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FRIDAY, JANUARY 26 1906.
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CHINESH NAW" YWAN'S DAY,
H. E. SIR MATTHEW NATHAN VISITE THE BAZAAR.
JURE TOPICS.
agth January, On Chinese New Year morning, owners exercised their ponies on the inner track and some pleasing gallops were witnessed. The results are
The Qualch and The Skirt, former 'rm,, 2.12, the derby griffin finished first. joined by iba latter im., 2, 37, 1,10 2/5, 14t
2/5.
H.E. the Governor's "Melinite, im., 35, 1.06.
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Nugget and Forward, two quarters $32, trot ted round Another quarter 33.
Drogheda (Gresian up) ¿m, 32, Red Herring, fm...34 2/5, 1:09, 2/5, 1.41 4/5. Halcyon Day and Promised Lund, um, 39, 1.16, 1.52 3/5, 2,27.
H.E, the Governor's Aconite and Shimesaite,
of the Government official's prejudice against Tus cruiset, King' Alfred, the command of rush and hurry ?. It isn't as if the Civil Ser- which has just been taken up by Captain C. F. vant proposed to pay spot cash; he makes Thursby, will be completed to fall strength of it clear that a monthly account must be ar-crow-gau of all ranke, including the flag ranged. By this second schieme, the Civil Bagship of the China Squadron. The flagship,
officered staff-ai Portsmouth on 2nd inst.
The clanging of improvised cymbals, this Servants-hope to enjoy all the advantages of with Vice-Admiral Sir A. W. Moore on board, beating of gongs, the screeching of pipes, and a co-operative society without having to pay will leave for the East shortly,
The yeiling, shouting and clamour of excited for the store, the manager, the distributing The Chambers of Commerce of Kobe, Osaka, Yesterday it was a monument of the dead. A cheapjacks have ceased in Bonham Strand staff, tlie administration, or the insurance on
Kyoto, and Nagoya propose to hold an exhibi- street which had been crammed with rickaity goods brought from the ends of the earth. tion in sore town of Manchuria for the educa stalls, swaying with the heavings of a crowd And we can fancy the lordly disdain with tion of native traders. The project has the which packed itself like herrings together only which the aristocrats among Government support of the Government, which promises Civil Servants would condescend to unbend subsidy towards expenses. "There is a build forgotten. Jervois Street, the happy haunt of the previous evening, was now deserted and before the shopkeeper, who humbly begged Mukden well-fitted for the purpose, and the ne'er-do-weel, the loafer, and the thief had
the exhibition will probably be held there. to receive their commands. The shopkeeper
assumed a funereal aspect. The silence of the who even made an offer under such condi. A STREL. Screw teamer bail to the order of echoing away and beyond-for Jervois Sweet
tomb was over it. People heard their whispers | On the 19th January, at Shanghai, the wife. tions, would be branded as a 'traitor to his the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, was in sack-cloth and aston-particularly, 32, 105 3/5-"
MARRIAGE
class. Surely, it is self-evident that he would London, for their service on the China 'coast,
ashes. On Wednesday night there was hardly: was recently launched by Hall, Russell and On the 19th January, at Shanghai, GEORGE B., eldest son of George Boyers, Castor, Linduced his tariff for them to the ramme type, and of about 2,roo tons gross regiater: slowly and with much dignity through the lose all his regular customers, unless bee-Ca., Aberdeen. The vessel is of the spar-deck breathing room in that planer of the city. The Chinese, in their gayest apparel, meandered colnshire, to ALICE JANE, daughter of the late level as that "enjoyed by the bon ton She will be supplied by the builders with triple devious routes fined by halardashery, tin-pot, John Watson, of Shanghai,
amorig. Civil Servants. Then where would expansion engines to indicate 1,600 h.p, and oleograph and gimcrack, stails. It was On the 19th January, at Shanghai, FRIED- the co-operative society come in? The steel boiler fitted with forced tranght. She the last night of the bazaar. The bazaar RICH NEKING Boogi, Secretary' of the Club Concordia, aged 66 years.
circular
is named the Chif:Shing, received dogmatically urged
people went nearly frantic as midnight and reiterated the fact that the society would With her homeward bound pennant flung to approached. Everything had to be cleared be confined to Government servants. Alas! the breeze the battleship Oregon will leave away before New Year's Day, or as soon as pos-
servants "gang äft agley," and we might all And ourselves claiming to be Government servants in the near future,, should the co operative society come into existence. The coolie who carries bricks to build a Govern ment bungalow, or sweeps the garden at the Peak for the children of impecunious taipans,
DEATH.
we
Che Hongkong Gelegraph even, schemes formulated by Government Manila.ca rouse to Puget Sound February 10. sible after the witching hour had tolled. The
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1906.
UNLARNED INCREMENT: FOR GÖVERNMENT SERVANTS,
On several occasions recently we have
animadverted on the hard tot of the juniors
or pulls the punkah over the hard-worked
in the Government. Civil Service, Every-official might all call themselves Goverment
She will first call at Hongkong and be docked stall-keepers hung on to each and every passer- preparatory to her long trip across the Pacific. by, flaunted wonderful articles in his face and On arrival at Puget Sound she will be placed turned green in the gills in their efforts to ob- out of commission and undergo extensive retain a sale. Articles that had been resolutely pairs, and will be prac.ically re-madeled in
held back for higher prices went for a sung in, order to bring her up to the standard of the the late hours. A ten-dollar piece of linsel fatest type of battleship,
disappeared for ten cents. The cheapjacks had cherished household gods. For once in a way a fit every five minutes as they parted with their
man who bows and cringes to the shopkeeper the buyer was worth conciliating. The ordinary.
attention, was supreme lord of the universe. He handled the goods in the most supercilious way, tolerated with fine phlegm the rabid ratio-
chase. cination of the denter, and went off satis pur
body who has given a moment's considera servants-and why not? If they can get agn- The Chinese dennoded to be discharged and pleads for a moment's «hearing, a second's
tion to their position, the meagre salaries on which they are expected to rear families, educate their children, live decently and bear an outward appearance of respectability --Salaries which start at anything between $20 and $30 a month and attain the magni- feat height of $150 or $180 after 40 years syntinuous service and unbesmirched char- acle on the part of the junior-must com- miserate them in their struggle for existence. hese are the people who have no voice in de- partmental aflaus, Buf lake the Government servants of a higher grade, the covenanted med; they are not backward in devising schemes for their own benefit; they know A. S. WATSON & CO., [ues way about. Some time ago a sugges. tim was made by these officials of a larger growth to start a co-operative society in Hongkong. They met wird discussed the CHEMISTS, DRUGOISTS, PERFUMERS, de, and now they have reached the stage
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their picul of rice a little cheaper by all means let them have it. The whole question have too long fraternised on equal terms comes to this: the Government servants with the canaille of unollicialdom, now, there is to be a distinction, and naturally the dis- tinction is to be in favour of the Govern ment servants. No matter if the ordinary age-carer helps to maintain the Colony no matter if the reduction granted to the Government servants eventually comes out of the pockets of the plain citizen-the latter can look out for himself and the Government servants, will reap whatever benefits he can derive from such an unequal and unfair site of things. Both schemes have "squeeze" stamped all over them, and we wish both of glorious end in the deepest depths of the Pacific. In conclusion, we would be
interested to learn why the circular calling
when it is simply a matter of deciding which on Governan servants to state, their of two schemes shall be adopted. We have
views on this subject is issued from the office received a circular on the subject; this cir-
of the Sanitary Board? What has the Sani- cular is being distributed among the Govern
SOIL? for one or other of the two suggestions.sanitary inspectors. to keep an eye on "i" intended to appoint special The first scheme "comprises the raising of the comestibles supplied exclusively. money by means of shares transferable and for the use of Government servants ? withdrawable, and the establishment of a It would be interesting to know, also, who store, with a manager and distributing staff, pays for the paper on which these circulars goods being imported from England, Austra; are printed It is certainly Government lia, etc., and supplied to members at current paper; does the Government pay for the prices which would cover the expense private fads and fancies of the departmental of administration, insurance, and so on." staffs, and of the Sanitary Board, staff in 10, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL."It reads like a Whiteley's prospectus A particular?
LIQUEURS
FROM
store, a manager, a distributing staff, with goods imported from England Australia, Fiji and Tobulsk-it is clear that the ori-. ginator of the scheme is nuthing if not am bitious. At a first glance it might be thought the resident Civil Servant, the man with. small salary and large wants, might possibly benefit from this schemic. The condition of membership, however, dispels that illusion
Every member must take up at least one $20 transferable share, and may take any number of withdrawable shares which the
LOCAL AND GENERAL
"
The Japan Chronicle, of 28th inst., says: --The now lying at Moji, went on strike a few days Chinese "ciew of the German steamer Anna,
set they might go home for the Chinese New Year festivities, and refused to go to Vladivostok, om-account of the disturbed con. terms of service, under Birisishah pping law, is ditions there. They her contend that their six months, and as they joined the ship at Singapore they claim that port. The captain of the steamer maintains that they are subject ja Gman law, which stipulates the term.ni seamen's service at 18 months. The police at
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HONGKONG AGÓG, All Hongkong seemned to be at the bazaar on the threshold of their own doors after nightfall Wednesday night. People who never cross
during the rest of the year were squeezing Moj have been requested by the captain to dariously through the conglomerate mob of intervene in the matter.
bargain
atterdemalion coolics and representatives, of the Peak aristocracy Gentle ladies and dames THE optimism that was engendered by the of high degree shoved and jostled in the most North Borneo dinner, and the statements re-brazen fashion, like suburbanites at a specting the minerals, was accentuated at the sale, and the bazaar, after all, was full of bar meeting of shareholders on aoth ult, says the gains; also, remnants. At one, period of the J. & C. Express, Sir Charles Jessel read evening Jervois Street was impassable. The frote reports as to the prospects of the man crowd sinod stock still. Old footballers from ganese, iron ore, and coal, which certainty the Kowloon ducks tried forcing tactics, but they isted hitherts. The single extensive planting jammed and amalgamated as if glued to contain germs of greater hope than have ex- had forgotten the old tricks." The spectators fuct-tobacco-is likely to he superseded gether. A stall moved along sideways, is it
and agricultural products the prospects of the ceased for a time. In some places the stalls Lin a few years by rubber. . Between, mineral following an unseen 'mignet and the pressure
Chartered Company seem to be more hopeful on either side of the road were not these yards than they have been for years. These cater-apart and, of course, the spectators wanted to
emmann additional labour. and each walk four, abreasi. mon is worth so much a head to the revenues.
PIKE IN HONGKONG.
Shortly after nine o'clock last night, fire which runs in between Connaught Read broke out in the premises in Sutherland Street West and Queen's Road West-pccupied by
the Salt Fish Guild. The fire attacked a
quantity of bamboo poles and timber stored in the yard, with the result that in a very short tithe there was a big Blaze. A telephone message was sent to the Central Police Station, and the Fire Brigade, under superintendent Baker, was speedily on the scene. There was a plentiful supply of water and the flamer, werd completely extinguished after an hour's work
mulpa for home, THE French Minister to Corea has left Che-by the firemen. The origin of the outbreak
French Mail of the 25th December was delivered in London on the 24th instant.
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H, M. surveying ship Rambler is expected to leave Bernto at the end of the present month for Hongkong.
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is unknown. "The damage is estimated at between $400 and $500,
HOSPITAL SUNDAY,
COLLECTIONS AT HONGKONG CHURCHES.
The following contributions have been receiv. by the hon, treasurer of the Alice Memorini
His Excellency, Sir Matthew Nathan was in the thick of the crowd, piloting, a lady through the crust. The Governor had to fight his way along with, the rest, taking occasional recognised His Excellency, and fewer would breathing spells at the side stalls. Very few have known that he was there, had it hot been crown on their sleeves. They formed a sort of for his scarlet-coated chair coolies, sporting the
imitation bodyguard—a long way behind His Excellency. Some few sightseers tried to get' glimpse of the Governor, but in rather less than no time he had been swallowed up in the swarm of people,
...."LIKE THE ARABS." the scene lind changed. It was a marvellous Before one o'clock in the morning had struck,
metamorphosis, The rickle of bambon poles and dirty cotton, which had done duty for awnings over the stalls had been whisked away, Ppts, pans, curios and platters, socks and oleo. graphs disappeared with a suddenness that took one's breath away. It'was all over in a few minutes. The Chinese stallholders folded their tents like the Arabs, and as silently stole away. Nothing remained but the flotsam and
committee will offer as capital is required. Jeft London on 22nd ult, with the following and Nethersole Hospitals as the result of the jefsam of the fair. When morning dawned no!
Interest will be paid on all shates. All net profits are divisible among members in pro portion in their purchases. Liability will be limited to the amount of shares held." Where is the junior clerk, earning the prince ly salary, after a dozen years' pen-driving of $50 or $80 a month, who can produce the
MARIE BRIZARD & ROGER,cessary $20 without another thought? So
BORDEAUX,
THE
AWARDS:
HIGHEST
THE P. and O. Company's steamer Moldauteed specie for Hongkong:-Coin silver, £3.257.
THERE will be po Band at the Hongkong Hotel during dinner to-morrow, 27th instant, the RW.K. Band will be playing at the Scatch
Conceit,
MR. G. Kozakoff, lately Acting First Sectly
of the Russian Legation at Peking, has arrived at Tokio to take charge of the Russian. Lega-
we come to the conclusion that the first scheme is intended to benefit the higher-tion there. paid branches of the service, and we are in- formed that there are between 50 and 300 instead of coming to the China Station, as was at IT now, seems the first-class cruiser Kept who would certainly take advantage of the rst spoken of, will go to the Cape Station as scheme if it be adopted. „The manager, dis-Bagship of the squadron there. tributing staff, elc., ad lib., who have to
ashore off Bate Point.
Hospital Sunday collections St. John's Cathedral Union Church-
........180 00 159.66. váním 77.00
To Tiai Church........... St. Peter's Church (half offectory) Basel Mission Churches
St. Stephen's Church.... Volunteer Camp Service Wesleyan Church, Wanchai Wesleyan Chinese Church
Peak Church......... Baptist Chinese Church Rhenish Mission Church...................... Cheung Chansunderes Holy Trinity Chuch, Kowloon ... Cerman Chapel.....................
a soul was to be seen in what had been the liveliest street in Hongkong a few hours earlier. CANNON ALI. ROUND THEM. Yesterday was devoted to ceremonial visits 39.01 among the Chinese, and to the exploding of 37:35 crackers, All day long the squibs and cannon 3030 30.25 and crackers uitled and roared and banged 29.70 from one end of the town to the other, 25 23 In places, visitors were wading ankle-deep 14 20 through the lord red paper which had 7.20 enveloped the fireworks. The West end of the 5.00 city looked as if it had snowed red for a fortnight.
NOT FOR HONGKONG."
14.00
1
4.20 4.00
..$100
The following donations to the fund's of the their enforced holiday quietly. They had not The European section of the population took Hospitals have also been made: Zoroastrian Charity Fund... E. E. A. & 1. Telegraph Co. Lid... Yokohama Specie Bank Osaka Shasen Kaisha......... Alex Ross & Co. Stewart Bros.........
A. S. Watson & Co, Ltd..... Java China Japan Lija B, Wicking, & Co
auls Wegener & Co,
F. Caske McGregor Bros. & Gow 4 mmmpar Elis Kadoori
vaivaitgesnismake
A ToxIO telegram to the N. C. D). Netbs says: The relations between the Selyukai and the Progressives are becoming strained. The SL. rural representatives are increasing in num
ber,
cater for that number will unquestionably THE str. Alla, which arrived at Shanghai hom. have a sinecure, but how the rent of the Hankow on 19th inst, reports that on the 18th store is to be paid we cannot conceive, instant at 9.45 pm, she passed a large steamer That is the first scheme, but the alternative is, in vulgar parlance, a "caution." It pro- poses to invite localtradesmen to discriminate between their regulat, and old-time customers and the Government Civil Servants, in Tavour of the latter. The scheme reads: “Scheme B comprises the 'drawing up of a
THE Perak Chinese have forwarded to the price list of articles most in use, at current Viceroy of Canton a sum of $13,500 in aid of rates, and then the calling for tenders from the Reform movement in China, Lowkay all local tradesmen as to what discount they Foo Chao Chun contributed $1,000 of U would be prepared to give of the monthly. anicun', accounts of members in respect of the item | THEN, C..D, News is informed by the general so specified." It would be complimentary managers of the Laon Kong Mow Collon to call this unblushing effrontery. Why Spinning and Weaving Company that the should well-paid Government servants get a balance at the credit of profit and loss accoust EXHIBITED. reduction on their goods and not the or
for 1905 amounts to Tis. 173,685,728, out of dinary householder who has to work hard dividend of Tis. Boo per share, which will which the Board recommend a payment of a all day for what he earns, under the stern absorb Tla 57,264.00. [36–9) | eye of a talpan, who, it may be, has none cogals will be published in a few days,
The report and
WHEREVER
gkong, 12th july, ago,
A. Chariton & Co. tamemnune à merveimaran
CORINTHIAN YACHT CLUB.
25.
the energy to enjoy themselves after deafening themselves in Pandemonium on Wednesday 50 night, and re-enacting the Balaclava charge. They might have taken a leaf from Singapore's book. In the southen Settlement a fancy dress 25 ball was organised for the Chinese New Year 25 holidays, but we do not attempt to reach such 25heights. Besides we have had nothing but balls for a month or more, `And a marquerade is not quite proper, or, at least, genteel.
HOCKEY
HOCKEY CLUB v. 129TH BALUCHIS, On the Hockey Club ground, at Happy At 3 pm, to-morrow Mrs. Francis Clark, wife Valley, yesterday afternoon, a friendly game of lion. Dr. Francis Clark, Commodore of the was played between the above teams. A very hong Corinthian Yacht Club, which is situated one after another. But the Indians, who are Club, hai kindly, consented to open the Hong, good match was seen, and, both teams scored on the Praya, East, just west of No.,a Police invincible in the hockey field, won by five goals Station.
to four, the Club putting up a fine game. After the opening ceremony Mrs. Clark will || | present, to Mr. Hands, captain of the Asthoria These two teams met on the Hockey Club
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fat, being the cup presented for competition Valley. Another even game was played in the crew, the cup won by that yacht on Sunday ground, on Wednesday afternoon, at the Happy by the Commodore. Ladies and members of { first half, but the soldiers who played a better the Club are cordially fovited to this function, | game in the next half-won by 4:19 3:
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Sirocco, a quailors 31 4/5, trotted round; next quarter 33 5/5.
Sundial (blanket) Įmi, 32.2/5. Zapeter, jm, 37, 117.. "Gaberlunzie, m,, joined by Peebles, rm.,?, 34, 1.07, 1.44, 2.19 3/5-
Spring Chicken and Mikosh, IM, 34 2/51 1,08 2/5, 1,42 1/5.
Velocity and Rabbit, m., 33 1/5, 1,08
1.42 1/5.
...
New Boy, m, 34 2/5, 1.97 4/5, 1.40'; stóndy. Pilot, im, 35, 18. Diadem and Rising Sun, 4 m., 32 4/5, 1.05 4/5, 1.40. (Diadem) and Rising Sun 1.403/5.
26th January, This morning a number of ponies wäre seen on the course for quarters only; the only ones deserving of mention me, Wakelya's, Glorious Sun's, and limalaya Reso's quarters in 29 2/5
EARLY BIRD.
25th January.
There was quite a number of sportsmen al the course on Chinese New Year morning to
witness the gallops of a few ponies that were not put to work on the previous day. The morning was warm. The "times" taken were as under:
Mr. W. A. Cruickshank's New Boy, three- quarters of a mile, 35, 1.8, 1.40, Just quarter 318. Mr. J. Meier's Filot, half a mile, (Gegg up),
35, 3.8
Mr. E: W. Mitchell's Zapeter, half a mile. (Gegg up), 36, 1.10.
As
Mr. D. Dorabjce's Diadein. and Mr. S. H. Michael's Rising Sun, three-quarters of a mile, 32 1.0, 1.40. These two galloped together
companion. and Diadem won somewhat easily against his
Messis. T. F. Hough and R. Shewan's The Quan did us and a quarter mile. They coursed the last three quarters in good style. the last mile being 2.16, the last three-quarters 1:40, and the last quarter 3jsec.
Mikosh, three-quarters of a mile, 34, 1.2, 4.454, Mikosh's part last quarter 338, a very bad performance of
THE RIDING Bay. -
FARNHAM, BOFD & CO.
Mr. Cruickshank's Spring Chicken and
A FUNBLAST Wajah PROVED CORRECT, On the day prior to the extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders in Mesara, S. C. Farnham, Boyd & Co, the M.C. Daily News affairs, and forecasted the composition of the published a short comment on the position of
new directorate. The following is the reference made by our contemporary to this subject:
To-morrow, an extraordinary meeting of the above Company will be held at the head office. The object is to propose and pass some important resolutions, relating to the liquidation and reorganisation of the present company. The shareholders for some considerable time past have felt that they should be represented. John 'rentice as Chairman and Managing on the Board. The present Directors, with Mr.
Director, fully realise that this desire is quite reasonable, and they have intimated to the shareholders their willingness to meat their wishes.
We do not propose to recapitulate the past history of the Company, but it is a well-known fact that the interests of the shareholders have not been considered in the way they should have, during the reign of Mr. Twentyman. Since he has retired, the whole scene is changed, and the gentleman who is now the Managing Director has the full confidence of the share- holders and public. It is a matter for con gratulation that such is the case, and we feel sure that the successful working of the premier Dock Company is of the most consequence, either directly or indirectly, not only to the shareholders, but to everyone who is com. inercially interested in Shaoghai.
the present Buard will meet the shareholders We hear on good authority, that to-morrow in a perfectly friendly manner.
The notice convening the meeting contains a resolution that the name of the Company shall be changed to the Shanghai Dock Company, Limited. To our mind there is not the slightest in Shanghai, the Company should bear the doubt that, as the largest concern of its kind
Dame of the place.
With regard to the new Board, we under- stand that Mr. Prentice will continue at Chair- man and
Managing Director, and Messrs. H. alor directors of the present Board) also will von Rücker and B. Groundwater (the two se- remain on the directorate, and they will be joined, if the shareholders agree, by Sir Char les Dudgeon, Messrs. W. J. Gresson, A. Korff, and James Johnston. The names of these gentlemen are sufficient to guarantee the future success of the Company. The shareholders should be well satisfied that, besides having the services and experience of Mr. Prentice and his two co-directors, they have, in addi tion, four such influential names put before- on the proposed new Board.. them as those of the gentlemen willing to surve
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SHIPPING AND MAILS:
MAILS DUE. Indian (Gregory Apear) 29ths inst. German (Roon) 30th inst, German (Zistin) gist inat, Indian (Luisang) 3rd prox Australian (Eastern) 3rd prox. Australian Tainan) 5th prox. The La, Denbighshies left Singapore on 24th inst, and is duo here on 31st lust