THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1913
Scavenging Economy.
A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., The replies given by the Pre-
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH CLASS AERATED WATERS.
THIS SEASON'S PRICES:
(From 1st MAY 1913, until further notice.)
Potash, Seltzer & Lithia
***
Per Doz.
Seltzer, Potash & Lithia in
PE
75 Cts.
Per Doz.
Boda Water
60 Cts.
Champagne Cider
Soda Water
(Bombay
bottles)
bas
70
Soda in Syphons
$1.80
+3
70
*
Lemonade
TH
Ice Cream Soda
70 70
Syphons
$2,00
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Orangeado
70
$1
SPECIALITIES:
Orangella (Gout Chinese) 70
Stone Ginger Beer
85
Orange Champagne ***
75
Oout Water
85
***
*
Tonic Water
104 ***
75
Dry Ginger Ale
Ginger Al
***
75
11
Pinte $1.00; Splits
60
Sarsaparilla ne
www
Lemon Squash
I
75 75 75
"
Pyerls Quarts $1.20;
11
Pinte $85; Splits
50
Formazone
Raspberryade. ****
Lime Fruit Champagne 75
sident of the Sanitary Board at yesterday's meeting do greatly help towards an under- standing of the street-cleansing
THEATER ROYAL.
Anglo-American Players in "Mrs. Temple's Telegram."
DAY BY DAY.
COMPANY REPORT, Auditors' ReportWe report that we have examined the Accounts of the Company at the The nation that neglects its Canton ipsurance Office, Limited. Head Office with the Books and not onl perishes,
Vouchers in Hongkong and re- The Keport for Presentation to turns received from the various the Shareholders of the Canton Agencies for the year ending There was a fair attendanos at nuisance, nor did the character Australian Mail." Despatched Insurance Office, Limited, at the 31st December, 1912. We have the Theatre Royal last night when thereof seem conducive to per se. Inaba Marn at noon Thirty-second ordinary meeting, also satisfied ourselves as to the the Anglo American Players made
harmony. Clearly, the Presid ent is handicapped by the fact
4.I.
to-day.
The Malls.
nan to-morrow.
that the detaile given to him by English Mail, Due per s.8. Delta
at 6 a.m.. to-morrow. his staff are not entirely accurate: Hestated yesterday that the streets Siberian Maile.-Due per 8.5. Li- were swept between 3 roughly and 8 a.m., and again Siberian Mail.Closes per between 12 and 3 or 4, except in the Central district which was not 'swept a second time.
21 we
Delta at 5
p.m. to-morrow. Plague Cases. Two cases of plague-one fatal Now, to be definite, on April were reported during the twenty- saw coolies swooping four hours ended at noon to-day Queen's Road near Beaconsfield One was at Shaukiwan and the Arcade at
little #
after other in Upper Station Street.. two in the afternoon, and, on the day following, the same thing occurred, about mid-day, near the Street. bottom of Ice House Plainly, then, the Central district not swept early in the morning and left for the day-not every time, anyhow. It seems to us that the whole business reduces 419 itself to a striving after economy.
60 Pints $1.00; Splits ***
All Bottles will be charged at the Rate of $1.20 per dozen ex- cept Dry Ginger Alo and Gout Water Bottles which will be charged at the rate of 60 cts. per dozen. Syphons 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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Opiùm Divan Four men wore this morning charged before Mr. C. D. Mel- bourne with frequenting anopium divan at No. 10, Graham Street. Sergeant Clarke stated that four others escaped during the raid. The "keeper" was fined $100 and the others $2 each.
A Lame Excuse.
436 There are only 233 coolies as At the Police Court this morn 16 against 431 employed by the con ing a Chinese was charged by tractor. Another hundred cooliee Sergent Brown with stealing a would mean an, increase in the piece of iron at Yaumtai. He The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will wages bill; of course, but the gain He said he picked it up in the in comfort and in health would be road. A month's hard labour and four hours' stock was the punish ment meted out.
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Chinese Indentured Labour:
We announced yesterday that the text of a bill to amend the law relating to contract labour
Sir John Carrington's Will. Sir John Worrell Carrington, C.M.G., of Kontous, Tilehurst road, Reading, lately Chief
to be held at the offices of the existence and value of the Securi- their first appearance "in" Mrs. compony on Wednesday, 21st ties for Investments, Cash in hand Temple's Telegram," a three-not May, at 11.45 a.m., is as follows: and in transit and at Bankers and comedy by Mrs Tom Wise.
The General Agents and Con- on Mortgage to the amounts speci- The play itself, or the main part, sulting Committee have pleasure fied. We have obtained all the of it, is already known in Hong- affairs of the Office made up to bave required and, in our opinion, frankly American version of it was in submitting a statement of the information and explanations we kong, for a shorter and more
31st Decembor 1912.
the above Balance Sheet is prop produced here last October by the It has been decided to abandon orly drawn up so as to exhibita Raymond Teal Company, under the system, hitherto in force, of true and correct view of the state the title of "Tom and Jerry." closing the Working Account after of the Company's affairs socording But a good story will always bear eighteen months working, and in to the best of our information and re-telling, particularly when that future to keep it open for twenty-the explanations given to us and re-telling is as clever and as bright four months. The Working as shown by the Books of the as last night's performance. The. Account for the year 1012 will Company. therefore be kopt open until the 31st December, 1913.
Future Annual Meetings will· be held as near to the end of April as possible.
1912 Account. The amount standing to the credit of this account is $1,545,432.06.
Out of this the General Agents and Consulting Committee have declared an interim dividend of $18.00 por share, absorbing $180,000. The remainder of $1,365,432.06 will be carried forward to be dealt with at the next Ordinary Meeting.
a. PRECY SUR, FاA.... 4. R. Lowe, C.A.,
Hongkong, 3rd May, 1913...
plot revolves round a jealous wife's refusal to listen to a per footly true and rational explana- tion of her husband's absence for one night, and her corresponding and very natural readiness to. accept. a “faked" story-on the principle of the old lady who UNWELCOME WORKERS jibbed at her sailor son's truthful account of the flying fish while taking in an may travellers' lies as he chose to tell her.
"Whole Thing is Very
Trifling."
Miss May Roberts. The role of the jealous wife was the Police Court, this morning, Miss May Roberts, though one Before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, at played with extreme cleverness by
Karl Moyer, of Messre, Berbling-felt that the part was far from Consulting Committee :-The
er and Company, was summoned giving her a chance to display her Hon. Sir Paul Chater, C.M.G., and Messra. D. W: Craddock, F. Mait-on remand, by Chan Yuk Tong, abilities to the fill. It was long haviour and using threatening unthankful, bat Misa Roberta once failed to turn land, II. P. White and Hon. Mr. Contractor, for disorderly be- and exacting and more or less eligible, offer themselves for
good account every Chan On, a painter, and Lo Tin. possibility which it offered; a painter's apprentice, for assault, and ber noting had very decidedly
Mr Willson, of Messrs Stephens the effect of making people aux-: and Willson, defended, and plead-ious to see her again in the other.
plays yet to be staged.
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1913.
PARTY POLITICS.
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from previous statements in the contracts made Telegraph. under the (Straits) Chinese Im- migrants Ordinance of 1902,
311
estate valued at £2,579 gross, with net personalty £480.
Strange Butcher's Implement.
a
election.
Anditore:-The accounts have been audited by Messrs. H. Percy Smith, F.C.A., and A: R. Lowe,
A., who, being eligible, offered not guilty.
themselves for re-election,
..
The evidence of the contractor Miss Fern Marshall, as the JARDINE, MATUKIO & Co, LD.
was to the effect that he came to damsel in love, ready with her General Agents.
arrange for some colour washing tears as with her smiles, was dis- Working Account, 1912. at the defendant's house in Austinctly good, as was also Miss "the other tin Avenue, Kowloon, and the Gene Yarborough O Blar DxOMBER, 1912.
defendant refused to allow him woman." The low comedy part ...$640.937.68 to do the work, and threatened which fell to Mies St. John Fox
that of the jealous and unduly sus- 04,121.63 to beat him.
Mr. Willson,picious help-mast of a vain Cook- 198,166.30 Replying to
witness stated that he did not ney barber - Was splendidly Balance Sheet ... 1,545,439.06 ring the bell, nor did be ask per-played, and met with the recep
mission to go into the house. tion it deserved. The faithful
Losses and Claims
paid Charges Commissions Balance
20 per
A man charged before Mr C. D.
will all have to 4:GMA to
Melbourne at the Police Court, end after June 30 of next year. By this morning, with being in pos experience the Singapore Govern- session of a dagger, was fined $2. ment has learned that "indentured His explanation was that he was labour is not desirable." Nor is it, formerly a butcher in New Zea- as those who bave seen it inopera-land and he used the instrument tion can testify, unless there is a in his trade.
Pocket-Picking Instrument. strong and incorruptible Govern- ment in the background-as is Before Mr C. D. Melbourne, at the case in the Malay Statee the Police Court, this morning,
to see that the system is Chinese was fined $10, or 14 not abused by capitalists who days' hard labour, for being in value a few extra pounds of latex possession of a portion of a razor- or picula of tin above the souls blade, used for pocket-picking and bodies of many coolies. We purposes. Defendant was arrest Net Premis Re- have known instances wherein aned at the Chinese, Recreation
ceived, less Re- indentured coolie, who was in ground by a district watchman;
turns and Re Dog-owners Warned. debt to the estate on which ho
Insurances The police have recently had worked, stood for loss chance of
Interest ever getting rid of his contract quite a number of cases of miss- than a negro slave, a hundred ing dogs reported to them and Transfer Fees years ago, did of being freed. dog owners are warned to keep So far as such cases are concerned an eye on their animals as there then, we welcome the abandonare many dog-thieves about in the ment of the old law.
Colony at present. Yesterday no less than four cases of missing dogs were reported from the cen- tral district.
up
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Dr. Justi Leaves.
Jr.
In the realm of domestic politics it is occasionally of interest to turn from the contamplation of issues and to give heed to the developments within the various party ranke. The party system The Outlook for the Future.
At the same time.rubber invest- provides us with plenty of material for reflection, and nowhere can more illuminating sidelights on party manoeuvring be found than inors will want to know how the Dr. Justi, who has left Hong- estates are going to be worked kong for his home in Germany, was, the proceedings of the several conferences which are periodically when the new rule comes into before leaving, the guest of honour held by the political organisations which lie at the back of the force. The nutshell position of of a large gathering of friends classification of politicans into distinctive groups. It is at these affairs is this: The native of the at the Club Germania, when he gatherings that the discontents often speak out their feelings without rubber-growing countries of the was presented with a silver loving
East is too well looked after by cup as a mark of esteem. restraint for once in a way, freed as they are from the oft-times Nature to need to bestir himself; Justi has been in practice in irksome necessity of blindly following the dictates of their leaders. he has his padi, bis fruit and his Hongkong, for ten years. and Such, for instance, are the Free Trade Unionists and the anti-Home dried fish, and therefore will retires in order to join Mrs. Justi Rule Liberals. But it is when we come down to the Labour and never, in any numbers, take and his family. It is stated that
coolie work. Therefore he will practice in Germany. Socialist Conferences that we find most to awaken our interest and labourers--whether Javanese, For Not Flying Quarantine Flag. reveal the real, as distinct from the official, feelings of the individuals Tamil or Chinese must be im- Captain Renneks, of the Ger
ported. Their boat-fare is no man steamer Spezia, was called who go to make up the particularlgroup.
inconsiderable item, and if, when upon at the Singapore Police In theory, the Labourites and the Socialists are supposed to have they get to the estates, they begin Court on April 30 to state why, mouse for either of the leading parties in the State; they are by giving a month's notice as the after leaving Hongkong, at pre- popularly supposed to exist on an independent basis, carrying work does not suit them, that sent declared to be an infected money is so much dosd loss. port, he entered Singapore with- favour with neither, and always to follow the ideals which they hold, Again, where there are a hundred out flying his quarantine flag. irrespective of the consequences. In actual fact, the reverse is the or a thousand coolies, discipline The acting Fort Health Officer, How Dr. Matheson, prosecuted and case, and we have yet to see appear in British politicsja party which is the first essential. will not trim its sails to sny wind which will carry it into a position first time a man is checked for The defence was that after leaving is this to be enforced if, the Mr. Gaunt appeared to defend. of seeming advantage. The manner in which the Labour and laziness or insolence, he packs Hongkong the boat proceeded to Socialiatio factions have linked themselves up to the present Liberal up his goods, and departs? Manila. Upon leaving there the Government is too obvious to escape notice, and at length the so- Then, where Chinese are concern-captain was given a clean bill of called Independent Labour Party is experiencing qualms of con-ed, there is the strike, boycott and health and he therefore thought secret society question. Stoppages that he could enter Singapore. science over the matter. At the recent Conference of this section aor lawful and reasonable flogging The captain was fined $20 and resolution was passed pointing out (lest it be forgotten) that the will not meet this when the coolie coats. Labour party was brought into existence to be independent and knows that there is no longer any distinct from the Liberal and Tory parties, and urging LL.P. mem- thing to prevent his running The whole thing is "& bers to do all in their power to conform to the letter and spirit of its away. Constitution. No stronger measure of self-condemnation could tough proposition" and we shall watch, with a lively curiosity, the well be imagined; neither could a more genuinely funny de result of the new system. Why velopment occur, lest it be that immediately afterwards the Con- not turn the estates into convict ference refused to adopt a motion requesting the Labour group in settlements? There would be one the House of Commons to ignore the effect on other parties of their way out of the difficulty. decisions and to yote, steadfastly on the merits of the questions brought before them. What a pretty muddle has been evolved out
DEFENDANT WINS.
1
$2,479,657,67
Mr. Willson explained that representation ofsuch a chamoter there was some little dispute bet-is full of difficulties, not the least ween the landlord and the tenant of these being that the tempta- the defendant) us to the tion to make it farcical must be verandah ever at hand. Misa For kept the *...$2,281,642.32 colour which the
197,911.30 hould be washed. The defend-temptation at bay, and the result 104.05 snt applied to have it done in a was a really fine presentment of certain colour, and the landlords type well known to all readers $2,470,657,87 tried to do it in another colour by who have seen much of the serio- force. Everything was illegal, and comic side of lower middle class the complainanta were trespassers life in London. ab initio. They invaded the defen- dant's premises without permis Rion.
Balance Sheet Ox S1 DECEnan, 1912. Liabilities.
Capital,-10,000
Shares of $250 - sach-$2,500,000
of which $50 per share has been
TEL
His Worship remarked that the men wore placed in an awk
ward position.
Mr. Willson-I quite admit they
paid up, $ 500,000.00 were placed in a false position by Reserve fund as per
the persons who instructed them, laat Account,..
1,600,000.00 but that does not alter the fact that Re-Insurance fund, 337,484.57 what they did was wrong. Investment and Ex- change Fluctua- tion Account, ... Underwriting Sus- pense Account, Uncollected Divid-
ends, Accounts Payable
Working Account
1912, a Statement,
per
";
14,313.00
them.
Some Clever Acting.
As Captain Sharpe, the lover, Mr Orrin Knor did some useful work, though he had but a minor part and had not sought to
militarise" his appearance in make-up. Mr Albert Edmundson, the henpeeked hair-dresser, rande the most of a small part; the comio and wordy butler, Mr. Carl Case, was exceedingly funny and His Worship-As you know, you cannot use more violence then mirth-provoking all the way through, while Mr Roy Neill, 80,385.41 is necessary.
the husband, and the hero Mr Willson Quite so; you may of the nocturnal adventure, 307,587.00 use the necessary force to eject played his part in a
moat life-like fashion, making his His Worship remarked that de difficulties and perplexities en 38,367.68 fendant had said, "If you come tirely real to his audience. As
out I will best you."
his friend who is always ready to Mr Willson That was a con-
'get him out of an awkward ditional offer(Laughter.)
His Worship-It was rather Mr. L. Vistor Gillard was great corner with a good, healthly lie, threatening.
indeed. His manner throughout Mr Willson:He did not do it had a delightful and almost in- and I submit he acted in a per- describable neatness and crispness fectly reasonable manner. An
about it that would have made Englishman's house is his castle, and any one of us would have even the most commonplace ut
terances laughable. Mr. Gillard. done the same thing.
is an actual comediana, rare His Worship I think the whole being that does not often stray thing is very trifling.
into the wilds of the Far East, After evidence by the other and those who saw him perform complainants, who complained of last night showed themselves the defendant striking them, his
1,545,432.06
$ 4,423,689.81 Assets,
Oush in Hand and
in Transit and on Current Account and Fixed Depos ite with Banks, $ 754,987.83 Mortgages, Loans
and Debentures, 2,028,292.02 Foreign Govern-
ment Silver Bonds, Exchequer Bonda and Indian Gov- ernment Stocks, Foreign Govern- ment Gold Loan3, In the Summary Court, this
British and Foreign morning, before the Faians
Railway and Port Judge, Mr. Justice Kemp, Cheong
Trust Bonds and Ku, sued Lam Tin Kui, 120,
Stooka,.... Second Street (first floor), for $171-46 $161-16, being the Agency Balances, contribution of one half of the Accounts Receiva
ble, amount paid to the plaintiff, in The Carzon statue has been respect to the claim in action that the Labour party has no stability or consistency, unveiled in Calcutta, by Lord 459-1915, for goods sold and two facts may be noted. Before 1908, when the Unioniste were in Carmichael. There was a large delivered. office, the Labourites gave their support year after year to the Liberal gathering including many Ameri- Mr. Otto Kong Sing appeared motions for a reduction in the tea duty. When the Liberals cams can tourists. Special police for the plaintiff, and Mr. Jackson, 2/7-6. into power, the Unionists sought to effect a reduction in the same precautions were taken as there of Messrs Johnson Stokes and duty, but this time the majority of the Labourites cast their votes was a rumour that the Terrorists Master, for the defendant, against the reduction. This is party politics! Small wonder is it intended to take advantage of the
faction should now be taking itself severely to task, occasion.
of policy of sheer opportunism!
a
The Curzon Statue,
I
25,000.00 Worship said he would adjourn ready to acknowledge and ap-
the cases sine die in order that preciate the fact..
To-night the company presenta the parties might come to a settle Eugene Walter's "Paid in Full. 04,195.79 ment,
Mr Willson said he understood 669,429,32 the complainante now regretted having taken the summonses out, The case was adjourned, and his Worship asked Mr. Willson to 188,303,52 let him know when a settlement 722,235.56 had been reached, when the pro- codedinge could be withdrawn. 41,124.87
$4,423,560.81
Sterling exchange taken at
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.
General Aggatë, Judgment for the defendants C. F. Quaran, Members of Consalt
Irg Compiltig
with costs was given.
TYPHOON WARNING.
The telegram quoted below was received by the American Con- aulate General from the Manila observatory at 9.45 a.m. to-day- Tyhoon in about 1200 Long, and 130 Yat, N., moving
TWNW
י!
CHASING THEM TO
WORK"
Before Mr. Hazeland, at the Police Court his morning, a Chinese was charged with disor derly behaviour at Wanchai.
P.O. Cotton said the defendant was chasing people with a long bamboo.
His Worship What were you chasing them for ?
Defendant I was chasing them to work (Laughter.)/
His Worship discharged defen dant with a caution