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The Ching Ping Amatuar
Hongkong numbers its ricksha coolies by the hundred Day
"The Beniga Influence."
19. Corporal and night they ply their calling. July Their lot cannot, at the best, be Garrigle, of the Vist, was the only an altogether happy one. Probab. European victim on the scanty 6.6.ly, like many another glass of charge-sheet this morning. He Dramatic Co., the Kang Fi Toi menial servants, they get, in the smote the majesty of the law on A. D. O,, the Tat Koon A. D. 0. course of a day's toil, more kicks the nose last night, whilst under and the Lam Long Wan King than ha'pence. But for all that the benign influence, and Mr. A.D.O.-Dramatio Performances. we Europeans could hardly do Wodehouse made it two dollars." for 7 days and nights. without them. Some two years
The Squatters.
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Mr. J.W.Ken-Rudiopticans."
Wing Cheong Shing firm pieces Turkish red cloth.
Yoo Choong firm:-10 pieces
cannot carry a team on his back, it will be something if he is able to pull off his aingles match, Should the Australasians manage
- July · · 19.—" There are about ao back, it will be re- Telegraph or to overcome the Teutons they
the Colony's three thousand hata on the island 5 will then have to face the British Published 33 columns of solid membered, leles, and it goes without saying reading matter. To-day there whole body of ricksha coolies of Hongkong and the little streak
Mr. Tong Nai-keang of Yuan will be 40 pablished.
went on strike for a couple across the water, and, after several of days in the middle of summer. years of rebellion, most of the Ta Chan firma-120 packages
"Fuk Lan tobacco, Rural Building Lot No. 183 is Then it was, when the only means squatters who inhabit them have to be sold by auotion at the P. of moving about in the blazing been indaged to pay a fixed rental Mr. Au Chad-li of Ynet Hing W. D. Offices on Monday after-sun was to go on Shanks's pony,
to the Government, varying from Loong firm;-Assorted water noon.
that we missed the much-sworn dollar per three hundred equare colour pictures. To Consignees.
at rickshaman. Having him foot to half that amount. A village
F. Blackhead & Co-5 cases. Consignees of cargo by the with us every day, always at our Hampden who moulds public entry into the challenge round for Senegambia and the Goettingen beck and call, we are apt to lose opinion in the odoriferous village natural milk and 10 cases the right to meet the United are reminded that goods unde sight of the value of his services of Wongneicheong is about the
"Baby's" brand milk.
Kam Fun Mi firm:-1 pioul, The rates of Sabucription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will State. The great advantage livered after tomorrow and Mon- and of the bodily discomfort be last of the rebels, and Mr. G. W.
which the Colonials enjoy is that day respectively will be subject saves us from. We grumble at King, the official evictor and 120 tins and 100 packages as they are strong in doubles sa well to rent.
bis generally ankempt appear emergency man, has had a lot of sorted tea. as in singles. Take Wilding and
Radecker & Co.-Assorted Wharf Improvement. ance, at his leisurely jog, and at trouble with him and his follow. Brookesither individually or Tenders for alterations to the his babit of expressing ing of pig-farmers and manure wines and spirits. together they will want a lot of Old Star Ferry Wharf are to be dissatisfaction
A. S. Watson & Co:-$100 desicoators. Twenty of them were id beating, as the English players received at the Colonial Secret-paid the ordinary legal ap before Mr. Wodehouse this worth of perfume and scented have already found out this ary's Office until noon of Monday, fare. But, for all that, he would morning, to decide the matter by powder. sesBON. Then, assuming that August 10, 1914.
be badly missed.
arbitration. Poor as they were, Po Man On firm:-2,000 pack Britain is beaten, will the victors
they engaged that forensic star, ages Man Ning tea, and 200 be able to triumph over Amerios? The Gazette contains orders, by
Mr. Wotton, but the combat ended bottlee pain-allaying powder... The chances are that they will. H.E. the Governor for the re-
in their having to pay a fine of fifty Yia Wa and Kwong Cheong America has two very fine players moval of certain graves on inland drawn from? On what system is chop. But the Government is required for all electric lights Who is be? What class is he cents each and get a licence chop firme: Supply of all materials in Mc Loughlin and Williams-Lots No. 2060 and 2030. the latter is said to be even more
Shanghai Dogs.
he paid? What does he earn on playing it just a little low down, of one floor and labour in install- brilliant than the former-bot It is notified that no
an average per day? These and hunting these squalid creatures ing same. dog the experience of the Australasians brought from Shanghai will be cropped up in the minds of most the same time, squandering thou-70 wooden cash boxes,
many other queries must have for their fifty cents each, and, at Mr. Lo Hop of Yuen Wo firm: in international contests should permitted to land in this Colony of us at one time or another, sands of dollars on absent officials, serve them in good stead. So at for a period of six months from And in the answers some interest or in salaries for duties that are Turkish red cloth. the moment, though it is rather June 27, 1014. early to forecast, the odds are
ing facts come to light. Speak-not performed." rather in favour of Australasia Itia notified that the conditioning generally, the greater bulk of Shark Fishery Company, Over 200 embroidered articles winning the Davis Cup this year. ander which 14,100 picule of from the Haifung district, not Company is being wound up. A. ing in sale of goods,
Hongkong's ricksha coolies hail July 20-"The Shark Fishery and services of students in assist- Government coffee will be sold far from Swatow. They are, general meeting of the share by the Government of Nether-
Mr. Leung Ka-ohai :-
300 How will Europe's sympathy lands-India may be seen on appli- at any rate when they first take holders was quietly held a few pille.
the cation at the Colonial Secretary's of Chinese, used to healthful out the
to the work, a fairly sturdy type days ago, when it was stated that Mr. Leung Ya-shuen:-100 Froubloua situation which has Office.
insurance money bad pain-allaying pille. arisen where Austris and Servin
of-door employment. But the been paid by all the
Wo Shing Printing office: are concerned? Considering the A nice two-roomed fiat is ad. change of labour cannot in most offices interested, and there was 5,000 price-marking tickets, horrible tragedy at Sarajevo avertised to let.-Page 5.
instances be said to be for the nothing to do but divide it Singing by a number of song- week or two ago, one may well A Crown Land sale is to take better. To pull about a ricksha among the shareholders at the stresses and 7 blind girls, say that there is something to be place at the P.W.D. Offices on night, is apt to play havoc with and bary the Company's charter." large framed pictures and
day after day, or night after rate of fifty per cent. on the capital,
Mr. Chau Wan-kuo: set of wiped off the slate; that Austria August 4.Page 5, is fully justified in demanding Consignees not on regarding the lungs, while the filthy, over- Harbour Appointment.
dozen watch pouches. satisfaction up to the hilt. But the Holsatia is issued Page 5.rowded boarding houses where July 22.-"The appointment Mr. Cheng Taz-chan, of Onger. and we have asked the question **The Yellow Dragon."
many of this class sleep help to of Mr. Edward Jones to be first Co:-1 Sewing machine. before-can any ༔ * Earopean We have had forwarded to us hasten the general break-up of boarding officer in the Harbour Cheong Lee Co-Loan of 300. Power nowadays quarrel the July number of the Yellow health. A very big proportion Department, vice Mr. T. M. Vienna chairs. with 8 small
country, Dragon, in which there is some of the coolies comes from the Leatherbarrow deceased. ia Mow Foog Garden :-50 to 100 without the risk of a general very readable matter entitled farming class the great majority officially gazetted."
pota of flowers. war? "Everyone is asking what "The Presentation of the Volley in fact. Many are шиге
The Peak Tramway.
Ohi Obo-hinA quantity of attitude Russis will take," says Ball Shield," A Journey to boys, and during that part
July 22. The temporarily medicine. Reuter and-in a latter message Kong-mun, "King's Birthday of the year when there is little bust-up Peak Tramway remmins A. Tack & Co-8 cameras, 10
"Germany will suffer no third Picnic," Football and it else to do on the land but to in statu qua. It would be inter-dozen rubber collars, 100 party to intervene between Origin," etc.
wait for the crops to flourish, they eating to know what the Govern-celain fruit plates. Austria and Servia." What
come to Hongkong, hire a rickeba, ment requires more, considering other "construction can one put; Commander Beckwith notifies make what they can and that the line has been in order to on this sort of thing than that a that when submarines are taking return to their country at run with perfect safety for days We had thought that the world was almost tired of hearing generel European war is immin in petrol or any petrol is being harvest time, repeating the past... about paychical research-not so much from want of a certain languid ent? One's sympaties vory worked at the Admiralty tank process year after year. On the Heavy Loss to the Hongkong interest in things occult, as from the fact that the once almost cele-naturally go out to the. aged situated off the Naval Torpedo-the familiar faces we rea day received by the manager of the|
other hand, there are many others
and Shanghal Bank, July 21-A telegram wa
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1914.
PSYCHICAL RESEARCH.
at
brated Society devoted to its interests never seems to have accum-Emperor of Austria, and one can lished anything tangible and practical. Yet we see from the latest only hope that trouble may get
be avorted. Home papers that this Society has been holding a big meeting in London and listening to an address from Dr. F. 8. Schiller.
Coffee for Sale.
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SHARE REPORT.
"To Mung" Girls' School :-
Company-$137) per share, China and Manila Steamship Bellora.
Hongkong Gas Company- 8185 per share, sellere!
Hongkong Hotel Company- $240 per share, buyers.
Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per cent. Debentures.-$501.
per cent. dis., ex div., sellers. Indo-China S.N. Company- Douglas Steamship Company- $83 per share, sellers.
China Sugar Refining Com pany, Ltd.-$287 per share, bayers.
Luzon Sugar Refining Com pany, Ltd.-8115 per share, bu yera.
Depot, Kowloon, four flage will be placed on buoys making the after day in the streets-who take danger zone. No ahip, launch, up the calling and stick to it as Hongkong and Shanghai Bank or other vessel shall pass to the long as they are physically able yesterday, stating that the Lyone Campaign Agalust a Statue. eastward of these flags.
to do so. All of them are ignorant branch had sustained a loss of Under the above heading we
and simple-minded, and their $330,000. Details are not yet New Launch: On looking through his address to the members we can only published, yesterday, a statement Tenders are being asked for the physical wants are easily satisfied, made public. The quotation for banke declined gradually from 8 feel that, as a scientist, and presumably a man of the world, Dr. to the effect that the Spanish construction of a new launch for Ita
| to 10 points" during the day and Sebiller "ought to know better." When a man of science gives a Papers are raising an outcry the Police Department.
the stock was very unsteady dur-5 fair proportion of his attention to discovering, or attempting to Brussels to the notorious Ferrer, It is also to have two 18 feet gigs, against the erection of a status in length over all is to be 100 feet. discover, the causes of certain phenomena which, for want of a better the anarchiast who, in 1906, made fitted with 5b.p. Evinrude motors. exists as to the system on which
A deal of misapprehensioning the afternoon. word, most people are agreed to term sapernatural, one can only an attempt on the life These motors were the subject of the ricksham is engaged and admire him and wish him lack in his researches. But when Fof the King of Spain, a full-page advertisement in the in regard to his average earnings.
· practically neglecting the scientific aspect of these things, our Right-minded people can only Telegraph on July 15 and are Few of the coolies own their own regard this as an insult to the being advertised on page to vehicles; "all are hired from learnc? physician approaches the matter from a point of view hardly Spanish Throne and ask what day. The fact that they are now Chinese firma which have the distinguishable from the vulgar spookism of the late Mr. Stead and Belgium is thinking about to being taken up by the Govern- necessary capital to invest in the his disciples, it is almost time to enter a protest, and to remark that allow this kind of thing. We ment is a tribute to their high enterprise. There a some fifty a physician who does such a thing is not acting in a manner calenliste daring their life time, Garrels, Boerner and Oo,
hear quite enough of the coarch efficiency. The local agents are or sixty srchabops in the Colony.
The coolie is oharged eo much The quotations which follow ated to raise his profession in the world's estimation.
and there is really no need
per day (or night) for the loan of are from the Hongkong Telegraph to impress them on our memory Locusts Dorail Train.. the rickala, varying slightly with for July 18, 1880. "Success in psychical research," said Dr. Schiller in his adds, by the erection of statues to them. Due to aware of lecasts, the the type of vehicle engaged. The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, requires not merely systematic and continuous fort but we have always felt that the south bound train the Manila average charge is 60 cents a day, 178 per cent premium, buyers,
attitude taken up by various railroad, coming from Batangas, and what the coalie earns also intelligent co-operation in what, for purposca of reference migh" Continental governments where was the other day derailed beyond over and above. this amount Canton.-8100 per share, sellers, Hongkong Dairy Farm Co.-
Union Inenrance Society of be termed the spitit world." Now what might sush co-operation these people were concerned was Alabang, Laguna Province, and represents his profit. Aaa rule he
Chi Traders Insurance Com intelligent or other med? When one hears talk like this from a hopelessly illogical; and here in the north bound train, was de- does quite well on the basis, his cany-$81 per share, buyers. Hyde Park spiritualist, one laughs and lets it go at that. But it is a case in point. Whereas in Englayed an hour and 45 minutes by net earnings working out at about
North China Insurance-Tia. a man, not without distinction in the scientific world, who is uttering land the anarchists are allowed having to plough its way through a dollar day. The cost of as 3302r share, buye the words. Before we come to the co-operation part of the business, in denunciation of King, Poors, says the Manila Buletin, was sorongh and read bed in a lodging. Ltd., 81423 per share, buyers.
Cantonsurance Company, themselves hours the swarms of pests. The track, much rice as he pada and of a will Dr. Schilar kindly enlighten us as to what this Society has over property and everything else; and obstructed by the insects the house absors very little of bis Tangter Inst.nce Association done, since its foundation, towards making us more familiar with then to go away quietly after acuth bound train ran off the earnings, and the sung farmersTls. 100 per share, - "the life beyond" or towards a rational explanation of the manyBelgium they are Isia by the at the time and no-one was in inent in te slack season are able pany-$390 per share, buyers. Green Island Cement Co. (new they have blown off steam, in raile, but it was proceeding slowly who tako : this form of employ.
Hongkong Fire Insurance Com phost manifestations, which have puzzled people in all ages? Has heels as soon as they open their jared by the accident. The north to go back to the homes w***
China Fire Tosure Company is cleared up one single mystery? Will it ever clear one up? As mouths, and looked up in guol. bound train was brought to an for them, quite a tidy, sam cf886 per share, buyers. to the co-operation with the spirit world, Dr. Schiller negloote to Then, while in England Bach absolate standstill for fire minutes, money. The other when they
Hongkong and Whampoa Dook mention how this is to be brought about. By wireless? One la people are forgotten inride of five the rails being rendered slippery can afford it like all Chinese Company rent, premium, heartily ry to see a man of science lending his name and his minutes, the Belgian Government by the locusts being crushed un- in this respect get married, and eller abilities to such chicanery, and one can only hope that he will before allows a statue to be erected to der the wheels. It was one hour lead their rather ham um life
Hongkong, Canton and Macao long be so swindled by commercially-minded spiritualists one of them. Is it not almost and 45 minutes late arriving at till tired limbs and worn-out lungs Steamboat Company- $275 per that he will forawear the wave thing for evermore,
time that somebody strik"?; Manila;! Uy mama.
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to shout
call the halt,
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Hongkong Ice Company- $124 per share, sellers,
Hongkong Rope Manufactur- ing Company, Ltd.-8150 per share, sellers,
Hongkong and Kowlor Wharf and GodownCompe-7.
8192 per share, sellers, &
$18 per share, buyers..
A. 8. Watson and Co., Ltd., 130 per cent. premium, sellca,
Hongkong High Lovel Tram way Co., Ltd.--Nominal va
Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., Ltd. $25 per share, nominal
Groen leland Cement Co. (old issue)$50 per share, bayers. inanel$14 per share, bayers,
Hongkong Land Investment Co., Ltd.-141 per share, bales and sellers.
"Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd... 361 per share, sellers,
West Point Buildings Co, Ltd.. 260 per share, sello