THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19,
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
ESTABLISHED 1841
ÆRATED WATER
MANUFACTURERS.
| Critics of “ Tipperary.
"Tipperary," the once rejected but now world-famous song, haa ita critics as well as ita admirere. And if we are to judge from the Homs papers, these oritics are mostly musicians, who are very much out of the picture just now, but who are turning to scraps of music which are popular at the moment and are attempting A REFRESHING, INVIGORATING and PALATABLE drink to measure them by their usual Some of these em- standard. particularly suited for Tennis Parties.
inent oritics have suggested that "Tipperary" should be suppress ed because it has no musical
FORMAZONE.
Pints $1.05 per doz. Splite 65 cts, per doz.
PYERIS.
Chemically, an exact reproduction of a well-known Continental spring, at half the prios. Blends perfectly with Spirits, especially Whisky. Once try a Whisky Pyeris and you will ask for it again, Prices: 80.85 per doz. Pihts. $0.50 per doz, Splits.
STONE GINGER BEER.
tunes in its stead, such as Elgar's merit, and have offered other and of Hope and Glory"
DAY BY DAY.
A LAUGH IS JUST LIKE SUNSHINE, TT FRESHENS ALL THE DAY, IT TITS THE PEAK OF LIFE WITH AND DRIVES THE CLOUDS AWAY,
LIGHT
The Weather. Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 58; overcast.
11
At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp, 50; overcast.
2
The Malls.
Arrived to-day per s... Nankin,
English Mail.
Siberian Mail. Closes per
8.3.
1914.
NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
OUR NEW PROTECTORATE.
1889.
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVB
·YEARS AGO.
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Compiled from the "Hongkong
The Chopping and Changing of Telegraph" files for the wick
German Plaas.
Although everyone was more or lesa prepared for the news which came over the cables yesterday to the effect that Egypt had been converted into a British Pro
the less merke an epoch of no
ending Deo. 10, 1889,)
BOARD OF TRADE
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Insurance Against Capture of Cargo in Neutral Vessels.
The following announcement The Dollar. December 19. The rate of of the Board of Trade is publishe the dollar on demand to-day is ed in the Hongkong Government
Gazette:-
3/21."
It has been brought to the Mr. Gladstone on Turkey, December 13-"Speaking at notice of the Board of Trade that an assembly of the National British Insurance Companies have recalled the overthrow of the risk of captare or detention actorate, the announcement none Liberal Federation at Manchester insured or re-insured goode ship- There can, of course, be no com Siberian Mail.-Closes per s.s.small importance in the history/9 December 8, Mr. Gladstone ped on neutral vessels against of that ancient land. Only a few the Conservative Government by His Majesty's Government or The Board of Trade are advised
parison between the two.composi
--*' Nankin at 2 pm.to-day.
Chenan at 3 p.m. to-day. St Albans to-morrow
The only formented Stone Ginger Beer in the Far East. The tione noméd. But it strikes us Australian Mail.-Closee per s..weeks ago the Porte gave it out in 1880, consequent on the want allied Governmenta; real charm of Stone Ginger Beer is the flavour produced by partial fermentation; without this no Stone Ginger Bear can be said to be genuine.
---Price-$0.90 per doz
DRY GINGER ALE.
that this is not a matter for the decide; it is for the soldier him- refined on base musician to self, who wants from music, not highly intellectual pleasure, but something to give him the rhythm is a feature in his marches. And this is what
"Tipperary" supplies.
FRAGANT, AROMATIC, DRY, Its "Dryness which has helped to give this the popularity it 80 wall deserves.
Prices:-$1.05 per doz, Pints. $0.65 per doz, Splite.
addresses
Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which with #equires them to forward their names and communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but as an evidence of their bona fidos.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS,
Where" Tipperary" Scores.
One can appreciate ancha song sa "Tipperary" from the march er'a point of view when con. sideration is taken of the fact that it avoids long notes, which is a merit that many another song," otherwise admirable, lauka altoge
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The Dollar.
Name Day.
Returned,
MONEY-CHANGERS' REGULATIONS.
9 to the world that she still looked of sympathy with the suffering that such contracts of insurance
upon Egypt as a Turkish Pro- of the Bulgarian people. He said vinee, and while it is true that that, owing to the march of events or re-insuranos against the risk for very many years the country in Orste and Armenia, the time of capture or datention by Great has been nominally dependent has again come for the Opposition Britain or her allies are prohibit- on Turkey, the hold of the 0.coman
between 1876 and 1880; that they think it necessary to warn Government has gradually loossa to watch vigilantly, as they did ed by the law of England, and ed and Great Britain has for Tarkish doings in Armenis British Insurance Companies and very long time been the real The rate of the dollar on raler of the country. It is in urgently demand the attention of underwriters against undertaking
the British prople, and that he such husiness, demand to-day is is 9.1-150.teresting cow to recall that from hoped the Government would not 1879 to 1888 Egypt was under the Today is the Name Day of the dual control of Great Britain and accept the customary Turkish
apologies and evasione,” Czar of Bussia.
France, but in the latter year
Case Dismissed, December 13.-" Justice lends Lady Chater arrived from Great Britain intervened after
Arabi Pasha's rebellion and since a very wide open ear to some Home by the 8.8. Nankin to-day then has practically governed the funny defences ocassionally. The
The following regulations have The Gazette contains particulars country. At first the British other day, for instance, an ex-
regarded alakeng saw some men unloading been made by the Governor-in- of fees to be taken in prize matters occupation was
temporary, but by force of oir bags of sugar from a junk at West Council under Section 3 of the by the Court and its officers.
cumstances it has become more Point, and, suspecting them Licensing Ordinance, 1887 --
1. All premises aucupied by firmly established and the followed them to their haunt predominant position of Great of vice and got them arrested. Britain was formally recognised They were found to have fifty any licensed money changer shall by the Anglo-French Agreement dollars worth of the staff, which be entirely partitioned off from, non-communicating with, and which was signed in 1904.
resembled the product of the having separate entrance to any Taikoo Refinery, around which other floor, or shop, of the same place one of the men was known or adjoining premises.
Prize Court Fees.
To Consignees,
Consignees of cargo by the B.a. Korea are reminded that goods remaining undelivered after Mon- day will he subject to rent.
Business Announcement, Messrs. S. Moutris and Co.,] Ltd., beg to inform the public until 6 p.m. daring. Christmas that their store will remain open
ther, One cannot conceive, of a tane in which he has to take four steps to one note. That is exactly the fault which attachea to such an otherwise fine martial Glory.' tune as Land of Hope and We see that one indivi- dual at Home has expressed the view that "Tipperary," eet in minor key, would make a capital ground-work for a magnificent are not concerned with such march in the Wagnerian style. We niceties as that. It is sufficient week. that it has a fine martial swing and rhythm, and, above all, that the soldier, for whom it is now being served up, has shown in no uncertain manner that he likes and means to stick to it, too. Prince Rupprecht and the
Legitimists.
a
it
that
Society Dissolved.
A Good Signi
to bang a good deal. Yet be. No business shall be trans cause the firet robber said he
It is not without its significance bought it from an unknown rob acted by such-licensed money changer except within the pre- that the announcement should ber at sen, one night, Mr. Wode mises occupied by him, nor shall
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In exercise of the powers vested have been made at this particular house dismissed the ones to-day, in him by the Societies Ordinance, time. It shows that the country" Bought, one night, at sea" be transact any business, with any 1911, His Excellency the Gover is favourable to British rule, should be a popular gag, time outside his premises on the
A New Bill, choose a time like the present for
December 17.-"The first nor-in-Council bas ordered that otherwise Britain would not among the fraternity in future.
establishing the Protectorate and ronning the risk of adding to reading of a Bill entitled 'An
the Sai Yes Tong, an exempted society, be dissolved.
General Holiday.
Struck Off.
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person or persons who are at the public footpath, roadway or side- Walk.
3. The fee payable in respect
China Trader' Insurance Com Dany-873 per share, buyers.
North China Insurance Tis.
Canton Insurance Company,
Company 62 per cent. premium, sellers.
Steamboat Company $41 per Hongkong, Canton and Macao share, bayars.
China and Manila Steamship Company $100 per share, buyers.
It is notified that His Excel-her burdens. No donbs the Ordinance to amend the Merchant of a money changer's licence shall A Globe correspondent seems to
$10.00 per annum es hitherto. be much exercised in his mind as leacy the Governor-in-Council has, Nationalists still have their own Shipping Consolidation Ordiu-be $50.00 per annum instead of to how, Prince Rupprecht of under Section 7 of the Holidays ideas as to the future of the coun-ance, 1870 will be the only Bavaria now stands in the satima- Ordinance, 1912, appointed Saturtry, but the fact that they have, business at the Legislative
Civil Servants' Salaries. AITKEN.-At Wooldmai, Kowloon, Dec. 18th, to Mr. and Mrs. tion of the members of the day, the 2nd day of January, in common with the other people, Council to-morrow.":"
Legitimist League, who formerly 1915, to be observed as a General demonstrated ample evidence of
thair loyalty serves to show December 17.-"When do you S.R. Aitken, a son.
spoke of him as "rightful Dake Holiday. MARRIAGE.
Detained Vessels. that they appreciate the benefits intend dealing with the proposed realise increase of the salaries at present BRONSDON-BRONSDON-On December 12, 1914, at Holy of Cornwall and Rothesay." At
The Hongkong Government of British rule and rough guess we should say Trinity Cathedral; Shanghai, before Rev. A.J. Walker, Herbert John,
Britain thanvante?' asked a correspondent. son of Frederick Bronsdon, of Croydon, to Eva Buckeridge, daughter he stands nowhere at all, save sa Gazette gives full lists of vessels that they are likely to get better drawn by our local Civil Ser- 350 per share, buyers.
a declared enemy of England, detained by the armed forces of treatment from of the late Charles Bronsdon, of Newbury, Berks,
consider it Yangtsze Insurance Association Bud that the Globe's correspondent Britain, France and Russia since they would from rulera of any We don't know. But when we Ltd.-$180 per share. might have found a better use the outbreak of war, and of Gor-other nationality. The establish- do, if we ever
some ratherTle: 00 per share.
that have Hongkong Fire Insurance Com for his time than reeking to man vessels detained at Antwerp ment of a Protectorate will mean worth while, drag into prominence what and also reported to be in the a very great deal to the economic important points
progress of the country, and it altogether escaped the Eagle-eyed pany-$385 per share, buyera. China Fire Insurance Company everyone has either forgotten or Suez Canal.
is certain that the announcement Commission will be plainly hand-
-$89 per share, D else ceased to take an interest in
It is notified that the names of will be hailed with deep satisfao- led. Have other people's eateries,
Hongkong and Whampoa Dook Everybody knows and we be the following Companies have tion by commercial people, Egypt outside the Civil Service, been lieve the late Queen Victoria, at been struck of the Register:- has enormous undeveloped re- raised twenty-five per cent, since the time of the '97 Jubiles, very The Ketapang Syndicate, Limited; sources, and it may be safely the (nominal) value of the dollar readily acknowledged it-that Prince Rupprecht is the dirent Henry Arnold and Company, assumed that these will be fully dropped from 4/- to 3/2d? Don't
An Old Stager. V We are indeed glad to see from the mail papers that interset descendent of the senior branch Limited; Scharff' Oil and Bone exploited as a result of the flow all speak at once.
Our sole reason for re-triating being aroused at Home in the unhappy condition into which the of the House of Stuart. But it Mille, Limited; Brighten, Malcolm ing in of capital which we may
which will accrue from this the following is that we saw it war has forced many non-dombatants. We shall not be suspected is equally common knowledge and Company, Limited; the China now look for. The benefits
Proclamation Rescinded, are too apparent to require dished up again, quite recently,
Hongkong Gas Company of seeking to lessen the amount of Britain's indebtedness to her that the Bavarian Prince's fore-Printing Company, Limited.
It is notified that His Excellency emphasis, and time will undoubt as the very newest in yarns." Of soldiers and sailors if we say (as, by the way, we said soon after the bears waived their claim to the war broke ont) that their children and womenfolk are not the only English throne by the very fat the Governor-in-Council has given edly show that the people, who course it was new once; but so $135 per share, sellers.
Hongkong Hotel Company directions for the rescision of will share in the general prosper was the world itself.) sufferera by the existing state of affairs. Granted, our first duty is of their keeping silost about it.
December 14" Ma, nurso $200 per share, sellers. to those dependent on the men who have left their homes to protect An Empty Claim.
We do not deny that the claim Proclamation No. 22 of the 34th ity, will have every cause to be the Empire; and if even one of these should be neglected it would be an abiding disgrace to the nation. But what of the thousands of of the Hanoveriana-coming, as November, 1914, declaring Wu- thankful that Britain has estab hasn't any wings, hos alie ?" ask- Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per
his mother." Angele have wings, Indo-China 8.N. Company men and women who are either out of employment or else condemn it did, through James the First's how to be a port or place at lished herself more firmly than ed litt'e Jimay. Why, ro," said cent. Debentures-8601 haven't they?" "Yes; but nurse 123 per cent. dis, buyers. isn't sa angel. ".." Well, I heard Douglas Steamship Company- ed to live on half wages by reason of the war? Should not their (we apologise to the Hongkong which an infections or contagious ever in the country. case be the next for consideration? Statistios tell us that unemploy Boots; James the Sixth's daught disease prevails, ment in England is less than ever; but statistics have told us auch erwas less strong than thosa,
Although she is not an angel," China Sugar Refining Com remarkable things in days gone by that the word itself has respectively, of the so-called piration of three months the fol
It looks as if the Kaiser has said his mother, with a flash in pany, L4d-$225 per- ahare,
"ahe will fly to-morrow." bayern. come to be received by the average man with a scoff or a sneer. Old and Young Pretender; bat
cause is shown to the contrary, once again changed his mind. her eye,
Lason Sugar Refining Com Just now we prefer to believe the Pall Mall Gasetta, which, in are Canon law had laid it down, owing Companies will, unless dent issue, remarks: "Very keen distress is widespread among the before ever the Hanoverians were be strack off the Register and the The original German plan, asal Masonic News
December 1"It is rumour-pany, Limited-869 per share, professional olasses, all grades of theatrical artistes and helpers, in heard of, that, in the event of Companies will be dissolved: everybody knows, was to crush Bae millinery and dress-making trades, and among clerks and upper there being no protest from the Tientsin Horse Bazaar, Limited; France in the west and then to ed in Masonic circles that a new sellers.
legitimate heirs to a usurped the Yee Mi Company, Limited; deal with Bussis much in the Lodge is to be formed, under the Hongkong Toe Company- The above callings, it may be assumed, are taken more or less throne for a space of a hundred the Whangpoo Wharf and Go- same way. Now we are told that Scottish Constitution, by the $100 per share, buyere, de down Company Limited, the great War Lord has given it Asistio brethren: The 'Asian' Hongkong Rope Hana factur at random, for there must be many others that have found themselves years, the neurping House would
Oun Practice,
out that "our present task is in will probably be the name." ing Company, Ltd.—$100 per in more than a tight corner through the general cutting down of ex-be considered to have established
It is notified that information Poland; there will be time to Escaped from a Chain Gang, share, buyers, agenzia penditure, Artists and free-lance literary men might be added to the its rights. A few years back, number; so, for that matter, might the seaside lodginghouse keeper the White Rose League and has been received from the Millete the basicowe in the west December 10" The prisoner Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and the asaaide trademan; for the living of all these depends on other Legitimies societies were tary Authorities that gun practice later Bat to-dewires would who escaped from a chain gang of and Godown Company-893 por the general well-being and prosperity of the country. People do somewhat busy over praking the will be carried out under suggest that that business will Kennedy Town last June, plead-share, buyers. not buy pictures or books at times like these, nor do they go away rights of Prince Bapprecht, On Tuesday, the 22nd Decem-ke a little settling. The Allied od guilty to-day. He was serving Hongkong Dairy Farm Co.-
but nobody took serious notice ber Fram Mount Davis, în a
servanta.**
holiday-making.
Companies Warned.
It is notified that at the ex-
Local Successes.
The Fickle Kaiser,
På call her one yesterday." $64 per share, sellers.
LE
Education, Mr. J. A. Pease, has been formed for the purpose of and Queen Victoria mat no less
We read that a committes, under the President of the Board of of them, nobody was "hartweeterly direction, between the forces are making very appreciable ten years imprisonment com- $14 per share sellers4/64bi of the enemy'e frat line trenches sentence and afterwards undergo Hongkong High Level Tram- enquiring into cases of distress among such persons as those men firmly and comfortably on the hours of 10 a.m. and 12 noon. progress in France and in Bel- menning in 1883, at the time, and A. 8. Watson and Co., Ltd.
prem nollers. BEY tioned, and we earnestly hope that it will coe its way to banishing throne. Extremists on the other All janke, ships and other vessels Bium, and in one place the whole was ordered to complete his 223 per share, sellers, their the poverty which has been overhanging them. Needleed to any side represented the Legitimist are to keep clear of the range have been carried over a front of two years further imprisonment way. Co., Ltd.-200 parent. Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., F. M. Graca Ozorio and Ohak more than a kilometre in length
Lid:825 per share, nominalis that committee will have no easy task; for the organisation has yet conieties as beings first connin' to
Green Island Cement Co. (old) ine)-843 per share, buyers,
Green Island Cement Co. (new Lade)80 per share, buyers.
1889.
SHARE REPORT.
to be discovered that can d discriminate, without much expenditure the Pope and the Devils in real Chin hang have preced the noose A little more of this sort of thing of time, between the deserving and the undeserving cases, and ity they were, and are, merely m that can reach those poor souls (of whom there are many in Britain) composed of a few: High Church nary examinations held at the and we may expect to find the
and have been awarded degrees plana. Bat chopping and changed oamen who would rather starve than own that they are in need or thou eat curates and a fair number of Hongkong Univeralty this month, Kaiser once again changing his of Bachelor of Medicine and ing will not win this great strug
glo. Determination and an un- the bread of charity. Of course there will have to be sub-committees, elderly unmarried ladies with
ohelor of Boience. respect Ainoking resolve to carry out a local agencies eto, and, for the pesca, of mind of those who are to turn for the gently and prettily
fixed purpose are needed, i receive relief, we can only hope that the central committee will be romantic, and their black and able operations are entire"
the kit which is animal at the trouble of seeing that the right persons are chosen for such
and which, ind
the work. This is not a time for the busy-body or the mob to air him- ly confined, nowadays, to a "very
Pattempt to melf (herself would, in ninety-nine chase out of a hundred, be more praisew jast) over the distributing of public money, and to play the patron slive
Charles
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The quotations which follow are from the Hong song Telegrap for Deo. 19, 1869.00
Hongkong and Shanghai, Bank 189 per cent, premium, buyers. Union Insurance Society of Canton 8103 per share, buyers,
Longs Land Investment Coald $107 per share, buyera. Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. 84 per share buyers.
West Point Balldings Co. Ltd.