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WERE THEY, SEALS?

The Tiger Story Followed by a

Tale of the Sea.

Another animal story is going

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

CORRESPONDENCE

The opinions expressed "by the correspondents are not pocess

arily those of the "Hongkong. Telegraph "]

the rounds in yachting ciroles SOLVING THE DEAR RENT

just now. Some animal-certainly

it was not of the order of fishes,

saya car informant-which is

thought to be a soal was seon between the Soko Group and Ubeung Chau Island on Monday

His attention, was first called to them by his sailing boy on bis yacht who remarked on

DIFFICULTY.

EXTRA

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1914.

SPECIAL CABLES.

(Special Pacífic Service to the Telegraph. Reuter.} THE PROVINCIAL SYSTEM.

PRESIDENT YUAN'S REFORM SCHEME.

Peking, Received April 17.

·President Yuan Sbib-kai's Bill for the reform of the Provincial system was presented yesterday morning. By the Bill the Tatabehips and Civil Governorships are to be replaced by Commissioners with the right to appoint or dismiss officials in the Province. The next in rank will be Intendants, with functions of inspection, and Magi strates, but the latter will be under the direct control of the Commissioner. All Provincial Boards will incorporat- in the Commistionore' Yamens, The Bill also lays down the number of Secretaries and olerks, allowed to osch Department.

(To the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph.) Sir,-Why someone does not afternoon. Seen by the Telegraph, advocate the moving of some of the gentleman who saw the Hongkong's population out to animele, which he is of the Pokfulam is difficult to under. opinion were seals, put the num-stand. A better spot to live in in ber that be actually saw at about hard to find in this island. I eighteen, all making in one faces south and gets the cool direction.

breeze all summer and the.actual ground to, build on is much more suited to this purpose than hall the the ground that is built upon number of "sea-dogs" or "sea- already in the Colony. The trouble CARPENTIER'S pigs," that being the transalation would seem to be the question of of the Chinese term, that there getting to and fro; but this ought were in the water. Our informant to be a simple matter in these looked but could see little at first days of electric railways, and becluse the animale were subwaya not to speak of overhead only just breaking water with travel. At home their noses to obtain air, thie the middle class population of any being accompanied by a hissing of our large cities live as far away, noise. Then a small one jumped if not further away, from their work into the air and it was at once and yet they manage to get there soon that, whatever, they were, and Lack with speed and com- the passerby were not fish. fort and that cheaply. Farther confirmation..

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WAS to What is wanted just what

GAMENESS.

V.R.C. SPORTS POSTPONED.

SLIGHTLY EXAGGERATED. MR. CORFIELD AND THE

"The Fiercest man in the

Colony.

LION.

A Stap la its Face and a 'Hand-off.'

MARINE INSURANCE MARKET.

Uneasiness for a German Barque,

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A money loan association and an alleged outstanding payment, The brief but glorious tale of The rate on the German barque caused a Chinese" woman who Richard Corfield's life and death Bonn, considered overdue on 140 claimed to be the head of the is told by Mr. Prevost Battersby voyage from New Orleang for society to bring a member to the with simplicity and restraint in Oporto, rose on March 19 from Police Court on a charge of as his memorial volume, just pub-12 to 40 por ont. The bargne Rault. To Mr. Melbourne the de-listed ("Richard Corfield of left New Orleans on December fendant denied the charge." Somaliland," Arnold, 10. 6d. 20 for Oporto, and so has been 80 The complainant told the ma- net. It is a moving story of a days"our," whereas the normal gistrate that she went to the hero who made the great choice length of passage is about 50 defendant, who was a hawker, to between honours and honour, days. She is hirap hargap of collect a sum of $15. The man between expediency and duty, 1110 tone, built by Barolay denied having anything to do between promotion and political Curle in 1877 as the Samarkand. with the association and when liegrace, between, life and death Her cargo consists of: 03,000 the complainant pressed her re- and made it in a manner that pieces of caketaves for the man- quest hit her across the nose with must thrill those of his country.ufacture of wine casks, and 8,252 a broom.

pen who admire nobility of pieces of deal. This cargo is character.

considered to be a favourable one Mr. Bitesby maintains that for the ship. Corfield gave up his life because his fustructions were confused So badly did underwriters and conflicting and because he think on March 25 of the pro regarded it as his duty to protect epects of the Swedish steamer the friendly Somalis, who had Kwasind that 80 per cont. was paid for reinsurance. Then gn faith of the British Government, he strength of a message from against murder and outrage at Bordeaux, which was not quite the hands of the Mullah.

clear, the rate dropped to 80 and Like General Gordon. then to 50 per cent. Finally word His action was identical with came that the Kwasind had arri- that of General Gordon. Gordoned at Bordeaux. telegraphed when the order to The voyage of the Kwasind "reached him from was far slower than that of the

!!

A fortune teller, father of the complainant, said that when she complained to him of the assault, the defendant assaulted her again to show how he did it the first time.

After he had been to the police

returned to witness and threatened to harm him. "The defendant is the fiercest man in the Colony," he added.

We are requested to state that the V.R.U. sports, which were to 15 Rounds with Jeanette.

take place tomorrow afternoon, Joe Jeannette beat Georges have been postponed owing to at Laon Park, Paris, on March vised date has not yet been ho Carpentier in a 15-round contest the inclement weather. The re-station and had been bailed out trnated his work and the good

distance, Jeannette being declared

The fight went the full decided upon.

the winner on points.

21.

The Eighth Round.

10

ago,

out and un

Another "Arrival”.

Francs may well be proud of blows to the body, and for a few

"A fortune teller can tell a lot," her youthful champion of Europe,seccads it looked as if he might was the comical manner in which Georges Carpentier, for a more not last through the first round.!!

the defendant summed up the be found when one of is wanted in everything in this gallant loser never left the ring He rallied in time to land one evidence of the witness. them broke

and sleepy Colony, someone with athen he at midnight on that date two-three on Jeannette's jowl, His Worship thought the for-home: "I have named men to Alvarado. The Kwasind left the raised his head so that he little initiative and a little in Paris, after 15 rounds of but the big man has been used tune teller had exaggerated a lot, different places, thus involving Tyne on March 11, and so took could be easily seen. face was not unlike that of a cat get me backing, and get to master of ringeraft as Joe Jean scored in the first round he never ordered him to be cautioned.

His about him to broach the question, genuice milling with such a to heavier blows, and the lead he and fined defendant $3. and them with the Mahdi; how could 12 days to cover the distance of I look the world in the face if I 886 miles to Bordeaux, while the with drooping whiskers over the work. There will, of course, be

abandoned them and fad? As Alvarado was a week steaming mouth. He then dived and showed difficulties but that is nothing., on American quadroon of lost; in fact he added to it. a large portion of his back as he There will be any amount of peo-experience.

greater weight, strength, and

a gentleman could you advise the 712 miles from London to Only at the end of the eighth BATU CAVES RUBBER CO.

this course?"

Bilbac. "went down; in fact, roughly ple who will say that it sounds It should not be forgotten that round did Carpentier appear to

There is one new and most speaking, five feet of his body all right but that it can't be done, the French champion only passed have Jeannette in difficulties.

No news was received of the was exposed. In all there were and that is about all that they out of his 'teens a few weeks ago This was a remarkable round.

extraordinary episode narrated British steamer Charles Lecour in the book-an adventure he since she left Penarth on March four persons who saw these will do. These sort of people-on January 12. But Jeannette Having finished the seventh round Presiding at the meeting of the tween Corfield and

nimale-two Chicose and two have never given au honest hour's is a seasoned fighter 35 years of dazed and holding on to Jean Batu Caves Rubber Company,

a lion-11 for Fayal, and on March 25 which is stated to be 10 per cent, was quoted. Rites Europeans and they are all con- thought to anything in their age, more resourceful at present, nette in a clinch, the plucky Mr. John McEwan said that al probably the only instance have also been quote on the inced that they were of the lives. They are children of the stone and a half the heavier French boy pame up smiling for though the directors were not on record of a football player ships Wiscombe Park and Bol- ature of scale. That night the moment. If they see through adat. Alb. to 12st. 21b.) when the eighth, and with a unique plan propcaing the declaration of so using the hand-off to prevent gen. both bound from Rio de acht was anchored in the locality thing and are in a good humour they stripped in the ring at 11 for avoiding too rapid strife. He large à dividend on that cision his being collared by a lion. Janeiro for Australia. nd the hissing could be heard they give it their approval, but if .m., and he carries the weight laid bie forehead on Jeannette's as was the case 12 months

The fact that the lion missed 11 night. However after passing not they simply say, "Ce n'est pas where it does him the most good left collarbone; and the latter's the different result was not due his first grip and got a poor hold motor-ship Julés Henry, previous- The owners of the French damastor Rock no further tracee mon affaire," Let someone leave-in a splendid torso, f them were seen.

great big, square head protruded over to anything within the control of with his second may have been ly reported disabled, were in- these people out of consideration shoulders, strong neck, and Carpentier's left shoulder; thus the company's staff or of the due to the surprise he experienced formed on March 25 that the In answer to a query as to in this matter and get going, Lat

muscular arms. hether they were not porpoises, half a dozen men with a little

they pushed one another about lirectors. The serions fall in the at receiving a slap in the face vessel was moored in the road- The Right Spirit. ar informant said they

the ring, in-fighting and each in price of the commodity which from the man he was closing, stoad near Bello Lelo and needed were backbone take the mat

Though their fighting was hard turn driving short-arm blows at occurred within the year could owing to which Corfield, getting azaistance to reach St. Nassire. ot. They .bad not the ter up and lour of the porpoise, but were we will see good substantia! Each slipped to the floor, Jean- getting into a full olinch. Twice revenue,

in three years and keen, it was in good spirit. the other's midriff, but never not fail adversely to affect the hold of a tree trunk in lieu of a It will be impossible for the ship sok, as black as the Chin-houses with gardens there and anette in the first round and Car during the round and again at obtained for the whole of their wrench himself out of the lion's andje. in her condition. The The average price goal post, was able literally to to continus her voyage to Kusi- light railway to take people blick centier in the 10th, and each was the end of it Carpentier varied crop was 38. 1. 2-3d. per lb. Al jaws." Continuing, he informed us that and forward and there will no helped to his feet by the other. proceedings by saddenly straight-though the yield for the year

Danish motor-ship Fionis, botad The lion, which was badly for the East Indies, is reported indeed they were what be longer be the cry that a man Yet no quarter was asked or given ening up to let fly four or five showed an increase of 37 per cent. wounded, dashed at him. He from Antwerp to have stranded, 1spected them to be, it would be with an income of less than $400-except in a single instance, rapid swings at his opponents on that for 1912 the total ex-fired and missed: serious lookout for the fisheries a month, cannot live in his own when Jeannotte, soomed to me to head, thereby eliciting fierce penditure was less by 6 per cent. "The next thing Corfield knew assistance. ar Cheung Chau, for seals were house in a decent part of the le- be distinctly magnanimous to- roars of applause from the During the year the directors was that he was dodging round a racious devourera of fish and land. Hongkong is by no means wards his boyish rival, whom he galleries; and just before the were urged to join hands with small tree with the lion grabbing uld make gore havoc in the famed for its health bill and it had on the ropes dazed and al- ended the hing grounds there. A ques is highly probable, if not abe most helpless near the end of the reached Jeannette's jaws with 10 restrict output, and to com band him off. The lion missed PANY AND THE UNREST. round he bell others to try to regulate supplies, at him while he was trying to MEXICAN COTTON COM- nas to whether seals would be lately certain, that a move in this seventh round. This was an im- such rapidity and force that he bine in selling, but so for no him firet, only succeeding in and in this latitude drew the direction would have a good portant renad. sponse that the yachtsman had effect, and if for no other reason came up Jeannette went for Car- the big man, who staggered and likely to succeed

As soon as they first astonished and then confused scheme that appeared reasonably tearing his cost, but soon caught Lord Welby, presiding at a had been Corfield's right hand in his month meeting of the holder of the Mix lown of them as far south as some scheme such as this deserves pentier, but the latter's defence sesmed for the moment as if two evolved.

biting it badly through the palm, per Cent. Debentures of the general support.

was too good. Then they had aor three more such blows would The directors had been unable while pursuing him round the Mexican Catan Estates of Tla- sharp sel-to of half-arm in-tight drop him.

to sell forward any material tree."

buslilo, said it was a matter of ing; after which Carpentier

Injured but not Unnerved, Except in the 12th, 12th, and proportion of the company's ex- scored with a right hook that 14th rounds, when he was plainly pected crop for the current year,

Fortunately at the

great regret to himself and his critical colleagues that for the first time brought them into a clinch, and

weary, Carpentier generally was do, having regard to the present moment comrade intervened since the reconstruction in 1903 then be jammed his poll under carrying the battle to the bigger level of prices, be thought it and shot the lion dead. But they were obliged to ask the de- "Jeannette's chin, forcing back the who invariably took would be inadvisable for them to while the companion went for the benture-holders to forgo-they big man's head. Jeannette did the centre of the ring and awaited pay quarterly interim dividends nearest doctor Corfield had to hoped only temporarily the in- also found on the Californian Claim To Descent From George got in two hard right hooks that dashing young Gan. Thus Car as compared with 40 per cent. arm and unable to use his rifle, bonds on the let prox., but not like that, and very soon he the gallant onslaughts of the at a rate in excess of 25 per cont., remain alone, and crippled in hie terest which was due on their let, tending to show that the

apparently hurt Osrpentier rather pentier fought himself almost to during the past two years.

had to spend a night in his zareba circumstances had been too strong pearance of some member or

badly. He tried to clinch, but a standstill, meanwhile giving sa

guarded only by huge fires. for them. ler of the seal family in these

Jeannette drove him to the ropes attractive display, although many. gions should not be impossible

A claim to royal descent based with telling body blows. Those of his blows landed with little geographical reasODS, upon a supposed secret marriage two right hooks and a hard right force, because they were ganged

is made by Augustus West, aged PAYMENT BY IN- sixty, who has recently become upper-cut by Jeannette in the first so cleverly by Jeannette, who get round probably punished Car-in a clear majority of the solid STALMENTS.

aa inmate of Wandsworth la- firmary.

pentier severely. The upperout fighting that counts, and did not The Soldiers' Club Tournament. He declares that he is a descent was the same blow that Jack he won, while Carpentier was landed fiercely on his left eye. try to be spectacular. As a result On the Summary Court before dont of King George Il, and

Contioning in the second of Justice Hazeland, this morn- that his grandmother was "Prin-Johson used to damage Jeffries's getting to be a sorry sight at the the Soldiers Club Billiards. the case was mentioned incess Lavinia" of Cumberland right eye in the first round at finish. There was hardly anything Tournament the D.. .C. L. I. met his narrow escape, and a little existing obligations in Mexico in

lifornia.

There certainly appears to be a il native to the latitude of lifornia. It is spoken of in the cylcopaedia Brittanica, as is 10 6 508 lion. There is the ariae Californiana or Eared als and the Macrorhinus a boles of which, the M. Lenoina,

WAKE UP.

Youra eto. Longkong, April 17, 1912:

PAUPER'S "ROYALBLOOD

II.

Reno.

mang

BILLIARDS,

to indicate that Jeannette had the R. E. "A" Team and as the been in a 15-round glove-fight, result of the first two matches the Times...

secured a lead of seventy-two points. The scores to date are as follow:-

D.O.L.I. Sergt. Ostler Sergt. Lennon

The Disappearing box.

ich Sir O. P. Ofister sued the who died in 1871 after unsuccess. y Printing Co. for $585. fully appealing to Queen Victoria Jeannette showed light in the Mr. Walker, of Messrs. Deacon, for recognition of her claim to be first round the moment they had aker, Deacon and Harstov, who of royal blood.

ebaken hande. Without fidding peare for the plaintiff, stated The Cumberland, claim was or sparring he stepped in quickly, it the case had been adjourned frat made in 1817, when a Mrs. feinted, and hit Carpentier bard a weak in order that the par-Olive Serres alleged that she was with a straight left and a right

A Chinese amab, residing on might arrive at a settlement daughter of Henry Duke of book, both to the jaw. Backing fendants had entered into an nmberland, brother of George into a neutrul corner, Carpentier the Peak, has complained to the reem ut to pay by instalmente. III, and grandson of George II, received another hard left in his police that some time in Saptom- ey lad paid one instalment Her allegation was that bor mo- face and a hard right jolt just ber last she left in the basement I another was due and ache-her was the daughter of the Ray, below bie heart. The latter is of the Roman Catholic Charoh in had been given, but he (Mr. Dr. Wilmot, of Barton-on-the Jeannette's favourite blow to Bonham Road a box containing alker) did not know if it would Heath, Warwickshire, and that steady his mer.

Jolothing and jewellery to the ba. Ele aaked for another she was secretly married to the By good footwork the French value of $60. On Tuesday she bok's adjournment,

Duke of Cumberland in 1767.

boxer escaped from the corner, but went there to get her property This course was assented to.

he was shaken again by two stiff but found it had disappeared.

250 247

497

R. E." A." Corpl. Coxon 175 Q.M. 8. Anderson - 250

but to have refloated without

"He could plainly see lions Even if they had the money arowling round outside the ring of available for the payment of in- flamer, and it did not seem terest, which they had not, he improbable that one beast mere thought they would all agree with courageous than its fellows might him that their first business was at any moment load the fire and to see to the debenture-holders attack the terrified animals in his security, and it would be bad charge, perhaps even himself." business to pay away money which Yet such was his courage that was required to be spent on the his nerve was quite unshaken by property itself or in meeting

later he was grin out hunting connection with its upkeep. It tione single-handed. The same was useless for him to attempt to splendid valour marked his death; prophesy as to the outcome of the he perished fighting against enor-present position in Mexico, or aa mous odds, and in Homeric wise to when the long-looked for relief his faithful Somalis died about was likely to arrive; even those him and in defence of his body. whose business had made them His portrait shows that the out-specially conversant with Mexican ward semblance of the man was affairs hesitated to express any ia keeping withe the beauty of the decided opinion upon the matter. inward character. It portrays They could only therefore rely on one young and alert, singularly the debenture-holders indulgence handsome, with a penetrating, and support until better con- pensive look. And this was he ditions prevailed, and enabled whom every man-in arms would the business to be carried on wish to be,"

without interruption.

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