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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1914.
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Shanghai and the Banishes.
DAY BY DAY
The Weather, Lower level 8 a.. Temp 77; nia.
Wo observe from s recent |repart of the Captain Superinten- IF BIMPLICITY OF HEART 18 AN dent of Police there, that Shang, ESSENTIAL CONDITION OF RE- his experiencing some difficulty BBS SIMPLICITY OF LIFE IS ITS
BEST SCHOOL. with a class of criminals which WHATEVER MAY BE THE STATE gives the police in Hongkong THING WHICH COULD MAKE YOUR OF YOUR FORTUNE, AVOID ANY- deal of trouble-namely the CHILDREN THINK THEMSELVES returned banishes. An attempt MORE OR BETTER THAN OTHERS. has been made, it is said, to
Wagner, re-introduce deportation, a form of punishment which was aban- doned some ten years ago. In most cases the criminals have been banded over to the local Chiness authorities for deportati- on to their native placea, bat
general rule seen fit to comply with the requests of the Mixed Court in this matter, and many Casea have occurred in which
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Settlement shortly after sentence. having been liberated by the Chinese authorities. La Hong- kong, though not from the same
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1889
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE
...YEARS AGO.
Compiled from the Hongkong Telegraph" files for the Week Ending May 9, 1889.)
The Dollar. May 3. The rate of the dollar
HONGKONG LICENCES..
Our Big Army of Licencees.
The fences issued by the Hongkong poli e last year in cluded the following: 1,100 Hongkong Jinrickshas.
50 Quarry Bay Jinrickahne," 345 Kowloon Jinriskshas. 873 Hongkong Chairs.
60 Hill District Obairs,
At the Peak 8 am Temp 89; on demand on this date was 28. 5,880 Drivere. heavy fog.
American Mail. Das per
The Mails.
8.8.
English Mail-Closed per a.e Chiyo Maru to-day at noon.
Siberian Mail,-Closed per 8.8. Assays at 11 am, to-day.
at
Siberian Mail-Closes per 8.8 Kores at 11 am to-day.
Chenan at 5 p.m. to-day.
To a Correspondent. J.W.M. Your letter cannot be published except you forward
11. 7-84.
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"Venus" la Court. May 3. At the Summary Court this morning Mr. A. G. Wise, Acting Puisne Jadge, an American twang, was cited at heard a case in which Venus, with
pradore for the settlement of the instance of her cook and com-
their little accounts. The coolie's
The English Mail of April 11 was ouse was that when gentlemen delivered in London yester-friends called to uupper he was day.
allowel fifty cents extra per head his statement he offered to give a for purveying, and in support of list of recent visitora. A titter of expectation rippled round the The Opium Evil. Last year the Hongkong police King of Siam smiled, but the offer Court, even the Judge and the executed 202 warrants for the was ignored. Venus was, of keeping of opium divans, against course, victorions and swept 110 in 1912.
your name:
out
Our Beggars. During last year 18 beggars Emigration Abuses, were dealt with by the magisterial courte in Hongkong, and 192 others were sent to lanton.
The Dumping Evil.
with
2,032 Chair bearera. 4,008 Extra drivers and bearers.
1268 Truck licences.
HONGKONG
FIRE BRIGADE.
Report of the Superlatendent for
Last Year.
The report of Mr. O. 'Mo I.' Messer, Superintendent of Fire Brigade, for 1913 states:
There were 13 fires and 75 incipient fires during the year ogainat 31 and 03 in 1912. The estimated damage caused by fires Chair was $223,815 and by incipient
13 Private Vehicles.. 29. Motor Cars. 45. Motor Car drivers.
4 Motor Cycle drivers. 15 Billiard Tables or Bowling
Alleys.
222 Licences to shoot and take
Game..
318 Money Changers.
91 Pawnbrokers. 7,920 Hawkers.
firee $1,303.80 as against $281, 095 and $4,732.50 in 1912. The Brigade turned out 46 times during the year (62 in 1012),
There was constant supply of out the year. water in the fire mains through-
bour during the year,
One fire occurred in the har
There were no prosecutions for Braon during the year.
1.
New Engine Needed. Mr. D. Macdonald, engineer of
There are 32 despatch boxes: kept in different places in Victoria and 12 in Kowloon, 8 different telephones to which the Police. can have. nocasa to communicate Company Report,
with the Central Station in the A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd., for Alarms of which 3 are at the Peak. May 7.-The report of Messrs. event of a fire, and 16 Street Fire Past methode having provad ineffectual, Shanghai is to try a
of the Court radiant." the year 1888 states that the net The fire Alarms were used only new experiment, namely Suepen-
profits of the Company, after once, and in that case by the. May 4In a long leading doubtful debts and including
providing for all bad and public. man is charged with returning
article of this date dealing with $411.47 brought forward from been good.
The conduct of the Brigade has to the Settlement after having
abuses of the Emigration Regula-the previous year, amounted to The daily issue is delivered free when the address is accessible to been expelled there from, and fa
tions, appears the following: $85,481,63. An interim dividend messenger. Pesk subscribers can have their copies delivered a sentenced to a term of imprison- During last year 402 bodies" British Consula like Mr. Obalon of 6.1-2 per cent. had been paid their residences without any extra charge. On copies sent by ment, but the sentence is suspend-were found dumped in sue streets or Alabaster at Canton and Mr. and it was now proposed to pay the Fire Brigade, reporting on post an additional $1,80 per maarter is charged for postage.
ed on condition that should the of the Colony, compared R. J. Forrest at Amoy, have done a further dividend of the same land steamera No. 2, 4 and 5- The postage on the weekly issue to any part of the world is $1.00 prisoner again be arrested in the 537 for the previous year.
Settlement the original sentence
their best to promote the higher amount, to carry to the Permanent (Central Station) and land steamer. per quarter.
Lost Property.
instincts of a common humanity, Reserve Fund a sum of $5,000, No. 3 (Yanmati). saya: These Suele Copics, Daily, ion cents. Weakly, twenty-five gente (for will be added to any imposed on Last year there were 12 arti-and it is regrettable to find their the same amount to the Reserve engines have all been overhauled.
sah only!.
this occasion. It is hoped that clsa reported as lost to the police: labours nullified by the laxity of Fund to meet contingencies or during the year, regularly tested" Aivortisement and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fixed the fact of a sentence banging of the value of $25,710.37; and our colonial laws. The chief refor equalising dividends, and at monthly drills for firemen and
period will be continued until countermanded.
over his head will induce a 74 articles if the value of 55,-sponsibility for this disgraceful $5,000 to a General Insurance drivere and are in good working oriminal to keep away from the 651 44 were recovered.
condition of things we attribute Fund, leaving a Settlement. If we are to judge
to culpability
balance of order but are nearly worn out and and Dess from Hongkong's.
sapice-$1,081.03 to be carried forward. could not be depended upon for experience, however, this hope is not too well
administratione, but trust that Terrace Estate and Building Co., duration. I am, therefore, of. of the Bowen-Marsh The report of the Richmond a big fire of say 18 or 24 hours founded. Here the returned
Sir William Des Voeux will prove Ltd. oriminal is invariably sentenced
equal to the occasion and do his general manager) for 1888 stated should be ordered which would (John D. Humphreys opinion that a Motor Fire Engine to a year's hard labour on making
utmost so prevent such a foul that as the Company had now replace Nos. 2 and 4 Land En- reappearance. and it may be taken for granted that he knows
this Colony." blot attaching to the fair fame of commenced to work an increase in gines and be much more effestive very well that he runs the danger
its capital would from time to to combat a fire. of auch a sentence. Yet the
Steamer Fares,
time be necessary; $60,700 number of those who come back
this fiate to the "exorbitant fares fent for the present. The net May-Reference is made on additional capital would be suffic is legion.
charged for first-clase passengers profit, including $748.03 brought by the steamers running between forward, amounted to $5,852.76 here and Canton and Macao." out of which it was proposed to The comment concludes
a pay a dividend of 14 per cent,
(Payable in Advance.)
By Order,
"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH."
the truth
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The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1914.
OUR RAILWAY.
bie
Appreciated when Missed.
Dogs.
Six more dogs, found straying the streets without visible means of subsistence, were yes- terday sent to the Doge' Home at Causeway Bay.
Brass hinges.
the Pulice Court, for being in. A Chinese was haud $20 at unlawful possession of four brasa hinges at Wanchai. The alter native was fourteen days.
INCONSIDERATE EMPLOYERS.
Larceny of Water Pipes. At the Police Court, Mr. Wood sentenced a Chinese to six months mprisonment for the larceny of followe."Two dollars for a and to carry forward $1,290.74. Others Besides the Government
There is an old saying to the effect that one never fully ap water pipes the property of the preciates the virtue of anything Government. The man until it is lost.
was We are afraid caught breaking up the pipes at that the people of Kowloon did Wong-noi-cheong. not realise to the full the value.
Our Dogs.
Died In the Street.
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years, who resided at 17 l'or Seen A Chinese womin, aged 82 Street; died yesterday outside No. 282 Qteep's Road Central. She was at the time cu her way to the Tung Wah Hospital, acoom panied by her daughter-in-law.
of the Military band that played There were 1,925 dogs licensed opposite the mess on the water in Hongkong last year; 137 watch front until after the regiment (dogs were licensed freapt charge; that supplied the band had loft 94 stray doga were impounded, the Colony. On Tuesday and of which 72. worn sent to the Friday each week many people Dog' Home and the other 12 When the Hongkong Government ontered upon the task of found a pleasant evening's enjoy destroyed, building the Kowloon-Canton Railway there were not wanting ment in strolling along the water critics who declared that the undertaking would not only prove front hilst the band played in unremunerative, but would become a financial burden to the Colony. front of the mess during dinner, Happily, however, time has proved these prophets of evil to have and though the band was appro beon woefully at sea in their calculations. From the date of theciated it never was valued at its opening of the line right as to the present, the record of the Rail-full until it was gone, this appears way has been one of steady and consistent progress, and to-day the little pradoxical, hut neverthe- prospects before it are brighter than ever they have beon. Net caly less it is true. Now there is no ia the enterprise our biggest revenue-earning undertaking it bids bind at least for the time being Talkoo Bowling Club "at Home," fair to become the most successful source of income which the and the residents on the other Colony possesses. That is looking ahead, of course, for it will be-ide of the water mise it very be "at home" this afternoon at The Taikoo Bowling Clab will many years yet before the extremely heavy capital expenditure much indeed. They bope how-3.30, when a match will be played totalling, up to the end of last year, no less than $13,450,227.43 ever that the want will not be against the Pulice. is wiped out and the earnings of the Railway are available for the felt for long. relief of rates and taxes. But that day will come if, as there seems every reason for believing, the present measure of progress is maintained.
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Conduct of the Police.
other similar welcomed.
Finances of Canton.
Members of clubs will be
single fare to Macao or Canton and three dollars return, would be ample, and this scale, we are quite sure, would give general satisfaction and at the same time increase the passenger receipts of the steamere. And for the convenience of residents" Canton and Macao, merchants and shippers who so materially sevist
in
1889.
SHARE REPORT,
The quotations which follow
at Fault.
We are heartily in accord with the opinions expressed by the Flon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., at Thursday's meeting of the Legislative Council, in regard to... the overworking of employees in ia providing cargo, and who are are from the "Hongkong Tele of employers to, as far as pos this trying climate and the duty aking frequent journeys graph" for May 9, 1889. sible, ameliorate the conditions betwen the three ports, season ablo rates. The position of the tickets should be issued at reason-173 per cent, premium, buyers. Government is not the only Hongkong and Shanghai Bank under which they work; and the
river steamer companies is not so Canton.-110 per share, sellers, Pullock's worls to heart. There Union Insurance Society of employer who needs to take Mr, impregnable that they can afford to ignore the convenience of their pany.879 per share sellers.
China Traders' Insurance Comare others in the Colony who show', constituents in the obstinate fash
even less consideration for their North China Insurance-Th. employees well-being.
For the subject of general comment Canton Insurance Company.omin who has been working in ion which has for so long been 333 per share, ex div., huyera. instance, we know of a Europesa sad adverse criticism.".
Ltd.,-$130 per share.
Hongkong for over 2 1/2 years "If Chinamen Really go to
Yangleze Insurance Association (her employer being alio" a -Tls. 100 per share, May 6 A young silversmith $160 per share, sellers.
Heaven !
European woman) under vondi- Chinese Lasurance Company-tions which cannot be described working in one of the native
4 reasonable. During the two jewellers in Queen's Road Central |
Hongkong Fire Insurance Com- summers which she has spent Mr. Tan Houab kuet, Adviser to raise the price of his passage.$87 per share, buyers,
felt homesick yesterday, and tried Pay $3874 per share, buyers, here, she has worked from 8 a.m. The latest report on the working of the undertaking is that for 1919, which was laid before the Legislative Council on Thursday. report on the conduce of the appointed by the Ministry of repulsed by bis master, so he Company-93 per cent. premium, there are also a
The Captain 'Superintendent's the Cabinet Office, has been Being in debt, be was sordidly
China Fire Insurance Company to 5 p.m. (and very frequently Ratil considerably later) in This disclosed & most satisfactory state of affairs; and one which Police Force during 1813 is not Finance to institute a close inquietly walked over to his bench,
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock a small workshop, in which reflects the utmost credit on all concerned with the Railway. If at all a bad one; though it is not vestigation into the financial on which was some arsenic used
number of we take the statement of revenue and expenditure as shown in the quite es god as that of the pre-condition of the province of in the work, and took a full- Steamboat Company-8274 fe ter how hot the weather-neither Chinese workmen, varying from Revenue Account for the year, we see that the total earnings come vious year. Especially is this the Kwangtong with a view to ad-grown dose. If Ohioamen really share, sellers.
Hongkong, Cantón and Macho a dozen to twenty, and no mat to the satisfactory figure of $333,033.32, which is an increase of no cas as regards, the European justing the finance fundamentally go to Heaven, he is wearing less than $1,984 30 over the previous year. Against this the ex-section. There were 72 reports Chinese, Engineering and Mlaing white wings now."
fan nor punkah has ever been penditure is shown to be $245,808.58, and there is thus a balance of made against European officers
China and Manila, Steamship provided to cool the atmosphere. 387,824.74, which represents a clear average monthly profit of wall se against only 47 in 1912. Of The Kilan Mining Adminis
Company, itd.
Company-$140 per share,
Farther, she has been forced to over $7,000. The main line traffic, both through and local, is these reports 12 were for being tration report that the Chinese
Council Member.
sellers.
work on the greater part of the responsible for this gratifying state of affairs-indeed, this section drunk or under the influebon of Engineering and Mining Co. Ld, pointment of Mr.
May 6.-"The temporary ap
Hongkong Gas Company-public holidays occurring since has not only made a handsome profit, but has also covered a deficit drink as against 10 in 1912, 6 for has doslared an interim dividend Layton to be an utnollioial mera her
Bendyshe $135 per share, sellers.
her arrival (on one occasion last in the way of net earnings. The branch line showed an increase and 2 for Deglect of date as on account of the year ending McEwen, has been confirmed by par, sellers. on the branch line of over $4,000 and yet left the big sum named sleeping on duty as againat 2 of 5 per cent., free of income tax of the Legislative Council during $200 per share, bayers.
Hongkong Hotel Company- year, because she dared to absent herself from work on a Bank the absence of Mr. A. Palmer in takings compared with the previous twelve months, but this was against 5. On the whole, there June 30, 1914, payable on
Indo-China 8.N. Company-Holiday, sho received a lotter much more than swallowed up in items of expenditars which are fore, the balance of favour is May 15.
the Queen."
from her employer's solicitor, in the nature of extraordinary outgoings and ought not to recur. against 1913. Mach the same
Douglas Stormship Company-acousing her of breach of con It is the passenger traffic which is producing practically all tale is told of the Indian contin
Hongkong Land Investment, $83, per ehere, buyers.
tract and threatening her with the income of the Railway, and the figures contained in the gent as against whom there were passed through for Home by the amount of confidence the Hong pany, Ltd.-3220 per share, a repetition of the "offence") and May 6. The wonderful China Sugar Refining Com-instant diemises in the event of abstracts show how the advantages of railway travel are being 440 reports, out of a total a.s. Aeaayo to-day was Mr. A. W. kong community has in the increasingly appreciated by the Chinese in partioalar. Goods strength of 472. Against 241 U. Pope, the late General-Mana stability and bona fidea of the
Bollers.
the whole of every Saturday after traffic is very slowly developing, but in the future, more especially men there was no report, so that ger of the Shangbai-Nanking Hongkong Land Investment and pany, Ltd.-$110 per share, no provision made in the place Luzon Sugar Refining Com-noon. Add to this that there is when the connection is made with the Canton-Hankow lias, there about half of the men had an Railway, Before he left Shanghai Agency Company was strongly should be a much bigger return from this source, One feature to average of two reports against he was given a farewell reception evidenced on Saturday, when i Hongkong Ice Company-$125 and it will be seen that the nure-
sellers,
for ordinary sanitary necessities be specially noted is that the working expenses, when compared each. It is satisfactory to note by Chinese merchants, and the was found that the applications with gross receipte, are being steadily reduced, which shows that that there was an improvement opportunity was also taken off for the new issue of twelve thone Hongkong Rope Manufactur- service are not the only sufferers
per share, buyera.
ing sisters in the Government the administration is conducted on sopad and economical lines. in the behaviour of the Chinese presenting Mr. Pope with's gold and five hundred shares amounting Company, Ltd, $120 per from lack of consideration on the The report, too, shows that the Railway is served by a cipable/section of the force. Even then, medal, subscribed by members of ed to the large number of forty Hoogkong and Kowloon Wharf are others who have no member and efficient staff, under whose effort altogether admirable results however, there were 306 reports the Chambers of Commerce of nine thousand. It is expected
share, nominal,
part of employers, and that there are being attained. The Railway; in fact, is one of the very for against the 576 men. For sleep- Shanghai, Bocchow, Wusieh, that the allotments will be and Godown Company Government enterprises which inspires the gommunity generallying on duty there were 117 re- Chinkjang and Nanking, and a completed within a week frota share, sellers. with the belief that it is in hands which may be safely reckoned! Ports, which meat people will suitably inscribed egroll by the thig date: upon to make the most of the opportunities as they come along, quite believe.
Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. Chinkiang Chember
$14 per share, buyer,
Left for Home, Among the passengers who
193 per
of the Legislative Council to champion their cause. The em ployer to whom-wo, refyr is not British.