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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1912.

DAY BY DAY.

A man's wisdom is his bost

| friond; folly his worst enemy, a

Naval News.

MISS MIRIAM MONTEITH

IN HONGKONG:

APPEARS ALMOST GAY AND ́LIGHT-HEARTED.

H.M.S. Adas has arrived at To Serve Time in Victoria' Gaol Woibaiwoi.

three months.

Pocket Picking. At the Police Court to-day a pickpocket was sent to gol for

~ Snatching. A man who snatched nu ar ring from a woman in the East oud was sentenced to six weeks' at the Police Court to-day,

"Returned To-day.

Mr. and Mrs. A. 1.Urapnell returned by tlie China. to-day from Japan, where they have been sponding a holiday,

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Fire Brigade's New Motor. The Fire Brigado made a trial run with their new motor engine early this afternoon. The route followed was along Queen's Road and up Duddelt Street:

Alleged Attempt to Choke a Sorgent. The Indian Constable charged yostorday with endeavouring to choko an Indian Sergeant, was again before Mr. Trying, to-day, and fined $10.

Thelt from the Naval Yard At the Police Court, to-day, sentence of six weeks' hard labour and four hours' stocks was pissed on a man found guilty of stealing two pieces of brass valued ten cents from the Naval Yard

Mails Arrived.

HONGKONG'S AMUSE- MENT POSSIBILITIES.

Some Striking Needs Pointed

Out-

[Special Artiolo]

and con

COMMENTS,

work and no play would have a NOTES AND depressing, not to say ultimately disastrous, effect on the communi- went a few, degrees further and Barry's Chance ty, and it is high time that we

realised that if young men are

To-morrow Ernest Barry and deb xrail from spending their Richand Arnst are to row from ovoniuge healthily in the open

THE KWANGTUNG FLOODS.

80.000 PEOPLE HOMELESS.

Two points about Hongkong air they will, without a doubt, Richmond to Mortlake for £500

even the most spend thom unhealthily and and a side-stake of £100, I ATelegraph reporter whoso must strike

elsewhere. spite of the fact that Ainat wou privilege it was to see Miss unobservant visitor before he has hypocritically

beon in the Colony a week; (a) S..H. W.

when they met on the Zambesi, Monteith before she entered the the comparatively fowrational

there seems to be a fairly proval gaol nt. Hongkong this morning diversions and amusements which

out feeling amongst sportainen at writes At dawn this morning it offers; and (b) its ominont

Home, that Le tables will be turned on this occasion. Since Miss Monteith arrived from readiness, in point of posi Shanghai by the s.s, Linan, in the ion, construction,

thut defont Barry has twice custody ofetective Murphy, figuration to meet the needs of those to whom the light and Is the detective's office I saw pleasurable side of life is virtually

Taking Refuge in Tret-topesucoessfully defended his title of English Champion-in May of her smilingly and good humoura necessity. odly detailing the list of her Of course the resident of Our Culou correspondent last year against William Albany property to Detective Murphy long standing has his own writes under date of yesterday to of Les Bridge, and in September Her elbows on the desk, and hor cielo of friends, his clubs the effect that further details against W. H. #Fogwell white teeth flashing as she smiled sporting or social; and, for which have coine to hand respect- Australia. Ho may not win to upon the scribbling oflicur, she him, an occasional visit to a ing the disastrony floods in morrow, but he should at least appeare1 more like a WOIDAN cinematograph show or to the various districts of the Province making a complaint against Home stray performance of some tour-lell a terrible tale of suffering and give Arnst any oven closer fight, disobedient amah or dishonest ing theatrical star or company privation. The Lo Kat dykes than on the last occasion. He is coolie than a woman about to say fills up all the spare crannies and have been partly washed away the prettiest und most graceful good bye to liberty for nine months, spacos. For the newcomer orby the floods, and the hole, creat sculler in the world, and his fine-

the person who is merely spended by the force of the influx of watermanship should go a long ing a couple of days here, matters water measures over 300 foot in

way towards making victory his She looked rather pule and her are different, and it is greatly to extent. Hundreds of houses have white blouse heightened

the bo foarei fluit, on three hundret been washed away, while a similar this occasion. pallor of her checks, but her oyas days or nights out of the three number are inuninted. The seemed so merry that one could hundred an Isixty-five, ourstring-number of people drowned in the The Kwangtung Floods. barely conceive that she was or or sojourner will look in vain twenty-two villages surrounded under BontonCo Sand wae for any distraction boyoud that by these dykos is unknown at shortly to answer to number. offered by a billiard table or a present, but altogether over 80,000 people are rendered home She wore a panama hat with a moving-picture display.

less. These are taking refuge in Why Not An Esplanade ? the troos of on the roofs

stroll from the Happy and One glance along the so-front, They' aro exposed to rain

Looked Palo.

black band, a soft collar and black tie, black skirt and silk

The floods in the province of Kwangtung, to which reference was made in this column the other day, appear to be even more widesproid and calamitous then was at first supposed. According

Valley to West Point, or one run patiently for relief. The ories of

qui, but are waiting to our Canton, correspondent, with the Siberian mail; 8.8."China trunks and travelling-rng wore on the Star Ferry boits will son- ngony of the poople can be hoard some 80,000 ure renderot home-..

vince us that this ought not to miles away.

Altogether the

The following mails arrived to shoes of the same sombre colour, days. Linan, from Shanglui, relieved by silk bows. Her cabin from San Franciero, Japan, and lying near.

less and are taking refuge in Shanghai, with the Siberian mail; The Court Yard was full of 4.6. Taming, from Manila; 6.6. Europeans and Chinese, but few be; that, in point of fact, Hong- losses to proporties, etc., amount treetops and on roofs. What sufferingethey are enduring, from HODGSON-COWDEROY-At George's Church, Penang, on Changsha from Manila and Aus-had nay idea that the woman kong would lend itself almost 38 to $1,200,000. June 15, 1012, by the Rev. Frank W. Haiùsɛ, Mc. Reginald Hodgeon, tralia.

who ha l aroused so much interest readily to festivity and gaiety.ne Tsing Sing is also inundated, exposure to rain and sun, and from hunger, can be imagine). Manager of the Malaysia Rubbor Co., Sungkai, Perak, to Miss K. A. Roguo and Vagabond.

was practically within ear-abat of Ostend, Spa or Trouvillo. Taking and the city is several feet under (hut not adequately. What is tho At the Police Court to-day, be- thom. After the entry had been

the, Praya, from Messra. Butterwater, Over 500 houses have leathroll, it is impossible at Cowdoroy.

DORNTON DUFF-WEIGALL.—On Saturday, June 15, at St.fore Mr. Melbourne, a Chinese made in the polies books, and Geld's office as far as tlio P. and been washed away, and the suppresont to suy. Meantime urgent Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, by the Rev. Koppel Garniar; was prosecuted by Inspector the customary farmalities had. jetty, and religiously packing ply of rios is running short,

off all janke and sampans to some Archibald Dornton Duff, of Mulace, to Dorothea Mary Luch McHardy for being a rogue and boon concluded, she was led by

Heavy rains fell continually ppeals for help are being nude Woigall, older daughter of and Mrs. Stanley Weigall, of Beighton, vagabond. He was sent to gol the detective, who had hor in spot where they would be better for several days in Shek Lung and a relief bureau has been for one mouth with hard labour, charge, into the gaol. Before leavppreciated, we have at once the district and the houses in the city "pened. But holp must come and was ordered to be put in the ing the office she not cost in beginnings of a magnificent os-are under water up to the roofs, speedily and generously if it is to

reliere immediato suffering. stocks for our le un

harmony with hop skier. As she plan ide which, in course ofgeirs, Over 100 houses live Leen washed Quarantine Restrictions With-

passed down the gangway she might be made to stretch perlips away and, unless the weather drawn from Hongkong.

smiled at an ofliver leaning

another mile westwards. Already improves, the traflio of the Canton- A Record Cargo, It is satisfactory to noto that owing to the existence of cholera "goodbye" and she smiled

raply. and small-pox, quarantine restrin. tions against the ports of Bassein and Hongkong on account of cholera and small-pox, respective ly, ore withdrawn,

[178 DEATH. SENNA-On June 23, 1912, at 2,3) je m., n37 Olmouloong Rond, Shanghai, Judith Lina, the balovód wife of V. F. Sonna. [479

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* HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1912.

PREJUDICE ENTHRONED.

while Bombay is declared infected against the rails, He wished her wo have some fine spaces rouad Kowloon Railway will probably ¦ ¦ Something like a c.rge of

Personal The "N. China Daily News" Wuhu correspondent writes: Our new Commissioner of Cus- toms, Mr. E. Alabaster, arrived a few wooks ago, ant is already very popular, having thrown his beautiful garden and tennis court open to the sporting members of the community.

Dr. Nijhuls' Appeal.

in

ipples has been sent from Tas about the Club and the Courts of be disorganized. Justice, and those might exsily be In Wei-yeong, floods also monia to London, by the Essex. furnished with chairs that one occurred, and dostroyed nearly all The liner carries the equivalent A Sad Moment.

could hire for five or ten cents. the rice crops.

of an apple each for the combined Home, That smile was the only india in the Parks at

The committee of the Nine populations of Greater London, cation of sadness I could per- and with a band-stand that never Charitable Institutions in Canton New York, Paris, Chicago, and ceive, and it was sufficient. Tillneed lack tenants so long as a has already organize a Burenu Tokyo, and then has a balance thon I had felt that she was treat-liner is in port or a regiment for the relief of the sufferere ver of some 207,000. In all sho ing the affair as though it was a ¦ in barracks. The present Telegrams have boen dispatched has 19,500,000 upplos. This great joke. That smile held as construction known as Blake Pier, to the Tung Wa Hospital in apple freight alone was worth much of sadness in a woman of too, might be lengthened and Hongkong and to the Kang W something like £10 000. A mom• hor nature as the sous and sighs expanded into something more Hospital in Macao asking the ber of the firm of Garcia, Jacobs of the moro demonstrative. She unposing than it is at present; committees of this hospitals to endeavoured to carry the whole but that in matter that could be raise subscriptions towards the thing through to the end with a left for future consideration; for relief of the sufferors. The Tong light heartedness that seems to the moment we are tonching only Wa Hospital is also requested to To those who have followed British politics with any degree of

have become characteristic. She on improvements that could be Jospatel tolograms to the Chinese thoughtfulness in recent years, the spread of Imporial ideals must

did not walk, but strolled into the carried out at a nominal cost. residents abroad, asking them to be among the most noticeable developments observed. While there. Another appeal by Dr. Nijhuis gaol as though it were tho recep- Again, as has been pointed out romit money for the purpose of aro “Little Englanders" still to be found, it is refreshing to perceive in his suit against the Siak In-tion hall of a hotel. But the morequently by the Press, the town saving the sufferore, tlust very few are loft among those who occupy the highest positions drapoora Rubber Concessions, men tary thought of a hotel was still has no theatre worthy the in the Empire. Even the present Government at Home has become Ltd., was heard in the British dispelled by the elong of the iron infected by the all-conquering movement, until we now have what Full Court at Shanghai on Juno galos that shut her from the would have been thought impossible a few years since-namely, u 24. The appeal consisted of world and froodem. Liberal Ministry made up almost exclusively of declaro! imperialists. objections to the judgment recent- Gratifying as this is, it is to be feared that there are ample grounds by handed down. The Assistant for the assertion that those at the head of the Government have stil Judge, Mr. Bourne, said, as leave THE FOKFULUM MURDER much to learn in this direction—that they have, na yet, not entirely had been given to appeal direct shed the petty an1 circumscribed ideas by which their political to the Privy Council, to act on conduct has been marked for many a long year. Thore.are exceptions, this appeal would be to act in a of course, but in the main the statement is all too true.

matter which was sub judico to If we turn to the question of Imperial trade we shall see the the Privy Council, a decision in

con-

CASE.

nome; nogo, at least, that a first. class touring company, having once experienced it, would care to visit a second time.

were not

MR. ALABASTER REBUKED.

Counsel Falls to Find the Ready

Answer.

and Company, one of the largest fruit dealera at Covent Garden, pointed out that although this happened to be a record for one hip, the market was accustomed o even larger supplies coming simultaneously from a number of vassola, and that the consignment lid not in any way constitute & glut. A.Blutement of that kind roulises for as what Covent Gar don really is.

THE WAH JUNK FOR AMERICA.

Return to Shanghai.

Where is the Fault? But it is idle to talk of struc- uralterations so long as the mind of the European population Au amusing passage occurred is (as presumably it is) fet nga styostertiny in the Supreme Court. rational pleasures. An in the case of U. LA. Mohideen Before Mr. Irving at the Police bandetand, an idle pier, a. ls, the Coronition Garage Mr. point. illustrated. It will be recalled that at the Imperial Conference which the Chief Judge, Sir Iavil: Court, this afternoon, the four vard without merry loungers or Mohideen in the witneat box was

en charged with murder as pleasure-boats without passengers giving evidence in Tamil, and, in!

As we announced in our tole- fast year a resolution was agreed to, on the initiativo of Sir Wilfrid land de Sausmarez, assented,

Pokfulam, wore again placed in would rouder the Colony more the course of the cross-examins Fang, which left Shanghai on gram, the Chines war junk Tai Laurier, urging the appointment of a Royal Commission, represent;

Lost in a Typhoon. This afternoon the Puisne the duck. Mr. Hadgson (Assis- dismal oven than it is.The Lion. Mr. Alabaster asked:-- ing the self-governing states of the Empire, to investigate and report

Jimo 7 for San Francisco has on the resources, development and trade of the various parts of the Judge, Mr. Justice Gompertz, int Crown Solicitor) put Dr fault, dear Bratus, is not in our "I put it to you that Marican limpire, and the extent to which that trade had beon affected by heard a claim brough by the Lo Leary of the Government Civil stars, but in ourselves" if was present at every tuceting." gono ashore, and for the time be

Hongkong People

ng it is foured that the project existing legislation. Evidently fouring a set-back to their pro Yuen-hung, trading as the Hung Hospital into the box.

Mr. Shenton attended on behalf" careful and trouble" about aliould not make up stories like Asistance has now been despatch-

"No",

", was the reply. "You will have to be aband nod. conceived notions, the Government incorporated in the resolution Cheong-shing, against the Chai an amendment requiring that any recommendations must be “ Keo firm for $305 being the of the relatives of the deceased. petty social distinctions, and were this."

Dr. Leary, of the Government not more or less gaddled by a

nd to the vessel. sistent with the fiscal policy of each part." Since that time the balance due for goods sold and

Civil Hospital, said he remem-suspicion of grey and gruesome

The Court smiled.

According to the particulars to Commission has been appointed and has hold three sittings, and delivered to the defendant.

Mr. Potter That is evidently hand, says the "N. China Daily from the brief mosunge with which we have boon supplied in reference Mr. Lewis appeared for the bered Lam Shum being admitted Puritanism, things might be

a very litoral translation.

News, "the junk, which left to the last of these it is clear that the Government still intends to plaintiff but the defendant was under his care. Ho had incised different, and we might have an Mr. Albastor:-I am afraid prevent any examination of the probablo effects of a variation in our unrepresented.

wounds on both hands and a mark orensional carnival or water-felo, that my knowledge of Tamil will Singh with a fir wind to He possibly an open-air theatrical not permit of a reply (laughter), after being a low days out, and help her encountered foul weather. present fiscal system, inasmuch as it has now been decided definitely Judgment was given against under his right eyebrow. that any enquiry into the tariff laws is excluded by the Commission's the defendant who pleaded that could not say for certain if performance; nay, might we not Mr. Potter: The witness progress was very slow. Tho terms of referance. And thom, of course, have been largely shaped he had lost his books in a ty- the cuts were caused by a even go to the wild extent of ovidently thinke that counsel chat was coached towards last Ho was not braiseditiog on the Esplanade and makes up his cross-examination week-end when a high wind blew phoon, but nevertheless chal-

or injured in any other way. discussing a bottle of boer al as he goes along. I have known the vessel towards Trungming It is too well-known to need laboured recapitulation that the enged the plaintiff's accounts.

The conductor of the tramcar fresco ? Culonies are only eager and anxious to assist Imperial cohesion by

which the firat defendant is said To one who can lay no claim

Island where she went ashore in entering into closer commercial and tradal unity, and even Mr.

to have endeavoured to board in to familiarity with the facts of

five feet of water. As Taungin Sydney Buxton recently told the ropresentatives of the Chambers of Commerce of the Empire assembled in London that uniformity of

order to escape, deposed that the the case it is,a little surprising BOGUS HOSPITAL CASE, ing leland is but some twenty man in question did try to board that the Portuguese, French and

my five miler from Woosung, it is Customs and laws, the removal of impediments to commerce, and

by the Government.

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THE DUMPING CASE.

Woman Convicted.

knife.

it done.

her course. The news of the

Yesterday afternoon the woman his car. He heard whistles blow- German elementa within the The man who was charged at appiest that the junk made- other desirable reform, were well worthy of adoption. But how who was charged with dumping ing when he was stopped at Colony have not imparted some the Police Court earlier in the very little progress indeed, unfees the Imperial Commission is adequately to grapple with problems such as these if it is to be debarred from analysing the effects of the the dead body of a child in Wil Western Street. It was there the of their olgaracteristic brightness week with obtaining money by of course she was blown out of varying tarriff laws operating throughout the Empire, it is difficult mer Street, was fined $25 or in man jumped on to the car. He and love of outdoor festivity false pretences by representing misli, Joacha Shanghai

default ono month, by Mr. E. Amped on to the wrong side to our more sombre British that he was colleoting for a hoe to understand. If the Government woro not slavishly bound to Irving. In passing sentence, the the side where the chains were brethren Surely, in a climate like pital called Po Chai, which was Sunday and the Shanghai Free Trade, but were willing to give the Commissionera full play Magistrate observed that the Witness asked him to come to the this, we might allow ourselves to proved by the polics not exist, & Lighter Co. nating on in pursuing their investigations, even though their recommendations might involve a departure from hide-bound custom, then the results offence was a very serious one proper side of the car. The man borrow from Continentale a little appeared before: Afr, Irving, this tious, sepi tho tog of their labours might well be of the very greatest benefit to tite because the Government had sent looked very frightened and jump-of the sweetness and light that morning. He was rentenced to istagon The Empire, as a whole, As things, are, only half what might be bed. There was no exouse in

out notices that it had to be stop- ed off again, a

Four ton commoroinlly madel tix months hard labour, four of Other witnesses were calledfathers Iendly believed's

(they, poliloved can be accomplished. And all because of the stubborn tos of what the Government had upon. The ouse had not conclude, lispense with Wear couhi) hours stooks, an I ordered to be as a rebel exposed on et le tue Tunge Wab preludioca of a little knot of Cabinet Minin torg.

'ed when we want to