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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,- 1915.
INVIGORATING HEALTH
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Portuguese ProgTOES,
DAY BY DAY..
NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
MEN'S EVIL. MANNERS LIVE IN BRASS: THEIR VIRTUES, WE WRITE IN WATER,
Tae Portuguses of the Colony are to be congratulated on the progress of their Mutual Help Society. Borce time since, wedrew sttention, in a leading article, to the projects and workings of this esociation, and we are indeed glad to
from the President's speech on Thursday, that exprotations are on the way. towarda being realised. Money seems to be flowing in very antis- At the Foak 8 ́am. Temp. 73; factorily and, having brought the pastter so near to lasting success, we feel sure that those concerned will
persevere till 1
RUSSIANS FOLLOWING UP
The Weather.
Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 80; clear.
Creace and, Bulgaria;
clear.
Count the Columns.
Once again Greece and the Balkans push themselves well into the forefront, and it would be
that the calling op of the
1890
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO,
(Compiled from the Hongkong Telegraph" files for the week ending Beptember 25, 1890.)
The Dollar.
September 25 The rate of
twenty-eight classes of Belgians Mr. Wodehouse's Muster.
all the intentions of the pro- Yesterday the Telegraph pub-worth a king's racsom to know moters are realised." It is of lished 33 columns of solid exactly the feeling of the one to the dollar on demand 10-day is interest to observe, too, that a reading matter. To-day there wards the other. Reuter tells us 8/7 note of extreme loyalty to the will be 41 published." British Government was most ap. parent in the speeches delivered at the meeting. The good relations between British and Portuguese here are matter for extreme grati-
The Malls."
Acstralian Mail-Duo per
. Empire to day. English Mail Dae per ss,
festion; and we might add that the public is hardly reminded often enough of its indebtedness ta-to-morrow. to this community. The donkey work of the Colony is done very largely by the Porta.
MİNERAL WATER MANUFACTURERS guese and done well; and, as
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often as not, they get little enough thanke therefore, The Budget,
Reater still sends us through interesting driblets concerning the Budget, in his spare time. Heem- phasises the fact that all classes of the commanity are pleased therewith. Generally speaking that is doubtless true, bat, from all we can see, there is a variety both criticism and grumbling. of oddments that will awaken And first the Press part of the
business. The increase in rate) for newspaper wires will
mean that all classes will feel dis- satisfaction, for the reader will get less for his penny or his halfpenny. Does the Chancellor of the Exchequer fall into the same error to which many of our Hongkong friends cling to des parately that the war is a fiue thing for the newspapers? If that is 83, it is curious that nearly every journal at Home has been obliged to cut down expenses. A newspaper exists
on
advertisements and not on its esler; and the press throughout the Empire has had none too rosy a time financially since war, broke out, Other Taxation,
Siberian Mail-Das pr
Chenan to-morrow.
Siberian Mail. Closes per
9.8,
Mal
B.e.
F..
Lucbow today at 5 p.m. Siberian Mail.-Closes per 8.8.
Malta to-morrow at 9 am.
$845,
Up to the Minute. Hongkong Banks, -
Balee, Unions-$9.70, sellers. Douglas's $871, sellers. Steamboats.-$20, buyers. China Sugors,-$132, buyers, Kailane.-30/- Bellers. Hongkong Docks.
buyers.
Ewo's Tle. 176, bavers, Shanghai Cottons.-Tls. 103,
enlog,
Тезда
practically enlisting
the whole nation. In point
1890.
SHARE REPOR
The quotations which follow for September 25th 1890. are from the Hongkong Telegraph.
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Now Isus $200 per share, sellers.
Union Insurance Society of Canton-3200 per share, sellers: China Traders Insurance Com pany-$62 per share, buyers,
North China Insurance —Tia. 340 per share, sellers,
Canton Insurance Company, Lid.—§117) per share, sellers.
Yangteze Insurance Association
Hongkong Fire Insurance Com •
strength of population and numerical of traction at Mr. Wodehouse's
September 10. The centres. 70 per share bayers, of forces, there muster at the Police Court this pany-$3624 per share, sellers. is probably not much difference between the two countries; both morning was unquestionably the China Fire Insurance Company
case of Shek Janno, a watchman-888 per share, sellers are pretty beavily in debt, and though their credit may be good little Mrs. Janno and thirteen Company #71 per cent. pre- at the Peak Hotel, versus pretty Hongkong and Whampoa Dook one to-day-unless it be Britain were drawn up in line before his enough for ordinary purposes, no relatives and friends, all of whom minm, sales and buyers.
and Americabas any money Worship. It is many a long day Steamboat Company-$35 ~per. Hongkong, Canton and Macao to lend. Probably at the moment, since such a formidable and share, buyers, more general curiosity as to the
Glorious Russis,
hear
Hongkong Gas Company $135 per share, sellers,
Hongkong Hotel Company- $105 per share, sellers.
Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per
Indo-China 8.N. Company
$52 per share, sellers.
Douglas Steamship Company-
intentions of Roumania is felt metley array of defendante, in one China and Manila Steamship. than in regard to the other two case, were put on the "stand" in Company-$115 porshare, buyers. countries-and of her wre
nur model maison de justice. aksolutely nothing,
There they were, Indians, Arabs. Chiasso, Hottentots, Malaya-of both sexes all jumped up toge ther. Poor Janno, whose Uhinese missas left him a week ago cont. Debenturos $601- So thrilling, however, are the hecause he seemed cranky and Beocants coming through this did not supply her with "ploppah 273 per cent. dia, ellera. $81), morning as to Russian ancosses, chow chow, blamed the whole) that the majority of people will gang for the abduction of his find their curiosity as to Greek and wife, and, while going through Balkan affaire qu'ekly swallow all sorts of antios in the "box," pany, Ltd. 171 pershare, sales, China Sugar Refining Com- ed up in their admiration for our charged them with entering into Eastern ally. Below and to the wicked conspiracy to roison pany, Limited-$108 per share, Lazon Sugar Refining Com- west of Bigs the enemy is fleeing him with a fendish drog! His buyers. and Russia is following up her Worship, after being informed advantage; and something not by Sergeant Witchell that the $95 per share, sellers, p
Hongkong Ice Company- dissimilar ig taking place complainant seemed to be a Hongkong Rope Manufactur in the lake region. Farther shingle short, was a nuisance, to ing Company, Ltd.-$120 per south, the successes are still more the neighbourhood, and ucable to share, buyers. marked, as Reuter's Petrograd support his hearty little better Hongkong and Kowloon Wharl cerrespondent and the French half, dismissed the case, read Mr. and Godown Company.-$76 per newspaper men agree. Thone- Shek Jaono a severe lesson upon share, sellers, anda of prisonera have been the impropriety of his conduct taken, together with war material generally, and refused to grant and, shove all, the Austrian froot an order for the compulsory re- has been broken. William will turn of the faithless Jimmima!"
$54,
Coments 89.75, bayers. Ropes. $324, buyers. Low Level Trams.
boyare. Langkate. Tls, 38, buyere,
Tha Dollar.
The rate of the dollar demand to-day is la 9 11/16d.
on
To-morrow's Anniversary To morrow is the 45th anniver sary of the occupation of the Seine and Marne departments by the Prussione.
Hongkong-Canton Line,
The Hoangaban will leave for Canton to-night Saturday, Sep It is evidently assumed at Home tember 25 at 10 o'clock returning that the tea tax will not please from Canton on Sunday, Septem- all parties, but there is a lot to beber 26, at 5 p.m. times the Radicals have been all too said on both sides. In former
duties. The half-
The Odd "s."
be pleased. In a very few weeks winter will have begun to make itself felt, both north and south, September 20-This is the and the Austro-Germans must of latest journalistic outrage per- necessity see all the expenditure petrated at the expense of a of human life, of money and of defence ess public: Hello old, ammunition which their recent man, what's your burry ?""I'm advanos eastward has involved, going down to kill the editor of absolutely thrown away. They too Telegraph. I sent a cɔm- have hit the stone wall and most munication in, signed 'Honestas, needs bounce back,
and be coly added an extra ‘a' to it,"
That Zeppelin Raid.
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1
$10 per share, sellers. Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. Ltd.
$24 per aliaro, sellers.
A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd.-
Hongkong High Level Tram- way Co., Ltd.-8105 per sbare buyers.
Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., Ltd.-$25 per share, nominal,
Green Island Cement Co. (old issue)28 per share, buyers.
Green Island Cement Co. (now issue).-$3 per share, nominal.
Hongkong Land Investment Jo., Ld.-$92 per share, sellers.
Hongkong Electric Light Co., Ltd.$6 per share, sellers.. 332 per share, sellera, Weat Point Buildings Co, Ltd,
ENEMY INTRIGUE IN AMERICA. Though the lengthy wire which we pablished yesterday relative to the conduct of Germans and Austrians in America osrries as little handy at taxing beer and spirits,
Bijou Theatre. We are asked to remind our farther as regards information, it at least seems to bint that America even though in the latter case readers that to-morrow night will is not content to let the matter elide. The quotation from the letter the poor man was very badly hit be observed at the Bijon Theatre written by Captain von Papen obviously contradicts the somewhat thereby. We agree that it is a Benefit Night on behalf of
Aeronautics In Hongkong. lumbering story told by that" lier of the first magnitude," Count hard on many sections of the Miss May Yohe.
September 20.-"The centre The remaining point of special of Hongkong was virtually Barnstorf. It is noticeable that both letters breathe the same opinions es to the American obaracter. It is not a flattering one and ie not community that the price of tes
interest in the day's wires is the desert from three o'clock this should rise appreciably, but Kallen Mining Administration. breezy story of the Zeppelin raid afternoon, every body had gone to by any means altogether justified, but we have long known that the there must be rive and take in German mind is prone to forming basty conclusions. The American this world and Mr. McKenna-output of the Administration's Mathy who, in his off time, ap-chatist. The attendance on the We are informed that the total on London-as related by one see the last of Spencer, the para President is not such a fool as he may look, and it is conceivable that, himself & Radical-has gone mines for the week ending 11th pears to be an air pilot of sorts, Race coarse when all things come to be reckoned up at the end of the war, the ont of his way to remind the tee September, amonated to 46577 but whose regular calling is large, but the free view from his good lady home, but we didn't United States will have the laugh on many points wheroon she may totalers that the country has not tone and the sales during the manifestly that of liar in ordin- the upper
was gratifyingly acem to be balf asleep when judged by the Germans.
road bas its know that there was a genius in› Of course Amerion cannot besaid to be satirely free from blame.yat recovered from the previous period, to 45421 tons.
sry to Elis not for from attractions also, we regret to say. the pablic service who could She has been suspicious where she should have trusted, and trustful heavy beer
Divine Majesty, William the The hour or two before the ascent leave the chair of a second, clerk: where an attitude of suspicion would best hive become her; she has
penny postage proposals, too, are The Government of Uruguay, Becond of Germany. The exact was occupied by watching the in the Registrar-General's office, done us Britishers considerably less than justice, and the Germans not
noteworthy. The public will It is notified in the Gazette that extent of this gentlemen's per- great balloon slowly inflating, sad jump into Mr. Ford's shoes, and Austrians considerably more; she has allowed herself to be sway- hardly stand-any suggestions from the Secretary of State for the we scarcely know, for the Home ones losing themselves. The dar B. Westland, who doss know
relish-in fact
will information has been received formance in the mendacity line and a lot of grotesque smaller What is the matter with Mr. A. ed by eentiment and by business considerations, and never seems to 03 have struck the happy middle between these two extreme points: halfpenny post-card, for this Uruguay have given notice of from being exhaustive; but if attraction, of course, and the ex- afforestation? Professor Groom,.
to the
abolition of the Colonies that the Government of wires on the subject were far ing little faller was the centre of something about botany and. that of striot impartiality. The German brain, not being encumber would mean an enormose increase their intention to withdraw from Holborn Viaduct and Liver-citement was very great, but as too, is down from Whampo3. He ed by any sentiment in this case, has been able to see very clearly in the monthly expenditure of a the Commercial Treaty concluded pool Street station had been the appointed time passed, and is a crack botanist," what was behind America's attitude and has known exactly how to pat it to profit. Probably had it not been for the sinking of the very large number of firms. Our with that Government in 1885 bombed we should certainly he was still on terra firma, ita Lasitanis and the subsequent piling of insult on insult by the Ger- the sound sense of the humourist ingly expire on December 17, is unfortunate, too, that the ori- get everything arranged, and, at reported that the wooden bridge
readers will, however, oppreciats and that the Treaty will accord- have beard all about it.
Our P. W. D. It began to subside. When he did Sapie
September 22" It has been mans, the Beoret working indulged in by Count who hints that the doing away 1915. Bernstof and Dr. Dumba would nsver have been with halfpenny postage would
ginal German pronouncement on 5.45, gave orders to the coolies near Mesure, Fenwick & Co's unnecessary; for it is generally so:epted that Amerios, in the help to free the busy, letter-re-
the subject spoke of the bombing to "let go" people were a little machine shop, on the Fraye, in in early days of the war was manifestly pro-German. She could believe ceiving world from the tyranny
Excursion to Macao. of the west end, and made no tired, Fer nearly three-quarters a very unsafe condition, as several evil of as, but not of Germany. Needless to say the tables have long of the circular.
The Hongkong Canton and mention of the Viaduct or the of a minute the balloon rose, near of the main supports have been since been turned, indeed one of the gcoi resulta to arise from the
Macao Steamboat Company's New City; while our pilot friend says ly straight overhead, and sudden removed to allow sampane and war should, and probably will, be a better permanent understanding
Steamship Tai Shan, will depart nothing about the west. Those ly it heeled over, the occupant small orafte to pass under it. It between Britain and Amerion. For all her love of business America.
from the Company's Wing Lok of car readers who are in the was seen to drop, ss promised, might be well for the Public respects straight fighting, and the real heart of her will be seen to
Street Wharf at 9 8.m, and return habit of pernsing. the American likes thunderbolt, for some couple Works Department to look after be antirely with no and against Germany long before peace is
from Macro at 3 p.m. to-morrow. papers will have no dificulty in of hundred feet, amid the this before their attention is declared.
The Company will also run a recognising the artistic touch of "hiyahs!" of the multitude, and drawn to it by a serious accident.'; steamer from Macao on Sunday the New York sub-editor who had then fouted gradually downwards morning at 7.30 am. and from the handling of Commander into the Parsse Cemetery on bis September 26, These dens
Dens of iniquity. We Hongkong at 1 p.m. from the Mathy's story, and will know that serival support, the collapsing of iniquity known as tinakuk Compaay's Wing Lok Street he certainly did not take anything balloon blowly following from sgencies, of which ais are kno
away from it "The Themes in an its attitude of some 1,500 feet, to exist in Queen's Road alone, indestraatible guidepost?" and Our Government Gazette, are in full swing again sad, in the searchlights, like arme wav September 22 The Editor fact, doing better than every for ing around the sky" bear all the of Saturday's Government Gazelle In addition to swindling their marks of having been supplied by has evidently been caught in last country in the most barefaced someone who knows how to insert week's wild whirl of dissipation, manner their "orimps are bard
the sare dope." But there is His first paragraph informs the at it enli equally at least one unmistakeable world that somebody his regie, now German touch about the story, tered a brand, of whisky; the They Liam James, E.N.R., being at We were militarily justified in second intimates that Cordon Stat- the tached to the Engineer Company bombing a battery screened near ford Norihe tex Braairs W2| with the relative rank of Captain, of damaging the Cathedral." We on the 17th instant, and the third Men of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps, St. Paul'e, bus abstained for fear appointed acting head gardener would know that for a German sets out that the same ecion statement anywhere, for hypocrisy of a noble house got the post of and liss just cogs out of it. This Acting Superintendent of the from the savages who destroyed Botanical and Afforestation De pathedrals that were ancient be- partment on the 10th instant, Me, fore St. Paul'a wan built 100% Ford has gone to Japan to bring
THE DENTISTRY ORDINANCE.
:
GOVERNMENT · APPOINT-
MENTS.
After the disclosures made by the New York press one vary naturally looks to hear that the Washington Government will take
Corrected Copy of Register. - definite stops to guard against any further plotting. Already one
The following corrected copy presumes that a careful watch is being kept for sny attempts, on the of the Dental Register is published Fart of these gentry who regard diplomatic relations so lightly, at by me in accordance with the unsettling the labour world. That, assuredly, is the direction in provisions of Ordinance No. 16 of which they will hit if allowed. The real tronble is that the atmosp-1914: hore created in the Government by the pacifio bat withal pro-German
Dental Surgeons. Asger, Mehdy Mr. Bryan is still apparent, and at times one is apt to feel that little Edward; Carvalho, Arthur de; can be expected of an administration that has shown itself so power Chaun, Moon Hang: Jones; Ed- less to deal with the Mexican question-one, by the way, which Mr.ward Evan: Kow, Frederick Ho- His Excellency the Governor Roosevelt or even Mr. Taft would have known very well how to ward; Kew, Irvin Whiteley; has been pleased to approve En- „adjust, Five-sixths of the position does not concern us Britishers at McKean, Gorge William and gineer-Lieutenant Frederick Wil-
all whether America makes a spoon or spoile a horn in her own Noble, Joseph Whittlesey. affair. But the odd sixth relates to the harbouring or not harbour- Exempted- Persons.-- ing of a mischievous element that can indirectly impede our conquest Cheng Shin-chan: Cheng Wing of the Germans. Doubtless many Americans feel that, in soboolboy Low; Fong. Charles, alias Fons with effect from September 14, language, they owe us one" for the maintenance of the blockade; Tee-king; Fong, Harry; Kong but we still think that the bulk of United States opinion is in favour Tat-Ynen: Lau Io-tean; Lan 1916. of the Allies and is satisfied that a speedy victory for them in necee Pak-wai; Law Tai Fan Mr. Brio William Hamilton to sary to the ultimate wellbeing of the world. On that bulk that we U-tang: Tam E-fong To, sot as Assistant Distriol Officer, rely for honest co-operation, so far sa this can be practised without Herbert Yamasaki, Toshio and with effect from September 25, breach of neutrality. Disputes and differences on the blockade quen Yeung, Shia Chan,
1915. sion can easily be thrashed out later,
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for the