The
Hongkong Telegraph.
March 15th, 1912, Temperature a.m. 12, p.m. 55; Humidity...85,
No. 8
8786
(ESTABLISHED 1881;)
Proprietor
Copyright, 1911
SATURDAY,⠀⠀⠀ MARCHA
WEATHER FORECAST.
FAIR
85
‚ $86 FÜR Áintum.
SINGLE COFT 10 CETT
SELEGĦANS.
PROFESSOR THOMSON.
ORDER OF MERIT.
March 15th, 1911, Temperature a.m. 72, p.m., 70; Humidity...04, 8
晚八廿月正年子壬
拜祖 犹六十月三英港香100
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAMS
LAMS.
TELEGRAMS.
CHINA IN TRANSITION.
COAL CRISIS.
COAL CRISIS.
METHUEN'S SUCCESSOR.
THE KING.
U. S, AND MEXICO.
NORTHERN EXPEDITION. BOTH SIDES PESSIMISTIO: TRAGICALLY CHILDISH."
· LT-GEN, HART.
VISITS CANCELLED,
GUN-RUNNING PENALTIES.
[Service to the Telegraph."]
(Our Own Correspondent.}
Shanghi, Mar. 16, 9.30a.m. The Nanking Assembly is agitating for a military demon-
stration în the North.
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
Bombay, Mar. 16, 7.15 a.m. -
Both owners and miners are
pessimistic. The miners of North Wales are expressing anxiety for
PITS REOPEN,
The publication of the Cabinet resumption. is delayed because the Assembly has cut down the Boarde to ten instead the twelve submitted by Yusa Shil-kai. Nogotiations are proceeding by telegraph.
When the matter is settled the Provisional Govorament will move to Peking.
REMARKABLE DEMON
STRATION.
Bombay, Mar. 10, 7.15 nm.
A remarkable Franco-Chines demonstration was made in Paris
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London, Mar. 15, 5.15 am.. Press comments, on the coal sifu
2
[Service to the "Telegraph." Bombay, Mar. 15, 7.15 .m.
Lieutenant-Goporal · Sir R. O.
[Service to the "Telegraph." London Mar, 15, 8.50 p.m. -
Owing to the strike the visite
[Service to the "Telegraph."
London, Mar, 15, 6.25 p.m.
President Taft, by virtue of the
allon are typified by the observa-Hart, V.O., his been guzelfed to of the King to foreign courts, the Bill passed by Congress on
[Service to the "Telegraph." Bombay, Mar. 10, 7.15 a.m.
Bir Joseph John Thomson,
professor of physics, Royal Insti-
tions of the Radical "Daily Nows" succeed Lord Methuen in South which wore due in the Spring, Feb. 14, has proclaimed the tution, London, has been awarded that "the persistent irreconcileabit.
have been abandoned as far as penalties for exporting arms to the Order of Merit.Reuter.
ity of the extremists on both sides
is tragically childish and gravely
The feature of "to-day's nows is that two Lanarkshire pits have disloyal, not only to the commun- boon reopened and that anotherly but to the vast majority of med- is expected to follow.
erale men in both camps who There are roports of growing would have settled the whole bust- dissatisfaction in parts of Scot-ness weeks ago, but for a minority land, Wales, the Midlands and of the owners fighting a minority Yorkshire with the lenders' policy of the miners while distress was and the smallness of the strike accumulating with terrible rapid- pay: In consequence a number
of Inbour M.P.'s are going down
to these districts,
NOTHING DONE.
The resumption of the Con-
at a banquet organised by Mr. ference yesterday afternoon was Wa, Chinoso Minister at Rome. delayed owing to a prolonged A numerous company was pro-meeting of the Minors Fe lora-
tion, rent including the ox-Premier M.
Sir Hugh Bell is declared Monis, Anatole Franco, many that matters are not progressing Deputies, Chinese diplomats in well and that nothing has been London, St. Petersburg and dono.. Vienus. There were also many students, all in European costume.
Mr. Wu made a speech in excellent French and proclaime i The Republic as essentially paci- fia Itamalto, he said, was liberty and justice.-Reuter,,,
ENGLISH LOANS:
London, Mar. 15, 1.55 p.m. Replying to Mr. Fell in the House of Commons, Sir Edward Grey said en English group were contributing 'advances to the Chinese Govern-
MORE STOPPAGES.
London, Mar. 15, 11.55 a.m.
Additional quarrios and iron and brick works have closed in North Wales and to-day, there are further reductions in tho service on the Walsh railways- Router.
GLOOMY REPORTS.
ment, he had been informed, and gloomy. It is stated that the
ity."-Router.
STILL ORITICAL.
Africa-Reuter.
ROME'S JOY.
ATTEMPTED REGICIDE. event of a settlement the distress two-
and unrest will continue for some, Reuter. timo.
1912 is concerned, as even in the Mexico to be a fine of $10,000 or
years' imprisonment.--
SUDDITE.
Their Majosties' home engage- [Service to the "Telegraph."]monts prevent them from going
London, Mar. 15, 4.25 p.m. abroad'in the summer or autumn,
-Router. Rome was filled yesterday with
enormous crowds of people, jubilat-
..
Pacific Captain's
Promise.
Brench
A RemarkableTM Discovery.
KEPPEL'S PET AVER-
SION.
If there were two things which the late Sir Henry Keppel, the vete ran admiral and personal friend of King Edward, detested more than ̧ anything else, they were dootor- ing and nursing.." He once told that Mr.Gladetone was ill.
"Ah," he said, "he is over
bath
A remarkable discovery is ro-nursed. If he would do as I do ported from the Sudan rivalling elimb up eighty steps, have a cold the progress made with the utiliza his windows always open-he overy day, and sleep with would never be ill.”
London, Mar. 15, 4.30 a.m.
ing at the escape of their King. AN AMUSING DEMURRER,tion of heat as fuel. It is that The position is still critical. The Miners' Federations resolution of Huge processions marched to the the 14th inst., as submitted to the quirinal, where the Senators and joint conference, makes it clear that the assent to negotiate locally refers Deputies waited to, congratiate only to the wages of employees other than coal-getters. The con- cossion thus does not refer to the minimum schedule, on acceptance of which the Federation insists be- fore entering into district negotia- tlons.--Reuter.
the sudd' of the Nila so longlook- Sir Harry's temperament was ed upon as the curse of that ro- not fitted for unmitigated domes of gion is really a valuablo fuel: ticity, says Sir Algernon West in his"Memoirs" of the famous Captain Bonott Wampior has admiral. After one of his aqçi- recently opened out an experi-donts he tore off the bandages mental factory at Khartum for the dootor had put on him and the manufacture of briquettes went away for a ohange and some ***His over-anxious which are madesimply by taking wife in a day or two. telegraphed
TIN SHARES.
BOOM IN LONDON.
thoir Majesties.-Reuter,
·CANTON NEWS.
amusement.
much raw sadd, chopping and to him: drying it, and pressing it into small compact briquettes: With those briquettes as fuel a steamer
a
"How are you, and where shall I find you?" To which, to her infinite amusement, the an-
swer eame
"Am quite well. You cannot find me.'
Captain William W. Greeno, master of the Toyo Kisan Kaisha steamship Chiya-maru, was re- cently made defendant in a 850,- 000 breach of promise suit filed by Miss Gertrude Macfarlane. His initial volley in what promises ("Telegraph" Correspondent.)
to be a lively legal battle is the was run up the White Nile over
proscribed longth of 65 miles Canton, March 15.
filing in the Superior Court of a
and results. compared with a On another occasion he met Mr. NgShok-ying, commissioner for detailed and somewhat facetious similar ran made the previous Manley Sima, his doctor, who the suppression of optim, has des demurrer to the complaint of the day, using Welsh coal as fuel, wanted to know how he was. He patched a telegram to the Press young woman, who claims that With coal the ran was made in said:
did not recognize him, and Society and the Anti-Opiam he jilted her.
seven hours and with suddite in 'Quite well, and all the botter Society at Canton pointing out Miss Moofarlane alleged that seven hours and seven 'minutes. for not having soon that boast of that under the Manchu dynasty she and Captain Greene were to Two tons of suddite will do the doctor of mine for some time." the campaign against the use of have been married on October work of one ton of Welsh, goal oplum was vigorously pursued. 14 last, and that on October and
more economically. At During the last three or four 13 they went to the County Towükish the latter costs £4.28. months, owing to the unsettled Clerk's offices together and secured 1d. per ton and the former 22s. state of. Chins, the movement, the license. That, however, was 6d. per ton or £2 53, for two tons
London, Mar. 15, 0.25. London, Mar. 15, 10.20a.m. Reports to-night aro most Nigerian tin shares are booming, and new companies are being conferences have only accentuai- they were entitled to look to hised the differences and an abrupt
formed daily. Exciting scenes are Majesty' for support termination of the negotiations is being witnessed in Throgmorton says the communication, was as near as they ever got to the showing suidite costs a little
Street. Our Own Correspondent.)
:
In the event of difficulties regarding apprehended.
payment, but the Government And no pecuniary liability. Reuter.
A DEATH INDEMNITY.
Shangluni, March 15. Dung the mutiny at Tientsin shot a German doctor,
who
suliniste died. The
German
at Peking on
Before the Commons adjourn- Mr. Bonar Im that he could od, Mr. R. McKenna informed
only say that the conference was still sitting and possibly would bocontinued to-morrow. Reuter.
VARYING MINIMUM,
London, March 15. feral into negotiations with the The minimum wage demanded Commissioner for Foreign Affairs Varies from 4/11 10 7/6, according and the latter has agreed to into the district, and 29, for all boys. Allemnify the relations of the
Mossed to the extent
COURT AFFRAY.
JUDGE KILLED.
[Service to the "Telegraph."]
London, Mar. 15, 1.55 p.m.
into existence.
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BRITISH VISITORS IN RUSSIA.
An Unpleasant Incident,
somewhat retarded, and as it con-altar, and because the climax was more than half what coal costs to The reactionary priest Helio- sequence many shops for dealing never reached, she demande com- do the same work at that par who has been exiled to a remote dorus, the Abbot of Tsaritsyn, with the drug sprang once more pensation in the sum of $50,000. ticular place, where fuel is monastery in the Government of Since the day the complaint most in demand at present. Vladimir for championing the This, it is urgod, was no fault was filed the captain's attorneys Large works are planned at csues of the recalcitrant Bishop of the officials, as their time was have filed a demurrer.
Towakiah for its manufacture, Hermogenes, has began a pilgrim |otherwise actively engaged, and In the first place, the complaint and it is believed the fuel sge on foot from St. Petersbarg to the Monastery of the Trinity of people in the interior were under recites that the plaintiff expanded has a large future before it since Saint Sergius, at Bergievsky, the falso impression that the bus, $1,000 in clothes on the strength there is no coal in Egpyt. It is Posad, in the Government of ness in this drug could be resum: of their engagement, but the de- even proposed to introduce an ar- Moscow. He started off dressed ed. Sandra fendant holds that, inasmuch as tiole which may be described as in a warm cassook and cowl and After pointing out that the all persons must be clothed and enriched suddite, the cost of which carrying his famous crook, carved existing treaty will potabocan it does not appear that the clotladite briquettes by only a few of sympathizers, mostly woDLER will exceed that of ordinary sud-with a clenched fist. Hundreds A message from Roanoke, Vir-celled by the new government, ing purchased was unsuited to a shillings a ton, while its value accompanied him through the ginia, states that five persons were introducing drastis; mesaurits purchase damaged the lady.
he expressed his intention of single person, he fails to see that as a fuel will be three times that city, while the populace followed of coal. This sounds a little him in throngs. The police, how The latest figures relating to the killed and 23 wounded in a fight for the total prohibition of poppy
sanguine, but if it is true the ever, prevented the people from unemployed other than those in in the court-house at Sillsvirle, oultivation in China, and of through his failure to marry her be made. There are 35,000 square off the principal avenues,
Referring to the charge that fortuneof the Sudan may be said to singing psalms, and drove them the mining industry are: Steel, Blue Mountains, on the occasion reopening negotiation with the the plaintiff was held up to pub miles of sadd in the Sudan, the iron and tinplate workers, 236,500; of the sentencing of a member of British Government, whereby the lie ridicule and soorn, the captain growth consists of plants from been ordered to be exiled to the Bishop Hermiogenes, who has trying to dissolve the Asse ubly textilo, 85,380; railways, 77,000; the notorious Allen gang for a petty term during which opium may and in fact such an unhappy reproduced so rapidly that it is Slonim, for persistent insubor says: "Considering that in law 15 feet to 20 feet high and it is Zhizovitsky Monastery near visional Parliament. They have builders, 29,700; sailors and trim-
Nanking and to form a dockers, 68,050; potteries 80,000; offence. The brothers and friends be imported, will be considerably plight would deserve only sym- said within three weeks of putting dination, officiated at a morning despatched representatives to Teking in connection with the mars, 29,700; Jute, 25,000; lace, of the prisoner fired, killing the shortened.
pathy from the public, it is not the plants again grow up service recently, when he preach 6,200; fishermen, 7,500; engineers, Judge and prosecutor instantly, a
As matters now stand the clear how she was held up to to a height of 7,1-2 feer. ed against his persecutors and 7,500; linoleum, 6,500; coalporters, battle ensuing.-Reuter.
term will expire during the ridicule, or how her damage was There is no coal in the Sudan denounced the party of British
thus aggravated."^ 6,100; coal shippers, 3,000; sweet-
fifth year of the republic and
and in consequence industrial visitors, which included the Another charge which Groeno's enterprise has no chance; but if Speaker of the House of Commons, the people are urged to give up attorneys declare insufficient is the place of coal be supplied by several members of Parliament, the habit as the supply will soon the simple statement that the de- suddite, cotton-ginning, rice-peers, bishops, and men of affairs, be extinguished, we wou egtendant promised to marry the milling and sugar manufacture as heretics.
**$100,000.
of
TTEMPTED DISSOLUTION.
The delegates at Hupeh inten
"master
HONOUR DECLINED.
THE UNEMPLOYED.
The Provincial Counoil in meats, 3,500; quarrymen, 3,500; Kiangen, havo elected Chong chala and anchormakers, 3,100; Wan toon as Governor-General, but he has refused to accept the Pitprops, 3,000; chemicals, 2,500; soap, 2,000; agricultural imple- ments, 1,750; glase, 1,550; cable ropo makers, 1,000; fireclay, 900; tramwaymen, 300; unclassified, 20,250,
APPOINTMENTS SUS-
TENDED..
appointment of commis- eloners and deputy commissioners to the various Boards will not be on until the arrival of Zing? Bhao-v as Nanking
ASSAILANTS RETIRE.
The Governor-Gonored basis-plaintiff, for, they say, there is can at once be undertaken in The case of Bishop Hermogene London, Mar. 15, 11.55 a.m.
nothing to show that she is the country itself, the sudd can is stirring orthodox Bussis pro- sued a proclamation to the effect will ready, willing and able to be floated down the river at foundly. Dozens of priests and Renter's correspondent at that quiet has been restored in carry out such a promise. Roanoke states that finally the Canton. He expressed regret If Greene's demurrer is sustain Basatlanta backed out of the that so many should have wit-ed, the case will Court house, revolvers, in hand, ferred loss through the ofagi the court olandar
vote mounted their horses and die and has ordered enq appeared, a posse of citizens go- made with a (crop at St. Helen's.m Heater, ¡ing in pursuik.-
BURIED ALIVE, Two men were buried alive while digging for coal in an out-
nominal cost into Egypt and members of the Dama syn could even be exported to Port with E Sudan and used for all the cost- M. Pur ing on the Red Sea. It is the
ingular feature of both peat and that they abound in reg
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