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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SA (URDAY, JUNE 19, 1915.
The Coining Case.
DAY BY DAY.
DOUBTLESS THE PLEASURE IS AS GREAT OF BEING CREATED AS TO CHEAT-Butor.
An interesting and cminous- feature of the coining case tried) before Mr. Justice Hazeland yes- terday is that "the prisoners wera not of the oissa that usually came before that court bat wore of the. | better-class Chinese and obviously intelligent and educated." We
Telegraph may take it that the judge con- published 35 columns of solid sidered this fact in infl:eting such reading matter. To-day there a sentence as will put it out of will be 43 published. the power of the male prisoner to
Count the Columns, Yesterday
the
The Malls.
NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
THE GOVERNMENT, AND
LABOUR.
The Turks Feet Unhappy.
The Turkish position becomes a little more unenviable every
bes nuisance and a danger to the Siberian Mail-Dae peres. Tam-day. Whether they are placky
Colony for somo years to come. It goes without saying that the oda-
ta Mara to-morrow,
LIQUEUR Dated criminal is always a grotter English Mail-Olosed per
WHISKY
The Premier Scotch
of the East.
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curse his own carelessness and thea not worry any further about it. Bat two or three of such pieces represent the days earnings of a good many thousands of people in this Colony-the very people who, if they are unfortunate enough to take a bad coin for a good one and to seek to pass it again, are most liable to such suspicion as will end in their appearance be- With this fore a magistrate.
in view we are always glad to see that the law has dealt as barebly as it may with approved coiners.
The Chinese and Crime.
Malta to-day at 11 am
Mail.Closea per Sardinia to-day at 1'p.m..
se
Changsha to-morrow at 9 a.m. Up to the Minute-Share Market News.
Closing prices:
Voion Insurance Society of O'ton, L.-$865, busos. China Fires. -$140, buyer Kung Yike. Tls. 14, buyer. Langkats. Tle. 39, buyere, Yanglezes.-$2374 buyers. Douglass.-$40, buyere. Ewo's.-184, buyers. Shanghai Coltone in Shanghai,
Tla. 98 bagere. Lozona.- $28, buyers. China Minilas-4.00, buyers The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is 1s 91.
The Dollar.
..To-day's Angiversary,
To-day is the 51st anniversary of the sinking of the Alabama.
Haul of Gamblers.
Fifteen gamblers from Kowloon City were fined $2 each at the Police Court, this morning.
Land Sale.
A sale of land at Kowloon Taai will take place on June 29 at the District Office, Hougtong, at 2.30
or oowardly, Fate is alike unkind
to them. On Gallipoli it is
1890
HONGKONⱭ Twenty-FIVE" YEARS AGO.
(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the work ending June 19, 1890.)
The Dollar.
June 19,"The rate of the lol
da demand to-day is 3/41.
1
1890.
SHARE. REPORT.
The quotations which follow are from the Hongkong Telegraph for June 19th, 1890.
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank -193 per cent. premium, sellers.
Union Insurance Society of Canton $98 per share, sellers.
China Traders' Insuranos Com. pany-$70 per share, buyers.
Yangiste Insurance Association
Hongkong Fire Insurance Com pany $357) per share, buyers,
Chins Fire Insurance Company -$84 per sbare, sollers.
Company 837
China and Manila Steamship $103 per share,
Hongkong Gas Company- $135 per share, sellers.
North China Insurance Tla A New Phonograph. evident that they made a brave lar curae to ecciety than the unedu-Siberian
the bulk of thern were killed be said to be much simpler than any rush for the British trenches, but, June 13.A new phonograph, 340 per share, sellers, cated. Germany's performances
Canton Insurance Company, with poisonous gas etc. are a Siberian Mail.-Closes per e..alear that each items of news 88
fore they could get busy. It is other so far introduced, has lately Ltd.-$125 per share, sellers, sufficient illustration of this, if!
Chenan to-morrow at 5 p.m. this are filtering through to Conduce musia and the human voice-Tis, 84 per share salters,
appeared in Milan.. It can repro illustration wore needed. The Australian Mail-Oloses per 8.8.stantinople itself. By some means in a most rarvellous manner, and offenca with which the two
or other the stay-at-homes have ons of its features is its cheapusas, prisoners were charged is one of
learned that some hundrad and the wax cylindera used costing the most cowardly in existence, bebauas thoge who are the
twenty thousand of their men
only 35 centimes," at fferers by it are the poor. The
have fallen during the variona
Sanitary Board.
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock coins which these ingeniona
actions in Gallipoli; and panic is, Jano 13.The Sanitary Board Company-52 per cent. premium, beings wera in the habit of
realised that, if the casualties principal businers was the con- Hongkong, Canton and Macao of course, the result..
"It is met yesterday afternoon. The sellers. fabricating were -twenty-cont
continue at the same rate, resist aideration of the overcrowding Steamboat pieces. If a person in moderately comfortable circumstances were
ance will sorn collapse." Tarkish question. A mass of correspon per share, sellers. fo titude is proverbially great, dence was laid on the table, in unlucky enough to have two or
but is it going to s'and against respect to which Mr. Francis bad Company three dollars' worth of these
this sort of thing? "No: does written the following minute: buyers. there seem any immediate way "Incomplete-Do not state what out of the difficulty, for the rulers Committee of this Board is sitting, selves satirely in German hande, done. Des no: show the present $180 per share, sellers. of the country have placed them-why it is sitting, or what it has Hongkong Hotel Company- and the Sultan has become "astite of the law. The papers, anch
Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per mere figure-head." There is as they are show a terrible state cont. Debentures-$501. nothing surprising, then, in the of affair. Laws in force Birc Indo-China S.N. Company: tidings that anti-German feeling 18:8, that should have prevented 224 per cent. dis., buyers. is growing; the wonder is that the overcrowding and secured proper" Douglas Steamship Company- whole nation does not rise in revolt inspection of coolie houses, never $53 per share sellers, and buyers. against its taskmastera and either enforced to this day.. Govern China Sagar Refining Com- massacre them or else turn them ment afraid to enforce them and pany, Ltd.-$189 per share, out of the country. Neutrale the Sanitary Board funking aallers. should see s ureful object lesson a most pressing sanitary reform Luzon Sugar Refining Com here. The frightful influence less the precious Health Or
pany, Limited-$76 per share, which Germany has been able to dinance should be endangered." buyers. exercise over Turkey is just what The following resolution was Hongkong Ice Company- she would treat other nations to passed :-"That the Colonial $95 per share, sellers. if the absolute power which she Secretary be informed that a Dr. Joseph Glaister has been has been dreaming of were in her The coining case reminds us that we once made a suggestion added to the Register of Medical bands. God help any ves al of in this column that strict fairness Practitioners entitled to practise Germ:ny.
Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf Hongkong-born
a large mass of statistical iafor-and Godown Company-870 per Chinese in this Colony.. demands that it should ba
mation and when its report, abare, sellers. stated in
which is soon to be ready, comes court, for sub- Mr. F. B. L. Bowley has been the elected as a lay-member of the sequent publication in
News as to the industrial posi- before the Board, the Board hopes local press, whether or not the Church Eols of St. John's tion at Home continues to be to be able, to make some prioti- A hundred years ago yesterday came the closing passage in Chirese who are charged with Cathedral, to fill the vacancy 03-
is said to be considering the the overcrowding which is known war that had lasted, on and off, for two-and-twenty years. Yet, any punishable offence are bona casioned by the departure of Dr. Corging. The Government cal recommendations for abatag
Clark.
establishment of a "national to exist." though it arose in great measure out of the horrors of the first fide British subjects. For what
Alleged Murder.
Bismarck and the Kaiser.. French Revolution, we cannot gather from contemporary writers that the suggestion is worth we offer
The police report that in the gister" with a view to organis-
ing all classes at Home for June 14. "The relation be- il again. Every day in the year it was marked by anything like the international hatred or the cold-Chinese are brought before the course of an alleged attempt at war work. The bint of compul- twean Bismarck and the Emperor blooded slaughter and tyranny of the present war. Waterloo broke magistrates on one charge or an armed robbery, a woman wassion is one that the workers have of Germany are broken up."
stabbed to death, et West Point, down forever the power which Napoleon had wielded for sixteen other, and the newspaper 16porta laat night. The police are mak certainly no room for grumbling
ät. If the Government controls) Jube 14.-"The experiments years, but it left comparatively no bitterness behind it. When the are bound to content themselves
the trade uniona all will be well; with the submarine boat Peral subsequent peace had been signed, each of the combatant countries with "A Chinese was charged." Or, ing enquiries.
Private Street Named.
if the trade unions are to control bave been continued with great was usually only among very ignorant or very prejudiced people, often the clan names of some of it a point on Nathan Iload, Kothe country, Britaia-after all the success. She was submerged for o., La.-889 per share, sellers. In these days men fought fairly, if to the death; and when, it was the most respected and most lo; al loon, nearly opposite Ningpo money spont and the blood shed an hour with the most gratifying all over, the survivors put on their coats and shook hands.
British sabjxts in Hongkong: Stfeet and extending across KT to stamp out German arrogance-results. The public are much albeit the individuale in custody L. 571, shall be known must be prepared to submit to an
Bold" Hongkong Thieves. Since then, of the three nations at war, only one-the French have not the remotest relationship "Cheung Lok Strost."..
invasion by the enemy. We spoke
Jane 18. The audacity of has remained unchanged. The Frenchman of 1915 is the French with any Hongkong Chinese end,
of a hint of compulsion. The Go- man of 1815-or of 1415 for that matter: generous, excitable, us cften as not, never saw the
FI. M. the King has not been vernment is much too wise to hold Hongkong thieves appears to have From snatching impaleive, loveable, possessed of an indescribable recuperative Colony till they led to escape Can advised to exercise his power of up before John Ball's eyes his no bounds. power, and the most conservative being in the world while flattering ton justice. It is a well-known fact disallowance with respect to the greatest bngbear: military rule; earrings from defenceless Chinese himself that he is progressive. Having seen what comes of follow-that Chinese boys to:n and following Ordinances. Ordin but at the same time it leaves the women they have now tikin to ing a progressive line where her amiable neighbour is concerned.eduonted in Hongkong develop, ance No. 1 of 19!5.-Au ordine workers in no doubt as to its own robbing foreigners in broad day. Activity Reported Between Here France should rather plume herself on her conservatism. Germany, in nine cases out of ten, into law ance to amend the Siamp Ordine powera where shuflars and sedi-light,
snatching a dollar and ten cente We have baen informed through
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1915.
1815---1915.
a
to
was free to go its own way, and, if recriminations were bandied, it when names are given, they are
for her being in trouble to-day. Had she been content to ran on the lines of the Germany of 1816 she would not be at war now, with the cheerful prospect of disintegration facing her.
The Death of a Hero.
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A New Dictor.
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Cathedral Church Body.
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Tre private street, commencing
The King's Assent.
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The War and the Workers.
The Germans Horrifled.
Committee of the Board has been ing Company, Ltd.-$110 per Hongkong Rope Manufactar- considering the question for share, seliers. many months and has collected.
Submarine Warfare.
excited."
The Batavia.
Bribery
ateamer
Hongkong Dairy Farm Co, Ltd. $10 per share, sellers,
A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd.-
Hongkong High Level Tram $211 per share, buyers.
way Co., Ltd.-par, buyers.
Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., Ltd.-$25 per share, nominal.
Green Island Cement Co. (old issue).$30 per share, sellers,
Green Island Cement Co. (new issue).-$3 por share, nomināl
Hongkong Land Investment
Hongkong Electric Light Co., Ltd.-$5 per share, sellers.
Weat Point Buildings Co, Ltd. $37 per share, sellers.
PIRATES.
and Macao.
that
a serioue attempt at piracy has been re- ported up to the present, but the pirates have shown an uneasiness that warraste osution.
ionsis but another contribution to
A coolie charged with | are concerned. ance, 1901. Ordinance No. 5 of tion-mongers the go-ahead, educated nation, with her novel methods of reasoning abiding citizens who realize, that
from a seaman of the British
a very reliable channel that and of fighting, has certainly succeeded in making all the world they have certain responsi 1915.-An ordinance to provide The authorities had absolutely wonder; but she has also set many of us speculating us to whether bilities; that their British citizen- for the payment of fess in respect no other course open to them than steamer Dardan Jesterday at pirales have shown activity be 1815 was not a far more civilised period than the prezent year. ship demands of them that they of Private Bills.
a stera one, for the trade unto lists noon, at Harbour Oflice pier, was tween here and Macao during the had been at ample paine to make brought before Mr. Robinson this last few days. It appears The peace that came after Napoleon's downfall was supposed to eball help and not hinder the good
morning. He admitted the establish a region of refinement, of restraint, and of devotion to soveroment of the Colony. The WILL OF EARL CADOGAN. it clear that they would take just charge, and got four menthe,"
nothing in the way of the arts, science and philosophy. Fate gave Entope a chance to turn readiness with which the young
as much advantage of leniency as herself round. Te Germany she was especially kind, and Germany, Chinose offered their services se An Estate of Over £350,000. they were allowed to take, and June 16. The Canadian being what she is, took advantage, and slily entered upon a course special police is a tolerably good The late Earl Osdogan, Viceroy would go exacly as far as they Pacific Company's which was to terminate in the state of affairs which brought about indication that they do realise of Ireland from 1895-1902, bas dared. Surely we have now Batavia which should have sailed the present war. Gradually she threw overboard her better tradi- this. Is it not, then, a little left unsettled property of the beard the last of this disgraceful hence for Vancouver on Batardag, tions.; converted her quiet and useful parauit of home industries hard on them that no dir-value of £354,207, with net per- epiro le in the history of the war.
in undergoing a rather extensive into an attempt to capture the trade of the Far East and of the world tinction should be made be-toalty £260,043.
overhaul at the Cosmopolitan the wires during He directs the execptors to offer
typhoons. generally, allowed the legitimate philosophy of Kant to expand into tween them as a class and the
Docks, and the necessary repaira Granting that these whispers are the senseless monstrosities laid down by Nietzsche and von Troite-thousands of wastrels who flock to the Stewards of the Jockey obke, and profited by the soientific lore which a couple of generations with the police, and are no more a pair of large out-glass candela has horrified and enraged the she will be replaced on the route least component parts of whole
into this Colony, get into trouble Club, of which he was a member,
And so the raid on Kailer abs may not be finished for the next based upon truth, and we have
fortnight. La coas quence of this of her best men had amassed to invent abominable means of wiping British sabjects than the Telegraph bra, fitted for electric lights, now Germans. That condition of hy the steamer Straits of Belle truth, then this last episode of reason for believing they are at out se many enemies as possible within a given space of time. This was how Germany acknowledged Fortune'e gifts, and it accounts is a pro-German organ?
hanging in the ballroom at Chel. things is n t without precedent: Isle, which is now due here under official halting between two opin- 938 House:
it is always the confirmed bully special oharter from the North." Among other bequests aro-
who howls the loidest when he is £25,000 and the contents of But- punished for his evil deede. When June 18.am Ah Sam was a long list of wearisome deadlocks land Cottage to his wife. Garman ships or aircroft kill sharged with attempting to bribe which is fast making our loyal $10,000 each to his sons. William women and Baildren in unfox P. O. 11, on the 20th May. The the community. In reference to legislature the laughing atook of George Sydney, Edward tified English towns and villages constable stated that he found Cecil George, and Alexauder it can be called legitimate warfare arms concealed in the prisoner's this particular subject, the usual George Mcniagu,
by the Kaiser and his friends; jonk, and when he told him that amours and insinuations of learned that "war is a science, calling less for hard seema altogether too hard that this 25,000 to his son Lewis Edward. when French airman drop bombs he would be charged with it, to suit privats ends have been in public interests being recrificed knocks than for the exercise of a quick brain; they brave young follow whose name £2,500 to his grand-daughter on the railway station and other prisoner offered him $2." have come to think more for themselves, and the thinking has been in everyone's mouth, who, at
contres of a city of close on a
oirculation, but such need not be. The Electric Light Company. good for the Empire-so far as our fighting forces are concerned, the risk of his life beat the $1,500 to his grand-daughters hundred and forty thousand in June 10. It has leaked ont seriously considered. It would, But what of the civil population? Has nos that done almost too Germans at their own air game, Cynthia, Alexandrs, and habitante, Germany is "astonish that the reason why the Hong- however, appear that there is an much thinking? In or rather before-1815 mutiny on war ships and earned the highest award Victoris.
Med"
She may find more natonish- kong Electrio Company has not unwarrantable deadlock some- was not unknown, but one cannot conceive of "organised" labour which Britain can offer to her £5,000 to his grandson William ment in store for her yet. But yet started to set up its prst and where, for we learn that the plane in those days: organised, that is, against the interests of the country combatant sons should have J. E. Brownlow.
this affected surprise is of a piece wires, in order to keep faith with of the Electric Light Company and ready to cause delay over the output of munitions unless it Parished by an accident. The air An annuity of £1,000 to his bro- with the rest of her spirit of the general public by illuminating the hands of the Surveyor, General, is listened to and ccared and petted. In this respect Britain is not service, the mercantile marina in ther Arthur Charles.hypocrisy and domineering. The a portion of the city not later than whose failure to grant permission have been for some weeks past in a hundred yours better then she was in Waterlco days, but rather which he was till recently an £500 to Sir Samuel Scott, people who could make it a orime October next, is attributable to a good many Aundred years worse. The brighter side of the go officer, and the Empire ass And the residue to his een Wil- for the Belgians to take up arms the fact that the "powers that be for the setting up of the pole tion is that our countrymen are as ready to-day as a century ago to death of a man who, but from
whole will be the poorer by the liam George, Edward Cecil. in defense of their homes 11 are raking their toasty brainework and le caus
wires has practicall profit by experience; to learn from past errors; and, for this reason
Alexander George, and his families would not find it very over the question of reputed daughter Lady Sophie Scott difficult to prove that the in- dangers.consequent apou over- enuoyance to alt His ordere, medals, racing habitants of Kurlaruke are the head lighting and the alleged welfare of the that which his courage and clover- cupe, &o., ara to devolve as heir most wantonly persecuted folk very serious conques respit Cour neɛa had already brought him. locms with the earldom, er under the sun.
ing from a possible down-fall of time and mones
One of the saddest and most But if we can spare time from the congenial occupation of cruelly ironical events of the war „picking holes in the coat of our enemy, it may be as well to ask is is related in the telegram that the Britain of 1015 a very great advance on that of 18157 announces the death of Flight Our шед have become better educated and have
Sub-Lieutenant Warneford.
as well as for many others when peace comes, Britain should sheer ill-lack, might have lived have at least as good a chance of righting herself as she had at the to win even greater fame than "end of the Peninsula war.
Louise Beatrix.
Biderab