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"On January 191908, at Shaoghal, ELIZABIH, DINAH, Widow of, the late } E.@S. Ottoway, of Chaloo, age 60 year. S
one way or another. The Government must The question of the stall rents is, of course, have $4,250,coo, and although the vote has been one of the stmort dificnity to settle satia beld over till certkin questlods have been: an«: | Fact
Government could: awared in the satisfaction of the Council mem- bers the Gorammunt will get what they want. There is therefore nothing to be
bestow the stalls on furoured individuals with out, rendering lisalf open, to the charge of favouritiam. On the other hand, the disposal
1241 1908
The Hongkong Telegraph sained by hugging over the matter or of the stalls by auction offers undoubted ter H: Levy
Whep
advantages to the man with the longest purse,
FORTHCOMING REVOLTS IN CHINA
OLD NORK AT HIS OLD"TRICKS" Old Moore bis been at it again, predict battle, murder and sudden death for all be worth. When the old Jun wants to make: blood curdle into really first class whey, per arms the operation with the mas facility of a Chinese sorcerer... #peoples may ask? Does he never make a mistake?, but Old M. absolutely declives to answer frivolous queries, and as his clientele is made up of the very top-notch circles in 1pcisty be at your peril style which is calculated to give the common herd the trembles. But let us see what he says this year, as found in his Mesinger, which he har kindly forwarded for: our delectation så
favour of his successor he must have been din. when he is the one alleged to be at fault, had markets the danger resulting from the Sciences The practical, reruks at that ex Hus cultivated a soli mo, high and mighly, scoff
"
THE partnership between Sir, Marcus ambel and Mr. Samuel Samuel, trading under iħa style of M. Sämdel and Co., having expired by eflexion of time, Sir Marcul Samuti has decid- ed to ratire. The firm will be contiqued under the same style by Mr. Samuel Bamuel, who has admitted Mr. Walter H. Samuel and Mr. Wal
to partnership. raking up grievances which will de nobody
THE death is announced of Professor Jans any good. More, il casts a certain renec or in other words, the capitalist, and also, the famous Directeur o' the Moudon Che HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1908.-
tion on the administration of His Excellency offers certain inducements to the formation servatory, Professor Janssen, who was eighty the Governor and that is wholly unjustified, of syndicates, and combloes. So long, how three years of age, was decorated with the Royal Society' medal in 1877. We may recall ROWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY,"
Even that rampart Irishman, the Colonial ever, as individual dealers are allowed that in 1868 he was sent to Java by the Minis bir Matthew Nathas left the bensin Secretary, who loves nothing better than a fight to sell their goods outside the regular try of Public Instraction and the Academy of caroly grateful to a benign providence which perforce to sit as mute as the bare that hangs on establishment of a quasi-monopolistic system pedition was bint the Lalande prizs from Tara's halls. He nemly became sarcastic when is comparatively writing. It has often been the Academy. In 1874 he carried out a very permitted him to depart in peace before he said: "In dealing with a tunnel you are really said that, Europeans could not complete with successful mission-") pan, and on his return was lovited to Join An English expedition to the Boancial difficulties of Hongkong became working in the dark. Compare that with the Chinese dealers in comestibles, but. sp Stam too fasistent to be disregarded. Wo rejoiced joyous spirit which animated Mr. May when he parently, to far as the meas market in
What will happen in 1928" is not a question in the coming of Sir Frederick Lugard, whose felt that his department was being enfiladed by concerned, Europeans are in a level footing AMONG seafaring man in Cardiff the steady in when Old Mouse submits: 1. Rather it is a meille as an administrator had been thoroughly the elected members in the early months of with the natives, in Japan at least. We learn ad in the number of Chinamen who eltale sort of preparatory cough covering the side baribu on’vessels at that post is causing alarm. with which he regales the Initiated: “Walch tried and proved in another corner of the Em last year. No rapler thrust in those days and that in Yokohama the Butchers Guild adopted. It is stated that the Chinaman accept half the me make them Jump" So baving prepared pire, but we were fully prepared to commiser-nb still wine for others to quaff; nothing but a policy which had for its object the squeez wages of Europena sexinen, and are less par- the way, he begins in the manner of be ate bim os the strain he would be called upon gaily dashing steel and sparkling usquebragh, ing of the foreigner. Continual increases ticular as regards food, requiring only a few gramaphone after the preliminary wherke 1. "A to undergo in the struggle to adjust the fio-The railway requirements are great and will in the cost of meat were recorded, watil cheap though wholesome articles of diel special f-recasts of the world's fate by Old WHISKY❘ances of the Colony to its actual needs and to mein the starving of other schemes, but the the system savoured of nothing more or There are," says the Cardiff secretary of the Moore, the Prophet of Pilgrim Street. Fate
'Sallors' and Firemen's Union, "between si o not luck or fortune or anything cheerful ber the development of those works to which the fault lies not here and, consequently, it should less than blood-sucking Now, the laps and 300 Chinaman Always on shore, and avail krim, hasily fate and he begins right memil Colony bad been committed. If ris Excellency not be pressed as an offence against the ad. | Herald is pleased to note that the mem ab'e for engagement..., if the rate of increase "A critical year.” Having made it perfectly clear CONSISTENT EXCELLENCE aver antcstained soscale visions of the golden ministration of the Colony, Pathaps however, bers of this despotic ring have met their match of the past year or so is kept up we shall have that those who expect to hear anything funny, and opulent Ent be must have been disillu- the exclamations of astonishment which greet, at last, and the facts which have led up to the new Chinese boarding-house-established-or have any claims on the government should sloped almost immediately his attention wased the list of funds required by the railway partial overthrow of their plans are of sufficient every month or two.""_
-vamoose, dissppear and make tracks for the directed to the financial conditions existent in engineer for the work in 1981 will induce the interest to warrant publication. The credit for By kind permission of Lieut. Colonel W. Scotunshine, the unregenerate old prophet re Hongkong. In practically every direction he Governor to be a little more explicit in the this success is largely due to a foreigner whose Moncrieff and Officer, the Band of the Third marks quite casuallys "The year 1908 is likely
future than his predecessor was in the past duty it is to make largo purchases of meat daily Battalion "The Duke of Cambridge's Own" might fancy they could any ibai themielia penditure and even minor matters of local im-regarding the progress made on the railway.
on behalf of a local instilation. Somewhe(Middlesex Regiment) will play the following but those who asked. How do you know 2.4% programme of music, during dinner, at the portance must have had to go by the board ju face.
incensed at the constant rise in the price of Hongkong Hotel, to-morrow, the 25th inst, meät, and koowing full well that it was but another attempt to "squeeze" the foreign cus Unless we are sadly mistaken, the possibleed to transfer his patronage to and her dealer if tomers, the foreigner above referred to threaten.
withdrawal from the newspapers of what was
the new schedule of prices were adhered to.
VERY OLD LIQUBUR SCOTCH
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IT IS A
found that it would be necessary to curtail 'ex-
PURE MALT WHISKY of the stringency in the revenue, put to speak
GENUINE
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FINE MELLOW FLAVOUR.
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of the nebuleus prospects of the future. One of the great works undertaken by the Govern ment was the construction of the Kowloon, Canton railway, an undertaking which wa
able to the continued prosperity of the Colony when it is completed, although at present it is little short of an incubos on our Barrow resources. That the members of the Legislative Council should have express. ed surprise at the magnitude of the expen
$16.50 diture, comparatively speaking, demanded for
THE COST ON MARKHI
COMMODITIES, 2
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firmly believe will prove infinitely valu-supposed to be the official list of market prices Our contemporary proceeds to state that a will impose but little hardship or inconvenience en those who look after the daily domestic threat to start an opposition store was mere- requirements of Hongkong households, Itly met by the Guild butchers with the seturt that the attempt had been tried before, and may be that a fow skinhɛnts had some amateur statisticians who found an interesting though had resulted in a foreign firm losing money" extremely unprofitable occupation. In comparing the venture. The foreigner in question, how
ever, resolved not to be browbeaten, and after the printed rates with the cook's amended list
canvassing the leading botels, and securing the building of a line of some 22 miles-in--Charges will find themselves deprived of the length, is not to be wondered at, and if the pleasure of proving that the average Chinese their promise of support, succeeded in persund A. S. WATSON & CO., Government fied themselves placed in a chef is an adept in the art of chicenery and 15g a Japanese greengrocer to open a store, prevarication, but it is long since the general and to sell meat at the figure which prevailed community put any faith in the published list. before the recent advice made by the cam
bine. The member of the Guild, who had previously assumed an adamastine attitude, seeing the danger of losing trade, at Doce began to make overtures to the foreigners
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It has never been precisely stated how the list was prepared, although we may presume that the authority responsible for its production made a number of inquiries at the various
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LADY DUFF-GORDOV, Mrs. Elinor Glyn, the novelist, and a party, of eight from New York
society, paid a visit to Chinatown last month, and an account of their experiances file
Lady Duff-Gordon has many complimentary er ufumes of the New York newspapers. remarks to make of the cicerone, "Chuck Conner, a well-knownsium character. Connor returned the compliment by expatialing to an interviewer on the fine qualities of his English charges. Ile declares that Lady Duff Gordon
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to be a critical one in many respecia”. Tharibald
could they follow it up with the remark that "1908 is Kaballistically, under the influence of Mercury and is the 26th or last year of the cy to of the Planet?" Not they And t
the genuineness of the whole thing is shown in this That Old Monra does not say the end of the world in coming, ws he might easily have done, and as the gentle reader having properly. fightened his hearers into fits might be inclined. to do, but only speaks of the fast year of the cycle which is a tee-t tally different thing t is pleasing to ref:ct that as the result of the -wandering propensities of the "heavenly bodies we are to be sailed by the events which are goi: g to occur all over the civilined world. Does Hongkong come under that definition? for there are critics who "bae their dooın.” “
th, the begining of January, our old friends Saturn and Jupiter had a light
doubt, and asthe consequence Prer, Roosevelt, tiff, a question about the fateful ting no
the Mikado-Old Moore still sticks to the Ancient title, as who wouldn't when he can remember, things the Emperor of Japan never dreamt of?-and the President of the French Republic are to have a bad time, Ifthis does
| the Legislative Council freely and fully inta their confidence, which, of course, means that the public obtained at least a pausing glimpse. of how their hard-earned money was being speut, Buthe Kowloob-Canton railway opera. stalls, struck an average and issued the with a view to regaining bis patronage, but dead wife-"her nobs can stand seld," which, "than it will bring a danger of war," and servei
[33 tons established an unfortunate precedent of secrecy and disregard of public opinion which is much to be deprecated. After His Excellency had decided as to the allocation of the funds required for public works, he was still left with the greatest undertaking of all
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and whatever his private opinions may be
and they are bound to coincide with the viewi
is "all to de prunes," that Mrs. Glyn is like his
when asked if he took the ladies everywhere in Chinalows, "Chuck" smiled and observed shat he showed them "only the door knobs,
the effort WAR unsuccessful, to anolber being interpreted, means that she is a true document with which we are all familiar.The column of the Japan Herald is the adverblue," and able to stand the severest tests. Bat Snitary Board, under whose nuspices the. prices were collated, discla med all power toment of the Japaness who bas now opened compel the stallhalders to abide by the rates, and our contemporary commends
him to the attention of the foreign.com quoted, the inspector who signed the imunity, who it is hoped, will accord him a full seems to have performed that daty very
_mensuis_of_support. "Ilusiness mon_have`s
but not the rusty latches..
not signify grave personal danger," says ba,"
them ri. bt too Weren't japan and America making faces at each other when Old Moor made his prediction, and didn's Teddy R. atte rowly escape being injured by his own "big stick?"
The death rate will be very heavy. The position of Neptune points to Socialistic ten
much as a matter of form, and the stallholders, perfect right to conduct their own business as MAJOR-GENERAL BROADWOOD, dencies in the Commons-Neptune, we take
in sublime disregard of any list or we list, fol.
they wish," adds the //erald, "but when that
it, belag a polite name for the Old Man of the Sea and to disputes and tevolved; action. GUEST OF GENERAL WOOD AT FABAY. FIELD.theten." It is as easy as falling off a log for the public interest, and is aimed at one section of
trick
ef those who see in the railway scheme the lowed the dictates of their own conscience,business amounts to a monopoly detrimental to opening up of 2 vists of illimitable prosperity -he must have felt that here lay one of the heaviest burdens that he would be called upon to carry. The old policy of keeping matters dank in all that pertained to the railway still con- tinues, but a little light was shed on the subject when the Colonial Secretary asked the Council, i performed by the district inspector, and that the Chinese breeders, stockowners and dealers tish troops that are scheduled to attend the Government will issue its report on subsidiary:
tortuid than H.E.'s address, With lack the'
which usually meant that they demanded
The Callewe American, of 16th last, Old Moors to prophesy--he has the gift, or the little more than they expected to receive and
you ke. Anybody could say: "In the community, it is time a public protest should | gays:-Major General Broadwood command- accepted a good deal more than the buyer had be raised, and steps takes to combat the evili ing the British forces in South China arrived January heavy clouds wil han over HORE expected to pay. Now that the Board has a doubt, however, whether such direct appost and will remain in the city until Saturday / Prizes to budding geniuses who will pay mör in Manila yesterday morning on the Zanro Long. The Governor will distribute severa. decided that the post of market inspector shall be abolished, the duties of that officer being
morning making arrangement for the Bri- attention to the headmaster's Instrument of
Carnival. General Broadwood was met at the coins: bat owing to the Kabbalistic algun bost by Captain Dorey 'who escorted him to General Wood's bome, where he will be en- terpined during his stay in the city. General
Sront of the British general staff. Neither of Broadwood was accompanied by Captain Hart the officers were in uniform,
at the meeting held yesterday afternoon, na sigasturs shall be attached to the current to appropriate the sum of four and a quarter market price-list, whatever valin that sheet million dollars to provide for the work which ever possessed has absolutely disappeared, is projected for 1958, Had the members of the Perhaps it may be held that as the list. ever Council been kept in touch with the progress had any value and was invariably repudiated of the railway there would have been none of by those who had anything to do with it, no that lifting of eyebrows and expressions of adequate reason has been submitted why its wonderment which were witnessed yesterday. publication should be discontinued, and with And there would 'h e béen none of those dis. agreeable revelations as to the reasons which
in would prove a success in ongkong, where work hand in hand and control the market. However desirable it might be to secure a reduction in the price of general commoditi attained without involving a general baycott it is probable that such an end could not be by those who have established the trade and are b a position to direct the movements of the market. Boycotts are on pleasint things to
that view we must confcus ourselves in hearty deal with and once introduced are apt to take agreement. There was ever a digoily about root as desirable mohods of expressing had led to the necessity for this unexpectedly the alleged official list, a suggestion that peo-opposition, so that it seems probable that the
After a short consultation with General Wood
my with the division commander. General both officers mounted horses and rode to Pa- Broadwood was received with a major general's alute and was escorted from the town limits
nothing will happen for a time, and perhaps not then. Through the influence of Neptune,
while the public counts its cash, And in ov, the dollar will fluctu to very seriously and Government myrmidons will rejoice therest
ad fifiniium. But there is not the true ring
about those predictions. Listen to Old Moora
lastead:
the Eastern States, Mars and Saturn- these two are always hanging about in.com-
at the eclipse and this is an augury of terribl of Pasay to the camp ground by a troop of Pany Mais and Satein will be colminat't
large outlay. What we still know of the railway ple could live on, next to nothing in Hong. only thing European or other purchasers can cavalry..' After' the party had been received | disasters; either of an earthquake, viole could be comfortably contained in a cocked kong if only, they disbursed their money afford themselves the privilega of doing är to { By: Major Sands, commanding the camp, horicane or tidal wave off the coafa.” Well, !
het, and if the signs are read aright with ordinary caution, so that in time it
grin and make'the best 'of it,
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there is opt much more information, to be just porsible that the humorous aspect of the LOCAL AND GENERAL given. The original estimate of the total matter might have been merged in the con-
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trip over "he, meet, grounds was made. The visitors were pleased with
“is perfectly certain that Old Moore's prodici every. thing they saw and were especially as fail the newspapers of the great US will
will come true for even if the thiray combli tanithed at the ingenuity of the, scouts be their best to help him along. construction of grass houses instead of tenis,
But what we in the Far East ara: BUXja" 8-1 march when the party arrived and the English U.S. but to us, Old Moute is obliging as usust officers made a careful inspection of the troops and vivaciously states At Tokyo the lumin noon the party again visited the camp, and
cost of the railway was put at £550,000; it will sideration of its honoured age. But it is.10 be THE Bank of England rate bas further rec-ded Several of the infantry companies were on the bear about is not what's going to happen to the now be in the neighbourhood of a million phunds sterling. Lostend of ane tunnel having
feared that the hand of the reformer is heavy today to four per cent. in the land and even this relle of the past will
to be pierced the latest survey shows that be relegated to the limbo of the forgotten. As | Colliery at Hokkaido, Seventy minera out of 104 they met and their equipment In the 'after aries will be rising, pointing to great excite
A GAE explosion bas taken place in the Yubati we have said, it has never been quils clear how perished sixteen others were severely injured. the prices were arranged, whether syndicate Ox page will be found the draft Bill, proposed of deators in the different sections arrived at by the Majority of the Subsidiary Coin Com mites, in their recommendations to Govern
A.
several occur along on the roule. The Gover- meat after purchasing land wholesale at the outset now find that much of that land is left on their hands, and negotiatioda: bave to be general average which sulted their 'purpose of ment. The Bill in for the purpose of regulating were entertained at luncheon by: General other countries. - "It seems to us that if Neptune entered into for the acquisition of new rights, whether swasthe resultof private investigations, the import and export of Cain into and from the of-way. Ard, among other things, wo learn but this much is contaio, the Chinese purchaser Colony, that an usul our old friends the Crows could always obtain his supplies at lower prices MR. Murray promises a travel book of much Agents have a finger in the pie. ile would than those quoted while the European general interest. Its author, Mr. R. F. Johnson, for hivs been a stranger indeed to the Farly had to pay higher. If the dollar declined merly of the Hongkong Civil Service, who is Enat who could not have made what in the in valus up went the cost of meat, poultry, fith, British District Officer at Wei-hai-wal, made the circumstances would have proved a happy fruit and vegetables; if it advanced it was Journey from Peking to Mandalay, taking in the
lauser, known parts of Stechuan and Yunnan, guess that the Crown Agents-even when con-unders cod thing that no variation in the price
HALF Crews bave been seleșted at the Medway | cerned with the disposition of their quarters in ❘ of silver could affect the price of local commos
new palaces in London-ware tinkering and dities. Should the foexperienced visitor persist tampering with the original scheme. Heaven in protesting against the continued, increase in seama to be against them, for shatever they the cost of domestic necessaries, then the stall? undeniko, seems to be followed by the holder blandly drew attention to the indisper malice of some evil sprite, of whom they able fact that the wall rents had been siin cannot rid themselves. But as somebody annually, with the patucal, sugult that the app slig
140 pays the
the piper perhaps dreams ces candidates—that to say, those who
highest reala had to
of the Crown Agents, ara
torbad. However, the fact
ws are embarkid'
watched with interest the various events of the mant among the people, turbulent screen and programme. They were especially interested in much unrest. Neptune's setting shows strea the field and mountain artillery exercires. chery from foreign powers, the breach of a eser Broadwood and Captain Hart-Synpol treaty and an involved siste of affairs with wood. The other guests included the mam doesn't take care of himself ka-will bers of the divinic staff. The visitors will hurt Thea-"The Mikado will bo consult with the members, of the Cerawal danger and shout guard his life and perso commistes to-day regarding the representation Serious accidents are threatened in the Em
pire So much for Buckingham. of British troops.
InTM and about E. Long, 101 to 108, troubles are threatened "for Mats Bod Saturd are la the nadir in this locality. A revelt against suthority may be expected. "is something like business. A rev bin
Who could have told the old man and why didn't he mention that the
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will have to fies for their lives?
raplar, but chara
› German (Zlaten) 28th just./na, depot for the relief of half of the crews serving là the armed shallow-draught steamers Sund. ·German (Klais!) 'est proxi, nom. piger, Tani, Woodcock, and Robin on the Chinna Station. The ratings was to embark in the - The H. A. L. 3.5, Amòria left Manila on asid Ching is to suffer from ("outra Royal Arthur, cruiser, as Portsmouth on fast, at 6 pm, and may be expected here on
7th insta man Jadary ra for passage to Chins,
The C. P. R. Co's ss. Empress of India West River, Look, Ma. Walter R Cloth, the Chlause Imperial left Yokohama pm, on 23rd inst, for Victoria the warning given by Old Maritime Customs, who is now home on long and Vancouver,
Bombay body love, but beds graciously
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this port enazed'}