he person who was absolutely est class in the British C 47,205.94 tone, and the sales during would fine the defendant $25 or necessary party, isasmuoli astion Registry for special tra che period to 27,218.41 tons,

if they were found liable they two months hard labour and would be entitled to nak Lnd also to the Board of 1. further ardored 12 strokes of the Po-chun to pay, his share and requirements for carrying

it to bo administered. so lesson the nount the others sengers and cattle, her principa

would have to pay.

dimensions are —In length over-

The following, telegram was re- ceived by the American Consul ute Geveral from the Manila Ob. servatory at 10 a.m. to-lay--Cy- one or Typhon N. W. of Yap, moving W. or W.N.W..

The return issued by Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping shows that, from April 1 to June 30, 1911. 112. sailing and steam ships wore lust, jo presenting a tonuage of 129,211. In the annual report issued at the same time, it is to be noticed that the total number of vessels on the register is 10,400, with a tonnage of 21,060,070.

The master of a licensed, cargo juuk was proceeded against at the Marine Court yesterday afternoon. for disobeying the orders of the Har bour Mastor by anchoring to the hat of Stanley buoy. 'IIo war'âned $2.

Commanding officers have been re. quested to forward to command

Since last night there have occurred twother cases of atoning the Police in whieli. the culprits

could not be detected.

LABOUR AND DYNAMITE

azadquarters by 20th inst. the names of soldiers serving under their som- mand whom they recommend for the grant of the medal for long service A. Router tolegrain received and good conduct,‹ .

this afternoon stated that James

MacNamara, the dynamiter, as boon sentenced to life imprison montand his brother John to 15 yours' imprisonment.

Young Grandmother. Mrs. Kuni Midzukuni, aged 30, a farmer's wife, in the village of Takata, Idzu province, is perhaps the youngest grandmother in the world. She was married wlion 13.

At a meeting of the Singapore and Her daughter married last year atehere Rubber Company, Ltd., held 15, and is now a motlier. Mrs in Singapore recently, a scheme for Midzukaini's great-great-grand-disposing of the undertaking of the mother is still alive at the age of company for £240,000, payable as to 02, and so the baby just born can £10,485 in case and £229,515 in boast of the possession of a great shares in a company to be formed THE TROOPS FOR THE great-great-great grandmother. and registered in Great Britain, was

NORTH. fiscussed. Organ Recital. ́

.

The third of the winter weries

A banquet will be held on Satur

Con the wost const, now

for n

inding

Mr. Justice Gompertz: Dg you all, 236 fost; braadth, moulded, 35 feet, 6 inches und depth, want him mado u party ?

Mr. Pottor: I submit that the action is bad unless he is admoulded, 14 foot, 9 inches. Emitted.

Mr. Pollock pointed out that No Jealousy.. defendants could have applied to join Li Po chun.

The Chief Justice: What do you want is to say?

of Li Fo-chun made clear,

Mr. Potter: I want the pit sition

So you want the caso dis-

A correspondent sonds this:-- Yesterday's "Tolegraph" pub. lished the statement, culloʻl from contemporary, that an Asssasin- dion Languo nd "boon-formed for the removal of curtain of the revolutionary leniors. It may not Yes.

to much in the way of notusl After further discussion their knife or bomb work, but if my Lordships decided to make no sorve quite another purpose. Who order.

knows but that it my sot the

missed?

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sing in need of money the bank

endeavoured to raise loans and

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Li Pak suggested to the membare

of the family that they should An Ald to Longevity,

enter into a guaranteo for the We are heurd of many more for less valuable aids to longevity,

| amount, $150,000;

Mr. Justice Gompertz: There is a high official in Canton of that

nam>

hat personally we draw the line

Tatornational situations have a habit of developing with extru- ordinary suddonness. Persia, after the conclusion of the Anglo-

After the pleadings had been After lingering for some weeks The following are the details. Russian Agreement defining those countries' respective spheres of of Organ Recitals at St. John's in a very critical state of health, which left the South China Com-that in the present state of the gentlemen pried it only $50,- opened Mr. Pullock submitted rebl leaders at "varianco? Tho influence, had settled down into what for that land of turbulent Cathedral was given yesterday af- Mr. F. W. Whitefield passed away politics was a state of quietude. It is true that faulty administra-ternoon by Mr. Denman Fuller; on Nov. 28 at Dovacpt, River Val-mand for the Nortli by the 8.3.ploadings, the plaintiffs wore 000 my want to know who the tion led to the British authorities insisting upon policing the com- when a largo attendance was toy Road, Singapore, the cause of Kwongsang yesterday:-General entitled to succeed, subject to the lickens the $100,000 men aro munications in the South Persia, which had been abandoned to the made. The organist gave a con-death being heart failure. Mr. Suff--Capt. W.H.Johnston, G.Salons proving to pleas they inyhow to be priced, so high

had put forwari. sistently brilliant performance Whitefield went to Singapore over 0,; R.G.A. Capt. H.L.Holme, untonder mercies of bandits, but there seemed little likelihood or throughout, but most worthy of a dozen of years ago, having been

The Chief Justics: That is to What do you think? Wo can on any international complication developing in consequence. In North mention was Pitt's tone picture. transferred to the local branch of Lient. O.AN. Hume-Spry and my the other parties have to ly reply that if, in a case of thi

men; R.E.-Lt. begin.

kind, our correspondent, (for ex- Persia, as far as appearances went, there was as little danger of "The Far Off Past" whirl was the Robinson Piano Co., in whose 25 N.C.O.'s and trouble. Beneath the surface, however, forces were at work which conspicuous for delicately sympa employ lie tlien was. He had pro- A.P.W. Wodd and 20 N.0.0.'s Mr. Potter: I am ready to be-ample) wore priced tivics as high were bound sooner or later to burst through the crust of calm. The thetic treatment. Chopin's Rain viously been for some years in and mon; 1st Bn. KO.Y.L.gin at once.

as ourselves, we should conclude Prelude was another item which Japan, Shanghai and il bugkong, Persians never regarded the Anglo-Russian Agreement with favour also calls for special praise.

engaged in the musical business. Major W.M.Withycombe, Caid that the plaintiff and the

Addressing the Court, counsel that he had twice as good Thay hoked upon it at the best as a degrading sign of their national

Mallinson, Lieute, C.R.S.Thor- lofendants were brothers, suus of chance of having his young no helplessness, and at the worst as the preface to partition. With the

Grogori Gregori, a Filipino day next in connection with the in- po and K. Lambert and 100 N.C. Li Sing, who was managing part tivities out short. And wo shauld Persian view Mr. Morgan Shuster, the Treasurer-General, seems to clerk in the employ of the Exile tallation of Bro, D. II. Ainslie as 0.'s and men; A.S.C.-Lt. W. J. ner in lie Yik Lung Bink. He let him have the honour of the Large in the in agreed. Mr. Sinister is known to be a remarkably Garngo, was charged before Mr. Worshipful Mastor of the Corinthian Williams and 2. N.C.O's.; R.A. died in 1000 and his son Li Pak extra dollars without oven

carried on the business. In 1904 twingo of jealousy, able high-principled official who did valuable work at Manila for the E. A. Irving at the Magistracy lodge for fcoted for the ensuing MC.--Capt. A.D. Wuring and

this morning, at the instance of fedge officers elected Insular Government. Therencomium passed upon him by Sir Edward Det, Sorg, Murphy, with the alleg. yanr aro: Worshipful Master, Bro. N.0.0's and mon; 4.0.0.-1

roy was thoroughly deserved. Unfortunately; however, he seems el embezzlement of the sum of H. Ainslie; L.P.M. Worshipfu man.

Bro: E Stevons; Senior Warden, to have failed to appreciate the "doliency of the situation and to $8, the property of Mr. Nicol, Bro. Kalleborg: Junior Warden, auderstand that, while personal opinions in regard to the motives proprietor of the Exile Garage, on Bro. J. Gibson; treasurer, Bro. J. November 28. Mr. J. II. Gardi-Rupsch; secretary, Bro. J. H. Hunt, that prompted the conclusion of the Anglo-Russian Agreement might her appeared for the defendant, Sanior Feacon, Bro. J. Neubrun fairly be held, they could not with advantage be given freo utterance and the case was romanded till Junior, Deacon, Bro. H. E. Brown; to by foreign official in the employment of the Persian Government Monday, bail being allowed in the Organist, Bor. H. F. Rankin; Inner Guard, Bro. J. Noble; Outer Guard, The encouragement that such action would give to the ultra-sum of $200.

Bro, J. Morlin; Director of Core- nationalist Persian party, who saw in the Agreement a menace to

monies, Brd F. W. Kruse; Steward, the integrity of their country, was calculated to precipitato the vory

Bro. Dyson. calamity of which they stood in four. Mr. Shuster's anti-Russian policy has had the effect of arousing Russian auger, and action has boon taken that may result in a further curtailment of Persia's wu on the Ist inst: for annual train Official Dinner at Government induce Chinese girls and women the Yik Lung Bank had bath in- freedom of action, and possibly in the complete loss of her. The following officers accom-

panied the regiment: Lieutenant Honso to-night, at which the independence.

Colonel A. T. Rowlandson, Majors following will be presont The appeal to the House of Commons' the Duma ai other W. H. Wooldridge and A. L. Bar- Sir Francis & Lady Piggott pecially required for the "Death paid a sum of $80,000 odd, and pract co, among many advantag Parliaments will excite sympathy, but will not enlist holp. Whon at Captains C. A. James, J. C. Dr. & Mrs. Be'l, Mr. Kibg; Mr.& during corps. The matter has was claiming a contribution from last your the historic Empire of Korea disappeared from the family L. FitzGerald; Lieutenant G. F. H. & Mra, Chatham, Miss Orme, ral who in a proclamation says he fe

Gretton, B. de L. Brock, and C. R: Mrs. Dealy, Mr. Melbourne, Mr. cone before the Governor Geneha co-signatories to the guar- of nations there was sympathy from many quieters, but there was Faithful; and Captain, G. E. Mal- Colonel & Mire. Mullins, Colonel had no intention of recruiting The case was proceeding when no talk of intervention. It was felt then, and 'a similar view, would colmson, I.M.9.

we went to press. & Mrs. Irwin, Colonel & Mra, women. probably be taken of the passing of Porsis, that whatever sentimental Legislative Council. Gorilon-Hall, Major Itadcliffe, Cantonese newspapers have regrote might attend the loss of nationality, people who had shown Tho business at the sitting, of Miss Kokewich, Mrs. Rymer, Capt been busy denouncing the miner

that the late Wajid Ali Sluh! an utter lack of capacity to rule themselves would be better off the Legislative Council to-morrow Power, Mr. d'Oettingen, Mr. & Mrs. in which the new Government is

to King of Oudh, àto a gɔbru ins materially beneath the rule of a race more enlightened. One of the will include the consideration of Sawyer, Mr. & Mra, Galluzzi, Mr. being conducted. The editors

The following will adamant laws of existence is that the inefficient must give way to the Financial Minutes and the M. Slade, Mr. Murray Stewart; Mr. now stond accused by the com-

represent directly in this way, that a cobra's the efficient a law, more lasting than those of the Medes and report of the Finance Committee, & Mrs Macdonald, Rev. F. missioner of Police, of committing rigkong Football Club A team in Desk was given to forty cocks and Persians, which have fallen from their hight place to become a Bilia to amend the Public Health L.Johnson, Mr. & Mrs. Master, breach of the peace.

thoir Rugby mulch with II.M.8. then a cocks flesh daily was meaningless catch phrase and it process is steadily at work which and Buildings Ordinance ond the Major Penney, Colnuel, Mrs, & The Governor General and the Monmouth to lay at Happy Valley given to the remaindori i nd the in making for the extinction of nations which livo, no claim to Statate Laws (Now Revised Edi- Miss St. John, Major & Mrs, Mac-adjutant governor general attorid-kick-off at 5 prompt: recognition but an honourable past. Efficiency in the individual, tion) Ordinance, 1011, will be donald, Commander Darley, ed a reception yesterday, and the ́ ́T. E. 8. Robson, IT. Cl. organisation and nation is the sole passport to success, and glorios Pond a first time. In committee a Mr. & Mrs. Kadoorie, Mr & Mra. former, addressing an autionce of the past are outweighed by futility in the present. Teria le bill to amend the University Ord Shallard, Mr. Moxon, Mr. Stodart of about 600 people said that only been saved from absorption benuse more than one nation is inance, 1011 and a bill to consol Kennedy, the Bishop of Victoris since he had been appointed their materially interested in her fate. While absorption may be avoided idate and amend the Ordinarices & Mrs, Lander Dr. & Mrs. Jor leader ho considered it his date partition is always a possible danger and possibility may give way relating to: Companies, will, he don; Rev, & Mrs. Thornhill, Mrs, to do everything for the satisfacs to probability before much more water flows under the bridge.

considere

Foi Mink Banister and Cant, Agg. tion at the

The 126th Baluchistan Infantry, cuisting of, nina British officers, ranks, proceeded to Fanling and Lo-

cleven tiative officers, and 704 other

Government House, H.E. The Governor gives an

CANTON NEWS,

(Telegraph Correspondent.)

eating skes in order to add Canton, Dec. 5.

fow more years to our nilotted About 10a.m. yesterday a bomb

span.

All the same,ro pass exploded in a house occupied by

pestant, my Lord (laughter.).... along the good news, called from sume Heungshan troops. Two men were killed and four wounded. In 1905, the Imperial Bank of an Indian contemporary, for thoro Au endeavour is being made Chins and other banks began to who are in starch of a reliable both in Canton and Hongkong to press for payinent Li Pak and an cheap youth restorer :--- Ia

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M. Pottor; That's the insin." Mr. Alabaster? He is only ox-

to become recruits for the revolu-curred debts and the brothers the Mukhzan-ul-advsyalı, a film- tionary army. They faro ex-grood to pay them. Plaintiff ous book in the Unani medical

FOOTBALL

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derived by the use of serpent's flesh, it is given out that it ouras white leprosy and the yearly use of it prolongs life. It was related inny yours ago by a reliable por-

last cock was caten by him.

arty;

this district in the the winter season

| J. Fisher, C. Blaker, J. C. Roberta

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