THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1913.
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Football in Germany.
It is interesting to road that in Germany much significance is attached to the fact that a record.
DAY BY DAY.
The simplest man is usually the au who knows most.
The Mails.
Euglish Mail of March 29-De-
livered in London on the 25th inst..
to-day.
Y.M.C.A. Lecture
p.m.
Mr. Geo. W. Sewell will deliver paper on Thackeray'a "Book of Suobs" on Monday evening at Y.M.C.A.
Departed.
Left for Home.
In Charge of Observatory,
1888.
HONGKONG TWENTY FIVE
YEARS AGO.
(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the Week Ending April 26, 1888.)
there
CAPTAIN BADELEY RETIRES.
ond
in His Place.
"On Saturday night an alterca tion took place in Hollywood Road batween some Chinese Indians. In about three minutes 300 Chiners assembled on the spot Mr. C. Mc. I. Messer Appointed and indulged in shouts and other specimens of war ory, much to the inconvenience of the residents of that quarter. Strange to say, not the shadow of a 'bobby' appeared on the scene to disperse the dis orderly crowd. Where were the
Fire
first ho
There is a good deal of matter that should be interesting to local business man in the case report- ed in our Extra of last night,; wherein Mr. Justice Kemp dia- missed an office coolie's claim for
It is notified in the Guzelfe damages on account of wrongful
that His Excellency the Governor, arrest. On this particular case
under instructions from the Seo- we have no comment to offer; in-
ALittle Game" at Causeway' dead it stands in need of none; English Mail.-Despatched per
rotary of State for the Colonies, Bay. but it reminds us that the as- 6.6. Dovanba at 1 p.m. to-day,
has been pleased provisionally to The following is from a "Tele-Police?"
appoint the Honourable Mr. siduity displayed by the average Canadian Mail-Closes per 8.8 graph" leader of April 20, 1888: The Post Office In Trouble Again. Captain Superintendent of Police, Charles Mollvaine Messer to be office boy or house boy in ag
The Honourable the Surveyor The following letter appeare quiring the art of European Empress of Japans at 5
to-day,
General should be interviewed, in the Telegraph of April 25, Superintendent of Victoria Gaol penmanship is not always a
Siberian Mail.-Closes per 6.6. or rather interrogated in the 1888, the same date, strangely and Superintendent of healthy sign: An English child'
Empress of Japan at 5 p.m. Legislative Council, as to the enough, on which tre published Brigade, with effect from this learning to write, not uncom
meaning of his little game at a complaint from Mosers. Dennys date, in place of Mr Francis Josoph monly has some such useful
Causeway Bay. Mr. Price ander and Bowley:--
Badeley retired. maxim as "Knowledge is power,'
Bramble Arrives.
"I beg to draw the attention The new Captain Superintend- ar "Be thou familiar but by no
H.M.S. Bramble arrived in the took this reclamation scheme-
which was forced on the com- of our Post Master General, ent of Police has been acting in meane volgar" placed before bim Harbour yesterday. in excellent copper plate, and this
munity by Mr. Bulkeley Johnson, through your valuable paper, to that capacity since Mr Badeley his inky little fingers seek to
aided by the supineness or stu the inconvenience and delay with left the Colony some few months October 11th, imitate to the best of their ability.
pidity, or Heaven knows what, of regard to letters from Bombay by sgo. Born on But we have noticed that, with
leable-minded Mr. Administrator the fortnightly F. & O. steamers. 1874, Mr Messer graduated at. Marsh with a light heart, some The Surat, which arrived about Cambridge, where he took his certain Chinese office bays, the taipan's signature seams to sug-
six years ago; it was to ba com the 11th inst, brought no lettera M.A. degree, and was appointed a oadet in November, 1897. He geat itself as a far more profitable Among the passengers who left pleted, with a flourishing town-from Bombay; the Tanjore, model. Of course there may be by the Devanha to day were abip erected on the site of the which arrived yesterday, had arrived in the Colony the follow- no harm in it. Still; we don't Lieut. E. B. Lewes, Lieut. G. M. dismal swamp in a very short the same misfortune as her pre-ing month, and has therefore forget that we once had a house Welman and Capt. R. J. Clarke, period of time. The swamp is decessor. Now, in the first inst., served in Hongkong for over
still there and it extends, at low who is to be blamed? Secondly, 15 удата. At boy who could write chits for tinsi of cigarettes so anccessfully that Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Cubay left water, about two hundred yards why is it that a steamer that comes was Acting Assistant Colonial we were requested to pay for the for Home to day by the Dovanha. in front of the greatly vaunted straight from Bombay bringe no Secretary and Clerk of Councils,
Mr. Cubey bas, during the past reclamation; but
email? If the same thing happened and later was employed on Land few years, been prominently 0. signs of the township with the French or German mail, Registration in the New Ter- identfied with Union Church and nor of the eighty thousand the foreign community would ritorios. After sarving as Polica European Y.M.0.A. affairs.
shekels of silver which the far have clamoured for their letters; Magistrate and Justice of the seeing Surveyor General told the but, as the present case only Peace for the New Territories, he Legislative Councilwould be forth affects the India merchants, no was appointed. Acting Colonial coming from rent and taxes of one will most likely take the Treasurer, then Collector of Mr. John Howell May and family big to return thanks for the crowd of from 15,000 to 20,000/ing the abesues from the Colony houses that have yet to be built, trouble to enquire into the Stamp Revenue, while later be became a member of the Govern many kind expressions of sympathy and the floral tributes sont attended an Anglo-Gerinan foot-Mr. Charles William Jeffries will to pay, the whole coat of the re-irregularity."
ing Body of Queen's College. He ball match in Berlin on Good Friday Never before, so it is be in charge of the Royal Obser- clamation. With all due humility, we would venture to suggest to the unofficial members has now extended to the rickala the same month was made Act- April 26The coolie strike passed his final examination in stated, has it been necessary in vatory: Hongkong.
(Cantonese in June 1902, and in the history of the game in Gor-Confirmation at Kowloon, City of the Legislative Council that
The Bishop of Victorin is to the Surveyor General's reclama- morning in all the western parts he held the appointments of
men, who went off duty this
ing Registrar General. In turn many for the police to close the gates in order to avoid overcrowd-hold a confirmation at Kowloon tion scheme is exactly what me of the city. It must be under Director of Widows and
(Sunday) predicted it would be at the time stood that the ricksha men them- phane Pension Fand, Assistant ing. It will take many years, of old city to-morrow course, before the game attains morning, in the Church of the it was forced through the Coun: selves are willing enough to run, Land Officer for the New Terri- the popularity in Germany Kev. Matthew Foug who is duing cil-a gigantic piece of bounce but the owners of the vehicles tories, Member of the Land Court thut
it has in the British 30 excellent work.
and humbug......... The Surveyor have been informed, by the
and New Territories Police Isles, but it is, none the less
General has told us that there is
agitatora who are leading the It is notified in the Gazette, for every reason to believe the Taitam atrikes, that their rickshas will be Magistrate. In 1905 he went on true that wonderful strides havo
leave and in 1907 was made been made in recent years, general information that the Full water supply will be ready next smashed if they do not lay them both from a playing standpoint Court of Hongkong, as consititut November; from such a master by. The agitators have thus been Acting Postmaster General, sub- Of all the many pronouncements which Sun Yat-sen has been and so far as public interest ised by the Fall Court Ordinances, of sophistry this promise may able to introduce into this Colony post, after a brief interval during sequently filling the substantive Here it must be 1912, will hold its next sittinge mean anything or nothing, but clearly a reign of terror, and it is pleased to make on the past and present doings, and the future concerned. possibilities, of his country, none will occasion more general mirth stated that the leading British on Monday, the Uth day of June, we must confess to feeling Be3p the business of the police to find which he was Head of the Sanit-
tical on the point.
out who are the disturbers of the ary Department. He remained than one for, rather a series) that he has been offering in a recent teams have done valuable pioneer 1913, at 10.30 a.m.
work by their periodical visits of
(The Reclamation referred to is issue of the Oriental Review". "What we ought to do is to drive Continent at the conclusion of
Colonial Treasurer, until he was The Preachers at St. John's evidently the Polo Ground which, peace, and, when found; to punish at the Post Office, also acting as
them."
recently appointed to the police Russia out of Mongolia, even at the cost of a desperate war," is one every season, stimulating public Cathedral are (morning) the Rev. to-day, bas no resemblance to a
office. gom; and here is another: "One year's fighting may not perhaps zeal and raising the standard of N. O. Pops, Chaplain of St. And- awamp, and is an improvement decide the issue, but, in two years' time, we shall have mobilised two play all round. The popularity rew's Kowloon and (evening). which has been much appreciat of the game in Germany is cause The Ven. Archdeacon Barnett. The ed and has rid that esction of the million troops; and have driven Russia out of Mongolia," Does Dring the Olympic authorities to latter will refer to China's appeal town of an unhealthy swamp.] Sun really believe all this? It is regrettable in the extreme that a make big preparations regarding to the Christian Church. man who, whatever may be said to the contrary, still has a vast this particular sport at the forth- coming Games of 1916 in order amount of influence over the Chinese, should so far have forgotten to arouse still further enthusiasm. his responsibilities and the interests of his compatriots as to make All sportemen wish the new statements such as these. If we are to judge from the Northern and movement good luck. native papers, and from what Hongkong Chinese havo emphatically told me, there are many thousands to whom Sun Yat-sen's evory LICensing boarD atterance is yet gospel, and so wo may take it-that-his-latest- assertions and recommendations will be spread broadcast by these; whereupon China's last state may become worse than its first.
them in their sad bereavement,
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1913.
DR. SUN AND MONGOLIA.
ELECTION
The Gazette noufies that, dur.
of Mr. Thomas Folkes Claxton,
The Full Court.
St. John's Cathedral.
Board of Agriculture Order.
Steamer on the Rocks. "The steamer Ashington from
Ricksha Strike.
1888.
SHARE REPORT.
Quotations Twenty- Five
Years Ago.
ANGLO-AMERICAN
Or-
PLAYERS.
The retirement of Mr Badeley comes as no surprise, and the "Telegraph" indicated the pos sibility at the time he went on leave. Mr Badeley had seen over It is notified in the Gazette that Saigon, while entering this port
twenty years service in Hongkong, an Order has been made by the at 12.15 this morning (April 21)
having arrived hore in December 1890. He held one or two noting Board of Agriculture and Fisher-ran ashore in the Sulphur
The quotations which follow appointments until, in April,1902, ies further postponing until the Channel, and at present remains
are from the "Hongkong Tele- hew as made Captain Superinten- 1st of July next the operation of fixed on the rooka in the vicinity graph" for April 26, 1888. These dentof Police, a position which Chapter I of the Horses (Im- of the place where the telegraph quotations will appear every he held until his recent departure portation and Transit) Order, cable from Green Islands lands
week, and comparison of from the Colony |-1912”-
on Hongkong. The disaster was. Day of Prayer.
said to be due to thick weather. quotations then obtaining with those of to-day should prove of To-morrow is to be observed in We are informed by the owners, much interest, The Gazette notifies that by all the Churches as a Day of prayer Mesara, Siemssen and Co. that
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. What can be the man's object be? With his education and command of His Excellency, the for Chins in response to the appeal boats and lighters have been
-154 per cent. premium, buyers. Governor, and pursuant to section of the Chinese Government at despatched for the salvage of the
Union Insurance Society of his knowledge of European affairs, he cannot possibly suppose that 10 of the Liquors Consolidation Peking. At St. John's Cathedral cargo. A later report says that
Canton. $87.1-2
per
share, the Chinese would stand any more chance, in a war against Russia, Ordinance, 1911, an election by at 3 p.m. an united service of the Ashington was got off the than a kitten would stand against a giant. Were an entirely the Justice of the Peace of a intercession, will be conducted in rocks at 1.30 p.m."
China Traders' Insurance Com- Tug of War Competition. ignorant Chinese to argue that if Japan could, for the time being, Justice of the Peace to serve an Chinese by Chinese Pastors.
the Licensing Board for about
The St. Joseph's College and pany.$68 per share.
North China Insurance-Tls. orush Russia at sea, a country like China, so much stronger in num-seven and a half months during
By the P. and O. steamer other schools' tug of war com- bers, could do the same on land, there would be reasonable excuse the absence of Mr. Alexander "Devanha," Mr B. Eustace, of petition came off on the Parade for him; and we could only way, let China try. But what Dr. San-Mackenzie will take place at the Messrs Lane Crawford and Com-Ground on the same date, result- with all his European knowledge, and in face of his oft preached Magistracy on Friday, the 16th pany, left for Home to-day on ing in a victory for St. Joseph's. day of May, 1913, commencing at leave. Mr Eustace, who has been There was a numerous attendance. sermons on the beauties of peace-is proposing, is that an army half 4 o'clock in the afternoon.. an hour old, that knows the conditione governing modern warfare only persons entitled to vote at mainly from the prints in the illustrated papers, should give battle to the election are the Justices of
the Peace. s nation that can send into the field more soldiers than
Voting will commence at 4 Europe, and that is crying out for a chance to annex further territory p.m. and continue until 6 p... in the Far East. We wonder if this new Peter the Hermit has read when the ballot-box will, be
history of the Crimean War, or if he has any conception of what solosed. single regiment of Cossacks can do,
Power in any
The
HONGKONG FINANCES. The financial statement issued by the Hongkong Treasury for
On Holiday.
with the firm for eleven years, has
to return in six months' time.
Societies Exempted.
gone to Bridlington, and proposes
+
Good News. "Four householders, living in Queen's Road and other streets, were 10-day (April 23) fined by
Chord the Sangket Club have one to two dollara, for hanging It is notified that the Man Mr. Wodehouse in sums of from been exempted by the Governor out their artistic garments from in-Council from registration front windows and verandahs ander the Societies Ordinance, instead of at the back the 1911, and the names of the mansions or in some othe. place societies are added to the List of where the watery drippings will those pedestrians who may object Exempted Societies, under the not interfere with the comfort of heading "Social (Chinese)". Ordinance Approved.
to that kind of rain."
Chinese Immigration to the Straits. "The tide of Chinese immigra-
sellers.
265 per share, buyers.
Leading Man is Native
of London.
Of the many olever actors which manager Fox is soon to bring here with him as members of the Canton Insurance Company, Anglo-American Players, thecom- pany which comes to the Theatre Ltd.,-$74 per share, sales.
Yongtee Insurance Association Royal for six nights, beginning -Tia. 108 per share, sellers. Wednesday May 7, we are told
Chinese Insurance Company that there is one who will un
doubtedly be singled out for his $170 per share, sellers.
Hongkong Fire Insurance acting ability, his handsome $322) per share, masculine appearance, and his bein Company
dashing style. He is L. Victor Uhina Fire Insurance Company Gillard, the leading man. Not -$74 per share, sollers.
that the other male members of Hongkong and Whampoa Dock the company are not first class Company-31 per cent. premium, actors, for every one of them has an "established reputation in the One more point in the Doctor's articles. Listen. "Take the
sellers.
Hongkong, Canton and Macao United States, but Gillard will case of the Transvaal. The Boers, wore able to put into the field from fifty to sixty thousand troops, out of a population of five hund-
Steamboat Company-$201 per be seen in the most important share, sellers.
male roles, playing opposite to red thousand, and fought Great Britain gallantly for three years. February, 1913, shows that the
China and Manila Steamship Miss Roberts, the star of the com- Now, as compared with what the Boers did, my plan is easy." To revenue during the month was His Majesty, the King has not
Company-$60 per share, buyers. pany.
Hongkong Gas Company- His long experience as a lead- write down such a contention, with, apparently, the full knowledge $665,261.85 and the expendi- been advised to exercise his power
ing man in America, prompted that certain vernacular papers will re-print it and give it to thousands tare. $459,899.36. At the end of of disallowance with respect to tion to the Straits Settlemente $130 per share.
Hongkong Hotel Company Mr. Fox to engage Gillard" for of foolishly sanguine persons to meditate on-and perhaps to seek the month there was a balance of the following Ordinances: continues unbroken. On fewer
against Ordinance No 10 of 1912. entitled than 168,000 newcomers arrived $100 per share, buyers. this important position, in the to set upon is one of two things: either stark madness, or brutal $3,198,700.21,
Indo-China S.N.Company--123 strong belief that he would make wickedness. The man who penned it must surely know that, of the $3,093,187.72 at the end of An Ordinance to amend the at Singapore last year, of whom
good with the theatro goers of the January. The total sesets were law relating to Dangerous Goods. 101,000 remained in the Settle per cent, die, saloe. Boar army there were not five per cent, of men who had not been $5,930,470.80 and the liabilities Ordinance No. 1 of 1913, entitled ment."
Douglas Steamship Company Far East. -An Ordinance to amend the Cargo-boat Strike Continued.
$51 per share.
As an amateur actor, expert horsemen and marksmen from childhood; that half the nations $2,731,770.59.
he Summary Ponces Ordinance,
"The only item of information China Sugar Refining Com- was well known in his native of Europe were, either openly or in secret, finsucing the Boers-
1845.
to-day (April 23) regarding the pany, Ltd.-148 per share, city, London. At one time he whose individual courage surpassed anything that the individual
Plague Cases. Two more cases of plague are
cargo-boat strike is that the buyers.
won the first prize in the City of Chinese is even capable of conceiving of. More important still, why
At the P. W. D. Offices on May masters of the boats view the Luzon Sugar Refining Com-London College of Elocution, and reported; one from Shaukiwan does the learned Doctor suppress the fact that the Boer War was and the other from Kennedy 13th, these is to be offered for situation with uneasiness and feel pany, Ltd.-$50 per share, after that was well known as a prolonged becance Britain erred on a side whereon Russia is never town. Those bring the total sale Inland Lot No. 1989, to the like giving in, particularly since sellers.
professional recitor in the best- likely to err: that of meroy? Britain was spending large sums, and number of cases to 30.
north of and adjoining Lot No. they see that shippers have not Hongkong Ice Company-$65 London clubs. Mr. Gillard hea 1911, Leighton Hill. The area been very much incommoded by per share, bayers,
the distinguished honour of be devoting big numbers of men, to the protection of the enemy's wo Removed to Hospital. men and children, and was sending to Ceylon and to St. Helena, for A boy who was injured, whilst is about 17,570 square feet and their holding aloof. The business Hongkong Repe Manufactoring the Arst to introduce the a planéant holiday, (ánd at a ruinous cost), men whom Russia would hammering some bolts into a upset price $1,757: On the same of the pawn-shops in Yaumati ising Company, Ltd.-851 per works of Robert W. Service to an English audience at the Gaiety cargo boat, owing to the concus day land Lot 1970, Shaukiwen said to be very brisk just now, share. slaughter without mercy or would transfer to the salubrious environsion of some explosive, at Wan Road having an area of about owing to there being no such Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf Theatre. He then adopted the ment of the Siberian mines. But Dr. Sun is not serious; he can't chai, bas been removed to the 3,150 square feet, will be sold, fand-raising institution in Sam and Godown Company per stage as a profession and hig
Bui-Po." b. Then, in the name of all the Saints, what is he driving at ?
| the upset price being $1,280,
cent. promíam, sales and buyere, rise has been rapid. hospital,
08
Land Sales.