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The Weather.
Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 79;
At the Peak 8 s.im. Temp. 09;
The Mails.
THE PAST WEEK'S WORK.
Every Reason for Qulet Satisfaction,
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HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. ·
Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph files for the week
ending Sept. 20, 1889.)
The Dollar.. The rate of the dollar oA demand, on September 20, 1880, was 3/034")
1889.
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SHARE REPORT,
The quotations which follow, are from the Hongkong Telegraph for Sept. 20, 1889.
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, -181 per cent. premium, buyers. Union Insurance Society of Canton $100 per share, bayers. China Tradere Insurance Com pany-$80 per share.
North China Insurance Tls. 330 per share, buyers.
Canton Insurance Company,
Rathor a quaint incident, in a journey out to the Est by Sibe ria, is related in the Car by Mr. Barrie Russell. He says that, on
Sunday morning, no English AND HATES THAT EXCELLENCE Bishop came round the carriages and said that there would be an English service in the dining-car. There were sixty four passengers on the train, only ten were British, rain. and only six of the ten attended
"It has been an unsatisfactory the service. They started the rain.
week," asid some one to us yester service, too, just at the time when
| day, and there are probably others the mejority of presongors wanted to come to breakfast. reuch Mail.-Due per s.s. Hong- who are of opinion that the
The head waiter gave his
keng to-day.
results of the operations on land Canadian Mail. Oloadd per and sea, during the past seven onsent very reluctantly, on wAI
55. Nikko Mau to-day at days or so, are, unpleasing. Bat 11 am.
it is impossible, in a war of such Septembar 20.The Cricket iwo Chinese gentlemen, oné Jap
magnitude, to judge the wok of Ground is now open for practica Ltd.-$135 per share. "snese, one Dino, one Gorman and
any one week at the end of that at the manly game, and also for
Yangteza Insurance Association two Englishmen (educated), gaz.
The Club will-Tls. 100 per share," ing through the glass diore with Yesterday the Telegraph pub-week because the results of that lawn leonis.
of solid work will not be seen or felt for commence their season to-morrow. Hongkong Fire Insurance Com dismay at the six Buitons, who lished 35 columne
China Fire Insurance Company having hid their breakfast, were reading matter. To-day there a week or two to come. Three The team which is going to pany-$3824 per share, sellers
weeks ago, for instance, the Shanghai will play the Stay-at- singing For those at sea with will be 40 published.
Allied troops were losing ground. home" next week, and a match,-884 per share,⠀ much gusto, thoroughly indiffer
They commenced the fighting in Duffers v. Ferlies, will be played ent to the murderous looks from
Belgium and, not many days at a later date. the faces of a corridorful of stary-
after, were within striking distatos of Paris, Judged os alities. Tao British sro A thoughtless people at times. War and Trade.
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Steady Progress,
Cricket Club.
The Masonic Club.
The Governor's Return, September 23,-"His Excel- lency the Governor, Sir Willi
We do not say that the same Des Voeux, returned from his
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company-7 per cent. premium. sellers.
Hongkong Hotel Company- $210 per share, sellors,"
Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per cent. Debentures,-8501
Indo-China S.N. Company-
15 per cont. dis., sellors. $72 per share, sellers.
DouglasSteamship Company-
Hongkong, Canten and Macao the face of it that week of retire- September 21 The Masonic Steamboat Company-$30 per ment was most unsatisfactory, Club, which, a low weeks ag, share, sellers, Infond Lot 2087, the upset price hat it proved in the end to he gave promise of very shortly China and Manila Steamship War a'most invariably brings of which is $1,039, is to be sold in its train great dislocation of by auction at the P.W.D. Offices part of a deep-laid and well-lait being snuffed out of existence. Company $125 per share, business and a large measure of on Monday afternoon.
plan of campsigo. When the owing to financial shortcomings sellers. appointed moment came the caused by internal diesensions Hongkong Gas Company- Allies ceased to retiro, steadied amongst some of the members, is $135 per share, sellera crieis, however, one is struck by
On Monday Mr. G. P. Lammert themselves for a forward thrust, now, we are pleased to learn, the healthy look which trade
is selling by auction at 5, Came-and, with almost miraculous sud-paying handsomely. wears at Home, the more so when consideration is given to ton Villas, the Peak, a quantity depness, were driving the enemy the fact that this is the greatest of household furniture, war in history. We are, indeed, September Settlement. told that business acivity in The September settlement, with London is greater than usual at the exception of transactions in is happening now; but are do month's holiday to-day by the the time of the year, and the shares honght or sold from difficulty appears to be to cope Shanghai, takes plecon Monday. By that, in exactly the same Angons. The usual salute Dalified China Sugar Refining Com- with the demands since so miDy
way as we can now appreciato so his approach, and he was wol-pany, Ltd.-815 per share, Who Stole the Plg? of the young men of the nation
the full the results of the rotire.comed at the wharf by Der sellers, A pig dealer of 4; Argylo Street, ment, so, a week or two hence, Stewart, who has been seeing to post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. have been called up for servico. Yaumali, reports that one we shall be in a much better the governing busines while Epany Ltd.--$85 per share, Lazon Sagar Refining Com- Side by side with this fact is the person stole from his pigstye nt position to judge of the eff.cls wa away, Mr. Chator, Mr. sellers. other that the public is showing Mong Kok tani a black pig valued of the present week's fighting. Keswick, Air, Wong shing, and commendable patience at any $20,
But even judged on the face of one or two others. He said be The Confidence Trick. it we are far from admitting that was boiter for his trip and rends delays which occur, and it ap pears to be a common sight A Chinese woman residing at the week has been an un to handle the ranoa of offi nowadays in the Metropolis to see 487, Queen's Road Weat has satisfactory one. On land, for again."
Nuisances. shoppers carrying away their own reported to the police that three instance, the Allies have attacked purchases rather than require" confidence tricksters," have a position of tremendous strength
September 23.-"There are two the business houses to carry out relieved her of gold finger-rings and have made steady progress. nuisances within a stone's throw their usual practice of sending valued $23.
la not a single place, along the of the Clock Tower which both the parcels to the residences of
"H. P.'s" Representative. great battle front, has ground call for the interference of the purchasera,
Mr. Wallace Farley, the repro- been given away, though the police. We mean the ricksha sentative of Messre. Huntley enemy has made repeated attacks nuisance, for one, There is a facturers,
present in Is not that good enough to be creatures without an office, or a fensive position of such strength a ricksha and they have the and the public has been told case-hardened front to leave their A Chinese, unknown, about 20 time and again that the position rickshas lining the road on each be found in the colliery districts years cf age. is at present in the chosen by the Germans for this side, three drep, while they go off in Nottinghamebire, where the hospital effering from 'njuries stand was one of great value to on alleged business, What we caused by falling when alighting the defenders we cannot expect want to know is--who in thunder Companies are drawing up from a tramer whilst in tion the enemy to be driven back are these critters, that toil not any acale in regard to rental. By this in Des Vexx fload, yesterday. thirty-seven miles in four days. more than they spin, that they scheme it is proposed that is Le was unconscious when picked That will come later, when he
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1914..
THE BOY SCOUTS.
י,
Hongkong Ice Company- $111 per share, buyera,
Hongkong Rope Manufactur ing Company, Ltd.-$150 per share, nominal, and GodownCompany. $162 per Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf share, buyers.
Hongkong Dairy Farm Co.- $14 per share, sellers.
A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd-
Hongkong High Level Trem
prem., sellers..
The generosity of the big and Palmer, biscuit manu: of the most desporate obaracter. crowd of nomadia go-betweens per share, sellere.: the balance between the pay of the Colony, and is staying at the ging on with ?. Against a de-come-fromora go-to-nothing buty Co., Ltd.-210 perc
fi me, too, in making up to wives employees and the amounts they recive for military service bas beba most marked. Another in- stance along the sams lines can
a
is at
Ingkong Hotel.
Fell off the Car,
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The Jamichi reports that in
has been moved from his present
quarters.
Victory Coming.
should blockade the best part of our principal thoroughfare? And wo beg to recommend that four of the biggest and rawest and most anti-Semitic policemen in the force bo told off with shot-guns
John French is satisfied with the to stop the nuisance,
In any event, so long as S position of affairs and actually
cent.
Ltd $25 per share, nominal.
Hongkong Steem Laundry Co.,
Green Island Cement Co. (old issue)$45 per share, buyers.
Green Island Cement Co. (new issue).$8 per share, nominal. Co., Ltd. 8125 per share. Hongkong Land Investment Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. -
$0 per share, buyers.
West Point Buildings Co., Ltd., $50 per share, sellers.
"The second nuisance is onlyHE LANGKAT OUTPUT. a triff, but it is annoying. There
is
cases where men are on short time sa a consequence of the war ap.
Failed to Appear. and are ordinarily not earning eighteen sbillings a week, they reated at 1... to day, on a
Wilson Norval, who was ar H. E. Major-General Kelly has done a graceful thing in ex- will not be asked to pay any tent, charge of behaving in a disorder tending his patronage to the Hongkong Boy Scouts. The move while Yed as a uning mely manner in Wyndham Street, ment in this Colony is still comparatively new, and not withstanding demanded unless a man is earn: failed to answer to his name when the fact that the local Chief Scout and Scoutmasters, have worked ing thirty-five shillings weekly, the case was called on this morn victory is onming dur way, so some hopelessly insane thick-
goes the length of suggesting that wonders with material probably less good than they would find in The men are doing their part too, ing, before Mr. C3D, Melbourne-long the public can rest satisfied head at the post office who has a England, it was l'ighly desirable that it should have the G.0.0's for to a lccal-relief fund the Bis bail of $25 was estreated.
that affairs are going along quite taste for gardening, and heempties period from September 1 to The Lingkit output for the authoritative booking. If the Scout idea is a good one at Home it colliers are proposing to give a is even a better here in Hongkong, where the minds and bodies of penny a day and the boys a half-
satisfactorily. It must rever be a few buckets of water on a row boy devolop more quickly than in a temperate climate, and where, penny out of their earnings rmesan Coal for Hongkong forgotten that, from the enemy's of dusty planta, right over the 20 is, according to the informa consequently, discipline of a healtby, rational sort is highly neces. These facts all tend to show the parsaanes of a schms for, the point of view, the campaign has two entrances to the stamp den furnished by the Company
glorious unity of the nation at supply of Hongkong with Fur- began as the attacking party morning. And he always des September 2 sary for growing lads.
proved a moet dissetrous one. He pariment, about ten o'clock every to the Shanghai papers: ****
Tons. 327 Those who have raad Sir R. Biden Powell's book on Scouting time of great crisis.
mosan coal, 500 tons were recent Ilis purpose was to sweep in on it when people are going under- will see that the Chief Scout'a prevailing idea is not to make boya Sword and Gown:
"One side-issue of the war which has been followel by an order for do it in quick time. From the not be wasted. He is too high ly shipped as a sample. This Paris, and he hoped to be able to neath, that the bye-wash shall into men before their time Lut to keep them boys, in the bigbeat sense of the word wholesome, straight, clean, modest, strong, and we have not yet seen commented 2,500 tons. This is the first first moment of the war matters up to reach with a club, but wo in every respect-useful. This, undoubtedly, he has succeeded in on is the fact that numbers of time an order for so large a quan- have gone badly with him. are laying for bim with our doing with a good many thousands of lade, for his is a personality French priests and even bishops, lity of Formosan coal has been Belgium upset the German cal Wicchester. that can impress itself even on those who have never seen him; an stationed out here in the East received from Hongkong. influence which oan, as it. were, be passed on at second-hand and have been called upon to relia
culations is the fit place, yet loss nothing in the passing. To the boy whose tendencie were quish their ordinary pursuits and Woman in Possession of Arms. so carefully arranged as to com- and the plans of the Allies, were hie them to the seat of war, naturally either vicious or namby-pamby the Scout idea has come as su absolute god soud; and General Baden Powell should be one because they happen to be peared at the P Ice Court, Rture of the ones who had A Portuguese woman who applete the immediate discom of the proudest men in England to day, when he reflects on what reserv'sta. The psychological before Mr. G. D Melbourne, was hoped long before now to be in he has done for the boyhood and future manhood, not only of the side of a position like this is charged with having in her pos- Parts Empire but of the world.
intensely interesting. One would session a sword and fifty rounds
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Other Points.
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208
218
30
233
108
227
238
315
215
305
231
314
316
230
311
204
310
311
322
Total tons, 5,035.
**@@Gamblers' Tricks. ··
trates seem to overlook one very with gambling cases, our magis September 20" In dealing
important circumstance which frequently transpires. T.-day, A fact in connection with the Chief Scout's plan that is rome- like to bear the impressions of of revolver ammunition. The
for instance, four private chair. limes lost sight of is that it is one which not only appeals to avery some of these clorica, who have defealant, who explained that ale Let it be remembered, too, that ing a gambling house in Cochrane soolies wore charged with keep class of boy hat, which appeals to certain boys whom no other been thus snatched from their kept the weapons in America to our mercantile fleet is still intact Street. Detective. Sergeant Had organisation would over have succeeded in
peaceful life and not only plung.deal with thieves, was fined $10 and that that of fermany has cens don railed the place last night renching. Some boys are moved by sport, others by studyings
ed into the midst of the fighting and advised that if she wanted ed to exist for the time being. That and found a lot of enolies, in all but by religion or by hobbies, but none
which counts far more the sword back she would have cuandt fail to have a e'rong scrts of gorgenas uniforma, play- recommend themselvea.universally, for numbers of boys are born forced to live for a while to apply to the Captain Superinfect not only on the fighting ing poles. To evade arrest they without the religious instinct, or are coldly indifferent to sport among surroundings that may be tendent of Police,
spirit of the troops but also threw over the lamp, selting the or hobbies, and still more so to lessons. Then what disciplinary quite tragically uncongenial. At factor could one hope to sas come into their lives, apart from force the time of the Bor war, when
upon their fighting strength as floor on fire and endangering the from outside? This, roughly speaking, is the problem with which the Reserves were called out, one
individuals. The point is that, whole locality. Yet Mr. Wode- the founder of the Scouts was faced; and he solved it by realising. of their number was an Trieb by the First Lord of the ing their troops, Germany is ere to six weeks imprisonment According to information sent while the Allies can keep on feed house only sentenced the prison. that every boy, however deficient in other respects, has at least monk, a member of one of the Admiralty to the Association of bound to feel's shortage of food orch. Arson is cheap. some craving after Adeonture. Now that same caving has brought strictest ordera, the Carmelites, the Men of Kent and Kentish in time: The Allies have only to many an unfortunate youth into treable, as one sees from the police, a camp he was taciturn though Men, his Maj aty's cruiser Kent, hold on and Germany will be reports in the Home papers from time to time--because it was not always kindly did not smoke, which is at present in d.ckyard beaten through starvation before regulated and given right direction. From the search for did not drick, or i in in any hands undergoing an exter sive many months are over. Look at adventare to mirchist it but half a alep, and that from mischief to mild-festivities. Novo-theless, will be put ints commission the situation how you may, crime is all too short. One may ay, therefore, that it was nothing is messmates and afterward again on l'ctober 2 The Kent, is no reason for grumbling and for ship in naval engagements we taken into custody while she was thero war Even though wọ lore ship from Boston,› Minas,....... Who WES short of an inspiration-able idea of converting such a dangerous
that in n cavalry chargs they had which is described by the First many reasons for feeling abund-shall be winning.
aning. If we sink one casually roaming around the instinct into a means of good. Every boy, good or bad, wants to rarely seen his equ for dare Lord "as having done much good antly satisfied. To be sure, there German, ship for every one of fortifications. As she had no play at soldiers," wants to sleep oat, to climb bills, penetrate devilry. When the regiment was servico al over the world have been 15ages at sea during ours she sink (and we have documents on her to prove her woods and so forth. Here then is his chance to do all these and a sent Home he returne
he returned to his PARIS
returpe to England in the the past week, but,
donroe) ws, become relatively identity the was kept in a cell for these done more) wa hundred other things, and at the same time to learn life's hardest lesson monastery and took up his old autumn of last year ferm the Far things are part of thei game, stronger with each engagement, a short time, but was then re- ee East, and was paid off at Poris Germany has lost mapy are The reader can work this cut for leased upon promising to go.
mouth Dookyard for n refimerointile thips than
immediately to the Commissary hips than we have, himself and he will see the truth m estimated to cost £01 933,
and she has lost more vessels of of it.
of Police and obtain a permit
obedience in a more pleasant manner than was the lot of boys life again just where he had put twenty years ago. With all this in view one may
broken it cfl with apparently no mo well wish every uccess to the Scouts throughout the world, including those of difficulty at all Hong
Paris, August Americans Arrested in Paris.
10-Some
Americans have suffered arrest, owing to not being in possession cf official permission to remain in Paria Among them was Miss Fish Pasbody, believe to be