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GENERAL News.

Shanghai Customs Officer and Wife burled together.

THIRTY KNOTS AN HOUR.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1912

KIANGSU COAST

PIRATES

THE NEED FOR PRO- TECTION.

peration FIFTH MOON FEAST AT

WUCHANG

• Under theun join solame, says the

Press

the Chinese's Eng Mining Company and the Lan-

in

Hotels

The Fifth Moun feast was by the HONGKONG Hotel

feuate of the first, fifth and eighth

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Hongkong, 20th April, 1911.

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Truth's" naval expert writes; After reading accounts of thế

chow Mining Company will re- people celebrated much as usual speed trials of the now. German

main separuto, the alreholders on June lijstys the Shanghai In the presence of a large num-battle-cruiser Gooban I am con- ber of sorrowing friends the firmed in the opinion that the

Among the many sigus of the the Inter retaining their stock, Times," though many proclams

but the Chinese Engineering and tions were out denouncing it in double funeral took place at Lo "record" established by new absence of stable governinent and Vining Company will go into the strongest forms. Surely there Ka Wei cemetery, on July 1, after warships on such occasions are propor control in China, special liquidation and a new company is a famine of practical administ solemu High Mass at St. Joseph's often untrustworthy, and that attention noods to be drawn, says will be formed with a capital of rators. No one seems to hovo Church, of the late Mr. E. Ber- this is even more true of foreign the N. China Daily News, to $1,000,000. mard of the Chinese Customs sor trials then of our own. The Goethe state of piracy prevailing Six Per Cent Debentures, thought that the three Chinese vios, who died on the previous ben is supposed to have attained along the southern coast of morning and, his wife Eva who thirty knots an hour, "This Kinngen and the Chokinng The now Chinese Engineering moons are not really based ou died in the evening. The udde the account, "makes her the littoral. From time immemorial, and Mining Company will issue idolatry at all. They are the MANAGEMENT & CUISINE UNDER QUROPEAN MAYAI ¿MONT remains worn carried to the fastest German battleship" If of coures, the latter distriot hus per cent debentures, to the three national holidays of the graveside by old friends of the true, it would make her the fastest boon notorious for the predatory amount of £510,000 and about country, the three seasons of the 23 aged couple, the service being battleship in the world. But just habits of the inhabitants in many Tls. 4,000,000. The former sum, year when farmers are slack and conducted by end of the French consider. The Gooban is 22,000 districts from Tuichowia north will go to redeem the first and can take a day or two off. It isn't Fathers..

tons and 50,000 shaft horse wards: But two examples now recond debentures of the present any good commanding the peoplo The Kuangtung Bank. power. Our Lion is 20,350 occupying the attention of the company-mounting to £460,000 to observe these feaste in the Mr. Hu Han-mis, the Tutuh of tons and 70,000 shaft horse authorities point to a spirit of new and to provide £50,000 working months of January, Muy and capital for the joint adminis August How will the farmers Cauton, has a scheme on foot for power. Both vessels are engined and specul daring.

A RETROSPECT. tration. Out of the lattor sum be able to keep a foast in this the organization of a bank for the with Parsons turbines. It was as

Early in the present monil, one Tls. 2,000,000 will be paid to the busy spring or the still busier Cuisine under the supervision of an Experience! FRENCH UBEF, and province to be known as the much as the British ship could Kuangtung Bank. He has caused do to make her designed speed of of the vil junks belonging to the Langhow Mining Company. Tls. harvest season? To an outsider, separate Tables, Hot and Cold Baths, Electrio Light throughout. Terad to be issued prospectusos for the twenty-eight knots on her power Asiatic Petroleum Co. was captur-1.600,000 of which will go to pay whose Easter and Whitsuntide moderats, Fire: Clase accommodation for Famallies and Tourists.

For particular and ratas' apply to w subscription of its capital stook, tests in January last. Is it credited by pirats at a point nour the off debts of the latter company, feasts fall on different days in

Telephone, 170 Taligrama “Astor.”. He has also reported to the Cen-ble that the Germanship, on 20,- borderland line between Kiangsu The debentures will be secured successivo years, it seems, a very tral Government to this effect.000 horse-power loss, beat the and Chekiang. The junk con- by the properties of the two com-simple matter to fix Chinese feasts

Peking Daily News,"

OPEN AIR SKATING RIVK Lion by two knots? I no more tained: 3,000 tins of oil and the panies. After ten years the Lan-annually and therefore refrain Funds for Chinese Education.bolisyo it than I believed the pirates, having made themselves chow Mining Company is to from upsetting all the business

It is estimated that Tls. 5,000,- newspapers, when they credit masters of her, calmly sailed or have the right to purchase the arrangements of this people.

BELLE VIEW HOTEL Thors are fewer rumonts, those 000 are needed for Chinaso pro-ed the Lion with thirty-three along the coast, stopping or whole property of the Chinese "vincial education nunually. The knots."

different places, whore they sold Engineering and Mining Com- days and the city appears to be noravih Bal-doors, aro President of the Bureau of Educa-

the oil, and it was thus a week pany at a price to be mutually more tion is instructed to deviso menns

before the Company was informed reed upon. The profits up to having a bad time of it and com- Sessions: 10 to 13 Noor. 9. to 4 P. Admission 20 cents. to raise funds, apart from the salt

£300,000 are to be divided be-panies of soldiers continue to tween the two companies, the parade the city at night. Chinese Engineering and Mining Company getting 60 per cent. and the Lanchow Mining Com- pany 40 por cont. Any profita equally divided. A deliberating in excess of this amount will be board, consisting of three mem- bers from each company, is to be appointed in Tientsin within a WAN

7ANIED to buy the D:REC

tax and the Hankow indemnity,

which it has been proposed to use for this purpose.

To save the Kingchow Manchus, According to the "Poking Daily

ART.

Discovery of a Gainsborough.

Prepaid Advertisements.

ONE CENT PER WOR) for each inscenion

STORY, AND CHRONICLE

Telophone No. 07.

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THE TAIWAN RAILWAY HOTEL.

TAIPBH, FORMOSA.

of the loss. Suma feny days after the first on pture, another oil junk belonging to the same firm was seized in precisely the same manner. Information was laid with the British authorities in Ningpo Nowa," General Li has been asking expressed at the passing of sp has been made to trace the pi- Just whon so much regret is be- and Slinghal and every effort od to make arrangements to save many masterpieces from England, ratos. As a result of these efforts, the Kingehow Manchus from there is great satisfaction at the seme of the stelen oil has been destitution with the aid of Tls, discovery of a hitherto unrecord-recoverol and some of the people 200,000 contributed by three ofed Gaisborough, which may who bought it, but as yet uo pi- few days and the Administration FOR CUINA, JAPAN, ETC., for Onder the Dircot Management of the the rich Manchus of the place. ransonably be expected to remain rete has been eapured. At the will request the Chinese govern the tear 1864 und 1870, Offers Lo Chang Pang has been instructed in the country, to proceed to Kingchow on this, This picture has been the present time a scheme is under neat to appoint a Director inddrot to B.B.B., cans of Offes mission.

cosidoration for sending a lorela General to be paid by the Ad-this paper. property of the Haberdashers"

with some Republican soldiers ministration, who will inspect the Hongkong, 8th July, 1912. Company for 120 yours. It is a A man, said by some to be a nably designed and finely paint- tion against the pirates, if not to from time to time anil report to en board to try to ensure protec properties of the joint concern American and by others to be a full-length portrait of Jerome Frenchmann, has been wandering Knapp, who was clork to the been so active. But such a pro-

capture those who have already the Chinese government. for some time past in the townS of the province of Pampanga, company from 1754 to 1790,

The portrait was painted whos coding would be a risky ono and the Chinese authorities of Kinng

Bogun Priest.

A Well-established Concern. The Chinese Engineering and Mining Company was formed in bang at an outlay of Tis. 1,200,000. During the Boxor to have any great inclination for troubles in 1900 it was converted an undoubtedly dangerous task. into a joint Chinese and British THE PIRATES ORGANISA-corporation and about two-thirds

Philippine Islands. Ho is dress-Bainsborough's, genius was at the su and Chekiang, while profess1878 by the late Mr. Li. Hung ed as a Catholic priest but has period of its highest expressining every wish to assist the cause beon denounced as an inposter. For it he received £126, and £16 of law and order, would not seem His arrest has boon ordered.

[ 12. 21. was paid for a frame. Constabulary Officer under

People are Arrest at Manija.

now pondering. Lieutenant Bellington of the whether any other discoveries of a like nauuro will be mado in the Philippine constabulary, formerly stationed in Guagua, Pampanga,sity. Some of the city's old

TION,

of the stock was subscribed in As úvidence that the pristes England. has been suspended from duty, masters are well known, includ-scheines are well organzed, it

Three years ago the anchow placed under arrest and broughting the Romney at Fishmongers" to Manila, ponding the bringing Hall, the Holbein at Mercers as motioned that the Mining Company, exclusively a of zorions charges of drunken Hall and the Holbein and Van-received a letter from some un-ed by the gentry of the province Asiatic, Patroleum Company has Chinese enterprise, was establish- noss while on duty, and of assault dyck at Burbers' Hall.

with intent to do griovons harm.

Bubonic Plague in Formosa.

epidemio. Much attention is boing paid to incoming stonniers there is cholera in addition in Koolang and Taipol.

Foreign Industry in Honan. It is reported that a foreign laundry and ice plant are to be established shortly at Kaifong, capital of Ilonan.

"Swat that Mosquitol" The Director of Doulth in the]

RUBBER.

TO KEEP

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known agent of the marauders of Chili. The mines of the two BTAEVED in Shanghai, explaining the torm-companies adjoin each other in on which the oil will be returned. the Kaiping Basin between Tong- The headquartera of the pirates ku and Chin-wang-tao and the have been focated at a place call Chinese concern sought to com- od Nanhuihsien, which is doaurib

pete with the old company, ed as a hotbad of piracy and would be proportionately difficult to tackle,

+

Mr. Barham states that the joint concern will be capable of

DOGS v. RATS IN MANILA.

of

B01

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MANAGER,

Bubonic plague is still very THE FUTURE OF BURMA prevalent in the districts of Kagi, Formos. From the commenco- mont of the outbreak in January, this year, 212 ansen have been The proposed new revenue re- reported, of which. 162 proved gulation which gives the Local fatal. Many Japanese, besides Government power to assess rub

turning out 4,000,000 tons of IN TENNIS, DAY, FUNIŲ nuI lu thoso oircumstances it bituminous coal a year and wan natives, have been attacked by the ber land at whatever rate they y be urged that the litoly to become 'n inore formid-undersht‹.

way from time to time decido on, British naval authorities able competitor against the with the proviso that such rate should spara à gunboat to Japanese coal companies than tho may not exceed Its. 25 per nere, patrol this particular stretch of Chinese Engineering and Mining is undoubtedly exercising a most const. In the year 1907, it may Company is at presont. dolrimental effect on the oxlen-be remembered, piracy became sion of the rubber industry, in particularly bad on the West Ri- Burma. It has caused capitalists ver and in the Canton delta, and who were considering the quest-as the Chinose authorities failed ion of taking up land for rubbor to improve" inatters, the British cultivation to stay, their hands. Davul authorities took the pvil It has made native holders of into their own hands and patroll- Philippines has issued a bulletin small plots sell to speculators at ol the delta with torpedo-boat- The four Australian fox terriere to architects, builders, bous below value in view of the destroyers and gun-bonte, to such brought to Manila by Dr. J. C. owners and all others whom it dread days ahead, and it has good purpose flat. piracy as a Elkington, director of health for may concern-urging them to raised to crecendo the old profitable profession soon lan- Queensland, to aid the local adopt systematic and practical measures for the suppression of cry of the Government of India guished. The need for similar ac-health authorities in catching rats

boing once more preparing to tion along the coasts of Kiengen and thereby less ning the chances 27. the mosquito-peat,

stifle and impede theextension of and Hangehow Bay is evident, for the propagation and spread of f New Vice-Chancellor of anuscent industry which might, and if the authorities can see disosso, have been put to work

Cambridge. The Rev. Dr. Staart Alexander if properly fostered, prove at their way to taking such a step and are now daily engaged in the Donaldson, Master of Magdalene enormous factor in Burma's in-there is little doubt that the mass pleasing task of leasening the

dustrial department and a fource of respectable Chinese traders rodent population of the city. Collega, Cambridge, has been electo Vice-Chancellor of Cam of largo revenue to Government, would welcome their protealion. bridge University, and will enter Taking the conservative price of rubber at two shillings por pound, into the offich on Oct. 1 next.

Dr. Donaldson, is an old and the estimated output at: 240 Etonion, and Colonial born, beings. per acre, what is the total of the son of Sir Stuart A. Donald and revenue plus export duty Bon, who was first Premier of per nore's yield payable in Ceylon, New South Wales. He was born Java, British North Borneo, the The Kailan Mining Administra. nt Sydney on December 4, 1854 Federated Malay States, and the tion, with headquarters in Tien- He eat in the Classical Tripos in Straits Settlements? This question tain, have taken over the affairs of procedure is simple. We have GRAVING DOOK 1877, and obtained a first class, would seem to be the crux of the of the Chinese Engineering and fores of about six labourers After taking his degree, Mr.matter. If the figures asked for Mining Company and the Inn- who move the cases of goods, or Donaldson returned to Fion as are conclusively proved to be ap- chow Mining Company, accord the rice, or whatever is stored in on assistant-master until his preciably below Rs. 25, Burma ing to the arrangements onterod the warehouse they happon to be election to the Mastorship of will be liable to be unfairly han into between those two companioworking in at the time, from Magdalene College in 1904, dicapped in competing with her and approved by the British and where it is placed to some other He married in August, 1900, rivals. If, however, the total the Chinese authorities. Mr. W section of the place. This dis Lady Albing Hobart Hampden, Government dues payable in the S. Nathan, formerly mannger of lodges the rats and when they daughter of the late Lord Hobart, neighbouring exporting countries the Langehow Mining Company jump out the fox-terrier in on him and sister of the seventh Earl of work out to not less than Rs. 25 lins assumed the management of in a moment. The little dogs are Buckingham.

rubber-planters in Butman will the two companies at Tientein, trained in the work and are very not have a particularly strong while Mr. Waf. Berham, manu- clever onse to induce Government, to ger of the Chinese. roduce the propoasd rate of land and Mining Com

The Master of Mogdalena take nob interest in rowing, and ma

be seen in

the.

CHINESE ENGINEERING AND MINING CO. Taken Over by Kallan Mining

Perlinga Bir Barvey hai

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Administration.

Dr. Fox, assistant to the direc for of the Bureau of Health, in peaking to a "Manila Times reporter, regarding the work of these clavar little canines, said: Yes, we have put the litde chapa

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