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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBE⚫ 3. 1913.

Another Successful Band Concert.

Ltd. Last night's concert on the

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

beach at North Poin was, if any- thing, more largely attended than

DAY BY DAY.

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ita predecessors, and the fact feelings; that is why muso is that a good number of persons necessury."..

had been willing to travel all the wy from the more distant parte

The Malls.

SCOTCH WHISKY the form of Peint Ladwig this morning.

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"No Complaint to make."

THE INTERPORT.

Further details of the Events,

"I have no complaint to make of my treatment at the bands of of Kowloon shows how great the German Mail.Arrived per s.. President Wilaqp.

"While the manner of my noti- demand was for this

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should have thought that it). 8.8. Buslow at 10a.m. to-day, longer wanted lacked somewhat of 1 Dozen.

would pay the Tramways Com-Siberian Mail-Closes per asin formality, I feel certain no

Buy to run a launch service from Prinz Ludwig at 5 pm, oferca was intended, or have Throwing Polo Ball, firms

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Kowloon to North Point direct, on concert nights. As time gors on we hope to see sufficient seal- ingacommodation provided for the crowds of visitors. It would be quite a simple matter to place benches along the roadway, on either side, clear of the tram lives; or. batter still, to errauge for a chair and ticket system such as is in use at Home. No one would grudge ten cents for a fost, and by that means the Company would not be out of pocket in providing the chairs: The Costly Nod.

-day.

The following was the position on August 30 ss 1egards points in the interport compstition :-

Hongkong 100 yards frat 100 yarde, Bead... High Diving, firati Throwing Polo Ball, peut nd “Tha President je a very budy 880 yarde, first

with mang Carus and 220 yards, first ".. anxieties, and details of this sort 200 yards, second"... are usually left to subordinates. Running Headers, recond It is improbable that he or Mr Harrison even had cognizance of the mater

taken anv..

American and Canadian Mails

Close per es. Tacoma Maruman, at noon to-morrow,

Disorderly Behaviour Reginald Chatterton, was fined 32. by Mr. Geoffrey Norman Orme, at the Police Court, this morning, for be having in disor- derly manner.

Fillis Circus.

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This was the statement made to

'Shanghai..

the "Manils Times" last Thurg Long Plunge, first. day by Governor General W. Long Plauge, escond. Felli Circus opens its season Cameron Forbes, and, says that 2 Lengths team race. in flongkong to-night, at Canne-journal, it expressas clearly the High Dive, ercond. way Bay. The show of a firet-attitude which is taken by the 880 yards. sarand. elae order, and rome excellent retiring chief executive in the Running Headsis, first..... enginment is proroised.

matter of the cabled request for The feat of the Japanese yes. New Hotel Manager

his resignation. Since the receipt Mr. R. H. North, recently ap of the cable from Washington, terday who nodded his head, merely to be in the fashion, psr-pointed manager of the King which reached Mr Forbes on San- hape, and who somewhat upset ward Hotel in succession to the matters at the auction of the late Mr. H. Haines, entered upon Alacrity nad other vessels is with his new duties today. Mr. North The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will out parallel in our experience was formerly manager of the

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The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1913.

never

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ing the washing of every finger-

'Boat Licence Offences

Band Concert at North Point Yesterday evenig there was

bowl after each use of such Rr-, TOOSHIN NOT FLOATED. ticles, not only by the inhabitants"

"A Task Calllag for Much

Skill.

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CANTON NEWS.

Lawlessness stlit Prevails Among Troops.

LARGE HAUL OF ARMS.

Brownings and Mausera.on

Empress of Russia.

A cook on board the s. Em- press of Hussis, and a shopkeeper, were charged before Mr Geffrey Norman Ormo, at the Police Court, this morning. by Chief. 2 Inspetor Gourlay, with offences 3 against the Arms Ordinance.

The first man was charged with being in unlawful pɔessssion of twenty-two Browning pistols, four weuser pistols and, 0,470 rounds of ammunition, and the other, with aiding and abetting.

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Lance Bergernt Fincott said he went with Chief - Inspector Gourlay on the s.s. Empress of Russia. In the cabin they found the two defendants. They were sitting down talking On the bunk there was one Browning and one Mauser pistol and three boxes of aamuvition. On make ing a further search of the cabin “ be found twenty-two Browning pistols, four Mausers and: #470 rounds of ammunition, in baskets. - Be then arrested the defendants. By Chief. Inspector Gourlay. lay, thers has been much com-described as an enormous gath ment Incaly as to the failure fering assembled yesterday after The defendants were sitting the Washington authorities open from 4.30 pro. onwards on facing each other in the cabin The fire defendant, in the box, apprise Mr Forbes of their action the banks of the lake in Horgkow when he entered. nntil some time had elapsed after Recreation ground to witness the the confirmation by the Souse of interpor swimming and diving Trea Thomas Hardy telle rather For unlawfully attempting to use Mr Francis Burton Barrison' rompatitions, saya the "China said the arms and ammunition good story of how Mail was his licence for a vessel other than appointment. A number of gables Fress" of the 30th ut. They were were his. The second defendant diving and a contact for acond ammunition from him. The once let in for more then he ex-the one for which it was issued, were sent, in which this feeling rewarded with some magnificant went on board to buy aims and pected, by a nod. He was pas the master of a passenger boat was

place in the Ba Mile Champion-second defendant came on board ship which will long to remem- on his own amount; he was not sing down the front street of Chefined five dollars, at the Marines clearly expressed.

bered by all who were present.sant for. Witness did no know terbridge, explained Mail, and Court to-day, while fines of a

As a result of the air noon's con-him, and had never seen him be passed a shop door, inside which similar amount were imposed on he saw an auctioneer, whom he two men who had neglected to

teate the Hongkong visitors, who fore. They discussed the price, stuck up on his perch, renew their boat liceopes

at the clors of the proceedings on it was agreed upon, and then the koew, selling off." Mail nodded in a

Icappears that certain amount Thursday night were five points sergeant came and arrested them. The second defendant came and Single Copies, Daily, ten conta. Weekly, twenty-five cents friendly, way as he passed. But

a vert gool attendance at North of lawlessnesskull prevails among behind, finished up two painte

asked witness if he had any next day Mail had a letter charg- cash only). Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fixeding him for a feather bed, a hat- Point when the 25th Punjabis the troops of General Lung who ahead of Shanghai.

were again the means of supare stationed within the city.

The first item on the afternoon's arms for sale. ster and pillows. There was period will be continued until countermander.

oint in his complaint to Reuben plying good music to about a Tradesmen complain that little progiamme was the High Diving Chief Inspector Gourlay - Dewey. "Now, I hold that that thousand people. Unfortunately bands of these diere eater their competition. This was not very This man (the witness) is not was cutting it very close, Rou- the high tide robbed the visitors shops or restaurants and, having high, however, the rickety the man, I wanted to arrest on which the board; he is the substitute and he ben." The moral, of course, is of the use of a great portion of ordered on & somewhat lavich platform from

nod "too familiarly the beach but the road fully made scale, Peek to intimidats the competitors took off was some is pleading guilty to all the atmne. up for an deficiency in this sellers into parting with the gonds what under 18 feet above the ar- The excond defendant esid a- respect,, it being thronged all tensiderably under price. One face of the pond. It was not man took him on board to look SINCA AL Hongkong, on September 3, to Mr. and Mrs. R. A. to an auctioneer.

Finger-bowl Legislation.

evening. The whole tradesman is said to have had a however, adviesble to have it any for a friend. The man put him Sinca, a son.

A curious piece of legislation the wes recently approved by the affair was as successful as any of revolver presented at him for re-higher, as the water under the in a cabin and then went away. Legislature of Pennsylvania. This the previous concerts which have fusing to lower his price. Apart platform was only at i 55 lest He (defendant) never spoke to the from this kind of thing, it is felt deep. The thre judges were: first defendent and did not hear was in the form of a Bill requir-taken place there..

that General Lung has establish-Dr. Arthur Stapley, Pies-dent cany coaveanation between his ed good control in the city, though the Shanghai International Swim-friend and the first defendant. it is asserted that the juniorming Club; Captain E 1. M. BRT- The polica came Lefore his friend officers of his troops are more orrett, and Lieut. Col: A. A. S returned. There was no money. of the State, but by visitors from

less useless.

Barnes. The gentlemen allot-found on him, and if he was other parts of the country and

In the districts lasted lost ted points to the divers for form, going to buy arms surely he those from abroad. The legisla-

We are informed that the 8.8. month, business is still very bad, distancs, entry and recovery. would have money on him. He ion appears to have arisen from

Boven comp stitore in all took did not know there were arme on the fact that use of a slice of Toshin will not be floated to- and many of the merchants #13m

part, two being Bangkong men board, and be never went to buy femon in the water of finger-day though it is likely that this afraid to return to their shops.

General Long has issued a pro-and five being our best local sx-arms, bowle in many eating-housee bas will be done in the near future. induced some people to acquire A visit to the vessel this morning clamation in which he states his perts. The Shanghai men were: a habit of drinking the contents; was well worth while, if only to willingness to receive any peth H. S. Alves, E. Earthet, E hence it was thought desirable see the amount of work that has who wishes to consult him on J. Browa, D. H. Cooke and C. W. that the bowls should be treated been put into the solving of the serious affairs, at the same time. Mayne, The Southerners were:

craft. When abe first went adding a warning that those who A.. Ellis and M. A. B. Sɔuza. His Worship:He has no bus as are other drinking vessels com÷

Each competitor was given ing in contact with the lips of ashore she lay well over on seek to take up his time with idle human beings. The bill, however, one side, but the salvors, the or trivial matters will risk punish-three dives and when all had bad their chance the judges per the bas now been vetoed by the Hongkong and Whampoa Dook

Co., have succeeded in getting Piracy, as might have been officia! head, Mr T. Mellows, When a man who knows China as intimately as doon Mr. W. V. Governor, so that those who drink her on an almost even keel, and expected, is still the rule in the announced their verdict to be

M. A. R. Souza, Hongkong 1st. Drummond writes on the prosent situation, his words deserve the contents of finger-bowls in the

In addition to this, rocks which the Protector of Houam," who,

D. H. Cooke, Shanghai 2nd.. attention. Mr. Drummond has been expressing himself, rather future will have to take their now she is practically upright: Delta. It is rumoured that Li,

Throwing the Ball. pessimistically, in a Northern contemporary; and one can under-chance that the thing hea not

The next event was the Throw- stand, even though one cannot support, his rather gloomy fore-been washed since someone else were through the ship's bottom for some time, bas practically have been blasted away a dro-controlled many of the military bodings. He is not alone, amongst foreigners, in regarding the has taken a drink out of the same pairs made. She has been con- police, is to be sent to the Deltsing the Water Polo Bill Com- future despondently. Eighteen months, or so, ago the majority of verse!!

siderably lightened and some by the Governor Genera', in the pstition. For this four men from foreign residents were disposed to think and speak too hopefully Recruiting in the Colonies,

It is indeed pleasing to see thing in the nature of a elir-way hope that he may be able to Hongkong and two from Shang- of China's immediate future. The pendulum bas now swung the

bai entered. the Hobgkong RAINFALL IN AUGUST suppress the pirates.

Soldiers in small bands of fifty presentativee being:-Gunner other way, as the result of recent evente, and the opposite error of from this morning's wire that, has been built, over which the over-much despair is being made. The case of China is not so out of some seventeen thousand vessel will bave to the pulled. It

recruite due to join the Australian is fairly evident that the work or a hundred, are continually be- Colmar, R. G. A, Private Farmer, desperate as some people suppose.

army, only about three hundred of getting the ship afloat will be ing despatched to various parts of D. O. L. I. and Mesars H. A. In the course of bis analysis of the situation, Mr. Drummond have failed to put in an appear-task calling for considerable skill the province. After the attack on Lammert and J. M. Pereirs, the says:— At Peking the present state of affaire is extraordinarily ance. This is's far cry from last but there are excellent chances of the British American Tobacco locals tsing A. A. Macdonald and

Company's launch, several sach C. W. O. Mayne. anomalous. First & Provisional President who functions as a year's experience, when any

bands were sent up the river, two of Each competitor was given WAR being. Dictator. Next a Cabinet, of fourth-rate men, who are a feeble echo and every excuse

which, en it is reported, (memt a three throws and when all had cadets. for

of the Luk Kwan) dererted, threw had their torn the result was of the Provisional President; and lastly a Parliament that does not made by the

joining the colours. fanotion at all. Since the establishment of the Republic not one not

Gunner Colmer R. G. A ing their rifles and ammunition, single step forward on the road leading to honest administration of Evidently these lada are coming Cerf Leaves with 89 Passengers away their uniforms and, retain- announced na follows:-

Hongkong lat. the country has yet been made. All the old evils that existed under to realise that, even apart from the Manchu monarchy exist still, some in an exaggerated form, and the question of patriotism, it is This morning in the Marine attached themselves to the pirates. the people of China, and the outside world look vainly, so far for no bad thing for a young man to Court, before Commander Basil

That is true, but it is not quite all the truth. It China ba schooled in the ways of sold. Taylor, R.N, Chan Kau-chuen, AUCTION OF NAVAL has found a president who functions as a dictator, she has found in iering. The older and the more master of the s.o. Cerf, was him a man of power who can rule, and who can meet trouble "towny" a colony becomes, the charged with leaving the waters because he has anticipated and prepared for it. That there are greater is the necessity for the of the Colony with 77 passengers No Adjustment Yet Arrived at. immense difficulties to be met, China's best friends would not seek constant drilling of its young without being in possession of a

No adjustment, we learn, has very small, cap cially in view of to deny; but surely the best guarantee for the future is that the men, for every year sees these passengera certificate.

Lance Sergeant G. Fox said yet been arrived at concerning the fast that 'o'mar had been. present Government-whether it be by one man or more than one drifting farther from the hardy is not the point has shown much strength in quelling the outdoor traditions of their an- that he stopped the Cerf on the caleof the HM.S.Alaority, over credited with 85 feat and over in Destors who made that colony, August 29 at the west end of the which there was some misunder- Hongkong, and also considering and whose training and dis- Central Fairway. He counted standing, as reported in our issue the fact that R. W. MacCabe won found of yesterday. At the sale of the this Interport Championship in "China," says Mr. Drummond, "is falling into the position of ciplining arose out of a daily the

passengers and

on ships Alacrity, Janus and I andy 1909 at Hongkong and 1010 at there

*89 were Turkey, Persia and Mexico, but, with such a fine race of people as a struggle for existence often that whole, the pity of it is inexpressible.' We can see nothing in the against savages or wild beasts. board. The defendant cleared by Messrs Hughes and Hough Shanghai, on each occasion, with present situation to justify so sweeping an assertion; and, in ay The Boers who gave our troops with twelve, he had no passen: $57,500 was hid in the first case throws of over 70 fent; but it in cose, does not the statement bear its own refutation? Because they so much trouble, twelve years germ certificate and was bound for the Alacrity bat the gentle certain that the wind blowing man to whom the vessel was yesterday afternoon, against the such a fine race of people" the country cannot fall into the ago, were not Johannesburg shop for Wuchow. position of the others named; that can only happen where the assistents and clerks, but mea The defendant, who pleaded knocked down, a Japanese, ex-throwers greatly impeded them people are more or less cowed and characterless. The new Republic who had been used to saddle and guilty, exploited that a fire bad plained that he had not under and it was alro s'ated to our re- must be given time and a fair chance. She is not the helpless and carbine from babyhood, and with broken out at Sainam, and the stood what was transpiring. It presentative that the polo ball drifting derelict that some suppose; recent events have proved that whom the self-defensive instinct inhabitants had come to Hong is this matter that is awaiting used yesterday was somewhat bo has a man at the helm, and, so long as she has that, she will not supplied, in great measure, the kong. They were anxious now to adjustment.

In the case of the Janus the run far out of her course. But it will be no care of plain and easy place of modern drill. Now that go back and though he told them sailing For some time the rule of the sword will be necessary, this class of men is being civilis- to get off bie vessel they refused bigbest bid reached was $10,000 The next and concluding event and that for the Jaone $8,000, of the afternoon was the Half Mile and, with it, a strong attempt to omoiliate the differing factions, ed out of existence is there not to do so. That will prove a work to test the strength of any man, and it will the graster need that their town- A fine of five hundred dollars but in neither case was the Interport Championship, for be more difficult if the feeling is spread abroad that the task is bred sons should reasive some was imprged, or in default im-reserve price reached and the which Hongkong relied on J. O

Tassels were withdrawn

(Continyed equivalent to the previous gene prisonment for siz menthe, too great for him.

reform.

recent revolt.

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Chief Inspector Gourlay.said the second defendant was a shop- keeper neer Maczo and he came to Hongkong on the 29th ult,

inca in the Colony; only in lodgings? Yes. He would not give us the address; his bande a quite soft and he has long finger nails which shows he is a shop-keeper.

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His Worship-Toe penalty is $250 isn't it? Yes..

I fine them $250 each.

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The rainfall recorded at the Botanic Gardens, during. August was as follow

1st Augosi, 1913

Date

Inches

1st

1.70

2nd

1.17

3rd

.54

4th

Private Former D.C.L.1. Hong-

.43

5th

kong 2ad,

$24

6th

Colmar's longest throw was 62

.12.

feet, Farmer's 50 feet, while C.W.

7th

.15

The above distances appear O. Mayne was next with 49 fest.

8th

9th

(22

10th

1.76

11th

...33

12th

-.05

13th

1.10

14th

.80

15th

18th

17th

18th

380

19th

20th

21at

22nd

23rd

24th

25th.

26th

27th

28th

20th

30th

heavier than usual.

Half Mile Interpor