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1888.
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.
(Compiled from the "Hongkong. Telegraph" flee for the Week Ending May 10, 1888.)
Truck Coolle's in Trouble.
ham Street truck coolies were
M.P. had been sentenced to eix montba' imprisonment,
[Mr. Dillon's offence was, of contre, a political one.]
Richmond Terrace Estate and Building Co., Ltd. The annual meeting of the
Qu
May
THE ROYAL VISIT TO BERLIN.
How will it affect Anglo-German Relations?
[UPNOTAS AV Oa] shareholdern of this Company In a few days our King and WAS held
16 Queen will commence their visit at the Office, 36 Queen' to Berlin in connection with the Road. Mr. J. D. Humphreys, Royal Wedding on May 24, Em- May 11, 1888. Four Wynd- general manager, presided and pire Day. The Spring Review of Incat at daylight, ty morrow,
Messra A. E. Mancell, J. S.the Gus. Corps has been ar Australian Mail-Clozes Trolarged, before Mr Sercombe Willmot, (secretary) and J. Srauged to take place during their Prinz Sigismund at 3 p.m. Smith this morning, with cana-Hagen were present. After the Majesties' stay as a special hou to-day,
ing injury to a Chinese boy. The the adoption of the balance abeat our. This in the first state visit of Siberian Mail-Clo ea par .s.boy was taken to the police had been agreed to, the chairman British Sovereign to the Capital Chonan at 5 p. to day. station by his mother, who laid proposed that Mr A. W. Maitland of the German Empire and the
the complaint. He had his thigh should be re-appointed auditor bearts of all his subjects will be, New Road,
broken by being run over, and for the ensuing year, and, when with King George for taking this Hesh out out. He had to be sent he stared those present that the eff ot to the nation wishes with nearly a quarter of a pound of this had been seconded and carried, opportunity of trying to give to the hospital. The case was capital of the Company had been regard to the batter Anglo Ger...
fully and profitably employed. man relations. Until 1895 the Kaisor was a regular visitor to Queen Vistoria, but from that date his views on the interference with the affairs in the Transvast.
Tenders are being invited for Victoria Gap to High West Gap. forming a section of the road from Removing Stone.
A Chinese, pame Kong No, who that it would be foolish to re was charged at Police Court, this move one obstraction to traffic and morning by Sergeant Jackson, [substitute a maller one, Never- with unlawfully removing steno theless it scris to us to be worth from Crown land, was ined some little consideration, and for $100. this reason we pass it on. If a b3 left it would mark is to
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te less objectionable if it took the form a fat plats or atone Bet into the roadway.
Anglo German Relations.
It is no matter for surprice to read in to-day's telegrama that the visit of the King and Queen to Berlin has brought the question rolations Auglo German
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1913. ·
AMERICAN RACING AND HORSE-BREEDING.
exists after the visit.
heavily."
7." This moat surely have
Savage Assault.
A man who was alleged by Inspector Gerrard to have pro- tically torn half a man's ear off, was rent to goal for a month and bound over for twelve months, by Mr. Hazeland, at the Police Court this morning.
Breakwater Lights,
Summer Tours to Japan. We have received from the Hongkong office of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha a neat little folder giving particulars of their sum mer tours between Hongkong and Japan. Thess commence June 1 and end on September 30.
Societies Exempted.
remanded for a week.
It has taken Hongkong along
time to learn how to keep truck coolies within bounds!]
Australia' and Chinese Immigrants.
the
1888.
SHARE REPORT.
The quotations which follow did not make his vicita welcome The following telegram was are from the "Hongkong Tele- to the British nation and it was senton May 10, by Sir Henry Look, graph" for May 17, 1888. These pot until the Queen's funeral in Governor of Victoria, to Governor of Hoogkong-Sir W. week,
quotations will appear every 1901 that he again est foot on and comparison of English soil. Our present King, Dos Vaux
quotations than obtaining with as Prince of Wales, returned this Since received your telegram of much interest.
"I telegraphed on 8th May, those of to-day should prove of visit in 1802 and sings then the Kaiser has resumed his periodic of same date, to which I replied!
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. Rojourna in the British Isles. King that my Government deny that-158 per cent. premium, sellers. Edward mat the German Emperor a new policy has been adopted; Union Insurance Society of only strict enforcement of existing Canton -$87.3-2 law, but which they desire should sellers.
carried out in a manner to obviate, as far as possible, loss or inconvenience to British merch- anta or passagere."
Chamber of Commerce.
per
share,
at Kiel in 1904 and slae at Cron berg in 1008; but the founder of our entgute with Francs never China Traders' Insurance Com- paid au official visit to the Gorman
Capital. pany.$68 per share.
North China Insurance-Tls 285 per share, buyers.
Canton Insurance Company; May 12 "A Spesial general Ltd.,-$74 per share, esllers. meeting of the Hongkong Cham
Yangtaze Insurar ce Association ber of Commerce will te held at-Tis. 105 per share, se leru. the City Hall on the 22ad inst, for the purpose of appointing a member of the Legislative Coun oil, vias Mr. AP: MacEwen."
· Mr. Shelton Hooper,
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Chinese Insurance Company-
8170 per share, sellere.
China Fire Insurance Company -873 per share, sellers..
Hongkong and Whampoa Dsok
sellere: Company-32 per cent. premium, Hongkong. Canton and Macao
The present unprecedented visit. may of coures ba regarded prim arily as family courtesy, but it ie bound also to be given. a political significance. How will it affect Anglo German relations? There can be no doubt," Enye Professor Eucken "that an imp-
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of
It is notified that the piles in again into prominencs. Admitted-connection with the Admiralty ly, the visit is made in order that Coaling Depot, Kowloon, are now Their Majesties shall attend the being removed, and the extremity wedding of the Kaiser'e daughter, of the new breakwater will for but the frst that it has bean ex- the future be marked by a red tended from four days to nines is light from Buns
sunset to sunrise. in itself sufficient to make the press in both countries, with the useful results of the late King Edward's visits in mind, hopeful of desper friendship following
Hongkong Fire Insurance provement in the mutual relations Company on the precent visit. It may be
$322 per share, between England and Germany. Peak Tramway.
is highly desirable. It is an up- no more than a conoidence that
buyers. May 12-"The Peak Tramway Lord Morley is also in Berlin at
natural situation that there two Company ran their cars up and
grest and capable nations, whore st present, and he assured inter-
Licensing Board Chairman.' dowu,thisafternoon, in connection viewers that his visit is merely a
have beзp, and can be, 8 mach holiday. But the visit of Lord· His Excellency the Governor with the final trials. Our repre-
selves in a condition of mutael.: Haldane, some months ago, was has been pleased to appoint the sentative, who availed himself of
to each other, should find them tritation," "Amen, any we all, also described as a private one, Honourable Mr Arthur George the kind invitation seat by Mr though it turned out to be rather Murchinsion Fletcher to act as a Findlay Smith, the Company's Steamboat Company-8204 per but let us consider the situastion,
Since the Creusot guns. more than that. In any case, it Member of the Licensing Board scoretery, found the trip s most share, sellers.
bavo. driven, will be something gained if the during the absence on leave of delicious one, everything working
China and Manila Steamship Pan-Slaviem presa in the two countries even the Honphysble Mr Claud Bevern, in a most satisfactory manner. Company 8621 per share, back the Army trained by General
Dal Bait The INSULA PA An up car left at 4.8 pm, passing buyers.
von der Goliz and clored the imagines that a better feelings Land Sales. marthus Kennedy. Boad 'nt 4.10, Bowen
Hongkong Gas Company-Southera exit to German ambit Inland Lot 2023, Shaukiwan Road at 4.11, the junction at 4.14,
ions, & markelly softer tone hra The Missionary and the Gamblers Road, is to be sold by auction at the sharp curve at 4:15, and 136 per share
As we alsted yesterday, a lady the PWD Offices on the 26th reached the Peak Station at 4.17.
Hongkong Hotel Company- bzen noticeable in German official atterances in reapɔnɛs to English missionary has been falling fool inst. It is 2322 square feet in Wo hear that the Company expoot/+270 per share, buyers.
Indo-China S.N. Comyany-12 pagific overigres, Circumstances of the Pacific Mail because rome extent, and the apret prics in to obtain their licence in the
have changed, demanding a fifty. Obiners on the .s. Mongolia elested to do a little gambling on 2025 will to fold. The area is of Hongkong will avail themselves 853 3r share, buyers.
$830. On June 2nd. Island Lt course of a wesk, when the public per cent, dis., callers.
Douglas Steamship Company-million war loan for the Germp Aimy. What does it portond their un from the States, "P" Chinese lal ourers, returning with 9,367 aquare feet and the upset of one of the most pleasant and
China Sugar Refining Com-It can only mean that Germany cheap. oxcursions to be found in The High Courts of America having ruled that verbal bets are the estaings of years, frequented price $1,874,
this quarter of the globe. Apany, Ltd.-$143 per share, is about to return to the Bim trek ian tradition and, abandoning Bellors. not illegal, there is every probability that the great race tracks of the the gambling tables and lost States will again assume their former popularity. Not from the
Imzon Sagar Refining Com-schemes of overseas expansion, is It is notified that the following trip to the Peak before breakfast, or after business hours, under
destiny in Eurors. Why should betting point of view do we look on the announcement with pleasure, b.en the lady's first trip to Chins, Clubs be on have exempted by the such conditions, would really be pany, Ltd.- $54 per share, going to bew out for herself her.
sellers. or she would not have wasted Governor-in-Council from regis but from the point of view of sport pure and simple. When the grod ink in drawing attention to tration under the Societies Orbon to the laud-looked and sweltering population of this
Hongkong Ice Company-$60 she not? Let her have Holland, Belgium and Luxemburg ;-give American race course were held up, hundreds of stables were closed, theobvious. Wherever the Chinese dibancs, 1911-Sport (Non-Chi-Malts and Gibraltar of the East." per share, buyers.
Hongkong Rope Manufacturing
back if necessary Alsace Lorraine
all· at least as far as America and Americans were concerned, and colie is, there will he gamble; if near): The Hongkong Gymkhana
you deprive him of a table he Club Sport (Obineca): The The Appointment of Mr. Augu-
Company, Ltd.-853 per share, to France relinquishing
claims to interests in Morocco an sellare. thousands of men were thrown out of employment. It was quite will use the pavement or the deck. Hongkong University Union stus Shelton Hooper to be Asesor,
When the old nataral, too, that horse-breeding in the States should feel the effect Did it not occur to this goad lady Social (Chinese) The Yuk Kee under the Rating Ordinance of
compenestion." 1888, is mentioned in the "Tele-
tria (which should have joined the Emperor dies, let her have Aus. of the emigration from America of the finest stook the country that the gamblers were but doing Olab.
Spoiled His Drink. graph" of May 14.
Empire in '68 or '70) and hand possessed. Now, no country that has to maintain a large army can what they had done for years in America, and would have done the allow its horseflesh to deteriorate, and unless there is some ensams had the mail boat been a
over Hungary to the Balkan States and the Polish Provinces to Russia. couragement held out to horse-breeders to produce the best stock cattle-sbed or a lodging-brues ?ing, before Mr C. D. Melbourne, Colony for the week ending May Dust Carts and Street Watering and having gone so far can we.... from which mounts can be raised, the mounted regiments must, in We notice that the skipper, a Chinese was charged by Ser-
grudge ber Switzerland and Den "a winsome and magnetic Irish-geant Wills, with atoaling two course of time, suffer from the general deterioration.
The orders of the day for the but what could really be better. mark? It sounds very dreadful, man," (Oh these women!) indulg-ottles of stout, valued at 70 cents,
meeting of the Sanitary Board to for the good government and Some of the finest horees seen on the English turf of late have ed in a little mild leg pulling by from a godown. It was stated to the British or foreign com-
that, when the defendant wWAS
be held on Tuesday are as follow:--- come from American, owned stables and were bred from American telling her that he had but up a
screen "to shat out the offensive sen by an Indian watchman, he
1. Letter from Government re- peace of Europe? Do we dread sires and dams; yet America has allowed ibis transference of quality sight from the first cabin pase threw one of the bottles down visitors to the City Hall Museum lative to the erection of an addi-those German porte on the North to take place without anticipating the national loss. If the English engers." That is quit grd. The and broke it. Defendant was for the week ending May 13 of tional water closet at the Bonge? Well, then we must stick
France and Jockey Club can keep ite turf tolerably clean, surely the same can moral sensitiveness of firat class stoned from that year were:-Europeans, 161; kong and Shanghai Banking the moon duphold her through 2. Mr. F.BL Bowley pursuant enemies; we must pat our military chary of flirtations with her. be done in America. It matters not what country or what branch passengers ought to be considered, prisonment and four hours' stocke, Chinese, 1,945; total, 2,106,
Smart Capture, now that the Company forbide- of sport one chocess to deal with, one finds those who are ready to the first class pesrengers to gom Detective Sergeant Wills, was May 14His Excellency the to notice will ask ;- abuse straightforwardness; but is it not a proof of weakness to allow ble.
house in order and give her the "I Between whst hours do the on the quote on the Kowloon Governor has provisionally ap- a party of rogues not only to deny pleasure to many and cause un-Some Reuter Muddles.
dust carta and coolies with requisite sesistance on the Whorvos about eleven o'clock pointed Mr. Gregory Paul Jordan.
dust baskets patrol the teenth day." The Entente m employment for thousands, but to affect the requirements of the We wonder who is at fault over last night, How a coolie leavM.B. and C.M.Edin., M.E.0.8.
Streets of Kowloon South of keep its face towards the enemy nation? The English turf is kept clean by having men at its head the occasional mis-sending, or ing then.s. Kanagawa Mara. The Eng., to be. Health Clear and
the North boundary of Jor and Queen are going to show the and it has nothing to fear. Our King who will not tolerate shady work from eith lord or commoner; mis reading of the newspaper officer stopped him and three Inspector of Emigrants, vice Dr.
dan Road 2
German nation we bear them no and to be warned off the English turf is to ruined scoially. Noises to Hongkong, Yesterday fire cracker bombs fell from Adams, who has resigned the decent house would ever think of retaining on its visiting list the one of nur telegram informed under his cont. On examining the appointment, to date from March How often daily and between ill will, but at the same time do what hours are the same not let as forget that the colossal name of a man who had been expelled from the turf at Home, and if us that "mardal" law in the hold Wills found that a cses had 28 last."
atreela swept ? the American racing is governed by men of the calibre of Lord Balkans had been resoinded. bean broken open and it was Blamese Elephanta in Hongkong: III. How often daily and between bodes no good to Europe. Each military expansion of Germany Darham, Lord Derby and Lord Cholmondeley, there would be little Obviously the T and the I of from this last the bomba had
what hours are the sams to regret and, in fact, much to be gained by the rejuvenation of the Morse Code had been ran been stolen. At the Police Court,
'streats watered ?: "
stupendous efforts and sacrifiosa horse-racing in America,
together, by either a bad sender this morning, the man was cont or a bad reader, so making D. to geol for seven days,'
Who supervissa the opera- cannot be made without an ch. It is to be hoped, then, that the American racing stables now We could quote quite a number
tions covered by the above jest and we must not be lullad into socurity and iosɔtion by established in England, and Ireland (Mr. Croker sant Orby from the of errors of a similar sort, to which
Gun Practice.
questions ? Curragh to win the English Blue Riband), will overlook whatever we are treated from time to time. It is. notified that information
3. Suggested change in the Lords and courtesies which thosa who follow German state-orafa misunderstandings there may have been in the past as regards the When Carl Hagenbeck's death was has been received from the mili- of so much attraction to the junior timates for 1914. Sport of Kings in the States and onco more re-establish their stables telegraphed, the game that esme tary authorities that gun practics population of the neighbourhood, 4 Application for permission realize can only to intended to in America, not, of course, forgetting to send over competitors for the through Reuter was "Hergen- will be carried out, an under were eafely embarked on Satur- to erest 5 water closets at No. 3 arouse the auspicions of France English classics. It is essential for the future of horse-brooding in beck. Readers who know the On Tuesday, the 20th Mayday Jest, and left for Yokohams Queen's Road Central, Marine Lot and so overthrow our Entente, America that her sportsmen should produce in their own country Morse Code will at once ses that From Par Sha Won, in a North- on Sunday afternoon on the No. 103 section A.
5. Mortality return from Macao ench fliers as Sir Martin, Adam Bede, Tracery, Whisk Brcom, and the dot and dost, which, together, Esterly direction, batween the steamer Monmouthshire." the brilliant though unfortunate Rhodors. It may be too much stand for A, and had too long an hours of 7:45 pm, and midnight. Interesting Telegrams for the week ending 28th April, perhaps to expect that the recent decision of the American Courte interval left, between them and On Friday, the 23rd May – From Among the Raater wires re- 1913. will at once restore the position to the level it occupied before the so had become ET. Even a cor- Belchers, inga North Westerly ceived on May 16 was one announc. 6 Mortality return for the week crazy Anti-Betting crusade gained its end; hat, should the decision roolly coded telegram is some direction, between the home of ing that the British Government ending 20th April, 1018, hold good, it will certainly diminish the number of American-bred times a bit of a Chinese puzzle, 9 km. All shipe, Janks and other had pesumed the protectorate. Linewashing return for the horson ranning in England and give that fillip to horse-breeding in but thin sort of thing is the very vessels are to colear of the Fot North Bornes, and another fortnight ending 39th April, 1918. Amarice which the country will otherwise sadly need.
dance and all?
to the effect that Mr John Dillon, Het return for the weeks end
ing 3rd and 10th May, 1018.
At the Police Coart, this morn-
ranger
Mortality. Returas. The deaths registered in the
5, 1888, totalled sixty-nine, of which number only one belanged
munity.
Visitors to the Museum. The returns of the number of
Dr. Jordan.
Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company-54 per cent. promium, buyers,
SANITARY BOARD.
In Kowloon,
Corporation.
"The two Siamese elephants which arrived here eme two waske ago, intended as a present from the King of Siam to the IV. Emperor of Japan, and which, during their stay on the premises of Mr. Kennedy, were the centre
CONCERT POSTPONED.
The Trontonade Co nounced to be Orioket Ground to-night been postponed on sopgant the weather,