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GENERAL NEWS,

Leaving for Tientsin..

Mr F. A Bourne. Acting Judge of the Britian Court, was to leave Shon, lai at the end of Jast week, to hid court at Tien- tain and Harbin. He probably will return about the middle of

October.

Earnshaw`v, Quezon.

Washington, September 3-I is learned to-day thattesident Com missioner. Mr Manuel Earnshaw, who has been conspicuously at sent from official circles for the past three weeks, has arrived at Yokohaman with a party of Ameri-

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THE TRAGEDY OF THE

·PLIMSOLL LINE.

(Continued from Yesterday.) In yesterday's article we showed Low Samuel Plimsoll, by twenty- five years of almost ceaseless effort, and in the teath of over whelming difhoultios, won from Parliament that great chaster of seamen the Compulsory

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Load Lino.

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That was in 1890 la 1898 Pliteall died. It is perhaps not little remarkable that, within a fow weeks-a few days simoat of his decease the shipownere, who had always recented the imposition of the line, had com:

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1913,

Then, and then only, if we are to believe the testimony of the Beamen's representative in Parlia ment, did the House hear of the lalteration in the rules.

The undoing of the Plimsoll line has meant the drowning of the revival of horrore worse than poor Jack in thousands; the coffin ships; the perpetration of oynical injustices more oruel

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frienda they were several months the south sido, and when the ugo,... and that Mr. Earn point, a small one, was decided shaw is not so enthusiastio aver in their favur they boasted that the Quezon: programme as bo they had driven in the thin end has been reported to E. Commis of the wedge. The fact is that sioner Earnshaw will remain in the owners always hated"th. Japan mail the arrival of the line," even a the earlier, factory Manchuria at Nagasaki where he owners detested the Acts that will join the executive party for Lord Shaftesbury and old-time

In tho Summary Court the trip to Manila:

reformers got passed to stop the westerday before Puisne sweating of women and children. Judge. Mr Justi o Kemp, an In- So that when, on Monday, June dian Watchman named Doola Paris, August 30, An even 9th, 1890, the Royal Assent Singh sued C. Pintos, Peak Re freer display of the figure than was given to the first compulsory servoir, to recover the sum of has marked recent modes is Load. Line Act, Fair Play the $72 boing balance due on a pro- promised for the autumn fashiona

argan of the shipowners, showed missory note dated February 13, in Paris Thermiunt of drita contempt of Parlament by and three 1.0. U's. letage for evening gowns is to be announcing that

ship- deepened to the waist line at the building will find a way of dis the plaintiff, and Me C. F. Mason (Church Mission Society Bunga-OLET-from 1st July 1913)

Mr.J. H Gardiner appeared for counting the d line." In other (Mr FX. K'Almada) was for the words, of rendering the measure defendant. a dead letter !

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back. The beauty of the back is intended to have full display, Evening gowns, too, are to carry on the flimsiness of the summer dresses, and no underskirts will be worn. "The feeling of delightful freedom which modern legislature did not prove so easy been paid into Court.

as the Shipping Federation had Mr Mason: That has been im- those who can look back to the anticipated. The line remained possible because my client has Garden and Tennis Court. Ac-

in force. The shipbuilders found not the money. weary days of tight corseta, dragit impossible, presumably, to ging petticoats, and trailing dodge in Mortality at sea fell You are not prepared to take His Lordship (to Mr Gardiner): skirts," faid an authority, that steadily, and even so, and despite judgment for that? this new style of ears and liberty their doleful prognostications, of movement is not likely to the the shipping industry, so far from given up readily." Simplicity of line, simplicity of material, sin being ruined, flourished exceed

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Mr Gardiner:-If your Lord-Hongkong, 27th June, 1913 [211 stand he won't. They say that two of these promissory notes were not given to bim by Pintos To reply to his Lordship, plaint. if declined to accept the $35 offered, and added that all three 1.0.U.'s were given him by de- fendant, whom he lent the money

Mr. Muson contended that two

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"Peak, from the let October. Houses in Torres Buildinge Kimberley Road, Kowloon. Apply to-SPANISH DOMINICAN PROCURATION,

wireless station. It is therefore surmised that Dr. Moore must Prinzess Alice" was far out in have passed away when the

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Notwithstanding, the ship owners contioned steadfast in their opposition, and worked per- petually against the line.

It was in 1000 that they effected London, August 26.-Queen their great stroke. The Parlia Mary has a great idea of her per- ment of Mr. Balfour was dying.to., sonal responsibility in regard to Lassitude, Brunting almost in the valuables at the various royal paralysis, hd set in among the of the IO.U's were given by his the Arabian Sea, on the long run palaces, and from time to time members. There was a general al eat to an Indian named Hari has them re-catalogued and re-sense, as there lags is with Singh, who was not a registered from Colombo to Aden. The valued. Those at Buckingham dy ng Parliaments of indifference, money-lender, and who had since cause of death was heart failure, to an optician of doubtful ability brought on very probably by the to purchase glasses upon which palace were recently assessed carelu srp unconcern. The gone to India. No untice had been and declared to be worth over shipowners saw their opportunity, given to his client that they had great beat which prevails as this your eye-sight depends. £3,000,000. It it said that and moved out engely to reire it. been transferred to the plaintiff, ime of the year in the Indian

Ocean. The Exdy, we under there is scarcely an object if art They brought pressure to bear and the latter could not recover stand is being taken no to in the whole collection with which on the Government, and, with the money, Defendant's salary Europe, and will be sent to the the Queen is not familiar. It has scarcely an effort to resist them, was $50 a month." occurred to those responsible for the Government surrendered

United States for interment.

Dr. Garland Payne Moore, who guarding the safety of the palace quietly, cautiously, and all voliefied that the $40 was leat

was about 45 years of age, was a to introduce extra precaution, and

Virginia. He graduated from the John Hopkins University, and Note: practised for some years in his native State. He was made a Surgeon General in the State Militia, with the honorary rank of Colonel, and was a member of Governor Claude A. Swanson's staff at the time of the Jamestowa Exhibition in 1907. Dr. Moore

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His Lordship said he was not

it would now te impossible for suspected of the seamen or their by the plaintiff and gave judgpative of Cape Charles, in

friends, they appointed a Comment for the $35 only,

the cleverest burglar in Evrope to mittee "to consider and report." make an entrance without attract They did this without any

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with

ing attention. An electric alarm announcement in Parliament, DEATH OF DR. GARLAND

was recently added to doors and

without any statement outside,

wiadowe and capected with and they took good care to

buge electric bell which sounds

in one of the central halle when en was included. Not a single

the necessary indication is given.

that no representative of the sea-

expression of opinion was sought

The police guard round the from the officers or men who had palace has also been increased.

P. MOORE.

Heart Failure in the Indian Ocean.

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News was received in Kobe on arrived in Kobe in May, 1910, as in the course of their experiences The Pacific Exhibition." at sea seen the elects of over September-6enya-the-Japan United States Pablic Health VEGETABLES BOOS, and San Francisco, August 18-crowding, and who, as practical Chronicle, of the death of Dr. Officer, to inspect all ships leaving POULTRY. Colonel George W. Goethals, marinere, knew what reant world Garland Payne Moore, the United the port for any American des The Farm is under EUROPEAN U.8.A., whose engineering genius follow any deepening by extra States Public Health Officer in tination, whether in the United SUPERVISION and every atten is bringing the Panama Canal cargo of a vessel's hull. Mr. Kobe, who was on his way home States, Hawaii, or the Philippines. tion is paid to the PROPER into being, is to take part in the Chamberlain's Committee had to Amerion, via Europe, on board During the comperatively short GROWING OF VEGETABLAS Panama-Pao fic International Ex-laid it down" de a cardinal the N.DL steamer Prinzess position which is to be held in doctrine that only a body re- Alice," which left Kobe on the period of bie residence in the and the Poultry of EUROPEAN

CRISP SALADS 1 this city in 1915 to celebrate the presentative of the seamen as of 11th ultimo. Dr. Moore was tak port, Dr. Moore made a wide STOCK. Try Our Delicious

Circle of friends, who will grieve completion of the great project. other interests, could competently ing his twelve-year-old son home to learn of his sudden demise. Grand Hotel, Queen's Road, Colonel Gcathals, who is chair advise the Sists in this matter; for his education, and in order man of the Isthmian Canal Com-but the first thing one notice this that the boy might see something minion and Chief Engineer of ad hoc Committee is that, not of Europe before commencing hie the Panama Canal, has accepted only does it exclude the seamen school-life, was taking him the the honorary presidency of the from its membership, but it does longer way round by Suez. International Engineering Con-not even bear their evidence. When he left Kobe, Dr. Moore gress, which will be held, in The Committee, in fact, re-appeared to be in his usual health, connection with the exposition, presented the shipowers, and the and looked forward to visiting from September 20 to 25, 1915. shipowners only. What followed? the famous cities of Europe with The Congress, it is promised by The Committee concluded its his son, as well as to visiting his its promoters, will be the most Isbours in November, 1905. The native land. The news of his notable in the history of engineer General Election took place death therefore comes as a great ing. The exposition officials have almost immediately after. The shook to his many friends in communicated with some 80,000 Liberals were returned, and Mr. Kobe, and much sympathy will be engineers in all parts of the world, Lloyd George found himself at felt for Mre. Moors and her little with a view of having them visit the Board of Trade. Almost the daughter in theic sudden bereave San Francisco in 1915. The first document that he found put men. We understand that Mas- congress will be conducted under before him for signature were the ter Garland Moore will go on to the combined suspices of the rules altering the load line in Germany by the "Prinzess Alice," American Soalety of Civil En-acordance with the findings of and will be there put on board a gineers, the American Institute the Committee. In an evil mc-eteamer for New York, where he of Mining Engineers, the Ameri- ment for himself and for his party, will be met by relatives, a

The telegram announcing Dr. van Society of Mechanical Engin and under the advice of the par Bers, the American Institute of manent officials of the Board of Moore's death came from the cap- Electrical Engines and the Trade, he authorised the rules tain of the Prinzess Alice via Booiety of Naval Architeo's and that destroyed. Plimsoll's life. Karaoli, in the north of India, where it was picked up by the "work Marine Engineers,

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