1914-02-07 — Page 3

GENEFAL NEWS.

Canadian Car Ferry Steamer..

RAILWAYS IN CHINA.

Competition in the British

Sphere,

!

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7. 1914.

prises constitate an encroachment on the British preserves in thẻ Yangteze and an endeavour to acquire exclusive rights in Yun- nan and Szechuan, în apile of the Anglo-French agreement to share equally in those regions.

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Dundee: The Largest Ship. An order for a vemel, which will be the largest constructed on the East Cout of Suitland, has

The Times Peking correspond- been receive by the Caledon et, writing ander date if Janu- Shipbuilding and Engiuroringnty 0, says :-

A belief in care that the Chi- Company, Dundee,' from Messrs. Alfred Holt nud Co, of nese are about toʻc nwent to an Liverpool. The vessel will be of important alteration in the alim - 10,000 tons cariginisonpacity. ment of the Belgian trunk railway

A Slum Tragedy.

from Lanchowin to Highow, The body of a woman about Haichow having proved on 60 years of age, afterwards iden-examination to be unsuitable as

likened to the sudden appearance tified as Lawker named a port, the Obines are being cat among the pigeons. Margaret Ward, was found the pressed to agree that the railway. None of the other follows know other morning lying in an inner after cro sing the Tientsin-Pukow what he is, going to do to them back court in the central part of line near the Shangtung barder, with his everlasting play apon Glasgow. Her skull had been shall run scuthward along Kiang the red ball. They can only fractured and there was a large su province to Flaimenting, ou imagine. Inman has had a taste. wound on her forehead, bruises the northern bank of the Yang of the Australian's quality with on her face, and marks on her teze, a small port within 50 miles the crystalste balls in a certain throat as if she had been trodden of Shanghai..

The change involves the con-National Sporting Club. This led most oue-sided encounter at the on with a heavy boot. The police are of opinion that do sth was due struction of a line paralles to the him to fight shy of the red-ball to violence, but have been unable British section of the Tiontain merchant ever go far to true her supposed Pakow line, and is likely to affect Stevenson and Reece are also since. Both assailant.

the train of the latter. This aware of what is in store for them pect of the question, however, is-and there is a big if here- The Canadian Car ferry and ice of minor importance compare the ivory balls prove anything breaking steamer being built by with the prospect of the establish like as easy to handle for the Messrs. Cammell, Laird, and Co.,ment of the terminus of what relays of loc era. All the three of Birkenhead, for the Transcon must eventually be the longest English players are my sting Gray Road, 5 rooms, olque to Trath tinental Railway Company of railway in Ching at a new portat a grost disadvantage, as I have Canada is nearly ready for actually on the Yangtzo and before pointed out, owing to the launching. The vessel has special within a stone's throw of the absurdly inadequate state of the moving platforms for landing greatest emporium of British heavy locomotives and trains at trade in the Far East. So definite and takes away with the other. rules, which give with one hand varying stages of a tido, having challenge to the British position This would be all right were it to a rise and fall of about 20ft. in the Yangtaze district, following

Damages Against a Teacher. on the recent intrusion of French cut in every direction. But as it At Birmingh County cut enterprise, at Pakow, provokes tablo to play his losing hazirds leaves Gray a very wide open a boy named Frederick Alle lively comment hore, Deakin, who sued through he

If the Latelafu nichowoff the rei ball to his heart's con father, was awarded £20 damage Railway were a purely Belgian than half-way in the fares of his teat and shuts the door more against James Basker, he.d.cantern ese mportance might championship rivals, where does mastor of St. Silas Schools, 1 ozells. no nitiched, to the present move. For the plaintiff it was stated But it is well known that B-lgian want of knowledge begin? You sweet reasonablenca stop and that on July 10 the headmaster enterprise in China is largely cannot apply the same rules as punched

in the back inanced by the Frouch, while ia will best befit the game by con- because he did sum incorrectly some quarters it is believed to be stantly kooping it apto-date and He has since bron unable to attend supported politically and finan-rubbing out three of the most school. A doctor deposed that cially by Russia. The Lauchow-prolific scoring strokes just the boy had curvature of the fu-Haichow Railway realizes part because of their being overdone, spine and bad had tuberculous of the long-cherished Russian and ruling the break making-to

scheme of building a railway the really serious testa of skill. from Russan Turkestan through Chinese Turkestan to Lingchowiu

Upon my word, if I were in the and thence into the heart of China. pics of Messrs. Inman, Steven- should such a lino ever be built.on, aud Reece (perhaps it is

trouble.

I

him

Letter from President Wilson. President Wilson, who received an address of congratulation from the Carlisle Corporation on his elcotion, has written a letter to Bir Cecil Spring Rics in which he says:It gives me the greatest pleasure that the representatives of the city should have thought of me in this way and of may con nection with the city, and I beg you will convey to them my heartfelt thanks. I hope that some day it might be my pri vilege to visit Carlisle again, and once more review what seemed to me all but momories of the place. President Wilson's mother was born in Carlinie.

Abolishing the Theatre Queue,

a

Unfair Rules.

it will be purely Russian at its well that I am not!) not many Western extremity, and, by res hours would pass before I had

of Russia.

Station.

Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS, 3rd Floor, Alandra Building, Hongkong, 2nd Oct., 1913

1211

TO LET-Two room Flats in

Kowloon. Suitable for Eur- opeans, in good airy locality. All Modern Conveniences. Torms JEE. Royal George Hotel. Moderate. Apply H. RUTTON- Hongkong, 17th Oct. 1913. [967

TO LET.-No. 2 Park Road, "Breezy Villa." Airy and Comfortable. Cardon and Tonnis Court-Apply to No. 4, Ripon Hongkong, 13th Jan., 1914. [1139 Terrace.

TO LET No. 9a, Wongnei-

chong Road, Ground Floor; garden; water and gas laid on. Rental, $60. Immediate posses- sion; sult married couple, Apply on the promisės.

son of "Russian relations with lodged a protest at the uneven talent will not long remain as France, may very likely become condition of the rules. If the comparatively annoticed as he subject throughout to the control losing hazards are going to go ou WAS A auccassion of breaks Judefinitely, why not the spot-sach unning into over a thousand The Frouch are now demand stroke (a finer and more exacting points whetted the curiosity of ing from the Chinese the sale form of the game), and the close the billiard enthusiasts through right of constructing a line from cannons (of all kinds)? Can any. out Britain. then be set the seal Yunnanfa to Chengen. Signi- body tell me why not? George a growing reputation by his ficance attaches to this scheme, Gray has trained himself to play remarkable achievements during because it involves the linking up one

never-to be forgotten in-off

Broke-the set

first

A flat in Humphreys Buildings. Windsor Lodge, Kimberley Road, Kowloon, 8 rooms and Tennis Court. Apply to.

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Alexandra Buildings

O LET. OFFICES în King's

"Building. Apply to THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY Co., Ltd.

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\\/ANTED.-House or flat, un- furnished-Threo bed- rooms: 1st March-"K" "Hongkong Telegraph."

-FOR-SALE.

FOR SALE. ALTADENA

No. 130, The Ponk For particulare apply to

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

ducements could rob him of his

crew. It was id that the erew of the schooner El Dorado, which was wrecked on Enster Islang several months ago, hava quali fied a husbands.

Notícá

FOR SUNSHINE TAY.

of the French Yunnan Railway from the red ball-and dappearance in London. the points with the other great Belgian pro-pite B bunch of imitators owed from bie original methods ject from Chengtu to Tatungfu, he still stands out by himself of stance and wines the old THE IDOL'S EYE for which a concession was la oly as the losing hazard masterpiece. had not done since the good old obtained. This gian scheme He is very great at it, too; and pot-stroke (still the backbone of

It is no longer necessary to wait in the pit queue at the Adelphi is really mainly French, and, it I take off my hat to bim for the the top of the table game) was Theatre, London. The pit has been is suspected, partly Russian, and good he has done to billiards warned off" by the powers that entirely reseated with tip-up seats will inevitably don cot hereafter generally. George came in the be..... Ivor in the Sporting numbered and to be reserved, but with the Russian Trans-Mongo-shape of a very hearty tonic to Chronicle. the tickets are sold at the theatretian Railway in the North, there- English billiards when he made on the day only and not unti by creating another tremendous a somewhat modest debut bafore 6.30 each day (12.30 on matiner steal rond based on Russian ter- the sporting public. But suprem days). The position, it is pointerritory and potentially Russian out, is thus the same as ander the queue system, except that the

pitite

can buy his reserved seat, go and have bia tet, or de what other business he may have. and then take his seat when the pit doors are opened or during] the performance.

Metropolitan Asylums Board.

The Metropolitan Acylams Board unanimously decided t their last meeting to apply to the College of Arma ve a Paten of Arme ricor 'od. Mr. Moun Sommerby, who brought the pro posal forward, said he had been told by a high authority thai th Board WJB of suflicient importanc for the grant of arms with sup porters. The total cost would he £137 108., and this would b more than returned in the incre sad prestige of the Board. Hitherto the figure of St. Luke. which seemed most appropriate, had formed the chif part of the device on the seal of the Boud.

Crewe House Let. Lord Urewe har let Crewe Ilouse, Curzon-alreet, to Mr. J. B tobacco Duke, the American merchant, for some months. There is, we are informed, no question of purchasing.

An Edmonton Centenarian, Mrs. Lambert, who resides..nt Gloucester-road, Edmonton, with representatives of three gene- tions of her descendants, celebrated her 100th birthday Return of an Escaped Lunatic. An inmate uf the Volney Hatal Asylum escaped from the in- stitution and returned of liowac free will a week later."

throughout it length,

Without taking the somewhat

fantastic view that Russia, under

Adamless, Eden.

Stardy young men, who would e content to spend lives of in- Bre offered By cover of French and Belgian rail-I you have lost your appetite- dolent case,

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