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are charmed by their prettiness, and you answer some of theis questions about other lands with statements which in calmer momenta you would revise. Thank goodness you did not discount their proud appreciation of their own state. They have a way of asking what you thought of the various States of America before you find out which State happens to be theirs. That is always the best one. After en evening of typical American hospital Fity (a good brand) you walk down to
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Tu-day's dollar is worth 35, 5,15'18d..
Me: T. Miller, former chief officer of the "Calypso has now rejoined the
lander,"
Chinese woman fell overboard from
Wheb pear One Tree Island, an aged rowing boat and was drowned. 29
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The bill referred to in the follow A special gratuity is to be paid to During last month Was Loan was ing article, it should be clearly under warrant officers, N.0.0.s, and man of the purchased by the Hongkong and stood is simply the amount which Army and Air Force based on length and South China War Savings Associa the damage done and the loss inflicted every man who has joined, either volun-8106,157.20 (Straits Currency) Germany must pay merely to make good nature of services. It will be paid to tion for its members, amounting to on the property of the Allies. There tarily or compulsorily, either of the
The amounts paid in particulars still remains the colossal cost of the forces from Aug. 4, 1914, up to the time of which are set out below, were in- war
of his discharge. It will also be payable Tested in Straits Settlements War reparation and restitution is an ex legatees of next-of-kin of such men as The bill to be paid by Germany for to men already demobilised and to the
Loan at 3 per cent
Although the sue of this Loan is ceedingly difficult caloslation, and must have been killed, such suncunts being this Association has made arrange- now closed in the Straits Settlements necessarily vary, considerably according based on their length of service as fromments to continue to invest in this Sweden shortly wil haya. the largest to the bases of estimate. But sa cne/the time of their enlistmens until the Loss all the moneya received.
who has given some attention to the date of death. The exceptions are as
The membership of the Association question. I. recognise how impossible, it follows
has reached 1,209., 10. is to arrive at any approximato figure as
(a) Conscientious objectors.
Full particulars and application to damages and robberies in the invaded (b) Medically unit who were dis- forms may be obtained from the. territory.
charged within 6 months as unfit to be undersigned... soldiem; and
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The Times of Ceylon" of December 24 karma than the Colombo authorities has not received any news of the missing Kam Chow as yet, which was then 12 days
dect of motor-propelled cargo steamers in the world. The first of her maw first propelled by oil-burning Delsel argines of 4,000-H.P. bas been launched.
the tram. It is a much cleaner, better overdue. tram than Hongkong's, with "trana- fers almost averywhere, and cheaper and eine better. Why should we have to pay twice for that trip to Taikoo Much less trouble to pay 20 cents at the "catset, "and be booked," as it were, right through, which is the Honolulu way.
Space forbids more of this to-day, or a word about the Chinese stores in Honolula might have been added. Well, perhaps some other time.
LLOYD GEORGE & CO., VERY LIMITED.
Lord Robert Cecil has invented a neat formals for dealing with the kind of ques- tio a that it is equally embarrassing to awr ar geurs. The points mind will her be forgotten," he tell his inquisitors.
For Belgium I would put the amount of indemnity at £290,000,000 sterling (of which sum levies on Belgian towns account for something like 3,300 million franes, or £100,000,000 sterling know of another estimate for Belgium. A case of suicide was reported from which is as high as £400,000,000 sterling the Wong Yah Village on the mainlandanda Belgian of rome authority estimates A Chinese woman was found hanging the amount at four millards of franes, or from a ladder in the bedroom. The body £100,000 000 sterling. Taking the aver was removed to the Kowloon Mortuary age between these two estimates, I strive
at the figure £38,000,000 sterling-
France-It is impossible to estimate the loss suffered by France, but consi dering that the war has been waged for
Simple bus jograjena precautions. bare Ir the London Times" tells the bees ken to maidinio the secrecy of the world that the new Cabinet is 'deeply · o dier's vote, saya a political corresponda Ltd disappointing, it is no longer a secret. ent. Ingenious toe wis the suppression of the most part on French territory, and
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(u)The Class W men,, whs were re- leased far civil work, for such time na they bare been on civil work at full rates of civil pay
OVERSEAS SERVICE SCALE. The scale for men who have› Berved overseas is as follows:-
"Privates. £5 for the first year, with | 108. per month in addition after the i first year; corporale, £6, with like ad- dition, sergeants, £8; warrant officers, Class II £12; warrant officers, Clas
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to the enemy to add that Lloyd George is disappointing, that the Elections were disappointing, and that while those who had looked for real progress towarda Reconstruction (as distinct from tinkering) are feeling disappointed now, there is more die-
The Standard Oil Company of Naw appointment. coming in the early by-York. According to a Mokden dispatch. and-by for the select little academy proposes to establish a general For of high-class office-wanters who at Eastern agency at Mokden with a view present are in the first flush of to extending its operations in Manchuria, triumph. Their next flush will be Mongolia and Siberia. another kind, when the people call for a show dow
Then for damage by air maid and bombardment in Great Britain, say, £10,000,000.
titles a privates to £99 and the highest rank of warrant officer to £39.
HOME SERVICE ONLY RATES.
may put the figure at £400,000,000 The firm of Messrs. Harries, the Rumania.-Rumania lest a consider
ftalty-£30,40,000 sterling. principal shipowners in Swanses, Southable quantity of foodstuffs, apart from The sale for the man who has done Wairs, have been fired 22 40 for hot damage to cal wells and to ather pre-home serrics caly is based on the same charged excessive freights on coal to France. The Arra bua also been ordered perty. I should put the figure here at amount for the first year. The addi- to refund 213,000.
£30,000,000.
tions, however, are at the rate of 55. per Serbia-The country is purely agri-month for the subsequent period of ser cultural Fossibly £10,000,000, would vice, making for the 5 years 217 for the cover the amount of Serbia's loss. private and £2 for the warrant officer. Class I. The men who have drawn pay and service pension concurrently art eligible for a lower rate. Those who have done service abroad and have drawn pay and service pension concur Next we come to shipping. losses. Irently will be entitled to the above estimate the loss of ships in figures of amounts for the first year and is. per tonnage at nine million, and, taking the month for subsequent periods. Those average value at £40 a ton, this would who have served at home only and have figure out at £360,000,000. Adding the drawn pay, and service pension concur total value of cargoes a“, say, £180,000,000 we have the total of £540,000,000 for Great Britain alone. The shipping losses of the Allies I estimate at £100,000,000.
This bring the total of the bill against Germany to £1,400,000,000.
Aoyuce going to Canton on Satur- day, without an engagement for the evening, cannot do better than go to see the Canton Amateur Theatrical Society's show in aid of the All: 1 Blinded Sailors and Soldiers.
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These various indemnities amount to £780,00,000.
rantly will be cutitled to an additional 29. 6d. per month after the first year's service. A further announcement will bo made with regard to the Royal Navy and regalar officers of the Royal Navy and the Army.
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Tennyson was a. Victorian. His respect for precedent, as implicated in his often quoted lines about free- dom limping and hobbling and crawl- ing and trickling down imum precedent meats War Loan t% has now been closed to precedent, was right enough then in Singapore, arrangements have been maybe. At least was nearly all felt made whereby the War Savings Association that way in those days. Since then will continue to invest in this War Loan have heard an estimate which places the total at £3,000,000,000, which, like "Grob" of the Arabe, which, gather the world has grown older, and alla money r ceived, until further notice.
my own calculations, is of course, to ed by children and poor people, is at a minority of unadaptable fossils A request was made to Admiral Beatty some extent necessarily hypothetical. bought by millers who grind it into have been gaining experience along to provide a vessel to enable the officers Bat, I would put the figure myself at nutritious meal for stock. Try to with it General Smuts is not a fossil. wives and tamilire to see the surrender of £1,500,000,00% which does not of course, think further of a Mediterranean by, The average man who has reason to the German stip. He thought for awhile, include soy part of the cost of the war. with great swelling curauli rolling mistrust the philosopher and the and replied, "Yes, they drowned our
Calculated on a 3 per cent. basis, post the hill tops, the corallings of
would mean an annual charge on the countless larks, (bless the Chinese that who has proved himself in dec
The Shahr da from Cocbis arrived at German revenue of £90,000,000 sterling. Tea £2,067 6 d., waking a total of The last pre-war Budget presented to directors recommend a dividend of 5 per
of £10,298 125. 8. who imported them in cages, and the It yesterday's telegrama he was
Out of this the humane folk who set them free) the suspected of belonging only to cranks,ad on her way to Corbin encountered the £175,000,000; the estimate for army was with tax, the sum of £4,250 Us. Od., lear. 13
quoted as saying many things hitherto Colombe or December 23. This boat left
Rangoon two days ahead of Kuma Chow the Reichstag showed a revenue of cent, less income tax, which will abeorb; sweet sound of water tambling sugae He talked of Europe being "liquidat al end of the cyclone is the Bay of £53,600,000, great mossy, ferny boulders, and you ed." which is only another way of Bengal. She reports that she found no £21.500,000 total £80,000,000.
the Navy ing to be carried forward, subject to may have a notion of its daytime, calling it hankrupt. Now the Law traces of the Kam Cha
manager's commission, bonus to staff, Eliminating the expenditure on arma etc. 20,048 19 d. beauty. The Oahu day is a beautifulį blonde, and the present writer always
ments, this would allow Germany to pay of Bankruptcy can be very severe The ninth yearly report of Pajam, approximately the interest and sinking HONGKONG is n beutiful place. did prefer brunettes. It is no use upon those who have tried the pre- Limited, presented at the ongual meeting fund on the £1,500,000,000 compensation, Mary people of trate consider it the your trying to visualize those Oahu cedent to precedent method of on December 31 states that the net leaving the balance of revenge, whatever Post bennt ful place in the Far East. nighta, out of the city, up on the saving their solvency.
Anyway, profit for the year autounts to 8963 67, it might be to meet the cass of conduct The island of Ouha, which has heights. There are more stars in General Smüts in his pamphlet ward, $2,291.38, makes 83,183.03, which on her loans, which amounted early in to declare int. divd. Last year 7 pc.
which, with the balance brought foring the empire and paying the interest Honolulu, the capital city of the that sky than in all others pat explicitly warns us against this idol will be carried forward. Hawaiian group, is much more beauti-together, and when the tropic moon atry of precedent.
the present year to 108 thousand million When, in the ful, and the climate is healthier. It comes up out of the edge of ocean, midst of a war they "formed" the Edgar Warwick's Musical Comedy marks, by £5,400,000,000, a sum which she beams kindly on this really-truly parliamentary franchise, they did it Company had another bumper house, of course, been substantially in you can imagine the island of Hong- kong to have as much fint land all Fairyland, Now it is for more in the old way. No wonder the last night, and a good reception. The creased since
There can be no question in my opinion programme was a repetition of the first han colour which appeale Those results are disappointing. For one, with the one or two little amend of the ability of Germany to most this round the base of the Peak and his sinpendous skylines, leaved up stance, it seems, they overlooked the ments that the China Mail asked demand. It is essential that she should neighbours as there is between Row volcanically, and chiselled by wind bye-election farce after Ministre form-for, The players are now on the best meet it. It will meas, of course, that the loon and the hills; it you can think of and weather, with the silhouettes of ation Renter ja just zhrough with of terms with their audiences.
poople who willed the war must bear the our hills sa higher and sharper of such lovely trees all about, would that hoory formula. the ministerial
responsibility,though evenso they would outline, fully clothed with semi-make an atheist feel like praying appointments will canse six bye-elec-received information from Washington to burden which Germany has imposed on British North Borneo Co. for guaranteed
The American Consol General not be paying a farthing of the enormous tropical verdure us is Glenealy, and Down there in the wide, arboreal tions. Why should they? Originally the ter that herafter the War Trade the nations whom she fored to fight to divds is £18,040, repayable after 6 p.c.. marked here and there by tremendous ways of Honolulu's residential parts-the idea was that a Commoner rust Board will issue to licenses for the impor defend the liberties of the world. Any to shareholders. The Chartered Co. now precipices streaked with silvery water a Garden City if ever there was one like a Judge, incorruptible.ation of sugar into the United States how do much we can and ought to exact agree no repayment need be made until falls: then you will have a better young men and maidens stroll or Salaries or profits were not to be too Fugar Eliz tion Bard or its made to tail for it, to grab in the 210,146; write off preliminary expenses vzcept when such shipments are consigued from Germany her people must be sufficient earned to pay 10 p.c. Profit ider of Orhu than you get by going it. Each young man carries a guitar tolerated. It was excellent (fit ashore for two or three hours at or "akulele", and they get together
ground for 1" to use a bomely phrase. 2000; 3,820 forward, leaving £11,984; Honolulu's somewhat dingy harbour in groups and sing the sweetly worked.) Bat they all get wages
It may be that she would have to sus proposed write off remainder preliminary wharver. Even then your mental plaintive, exquisitely poignant me-now. If it be said that a constituency Jobs Bull" "haye that War Offes pond payment of interest on her own expenses by 23,00); forward 21,364. image will come short of the glory of lodies of a dying, raco that has a soul loses a Representative when the man Order has been red probibiting the war loans--I don't say she would re- Jungel Sala-Int. divd. & pc..
Sangei Kapar-Int. divd 73 pc.. Oahu's scenery, as seen, by one who and an ear for good music. Then it sends up is made a Minister, the holding of an inquest upon any soldier. Padiate this obligation. In any case sho bus time to climb her mountaine, It is then that your middle-aged soul answer should be that it really gets the Defence of the Real Act give would have to make good the damage Bukit Rajah No int divd. Last year among the wild plantains, the dull-letle the almost unbearable sweetness more representation than places not the military authorities power to dispense she has done to the civil property of the in this airy fashion with what, after all,.in Allies before considering her bome credi
Tompeh-Revenus for 1816 20,941, of life's possibilities, and wonders honoured. It's man has more pulla vital safeguard against negligence and tora. candle-nut trees, the tree-ferne,
and net profit £6,160 and £1,781 forward, He still has his Libby Vote, plus fout pisy
I may quote a few figures ma to the which carried forward. the ginger, the guava, and the spread how the devil men should be willing
Kuala Kubir-Profit to June 30 23,522, cost of the war in 1830. -
and with sum forward 27,855; to reserve ing "poba", which is simply the to make war Naturally, this leads to freer access to the Floor. However,
Lient, Colin Campbell, formerly of
Germany not to be all fault-finding, there are the Eastern Garage, has returned to indemnity of £200,000,000, and took
exacted from Franco. 42.000; divd-6p.c.; forward £2,529, Adam of the tomato race. You would nothing, and you go down to your men in the now Cabinet who will Shanghai from East Africa, where for territory valued at £84.000.000; total made in case of this company on peti Dental Kelantan.In Companies have to imagine the ring of snow plaster friend's hospitable bungalow have their chance for the next the last seven months he has been in 2264,000,000. The cost of that war to tion of Thomas Barlow and Brother
Winding sp Court compulsory order white surf that marks the reef, the among the pineapples, to bewail the That Sir R S Horne happens charge of the Dalas Balam workshops. Germany, direct and indirect, was KMS-Did pe for year ended long streiches of dazzling bench, the American virtuousness, which debars to be a lawyer will cause prejudice in He expocti to proceed to Vladivostock £114,000,00, leaving her a kaince to the June 30, forward 20,048 folling acres of sugar cane and padia whisky nightcap, and to talk (as it some quarters, but he is more than in the near future, to assist in the British extent of 2100,000.00, The cost of the 30; after payment of deb, and other in- Tebolang-Result for year ended Jung and pine-apple, the tree embowered happened once) very happily of distant that. He is a philosopher, which is motor transport service in Siberia. A war to France was 2131,000,00, which, terest, lens E4j694, p
ity, almost hidden by flamboyantap of trout streamain Scotland, and goedtraining for Minister of The Marios Losarance Companies to provinces made the total of the loss to held Oct. 2 approved scheme of singe Along with the indemnity and the lost Bouth Malay Meeting of deb holders and phim and Booganville Very the way the birka lent over the brown Labour, though some Labourites may Japan are striving to conquer new fields, One cannot say, of course, what the cost shares for five years; also date for repay
France £696,00 60033
ment extending option to convert to tull grow the coco palms by those blue water..." your heart remembers how not see it. There are possibilities, while a number of new concerns have of the war will be to the Allies. It mayment of principal to Dec. 31, 1025; power waters, and when the rys aches with Or, more likely, from Round Top you too, in that able Canadian, Si Hamar boen established. They are making par scent to 21,000 million pounds sterkey to company to redeem on three montba admiration, there is the relief of the stroll down among papayas to the Greenwood, as Home Secretty, Micular efforts to absorb refumrance or more. It is self-evident that Germany notice at Lupe premic and power to
business from America and Europe. It mated at about 10,000 million pounds £35,000 to 200,000.0
whose total wealth beforethaway wasesti company to inteso de amount from thing green of ubiquitous algaroba, city, and pay a lace call at bouse Ballone had perhaps the finest is said tast the Osaka Marine Insurance sterling, would be absolutely unable to Victoria (Malaya). The hot profit was which presents a colour tone like that where two bright American young intellect in England, but he is near Company, the Tokyo Marino Farofuzico meet such a charge in additiod to bet $2481 s. 10d to which ladd 22,420 138.
asb in Springtime. It ladies frighten you with their avidity the age at which the weak points and others have despatched, represent however, to be seen whether, in addition
own heavy war ontley. It remains 17d. brought forward, total $10,001 176. dentally, showers a perpetual for data, cand their very obvious show. The right selection for Foreign atives to the United States to make to meeting the cost of reparation and Lid Lot of production was
beans which feed many,
Secretary would have been H. G. present wealth thereof. You feel wells Which just show, doesn't mans with American under to pay some portion of the war expendi cattle and horses. It is the sugar-full Buorant and ashamed, even while it, that we know nothing about it was in this conuention,
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making credit balance £7,169, and amount repayable for excess profits which directors estimate at £7/00; divd. 10 p.c.; forward £8,152.
Bablas-Report states amonat owing
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'18th. List 19th List 90th List
1st List
22nd List
sid·List 94th List
96,100
Total amount received.
to date
$2,502,110
Tatal amount of Straits Currency
received since last investment, $52,994.60. Previously ac
knowledged, 454,69413 Total. 507,018.72 Total amount of Sterling roce
last investment,
£1,605 18:10
Previously
acknow-
ledged, 12,071 10.0
Total £12,677 19 103
Total amount of Gold Dollary received.
since last investment,
Proviously de
acknowledged 6,835:14 Total & 6,035.74 UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY
OF CANTON, LTD. Hon. Treasurers & Secretaries Hongkong, 10th January, 2019.
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