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GENERAL NEWS.

THE CLARA JEBSEN

Skipper fined for Carrying Excess Passengers, -

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPI THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17.

RUSH OF EMIGRANTS. Ships to Australls Pull up Until

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tion for English emigrants, saya arrived in that two or three influential por Singapore on Ootuber 0, from the Daily Mail," with the resultTO sone in Manchuria have, of late, Amoy was charged with carrying modation to meet the great de- that there is not steamship accom been intimating their desire to 50 passengers in excess of the Boe South Manchuria annexed by number allowed by her license, mand for passages, Japan. They are reported to

Between now and December, a have been agitating to present officer at Amoy. The

granted by the emigration a petition to the Japanese authori- ties asking for the annexation of South Manchuris, according to the example of the now defunct the annexation of Korea. They Ilchin Society, which agitated for hold that, now that the Manchu dynasty has been overthrown in China, they are now citizens of the rulers in Paking and profor to owe their allegiance to the Japa nese sovereign rather than be protected by on rule. Improved Conditions for Prison

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§, J„Divid & Öbar, Ba Hongkong, 1st Oct. 1912.

(718 captain period of about four months, n FFICES TO LET.--First Class, pleaded guilty. Captain A. J. total of 27,500 emigrants will -coutral modommodation, light and Coleman, Deputy Master-At leave England for Australia, siry, on First, Second and Third Floor, tendant, was present in court, to

Under the State-aided scheme in new buildlog being erected for Mowarw; watch proceedings on behalf of of the Commonwealth Govern- WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW & CO... Inspector Ambrose prosecuted. the Master-Attendant, and Court ment, thousands of settlers who LTD. Entrance from Den Voeux Bord are already doing well in the Klectric Lift to all floors. Electio officer, said that on October 8, relatives still in England as suit-lars obtained at the Oleos of Mar

E. Edwards, senior boarding Antipedes are nominating their Light throughout,

The plan can be seen and all partion- he went on board the Clare able persons for assisted pannages,PALMER & TURNER, Alexandra Jobsen. He asked for the and the consequenon of this and Buildings, 3rd Floor. immigration certificates and list other inducements to emigrants to Henne, 80th Sept. 1919- of passengere that were issued home has been an astounding in- MOULEENAGE, 11 The Pak from Amoy, Tho captain gave | him a list counted by him on renee in the number of Australian board and, shown the list, wit-passengers, Long agitation on the part of ness said it was the one he re-

Ships at present in service ar prison wurders for improved con-received. That list worked out quite inadequate to take all tho ditions of service has at last, bore at nearly the same as what He Poople to Australis who desire to fruit says the "Manchester Gur-(the witness) found on board. go. It is now practically im disa.".All men employer in con- Witaces had

possible to book a passage before passougors vict prisons are to receive an in-counted in tallies of ton. He did the end of the year. erease of £10 a year in salarios. not know if the captain was pres In local prisons the rules provident while the counting was going ed for twelve hours of duty a day, on. He found 820 men, 47 wo. which will now bo roducol men and 74 children, (which I unable to go to the land of theirTO LET on 2nd Floor No. 2, Ped- nine. The now ratos of pay will with as reckoned as 39 adults) deniro under the Union Jack, are be 8. Ul. a work in the provincos also 6 infants, who did not count, Amerien and elsewhere and are emigrating to places in South and 11s, in London. The present making a grand total of 910-an thus lost to the British Empire. allowance for wardors living excess of over the stipulated outside the prisons will be inlicensed number of 851. The

Lack of Steamships. "The population of New South creased by 2s.. Gd., and other explain on being questioned said

The Agont-Genoral for South Wales this year will increase by minor grievances have been re-The could not socout for the differ

Australia (the Hon. A. · ‚Á‚fat least 40,000 by immigration. moved. Ju the oase of wardresses, once. (witness) believed the faro Kirkpatrick) said recently: We have assisted 20,000 British however, nothing hag boon dono, per dock passenger from Amoy wealth is being seriously jeopar-last year. The number of emig "The progress of the Common people to go there, against 11,000 though there have boon a large to Singapore was $7. number of resignations owing to.

dised. On being askel by

We cannot get people rants to Australia in the past five unpleasant duties arising from magistrate whether he would like away to Australia, Thousande years from this country is rough- the imprisonment of suffragettes. to say anything, the defendant and we cannot get them passages. 1908.30,000 1010 60,000

of emigrants are anxious to go,ly as follows: Dlosel Olt Engines, The production of Diesel oil for the excoss.

replied that he could not account They are people who have been 1909... 50,000 1911......80,000

He found out anginos on the Clyde is to be that there was an excess two days/recommended for the State-nidod But for 1912 the number will jointly undertaken on a large scale before his ship reached Singapore stralia, so they represent the best been booked to the end of the year. passages by their friends in Au-be quite 100,000, berths having by Messrs. Harland and Wolf and He did not take any special steps class of omigrants. There is a At night have been nearly double Messrs. Burinóister and Wain, of to prevent any unauthorised per-long delay before they can get if the ships had been available. Copenhagen. This comdination on from coming on board at is the outcome of a visit which Amoy. The charterers of the away, and the result in far too of "So serious is the matter that Lord Pirrin, the head of Harland vessel at Amoy were Messrs to the British Empire. They go British Government to see if they ton & lossof those desirablo citizens I am thinking of approaching this aud Wolff, paid to Mesura. Pasogadi & Co. a German firm. to Argentinn or somewhere like will put some of their transports Burmeister and Wain's works in the summer, and ate of his in told the magistrate that he had a matter which the Imperial Go-Otherwise there is no doubt what Inspector Ambrose at this stage that instead of to Australia. Itis at our disposal for emigrants. spection of the East Asiatic Com-been requested to ask for a heavy pany's liuor Fiona at Kiel. The panuity owing to the frequency vernment should take up." over that either the Australian or now Clyde industry will bo dove-with whichsteamers wore arriving of the New South Wales Govern will shortly consider seriously the The Chief Emigration Officer the New South Wales Government. lopod with all possible spood. with excams of passengera.

The magistrate, in giving judg ment in London was even more question of building ships of In a contest hold at New York, nents, said that the charterors mphatic. I want at once 3,000 their own for this service." on August 23 Nathan Beria, were truck to blame in the case, love or money. I cannot get an Emigration Commissioner in Lon- berths and I cannot get them for Mr. Maclaren, the Victorian official stonographer for the Now : that he could not exonerate ordinary third-class passage be- don, states that on an average York Supreme Court, broke the the captain owing to the fact that fore the end of December. I have thirty farmers a month with a the world's record for spoed in he had been twenty years in these tried to get three special vesscle capital osch of over 100 go to writing shorthand by taking on parts and should know that an average 276 words a minute breaches in the law in that respect onch, but it is impossible to ob shall be sending to Victoria shis

to take out a thousand passengers Victoria from England. for. five minutes. The previous were very serions. Ile fined the record lius been 200 words captain therefore $50, and in ad in thom Australia is losing year altogether," he said, "1000 minute. Bobrin also made alition ordered him to pay $8 for this yoar ions of thousands of the domestic servants, and have sent world's record for acouruoy, his

most dosirable class of British 600 female factory workers. We work being 97 3.10 per cent of the licensed number, which settler. And often it is my ex- have had no difficulty in finding correct. Twenty-one writers, of would come to $472 or $522 in perience that they are lost to the just the right clam of people. züdersbists. whom only five qualified, entered all, together with coats. Empire.

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Twelve hundred artisans, prin- maximum penalty the magistrato od and asy to applicants, 'Oh, it have gone to Viatoris this year. "Shipping agents get disgust-cipally in the building trades, The medals offered by the $10 for each passenger in exces.—

pointed out, was $100 kne, plus is no use your talking about Aus I have arranged to fill 16,000 Rubber Growers Asociation, at Straite Times."

tralia, you must go somewhere berths in emigrant ships to the Now York Rubber Exposition,

also. No third-class passenger Victoria during 1912, and am have been awarded as follows:

FOR PHILIPPINE to-day who walks into a ship trying now to get 4,000 more! -Gold medal, Highlands and

FREEDOM.

ping office in London with the Lowlands Para Rubber Company,

money in his pocket can get a Kwangtung Government Budget Limited; (repcried in the Washington, September 9-passage to Australia before De-

for Next Fiscal Year. ***Tolograph last wook) silvor Manuel L. Quezon, resident december.

The appropriations asked for meda), Rosolmaugh Tesand Rubber legate and commissioner from the First Boom" Por Pitty Years. the next fiscal year by the differ- Company, Limited; bronze medal Philippines, on loving Wash- "This is a most critical time ont departments and offices of and highly commended, Malayan ington yosterday for Manila, for Australian emigration. We the Kwantung Government are Rubber Loan and Agency Com-stated that the question of Phi- are just at the crucial point of a now under investigation at the pany, Limited'; commended, lippine independence will certain-boom in Australiam emigration. Finance Department, and are Maddagedera Estate, Kulutrar. ly come before Congress early at It is the first time in fifty years expected to be fixed by early

Cinematograph and Business. ita noxt session,

we have had one. It has been November. Mr. Royama, Dired-

Shorthand Record.

the contest.

New York Rubber Awards.

overy passongor carried in eXCOM'

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By way of showing the ad- "I have a written promise from growing for four years, but the tor, will then go up to Tokyo aptability of moving pictures, Representative. Henry, chairman shipping companies have been with these estimates to submit invented primarily for amuse of the House Rules. Committee," sceptical of its possibilities and them to the approval of the ment, to the needs of business Mr. Quezon is quoted as saying, of its permanence. They have various Departments of the Con a plan is adopted by an American "that a resolution for the early shown a deplorable want of faith tral Government concerned, be- powder concern which hon equip consideration of the Jones bill in the countless possibilities of fore the forthcoming session of ped one of ita salesman, travelling|will be introduced soon after Cop- Australis.

Ithe Imperial Diet.

in Argentina, with a moving greas moets. I have no doubt picture film, showing the use of that the bill will pass the House, dynamite in olearing land, but I doubt if it pussos the blasting rook, etc., in the United Senate."

States. When the salesman is The Jones bill provides for in- endeavouring to interest. a que dependence for the Philipinos in tomer, he simply invites him to 1921.

view the film at one of the moving Mr. Quezon has been engaged picture agencies. This idea in a little controversy with Brig might be adopted in a good many Gen. Frank McIntyre, chief of the other lines.

Bureau of Insular Affairs, over Chicago's Thermometer at 94. the alleged political activity off Chicago, Sept. 6-Chicago's Father Finnegan, of Manila, et hot wave raised the mercury to the Baltimore Convention. Mr. 94 degrees yesterday, within one Quezon resonte. the “dictation" degren of this year's record. It of the War Department in inter-

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