THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1915.
ONLY BACKSEAT THE BULLDOG EVER TAKES
ROBT. PORTER & CO.S.
BULLDOG ALES and STOUT
ARË RIGHT IN THE FRONT ROW
SOLE AGENTS,
A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd.,
HONGKONG.
The object of this paper is to publish correct information, servo
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HONGKONG WOMEN'S GIFT,
WAY.
DAY BY DAY.
"NOTES ON THE CRISIS THE MOTOR AMBULANCE. JOTTINGS
AFFAIRS IN SWEDEN.
Subsciption List No. 4.
“ Captain von Papen and I vonTM Hatsfolds have gone three weeks' viait to. To Park for the benefit of health." If that saying clause about the health hadn' added, we should have arrived at
been
FROM IGNORANCE OUR COM- FORT FLOWB.
THE ONLY WRETCHED ARE THE WISE.-Matthew Prior,
The Weather.
The Coming Great Battle,
Another Old lafinblfänt's Death.","
Following closely on the death of so old an inhabitant of the Colony as Mr. A.O' D'Gourdin," we have to record that of Mr. G. J. B. Sayer, who had spent twenty-five years here. Though he originally came to Hongkong in the Government service be had practised, as an architect and civil engineer, independently for
Whatever may be the actual some ten years. Mr. Bayor's
The following is the fourth quite a different conclusion is to position on the Eastern front all Sabeoription liet
the reason for the visitke. 6. later years had been marked by
sources seem to agree that a big Mro: 8. R; Aitken, Miss Marjory Stone Park in the place where much domestic sorrow, which he
truggle is about to come off: Aitken, Mra, A. F. Arcolli, Mrs. kinds of wild beasts are kept, bore with a brave cheerfulness that was the admiration of all
One of the later wires represents H. Madar, Misses Z. and J. there's a cage for anthropoid apse, the Germans as claiming to have Arcalli, Mre. O. Arculli, Mre. A there will be no difficulty in deoid- who know him. He was a busy
On Saturday Telegraph paptured Vilns. In view of the K. Arcalli, Mrs. Atkinson, ing where to lodge these disting- man; yet he found time | to devota an enormous amount of published 432 columns of solid fact that the German 'official com- Mrs. Bacon, Mrs. George Bán-juished onllers."
To-day there
Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 81; canabine.
At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 75;
sunshine.
Count the Columns,
the Cigarette and Tobacco Fand will be 38 pablished.
for the troops in Flanders; indeed
The Malls,
Mails, Clozes per 9.9. Tamba Maru to-morrow at 3 p.m.
lying order than they were a few with Mini Olive Bethmont, Mrs. Count Bernstorff has at last got months back, there seeme no Blackburn, Mra. Ballio, B-e what he deserved. An American Fasson why we should not accept (The), E.J.B., OM.B. H.S.B newspaper has published an
capitulation of the Bussisng at Miss, Vera Crees, Mr. Alfred Cage
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it was owing to bis anfailing United Kingdom and Canadian statement; though the Mire, J. W. Darroll, Mrs. Cress, interview with him. perseverance that the fund ever. retoked so high a figure as it has done in the past. Nor was it until almost the very end that he allowed ill. bealth to interfere with this good work. We would offer our sincerest sympathies to Mrs. Bayer and to the deceased gehulcmen&children.
The Police Reserve Concert.”
It is only human to like to feel that one's words have been ful- filled. For the past three or four years the Telegraph has been per- eistently.arging that it is possible to dispel some of the gloom of Hongkong by means of promen. sde concerts, open air, band performances eto. After a long the sathorities to see eye to eye struggle we succeeded in getting
with us over the desirability of establishing a weekly band night
at North Point, and the numbers
Share Market News-Opening
Siberian Mail.Closes to-morrow would have no final effect on the Fletcher, Mrs. W. J. B. Fletcher, Member pointed out how UCOSE-
this particular point probably Crew. Mre, Danby. Mra. J. Says a contemporary... per se. Liangchow at 3 p.m.general situation. Authorities AMI, Mrs. Forbes (Swatow), fully Paris had been defended
seem to be pretty much of one Mrs. McLean Gibson, Mrs. Gomes, sir.". We take it that the Mem- mind as to the likelihood of Mrs. D. Harvey, Mrs. Haywood, ber meant Berlin andselbst he Dodging $83, buyersx div. Vilna's forming one of the points Miss Haywood, Mra. Paul Bodge inadvertentlyquilted for Hongkong C, and M. S. 8. Coon the real line of fight, but taking top, Mian Vers Hodgron, Mrs. ""air"
| dil recent statements together, it J. Hooper, Mrs. Hornby,
Official Quotations.
Ld. $201, bayers. Shell Transporte 90/- sellers.nld seem that the actual tug Dorien Hornby, Nancy Hornby A correspondent, wailes to ask Shanghai Docks. Tle. 61, of war must be either much E EJ. Mr. W. Kisn. Mrs. what a contemporary means by
farther north or eles much farther H. A. Lammert, Mrs. Lesbriel, "to securesinsertion.
No idea, auth. Neither the Austrian com Mrs. Lindsell. 3 L.'s. "Moilie Sir. Sounds like one of those Cer- musique nor the German war and Dot," S.ML, Miss Mao, Mrs, man words off a sauce bottle bus orrespondents appear to have a MacKenzie.the MissesMacKenzie, there's just a chance that our high opinion of the enemy's Mrs. MaoKichan, Mra. Mohler, cryptographical neighbour 'sa chances in the latter, though Mrs. Morris, Mrs. H. M. getting one back on the consorate. they lay the blame on the bad Nemazes. Miero Packham,
sellers. Raube.-$3), nom. Humphrey's Estates.-27.15,
söllers.
....
Ewon. Tis, 180, buyers. Tramways.-$5.15 bøyere. Green Islands.-89), bayere. Hongkong and K. W. and Co. Id-8781, buyers. Docke$81, buyers. Langkate.-Tle: 89) sellers. Indos (combined).
-$158. buyers. Union Waterboats.
buyers. Shanghai Coltone, Tle. 105,
810,
H. K. Ropes.-$204, buyera.
The Dollar.
The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is ļa 9 5/8d.
We
G.rade. Privately we should have "Pedestrians," Mrs. Fennyfather, Another contemporary informs thought that if a road is bad Mrs. Platt, Mrs. Eldon Potter its readers that "Tempora mutan for the Germans it cannot be (omitted from 1st list by mistake), ter nos el mytamur in illes.” particularly good for the Russians, Pamela and Noelle Potter. shall soon think that our educated hōle While speaking of our Eastern Mr. Raynor, Mrs. Reiohmson, comp. has introduced, the aly it is well to notice that poli- Miss Rita, Mrs. A. Ritchie of bis family into the newspaper tical affairs in Petrograd form a (2nd donation), Miss Rózario, pidgin..... that regularly attend are suff
healthy contrast to what is obtain- Mre. Echoles, Mre. Murray- oient proof of the justice of our
The educated comp's record cause. The.enorgetic officials of
ing is London. "The fact emerg Scatt (2nd donation). Mise Shaw, ing above everything is the Mr. Shenton, Misa Annette for the week is low one. Instead the Police Reserve have not
patriotic restraint of all partics of Skelton, (accidentally omitted of calling Battery Fath thorough- wailed to be urged. They have
the Dams." Petrograd teams able from last list); Mrs. Shoes, Mra fare be termed it a thoroughfarce taken the bit between their teeth
to get through very comfortably Morton-Smith, Mre. Stark, Mise (we always believed he had a and have gone right ahead; with the result that the promenade
without any Labour Member'a Stonyer, Mrs. H. Summers, F. 8, grudge against the P.W.D.); and concert in the Botanical Gardens
getting up and threatening N.8. Mrs. J. W. Taylor, Mrs. W. he set up "Rook-keeping" a railway strike. oa Saturday: wha-literally-b
Taylor, Mrs. Warden, Mre, II, M. one of the subjects, in unprecedented audiocese. At least
Webb, Mrs, Wimble, Mrs, W. G. the Government schools outri To-morrow's Anniversary
Worcester.
culum. There we don't blame a couple of thousand people, of
To-morrow is the 45th anniver all sorts and conditions, put in
Collected by Alexandra Cafe: him; it's the sort of practical of the French Government's There is still no end to the
study that we should expect to see an appearance, and the oven rejection of Bismarck's demandsweaty waiting in the Western-Mrs. Howard, Anonymous.
theatre. Odd driblets of good newa ing:
altogether de-
Collected by Café Wiseman :-promoted in the Hongkong col Wad an SAYER. At the Matida Hospital, on Sunday, the 19th Sep-lightfal one. The D.S.P. of the
come in oocasionally; e.g. the Mrs. Apcar, Mrs. J. Doyle, Mrs, leges, Perhaps it forms the tember, 1915, George John Budds Sayer, of Gorleston, Great Yar Reserves is not one who likes Two Chinese were remanded at French successes at St. Mibial N. S. Moses, Nod, Mrs. T. J.elementary course which preludea mouth, beloved husband of Charlotte Knight Sayer. Funeral will either thanke or complimente, the Folies Court, this morning on reported in this morning's wire Richards. Mrs. C. Scott, Mrs, the study of aviation pass the Monument at 5.30 p.m. To-day.
bat, under the circumstances it a charge preferred by Sergeant but we got nothing substantial, Stanley Smith, Mrs, J. J. Stabb would be ridiculous to neglect to Pincott, of having 100 lbs of though one lives in hopes. A la inge, Mrs. A.M.Thornhill M.RW. Surely there's something wrong hint that he has been the soul of opium on board's boat.
ter cable opente of "marked artil. Dollected by Mra Coppin J with the latest P. W..Daport: this movement-even as he has
lery activity and of another re. Young Eg. Mre. A. E. There's more down under Works been of the getting together and An omah residing in Tin Lok pulse of the Germans. Of course Wright. Miss Enid Wright, Completed" than under Works Commenced.” Even our credulity training of the Reserves them Lane has been sent to the hospit- an end must come to all this artil- Master Dadley Coppin. selves; and the Colony certainly at suffering from injuries sustain lory work, before very long, and, Collected by Dairy Farm has its limits. owen a big debt of gratitude to ed through falling from a second if our monitione supply is kept Misa M. Manuk, Mrs. J. Me him, and, for that matter, [floor window?....
ap, there is nct much room for Corquodale.
DEATH.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1915.
THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMEnt.
Bary
to the officers who have so loyally backed him up. We understand that a weekly con-¦ri dert will be arranged if possible- which is the best piece of local nows we have heard for a long
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"Remanded.
Sent to the Hospital.
ALLEGED REVENGE.
la the West.
Oar informative. Government question as to what sort of end it Collected by Hongkong Hotel: Dapartments. The island of will be. Doubtless the long delayMre. H. N Beaurepaire, Mr. Hongkong is a Crown, Colpny." irnos without its strengthening P. S. Shen, Mies E. A., Miss E. L., (Educational System of Hong- elements where the Allise, se a Mrs. L. Y., Eldis, My Joy, Mra, kong.")" whole are concerned. What we H. W. G., Mrs. H. B. Bridger:
The Neutrals
cook
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apolitical significance. We Collected by Miss Square thought it was merely intended Margaret Alison, Mrs. Coleman, as a gentle reminder to the 8. P. Mrs. Grimshaw, Mrs. M. McIver, U. A. not to wax LOG
enthusiastic Mrs. R. Sutherland, Souffer's in its activities, j Friends, collected by Eddie, Mre.
We've just found that we are John Rodger,
Tatel.......................$ 800.30 letting our educated one off too Already acknowledged.: 3,269.50 easily this week, for this very morning so over was, he has been Grand.total........ 34,068.80 talking about the "Mamagerien Maritimes." If the shipping com-
The Public Works Department, like other good things and men in this world, is not without its perennial critics; but its Iteport for
lose on the swings we make op Collected by Miss Lammert :- A correspondent writes to ask 1914 shows that it has made itself responsible for a very great deal
Man Dies From Stab Wounds. the roundabouts, and while Ger- Mrs. T. Arthur, Mrs. Gibson, Mrs. if the individual who cut off a of useful and arduous work in the Colony since that for 1913 was time.
It is alleged in a police account many is employing her most for Hammond, Mrs. Charles Lem- dog's tail one day last week was issued. The Department's area of work is a large one, for it takes in almost every matter from the maintenance of lighthouses-to the Buemy Firms and Local Prices, that a Chinese who was partner midable artillery in this part of mert, Mrs. G. P. Laminert Miss one of the leaders of the Mo Among the things, which we in the Fakam Restaurant, 21, the field she cannot be sending E. Lammert, Mise Robertson, Ping" bunuh Ithadn togcurred <rection of Government and other buildings, and from the dredging of foreshores to the upkeep of Chinese cemateries. As with other never hope to understand in this Reclamation Street, Yaumati, and additional belp to her men in the Miss Woodcock, Miss E. Wood to on that the set might possess Government Departments, when the rate payer looks at the amount world is the system that guides the who died yesterday morning a few East. expended in the course of the year in this case the sam is well liquidators of former enemy firms minutes after being stabbed, was over two and a half million dollara he involuntarily asks himself in their arrangement of prices, the victim of a discharged-foki.
It appears -thst about 3,20 a.m. Three neutral nations Hol if he and his brethren in misfortune are getting their money's worth, It is by no means an uncommon
In English money the P.W.D. has got through a quarter of a thing for our readers, to find that cries of "save life" were raised in land, America and Sweden million pounds at first sight a stupendous amount for so small & the said liquidators have very the restaurant, and investigation figure in the morning's wires, colony as this; yet one that is fully justified if it can be shown that considerably raised the figure revealed that Wa Chikai, aged Uneasiness and indignation are the Colony has had its quarter of a million's worth. Ratepayera of the warea of which, they 62, had been allooked by a man said to be aroused among the may have their own opinion on this point, but they will have to are disposing, for no appar-armed with a knife. The man Datch at the continual violation admit, nevertheless, that the P.W.D. has enormously increased in ont reason. To give a concrete in eoaped after the alleged stabbing, of their territory, by the Gorman activity and that it is nearer at the present moment to giving full atanee, this morning we sent for to an adjoining house, but he was airships. It is clear, and has value for money than it has ever been before. Any and every year an article sold by what was once there arreated by P. C. Murphy. been for some time, from the tone there is a steady drain on its exchequer for the maintaining of the an enemy firm. The price at It is supposed that he sought of the Dutch papers, that the thousands of concerns that come under its direct control; and, in which the German owners were revenge for having been dismiss addition, each yearBees the beginning of some fresh movement which wont to sell it was 83.50. This ed from the restaurant.
The accused was brought ia intended to benefit the community, but which cannot be carried morning we were charged $3. out without funds. Manifestly it is not fair to discuss the We are not going to sit down before Mr. Lindsell, at the Police morning, and PW.D.'s figures at all, unless this can be done at very consider and cry about fifty cents; Court, this able length and by persons trained in accountant work; for but what about the principle of remandeds vertre grive ( ** an enormous share of its time and money is devoted to work for the thing? We can understand its that commodities brought out! the various Government departments; and in many other waye
LANGKAT OUTPUT. accounts must necessarily be more or less abstruse. What really from Home during the past year concerne the general public is: Has Hongkong benefited, no matter have necessarily incressed in coat, September 1
op socount of higher freight, in- whether one million or twenty have been expended ?
But the article Looking round us we see that the roads of the Colony have im-surance, etc. mensely improved during the last year or two, and we also see that which we were buying was in the class of building in course of éréotion is of a more estisfactory the Colony long before war broke nature then was formerly the case. Greater restrictions are being out! Explain, those who can.. gradually imposed on the Chinese contractors, and the Department
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is bestirring itself in the matter of the regulations applying to the constitution of mortar, etc. Of course there remain many points on which the law is not enforced to the degree that one could wish but the P.W.D's datics appear to overlap in so many instances; with those of the Police on the one hand and of the Sanitary Board on the other, that it is not always easy to see where the real offence lies. We sometimes wonder if the ratio between expenditure here in Hongkong itself and in the New Territory is a fair one. People living on the island, elsewhere than on the Peak, have many griev ances which one feels might be attended to a little more expeditious ly, but which cannot receive a just amount of attention because the Department's energies and capital are being expended in districts that matter far less. But the great thing, after all, is that the Do- partment is showing definite signs of stoning för its past sine, negli eroes and ignoranose.
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It is earnestly requested that panies are making provision for- original pro-Clerman feeling in those who have not already sub-massage it would account for the Holland has died out, Holland noribed towards the Motor Amsea trip recently taken by a well- has had smple opportunity, from bulance Fund, will do so as scon known Hongkongite, nitar her nearness to Belgium, to as possible, as the promoters of stady German methods of fair the Boheme are most anxious to There is a Cannib atic sag pers and manliness and it may wire the total som, home, by the gestion about a contemporary's be said that by this time she end of this month...
heading picrer BeyonLYESTE knows just exactly what to
$1,431.20 is still required to on ice. think of her former friend. complete the necessary Bum She also knows that Germany. 2. $5,500.00. means to drag her into the combat
if humanly possible. The refer ence to America is only a minor one; merely that she has another Note ready. Like Mr. Micawber, she would write Notes even if it were a hanging offence to do so. The Swedish affair is more inter eating? The Stockholm author
$1,000 FINE
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Two Bodles Found by the Police.
There is nothing farther to report in connection with the sunken launch, Sui Fong, with the exception that two bodies have been found by the police.
The launch. is still as she was on Saturday, submerged,
Total to 19th inst. - 3950
207.89 Daily average
themselves fully anxious to play
the game and we hope that they. At the will send in a stiff bill to Ger morning many when all is over, in order Revenue
TO THE SCHIEF OF DER
BOLICES
An Exchange has the follow- ing:
Berlin, Cótober, 1808;
• Who van die man who makes dia
Polion Court, this bluff,
before Mr. J. B, Wood, Und dares to brint
Msomillan
Boat me and
officer
to compensate themselves for their charged Chinese with being in I'll show him dat mitous use
Toases.
The suggestion that unlawful possession of 200 feels
Kummel. Britain may come to terms with of opium of the value of $160 Or even helb von Sweden as to the issue of licences The arrest was made by Revenue Dat for die kom for commodities on the "prohib-officer 47 on the Lee Kee wharf,
Und I kan run ited" list, is full of interest, and Defendant was fined $1,000 of in
Mitout Got we shall await with curiosity default three months imprison-
Your K further news on the subject. ment.