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CORRESPONDENCE,

The opinions expressed by the Correspondents are not necess- arily those of the "Hongkong Telegraph "I

WEST RIVER COLLISION..

(To the Editor the Hongkong

Polyraphy)

Sir, In your gue of Wadnos day, the 22nd, inat, re the West River collision, I am described as an excitable witness. I admit this fact, but coridoring it was my first time as a wings, and also that it was the first time a mishap has beetrod during my watch on deck for the 25 years during which I havo acted as master, or officer of stormers, as) woll as it being he first time I.. have witnessed an overtaking ateamor collide with the overtaken one at any time I have had charge,

I beg to be exuum-d.

Yours etc.

E. W. JONES,

Chief Ober, "On Lre.'

Hongkong, 24 July, 1914.

TYPHOON WARNING.

The telegram quoted below was reenived by the American Con- sulate General, Hongkong, from tho" Manil v Obscrvatory at 12.30 p.m. yesterday --

Cyclone or Typhoon-S.W, of Bouin Islande, ving N. E. or E. N. E.

Tho telegram quoted below was

· received at 9.15 jem. yesterday -

Cyclone or T phoon :-E. of Bali Chanyol. Direction un- known.

SOUTHERN LEAGUE" FOOTBALL.

New Clubs Elected at the Annual Meeting.

THE HONGKUNG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1914.

SPECIAL CABLES.

(Special Pacifle Service to the Telegraph "-Router.}

TIBETAN PROBLEM.

CHINESE COMMITTEE APPOINTED.

Poking, Received July 24. - President Yuan Shih-kai has appointed the following committee to study and investig the Tibetan "ques tion:hion Neug-bann, Wong Tah-sieh, Li Liang, Pringo Na Yon-to, Uhine Wei-hei, while the Foreign Offline and the Bureau of Tibetan and Mongolian Affaire will such provide two members to co-operate with the committee.

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MONGOLIAN AFFAIRS.

CONFERENCE TO BE HELD.

Paking. Rocoived July 24

The President has actioned the convocation of a Mongolian con arenes to behalf in November at Poking. Many Mongol Princes will atton-1,

CHINESE STUDENTS.

Peking, Received Jaly 24. The Government is selecting eight students from Ohibli for education at a University. Students from other provinces are also being despatched at the Government's exponse.

NEW VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY.

Search for Uncharted Ocean Perils.

Compared withther gatherings of its kind, thin nunmal meeting of the Southern League in London on June 17 was a subdued and The Bomewhat studied affair.

The terms of the letters of proposals that stood in the prie

marque for the new voyage of the of Swindon concerning the profanous ship Diseqvery will shake portion of compensation to be paid all the office stools in the country. to clubs when engaged in Cup Youth will see itself back in the ties, likewise the suggestion that "visiting clubs cald tako u third Elizabethian era, and want to sail

round the world with the British

Antarctic and Oceanographical Expedition,

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

NOTHING CAN EXCEL DUR

DAISY

BRAND

TABLE BUTTER.

IT IS PURE, DELICIOUS AND POSITIVELY THE BEST BRAND

On the Market.

INSIST ON GETTING THE GENUINE ARTICLE.

LANGKAT OUTPUT.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

G.

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The Longkat output for Jana PARTICULARS AND CONDI- was 8683 tons and the averageTIONS of the lotting by Publis diile output was 288 76 thn

Merers. Wright and Hornby advise us that the output for July is :- 1st July.

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263 tons

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2nd

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3rd

204 240

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4th

220

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15th

219

17

77

6:1

223

7th

258

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18th

244

Oth

218

10th

28

11th

181

12th

201

13th

207

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203

71

187

218

228

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204

333 .365

350

3482

316 323

Total to date

Daily average

6,331

263.10

miles Jeep. That place is mar 14th hed on the official chart, but no 15th body knows whether the shoal, if |16th- there, is nearer top now. Vory 17th likely it is thore, a high submerg 18th od summit of the lost contident of 19th Atlantis. Though not dangerous 20th to shipping at such a depth," it 21st would be an important fact to 22nd geographers, and perhaps even to 23rd students of ethnography, to prove 24th its existence. The Discovery is going there.

The Mysterious Isle of Buss.

From the Thames the Discovery will go to the sose between the Shetlands and Iceland, and will It was originally intended that try to fix the mysterious Isle of from time to time since. 1502. this expedition should be only to Buss, which bag been reported the Antarctic. But for several

After leaving Reykiavik the ex- ronning the original programme has been vastly extended; it is now pedition comes south and west. simply Homeric, its scope being looking for Saintbill's Shoal, and

'Ship-Thieving.

Auction Sale, to be held on Tues day, the 4th day of August, 1914, at 3 pati, ar the Ofices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Go-

vernor,

of One Let of Crowni Land below Kennedy Road, in tho

Colony of Hongkong, for a termi

or 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Ront to" be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further

torm of 75 years, *

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below

Registry No.

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"From EUROPE.

THE IIA.L. Steamship

- J'Annual Rect

1,510 | Upset Prize

** HOLSATIA," Capt. E Deimat, having ar rived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their goods sharo of the home club's gate

are being landed and placed at wore turned dows. Before the

their risk in the hazardous and/or election of new clubs to the

extra-hazardous Godowns of the League and the Euggested altern

Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Company. Limited, tion in the rule came up for

whence delivery may be obtained discussion, the right of the man-

against Bills-of-Lading countor- agement committed to vote in

The chief officer of the s.s.signed by the Undorsigned. these matters war challenged first

Optional Cargo will be carried by Mr. J. B. Stansfield, of Nor wich, and next by Mr. Kimber, cothing loss than an exploration sounding round the Titanic, in Mackinaw has reported to the

of the deep sea from Iceland to the neighbourhood of which, car-police the theft from the ship's on unless notice to the contrary of Swindon. Mr. Kimber was below the Crozote, aud from the iously enough, three different stores of 00 fathoms of Manila be given to-day.

Arope and eighteen cargo slings, informed by Mr. W. II. Lawson, Seychelles to Diego Ramirez marinere have reported rock. of Swindon, the chairman,

zigzag course is to be made from the total value being $100. Nova Scotia in Barbados, along that it had always been the round by the east.

If the projected commission, aa

which the charts have many blank areas and mysterious shoalings; then-down the coast of Brazil to

custom for the management

that explained to a Dany Noes ro-

committee to vote, and

if Mr. Kimber desired a change presentative by Mr. Stackhouse,

Me.its commander, can be carried Kimber expressed bis intention out, then the Discovery's next the Pluto, across to God Hope,

he should give notice of it.

Student Robbed,

All claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival hore, after which date they cannot be recognized.

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns and all Goods remaining undel-i

subject to rent.

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A Chinese student living at 18, ivered after the 30th inst, will be and south again to map the Treharris woro tio retiring clubs, voyage of H.M.S. Challengertinent Intoly visited by Dr. of four pieces of clothing valued aged goods must be loft in the

of doing so.

Aberdare un trip will excol the hic constline of the Anta cuis con-

Cochrane Street has reported to the police the theft from his box

at $21.

Hongkong Finance.

which was the most important lawson, putting in islands on the but they did not appear to sup

oceanic survey ever undertaken. port their application. They

The Discovery, is to euil from way only seen about once every half-century. Heading north were, however, chosen to take

vin Madagascar and part in the Second Division again the Thames on Dec. 7 this year subject to an inquiry into their and it was on Dec. 7, 1872, that again

During May. Hongkong's affairs by the management com-the Challenger, under Captain Mauritius, tho Discovery will visit Nares, not out from Sheerneas, tropical islete which previously mittee. Loyton, the now club, were olected on the same. condition, returning to Spithead in May have been only briefly glimpsed, revenue was 3897.18 63 and A bilance while Ebber Vala, a new Welsh 1876, and bringing back with it and then sail throu, the eastern the expenditure $033,818,37. of $3,055,830.52 at the end of club, and Stalybridge Celtic, such a mass of new material for archipelago to Japan and the hero

tho scientists of all sorts that not till North and East Pacific.

mouth, compared with $2,792,477.20 on April 30.

a Lancashire organisation rejected 20 years afterwards were all the recently by the Football League, results of the expedition fully were oleoted unanimously. Thus

worked out.. there are now 19 clubs in the Second Division.

Case for Leyton..

Important Work in Pacific,

"Was

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All broken, chafed, and dam-

Godowns, where they will be ex- amined on the, 30th inst., at 9.30

a.m.

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Shanghai Polo Tournament.

AMONG THE AWARDS ANNOUNCED AT TAISHO EX« "Breakers Seen."

here new routes will be opened,

HIBITION ON FRIDAY MORNING THE 12TH JULY, 1914, WAS Nothing on such a grand scale and there are innumerable islands

The first game of the Shanghai The speeches of the repre has been attempted since, though which have been seen once and Polo Club's tournament, on July

A GOLD MEDAL TO WILKINSON'S TANSAN, WHICH ALSO sentatives of the clubs applying with so many more lives and so never again. Some of the ocean 14, resulted in a win for A team

RECEIVED A GRADE 100 PER CENT IN THE TEST OF" for admission to the League were much more property now afloat, | here has never been sailed within by 5 goals to three over D team. characteristic of candidates in former years, but I must say that and with the opening of new knowledge, and it is possible now Beard was responsible for thres TOLET-NICE FLAT of two MINERAL WATERS CARRIED OUT BY PROFESSOR TAMBA ROOMS, in Kowloon buit- AND PROFESSOR HATTORI. THIS PERCENTAGE WAS team Hiud scored twice and J. locality. Electric Light, Water, was afraid they would fail, but I Canal, a revision of many charts covered.

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From the Eastern Pacific the Ezra picked the ball out of a Bathrooms, Kitchen. Also place TEN DAYS, WHICH PROVED IT TO BE THE PUREST WATER was pleased they will have another

Seamen know that it is not at Discovery goes down to the scrimmage for the other. Ferhaps suitable for shop. Moderate ront.

IN JAPAN. opportunity of satisfying the

all unusual for vessale to strike Antarctic again, coming up to the best bit of individual play, Apply H. Ruttonjeo, Royal Management Commition that they have a chance of estab- uncharted rocks, even on familiar chart the sebe round Cape Horn. says the China Prese, was that of Georgo Hotel.

their coasts, and captains continue to and to explore the deep-water Maxwell at the end of the second lishing themselves, in district. Mr. Stegge, of Millwall, report, "breakers soon" and new channel (nover used because un phukka, when he carried the ball had his double about them, and shoals in seas where it is nobody's charted) along the South Chilian three quarters the length of the business to go and make sure, coast. Then home via the Marfield, past the stands, for a well- aaid that the old club was a

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