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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY JANUARY 25

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To-day's Paper

PIUM SEIZURE.

A Heavy, Fine.

Datealive Sergeant Wills board ed a Bamban yesterday afternoon, sad in meking search foumí

On page 8 to-day will be found fifty yes containing five Home sport while on page 3 is a hundreds of propared opium short but interesting review of the valued at $2,500. The sampan enturous career of Profossor was in charge of a woman who Baldwin, the distinguished air-was assisted by her son, man, who is passing through the At the Magistracy, this morn Colony. On page 1 is an intering, bafùre Mr. Irving, the son esting article on Education in was discharged, whilst the mother China.

was fined $500, or six months imprisonment.

The British cruiser Nowcastle arrived from Shanghai to-day.

Soven con gamblers were fined $3 each or seven days, at the Magistracy, this morning.

ROLLER SKATING,'.

Local Successes.

LADY LUGARD.

The following bulletin, was issued by Dr. G. P. Jordan, at 11 a.m. to-day-

Her Excellency fady Lugard continuos doing woll.

THE MEDICAL CONGRESS.

TELEGRAMS.

ROYAL VISIT.

IMMENSE SUCCESS,"

NOTES AND COMMENTS,

Legal Records.

Australia seems to possess the somewhat doubtful honour of boing associated with two legal causes, which, if hot records, havo a distinction of their own.

[Service to the "Telegraph." The greater of these, of course, Bombay, Jan. 25, 0.40 a.m. was tho Tichborne case in which The Medical Congresa hold its

The visit of the Duke and Arthur Orton, a butcher, claimed usual sessions to-day at the City Duchess of Connaught and to be Sir Roger Tichborne. Of Hall, and a goodly damber of Princess Patricia to New York a different character, but papers on various subjects wore has proved an immense social was the "Coal Vend Osso which sufficiently striking-in-its-way, read.

was decided in Decembor last. A

The following is an abstract of success.

the paper on Tho Need for According to some of the Router telegram from Sydney, Physicfogical Standards in Clinic papers there has not been suult a which we published at the time,

al Research" by G. Duncan stir in America since the Declara-gave the decision, but not the Whyte, Swatow, road yesterday tion of Independence. and which it should be noted

had special reference to native

TRIPOLE WAR.

SHELLING THE COAST.

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The young ladies competing

The visit to Washington has for a prize for most graceful skat races, in the Far East, not to provod equally gratifying to the Two coolios were fined $2 uring yesterday were lieses Florrio Europeans

Americans.-Reuter, five days, at the Magistracy, this Silva, Lily Silva, Milleo Enoarna.It is especially necessary in a morning, for acting in a disorder-cao. Nina Encarnaca, Ida Park. country where post-morteni ex- ly inner in Tsuim-tar-taui, yos-er, Lolita Ross and Alice Bike.minations and exploratory opera. terday.

Miss Milleo Encarncono was the tions are impossible that overy winner, whilst her sister secured thing (stature, weight, excretions the prize for the best costume. and blood) about a patient should

In a race over three quartere be carefully examined.

[Service to the "Telegraph." of a mile A. Jacobs was beaten If those various things are cara- Bombay, Jan. 25 0.40 a.m. by A-Gomzalis.

fully-examined-many-facts-will-Italian warships have shelled The race for coupler was won bo discovered which are contrary some points on the coast between by Mr. A. Garzalis and Misa to home experience, i.o. there are Nina Encarnacao, Othora com-differences between the untivo and Gaza and Rafah, This has had peting were Mr. H. Dinko and the European. Such differences the effect of terrorising the Miss Lolita Ross, Mastor Martin have been found to oxist in regard Bedruins.-Router. and Miss Alice Blake, Mr. Mas-to- calianha and Miss Florrie Silva.

A fine of $55 was imposed on a man at the Magistracy, this morning, for being unlawfully in possession of opinu Tha altor native to paying the fine was two | Hongkong Telograph" will months hard labour.

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RONGKONG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 10128

IS YUAN A GENIUS?

who had been dining with some An old man from Haiphong,

night, fell into a nulla, ao severe friends at Shaukiwan, late last fracturing his skull that he died almost immediately,

Arthur J. Kent was found guilty at Shanghai on a charge of converting manoy belonging to Mesare. Reid, Erans & Co. to lus own use. He was sentenced six months' imprisonment,

to

DIED IN GAOL.

Effects of Oplum.

The proper woight for a man of a given boight. The China- man is more slightly built than the Europora.

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The composition of the blood. The blood of the native is poorer both in rod cells and in colouring

HOME RULE.

MEETING OR CONCERT?

details. It appears that the hearing lasted for seventy-three days and the delivery of judgment. took ten hours and a half. The legal costs, which fall upon the ga defendants amount to about £30,000 and the fines aggregatemalt £19,500. Asan appeal is probable Jun these figures are likely to be considerably increased. The case arose out of an alleged conspiracy. by the members of the Coal Vend or Trust to regulate the price of coal-to-consumers;

Who is Responsible ?

The argument advanced by many that the statues in Royal square should be surrounded with railing, has now at least 1 some conclusive fact to support it. The granite pedestal to the statue of King George has boon! plentifully daubed round the base with a brilliant vermilion

[Service to the "Telegraph."powder. From the waythe pow

Bombay, Jan. 25, 0.40 a.m. The Unionists are to hold coucort in the Ulster Hall on Feb.

ning, Mr. E. A. Irving J. P.,nutter.

At the Magistracy, this mor- conducted as onquiry into the The contents of the oxcretions. circumstances surrounding the Parasities, usually causing no death of a man named Li Cheng, symptoms were found in 99 per 7, aged 32 yohrs, which took place cent. of the people examined. yesterday in the gaul, where

As each point was dealt with

habit...

accordance with the needient

The verdict was given in ovidlonce, DR.

The jurors were Messrs. A. H. Reis (Foreman Ellis Sargon,

the

der is scattered it may have i. been the work of some of tho the children who are con tiually playing on Hongkong's finest site. sito.. Apartam the question of how it been done, the effect is far from beanti-

The Secretary of the Belfast Liberals has had a prolonged ful, and the knowledge that this conferepea with. Mr. Churchill state has existed for some days. and others at Downing Street, but leads me to ask: Who is Ta no statement has been issued.ponsiblo? toiter.

THE KING.

ARRIVAL AT. MALTA,

[SKAVION TO THE** THEGRATH," Bombay, Jan. 25, 7.50 a.ni. Reutor's correspondent at Malts atates that the Medins, with the King and Queen Mary on board

OPIUM TRADE,

THE NEW CONVENTION.

The Weather.

Casting about for some explana tion of singularly unpropitious weather we have been experienc ing we found one. Christmas «***!). Day fell on a Monday! The precise connection may not be clear, but we hasten to give our authority An old manuscript poem, "the authorship of which is unknown. says

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1 Christmas Day on Monday be

ut in summer, truth to tell,

A great winter that year you'll ace

And full of winds both bad and drills..

Full ports laiting and strong...

of Temposta lasting long ;- While batt'oy they sha'l mutiply, And grant plenty of beasts shall die. They that be born that day, I ween, They shall be strong each one, and I ca Het be found that stealth oazbt! Thu; tha le rick', thon diest not

** Janwar" Wia'.

Service to the Telegraph." Bombay, Jan. 25, 7.50 am.

A forvid, if not a perfervid, Persin, Siam, Japan, Holland and Russia are among the signa-understand why the Scotsgien re- Scot writes:It is not easy to tories of the Opium Convention.sident in Hongkong-and, there the Registrar's office and the "Times" states that by the notice of Barns's birthday and His Lordship I have sent in

The Hague correspondent of are a fow-should take next to no hope we shall improve it if we Convention the Powers agree to make a splash over St. Andrewg have some matting on the floor. control the production and dir-Scotland any more than St.George

wim, almost certainly, never en Mr. Slade: May I make a tribution of raw opium so far as ever siw England. At Home suggestion, my Lord? Intho Old already unregulated; to limit, Scotemen honour the birthday of Bailey at home toy have put up according to the differences in Burns and gure next to nothing

to

ho was undergoing, sontence of is importance to the physician six weeks imprisonment in de-in diagnosing illness or in foro fault of paying a fine for the casting their termination was unlawful possession of opium. emphasised.. A New York telegram dated

Thomas Jackson McCauley, It is important that more work warder in the gaol hospital, de- should be done on these lines to Jan. 11 says:-The New York posed that prinin instructions cro Equitable Life

establishment of fire having destroyed the business papers doctor, and were carried out. Heard of what may be considered were given hun by the prison Normal Standarde," i.o, stand- and books of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, the Chamber 4-45 in the afternoon..

saw the man die it was about Normal" for natives of Eastern of Commerce here is experiono D. P. J. Kelly, Medical Officer.

lande. ing much difficulty.

at the gaol, said that he examined

THE ECHO. the man about oleven o'clock A man forged the chop of a on the morning of the 24th, Telegraph" Suggestion Adapted. Central Market tradesman yeater-when he was making his day, and endeavoured to obtain

customary round of the The reverberaat esho in the If report speaks truly the Fates do not appear to ho fighting senting that he had authority in the state of extrems collapse. Io some little trouble this morning, from the warships and batterien three boxes of oigarettes by repro- patients, and founil him in a Chief Justice's court occasioned entered the harbour smid salutes for Yuen Shil-bai. For many wieks past it has been almost way of a signed order. Ile was ordered stimolant treatment and and in the and brought forth an generally accepted that he was the man who hold the key to the not successful, however, in gain later in the day, whom he saw interesting statemout from the and the cheers of multitudos. situation in Chins, the man who was most likely to save Chin. It ing his end, and at the Magis him, the man was, dend. He Chief Justice, Sir Francis Piggott, Reuler. would appear now,

assuming that the statomonte mado in yostor tracy, this morning, he was sent made a post mortem oxamination, In the lengthy family dispute day's paper are as definite as they seem to be, as though Yuan's to gnol for six months with hard and found that the cause of which luas occupied the attention chief trouble at present is to save his own skin. Ho has played his flabour." oards claverly, but his hand ning prove not to have been strong

dent was astro-interitis and of the court for some few days enough. The metaphor is deliberately chosen because it seems An Independent Nowa Agency generally debility, anuard by past, Mr. M. W. Slade, KC., who aptly to fit the case Yuan is not the Hoven-sent state mag and telegram from Tokyo states that opiuni smoking. He was satisfied appears for the plaintiff, had oc Empire-builder that has been claimed for him. Avast ainus of Baron I. Yamaza, Councillor of that all actions had been casion to address hie Lordship quite unnecessary laudation lins been pourol out regarding him by the Japanese Embassy in London. Mr. Irving said that he thought forth the following suggestion

woll carried out,

and the echo so caused brought newspapers from Peking to Penzance. When one has said that he has been ordered home and that there but to httle doubt that in a wonderfully astute inan who is more likely than not to ho on Mr. Koik Japanese Cons death was due to natural causes then there will be no echo.

If you talk quite sotto voce the winning side in the end, whatever he may have been to start General in Indon, blas and was accelerated by the opium Mr. Slade Tha with, one has said about all that it is necessary to say by way of successor. It is probable thint

Mr. Slade-I have beon trying praise. His shrewdness was displayed when he assisted the Dow- Baron Yamaza will be appointed egor-Empress in her coup d'etat while yet declining to compromise Minister to Peking and that the himself in the Boxer affair.

present Minister, Mr. Ijuin, will Bat, with all his cunning ability, he is not one of the now be appointed Ambassador to `a generation which has imbibed something of Western culture and certain European cuntry, Western ideals. He belongs to my earlier type which has little. French Convent School, sympathy with the ardent ontlusums of reformers and not more Invitations have been issued for with the fanaticism of reactionaries. Theroin, indeed; lies his the distribution of prizes at the strength. He stands in the heart of a conflict of idens and nes as French Convent School a buffer between the antagonists. But when a man stands between Wednesday, Jan. 31. Ilis Excel

His Lordship: We are going their commercial conditions, the about St. Andrew. They have to elashing forces with different temperaments, habits of mind, and lency tlie Governor will presido,,

to have over-head wires, as well number of towns and ports where Andrew's Day is the is some,

go abroad to discover that 8 interests he must be more than morely an astute man if he is to Church, Missionary Society

as matting on the floor, for the import and export are per day or other in November; I am secure penco. Ho must be a statesman, a leader; a master-builder.) And despite the volume of praise which has been poured forth of of St. Paul's College will be held grill room the Hongkong Hotel

The annual prize distribution Yesterday, evening the new bare floor helps the echo.

Mr. Slade:It is very curious mitted; and to prohibit or not certain which. Frankly, I am late, we doubt whether Yuan is sucli a iron-willed, magnetic genius op Saturday next, while that of

was opened to the public, and a that your Lordship gitting under control the export of raw opium disappointed that, Burns's birth, es 68 China wants at the present time.....

St. Stephen's Girls' School has good numpiled themaclves the copy can be heard better to countries where its use is thought that the words and music day is passed unnoticed. I had sidoration with Yuan Shih-kai at the moment is the advancement day next. The prizes at the Girls'

We have said before now that, in our opinion, the chief con- been fixed to take place on Thurs of the opportunity of dining in than the Puise Judge outside, prohibited, or limited and only fo of his songs had so paesed into to rower of Yuan Bhil-kai. It may be that ho has purposed to let Schol will be presented by Mrs immediately at the load of the the new surroundings. The new matters reach a deadlock in order that he might be asked to acept Atkinson, and Mr. A. H. Haria stairway and is choicely, fitted (The opinions expressed by our otro gradual suppression of the muu reading a line of Burns, get allow authorised persons to carry the blood of Sootemen that they room is situated on the first floor,

on the trade where it is permitted could never forgot his untal day. the reins of revolutionary Government and put matters right. It will provide.

The Powers undertako the Curious, is it not, how some of usur may be, on the other hand, that with the Emperor a boy of five and

with a fine dark word m telpondents are not massilly the aut

passed over early yours without the discredited Prince llegent removed from power, Yund recognises that, if the Monarchy is save 1, might, and probably would, be with, I N., Harbour Master, at the pillars, with the many small advantage. The white wall and shelf on which silver is sot of to

The Longkorg Talegraph."') |:

facture and use of prepared reached manhood's years to die como the real ruler of China. Retireen that form of Monarchy and Marine Court this morning, P. C. tables, alinded lights, flowers and

opium and local trade therein cover that we had forgotten all of A Roublio would be mainly a difference of name. Whether a man McMillan charged the owner of abining cutlery, went to make a

General Managers,

recording to the legislation of the the Shorter Catechism (except In the Editor of the “H»gkong, who plays for personal power, who is probably prepared other to junk with Anshoring in a prohibit truly plossing pictare. The bill

different countries. The PowerA man's chief ond") which made use the Throus, or to discard it, as best suits his purpose, is the et place and refusing to produce of fare gives a very wide field for article in last night's issue headed strictions.

Telegraph."

are still not ready for immediate our school days miserable, and man to save Ching we take leave to doubt. His ability cannot be his licence. A Ging of $5 was im choice, meeting the needs of the General Manager A Shanghai.

Sir,-With reference to the prohibition but will adopt re- knew a vast deal of Buras. The denied, but it is largely the ability of a selemor for his own ad- posed on each count, in default, 14 simplest diner, or the more ex-Sensation containing an extraor with Chinn will undertake to songs, sorm to be borne on the airs to which his songs are well- vancement and China wants a man of lesser vision than that--a daya' hard labour, making in all acting, requirements of the pro- from the China Press of restrict smoking and limit the breezes that, blow over the moors Ths. Powers having treatios dod, the words and tho spirit of man of commanding power and patriotism. In any evout, there $10 or one month's hard labour. nonnced gourmet, all served in January 18th. are other factors in the problem which ranke Yan's wat, if liia purpose is the seizing of power by means of a limited M).

Troops from India. **

amber of shops and Hens pari and the hills of home. Uncons one of tremendous difficulty. The South will go its own way and Orders that the following details and grill, all under the constant next laste that the Roiss & Co.

Bar :liy

It is announced in Garrison glance through the cooking rooms you will make it clear in your

an irreproachable fanner. A, We shall be much obliged: it pass with, Chins Refe. will know neither Emperor nor Maneliu. Can Yuan cling to the embarked nt Kerishi on board supervision of two European referred to thorein should be FRANCE AND ITALY. Monarchy and let the richer South go? If he should agree to a the R.I.M.8. Hardingo on 22nd chefs showed, that no pains had stated se Hugo Reis & Co., Ltd. Resession will the North face the whole of the Empire's liabilition? instanf26th Punjabis14 been spared in securing the best which has no connection with The problem is too big and too complex for even Yuan Shib-kai to Britial Officers, 5 Indies, preparation of the many dishes Reise & Co. of Shanghai and salve except he displays more than mere ability and onaning. It children; 850 Indian troops; 95 provided, and there can be little Hongkong. can be solved only by a man of genius, and we doubt whether Ynan followere, and 25 trosport doubt that the grill room is a Thanking you in anticipation. is that, If it is true that he is ready to flee from Feking at any animals-Supply an Tram moment it might almost appear as thougir Yuan had begun to Corps.-1 W0, 33 men, and

decided acquisition which should j doubs it himself.

go far to enlianco, the popularity

Yours faithfully, transport animals,

REISS & Co the Hotel...

|Hongkong, Jan, 25, 1912.

on

Dizoboying the Police. Before Commander C. W. Beck

and M. Rafeek.

HONGKONG, HOTEL.

The New Grill Room.

some over-head wires

Ta

CORRESPONDENCE

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'A HOPEFUL REPORT. [Service to the Telegraph.:]

Bombay, Jan, There is every

olously we inbibed them in our early years only (it seems) to for get them when we come east Suez. "Is it that they are so easSD- Sally Boottish that they, flourish best Inn Scottish atmosphere moderately well in. (say) Cana

| but Japguleirin the hun

phers of the Tar Es |they miss the plans

which seems to