1912-12-13 — Page 4

WATSON'S

E

VERY OLD LIQUEUR. SCOTCH WHISKY.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1912,

A BLEND OF THE FINEST PURE MALT SCOTCH WHISKIĖS.

For over 30 Years WATSON'S 'E' has maintained

▪་

the reputation of the FINEST SCOTCH

WHISKY in the FAR EAST.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

ESTABLISHED A.D, 1841.

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

20

DAY BY DAY.

Souls dio for lauk of nourish-| meat, just as bodies do..

Government House Bali, An official ball took place t Government House last night.

The Halmum.

:

Returned to the Colony,

UNFOUNDED RUMOURS,

Questions in Parliament as to Jardino, Matheson, & Co. Ltd.,

THE BOYCOTT,

Remarkable Series of Letters Threatening Lilo,

We have been informed that a

ALLEGED CRIMINAL LIBEL.

Big Police Court Case to be Heard.

At the Police Court, this after

NOTES AND

COMMENTS.

Jardine's Vindicated.

The telegram which apj cars on "It will be seen" from our tele- grum columns that questions have Chinese employed by a wealthy

which appear to have been fairly Page 1 dispelling allegatione bicon asked in the House of Com-Chinese combination has received noon, Mr. Lewis, addressing Mr. insistently made at Home to the

a letter stating that if he did not. D. Melbourne, said he was effect that Mesars Jardine, Mat mons concerning the well-known desist from influencing people to concerned in a case of alleged heson and Co., Ltd. as agents for The Haimun went into dook house of Jardine, Matheson & Co. ride on the tram cars, his life was criminal libel, the parties being the British and Chinese Corpora- to-day for overhaul. She will not Ltd., in its connection make her usual run to Swatow on the Shanghai Nanking, Kow

with in danger he would be stabbed. Patall and Talati, complainants, tion under Chinese railway agree Sunday:

The employees of the particu and Tata and Ollia defend-ments, and as representatives of loon-Canton and Pukow Rail-lar combination referred to have, ants. He understood Mr. Haze- manufacturors of railway ma ways. In replying to these it is said, been doing their utmost land could not take Among the passengers who re- questions Mr. Acland Waa to influence Chinese to use the case until some time in January unfairly and prejudicially to other the terials, have used their position. turned to the Colony by the s.s. able to point out that the matter tramcars, and have pointed out He was anxious to get the case British firme, will be read with Kloist to-day woro Mrs. Badeley had been raised and settled to them the folly of any attempt- hoard at sa early date. and Mr. A. S. Gabbay.

last year. This

boing so, ed boycott of a British enterpriso

deep interest and satisfaction. The Princely House" has for it is not easy to understand in this Colony.

many a long year enjoyed an en- Mr. Lewis-It will take viable reputation in the Far East, why the time of the House should have been wasted by returning to forwarded to the Registrar Gener-a long time, your Worship and has done probably more an already exploded fable.

al who is attending to the matter there is counsel" Briefly, it was alleged, two and is instigating inquiries with side, Mr. Bratton is for the coming the integrity and soundness on either than any other firm in maintain- years ago, and again last year, the hope of tracing those concern-plainants and I represent the de-of British trade in the Orient, that Messrs. Jardins, Matheson &ed in the threat. Co. as agents for the British and

fendants. I will want a couple of The Hon. Mr. E.R. Hallifax, Re-afternoons.

Amply Vindicated. Chinese Corporation, and as registrar General, interviewed by a His Worship:-The only free firm or individual may occupy, But however high a position a Telegraph" representative on afternoon I have is to-morrow. there are always to be found railway material manufacturers, the matter, said that he had re- Mr. Lewis said he was afraid it those, who, having nothing to bad abused their position, to the ceived such a letter; in fact, he would not do. detriment of other British firms; said, several anonymoua letters

Dead Body.

The body of man aged 75 years has been found in a boat at Causeway Bay. Doath apparently due to natural causes.

Lottery Tickets.

WAS

At the Polico Court, this morn- ing a Chinese was remanded by Mr. Hazeland, on a charge of being in unlawful possession of lottery tickets at West Point.

Unlawful Possession.

presentatives of certain firms of

The letter, we learn, has been

His Worship-Will it take half an hour?

&

After a long discussion as to Mr. Hazeland, fined a Chinese yet, when the public began to hul heen sent to different people convenient dates for hearing, it $15 or in default one month

show some interest in the case, in the Colony threatening them if was eventually decided to hear at the Police Court this morning, the firm which bad agitated for they did not assist in the boycott the case on the 2nd, 3rd, 6th and for being in unlawful possession an enquiry, stated that it bading of the trams. These letters, 7th of January. The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will of a metal smoking pipe, at Weat no wish to prosecute it.

he added, were sent out by the Which particular firm this same people who published the Point

was, we have

posters. He admitted that the

be on follows:-

Daily issue-$36 per annum. Weekly issue 813 per annum.

The rates per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscriptions

for any period less than one month will be charged as for

full month.

a

The daily issue is delivered free when the address is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies sent by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage." The postage on the weekly issue to any part of the world is $1.00

per quarter.

Single Copies, Daily, ten cents. Weekly, twenty-five cents (for

cash only).

Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fixed

period will be continued until countermanded..

(Payable in Advance.)

By Order,

*

· HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH.” The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve the truth.

and print the news without fear or favour.

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

Telephone: No. 1. A.B.C., 5th edition Western Union

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONG KONG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1912,

DEATH TO THE RATS.

.

Gamblers Fined.

been not

COLLISION SEQUEL.-

lose themselves, are ever ready to fling mad and to say nasty things. In this instance the most careful investigations have been made, and the ungenerous sng. gestions made have been shown. to be entirely without foundation. It would be interesting to know the name of the firm or firms

A woman who kept a gambl-able to discover but we gather Inst of the boycott had not been ing house at West Point was Matheson & Co. has been rife in and said that he believed that it tion, with Commander C. W. Beck-out, whoever they are, they ap that jealousy of Mosers Jardine, hoard, but he was very hopeful Sitting in Admiralty Jurisdic-whieh promoted the question; faed $50, and sight women ir. Hazeland, at the Police Court, work of a few disappointed tou- gamblers were fined $3 each, by variety of directions.

"The whole thing has been the culties would come to an end.

would not be long before all dith-with, R. N., as assessor, yester- pear to have "bucked at the day the Chief Justice Mr W. burdie." While regretting that this morning.

derers, principally in Shanghai," DEAD BROTHER'S DEBTS bearing of two consolidated so- Jardine's" have come so well Rees Davies, K. O., continued the the inquendoes should ever have been made, we rejoico that said the Hon. Mr.C. H. Rose, when

Snatching.

and four hours stocks.

Griffins Arrive.

Dock-Busy

A TRADE REVIEW.

Hongkong's Figures.

Action..

tione arising on of a collision A man cliarged on two counts consulted this morning. "The Poultry Dealers' Successful with matching, defended by Mr. Joontracle in question were put

which occurred on May 2, 1512, out of the matter, and that they off the Waglan Lighthouse, be have been vindicated on the floor Harding, was found guilty on one up to public tender by the Chinese count only by Mr. C. D. Mel-Managing Director in Shanghai

tween the s.s. Loong Sang, owned of the House of Commons, This morning in the Summary by the Indo-Rhina Steam Naviga- Shipping Rumours. bourne, this morning, and sent to or by the consulting engineers in Court Mr. Justice Gompertz gave tion Co. and a fishing junk be- "We are probably not more in- gaol for six months' imprisonment London, and Jardine's had nothing judgment in the case in which longing to Young Hing Hi of 26 quisitive than our neighbours,

whatever to say as to which were the Eing Loong, of No. 5 Western Main St., Aberdeen.

but we really should like to know: accepted. Usually a large num-Market, poultry dealers, pro- The claim was by the latter for who the people are who spread The thirty-seven subscription ber of firms tendered and we ceeded against Cheng Hing, trad- $400 for damages alleged to have rumours some feasible enough- griffine that were expected to were sometimes succesful, but ing as the Tui Hop, 78, Bonham been caused by the collision, and on the surface, others palpably arrive in the harbour yesterday, not to anything like the extent Strand, to recover the sum of in a cross summons, the owners and idiotically impossible-as to arrived to-day by the ss. Kwong generally imagined. A petition $382.14, being the balance due of the steamship claimed $350 various alleged shipping com- Sang and were landet this morn was sent by some disapp into for goods alleged to be solf and for damages.

tines, sales, break-ups etc. Dur-i ing at Mesara Jardine, Matheson tenderore to the British Minister delivered.

Mr. Eldon Potter, instructed by ing the past few months a very and Co.'s Wharf. The drawing in Peking, complaining that they Mr. Crewe, of Messrs. Hastinge Mr. F. X. D'Almada e Castro, ap- considerable portion of our space : takes place this evening at Kon had been unfairly treated; the and Hastings, appeared for the peared for the plaintiff, and Mr M. has had to be devoted to deninle nedy's Horse Repository a 4.30 matter was thoroughly gone into, plaintiff and Mr. J. H. Gardiner W. Slade, K.O., instructed by Mr. and explanations of these rum-- o'clook.

and I believe Sir John Jordan for the defendant,

W. Davidson, of Messra. Hast- oura; rumours that, at one time was satisfied that there was not-a | It transpired at the hearing of ings and Hastings, was for the or other, have hung round nearly We have been informed that shadow of ground for any ac- the case that the business belong-defence,

overy big shipping firm repre- every dock and slip at the Hong cusation against us."

ing to the defendant originally Mr Slade addressing the court sented in Hongkong: the BL, kong and Whampoa Docks was

belonged to his deceased brother

N. Y. K. T. K. K.. filled up this morning. The

on whose death the defendant were no lights on the junk. Holt's, the

in the afternoon urged that there& 0.

Pacific Mail-one U. S. S. Wilmington and snothi

took over the business. There With reference to the light at the after another has been a subject U.S. gunboat were lying along-

were some debts owing by the atern, the plaintif had said the for gossip, almost invariably side with a Chinese river gun-

brother, including one to the light was on a post five feet from groundleas. The latest denial |boat, two Canton steamers, and

plaintiff, and the defendant was the stern, standing in a hole was contained in our wire of yes- Just over two months ago some notes appeared in our columns (wo merchant vessels waiting their With the year 1912 now rapid-aid to have promised the plaintiff bored in the planks of the deck, terday, which gave. Sir Thomas on an invention of strong interest to Hongkong. Briefly put, this lura to enter. Another boat was ly drawing to close, it is interes that he would be responsible for with a socket for the end of the Sutherland's remarks concerning

ting, says the London and China his brother's debts if plaintiff post. To verify that they had the Pand O. It would be interes is an apparatus intended to act as a fire extinguisher and fumigator also being towed to the docks. aboard ship; intended, that is to say, alike to fight fires and to kill

Appointed to Hongkong. Express,, to inquire what is would continue to supply him.

At the conclusion of the hearing but had found no hole or socket. were hatched

sent a man down to see the junk ting to know where these canards. Mr. Frederick W. Taylor, likely to be the aggregate result rats, and now to eradicate plague. The apparatus, indeed, was chargeman of smiths, Pembroke, of the year's trading. We find

Judgment was reserved. first perfected for the purpose of fire-extinguishing; its adaptation and assistant-overseer of smiths, valuable indication of the state of

To judge from the Home papers, the general revival of in- to the business of rat-killing came as an after-thought to the in-Newcastle, has been appointed the vast commercial exchange ventor, Dr. George Harker of Sydney. The principle involved is with effect from 15th ult. Mr. and the countries of the Far East

terest which was inevitable where › inspector of smiths, Hongkong, between the United Kingdom

such a man sa the late George very simple. Rats and fires are alike in respect that they cannot W. Trueman, from Gibraltar, has in the detailed figures for the

All arrangements have been The Chinese detective who Gissing is concerned, has already live without oxygen, whilst plague cannot continue without rats, been appointed leading recorder first three quarters of the year concluded for the well-known stands charged with obtaining begun, though the great novelist The device, catches the flue gases taken from the uptake of steam at Hongkong Dockyard. He held just issued by the Board of Trado. viator, Mr. Kouzminsky's flights money from a carpenter at Yau- has not yet been dead tem

a similar appointinent out "The Thus, as regards China, we learn it Shatin on Saturday and Sunday mati, by means of menaces, again years.

great" boilers, which contain very little oxygen and these are "poured into

Rock."

that our imports from that next. The co-operation of the appeared before Mr. CD. Mel- because Gissing is one of the half the hold. They rapidly exhaust the oxygen in the hold, with the

Alleged Highway Robbery. country aggregated some £3.500.- railway has been secured, and bourne, at the Police Court, this dozen characters in the history of result that all vermin are suffocated:

A man has been arrested by the £300,000 on the figures for the from Kowloon from noon until

the world's literature who must he 000, a decline of, roughly trains will run every half hour afternoon.

Mr. G. K. Hall Bratton, of judged, not so much according When we first mentioned the invention it was still in something leged highway robbery at Shau-of over £700,000 compared with This will make it easy for in- ad for the prosecution and Mr. he so easily might have done. police in connection with an al-corresponding period of 1911, and half past three on both afternoons. Messrs. Brutton and lett, appear what he did as according to what 'like the experimental stage. It has now passed beyond that stage kiwas. It is reported by the man 1910. Again, exports to Chinsonding. spectators to reach the Lewis, of Mesars. Johnson, Stokes Scarcely a more tragic figure ex- and may be accepted as of proved utility. A series of exhaustive who stated that he was robbed, (nearly £8,000,000) show a falling aviation grounds.

ists in British literary history experiments have heen carried out at the Mars Island navy yard that as he was walking along off of as much as £1,350,000 from

and Master, defended. Mr. Kouzminsky, in an inter- At a previous hearing Mr. than this man who, through California, and at Sydney Harbour. The first were conducted by a Shaukiwan Road in the direction last year's total, though there is a view with our representative said Brutton intimated that he absence of grit, or else through board of naval officers and were eminently successful. So rapidly cable house west of the Balle View with 1910. We may, perhaps, gee he hoped to make far more sense charge, and Mr. Lewis said was content to write pot-boilers of Quarry Bay, and passing the considerable increase compared to day that, weather permitting, was prepared to withdraw the peculiar super-sensitiveners, were rata, and other vermin, killed in the hold into which the gas was Hotel, a Chinese who was walking in these figures the inevitable sional fights than he did at Mo- in that oase he would have to and remain in the background, blown that the Government of the Commonwealth has authorised the behind him attacked him, with immediate effect of the political cao, and that he might be able to apply for compensation for the instead of making a big effort to adoption of this system for fumigation. For shipowners the device some instrument inflicting a blow disturbances and express some may more than one light on prosecution of his client. Mr. get to the top of the trea

on the head. He also pushed him surprise even that the decline is has this peculiar attraction-aside from its comparative cheapness down to the ground and stole his comparatively so, amall, whilst motor tuned up and reports that than submit to that he would pro- could have raised him. He died sach afternoon. He has had his Brutton then said that sooner position to his which genius that it does not injure perishable cargo. In that respect it differs cap and umbrella. from sulphur which was formerly tried and was found as un-

anticipating with satisfaction the Bleriot is in first class con- ceed with, the esse as he had at the age of forty-six, acknow- considerable improvement in thedition.

ample evidence to get the defen-ledging himself beaten in the fortunate in respect of the dainage it did to cargo as it is efficacious

near future on anything yet seen, The aviator's idea of having a dant convicted. It was therewith struggle; owning that he had, in killing rats.

if only political affairs continue fing red on the ferry stations decided to go on with the case their progress towards stability if the weather permits him to fly, Farther evidence was being

taken when we wont to press.

DEATH OF MR. E. C. SPURGE.

a

is Lordship reserved judgment and to-day announced his decision, in favour of the plaintiff.

THE AVIATION MEETING.

·

TWO CLAIMS.

'AMPLE EVIDENCE."

ре

George Gissing.)

Bay!!

given his life to the work that he must do, rather than to that which he longed to do. Of that greater work, of which his intimates always know him to be capable, CLAIM FAILS.

bis unfinished Veranilda may be taken as the type; but there This morning in the Summary The case in which Ling Oi probably now meet with the re- are other books of his which will court the Dairy Farm Co. pro Ting sued Mr. H. W. D. Shallard, cognition they deserve now recover animat the Kam Koo to superintendent of the P. and. O., that it is too late for him to profit recover an amount due for goods Hongkong, the P. and O. Steam sold and delivered. The case Navigation Co., and Inspector

thereby was proved by Mr. Jack, the ac-Kerr, to recover damages for

Is it not possible that, for Hongkong, this new invention has an

and genuine reform. As regards and yellow if he has to post- interest quite apart from its value to shipping? It will be remem- Details have come to hand of the entrepot of Honkong, our im-

pone his exhibition, in good one, bered that some time ago a select committee of the Sanitary Board the death of Mr. Edward Charles porte rose £30,000 to £615,000, was appointed to consider and report on what measures can be taken Spurge, of Magara Falls, brother and exports of British goods for of Mr. H. S. Spurge, of Messrs. that destination advanced by to prevent the breading of rats in the storm water drains and sewers A. S. Watson and Co. It appears £440,000 to £2,500,000. of the city. Might not this invention be considered? Professor that while he was experimenting Simpson contended that the proportion of infected drain rats was for the purpose of preparing a very much greater than the proportion of infooted house rats. They paper to be read at a gathering SENSATIONAL RUMOURS, are very nearly equal in numbers, yet not equal as regards infection of scientists, he accidentally, in-

haled the fumes of hydrooyanic Rumours are abroad concer- so that tho drain rat is considerably more dangerous than the house acid, one of the most deadly poining a business man who is well countant; and Mr. Dennys, who wrongful imprisonment ended Singapore Official to be Married. rat. It seems to us that consideration might be directed to the sons known. Mr. Spurge then known, both in the colony, and appeared for the plaintiff firm, yesterday, after we had gone to A marriage has been arranged, question of whether the Harker apparatus could be applied, or appeared to have gone out into Canton. It is stated that he has obtained judgment fo adapted in some way, to use in drains and disinfection generally, the open air, his body being mysteriously disappeared. olaimed

for the amount prees, in favour of the defendants, and will shortly take place, bet It transpired that Inspector ween Mr. Herbert Athill Stallwood, The cost would not be great,-a few hundred pounds sterling so found some distance from the Sbyoral friends of the missing Mr. Leo D'Almada e Castro, Kerr, did not charge the plaintiff of the Pablic Works Department, little would be lost even if the experiment were only a partial The deceased gentleman, who knows that he was in financis! Woohinined judgment for was done by forgesnt Wille. Stallwood, F.B.A., of Reading, and man said to-day that they have who appeared for the Po Sang at the Police Station; in fact it Singapore, son of Mr. S. Slingsby success; and it might very well prove such a boon as the Colony has was forty years of age, was only difficulties, owing to various $387.46 for goods gold and de- The plaintiff therefore failed on Mildred, daughter of the late long waited. Bear in mind; if there are no rate there will be no married on August 30, to Mrs. misunderstandings with com livered against the same de this point also, as well on the Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. Darvill railean, and the absence of the rat-fea means no plague.

Louise Taylor-Fox.

fendant

that li

laboratory door.

pradores.

others

"195th Madras Light Infantry,