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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1914,

What does It Mean?

DAY BY DAY.

WE ARE ALL TOO LITTLE IN-

IN OUR SERIOUS MOMENTS, TOO

Residents in Kowloon are beginning to be curious as to the cause of frequent revolver shots beard during the nights of early mornings recently, For the instOLINED TO FAITH WE ARE ALL two nights, at least, the firing hos MUCH INCLINED TO FORGET THAT been heard, and, as it has been ALL ARE SINNERS, AND FALL followed by distressful yelping, it JUSTLY BY THEIR FAULTS, AND THEREFORE THAT WE HAVE NO is assumed that the police liave MORE TO DO WITH THAT THAN A REFRESHING, INVIGORATING and FALATABLE drink been out on a raid against stray WITH THE THUNDEROLOUD, ONLY dogs. One caident tells us that WEAR AS SMILING A FACE AS TO TRUST, AND DO OUR BEST, AND

Pints $1 per doz. Splits 60 cis, per duz.

just before daybreak on Sunday MAY BE, FOR OTHERS AND OUR he heard shots, followed by sounds SELVES,Plevenson, of some one running in the street, fand he got up to investigate. He

but could discover nothing save sunshine. heard the yelping of dogs, too, Lower level 8 a.m. Temp 85, that an Indian constable soon At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp 77; afterwards came up Haiphong sunshine. Road from the direction in which the sounds were heard. If the general saamption is correct, one in tracking down stray animale, to shoot them in cold blood, with the strong possibility of their only being injured?

PYERIS.

Choinically, an exact raproduction of a well-known German apring, at half the price. Blends Perfectly with Spirits, especially Whisky. Once try a Whisky Pyer's and you will ask for it again,

Price: $0.85 por doz, Pints. 10.50 per doz. Splits. STONE GINGER BEER.

The only ferniented Stone Ginger Bear in the Far East. The real charm of Stone Ginger Beer is the flavour produced by partial fermentation; without this no Stone Ginger Beer can be said to bois inclined to ask if it is necessary, gonuino.

Price: 80.85 per doz. DRY DINGER ALE.

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

Prices:$1.00 per doz. Pints. 80.60 per doz. Splits,

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

Craze for Rubber Plantations.

The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will rubber. Following the example

be as follows:-*-*

Daily issue-$30 per annum. Weekly issue-$13 per annum.

The Weather,

The Mails.

Ville de la Ciotat to-day,

CANTON BANK NOTES.

The Scheme for Redemption.

JULY 1 FIXED AS DATE FOR

BEGINNING.

MAGISTRATE CHARGED.

ARRESTED WHILE PASSING THROUGH,

In Possession of Fifty Rounds of Ammunition.

ARCHITECT'S CLAIM."

RECOVERS $2,250 FOR SERVICES RENDERED.

Defendant Absent and Plaintiff Secures Judgment.

This morning in the Original

We are informed by a local Quince gentleman that the Governor General of Kwangtung, Mai Fung-kwai, of Hol Fang, was Court, before Mr. Tantico Gom

A Chinese magistrate named together with the Civil Governor charged at the Police Court, this parts, Ohief Justion, Mr. Col and the Department of Finance, morning, by Det. Sergt. Wille with bourne Little, architect of 18, have settled upon Jaly 1 as the being in possession of fifty rounde Bank Buildings, sued Law Shui date for beginning the redemption of ammunition. The defendant po, of Mesars Law and Bon, of the Kwangtung notes: After informed Mr. Melbourne that in Morrison Hill Road to recover the that day the present issue of notes his capacity of magistrate he was sum of $2,250 for professional will no longer be legal tender. empowered to have in his posses-services rendered. All the notes of this issue must sion four Mauser pistole and be redeemed and destroyed within vara! hundred

Mr. Eldon Potter, instructed by rounds a month from the above date; ammunition. He was passing Looker, Deacon and Haraton, of Mr. Lang, of Mesars. Descon there is an opinion among the through Hongkong on his way to sppeared for the plaintiff, the Uhinese, however, that this period Canton, when he was arrested, defendant" neither being repre- If it were necessary for him to sented nor appearing when his Briefly the arrangement made have a licence he would get one name was called. is that old notes can be exchang- but at the present moment he The case for the plaintiff as vegas, ed for now ones, or cashed in was waiting for a gunboat to out in the papers, and out: eilver at Afty per cent. (there-convey him to Canton. about) discount.

lined by Mr.Potter, was that An official of the Kwangtung the defendant instruc'ed the The Central Covernment has Government, who is here in con- plaintiff to prepare drawings and receive the old notes and the pirates, ranched for the accuracy deal with the matter; the one to against the alleged Childa with servants quarters attached appointed two departments to nection with the proceedings plans for a fifteen roomed house

olher to issue the now. The of the statement and the csa native press statea that the Lag was withdrawn, syndicate will appoint officials

Other Cases,

American Mail-Arrived per s.a. French fail.-Closes per ssly yet be extended.

Ville de la Ciotat to-morrow at-9.30 a:m.

Count the Columns. Yesterday published 37 columns of solid the Telegraph

will be 34 published. reading matter. To-day there

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Under the above heading we stated on Saturday that, round about Mergui, Baras, a whole district formerly noted for fruit- producing, has been given up to of the large landowners, even the amallest fruit-growers among the

Strayed Dogs. natives have been uprooting one from Central (wanderers) have Two dogs from West Point and valuable tress, thinking that

the Dogs' Home.

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The rates per quarter and per meus, proportional. Subscriptions

for any period less than vne month will be charged as for a rubber would make them rich been removed by the police to suggested by Wong King-long for ammunition a Chinese was fined building authority,

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an estimated cost of $80,000. The plaintiff also, at the defend- ant's request, made a detailed. arvey of the building site Inland is also stated that the scheme sharpshooters and filly rounds of building and also interviewed the to supervise the whole affair. It For being in possession of threat No. 1,315 with respect to the

dealing with forever. Nov, of course, the same

oarreaoy $250 by Mr. Melbourne, this business will not be adopted in morning. None of the rifles had said that there was no express The statement of claim also thing is happening there as has already been experienced in other

Back Again.

ite entirety.

either springs or locks. rubber countries; the decline in the sentence meted, cat to a the redemption system is no: as a man this morning with being ordinary reasonable terms for

One year's imprisonment was

Our informant points out that Det. Sergt. Pincolt, who charged to be paid to the plaintiff but the agreement as to the remuneration the price of rubber (and no one Chinese who with a grin of sense could ever banishment, at the Police Court tung notes as might appear. pistols and 200 rounds

returned from hard on the possessors of Kwang-in possession of two. Mauser preparing the plans and drawings have boli ved that the high prices this morning.

of would be two and a half per cent. of a few years ago would continue.

People have got used by now," ammunition on board the French of the estimated cost of the pro- he said, "to their money not being mail, explained to Mr. Melbourne posed building. for any great length of time) has made the would-be planters regret

up to face value. The Govern that a great deal of arms smugg. Captain Gilroy of the s.s. Nam-ment will certainly not allow the ling was going on at present and of defence denied that the plain- The defendant in his statement the baste with which they sang has reported to the police new notes to depreciate; and sailors on board some of the boats tiff was his architect or that he destroyed their orchards; of the plantations are in the stole from his cabin a long tole like to exchange their old notes fine of two hundred dollars was the work alleged or to interview most sat on the 27th some person when once men realise that if they smuggled the arms sehore. A asked the plaintiff to do say of market for solo." History acope valued at $25.

for new ones instead of cashing imposed. is indeed repeating itself, for

them, it will only be a matter of

the Building Authority. He was it was long ago whispered that

time for the new ones to reach

not indebted to the plaintiff for maoy landowners in the Straits Mr. Melbourne remanded a man face value, there will be no

the sum alleged. who had formerly found pine- this morning, who was charged grumbling.".

Stolen Telescope..

Alleged Opium Possession.

The object of this paper is to publish erect in apmation, to serve the truth apple cultivation very lucrative with being in possession of 84

and print the news without fear

or favour.

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Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

Telephone: No. 1 A.B.C., 5th edition Western Union..

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, MONDAY, JUNE 29," 1914.

CANADA AND HINDOOS..

but had been led natray in pursuit taels of prepared opium. The of rubber wealth were burning drug was found tied round bie their fingers rather badly: another leg. illustration of the saying that old paths are the safest.

The Austrian Assassination.

Died in His Sleep,

A Filipino named VictorianoBus-

LANGKAT DAILY. OUTPUT

Messrs. Wright and Hornby cargas, aged 20 years, & seaman advise us that the Langkat daily The whole world will condole Dooks, died suddenly in his sleep lows

an the 6.9. Albany at the Kowloon output since June 1 is as fol- with the aged Emperor Francia on board the ship daring the 1st June... Josef over his latest domestic (27th, inst.

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Borrow, it seems as though misfortune meant to pursue him A Chinese has been sent to the. to the very end of his long life and hospital suffering from a wound reign. But a few yea after the at the back of the neck, inflicted tragic death of his only son, he by another Chinese, who has also. 7th lost his wife by the same cruel been removed to the hospital, 8th means that has now robbed him apparently insane. of his heir-apparent. That this

Fell From a Plank, -- added trouble should fall on the A Chinese in walking from one. shoulders of a poor old man of of the drying bulks at Shankiwan 11th eighty-four,newly risen from what apparently fell from the plank Just how keen, even bitter, is the feeling in Canada over the many people had believed would into the water and was drowned Hindoo question, as brought into prominence by the presence of prove his deathbed, seems. too The body has been found and the Komagata Maru in Vancouver Harbour, is shown by articles in utterly cruel. Bat the mad taken to the mortuary. Canadian papera just to hand. The Vancouver World quotes people as the wretched assassin anarchism that inspires anch

Girl Drowned. The master of a cargo boat has Kipling's words, "Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mis- who fired the shots, takes no reported to the police that whilst tress in my own," and these words appear very happily to define sccount of minor details like this. sailing his boat from West Point Canada's conception of her place in the British Empire. Canada The fact, too, that various in. to Yaumati, and when in the has always enjoyed, and has always exercised, the right to deny members of the suito were injured Wong Yueng fell overboard and

offensive bystanders and two Central fairway, his daughter 21st admittance within her gates to intending immigrants, whether by the bomb intended for the was drowned. British subjects or not, and on this matter she claims to have the Royal carriage does not.in say first word and the last. In matters of internal administration she way count, Such small things left by the M. M. steamer Atlan is, and means to be, supreme. That, as briefly as may be, Canada's attitude,

wide.

must not be allowed to stand in

the path of Justice-as the antique, this morning, were M. archist mind understands the Gaston Liebert, Consul for France term...

in Hongkong, and his two dough. ters. They are proveading to Japan for a short holiday.

Yuen Mau, of 128, Second Supposed Drowalag Accident. Street, has reported to the Police

Total to date 8,086

TYPHOON WARNING.

The telegram quoted below

A DEAL IN SALT.

Was it a Personal Loan?

in Summary Jurisdiction this Mr. Justice Hazeland, sitting morning, had before him the case in which the Yan Wo-firm, 185, Reclamation Street, Yaumsti, sued the Kwong Yee-sang Firm and Mau-pui, & managing partnei, of 82, Main Street, Shankiwan, to reover $880.28 for goods sold

and delivered.

Mr. Little went into the wit. ness box to corroborate his counsel's statement and in the absence of the defendant judg ment was given for the plaintiff with costs and an order for im- mediate execution.

WATER POLO.

Car walls Defeat the RG.A.

In the Gascoigne Shield, com- Mr. Crowther Smith appeared water polo match took place

petition on Saturday evening for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Leo batween the D, O. L. I. and D'Almada e Castro for the de-R.G.4. the former winning by the fendants.

two goals scored.

The case for the plaintiffs was that the defendants had been the artillery were well to the fore, In the first part of the game trading with them for some time, their aggressive tactics keeping and last year their credit was the Cornwalls well in their own stopped, because they owed the half, though, try as they might, plaintiffs a considerable sum of they could not score. For this money. Aboat the tonth moon they have only themselves to of last year the defendante know, thank, for their shooting was never in common with other merchants even mediocre. The Cornwalle in the Colony that the plaintiffs outstayed their opponents and in had a consigament of 1,000 tons the second half of the game at. of salt on the way. When it tacked time and time again, Classel arrived, on the strength of and Smith scoring for the winners. statement to the shippers, that he

had come from the plaintiffs, Man-pui obtained a load of salt.

The teams were:****

D. O L. L Bom. Ward; Opl. Baldwin and Opl. Pammore; Mr. D'Almada admitted that Pte. Former; Bagler Walls, Pte.

his clients bad received the salt, Cussell, Pte. Smith,

and Mr. Smith said he was ex- plaining how the defendant had Petts, Gr. Bancroft ; Bom. R. G. A.-Opl. Rossiter; Bom. obtained it after his credit had Chisholm; Gr. Dyson, Bom. been stopped.

Mangham, and Gr. Crawford.

There is nothing that is not eminently fair and reasonable in this position. Aside from the instance immediately under notice, Ladles and Boxing. it is as much the right of a Dominion to say who shall, and who that a large number of ladies, Reater informs us this morning aball not, be admitted within ite borders as it is of a householder including the most exclusivo of

Continuing, Mr. Smith said, to say who shall enter his house. The mere fact that a man is a society, were present at the John- that on the evening of the 28th.

when the plaintiff's questioned the defendants on the matter, they British subject does not entitle him to free cutry into the house of con-Moraa fight. There is at last he found the clothes of his son on

were asked to debit the salt as any and every other British sabjock, nor should the mere fast of something new under the sun, the Water Strest steps. He was of "British citizenship" be held to entitle mon, whether Hindoos or for the presence of ladies at hox- the opinion that the boy went out was received by the American salt, the plaintifle could not help nor America for the Americans,

goods sold. As the defendants

The World For Mankind. white people, to the right of free entry into any part of the British ing matches has hitherto not been to bathe and was drowned. The Consulate General Hongkong, themselves and the defendants but the world for mankind" is

were already in possession of the

"Not Asia for the Asiatics, Dominions. Yet that is the claim, which is being made by Mr. encouraged. It is to be hoped body has not been recovered. Gardit Singh and his 375 compatriota. Their interpretation that this will not set a new of the phrase "British citizenship" seems much too loose and too fashion. For cleanly-conducted final performanna, before a full of northern Luzon, more than 300 defendants, to take over their the Monroe Doctrine in an article from the Manils Observatory at now owed $380 odd. Finally the grandiose vision which the The Great Duncan, The Great Danoan gave hie

8.45 a.m. yesterday:

Oyolone or Typhoon

Ohol Pak-sam, a partner in the editor of Court Okuma's mags- boxing matches one can have

plaintiff firm was asked by the zine sets up ad the proper foil to "The situation which has been created by the wealthy Hindoo, the presence of ladies at them is

nothing but warm support, bat Theatre. As on previous occasions

house last night at the Victoria miles distant. Moving N. W. Mr. Gardit Singh, is one which should be accepted and dealt with not desirable and should be throughout a breathless interest

The following telegram was borrowing note for $850 and a

indebtedness. He was given a published in a recent number of the spectators maintained received at 9.10 a.m, to-day:

Shin Nikon. fearlessly," says one Canadian paper, and there is no escaping that severely frowned upon. There conclusion. Legislation on the subject should be so framed that it are interest in a man's life-alike is his marvels and all seemed of Aparri, moving N W. or N.

Cyclone or Typhoon-E. NE 830 the next day.

promise to pay the remaining Proposed Reduction of

Steamer Freights, will be clear and definito and permanent. But, after all, common-in business and in sport into agreed that the Dancan show is N. W

Mr. D'Almada aid that his sense and moderation should remedy mattore if they are carefully which women do not, and should one of the finest of its kind that

We learn, says the Manchuria applied to this and any other incidents which may arise. That is not enter, just as there are

case was that his client had been Daily News, that the Ham. Amr has ever visited Hongkong. being done in South Afcios and could be done in Oanada. It cannot women's intereste into which no

lent the $350, by, Chor Pakean Linie, Mesare. Butterfield & Swire, Trespassers.

as a personal loan.

and Mesare. Jardine, Matheson have escaped the memory of our readers that, something like a year man should blunder; nad boring Mr. O. D. Melbourne, with tree of a Chinese mule, aged about 40 defendants with costs.

Two men were charged before The police report that the body ago, Mr. Gokale, an able and cautions Indian, visited South Africa is one of them. We should sup- passing on the premises of Messrs. years, has been removed to the

Judgment was given for the & Co., all faterested in the China which were acute at the time. That visit did a vast amount of good phase, however. Between one I was alleged that men trespas- with the throat out. The ap in order to investigate the claims and grievances of his compatriots, pose that this is merely a passing Stephens and Co., Queen'e Road: mortuary. It was found under-

codating trade, will concertedly offer a sharp reduction of the He was able to persuade the people in South Africs that Indians thing and another Johnson has

neath a bridge on Conduit Road

passenger and freight rates lor had no wish to force admission against the will of the local popala- bron well boomed of late, and sing on the premises were a

their teamers plying between. Tiantain, Chefoo, and Weihaiwali- Parliament a Bill to remedy the grievances of the Indian community, curiously constituted that they and a complaint was made to the mendicant and an opium smoker, tion, and the result is that, there is now before the South African there are always women nuisance on one occasion twenty pearances land the police to the

This reduction is supposed to hem men were found there at night opinion that the man was Is it not poselble for something of the kind to be done in Conado, will follow anything, or anyone,

have been introduced in corseƏ if the matter is treated in a fair and moderate spirit ?

quence of a recent increase Of freakish--for a little time.

police, The men were fined gas and that the case was probably one

ravel costing W

which esch.

of suloide.

threaten to usher in a rate

Found with His Throat Cut,

THE TELEGRAPH'S" ACROSTIC.