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The Hongkong Telegraph.

February 16th, 1912, Temperaturo am. 59, p.m. 50; Humidity...07, 05.

No. 8718

TELEGRAMS.

(ESTABLISHED 1881.) Copyright, 1913 the Proprietor.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17 1912.

WEATHER FORECAST.

FAIR.

February 10th, 1011, Temperature am. 70, p.m., 05; Humidity:.52, 08.

六拜禮 號七十月弍英港香

TELEGRAMS.

晚十三月弍推年三

TELEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS,

THE REVOLUTION.

HOME PARLIAMENT,

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. NINE MILLION LOAN. MURDERED MISSIONARY.

LATE BARON LISTER.

YUAN'S ELECTION,

THE AMENDMENT.

CABINET RESIGNS.

TOKYO SCHEMES.

FULL ENQUIRY.

FUNERAL SERVICE.

$36 PER ANNUM

SIXOLE COPY 10 Car.

TELEGRAMS.

[Service to the "Telegraph."]

London, Feb. 10,-6.15-p.m. -

Houtor's correspondent at Pe- king says that Yunn Shil-kai has been unanimously elected

President of the Republic by the Nanking republicans.--Renter.

MILITARY SENSATION.

OFFICER'S OFFENCE.

[Service to the "Telegraph."]

London Feb. 16, 4.40 a.ra.

A message from Washington

states that Adjutant General Ainn-

worth will be relieved of his duties

and courtmartialled for using language which Secretary Stimson considered impugned the integrity o himself and other cfficers

Rruler.

HONGKONG'S NEW

GOVERNOR..

SIR HENRY MAY.

[Service to the "Telegraph."

Macdonald's

London, Feb. 16, 4 a.m.

Mr. Ramsay amendment to the Address was rejected by 226 votos to 45..

(Service to the "Telegraph:"]

London, Feb, 15, 5.10 p.m.

The South Australian Cabinet has rosigned. Mr. Peake, the leader of the Opposition, is form Tho-Unionist_amenïmat was ing a Ministry.—Router.

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proposed by Mr. Poto and

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TOWARDS A SETTLEMENT.

Wn, de ulei by Lord Hugh BRITAIN AND GERMANY. Cecil, who regretted that the Government had taken no steps to

promote the co-partnership between capital and labour. The amend

mont was rejected by 195 votes to

97.

Mr., J. McKinnon Robertson, apposing both amendments, said

[Service to the Telograph."]

London, Feb. 16, 3 p.m.

Mr. Asquith's speech is gener- ally welcomed by newspapers of

all shades of opinion in England

.

[Service to the Telograpli." Tandon, Feb. 10; 8 40 pm.

Mr. Mosi, the Japanese Finan-

Reuter

[Servico to the "Telegraph."

$.10 p.m. Louden, Fob., 10th,

Sir Edward Gray has informed

[Service to the "Telegraph."].

London, Feb. 15, 0.15 p.m.

At the funeral corvies of the

LABOUR TROUBLES.

MÍNERS TO STRIKE.

[Service to the "Telegraph."Ï. Bombay, Fob 17, 7.15 s.m.

The South Wales Conciliation.

cial commissioner, to-day rigard Viscount Wolmer that the Govern- late Baron Lister held in Wost-Board on the casting vote of Lord Tokyo loan contract with Britishment is making full and in-minster Abbey Sir Frederick St. Aldwyn, as indepen:dout chair- man has grante the miners a Frunch, and New York Banks dependent enquiry into the mur- Troves represented the King."

wages. The der cf Mr. Douglas, a missionary, There was a vast and brilliant general increase in

owners have intimated their Representations, he said, had congregation which included

willingnons to rodiscuss to crisis,

but assort that they cannot grant

a minimum wage.

FIVE PER CENT.

London Feb. 16, 440 a.m. It is announced that preliminary arrangements have been made for

the issue of a loan of nine millions sterling in the form of five per cent. bonds in order that the City of Tokio may acquire the tramway and electric lighting undertakings:

that the Government warmly syn-

pathised with the profit-sharing

movement, but no evidence had ly press their efforts to obtain a been produced to show the they satisfactory settlement.

and Germany, and the hope is ex-Reuter pressed that statesmen will carnest-

could do anything in the matter.

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Te questioned the practicability of

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ROYAL VISITS.

THE KING.

TURKISH HONQU'S.

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been made to Portugal regarding illustrious figures from the the treatment of British subjects nobility, from the worlds of stato, in Portuguese Colonies and satis-of medicine, of science and of factory assurances had been learning. Ambassadors were pre-

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receivod.-Router.

sent to represent world-wide sympathy and foreign delegates

M.C.C. IN AUSTRALIA. also attended. There were long rows of nurses in uniform. A

FOSTER IN FORM.

[Service to the "Telegraph."]

London, Feb. 16, 8.35 a.m. Marylebone CC. opened their match with New South Wales in

delightful weather, before a fair

attendance and on a perfect Reuter's correspondent at Ber-Service to the "Telegraph.wicket. New South Wales were

the nationalisation of railways and in reports that according to the

mines, or whether, "if such were

44 Tacgliche Rundschau," Baron

effected, it would cure labour un-Stumim of the Foreign Office will

rest.-Reuter.

probably proceed to London to assist Count Metternich in further

LIBERAL PATRON. GE.

London Feb. 16, 4.40 a.m.

It is understood that Mr. Bonar

[Service to the "Tolegraph."]"

London, Feb. 16, 2.20 p.m.

It is officially announced that Sir Henry May, K.C.M.G., the Governor of Fiji, succeeds Sir

Frederick J. D. Lugard, G.C.M.G., |Law will move in the House of C.B., D.S.O., as Governor of

Commons at an early date for Hongkong-Reuter.

return of a patronage appoint-

ments made by the present Gov-

criment. Reuter.

NO STRANGER.

. (Our Own Correspondent.) -

-London, Feb. 16, 9,40 a.m. ·

Sir Francis Henry May, former

Colonial Secretary of Hongkong,

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is succeeding Sir Frederick Lugard

as Governor of Hongkong.

CANADIAN IMMIGRA-

TION.

RESTRICTING ORIENTALS

A PECULIAR DEATH.

"Punishing a Fish

F

negotiations, while King Georgo

dismissed in their first innings for 106, Foster taking seven wickets for thirty-six runs. Marylebono

London, Feb. 16, 3 p.m.

The Sultan has also conferred the

Order' of Imtiaz, 'set with brillionts, upon King George V. The sim-scored 183 runs for two wickets. ullaneous bestowal of two of the highest decorations is unprece denled.--Router..

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LONG TURNINGS.

As some philosopher once anti- cipated us by remarking, nothing

A SERIOUS OUTLOOK.

The last batch of noticos was' handed in by the miners to-day' and shows undoubtedly that every dist ict is in favour of the strike, The situation is most serious and British trade is threatened with

wreath from the Kaiser was in- disaster the full extent of which cannot be realised. Such a dig elu lol in the procession. The location will exist as has been

hitherto unknown. service was of extrem banuty

and impressiveness.-Router.

It is clear that the telegram which, owing to mutilation, was

rend the other day as announcing referred to Baron Listor (better the death of the Earl of Leicester,

known as Sir Joseph Lister) the famous surgeon.]

A SERIOUS CHARGE.

People of all shades of opinion insist that the Government should take action to avort the strike. which is due to tako placo in a fortnight.

WAITERS WHO MADE THEIR MARK.

These are instancos of waitera who have affected the destinies of nations. Desconding to more- ly moneyed waiters, examples. are legion. There have been several cases where people send- ing for the proprietor of their hotel have discovered him in the head waiter or the hall porter, Hugh Elliott Smith, Chief and we know that the ambition

Endangering a Ship

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and Kalser Wilhelm will oxchange WHERE DIVORCE IS EASY.[day we are up, the next we are charged Herbert Morloy (soan. in: England is ultimately to own s

visits and a British squadron will

call at German ports in the course

of the year-Router."

A SHIP SENSATION.

Cobra Escapes.

Illuminating Statistics,

is so mutable as human life. One Officer of the R.M.S. Nimulaya, of all the waiters who swarm into restaurant of their own. Many down. At one moment all is plain employed on the samo ship, at the of them do it, for those waitera sailing, at another the storm- clouds gather and the thunder Marine Court, on Friday morning, are an eager and vigorous crow. growls (without). At one cross-with unlawfully doing an act by There is one notable little re Professor W. B. Bailey, of Yale road we choose the proper path, wilful brouch of duty tending to staurant in Soho whose proprie

as, assistant waiter, and who is University, has recently isnod and at the next we take (hideous the immediate sorinus damnge of tor worked here a goneration ago some illuminating divorce statis-thought) the wrong turning the ship in the Whampoa river now Mayor of his native town in ties, consi.lerod geographic illy, That, indeed, would seem to be from which it appears that in the the great tragedy of life-taking on the 13th. Complainant testified Italy. In New York Charles number of divorces Jupan leads the wrong turning. Still, to such that when under steam off Woo-Miller, a waiter of the Astor House Hotel, retired with a for the whole world with the United of you have done this we would sung the pilot in charge gave an tune of £20,000, and the head Sates a oasy rewind. Boro are adiress a few words of encourage-order to defendant to “ port the waiter of the Waldorf Astoria [the professor's figures for a five-mont. In the first place, opinions: helm. Ilo altored the hi'm no owns a racing stable, a motor car wrong turning. We have seen it ordered, but before being stood and a steam yacht. In Vienna, waiter nro among the most pro variously and allegorically stated led brought his helm amid again, the colours of another head it moral books for the young, as ships: He dit this on two oc-minent on the racing field. The (1) the first night the lad over

year porfod-ending-in-1902-or-lifter onetimes as to which is the

A New York despite of 1902 January 15 says:~~In Tw

ony

Kamber of Pera,

Divers. Po,'aron.

voyage from alcutta to this pot Country. the crew of a German steamore Austria

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lived in dondly torror of cobry. Franco

8,804

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The mortal character of the reperman Espiro 8,680

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the fourth day after the sterinez | Hungary had loft Calcutta, when the men Italy An inquest was held by the heard a shriek of agony. It cyne Japan Colombo City Coroner, on the fromasailor who had been walking Norway body of a Tamil man named along the deck in the darkness. Sweden Sandanun. According to the He had been bitten on the log. Switzerland ovidence it appeared that the do- and a few hours later died in United States coined and another went out convulsione, The cobro e sped, fishing in the pools in the fields and is still concealed in Fong

hond boots of a famous hotel in the Trossachs is said to have amassed £17,000 in five years.

With such circumstances it is

went the thentro, (2) the first gasions, and when spoken to re- glass of beer, and (3) the first plied in an abusive way to the game of bridge. There are, of Captain, making it necessary to course, others, but those will do relieve him at onee as the not surprising to find that mem-

to go on with. For ourselves we

have taken all those wrong turn ship was in narrow waters and bers of the aristocracy are taking inga, and the absence of any, so serious damage might have been to the waiter's profession, and that a rigorous class standard is far, fatal denouement, inclines as occasioned by such steering. The maintained. Qa November 15 to believe that having taken one defendant had been troublesome last Viscount Uharles Calosso, wrong turning, it is conceivably

possible, by taking another, to during the voyage. He and an- waiter, was a witness in a police An explanation of Japan's po- get into the right road once other quartermaster were found court case, and when some time ago the waiters of New York at Daiebarg's Road. They cime unknown part of the ship. The sition is offered in the new num moro. This is a inatter which with a case of gin from one of the started a club of their own they Across a fish known as kawaiya, steamer took 124 snakos aboard ber of the "Oriental Review." philosophers would do well to hatches in their possession, and were very rigorous tint no "amd and it was with diffinity they at Calcutta. They were consigned Where the perpetuation and bar look into, we imagine. Again, caught it. With the purpose of to an animal dealer in New York, mony of the family is the true there are occasions when thecould give no satisfactory ex-tours, ex-atoomge stewards from word to be admitted. 1. Class dis giving a lesson to the fish which the cobra having a box to himself. foundation of society, and where wrong turning is the right rond.planation of how they camo by i, Atlantic lines and realiowaga Dofen laat gave evidence and tinction must be maintained gave them so much trouble, the The snakes were fed from time to a family does not own much pro- Fur instance, you are hurrying to: [Borvico to the "Telegraph," deceased put the head of the fish time by dropping live rats into petty, but all members of it must your office. Good, You are late. stated that the Captain told him London, of cours, has its waiters in his mouth and bit it. The fish their boxes. Early in the voyage work to earn their daily bread, it Bad. Ahead of you, you suddenly to starboard, but waved to port clubs, whore the waiters live London Feb. 16, 4.40 a.m. managed to got further inside his the cobra broke from its oage, and is argued that divoree should be perceive the orent form of your Ho (defendant) then said that it altor to wait on them, nal Lip month and get wedge in the ite cacape was not discord until made easy on the ground that it employer, What are you to do? was part he wanted, but no affthem out of their p And it Premier McBride has introduced lecea-od's windpipe. This deres the night on which the nailer was would be senseless legally to keep Obviously, taking the nearest swor was given. If he had stor is not surprising to find that ed and his ompanion failed to fatally bitton. Officerant ma man and women together after wrong, turning, you dart down a boarded his helm he would have the London branch of the Genova pull it out though trying with all hunted for the reptile without they had oessed to love and oare eide path, and with a bit of sprint-run the ship into an American Union, an international associa tion of waiters, which already their might, and the deceased finding any trace of it, and at for one another. In some in- ing you arrive at the office two man-of-war. expired of suffocation. According night the sailors heasme so terror-alances, therefore, even a divorce minutes ahead of him, thereby His Worship found defondant has its own well-equippe to the Medical Officer, who per-stricken that they carried latterns Court is dispensed with in Japan, saving that worthy man the guilty of wilful neglect of duty by house, its own athletic olub and formed the post mortem examina-whenever they moved about the and waliton statement as sanguish, of having to dispense endangering the ship, and ho im- fis own bursing ground is pro posed a sentence of three months pared to spend 216,000 on ho tion, there were teeth marks on the deck. The reptile's whereabouts mutual agreement to separate is with your invaluable services.-

The Globe!" considered sufficient.

Imprisonment,

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In the British Columbia House of Commons a resolution suggesting

the enactment of the Natal Act to restrict the immigration of Orient