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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY JANUARY 3 1912

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The best guarantee of happiness during eternity is list eternity knows no past.

from the STEAMER IN FLAMES.

Inc ustomis July

Loss of Life.

Among the arrivalsg by the The Bite pearling-season has a large loss of life occurrail Inst

N.Y.K. 8.8. Tango Maru 10-day was Mr. G. Lloyd, Secretary of the South China Morning Post

By permission of Capt. Fisher the band of the 8. Koren will play at the Bello View Hotel on Friday night, beginning at 9 'clock.

now sel in and dealers, in pearls aro now looking to Morgui, a town in Lower Burma. noted for its pearls. Recently two pearls were found in the same shell, one of them valued at £4,000.

HOLD-UP IN CONDUIT NOTES AND COMMENTS.

ROAD.

Sir Paul Chater's. "Boy' Assaulted and Robbed.

Sensational Jolnils, havo como i p

The I ate Mr. A. McLeod,

Thio death of alry Ad tupan of Messrs Gibb, Living

What on the fuos of it appeara to be a grave disaster attended by night on the West River, when to Koul of a daring assault which ton & Co., at Shanghai tlio s.s. Kwong Tuin, belonging was committed if Conduit Road we reported last night, romovou a to the Wo Shun Co.; Look fire, off shortly after six o'clock last well known personality. Mr. Mc- Brothers Island near Pillar Point our mentioned, house-by in Leot was in the service of the evening. It appears that, at the From enquiries made we learn the service of Sir Taul Clinter &. Company at Hongkong that the Kwong Yuin laft Hong was riding in a chair, whom he

kong yesterday with a full cargo, was suddenly set upon by two in the early sixties. After two or twelve passengera and a crow of Chinamen and before he had Mosers.-W. Heilger & Co. have 65, and the next that was soen of time to realise the situation, he throe yours with tho, P. & O. he started at Rangoon a new paper her was just before the disaster. was violently thrown out of the piped the firm of Messrs. Gibb," The Roy, and Mrs. A. B. Thorn manufacturing industry, in which Just off Lingting Island she was chair, struck on the liend will Livingston & Co., and with them hill left Hongkong by the French paper is made from ornshed passed by a steam launch, and at

some blunt fostrument, and rob mail for England. The reverend bamboo. The industry, which is that time nothing, extraordinary bed of the money he was carrying. he remained until his death. gentleman is to take up a living receiving every assistance frein was noticed in the appearance of The chair-coolies dropped the Unit 1872 he remained in Eong- near Wigan in a colliery district, the Government, promises to be the vessel.

big business.

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conveyance on the roadway and Explosion on Board.

went in pursuit of the fleeing kong That year he became a A native was awarded thres

However, about ten minutes thieves. One of the robbers was montha hard labour at the

later, those on board the launch overtaken after a hot chase, and partner in the firm and went to Magistracy this morning for steal-It is reported that General noticed the steamer onwrapped in handed over into the oustody Shanghai. In the northern Set- ing a bucket of sugar of the value Count Oki, Ohtof of the Japanese a sheet of flame. The launch of an Indian constable, but the lentent he served in many public, of 75 cents from Jardine's Re-General Staff, intends to resign immediately put back to render other succeeded in effecting his capacities and was a great patron finery.

next spring owing to advancing aid, but before they could get any escape with booty to the tune of ageand ill-health. Lieut. General distance in explosion occurred on $171. The total amount that the of sport. In his youth Mr. Me- It is stated that Holland has Fukushima, assistant-chief of the the ill-fatod Kwong Yuin which boy was carrying was some $800 Lood won distinction as an oara- offered $10,000,000 for the General Staff, is expected to blow her sides out and precipit the greater art of which was man and later he was a promin Portuguese portion of Timor,succeed him.

ated many of the passengers and recovered by the chair-coolies. The purchase would solve n

the orow into the water. Tho long-standing boundary disputs":

stenm-launch was able to rescue fifteen passengers.

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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1913.

THRONE AND people,

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A great sensation was created at Senanti, a suburb of "Osaka, recently by the discovery of

Number Missing...

There is a strong suspicion ent member of the Shanghai that the missing pan must, pro- Race Club. vious to the robbery, havo had | knowledge" "that the boy was

carrying money and promeditated Rats. the outrage

A Chinese was charged before

Fortunately, the Fausang, under Mr. C. D. Melbourne at the M-human head floating in the Ron Capt Malkin, which cleared from gistracy this morning with alleged quite close to the bench. The Hongkong lust evening at 9:45, larceny of $325 from a pausen- discovery was reported to the was also on the scene at the The victim of the robbery is at ger on board the as, Hoining. police, and the gruesome object time, and boats in charge hospital. The man under arrest present undergoing treatment in Mr. P.W. Goldring appeared for was promptly secured by them: of the first, second, and third of-was brought up at the Police Court the defendant, and after evidence The head was so shockingly ficers were immediately lowered. to-day and formally remanded. hul been called the case was dismutilated and decomposed that Thoy were instrumental in sav it was impossible for the police ing a further fourteen, so that out

nissed.

(From Various Sources.)

The Balkans;

doctor to say whether the head of a total of seventy seven, pas- NEWS OF THE WORLD. A leopard which had evidently was that of a man or a woman sengers and crew, forty-eight have been startled ran into the hind It is considered not improbable yet to be accounted for. It is wheel of a bicycle ns it crossed that this head is that of a young quite possible that all these lives the East Ridge Road at Mayinyo

man who was murdered in Awaji are not lost, as there were other in Barma and upset the rider, some months ago, and whore boats in the vicinity, whirl might but no damage was done boyond beadless

corpss was never have possibly saved some of those the brosking of afew spokes. The

idoutified.

at present rockoned missing, and annoying part for the rider was

if this be the caso the total num that he was on his way to shoot, but had sent his gun on.. Still ji is ut every one who can say that he has been knocked off a bicycle by a leopard and escaped without injury.

¿. Military Movements,

ber of lives lost cannot be ascor-

Major-General G. A: Anderson,tained until the vessels rono U.B., Commanding Troops, South their destinations, China Commsad, and Major J. The Kwong Yuin was on the B. G. Tulloch, General Staff, Hongkong-Wucliow run, with a proceeded to Canton, on duty, by cargo of white wax, and it is be- steamer on the night of Decom-lieved that the fire originated in ber 31, 1911, returning to head-the ignition of this substance. quarters by train on January J.

Lieut.-Colonel A. B. Begbie, ajrit. C. Ralph, Caplains H.

Suspected Murder. An aged Chinese woman about 78 years of age was found dead at Laimun village on the op- posite side of Shaukiwan, on Monday last. The case in one. Wond and S. L. Ralph, Lieuta. of suspected murder, and the Police are investigating.

The Moras of Jolo,

1.

MATSHED ON FIRE.

· London, Dec. 10. It is telegraphed from, Sofin that a special train carrying military supplies from Germany,

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Information in regard to local rat-catching operations has not boon conspicuously abundant of to and some statistics in this connection would be of interest, Plague made its appearance at Kohe some years ago and ever singe, the rat, in that port has had a worried carrer. The Municipality pays the rat-ostohers five sen for caolfrat and expanded.. last year Yen. 17,714,55, That rats are diminishing is shown by the fact that 364,201 were caught

in oharge of an officer of high last year, a figure far below that rank, recently arrived in Conor the two preceding years.

rs. It Sorvian frontier: stantinople from the Tarko is comforting for the people of Kobe to know that not one of the In this connection the Olloman Ambassador at Berlin hey tearats was found to contaiu plague dored thanks to the Kaiser for the germs, Tho "Japan Chronicle":" friendly spirit displayed by Gor-reports that the organised dea- many towards Turkey in the truction of vermin has brought latter's critical trouble. Military

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preparations are being pashed into being the new businose N.-D. Place, D. Arthur, 1.M.S., 4

on with great haste in Turkey, rat-broker. These inon collect Fire broke out at midnight in All the resorvists in the various rats caught in houses and pay a Indian Officers, and 258 other a matshed use for carpenter provinces of European Turkey mall sun for them, afterwards ranks, 8th Rajputs, proceeded to ing work in connection with sonband in Salonika have reosived campat. Lo Wu, and Captains H. building operations for à dyeing instructions to report for bringing the rats to the authorities C. Cutler and. A. J. Orchard, 7 factory in course of construction bilisation. The situation in and receiving the full 5 sen for Indian Officers, and 370 other on the foreshore near Jubilee Macedonia is daily growing ranke, to Fanling on 1st instant.Road. The outbreak WOR TC WOTES.

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LANGKATS.

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MILITANT MISSION- ARIES,

Ladles to ba, Deported.

each. Some of these "brokers.

aro said to have made quite s good living at this curious business.

Men or Milksops?

The proposed Johnson-MoVen Aising out of the order for fight is not tɔ come off, it would the deportation of Misses. M. E. appoor, without the clergy make Molloy and M. E. Soars to Vicing an effort to proro it illegal. toxin, Australia, nude by that It is a pity that Charles Kingsley,

British Consul at Ichang, the

We publish elsewhere the text of the Imperial Decres of De- cember 28, by which the Manchu Dynasty las practically submitted

A. Jolo telegram, dated Dec. to the demands of the Revolutionaries. There is in this Decres the, to the "Manila Times" is as usual obscurantism that is associated with documents of this nature,

follows:-- but the concession that a Convention of a popular character shall

American troopsat Jolcare much determine the form of government for China is distinctly made. elated over theil success against

Queensland Emu's Menu.

ported by Green Island and it Whether the concession in bona fide, is the result of force majeuro, the renegado Moros intrenched on

was at first thought that the fire or is inspired by a motive that is not superficially apparent, will be the top of Mount Bud Dajo. Dur Among the indigenous birds was confined to a Chiness keroseno shown by the event. It might not be altogether profitless, however, ing all the operations against Bud of Queensland the emur is one of ship in outside waters, but to take into consideration the facts as at prosent kuora and to en-Daje, General Pershing was in the most interesting. It rivals the outbreak in question occurred deavour to decide what has really dictated the Throne's netion.

entire charge. A feature of the the ostrich for the catholicity of in the matshed between Green It must be remembered that every recent action of the Throne lins siege was a ruso attempted by 60 its feeding. In the stomach of Island and the naphtha works been suggested, if not dictated, by the Prime Minister, Yuan Shil Moros or Sunday morning, when a specimen which was recently at Kennedy Town. kai.. It is, of couras, possible that Yuan really believes that the wel under cover of a heavy fog, they killed were found four pennies The extent of the damage and fare of China is best to be secured by allowing the people to choose left one of their positions. It five halfpennies. Other things the origin of the fire are not their own form of government. Against this theory is "Yuan's own

was their evident belief that the fouml inside the emu were known. personal knowledge that the North of China, which is still, nominal-roops finding the position de Nine 21.2 in. nails, five marbles, ly at least, under the old regime is the only part of the Empire serted would withdraw, but the one pump connection, one um- where anything like order prevails and trade is possible. There is ruse failed. The American forces brella ferrule, ons key, one medial,,

case came before H.B.M. Supreme who was a "lighting parson," is a possibility that the anarchy which has swept over the Southern maintained their outposter and 49 one clock whool (2.1.2 in. in dia-

Court at Shanghai on Deo. 20. At not alive to-day. Ile drove a and Central Provinces will submerge the North if the barrier of of the wary Bavage were captured meter), two stude, three buttons, December Output.

the outset the Judge announce fiue, vigorous pen, na wa

na was only loyalty to the Throne be removed, and the knowledge that this while 11 were forced back to the one safety pin, two staples, three

that, providing the two Indies natural in a manly, man, and ho possibility exists is certainly not hidden from Yuan Shill-kai. The mountain top.

washers, and 24 pieces of broken The Langkat output for Do- would give an undertaking not supposition that the Throne is yielding to superior force is ant

The 49 prisoners were sent to-chino, while a large pin was found cember was 12,100 tons. The to return to lohang during the would have had biting things to borne out by the military position as far as it is known. The last day to Calarian prison. They embedded in the liver. The emu shares, both here and in Shang-continuance of the present trouble, say of certain mo lern clerica,· If encounter of any magnitude resulted in a victory for the Imperial will be tried by the civil au- was only young, and was, a fine hai are in strong demand at The, and comport themselves so as nota fight is to be prolibited ba- iste, and the Throne does not seem to be at the end of its military thorities.

specimen.

70 but no shares are obtainable. to create a breach of the peace. resources, though its exchequer is certainly in a bad way. The Tramway Improvements.

is danger of injury, "Organ Recital, ¿

the order would be suspended. Revolutionaries, while they have the men, appear to be as poorly off We learn from Mr. J. Siodart

SANITARY BOARD.

The reply of the ladies was that football; cricket financially as the Imperialists, and the prospect of an invasion of Kennedy, manager of the Tram Yesterday evening Mr. Denman

they were unable to givo any every kind of manly game That Peking," alluring though it may be to the hot-heads, cannot be re-way Company, that the reason Fuller gave an excellent organ

such undertaking conscianti usly. is the logical conclu-ion of recent garded with much enthusiasm by the more thoughtful and respon that the portion of Des Voeux recital, in St. John's Cathedral, The fortnightly meeting of the The Judge said that Tho ladies sible of the revolutionary leaders. In eucli circumstances the idea ftond, between the Hongkong which was not so well attended Sanitary Board was held yester seemed to have chosen to bo decisions. The outcome of this that the Throne has yielded to force majeure seems hardly tenable, Howland Ice House Street has se is usually the case. Mr. Faller day afternoon when there were guided by a passive adherence to crusade my by the appofuiment Remains the possibility that Yuan Shih-kai is prompting the been "up" of late is that the prefented anexcellent programme, present Mr. E. DC. Wolfo, their own opinion in defiance of of a sporting consor who shall Throne to practical abdication with some design, at present unseen, Tramway Company are carrying the outstanding features of which president, Hon. Mr. E. A. Howett, that of the Consul and other decide wint are dangerous games in view. The question naturally arises: what object has he in ont arrangements for the purpose Cradle Song," and Wely's Hon. Mr. E. R. Halifax. Dr. the impropriety of their conduct and what are not... Cribbage

were Guilmants Prayer, and C.M.G. Col. J Irwin, He wished to impress on them instigating the Throne to accede to demands which the Manchus of diminishing the noise caused by Pastorale," Both of which were Fitzwilliams, Dr. Pearce, Dr. W. and made an order confirming would pass all right, and perbaga could hardly be blamed for resisting to the last. The answer might the trams passingover theconcrete be found in a consideration of the life history of Yuan Shih-kai. underneath, The Company has noticeable for sympathetic render-Clark, M. O. H. and Mr. Gibson, that of the Consul's. They were ping-pong would receive his He has shown consistently remarkable foresight and has shaped a decided to pare that part of the age and a remarkable delicacy acting secretary in place of to be detained in custody until setion. But what about golf? course that conducted to safety. His so-called betrayal of the Em-track under the rail with wood of treatment. The three move- Mr. Bowen Rowlands, who was arrangements for their deportation There is always the danger there peror Kwang Han can also be regarded as an act of sagacity that and has asked Government perments of Mendelssolin's "Sonata unwell.

could be made. The only business of any im-

of the other fellow, lifting a bit prevented a prematars preparation of reform dishes too strong for mission to carry on macadamizing in. minor" were treated with » China's stomach. The refusal to make common cause with the operations, which will eventually masterly breath. In keeping portance transacted was in con-

of turf luto your eyo, if you are a Boxers, though it lost him temporarily the favour of the Court, liss be extended to the more central with the season, carols were aung nection with a minute by the

A tunnel na the Bantan line, ils careless. This is foolish, been proved to have been the wisest course he could have adopted parts of the town. That portion by eight members of the cathedral President relating to the lite between Ikuno and Nagatini, maraton

Hem, you will say," but is and it was his attitude on that occasion, that is responsible for the of Des Voeux Road already mon- choir. The programme was as of the Tsimshatsui market. The Japan, over 300 feet long, was confidence which foreigners feel in Yuan to-day greater confidence, toned is not up" at present, follows: Sonata in Hon. Mr. L. Osborne had ap-under repair, and when neatly more foolish Lan, bar- it may be affirmed, than is felt in any other notable in China. It and the work is expected to be minor Mendelssohn: 2-Carol, proaclied the Board asking number of men were working in ring prizo fights because one of may be that man, seeing farther than others, desires to see the completed by the middle of Virgin unspotted," Master whether the coolies in the go- the tunnel the roof suddenly gave, the contestants may, gal al revolutionary leaders given a sufficiency of rope. Should a repub January. The next step will Marlin, and Mastor Harle, Messis, downs could not be given facili-way, and lon men were buried in the point of the lican form of government be decided upon, he would probably be probably be to deal with the T. Best, S. Paul, W. White, tios for the purchase of fruit on under the debris. A relief party loaves him, with nothij content to stand aloof in the belief that sooner or later he would be portion of the track between the R. Poyton-fiffio, E. C. Emmett, the premises. called in to reorganize. If, on the other hand, a limited constitu- King Edward Hotel and the City A. Bilen Prayor and The Hon. Mr. Hewett agreed mans of earth and rock which had than a hea loche for a day tional monarchy were established he would probably retain office Hall. We understand that the Cradle Song," Gailmant; 4- that the request was reasonable fallon, and after two hours' hard and do his utmost to make the new system a success. The Depret Company has for a long tine past Carol, The First Nowell," 6 and moved that the Hon. Mr, work two men wero rescued, hat gires the people of China the chance of commissioning the Dynasty been asking the Government for "Pastorale, Wely: 6 Andante Osborne and the President should in such a prorarious condition that to reign while the country is ruled by a popularly selected govern- permission to ex

carry on the opere in DA. Bollins, T--Carol come to some arrangement. De, one of them died soon afterward ment and Yuan perhaps thinks that the commission will be issued tions in question and that permu-]" Good Christian Men" 8 Fitzwillisme seconding, tho m The remaining sight men hyp

the National Convention, or in any ovent their

slon has now been obtained.

tion was carried:

to have been killed?

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at once set to work to remove the