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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1913.
HOW SEDITION GROWS.
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No careful observer of the signs of the times will dispute tho assertion that, within living memory, there has never been a time when the political life of Britain has been agitated with greater restlessness and anarchy then at the presen tmoment. If we turn the Labour movement we find the workers led by the nose by paid agitators into almost incessant strikes, sympathetic and other wise; we zee the Liberal party launching out into most revolutionary legislation; and, perhaps what is worst of all, we observe leading politicians of another party openly advocating resistance-and armed resistance at that to an intended enactment. On every side there is evidence to be found that the masses, and their leaders as
C. Robinson. The latter goos aa reserve wicket-keaper, and during the past seas on his form has quite
warranted his inclusion in the team
Most interest, however, attrohes to the selection of Mr Tennyson, who made an astonish- ing debat this summer and whose brilliant performances with the those who follow the game. It bat are still fresh in the minds of will, in fact, be no reflection on the old hands" in the team to say that his doings in Africa will probably be watched with greater interest than those of any other man, who will do battle for England.
INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
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Proposed Local Section for Hongkong.
vanba at noon to-day. Siterian Mails-Closes per 8.8.
1888.
HONOKONG TWENTY-FIVE- YEARS AGO.
Compital froin, the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the Work.
Ending November 8, 1888.) ·
Batween Journalists,"
Town Band.
HONGKONG UNIVERSITY, and the results of these fonts
1888,
SHARE REPORT.
should be recognised in a Court of law in case of dispute. In this Some Interesting Points about respect, the University should be
the Engineering Equipment.
of mach us to the cornmerțiil NATA[SPECIAL ARTICLE]
community. Of course, nominal fees would be charged for the There can be no doubt tbstane torting, but they would only be of the most important functions acminal. Some other nepcots of which the University of Hong the University's practical work kong will fulfil will ta the train and equipment may be left over There was much journalistio ing of young men of progresive for a subsequent artiole, candour twenty-five years ago, na ideas in modern engineering. the following extract from the This is an aspect of the Univer 8.8. Yes, I read your editorial tis featured, and from all appear- issue of Novem er 2 will showity's activities which must te
morning I even read it twice"! ones there is a ready apprecia De-"Oh, you confuse me it is tion of the fact by those who are very kind of you." Not at guiding the destinies of this centre all-I read it twice in order to of learning A walk round the
University the other day showed The quotations which follow make out what you meant.”
that great progress is being made are from the Hongkong Tele- November 3-Commenting on in the erection of the manificent graph for November 8, 1888. the suggestion of a Town Bind equipment which has been pro Hongkong and Shanghai Brak. for Hongkong, the Telegraph enge vided by the generosity of Home-1541 per cent. premium, buyerss it regrets its inability to find the and local firms; and it is safe to elightest justification for such to say that, when everything is There will be no mreting of institution. "The Regimental installed, the longkong Univer- the Hongkong Christian Union Band is, in our opinion, amply sity will be able to boast of one on Monday evening next.
sufficient for all requirements. If of the finest and most complete the Legislative Council wish to collections of machinery to be spread of the musical art in the The extent of the gifts may be promote the cultivation and found in any part of the world. Colony, it would be better to imagined when it is stated that commence at the proper paint by already mach of the equipment
This would perhaps, ba a move in numerous case-big ones at that instituting a Musical Academy or bas Len put into place, but that Conservatoire at the City Hali. so fast is the stuff coming in that the right direction; the rising generation of Hongkong, the in we see romping about the streets, numerable boys and girls whom would largely benefit by an early
Yingehow at 5 p.m. to-day. Australian Mail-Closs per se Aleaham at 9 in. on Monday..
Christian Union.
Feturned.
of the Victoria Theatre, has to Mr. Blake, the popular manager turned to the Colony from Home
Missing Foki.
palice that his foki has absconded A Chinese has reported to the with $116 worth of jewellery."
M.C.L. Bazaar.
ing Children's League Bizaar The proceeds of the Minister amounted to $3,030. The sum
for distribution is $2,235...
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Posted to Hongkong,
has been posted on absorption to Scoond Lieuten ini. L Harvey, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. the 2nd Battalion at Hongkong.
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Wood Thief..
At the Police Court, this morn ing. Mr. lazeland sentenced a one month's imprisonment and four hours stocks, for stealing aquantity of wood at Yaumati,
Christmas Competition. An icees which accompanies to-day's issue of the Telegraph contains particulars of the Christ- m:s'ompetition being prom ted by the Nestle and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company.
K. O, Y. L. P's, Colours,
his yet to be opened and their contente laid out in the proper note some of the apparatus which quarter. It will be of interest to has been secured and which will
and artistic training in this the play an important part in the most delightful of arte. A Town practical work of the University
end it would prove a source of Band, on the other hand, would in the future. be of no earthly use in the public, sonsiderable expenditure, and
Union Insurance Sciety of Canton.$85 per share, sellers.
Chins Traders' Insurance Com pany $65 per share, sellers. North China Insurance Tis. 285 per share, buyers.
Canton Insurance Company, Ltd.,897 per share, buyers. Hongkong Fire Insurance Com- pany $325 per ebare, sellers.
China Fire Insurance Company
$73 per share, sellers." Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company-30 per cent, pre- mium, buyers.
Steamboat Company-§218 per share, sellers.
China and Matila Ste mahip Company-$140 per share, barera.
Hongkong, Canton and Macao
$135 per sbare, sellers.
Hongkong Hotel Company- Indo-China S.N. Company-17 per cent, dis., sellera.
Hongkong Gas Company-
The Power House quarters of the University is the One of the most workmanlike
our worthy Legislators actually electrical power house, where will recommend in dead earnest the be generated the current for sup$165 per share, sellers. acquisition of natives of Manila plying light and power to the ne bandemen. They had much University building and also that better come to terms with some needed for experimental work. Douglas Steamship Company- of Signor Chiarini's famous plas-There is already installed bare $64 per share, sellers. ers-or, belter still, leave of a very fine ralection of the most China Sugar Refining Com- discussing such nonsensical fade." modern engines, no two of which pany, Ltd-$180 per share,
The Sanitary Board. are alike. Later there will be buyers:
November 5- Our Banitary erected a awitchboard control, Lazon Sugar Refining Com- Board have done very little good valued at £000, which a Home pany, L'd.—191 per share, so far, but there is a grand field firm bas prevented to the Universallers.
before them. We hope to see sity. A room adjoining this, Hongkong Ice Company-803 them sctually at work very soon. which was previously used for per share, buyers.
La month, the old colours of improved sanitation in England lecturing purposes, has been con- Hongkong Rope Manufactar- A meeting of local electrical the 2nd Batt. of the King's Own has led to a diminution of the verted into an electrical machining Company, Ltd. $83 per engineere is to take place at the Yorkshire L.L.) were deposited in death-rate. Since 1881 the rate ery laboratory, where will be no-share, buyers. University on December 1, at the north transept of York Ming- has fallen from 20.5 to 18-8 per commed tod machinery for testing Hongkong and Kowloon Whart p.m., in order to discuss the pro-ter, over memorials containing thousand."
motors and dynamoe. There will and Gudowa Company,--56 per posal to form a local section of the names of officers and men of U.S. Presidential Election. the Institation of Electrical Eng the battalion who have lost their November 7. General Harrison er the machinery housed in this
be a big switchboard, valued at cent. premium, buyers. November 8.-"New York, £800, installed here, and altogeth- livea in the service of the country. the Republican candi late, has quarter will be worth well over
heen elected President of the £2,000. I may be stated, in GOVERNMENT Pingehou Island will be put up
A lease of Crown sea-bed on United States."
passing, that all the ground floor for auction at the District Lond
will be devoted to engineering experimental work, the lecture rooms being above and the bass- men's need as workshops.
ineers.
It is considered probable that there are engineers in the district
The
Lease of Sea-Bed.
who are qualified to join the In- stitution of Electrical Engineers, and enquiries on the subject should be addressed to Professor Office, Hongkong, on the 11th inst. Middleton Smith, the University,
upsat annual rental is Hongkong. It is hoped that all $1,300. The lear a confers on the local electrical enginears will lessee the sole rights of dredging attend the meeting to be held on for all and oral within the will be given to visitors to see December 1. The opportunity leased area the University Laboratories.
YARN MARKET.
Messra Polishwalla and Kotwall,
By:Our last report was dated the 24th October per as. Delta.
Harmston's Circus,
Adulterated Milk.
Novermber 8.-" A Sikh guard employed in the gaol set a gond example to the European residents, of the Colony this morning. He summoned a native milkman for supplying him with adulterated milk when he paid $2 a month for the pure article and se
Do the Work Themselves.
APPOINTMENTS
well, are losing their balance; no wonder, therefore, that the work in their report dated November 8, ready put on, which is saying a regularity with which we found they will not merely look Administering the Government
ing olasses are getting quite cut of hand,
Back from Home,
Great Northern Telegraph Co.
Limited.
COAL REPORT.
The following appointments are notified in the Government' Gazette:His Excellency the: The room set aside for the menthas been pleased to make the Officer Administering the Govern elementary testing of materiale will contain a magnificent array effect from the 2nd instant ***** following appointments, with Attention is drawn to the fact Chalka' did not appear, his bail of machinery. A four fon tensile Mr Roger.Elward Lindself to not
testing machine is already in in connection with the Harmston with the fadian. We have been be added for demonstrating the Registrar of Marriages; Me that the first change of programme was estreated. We sympathise place and various apparatus will let Assistant to Secretary for Chinese Affairs and as Deputy Cirous season takes plac a to-night. there ourselves. We have been laws of mechanics. A point to be Norman Lockhart Smith to set as New artists will appear, and the reluctantly compelled to abandon borne in mind is that in Zal Assistant to Beoretary for management promise an even
s milk diet. better show than they have al protested against the monotonous will do the work themselves;
We ineffectually all these departments the students Chinese Affairs,
His Excellency the Officer great deal.
emall but elderly fish, cockroaches, on. They have to make the experi has been pleased to appoint Mr little boulders, etc., in Among the passengers outward matudinal supply, bat a four way in which they do the notgal Director of Public Works during our ments and records, and on the Aleo Fleming Churchill to set as ment, and the impartial observer, if he attempted to apportion the uring the interval, has been very bound by the Atsuta Marn, which pound bullfrog decided us, and work credit will be given them the absence on leave of the Hon-
There are many reasons to account for this dis aurous develop. Since then busness transacted
small, estimated at 2500 bales, left London on October 11 are we passed. Now, Mr. Pollock for their degree. That is on ourable Mr William Chatham, responsibility therefor, would.. have to distribute it amorg all mostly of 10'e special chops, at Commander and Mrs. Beckwith -avenge us." political parties. If we turn to the matter of social unrest, the last prices. Dealers are still and child, Mr A. R. Sutherland,
essential fortare of the policy of O.M.G., with effect from this date. conclusion cannot be escaped that the Labouries and Socialists holding fairly good bargains, and Mr and Mrs. G. K. Haxton, Miss
the University. In engineering5 November, 1913. work a man has, of course, to have much for which to answer. That fact is admitted by no less are selling amongst themselves. Haxton, Mro. C. H. Lammert, Mr a porern than the Leader of the Labour party, Mr. Ramsay p:rters are looking out and are R. E O. Bird, Mr O Hamilton, UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS peas his examinations, but that
not prepared to lower prices, due Mr and Mrs. R. A. Harding, Mrs. |:
is not everything: the experi Macdonald, who has openly declared that what his party needs to t the continued firmness of the and Miss Owen Hughes, Mr. J. W
mental work is of vital impor develop is "some of the discipline of the parties of the rich," He Bombay market dad althat the Lee Jones, and Mr E A. Ram
ance. In the room devoted to the has also characterised the sympathetic strike policy as "the worst have fallen off a little. The tone drop in exchango Deliveries
advanced atrengthening of ma Wedding.
terials there will be erected a folly that Labour could undertake." Unfortunately, all Labourites of the market at the close quite solemnised at Bt. John's Cathe
"The wedding was quietly:
buge 30 ton tensile testing ma- and Socialists have not the same conception of the dangers of pro- sent tendencies as Mr. Macdonald has; they are not so level-headed straks, 27,100 bales; sold but ua- Total sales, 2,500 bales; unsaid
dral, this morning, of Mr. G.T.
chins, electrically driven. This as he, we are afraid. The remarks which we have quoted were delivered in the Godown and to Halan, of Amoy, to Miss Preua,
pieces of machinary to be seen out Formom, 5,300 tone, will be one of the very finest
Expected Japan, 41,600 tons; made at a meeting in Bolton, and the speech which the Loader of arrive, 55,000 bales.
who arrived from England a few
East. Here also the testing of Arrivals Fukura Mara, 3,400 the Labour party then delivered was also noteworthy for the speaker Arrivals. Extra
reinforced concrete and other ma- tons Moji,sold; Wabu, 2,300 tons days ago. Subsequently are contending that the present restlessness in the labour world has Nippon and Bombay Marn from ception was held at the Hongkong been largely aided by the attitude of the Unionist party in regard Bombay, and steamer Kutsang
the laboratory for fuel testing tons Moji, sold; Otaru Maru, terials will be carried out. La Chinwangtao, sold; Yatabing.980; Hotel, after which the happy to Ulster. That influence, he easerted, had been one of the worst from Caloutts, have brought in couple depart for Manila, b the
valuable work will also be done; 3.100 tons Dairen, sold; Faku and most unsettling things known to the nation and it was bound to 10,800 bales for Hongkong and 3.5. Loongang where the ... affect the Labour movement. Farthermore, he stated that the 3,000 bales for Shanghai, Ship-honeymoon will be spent
could be desired. and here, too, the arrangements, Maru, 4,000 tons Moji, sold Tamon and the apparatus, are all that Maru, No. 6,4,200 tons Chiwang- superficial, frothy unsettlement in the Labour ranks that anarchism monts from Hongkong to Shang- which is abroad from cue end of the country to the other can be hai, and coset ports 1,000 balce.
tão, sold; Ataka Maru 4,800 tons directly traced to the speech es made by men like Mr. Bonar Liw, Incal Mill No sales of attractions in the Colony, the 0733 0815, 6202 1417 0387; business people is that Teinanfa, 2,500 tons Moji, sold
Chinwangtao, sold: Atagoen in the name of the great party of law and and order.
to Mara, 6,000 tons Miko, sold, Japaness Yarn. Sales as fol Victoria Theatre continues to be Amoy While all the present unrest cannot be accounted for in the lows: 250 bales, Satan No. 10, well frequented. Messrs Famos 1122 0815 8262 1417, 4401 the University will, in a low Canton Mara, 2,600 tons Moji, WBY which Mr. Macdonald would do we should have to probe at $130.111 bed of mode 8111 3626 Amoy.
months' time, be ready to do a sold; Kyodo Marn, No. 18, 2,300 deeper to find every cause--it is not surprising that the Labourites Shanghai. Small transactions beat and latest of cinema prodno-
deal of commercial testing work. tons, Dairen, for Canton; Taisho should apply logical methode ruthlessly to the attitude of the took place.
ya tione, which are meeting with
For instance, if a ship comes into Maru, 2,500 tona Dairon, for Can- Daionists regarding Ulster. It follows that if people, for one Raw Colton-Pongal no sales great success In the near future
harbour and buys coal which ton; Hingsing, 4,100 tons Karateu cause, are permitted to preach treason and sadition in Ulster, others, and no stick available. A parcel two exceptionally fine, fil
Posted to Ply month.
tubsequently appears of doubtful sold Sangkiang, 1,700 tons for another cause, will do likewise in other parts of the country of 250 loose bales Chinese cotton promised, Quo Vadis, in right Lieut-G W-W Treeiddor, quality, the buyer may send ram- Hongay, sold: Arratoon Apar In other words, if the Catson campaiga can be justified, so could fetched $35 per picnt Quotat rart, and anothor which will be RG.A., from Armament Officer, ples to the testing room for ers- 2,300 tons tons Moji sold Them the Labourities if they sought to right their grievances by a policy ion-Bengal at $27.00 to advertised in due course. The Hongkong has been poster to mination and report. It will wa, 3.000 tons Mot sold. of disruptive, anti-social methods. The point is funanswerable. 822.00 Chinese at 832.00 to programme for to-night and to No. 107 (Siege) Compony R.G.A readily be seen that t
University Sales Prices advangu And the workers realise
morrow is well worth sceluge Hlymouth
has 'no commero xa jo grind, Stocks, low,
$3600 per pical
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steamera
Afanassieff Restante, Mologa. Blanch, Kota. Highcntai, Kota. Langizabal cere of Kwong wing-sang, Kobe,
Taizinmaru care of Mitsui, Dairon
Watkins 38 Queen Road, Whongechong, Shanghai. Spatow
1684 1129 0735 Kwongtaivo, Victoria Theatre,
3906 2121 0589 3819 6511- Notwithstanding the number 5 324 2651 5224 7002, Shanghai:
F
films are
Shanghai.
To Business People. point of interest
port as follows, under date of Messra Hughes and Hough re- November 7