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FROM SEA AND LAND.
Fine Results of the New Co
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1889.
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE
YEARS AGO. Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the wh ending Oct, 24, 1889.)..
The Dollar, The rate of the dollar
1889.
"SHARB' REPORT.
The quotations, which follow are from the Hongkong Telegraph for Oct. 24, 1889.
The transference of the strug- gle against Germany from land to sea or rather, the co-operation of the Allies' military and naval forces--as reflected by the opera- Siberian Mail. Due to arrive being attended with most fruitful was 3/18.
The Malls.
tions along the Belgian coast, is demand, on October 24, 1389,-182 per cent. premium, sellers,
to-day.
overcast.
The Outlooka. New York weekly_of_good" etanding has some very sade remarks in the last issue to hand on the subject of profanity. "Probably," says the editor, a great deal of it is das simply to stupid, unthinking imitation, a good deal of it to a habit, formed the swearer hardly knows how, and continued when the swearer is hardly conscious of it. So far as there is any osten- sible reason for it, it is a desire to emphasise one's veracity; it is al kind of travesty on the taking of Siberian Mail.-Due to arrive to an osth. in a court of justice." Siberian Mail.-Closes to-day as That is ather well put. “Úassing" in general is, of course, a sheer matter of habit and, as such, be comes less an actual vice than an offence to society. The man
morrow
3
p.m.
"Count the Columas,
Yesterday the Telegraph pub lished 37 columna reading matter. To-day there of solid will be 40 published.
The Dollar. The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is 1s, 8.9-16d.
To Consignees.
Cancelled...
Foolish Stories.
on
Trade Mark Case. October 18.-"At the Supreme
Gaol Food. October 18.-A Government
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank
Union Insurance Society of Canton-$110 per share, buyers.
China Tradera Insurance Come pany-$72 per share, sellers, North China Insurance -Th, 330 per share, buyers.
Canton Insurance Company, Ltd.-$135 per share.
Yangtze Insurance Association" Tls. 100 per share,
Hongkong Fire Insurance Com." China Fire Insurance Company -$84 per share,
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock
$135 per share, sellers,
Hongkong Gas Company
Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Bix per
Indo-China S.N. Company
results. In rushing their troopa across to the sea-cost, the Ger mans do not appear to have taken Court this afternoon, before Mr. efficiently into account the new Justice Wise, Mr. Pollock applied opening which, that move gives for an injunction to restrain ns. Developments could not have Meters. Reuter, Brockelmann and worked out better for us if we Co. and Messrs. Carlowitz from had planned, them ourselves, manufacturing, selling or export- who swears freely before other
after all, we have not had a hand trade mark of Men Loong. The Parenthetically, who will say that, ing preserved ginger, under the swearers is, may be, doing no
in the business? Anyhow, we matter was adjourned until Mon-pany-3824 per share, sellers. partionlar baraz beyond wasting
now know that a naval flotilla, day. a lot of valuable energy; the man
with long range guns, has, at the who deliberately awears before
request of the Allied Commandera, those who object to the practice
been harassing the German flank Notification above the signature Company-64 per cent. premium is a bounder. How the habit is
Consignees of cargo by the s.s. with deadly shell-fire since the of Mr. A. Listar, Acting Colonial sellers. acquired it is difficult to say; but, China and the s.s. Benavon are 19th inst., the plan being material Secretary, appears in the Gazeltoot roughly, ons may divide the reminded that goods remaining ly aided by observations made Saturday last. Alfred wants ten Steamboat Company-$40 per Hongkong, Canton and Macao with habitual swearers into two groups: andelivered after Monday will from naval balloons.
dere for the purchase of waste share, buyers. for those who grew up in homes be subject to rent.
food from Victoria Gaol for the China and Manila Steamship where bad language was common
These new operations have re- onfuing year commencing Decem- Company $102.1-2 per share, and who therefore never realised It is officially notified that sulted in "substantial losses ber 1, 1889." This, the honourable sellers. that there was anything extra- Notification No. 221 of the 12th being inflicted on the enemy, gentleman informs us, consists of ordinary in using tabooed words; June, 1914, relating to the re- while we ourselves hive sustained kitchen refuse and waste rice, and those who, at the hobbledehog cognition of Mr. Adolf Widmann practically no damage, owing to congee, vegetables, fish, eto,, stage between boyhood and man as Acting Danish Consul in our superior range. That latter averaging 100lbs. daily.
Hongkong Hotel Company- bood, started to swear just as Hongkong is cancelled.
On- $210 per share, sellers. remark deserves, emphasis, ly fancy the British Government they started to smoke-because it The New Magistracy. There are folk who have been of Hongkong buckstering over cent. Debentures-$501. seemed to them a right manly Tenders for furniture and so misled by exaggerated stories waste food, kitoben refuze, elc, thing to do.
fittings in the Courts at the New of the possibilities of Germany's What will the successful con- 15 per cent. dis., buyers. Another. Explanation.
Magistracy, are to be received at long-range guns that they have tractor do with this garbage, the Colonial Secretary's Office begun to believe that all the cher Alfred? If it is fit for human $67 per share, sellers
Douglas Steamship Company- until moon- of Monday, enemy had to do was to mount a food, are there no starving Novembar 2.
China Sugar Refining Com A few of these wonderful weapons beggars in the street to whom it Exempted.
Ltd. pany, d. $229 p
per share, The General Merchants' Asso-of these the Germans could do what about the danger of spread.
along the coast, and under cover would be a godsend ? If it is not, sellers. oiation and the Huoghom Com-practically as they wished. These ng disease throughout the pany, Ltd.-$67 per share, Luzon Sagar Refining Com mercial and Industrial Associa- individuals have even gone so Colony? Mr. Lister, if he were sellers. tion have been exempted from far as to think it likely that huge asked to come down from the registration under the Societies German naval forces could be lofty pinnacle bisownimagination $111 per share, buyers. Ordinance.
has elevated him to, would pos-
Hongkong Ropo Manufactur aibly say that this waste food, ing Company, Ltd.—$110 per kitchen refuse, congee, vegetabare, sollers. ables, fish etc. is used by Chinese Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf would be very far from the actual share, sellers. for feeding their pigs; but he and GodownCompany.-$160 per state of the case in this assertion. Hongkong Dairy Farm Co The Danger to Germany.
It would be well worth inquiring $14 per share, sellers. wooping at great sange, but she refaen and waste food are Germany admittedly has some to what actual purposes this kit eo far these have been mostly applied. But anyhow, the Gov- used in dropping "abelle into ernment is playing very low besieged towns--a work for down when it calls, through the which they are especially suited. official Gazelle, for tendera for These guns, however, are onm-decayed rice, vegetables and fish, bersome things to move about on the "leavings of the not too it that none of them has been Victoria Gaol. the battlefield, and we may take bounteously-fed prisoners in rushed to the cosat, where, after all, their utility would not be
German Influence in Africa. October 19." A "contem-
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Accident sometimes breaks these youthful swearers, of both classes, of the babit while they are still on the early side of manhood. In fact accident playe a big part in the whole question The accident, for instance, of men's being deprived, for long periode at a time, of the society of womenfolk is quite sufficient to make them careless as to their language. At sea, in camp, on a plantation or
ranch, the feminine element is missing, and with it, much that makes for the refining of men; therefore it is natural that the language used less restrained in conjwal alie mixed company. The habit, too, is undoubtedly contagious.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1914.
"The Great Duncan." Owing to the fact that the 88. Manchuris will not arrive until Tuesday, the "Great · Duncan " will open at the Victoria Theatre on that night, and not on Monday, as previonaly announced,
Donation Acknowledged. " The Secretary of the Church Missionary city, South China Mission, begs to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of $56, being part cffertory at St. An drew's Church, Kowloon, in aid of the O.M.S. Pakhoi Hospital.
Oxford Locals.
landed on Belgian soil under the the ships transporting these mar protection of these weapons. How ines were to escape the vigilance of they have never stopped for a the British Fleet in the North Sea; moment to consider.
rale
labont agitator,' And yel, any time during the past dozen years,accordance with modern require-He did not know what the bundle makes the German boast of pre who appeared for the prisoners, we have heard persons of all nationalities get hysterical in their meals, taking due account of the contained. The defendant was miration for admirat on for the Kaiser; and, even since the war broke out, there depth of water: These Govern fined $25, or one month's im- England quite laughable.
an, attack on
enemies,
Hidden Ammunition.
y
Hongkong Ice Company--
$23 per share, sellers.
A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd.
way Co., Ltd.-210 per cent. Hongkong High Level Tram-
prem,, sellers.
Ltd.-$25 per share, nominal.
Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., Green Island Cement Co. (old issue).$45 per share, buyere,
Green Island Cement Co. (new issue).$0 per share, buyers. Co., Ltd.-$113 per share, sellors. Hongkong Land Investment
$5 per share, buyers.
Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd.-
49 per share, sales and buyers Weat Point Buildings Co., Ltd.
POSTAL COMPETITION.
Abuse of Post Office Privilege.
A streat coolie' appeared this
The Harbour Moorings.
One very excellent scheme which was foreshadowed in the Budget statemont at Thursday's
As the Hongkong University meating
of the Legislative Scheme of Local Examinations Council is that for the acquisition makes no provision for the exa and rearrangement by the Governmination of Preliminaries, the ment of the private moorings for Committee of the Oxford Local very great. The advantage we porary remarks that if it be true coean-going vessels in Hongkong Examinations has decided to ar-sboard ship is obvious, es, with alliance with Portugal, the reason possess from our long-range guts that Germany is seeking an Harbour. The present system, range for an examination of can the movements of the flotilla, may be looked for in the eager by which old established ship didates, in any section, here in they can be brought to bear from 688 of the former Power to THE NEW NAPOLEON!
ping firms, with small boats, July 1915. Applications should anch rages, to the prejudice of Rev: O. H. Hicklog, 63, Robia-scious of that fact. With pres Court this afternoon, before Mr. PO: 8958 many of the deepest be made to the Hon. Seo,, the practically any point. And the extend its influence in Africa.
enemy mast now be grimly con
Piracy. Not long ago Mr. Churchill gave an interview in London to an the ownera of bigger vessels who on Road.
October 23,-"At the Police American newspaper man on the subject of the war, in the course have since come into the field, Dynamite Without Permission. land and sea, the enemy's Robinson, the men charged with
sare being exerted both from of which be said: "In a word, it is the old struggle of a hundred has grown up with the expansion years ago against Napoleon. The grouping of forces is different; of the Colony as a port, and it is morning with carrying twenty danger of being turned. Should board the steamer Soochow were
A Chinese was charged this
Right the circumstances are different; the occasion is different; the mat, one which circumstances have nine packets of dynamite without matters work out in that way, the again arraigned. Captain Mo
Wing is in distinct attempting to commit piracy on above all, is different happily." (Italics ours.) The First Lord proved to be very uncatisfactory. having the necessary permission. Germans may well be sorry that Isaac said thore was considerable morning, on remand, before Mr. never made a truer statement in his life than this last. The wonder The new proposal, is that the The defendant explained to Mr. is that it should have been called for; that it should have been Government will purchase the J. R. Wood, at the Police Court, they ever hurried their troops to difficulty experienced in arresting J. B. Wood, at the Police Court, necessary to point out that Napoleon and the Emperor William had moorings from their present that he had been paid filty cente
the Belgian coast-line. At any
the eight prisoners. George de ou a charge of infringing the just about as much in common to Oliver Cromwell and the modern where and re-arrange them in to take the explosive to Saiwanho. of naval and military forces that the prisoners made no Ceneral by carrying postal the successful co-operation Silve, the second engineer, aid privileges of the Postmaster
resistance at all. Mr. Wilkinson, packets.
The Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe have been plenty of individuals hailing from neutral countries who ment moorings will then he prisonment.
applied that the obarga might be prosecuted. -though not necessarily sympathising with German methods and classified as berths for vessels of
Fine Naval Work. dismissed, but bis Worship re- Mr. Wood pointed out that ambitions were quiet ready to tell us that one must needs admire 600, 450 and 300 feet respective the Kaiser's plack in throwing down the glove to such a host of ly, and instead of incoming boats at the Police Court, a Chinese thrilling reading, and it shows that he thought that one at leset
Before Mr. C. D. Melbourne, land engagement makes most evidence in the osse. He added and sealed.****
The official story of the Heligo-fused, as he had to look over the some of the letters were not closed going to their customary buoys was charged with unlawfully
The Hon. Mr. Wolle pointed Pluck! If a twelve-stone man, who is ignorant of boxing, they will be assigned to whatever being in possession of 520 rounds to what a high pitch of efficiency out of the whole number would out that the Post Office had a challenges a fourteen-stone man who is by no means ignorant, for suitable moorings are vacant. of Winchester rifle ammunition
our Navy has attained. Especial. certainly be detained on the cheaper rate for transmitting an- one bystander who would "admire bis plack" ninety-nine would A Distinct Advantage.. be more likely to "wonder at his cheek" and to tell him, in terms
without the permission of the fine was the work of H.M.S. charge of having a revolver in Baaled letters. He also remarked qualified or unqualified, according to the habits of the for the claims of big liners but box, the sides of which had been 28 knots at right angles to the
Not only will this scheme Captain Superintendent of Police, accounted for one of the enemy's order another remand and deliver the Postmaster General to decide operate with due consideration The ammunition was found in a cruisers, even when steaming at judgment to-morrow
Lion, which, with two salvoes, his possession, and he would that it was within the power of speakers, that he was a fool. To some extent we should
what were letters and what were side with the hundredth man, for we should argue that the it will also result in the avoidares honeycombed with holes for the
Sanitary Board.
postal packets. The question of challenger knew, within a little, what ho himself in for; and, further, that he personally was going of a particular line do not happen with a rifle and revolver concoal wrong with British naval Sun-Dr. Ho Kai. Long mesting great ed, they could still have been was letting vacant merely because the ships the %, Tencer, Another trunk paed. There is certainly nothing but Mr. J. D. Humphreys and Though they were badly address- October 24," Board met their being improperly addressed of good moorings remaining receipt of cartridges, on board enemy boat, also going at full yesterday. Everybody present did not enter into the maiter. to take the hammering. Bat when Kaiser Wilhelm challenges the to be in port. Looking at the ed was found on the same boat, aery. As in the case of the land deal of talk. Results Resolved delivered by the Macao Postal world, it is his unfortunate troops in the first place, and the starving financial side of the matter, it but no owner for this was forth work-bonours are being di that copies, only of documents Authorities. The packets bore the women and children and the bankrupt traders of Germany in the second, whs are going to get the blows. Not only so, but, in his may be remarked that the pur- coming. The defendant was tributed among those who should be circulated among the characters which were used be... amazing self-sufficiency he cannot conceive of the bare possibility chase of the buoys will involve fined $100. of Germany's being defeated. At a rough guces we should be in outlay of a quarter of a million Mr. O. A. Hancock. clined to say the greater the self-confidence the smaller the amount be set off an estimated an F.R.G.S, late senior master atike pumber of men are now re. Mr. Francis: "That the Sanitary had been paid on some of
deserve them, irrespective of members. Resolved, of dollars, against which must Mr. G. A. Hancook, M.A., rank. Twenty-four officera and a motion of Mr. Ede, seconded by in China, showing that postage of pluck required.
The man, above all, is different-happily," Could a greater nual revenue of about $80,000 81, Stephen's College, left the cognised in this way. Honour to Superintendent submit to the the letters and that the difference exist between any two men than that between this would-be year in normal times, which, Colony yesterday on route to whom honour is dus is the Board at an early date, a report addresses had to pay on hero and Bonaparte? Bonaparte was friendless and comparatively poor we are told, will cover the interest Australia. Mr. Hancook, before British motto to-day.
showing the manner in which the others. That was clear proof at starting; the Kaiser succeeded to sa empire which his grandfather on capital expenditure and work- his departure, was entertained by
laundry work of the Colony is at that there was competition with had made, and for years was foster fathered by Bismarck; Bon that the adoption of this plan students of the College, the latter has given his sasent, in the name ment of the general laundries" the sight person when they aparte did everything for himself, the Kaiser has done nothing; the will obviate the necessity for presenting him with a gold watch and on behalf of His Majesty the... Committees, were appointed brought men to Court. The Naz present carried out, and giving the Post Office, The whole His Excellency the Governor any suggestions for the improve trouble was that they did not get one was a man of deeds, the other thinks that big words will carry dredging certain portions of the suitably inscribed, together with King, to the following Ordinances to report on the new rules for Pak Hong, the wonders of the him through Bonaparte calculated every chance of victory and harbour. If it does, a costly gold and jade bracelet for Mrs. passed by the Legislative Coun market inspectors, and the letters, were the people who defeat down to the smallest fraction; the Kaiser has done nothing undertaking will be avoided, Hanocek. A large number of oil-Ordinance No. 26 of 1914 cultivation of calf-lymph here; should pay, for they had plenty but miscalculate, as, for instance, when he reokoned on the French guns' being forty years out of date, on an imminent revolution in though there are many shipping students visited the boat before an Ordinance to amend the and, in the end, Dr. Ayres gave of money, car ratin Rotsis, on a civil war in England and on the entire falling away of men who are of the opinion that she soiled. Mr. Hancook was a July Ordinance, 1887 Ordin notice of his intention to ask at His Worship-If you bring all the British Colonies Could Napoleon have blundered in that of and that eventually a big Craigengower Club and will be Ordinance to provide for the prospect of the Tytom supply ex will fine them heavily.
the evil day will only be postpon well-known member of the ance No. 27 of 1915 An the next meeting if there was any the principal offenders before me fashion? Napoleon, too, was beloved by his troops. Is the dredging scheme will be impera- missed in educational and formation of a Special Police tending above Hollywood Road. Emperor William also beloved? Then where can any possible tive. As to that, time will täll, resemblance-lie between the two?
athletic circles.
Then the Board dispersed.
ing expenses." It is calculated the Old Boys and also by the
operations, so with the naval
Ordinances Approved.
Reservo.
on the fore the institution of Post Offices
A fiue of $35; or one month'
imprisonment, was the sentence.