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TELEGRAMS.

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STATE SERVANTS.

THEIR WAGES AND HOURS. (Reutor's Servies To "The Telegraph

London. Reaglved June 11.

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TRANSACTION.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1914

END OF YANGKINGPANG.

A. Memorable Meeting at

Shanghal.

There

BILLIARDS.

Scores in the Volunteer Cup

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RULE OF THE ROAD,

ALONE IN THE

WATER RETURN.

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ANTARCTIC.

(Continued from page 4,

This morning at the Marine Dr. Mawson Arrives In Londan. By Mr. Potter: He had no

Court, before Commander C. W. licence for morphine. It wOD-

A special meeting of ratopayere

Beckwith R. N., Daniel P.

Dr. Mawaon, the young Aus recognised all round as an illegal was held at the Town Hall last

The final in the competition for Tamar, charged Lai Kam-yan, journey in the Antarotic Contin- Tyso

O'Connor, petty officer H. M. 8. transaction. He did not mean Tharuday to consider the question the challenge cup presented by master of trading junk T13374, ent early last year has been des Tum oft, rin. below fed below

tralian explorer, whose solitary that after he paid the $1,200 of converting the Yangkingpang the Hongkong Volunteers for with failing to observe the rule to Gutierrez Le (witness) was and the Defence Creek into broad billiards was continued last even- of the road, as laid down by E. ribed by Sir Ernest Shackleton Tytam Inis efi, qts. below still responsible personally for public thoroughfares."

aa "without parallel ge a fent of Rokfolum varier ng at the Soldiers Club between. Order in Connoil, in Victoria the $1,200. The $750 he had wite on the platform, says the N. the D.O. L.I. "B" team and the Harbour on May 28.

human endurance," reached wougal. bolt, gin. Salowit In the House of Commons, in his hands be repaid to them. Daily News, Messre. E. 0.87th Co. R. G. A. The resuls of

London on May 7. Sir Ernest was during the debate on the Post because they had not got the Pearce (Chairman of the Council), the evening's play was that the in the Flora on the starboard by the hand when he stepped off

Prosecutor said he was sailing one of the first friends to grip him STORAGE IN MILLIONS AND DECIMALS, Office Estimates, general dia-

morphine,

H. Figgo, C. E. Anton, W. L. D., L. I. lead of forty-three was oatiaforon was expressed at the

Mr. Potter said that if his Merriman, H. C. Galland. E. J. maintained, the honoura of the tack, close hauled, when the the boot train at Vistoria.

Dr. Mawson admits that his Pokfulam

Tytam Intermediate ........ mittee, although they involved R. M. O. Gutierrez was the owner Cooler and C.M.G. Mackie (Mem-R CA. who secured two out of Witness stood on until he saw terrible 22 days' march in Adelis

on the port tack, also close hauled. nerves were badly shaken by thatching aubetantial increases in the wages of the morphins he would have to bers of the Council) and W.. E. the three games played. of postal servants.

deal with it. If his friend would Leveson (Secretary).

that a collision was inevitable Land after his two osmpanions, District in millions of gallous dusleg, the month of Ultimately, Mr. Elobbouse,

On the motion of Mr. Pearce, follows:-

The scores to date are a when he luffed right up into the Lieut. Nianis and Dr. Mertz, had withdraw it then he would not Postmaster General, announced

wind. The defendant followed been claimed by death. He is not the appointment of a Special 50 on with it. He was not going seconded by Mr. Figge, Sir Havil

D.O.LI, “B”. to have it said when his friend de Sanemarez was elected

suit, the two oralt coming within the same man as he used to be, consumption per Committee to consider the resummed up his case that every chairman. Mr. E. L. Allen was

ļa few feet of each other.

and, he adds, "I don't know, head per day... adjustment of the recommenda- fact pointed to this, that appointed secretary to the meet-

The defendant, who nrged that whether I ever shall be." tions. He also announced that

defendant bimself" was the ing.

he did give way to the Flora, was the Government would forthwith'

Mr. Foarce said that he had the

fined $10. appoint a Committee to enquire owner of the morphine. Was the into the whole question of theer of the morphine connected unanimous support of the Council

with the payee?

in proposing the following re- relation of the State to ite

solution :- employees as regards wages and hours.

recor ondations of the Holt Com: friend continued to suggest that Ezra, A. Hide, A. S. P. White-games played going mostly to the defendant's junk approached him |

DEALING WITH MILITANCY.

Witness: Yes. Will you write the name of the owner of the

morphine on a slip of paper and hand it to lay Lord and to my friend. Mr. Jeakin, so as he can call him as a witness if he wants to

Mr. Jenkin: I am mach obliged to you Mr. Potter, I don't want to see the name (laughter). Mr. McKenna, Home Secretary, Witness wrote down a name. has had an audience with His Mr. Potter: Is that gentleman Majesty the King, it is under-still in the Colony ?-Yes. stood in connection with measures against the suffragiste.

KING AND MINISTER CONFER."

London. Received Juns 11.

The Council of the Women's Liberal Federation has passed a resolution, on the motion of Lady Carlisle, calling on the Govern- ment to take immediate measures to suppress militancy.

He was in the precincts of the Court yesterday ?-Yes.

And you are prepared to give Mr. Jenkin the name?—Yes.

And you considered Cruz to be his agent?-Yes.

Mr. Jenkin:-These are all answers given to questions asked

That the Council be hereby authorized and empowered to take steps for converting the Yangkingpang and the De- lence Urook into broad throughfares, after negotiation with the French Municipal Council and the shanghai Race Olub, and to pro- vide adequate drainage o take their place therein. The Chairman of the Council

proceeded to give a short histori-

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oal sketch of this question. The Paulun and Reid reported that advisability of covering the creek "any scheme which leaves the Was suggested to ratepayers for creek uncovered will leave it still

the first time in 1867. At that an open sewer injurious to health"

Bankruptcy Court.

Mr. Justice Gompertz sitting in Bankruptcy this afternoon adjparned the hearing ro the affairs of Li Kin-tong.

Left Yesterday. Among the passengers who left by the Empress of Anis yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Holyoak, Mr. H. Humphreys, and Mr. and Mrs. F. G. White.

Headquarters Offices-Change of

Address.

The Headquarters Oiees will be

Dr. Morrison.

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vitation Re- Helow fought for the mastery. But on STORAGE IN MILLIONS AND DECIMALS, reaching the base a complete) nervous collapso ensued, and Kowloon Gra-46 though a great deal was done, Reservoir Dr. Mawson explained to Comption of water in Kowloon in millions of Daily News interviewer, to repair the damage during the further twelve months spent in Antarctica, the effects of the mental strain are still apparent.

A Bit Shaky. "I'm a bit shaky," was Dr. Mawson's colloquial description of the symptom

"No," he added, "I don't think I shall do aay more work in the Antarotic. Things are and, besides, I'm 31. My strong different when one gets married,

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LATEST SHIPPING

NEWS

malaria has broken out among other Gutierrez and Cruz said did not meet with success. The ing and the Council unanimously Peking yesterday on four months' month. intellect in the high, the 9th inst, in the afternoon and may be

him to Tuxpam.

ALLEGED OPIUM

POSSESSION.

if

one

Well-known Artist Arrives,

New Mall Service. The new Canadian-Pacifio

Death from Starvation.

morning the 15th inst.

The GLENFARG paused the Bues

and disappeared with the aledge Blizzard Lasting Eight Months. carrying the major part of the Some of the most interesting provisions for the party of three things that Dr. Mawson has to say 'Mertz, my second companion, are about the weather in Adelie

early date one of the cardinal Dr. Stanley had said in the past points of the controversy came that the advantago to sanitation

opinion is that a man's beat age for that sort of work is between into view; the Council said to be gained by culverting

MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS. by Counsel; it is a monosyllabic."Dredge the creek and keep it would not be commensurate temporarily removed from the 25 and 30. Yes, I think Scott-

The E. & A. EASTERN from way of giving evidence. (laugh- open the Fronoh Council said with the expense of carrying it 2nd floor of "A" Block to the 1st though an exceptional man, of Sydney sto; left Manila dr illu port on THE MEXICAN WAR.

ter.)

Do not dredge the .oreek; out. In 1900 the proposal to floor of "U" Blook, Victoria B course was too old."

10th instant at noon, and may be expectad The fone in the Summary bat, do away with it." The calvert was strongly opposed by racks, from Jane 13 inclusive,

Dr. Mawson himself, in spite to arrive here to-morrow afternoon. EPIDEMIC AMONG US.

Court refusing to work in the proposal of the French. Council the Council; the resolution, wantil further notice. The Offices of his awful experience, is still

The C. P. R. s. MONTEAGLE left FORCES.

afternoon, the case was continued | was thought to be impracticable; ever, was carried by a majority will be closed on Jana 13 except the picture of youth-one of tonrrive at Taku on June 15, at 8 am - Kobe on June 10, at midnight, and is due in the Supreme Court.

and, although the French Council of twenty-six but was defeated by for business of an urgent nature. those young men who give the London. Received Juns 11.

impression of being made of fine left Yokonams on June 11, at 3 p.m. and The . P. R... EMPRESS OF JAPAN The New York Herald reporte

R. M. O. Gutierrez was orosa. made repeated efforts to interest 100 voles on a poll. The asmo

steel and whipoord. There is due to arrive at Kobe on June 12, at 3 p.m. that an epidemic of dysentery and examined by Mr. Jenkin. The the Council in its own object, it proposal was now before the meet-

Dr. Morrison was to leave humour in the big, flexible The 8.3. RÁJAH has left Sandakan.on the troops and bluejackets at they saw the man at Braeside opposition of the French Council supported it.

One of the reasons why this leave of absence. He will proceed smooth forehead, and intrepidity expected here on or about Monday Vera Cruz and Tampico. In all and be refused to take the cheque to dredging. had been consistent there are 87 cases of malaria. Mr. Jenkin said he would put and laated to the present day. Council supported it was because to England, and after remaining in the steady blas eyes sad

H.M.S. Hermique is homeward it to the witness that the man Ja the year 1898 the Council of the growth of traffic in Shang there one month will travel to straight, finely-cut nose.

But, Canal on the 4th inst. for Hongkong via whose name was on the paper recorded in the annual report that bai and a new broad thoroughfare Canada to investigata immigra- above all, there is the resiliency Strai bound.

The authorities at Washington had neither lived at Braeside "ultimate economy would result to relieve the Malco had become tion in British Columbia, Bays and optimism of youth in every-

thing he says and does. declare that the accounts are nor had been there for the past the creek were calverted and imperative. Notwithstanding the the Peking Daily Newa.

ten years?

filled in, and a broad thorough widening of Peking Road, the exaggerated.

Dr. Mawaon is not anrious to Witness said he did not koow. far made along its line at the state of traffic in the Maloo

live again in memory the dread- Missing Minister Found.

A 100-mile trek Mrs. Stephenson, wife of Major ful days when he fought against destroying solitade faced the in soul- The Daily Telegraph's corres He met his brother and Oruz joint expense of the two Muni-was worse than ever. The pondent at Mexico City says a about fifty yds from Braeside. aipalities." Later in the same question before the meeting General Stephenson in command fearful odds--and won; but for sa vivor of the wie, How be of the Straits Settlements is among the sake of his dead comrades lie accomplished it Dr. Mawson him- detachment of Japanese marines He had said that Cruz abould be year, the Muoidipal Engineer was not so much the

it would be of culverting as of filling up, lay- the visitors to Hongkong. She outlined the story of the last self can hardly tell. It was not found the Japanese Minister at given a cheque and not notes as heated that Sayala on June 8 and escorted was not to be trusted. He did dangerous to buildings and houses ing the necessary sower drains is an artist of considerable ability march, which the world already till three weeks after the death

trust the man on Monday with on both sides of the creek if it and there by converting two very and last year exhibited at the knows in part,

of Mertz that he unexpectedly $1,200 in notes although he did were dredged, so that the entire unwholesome creaks into two Royal Academy. Arriving in

struck a food depot, and was It will be remembered that thus snatched from the jaws of not trust" him.. Witness was in length be covered with one foot broad thoroughfares that would Hongkong yesterday she has it only because the morphine was of water at ordinary low tides; be a credit to the growth and already been at work taking Lieut. Ninnis fell into a crevasse death.

sketches of Hongkong scenes. to be delivered at his house. He that any less dredging would be importance of this great city. did not know why his brother of little use and that "the filling Mr. Pearce said that at former was in it, although he was in it and culverting of the Tang-meetings the principal objections from the first.

kingpang would be the finest had been: 1. Defence. 2 Traffic By Mr. Potter: Despite the public improvement over carried 3. Sanitation. 4. Finance. With Railway's trans-Pacific service died of starvation," said Dr. Maw- Land, the seat of his journeys.

regard to the first, the French from Vancouver, British Colum- son simply. "We had to live on We hit," said he, on a pro postmark of the letter from Cruz out in Shanghai."

In 1902 the mandate of the Concession acted like a buffer bis, to Manila, Philippine Islands, the dogs, and the dogs were riread-blem we had never dreamed of. which was the 4th be would say that Oruz was in his house on repayers was received to "con- State, while military experts who via Japanese and Uhinese ports fully thin, poor creatures. Mertz, The average wind velocity for the the 8th, 9th and 11th of that sider the question of calverting the had recently visited Shanghai band starts to-day, when the Empress you see, was a Swiss and ac- entire year in that part of Antarc Yangkingpang Creek." But in the advised filling up the creek. As of Ruesia, sister ship to the customed, as he told me, only to ties proved to be 50 miles an hour, Defendant was recalled by Mr. following September the Council, to imfic, the water-borne traffic Empress of Asia, will be sent to eat meat on three days in the as against about 15 miles an hour Vancouver, via week. The consequence was his in McMurdo Sound, the base of addressing the French Council, was not of aufficient importance Manila from stated that" while a certain pro- that it should for one moment be Yokohama, Kobe, and Nagasaki. digestion went wrong, and ho Shackleton and Scott pertion of those interested regard allowed to stand in the way of The Empress of Russia and the could get no nutriment from the "In Adelie Land, from the the matter favourably there is no ordinary road traffic, especially as Empress of Asia will out the time exclusive diet of dog's flesh. As beginning of March to the end of probability of any considerable the creek, in its present condition, from the Pacific coast of North an Australian I have been used October there is one continuous The Bijou.

leancial contribution being made could only be used at high tide. America to Manila to 17 days, to a diet including something like blizzard, with temperatures; fall- The management of the Bijou by them towards the cost of the Mr. Pearce dealt with sanitation against 28 days.

50 per cent. of meat, so things ing to minus 50 degrees Fahren Scenic Theatre are to be con-undertaking"; that the Council's at some length and showed that

were greatly in my favour from beit. The higheas velocity we Mr. Agassiz said the man took gratulated on the programme that saitude was chiefly decided on the present system would be im

the start of our return march experienced for a whole hour was from the crevasse,

110 miles per hour-80 miles per no physical possession of the they are presenting this evening. Enancial grounds; and that "in proved upon at an extra cost of ope of the most view of many more.argent public The. 10,000 to Tls 12,000 per

"All through that march the hour is reckoned a violent hurri goods. He nover handled Certainly

As te finance, the cheap, nor the Conncil's wind was terrifio. Sometimes it cans in Boy other land and a them nor gave any instructions interesting items is the film works calling for considerable apaum.

The evidence depicting a flight on a Farman expenditure of public funds, the total estimated outlay probably credit o When the took hours to erect an improvised gust on one ocassion registered as regards them, he would ask seroplane along the Seine, Council is unable to recommend spread over two years, would question was thrown out by stent, and then a gust of wind the almost incredible speed of

while tho Pathe's cartoon to the ratepayers that the work of amount to about Tls. 200,000 poll in 1000, the estimated outlay would blow it away. Until Jan- 220 miles per hour. for the discharge of the prisoner is a feature all by itself. The balverting the Yangkingpang for which Shanghai would have was Tls. 550,000, and that for uary 1 (1913), week before One of the most singular effects gards the douament of lille be reproduction of pictares of the should he undertaken in the im- one of the greatest and cheapest falling in the Yangkinggang only. Mertz's, death, we thought we of the continuous hurricanean

His Worship said that as re-

as mediate fature." The lack of fine-improvements ever achieved for As to tramways on the new could get through, but soon after effect never before noted—was had not found a satisfactory Shanghai race meeting is authority himself and he would topical se the picture is interesting lity in the closing phrase made it its benefit. Property on these thoroughfares the two letters pub that I saw it was all up with charging of the atmosphere with ianswer to Mr. Agassiz's and the three part drams The quite clear that at that time they thoroughfares would increase in lished in the Municipal Gazette him. He was just starving to electricity in such a measure as to

Bridge of Terror" is an engros- were so for not permanently in op- value, and when the next essere that day contained a satisfactory death; and he died on January produce plumes of "St. Elmo' request) reserve his decision on

at midnight.

fire" in extraordinary abandanosĽ, 118 pont. He was satisfied that ning as it is sensational. Patho's position to the proposed meaanre, ment was made the benefit of the ie defendt knew what he was British Gazette proves a suitable At the annual meeting in 1903 consequent increased taxation

"I put him in his sleeping. Pale blue flames streamed from gring for. Lis tecision would Es fuish to the programme, giving the ratepayers were informed that would be felt. It was not an ex- the resolution was carried with

some excellent ideas of what is the sobeme was impracticable and travagance, There had never been few dissentients. served until Monday morning happening at home in many would be an "expensive luxury so much money in Shanghai; A vote of thanks to the obair-

directions.

Three months after, Dra. Marah, money had never been no man concluded the meeting.

At the Police Court, this after- noon, a Chinese was charged by Revenue Officer Wilden with being in unlawful possession of 620 trels of opiam on board the Chung Ohau running between Hongkong

and Macao...

Mr, Agassiz, of Messrs. Harding and Agassiz, defended."

Defendant denied knowledge of the contents of the boxes.

Two witnesses deposed to- defendant being a man of good character. He had worked for one man up to the time of his arrest.

at 12 o'clock.

month,

Potter.

The case was adjourned until Wednesday next,

good.

7.

tha

solution for all parties.

There was no discussion and

a

bag, and left him lying there on the noses and finger upe of the the snow plain, with a cross by explosers whenever they ventured slodge,

his side made of half of my last out at night.