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Hongkong Telegraph.

October 4, 1913, Temperature a.. 75, p.m. 82, Humidity.....77, 53.

TELEGRAMS.

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TELEGRARIS.

AUSTRALIA'S NAVY.

HOME RULE.

VOLUNTEERS CAMP..

A OREAT WELCOME.

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MONDAY,

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U.S. NEW TARIFF.

CURRENCY REFORM NEXT.

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London. Received Oct. 4. London, Received Oct. 4. Sir Edward Carson inspected

In the presence of many dis Sydney states that the "arrival in camp to accommodate 400 tinguished polit clone and others of the new flagship of the Tyrone Volunteers on the Duke President Wilson Australian feet, the Australia, of Abercorn's estate at Barons ignature to the new Tariff Bill and the cruiser Sydney in the court on Friday. The stables resterday evening. The Presi- barbour was the occasion of a liave been transformed into sleep-dent repeatedly refused the rc queals of cinematograph operators magnificent and imposing dising quarters.

to epict the ceremony. The play.

ensure comes into operation to day, but it will probably ka ten days before the Customs service throughout the country adjusts itself to the new conditions.

The vessels gradually emerged through a haze into sunshire, and were escorted through the Heads by cruisers and destroyers.

Enthusiastic Welcome..

No Bullying Allowed." Mr. Alexander Ure, speaking at Bo'ness, said that except for the Tories the opposition to Home Rals would have been exhausted, The British people declined to be either bullied or terrified, and he would never fight another election; excopt on the Tad question: Ii Huge crowds, both ashore and would bon sweeping and es aflost, witnessed the arrival and hustive reform, which would not were most enthusiastic in we'com- requifg revision in the lifetime of ing this concrete embodiment of any now living Australia's own flcsi, manned by her own sons Many prominent legislatora

present were witness the arrival of warships.

Banquet to the Fleet.

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Campaign Over. London. Receive i Oct Sir E. Carson and Mr. F. E the Smith have left Belfast for Lin- don. They had great ovations from large crowds which sang "God save the King" and "Rule Britannia."

Sir E. Carson, in a speech at The Hon. J. Hume Cook, M P.Armagh, which concluded his presided at a banquet tendered campaign, said that the Govern- con- to the fleet which was attended ment had not suggested a by a large and representative lerence or a compromise, and gathering, at which the proceed neither had the, Opposition. Ilo inge were characterised by intense advised the Ulster volunteers to patriotic enthusiasm.

Lord Denman, the Governor General, replying to the toast lo his health, said there had never been a more historical sceno in Sydney than the entry of the Best. Australians should be

continue their work.

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MARINE DISASTER.

SUNK.

grateful for the King's interest, NORTH SHIELDS STEAMER which was demonstrated by hi inspection of the flagship at Portsmouth. Lord Denman said he fully endorsed Australia's naval policy, and characterised it as a splendid contribution to the naval strength of the Empire.

Above Politics

London. Iteceived Oct. 5. The North Shields steamer Gardenia; while proceeding from Beni Saf to Borough, (?) collided with the steamer Cornwood in a denso fog in the North £ca.

The Gardenia sank in four

minutes, before the bon's could talowered. Her tolere exploded, The Hon. Mr. Hume Cook, in splitting the vessel in two. The proposing the Royal Australian crew were hurled into the sea Navy, declared that naval policy Four were saved, one was killed wasabove politice. The ships were and seventeen are missing.. no less the King's because they wera Australia's, and no less

WEATHER FORECAST

FINE

Barometer 29.94

October 4, 1912, Temperature a.m. 73, p.m. 80, Humidity...79, 48.

TELEGRAMI.

OCTOBER

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SOUTHEND SENSATION,

RAILWAY TRAGEDY.

BALKAN TROUBLE.

ALBANIANS DEFEATED,

POST OFFICE SERVANTS.

INCREASED PAY DEMANDED,

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NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.

TELEGRAMS.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

The death is announced of the Sultan of Muscat.

The Guelph-Hohenzollern con- coversy has been revived by a

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London, Received Oct. 6.

London. Received Oct. 5. Router's correspondent at Bal- The National Joint Committes Major named Hamilton Mardoch, grade states that the Albanians of the Postal and Telegraph Guelph politican. affixed his a retired officer of the Army ware defeated at Prizrend, and Servants, reprosenting a member- are being paraned towards the ship of 80,000 have decided to

A message from Munich reports a youthful.

ask the Premier and Postmaster- frontier.

that Queen Augustine is now Service Corps,, and a

The Premier M. Pasi oh has General to receive a deputation free from favor and renal trouble. nures, were found decapitated on

It has been" a railway at Southend. They had removed their hats, tied their returned from abroad and has to protest against the Holt Report

declared his conviction that there of August 15.

A New York telegram states hands together and lain down will be an further conflicts in the decided to demand an immediate with their necks on the line.

ford in a ten rounds match on Major Murdoch and big wife Balkans as they are all too weary 15 per cent increase of pay in that Jes Jeannotts beat Sam Lang-

view of increased cost of living.

points. were inmates of a. autaing home to begin fresh complications.

probationer. at Cl-pham, where the girl was a

Later.

Effects of Sunstroke. In the coures of a speech, the

London, Received Dot. 8. Mejr Murdoch enlisted in the President mai the next stop in the business of emancipation was Norfolka forty years ago and was the reform of the currency, He speedily promoted. He served in urged his colleagues to go ahead the first South African War, in on this frosh impulso. He tolier-Zululand and in Egypt. He hos ed that the Sonate would pass the recently been suffering from the Currency Bill sooner than some effects of sunstroke. pessimis's thought.

It is estimated that $71,000.00 worth of importe are held up in bonded warehouses awaiting the promulgation of the new rates.

Customs' Activities. London Received October 5. With the operation of the new tariffs the Oustoms quarfare are the scope of unusual activity. The houses are open from carly in the day until midnight, and an extra stall has had to be engaged to deal with the flood of business. Tremendous quantities of goode are pouring out from the bonded warehouses, and huge shipments are expected soon from abroad.

GUELPES AND

HOHENZOLLERNS,

'HONOUR BEFORE LOVE.

[Quartermaster(with Honorary Bank of Major) O. H. Murdoch retired from the Army Service Corps in May 1894.)

MARIE LLOYD,

ALLOWED TO LAND.

WAR'S COST

AUSTRIAN BUDGET.

London. Received Oct. 5. Renter's crespodent at Vicana states that the Council of Ministers has decided to incronee the annual pumber of recruita, and by means of enpplementery credits to defray the cost of military measures in connection with the Balkan crisis, which amount to £18,000,000.

Lator.

OBITUARY.

SULTAN OF MUSCAT DEAD.

London, Received Oct. 5.

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Miss Muria Lloyd and Bernard Dillon, the jookey, have been allowed to land in the United States..

The death is apnounood of the the arrival there of the new flag. A Sydney telegram announces Sultan of Muscat

ship Australia and the cruiser Sydney.

DETECTIVE'S ADVEN- TURES.

From Vienna itis reported that at the Council of Ministers it was decided to increses the annual

Detective Sergeant John Tupnumber of recruits. cer, of the Metropolitan Police

The military aviator, Major The Die Zeit, according to the Force, retired last month after 25 same correspondent, says that a years' service, during which Merrick has been killed whilst new Nayel programme will be period he came into contact with flying over Salisbury Plain, His

bi-plane turned turtle. submitted to the Delegations some poterious criminals.

"The "most notable case with providing for the replacment of

Mr Walter, who is at present the antiquated Monarch class by which Sergeant Topper was con- Dreadnoughte, costing £11,800,-cerned was that of the notorious Secretary to the administration at London. Received Oot. 4. 000, and the construction of fast Emile Arton, alias Baron, whose Weihaiwei, has been appointed The New York Immigration cruisers and torpedo toats at a name figured so prominently in Colonial Secretary at British Hon- Authority decided on the deparin- cost of £4,100,000. The expeu the great Pannms scandals, and duras. tion of Marie Lloyd and Bernard diture will be distributed over a whom Tupper assisted to arrest Dillon as immoral persone," period of four years. alleging that they booked their Mrs. passages.se "Mr. and Dillon," although unmetzied,

The Earstary for Labour has ordered the Immigration authori- ties to permit Marie Lloyd and Dillon to land under a bond until their contracts are fulfilled.

"AVIATION FATALITY,

KING MANOEL'S CONSORT

MUCH IMPROVED.

in November, 1895. Arton had The supplementary credit to been sentenced in his absence to defray the cost of Austrian milit 20 years' imprisonment, but the ary measures, in connection with sentence had remained a dead the Balkan orisia, amounts to lotter uut bis capture. Arton eighteen millions. was then trading as Henry New-

man, of the Photo Tan Company, The badies of a sexagenarian Len lop. Beceived Oct. of St. Joba's Hill, Clapham pamed Major Hamilton Murdoch, Reuter a Manich correspondent Junction

and a youthful "nurse · were. etates that the Iniest bulletin of

Sergeant Tupper assisted in the found decapitated on the rail- the physicians in attendance of apprehension of two German

way at Southened. ex-King Mancel's Con, it states: burglars named Schubert and -Queen Augustine is now fres Neal, who were the first to em-

A message from Peking states. London. Received Out. 5

from fover, and the renal trouble ploy blow pias and oxygen and that the Presidential election co- Reater's correspondent at Ber-

shows a marked improvement cont gas for the breaking open of

curs to-dar, after which the in reports that the Guelph-

Pein has a most ceased, and if befra They had succeeded in Powers will simultaneously re" Hohenzollern controversy, hae been revived. Oue of the mem.

recoventinues, the Queen and getting a large number of postal cognice the Republic King Manusi will gon be ablerdera from a esfe at Percy-street burs of the Guelph party atated

London. Received Oot 4.10 start from Sigmaringen for Post Office. Tupper arrested that at a conference at Karlsruhe

The military aviator, Major G. England.

Schubert, who, when taken to the prior to the betrothal of the Kai

police station, tried to swallow a For's daughter, Prince Ernst C. Merrick, D.S.O., has been kill-

piroe of paper found to be cognition movement and that re- lations between Chine and Japan August, when asked to renounosed while flying on Salisbury.

receipt for aastal packet at the

have greatly improved." Honour comes before Love," and he was hurled to the ground

General Post Office, which con- tained nearly all the missing from a height of 150 feat. and then left the room.

properly,

MILITARY FLIER KILLED.

Australia's because they were the PRESIDENTIAL ELE TION the Throne of Hanover, replied, Plain. His biplane turned turtle

King's.

Those sentiments were loudly

applauded.

The Rt. Hon. Andrew Fisher, ox-Prime Minister of the Com-

monwealth. in supporting the toast, fully endorsed the state-

RECOGNITION OF CHINA.

In view of this and other utter- Bacea by the Guelphs the German London. Received Oct. 5 Press is demanding an explicit Reuter's correspondent at Pek-statement on the matter.

Prince Ernst August alleges ment that deet was above partying states that the Fresidentia)

Flection takes place in Parliament that the Kaiser threatened not to considerations.

confer the Duchy of Brunswick on him..

Rear-Admiral Paley, R.N., in to-morrow (tc-day), after which a the Powers will simultaneously responding, was accorded"

He said he recognise the Republic. great reception. thoroughly endorsed the Hender- It transpires that Japan is

COLLISION AT SEA.

NAVAL TUG SUNK.

NIGHT ON A BURNING WRECK,

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It transpires that Japan is prim- arily responsible for the re

The North Shields steamer Gar- A case with a touch of humour deais, collided with the steamer, A thrilling story of a night on à burning wreck off the coast of was that in which a man who Cora Corawced in a dense fog in Iceland was told by the crew of let himself on a board over the North Sea and sank in enke the stoom trawler Dax on their his premises sharing bean in minutes.

The National Joint Committee return Hull last month. The Gyerminent servies for

was seatonred to reven Drax left Hull thrwerks ugo years"

to ask for the Iceland'e fisting ground ears and in still in prison of the Postal Telegraph Servante”

bimeelf Union, bas decided CONTI called On the 10lable but are This was et countered, and the fowler builder and contractor, and he the Premier and Postmaster Dag of tweler, under Skipper of houses at. Tottenham to allow Bridgman, sarmed up the rig him to look afte, the property and

A sale of work was held at St. the ing. The recand engineer was take the rents. The sequel was thrown or bord, but was wash heard at the Old Bailey, where it!

London, Received Oct. 5. Reuter's Rio de Janeiro corret

Bon coheme..and a good start was primarily responsible for the AUSTRIAN ARCHDUKE |pondent elates that steamer collid. was lashed on the rocks, The induced to owner of a large estate General to receive a deputation,"

half, the battle. He referred recognition movement, and that appreciatively to South Africa's the relations between China and great reception of the fleet, which Japan are greatly improved. he characterised as a complimoat

to the new navy and the Com- monwealth.

birth of the

DUBLIN STRIKE..

VISIT TO ENGLAND.

EARTHQUAKE AT PANAMA.

ed with and sank a military tug following manoeuvres be Fleet. It is feared that 30 sons are drowned..

CIVI SERVICE.

.

Indon. Received Oct 8. Senntora Millen and Peare, in!

Archduke Franz Ferdinan 1 is proposing Rear-Admiral King-

to arrive at. Windtor early in Hall's healtb, oulogiad his

November. He will be accom- "ENQUIRY DEADLOCK. cervices in connation with the

panied by his morganatic wife inaoguration of the new regime.

Loudon, Received Oot. 5. and will afterwards stay with the WEIHAIWEI TO HONDURAS. Admiral King-Hail in reat ond- ing, said the

The official enquiry into the Duke of Portland at Welbeck. Australian navy was yet another Dublia laborr trouble has resulted proof of the indes uctible and in a deadlock. The employers indissoluble urion with the refa-ad to dismiss men for work- Motherland. He hoped to sco.the ing during the strike, and the Hender in policy fully carried Labour delegatos thereupon de. out, but only by an rotivo im-clared that the men would con migration icy would the Com- tinue the fight,

white monwealth maintain a "Australia with which he was in full agreement. The time had arrived for the Governments to evolve a means for bringing the

·Dominions into clover ad more frequent rélationship with the Connoils of the Erapire, and

Loudon. Received Oct. 5. more especially with regared to

Mariel Dodd, the English lady the problems of naval defence. ohampion, has won the Canadian Admiral King-Hall concluded by women's golf championship, de affectionately bilding furewell to fenting Florence, Harvey of she people of Australia,

Canada by zeven holes to six,”

LADIES GOLF.

CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIP.

LOCAL.

ed back at red again. A bo- was related that he had wreaked Andrew's Church, Kowloon, on fire of Idding and ta ed nets nearly all the houses, "actually Saturday. was lit as a distress sigaal, but tearing away all the gas and wa

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The Feast of the Rosary was

DON'T FORGET,

TO-DAY, Victoria Theatre, 9.15 p.m. Bijou Scenic Theatre, 0.15 p... Technical Institute Classes commence.

it threatened to burn the whole ter pipes and calling them. It veste and was extinguished with was then found that his claim to observed yesterday in all the chure been in the Goverment ger Catholic Churches of the Colony. difficulty.

As the houra went on the vice for 18 yeste was really a fact position of the vessel bre me for he had already been 16 years even more precarious, and heavy in prison!

An amusing expe ience of Ear London. Re eived Out. 4.88 swept over the decks up to Mr. R. Walter, Government the waists of the crew. Skippor geant Tupper was that of being aatrested by another officer who +kitig WLS Secretary and Magistrate, Wei- Bridgman haiwei, has been appointed son for a trip, and be ordered the was unaware that he was a de- Colonial Secretary to British crew to lash the led high up on a tective, owing to his disguise.

mast, but they declined to tuka Honduras.

the responsibly. The whole crow left the venzel iu a boat, but

TO-MORROW. nfier a narrow escape of being dashed to death against the reefs

Victoria Theatre 9.15 p.m. decided that the ship was the

Bijou Theatre 9.15 p.m. anfest and retarded aboard...

Thursday, October 9. Eventually the trawler slippe

Boangei Pampa Eubber Co., SAM LANGFORD BEATEN. of the rocks and sank, and the crew again escaped in a boat and

Third

ird annual general meet- Saturday, October 11. - London. Received Oot; 4. lay shivering with exposure until

ported that the abuse of customs

Ordinary Annual General meet- Reuter's New York correspond-daybreak, when they were rescued be investigated. It is reing. were severely shaken. Reports ont reports that Joe Jeannette by an icelandic sheriff, who sight and courtesies extended to Mr

villager

Diplomaticervico in involved. from the Canal Zone state that beat Sam Langford in a ten-tounded them from an adjacent Wheeler as an officiel in thing Dairy Farm Co. Ltd.-12.30 no damage has been done there. contest on points.

CANAL UNDAMAGED.

at

London, Received, Oct. 6. Router's correspondent Panama reports that another earthquake took place at five o'clock yesterday afternoon. The duration of the shock was from ten to fifteen minutes. Buildings

BOXING.

Charges Against U. S. Official,

Washington, Peptember 14- Charges have been filed against Mr. Fost Wheeler, the Secretary: of the American Embassy at Rome, Mr. Bryan admits this, but declinesto specify their nature or to discuss the Departmens of State's cource. The allegations Ltd.

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