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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1913.

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MALE EMIGRATIAN.

Returns for 1913 show n Failing-off.

New Lecturers Arriving Shortly,

We are informed that Dr. T. Stewart has been appointed a The report of the Registrar Though as yet the actual work Lectorer in Mathematics in the General for 1012 utason:

University of Hongkong and is It might have been expected. of creating the proposed now term-. terday in a walk round the locali- Siberian Mail.-Despatched por inal station building on Kow- expected to arrive in the Colony that owing to the unsettled state Per Case Per Bottle. ties in which most of thees small as. Devania at 7p.m. yester-loon Point has not began, save early in September. He comes of the interior after the Revolu

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1913.

THE

DOMINION HOUSE.

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week. Yes

there would be much less cause

The Malls,

悲

for Complaint. But after what we Siberian Mail:-Despatched per

saw yesterday we are not surpris- ed that Europeans are deserting these tenements. Some of the houson now occupied by Asiatics are on the way to becoming the filthiest hovels in the Colony. A Word to Landlords.

Bre

9.8: Magellan at 10 am. day. English Mail-Closes per

Monteagle at 11a.m.

morrow.

8.s.

Siberian Mail-Oloses per

Linan at 5 p.m. k-morrow. #

Signals Down. The red typhoon signals were lowered at 5.30 a.m. to-day.

A Visitor of Note. Dr. S. J. Howell, of Buffalo, is

Hotel.

Coolle Injured. ▲ coolie who was repaiting an

The Shanghai Pilot.

electric wire at 8, Glenealy, had the better the state of the house his bands injured by falling But if houses of the type mention- from a ladder." ed are thrown open to all and aundry, irrespective of colour, the greater will be the difficulty of securing good class tenants in the future. The greatest hardship of the whole matter, though, is that Europeans are being driven out of the only moderate-rental houses on the peninsula.

Mr Bernard Quaritch.

A great, albeit an exceedingly modest, scholar has passed away in the person of Mr Bernard

No book-

bai pilot who will take the 8.8. Tenyo Mara oat, is staying at the Hongkong Hotel.

Trial Trip

The trial trip of the new steamer Tai Wing, (Captain J.S. Lewingdon), belonging to the Ewong Sai Navigation Co., Ltd. is to take place on Sunday.

The Banknotes.

Dust Cart Accident.

The Murr Case.

Academic

crossings are on order from Home holding the degrees of Doctor of

tinguished

necessitate:

CONCERT

1

PROGRAMME.

we were surprised to ses to what French Mail. Arrived per a.s.ations, considerable progress is of London, in which he has been would have considerably increas extent this "colour invasion" has

Magellan lost night..

being made in the laying out of a member of the Faculties of ed in comparison with former Science and Arts and a Lecturer years. On the contrary, however, the passenger station yard. attained. If the habits of these giberian Mail.-Arrived per 8.8. Already the brickwork platforma in Mathematics for the past six all the returns of "assisted".emi- people were clean and orderly, Arcadia this morning.

have been laid down, and the years. He has had a very disgration show a marked falling off

career, as compared with 1911. to-They

The reason of this striking de- are expected to arrive

Science and Master of Arts of the arenes was presumably that alter ehortly, and it is hoped that the new site will be in use by the Royal University of Ireland and the collapse of the rubber boom to-end of the year. Some sort of Bachelor of Arts of the University in 1910 and 1911 very few far- of Cambridge. He commenced ther plantations were opened temporary structure will probably 88. be erected pending the raising of teaching in the Royal University during the year and the demand the new station building. The of Ireland and was awarded for coolie labour fell off acourd- The landlords have a respon-}|

line has not yet been diverted, Fellowship in that Univer-ingly.

The total number of emigranta sibility in this matter, though

but when this is done that portion sity for some brilliant work in thay scarcely seem to realise the

of Salisbury Road at present co Hydrodynamica and allied sub-presented for examination was fact. Where is their sense of

cupied by the permanent way will jeste. Dr Stewart bae published 21,458 as against 34,087 in 1911. public daty? Is it stifled in the

be restored to public use.

many original papers on mathema- The number of those examined tical subjecta and has been an who refused to proceed was 705 anxiety to rake in the dollars and

It is worth while recalling some cents? We hope not; but it looks staying at the Hongkong of the main features of the peer Examiner in the Royal Univer- or 3:28 per cent, as compared with very like it. If they could but

station, and yard. The station eity and for the Civil Service 36 per cent. in 1911: the total

Commission. “

bumber rejected as unfit for labour Bee it, they

following

yard will extend over an The shortsighted policy.

area of 2018 11 acres We understand that Mr E. J.whether by the Emigration Officer bettor the class of tenant,

from Holt's Godowns at Black Surman, B. Sc. (1st Class Hops, or the doctor was 2,531, a per- head's Point to the present Kow- London) Lecturer in Materials in centage of 119 as compared with loon Ferry Pier, on the south side the Hongkong University, will 122 in 1911.

As in 1911 it appears from the of Salisbury Road. Provision is also arrive early in September Captain Ehrhardt, the Shang-to be made for a double line of and that a Lecturer in Structures Tables as if only a percentage. way from Hung Hom, spreading will join the staff a few days of the difference between the total out to 7 or 8 lines of way on en-later. Thus it will be seen that, number presented (21,458) and tering the Station Yard. Only when the new Session commences, the number allowed to proceed two or three lines of way will be there will be several additions to (14.798), viz., 2,531 out of laid in the first instance, further the Senate of the University. 6,760, can be accounted for. lines being laid as requirements We are pleased to be able to add The disorepancy ie, how- that the whole of the equipment over, due to the fat that The new ferry pier half-way for the Engineering Departments large numbers of emigrants who round the curve in the sea wall has been promised by British express their willingness to go at Kowlon Point, which will be Manufacturers, and that the very abroad at the first examination Another Chinese was remanded capable of accomodating two ferry expensive electrical apparatus for change their minds afterwards Quaritch, whose death Reuter at the Police Court, this morning, boats at a time, is gradually no- the Power Station, the Electrical and do not come up again, and wires this morning. He and his in connection with the banknote suming shape, and every day Electrical Technology Laboratory have passed the first examination Machinery. Laboratory and the that many who are rejected or great rival, Mr Westall, who died seizure. The case will be heard.

gange of workers may us seen As briefly stated in yesterday's "Telegraph," we have received about a year ago, were so far as are on Thursday next.

bag-largely due to the personal for one port begin the process pushing forward its construction. from Homo a pamphlet setting forth Lord Grey's scheme for the

sware, the only two survivors of

Alleged Assault,

When

completed, this pier efforts of Lord Ampthill-been afreeb for another port; and so establishment of a "Dominion House" in the heart of London, the little company of second-band

A coolie has been sent to hos will release the present guaranteed by the British Elec-appear twice or even more often For a long while there has been a feeling among those mest interested booksellers who, thirty years ago, pital, from 58 Des Voeux Road ferry pier

trical and Allied Manufacturers in the total of "emigrants pre- for police and in the strengthening of the commercial and industrial side of the in London, Edinburgh, Manches Central, suffering from injuries public purposes.

Association, of which Lord Amp-sented." Empire that people in London, and in England generally, know all ter or Birmingham, were recognit

thill is the President.

During the year there was a As to the station building it-

steady demand for labour from loo little of the resources and progress of the dominions overseas; ed and deferred to as connois alleged to have bean inflicted by

a man who has absconded.

self, we understand that the plans

Deli, Sumatra. The emigration and Lord Groy points out that this ignorance is largely due to the seurs by the most scholarly men

have been submitted to the Go-

is managed through a Dutch firm fact that there has been no central bureau of information on the in the land-Gladstone, Lord

A dust cart is alleged to have vernment from Mr Hubback, the Stress

in Swatow where all emigrants subject; no head office or permanent home, as it were.

Acton and Dr. Richard Garnett knocked down a servant girl expert architect from Singape-e is laid on the fact that, in London, every interest in life is among the number.

are brought by the labour recrui ters, medically examined, and symbolised by some building, some material head quarters--save lover could pass his window in aged 13, this morning. She re- who was entrusted with ita design, this most important one of the great colonies. Religion is re- Piccadilly without a long and fused to go to the hospital. A man and they have been sent back

was arrested and remanded.

with one or two small modifios- The following is the program. shipped direct to Sumatra. To wards the end of the year a con presented by Westminster Abbey or St. Paul's, the monarchy by wistful stare at its contents,

tions made. The building will me for the concert and variety siderable number of these em- Backingham Palace, the constitution by the Houses of Parliament, while, if one happened to have the book world by the British Museum library, science and art by money in one's pocket, it was murder esse was continued at the plans show that it will be a

entertainment which will be given The hearing of Causeway Bay be of brick and granite and the at the Theatre Royal, on Saturday igrants passed through Hongkong the huge buildings at South Kensington; and so one might go on; fatal to go inside for a "look-see; Police Court, this afternoon, ta- magnificent structure. Seen from September 6, in aid of the Dio en route for Swatow and Deli, and whereas Greater Britain has no definite London home or symbol at the chances were a thousand to

cesso Girls' School Building many of the emigration boarding housss in the Colony took advant- all. Those of our readers who are familiar with the Metropolia one that the book which one had fore Mr. Hazeland. Inspector the harbour and from Hongkong, Fund

age of the slackness of other know that, here and there, dotted about, are emigration offices, head been wanting for years had just Mc. Hardy, who gave evidence it will present a most imposing appearance. It is to be two

business to house these em- quarters of syndicates, sociaties, etc., offices of Colonial agents and arrived; the bargain of a lifetime. yesterday, was recalled. so forth; but not one of us could ssy off-hand where any particular Alas; Mr Quaritch's prices were Government Money Missing. storeys high and the massive

Selection, Orchestra, 2nd Bn. igrants. The emigration was at office is situated. We may have hazy recollections of having seen high; it in not in Piccadilly that

The polis have received a coping will be supported on a

firat carried on secretly though

it in fact

involved aheaves of Canadian wheat or emigration pamphlets exhibited in you find the "twopenny box." report from Mr E. A. Irving, of series of tall columns about 30

Song Mr. C. P. Hay. the Education Department, to the feet high, on the sides facing

breach of the law, and it was some, window in Spring Gardens, or the Strand, and that is about Interport Swimming.

Piano Solo the

only when falsification of the Hongkong swimmers have bad effect that a clerk has cleared off west and south; while

130 feat Listz. Miss Hoskyn." rather the worst of the events de- with $125, the property of the Clock Tower,.

boarding house registers in order high, aituated at the south west Song "Slave Song The promoters of the Dominion House plan claim-and reason- cided at Shanghai last night, and Government.

Teresa to conceal the truth was detected. ably enough that if all these dozens of offices, etc., were centralised the representatives of the Nor-

and punished, that petitions were More Police for Macao. ` corner, will undoubtedly en del Riego. Mrs. Hogg. under one roof, an enormous amount of time and trouble would be thern port lead by ton points to A draft of seventy-five Portu- bance the appearance of the Trio for two Violins and Piano seat in to carry on the business saved to the ordinary information-seeker; and, this is but the least five. Cooke and Finch were firet guess police arrived by the building. The portico, in the Mrs. Aubrey, Mrs. Murray Scott, openly. The only obstacle in the way of recognising and regulating of the many advantages that should accrue. The writer of. the and second respectively in the French mail last evening from form of an advanced colonnade, Miss Orr. pamphlet scores heavily by pointing out that London is not only hundred yards race, but the two India. They left by the Sai Aa will be some 60 feet by 14 fest Daet Kingfisher Eong" Fin- this form of emigration was that

Dutch Government a city of 8,000,000 inhabitants bat is also the centre of conscious other events decided went to this morning for Macao to streng allowing passengers to enter the den. Mrs. Hunter and Mr. O. P. the ness of the whole Britannic system" and from that he again Shanghai. There are still a cum- then the police force there.

Sumatra was in no way interest- building in wet weather from Hay... their vehicles, under shelter,| proceeds to emphasise the power and value of symbolism where ber of events to be run off, how-

Concerto for Piano and Ored-as it is in Banka and Billiton Alleged Base Colning. mankind is concerned and the need for outward and visible signs ever, in which the Hongkong men

while a further covered way will chestra Mr. Denman Fuller and in the importation of such When Sergeant Adlington

coolies to labour' on the tabacco that will serve to illustrate, what would otherwise be mere abstract have a strong chanes. Finch issued a warrant at 79, First reach from the Clock Tower to Orchestra, 2nd Bn. D.C.L.I.

the Ferry Piers,

plantations and there WEB ideas.

should be good enough for the Streat, he found 433 partly made

On entering the building by a

PART 2. 440 and the 880 yard races, and counterfeit twenty cant pieces, flight of some four or five steps

therefore no guarantee that the Having established some such central home, the promoters

Selection, Orchestra, 2nd Ba. terms of the contract would be. would proceed to convert much of it into "a continually revised Hongkong should gain points a piece of silver and a melting one will be immediately, con-D.C.LI.

carried out by the employers, there. Cooke seems good enough pót. A man was arrested. exhibition, with bureaux for supplying information as to tariffs, for the 220, and Calmer has a very

fronted with the Customs Office) Scens Operation, Miss Rose Rod Since, however, enquires made of Chinese, With Queues.” productions, insana of transport etc. in the various Dominions; for, fair chance of annexing first place

and Barriers, firat and second assisted by The Out of Sights." the Consul General for Nether- as Lord Grey pointed out to the County Council last February, by for throwing the polo ball. In the were brought before Mr Hazeland, third class, the other, through bleova and Bodkin,

Two Chinese wearing queues, class passengers moving one way,

Black and White Dance, Tam- landa India proved satisfactorily that means the attention of the Home consumer would be focussed team races, the visiting, team is at the Police Court, this morning, wicket gates into the vast covered

that, this form of emigration bai Colonial products in a manner that is at present impossible. The usually at a disadvantage, for the charged with being in unlawful concourse, some 160 feet by 80 Sambo.

approached more nearly to "Kang site on which the promoters have decided (if all goes well) is the homesters can chodes half a dozen possession of opium. The first feet, in the centre of which will be Living Marionettee, Mr. P. J. this Department, and as the any system than any other in huge plot lying within the curve of Aldwych, and, to show that men from amongst a big number, man was fined $84 and the the Booking Offices, and beyond West.. they are in earnest over their project, they have.secured-at the while the visitors have but ten second, $17.

whole emgration seemed entirely more wickets will be the various rate of £3,000 a year-a three years option on the ground, vested from whom to chacze, and some

Butterfly Dance, Mdlle Obry successful and well managed. in a syndicate of which Lord Grey is Chairman, other Directors of these perhaps merely water polo

platforms, of which the salis,.. Sergeant Ogg, with a number there will eventually be three, Chanson du Midi, Senors Ciga UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. being Sir Starr (Dr.) Jameson, Lord Plymouth, Sir J. Henniker Heaton, Mr. MeLaren Brown and Mr. Harry E. Britain. These players. All things considered, of police, executed an opium war-all capable of receiving a retto and her Bandora.

however, the Hongkong mẹn are names, it will at once be seen, are something of a guarantee that still far from beaten.

rant at 130 Wanokai Road, and train on each if necessary. Seaside Serenade, Mr. High the scheme would be carried out in an unquestionably practical

whilst searching for opium, priut On the ground floor accom-Tide assisted by "The Peb- and thorough-going manner. During the coming three years there TAKEN IN CHAMBERS. ing plant for the manufacture of modation will be provided for bles on the Beach." will be ample time to decide whether the Dominion Governments

banknotes, and a large quantity Station Master's Office, Telegraph will make themselves jointly responsible for purchase, building etc,

Among the cases that were of partly prepared Obiness notes and Parrals Offics, Fiat and, or whether it will be left to the present syndicate to raise funds called on this morning before the were found.

Second Class Waiting Rooms, and, when the building is completed, to act as landlords to the Puiene Judge, Mr. Justice Kemp,

(General, and for Ladies), First Governments. Nowhere will the theme be more readily welcomed was one in which Li Kin Tong A woman from West Point, has and Second Claes Refreshment than by those who live overseas, for, as everyone in Hongkong who sued Bernardine Basto, to recover been sent to the hospital suffering Room, Third lass Waiting from injuries caused by being Rooms, and. Third Claes has been Home on vacation is aware, at present the returned the sum of $550.

Mr G.A. Woodcook, Assistant. Colonial has a feeling that London has no time" for his adopted

Mr. Sydenham Dixon, of Messrs accidentally strack by some Refreshment Room, Customs Crown Solicitor, mentioned the home, is too self-engrossed, or else too ignorant of what the regions Wilkinson and Grist, appeared stones alleged to have been dis- Officers' Boom and Strong Room, caso of Lau King Cho v. HP. overseas really mean to the Empire, to spend much thought on for the plaintiff, and Mr. F. B. L. charged during blasting oper- Rooms for Police, Portera, Winslow, in which the plaintiff them. The proposed building should do away with half this ignor Bowley, of Messrs Dennys and ations in Jubilee Road, near Guards, oto., Railway Post Office is claiming the sum of $1000, to ance before it is a year old, if properly managed. In the meantime Bowley, for the defendant.

and the Traffic Superintendent's the Paine Judge, Mr Justice We confens we should like to hear that some definite preparation is

Mr. Bowley seked that the Thief Jumps Overboard. and Traffic Clarke Office. By a Kemp, at the Summary. Court being made so that, when the Dominion House is built, time is not nation should be transferred to Captain E. Bent, of the 8.a. stair-way under the Tower the this morning. wasted in gathering together its future tenants. Why cannot the the Original Jurisdiction and Tenyo Mara; has reported to the second storey will be reached on He informed his Lordship that new movement begin at once in a small way, by converting (say) made a counterclaim in the police that a Chinese arrested on which will to accommodated the Mr Winslow was at present in the Imperial Institute which was ever a white elephant into a actione filed there.

board for larceny, jumped over- various offices of the Railway Japan and, as the Crown had not Colonial Masoum with temporary quarters for the various agencies Mr. Dixon, opposed and the board, with his hands tied, whilst Administration,

yet received any instructions, he etc.? For it must not be forgotten that John Bull is a queer basat matter was adjourned until to being detained for the police. The building will be capable applied for the case to be adjourn where innovations are concerned, and that it is always woll to break marrow, when it will be dealt with The man was drowned, and the of extension on the south side infed sine die application

in chamberg, bim in gradually to any change.

the direction of Blackhead'a Foint, was granted, I body has not been recovered.

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