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HONGKONG MAGISTRACT A LAPSE.
The case was remanded ja vaihich
THE, MONGKUNG:
THE SERVICE DOLLAR.
THE NAVY LEAGUEÆ A
REPRESENTATION.
The following is accopy of a latter ant the local branch of the Nagy League to the parent organisation in London - confirming and amplifying the telegram
previously dispatched on the subject, of the Service Dollar in Hongkong: J. L Hanno, Eequ
Chinese employé at the Sugar Befin pry was charged with the theft of ss filter Mr. Agassiz is defending, and; plying for a remand, said that the Dan And horne, a good character, and 1. ted bren employed at the Refinery for number of years. Bail was fixed at $5 b CUTE WATCHMAN.
*
When a watchman at Messrs. Hol Ex gudowny saw two endlies wandering ac ar The godowns in the early hours of Friday morning, he became suspicious watched the coolica
and eventually an
them break open a bag of sugar cant ly and take a quantity of the contents,
Each of the men was ordered to spend seven days in gaol.
MAGISTERIAL CLEMENCY
e
Geral Baoretary of the Navy League,
Victoria Street, London, S.W. Antuna September, 1917.
13.
DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15ra, 1917.
WAR CHARITIES.
SUBSCRIPTION LIST NO. 18.
PART. NO.
Trading Society Gande Price & Co
Compradore to Netherlands
50.00
50.00
Chan Fai Yue...
60.00
Yeung King Tong
·50.00
Fung Kong Yuen
50,00
Lêu Tinh Yeung
30.00
and Commercial
Owing to the large number of subscripodistrial an tiong received during the last few weeks the list is published in two parts:
General:
tu be, nh leg to con tru my telegram Charity Fund
dengue
Yan Sing
of the 28th ultimo reading as follows
Hongkong branch. strongly supports application aval Kweng Man Tai and military services for relief from Liang Shih Yi ambearable hardship caused by high
Jale of exchange, which reduces, local Chiu U Tia,.... jay silver currency by over one-third: Yuen Fat Hong Publish this London.newspapers.
In case this question of local currency Kwong Cheong Shing
is not clear to you, I will endeavour to Chan U Ting
plain the prition in this port and
Indeed, in China, generally,
Un Khan Wa
The currency of Hongkong and of Sui Kom China may be said to be the silver or
Mexican dollar, the sterling equivalent The Sincere Co. of which fluctuates from day to day with Chan Mụng Chí the price of silcer, on the London or New
York markets. To illustrate this, please Kung Yuen Hoog nate the following summary of Bar Silver Tong Li Chen... prices and
in a wretched condition, was charge, Silver dolling values of Hongseng Chan Shak Shan
An old Chinese, who appeared zob before Mr. Wood with hawking who t a licence.
The poor old man admitted the charge He added that at one time he was the owner of two large rice junks, and was in a prosperous way of business. Then. in the 1006 typhoon, he lost his two junks of Amoy This left him without any Imoney. For some time past he had brei living with a clasan, and then, way ite was able to eke out existence was by hawking some small things
He was unable to afford n licence
an
Mr. Wood informed thaidefondant Wint he must nu hawk without a licence, and then told him to go away.
Year
Bar Silver in Sterling equivalent, Wang Hing
London. Hongkong Dollar. Yee Kce Hong Highest Lowest. Highest. Lowest. Th, Sun Co.
548
251
3/101 21
3,0 1/111
The Yam Chi Poug Weiling
1880 1800.
132 ...
** 1916...
23-3/16 · 1/loy | He-bjão. During the War the pris) of Bar Silver has steadily increased until today it is 45 and the sterling equivalent of the Hongkong dollar is 3/2.
Mercantile.assistants and Civil servant coming from the homeland baves as a gel eral rule, their salaries fixed in sterling by agreement, and from 1894 to 1915 may be roughly assumed that in fixing these sterling salaries employers have had Jind a dollar having a sterling value
MILITARY MESSENGER'S THEFTS. round about 2). It will be seen that
man whose sterling salary is (say) £300
hi, Trilung . Fung Ping Shar Chau Siu Ki La Che Shap Yu Tak Shing Fuk Tai Cheung Yuen Shing Fat Kwang Mee Shing Tin Wo Shing... Kam Shing Lee Shum Pak Ming Kwong Wing Shing Lo Chap Shan
A messenger employed at the Military er annum bàs, until 1915, been drawing Chun On Fire Ins. Co., Ltd.
Headquarters Office was charged with stealing a quantity of paper, valued at
$7.50.
Bank Ltd. Compradore to Suzuki & Co..... Mok Wing Yue Wan Tun Mo 3,339.38 Fung On Hong
Kwan On Loong 600.00 Man-Shing fling
300.00 Yuen Wo Hong ... Yuen Loong Shing Pc Cheong Chan
INTIMATIONS
LANE
HIVIO
CRAWFORD & Co.
PALL MALL” WHISKY.
11 YEARS OLD.
$30 per case.
NAPIER JOHNSTONE'S
WHISKY.
"OLD SQUARE
UNVARIED FOR 150 YEARS.
$28 per case.
WHITE HORSE CELLAR WHISKY.
Island of Islay and Glenlivet,
$26 p
*⠀ per case,
CLAN MACKENZIE
WHISKY.
OLD MATURED.
$26 per case.
50.00
50.00
50.00
50,00
80.00
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-50:00-
50.00
THE
300.00
80.00
50.00
250.00 Yu Lee Yuen
150,00
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50.00
· 250.00
Kwong Shang Fat Cheung On Fat 250.00 Foo Chan Chai
50.00
50.00
30.00
260.00 Shun Wo Teenng
50.00
250.00
Tak Shing Houg Shing On Hong 250.00 Nam Wo Hong
50.00
50.00
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50.00
Ye Tai Hong
50.00
200,00
Kwong, Yik Loizy
50.00
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50.00
200.00 Wing Shữn Wo
50.00
200.00 Fung Ynea Hing
60,08
200.00 Hing Sking Lee .......
50.00
200.00 Ching Shun Cheong
$0.00
200.00 Kwong Fat Yuen. 200.00 Tai Yau Foong 150.00 Li King Lau
50.00
50.00
80.00
150.00 Po Hing Channg
50.00
160.00 Yee Cheong Loong
20.00
130.00 Lung Loong.
$0.00
150.00 Hing Loong Lan
50.00
150.00 Bo Mun Sbang 9
60.00
son Ya W. Luống
50,00
160.00 South China Ins. Co., Ltd.
60.00
150.00 Kwan Fook Ng.
50.00
150.00 Wong Fa Nung
80,00
150.00 Kwan Fong Kuk
50.00
100.00
100,00
Kun Wo Restaurant Wong Pik Chun
30.00
50.00
100,00
China Merchants S. N. Co.
30.00
100.00
Chau Chenk Fan
50.00
"Whiske
* Young Bui Wong
30.00
100.00 Tong Yan Poo
50.00
100.00 Lam-Yat Hang-
20,00
100.00 Chau Nang Ting
30.00
100.00
Lo Shun Wan
30.00
100.00 Yue Loong Hing Kee
50,00
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30.00
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50.00
100.00L Yum Sun)
30.00
190.00 | Chau Chung Pan
50.00
100.00 Tong Yat Chuen
30.00
100.00 Fook Tai Cheung Kee
50.00
in-00 Awong Sang
50.00
100.00 Tack Lee
50.00
100.00 | Kwong Hip Loong
50.00
30.00
50.00
50,00
50.00
100.00 Tei Yik
50,00
100.00 Cha Shi Horr
GUARANTEED
50,00
On Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
100.00 Lam Wing Ching
450.00
100.00 Pe Tai
50.00
100.00 Wei Hing
50.00
V. D. CLARETS.
100.00 Wing Tock
10.00
100.00 Leung Shok King
50.00
100.00 Sang Lee
50.00
100.00 Sin Sin Che
100.00 Sun Cho. Hing
100.00 Bam Wing Hing
50,00
50.00
Stocked by HONGKONG HOTEL.
50.00
100.00
100.00
Lam Houng Luen
50.00
Obtainable at LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.
100.00
Yu Kwong Cheong
50.00
Yu Pun Nam
50.00
100.00
100.00
B Wong Tape, Comprudore to.
100.00
Robert Dollar Stcanuhip Co.,
100.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
She Po Sham, Hung Tack, Nam Hing Loong, Wing Sang, Ma Yuk Sang Co., Ltd., Ying" Lee, Kwong Wing Cheong, Wuf Loong, Wing Mow Sang,. Dr Kwong Yuen King, Yip Lu Kwong, Wo Cheong and
100.00
Kwok Suet Ting, each 330
100.00
100.00
100.00
a local currency about 3,000 silver dollars. ais man now draws at the current rate Man On Insurance Co., Ltd,
exchange $1,804, a shrinkage in income Hougkong, Kawloon Land and o 81,105, or over 30 per cent At the Loan Co., Ltd An indio watchman said he saw the san time the actual purchasing value Chang Wo Chan ..... amessenger in the Wanchat Post Office of the silver dollar has decreased for the Ki Fung Hong......
and price of practically all local necessarics Wing Fat Hong carrying a bundle of paper, when asked where he had got it from the and, even in the case of things which may zehn replied that he had xinght it from be said to be in the nature of imported Chan Pik Chun a Chinese paper shop. The Watch tu kuries, the high exchange he failed Tat Shun Cheong made the messenger take him to the to compensate for the higher cost of pro Ming Yu Tai and here the shop keeper, denied having duction, freight, etc. In the case of the Shiu Fung Hong
paper, which bore the Gosera-Servicos, where the sterling pay translat-Fu Yik Pang sold the
ed into local currency barely suffices Chiu Chau Bam zens statup
Inspector Sim stated that when the for essentials in normal times, the posi Chan Tin Shan defendant was brought to the station, hetion of the men, both Army and Navy Kwong Sang Yuen (the Inspecust) went to the man's house at the moment is intolerable. Married. and there, upon opening a box, be found men, in order to provide the bare neces-Tung Fat Yuen
quantity of autographie paper, whichsaries of life for their families, are Wing Wo Chan ..
duced to the degradation of accepting was very expensive.
private charity.
Shun Shang Yuen Tsui Tak Lung Ng Yuen Hing Shing Slut Chan Chu Tse Hing Cheong Shing Hong
Capt. Cassell said that the paper was
Representations have been made by the stolen from the clerks office, where à
hends of the Navy and Army to the quantity was kept in stock. The essen Ker had been employed at Headquarters Authorities, His Excellency the Governor ndice for two years. There had toen as communicated to the Secretary of
State, good deal of pilfering of late.
und urgent telegrams bavo The defendant who said that he took been dispatched by the Joint Committees Ahe paper from a waste paper basket. of the Hongkong General Chamber of Tung On Fire Ins Co., Ltd.
was sent to prisen for six weeks with Commerce and the local branch of the Man Wo Hong hard labour.
China Association to the Prime Minister
all without apparent effect The feeling among the Services is in- Laa Si Chuen tense, and I enclove for your information La Yu Fong cuttings from the local Press of corres-Lau Yik Chuck ... pondence and leading articles.
CATO MARCUS PORCIUS
QAESTORI SUO ITERUM.
ad
It appears that I have drawn you
your scaning's grizing better, So I feel I ought to answer you
this morning's latter,
You say that thinly-veiled abuse quite
puts beyond the pale criticism. You, of course, eliminate
the waih
Ua Chi Qi ............. Un Man Chun
Ping Kee Hong
Yan Hing Lung Tung Foo Thi
In 1813 the Hongkong Government, pro Po On Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. aumably with the approval of the Home Man Cheung Yuen Authorities, recognised this hardship caused Hong Yip Co aborto Civil servants by a high dollar and Teung Bai Ngan
granted them the privilege for the future Kam Cheong Hong of drawing 4/5ths of their pay at 1/9 to Fu Kee Hong the dollar and the balance at current rate. It is urged that similar concession should be granted to members of the generally, should be retrospective. I trust you will Un Hang Kiu give the subject-matter of this letter the To Yuen Restaurant very widest publicity, as it appears that Chau Tung Sang only a Press campaign can move the In-Lu Ka Wo... perial Authorities to ordinary acts of Ho Ngok Lan Justice.—I am, dear sir, yours faithfully, Yu Yuk Chi
(Sgdy E. A. M. WILLIAMS
Your mention of the Charter quite misled
me, I admit-
You and it hard explaiding when the
metre will not fit ?
While your subsequent two stanzas seem,
to be the kind of joke we Referred to in our younger theys as just
a cheap tu quoque.
vices stationed in Hongkong and Tai Shing Co
And that any concessions
(Hon. Sec. and Treasurer, Hong-Pang Kwok Bui
Lau Shou Shan Toug kong Branch, The Navy League).
Your crushing peroration, if we clearly MILITARY SERVICE AFTER
think it aut
WAR.
THE
COMMENTS BY A JAPAN PAPER.
Referring to the Hongkong Military Sorvies Ordnance, the Japan Chronicle
Means; "You do not think the same as
1, and there can be no doubt You're placed among those wretched folk,
who bave the insolence To differ from my judgment, and who says ---
therefore have no sense."
Why not admit things squarely and let
the matter pass?
I think that you're a slacker, you're
convinced I am an ass But we'd probably discover, if we met
at someone's house,
That we're two quite normal people, who
love's little grouse,
RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION IN CHINA,
U. ST. GERMANY..
Consequent upon the declaration of war Against Germany and the natural cancel. lation of the treaties and agreements of the two countries, Germany has lost, amongst other things, her; right for the construction of the railway line from Chingmen to fehang. Taking advantage of this opportunity (say the Peking Daily News), the Siems-Carey Company has approached the Ministry of Communi. cations in an endeavour to secure the right for building this time.NE
It was originally stipulated that this company should build railway lines aggre
ating 1,100 miles. The Chu-Ching line anly occupies 700 miles and the Chow Haiang line is of the length of 200 miles only. The balance of 200 miles will thus
be made up by the line from Chingmen to Ichang, which is now being negotiated.
Au Chak Man
Chiu Tat Chuen
A Tack & Co.
Wong Siu Tong Chan King Wan
Fook Wa Banking & Ins. Co.,
Ltd The Ying Lee Co., Ltd. Cheung Sing Bank. As for the Governor's opinion on the Ma Ving. Pui necessity of military service after the war;
Yee Hing it is doubtful whether outside the official Chin Loong claas it receives any support. If is cer Sing On tain that the men fighting in France to Yim Ping Tack erush German militarism will not accept Sui Ket Bank unquestioningly another form of militar. Tai You Bank iam for their own country. From privite Tack. Suen letters and information reaching us from Wing Hing (Bank) time to time, some very strong remarks Li Wing Kwong (Bank) are made by the Volunteers in the New Li Ao Lau
Army who set out to crush militarism as Ming Sun (Bank) represented by Germany only to find that Ming Kee
mimber of British officials propose to Prussianise British institutions."
OFFICIAL CONTROL OF COOLIE RECRUITING.
A Kwai & Co.
Mo Lee............ Chan Cheuk Hing. Tsoi. Wei Foo Sun Choi Loong" Woo Choong Bauk Hongkong Trading Co, Mok Ching Kwong
Since China's entry into the war the Chinese Government finds it necessary to take official cognizance of the emigra Yip Pun tion of conlies to Europe, Mesopotamia, Lai Ching Hin Siberis, and other parts of the world Him Tai where the Allies are in need of labour. Fok To Kai The Ministry of the Interior is preparing, Hung On Co. therefore, to establish official bureaux through which Chinese contract labourers Lau Tak Po may be enlisted. When the system is in Lan lu Chung working order the Chirese Government Ho Int will require that all recruited labour be Ho Kwong secured through the Government bureaux Wong Mow Lam and not through Chinese labour contrac Tam Pak Shiu' tors. It is believed that an official system Compradore to W. E. Loxley of this sort would be a convenience to the & Co.
foreign contractors and also to the conlies, Compradore to Gilman & Co. who would receive a part, at least, of the Compradore to Bank of Tai- profits which now go to middlemen
wan Ltd.
100.00 | Tam Hók Ping 100.00 Dr. Chiu. Hok 100.00 Cheang Wo.... 100.00 Tack Cheung
100.00
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100,00 Chung Fat, Wong Kwok-
Shuen, Lap Kee, The Phar- macy Dispensary, Hing Lev. Ho Cheong Wo, and Tuck Kee, each 25
100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00
100.00 Cheong Li Cho, Compradore
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