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The Hongkog

March 1st, 1912, Tompeinture à.. 60, p.m. 03; Humidity...08, 81.

No. 8724

TELEGRAMS.

THE NEW CHINA.

-晚四十月正年子壬

TELEGRAMS.

LABOUR TROUBLES.

(ESTABLIS 1881

Copyright, 1911 the Proprietor.

SATURDAY, MARCH

TELEGRAMS."

TELEAMS.

Telegraph.

WEATHER FORECAST.

FAIR.

March 1st, 1911, Temperature a.m. 60, pm, 01; Humidity...00, 50.

六拜禮號二月三英港香

1912.

TELEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS..

TRIPALI WAR

HOME POLITICS.

TEST CRICKET.

OBLRY.

KNOX'S NOTE.

A MILLION MEN OUT.

ENGLAND WIN AGAIN.

GEORGE LOSSMITH.

FIERCE FIGHTING.

at

[Sorvice to the "Telograph."]

Bombay, Mar. 2, 7.40 nim.

All the negotiations in the coal

Sarvico to the "Telegraph."] Bombay, Mar. 2, 7.40 n.m. Reuter's correspondent Washington states that Britain trado were suspended youterday Germany, Russia, and Jajan havo responded favourably to Me aftoragon, until next week. Knox's noto inviting joint action The miners affirm that the in China without seeking in-strike cannot be arrested within dividual advantage

Austria, France and Italy have a fortnight. as yet sent no reply,

FRESH TROUBLE FEARED.

Bombay, Mar. 2, 7.40 a.mi. Rouler's correspondent at Pe king says dit looting and shir

The strikers, who number 1,065,000 are enjoying the holi- day iresportsand entertainments, -Reutor..

mishing continuod throughout PREMIER'S STATEMENT. the day:

Numbers of footers have been execute 1. Tho loses hitherto are estimated at three million

... sterling...

Hombay, Mar. 2, 7.40 a.m.

Mr. Asquith announced in the

The loyalists troops aro patrol-Housɑ of Commons that the coal ling the streets and fresh trouble (owners in practically the whole of is fared to-night:

England and North Wales had

[Service to the "Telegraph:"]

London, Mar. 1, 7.20 a.m.

The last Test match between

the

of Mr.

[Service to tl Telgrep." Bombay, M 2,1,40a.m.

England and Australia entered on George Grossmith, on Tho death is poured

its final stage in glorious weather famous entertainer-uter. before a small attendance. Aus- Iralia resumed with three wickets down in their second innings for 193 runs, requiring 170 to win. They fared badly, however, on a sticky wicket, and were all out for 292, Minuett making 61. Eng- land' thus won by 70

runs, Scores:---

OUTRAGES AT PEKING,cepted, the Government pro-the fire Tes: mit: ex. }

posils..

The South Wales en Scottish on the

Blay, Mar. 1, 535 p.m. Router's correspondout at Pe king aaya that because they were owners had deeline dissatisfied with not receiving ground that they were bound by any pay, two thousand of Yunu existing agreements, Shih-kai's troops started looting

the expital yesterday morning,

ORGIE OF DESTRUCTION,

Hordes of coolies and loafors

gwalled

MEN STUBBORN.

Tho miners representatives

Urousand and the

and the orgie of dexoposals and were unwilling to truction consod only through subunit the federation's rates for exhaustion of the looters carly a minimum wages to ang form of this morning, when woven in revision. candiary fires, some covering a large area, were burning in various quarters,

A GRIM SPECTACLE. The spectacle was a grim one Gauge of mutineers in the glare of the flames wore seon battering in shops, shosting or bayonetting shopkeepers who did not prompt. ly hand over their valuables, on i staggering off Jaden with Jpot.

FOREIGNERS UNHURT. In strong contrast were detgeb- ments of foreign troops marching | amplested through the crowds. and bringing in foreigners to the legations, A number of foreigners were fired at, but were not hurt.- Router.

Mr. Asquith said that, he foll in consequence. that no useful purpose could be served at pre- out by continuing theconference.

I

hoped to make a further statement on Monday, -

VARYING OPINIONS.

London, Mar. 1, 9.25 a.m.

It is recognised that Mr. Asquith's speech has given new life to the negotiations, but opinions vary as to whether a speedy settlement wil ensuc. Some Radical optimists believe the miners, pleased with the dramatic swiftness of their vic- Dr. Sun Yat-sen has telegraph tury, will return to work after a

FOREIGN LOANS. ·

Shanghai, March 1.

all to Cham Kam-tao, Comnils-brief holiday,

with the Russo-Asiatic Bank,

Other Radicals

OPIUM CONVETION,

INDIA'S SATISECTION.

[Servico to the "E

"Blegraph."] Bombay Mar, 15.35 p.ú. Router's

correspondent at Calcutta tos that Hon. Sir G.

England, 324 and 214. Australin, 176 and 292. [England thus carries Back the

through wisning four out of Fleetwood Vilson, of the Indian Council, in presenting the bud-

got referred to the opium trade

and paid tribute to Sir John Jorilan's skill at Polsing in secur

MATCH CANCELLED,

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London, Mar. 1, 9.20 a.m.

The match with South AuÉS» cancelled. The Englishmen leave Melbourne en route for Adelaide on Sunday night.

MANAGER CHOSEN.

London, Mar. 1, 4 a.m.

The Sydney correspondent of Reuter wires that Mr. E. I. Crouch has been chosen as manager of the cricket team which is to proceed to England.

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THE SPLET

London, Mar. 1, 4 am.

Router's Melbourne correspond

| attended by many prominent Indi-

ut alike fair to An Minn

MORPHIA AND COCAINE.

[Service to the "Telegraph.,']

Bombay, Mar. 1, 5.35 pm.

Router's correspondent at Rome

statos that official details aro given of fighting at Morgheb on

Feb. 28.

Five thousand Turks and Arabs were engaged. It is estimated

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PLURAL VOTING,

[Service to the "Tolograph."]

London, Mar. 1,7 p.m.

Mr. H. T. Baker's Bill for the

abolition of plural voting has

passed the second reading by 223

votos to 142.

The Government declined to

that they lost five hundred killed say at this stage whether they in an attempt to recapture tho would adopt the Bill or not, hoights,

The Italian losses are givon ns fourteen killed and one hundred wounded.-Reuter."

N. Z. POLITICS.

PREMIER RETIRES,

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SINGLE Cory 10 Or.

TELEGRAMS.

APCAR FLEET.

BOUGHT BY B. I.

..

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Singapore, Mar..2, 1.15 p.m.

The British India Sloam Ship Company has bought,up the Apear fleet,

SHORT SERMON.

Inasmuch asye have done it unto one of the least of these, my bre- thron, yo have done it unto me.-*-* Maldiow, xxv, 40.

Pat Chambers is not one of the leadors of the "Men and Roligion” · movoment.

Probably ho las not yet learn- camod that such a movement is on

foot.

The window-smashing paiga instituated

by the

Ho lins boontoo busy practising the religion of Jesus of Nazareth! suffragists covered a wide area,

Fat Chambers lives "down un- from Oxford Stroot to the Strand der the hill" in Cleveland, Ohio, which location is, at prosent, one and included also the Govern-of three collest spots this.side of

the Arctic Circle.

He works in a big wolding mont offices.

ahop and is paid $1.75 a day. Many arroats have been mide. His wife is named Bridget, and they havo five children. Until -Router.

not long ago there were soven children.

MEMBER RESIONS.

London, Fob. 29, 4.45 p.m. - Mr. J. S. Arkwright

There are still niso persons living in the four-room house, however-Pat, his wife Bridget, their five children and Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Durkin,

[Service to tho "Tolograph."]

London, March 1, 4.50 a.m.

gton states that the 'New'redkän Parliament has been prorogued

fidence in the Government was ferenco had been enabled to

defeated by 40 votes to 38: draft a convention, which he

Sir Joseph Ward, the Prime Conservative interest.-Reuter. hope the Powers would accept, Minister, retires, and the Ministry preventing the consumption of is to be reconstructed. morphia and cocains.

No; the Darkins are not related hamborses, save in the

signed his cast for Haid that all men are Mr. Howius is to contest the resultant byo-election in the

DRASTIC ACTION WANTED. MORALS RESTORED BY

The evil done was already

great and only the most drastio Government control, would pre- vent the growth of that legending

vice.-Reuter.

CANTON NEWS.

KNIFE.

MORE MUSIC.

Kat and Maurico had been Trande for yours before Maurice was stricken with paralysis. The Durkins livod "down under the hill" also, and just as soon as it became apparent. that the paralytic stroke was not a tem- porary affair, the landlord of their shack turned them out for non- payment of rent..

It would not do to call this an un-Christian act, in the light of present-day thoolgy, for income: is a matter of the utmost import- ance, and pow-rent might suffer if house-rent did not continue to come in.

The programme which was performed at a recent meeting of a musical society attached to one of our great railway companies appears, from accounts in the Press, to have boon well chosen

Anyhow, the Durkins were and succossfully rendered, The

| turned out. Edward E. Grimmell, who is be- mention of Sir H. Bishop's "Lo! Mrs. Durkin already was sick lieved by Burgeons and orimiu hore the gentle lark" conjures through nursing her "man" but ologists to have been transformed

Prisoner Released After Being

Trepanned.

:

by an operation on his skull from up in one's mind a particularly she dragged herself to Pat Cham- a chronic criminal to a normally vivid picture of a fow meditatively bors to ask his advice. And

this is what he said to her: moral man, is back at his home sportivo porters playing football "You'll come over and live in Buffalo, after serving three missioner of Finance in the now share the views of most of the Con-ent states that a crowded meeting

"Our Land with no. Durkin's me friend, with our suit-case. years of a nine-year sentence in Cabinet, asking him to defer servative papers that the Bill estab

Clinton prison at Dannemora. He of Dreams," again, conveys one, and what I've got is Durkin's signing the agreement for a loan,lishing a minimum wage at col-

and my pay won't buy much when lieries, which it is understood will viduats has passed a resolution ox-THE "TILLORAP" COLLRAPONDENT.] was convicted of forgery in 1908. mentally, to the ticket-office We're all of us poor down here,

The State Parole Board asking for a ticket to the nearest it has to keep nine; but you two- Delegates from Chilli, Feng be introduced on March 3, vil pressing indignation at the action

Cantou, March 1.

authorized Grinnell's release aflace where one will be free frou ain't never goin' to be hungry or tien, Shensi, Kiong-y and Hupeli

A moating of the shareholders ter his declaration that the opera- have raised the que-tion of the not have a smooth passage through of the Board of Control in exclud- issue of forsign loans at the meet the House of Commons, owing to ing six of Australia's leading of the Canton-Bankow liniiwastion had completely freed him Lords of the Admiralty with a out in the cold so long as Pat ing of the Assembly in Nanking. apprehensions, not confined to the cricketers from the team for the was held yesterday, esided from certain mysterious impulsos weary penchant for eulogising Chambers has a job."

over by Lau Chok-sang. Letters that formerly prompted him to Home Itule in Belfast. In our the Chaniborses. Instead of receiving any satis Conservative benches, that the con- Triangular contests in England. from the lovernor-General and steal and to forge checks. The opinion every railway company It is said Pat has not smoked. factory reply they have been cession may provoke an agitation severely censured by the Pro- for a minimum wage in other in-Mr. Mitchell, K.C., suggestert that the Finance Department regard-operation was performed in the hould be compelled by Act of since they came. But never once

dent and as a result they have dustries.-Reuter.

application should be made for an ing the appropriation of portion prison in March, 1909, at Grim-

Parliament to give spécial pro- has a complaint come from him. 4 of the lann, to be raise l'on the mell's request....

"Poor people have got to slick injunction to prevent them sending undertaking, ore joy. One Alienists have been much iminence to music. Maintenance

togather, a team. A committee was appoint-shareholder was of pinion that interested in the case of Grimmell. of rolling stock is all very well Annyhow, if we didn't help ed to co-operate with the commit- the Government had no right to Girmmell's skull was fractured, in its way. Reduced fares for Durkin, who'd be doin' it?"

ask the shareholders to allow the when he was a boy of fourteen, the week-end are undoubtedly a He isn't posing as a

hero milway to bo sol as a security in a quarrol with a playmate, and

ali dooided to rosign.

TROUBLE IN HUPEN, Trouble has broken out in tho provisional capital of Hupoh, and for a whole day the city gates: havé, been closed, matters were only quietoned by the arrest of four riotera by Vice-President Li Yuan-heng.

FUNDS FOR NANKING. Yuan Shih-kai has sent Tle. 3,000,000 to Nanking.

CONSERVATIVE VIEWS.

London, Mar, 1, 6 a.m.

It is pointed out that the Miners! Federation last night notified their edherence to their demands of.

teos of other States.-Reuter.

CANADIAN POLITICS,

NAVAL AUT.

1

February 2. Hence the Conserva- lives argue that any attempt CHINESE INDIGNANT,

enforce Great exoitement and a certain by legislation to

compromiso on offers rejeat-

in Harbin, at the setion of the

So the Darkins moved over to

is what he : says...

anything of the sort, because ho doesn't think anything about deep down in his 24-carat heart being a hero.

Ho is just a genuine Christian," who is doing what Jesus said:

for a national loan, and then pre- the assertion was inade that the species of really refreshing fruit pose to appropriate como of the injury was a potent factor in for the modern traveller. But money raised for the provincial developing his criminal career. wo insist, too, that our great government.

"We are not running any great On Thursday the committee of risk in releasing Grimmell, said railway componies should go the Canton Chamber of Commerce Col. Joseph F. Scott, Superin- further and supply more music

He is one of several million gave a reception to Wong and tendent of State Prisons, for he As a start, we agitate for the men should do. Cheung, who finve been sent to will continue under the juris-formation of a gleeparty for every men and women who are practís, amount of indignation prevails od by the men, but accept-

Cunton by Dr. Sun Yat-sen to en-diction of the Board, and will London terminus The southing ing Christianity without making deavour to remove the ill feeling not be permitted to leave the State. Russian authorities in preventing ed by the majority of the [Service to the "Telegraph," between the revolutionary sold-Gov. White, who committid his effect of the charms of music is a big nowo about it, and who are iery, and the people in general, sentence recommended that ho be proverbial, and to every thinking boltering the world by their

quiet, honest, Divine course,

Christianity of this sort sprends Owing to the upmarrival of paroled for an unusully long period citizen it will be clear that i pro- waggona for trailsport purpose, so that his care might be carefully

perly y fexecuted quartet would go automatically.

A little while after. Pat" took the work of demolishing the city observed. If he resumes evil

to Boothe the exasperation over the Darkins, some one told Yesterday a revolt broke out adding to the complication of the at Ottawa reports that the Senate, walls has been considerably practices he will be taken biok far

retarded st

to the prison. If he does not, so which tends to weaken a nation the owner of the four-room house. mongst the troops in the ospital, fouse of Commons debates. The by 51 votes to 2, has defeated n The Governor-General has much the bettor. If he becomes prone to be seen arguing with the about the matter,

Morning Leador, says the Gov- BBI to repeal the Naval Act. The issued a proclamation advising a forger again, probably we station master on Platform T

Four And just to show, that there inhabitants not to be startled by shall not be under pressure for ernment will. Introduce a second pill was introduced by a Liberal the firing of guns la mark mid quite a while to have convicts while their train glides out of are at least two viours of income Yuan teoored order by drafting large body of goldfory into the certain mines in Wales On Behalf with a view to forcing the hand day, from the Naval Headquarters heads operated on an in attemptto Platform Two A, in the New Antho medn't pay any mor

and the Ynet Shan Hill pital" Bhat Po"

the Chiness, from hoisting the coal-owners, will be futile. It is Republican flag."Shat Po." slated that the Labour Party havp REVOLT IN PEKING.- decided to introduce a Bill embody- Peking, March 1.Ing the demands of February 2, thus

London, Mar. 1, 4.50;am.!! The correspondent of Reuter

harked by incendiarism, many

ouses within the Ching Yang ata being burnt down, an

Bill involving the taking over of

of the Navy-Router,

of the Government.

Felango their moral nature,

nexe~The " Glabo,"

+1

this landlord sent word to PA

rent