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The Hongkong Telegraph

December 27th, 1912, Temperature a.m. 66, p.m. 50; Humidity...70, 88.

No. 8980

TELEGRAMS.

THE KING

RUMOUR DENIED.

Router's

[Service to the "Telegraph.""]

London, December 27.

His Majesty's Equerry states

晚十二月一十年子壬

TELEGRAMS.

FRENCH PRESIDENT,

(ESTABLISHED 1881.) Copyright; 1912 by the

SATURDAY,

TELEGRAM'S.

THE BALKAN DISPUTE,

M. POINCARE A CANDIDATE. TURKEY IN HAUGHTY MOOD.

Router's

[Service to the "Telegraph."]

London, December 27.

· Reuter's

[Service to the "Telegraph."]

London, December 27. According to Constantinople

DECEMBER

TELEGRAMS.

CORD HARDINGE.

WEATHER FORECAST-

CHANGE.

Barometer 20.08:

December 27th, 1911, Temperature a.m. 68, p.m., 66; Humidity.81, 77.

晚八廿月二十英港香

1912.

KELEGRAMS.

A TROUBLOUS WOUND,

FAR EASTERN PEACE.

JAPANESE POLICY.

Reater's

A

[Service to the Telegraph."]

London, December 27. Lord Hardings is progressing.

Reuter's [Service to the "Telegraph."]

London, December 27. The "Times" correspondent at

TELEGRAMS,

THE OPIUM QUESTION.

THE "TIMES" ADVICE.

Renter'a

$86, PER AFFOR SINGLE LOFT 10: CKE 14

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.

TELEGRAMS.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

China's reply to the British Note regarding Tibet is consider- ed to be unsatisfactory.

there is no truth in the report pare, hna, consented to be the newspapers, the Turkish counter and natural sleep is returning Tokyo has had an interview with festo enjoining the observance of though a wound below the neck

that the King is ill in bed,

He has been shooting all day. and is very well.

JAPANESE OUTRAGE.

GERMAN PRESS COMMENT.

The French Premier, M. Poin- Republican candidate for the French Presidency.

LONDON LANGKAT

SYNDICATE.

Discrepancy of Arca Still Under Investigation.

claims to the terms of the Allies The lacerated wounds are doing include the retention of Adriano well, but some trouble is being ple and Salonika under Turkish given by the puncters wound sovereignty. They agree to con- below the neck. cede Bulgaria, a port in the Argean Sea, and are prepared to

make a similar concession to Servia of a port in the Adriatic, but refum in entertain the idea of a pecuniary indemnity.

ALLIES AMAZED.

Protests by the Younger

Generation.

[Service to the Telegraph." London, December 27. The "Times" commenting on the Peking Government's mani-

Lord Hardinge is progressing, the Anglo-Chinese Opiam Agree is giving some trouble. ment says that the present eitus- tion cannot continue indefinitely

It is denied by His Majesty'a as the accumulation of stocks at Shanghai and Canton, not only Equerry that the King has been affects the middlemen of Bombay (ill in bed; he is very well. and Caloutts, but the great banks and important firme. The Govern-

Marquis Kateurs, who says the pesence of Japan's policy is the maintenance of peace in the Far DOWRIES" IN BENGAL East, with the Anglo-Japanese Alliance as a basis and the Russo Japanese and Franco-Japanese ententes as supports. Japan did ment of India should not have The French Premior has con- taken huge sume from traders if sented to become Republican Certain Bengali papers (says not contemplate any forward it did not mean to enforce the candidats for the Presidency. the "Indian Spectator have policy in China, and there was agreements. Peking is at present published interesting detaile con-

The hurricane on Boxing Day earning a few recent marriages, no ground for the alleged too weak to enforce its full The delegates of the Allies which show that the conscience Chiness apprehensions. He in- authority upon the intractable wrought great havoo in the South provincial mandarina, and the of England, and shipping suffer. The Berlin Press is gratified states that the directors' report, express amazement at the Turkish of the rising generation is being sisted that the Alliance with Times" therefore urges as led badly.

submitted as recently as March counter-proposals as published, stirred up against the iniquity Britain had not suffered the partial remedy, the stopping of at the escape of Prince Yamagata, last, gave the particulars of the and emphatically declare that of squeezing money out of needy

and says that no consideration, planted area on the syndicate's they could not be seriously dis-parents at the time of the marriage slightest diminution in strength further sales for export to Chins, two estates. Mr. Junkers in-cussed by the Conference. Mean of their daughters. It seems and all his colleagues were moral or financial, can warrant serious proposal to retain Adrian dicates that the actual planted while the Powers are earnestly that an inhabitant of Bengal pledged to the policy of retrench- the Government of India con-ople to Turkey will wreck the

Peace Conference. military and political career and area may, on a survey, be found counselling moderation in Con- has an educatod son employed ment which would be applied to tinuing to unload opium on

London, December 27.

who is described as a highly

esteemed commander and states

man.

The newspapers extol his congratulate. Japan that one of her greatest son has been spared to her.

THE HURRICANE.

HAVOC IN THE SOUTH.

London, December 27, Yesterday's hurricane was most covers on the South Coast. A Plymouth, where it blew at the There

vessels were wrecked.

were exoiting scenes of rescues

was subsequently refloated."

An abnormal tide flooded Portsmouth, Southampton, and Lorus in the Isle of Wight, do- ing great damage.

The Midlands of England are jinundated.

The steamer Ripon, bound for back into Philadelphia, put Queenstown, battered by the storm. A huge wave badly hurt seven of the crew and drowned

one man.

The report of the Tondon Langkat Syndicate, Limited,

to be somewhat short of the area previously stated. The direc tore regret that they are not yet in a position to give details as to the alleged discrepanoy, but this natter is now having Mr. Jon kere' attention and it is hoped that a survey will have been completed by the year.

The latest reports. show that the rubber and coffee estates have been maintained in

the

ond of

stantinople...

2

Later:

IS CONFERENCE DOOMED ?

The Allies declare that they will never agree to Adrianople remaining a Turkish possession, and any serious proposal to that effect will wreck the Conference.

CHURCH SERVICES.

4

12

WAS

his

at Simla who

making the Army and Navy, regalar remittances to father. The old man settlod a marriage alliance for his son and screwed out of the bride's DIRECTORS' LIABILITIES.

Re. 10,000. The Bon scene to have father a dowry" to the tune of

helpless market.

A

Companies Act of 1908 there was

felt that this was robbery under Lecture to Chartered Institute of a prospectus. The misrepresenta-

CALFORNIA AND COTTON.

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Secretaries

a

The Allies declare that any

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"The P. and O. Narrung, bound to Syndey, has had to put back to London after being badly buffeted off Ushant.

The Turkish demands include

the retention of Saloniks and Adrianople; they are warmly resented by the Allies.

LOCAL

a serious liability imposed on directors for misrepresentation in tion must, however, be one of social licence, and he compensal». ad the victim by robbing. his

fact, and the aggrieved ahare holder must show that he relied father of the remittances and ▲ lesture on the statutory on it. Not only were those re- paying them to his father-in-law. liabilities of directore was given The father tried to recoup him-

The Barlin Press expresses a good state of upkeep, and that

for positive statements amounting Montefore Brice (barrister-at- the growth of the Hevea and Ro St. John's Cathedral, Hong-self by demanding Rs.10,000, at on November 19, by Mr. A. J. Sponsible for a prospectus liable

to misrepresentation, but they gratification at the escape of basta trees is satisfactory. Owing kong, 29th December, 1st Sunday the time of the marriage of his

law), at River Plate House, at a

wore also liable for non-disclosure Prince Yamagata, whose military to the lateness of the season no after Obristmas, Holy Communion second son. The marriage was

meeting of the Chartered

The drossly Incompetent. coffee from either estate had been (3.1.5 a.m.) Matine (11 a.m.) Re-arranged and everything was tits of Secretaries, amounting to misrepresentation. and political career is extolled.

Morrison McLeod (president of A discussion followed, in the

Regarding the opium question, harvested before June 30, 1912. sponsor: Festal, Venite: Savage, ready, but at the last moment frate of 83 miles an hour, four It is anticipated that a commence-Psalms: Tarton, Baraby, Barnby. the boy's conscienca began to Institute) occupied the chair.course of which Mr Phillips asked the "Times." urges, as a partial · ment will be made with tapping Te Deum: Woodward, Smart, prick him, and he refused to leave Mr. Montefiore, Brice said that in what circumstances a director remedy the stopping of further the rubber during the coming Carlo. Benedictus: Troutbeck his house for the ceremony until

tora by statute were many and petence.. In one company of A lifeboat fall of shipwrecked financial year. Coffea factories flymas: 482, (T. 298), 178, 62, the money was returned to his the liabilities imposed on direc was responsible for gross incom-sales of Indian opium for export people was blown ashore, but equipped on modern principles Evensong (545 pm.) (Full would-be father-in-law.

are in

A Brahman is said to have kept often serious. If they took, which ho had, known the board to China. course of erootion Chorus) Responses: Festal, Pea-

Our Shanghai correspondent The area cul-Ins: of the 20th evening (1) his daughter unmarried until the to begin with, the Companies consisted of a baronet, a barrister, on both estates. ivated with tobacco for 1911 crop Magnificat: Mannder in D. Nunc go ago of seventeen, and thon (Consolidation) Act of 1908 they solicitor, and a gentleman the

of member of the board-the gentle the opium question has resulted was 300 fields of an area of ap- Dimitle: Mannder in D. Anthem: Jemanded a heavy price from the would soon find themselves in an company was not a success. One says Britain's final warning on proximately 525 acres. The crop "There were shepherds Glory ton who sought her hand, ac almost continuous stream

1,720 bales as God." Handel, Hinne: 60, 288, cording to the converse custom of provisions affecting directors' man to whom he particularly in a vague mandate, and develop mounted to ngainat 1,310 bales in 1910. Sevenfold Amen, Voluntary is caste. Now it was the girl liability. Section 81 was the referred-paid the application ments are expected.

latest form of many attempts to who felt the unconscionable char-

money on his qualification shares The average price obtained was Allegro-P. Birowski. 99.80 cents per kg, against 133

Union Church, Kennedy Road, aoter of the bargain. It is stated enforce condeur on company and drew his fees regularly. He ponsible for the issue of the pro-rapt, and it was then discovered cents per kg. in the previous Minister, Rev. C. II. Hickling, that the young lady left her directors and those who were res was subsequently made a bank- spectus, and it undoubtedly that he was a clerk in Holy Or- year. The cost price, inclusive 11 a.m. Worship Hymns 476, 479, father's.

placed on directors

very ders. A man like that, holding The revenue of the Colony for of all charges and market ex-187, Chant and Anthem; 12 noon, penses, was 90.35 cents per kg. Commnnnion; 4 p.m. Children's

Lonerous statutory liability. As himself out as a director of trad October was $821,176.28 and against 118 cents per kg. About Service: 6 p.m. Hymns 485, 508,

no penalty was attached to ing companies, ought to be made the expenditure $775,488.82. P. AND O. LINER DAMAGED. 300 selde have been planted for 441, 41, 477. Subject, Last

this section, it seemed clear responsible. The P., and O. str. Narrung, the 1912 crop. The last news as Four Things. Eternity'; New

that a delinquent director might Mr. Montefiore Brice said that from London to Sydney, has into the yield per field is to the Year's Eve-11.15 pm. Watch British Vice Consul's Suggestion be dealt with in one or, for the as to the liability of a director A notification in to-day's timated by wireless telegraph effect that an average of eight night Service

In continuation of this state matter of that, in both of two for gross incompetencs, he would Government Gazette indicates St. Peter's Seamen's Church, from Ushant that she is return pula has been obtained, the ing to London, having much weighing in of the tobacco having Hongkong. Sunday, December. menta about the possible devel-ways first, by a prosecution for come first of all under the com- how the Military alarms will water in the bold and having susah wn a shortage on the previous 29. 1912. Holy Communion, 7.30pment of the port of Ensenada, a misdemeanour, and, secondly, mon law, because if he accepted be sounded in Hongkong.

a.m., M. Prayer and Sermon, 11 Lower California, the British Vice by a civil action for damages. a post for reward he was inferred tained serious damage. Stenmorso.nutes.

Labour Supply.

.m., Preacher, Rev. G. B. Berry, Consul at that port (Mr. W. D. With regard to the statutory duty to hold ont that he possessed the of disclosure, he said that before necessary knowledge and skill are bastening to her assistance.

The Narrung had on board

The supply of labour on the late of Emmanuel Ch., Plymouth. Madden) has forwarded are the Companies Act of 1800 (Sec- with which to discharge the were present at the annual Police

Im- 248 passengers for Sydney, Mel-

estates has been fully maintained E. Prayer and Sermon: 6.15 p.m., port in which he gays:

evening at the City Hall. bourne, and Adelaide, and also and the health of the coolies Gospel Meeting at the Seamen's mediately north. of the Internation 10) this duty was neither so duties of that post. If he revealed Ball which took place yesterday

tho other, it was open to any number for Capetown.

atisfactory throughout the past Instituto, 8 pm., No Seamen's tional Boundary lies the "Imgenerally nor so stringently ex- that he had neither the one not.

person suffering damage from his The time ball on Blackhoed The Negada has telegraphed year. The cost of importing the Concert, Monday, 30 Dec. Watch perial Valley, in the state of Cali-pressed as it had been since. by wireless that she is within requisite labour force from Java Night Service at S. Peter's Oh, fornis (U.S.A.) The region, which sight of the Narrung's lights, continues to be high, and is at Tuesday, Dec. 31st 1912, at covers an area of about 1,250,000 ||

present much more expensive 11'15 p.m. The Bavaria is also close at hand. than at the time of the incorpora Christian Science Services, The Narrang reported that her ting of the company. The di- MacDonnell Road: Sunday 11.15 foredeck was swept. Her posi-rectors draw attention to the s.m. Wednesday 5 30 p.m. tion at six o'olook yesterday even fact that the present funds ing was still very bad,

of the company will prove insafficient to bring the present Later.planted area into full bearing. same time con- The atation at the Lizard and at the received a wireless message at tinue the planting of tobacco on 9.15 last night that the Narrung the present scale. The directors

At the Normanhurst (Sussex) does not now require assistance. desire to remind the shareholders

The P. and O. Company an- that the syndicate was formed to rent audit Viscount Hythe an- nounces that the Narrung has acquire the estate with the object nounced that it had been decid- wired that she is steaming back of instituting a scheme for the ed to sell the outlying portions of perial Valley" and in Lower fronted by Gover's case

development of Heven and Ro- the estate. Tepants would be California (Mexico) itself there 182) to show the contrary int he who was apparently a young man printed in red and black ink, in Powerful tugs were sent to her busta in addition to the existing given the opportunity of puris & district three times as large did not admit that Gover's case of about eighteen years of ageEnglish, Malay and Chinese ver Resistance from Falmouth, but the onlture of tobacco, and when chasing their boldings, payment as the "Imperial Valley, which could govern Section 81 of the was injured while assisting, in rettes has moderated and sufficiently advanced to sell the being spread over a period of 25 enjoys exactly the same physical Companies Act; for Gover's one the loading of a whorry at sions, have been published by the He proceeded to any that and climatic conditions, and, be- was expressly based on Section Derwenthaugh, near Nowosstle.MS. Government and are to be further favourable news is hourly undertaking to a larger company years,

provided with the necessary he did not believe that breaking sides, is still nearer to Enrenada. 38 of the Companies Act of 1807. on-Tyne. To the doctor who generally distributed shortly in expected.

Later. capital to fully develop and bring up large estates was in the in- Moreover, labour very much Therefore he was of opinion that was summoned the worker con- every suitable place in the F.M.S. The card is sufficiently striking the planted area into bearing. The terests of nation. But the burden cheaper than in California owing the general law should guide them feased that he was a woman, directors regret that the finan- of recent taxation, and especially to Oriental labour being permitt on this point, According to that and that her name was Margaret and decorative to claim attention, elal market has not been such as the death duties, made it imposed. Comparatively le has as law, non-disclosure could not be Wilson. She was the wife of a and it is just sufficiently instruc to render this transaction practi-sible for anyone who derived his yet been dot dito levalop this dis justified where there was a duty to German sailor who had illtreated five to make people understand Later. cable, and it is therefore necessary income mainly from land to con-trict, but wealthy Americans are disclose any more than non-disclo her, and she had sought, obtained, what is the danger and how to Shipping casualties continue to make such financial arrange tinus to live in the home of his becoming heavily interested finansure could be justified where such and kept since last May employ help in preventing the spread of to be ported. There are nam meats as will prove adequate to father, and it was quite certain cindy, bo that this action belt will non-disclosure rendered a statement as a man in order to to deaths recorded through carry on the programme under that if he outlived his father undoubtedly be the centre of very ment misleading. Under Section maintain hersell and her two are also supplied. The card i boks and by being washed, inken until such time as the or Earl Brassey, Normanhurst would great development during the gly but more generally sud parti ohide: She was injured by the work of the Malaria Advisory

entarly under Section Bé, of thé la misel p'ato which fell on herh Jginal sphere can be carried out. have to be shut'up.-

BETTER NEWS.

at ten knots.

Later.

The Norrung is expected in the Thames to-morrow morning

FURTHER DISASTERS.

overboard

THE BREAK-UP OF ESTATES.

|

The English Law.

About three hundred guests

The judgment of Lord Justice incompetent handling of affaire Point is to drop on Sundays, and acres, lies below the level of the Righy in McKepwn v. Bondard to bring an action for damages Government holidays, as well as Colorado River; it is irrigated and Co. held good. He declared against him personally. It was on ordinary week days, beginning

holders not to re-elect him at the and under intensive ogricultural the law to be that "if you rely, also, of course, open to the share on let January development, and the land has as a ground for rescission of a

annual meeting, and to tell him tisen very greatly in valce during contract, on the omission of a the last few years. The district statement, you must show that why. (Laughter.) is considered capable of produc- the omission of that statement ing 500,000 tons of high-class makes what is stated misleading." cotton annually. The seaport of Generally speaking, that was, Los Angeles is about 150 miles mere allence with regard to a from the "Imperial Valley," but material fact would not voice a Ensenada is only about half that contract when there was no

obligation to divalgo. distance.

Immediately south of the "Im-

Helt fow.yenka, Ag

SINGULAR CASE.

He knew that he might be con- A worker whose name had (10. D. been given as James Palmer, and

Sir Envilland de Sangmarez, the Chief Justice of H.B.M'S Court for China, leaves Shanghai to-day for Hongkong to sit in the newly constituted Full Court,

About Malaria.

Instructive cards on malarza,

the disease. Simple directions