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A. S. WATSON
& CO., LTD.,
ESTABLISHED 72 YEARS.
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
HIGH-CLASS
WINES.
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THE BONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1913.
ap. This is the kind of thing that has been going on in the Colony during the last few years, and numbers of houses formerly owned by Europeans and let to other Europeans are now owned and occupied by Chinese. What was once regarded as a European reservation half way up the hill slope from the central part of the town is a European reservation no longer, and only a special Ordinuico has saved the Peak from similar invasion. We frequently hear it said by people who have been affected by this inflation of rents that there is little distinction to be drawn between European and Chinese landlords; but we are unable to see what justification there is for saying
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Rents are high unquestionably, but are the landlords-the European landlords -making exorbitant profits! We cannot discover this in the balance shoots of the companies owning house property. The fact is the question is seldom considered by the tenant from the landlord's point of wiew. As the errespondent whose letter appeared in our issue of yesterday specifi- cally mentioned the block of twenty-seven houses known as Bellilios Terrace we may deal with this special esse in illustration of
An unemployed Chinese was infar TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
through falling from an electric tram, and was sent to hospital.
The A.D.C. of Shanghai are producing. the well-known Christmas pantomime,
Dick Whittington and his Cat.”-
fotir
H.M.S...... Hampshire “and the destroyers left Manila yesterday and as due to arrive in Hongkong on Thursday A married womanii, residing at No. 12,
Canton Road, Kowloon, has logt jewellery and money to the value of $485. A thief forced a verandah door open, and stole the articles
An appropriation of Y. 200,000 for naval aviation is included in the draft of the Japanese Badge for the next fiscal year. The amount is twice as large as that voted for this year.
Reuter's Wuchang correspondent reports that several arrests have been made in connection with the new Tungmenhui. It is reported that the men were in posses- sion of bombs and weapons.
A Chipes partner in the Man In import and export firm has reported" "to" the authorities that en various dates betweenTM
(THROUGH REITER'S AGENCY,]
FORMAL ANNEXATION OF CRETE.
KING CONSTANTINE HOISTS THE GREEK- FLAG.
CANEA, December 15th. Crete was annexed by Greece on Saturday morning with great ceremony, King Constantine, accompanied by the Pre- mior, hoisting the Greek flag in the pro- senes of the Consuls, nad rid the tumultuous cheering of crowds of people. A salute of 101 guns was afterwards fired by the Greek Fleet. King Constantine attended a Te Deum at the Cathedral be- tore the ceremony and a thanksgiving service in the Synagogue afterwards.
His Majesty re-sailed for Athens in the vening
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(THROCON REUTER'S AGENCY.) THE FIGHTING IN MEXICO.
REBELS WITHDRAW FROM TAMPICO,
WASHINGTON, December 15th. Rear-Admiral Fleteber cables that the Rebels have withdrawn from Tampico and
have been reinforced. The American that the fighting has consed. The Federals
Navy surgeons are helping at the Military Hospital, where 200 wounded Mexicans are lying.
ASIATIC IMMIGRATION IN AMERICA.
WASHINGTON, December 15th. The Pacific Coast Congressmen have tried to indues the Immigration Com mittee to amend the pending Immigra. REORGANISING TURKISH FORCES,tion Bill in such a way that the literary test, compelling immigrants to be able to read and write some language, does not quality Asiatic for admission, All their efforts failed, however.
THE APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN OFFICERS,
CONSTANTINOPti, December 15th. The Entente Ambassadors have enquired
L'ENTENTE CORDIALE.
GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDO-CHINA
WELCOMED IN HONGKONG.
In full accord with the spirit of Pentente cordiale existing between Great Britain and France, the representative in- Hongkong of H.M. King George yester- day welcomed high officials in the foreign service of President Poincaré, namely, His. Excellency M. Albert Sarraut, rhe Governor-General of Indo-China, with
a small site; and H... Rear-Admiral Calloch de Kerillis. The Governor-
General is shortly leaving the East on 4 visit to France, and availed himself of an opportunity before he leaves, to visit the British Colony of Hongkong.
Yesterday's programme was of the usual formal reception nature. At 8 a.m. a salute of 21 guns from the Mantenim, an which were the Governor and the Rear- Admiral, was replied to with a sirailar salute from the Kowloon battery, and twó hours later H.E. M. Sarraut officially
landed.
our point. Our-borraspondent stated that the 3rd inst, and the 14th inst., á clerk from the Grand Vizier the details and VERY-SUPERIOR. OLD POT WITH month, that rents had more than Joning collected 85,600 on behalf of the firm, and scope of the employment of the German excluded aliens, persons who are unable pier head.
STYLE AND CHARACTER.
WATSON'S
the houses were originally let for $25 a
since, and the tenants had now been notified that a rental of $65 and taxes
absconded,
Whilst on the way from Sham Shui to. Santin, a silversmith is reported to have been stopped by four Indians, and while two of them held him, their comrades busied themselves about his clothing, robbing him of his mangy, and 200 pieces of silverware; valued at $180,
General von Sanders and ten officers..
The Grand Vizier has promised to reply simi-officially to-morrow,
...
The Mission has arrived, the members wearing Turkish uniforms. They were received by the Minister of War at the. railway station.
LATER.
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The Bill, as it studs, classifies as
under the existing law naturalised citizens of the United States. unless otherwise provided for by existing agreements regarding pasaports, or by Conventions that may bercafter
concluded,
Blake Pier, usually bleak-looking, has been generously adorned with large- and stately-looking plants, cows of 'which flanked either side, and a crimson carpet was laid. From the landing place to the M. Sarraut, with his suite, become arrived in a trim little launch flying the French fing and Wue ensign, just before 10 am.. and so soon as he set foot on the pier, a flag-sigualler sent a message across the water and seventeen guns boomed out a deep-throated welcome. On reaching the Pier His Excellency was received by Captain Connolly, A.D.C. to His Excel- leney the Officer Administering the Government, by H.. Major-Geurial Kelly, B., and his staff officers, Captain Kiddle of HM.S. Minotaur, the
General), the Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, Hon. Mr. J. S. Buckmill, K.C. (Attorney-
GREAT BRITAIN AND AERIAL DEFENCE.
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must in future he paid. It will not Per Dozen $29.80 strike the majority of our readers that, as rots go in Hongkong. 365 a mouth- and taxes for a four-room'd house in which the roomis, measure 20ft. x-18ft. is extraordinarily high. Considering their size and situation it can, in fact, hardly be danied that none botter could be found for the money, and were they Chinese-owned, they would probably be let at a much higher figuro. It is many years since those houses education, and seconimended to the Board Sanders as Commander-in-Chief of the Per Dozen $24.30 were lot for $25 a month-it certainly reaches of Education of the late Mancha dynasty Turkish Army Corps at Constantinople already presented an acroplane to the C.M.G. (Director of Public Works), tha
D. SHERRY
SUPERIOR PALE DRY.
Those Wines are specially recommended, being of Superior Vintage, Old, and thoroughly
matured and in fine condition,
back to a time when the exchange value of the dollar was very much better than it is to-day, and it will probably surprise cur correspondent and many others to learn that on the whole the rents of the Belilios Terrace houses are lower to-day than they were ten years ago. We have had an opportunity of seeing a comparative state ment of the rentala of December 1903 and
A. S. WATSON & CO., the present month, and these show that in
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A leading Chinese educator. Wn Tah by name, has lately passed away, to the regret of Chinese educational deen
He heartily, advocated public
eircles.
-measures for putting it into practice.
and the Board fully approved of his proposal
Whilst a Chinese woman, who resides in the new quarters at the Cotton Mills at Causeway Bay, was walking near the mills, two men approached her at the jupetion of Causeway Bay Road. One of them seized her by the throat from behind, while the other snatched her gold bangles, worth a The robbers then ran away in
the direction of Tai Hang Village",
The Grand Vizier to-day will reply to the enquiries of the French and Russian Ambassadors. in reference to the appoint
unt of the German General Limut von
He will say that the appointment was muce at the instance of Mahmond Pasha and Shefket Pasha on the ground that the results of the employment of foreign have proved unsatisfactory. advisers Therefore, it was proposed that foreign officers should enter the Turkish service altogether and receive the actual, com-
LONDON, December 15th. Lord Desborough, the President of the Imperial Air Fleet Committee, which has
New Zealand Government, appeals for Ílon, Mr. H. E. Pollock, K. C., Mr. £10,000 to enable ths Committee to earry on its work of calling the attention of the Empire to the need for aerial defence, and for providing the first units to other Dominions.
MAILS VIA SIBERIA.
COMPLAINTS IN GERMANY.
A. G. M. Fletcher (Private Secretary to the Officer Administering the Govern pet) and many others. The gentlemen present were introduced to His Excellency by M. Gaston Liebert, the French Consul, Immediately facing the pier entrance was a Guard of Honour consisting of one hundred men of the 2nd Batt. D.C.L.F, with their colours and band. As soon a mands. That course had already been
the Governor General, who was attired in adopted in the appointments of Rear-
The postal grievance under which naval uniform, made his appearance, he Admiral Limpus to the command of the British merchants and others interested returned the salute of the Guard, and Navy, and of the English Colonel Hawker in the Far Eastern trade have so long all stood at attention while the band to the command of the Gendarmerie in suffered concerning the Siberian route is played the Marseillaise. In the sunlight, shared by the commercial world of other Honour were proceeding by the ground,
General Sanders authority European countries, says the L. und C. the picture formed by the naval uniforms, when the buffalo attached to the lawn will have limitations, especially as repress. Apparently German traders the scarlet tunics of the military and the have recently renewed their complaints to glistening of gold lace and burnished roller, which was in charge of two men, gards the Straits and the garrisons of the German Post Ofice authorities in bayonets, was a striking one. The Guard took fright and bolted. On it went the City of Constantinople which will be regard to the irritating anomaly by which, of Honour were inspected, after which M. dragging roller and men until it reached the rails on the farther side. The men held on to the ropes and tried to stop the affrighted animal, and they were pulled, bouncing and leaping, across the whole length of the ground.
A very amusing incident occurred yester. day morning at the cricket ground. The Hand of the CLL and the Gund of
Armenia.
under Faik Ber:
THE ENTENTE CORDIALE,
CRITISH FLEET ENTERTAINED AT TOULON.
LONDON, December 15th.
whilst letters to East Asin can be for-
warded in the Siberian Railway, printed Barraut and his party proceeded by master, guous samples, newspapers, etc, motor-car tu Government House, the are still despatched by the sea route, and ceremony having occupied ten minutes are thus subject to saveral weeke unneces-
sary delay in delivery. We learn from aly. The Governor bowed smilingly to German contemporary that a strong desire the large gathering of the general public exists in their circles of trade and as he drove away. industry, and amongst all those interested. in the traffic with East Asia, that this state of things shall be reformed. latest representations on the subject have, was
Within a few minutes of this ceremony,
The II.E. Rear-Admiral Catlock de Kéilli
similarly welcomed, and the
seventeen cases out of twenty-four, one house stands at the same rental, six are a little higher, and no fewer than seventeen. are actually let at less than they were years ago. We may add that our corres pondent was incorrect in saying that a MARRIAGES. JACKSON-SMITH, On the 18th Deceraber, general increase to $65 a month, plus taxes, at St. John's Cathedral, by the Rev. had been been notified; that applies to but a V. H. Copley Movie, M.A., WILLIAM very few. But the point of interest is why, if JACKSON TO GLADYS VIOLET FREDRIKA,
bird daughter of the late HENRY houses were built to let at 325 a mouth HALLADAY SMITH (formerly of Che could they not still be let at the same figure shire, Eng.), and of Mrs. H. Before this question can be answered how SMITH, Auchenflower, Brisbane,
ever, we need to know whether the landlord Queensland,
[1434 BENNETT DAVIES-On December 7th, at obtained any return on his capital by Victoria B.C., CECIL BESSETT, M.D.. lotting them at that figure. Even if he did
The Light Cruiser Squadron of the Port Health Officer, Shanghai, to find it pay him to let at that figure when The Express of Japan had a very rough IBOLINA, only daughter of Captain F. DAVIES, RN. Reserve, and Mrs. they were built, twenty or more years ago passage across the Pacific this time. The British Fleet has arrived at Toulon, Davies, of Shanghai and Surrey,which is extremely doubtful-he certainly worst day was on November 29th. The where a great programme of fetes has England,
could not do so to-day when Government barometer dropped to 28.25, and the seas, been arranged, to last four days. Hongkong Office: 18, Dre Vox ROAD C. requirements are so stringent and repairs to picturesque language, were running crowds to the town, which is decorated according to the log, which is not given Special trains brought in enormous so costly. Our correspondent in his letter
***mountains high." The log mentions sighed for a rent" according to the proper that the wind force was 11," accompanied valuation" of the house. The proper by squalls of hurricane force," which is valuation of a house may be said to be the fact the lagman can more readily grasp, amount which it would cost to replace it if The velocity of the wind varied from 80. it were destroyed by typhoon or fire, and it to 120 miles an hour. The navigators had -FARTHER communications which have may confidently be said that a Balilios great dificulty in keeping the ship up to reached us concerning the matter of high Terrace house could not be built in these the sea, and allthe officers were on duty rentals in Hongkong, referred to in a letter days at a sum which would allow of it being all day.
When people speak of and the leading article we publisbod | [et at 365 a month. yesterday, induce us to further elabo rentals of fifteen or twenty years ago, they rate the subject. One question raised must not forget that the dollar was well Pontius, at present Consul at Dalny, has dos cordial sentiments. in proposing through Siberia are already so fully ed, and at 11a.m., H.E. Vicc-Admiral
Are the landlords as rapacious as
LONDON OFFICE: 191, FLEET STREET, -E.C.
is:
The Daily
Press
HONGKONG. DECEMBER 16TH, 1913.
Several changes are announced in the
American Consular service. Mr. A. W.
who is at present in Peking, has been appointed Consul at Dalny, but will not | proceed there for some little time. The vacant post of Consul at Swatow will be filled by Mr. M. S. Myers, who is at present on home leave.
"
with fings and illuminated occasion.
for
however, so far been unsuccessful, and a communication has been made by the same picturesque procedure was followed.
terms of this announcement the obstacle mental air. Postal Department giving an explanation Big guns boomed good wishes and the of the present situation. According to the band discoursed a lively French regi- The Guard, which in this the to the desired reform is the extra-
the
ordinarily high rates which have to be case was one of fifty men, was again paid to the Chinese Eastern Railway inspected and the Rear-Admiral shortly A banquet was held at the Maritime Company. The repeated efforts made to afterwards joined the Governor-General Prefecture, at which the British Ambas- get this railway to moderate its demanda at Government House, where His Excel have hitherto been a failure. Again
the Officer Administering sador, Sir Francis Bertie was present. recently, the Russian postal administraleney This was followed by a Municipal Ball, tion, has, at the instance of the German Government (the Hon. Claud Severn), Postal Department, taken up negotiations with the company mentioned, but the extended a further welcome to the French failway did not see its way to moderate visiters. its high charges, owing to its extra
Subsequently the party visited the ordinarily heavy working expenses.
at which there were 6,000 guests.
At the banquet, Vice Admiral Choche art and Sir Francis Bertie exchanged
entente
SUFFRAGETTE LEADER AGAIN ARRESTED.
SUFFRAGISTS CREATE A SCENE AT COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.
LONDON, December 15th. Mrs. Pankhurst was rearrested in a train while proceeding from Dover Landon.
Buffragists at Covent Garden Theatre,
It is also stated that the express trains French Consulats. The calls were return loaded that the forwarding of printed Jerram, C.B., H.E. Major-General F. H. matter, etc., by them is at present not Kelly, and Commodore R. H. Anstruther, possible. Nevertheless, adds the com C.M.G., called on H.E. M. Sarraut át munication in question, the Russian postal the French Commulate The two distin- administration has again reopened
THE DIOCESAN GIRLS' SCHOOL BUILDING FUND.
negotiations with the Chinese Eastern gnished visitors subsequently lunched at Railway Company, but the result of these Government House and this concluded the is not yet known. It certainly seems au oficial programme. extraordinary state of affairs that the To-night, Vice-Admiral Jerram gives a
H.M.S. Minotaur, and postal convenience of practically all dance on Europe should thus be made to seriously Wednesday, A dance takes place at suffer from what would appear in com. Government. House, On Thursday the parison a merely trifling obstacle arising official functions will be brought to a from the short-sighted policy of a part close with a dinner party at the French to cular company, and it is to be sincerely Consulate
hoped that higher and stronger influence will be brought to bear in order that these irritating administrative difficulties advantage of the long steel line that now. The Committee of the Diocesan Girls? links together the capitals of furthest School Building Fund beg to acknowledge East and West. From the point of view the donations set out below. Further con of the development of mutually beneficial tributions will be gratefully received by commercs alone, surely this anomaly the Han. Treasurer, Mr. F. B. L. should be at once removed, for all Bowley :- hindrances to rapid and easy communica tion mean smaller trade and smaller revenues, as well as a host of ather need- less disadvantages. As regards the suggested lack of room on the express traine, we hardly think the Siberiar Railway is yet so crowded with traffic that the number of the trains running hak reached the limit of its capacity.
ovor 3 then, nor must they forget that the heen appointed to the post of Consul at toasts, dwelling on the mutual sincerity they are represented F. There are, of course, new building ordinances of the last fifteen Nanking. Mr. G. C. Hanson, who was and cordiality produced by the landlords and landlords, here in Hongkong years, have boras very heavily on owners formerly at Shanghai and is now Vice- cord inte. as everywhere elsa. There are houses in of property, nor that repairs, which are a Consul at Chefoo, will proceed to Dalny Hongkong whose rents have been doubled heavy item on all estates, cost more today to take over temporary charge. Mr. within the past three years; there are many than ever they did. We are quite sure that if C. L. L. Williams, Consul at Swatow, others whose rents have been raised gradu. tenants knew more of the business of their ally for very good reasons. As to the landlords than they do they would more first class of landlords, we explained often hesitate than they do now to rank some time ago how property values were then as rapacious. We have no brief for inflated in Hongkong. Owing to the the landlords, but it must be recognised disturbed conditions in China, Chinese that there are two sides to this question of refugees have flocked into the Colony 2nd house rents as to moat questions. The
The China Mutual Life Insurance Co.. large numbers of them have apparently only remedy, as we pointed out yesterday, is Ltd. has comrienced proceedings for libel remained. Cousquently the pressure on the to be found in more building schemes in the against the Chinese newspaper National rising in their box, addressed their may be overcome and Europe giren full existing house accommodation has been environs of the city of Vetoria and in Herald, published at Shanghai, and one Majesties the King and Queen, who were very great-indeed, and Chinese landlords-Kowloon, and it will be interesting to see Hat Ki-ting who is described as a present, protesting against the re-arrest who, by the way, own probably nine-tenths whether laving regard to the restrictions director of the China United Assurance of Mrs. Pankhurst and the torture of of the house property in Hongkong imposed by the Building Ordmauces, it co The allegation is that on or about have regarded it as. a harvest time. will be possible for four-roomed houses to 1st December defendant, Hsu, falsely be built for European habitation and let and maliciously wrote of and concerning of demand they pressure had little difficulty in obtaining very much at rentals very much lower than those the plaintiffs to one Lee Shan Tung, iu defendants, the highor rents. Then came along the Chinese s ecifically referred to in the foregoing the employ of the brokers in search of house property for comments. The subject is one well worth National Herald, that it had been estab
discussion.
lished by proof in a caen then ponding wealthy Chinese from the mainland, and in
in II.B. M. Supreme Court, that the the last few years, sales of property at
plaintifs had sustained a loss of over extraordinarily high figures must have been very numerous indeed. Having paid a very high price for their property, the new land- lords began to reflect that if they were to obtain a satisfactory interest on the capital they had thus invested, rents u ust ugain go
Under this
There were
'seven cases of plague in the There were four cases of diphtheria, three Colony, last week, five proving fatal, of enteric, and one of puerperal fever. All were Chinese cases except one of the diphtheria cases, this exception being a Filipino..
women. They were promptly ejected.
Several on and women and children were thrown down and slightly hurt by mounted nolice who were dispersing a Suffragette demonstration in a narrow- thoroughfare at Bow,
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THE GERMAN CROWN PRINCE.
BERLIN, December 15th, 1910. The National Herald, it is alleged, Tha 500,000 in buying rubber shares in
It is understood that the Crown Prince falsely and maliciously published the said has been relieved of the Command of the libel in an exticle headed An alarming ist Bodyguard. Hastors at Danzig and case against the China Mutual Co.
wherefore the plaintiffs dain Tls, teen transferred to the General Staff in 50,000, damages,
Ltd.,
Berlin.
The Japanese Government is reported to have decided to appropriate Y.1,300,000 from the Budget surplus towards the cost of laying a cable between, Nagasaki Shanghai The work will be hegnin in January.
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