1913-09-12 — Page 3

GENERAL NEWS

Arfived at Moji.

Pah Wen, the rebel ex- Tutuh of Anhui, is reported to have arrived at Mojk.

Interesting Wedding.

Disastrous Fire in Ningpo.

A disastrous fire occurred on the night of the 1st instant on the Eust-bido of the Ningpo river opposite the city, writes our Ningpo correspondent. Over a hundred houses were destroyed and the spread of the fire was only stopped by the high fire wills Three lives were lost owing to the fall of a bridge upon which spac- tators were gathered."

In Trouble, e

It is

GOVERNMENt pay-

MENTS IN THE FAR EAST.

Some Remarks about the Hongkong Dollar.

alterations.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1913.

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To let “ROGATE," ́ ́ Austin Four roomed housesin Cameron hai. only son of the late Mr John dealing with the mole of ter Co.'s lighter No. 109, and as Calderwood and Mrs Calderwood, issuing the dollar," and sug-result of the collision it is report-Road, Kowloon; from 1st October. Terrace, Granville Avenue and

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that the lighter sank. For Sale or To Let: from 1st | Balisbury Avenues, Kowloon. Spencer Park, Wandsworth, W., gesting was to take place in London early present the conversion of sterling Shortly afterwards the Japan- November, 1913 :—

is based on the average value of eae, Shinyi Mara arrived in Bungalow containing drawing, No.1 Gough Hill, No. 103 Peak. in September.

the silver content of the dollar this portion of the river to dining and smoking rooms and More Chinese M. P.'s Suspected, roan led to the nearest penny. go alongside the Yangkadoo five bedrooms. With ground for

The Central Government, says This average is worked out for Wharf, and in avoiding the Tennis-Court the Chinese Pross, has received a the quarters ending on 1st Feb Kyaho Maru collided with the No. 1044 Peak. Gough Hill. telegraphic intimation from the ruary, May, August and Novem. wharf, carrying away the pontoon Furnished or Unfurnished, 2 sit- Tutub of Kuangel, thai live of the ber, and comes into force for the and the cables by which the ting rooms, 4 bed rooms, Suitable Kuangai members of Parliament fellowing quarters commencing (names mentioned,) are found to on 1st April, July, October and

longer. have been in sympathetic com January. On this system the The Kiangfoo, together with munication with the rebel party, operations of the Treasury Chest the pontoon, and cable, drifted and the Government should have have resulted in a heavy loss, south-ward, assisted by a strong them arrested and punished. But which amounts, over a period of breeze, and had almost come in not one of the five membora de ten years, from 1909 3 to 1911-12, contact with the junks lying nounced is now in Peking. to £203,020. This net loss was above Yangkadoo when both bow FOR SALE."LADBROKE.” made up as follows:-Nat loss of anchors were drapped, and al-No. 9 Conduit Road, Fine View exchange on dollare obtained by though one failed to grasp ground, of harbour, 8 Rooms, 3 Bathrooms, bille on London, 184,172; net the other held the steamer in Garden and Tennis Court. Ac loss on lecal dollars purchased, time to prevent it coming in con-comodations for 30 Servants. including freight to places where tact with the junks. The tug- required, £85,312; sondry i ems, boats Alexandra; Samson, Victoria £1,158; less net balance of in-and Fuhlee were soon in attend- terest calceted in Bongkong,ance to render assistance, and at 20.715; showing a net loss of 4.40 p.m. the Kiangfoo was safely 203,026.

mored alongside the Yangkadoo Briefly unmarieed, the Com- Wharf, recommends that the ittee

The damage is said to have remarkable that this is the third official rate of the dollar be fixed been considerable. The Chinese large fire within two years upon monthly at the average over one Eastern tailway Co.'s Wharf had the same spot, the present build-month of the exchange rate for a considerable. portion of its ings being scarcely completed.telegraphic transfers, rounded up frontage damaged, and the apper Several Insurance Companies are or down, as the case may be, to pontoon of Yangkados Wharf said to be heavily involved. the nearest farthing; that ten-was carried away. The Kiangfoo upon Mr A. D. Mason, of Ungan, than it has hitherto received. In North China Daily News,

dere be invited for the supply of suffered no damage below the Korea, for killing a Chinese has fighting is the latest development dollara in exchango either for waterline, but her upper stract been confirmed by the Appeal in ring tactics, and Frank Klaus's Court, but execution of centence own remarkable success as its tolegraphic transfers or bills of ores are badly broken. William Church, 60, ao ac ten days' or three months' sight, A collision took place on the is postponed for two years, says most scientific exponent is con countant, of no filed abode, was with a view to discovering the river about 8 10 p.m., on Septem- the Japan Chronicle. In other olusive evidence of the soundness charged on remand with having method of raising the money re-ber 4, between an unknown steam words, if Mr Maron dess not com- of his theories. The book deals in his possession three Japanese bouds which he knew to have quired in the manner most advan-launch and a sampan containing mit any breach of the peace dur-with its subject with admirable been stolen. Accused had been tageous the Exchequer that, seven passengers, when opposite ing that Faiod, he will escape clearness, and in a thoroughly brought up from Coventry Police experimentilly, bills be offered the Lao Pah Du wharf, Pootung, punishment. Considering the pain readable and practical manner. for smaller amounts at shorter opposite the Nantao Bund. People ful circumstanesa the judgment of It is well lastrated with 27 full- Court, where he had been charged, intervals than has heretofore living at Pootung heard the ory the Appeal Court is a very satis page plates reproduced from that, being late of Water-stree, bean customary, and that the of " save life before any factory one. As we pointed out special photographs, and is likely Yokohama, Japan, he did have in

amounts offered for tender be assistance opulum the strug recently in commenting upon the to achieve the widespread his possession on June 20, at stated in the advertisement that gling people one of them was judgment of the Court of Firat popularity it deserves. Mincing-lane, London, the sum of local currency be obtained so far carried away in the darkness and Instance and expressing the £1,000, the property of Mesera

as possible at other points than drowned, the steam launch not hope that the Appeal Court would Alfred Herbart, Limited, the

amend that judgment; the sent Butts, Coventry, which had been Hongkong by the sale of bills on stopping to offer any assistance.

London by the Government ser-

enes imposed was much too embezzled in Yokohama. Ulti-

vice which requires it; that, with

severe considering the circum- mately the case was adjourned for

the exception to which it has re

stances in which the Chinese was eight weeke for the attendance of ferred, the inte fixed as above be Mr. Chow Tae-chi has been sp-killed, and bearing in mind that witnesses from Japan.

the official rate for conversion pointed Director of the Bank of a Chinese convicted in Kobs of a Electrocuted in Shanghai. · throughout China.

China by a Presidential Mandate savage and murderous assault was to purchase glasses upon which An unfortunate accident occur- It will be known that officers issued on August 21. Fearing only sentenced to four months your eye-sight depends. red in the French Cucession on in the Far East may receive their that Mr. Chow Tze-chi might imprisonment. An appeal to the Wednesday resulting in the death pay in local currency, or have it besitate before taking up his new Osaka Court against that sent

ocolie, says the "North paid in sterling into their bank post, the President wrote him a ence has just been dismissed. China Daily News." It appears accounts at home. They can exer- letter setting forth the reasons that two coolies were engaged in cise this option as often as they why he was selected for this im painting the electric standards like. In practice they have taken portant post, and urging him to and had just mounted a ladder the whole in local currency on a take over his duties without delay. when one of them apparently tock rising silver market and have it Chow. Tze-ohi has since hold of the live wire. He gave paid at hamis on a falling silver assumed charge of the Bank. vent to a loud scream and fell to market. In the former case they the ground. He also carried his have made a substantial profit by Au Admiral Robbed. Companion with him. Both men obtaining sterling payable in On August 29, Admiral Shiba. were hurried to St. Mary's fos-London through the ordinary ex-yama and his wife visited the pital where it was found that the change channels, and in the latter Momoyama mausoleum, and put

THE ART OF IN- first ocolie was dead, having been have obtained without lose, by the up at the Manpekiro Hotel, Uji, electrocuted the other man had same means, as mach local cur- Darly on the morning of the 31st

FIGHTING. both arms broken, a serious in- rency as is needed for expenses two gold watches, two gold dia jury to a leg, and be also suffered on the spot. "So well has this mond rings and Yen 850 in cash

(Ewart, Seymour and Co., Ltd., belonging to them" were stolen. from injuries to his head and been understood," says the report. The Admiral reported the thefs 18. net). Ia The art of la-Fight- District of Kowloon, and Supplies Lody. It is stated that he will "that the Chinese workmen in to the nearest police station when ing" Frank Klaus, Middle-weight us daily with the Choicest. not be able to leave the hospital the Hongkong dockyard were he discovered it in the morning, Champion of the World, hoa pro- VEGETABLES, EGOS, And for a couple of months..

beginning in 1907 to ask for pay but no trace of the culprit has duced a Look which is likely to POULTRY. ment in sterling in London, and

attract very considerable attention The Farm is under EUROPEAN to remit their pay to themselves from London through a bank." Post Office Fraud in Nagaskal. amongst the large public who SUPERVISION and every atten recently on the Bavarian State-London and China Express.

On August 26 the Director of take an interest in boxing. The tlon is paid to the PROPER Railways with the use of wireless

the Shiodaiku-machi Post Office, author claims that "In-fighting is GROWING OR VEGETABLES, Nagasaki, tendered his resigna. Out-fighting's greatest ally" and and the Poultry of EUROPEAN electric waves to stop the traine

tion, and later the same evening rightly maintains that it is worthy CRISP SALADSİ according to a system invented by

In an interview, ex-President surrendered himself to the police, of much more serious attention Grand Hotel, Queen's Road. Herr Christopher Wirth. The apparatus is placed in one of the Taft, who is at his summer house to whom he confessed that he had wagons, preferably in the luggage on the Lower St, Lawrence, said embezzled savings banke funds van, on the rest of which is install- he considered that the differences

of &

Electric Waves for Train

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Experiments have been made

Mr. Taft and Japan.

PEKING.

New Director of the Bank of China,

. JAPAN.

been found.

"

Russian Wireless. The Russian telegraphic ad- ministration has began negotiat- ions with Japan for the purpose of linking up the Russian telegraphio lines with the Japanese lines in Korea and Sagbalion. Wireless stations are to La constructed at many points.

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gunting to Yen 3322. The Latest additions to Circulating ed the serial wire or antenna. between the United States and agdakui Press gays the defalen- Any teleraph or telephone line Japan would be amicably settled, tions had been going on for some running alongside the railway Japanese Emigration to Koren. he feared a close examination of months past. It is reported that may be used as the transmitting

The authorities of North Kores his books, during the visit of the

The Crystal Stopper,

The Second Sighter's daughter, antenna, without interference with

By Maurice Leblanc.

By G. B. Burgin, Communications, Ducks & Drakes, the telegraph or telephone service, adopted some time ago special Minister of

measures for the encouragement would reveal the crime.

The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer, The apparatus can transmit of the immigration of Japaners,

By Marie C. Leighton,

By Haldane Macfall. French Embassy at Tokyo... Bound or light signal to the engine

Averno. By Bertram Mitford, Carnacki, By W. H. Hodgson. Following the dispatch of ai including a system of granting driver or can operate the Westing loans to immigrants at low in-State architect to Japan, the Margaret Dent,

Written on our Foreheads, house brake directly. It can also terest for the purchass of land Trench Government has approved

By Effie Adelaide Rowlands,

By E. Duff Fyfe. be arranged to cut off the steam. and for travelling expenses, which the plane for the construction of It is suggested that, according to local conditions, sending stations nual instalments.

loans are to be paid back in an- a building at Tokyo to house the Purchaser of one novel at $1.00 becomes a meraber

The authori French Embassy there. It will should be installed at intervals of ties have now arranged to give cost a sum of 4,255,585 fraces,

and is entitled to exchange same for any other 80 kilometers to 100 kilometers further encourage grant-not including the expense of novel on payment of 20 cents cash for every The experiments were carried out ing passage money by steamship forniture, paintings, tapestry, &c. change. on the Naremberg-Grafenberg and railway, and also Y20 to The Chamber has been asked fo line, in conjunction with the Beach family for winter clothing a credit of 185,000 francs, to varian Railway Department, who,

and feel. It is expected that commence the work this year: QUEEN'S DISPENSARY,

it is stated, regard the scheme emigration to North Korea will D-The Unwritten Law,

likely to prove useful in reducing the risk of railway nocidents,

rapidly increase as a result of these measures,

The

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