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WATSON'S

E VERY OLD LIQUEUR.

SCOTCH WHISKY.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1912.

"A BLEND OF THE FINEST PURE

MALT SCOTCH WHISKIES.

the reputation of the FINEST SCOTCH

DAY BY DAY,

One of life's most valuable gifts is a sense of proportion.

10.

To-day's Paper.

The French Mail of March 12

A Chinese constable died from plague yesterday; avory unusual

occurrence.

ALLEGED USE OF THE KNIFE:

ALLEGED JEWELLERY

THEFT.

American to go to Shanghai.

Coolle In Court.

SUNKEN SPANISH GAL- LEON.

Treasure Hunt to be Resumed at Tobermory.

DRAINAGE IN EGYPT

Lord Kitchener's Work,

Ono of the first matters to en- A case of alleged assault was At the, Magistracy, Mr. C. D

gage the attention of Lord Kit- gone into by Mr. D. "Melbourne

Melbourne had before him an Preparations are being made chenior on his arrival at Cairo was at the Police Court this morning, American named Hedley other to work again upon the sunken the question of the improvement On page 3 to-day appear a when Mr. G. Schmidt, manager wise Blane, this afternoon, on Spanish galloon at Tobermory of the drainage of Lower Egypt, number of interesting artioles, in-of the "Grand Hotel, made this charges of living in his posses elurling one in regard to a sus charge against a coolie employed sion, on arrival in the Colony, The hope is even indulged that which had boon rendered neces ceptible French jury. A descrip at the same place.

three pearl necklaces, a pair of the vessel may be raised and

sary by the increased irrigation tion of the attack apon Mr. L. do According to the prosocutor, Rothschild will be found on pago at 7.30 am, to-day he found the pearl cardrops, two gold rings brought to London. This is the given to the country. As a result. set with largo pearls, and a 10.

defendant sweeping the corridors Japanese blue stone, which arti- fourth season that the present of the discussions of the projects near guests' rooms, and fearing cles the police suspect have been treasure-trove syndicate haa

which had been propated-dis. the inmates might be disturbed, stolen or otherwise unlawfully brought modern salvage skill and cussions in which, among others, For over 30 Years WATSON'S 'E' has maintained was delivered in London on April remonstrated with him for doing obtained outsile the Colony, is appliances to bear on these opera-Sir William Garstin and Mr.

80, The coolie apparently at Shanghai; and of being in tions.

Webb, former, advisors to the rental being spoken to, and hit possession of one Mauser carbine, the prosecutor on the side of the

Many of the descendants of old one revolver and twenty rounda

Ministry of Public Works, took head with the brush he was of ammunition without the per-families connected with the

part, coming from England for. using. He then seized a table mission of the Superintendent of knife and succeeded in inflicting the Police on board the 8.8. Chin-Court of Queen Elizabethi, or the purpose-it was decided that belonging to the days of the a stort should. be made in the a serious wound on prosecutor's hun on Sunday.

which necessitated forehead

At the first hearing the de- Armada, are

western portion of the province of medical attendance and the in-

fendant pleaded not guilty, and the salvage ad venture now being Bohern and in Central Gharbieh.. Lieut. F; J. Wyley, 1st K.O.Y.sertion of two atitolios.

regarding the arms and ammuui- doterminedly carried on in that Sohemen dealing with these two L.1., who arrived from England A coolio from the hotel stated tion said he was only passing rather stormy bay in the northern portions of the great work were by the P. & C. s.s. Palawan has that 6.15 this morning the plain through the Colony and was

apt roved a few days ago by, the, beon takon on the strength of the tiff and the defendant were fight quite unaware that be required part of the Island of Mull in the South China Command.

ing. He saw the plaintiff push to get any permit..

Scottish Western Highlande. Council of Minister. The other defendant against the wall, He

This afternoon Inspector Col- Among the names on the syndi-day, with characteristic swiftness. Yesterday was to have boon the went up and asked the defendant Inst day for receiving entries for why he was fighting, and he said lett. informed his Worship that cat register of members are those of action, the first sod of the first the defondant had expressed his the sports to be held on April 20 he had been struck. He asked willingness to go to Shanghani of several of the Argyll family now drain was turned by Lord ia connection with the Victoria the plaintiff why he struck de- Recreation Club, but we are in fondant. The former replied that and there meet the charges laid and of the Clan MacLean. There Kitchener, and the work, which,

sul agrood in this course being Mr. Smollett to whom centuries formed that the closing day for the defendant had disobeyed his inst him. The American Con-is also a direct descendant of the in addition to benefiting the in- ontries has been postponed until

taken. Saturday next.

A. S.

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No cases of bodies being found in the open ware reported to the police yesterday.

"

THE MYSTERIOUS **FRIEND."

lawful order. He also saw the defendant had two pieces of wood

The charge was accordingly in his hand. Shortly afterwards the watchman of the hotel was withdrawn and the defendant Last evening an interesting sent for to arrest defendant. was discharged. football match was played off on He did not see the defondant the parade ground below St. strike the plaintiff. They were John's Cathedral, between teama fighting togather and he (wit representing "E" and "C" com-noss) went up to separate them. panics in the K.O.Y.LI. A fast He did not soe defendant with a game was played before a large kuife. He did, not know how de- Attendance and the "E" company fondant cams by his injuries, eventually ran out winners by six When he arrived on the scene goale to four.

defendant was already injured.

Mr. Melbourne: What did you hit the manager for?-1 did not hit him.

A Case of False Pretences.

aharoholders in

ago had been entrusted the duty of preventing the galleon from setting sail from Tobermory, This task-doubtless a pleasing one-ho accomplished with the aid of some of the MacLean's

mense areas of land already drain" ed, will ultimately render fit for. cultivation thousands of nores at prosent under water, was immo- diately taken up by an army of a

thousand workmen.:

The ceremony took place at Ibshna, in Gharbieh, whither Lord Kitchener, accompanied by the Minister of the Public Works, Major Watson, aide-de-camp to the Khedive and a number of ir- rigation officials had journoyed ·

Bright hopes are held of the success of this salvage venture. The latest auction pumping plant is being called into aid; apparent At the Magistracy this morning, ly dynamite is not the most entis- bofore Mr. E. A. Irving; a man factory ngout for clearing the mud named Antonio Santos Cordova and accumulations of yours away was charged with obtaining two from the sunken ship. But a from Cairo by rail and motor-car. Watsons, Ltd., by means of false end of the suction pipo slices up of the province, who, together the material, and the great in- pretences.

But you hit him in the mouth? bottles of whiskey from Messrs.spiral steel cutter at the lower There was also present the Mudied.

A Chinese was charged with stealing dried fish from the s.s. Charles Hardouin, on her roturn from Canton. He was sentenced-No, I did not.. to six weeks' imprisonment and What was the row over?- four hours' stocks for bronching Plaintiff mid he was making a cargo. It was also found that he noise whilst brushing the car. had returned from banishment, pets. and for this, offence he was sen- tenced to six months' hard la- bour.

The caso for the prosecution drawing power of the steam with the Minister likewise turned was that the prisoner sant an pumps brings mud, sand, clay, a sod before the work began in

small stones, and shells in a con- earnest. order for one bottle of whiskey stant stream to a large sieve-like The watchman doposed to Messrs. Watsons using the chit

The principal object in view is arresting the defendant. When book of Messrs. H. Cruz & Co. apparatus on the deck of the he went upstairs to obey the cali This bottle was supplied, and in lighter, where everything is ex- the improvement of lands where amined before being cast away. a system of drainage already. The Colony's Health.

made upon him he saw that the respect to this no charge was Already various objects of value exists. Incidentally, however, the Thirty-five cases of plague and plaintiff was injured about the made. Subsequently he sent a coins, plate, arms, etc., have twenty-nine deaths coeurred in head. He did not see defendant chit to the same firm ordering been recovered.

execution of the work will lead to the Colony during the wook with the knife (produced). He two bottles of the same spirit,

An ambitious scheme, is pro- the reclamation of nearly 130,000 ended April 6., All were Chinese bad beon in the employ of the using the same chit book, on the jeeted. The aim is to raise the acres of land at present under VIVISECTION,

There were also thirty-five cases hotel for one year. Defendant cover of which was pastodn of small-pox and twenty-four had been assaulted by the coolies typewritten label, covering the galleon bodily, repair it, and tow water. Of these, 55,000 acres are

it to Loridon. It is said that that

in West Behera, under Lake Every now and again the fierce controversy in regard to deaths. One sufferer was Amer- at the hotel before. He had never former inscription, bearing the

is quito practicable. The ship seen defendant strike any of legend "No. 4. Mesars, Butterwas one of the stoutest of the Mareolia, and the remainder in vivisection is revived. With the humanitarian dosire to save dumbican and the rest Chinese.

field and Swire." The chit was animals from pain it is possible to feel sympathy, without, however,

The Ward Master of the Go- also written out on note healing Spanish Aranada, built of oak, Gharbieh, under Lake Borillos,

bolts. Embedded in the mud at

the natural corollary of lowering going so far as to endorse the declaration that vivisection is unjusti-vertisement elsewhere innouac vernment Civil Hospital stated of the same firm, and signed with clamped with tons of copper The drying of these tracts will be

Tobermory Bay. the warship fiable wickedness. The question whether it is right to do evil that ing the appearance at an early that about seven o'clock this the signature" W. E. Spiuk."

Defendant's version of what would be protected from harm, the level of the water in the date of "The Great Raymond morning plaintiff came to the good may come is one that could be discussed by caguists for Mr. Raymond has been having the hospital suffering from a out over huppened was that at the instance and oak is a wood that endures, drains to a metre and a half. It the right templo, which required of a friend, whose name was In any case, the treasuro on board is into these lakes that the drains timo without arriving at a conclusion that would receive universal utmost success in India, the Straits two stitches. He had also a cut "Gutierrez," he typed the letter.-chests full of gold and silver lead, honce a corresponding re-

Settlements and Siam, and the endorsement. This is a world of compromise, and though compro- Press speak in the highest terras in the centre of the forehead. He He did so and left for tiffn, and coinage of Spain-will be, it is duction of the level of the water mises are necessarily unsatisfactory to all the parties to them, we of the entertainment be provides, thought the wound on the temple while ho was away the friend hoped, brought to the surface, in them is necessary. In the was cansol through some sharp must have sent the shit to along with brass cannon and case of West Behera the water New Trial Granted. instrument. He did not think Messrs. Watson, for on his return other equipment. have to take things as we find them and make the best of the

At the Magistracy- this after the injury could have been caused be found the whiskey on his materials we have to our lands. It would hɔ, a shrer impossibility!

noon Mr. Lewis made an appli- by a fall. The cut on the fore-desk. He did not have, the to convince the confirmed anti-vivisectionist that the utmost care to cation for a now trial in the case head was a plean out. That was liquor, for his friend subsequently PRISON FOR NOVELIST'S prevent unnecessary suffering to subjects of exportiment is taken. of a man sentenced to three algo caused by some sharp instru- took it away. He did not know

"The Great Raymond." Attention is directed to an ad-

The request was granted, bail being fixed at $100. Tho caso will be tried on Thursilay next,

them.

There acoms to be a bit of a Defendant bitch about liera. discharged...

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H.K 0.-C. TENNIS TOURNAMENT.

where "Gutierrex" was now,

Defendant was sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labour.

BILLIARDS.

WIFE.

Soldiers' Club Billiard Tourna damaging windows at

ment.

will be pumped direct into the sea from Mex, where a pumping station already exists, while in.

the case of Gharbieh it will be pumping near Baltim into Lake Borillos, which has a natural months' hard labour this mornment.

outlet into the son. In each case Mr. Melbourne: Do you wish Sottled convictions are always difficult to remove and when theying on a charge of unlawful pos-

the pumps, in order to cope with session of six watches. He felt to ask the witness any questions, have their roots in prejudice the task becomes almost impossible.

that he could provo "lawful pos- Inspector?-No.

Among the the captures made the flood water, will be required Ia that the case for the pro-

by the police after the recent to lift about 7.1-2 million tons of Renewed attention has been directed to this subject at Home by session."

seoulion?-Yes.

windom smashing ssonpades in water per day. the publication last month of the final report of the Royal Commis

It la reckoned that the work Loudon was Mrs. Eleanor Jacobs, wife of. Mr. W. W. Jacobs, the begun yesterday will be complete sion of Vivisection, appointed in 1906. The Commission went int

uovelist, who was convicted of in four years, and the cost of ex- the subject most exhaustively and took, the evidence of a large Jack London as Third Mate-

Earl's ecation for each of the two dis In order to get the material at

Court rond Post Office. She in-triots is estimated at £1,250,000. number of witnesses. Particular attention was directed to the nl-

first hand as well as the proper

formed Mr. Fordham, the magie-This sum suffices, however, only legations made against vivisectors. The Commission advises cor-spirit, Jack London, the novelist,

trate, that she had "done this he- for the work of drainage, and tain additional restrictions to regulate the painless destruction of has shipped as third mate on the

The Hongkong Volunteers were cause I think it is my duty as the does not include the cost of ir square-rigged Dirigio, which was animals which show signs of suffering after experiment, but broadly to sail on March 1, from Baltimore

again viotorious in both games mother of five children. My rigation of the new lands which Result to Dato.

against 83 Company R.G.A. on daughters' when they grow up will have been dried, and which speaking the report is a signal triumph for believers in vivisection, for a voyage around Cape Horn

Wednesday night, increasing their should have equal rights and re-will eventually represent an asset to Seattle. His wife signed Thus the Commissioners say that they are compelled to accept the articlos as stewardess, and their

The following are the results lead of 333 points to 524, they sponsibilities and duties with my to the state the value of which must be calculated at millions of in the final game in the tourna Mr. Fordham said he would pounds. For the work of the evidence to the effect that the study of animals 'experimentally in-Japanese servant will go along an to date in the Hongkong Oriokot are therefore assured of playing son."

mesaboy. Capt. Chapman said Club Tennis Championship:— footed with some diseases has been instrumentil in saving much he expected to make the voyage Singles Handicap & ClaBament, us they have yet two more remand Mrs. Jacobs for eight current year a sum of £300,000 mortality and suffering in max and animale, and they believe that of 14,000 miles in about 100 1st round, R. F. O. Master owes games to play. The first to meet days for the doctor to report upon has been placed at the disposal of

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2-6, beat Col. Hamilton, ser, 6-3, were Private Phillippa of the the state of her mind, but later the Ministry of Public Works.

The prompt inauguration of Voluntoors and Gunner Goodman on in the day Mr. Jacobs' solicitor the discoveries already made justify the hope that by the same

83 Co. R..A,, the former won by stated that the lady's mental con- the great undertaking has been methods medical knowledge may yet be extended... Also, they feel

greeted with general satisfaction, For three and one-half years 2nd Round, A. N. Joseland 05, making breaks of 11 (twice), dition was quite right-

Mr. Jacobs himself, in asking and while no one would pretend that as long as public opinion sanctions the infliction on animals of George B. Covall, his wife and owes 3-6 beat A. O. E. Elborough 10 (three times), 31, 12 (three

two children have been travelling owos 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, Worcester times), and 13. Goodman made the magistrate not to inflict hard- that Lord Kitchener was the first pain in pursuit of sport and in other ways, it would be inconsistent around the earth, their only, reo. 48, beat Paymaster Parker 14 (twice) and 17. The second ship upon his wife, said she con- to see the necessity of improved pair wore Private Bishop of the ceived it her daty to her children drainage, it is recognized on all and unreasonable to go further than they have done in limiting ex-capital a ton or so of collar but spr. 2-6, 02, 0-7

tons. They arrived at New York Doubles Handicap, A Class Volunteers and Gunner Caine, R. to support this movement. For hands that the thanks of the periments designed to result in alleviating or preventing suffering on March 8. In June, 1908, Covall lat Round, E. R. Halifax and G.A., the game was very even until a long time persons like his wife country are due to the British This report should prevent further discussion in the immediate concluded that he would like to A., E. Sutherland Bor, beat 8. E. the 100 mark was passed when had been under the influence of Agent for the active manner in which he took up and has put future, though we note that the anti-vivisection party decline to ad-ess the world. He had invented Green and Viveish owe 15-3, Bishop rapidly drew away and the leaders, mit that the report is conclusive. But that, after all, was to be a collar button and, shipping a 6-2, 6-I.

the game by his Mr. Fordham, in sentencing into execution a sobome of which expected. The more important thing is that the great body of public ton of them ahead of him, he 2nd Round Commander bost hranks were 18, 10 (four Mrs. Jacobs to amonth'simprison the result must be to increase to started witlr his family. He sold Brooke and Commander Darling times), 11 (twice) 14, 13, 23, 25 ment with hard labour, and be an enormous extent the value of opinion that had not formed an opinion, either way has now some buttons in aim at every country rec, 16-1 beat. Commander Ward and 24. Caine best efforial sing was thoroughly worny for her agricultural land and wil

wealth of Egypt. thing tangible upon which to found one,

in the old world.

and Lawas Attwood sor, 7-5, 0-1, 10, 17, 14, 15 and 11⁄2

Collar Button Capital.

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