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GENERAL News.

SERVICE MATTERS.

"An Organ of the Rebels"

An Injured Destroyer,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

∙1, 1913,

HONGKONG BANK

MEETING.

Shanghal Paper's Remarks.

The "Pakini nily Now" re- The doftroyer Arab, which ports that a Lowapaper "in the damaged her stern and rudder at

Grimsby while employed on half-yearly meeting of the Hong

The Chairman's speech at the Japanese language will make it duties in connection with the kong and Shanghai Banking O appearance in Septembar, and naval maneuvres, has been taken is alleged that it will be an organ in hand in No: 4 Dock at Shear of the rebels.

ness Yard for repairs, and on completion will proceed to D vonport to rejoin the Seventh Destrosor Florilla.

A Japanese Garsman. Amongst the competitore at the twenty-seventh annual Goring and Streatley Regatta on the 2nd

Inspector of Target Practice. The topott that ibe Admiralty are contemplating the abolition

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toys, financial genjus is, perhaps," son of Hur Highness the Begum to consider the quarterly inseparable from the qualities of Bhopal, has pased the Ther practices us a hansily nuisance." mediate Fxamination of the which would stain decks and statesman, of which Mr. for bucerne ting, there is no tent. Exchange is unaltered a Allahabad Uni-graity from the spoil paint work, It required Hunters had a large share. He more to be ta said. But if, after 18, 43.16d. thres months' bigli M. A. O. Colleg of Aligarh. To all the etusi sm of experts like guided the affairs of the Buik, in all, there is any attraction in a credit on 1,pudor nad II. 70c. ou is the first Malmadan Prince Admiral Sr. Perey Sects and Shang though more than one deseat, orderly life with a fair, Paris: The reight market is to join a public institution like ali boud of senior officer up the affairs of the Bank. It is that end more likely to be guinedd. per ton measurement, having

very entisi period, and not only regular, insome, in which way in werker, steam to Liverpool at 18. H.M, King George V. The Aligarh College and to com. porters to wory, through such a

eform mong the oil class of conceivable that if tnore attention By jealousy and party strife, by lost last week's improvement.

bad been paid to his advice there fouen, anarchy and rebellion? would have been less caugh

Or by some exercies of the spirit! latent these times of crisis than of concession, by readiness to Co-operats for the common wel- unhappily the cake.

fare of the whole nation?

pete Puccessfully at a University

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The late Mr. Orlando H. Baker.

Cost of Balkan War-Nearly a Million Deaths.

eraud men. But it be been done so well that it is all lunda think of gunnery eficiency

1. Defence in Outer Seas.

past

Rear Admiral Hood.

On August 9, Rear-Almirul the Hon. Horary Hood relinquish- ed the command of the battleship

promotion to flag rank in May) and was suce:aded by Capt. M. Culmr-Seymour.

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Pilgrims in a storm. A terrific storm broke over the very first essential to be

In his referenc to the recent Mount Nastai, Nikko, a fortnight attained on commissi ning, and ago when there were some 3.000 retained at high-water mark fighting at Shalghai, Mr. S. Al pilgrims on the nuntain. The throughout the ship's commie-Dad well put into words a thought Red Cross Society seat out search sion. With admbols and captains that bas been very generally parties but twenty persons are as well as the ruk gad file, in-entertained during the massing and it it surmised that bed with euch infeus, it is felt weeks of anxiety. The time has FAST INDIAN COTTON. Centurion (which be retained on they fell into the unexplored that they no longer ce d the spernut ve come to develop all the

Bombay, July 24-Heavy rains ravine popularly known as "Lit of a special department to urge dogs connected with this subject, tomiese valley.

Seventy in there 15 k ap gunnery in its pri-which range from a desire for the have begu general is most die- jured are under the care of the per position among the navi l'es-removal of the Kianguan Arsenal tricts, but the weather in now Rad Cross Society.

ntials of to day." Globe." to the stablishment of a neutral more favourable. Fine conditions.

zone nit round the foreign Settle are ne ided to facilita farm The most disquieting factments, lorcover, considering the operations, but meanwhile reports The death is announced from which emerged from the recent general zurity in which weregarding the colton crop are Nagasaki on board, the U. S. naval standards debate in the dwell in Shanghai, it may appear for the most part very sauslae. army transport Thomas, of Mr. House of Lords, says the "Globe," to some people as being a little tory. During the wok 11 in. of Orlando H. Biker, who for five is that inadequate provision is reasonable to ask for further rain have fuller at Colaba, mak- years has bran American Consul made for the whole world" de- privilege of such a special nature, ing the total sincs the commence- at Sandakan, Bornea. M- Baker fence of the Empire. The margin Without wavering in his con- ment of the monston 57 inch, was over 80 years of age, was an of 10 per cent, over and above the fidence in China's "recuperative against 33-32 inch, last year and Indious man, and in the seventies attainable 50 per cent. suparior power and immense capability for a ten-yeur average of 4-08 inob. was President of a small collage ityin lionio waters is the rack upon development" it was impossible At Byculla 12 inch were record in Iowa (Algona). He had pre-which the Admiraliy's shipbuilt for Mr Dadwell not to recognized, making the Boaron's total 68

Personal attention is given to viously surved as Contul in ing policy comes to grief. After the tremendous gravity of the inch, compared with 33-76 inch the examination and the fitting Copenhagon, also rt Sydney, making due allowance for the ne outlook. Likeveryt ody else who for the corresponding period in of lenses that will relieve all N. S. W. Chiuu Press." celerating of the three contract has given any thought to China's 1912. Business in cotton has trouble. The only charge is for

ships in this year's programme financial and social position, he been on a small scale, and the the glasses. and stretching a point in favou foreres the virtual necessity of closing tone is easy, with fine M. fof including the Lord Nelson and aaother loan in the near G. Bengal, December-Jaanory

watches The war in the Balkans lasted Agamemnon in the steg ry of future, and

the shipment, Rs.8 lower at Rs.241. 303 days, Montenegro" having de- Dreadnoughts, the position three efforts of the elder statesmen in Receipts thie week 15,000

bales clared hostilities on October 8 of years hence, towards which the Peking to grapple with the im- last

against 14,000 last year. The cost has been shipbuilding programmes now in inense probletes which surround year. Exports to Great Britain, enormou, According to the latest hand are directed, will leave three his psk of fionncial reorganiz-nit, against nil; to Continent, Nate: figures the Turkish war coat the ships only available for service ons-ion" as the mure of China's 20,000, against 5,000; and to

The Only European lives of 228,000 combatants and side British waters, plus tbo Malaga ability to burrow successfully. China and Japan, nil, against nil Opticien in D'Agullar St. an expenditure of £ 80,000,000, and Australia, the latter of which in the circumstances it cannot last year.

Stocks in Bombay whilst the subsequent struggle is rathered to the Pacific. By that Lut be. felt that the sight of amount to 799,000, compared Telephone 1292. between the allies involved the time Austria and Italy will have Peking caquetting with the with 549,000 bales a year ago. loss of 130,000 more lives and a squadrons of Dreadnought ships Belgian railway proposal is not The demand for Piece Goods sum of £66,000,000 in meney. in commission, and the United calculated to produce a good im-depends on the course of the mon- The grand total thus represents States and Japan will reprepression. We do not forget that soon, which has so far been fav- IS Located in The Healthies 358,000 soldiers killed and a sented by powerful feats in the an industrial loan etande on a ourable. Meanwhile the tone is District of Kowloon, and Supplies financial: loss of 2252.800,000. Atlantic and Pacific There is no different footing to that in which quiet and easier, dealers in us dally with the Chelcest This takes into no account the ab ornative, therefore, to the con- the Quintuple Banks are in-

EGGS, shirtings being willing VEGETABLES, thousands of wounded and sick,clusion that after provision is 1erested, although in the air-sellers. Quotations for 716. POULTRY, It is believed that 500,000 more made for 50 per cent. superiority cumstances the difference is more and 8.1-4lb. sbirtinga lives have been lost by cholera in home watere the residue of apparent than real. Nor do we changed, however, at Re. 3.15- SUPERVISION and every atten- and privations The renceful ships at the disposal of the Ad overlook the number and strength and Rs. 4.98. respectively. GROWING OF VEGETABLES, population of immense tracts of airalty for the whole defence of of confl eting influences to which Business in light bleached cloths and the Poultry of EUROPEAN Country have in many places com- the Empire will be altogether a Finance Minister, of China in reported at rates below Man-STOCK. Try Our Delicious pletely disappeared.

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place in slie college grounds this tethered the bulk of the fleet to sincerity and can do Ohipa no afternoon in the presence of the the British coast line. The In-good in the long run. The American Charge d'Affairs, Mr. vincible, Indomitable, and War-appeal in this as in all things is The Crystal Stopper, Wiliams, and tasoy Chinese and rior are about to be sent to the not, of course, only to the "elder foreign friends of the deceased. Mediterranean Station, the Fourth statesmen." The earnest hope Ducks & Drakes, Tong Kai-son died on Friday. Cruit or Squadron to Bermuda, the expressed by Mr. Dodwell, "that after several months' illness, aged Fourth, Battle Squadron to Gil-the younger politicians of China Averno. By Bertram Mitford. Carnacki, By W. H. Hodgson. fifty-five. He was a member of raitor,

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