GENERAL NEWS.
Sir Havilland de Sausmarez. Sir Havilland de Sausmarez ro- turned to Shanghai on the 14th inst. after holding a session of H. M. Supreme Court at Tientsin. He travelled by the C. N. s.a. Sheng-king, Lady do Sausmarez accompanying him.
Personal
Mr. Peter George Laurie, F.R. G.S., F.2.8., who was present in the Crimes during the war, in India during the Mutiny, and in China during the Boxer rising has just died at the age of 74.
" King Manoel,
King Manool of Portugal was received in private audience on September 24 by the Emperor Francis Joseph at Sohonbrunn Palace.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER
SERVICE MATTERS. LORD HALDANE ON THE
The New Soldier.
One of the revolations of the recent mancouvres is the change
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The Lord Chancellor (Lord. of type in the Army. The modern Haldano) ou September 24 roceiv soldier is altogether different from ed the freedom of the Royal
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IGOB returned from the manœuvres, airy, on First, Second and Third Floor, central nocommodition, light, and brower, who tells me that at the and his heart was with the sol-new building being dried for Messrs. last mauvres in his distriot he diere whom he loved so well. He WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW & CO., sold to the troops no fewer than thought one of the happiest events LTD. Entranos from De Voeux Road 17,000 dozen buttles of ginger in the stralogical histery of this 'lectric Lift to all foors. Electrio boor and miboral waters, London cyclists evidently keep Balfour of the Committee of Im- The plan can be seen and all particn-
The country was the devising by Mr. Light throughout. thomsives in the pink of oondi porial Dolonio. lt was a largo PALMER & TURNER, Alexandr lam obtained at the Officos of M»nuro, tion, for there is not one who looks part of the Committee's work to Buildings, Srd Floor. Advised to Learn Boxing as if any exertion or fatigue could get soldiers, sailors, and states, 80th Sept. 1419. "I do wish people down here exhaust him, would learn boxing" romarked
man to frame a common concop the magisimte at Greenwich re-are worth noting. The corps has had been done in the last ton
Two items in their equipment tion. It was to the work that MOOREENAH. 1 The Peak, contly. "Poople are, constantly two Colt automatic guns and two years in connection with that br Apply Property Once, Jardize, coming before mo with teeth taxicabs. knooked out and oyen blackened tazicabs in the ranks ien novolty, night
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cannot guard. I do wish they ofleminey. But when the door is verywhere. It was pontrating the East Point. Forfarther particulars apply Godown sitastod on water front, would learn boxing.".
opened the surprise is great, for army. Reported Warning to Mrs. and the fares are two Maxima guns, manivuvres the other day he saw 0. Ltd.
Whon ho was at the Party Omra, Jardine, Matheson & Miss Pankhurst, The Paris "Siecle" statos that alicor and two moi. Out of the the way in which the now muro LET on 2nd Floor No. 2, Pod- three rifles, ammunition, and an with plonsure the perfection of acgkong. 18th Ang., 1912. (588 the police not only took precau-innocent-looking taxicab, which chinery was working and the tions to guard against any possi- has strayed from the Strand, there smoothness with which
то der Street. blo suffragist demonstration at the Gare du Nord and the Goretumbles at the critical moment of military portions wem being Ones, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.
One room doe. Apply Property action a man with a tripod carried out. de Lyons on September, 20 when
Important as the Hongkong, 22nd May, 1912. FRAT Mr. Asquith was passing through weighing 54lb. After him falls a strategic ensiderations Paris, but also warned Mrs, and man with a gun weighing, with they were only one of three grea: AMERICAN FINANCIER'S. Miss Pankhurst that if any dis-its water-jacket, 801, in 45sec. means by which the Empire was turbance occurred they would be the Maxim is at work, pouring bound together.
out a deadly lil. It only remains fence, was
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one great subject Baltimore, Sept, 17 --Mr. Geor- The Empress Dowager and Re-vehicle, with a fixed platform, greater than at the present time, dennd Guarantee Trust Company, to contrive a more convenient Most apparent to all, and never go C. Morrison, president of the Ti- A untivo paper is responsible and you have a swift-moving was the affection with which, in committed suicide to-day. A noto for the statement that the retired battory that can keep pace even conjunction with the Mother Coun-which he loft indicatos that he was Empress Dowager in a personal with a epelist.
iry, the Dominions oversea regard-disheartened by the newspaper
publican Government.
Criticism of Dr. Sun.
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which bound the Empire together Kao Pao,
Tha vessol has powerful caps and of the work of the Judicial taus fore and aft, and is flat-bot-Committee of the Privy Council, tomed, with a cavity in the contre where appeals from the great to receive the conning tower of a Dominions were considered. He offered the chairmanship on its raised submarine. The estimated emphasized the importance of this has formulated a number of re- board of directors by the China lifting power is 1,200 tons. The supremo tribanal, and said that, forms to improve the military Uniter Assurance Society, Ld., latest British submarines have a while they did not desire to meddle administration. Recently, says (lato the Wah An Insurance Co.), displacemout of 800 tons. in the aff sirs of the Daninions, the Peking Daily News," he has but he refused to accept it. He | ' Salvage Boat for Submarines.
they found that if they provisled propared another three important is now understood, however, o
It has been notified by the Ad- hem with an absolutely impartiul items of importance which he have accepted a similar position on Board of the China Mutual miralty that reduction to the se-art the Dominions came to it will soon introduce in the Cabinet Life Insurance Company. Par.cond class for leave, &c., under and welcomed it. He hoped to de-menting for discussion. They bags," the Press comments, "the the now punishment regulatione velop still further the importance are (1) to investigate and re- is to be considered especially suit- the Judicial Committes of the gulate the military discipline of great man of the Republic, in ro fusing the chairmanship of diable for men who are guilty of Privy Council. Bo had a Bill the entire Chinese army; (2) t0 SHAW'S resiors of a Chinese Company gross insubordination or of dis- before Parliament for that par rugulate the onlistment of new and in necepting that of a foreign honesty, and also for men whose pose. He thought they had made mon into the army as well as continued slackness or other mais considerablo impression in disbandmont of the troops; (3) one, has his own reason, the high conduct the repeated award of enling with Canadian appeale to select and fortify the strategic ideal of which is beyond the ap-minor punishments has provid in-last July. They hoped to do the points all over the country. prehension of por ordinary mo..
"N. China Daily News" effective. Restoration to the first same for the other Dominions and
New Colony.
class for conduct and leave is in for India. The most promiscut Patricia, the new territory no circumstances to be delayed of their great problems to-day Soal killing will be suspended which has been added to the pro.beyond six months from the date were their Imperial problems. for five years, not ton, as was vince of Ontario, is estimated to of reduction. contain 147,000 square miles, or
General Carnegy. opo and one-fifth times as largo Major-Gen. P. M. Carnegy, as the British Isles. This addi- whose promotion has just benn tion to the province increases its gazetted is in command of the Fiz to over 400,000, square miles,Jullundar Brigade. He served for and makes it the second early to nearly six years with the 67th speak of the productiveness of Regiment (now the 2nd Battalion Patricia, but doubtless it will be Hampshire Regiment) before found as in the case of Now joining the Madras Staff Corpå 28 Ontario-to be rich in mineral years ago. He then went to the wealth, and in parts at least suit-4th Gurkha Rifies the 2nd But- able for agricultural purposes. talion of which he subsequently Snow fell at Mukden for the International Boundaries in commanded. Gen. Carnegy has first time this season the other the Afghan war, 1878-80, and day and lay to a depth of two Reator's Agency learns that oven aller campaigns to bis inches. Major E. M. Jack, British Com-credit.
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missioner on the Anglo-German H.M.S. Princess Royal's further Belgian Boundary Commission, has returned to England on the completion of tho work of the The Princess Royal, battle commission. The frontier which cruiser, carried out further trials has now been delimitel is that in the Channel on September 21, between the Uganda Protectorate and is stated to have attained the and, on the weat, the Belgian high speed of 34.7 knots. Since Colony of the Congo (lately Congo her last trial new propellers have Free State) and on the south, been fitted to the ship. In her German East Africa. It lies in trials on Saturday she made six the neighbourhood of the cele-runs at full power over the mea- brated Mfumbiro volcanoes. sured mile of Polperro, The de- Women Detectives for Peking. signed horse power of 70,000 was The Peking Local Police Au- easily developed, and the whole thorities are trying to engage 50 of the trials were extremely satis women detectives. From the off-factory.
-cial despatch we gather that there] Denth of a Mutiny Veteran,
must be between 30 and 40 of age Major-Gen.George Elphinstone ard." of an intelligent mind.” Erskine died at his Hove reaid- Los Mongolians in Distress.. once recently at the age of 71. Some 50,000 Mongoliane who He entered the Army in 1857,
taina the excesses of Chiness 1857-58. Thereafter he acted in
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