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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPA, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1913.
The 'Marconi Enquiry,
A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., It is with feelings of relief that
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MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH CLASS AERATED WATERS.
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Soda Water
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(From 1st MAY 1913, until further notice.)
Potash, Seltzer & Lithia
Per Doz.. ·
SPECIALITIES:
Per Doz..
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60 Cts. Champagno Older
(Bombay.
70
70
"
Lemonade
70
12
Soda in Syphons Seltzer, Potash &
Syphons
h
....... 75 Cts.
$1.80 Lithia in
$2.00
21
Ice Cream Soda
... 70
+
Orangeade
70
+
Stone Ginger Beer
85
Orange Champagne"...
75
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Gout Water
85
Tonic Water.
75
Dry Ginger Ale
Ginger Ale
*75
Pints $1.00; Splits
60
12
Sarsaparilla,
75
Pyeris... Quarts $1.20;
Lemon Squash ...
75
"
Pints $85; Splits
50
Raspberrynde
75
14
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60
Orangella (Gout Chinese) 72
Lime Fruit Champagne 75
Formazone
Pints $1.00; Splits
31
one reads of the decision of the Committee enquiring into the Marconi Contract to conclude the hearing of evidence affecting
tor,
DAY BY DAY.
Happiness in a habit.
The Malls.
Luchow to-morrow."
8.8.
Peak Church Service. We are asked to alate that the! service at the Peak Church is now held at 8 a.. every Sunday,
1888.
HONGKONG TWENTY FIVB
YEARS AGO,
Telegraph" files for the Week Ending May 3, 1888.)
North China Insurance-Tis. TRAFFIC REGULATIONS. 265 par share, buyers.
Canton Insurance Company, Ltd.,-$74 per share, sales.
Yangtse Insurance Association -Tis. 108 per share, sellers,
Chinese Insurance Company $170 per share, sellers.
Hongkong Fire
Amendments Affecting Rickihas
and Trucks.
The Government Gazette noti- fias several amendments to the re- Ministers and others before the Siberian Mail Closes per 8.8 (Compiled from the “Hongkong Chenau at 5 p.m. to-day.
Insurance gulations under the Vehicles and Whitsun recess. Time enough has already been wasted over this mat-Siberian Mail-Duas par
Company-$322 per share, Traffic Regulation Ordinance.
Formerly public riskshas licen- sellers. and, so far as the revelations
The Coolle Strike, have gone, they do not appear to
Chins Fire Insurance Company sed for the City of Viatoris paid a fee of $72 per annum, payable April 28.-This difficulty still implicate any body along the lines suggested by scandal-mongere,
continues, though not to such an-$73 per share, sellers.
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock quarterly, while public rickshas who are always ready and enger
extent as yesterday. Many coolies
half yearly. Now the distinction. went to work this morning, and Company-30 per cent. premium, licensed for Quarry Bay paid $12 to throw mud at their political
Hongkong Christian Union,
buyers. The Rev. D. B. Reynolds will altogether, there are about one opponents. It is well that the
Hongkong, Canton and Macao is abolished and all public rick shas in the "Island of Hongkong" Government should have mo apeak at the meeting of the long-thousand men employed who pre-
pay $12 per annum. these basy-bodies by agreeing to kong Christian Union at St. viously were on strike. But, Steamboat Company-$200 per have the whole matter threshed Paul's College on Monday next at although business is oxceedingly share, buyers.
brisk at Kowloon, the same out in the light of day, though 5.30 p.m. the meetings have been marked
Alleged Child Stealing.
by rather unaoeinly wrangling. A man charged before Mr C.D. With all the talk of corruption Melbourne, by Inspector Murison, and political uncleanness, one at the Police Court, this morning.
with child stealing, seems to have been proved, and
manded.
All Bottles will be charged at the Rate of $1.20 por dozen ex-the most annoying feature of the cept Dry Ginger Ale and Gout Wuter Bottles which will be charged at the rate of 60 cia, per dozen. Syphona will be charged at the rate of $18.00 per dozen. Full credit will be allowed on all bottles and syphons as above returned in good condition.
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"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH." MARRIAGE.
STOCKHAUSEN-FRASER. On May 2nd 1913, at St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, by the Right Roverend Bishop of Victoria, Arthur A. Z. von Stockhausen, Chinese Maritime Customs, Samshui, youngest son of the last F. W. G. von Stockhausen, Hongkong, to Christina Fraser, daughter of the late John Fruser, of Nairnshire
Scotland.
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The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1913.
SUGAR TAX CONTROVERSY,
Adult Baptisms.
was re-
Adult Baptisms are to be held at St. Paul's Chinese Church at 11a.m. to-morrow, when the ser- mou will be preached by the Bishop of Victoria.
Unstamped Letters. A Chinese who brought thirty anstamped letters from Canton to Hongkong, was brought before Mr. O. D. Melbourne, at the Police Court, this morning, and fined $30.
Struck Off.
Another Museum for London.
From this morning's wire we
It is notified in the Gazette that learn that Stafford House is to be used as a museum of London the names of the following Com- antiquities. This seems to be a panies have been struck off the very excellent iden, the more so Register :-The Shanghai Times that, hitherto, London has taken and Sport and Gossip, Lid, and far less account of her own anti-Cottam and Company, Ltd. quities than of those of other cities. So far as we can remem-
Cautioned.
China and Manila Steamship
Hongkong Hotel Company $170 per share, buyers.
Indo-China8.N.Company-12h per cent, dis,, sales.
A regulation hitherto in force cannot be said for the ships Company-$60 per share, buyers. provided that not more than 1,100 Hongkong Gas Company public rickshas should be licen sed for the City of Victoria, but it lying at Jardine's and other
has now been necessary to strike wharves in the west district. $180 per share.
out this provision and substitate The Taisang, which arrived this morning from Calcutta, is
the following regulation—"Not laid at Jardine's wharf doing
more than 1,150 public rickshas nothing. The willing coolies, who
Douglas Steamship Company shall be licensed for the laland.
of Hongkong. Public ricksha are now at work on the Kowloon
China Sugar Refining Corn-shall be of such pattern, size, wharves, were visited yesterday $51 per share. by a deputation from the rebel
may be approved by the Captain camp, who quietly informed them pany, Ltd. -$140 per share, weight, and appointments as that, if they did not immediately buyers.
Luzon Sugar Refining Com-Superintent of Police. For each go out on strike, they would be
Island of Hongkong there may cut with knives." The men, pany, Ltd.-$58 per share, poblic ricksha licensed for the however, being assured of police sellers,
Hongkong Ice Company-$65 be two licensed drivers." The re- gulation restricting the area in protection, continued their work.
In connection with this strike, per share, buyers.
Hongkong Rope Manufactor which Quarry Bay a correspondent wrote to the
ing Company, Ltd.-$51 per might ply is. "Telegraph":-
share.
An Old Friend.
"Some severe measures will have to be taken, if only with the object of putting a stop to any future troubles of this nature. The men come into this colony, far greater privileges and much make lots of money, and get better protection than at Canton A junk master who had more or any other part of their own ber, many of the old treasures are gunpowder on board than his country. It is to be hoped the stowed away in little-known exui-licence permitted, was. brought Government will not lose sight bitions like the United Service before Mr Hazeland, at the Police of the anxiety of all these to remain here, and! of their great obligations to Museum or that at Bethnal Green Court, this morning, and dismen as well as in odd and neglected charged with a caution.
most liberal and benevolent class corners of the British and Sonth
Preachers at the Cathedral Kensington Museums. When the
The proachers at the Cathedral of rulers, as are the British." Tate Gallery was completed, to-morrow Sunday are the Rev. many of the pictures of the D. B., Raynalda M. A. Chaplain of British School wore dragged to the Mission to Seamen, and the light from their burial in private Rev. H. I loyd R. N., Chaplain of and semi-private halls, se well as H.MB. Flora. from the National Gallery itself; Maritime Certificates.
A list of masters, mates and and the new building quickly became known as an exhibition engineers who have passed their of work by great British painters. examinations and obtained certi- A similar collecting and conficates of competency for the year tralising of the wonderful relics ending December 31st, 1912, is of old London was badly needed for the convenience of the tourist published in the Gazette.. and the student who may be pressed for time; and all who love London will rejoice that this is now likely to be plished.
Sunday Papers.
ACCOM➡
Capt. Ross Resigns.
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Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company-61 per cent. premium, sales and buyers,
GENERAL ANDERSON.
Important Appointment for Hongkong G. 0, C.
rickshas also abolished, as also is the list of fores formerly applying to Quarry Bay, which
It is provided that if the ricksha now comes under the same scale as is applied to the whole island. be engaged within the City of Victoria, and be discharged out- side the Western part of the City of Victoria after 9. p.m., or be dis chorged to the East of Bay View Police Station on the Eastern side of the City of Victoria after 9 pm., an extra half fare shall be chargeable,
The only other alteration affects Major General Anderson, C. B. who has been in command of the two-wheeled trucks, and this takes British and Indian troops at the form of an amendment of the "The.cable steamer, the Re- Hongkong since 1910, hus just following regulation:-" No two- corder, arrived here yesterday been appointed to the command wheeled truck shall be found with submarine cable on board. the largest and most important namely, Albany Road, Aberdeen Street above Wellington, Street, (April 29) from Cape St. James, of the Lucknow Division, one of on any of the following roads, The Recorder in a handsome little in India.
The general, who is in his Arbuthnot Road, Arsenal Street, craft and no doubt a comfortable "home afloat," if we may fifty-soventh year, joined the Babington Path, Battery Road, her good-sized Royal Horse Artillery in 1876 and Castle Road, Cochrane Street, judge from square ventilating side-ports served with distinction in the Centre Street south of Queen's
Bad other evidences about Jowaki Afridi expedition of 1877 Road, D'Aguilar Street south of she decks of cool ventilating and in the Afghan War of 1878- Stanley Street, Elgin Street, shafts and white awninga." 80; in connection with which he Eastern Street south of Queen's [The Recorder, which is well was mentioned in the despatches Road, East Street south of known to the present generation and gained the Afghan medal Lower Lascar Row, Garden Road, Graham Street, Gutzlaff with two clasps. He was gazetted of readers, was built in 1885.]
captain in 1884, and Majoria 1893. Street, Gap Road, Gage Street, He saw farther service in the Hill Road, Hospital Road, Ice Burmese trouble of 1885-6; and, House Lane, Lyndhurst Terrace, on the North West Frontier, he Lower Albert Road, Magazine Gap His Excellency the Governor pore they have just bought, for was three times mentioned in the Road, Mosque Street, Old Bailey
Still Buying..
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by Capt. C. E. Ross of his Commission in the Scouts The Japanese are still buying company Hongkong Volunteers cheap steamers, says the "Tele graph" of May 2, 1888. At Singa-
with effect for the 5th inst.
German Acting Consul
It seems that one or more of the has been pleased to recognise $16,000, the Martaban, a steamer despatches and obtained his Street, Peak Road, Peel Street,
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Bishop of Victoria.
summer months.
A Baggage Thief,
in
a
Chinese Barred In Australia.
sor in Hongkong. The Lucknow Division is, of course, a very large ANGLO-AMERICAN exact size of it, but it stretches, 10. izatea oft band, tou praotically, from the centre of India to Assam and the borders
PLAYERS.
Possession Street, Po Yan Street, Pokfulum Boad (between Bonham Dissenting bodies at Home have Vice-Consul Dr. Crail as being of 390 tons net and 80 horse brevet as lieutenant-colonel.
In 1908 he commanded the Road, and Queen's Road), Park been weighing the advisability of charge of the Gorman Consulate power, built at Dumbarton in 1865.
A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd. Firat Brigade in the Bazaar Valley Road, Robinson Road, Seymour excommunicating from their par- at Hongkong during the absence
The report of the general man- Expedition and, later, the First Road, Shelley Street below steps, ager of the
above company Brigade Mohmand Field Force, Shing Wong Street, Square Street, Judging from recent Home advices, a rather ominous situation ticular sect or sects all such as confronts the Government in regard to one particular feature of its have given place to the devil by on leave of Dr. E. A. Voretzsch.
The Bishop of Victoria has re- (Mr. J. D. Humphreys) for 1887, being again frequently mentioned, St. Francis Yard, Staveley Street, Albert Road, Wing Budget proposals. It will be recalled that the financial provisions reading Sunday newspapers, for 1913-14 do not alter existing taxation in any respect whatsoever which papers, we would point moved to 105 The Peak for the which was issued on May 1, 1888, and winning promotion to a major-Upper
Letters and showed that the year's working generalship for distinguished Fang Street, Water Street south of Des Voeux Road, Western Street -there are no new levies, neither are there any remissions. It is out, are printed on Saturday! Itis
Interviewed this morning by south of Des Voeux Road, Wynd- because of this latter fact that the trouble has arisen, inasmuch as a the Monday paper which is pre-cards left at St. Paul's College compared favourably with that of service in the field.
lower rate of exchange. There Telegraph" representative, ham Street, Wellington Street," strong feeling exists among many Ministerial supporters that at pared and printed on the Sunday.
seen there any morning by ap-.
was a noticeable increase in the General Anderson said:
Weat Street south of Lower Liscar least one tax-that on sugar-should no longer be imposed on the Are there any people in this always find him and he can be the previous one, notwithstanding
pointment.
company's business in China and
"The report as to my ap-Road, and Zetland Street." This people. Feeling runs very high on this particular controversy,world, save the the British and
Portuguese Clerk's Trouble. especially among that section of politicians which clings to the those of British descent, to whom
A. F. dos Remedios, who stande in Manila. The net profite-in-
I leave here for India on the insertion at the commence- "free breakfast table" policy, a policy which Liberals found it the notion could suggest itself much to their advantage to enunciate many years ago. It is, of for a moment? It would be idle. charged with being in unlawful cluding $2,730.09 brought for-pointment is quite correct regulation is now amended by
came to $64,811.47. In the course, a purely idealistic cry, but all the same, it has at one time we imagine, to try to persuade possession of copy press lettera, ward from the previous year August 16. I am being sent to ment thereof of the words, "Ex
these pious individuals that a thing the property of Mr Cruz, was
I have received no official informs the Captain Superintendent, cf or another brought in not a few votes to the Liberal party....
in right or not-right, wrong or again remanded on bail, by Mr foregoing November a dividend succeed General Sir Brian Mahon. cept with a written permit from The situation which is proving a little awkward to the Govern not wrong, irrespective of the day C. D. Melbourne, at the Police of 6 per cent had been paid, tion as to who will be my succes Police.
and it absorbing $24,799, ment just not is not.a demand for a return to the "free breakfast of the week on which it is done. Court this morning.
WAR now proposed to pay a table policy, but it is a step in that direction-a strong plos for We once knew a man who would
A Chinese who stole a box further 6h, making 13 per cent the abolition of the sugar tax. The Parliamentary Committee of the any dama!" on any week day. Co-operative Union is taking up the cudgels and has reminded Mr. but carefully refrained therefrom containing clothing to the value for the year. The entire assets Asquith of his own declaration that the tax is vicious in principle." on what he called the Sabbath of $8, was brought up at the amounted to $555,797.74. Mr. Lloyd George is not forgotten either, for the Committee reminds It has usually been our experi- Police Court, this morning, before him of his denunciation of the impost because it imposes a heavy once that there is more cruel and Mr. C. D. Melbourne, and een- burden upon the poorest of the poor." This reference of the wicked slander talked on the tenced to six weeks' imprison Chancellor of the Exchequer was, of course, made when the Sunday, by persons who regard mont and four hours' stocke. The Unioniste were in office, and the Co-operative Union gets home work or pleasure on that day as box was taken from a passenger on awkward point for Mr. Lloyd George when it-suggests that equal to the sum of the seven on board the a.s. Kinshan. if that was, a reason for its discontinuance a few years ago, it deadly sina, than by all the Sab-
It is notified that information should surely be easy for him to put the matter right now that it is bath-breakers put together.
has been received from the mili
"The proportion of white and in the footsteps of Frawley. within his power. Unluckily for him, the Chancellor's own words.
tary authorities that gun practice
native troops would be pretty There are many who still remem have como home, to roost! Since the tax was imposed in 1901, it has
will be carried out as follows:-
mush the same as we have here. ber the excellent productions yielded no less than fifty-six millions sterling, and co-operators claim
On Tuesday, the 6th May: From
At present the Division has a re-staged by the Frawley company, that they have contributed one-ninth of the total revenue from this
Before, Mr Hazeland, at the Lyomun, in a North-Easterly di-
giment of British cavalry and a notably William Gillette's Sec source. The Union rejecte Mr. Lloyd George's excuses for non-
battery of the Royal Horse ret Service." Itis claimed by those remission of the tax, and they give the Chancellor another nasty Police Court, this morning, a rection, between the hours of 7.45 For when they argue that if such taxes must be retained in order Chinese was charged with steal- p.m. and midnight, All ships,
The quotations which follow Artillery; also six batteries who have seen both companies, that he may carry out legislative experiments, then the alleged ing four straw hats and some glass junks and other vessels are to
are from the "Hongkong Tole of Rogal Field Artillery, a that the Anglo-American Players value of the latter is diminished at the start. The day was when bottles from the wharf of the keep clear of the ranges......
His Excellency's Private graph for May 3, 1888. These couple of companies of the are the equal of, if not superior to, three-quarters of the members of the Co-operative Union were clas- Kowloon Godown Company.
Secretary..
quotations will appear evory Royal Garrison Artillery, and any American company that ever luspector Kerr stated that the
and comparisou His Excellency the Governor week,
of eight battalions of British in- toured the Orient. Mi cor sified as Liberala, but to-day many are becoming disgusted at the
The first production in Hong 9.8. Sumatra was discharging way in which this and other matters in which they are interested have been elurred over. As a consequence there is a strong move cargo at the wharf, and a Chinese has been pleased to appoint quotations then obtaining with fantry. The Indian troops include
eleven battalions of infantry. In day night, at the Theatre Royal ment towards fusion of the Labour and Co-operative forces, and as detective saw the defendant take Captain Edward Michael Conolly, those of to-day should prove of four regiments of cavalry and kong will be presented next Tues that movement grows, the last day of Liberal ascendency in some of a hat from a caso, and hide it Royal Horse Artillery (T.), to be much interest,
Hongkong and Shanghai Bink, addition, I shall be responsible when, Mrs. Temple's Telegram the great northern countries may rafely be presaged.
under a tarpaulin. The detective his Private Secretary and extra
Union Insurance Society of ations throughout the district. staged. The booking at Montzie We are not arguing that the tax should be removed, for if all afterwards found other hate and Aide-de-Camp, vice Captain the 157 per cent. premium, buyers for the various volunteer organisaoleverand laughable farce will be
General Anderson, added that we are told, indicatee Bomerset, Grenadier Guards. Canton. $87.1-2 per share, are to help in bearing the burdens of taxation, then obviously, com-, some glass bottles under the Honourable Fitz Roy Richard
this will be the first time that he Anglo-American Players modities in common use must be subject to duty impositions. What cover.
A sentence of one month's Government. Notification No. 38 sellers.
China Traders' Insurance Com- has been sent to that part of given a large reosption,
first appearance bere we are anxious to show is that another element of discord is making
-868 per share, 54 Ladia its presence felt in the Ministerial camp, and the new movemennt imprisonment and four hours of 7th February, 1913, appointing
stooke was imposed.
Capt. Omolly A.DO is opnoelled: may very well spell disaster to the Liberal party as a whole,
THE Hat COLLECTOR.
Gun Practice..
1
Not since T. Daniel Frawley A cablegram from London ap- of Burma, and includes Calcutta, toured the world with his drama pears in the "Telegraph" of the Allahabad, Cawnpore and other ic company nearly eleven years military atations. ago has an American comedy and same date, to the effect that some important" Chinese, who had emigrated from Compared with Hongkong, the dramatic company visited the Far this port to Melbourne on the 8.8. number of troops serving in that East. The Anglo-American Afghan, had not been allowed to district is very large; somewhere Players who will visit Hongkong land, and were returning to Hong about thirty thousand, in fact. next week are the first to follow kong.
1888.
SHARE, REPORT.