IT TEMPTS THE
PALATE!
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY AUGUST 29 1911
DAY BY DAY
A splendid woman is usually the dauglitor of her father, just as strong men havo noble mothers..
The Directors of the Shanghai and Hongkow Wharf Company, Limited, have declaród an intorim
ICE CREAM SODA dividend of Tuls 3 per share.
Our New Drink
DELICIOUS AND REFRESHING
A.
S. Watson & Co.,
Hongkong, 24th August, 1910,
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
Ltd.
Boys Missing
Obstruction.
Fouridon shopkeepers were fined various suus, at the Magis- for chusing obstructions, | tracy, from $1 to $5, by Mr. Wond,
No Light
At the Magistracy this morning, a clanfleur named Gibson was fined $10 for having no rear light on liis vehicle,
Floating in the Water
AN OPTICIAN'S CLAIM.
Question of a Registered Parcel
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
OUR LETTER. BOX
Counsel Raises Point, of Law,' [The opinions exproved by our votres
pondents are nutnosarily thoro of "The Flangkung Telegraph."]
Before Mr. Justico Gompertz, Before the Chief Justice, Sir Puise Judge, at this Summary Franois Piggott, at the Criminal Court this morning, N. Lazarus, Sessions this morning, the Case WILLIAM POWELL, LIMITED optician, of IA D'Aguilar Street, was continued in which Ngo TrTo the Editor at Then Hon kong sued B. Lewis Paton, desorbed Sau, a partner in the Wo Sang
Telo gyd." I Sir-lure just received a
as a doctor of medicine, to recover Cheong Shing Kee firm, was the sum of 25, for goods sold charged with alleged offences copy of the annual report and ne-
Tho body of an unknown, and delivered. Mr, J. 11, Garonder the Bankruptey Ordiname". Founts of Messrs. William Powell, Chinese malo, ugod about 27; was] diner appeared for the plaintifon, Mr.C. G. Alabaster, mitod, for the year ended 30th Two boys are reported as mies- found in the water by the Kow- and Mr. Matthew John Stoplius Attorney-General, instructor, by June, 1011., 1 learned from the
loon Water Palice, near the Kow-was for the defendant.
Mr. W. E. L. Shonton, appeared necounts submitted to the shure ing, to the police:
loon Ferry Wharf. It was con- Mr. Gardiner stated that it was
for the Crown and Hon., Mr. H. N. veyed to the mortuary
holders that the company liks an incunabeut on his friend to open: 1. d'Alina, was for the accuse
-Pollock-K÷G.-instrueled-by-Mr joverdraft witli its bankers to the.. It was admiteri 'in the pleadings
Wedding
As we go to pross, the wedding [is being celebrated at St. "Jolin's Cathedral of Captain A. D. War-
extent of 518 86479, and - that
A ricksha olle took to the that the goods had been-supplied In the course of this morning's he not prolit for the year amounts His Lordship (Fo Mr. Stephen) owing to a point of laws raised and the price wis also admitted. hearing, the jury was discharged,
Payment in Kigd.
ing, U. A. M. C., to Miss., Gladys of blotting paper and some bottes poficestation last night a quantity Rolton. A full report of the of ink which had been left in his wedding will appear in our next vehicle-by-a European, who bud
gone off without paying his fare.
French Mall
The mailelosos for Europi, etc., to-morrow at 11 am. Late letters
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Removing the Statue,
.£s Iiiu wo?
Mr. Stephen--Yes, there's no dispute about the 522; but we
by Mr. Pollock,
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·w $1,094.50..
The rolit and loss account is
| Fleteltør, the Deputy Official charged with the sum of $2,000.
for "directors' fees," which I Receiver, did not possess
take leave to say is n. charge that
ing the financial position" of the
have paid $12 to the plaintiff and the capacity to at as Official Ro-might well be reduced, consider The process of transferring the we are willing to pay the balance volver or Public Trustee on the Duke of Comianght's statue loits of $10. My client sent me 5th December Just-the day on company. The rates of Subscription to the Hongkong felegraph "wi will be taken in from 11 am. to now periostal, is taking an unconinco-az and lens through the which the prisnier was alleged to ↑
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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, AUGUBT 29th, 1911
OUR NOISY STREETS.
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The Mail.
The Siberian mail to Earoje, which goes worth in the Delta,
leaves Hongkong to-morrow, The, mail closes at 5 p.m.
The Chinese Engineering and Mining Co., Lid.
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We are informed by the above named company that the total out } put of the Company's three mines for the work ending 12th August 191 Lainointed to 33,933.81 tons and the sales during the porio, to 18.601.50 tons.
--Mr--R--S.-Fry-for-Leave...-
month's work, only the lower part parcel post to Amjoy.. of the stone work has been laid in position.
A Sad Ending..
Last night, hotween 10p.m.and
have withhold production of the
The directors' fees for the your under revisir, exceed the profits
His Lordship--You are bring book. Neither was there of the concern, and the long suffer-
ing a counterclaim ?...
Mr. Stephon--No, it's a sort of set off.
1 pini. a man named Shmi Cho, His Lordship-It sounds like age about 20 years, and living at a counterclaim. |209 Des Voeux, Road Central, wont
Still at It.
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other person the date in ques
ing hareholder receives no in- tion who was entitled so to act.
The Attorney-General replied, terest on his money, in the slumpe
of a dividend, however small, contending that there was a clear
I understand that the present demand for the books at the time premises will be vacated shortly, Mr. Pollock submitted that and others occupied in the neur Mr. Stephon-Well, you can for a quiet bathe from the Wingke it as a counter-claim. 11
there had been no definite' dem-future. This change will of On Wharf. The unfortunato inan was drowned, ;-
Jand, Actusod's conduct could course necessitate a considerablo thought it would be simpler to
not be construed to constitute only for fixtures and fittings, and regard it as a set-off.
expensos of romoval, de. lis Lordship-There's a criminal set. · ficulty in law, I should leave Official Receiver should have His Lordship hold that the thought that the easiest thing oxpressly called the attention would have been a counter-claim of the acoused to the missing
Mr. Stephen We paid $12 bar books. He was fairly clear factory form suitable promises fore the writ was issued and to the joint in the prosecntim for an up-to-date, drapery and romaining $10 cover no costs must fail on the first indictment.
millinery establishment?-Yours Ta no caso can the plaintiff get Costa, :
* SCEPFIC." * ilongkong, 20th August.
MARINE COURT.
No sooner does a good piece of paving got laid, but it has to come up again. This is exemplified.in the case of the Now Post Office, where, exenvation work has been
Mr. I. S. Ery, the Deputy Recarried out at the foundation of gistrar of Shipping, Singapore is one of the pillars of the trade shortly going home on leave, and
over the juvement, during his absonco Mr. Ben D'Cruz, chief clerk of the Public Works "Dispartment, / Singapore, will be his & cum tenens,
Judge for Malacca.
His Lordship-You moun ho any recover custs of the writ?
Mr. Stophon-Not even that His Bordship--Olryos: Mr. Stoplens-Not a cent. His Lordship He is ontitled to recover costs of the writ.
Typhoon Warning. From the Xmoviean Consulate Cieneral, Hongkong, we love re- ceived the following Typhon Warning The telegram quoted Mr. Justice Thornton, who has below was received from the Manila gone from Poung to. Malarea to survatory at 10.25am. Manila, preside at the Assizes, the cloud August 20th Cyclone or by ar for which is in unusually heavy phon E. of Doshi Channal, moleaying the hotel and the bailiff me, will be detained Thord for at
ing N.W. just four or five weaks. This is the first occasion, it is
If there is one characteristic of Hongkong streets, which stands out more than another, it is the inordinate amount of touting which prevails, Chuir coolies, ricks coulies and even the flower seliers said, on which a judge los gone importune the passers-by for their custom: A fow days ago we ad from Ponatig for Malares Assizes, occasion to pass down Queen's Road and were necosted imameralo Singapore having supplied - the times by, all sorts and couditimis of inen. Turning into Wyndham judge hitherto. Street we were immediately surrounded by chair coolies and their chairs, while no sooner had we taken our seat than bunches of flowers.
Why the Mails were Late.
fsin."
costs of the writ. My client was Mr. Stopher Thon he will get
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Are we to continue to pay for and, when will the shop be pier this wonderful administration, manently located?.
will a vacated mineral water
The Attorney-General then proetc., cceded with the second count, which was in connection with the altoration of figures. A certin
balance was deo to the necured" Find he altered the figures inorilor o makeup forthe balance. Ech alteration"constituted a misstate-
ment,
An Undesirable. Visitor.
A bostuan named 1,1 Kui, was
regard to the counts that it was Mr. Pollock strongly urged with obviously unfair to Honest charged this morning at the Man embarrasshim by laying him opening Court with being on board to eleven distinct charges. Wha
took the opportunity of serving The explanation for the 1-10 bailiff's business. It has no-to do was to roll up a number of ing permission from the Master
him then and there.
arrival of the mails seems to love thing todo with us.
Mr. Gardiner That's the the Attorney-General intended the sa. Chip Shing without hay been found in "L'Echo de Tien
things together.
or Chief Officer, According to that journal the Court the bailiff was instinction that if Counsel's argument Mr. Stophon-As an officer of His Lordship said it seemed to
Commander C. W: Bockwith, Spicy_Scandals______ La portion of the trans-Siberian fed by you where-my-client-was-to- There are some deliciously line, fornire than 50 kilometres, he found. The Bailiff would not be taking away from the Crown S. 62, stated that at noon yoster-
were to prevail, the Court wou heard the case: 5. Bond, I spicy scandals at prosent going unged by inundations have acted if you had not instruct the means of proving the charge, day be boarded the s.8. Chip the rounds of the port about the and on August 19, it was ox-
Mr. Martin, Superintendent of it than, eleven. Ha thought The chief officer handed over to- It would be easier to disprove one Shing in response to a police call.. doings of aortain gay Lotharia poctell that the repairing would
take twelvo days.". and a married lady at Peltaiho,
the Registration Department of that the case fell outside the case him the prisoner whe A Big Haul.
tho. Post Office, gave evidence of cited by Counsel.
таз there | having received a registered The keeper of an open divan article from Amoy.
Case proceeding.
without permission, and who had beon-gaubting with other 106Temple Street, Yama,At this point, Mr.Stephen and thirty-two of his patrons, ap- proceeded to read a certain letter, PIRATICAL ATTACK ON The chief officer also pearo at the Police Court, the bat was stopped by his Lordship
handed ovo. $2 in 20-cent piecos former charged with keeping an on the ground that the letter was.
with which the man was gam- opium divan, and the others with no evidences
bling. prison for six months. The rast on the counterclbim, as the intter sinking. The keeper has con After further argument, his THE TELEGRAPH CORRESPONDENT.] orilored to pay 200; or go ta fordship non-suited the defendant were final $3 anch. All the had failed to make on a caso paraphernalia seized in the raid Judgment was entered for the
plaintiff with costs on the claim.
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has bebar confiscated,
were thrust in our face, by pager yendors who seem to think Umi the mission in a duropean's life is to buy their wares. If it stopped bero,It would not be so bad, but now we find Indians accosting people in the street with a "Tell your fortune, gentleman ?" The Says The "China Critic" (Pien- are the little details which collect upon the administration tein. But there, it is the quiet of law and order. - A morning contemporary has written of the band silly season and people must gingenuisanco.and...as called, attestion in a state of affairs-which-have-something-to-tall-about ought never to exist, or he fillowed, to exist. Touting in any forní Dysentery Epidemic. whatever is obnoxious, even when it is merely the calling of wures,
Dysentery is rife in Sendai and as does the hawker, but when it gets to sueli a pitch that the vuole neighbouring districts, thirty-two ride, it is about time that someremark was made. Should one walk from day. The theme is a would sot himself up asile judge of when a European should walk or cases being reported up to yoster valent in Fukushima prefecture; Wellington Street down Pottinger Street, he is rot by at least four rick- sha men who obstruct his passage across Queen's Rond. If he walka The Late Mr. G. A. Matthews. Many old residents will learn along towards the City Hall, họ is grosted with a chorus of inarticula18 shouts for a distance of about 100 yards. There is no justification with deep regret of the death at "Something Attempted." for this. The shouting does not attract more custom, for surely fifty-one of Mr. George Augustus in, anloading cargo from the s.s
the comparatively early age of
A coolic was employed to assist. no nau, who wants to walk, ridos, because he has been shouted at by Matthews, late of Messrs. Pyce & Chip Sang, but instead of doing. a coolie. Toning for hire has been stopped long ago in London Co. Mr. Matthews came to Shang, so he devoted his attration to re- and though the cry of "Keb, sir" is still to be heard, it is becoming Dyck Ch, having been previous in this direction earned him. 6
Hui in 1882 to join the firm of moving 14 chickens, assiduity TRE "TELEHAPE CORREAPONDENT like the Dodo-extinet. Many will say and quite time too. They with Messrs. H. W. Eaton &Co weeks' hard labour.
Canton, Aug. 28. continunt calling out was a source of annoyance in London, and it the well-known London silk firm.
On the morning of the 21th inst.. a shipping calamity occur- most certainly is in Hongkong. Then again we have the question
Garrison Orders.
red in the waters of Sam-koon of bawking. There is no objection to the hawker. He in uft-times
The water police have removed fong, in Futal, when three bouts doing good work, by supplying the poorer classes with comestibles, The following details arrived, from Japanese steamer fire fully loaded with kerosine oil at prices which, by reason of his payment of rent, tho shop-keeper and are taken on the strength of burns, caused by the overturning dimensions that it almost seemed
per 6.8. Sunda" on 21th instant, men, all Chinese suffering from caught fire.
The blaze was of such serions cannot quote. But that is absolutely no reason whatever why he the Command accordingly of a kerosene lamp on bourd should be allowed to raise, his voice and rend the air with RG.A.-Lieut. I). Pudsey from They are now lying at the Goytut the shops ashore would be discordant yelle, or boat small gongs, or in fact make any United Kingdom. 1 N.C.O., I woernment Civil Hospital. noise at all. It is mistaker idea that the production man and 1 child from Singapore. Directions having been receiv way, touds any
The Overturned Lamp
OIL BOATS ON FIRE.
Considerable Damage.
involved in the calunity, The, shopton began to bent gongs, which soon attracted the fire of discordant no1608,..........in.
to brisken ed from the War Office for inres CHINESE BANNED.
brigado to the sanne. Hosos were trade and we see no reason why the restful-hours of the day fobtigations to be mudo as to the
then requisitioned and volumes of that is when they seem most prevalout-should be rendered un-Cilprie value of all articles of
water were discharged on the lovely, by ráucous vocalizings on the part of hourse Chinese, Worations and messing supplied to Southampton dookers are work-burning bosits. After an hour's may be told that there is much that is picturesque in these street Commanding Officers will afford strikers, and alrendy two Nelson aga torkeep the fireunder contra
the, troops in this Commmd, ing in sympathy with the London hard work, the fire-fighters Bf1B-- origa. There may be, but it is a picturesqueness for which many the specialist sanitary oficer any liners and a thi London ship Fortunately, there was no loss do not care. We know that the police have already a most difficult assistance he may require in mak are held up" there, the men life, but the damage, is estimator tack in preserving law and order and our complaint may even seeming the necessary investigations. alleging the vessels have heen to be considerable. trivial. For our part we think that nothing is trivial which is Lance-lavildar Rum Singh, diverted. conducive to the comfort of residents here, and if touting is con- 128th Baluchistan Infantry, is The ships with Chinese orows Rev. T: Rhondda Willians.-- sidered a nuisance at home, and could be put down, we see no appointed Gymnastic Instructor, have arrived, but the Southamp-People are beginning to enjoy a reason why it should not be stopped here. We have not touched Whitfield Barracks, Kowloon, vice ton men hate refused to touch the great many things they need not upon the real disturbance, caused by the entirely unnecessary noise No. 1170, Naik Ramsidh Singh, esgls until the Chintainen have to think much about, › of motor cars as they rash about by day and by night, often in a 8th Rajputs, with effect from The been replaced by British crows, Mrs, Sidgwick-Examinations reckless manner, ignoring as they do the rights of others. It is 1st prox, with additional pay at The port is rapidly becoming and prizes are merely milestones alarming as well as dangerous to be nour one in action.
25 cents per working day, completely a union port. on the road to sucODELS,
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LIGHTHOUSE.
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Witness, continuing said there
great ded of gambling o
the ship and it was rapidly bo emming a nuisance.'
Cantem, August 28,
Canton has written to Admical Li{ The Customs Commissioner in Chun that about a week ago, an attack was made by nine armer
The chief officer of the BA. pirates on the lighthonse at TiChip Shing said he gave the pri chow-inee, in Tangkoon districtsoner into custody. He had no The intruders, after having theformission wiu taver to be on the lighthouse keeper gagged in bo it. *.
bound, madeoff with a quantity of | The MagistrateYou desire Clothing, bedding, mattresses and to niske the charge against him; lamp-wicks. The Customs Coip that he was on board without per missioner requested Admiral Li mission, and that he was an un- Chun to instruct the Commander desirable person?--Yes. of the boat patrolling in the vici- Why do you consider him an pity of the outrage to tako overy undesirable?-Because he comes precaution, ospecially in the on board and immediately starts niglit-time,' to prevent a further gambling with the others anci atitek.
stops them from doing their work, Was he with a gambling crowd? -Yos.
DELHI DURBAR.
£120 00 Grant for Their
Majesties.
supplementary estimate is
And was he interfering with the working of the ship?—Yes,
The Magistrato, to the dofand- unt:What reason do you give for being on board the ship I had been conveying passengers on board the steamer,
Hawas fined $50 or two months?:
haril labour.
of by the Chivernment on August of ni nays to be spent this year Grant to the King and Queen for contains the following items
Cost of works at Cornarvon for the
Jadin visit, £120,000.
--Prince's investiture E17,550. Payment of £400 a year to 630
M.Ps, #262,000." Grant tole. Mawson's Australian
Antarctic expedition, £2,000. ed.
Duke of Bodford-Scientifiq work requires yours of minute study and large expenditure be fore definite results e ́n be obtain
It is explained that exponses in Mr.J. P. Boland. There is not connection with the King's voyage a thriftier mun on earth thu tho to India will be tact from the peasant former who has noquire Navy vote.
his holding in Ireland,