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HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 22. 1914.
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The Sweeping Nulsance...
Some months back there was an interesting discussion before the Sanitary Board in regard to scavenging, and official members
DAY BY DAY.
NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
THAT LIFE IS LONG WHICH AN-
The Weather.
Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 73; sunshine.
At the Poak 8 6.m. Temp. 64; sunshine.
The Malls.
THE ALLIES.
The 'Significance of the Greek Mobilisation.
were then at some pains to insist SWERS LIFE'S GREAT END. Young GROWING SYMPATHY WITH that roads Tore not swept without having first been watered. At that time we pointed out that the facts were otherwise in Kow loon, and they have been other- wise ever since. Any day, between the hours of 1 and 2 p.m., road sweepers may be seen in Nathan Koad, particularly under the Siberian Mail-Due to day. | trees which flink ezch side of the American Mail-Dus to-day.
thoroughfare, brushing up fallen French Mail-Due to-morrow, leaves and other refuse, and Siberian Mail-Olosed to-day a sending up clouds of dust which
3 p.m. cause great discomfort to passerar European Mail-Closes ic-morrow by. That has been going on for at 10.20 a.m. months past, and yet it never ocoars to the sanitary authorities to pat a stop to the procedure. From Bad to Worse.
Siberian Mail-Closes to-morrow
at 5 pm.
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Count the Columns.
The Dollar.
Auction Sale..
The Rule of the Road.'
THE COLONY'S BUDGET,
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR EXPLAINS
THE FINANCIAL SITUATION.
A SUM OF $1,079,139 FROM SURPLUS NEEDED TO BALANCE ACCOUNTS.
How the War will Affect Our Revenue.
If there is one fact more than another which has been throwa into prominence since the war sympathy shown by hitherto broke out, it is the growing
wards the Allies. Italy, we know, neutral European countries to
Portugal ia decidedly on our side, is really heart and soul with us,
while Grecce also perceives the is good reason for believing that righteousness of our cause. There
The Colony's financial pro- been necessary to revise the the first-named of these three is visions for the coming year were estimates of revenue, and I will only looking for an opening by outlined in the Legislative Council indicate under the proper heads which she may join hands with this afternoon, when His Ex- the reductions which have been the Triple Entente, and the same cellency the Governor laid on the made.
THE YEAR'S EXPENDITURE INCREASES BY $1,890.915: REVENUE ADVANCES BY $1,654,072,
Yesterday the Telegraph pub The evil bas become morelished 35 colamas of solid accentuated of late owing to the reading matter. To-day there now method of treating road aur-will be 38 published. feces. That method consists of tar-spraying, followed by " the The rate of the dollar on
may be said of the others, both table bis annual Budget speech on Financial Situation. laying down of a thick layer of demand to-day is 1s. 8.13-16d. thin sand or dust. After this hug
of which have gone so far as to the first reading of a Bill entitled: When the estimates for 1014 Te-morrow, at 11 am., Mr. G. partially mobilise. Setting these An Ordinance to apply a sum not were placed bafore you it was remained on for some days, it is removed by sweeping. And here P. Lammert is selling at 3, Car-facts against the position as exceeding Nine million five anticipated that the balance of also the sweeping is done without narvon Road, Kowloon, a large Germany finds it, we find only hundred and fifteen thousand six assets over liabilities on 31st previous watering. A pointed quantity of household furniture. one nation inclining to her hundred and ninety-two Dollars December, 1913, would amount example was provided this
sido-poor Turkey. And even to the Pablic Service of the year to $2,301,232. This estimate was The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will morning in front of the new ferry For failing to observe the rule in this case it may be taken for 1015.
more than realized, the sum pier in Kowloon, and the result of the road, the master of the granted that pressure is being
The Ordinanes contemplates actually brought to account being was that passengers going on to steam launch Tommy Atkins was exerted to bring her to act in the expenditure of the sum named $2,659,425. According to the the bosta wore completely fined $15 at the Marine Court, sympathy with the Triple A in the following manner:— revised figures for 1914 ordinary and extraordinary revenue is smothered in clouds of Cust. yesterday.
Six Gamblers. The annoying part of it was that
$5,601 expected to yield $11,330,830 or At the Police Court, this morn- the sweeping was taking place
1,500 $1,577 870 more
than was just at the time when people ingeix Chinesa were each fined were catobing the morning ferry 83, or in default seven days, for to business. Surely a little gambling in an unoccupied house common-sense could be employed at West Point. in matters of this kind and the work done in the early hours of
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the morning when nobody isabout. Dagonet.
There is no little pathos in the remarks and poem of Mr. G. R. Sims, which we reprinted yester day. Ele calls his poem
An Old Man's Prayer" and the title of itself gives most of us ecmething of a start, for one never thinks of albeit his name has been a house- bold word for more than a quar-
The object of this paper is to publish correct informativa, to serve the genial Vagonet as an old man,
the truth and print the news without fear or favour.
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The Hongkong Telegraph,
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1914.
WHY NOT A HONGKONG CARNIVAL?
False Pretences.
liance.
Greek Answer to Turkey. The recent attitude of the Porte
Governor.
Do., Special Expend. bas made it apparent that it Colonial
Secretary's would only be a matter of time
Dept. and Legislature, before Greece counterpoised the Colonial
Secretary e former's policy, and one was not
Special Expenditure, surprised, therefore, to learn Secretariat for Chirceo For attempting to obtain $6 by yesterday, that she had begun
Affairs, false pretences from a pawnbrok-mobilisation on a large scale. We Audit Department, er, a Obiocse was sentenced to are told thar already 450,000 men Treasury. seven daye imprisonment, by have been mobilised and that Do., Special Expend., Mr. Melbourne, at the Police Court, 200,000 more will be ready to Harbour Master's Dept. this morning.
take the field in a fortnight. Harbour These
Do.,
estimated. On the other hand 86,885 the total expenditure which was
originally estimated at $10,595,- 000 856 is now expected to exceed
that figure by $508,024 These 01.238 estimates if realised will result 33,444, in a surplus on 31st Decem 07,900 ber, 1914, of $106,950, and this
251, aum added to the balance of as 181,897 sate accrued on Slat December, Master's1913, will give a halance of as- Kallan Output.
are startling figures. The total output of the Kailan According to most of the books of Imports and Exports
Special Expenditure, 250,130 68te on 31st December, 1914, of
$2,826,375. Mining Administration's mines reference, the war standing of the
Dept, ...... 984,519)
Estimates of Revenue, 1915, for the week ending October 10 Greek Army does not exceed Royal Observatory,...... 24,445 The estimates of revenue, amounted to 45,107.52 tons and 200,000 men, but we have seen
for the sale during the period to how the size of the other Armies
Special, the coming year show a gross in- 17,714.81 tone.
Expenditure,......... 2,600 crease of $1,654,672. The prin- already pat into the field in this Miscellaneous Services, 912,200 cipal increases, of which explan, Rate, of Dallar.
war has exceeded far and away Judicial The official rate of the dollar the totale given in books of
and Legal ter of a century, We find, from for the month of November 1014, this kind. Great Britain herself Judicial
ations will be found in the foot Depts....
274,323 notes, occur in the items Assessed "Who's Who," that he is sixty for all paymonte fixed in sterling bas given a
and Legal
Taxes $233,200; Boat Licences. seven-old enough, that is, to which have to be made at Hong-example of that. What is probably Police and Prison Depts. 952,180 Licences $0,500; Liquor Licences,
most striking Special Expenda
870 $51,500; Carriage, Chairs, eto..,. have obildish recollections of the Crimea and to be able to recall kong and on the China Station, happening, therefore, is that
will be la. 918."
$28,000; Do., Greece is patting into service the Franco-Prussian War from an
Oplum Monopoly Expend., practically every available able- Medical Dept.
61,504 $1,428,800; Pawnbrokers Lic adult's point of view. As goss At the Police Court, this morn-bodied man.
249,759, Baces $7,000; Engagement and without saying, these two conflicts, ing, a Chinese prosecuted by Mr.
Discharge of Seamen, $8,500; terrible as they were, were but a T. Hicks for being in the serv.
1,500 Fees for use of Government flea bile in comparison with what ante quarters at 38, Nathan
379,913 Buoye (new item) $30,000; is going on at present. It is not Road, Kowloon, without permis
Public Schools Tees $24,000; easy for those of us who have not sion, was fined $3 (or even days)
11,350 Sunday Cargo Working Permits yet passed middle age to realise by Mr. J. R. Wood. the force with which the war
No Permission.
No Permission.
Points to be Remembered. Greece, of course, has only just emerged from succosefal during, which she showed up operations in the Balkan Wara,
extromely well. In those opera-
Close upon two years ago we published a landing article under strikes a man or woman who is At the Marine Court, yesterday. tions she, together with other the above title. We argued that it was almost time that something three score and ten; for, despite or in default fourteen days, for waged war against Turkey-a fast approaching the Psalmiat's a paint-scraper was fined $members of the Bilkan League, was done towards rendering longkong a little less the home of dulinees and glamness which it has been for so many years, and we the Crimea and the many minor being on board the s.8. Heung-war which ended in a division of binted that to bring about the desired alteration need not be a conflicts intervening between that shan without permission. A the conquered territories that dificult task if it were not for the tenacity with which Hongkong and the Boer campaign, England, Chine e who was on board the proved to be most favourable to cleaves to the pions rule (observed in nice little country towns in ever since Waterloo, has always Benavon without the permission the South of England) which makes it high treason for the man who been a sort of synonym for the of the master was sent to gaol for earns pounds a year to aspire to a seat on the same committee land of peace. with the man whose income is a plus 1 pounds; and higher treason still for the woman who does not live at the Peak to so much as look
at the lady who does. When we suggested a carnival for Hongkong we had in mind the elaborate preparations then being made for the Manila Carnival. Our motive for writing on the subject now is slightly different one.
A Serious Humourist.
six weeks.
A Test Case.
Greece, whose boundaries now extend northwards to thore of Albania and Servis.. It will thng be seen that if she now joins in How keenly Mr... Sims, in hie
At the Marine Court, yesterday, the war she will be able to link the remotest possibility of real R.N., intense patriotism, has felt even before Commander Basil Taylor, up, forces with the Serviane danger to his fatherlund, is shown team launch Ping Po was fined camp. Then Austria will have the master of the and take the war into the enemy's a in the last four lines of his poem: fifty cents for charging excess another fee with whom to deal.
Do., Expend
Sanitary Dapt.
Special:
Special
Do, Special Botanical and Forestry
Expend.,
Dapt.... Botanical and Forestry
Special Expend.,
Education,
DJ.,
Special Expend.. Military Expenditure,—
Volunteers,
Do., Special Expend,
Public Works,-
Public Works Dept.
Do, Special Expend., Pablic Works, Rec
Works, Er-
rent,
Lord let me, pass behind the hire. It was a test case, and the The Grecian Navy, too, is binary,...
veil
summonses against the masters of a factor not to be lost sight of From that dear land they loved the Yee Hing, the Wing Eling, especially now that it has been
so well,
and the Kwong Fat ware with materially strengthened by the Unconquered still, and withdrawn.
purchase of a couple of batile Football Collection for Pripce of abips from the United States, bath
Wales' Fund, Photo extremely well ärmed.
no tale
3
$6,000; Water Excess Supply 40,175 and Meter Rent $15,030; Coach- ing Through Traffic, Kowloon- 1,530 Cauton Railway, $70,000; 361,029 Miscellaneous Kowloon-Canton Railway, $7,000; Lensed Lands 2,701 (Crown Rent) $7,000; Markets
Rent $10,000; Widows' and Or 54,568 phone' Pensions Contributions
$11,000.
...
22,740 As have said ahave, it has
been considered advisable to
458,363 revise certain items of revenue Owing to the outbreak of war, 1,275 The following are the original Pak and revised estimatessem sta As orginally Revised
estimated. Estimate
580,500
2,229,785
Post Office, 464,107 Do., Special Expend., 7,545 Kowloon-Canton Railway 323 455 Oharge on account of
Public Dabt Pensions, Charitable Services,
Class I Light Dues $104,000 Light Dues,
sessment, Special As-
Arms Lí
9,077 908,000 Opiumi Mo-
26,402
Total,.. $9,515 82
Financial statements laid on
94,000
115,000
105,000
cancer.
8,420
4,820
nopoly.... 4,250,000 Class IL Medical Ex- amination of Emig- rants,
4,000,000
On Tuesday a Telegraph leaderette dealt with a suggestion that had been made from outside, that a fancy-dress-street proces- sion, properly managed, would be a useful means of collecting more money for the Prince of Wales' Fund. Why should not the original idea be allowed to expand itself and reach to a pakka earnival? We had almost said that what is possible in Manila is possible bero;
Of aliame to tell. bui, alack, that is not quite the truth-for a variety of reasons. But, however that may be, Hongkong is pre-eminently a place that would not's lince is all the more notice, nounce that the collection for the A Naval Incident.
The deep sorioneness of Dago- We havo ben asked to að“ lend itself to decoration and jubilation, and we are sure that if able inasmuch as he has always Prince of Wales' fund, made at festivity of the kind suggested were once bald, it would become beon regarded (when he was not the football match played at Lye gunboats against German coust A telegram to-day tells of a small naval operation by British an annual event. The Prince of Wales' Fand wants millione of) dollare yet, if it is to do the work wi ich its promoters intended it as essentially a humourist. Never R.G.A. and the Hongkong Police, being attacked by hostile sub the table in connection with the Sunday Car
engated on "Sarrey side" drama) mun, between the 83rd Coy batteries and of the gunboats should do, and any further cash that Hongkong may be prepared theless many readers of his amounted to $31. The money marines. It is not made clear Estimates show that the assets on to contribute will be welcome enough. It so happens that man's Mustard and Creas" column has been handed over to the fallen nature is apt to demand some value for money. Few of us may recollect how, on the Sunday cn. Treasurer of the local Mill-but inasmuch as a patrol of des- $5,210,831:53 and the liabilities Survey of
where these happenings occurred, are so disinterested as to be ready to put hand to pouch for the sake fullowing the death of Queen tary Committee.
December 31, 1913, totalled Permits, 70,000
$60,000 of holy charity, unleas we too are going to get our cumshaw out of Victoris, after beginning with: Harbour Difences. it. It is no use trying to mend that; we must take the world as we I am Dagonet, the King's At the Marine Court, yesterday,
troyers came from Dover and drove off the submarines, it is $2,581,455.83 leaving a balance Steamalips,31,000 28,000 find it, and, since we must all be coaxed to do charitable acts, by Jester; but I cannot just to-day the master of
Class V. of $2,359,425.70. The revenue to the steam more than likely that the occupied means of sugar-plume, we may as well accept the situation. And he proceeded to give one of the lausch Wing Ching was fined portions of the Belgian coast ware December 31. 1914, is estimated Premia
on New now as to this carnival. We feel positive that the Portuguese, most moving panegyrics on the $15 for failing to observe the rule the scene of operations; "at $11,330.830 (against $8,512,-|
1308.24 in 1013) and the expendi The revenue which has been with the Europeans in the arranging of a street procession, in the whole of the world's press, the master of the steam launch easy maiter for German: sub. 658,012 83 in 1913). This leaves has been much larger than Chinese communities would gladly combine dead queen of any that appeared of the 20 d. For at imilar offence would, of course, boa relatively lure $11,163 830 (sgainst 38, derived from the Opium Menopo
Indian and
Intercession in Time of War.
Consignees Letters
go Working
Leases,
60,000,
$260,000 206,000
and equally positive from the ready way in which they have furthered local efforts on behalf of the Fund-that the
For moving about the Harbour to Belgium, especially if no regard added to the balance of assets for that the price of the drug in Cheung Hing was fined $15. marines to steal down the coast surplus of $108,950, which
was anticipated owing to the fact Naval and Military authorities would raise no objection to asilora'
with a prohibited: Loure a boat were paid to territorial water 1913. brings the estimated China and Macao reached and soldiers bearing such a share as their duties might
man was fined $20,
limits,
Anyhow, wherever it balance for 1014 up to high fute, and in order leave them free for. Let a fancy procession wend its way through The Bishop of Victoria pro the tosin thoroughfares of Victoris one night and of Kowloon an-
occurred; the incident favoured
$2,820,575 70. Before Mr. C. W. Melbourne, the British, for the mbmarines
to prevent smuggling it was ne other-and, even though the contributions be only in copper coins or posea, to hold a meeting for inter-
euis Excellency's speech five cent pieces, we feel sure that the men with bags on sticke" monthly, on the fourth Monday an effice boy in the Compradore's gunboats were able to resume Members of the Legislative longkong. His Majesty's Gov
cassion at St. Paul's College, at the Police Court, this morning, were driven off with loss and the read as follows: Honourable cessary to raise the retail price in would be kept pretty busy. The whole could be made to wind up at 6 p.m. commencing next Mon Dapartment of Messrs. Butter their reply to the coast batteries. Council. In accordance with rent has approved of certain with a couple of evening galas, (say) one in the Botanical Gardena and day Oct. 26. This is in addition field and Swire was charged with What the "lose" is we are not
deductions one at King's Park, with a reasonable charge for admission.
being made from the Krogs revenue derived from the. pose to give you a brief summary The above is, of course, the merest skeleton of a suggestion; to the service of intercession held receiving letters which were un told, but we cannot conceive of we leave it to our readers to offer ideas that will amplify it. The at 10.15 am. daily (except Thurs-stamped from the se. Lintan any other loss, in such circum of the present financial position Opium Monopoly with a view to days) at the Cathedral On His Worship held that consignees atances, than the sinking of at of the Colony. In view of the arriving at the amount to be Telegraph has always been more than willing to use its columus for Tharadays it is held at the Feik hills, if soaled, bad to be stamped. least one of the submarines.
mesossad for Military Contributions the furtherance of anything calculated to benefit the inhabitants of
Defendant, was convicted and that point we may be further 4 ot which the war is having Op. These deductions are shown in" this Colony, whether from a municipal or a recreative point of view: Church.
the trade of the Colony it han later enlightened од and will continue to do so.
cautioned
the usual procedure."
I pro-