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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1913.

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The Oplum Question.

DAY BY DAY.

THE TIGER AGAIN,

Another and a very important stop has been reached in the) opium orisis by Mr. Acland's deadvertised by their loving friends"

Strong people are not so much Spoor of a Big Brute Found near linite statement in the House yes as by their rabid enemies.

Shatla, terday that the Home Government

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Returned from Banishment.

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“DAVID GARRICK,”

Famous Comedy Staged by

Allan Wilkie Ce.";

In accordance with the intima- From time to time of late There was only a fair house Agreement of 1911. This is a

rumours have been circulated to present last night at the Theatre tion published in the Govern comforting little flash of that for police duty, by Mr. Hazelandable size, was somewhere in the Uompany staged" David Garrick." to the demarcation of boyoott Nineteen Indians were sworn the effect that a tiger, of consider Royal when the Allan Wilkie ment Gazette laat week, relative firmness which other countries the Police Court, this morning hills between Yaumati and Shatin, Amongst those prosent were His areas, an audience was given this have learned to associate with England, and one which every

and that the coolies were afraid Excellency, the Governor, Lady morning to representatives of the Britisher proud of his nationality

following areas, by Hin Excellency to use the hill roads and path May, and Miss May. will welcome heartily enough. It

after dark.

The story of the play is the Governor- is difficult to see what other

A fresh report reached us to the known to everyone and is Assessment Distriot No. 5 course was open to Great Britain.

effect that Mr. Edmunds of the slight at best. The dainty story Sheung Wan: Assessment Dis- She never has allowed other

P.W.D., who is in charge of the requires to be carefully staged triot No. 6 Chung Wan: Ass485– Governments to defy Treaty obli-

Pompeing station at. Yumati and and well noted before it grips and mout District No. 7 Hs Wan, and who also is Superintendent of the holds an audience; and it may ASBOBsment Distriot No. 8 gations with impunity, and

filter beds and large reservoir be said that, in the main, last Wanchai. We are informed that though she may wish to deal as leniently as possible with the

tiger's spoor. It is part of Mr. demands. |among the hills, had seen a night's presentation of it met these reasons were advanced supporting young Republic, it is not for her

claims for exemption from the to sit down calmly under what

Edmunds' duty twice a week to Mr. Wilkie himself made an working of the ordinanos, but no amounts to a political affront.

make a tour of inspection of the excellent "David Garrick", and decisions were announced. works, which he does on a sturdy his work in the sham drun- According to latest information France's view of the Matter.

little mountain pony, the entire ken scene was excellent a meeting of property owners is Strangely enough, another wire

circuit covering some 15 miles. except, perhaps, just before to be held in the near future to comes through, almost simul-

It was during his last trip his exit. But, for the most part consider the mater afresh. Mr. Lau taneously, hinting that the

that he saw the fresh spoor of a he played the part with disting. Chu-Pakseen by a representative French are protesting, on be-

large tiger in the red olay bank- tion. Equal to him was Mr. Philip this morning said "We are trying half of Siam and Indo-Ching, The billiard match announceding of the two mile water escarp Gordon as the "Hon. Richard our hardest to break up the against the Indian Government's to take place to-nighta: the Grand ment.

Chivvy" whose delineation of the boycott." action in restricting the exporta- Hotel has been unavoidably tion of certified opium. With all postponed. Messrs. Pitt and

A Chinese who returned from banishment, was sent to goal for six months, by Mr. C. D., Mel- bourne, at the Police Court, this morning

The_Dragon_Cycle Co. · The Dragon Cycle Co. have just received a consignment of the finest make of bicycles of the latest model with and without couster brakes.

Billiard Match Postponed.

Ample Cover,-

character on broad lines, was ad-| The next audience is to be It has been said that there is mirable. Hr. Stafford Dawson, as held on Friday nert at 10 a.m.

becoming respect to France, is McLennan will play it off someie up" on the bills, but the outstanding figuro, but the most heard from

no covert in which a tiger can “Alderman Ingot" was also an when representatives will

this quite playing the game? The evening next week, the date to underbrush in many places is finished work of the evening was ground of the protest on the face be announced later.

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Hongkong, weDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1918. -

PAY IN THE NAVY,

At the time, goine mouth or so ago, when the telegram.came through giving an outline of the scheme for improved pay in the Navy we expressed the conviction that the proposals, would meet with general approbation. This opinion is amply borne out in the Home papers to hand; there is, from all quarters, a chorus of approval at what Mr. Churchill and the Second Sen Lord (who is responsible for the personad of the Navy) have decided upon. What is much to the point is the fact that these expressions of satisfaction aro not confined to what in this connection may be termed the lay Prose-experts who know the subject from top to bottom are one with the others in the warm reception given to the resolves of the Admiralty.

Cruelty to Fowls,

Week of Prayer.

Old Queen's College Boys,"

Opium Again.

Candida.

a synopsis of

FIELD TRAINING.

by the 8th Rajputs, in the New

Field Firing will be carried out,

Territory on the morning of Satur- day, January 11th.

Red Force:-Officer Command-

to-night.

“Candida" is a play of tem-ing-Major A. O. Ralph. Troops perament rather than of action. Composite Battery of Moun and it is the gradual lifting of

tain Artillery, 8th Rajputs. seemed the veils that concoal the varying Punjabia, 26th Punjabi.

Blus Force :-Troops.-25th its steps, mentalities of the characters not

Went Towards Shatin. Twice the animal

Umpires are allotted as fol- a few only from one another but from lowa:-Red Force-Captain J. L.

Bay a Chinese "boy" carrying a L. Sgt. Mills cliarged the bath garde, then came on again, and themselves that provides the pro-Stenhouse, R. G. A. (Attached to

Assessment district of No. 1 Ken- well over eight feet high, and that of Miss Hunter Watts. The nedy Town; assessment district this, and close-growing pines, part offers her fewer lines than No. 2 Shektongtsui; assessment Yesterday evening the second would afford ample cover for do some others, but her acting, district No. 3 Sai Ying Pun and especially during the scene of assessment district No. 4 Tai Ping meeting in connection with the anything short of an elephant. week of prayer was held at the

Unquestionably the spoor in disillusionment, was of a high Shay. City Hall when Mr. T, O. Meyer that of a tiger, and a big, brate order. The minor parts were in presided. The speaker was the at that, as the pads have sunt very capable hands. Rev. T. W. Pearce who dealt with half an inch in places in the red

To-night "Candide" is to be The Church Universal-The clay. The writer has seen tiger "One Body" of which Christ is spoor before, and there can be no staged. Owing to the enormous the Head:"

doubt on the point.

success of this play on the last The tiger had followed the visit horo, Mr. Allan Wilkie re A telegram from Pekin has carpment from the 8,000 foot Peats it again this time. For those people who have not had

Field Operations will take place... been received to the effect that mark to the 1,000, walking slowly the opportunity of seeing this in the New Territory, on Tuesday, Dr. Chan Kamto, Mr. Wan and coming from the directon of

January 14th. The undermention- play we offer Chun-iu, formerly Junior Amban Lion Hill. Judging from the spoor it. Judging from the bookinged troops will take part in the The notes which appeared here

at Lhasa, and Dr.. Wong Chung-it stopped three times, evidently to

operation: yesterday regarding cruelty to wai, formerly Minister for Justice, listen, as both fore and hind it should insure: a crowded house animala and fowle-reminds us that all three old Queen's College pads are close together, and the the police are empowered to boys, have had the 2nd Grade of imprints are deeper. arrest anyone who is seen carry the new Ka-wo order conferred ing a fowl head downward. How difficult it is to oure the Chiness upon them by President Yuzn

Shih-kai.

to have retraced of this habit is proved by the fact that, some ten days ago, wa

always leisurely, for

lusty chicken in this fashion, room-boy and the first saloon-boy, sured.) At about half a mile from

once took a leap of 9' feet (mea grèse and climax necessary to 8th right under the eyes of the law. of the Empress of India, before the bungalow it left the escarp-

Rajputs and Mountain drama. It can do no harm, indeed, to Mr. O. D. Melbourne, at the Police meat and passed down a narrow son of socialist convictions, strong

The Rev. James Morall, a par R. G. A.

| Battery), Lieutenant W.-A. Moore, say that he was carrying it down Court, this morning, on three the hill from the Water Police counts under the Opium Ordinance Sulley that leads towards Shatin and confident in his own opinions Hughes, 1st Ba. K. O. Y. l. I. Blue Fores-Captain H. K. Station. Luckily for him there with respect to six tias of opium Mr. Thompson states that he has strong is belief in himself intro-Lieutenant J. A. Jervois. Major The foreman of the reservoir and beliefs, of which not the least Attached to 26th Punjabis), was no policeman about at the valued at $150. The case was a young dog that always follows duces into his family circle a A. R. Barrett, 128th Baluchistan moment, but that the practice remanded until to-morrow bail in should be adopted so close to a $500 each being allowed, Mr. F/him on his rounds of the reser-youth, Eugene Marchbanks, the Infantry (Attached to 26th Pun- all proofs that it will take a deal police station is the clearest of

of rooting out,

path, the hair on ite back bristled, striving to starve him. into his 126th Baluchistan Infantry, A man who caused an obstrucite tail went between its legs and own conception of the fitness of (Attached to 25th Punjabs). tion at West Point, and was al- with a growl it started for home things. The Tariff Problem.

leged to have struck a Chinese at top speed. Next day some scheme of life and thought differs

Marchbanks, whose I AM A BAD wires relative to the tariff question Flazeland, at the Police Court, killed, and half eaten, body of milieu but equally so from that Prisoner's Astounding Candour

The latest information over the constable was charged before Mr. grass cutters found the freshly not only from that of his own

CHARACTER, at Home clearly indicates that the this morning. His Worship was a deer about 500 yards from the of Morell, is a post with all a Unionist party as a whole has not quite satisfied with the evid-spot!

in Court, lain's famous Tariff Reform sche- said he would give the defendant "Telegraph" representative learn- of the practically deserted Mr. Chamber ence regarding the assault and

woman's intuitiveness, with all On farther investigation the me. This they have done in order the option of a fine. He would ed that several pigs have been of physical cowardice

a poet's instinctive divination

"I am a bad character. I came truth, to evade the rather awkward food have to pay $50 or in default killed on the outskirts of Shatin intellectual courage, a strange, man charged before Mr. Hazeland, a compound from Canton the day before yester- and day. I brought it with me," said a tax cry, though to our way of one months hard labour. and that pieces of their bodies shy, slight effeminato youthia at the Police Ucurt, this morning, thinking the party's intereste

were discovered by their owners, short the direct antithesis of by Inspector Dymond, with being would have been better served

Boatpeople Fined.

X. D'Almada defends.

Obstruction.

41 A Rough Passage,

voir, but that two days ago, when son of a peer, who, alarmed at his

on a thickly wooded part of the son's deviation from type, is bis), Captain F. L. D. Jarrad

ed.

Large Tracks.

CHESS.

of salted herrings from a godown at Kowloon and the other with tearing the cost of a Chinese de- tective...

L. 8. Wills stated that when

ringe, was arrested, the second

This question of pay in the Navy has long been the subject of and its roputation for consistency This morning at the Marine on the edge of the underbrush, Morell. Candida, Morell's wife, in possession of a weapon-to reprosentation. It will be recalled, for instance, that when Mr. been more satisfactorily maintain- Magistrate's Court, boforo Com-as they hunted for their animals, a woman endowed with largene wit half a razor blade, for the

ed bad they stuck to the main lines mander Basil Taylor, R. N., P.c.

of mind and dignity of character, purpose of committing a felony, Churchill bocama First Lord," the lower-dock Magna Charta" was of the Chamberlain proposals and J. Moss prosecuted Tain Rau, Mr. Thompson stated that boloved by both, becomes uncon- issued, asking for an all-round 20 per cent. increase. The now shown the electorate that even

"I will put him away until Fung Mai and Wong Fat Shing, he Baid the

asciously the storin centre of their after Chinese New Year," said #poor of suilo, it is true, does not meet the full extent of this, demand, but, under the boasted Free Trade boatpeople for anchoring their tiger seven months ago, but temperamental antipathies, and Mr. Hazeland. "It is very candid all the same, we read that bluejackets of all ranks are delighted at system there is as great a taxation craft to the westward of Pros- that he did not think the tracks in the conflict the essential weak of him saying he is a bad charas-

of food as there would be under erpine Rocka on January 8. were as large as these fresh ones ness of Morell's strength, the ter. Six weeks hard labour." the increases. They do not quibble at whether the increase be 15 Tariff Reform. Apparently many The first two were fined $5 which measure 6" x 8". strength of Marchbank's weak-." or 20 per cent,-is one of them said, "it has come at last, and that's among the Conservative wing of each and the third, against whom The astonishing part of the ness, are brought into evidence; A PROOF OF SYMPATHY. the great thing." "The Times" is especially enthusiastic over the the party have been attracted previous conviction was proved, affair is that a tiger, unless heIt is that real workness that schorne, and remarks that, running through the whole plan, there

by Sir Joseph Lawrence's was fined $6.50.

is a man-eater, should so bold-Candida divining allows to de- ly follow a path that is laden with cide her choice; and Marchbanks, Mr. O. D. Melbourne, at the Police Two men were charged before proposals for bounties to Home is obviously a defiuite effort to get rid of anomalies, to secure and Colonial whoat, to be paid

the smell of human beings, as quit of the desire for happiness, Court, this morning, by L. Sgt. secure greater simplicity, and to give reality to bosus which have for out of a tax on foreign manu-port this morning after taking short-cut across the hills, and realisation that life is nobler than

The s.s. Bendoran arrived in coolies use the escarpment as a leaves them to theirs, with the Wills one with stealing a quantity sometimes existed only upon paper. Pay, it says, in the literal factures, and the free admission, nine full days to make the trip the average tiger, is a retiring happiness, sense, ie not the whole problem, or even the most difficult part of sohome certainly has its good the Horsborongh Lighthouse the

as at present, of foreign corn. The from Singapore. On rounding brate, unless wounded or corner- it. The meris of the scheme lies. in its handling of questions points, though we hope it will not vessel encountered a moderate concerning inequality of treatment, delay in advancement, and be too hurriedly taken up by the breeze with a considerable sea, a calf, placing it in an open spot The Inter Club Challenge Shield. the first man, who had the her-

Sport might be had by killing progressive increment of pay when promotion is unattainable responsible men of the Unionist which gradually increased to a through no fault of a man's own. This latter point was touched by cannot be solved in a day, and it seas and severe squalls of wind watching for the brate, as it is Club Challenge Shield for chens tore the officer's coat with a cargo camp. This is a question which strong monsoon, with very highed of it from an elevation, and The competition for the inter-man came up and deliberately where a good view may be obtain Mr. Lionel Yexley, the well-known authority on naval matters, in will be well that all possible ob- and rain, which continued antil almost sure to hang about a presented by the Eon, Mr. H. E. hook, in sympathy apparently an interview with another journal. He remarks that whereas formerly jections to the new scheme are 50 miles south of Gap Rock vicinity that affords pigs and deer Pollock, K. C., to be won three with the prisoner. in many cases a man could never reach the maximum rate of pay as One of these objections will likely encountered, setting to the S. W.

forosoen ere it is officially adopted. Very strong currents were also and offers no molestation. Bet down on paper, Mr. Churchill's scheme not only gives an be that inasmuch as one of the

years in succession before it be Defendants pleaded guilty. comes the property of the winning The first man was sentenced to' increase of pay, but in may instances he has altered the rates of prime objects of a tariff on

Club, is now in full swing. On one month's imprisonment and progression, so that now the maxima may be reached. Another point foreign manufactures ie to keep

Monday the Hongkong Chess four hours stocks. The second which Mr. Yoxley mado was that the present increase of pay is clear fiment of this aim will mean those manufactures out, the ful-

Clab met the Club Lusitano and man was fined $10 or in default of the old jaggling which took away with one hand what it gave that there will be no revenue at Birmingham Assizes recently due to arrive in Hongkong on kong Chess Club won 4 and the 84 compensation or in default to The s.e. Tenyo Marn, which was of the six games played the Hong-fourteen days, and ordered to pay with the other. "This new soheme," he says, "is a straight and with which to pay the bounties. Mr. Justice Serutton ordered him Thursday, will not reach this part Club Lusitano 2. Four games undergo a further six days im generous attempt to bring content to the men of the Navy." Such a point will require careful to be kept in custody till he had until Friday, owing to the New still remain to be played. The prisonment.

handling to satisfy the electorate, summed up. Then, addressing Year Festivities at Yokohama. rules provide that teams shall whose stubbornness is proverbial, the man, he said: "Supposing No work at all is done on the 1st consist of five men, each player

Oplum Dross. everybody did that, what a pond and 2nd of the New Year in Ja-having to play his opponent twice. A-man with two previous con- emonium we should have in tour pan, and the big ship was forced The scores are reckoned, one nections, was fined $200 or in furnished in thirteen annual con- everybody clapped a hand ity The agents state that there are draw.

A force of 330,000 men, to be How would business. go on to wait over.

point for a win half a point for a default two months imprisonment. tingonts, will be provided by the approved or disapproved the 70 first class passengers on board,

for being in unlawful possession Bill introduced into the Belgian man was ordered to be d ained large number for this time the Hongkong Chess Club at 5.15 Mr. Hazeland, at the Police Court, To-morrow the Y.M.C.A. meet of a quantity of opium dross, by. Chamber lately,

this morning,

The cost of the scheme works out at about £300,000 a year, and of this sum £350,000 will go into the pockets of the men. We agree that the new expenditure is a considerable permanent addition to the yearly naval estimates, but if it spells contentment and satisfaction to the men in blue on whom we rely to guard the Homeland and our great overseas possessions, then it will indeed be money wall spent,

Belgium's Army.

Pennity for Applause, When a man applauded in court

till the court closed.

DELAYED BY FESTIVI-

TIES.

*year,