From the files.
Looking Back 75 Years
brought to account. What have they said what do they say to the remaining nins hundred and ninety nine? The eager and anxious disavowal of the two errors established a tacit acknowledgment. that ia incon venient, perhaps impolitie to re- fute the rest.
Audit of Colonial Accounts. When public affairs are conduct-- ed, especially as regards money. matters, with the secrecy which so: conspicuously marks the policy of our Colonial Government, we for our part cannot refrain, suspect- ing that such secrecy is assumed as a mask for equivocal expendi- ture. Thus, when we heard that the accounts for the three years. last past were undergoing audit, we for certain reasons; con- cluded that they were the Colonial Accounts, and such, unfortunately asserted them to be. We made use of the name of the gentleman. whom we understood to be ap- pointed the Auditor, which, there being not the slightest nécemity for our doing, we partly deserve a public what we got, namely denial from that officer. It turn ed out that Superintendency, not. the Colonial accounts, were under. A receiving order was made going audit We submit, under against. Puran Chand, who carried the circumstances, our shot was Restaurant, in Des Voeux Road hardly merited the reproach. of on business as the "Excelsior" not very clumsily aimed, and
It was therefore of special in-
Central, at the Bankruptcy Court ignorance" which was attempted on Saturday by the Chief Justice, to be fastened upon us in the re-
joinder we provided. ¿ terest to read in the Press the in- terview with Capt Polte speaking
Mr. J. R. Wood. Applicant was without reason has the Baltic bren on behalf of himself and the others F.M.S., Sir Cecil Clementi, accom, strong, of Messrs. Dencens, who Kong Government.
His Excellency the Governor of represented by Mr. H. J. Arm- one charges against the Hong We have made a thousand and called the brain of "all the seas," who piloted the three big Planes panied by Lady Clementi and the stated that the sole assets consisted occasion and on one other, we were On the above foreign visitor to England who is for indeed the world's sen-borne from Berlin to Shanghai in eleven Misses Clementi, and attended by of furniture and effects. The Official betrayed into error, and were
Mr. H. G. Beverley, aide-de-camp Receiver, Mr.. EL Aggasis, said promptly interested in commercial affairs traffic is largely conducted from days
Obituary. should omit to see such of them as "the Floor," as the immense mar
sad Mr. R. J. Curtis, private secre- there was sufficient assets to justify These planes picked up Mail atory, left Singapore by the night the order being made. visits by non-members.ble hall of this Exchange is called.
Urumchi, This mail brought the mail on Friday, June, 23, on a tour of the world's into the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf Their origin was humble enough, Being the centre
staggering news of the death of Dr. of- tius Malay States and Penang, and Godown Company's godowns at most of them being born in the old freight markets, the Baltic also be- Fisobbicher, one of the above seven, returning to Singapore on the morn Kowloop, where Delivery may be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed, coffee houses in the City, which, by comes, the centre of the grain mar and the. Rev P. Mather. Mr. ing of Saturday, July 29.
Mather had been a good many of at kets, for these two are so intimately his tweny two years in China in Optional Cargo will not be landed here, unless Notice has been given 48 putting subscription-rooms"
In the Singapore Supreme Court
The second circumstance under which our veracity has been im- on from port ta port, jo the final port of tomers with similar interests, re- of each other. The chief
comber of languages met with there and Mr. H. C. Willan, M.C.S., was ad call to which the option erterds.
No Cisims will be admitted after the presented the earliest form of the modities dealt in, then, are freights or greatly esteemed. Though the mitted as an advocate and solicitor peared, who had made his will in
Doctor had only been seven months
which we little expected it, viz, We stated Goods have left the Clodowns, and all English club. There the famous that important item in Great there, he also had made a deep im- of the Supreme Court. Mr. J. H. 1904 and had forgotten the contents. The Friend of China,
pression on the rulera and people Pedlow, moved the petition. He! He went to Somerset House in the that the Government Gazette Ex Tharaday, 29th Jano,ill be subject Lloyds transacted its business in British's invisible exports, tc. Reat.
the early days, as did the Stock Ex- cereals, but the transactions also token of this the Officials pre said there was no objection from hope of finding it filed away, and traordinary had been kept back, sented a burial ground The Plane the Attorney-General. Dr. O. H. quite unaware that a will cannot to afford the Government printer All brokra, chafed, and damaged change when, in the eighteenth include oil, ships, etc.
that turned back with an Official, Withers Payne, who appeared on
be offered for probate until after the exclusive. advantage of it, for Goods are to be left in the Godowns,
Un- his own newspaper. The Friend The membership of the Baltic in Spally came on to the coast, and the behalf of the ar Committee, made the death of the testator. where they will be examiad on Weddes century the original Royal Ex- day, 28th June, at 10 am, by our change could no longer accom- the old days was 250, but now its mail it brought was only four days no objection and his lordship grant-dhunted when informed that he affirms this could not be, be- Cause Admiral Seymour's des would never be able to read his own A journey in the pre-plane ed the application. Burveyors,
Mears. Goddard & Douglas.
patch will, he insisted upon reading some Gazette Extraordinary bore the as given in. the... said To comply with the General Bonded modate the growing business activi, membership is over 2,000, and in days of two months, Warehouse Regulations, consignees must ties of the City. That most cosmo-cludes business men of all nationali
Very beautiful goods, needlework, one else's in order to have some
the date as
Gazetio toys and many other things, were
return for the expenditure of his itself, viz, 28th of January. We when damaged dutiable goods are politan of all London's Exchanges, ties. The facilities of the Baltic
offered for sale yesterday and shilling.
happen to know however that fate Saturday, when the Rey. Mother
that night delivery of the Gazette All Claims must reach us before the the Baltic, which was founded more are so comprehensive that, to quote than 200 years ago, originated in from the interesting work on "The
Superior and sisters of the French The return to Singapore of Bev: Extraordinary, was refused, or in two coffee houses called "respective Exchange of London" by S.W.
Convent, Causeway Bay, held their Dr. Edwin Lee, Bishop of the other words its issue was suppress- Dowling, it is possible for a mem
ed, for selfish and sinister purpose annual sale of work. The event was Methodist Episcopal Church of the until the day after the date of the the Jerusalem and the Vir ber to go to one part of the ginia and Baltic, taking their Floor to buy grain, to another to
well attended by members of the Malaysia Philippines area, after a
As the third circumstan- paper. charter a ship, to yet another to.
Catholic community, and brisk prolonged visit to America, was the co emanates from the Register, it names because they were mainly
arrange insurance, and finally to
business was done at the stalla, l'occasion of a largely attended recep- is for many reasons patent to the frequented by merchants trading sell and take the profit without hav
practically all the goods offered tion accorded to him at Wesley Hall, public heneath contempt. with, the near East, America and ing left the floor." The grain
being disposed of,
on June 17, by members of congre- We beg to repeat, that Govern- dealt in at the Baltic is of foreign
gations of the Methodist churches mant Notification No. 13 is a de......... the Baltic ports
growth, dealings in home-grown
A German correspondent writes in Singapore and friends of the levy a tax of 8 per cent. upon all termination of the Governor to In the old days much of the Bal coreals being confined to another
DERBY, W. AUSTRALIA, June 24. -
to correct an error concerning the Bishop and Mrs. Lee. The hall was property in this Colony liable to bie business was transacted in the Exchange, the Corn Exchange..
THE Australian airman, Mr. O.T. description of Herr Loebe, who was crowded and light refreshments police assessment, but whether for Strangely enough, samples of the P. Ulm, who accompanied Sir recently placed under arrest, as were served. In the course of the police or other purposes is neither section of the Royal Exchange goods offered for sale at the Baltic Charles Kingsford Smith in 1928 formerly German Reichs Presi evening the Rev Abel Eklund briefly distinctly set forth nor most re- known as Baltic Walk," but by cannot be seen there. Another on his America Australis fight, dent." There have been in Ger-voiced the sentiments of the gather motely hinted at. It must afford the year, 1810 business had expand peculiarity is that all transactions took off at 11.85 a.m. yesterday, in many only, two Reiche Presidents ing and expressed the pleasure of the Governor exquisite delight, to ed so enormously that the Baltic are by word of mouth, written son an attempt to ay to England in the late Herr Ebert and Field all in welcoming Bishop and Mrs observe the Register taking up the
trace never appearing at the Bal-five or six days,
cudgels for him on the estimates. was forced to transfer its activities tic, and it is a proof of the inherent His first stop will probably be Loebe was formerly President of the in America on behalf of the needs with them yet. It will be his turn Marshal von Hindenburg. Hort Lee back after their arduous work We are far from having finished to larger premises, moving into a bonesty of the Englishman as trader | Singapore:
that scarely ever does a dispute The plane carries morew of three. German Reichstag and is the leader of the mission field in the East, ere long w opins to ejaculate HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. building in Threadneedle Street. arised which. cannot be easily Mr. Ulm previously new ton-stop of the German Social Democratic the full benefit of which could not emphatically: "Bave me from auch
A high official of the Chief Pro- bate Registry at Bomerset can tell some amusing stories of the queer characters who go there to read the wills of their ancestors. Recently,
hours prior to vessel's arrival, but carried the disposal of groups of their cus-connected as to be the complement that far off corner, he knew a num on June 17, before Mr. Justice Mns for instance, an elderly man appugned came from a source from
Cloods remaining undelivered after the
have a Revenue Officer in attendanes
examined. -
Thursday, 20th July, 1938, or they will not be recognised.
No Insurance will be effected.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
JEBSEN 00.,
Agente.
Hong Kong, 22nd June, 1883.
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