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Franklin.

The Weather,"

TAI ON PIRACY.

Recognising the Gallant Defence of the Verke

Gold Watch Presented to

Captain Wetherspo

ALLEGED PIRACY.

THE PORT OF HONGKO

fateresting Facts from Health Officer's Report.

ONE MAN KILLED AND ANOTHER INJURED.

A REFRESHING, INVIGORATING and PALATABLE drink more to the Throne of Servia the Lower level 8 a.m. Temp 84; The Committee of the Chamber As usual themes

particularly suited for Tennis and Bathing Parties,

Pints $1 per doz. Splits 60 cts. per doz.

PYERIS.

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The only fermented Stone Ginger Beer in the Far East. The real charm of Stone Ginger Beer is the flavour produced by parsial

The reported abdication of King Peter of Servia, since con- tradioted, calls to mind the brutal assassination, on May 29, 1903, of King Alexander and his con-- sort, Queen Drage. That horri bla murder destroyed the line of Obrenovitch, and brought once

representative of the House of Karageorgevitah in the person of At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 75; the Monarch who is now compelled, cloudy. by reasons of health, to appoint the Crown Prince as Regent. It is interesting here to recall that it was only shortly before his death Siberian that King Edward VII consented to the removal of the diplomatic ban which he had proclaimed

cloudy.

The Malls,

In bis report for last year, Dr. Pirate Junk Forced to Clear off. The Tai On piracy QApril 27-G.. Jordan, Health Officer of last has had a pleasing sequel.

the Port, anys

Po Chan-li, the master of the work of this

Aberdeen fishing junk 141 H. A, has reported to the police that he left Aberdeen on the 11th inter and went ecuth on a fishing cruise, at when about silly About 4pm. on the 23rd.

miles from Tam Kwun tau, hia boat was overtaken by a junk All vessels entering port be- of about 600 picats capacity, the

of Commerce being of opinion that department is carried on under some recognition should be made three separate headings, namely of the manner in which the (a.) Daily inspection of ships commander, officers and watch arriving in Port; (b) Medical men of the a.. Tai On acted in examination of Emigrants; (0) defending their vessel against Quarantine Daty. Chinese pirates on the 27th April elast, decided to suggest to the members that a subscription.

8.8.

Inspection of Ships.

Mail.-Dua por Goeben to-day. Siberian Mail.Dae per

Liangchow to-morrow. German Mail-Closes per s.s, should be raised with which won the hours of 8 a.m. and forew of which opened fire on his of the voyage ay to any sickness. One of his fokis named Lam- Goelen to-morrow at 9.8.m. testimonials should be purchased P. are boarded and particulars boat with rifles. fermentation; without this no Stone Ginger Beer can be said to be recognition by such a powerful American Mail.-Gloses, per s..for the officers and a grant made from the last port and during the teun was shot dead, and the

Mongolia to-morrow at 3 to the "surviving watchmen and

to the families of the chief voyage duly recorded on the mastar himself was injured by a officer and the two watchmen who approved forms and signed by pullet wound on the right fores the Master or Surgeon. These arm. He returned the fire of the lost their lives."

reports are therefore available for pirates and when the boats were

genuine.

Price: $0.85 per doz." DRY GINGER ALE.

FRAGRANT, AROMATIC, DRY. Its "Dryness" is a feature which has helped to give this drink the popularity it so well

deserves

Prices:-$1.00 per doz. Pints, $0.60 per doz. Splits.

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Count the Columns. Yesterday

the Telegraph lations with our nation were re- setablished. The Crown Prince published 35 columns of solid To-day there is spoken of as the very reverse reading matter.

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of his elder brother, who Laa will be 34 published... made himself extremely unpop- alar with the people, and who was induced some five years ago

Mesars. Wright and Born by The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will to renounce all his rights and advise us that the Raub output prerogatives. He takes life ser- for the past four weeks is 1,067 iously, and has a genuine con- cza. of gold. cern for the welfare of Servia. He represented his country at the Coronation of King George

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The sam collected will pro bably amount to some $2,000.00 including the $445 received from Mr. Dowley,

The subscription liat has not yet been completed; when this is done, an account will be published disposed of. showing how the fund has been As Captain Wetherell is leaving for England this week, the Com mittee have asked him to accept gold watch, chain and pencil case. The watch bears the following inscription :-

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Presented to

CAPTAIN ROBERT HENRY,

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trouble. Further, all passengers fokis succeeded in getting future reference in case of any about 200 feet apart, hie and crews of ships which arrive two cannons trained on from any

infected port undergo the pirate junk, and, after a little special medical examination in time, they struck the pirate jünk near the water line, just in front- During the year there were of the mainmast. quarantine. 4,447 arrivals in port giving The damaged junk then made again an increase of 293 over the off in the direction of Tam Kwan returns of the year 1912. Of tau. The master of the attacked this number 2,348 were under jank returned to Aberdeen and the British flag and 2,099 under reported the matter to the police, various foreign flags, Au River but he did not report the matter Steamers are only dealt with to the Chinese authorities, thongh when an infectious disease is the attack took place in Chinese reported, them are not included waters. in the above figures.

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Examination of Emigrants..

LIVE WIRE FALLS.

Boy Injured by Coutact

According to the report of the Secretary for Chinese Afairs, 537 permits to. fire orackers were iasued last year, 387 of these being on the occasion of marriages. In another column we print

Dispensaries' Work,

Ty the Members of The Hongkong some remarks made by Sir Ronald

The total number of cases General Chamber of Commerce Ross on the subject of a petition

During the year there has been which he has recently addressed treated at the Chinese Public

as a mark of their appreciation decided increase in the emigra- of the courage and devotion to tion figures over the previous to Parliament. The great scientist Dispensaries last year shows a

daty displayed in defending year, amounting to so large an bie claim to financial marked increase over the 1912 recognition by the country on the figures, 88,803 as compared with the a.s. "Tai On" sgainst inoresse as 20,102. The total Boore of his famous discoveries in 75,331,

Chinese Pirates on the number of passengers examined. The Brewin Charity,

Canton River on 27th

daring the year was 145,717 but connection with malarial fever

Last year the income of the

April, 1914.

of these 2,958 were rejected by and, in doing so, he points out

The following is a Copy of us, so that the actual number of that he is merely following the Brewin Charity

The police report that a precedent of Jenner the vaccinato $2,623, including $1,000 the letter handed to Captain emigrants leasing the Colony was Chinese named Lenng Ham-30, tionist. His arguments are frank further subscriptions, and a sun Wetherell on the same occasion: 142, 759. Of this total by far the aged eleven years, and residing

22nd June, 1914. and sound; no one will deny that of $574 was expended on pen-

largest number proceeded to Singa- a 2, Blacksmith's Lane, has been sions to widows.". The balance to Sir Ronald has conferred an

Captain Robert H. Wetherell, pore and the Straits Settlements, removed to the Government Civil Hongkong.

amounting to 102,887 ss against Hospital suffering from burna to The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve the truth unspeakable boon on Tropical the credit of the Charity has in-

Sir,Therecent piratical attack 84,024 for last year. The nature his hands and body caused by a humanity by his discoveries, or creased from $42,122 to $44,164.

Be fles Abandoned.

on the 8.9. “Tai On ” at that time of "this. that the surgeon who devotes his

work is extremely live electric wire falling at The number of bodies con. time to research, instead of to the gidered by the Secretary for under your command, tins, as you arduous and fatiguing while it the junction of Jardine's Incrative practice to which his Chinese Afiaire to have been attention, not only in this Colony two of us during an afternoon or

are aware, attracted wide spread often involves the whole time of bazaar and Yee Wo Street. talente and experience entitle abandoned last year was €23, 85 and throughout the Far East, but morning. It is interesting to note him, must do so at an enormous compared with 760 in 1912 and also at home.

that early in the year, two batches All the same we monetary loss.

315 in 1911. The percentage of wish it would have been possible dumpings" to the whole num-vessel, made by you and your were examined and seed for The gallant defence of the of Chinese sailors numbering 676 for the petition to have come from someone else. Among Sir Bonald's ber of Chinese deaths was 7.6 as officers and watchmen, is particu- Liverpool. These men have form professional brethren there must compared with 8.1 in 1912 and larly worthy of notice, as we all ed the crews of the two new be many whose influence and Band Night at the Grand Hotel the full lived up to the best anders, viz., the Empress of Russia feel that in this respect you all to Canadian Pacific Railway Steam- whose admiration for him, are Last night a special dinner was

Messrs. Wright and Hornby sufficiently great to allow of their served at the Grand Hotel, and highest traditions of the British and the Empress of Asia. taking so unpleasant a task out the usual orchestra was largely in which you did your duty and appended showing a monthly output since June 1 is as fol- Dr. Jordan saya a table is advise as that the Langkat daily of his hands, and themselves angmented by members of the presenting the petition.

the emigration lowe band of the s.s. Mongolia. From attempted to the best of your statement of the commencement of the dinner ability to defend the lives and figures, the numbers of the crews 1st June.. till closing time the hotel was property entrusted to your charge. of the steamera and the numbers 2nd crowded throughout, a gare sign know the means taken

It is particularly gratifying to of rejections. The highest figure 3rd for was reached in March-probably 4th that Hongkong appreciates any protecting the apper deck due to a rash of emigrants after 5th additional gaiety and brightness. from being suddenly conolusion of the Chinese New 6th

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

Telephone: No.. 11 A.B.C., 5th edition.

Western Union.

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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1914.

of taxation. Oc

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A BREACH OF FAITH.

we

cannot do

better than

4.2 in 1911.

A. Welcome Doration.

Still in Hospital.

Mercantile service in the manner

the vessel.

22nd

LANGKAT DAILY

OUTPUT.

362 tone

359.

339

325

360

352

311

297

3921

291

251

281

241

203

$259

Total to date

6,808

Hailed by the Liberal Prose, at the time of its introduction, as The Latest" G.B.S. a masterpiece of financial legislation, the Budget of 1914 bids fair eventually to prove the undoing of the Asquith Government. It Mr. Bernard Shaw can always was heralded abroad as the People's Budget," mainly because it any clever things; at times he proposed relieving local taxation at the cost of an increase in the can say and do very practical tax on big incomes, To-day it has been so whittled down that it things aleo. One of his greatest The income of the District seized by pirates chiefly due to Year fostivition. From March the 7th neither does the one nor fully carries out the othe.. As a result of acts of wisdom was reported in Watchmen's Fand exceeded the the suggestion made by you to figures show a gradual decrease 8th events inside Parliament and outside of it, Mr. Lloyd George has yesterday's Telegraph; viz: his expenditure last year by nearly your owners on taking over com till the minimum is attained in ath gone back on his intention to make urgently needed grants to local offer to give a prize, at a certain $9,000, and included a donation mand, and you were thus able to August when probably most of 10th authorities, and, with the aid of a considerable sum of money thus sabool, to the worst-behaved boy of $5,000 by Mr. Ho Kom-tong beat off the pirates and prevent the labourers are beginning to 11th left on hand, he intends knocking a penny off the Income Tax and girl, on condition that a towards the cost of erecting them from obtaining command of find work in preparation of the 12th harvest. From this table it will 13th between 1s, 2d. and 1s. id. In view of the recent deputations of record should be kept of their quarters on the Kowloon side. We all join in deploring the be gathered also that the actual 14th wealthy Liberals to the Premier, it is easy to put two and two to subsequent careers and compared The public-spirited action of Mrad loss of life and particularly amount of emigration examina- 15th gether and to see that th change of front is nothing short of a with the records of the best Ho Kom-tong is acknowledged the loss of some of your brave tions made by us is made op of the 18th surrender to the men who supply the Liberal party's funds. Thus behaved, in order to ascertain in the annual report of the comrades, but we realize that all number of emigrants passed, the 17th is it that the Liberale evince their regard and concern for the whether the school criterion of Secretary for Chinese Affairs.

possible was done by you and numbers of emigrants rejected 18 People."

conduct was valid out of schools," This is fine and it is with]

The case in which a Chiness your officers and crew, and that and the number of the stowe of 19th If circumstances warrant it, there can, of course, be no objection regret that we read of the offer's had bean charged with cutting this terrible disaster could not the ships. The grand total of these 20th to a remission of part of the proposed tax on big incomes. But it having been refused. The notion and wounding another was re- have been diverted by any action three items makes 188,442 men is a flagrant injustice to effect this object by denying the reasonable might at least have been given a manded at the Police Court this which you might have taken. examined during the year. These 23rd demands of local authorities for some relief from the burden fair trial,

morning for the eighth time. It The Members of the Hongkong figures speak for themselves of 24th this point

appears that the complainant is General Chamber of Commerce the enormous work entailed. The still in hospital. His condition being desirous of marking their total number of rejections for 1913 to quote Mr. Lloyd George himself. In his Budget The "Bad" Boy. speech last month he dwelt on the urgency of relieving local

at one period was so serious that appreciation of the manner in was 2,958 as against 2,476 for which you and your Officers and 1912; the increase being account- taxation, as the rates in same districts have been doubled within

depositions were about to be To our way of thinking and taken and at present he is not in defending your vessel, decided emigration

Watchmen carried out your duty ed for by the total increase of recent years, especially in connection with housing, education and evidently to Mr. Shaw's as well yet out of danger. ronda." But the Chancellor of the Exchequer did not stop there schoolmasters still have a lot to

to raise a fund to be spent in Quarantine Duty,

before the epidemio was out he went on to contend that the present system of rating was

Por learn on the subject of what

making a presentation to the Under this heading maat be short and the vessel released. fectly indefensible"; and after remarking that there was great constitutes good and bad conduct. Dat. Sergt. Pincott made an survivors, or a grant to the included the special examinations The steamer Hanoi = {zom inequality between rich and poor districts, he wound up by saying Just hark back to your own school application to Mr. Wood this families of those who have lost which are frequently required for Haiphong arrived with small pox that "enbatantial aid must be given by the Exchequer to save days and consider, for a second; morning for the confiscation to their lives.

the so-called “medical inspec. on board during the period when Municipalities from bankruptcy' Could ever a stronger case have the type of fellow likely to qualify the Crown of the opium which I have now on behalf of the tion" of ships either coming from Hoihow was a proclaimed port been made out for the need of Government assistance to local for a good conduct prize. Was he was found in a sampan near the Members of this Chamber to aals s proclaimed infected port or under the Quarantine Ant. The bodies? Yet at the back and call of a bondfal

not, in five cases out of six, an8.8. Atress and which formed the rich supporters, the Government's prime shuffler turns his back ineffable prig, or else a dull, witless sabject of a charge in the Polise your acceptance of the accompany-baving any suspicion of infections probability is that there were on the, to use his own argument, almost bankrupt Municipalities, soulless creature, without the Court. Mr. Wood decided to awaiting watch and chain, which I disease on board, such vessels Haihow passengers who prossed- ap to Hongkong, thus to avoid And this despite his plen of urgency made only a month or so since spirit of a tomlit? What. sort the return of the vessel who trust you may for very many proceeding to the quarantine ad to Haiphong and then came

of man was he going to make, notices advertising for a claimant years find a useful little reminder ground for examination."

detained in quarantine, namely, these porta frequently carry a your life. Whether the Government will survive the change of front in anyway? Meanwhile your good, were to be placed on the vessel of a very, interesting incident in During the year 10 ships wore quarantine here. Vésgell from the Commons or not, there cannot be the slightest donht that it will honest bad" boy (and of

quantity of live stook on board I trust that your visit to your for Smallpox, 7 cholera, Inspector Terrott and Det Native Land will be a pleasant plague, 1

and until these are landed it is seriously damage its credit up and down the country. The proposal to course we don't mean the vicious Sergt. Clarke arrested a Filipino give substantial grants to local authorities including, incidentally, a boy who may be looked for, at 27, Pottinger Street yesterday, station to health, and that you mastor had quite a sharp out attempted. Such vessels, therefore one and result in a complete The Portuguese cruiser Ada. obvious no disinfection can be sam for fighting tuberculosis was calculated to make a fine election though happily at rare intervale,

on an extradition warrant issued cry, especially since everyone more or less would feel the benefit of in every school had spirit, pluck in Manila, on a charge of ember have before you many years of break of chilera after being in when in quarantine sonriderably. the relief. That the plan has been abandoned, in the circumstances and, usually, originality; the very in which it has, mast reset with overwhelming force on the qualities most likely to stand bin zling Pesos 142.20. The man, who good health and success in your Dock for some time. The infection raise the average period of deten- was identified by a photograph Government. It is small, comfort, in extenuation, to say that the in good alead in the subsequent bent from Manila, denied, being Thave the honour to be, promised relief is merely postponed. The people are getting tired battle of life. A fiod for your good

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of

Claimant Wanted,

Indentifled by a Photograph.

of Radical postponements, and when it comes to their opinions being boy; five chances to one he'll end the person who was wanted, and as the Police Court this morning registered in the ballot box, the Government will most probably in either the prison or the poor he was remanded at Thorsday realise that foot:

house.

profession

Your obedient servant, LEDBERT A, HEWET

Chairman,

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