THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2. 1918.
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25.
COMPANY MEETING.
Chairman's Speech. The Secretary having road the notice convening the meeting and the auditora cortificate, the Chair- m said:-Gentlemen. The
statement of
accounti
hav
the mill and I feel sure you wil- JOTTINGS BY THE WAY. approve of the consulting com- mittee's action in making the
Hongkony Cotton Splaning, Weaving and Dyeing Co., Ltd.
grans in recognition of good "It is generally believed that work, under trying conditions of important discussions will take The sirtenth annual general climate and native labour, -
place on the Home Rule question," Sp, Weaving and Dyeing work for the next two to three Up till now, we take it, the sub- meeting, at the Hongkong Catton We are fully engaged with said a Reuter's wire on Monday.. Co. Ltd., is held this morning months nad pre eat prospects are ject has been badly neglected. Managers, Messrs Jardine, Mathe-koope within reasonable limits. at the ffices of the General fair, provided the price of colton son and Co. The Hon. Mr D. It is to be hoped that good trad- who spent five years in the Siberian Mail-Ologen per 3.8.
Landate presiding,
ing conditions will prevail and the streets (of Belfast) a revolver. "Daring the procession through There were also present:-Sir enable us to show a satisfactory was fired and a child shot in the oquetry, believes that 50,000,000 would not cover what has been
Daringer at 5 p.m. to-day. C. P. Chater, Mr J. W. O. Bonnar resnit for the current year.
and Mr Ho Fook, consulting com-
leg.". This proof of ability to hit: spont in Somaliland in vain du
Before I propose the adoption something. must greatly have ing the last ten years. Nothing
mittee and Messrs J. Harrop of the report and accounts, I shall obeered Sir Edward Carson, Col. Frank Fillis open with his manager, H Gittens, Yaen Hop, be pleased to answer any ques effective, he contenda, oun be circus at Kennedy Towo on Satur-Lo Chenne slni, W. E. Clarke, A. tions which shareholders may doue without a railway, tight day evening. across the Protectorate: He points
Bune, A. E. Crapnell, P. U. Potia, have to put. out that neither. British not
A. Rodger, JO. Taylor sharehol
A paragraph in car "Gegerd Silk Cargo.
There being no questions ger-News," the other day, told of a Indian troops do well there and
ders, and the secretary, Mr. C., W. tlemen, I beg to propose that the Chinose in a Court at Home who declares that an expedition, with on bourd the s.s. Chili which left
The cargo of raw silk shipped Bewick,
report and "accounts as presented declined to swear in the native administratien to foilow, would this port on August 28, was de-
be passed.
Sir Paul Obater-I beg to manner. involve a huge expenditure. Iflivered at Lyons on September
second that.
fashion and preferred the Scots the Protectorate were of vital 20.
A Scot who read this importance to the nation, that
The Chairman: Proposed by but pointed comment thereon, paragraph, and who made brief myself and seconded by Sir Paul convinced as that no Chinese on expenditure would he justified, but not otherwise,
ing been in your hands for the counts be passed, Thors in favour fashion. Swearing in the Scot, Chater that the report and ac- earth can ever swear in the Scots Olympic Games
past fortnight, I will, with your please signify in the usual manner like drinking whisky, is an in- approval, take them as read.
azainetoed unanimously. bors gift. Daring the past year the cot- Mr. W. E. Clarke-I beg ton and yarn markets have ruled to propose that Sir Paul Chater, Mr Time Ball Wrong.
comparatively steady and trade 3. W. C. Bonnar, and Mr Ho According to a notification
has been fair. With the all Fook be elected to serve the Central Government that On. published yesterday the time round improvement in our orun the cansulding committee. · ball fell on September 30, 202anisation this has enabled us to seconds to soon, owing to a
M Patta: beg to second led to death, positions for milder Yung-mo, who has been santano- show a satisfactory result for the that. contact in the relay circuit
year's working.
The Chairman-Proposed by tion would no doubt meet his puaiebment. A kindly admoni- The outbreak of the reballion Mr Clarke aud seconded by Mr wishes. remotely approaching to golf. A coolie at Green Island lighthe last two months of our working W.C. Binuar and Mr He Fook be seriously hampered us during Potts that Sir Paul Chater. Mr J. Walking, runsing, loaping, swim-house has reported to the police year and business being practic-re-elected to serve on the cousalt- ming javelin throwing, wrestling that someone stole a $10 note at a standstill, caused our stocking committes. Tuoss in favour
A witness in a police court at these fall naturally into the from a jacket pocket which he of yarn to intense considerably, please siguity-against-carried at Home: "I ran after him like s programme. If golf be included, had left hanging in his quarters. but it was all sold and I am glad ananimously. why not lawn tennis and bowls
young greyhound,... tion itself? If the Olympic games in receipt of advice by wiralean are covered at low rates well into of $250.00 for the year.
Silk Delivered.",
to say that we have since had
Mr Taylor beg to prope wriggled and got awar, I ran chased the scoundrel and he and motor host facing, and avia-
good clearances. Our cotton that Mr Button Potts be re- The T.K.K. Yokohama office is position is satisfactory and we elected auditor at remuneration after him like a racehorse." must be fetched up to date, let to the effect that the silk. shipped the
we could only see this on the them be brought fully up to date
Dow ecason, which is Mr. Lo Cheung shai:-I beg like a China pony (touched with cinematograph, we should ran was fortunate and include horse racing (with Per..Nippon Marn"
waa delivered in New York on sharp more reason than golf) and all the the 28th ultimo..
Theumatism) to see it. reat of it. If not, then let
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1913.
THE TREND OF BRITISH POLITICS.
We are waiting to see whin will be made of the Royal and Ancient Club's protest against Olympic Games. It room to us that the protest in wholly just ified. If the ancient spicit of the games is to be preserved, golf bas no right to be included. The an far se we have ever learned, even cient Greeks know no game, so
them retain the spirit of the games of old times.
"Temperan e'· Drinks,
A Chinese aged '88 has been sout to hospital from No. 2.U Yung Lane suffering from an overdose of rium, supposed to have been self-admiðiatered.
Stolen from Light Houss.
Missing..
"Lee Suan has telegraphed to
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From our "Day by Day" on
in view of
the to second. advance that bas The Chairman:-It has heon rscently taken place. proposed and seconded that Mr. The ml is now on a sound Hut on Potta bee-lected auditor. basis and as our spinnings can at a remuneration of $250 for the tinae to gain in favour we find year Those in favour-against-Tuesday: whole of our output Throughout no difficulty in disposing of the carriert unanimously, the past year we have worked the business gentlemen; bank "This yer Chinky man-" Me
The Chairman:-That is all flag: A soldier giving evidence
At the Polico Court, this mara: full time on the long day shift, you for your attendance. and the position of our order book was such that the goners!
Unzeland. "Don't
Ray Chinky man; say Chinaman." managere decided to place the
Why not "Chinese" and let u
mill on day and night work from NEW WESTERN MARKET. all be correct while we are about.it the commencement of the As usual
new financial year.
in nach esses we encounter some difficulties with new, unskilled
Now Open for Public Use.
labur, but we are gradully im- proving in this reapest and hope thrown open for public us the Yesterday morning there was abortly to show an increase in our New Wes.gra Market which is of $18 001 03 has bean spent oa ony. production,
now considered to be the hast You will observe that the sum building of its nature in the Col.
The new building
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"Yuan as a humorist," headline in a contemporery; and saye a
Thas it follows up with an example.
A Chinese widow of No. 23 Queen's Road Fhat gave a man It will baeeza from yesterday's ed Ah T $35 in money to Telegraph that the Coverament change into Singapore moner at Chemiat in London has been a money-changer's shop," Ah Tai, making some interesting dis however, failed to return, and coveries in the matter of so-called neither he nor the money have temperance drinks and their con- been seen since.. stituents. In sixty-three samples
Mr Shallard's New, Post. of "non-alcoholic."
beverages analysed, between two and three Mr H. W. D. Shallard who per cent of proof spirit was dis-noted as Superintendent of the covered, while ten other samples Hongkong office of the P. and O contained no less than from five Company during the absence on to eleven per cent. Not bad this, leave of the Hon. Mr E. A. Hewett, for temperance, particularly if we C. M. G. baa biзn appointed remember that light beers do not, agent for the Company at Perth, as a rule, contain more than four Western Australia. He leave with or five per cent of alcohol! When M. Shallard on October 25 to the Board of Trade does ita duty take up his new post, and he will ennium comes non-alcoholi" wishes of the many friends he has ay say that particular attention that the market erected on the will mean what it says. We made during his stay out hore."
is paid toward keeping the whole Praya was not sufficient to meet don't expect the Law to be able
of car. property A Clever Set of Pictures. entation or what uot; hat it British American Tobacco Co.
and the growing needs of the district. to govern chemical action, ferma
maebinery in a high state of For a time, and in fact until should have
We have received from the efficiency.
quite recently, a number of mat insisting that an article sold A Billiards made Eay by the tion the advisability of ream but aines the completion of the co difficulty in two of a sat of six pictures antitled had under their serions considera- ment those actually in the market, Your general managers have shed sialls were allowed to aug temperance drink is what late Tom Browne, We recommending you to transfer the mill now building these have been ce might add that the law has Egyptian cigarettes of any B.A.T. large sum which has an invest lies between Winglok Street and it claims to be. Inoidentally mend our readers who smoke to Shanghai and it is only the doue away with. The new market housed whisky and chemicalls- we understand that the company buildings here and which would market site. power to forbid the sale of brand to save their emply tins, as ed by the company in land and Queen's Road and is on the old made bear; but in ita almighty is presenting a similar set of pic- the event of such & fer wisdom, it rermits adulteration tures to persons returning empty sing mide be left raproductive, ricully arpse
The choice of this spot That is precisely what is happening in the correspondence cheerful bambug of this system such cigarettes.
"up to a certain point." The tins that have contained 200 of that has deferred us from bringing collapse
out of between the Cecil family and Mr. Lloyd George. The Chancellor of is most refreshing.
- of forward the proposition.
Home bauses the Exobequer came rather bully out of the Marconi amandal. At Mr Pankhurst's New Mission.
in Morrison Street, for the best he had been terribly indiscreet; so indiscreet that, remembering And so Mrs. Pankhurat is going
The land and buildings, now Government took advantage of the the post be holde and the high standard of purity of motive, he had to America-not to, preach wo
atand in our Books at $550,000. (opportunity thue offered to rerume himself set for the holder of that post, he would have been wiser to men's rights as much as to attack
$150,000 for land and $400,000 the land for the purposes of the have admitted his fault and to have resigned. He has claimed more the white elava pidgin. This is
for buildinga, sum which it new market. The building is would be very difficult to recover certainly one of the finest in the runs that of President Yeaa very: ' than once that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should be a second
But the story which follows by a sale of the property since Colony and the entrance from close. It came under our notice
The intelligent foreigner who tries to follow the trond of British politica, must at times he baril put to it like to find his may-in other words, when the Mill leave the Esat with the good repairs and renewals, and we started in 1911 wheat was found through the maze and to believe in the sense of honour which is supposed to underlie our public life. It is an accepted' fact that whatever party is in power and however wrong-headed the plans of its leaders may seem; these plans have been inspired by a sincere desire to keep the wheel of progress moving. Our British public men-a8 public men-aro, spaking generally, above suspicion. They do not play the game of politics for the sake of personal gain. Bat British people have an unfortunate habit of washing their dirty linen in public; and, more unfortunato still, if one piece which. seeme dirtier than it is, is not cleaned and hung out to dry on public rope, there is always a spiteful neighbour ready to remark the fact and to place this worst, construation upon it.
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The gathering was a gay one, and the President enlivened the company by relating several amusing anecdo.es. In telling a story about him- self, the President said: "Gentlemen, I would like to tall you why lam not a good swimmer, When I was young, one day I and a corporal went out to the sea-side, to` bathe in the sea. The cor- poral bad a big and strong. body and could plange into the deep water. I wished to follow his example, but be- cause of my slender stature, I could not go to any great depth. Then my foot was often hurt by the sharp grains of sand."
That is a rib-shaker.
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will take a leaf out of her book
ordering, and we hone right Ricksha Coolle and the Steeping to buildings of a cotton mill, pra Winglok Strest is most imposing only two daga age, der narnestly that her many disciples
When
Mag
A mariner namd
1.
"An eminent judge, who was
said to be one of the most compassionate of men, once presided over & criminal court. His softness of heart, however, did not prevent him from doing his duty an judge, “A man who had been convicted of stealing a small amount was brought into court for sentence. H. looked very sad and the
Fresumably the Court adjourned court was much moved by bis contrite appearance." Yes; that's all meantime. at this stage to recover ita com- posure,
other Chancellors, Men are usually better at framing rules" for Caesar's wife, so to speak; but, then, he may have been thinking of
not very suitable for anything though that from Queen's Road others than for themselves, In any event, Mr. Lloyd George took they had as much sense of
elis. his exposure badly, and waspishly, be made allegations against the
is small sad insignificant. Cecil family. He could, and would, he said, readily furnish or as a sheep they would Richard Badham, engaged a rick salted in a profit of about $80, and the in'erior is light and airy I may say that the sale of the The whole is su moonted by instances of the investiments of members of the Cazil family when i have realised long ago that there shant the Hongkong Hotel to take 000. On the host value and as a market well needs to be in 10,000 spindles to Shanghai re-an impressive-looking doma. office, nastily referred in members of the family, whom he did not world thatare of more importance Lane, last night he had the mis property actant which stood at Hongkong. On Tuesday evening are thonsands of things in this him to the corner of Ice House name, in whom public interest bad clashed with private duty, and than women's votes. It will not fortune to fall asleep. He found, $1,516,047, in 1912 now stands the Chinese who bave rented referred to "the suspicious way in which the greatest of all Ceils be by bawling in the market when he woke up, that the coolic briginally acquired property." This kind of talk should be beneath place or stalking into the polling had taken him along es Vou at present why Shanghai is market, and this was effectually
at $1,148,407. the dignity of a Cabinet Minister. If a man is publicly to to hold booth that women will succeed in Road to Wing Lok Street, and more suitable place for a cotton carried out with the aid of a stalle secured, permission to cale- up to ridicule because of something which can be alleged against battering the condition of their that the coolie was under arrest. mill such as the purchase of raw Chinese band and fusillades of There are many reasons even brate the occupancy of the new one of his ancestora by a petly attorney who has climbed unfortunate sisters who may be It appears that district watch cotton the production of which cracke s. It is anticipated that the to notoriety a new terror is added to public life. A man is living in poverty, or misery, pan No. responsible for, say, hyphoning his name, though his suce stors did not-Mr. Lloyd George is a case
or shame.Quiet, womanly per drop the 'rickshaw and with years in Central and Northern the needs of the district for somŁO 3 sad the man has increased so much of Inte newly opened market will meet if his ancestors added to their wealth or name, hy means not quite may hope to redeem at least some to zile the pockets of the sleeping labour, but the chief reason is
in point-butsuasion, and a modest example, the aid of another man commence China and also the supply of very considerable time to o me. proper, the matter is hayond his control. And one has little aspect of the whits slaves, where politi- fare. He caught the rickeha one which overshadows the fature for a Cabinet Minister, who tries to blacken other mon, evidently in cal measures might prove and coolie, and the consequence was and which will materially effect the hope that he will himself seem whiter.
have proved-hopeless. Add to this unfortunate correspondence, the Ulster trouble, and Mrs Pankhurst ever panse toing, the rickala nolie
Does that at the Police Court this morn-all manufacturies in this Colony, one wonders what other nations, who judge only from externals, think that thousands of these charged by Inspector Fenton, bo-an increase in the Chinese press states that Mr C. Clementi, san think of British public life. Somewhere in the "Poot at the hapless creatures sink to their fore Mr Wood with stealing the Customs duties.
Was I refer to the possibility of Breakfast Table" Oliver Wendell Holmes makes "the member" present mode of life through sum of $30 and some certificates omark that "it ain't jest the thing to grease your ex with ile of sheer poverty-a poverty from from the fare. It was stated that before us and it may be necessary pointed a succeed Sie Charles We should have thought "Deed itrul. The danger attending inflammatory letters and speeches which a tiny dip into the the ricksha olie wasnot licensed. for me to again refer to this sub- Cor, K. C. M. C., as Government slow" busier order;, but it is, This is late Assistant Colonial Secretary mouth, and the orders are fall "The ship is at the harbour's contingency which we must keep of Hongkong, who has been op- steam ahead," says Mr.Redmond. was never more strikingly expressed. What a man thinks is his enormous fund-cheet, which the wn account; but when he isa public man who thinks aloud for the Suffragists have raised to carry imprisonment and four hours jet at no very distant data. idance of others, he he every need to be careful. And careful on their insane propaganda, could stooke was passed on the stealing viz $1,000 bonus to be divid binking in Britain to-day seem to be a lost art.
There is an item in the accounts expected to arrive in that Colony he can wreck is on the harbour Secretary, of British Guians, is Mr Redmond's ship, act cu e, and quite easily relieve
charge.
led amongst the foreign stai ati
on October 9.
wall if he ohoosUE,"
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A sentence of three months.
Mr Clementi
The London's and China Ex-