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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 10, · 1912.

DAY BY DAY.

Presentation.

A presentation is to be made" this evaning at the Police Recro- We must be doing something ation Club to Mr. John Quin to be happy.

Liu Shih-hsun. Mr. Liu Shih-heun, formerly minister to Paris, is now in Peking. He was sent for by the President.

atoward of the Hongkong Club who will be the recipient of a purse of gold,

THE SHEWAN, TOMES JUDGMENT.

managers' agreement. Ilia. Lord- NOTES AND

ship found that this amount had. been used for the purposes of the company and considered" that

COMMENTS.

In delivering his judgment on May 3 at Shanghai in the cnss of their employment was not un-The Colonial Secretaryship.

The "Straits Times" is up in Messrs. Showan, Tomes & Co. v. reasonable so that claim failed. G. H. Thomson, as liquidator of lle gave judgment on the other arms concerning the comments of the Wbangpoo Wharf and Clown items of the countor-clim, which in correspondout of the London Interport Swimming Sports.

Co., Ltd., Sir llavillan 1 de Sins-had been agreed to, amounting Times" who argued that officials The Committer of the V.R.C.marez, Chief Judge, said that it to Tls, 4,000 Shanghai Mer-ina Colony should be promoted have invite the Shanghai Row-was necessary for Tani Wa to obcury. ing Club and the International in a firm of standing as tho Club to join with them in the general managers of the wharf Princess Odoscalchi of Italy is inter-port swimming sports, to be

company, which he proposed to passing thought Hongkong on the held in September, on a date to incorporate, and an agreement was P. and 0.88. Oriental ou hore fixed inter. way to Europe.

Princess Passes Through.

Peking's Unemployed.

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The Cuiness hotels at Peking hava czél somo 1000 guost. The For over 30 Years WATSON'S 'E' has maintained Capital is crowded with prople who want to get employed by the now Governarent.

the reputation of the FINEST SCOTCH WHISKY in the FAR EAST.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1912.

CHINA AND MARRIAGE.

In the current "National Review" a Chinese student disease, with extrang lunry insight, the question of matrimony as hitherto

Sports Postponed.

The Bys' Orb Club sports that were to have taken place on Empire Bay have lævn postponed | until Why Mon lay, us the former date is no longer, a public holiday.

Lottery Tickets,

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Mr... Oran's.. Visit

Battalion

KOYLI

To Kill Yuan."

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Yuan Ke-ting.

German Launch fired at by- Chinese.

rather thin havo an outsider brought in. It. points out that, when Sir John Anderson recom-

THE DEADLY INSULT.mended the late Mr. W. D. Barnes last year, ho did so. as the result

entured into with plaintiff's by Man Who knew he was not a which it was provided that, in the Married Wom. ovant of the company boing form- off, the general manngers should

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of certain representations made to him, prosumably after a con- clusión had beon arrived at that Wit, brilliant und seintillating service were quite suitable." noue of the non in the Hongkong

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The Din Ye Pao" learns that Yuan Ke-ting, elitest, sou of the President, only sustained a slight not hired in eget upon terms radiated in the Migistracy this When the untimely death of air. injury in the right shoulder and contained in paragraphsix. The morning when a caso enme before Barnes rendered the 'Colonial neck. The report that ho suffer-object of this clauso was to give (Mr, Irving in which S. Ackbar, ... a serious injury is without fixity of tenure Ho as to prevent our stive writer in the Naval Secretaryship again vacant, Sir grounds, His horso shied when their being turned out alter they Yard, was summoned by Alisa John Anderson wisinhis new pos he tried to shoot, some birds in had devoted their energies to M. Mohamed for seng in-tion of Permanent Secretary of the forest.

making the company successful.sulting language likely to greate

State for the Colonies; and our con- Tram line Repairs and so depriving them of the breach of the pure, on May 5, temporary regards it as reasonable to assume that Sir John Anderson The defondant brought cross would conclude that the same Much incavenience, is boingToward of their labour. caused to both pedestrians nud Scheme Practically Abandoned, •| action, summoning Utree wonton |conditions hold as beforo and, vohicular trallie just now by the After the selems of working for using insulting and thres that he would naturally turn to ara being held up at the tempor- the wharf by a company wastening language, Thoro wore Malaya to find a man who had At the Magistracy, this morning ary crossing on the tracle near the practically abandoned, Tom Waothor women joined in the sun had to deal with Chinese, a Chinese was elrigged with King Edward Hotel where the opened negotiations with the one-mons or both sides.

Mr. W. E. L. Shonión appeared The rates of Salseription to the "Hongkong Telegraph " will having in his possession a num car track is being repaired. Weral managers regarding the bo as follows:-

ber of tickets for the Po Pai wonder if it would not bo tuore waiver of their commission, and of behalf of the prosector and A Defence of Mr. Severy.

Sir John Anderson, says our Lottery which he was solling as convenient and expeditious to he receive Pa rojly that the gene. Mr. Russ defended.

effect Micke alterations at night, à ral madagorn

view of At the outset, söme question contoinporary, wasa sprtinet who agent. Be was fined $250.

method adopted with success in the very porious Ions he arose as for the personality of one ontored the service by means of a Sleeping While on Ďuty.

most cities.

had alrendy sulfôred did tot of the, defondants mentioned in competitive examination and was The watchman employed by

Bijou Theatre.

intend exacting the 2.1-2 por dent, the sunimons, "sho" being de-nuel nituched to the systent. Mr. the South China Morning Post Co, Ltd, was charged at the

An altoration which is worth commission on the purchase price scribed as a married wonna while Severn, therefore, had to do years. Magistracy this morning with noticing has been effected in this covered by their agreement, man had appeared to answer the of hard and sond work before Sir

this agres charge.

Joli admitted that he was na * sleeping while on duty on April character of the entertainment 'aragraph, four of

The Magistrate: Who is the good as if lio halimarched through 130 at 2 am. He was fined ton offered by Mr. Stephenson, the ment provi fod that the company

the front porch, Clearly tho dollars,

Manager of this popular house, should have an option of ter- fourth defendant?

Mr. Shenton: Hois suppood to Government should be strict in The vaudeville of the programme minuting the agreement upon has been eliminated, and the the 'appening of certain events be a married woman-Lughtor) avoiding admissions to the public W. Adams Orn, the Chief 1-show is now purely Cinemanget which was the sale or Mr. Russ: It obviously can service by side doors whon Par- spector for the Hongkong and

graph. Me. Stephenson has batransfer for the whole of the not bo him because wo put" Darliament has expressly established Shanghai Banking Corporation often tell that the variety turns company's property and under-ried woman" in the summons a main entrance, but it seems to roturned to the Colony, yesterday from Canton, where he has been keep many of the Hongkong aking, upon payment of a sum The man ought not to come here as that to raise the question of inspecting on behalf of the Bank, public away from the Cinemato equivalent to 2.1.2 per ent. of at all. Ile knows that he is not how a man cano in when he has been doing good forvico for near- Mr. Ocan leaves to-morrow by the graphs, and that a really high-the purchase price, such suma married woman, (Laughter.)

The Magistrato: Ho knows hely twenty years is straining a. P.&O. steamer Oriental for class Pisture-Show would be not to be less than 2.1-2 por cont Rangoon, from which place a certain of success. He is therefore of Ts. 1,250,000, Paragraph six is not women at all, (Laughter). principle at the wrong point. The man was asked to loare He is entitled, then, to be taken giving it a trial, and is hopeful provided that everything con

purely and simply, upon his will proceed to London on holiday of success. To suit this altern-tained in the agreement should the court.

Bad Blood.

inerits, and that, we believe, was tion in the programmo specia! be applicable in every respect,

According to Mr. Russ, the sum-what was done in the case of Mr. Lieutenay ↑ B. 16binson. Yok-arrangements base hon nude not only to the company but to shire Light lafantry, has resign-for the supply of pictures from any of its successors.

mens arose out of matters that Claud Severu." That is, at least, od his commission. He was the three boat firms in America, Sale Forced on the Company, had our before, been hoard by vigorous defench. latterly serving with the 2nd England and the continent, His Lordship found that the the Magistrates. Those matters

Cork. Socmud- From May 10 to the end of waiver alleged to have bron had koon settled, bui apparently The Prompter. Lioutoant . C. Wynne, York-September there will bo a sprei-made by the plaintiffs was in its there had been a good deal of A good story is going the shiro Light Infantry, has been al reduction in the prices of terms conditional and that it did feel'ngand bad blood between the rounds concerning the late Mr. promoted to the ruck of Lieu-admission.

nutamount to an absoluto contract parties. It appeared that the Alexander Muirhead Aitken, some tonant after a service of fur and

to waive. Altor dealing with the plaintiff called to sen the delen time leader of the Singapore Bir, a half years.

course of the company's going dont about somo, payment he had says the "obe." It is told by a into liquidation and the deal to make and in the course of some class-mato who was with Aitken Quoting from Chinese sources, An almost incredible incident, with the Oaks Syndicate, His conversation Ackbar became an at Bathgate Academy in 1835. the "Hankow Daily News" an- which reminds one of the danger Lordship said that this sile was noyed at something the plaintiff flo was prompting a boy, who ounces that Tieh Liang, the form-ous times of the recent revolution forced on the company and was said and suggested that she would was floundering in his Latin, and er Manche War Minister, is trynas occurred on the river acar not such a sale as was contemplat do better if she did not take so thereby conferred a nickname understood in China. The note on which he finishes is, "Of all the ing to kill Yu Shih-kai. The Yochow says the "Hankow layed at the time of the agreement. much interest in other people which lasted out his school time, influoncos that affect the character and morals of a man, the greatest Viceroy of Chihli hus captured News." The steamianchi Li Ho, The object of the clause was affairs. Some two or three hours Qui trans inte varruat," said is his homo-filé,"-a-sentiment that, trit and truistic though it may his two sous and has sent then the property of Messrs. Carlowitz to prevent the general mana after, the complainants came the ad, unprepared. sound in European curs, is brimful of significance when it proceeds to Peking as security for Yuan's & Co., flying the Gernina fuggers being turned out by the round in rickshaws and stood who run or travel across the soa from, an Oriental; may, a significant that, if we would believe that life. The sime paper states that while on her way from Changsha shareholders after they had made outside the defendant's house us across the sea-mutant culam-

all officials of the War Chiao to Hankow and conveying some the company a success. It was ing most filthy language and mutant the anonymous writer has any appreciable following among his fol- Pu Foreign Office) at Reking foreign members of their firm, admitted by Mr. Rutherford that threatening Ackbar with what cabbages," whispered Sandy low-countrymen, we should consider that the real well-being of have-adopted-foreign dress.-- was fired at from a couple of at the time the agreement was they would do to hit if he came Aitken. Raise cabbages," China was on the highway to realisation and ultimato perfection,

juuks full of Chinoso soldiers, draw, the question of liquidation out of the house. They stand out-repeated his victim engerly; and Having, in homely phrase, got the right, sow by the car, of At 2'aan, this morning PC. Though the steamlaunch stopped owing to the failure of the co-side for twenty minutes and more he became Cabbage" forthwith course he is not blind to the fact det political and social reform Pattison arrested hawker to allow the soldiers to come on pany had never been contemplat-Chinese came up and joined and thenceforward."

11 Fong board, these incessantly fired ted. Clauso four was intended in, afterwards going away, but ant must necessarily interact: "if you improve or dobase the one," he outside the. Knu says, "you unconsciously affort the other." So long as China without having a liennes. The about forty shots-gave the pass- of its property as a going concern, a watch for him and give him Back to the Wickets.

thontre for selling bamboo shoots her and the shower of billets to apply to a sale by the company before they had threatened to keep

Rauji's" reappearance on the tolerates domestic customs that make the Western concept of man became violent and assaulted songers and crow a hot tine not a sale by the liquidator, he beating when he came out. In "home" an impossibility to her, there is little likelihood of her his captor, injuring the constable's One shot wont through the cost cause the company could not be those circumstances he was in cricket field at Ilone on the evo boing able to set her political house in that order for which hor bast right thumb. As a result he of the sodah, and escape, was carried on. Clause six, however considerable danger and might be of the Triangular Tests is most mon are longing. The European marriage system is, the writer appeared to answer two charges only made possible by the launch did apply to the presont cireum-sol upon at any time. Conse-interesting. Since thie, days, six at the Magistracy to day, and on going at full spool. The instances because it provide that quently he wanted them bound yours ago, when he succeeded his cousin as Maharaj ih of Nawana- frankly owns, superior to that of his compatriots, even when all the first he was let off with acident was reported to the Cus the company should see the; their over.

gar, the dusky Prince has been sides of the matter have received due consideration; superior, he caution but for the assault was toms House at Chonglin, a well successors carried out the gren- An Unhappy Phrase- might have added, because, pare the growls of the cynics, perfect given one month's hard labour as to the Gorman Consul at Han-ment and therefore it was the duty

greatly missed in English cricket- kow who sent a strong protest to of the company to see that their outlined by Mr. Shenton was that be relied upon to torvo up some The case for the plaintiff sing circles, for he could always mutual love and perfect unanimity of interests, are at least possible and four hours' stocks.

General Li Yuan hung.

successors provide the general there was a money loan asso-attractive batting. The Prineo is --oven though they be not common-to the European morried Two Chinese were arrested on

Managers with the position hold ciation of which Ackbar and his still on the youthful sile of 40, couple; whorens such things are unthinkablo under the existing the ss. Hoiting on a charge of

by them under the agreement, wife were members. Ackbar was and it is good to read that this Chinese regime.

stooling a quantity of clothing MR A. SASSOON'S WILL.

to pay for his wife and when the work at the note he displays his The root of the trouble fios, he maintains, in parents' onjoying the valued at $12 from one of the

Consequently the general amn-money became due the complain-uld-time ease of style and no undisputed right to arrange" the marriages of the young people passengers. The passenger, dis-

agers were entitled to claim for ant went round to the defondant's curacy in timing balls. During Probato, has now been granted damages for breach of clause six house for the payments. While his career be has made close on and even while they are you little more than childron. "A few covering his loss, reported the hours of conversation, and the thing is done; and, from the day of matter, and the baggage of the of the will of Mr. Arthur A. D. but not for the commission pro at the house the defendant des- 70 conturies in first-class cricket. the engagement to the welding-day, the young people are not whole of the people on the ship Sassoon, merchant banker, of allowed to exchange oven a glance." What wonder that cononbin was examined with the result that Mesars. Pavid Sasson & Co., a vided under clause four. His cribed the complainant as the On his first appearance for Su810x her argument on the question of able daughter" which he, Mr.M.C.C., and that year be only too often the subsequent portion of a husband and wife with the prisoners. To-day at who died on March 13, aged damages and remarked that seve Shenton, was told ws a great ended his age for the one and loneliness and misery for the other, are the missing bundle was found intimute friond of King Edwaril, Lordship said he would like to "thirty-five year old unmarriage in 1895 he knocked up 150 against team's averages with tho whose wedlock has thus boon brought about whether the the Police Court one of the men soventy-two years.

bat, He has parties live in China or (for examploy in Franco ?

was found guilty and sentencod

The complainant later wont twice been champion batsman He loft estate of the value of ral parts of the defence were in insult to a Mahomme dan lady. tho not.ro of technical doloncos too, there is the case for the offspring resulting from marriages of to six weeks hard labour, while 650,864, exclusive of real estate but inasmuch as the general man round to Ackbar's house to get of England-in 1806 and agein in Chins, the value of which is this order. "Psychologically, children of parents who love each the other was discharged.

Irish Tobacco. not yot ascertained. The pro-agers were claiming a very large an apology and what happened in 1909; while in 1904 he knock- other are born with strong fibre, on which so much the national

The eleventh annual report of perty in, the United Kingdom/commission under circumstances then arose out of the insult given (od up over 2,000 runs and lad vigour of our futuro race depends," observes this showd student of

which had never been contemplat-her by Ackbar. men and matters; and, conversely, it is the experience of most of the Department of Agricultural amounts to 2376,804. The totaled at the time of the agreement Mr. Irving described the mat- as Europeans that the children of an unhappy union have almost and Technical Instruction for payment in death duties will be he considered thins the defendants tor ne very trivial and remanded invariably some twist or turn or taint-mental or moral; big or little Ireland states that in 1911 pipo about £120,000.

varieties of tobacco ware planted Mr. Sassoon left £20,000 for amply justified in raising any the case until next Thursday at --that must perforce affect their after career. ·

Finally, ho suggests the introduction into China of what is vir on 100 aeros, cigaretto varieties distribution among each charities defenço they could. The general 10 a.m. tually the English procedure in regard to courtship and marriage; on 28 notes, cigar varieties on five as lis trustees shall select. Un managers had already been paid namely: that no engagemont should be made prior to the age cores, and varieties for the pro-der this bequest Mr. Leopold de Tle. 7,000 as their remuneration and he thought that they had duction of nicotine on one nore. Rothschild, as executor and trus- about eighteen; that the betrothed should be allowed to meet fredly The crop would probably be the tee, has decided to allot £4,000 really been well paid for what Delhi is to be cold, tenders being and frequently; that couples who foresee futuro disageemont sunil not be compelled to marry; "that young people who have their boat, both as to average yield and for distribution in China and the they had done. In the counter-invited for the ship and cargo ideals in viow, should tell their parents," albeit the latters ganotion quality, that has been grown cast; 22,000 each to the London claim, defendant olsimed that the separately. to any engagement should still be necessary; and that there should since the beginning of the or- Hospital, the Metropolitan Hos- plaintiffs were not entitled to exist a court of law for the separating of those unhappily married. periments, were it not for the fact pital, N.E., and the Home and burden the company with salaries And certainly, it some such fashion as this be adopted by new was unavoidably injured by in- A large number of institutions employed between the time of Maru, which left Hongkong in in the following year he visited

that the tobacco on about 15 acres Hospital for Jewish Incurablog. 1 aid by plaintiffs is emplor China, wo shall look up does" without "overdoing."

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always promising that

Then,

Violent. Prisoner.

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The Missing Bundle.

her future as being indeed hopeful-sects and disezes.

Technical Defences.

"Delhi" for Sale. The wreck of the P. and O. 6.8.

Silk Delivered.

Silk ex 0.8. K. sir. Ci nada

will benefit finds the bequest,

the incorporation of the company March 30, was delivered in New and the adoption of the general York on May 7, am,

Those

"Raise.

an average of 74.17. When play. g "gainst Yorkshire in 1800 ho compiled two separate centurica in one day-100 and 125, the lattor not out. It was in this eouson' also ́that he scored three hundreds in succossion, n fent. which he twice repented in 1900,

"Ranji" lins also done, well in Test matches Playing for Enge

l»nd for the first timo, in 1806, against Australia at Manoboster he knocked up 154 not out nad Sydney with Stoddart's XI and mado a b