1914-02-09 — Page 1

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

(ESTABLISHED 1881.)

Copyright, 1914 by the Proprietor.

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"MONDAY,

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FEBRUARY 9.

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一拜禮 號九月弍英浩香

TELEGRAMS.

FELEGRAMS.

NATIONAL INSURANCE. LORD DERBY'S ESTATE.

THE PRESENT POSITION.

NO SALE BFFECTED.

LORD GLADSTONE.

ABOUT TO RETIRE.

STATE ENTERPRISE.

PROGRESSIVE AUSTRALIA.

ALBANIAN QUESTION,

SATISFACTORY REPORTS.

TELEGRAMS.

A HUGE LOAN.

LONDON PARTICIPATION.

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London. Received February 9, "

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London. Received February 9. The 'eale of Lord Derby's

London. Received February 7,

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN,

TELEGRAMS.

CONDENBED.

It is said that Mr. Mastermosy, London. Roos/vod February 7

will shortly succeed the Rt. Hon. London. Received February 8.

London. Received February) Mr. Lloyd George, upeaking

Tla London papers stato that

Mr. Baxton, on the latter re- Router'a correspondent at eorrespondeatut

The Norddeutsche Zeitung Vienna etates that negotiations at a complimentary dinner which Bootle estate bas collapsed, after Mr, O, F. G. Masterman, Duder Sydney says the Government, ex-states that a

solation of the placing Lord Gladstone in Afrios, have been concluded by the Hun- was given in ho our of Dr. mutual charges of misconstruction Secretary of States in the Hume garian Government with the Addison, M.P. for Hoxton, for the and distortion by the owner and Department, will shortly succeed tending the aphere of State enter-Albanian question is progressing.

Wales beat Scotland in a Rugly the Right Hon. Sydney Baxton, business to supply bread to the to guarantee the Prince of Weid a

Austria and Italy are prepared match by 24 points to 5, and Eng prise, has bought a private bakery Hungarian States Load Syndic-services which he has rendered Baron de Forest,

[å telegram received on the 6th as Postmaster-General, as the Government institutions, and, loan for Albania, and the remain land beat Wales at Association ata for a four and a half per cent, in connection with National In- loan of £20,800,000 sterling, re-surance, said that he believed inat. stated. :-Lord Derby, in a latter is to be elevated to the possibly, ultimately to supply the ing Great Powers are also ready by one goal to nil, Jansson

that the controvergy on the

recent speech objected to the peerage, having been chosen as secret Land Commission's valu- successor to Ldstone,

public,

to advance, £50,000 sterling. The London arm of Rothschilds subject of National Insurance ation of his Bootls estate at £3. Governor-General of South Afria, existence y

The Ministry believes in the The Prince regards the con-

"ring ** has taken over three millions, and I would soon be ended. Out of a}000,000 and he offered to sell it who has long been desirous of the prices of bread, hence the suma rule sa practically fulfilled. /ail.

to raise ditions under which he will as the participation of the Roths total of 22,000 practitioners, no to Baron de Forest for half that retiring from his post. childe has caused the greatest fewer than 20,000 were now on sum. Baron de Forest, Liberal satisfaction in Vienna, AR testify-the panel and they had received M.P. for West Ham (North) has and the Morning Post consider works, now in course of construc- Vienne where he will receive the one Japanese and the wounding

The Prince left for Rome yes- purchase. It also contemplates While the Daily Chronisle running a big boiling-down terday and will afterwards go to ing to Anglo-Austrian friend. a total sum of £4,500,000 sterling.now writton accepting the offer. that it is unlikely that the tion in "connection with the new Albanian deputation, headed by i

Governor-General will now retire abbatoir at Home Bush Bay,

deemable in sixty years,

liness,

'VARSITY FOOTBALL.

CAMBRIDGE, JUST WIN,

London Received February 7,

Oxford and Cambridge met at Queen's Club on Saturday, for the annual inter-University As- sociation match, A drizzling rain did not prevent a large crowd from being present..

Play was fast and exciting, and as the result of beautiful combina- tion Cambridge led by a goal to nit at half-time, The Oxford players made a very plucky at tempt to equalise, but the Cam- bridge defence was too solid,

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THE JAPANESE

SCANDALS.

GOVERNMENT NOT

TO RESION. ·

Lander. Received February 8, Reater's Tokyo correspondent Baya a motion of ceasure on the Government was introduced in

HOME RULE.

MR. REDMOND SPEAKS.

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London, Received February 7. Mr. John Redmond, speaking.

subject to certain conditions.

BISLEY.

CANADIAN OBJECTIONS.

London. Received February 8.

at

Reuter's correspondent

at the National Liberal (lub, said that Irishmen would no Ottawa says in the House of longer submit to the stigma of Commons, the Minister of Militia racial inferiority and anfitness emphatically declared that, as for for self-government. If Home as he was concerned, Canada Rule was killed, froland would be would not send any Volunteers to absolutely angovernable,

PARSON-CRICKETER,

NEW APPOINTMEN f.

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London. Received February 7. The well-known Essex cricke ter, the Rev. F. E. Gillingham, has been appointed to the vicarage of Bethnal Green, is succession to the Rev. J. Watts-Ditchfield, who has been appointed to the now Bishopric of Chelmsford,

ASIATIC EXCLUSION.

Bisley if the aperture sight con- tinued to be barred. He main- tained that the object in view WEE either to forco Canada to use the obsolete Lee-Enfield, or to shut Canadians from participating in the contests at Bisley.

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GERMAN CROWN PRINCE,

MAY VISIT COLONIES.

London.. Received February 9. Reuter's Berlin correspondent

in June, owing to the recept orisis, the Labourite organ, the Daily Citizen, asserts that Lord Gladstone's resignation will be announced on the first day of the re-assembling of Parliament, and that he will be returning home with the least possible delay.

A FAMOUS RAPHAEL, PURCHASED BY AMERICAN..

London. Received February 7.

BRITISH TRADE.

JANUARY RETURNS.

London Received February 8. The monthly return of British trade shows that the decrease in importa in January last amounted to £3,225,222, and the increase in exports to £2,300,466.

The principal decreases in im ports were in raw cotton, £1,083,341; wool, £782,575; the Raphael's famous Panshanger chief increases in exports were in Madonna, which was recently cotton goods, £1,082,131; wool, offered to the National Gallery £164,032; and machinery and for £70,000, has been to purchas-ships £500,000, ed by Mr. Widener, an American, The price which he paid for the picture is Baid to exceed £140,000.

FRENCH FINANCES.-

London. Resolved February 8.

AVIATION.

A RECORD FLIGHT,

Essad Pasha, offering him the Throne of Neuweid after which nothing will stand in the way of his departare for Albania.

For the Races.

Cambridge beat Oxford in an association matab by one goal to

Mystery abroads the killing of

of another at Shanghai..

Mesars, Mackenzie and Com-

pany's Godown at Shanghai bas been burned down, the damage being estimated at Tis. 450,003.

The solution of the Albanian

Mr. E. Moller and his wife question is progressing favour

Table.. have arrived in Hoogkong and are staying at the Hongkong. Hotel. Mr. Moller will ride for Prince of Germany may pay a It is announced that the Crown - Mr. Ellis Kadoorie at the rasse visit to the German Colonice in Messrs. Brand, Bremner, Lindsay Africs. and Dalgaruo have also arrived, and will ride at the races.

S.S. Empire.

NEWS.

A big Hungarian loan of ovár On her voyage from Australia twenty millions sterling has been the ss. Empire suffered sufficient arranged. trouble with her engines to cause delay which will mean a day's shorter stay in Hongkong, The trouble is not serious however, and will be put right in Hong. kong in very little time.

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The fire brigade turned out this morning about one o'clock, on a

A report of the Philharmonia Society's concert appears to-day.

The orders of the day for ton morrow's Sanitary Board meeting appear elsewhere.

The "Izal" Calendar.

A terrible tragedy occurred at We have received from Messra. at Grabam Street yesterday, two W. R. Loxley and Co., a beauti-women being fatally whos. fully illustrated calendar publish- man has been arrested. London Received February 9.ed by Massrs. Newton and Chain- Reuter's correspondent at bera and Co., Ltd., Sheffield and. Reuter's Paris correspondant Munich says the aviator M. Ia-London, the manufacturers of states that it is officially announced says owing to the favourable out gold has made a record uninter Izal, the well-known disinfectant.

Fire! that a visit of the Crown Prince look foreshadowed by the Bud-rupted flight, which occupied 18 to the German Colonies in Afrion, get, M. Cailloux has decided to hours and 20 minutes over 1,000 Is being, considered, but no reduce the issue of Treasury miles being covered, Cabins Ministers, interviewed, NO AMERICAN LEGISLATION. thing has yet been settled.

bonds, previously announced as affirm that they do not intend to

The Tageblatt believes that the 800,000,000 francs,to 000,000,000 resign.

Prince will start in the coming franca. The Constitutionaliste

an- Reuter's correspondent at summer, returning to Germany nounce that they will continue Washington saya as a result of the in November. The PrincesR their support of the Government, conference hetween Mr. Bryan does not accompany him. and that they will not be influeno- and the Immigration Committee ed by the reports of corruption of the House of Representatives, in the Navy unleas proof is pro-it is now practically certain that duced, and not merely assertions, there will now be no Asiatio

the Diei yesterday afternoon,

BILLIARDS.

GRAY'S NEW RECORD.

London. Received February 8.

Ia a billiard match, in London

London. Keceived. February 7.

exclusion legislation this Session.

CHURCH CONTROVERSY,

A BISHOP'S SILENCE,

London, Received February 7.

LATE TELEGRAMS.

this course, declaring that the Provincial Assemblies have been

The

call to 87, Bonham Strand, ground floor, which was ablaze. premisies are used as a store for herba and the cause of the firm is

A' godown belonging to the agency Co. collapsed on Saturday. |Hongkong Land Investment and

evening.

General news appears on Pages some charcoal that was stored Shai-kai's political views, and an

convoked for over a year without supposed to be the igaiting of 13, as well as a statement of Yuan,

Several wounded soldiers have obtaining any result other

been brought into hospital. This than being a financial burden near a kiln or still. The fire official list of armed British mer-·

event, together with the fact that large contingents of troops 1 ft the city last week, has cans a some consternation among ta people. Reuter to the NO Daily News.

Strong Northern Hand in Klangsi.

upon the people and an impediment to the Provincial Governments. The members of the Provincial Assemblies are accused of having sacrificed roa- son, righteousness and the com- mon good to party and private interests.-N.-C. Daily News Oor- respondent.

caught the next floor, but it was suppressed before much damage was done.

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NEWS FOR-BUSŸ MEN,

TELEGRAMS,

CONDENSED,

THE PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM.

Peking, Feb. 3. The Government is shortly in troducing a Bill into the Adminis irative Conference with regard to Kiakiang, January 31, the Presidential, or American, Newa from other parts of the People's Bank la Canton eyetem of Government without province is not reassuring. The

Canton, Feb. 5.

Mr. Redmond says if the Home The Bishop of Zanzibar arrived waiting until the Provisional cashiering of Wang Jai-kai, Civil

Rule Bill were killed Ireland The Government is unable to of 18,000 up, with ivory balls, in London last night, but declin- Constitution is amended. The Governor of Kiangei, has created solve the present financial diffioni- would be absolutely ungoveranble Newman (receives 4,000) beated to make any statement in con-overnment is of the opinion grave apprehension in business ty. Some citizens are therefore Gray by 2,836, Gray made a nection with the Kikuyu ritus that

import circles. Money is scarce and at agitating to organize a bank with It is practically certain that break of 543 off the "red" con- controversy,

ant Bill should be discussed Nanohang Mexican dollars ex-a capital of $30,000,000 for the there will be no Asintio exelusion in America this stituting a record for ivory balls,

as soon as possible. The matter change at 1,800 cash.

purpose of lending the Govern- legislation has been brought up with remark Northern recruits are being en-ment $25,000,000 and redeeming session. able celerity and probably the listed daily in Kiukiang, were bad notes. The security would

Mr. Lloyd George' says of Bill will be passed within ten drilling is constantly proceeding, be certain likin taxes.

It is believed, however, that 22,000 practitionere, 20,000 are News.

PORTUGUESE MINISTRY,

London. Received February 8.

A new Portuguese Ministry has

been constituted, Senr, Concieo da Costa is the new Minister for the Colonies,

IRISH JUDICIARY.

NEW CHIEF JUSTICE:

·London. Roseived February 8,

Mr. Justice Cherry has been appointed Chief Jantics of Ireland in succession to Lord O'Brien, who has resigned.

A HUGE FIRE.

JOINERY WORK DESTROYED

London. Received February 8. The Government joinery works at Rozelle, Australia, were com pletely burnt down on Friday night. It is estimated that the

·less will rosch #50,000;

HOME FOOTBALI,

auch

chantmen.

Log Book appears on 8 of the

issue.

A part of 47 American boys, on a world tour, arrived in Hong- kong to-day.

DON'T FORGET,

TO-DAY.

Victoria Theatre, 9.15 p.m. Bijou Scenic Theatre, 8.15 p.m.

TO-MORROW. Victoria Theatre-9.15. p.m. Bijou Theatre 9.15 pm. Organ Recital St John Cate hedral.-5.30

Hongkong, Danton and Macao

WALES DEFEAT SCOTLAND.. days, Reuter to the N. C. Daily even beginning long before day-noh a great enterprise cannot on the panel and they have Steamboat Co. Ltd., “ general

light, in all the camps. After a few weeks of instruction the re-be undertaken without honest received £4,500,000, craits are sent into the province business men as organizers of it

Feking, Feb. 5,

Raphael's famous Panshanger Madonna has been purchased by an American, Mr. Peter Widener, at a price declared to exceed £140,000.

Members of the Japanese afirm that they do not intend to resign.

London. Received February 7,

Self-Governing Bodies In the Fine weather prevailed for the

Provinces. International match at Cardiff be.

Peking, Feb. 3, ' where the firm hand of the North and also without expert bankers British trade returna for Jona- tween Wales and Scotland, and The Government has recently is felt in every town and city, which Canton lacks. Moreover ary show a decrease in imports of there were 50,000 spectators, received telegrams from the General Li Sun, the Military Gov local capitaliste distrust the £3,225,222 and an increase in Wales wou by 24 points to 5, Tutahs and Civil Governors con ernor, is highly respected by all official class.-Reuter to the exports of £2,380,468,

Straight from the kick-off the demning the Provincial Assem- and is regarded as a most suitable N. O. Daily News: Scottish three-quarters got away blies for obstruction against the man for keeping control over the and scored. After this there was administrative authorities and turbulent elements of Kiangai. a magnificent contest between the requesting the Government to Reuter to the N. C. Daily News... Welsh forwards and the Scottish dissolve them, The Government Indictment of Assemblies. backs. Walen played up remark-approves of the request, but the ably, and before half-time had dissolution of the Assemblies will ordered until the scored a dropped goal and not be pensity goal, thus leading by Administrative Council approves seven pointe to five upon crossing of it.

A Mandate has been issued to

The Canadian Minister of There was wild enthusiasm in day referring the matter to the

Militia, says Canada would not the eccond half, The Welsh Administrative Conference, which

The E.KVO. Engineer Coy. send volunteers to Bisley if the forwarda were repentedly getting is practically certain to give the The indictment against theso Rifle Club held their firat shoot aperture aight were continued to the ball from the scrum and the required consent. The Gov in situtions is equally severe, and for the season yesterday, the be barred.. halves as frequently cont the ball ernment has also decided to obviously the intention of the spoon winners being Sappor ant to the three-quarters, the dissolve all the self-government Government le spmmarily to wash Tooker and Lient, Hall.

Mr. Justice Cherry has been Bootli-h team being out-played, bodies in the provinces them out of existence and then t Football Meeting.

appointed Chief Justice of Ireland England's Easy Win, Reuter to the N. U. Daily News. consider the whole question of Thore will be a special meeting in succession to Baron O'Brien.

New Tutuh In Wuchang

their constitution.

of the United Services Football Wachang, February & A joint telegram from the League in the RA. Theatre, Toan Chih-koel the new Tatah Tatahs and Civil Governore Victoria Barracks, on Saturday,

advises the Government to adopt 14th inat, at 6.30 p.m.

over.

London Bocaived Fabruary 8, In an Amateur International thatch (Association) England beat Wales by 9 goals to lat Plymouth. has arrived,

Cloas on the heels of the Presi-

New Policeman. dential Mandate dissolving the Mr. Arthur Allchurch, a recruit the self-governing bodies in the for the Hongkong Police, has provinces, comes another refer arrived in the Colony by the ring the question of the Provin. Nilo. cial Assemblies to the Admin-

Spoon Shoot istrative Conference.

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Gray has made 643 off 'red' in a match with Newman, which constitutes a record forivory balls

*****noon. **

Thursday, February 12. The Idol's Eye. Theatre Royal, -9.15 p.m.

Friday, February 13. The Idol's Eye-Theatre Royal 9.15. p.m.ds 25th Panjabia Sporta, U.S.B.O..

Saturday, February 14 The Idol's Eye Theatre Royal -9.15 p.m.

Half yearly meeting of Share holdes Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation-noon.

Humphreys Estate and Finance Co. Ltd annual General msoting

-11.30 a.m

Monday February 18, Jockey Ulub Race Meeting Happy Valley

Mand Allan at Theatre Royal 2,15 p.m.

Tuesday, February 17. Maud Allan at Theatre Royal 0.16 p.m.

Wednesday, February 18, Mand Allan at Theatre Royal -0.15 pm 0

Thursday, February 19. Ball at Government House,