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Election R According to Manila papere, Dr. Woodrow Wilson is reported to be lending bis support to the candidacy of Mr. Champ Clark for the Presidential romination of 1916. Perhaps too much import- apoe should not be attached to such a ramour, for quite recent American newspapers have spoken fins. of Dr. Wilson as likely to seek re-election. From the British Siberian Mail.-Due per e.s. Lu point of view, one of the main objections to a Republican form of government must ever be that a Icertain amount of what one must oall amateurishness, for want of a better term, is apt to characterise at least the first few years of the presidency of a man who does not come of the hereditary ruling classea.. Ia Britain man, whether king, POST or ministerial member of the
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NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
THE LOSS OF THE FORMIDABLE.
Germany Begins to Reallac the Facts.
definitely announced its opinion At last the Admiralty has
was accounted for by torpedoes that the battleship Formidable from a submarice and not by striking a mise. Why the an-
1890.
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.
(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the wock ending Jan. 9, 1890.)
dollar on demand to-day in 3/13
The Dollar.S January 9-The rate of the
LEAVING MAÇÃO.
Non-Chinese Must Secure Licence.
The following polics issued by the Government of Macso is published in the Hongkong Government Gazette for general information;
Government of the Province of
Secretariat General of the
Macão.
Pirates in Shaukiwan. Men Yesterday the Telegraph nouncement should have been so think, to go through Shauki wan that all non-Chinese intending to long delayed it is difficult to see. village, what a neat of pirates it depart from this province must January 3. Nobody would It is boreby notified by order inasmuch as'it is now established is. Yesterday a junk sailed peace-apply to the Police Department that, before going down, the war- fully into the bay there, and folded for the stand by as there was danger ing boat, and the orew went and this province may obtain a per- ship signalled another ship not to its winge like any honest old fish- Officers in the public service of
necessary licence. of a submarine attack. That kissed their wives and barema manent licence on application have been communicated to the on the quay. And, an hour later, menta message must soon afterwards generally as they welcomed them through their respective, Depart
The Dollar.
Portuguese School, Kowloon.
A
The rate of the dollar on Ohina zre zeminded that gords Admiralty, and on its nature Acting Luspector Hanson boarded The licences must be applied demand to-day is 1s 9.3-16d."
To Consignees. Consignees of cargo by the .e. said to be born to and trained for remaining undelivered after Mon- being disclosed it was surely a the vessel, and found on it a can- for at least 12 hours in advance. politica sad government-with, of Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which Chamberlain. In America, on opened nader new arrangements is surely nothing to gain by pre-hundredweight of cannon-balle day, without the above liceuos, if
course, certain notable exceptions, day will be subject to rent. anch as the case of the late Joseph The above school has been re- the hands of the enemy. There loaded, about a couple of steamers may retro o liberos, it safo dedaction to make that the non loaded to the muzzle, ajingal, Perrons who travel to Macao by requires them to forward their names and
Formidable had met her fate at blunderbusses, revolvers etc., also one of the Hongkong lines of communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for
with the other hand, it frequently and Mr. J. N. O, Guterres has serving an atmosphere of mystery and ballets, a few slabs of they produce a declaration to this publication, but as an evidence of their bona fld.si
occurs that a man does not "take been appointed master. The in- in incidents of this kind; for dynamite and a whole lot of stink effect passed by the Captain of to" politics at all until middle life, when his brain and perceptive at the school rooms, Ashley Band. better is it to let the public know pots. He also found some property the steamer in which they travell-
auguration took placson Thursday The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will keenness and flexibility. The H. M. Consul-General, Canton, public has shown that it is quite to a junk that was pirated the Non-Chinese persons who do
powers have lost mach of their Canton's Generosity.
the worst, especially since the which is identified as belonging ed to Macao. performances of auch men, then, has remitted to the Prince of prepared to take the bid with the other day, thirty miles to the not produce the licence or the must not be judged too harshly by Wales Reliet Fand local sub good, realising that in a war like eastward. He and his men gath declaration herein mentioned, will soriptions for December amount-this we shall have misfortunes to ered in the two pirates who were not be permitted to leave the pro- ing to £114. 15. 4. The total bear as well as victorios to on board, and afterwards collected vince, date is £1,273.15. 8. amenat remitted from Canton to celebrate.
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We are advised that the service
The point in President Wilson's The daily issue is delivered free when the address is accessible to character that stands out above all
Masaonger. Peak sabsoribora can have their copies delivered at others is surely his extreme con
Leaving that point on one side, their residences without any extra charge. On copies sent by /scientiousness; he is manifestly one of Midwives who have been duly in which the galiant men of the Operator." Look here;
The Gazette contains the Roll however, Britishers have.overy Mr.Fraser Smith and his Edemies. who wishes to do right for right's certified under the Midwives Or Formidable met their death. The published an infamous lie about rasson to be proud of the manuer January 3-Loading Stare
any movement that was political all; with the exception of two be helpers not to stand by for thing. But just think where you of the N.Y.K. European Line is Becoad, lead his countenance to There are 37 names on the list fated boat signalled to his would-it." Editor-" Well, do the other
Bat the Chinese. views to which his party member- ship commits him are they the
War Proclamation. › fear of meeting a like fata reveals would be if we were to publish being considerably improved an of a great nation like the United Proclamation by the King extend- death for their country. It was suspended best calcalated to meet the needs Gazette publishes the text of a man; they know how to face proceedings were at this stage quence of newly built, larger and The Hongkong Government the true spirit of our fighting the truth about you." Further from the New Year in conse Statea?
As regarde "internal ing to the war with Turkey the gross not of self-sacrifice, and government it is too early to Proclamations and Orders in one the reading of which thrills
Sir W. Des Voeux Leaving for
fastor steamers, replete with every speak, for there was more sweep: Council now in force relating for our heroes of the sea.
Home.
comfort, having been placed on ing-up to be done than President the wor
every Britisher with admiration January 4 We regret to stoomore withdrawn.
the ruo, and all the older Wilson or any other man could
learn that Governor Das Vooux Germany Already Beaten will, ia all probability, leave here the voyage from Hongkong to The services at the Union Earl Kitchener's great speech is for Home next March, and that his Marseilles and London is accom- According to the 1015 schedule, and a half years, Concerning Church on Sunday will be con- the House of Lords served at least return is uncertain. His Excell-plished in 31 days and 40 days foreign matters, Dr. Wilson has ducted by the Rev. C. Bone in the one purpose-namely, to show that ency's health has, unfortunately, respectively, thus shortening the endeavoured to combine tact, morning, and Rey, E. R. Hughes, spirit of sober confidence an- not been so satisfactory as could previous schedale by three days. firmness and consideration for BA, in the evening. Mr. Hughes imates those who are in a position have been wished. Hongkong We are also advised that the his people. Yet we fear that a is a missionary of the LM.. at bow the great struggle is going, and most conscientious rulers that which on the eastward - voyage to know, from inside knowledge, will greatly miss one of the ablest Company's European liners, very large percentage of Ameri-Ting Chow. can electors may be of opinion that not so much the President,
The opinion is gaining ground that has ever controlled the des- hitherto proceeded directly from Mr. Bert Flatt, the American everywhere that Germany is al-tinice of the Colony." as the Party which he represente, comedian, who had a moet suc-ready beaten and that the best The Hongkong Telegraph. foreign affaire, and that his firm-cently, is pasing through the the agony. The fact is, indeed, clamation will soon be began. Alata Maru, sailing from Hong-
hae failed in the handling of cessful season in Hongkong re she can do is to merely prolong January 7.-"The Praga Re
Praya Reclamation.
Hongkong to Kobo, will now make Shanghai a regular port of ness is not quite of the brand Clony on his way to Calcutta, penetrating into the minds of the The first contract will be signed keng on the 23rd February next. call, commencing with the .. HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1915.
which America requires just after performing to large and Germans themselves. So much is tomorrow, in respect to THE CHURCH AND THE WAR.
It is proverbially easy and appreciative audiences in Amos revealed by some statements made section between the old P. & 0. cheap to speculate as to how and Swatow. other people's business will turn
by a citizen of a neutral country whart and Willmot Street-s "Cardinal Mercier's arrest, when it comes to be known in Germany an opinion, we are prepared to
The Fairy Ballet. out; but, so far as we are allowed
who recently returned to Londen space about 782 feet broad. Then The final and Austria, will, in all likelihood, fores the Catholics of those con- see the American voters as for Prince" takes place to-night at official classes realise quite well between Murray Pier and Ios House
performance of from Berlin. He says that in in about a month, work will pro pany-$400 per share, buyers. Hongkong Fire Insurance Com- tries to do a little hard thinking. Lutheranism is so closely associat-political leaders of a somewhat the Theatre, and those who have that there can only be one result Street, a distance of some 1200 Hongkong and Whampoa Dock "Snow White and the Frog their inner beaita the German bably be commenced on the portion China Fire Insurance Company ed in the minds of most of us with Germany that we sometimes forget different school of thought from not yet seen it should not fail to to the present struggle in Europe. feat. The lot extende farther Company 80 per cent, premium,
$90 por share, bayıra bok that, out of a population of about sixty-four millions, that country the Democrats, when the tenure miss this wonderfully effective "They know, in fact, that they westward, but to work on it would sellere.. contains twenty-four million Catholics; while Austria and Hangary of the existing Government combination of picturesque are beaten. They realise that the interfere with Pedder's Wharf. may be said to recogniao no other Faith than that of Rome. How much have the Catholic troops of the two Kaiuore been allowed to
expires. learn as to the shooting of non-combatant priests in Belgium, the
scenery, charming music and de- odds against them are too great, There is some talk about having Steamboat Company-$43 per Hongkong, Canton and Macoo A Mail Matter, destruction of historic cathedrals, the outraging or torturing of made in the Telegraph yesterday,
lightful dancing: The ougouncement which was Byading the Clutches of the Law. obtain the beat terms possible, work."
and they are fighting now to a big banquet to inaugurate the share, Bailers, women, the sacrilege committed in churches and the general worse that the Messageries Maritimes the Government Civil Hospital A woman has been admitted to than boathenishness wherewith the war has been conducted by cert- Company has re-arranged ite sullaring from injuries sustained it may be assumed that Germany's pondent, re missionary work in Hongkong Gas Company- China and Manila Steamship The Supreme Mistake. A Word for the French Fathers, Company. ain sections of the German army? Prussian press methods are schedulo so far se homeward- while endeavouring to avoid arrest. attitude at the moment is that she Korea: Though differing on $135 per share, sellers.
On the basza I those statements January 7. Thus a cortos- bugore,
$120 certainly well calculated to keep the people in ignorance of facte, going boats are concerned, is of It appears that when the police will continue to fight so as to hold many points with the Roman and we may be sure that the soldiers, of all people, are still pretty sama interest at the present mo- visited her with a warrant for ar on to Belgium and to preserve her Catholics, yet I admire the $200 per share, sellers, satisfactorily in the dark as to what is going on in other war centres ment. But there is a further rest on a charge of receiving 8200 Fleet; as these are the only honesty, grit and earnestness of
Hongkong Hotel Company- Bat the main drawback of a programme of lies and of truth-has more concern still, and that ham Street, she jumped from obtain favourable terms when it real missionary work yet done Indo-China S.N. Company--
point in which the general public in gold, stolen from No. 41, Wynd- weapons left with which she can the French Fathers. The only cent, Debentures-501. smothering is that it cannot last forever. I can only be a work of is in relation to the outward bosta. back room window, injuring her comes to talk of a settlement, in Korea has been done by these 12h per cent. dis., buyers.
Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per time for Catholic Austris, for instance, to learn how Germany has Previous to the war, the English leg. treated Catholic Belgiam. Of coarce, however deeply a man may and French mail steamers came feel on the subject of religion, in time of war patriotism comes before into port in the same week and For the quarter ended Decem- rather than continue the war, the manner. These Fathers Dever She hopes, in fact, to offer such a faithful martyra tɔ duty; work Food and Drugs. all else; assuming, that is, that he is not asked to play the part of the German mail the week follow ber 31 last, the following samples Allice will meet them half-way ride on magnificently caparisoned pany, Ltd. $224 per share,
resistance on both frontiers that, done, too, in a very unostentatious $64 per share, sellers
Douglas Steamship Company traitor to his Faith. But for a Catholic soldier to take up arms in ing. Thas every week a mail of were analyzed under the Sale of But that is just where she makes ponies or play lawn tennis, or callers. darilo howho have been guilty of the most hideous gels of some kind arrived from Home. Food and Drugs Ordinance in a supreme mistake. The Allies to to tea parties, or go out shout-Luzon Sugar Refining Com- China Sugar Refining Com- sacrilego-is not this to act in direct defiance of the religious prin- Circumstances have put an end Hongkong:-Muk, 10; brandy, are in no mood now, nor willing, or cater into political in-pany, Limited-874 per share, ciples in which he has been schooled? Naturally provision has been to the German visits; yet the 6; rum, 6. All were genuine they ever be, to make any sort of trigues. They do their duty as a collers. made, as far as possible, against the leaking out of the true story of English and French boats still save one of brandy. For the compromise with the enemy. For duty to their God, not for dollars e.g. the bombardment of Rheims. If German soldiers, however arrive in the game wosk, which whole year the figures are us it is a fight to the finish, and or rank," loyally Catholic, have been told that the cathedral tower was being means that we get two mails in Beer, 0, brandy, 8; brea1, 4; we shall not relax our efforte until employed as a wireless station, or that Belgian and French parish one week and none in the next, gin, 2; milk, 38; port, 4 rum, Germany is wholly defeated and priests were shot because they treacheronely murdered law-abiding Surely come arrangement can be sherry, 2; whisky, 0. Of utterly crushed. German warriors, they cannot be expected to feel any great indignation come to between the two. Com these all were genuine excepting at what their Lutheran brothers-in-arms have done. But, we repeat, panies concerned to alter this two of lies cannot endure forever..
Another matter wherein the Church is concerned with the war of the service of one of the Com-As might have been anticipat-
milken one-of brandy. state of affairs." An acceleration wann in connection with the Pope's powera as a peacemaker. One or panies by a week is called, there was quite an overflowing
Victoria Theatre. two of the Home papers have thrown out hints that His Holiness is necessary to meet the house at the Victoria Theatre last amount of bank notes in circu- ought to exercise his power and influence to bring about a proper situation. understanding between the combatants. We have no right to sup. pose that he has not done so. His predecessor.. died, as one may
night when the now series of war lation and of specie in reserve in say, in the very act of trying, even at the last moment, to avert war;
pictures was on show for the first Hongkong, during the month The quotations which follow and Pope Benedict is not a man to aste any opportunity of in-
time. Each series seems to be ended 31st December, 1914, as are from the Hongkong Telegraph finencing those who are prolonging the struggle. He lost no time made at the Royal Observatory, as the management has been for tralia and China,Notes $0-
better and more in creating than certified by the managers of the for Jan. 9, 1890.) in publicly censuring the Emperor William for the destruction of Hongkong, during December show innate enough to secure the ser- 071633 specie $5,000,000
Mateorological observations there should again be a big house, Chartered Bank of India, Aas-108 per cent, premium, sellers.
its predecessor. To-morrow night respective Banka are :-
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Rheims, or in urging him to agree to an exchange of prisonere. Wast that the average mean tempera vices of the two well-known trick. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank more could he or can be do, seeing that the Kaiser and the other tore was 640 The highest point cyclists, Henry and May. Mr. ing Corporation, Notes, $23, real promoters of the war, the Prussians, are bitterly opposed to reached was 75.6, on the 5th, and Henry and Miss May are passing 482,903 specie,817,600,000, him and to all that his Church tesches? Bat for the Prussians, the lowest 52.3 on the 13th. through the Colony on their way Mercantile Bank of India, Austria would not be at war. There are hundreds of thousands of There were 111.4 hours of sun-back from the Philippines, where Limited, Notes, $1,303,191 the Pope's spiritual subjects among the British, French, Belgian and shine and the rainfall was 0.720 they have had a long and moat speole, 8800,000, Russian troops, whowo main idea is to fight for the purpose of bringing inch. The average humidity was about a lasting peace for Europe. While that is their object, can 73. he in reason suggest to them that they should refrain from fighting?
season. Therra a should Total Notes 30,862,727, be a turn worth seeing.
apecio, $23.800%
than their own.
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December Weather,
successfulAGES
BANK RETURNS.
The returns of the average
1890.
SHARE REPORT.-
Canton-8103 per share, buyers, China Traders' Insurance Com- pany-373 per share, buyers,
Union Insurance Society of
North China Insurance Tls. 350 per share, buyers Com
Canton Insurance Company, Lid-8180 per share. Langlaze Insurance T.06 per
share,
Hongkong Ice Company $110 per share, buyers.
Hongkong Rope Manufactur ing Company, Ltd.--$108 per share, buyere,
Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company-8101 per ehare, sellers.
Hongkong Dairy Farm Co.- $14 per share, sellers.*****
A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd... Hongkong High Level Tram- $28 per share, sellers.: 1 way Co., Ltd.-200 per cent.
fanne) 343 per share, buyers Lid-$25 per sfere.
Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., prem,, sellerave
Green Leland Cement Co. (new issue), 36) per share, buyers.
Green Island Cement Co. (old
Hongkong. Land Investment Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. - per share, sellers 84 per share, boyers.
West Point Buildings Co. Ltd. 946 par share, bayern.