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SPECIAL CABLES.

A FINE BATTLESHIP.

TRIAL ACHIEVEMENTS,

(Our Own Corespondent.j

London, September 8.

The gunnery and torpedo trials of.H.M.S. Princess Royal excoaded expectations.

She stood the strain of heavy aring at altorante speeds splen didly, one barbetto firing eight guas in ninety seconds.

This contractors are confident that the Princess Royal will prove the swiftest warship afloat; they expeót a spood of 32 knots.

The fastest speed attained by her sister ship, the Lion, in 30.7

knots.

MONGOLIA.

RUSSIA RECOGNISES INDEPENDENCE.

(Independent Nows Agency).

Tokyo, September 7,

SUIT FOR POSSESSION.

Questioning the Validity of a 'Lonse.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 0, 1912.

DEATH OF MR. W. ANDERSON.

A Füller Account.

KOWLOON CUSTOMS, EUROPEAN CONVICTED.

Interesting Report for 1911,

Officer of the Zafiro Asamtalts Police.

DAIRY FARM

NEWS.

In his report for 1911, Mr. A

At the Police Court, this morn- This morning in the original The "LO. Exprese" of H. Harris, Commissioner of Ous-

ing, E. J. Fitzgerald, fourth. Court, before the Chief Justice, August 16, gives the following toms for Kowloon district, says: Mr. W. Reos Davios, K.O.. the details of the death of Mr. An- Regarded from a commercial officer of the 8.8. Zafiro, was caso was continuod in which dorson :-Mr. W. Anderson, aged standpoint, disappointed ex charged, at the instance of In- Kwok Siu Lau, of 40 Robinson eighteen, who is the son of pectations" probably conveys in spector McHardy, with assaulting Bond, suod Kang Yan Cho, of General Anderson, commanding two words the impression that the Europeau constable 64, in, Sam- 256 Queen's Road Central, the British forces in South China, year under review has formed in pan Street, on Sunday afternoon. claiming passession of premises was killed while crossing the men's minds. The year opened According to the evidence of Dining out this evening. Bridge P 256 Queen's Road Central which railway line at Hesdignoullez- with favourable prospects, and, the constable, he heard n'police the defendant occupied as tenant Boulogne on the 11th instant: To- mnoy being plentiful, credit was whistle blown about 4.25 on Sun- at will, which touney was detor-gether with his mother and two cosy. The commencement of re day afternoon and, on going to mined by notice to quit on March brothers, the young man was volutionary activities in the the house where the whistle was 18 The claim asked, in addition, crossing the line in order to catch spring brought about an immo- blown, he found the defendant for two sums of monoy us profits a train to Pont-do-Briques. Mr. dinto change, and trade, especial. having an altercation there. The Mr. C. G. Alabaster, instructed William Anderson, not noticing ly import, suffered severely. It defendant, on scoing him, grab- by Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton, ap- that the Calais-Bale express was is satisfactory to be able to re- bed him by the throat and as poarei for the plaintiff, and Mr. approaching at tremendous speed, port that repudiation of contracts saulted him. With the aid of a Eldon Potter, instructed by Mr. started to cross the rails, despito has not been a feature here, show-bluejacket the defendant was Otto Kong Sing, appeared for the warning cries of an official. ing that bitter experience of form taken to the station. Defendant

He was caught by the front of or losses has induced more struck him twice. the engine, thrown thirty yards conservative polioy, and dealers ahead, and falling between the lo not mean to be caught with you twice? ruils was crushed by the express. large forward onleft on their A distressing scene ensued, Mrs. hands as in 1908. Deliveries of Anderson, who had romained on yarn during the your have been

the defondunt.

It will be remembered that the defence to the claim was that the defendants had loazed the pre- misos, under a lease granted by Mr. J. H. Soth, when he was appointed receiver of the rents of an catate including the house in question. The lease was not re- gistered and it was claimed by A talogram from Poking states iho plaintiff that it was null and that the Russian Minister has avoid as against the deed of sale nounced that Russia recognises ander which the property was Mongolia ne an independent bought by the plaintiff. The de- state and he has requested that fendant urged that that the soc- no expeditionary force be sent tions under which this contention

was undo did not apply.

On resuming this morning, His Lordship said that he could not sit after the till adjourn mont.

thither.

Tokyo, September 9. A Mukden telegram saya that the riots in Mongolin have not been suppressed and that the disquieting nature of the Hitun tion in North Manchurin is daily increasing.

THE LOAN TO CHINA.

(Independent Nows Agonoy,}

Tokyo, September 7. The Poking Government has requested the representatives of the Six Powers bankers to re-open the loan negotiations.

AGAINST FOREIGNERS.

(Independent News Agency.)

Tokyo, September 9. Tho Chinose Foreign Minister

has announced that heroafter foreigners will not be permitted to rent houses within the city walls of Peking, the capital not boing a Treaty port

THE MIKADO'S FUNERAL FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES,

Mr. l'otter expressed the hope that they would be finished before

then.

"The case has been adjourned

2

An interesting feature of trade in Hongkong has been the large

Defendant:-You say I struck

Constable :-Yes, · Defendant-I don't remember that; the only thing I remember

Mr. Molbourno :-No caution- ed on the other.

Chinese Fined for Being in Servants' Quarters,

the platform with her other two fairly satisfactory. From India was gotting a blob on the hend suns, being prostrated with grief. it is reported that some 100,000 (laughter).

Mr. Melbourno:-This is a very bales have been imported into Cause of the Accident. The avoideat seems to have Hongkong, the average of the serious offence a very, very seri- Inspector McHardy-On both been entirely due to Mr. Anderlust three years being 180,000. ous offence, $25. son ignoring the warning of the Although the price of yarn at the officials, according to Router's end of the year was loss than at charges? (the other of disorderly Agency. Mrs. Anderson had only the commencement by some ten conduct). returned recently from Hongkong per cent, fall of 40 per cent, in the price of Amoriean cotton to spauda holiday with her sons, at Hosdignoul. The remains of must, it is thought, compel a fur- Mr. William Anderson were con- ther reduction in home prices be- WITHOUT PERMISSION, veyed to England en route for fore Chinese dealers will come Waterford, where the interment into the market. took place. The uuolo and brother

At the Police Court, this morn- of Mr. Anderson, who was the second son of General Anderson, flour business financed during ing, a Chinese was charged, before accompanied the body. It is the year. The importation was Mr. E, A. Irving, with being in sad coincidence that General something over 5.1-2 million the servants' quarters of 81, the | Charles Anderson, who hashimself bags, as against a little under 3 Ponk, and also with being in the passed unscathed through more million bags in 1910. Prices servants' quarters of the residenco fighting than falls to the lot of have ductunted but little. Dealers of Mr. Wilkinson, 83, the Pealt, The case was continued this most modern soldiers, should have have had a good year; and it is without permission.

Defendant was fined $5 or in morning at the Summary Court, lost his son by a railway accident anticipated by them that, with a before Mr. Justice Gompertz General Anderson, who has com-shortage of the rice crops, wheat default fourteen days, and order- Puiene Judge, in which Pan Tomanded the troops in South China will enter suore largely into the ed to a find a surety in $100 for Shi sued Tang To Shi and Tang aines 1010, entered the Army 36 diet of the Chinese. The researches his good behaviour, or go to guol Shau Wal, claiming recovery of years ago. His antive service in that connect the origin of that in for one month. $1,000 for money lent hy the cludes the Jowaki-Afridi expodi sidious discaso beri-beri with the plaintiff to the defendant, ortion of 1877, the Afghan war of use of highly polished rice are

TYPHOON WARNING. monies paid by the plaintiff to the the following yours, the Burnish worth mentioning. The highly use of the defendant as surety. expedition of 1885, the North- polished rico, although pleasing

The telegram quoted below Mr. F. B... Bowley, of Mosare. Wost Frontier in 1897, and the to the eye, is considered harmful was received by the American Dennys and Bowley, appeared for command of the 1st Brigade. into the health when the diet ie Consulate General, longkong, the plaintiff, and Mr. D. Lewis of the Bazaar Valley expedition and largely a rico ouo: Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and the Mohmand Field Force four for the ingenuity of the advertiser from the Manila Observatory at

12:15 p.m. to-day- years ago. He has been mon-in pointing out the advantages of tioned in despatches on inmerove hand-milled rice and of flour as

until to-morrow.

SISTERS AT LAW.

Master for this defendants.

The first defendant was a sister of the plaintiff, and she had bor-occasions, rowed many loans from the latter.

.

In answer to Mr. Lewis, the plaintiff admitted that her sister, bolonged to a very rich family, in which thero wore, two commu funds, to help in sonding the children to school. Her" (plain tiff's) family was poor, but she (The was able to lond the various guns making the total claimed. Some

CANTON NEW..

The Currency Problem.

A fine scope

Manila, September 9, 1912. Low pressure area extending articles of diet would seem to from the China Son to the Pacifie offer itself.

across northern Luzon and the A real ty Imports into Canton during the Balintang Ohannol. year, both by steamer and jank,phon may devolop later. Lave boon alightly below normal, while stocks held, and expected. warrive, in Hongkong are heavy; and this can be accounted for by the troubled conditions on the mainland, dealore being afraid to Canton, Soptember 7. Various plans for the mainten-carry stocks in Canton and const expected to arrivo us Yokohama dante, kad had to borrow herance of the paper curroucy have ports, and for some time they on the 11th inst, while the repre-selt. There were many slips of beon disclosed by the Govern have been content to ship only their day-to-day requirements. sentative of the King of Spain, paper boaring references to themont, including the raising of a the Prince d'Orlonus, is expected amounts lout, but she had made "patriotic loan" to the extent of Imports of rice into Canton by on the following day.

(Independent News Agency.)

Tokyo, September 7,

Prines Arthur of Connaught is of the money lent to the defon

THE EXPENDITURE.

Tokyo, September 9. The expenditure, for the onter- tainment of the special ambassU- dors from abroad to the late Emperor's funeral is estimated at two million you. It will be paid out of the Emperor's Privy

Purse.

Telegraph", Correspondent.)

To-day's Advertisement

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August 12, 1912.

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CHLORO-NAPTHOLEUM.

ON is unlike every other disinfectant. There are dis infectants that will kill garme, but will not keep away parasites and insects. There are preparations that will kill inseats but that will not kill gorms. They only thing that can truthfully be vallei a perfect disinfontant is one that will drive away and kill germs, parasites, insects and all-one that will destroy impurity and bad smells und not merely hide them by the strength of another emell, ON is a perfect disinfectant.

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A Light, Palatable, Nourishing Stout. It is a Brain, Body and

A.M., MON- up the present account and then ton million dollars. It is also steamer just exceed three-quart TERM begins at : destroyed the loose anomorandu, proposed to impose a tax on the ors of a million piour; and areDAY, Peptembar 14th. New Nerve Revitalisar. A True Food Tonic, increasing the energy and

The case was proceeding as wo roassignment of title deeds, which 50 por cent. less than in the pro-boys will be examined and classified on giving freali vigour to body and mind.

it is estimated will bring in over coding year by junk 21 million FRIDAY, 18 and SATURDAY,

went to press.

SPORT.

ten million dollars. It is cal-pisals have been imported, or 30 14th inst., each day beginning at culated that, as a result of the per cont, loss than 1910. The 9.

various measures now put for

inference to be drawn is that the

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By Order. ward, the Government will bywo Kwang province were able Hongkong, 9th Sept. 1912. degrees secure a reserve fund of to satisfy their own requirements.

culation of notes. 30 million dollars against the cir-

[650]

FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG, AND CALCUTTA.

(Taking cargo on Through Bills of Lading to Rangoon, Madras, and Mauritius.)

The Croquet Tournment. The Croquet Tournment which has drawn many spectators to the Cricket Ground during the past

The tradeoutlook for 1912 is not FOREIGN NAVAL FORCES. wook, reached a very interesting

very encouraging at the time of Later.

Portuguese in Trouble:

writing, but a revival is inevitable atage on Saturday. It is announced that five hun In de mixed Doubles (2nd On August 25, three or four-the wants of the provinces must drod British bluojuskets will Round) P. M. Hodgson and Mrs. Portuguesa entered the forest adbo inet; the resources of the attend to the funeral ceremony, Mastor dofested M. R. Harris und joining Pakling village, in the country are numerous and un- while warships representing Miss Wilkinson by 12 points, vicinity if Chinean, on a shooting developed and the Chinese have Great Britain, Russia, Germany, whilst T. G. Woall and E. A. U expedition, and in the course of trading capacities of a high THE Steamship and other nations, will fire May boat T. F. Claxton and P. their sport they accidentally shot order. On the 4th October 1011 aalutes at Yokolas, and the R. Wolff by 5 points. The win-an old woman, her grandson and the railway connecting Hongkong Capt. Macfadyen, will be despatch-

grand-daughters, though not in-with Canton was formally oponeded for the above porta,.on SATUR Coinmanders-in-Chief, Captains and staff-officers will at Yokohama R. Baker and P. M. Hodgson juring them fatally. The vil through traffic. A large num-DAY, the 14th inst., at 8. P.M.

For Freight or Pausage, apply to station soo off the train which play the decider for the clum agers rose in indignation at the ber of guests accepted the invita

DAVID BA8800N & CO., LD., curries the coffin.

pionship (best out of three games). incident, and bad it not been for tion of the railway management

Agents. the arrival of polies, troops and to travel over the line from Can-

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CHINESE AFFAIRS. TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE. Independent Nows Agency.)

Tokyo, Soptomber J

ners are now finalists,

In the mon's Bundicap (Single)

J. Lloyd beat J. Burton by point, and T. G. Weall conquered O. Blaker by 21 points.

The results of the finals will be reported when they are all decided.

CRICKET.

"JELUNGA"

MOJE.

Hongkong...............July 24, 1912.

Substance for analysis:-Stout

Dr. Mackenzie's Burton on Trent Marks: Invalid Stout, Specially brewed for the East. Received:On July 17th, 1919, from Messrs, Gande, Price

& Cọ, Hongkong.

Results of Analysis: :

100 fluid parts of this aginple contains

Solid matter

Ash.

Frao Beid us acelic...

Percentage of alcohol ... Specific gravity at 15.5° C... Arseniu.

...5.18

$5.05 equal to 1.011 ...absent.

The results show that the sample is both good and sound,

FRANK BROWNE,

Govt. Analyst.

SOLE AGENTS:

the foreign employees of the ton to Shumchun, where a recep- Hongkong, 9th Sept., 1912, Kung Fuk Customs, the Portu- tion was held and luncheon pro- FOR SHANGHAI, KOBE AND guene would have fared badly.vided, and thence on to Hong- Through the latter's advice the kong, whero His Excellency the sporteman departed after paying Governor officially entertained a compausation to the injured pao representativo gathering in the THE Steamship ple. The Commissioner of For-evening: Interesting forcessats *** GREGORY APUAR," Kowloon Cricket Club opened eign Affairs has now addressed of the railroad's future carver Captain J. E Drake, will be despatched Mesára, Gande, Price and Co

Hongkong. A Peking telegram says that Vice-President Li has asked the season on Saturday with a the Portuguese Consul on the were made; but for these I must for the above poris on SATURDAY, President Yuan to sand a special practice match between teams Shames on the matter, pointing refer my readers to the local press the 14th inst, at Noonájem envoy to pacify the soldiers and captained by the Captain (Mr. J.out that foreigners are precluded The short period wifch line sing The Steamer has superior socom- officials who are angered at the Mead) and the Vice-Captain by Treaty from shooting in Chi- sed, interrupted as it has been by modation for passengers, is installed nese territory, even though they the revolution, is proving that throughout with Electrk Light and punishment meted out to General (Mr. W. L. Wesser)).

The Captain's side batted first have passports. In the present the line is not only meeting a carries a duly certified doctor. Chang, and who are likely to riot

propor steps bo not taken to and were all dismissed for 51, case, he says, the Portuguese did need, but is creating a trafic RETURN TOURS TO JAPAN their opponente replying with not even have passports, and he that clearly indicates that the U prevent them.... 1

118. In a second venture Mead's requests the Consul to ask the future of the line is assured.

2ke ing telegram announces XI knocked up 159. The result Governor of Macao to prohibit shoud add thatin order to facilitate svo rison in arms was a win for the Vice-Captain's Portuguese from entering Chi- through traffic and obviate delay nese territory for any purpose at the frontier a branch office of we (and are burning Lon the first innings.

fistovar, unless they have: per. Next Saturday there

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