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Punctuality at the Theatre.
DAY BY DAY
OF
When all other subjects of com- ment fail, there always remaine
MANKIND DIFFER IN THEIR the fruitful topic of Hongkong's NOTIONS OF SUPREME HAPPINESS theatre mannere. It was stated BUT IN MY OPINION HE TRULY in all the local papers last weak POSSESSES IT, WHO LIVES IN THE
CONSCIOUS ANTICIPATION that the opera would begin, each HONEST FAME, AND THE GLORI- night, at 9 o'clock; and (as the OUS FIGURE HE SHALL MAKE IN Book of Genesis says) "it was THE EYES OF POSTERITY, Pliny,
This, however, did not deter some of our musical, and
Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 7 theatre-loving follow colonists
fog. from putting in a appearance at At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 66 anywhere between 9.15 and 9.30 on most eveninge, and stumbling slight fog.
BO,
into their seats after audible dis
GERMICIDE, aussion with the ticket boys. The
The Weather.
Count the Columns.
NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
THE FUTURE OF TURKEY,
The Realisation of Russian Aspirations.
1890.
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE
YEARS AGO.
(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the week ending Feb, 27, 1890)
Although peace is as yet by no. The Dollar, means in sight, there can be no
February 27-"The rate of the doubt that the fate of Torkey dellar on demand to day 183-18" is sealed. That being so, one can Macao Festivities. well understand the raising of the February 21.-"The Portuguese point as to whether Russia shall community are away at Macao permanently occupy Constant to-day, to attend an annual "pro- inople when she comes into cession. A lot more would have to do aventually** Rusain has sddlebeade had taken off that long sought acoran to the sca in ridiculous impost of $80 on the Southern Europe, and, as Sir etsamer.. Edward Grey says, that is an as pitation with which Britain entiro- ly agrees. Certainly for the pari which she will Lava played in this war, Russia will have good reason to again urge the reulica
GUN PRACTICE.
It is notified in the Gazette that information has been received from the military sulhcrities that gun practice will be carried out au under ---
On Tuesday, the ad and Oth Miroh :-
From Mount Davis, in a South- Westerly direction; between the hours of 11 am, and 2 p.m. **
On Thursday and Tuesday, the From Stonecuttere West, in 4th and 16:h Merch:
South-Westerly direction, between the hours of 11 o.m. and 2 p.m.
On Saturday, the 8th Match:- From Devils Peak, in a Southe Easterly direction, between the
p.m. From Pakehawan, in a Souther ly direction, between the hours of 10 s.m. and 2 p.m.
DISINFECTANT & DEODORANTtheatre trustees in not being aireading matter. To-day there possession of it as she is bound gone on Sunday if the Macso hours of 10`a m. and 9 stay
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The Malls.
Yesterday the Telegraph stumbling, be it admitted, was not their fault, but that of the published 32 columns of solid
will be 30 published. the trouble of placing s fixed ataira ay between the circle tiers. The trustees cannot, however, be blamed for the bad form of the people who come hunting for their seate a quarter of an hour after the performance has bogan, Ltd. and thus spoil the opening music.
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these good folk should go to a West End theatre (we mast re- gretfully assume that they bave
The rate of the dollar on yet attended one) they will demend today is Is 9.3.16d. have to learn that London man“ agere do not allow the holders of circle tickets to wander into their
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1915,
Chinese Students.
Police Clothing, Tenders are being invited for the supply of summer clothing for the police.
Commercial Treaty.
The Hongkong Government Gazette contains the text of the Anglo Portuguese Commercial Treaty Act.
Feast of Lanterns.
To-merrow, according to the Chinese Calendar, is the festival of Shang Yuac-obiet, or Feast of Lanterne."
Name Removed.
Race Photographs.
Hongkong Electric 'Lighting"
Company
On Thursday, the 11th March February 21-Telegraphic ad-
From Balchers, in a North vices were received te-day that Westerly direction, between the
the hours of 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. the first consignment of machinery for the Hongkong From Devils Peak, in, a Santh-
On Saturday, the 13th March tion of her hopes. In the war of Elsetric Lighting Company had 1877, ahe threatened to left England in the Bonlarig. Easterly direction, between the appear before the gates of the Mr. W. Wickham, the engineer, bonra of 10.30 a.m. and 2 p.m.
From Pakuhawar, in a North- Turkish capital, and it was only was to have left last month. the intervention of Britain which Hard Times All Round,
Easterly direction, between the stood in the way of the occupa
February 21.- Business con- hours of 10,30 a.m. and 2 p.m. tion of Constantinople.
tinues exceedingly dull in nearly All janks, abipa und other all branches of commerce, and vessels are to keep clear of the
ranges.
Then and Now,
Russia and Turkey,
BANKRUPTCY COURT.
Times have changed since there is nothing to indicate that a Gazette contains the new Juro: those days, and Britain's eastern change for the better is likely to poliay no longer conflicts with take place in the near future. that of Russia as it once did." At It is a case of very hard times all
After we had gone to press the time when Britain had prao-round."
Mr. Friak White. tically assumed the position of
yesterday, the Chief Justice, Sir February 21 Tue British William Rees Davies, reserved guardian and protector of the A local vernacular paper re-
declining Turkish Empire as a North Borneo Herald has the his decision in the case of the bulwark against what were coa.
following, regarding a well-known application made for the recission marks that some Chinese students, who have recently returned to
ceived to be the encroachments of Hongkong resident: Among the of a receiving order made in Peking from abroad, failed moat
Russian ambition, it bad become passengers who left Sandakan by Ng Ping-Baza.
In re Cruz Basto and Co., an dismally when subjected to ex-
fixed mazim of British policy the steamship Memnon was Mr. that Constantinople must never
Frank W. White, formerly resist application was made for adjudi- Lamination in the Chinese classics.
fall into the hands of Russia. ant planter on the East Borneu cation. This makes one feel that Peking is no better off, relatively, than
Looking back, our readers will Planting Co.'s Melapi estate. Mr. The Official Receiver, Mr, A, E. Hongkong. Peking is Chinese
probably agree that Russia's White is a thoroughly good Chin-Carpmael, informed his Lordship ese scholar, and he proved a very that at a meeting of creditors it territory, and its educated satire
schemes were the subject of inhabitanta may reasonably be
deal of misrepresentation, that useful sesistant during his seven had been unanimously resolved supposed to need a tolerably good
her so-called aggressive tendencies teen months' service in the Com-that all the partners in the firm, acquaintance with the national
It is notified, for information, were much exaggerated, and that pany. He leaves Boxeo ou ac- with the exception of Leng Shui- classics. Instead, these young men that the name of Georges Ingles her ambition was judged to be count of bad health and does not kwan, should be adjudged bank. come back to the place where their has been removed from the liat more unscrupulous and her intend to return. The planters rupt, and that Mr. O. A. de Roza fatura. work will probably lie, of authorised anditors,
claims less reasonable than would here wish him bon voyage and be appointed trustee. He applied have been the case had her situa- good success in whatever he puts for the usual order to be made, having, presumably, a" good
St. David's Day. knowledge of at least one foreign On Monday (St. David's Day)tion been our own. Policies have his hand to."
subject to Mr. da Roza finding a language a comfortable fami- the Welsh community are holding undergone great modifications
bond to the satisfaction of the liarity with Western customs and a conversazione at the Hongkong since the days of Beaconsfield, February 22-It is reported Receiver. vices, and fall readiness to turn Hotel, from 7.30 p.m. to 12 mid- and to-day Britain and Russia (by telegram) that Russia is again
The application was granted. up their noses at the weye of night,
add together as strong friends, pesaing Turkey for payment of their fathers. In Hongkong, on
each with a respect for the claims the war indemnity.” the other hand-a British Colony, A Fong sends us" some excel and aspirations of the other.
(And by and by history may where the official language is lent photographs taken at the duaranteeing Peace in Europe. repeat itself.) English and where the ultimate Race Meeting, showing the actual To sum the whole matter up, The Hongkong Derby. occupations of the students will racing and scenes in the ex-there are certain territories in February 26. The result of bring them into close touch with closure."
south-eastern Europe which must the Derby is as follows:- New Rule.
Yangtsze Insurance Association Britishers-more attention is paid
be taken ont of the hands of Mr. Sid's gr. Entertainer, by the local educational authori- The following rule has been Tarkoy and which must be (Mr. W. P. Maclean) 1Tla. 96 per share,
Hongkong Fire Insurance Com- ties to teaching the Chinese made by the Governor-in-Council governed by a strong Power. Mr. Tasman's eh. Timaru,
(Mr. Reynell) 2pany $400 per share, sellers: Last year the Legislative Council passed an Ordinance that classice than to imparting a sound under Section 6 of the Stamp Mistale and misgovernment have
Poor Ordinance, 1901 Documents made Turkey the bone of con- Mr. J. D. Humphreys' gr.
China Fire Insurance Company dealt with the matter of seditious publications. So far as is known knowledge of English,
Vernai, (Mr. Hart Buck) 3-$91 per share, sellers. to the man in the street, Hongkong soffere bat slightly, in compari young Chinese! The only way which are intended solely for use tention in European politics for
Hongkong and Whampoa Dook Bon with most Colonies, where the introduction and spread of such out of the difficulty would be outside the Colony shall be ex-many a long year, and as long as Hongkong the same Yesterday,
To-day and Forever!
Company-56 per cent, premium, literature is concerned; but recent events seem to have been of such for Peking and Hongkong to empled from the operation of Turkey remains in Europa there a nature as to prompt the Government to take further steps by from establish a student exchange; for Articles 2, 3, 36 and 42, of the will never be peace. She will February 27. People of sellers,
Hongkong, Canton and Macao ing an amending Ordinance. This was read at the Council meeting the westernised young men will First Schedule to the Stamp now be ousted from her position, Hongkong: Learn (or rather hear
and Russian occupation would, it reiterated) that you are the Steamboat Company-$36, ror yesterday, and it promises a heavy sentence to the person who shall do Peking no good, while the lads Ordinance, 1901,
January Weather. without the least doubt, be far meanest community in the Far share, ex div., sellers. be proved knowingly to have in his possession any kind of document educated according to the present
Meteorological
China and Manila Steamship observations more beneficial than a continua-Esst. For three months the which is of a seditious nature. It also empowers the magistrates to Hongkong
$120 per share, grant warrants for the searching of shipe, premises etc. wherein such certainly be of more use in a place made at the Royal Observatory tion of Turkish rule and would much-bewailed monotony of the Company documents are believed to be concealed.
where no knowledge of English show that the average mean tem- serve very materially to compose place has been unbroken by a buyers, All of us will welcome any measure which gives the courte greater |
perature during January was the Balkan situation. As we say, regular attraction-save that of Hongkong Gas Company- is required.
60.1, compared with a 30 years' Russian aspirations will have to the Pantomime and now, when $135 per share. sellers. power to protect the Colony from enemies within its gates, Not, as we have intimated above, that we believe the number of these enemies The Student Abroad.
mean of 84.6. The highest point be met, though the detailed a company with a reputation liko reached was 70.5, on the 11th and arrangements must of necessity that the Fisk minstrels have, to be appreciable; but prevention pata ultimate necessity for cure out
the lowest 41.7, on the 16th. be a matter for decision when the extending to our very gates, of the question. Until the outbreak of the present war, publications
There were 179.4 hours of sun-time comes to talk of pesce. comes to please the public for a cent. Debentures-$501 to which the term “seditions" might fairly be applied were divisible Talking of Chinese studente, we shine, and the rainfall was 0.345 Submarine Activity.s few nights, they have a beggarly Indo-China S.N. Company into two: those which contained statements harmful to other Gov-published a paragraph yesterday inch, rain only falling on six days The figures which the Admiral-audience of fifty persons! Last 12 per cent. dis., buyers... eraments-e.g. of China or of the Philippines and those which sought relating to a political meeting of during the month.
ty has made public in regard to night that was the case, at any
Douglas Steamship Company- to influence the King's own subjects against British rule. The some importance at which over
the sinking of British ships by rate, but they nevertheless $63 per share, buyers. first did not strictly concern Hongkong, though their printing and two thousand Tokyo Chinese eironlation added in no amali degree to the difficulties and labours of students assembled, and delivered TO CURIO COLLECTORS. enemy submarines are sufficient to courageously rendered every item China Sugar Refining Com-
show that the danger is not near- on the programme, sad were pany, Ltd-$225 per the local police. If a disgruntled Filipino refugee chose to publish patriotic speeches. We do not
ly as great as the alarmiste would rewarded with applause from sellers.
TO PREVENT SEDITIOUS PUBLICATIONS.
#
standard
would
North China Insurance --Tis. 360 per share, buyers.
Canton Insurance Company, Ltd.-$130 per share,
-
י
Hongkong Hotel Company- $200 per share, sellers.
Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per
idfśmmatory rubbish against the United States Governmest, it was suppose that the specches made On Monday and Tuesday Mr. have us believe. These 'indivi- every man there. And if the Luzon Sugar Refining Com no business of the average British individual, but merely the will revolutionise the world or G. P. Lammert is offering for duals merely take into account Colonial Chaplain would like to pany, Limited-$70 per share, Government's affair. It was for the Government to see that the will cause much heart-sche in sale, under instructions by Lah the actual sinkinge, and con- arouse bis half-dozen of a sellere. hospitality that it had given to political fugitives was not abused; Japan; but the meeting showed Ver-kee, the well knownShanghai veniently overlook the steady congregation from the ordinary Hongkong Ice Company- and there the thing ended. The same, in a different degree, may be the right spirit, and was a far cry dealer, a large and valuable collec stream of shipping to and from lethargy on Sunday next, he will $110 per share, buy ore. aaid of the Chinese pamphlets which were printed and stored in this from the contemptible performation of china and curios which United Kingdom portr. The facts make an effort to engage the dark Hongkong Rope Manufactur- Colony at the time of the Revolation, or of the sham proclamations ances of some of the Chinese will repay the attention of any for the week quoted are that well nightingales for Sonday's service ing Company, Ltd--$104 per which were found on board the 8.e. Kinshan last week.
patriots" who have, during the collector, no matter how small or over 1,300 ships have arrived in and let the public know it share, sellers. To the second class of publications we drew attention, more past few years, found a refuge in large his puree.
and left the British Isles and only (And so it would seem that,
Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf than two years ago, when a paper pretending to advance the interests Japan. True patriotism is a thing Speaking of the collection as a seven of these have been sunk, though editors may come and and Godown Company.-800 per of Lalam was introduced into the Colony. That particular periodical almost new to the Chinese, as the whole, there can be no doubt that It will thus be seen that the in- editors may go Hongkong's share, sellers. is, we believe, now defunct. It was printed in Japan but, as we more educated of them are the this is one of the best that has been terference with our mercantile lethargy and snobbishness go on remarked at the time, though its supposed editor was a Malay, the first to admit; and we must take shown this winter season the marine is hardly worth talking
forever,) "English" of the articles was manifestly that of a German, for many it to be an exceedingly hopeful specimens being remarkable for about. And, for the sake of in- of the errors of idiom were such as no Malay (and only a German) sign that these lads, away in a the absence of those l'ttle flawa fioting mere pin-pricks, Germany would make. There is no need to particularise as to the sickly foreign country, have had it in which detract much from the is willing that her name should nonsense and malicious lies perpetrated by this publication; it them to gather together in the value of a deal of the porcelain stink throughout the world. proved, to the satisfaction of the writers of the various articles, that hope of doing something for their shown as a rule. All the usual Britain had ill-treated the Massulmans of Egypt and India, and that fatherland. The patriotism of the dynasties and periods are repre- she would continue to do so until Islam combined against her. Of late old-fashioned Chinese was limited sented, there being some fine
London Theatres Busy.
1890
SHARE REPORT.
Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. Ltd. -$14 per share, sellers,
A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd. $23 per share, sellers.
Hongkong High Level Tram- way Co., Ltd.—200 per cout, prem, sellera
* Hongkong Steam Laundry Co.,
Ltd. $25 per share.
the Government of India los taken a firmer stand against the dissem. to a religions ambition to lay his Kanghi, Kienlung and Towkwang: The London theatres are enjoy
Green Island Cement Co. (old inating of such stuff, and the Hongkong Government is to be bones or to have them laid-in specimens for sale. This seasoning such wave of prosperity a
fanus). — § 43 per share, bayers: congratulated on a like readiness to guard against its production Chinese soil; apart from thet, very has been remarkable for the low might be expected only in times the quotations which follow
Green Island Cement Co. (new and circulation within this Colony. Many of our readers saw little mattered. These Tokyo prices that these goods have been of peace, says the Dady Maul of are from the Hongkong Telegraph isene).—35 per share, buyers. copies of a trashy sati-English circalar which was sent to Hongkong students have gone the surest way rocuring and so made in this the January 16. Twenty-eight for Feb. 27, 1880
Hongkong Land Investment Boon after the outbreak of war, signed with a Chinese name, but to win the respect of the Japanese, case that dealers have been more theatres are now open in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Co. Ld-8102 per share, ex div., again most obviously written by a German. From long before the who hitherto have been inclined, then usually in evidence. For the West End with every class of 205 per cent, promium, sellers. buyers. war-time the enemy was busily seeking to strike at Britain through to look down upon them for convenience of the public, the theatrical attraction, from akits to
Union Insurance Society of Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. -- her non-British subjects; and inasmuch as the more ignorant of the having none of the love of country sales room will be open to-morrow Shakespeare, and nearly all of Canton $101 per share buyers. $8 per share, nominal. Chinese are readily galled by bogus newe and fallacious arguments which is so characteristic of the to afford & farther opportunity of thema most rare occurrence China Traders' Insurance Com-Weat Point Buildings Co. Ltd. it is certainly the Government's duty to see that harmful literature people of Japan.
Veeing this good collections are doing profitable business! pany-872 per share, buyers.
Tm845 is kopf, an far out of their way as possible,
"per share, bayarı,s