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Mr. W. J. Calhoun.

It is expected that Mr. W. J. Calhoun, the United States Minis

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1913.

PACIFIC MAIL'S RIVAL.

Well-known Atlantic Company Throws Down Gauntlet,

tor in Peking, will leave for home, which, for more than half a cen The Luckenbach.a.s. Company, vi Suez, on the Oth instant. He is leaving nominally on furlough, in the Atlantic trade, has, we read, tury, has been actively engaged but he will perhaps not return, thrown down the gauntlet to the Mr. Williams becomes Charge Pacific Mail as, Company, and d'Affaires.

will ultimately be a competitor to the Barriman Oriental service."

The big Eastern concern's first vessel, the Pleindes, left San Francisco for Balbos on February

An Offer Declined. "Il Sole," of Milan, the most important commercial paper in Italy, states, in its issue of Jan- uary 3, that Cuina offered the post of Financial Adviser to Signor Luigi Luzzatti, formerly Italian Minister of Finance. He

refused, however, not wishing to leave Italy.

To Succeed Mr. Kurachl, Reuter's Tokio correspondent, telegraphing on February 1, states that Mr. Matsui, Councillor of the Foreign Office, is to succeed Mr. Karachi as Vice-Minister. In December, 1911, Mr. Matsui was attached to the Peking Legation for special service in connexion with Chinese affairs..

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DYSPEPSIA.

In the simple announcement that the Luckenbach Company: have take отег

the defunct ened lenses, and to get their na Bates and Cheesbrough con- tural colour effects in that way.

at first "Colour photography means

While one of the commonest of infinite painstaking work," Mr. the so-called minor complaints, Parker said, and I have been dyspepsin is responsible for an greatly surprised at the skill that inordinate amount of suffering. Chinese operators have shown. Indeed, it affects some people so Nothing seems to be too difficult terribly that they actually dread for them to learn, if they are to take food. Many conditions keenly interested."

produce this disorder, which may last so long and become so severe that the unfortunate sufferer be comes exceedingly thin, weak, anomio, and the victim of many nervous conditions.

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but little, significance; but when it is remembered that the A case of assault by an assist Luckenbach people have a big aat on a coolie with fatal results fleet of vessels now operating on will be tried shortly in Medan, the Atlantic Coast, including says the "Sumatra Post." The Eve vessel service in the gulf trade, case concerns a young assistant and that they are the first Com- (since discharged) of the Martaba pany to come to the Pacific const

Our informant stated that the estate, in Simeloengoen. Another in direct competition with the medium (2.1-4 by 3.1-2) folding similar case in the first stages Pacific Mail Company, the project Eastman Kodaks seemed to be investigation.

becomes a matter of great mor- most in favour in China, whereas Heavy storm in Java. chant-marine importance." the larger sizes (4 by 5, and 5 A telegram from Jugis (Java)

As compared with the operations by 7) were more in demand in to the "Locomotief" of January of the Bates and Cheesman com Japan. On the other hand, 22 states that on the afternoon of bination, the Eastern Company plates, awkward as they are the previous day, during a heavy have the advantage of owning all to handle, especially in travel storm at that place, a strong theirships, while the old firm have ling, are more in demand in Ja shower of big hailstones fell at chartered theirs. They have had pan than they are in China. the same time. Many roads were years of experience on the Atlantio The difficulty in the East, Mr. strewn with uprooted trees, and sidaand are in a position in handle Parker added, is the injurious hundreds of telephone lines were in their own ships the freight that effect of the climate on exposed is delivered to them by the Panama material, whether plates or film. Jack Johnson Goes to Goal.Railway on the other side, and All sorts of preparations have Washington, February 3 eventually their ships will go been tried, with more or less auc- Jack Johnson, negro heavyweight directly to New York via the Canal. cess, but the only real remedy is champion of the world, must go

At first a two weeks service to develop as soon as possible to prison for violation of will be operated between San after exposing. the white slave law. This is the Francisco and the Pacific end of In conclusion, our informant decision of the Supreme court, the Panama Canal, and as rapid- said that he had booked several which to-day handed down a very as business demands it the large orders for the Eastman dict affirming the sentence im Luckenbach Company well draw Company's cameras and supplies, posed upon him by the Chicago from their Atlantic fleet, to carry all the way down the coast. court before which he was first on the Pacific trade. tried: Johnson claimed in hisIt is understood that when the appeal to the highest American Canal is opened this enterprising court that there was no foundation Eastern concern will institute a for the indiotment against him, direct Now York and San Fran but the high court did not enter-oisco service. tain his plea.

The next ship to follow the To be Philippine Bishop. Pleides, is the s.5. Lewis Lucken- Rome, January 4-The Right bach, in tara to be followed by Rev. Dr. Foter Joseph Hurth, the s.s. Lyra (now under charter Titular Bishop of Milopotamus, to the American-Hawaiin line), was nominated to-day to be Bishop and then by thesis. Damara (now of Nueva Segovia in the Philip chartered by Grace and Company), pine Islands, in succession to the Two 12 knot ships are being built Right Hey. James J. Carroll, who for the Luckenbach firm in Eas- resigned in November last to be torn yards, and will go into come rector of St. Elward's

service in a year, Roman Catholic Church, Philade- Iphia. Bishop Harth was born in Germany, but was educated at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He was at one time rector of St. Joseph's College, Cincinnati, O., and afterward of St. Edward's College, Austin, Tex. Nation's Bank Deposits at Their High Level.

The new Company have ap plied to the Harbour Commis- sions of San Francisco for per manent docking facilities as a bona fide of their intentions.

THE CAMERA IN THE EAST.

Progress of Photography In China and Japan;

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Mr. Packer has left for Roches- ter N.Y., the headquarters of the Company, and expects to ba in the East again within three months....

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Hunt for Mr Rockefeller. Washington, December 31. Practically the entire force of the office of the sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives has left the Capitol to aid in the at- tempt to serve Mr William Rock feller with a subpoena to appear in connection with the "Money

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« Outrage in Eastern Bangal..

Trast" inquiry. Most of the do- Another political outrage is re- puties are watching the town ported. Dhebendra Kumar Ghose house of Mr. Rockefeller in Fifth Was waylaid at Comilla, in East- Avenue, New York city. Mr.ern Bengal, on January 14, it is Lawrance O. Murray, Controller"

Riddell, the acting Sergeant-at said, by three young Bengalis of of the Currency, has issued a

Arms, is anxious to serve Mr. high caste, and shot dead. Ghose statement indicating that the re- Mr J. F. Parker, who is the Rockefeller and get his force back was a man of doubtful anteced- sources of the banks in the Unit Oriental agent for the Esatman to Washington before the House ents. It is believed that he was ed States-national, state and Kodak Company of New York, had convenes on Thursday. If the suspected by the Anarchiste of private are the highest in his- some interesting remarks to make subpoena is not served to-day, Mr having given information of re- tory.

as to the markedly rapid growth Riddell will probably leave the volutionary plots. "According to reports of their of the camera business in the Far search in charge of one of his deputies and return to Washing conditions on June 14th, the Con- Enst.

troller announced 25,000 of the When he first came out fifteen ton. 29,000 banks in the country show years ago, he said the Chinese aggregate resources of $24,056,- bad a superstitious fear of a 000,000, an increase of $1,324, camera, and it was considered 000,000 over the resources of decidedly "bad joss" to be photo- 24,000 banks in 1911. The total graphed. individual deposits amounted to $17,012,000,000, an increase of $1,105,700,000.

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