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Ons is rather inclined to give a pat on the back to the constable who, in a case which came before the Second Police Magistrato yes- terday, took it upon himself, without waiting for instractions from the Captain Saperintendent of Police, to prosecute the inmates of a house who were making night bideoas with vocal, piano sunshine. forte and gramaphone selections.
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NOTES ON THE CRISIS.
PERFORMANCES IN PERSIA
A Long Lull,
18.90
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE
YEARS AGO,
(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the wet ending November 27, 1890.)
The Dollar.
Hintarather than news are what we are getting nowadays. For thespeculatively-inolined thiamay be an excellent strangement, but to those of us who are old-fashion- the dollar on demand to-day is November 27. The role of
look up some of their neighbours. Siberian Mail-Dae to-morrowed a few facts on which to bite 8/4.1
would be vastly proferable. Of the The defence in the case under per s.s. Sinkiang. notice that the offenders were no worse than others, and ought not therefore to be punished- was ingenious but not effectual, except in so far as it saved the offender from anything more ser- ions than a warning against any repetition of the disturbance. Mr. | demand to-day is 1/11 1/16. Lindsell, who continues to show very sound common-sense in bis
The Dollar,
To-morrow's-Anniversary,
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FOR CHINA'S ILLS.
WHY NOT REGISTRATION?
We have many times dealt with the desirability of a complete system of registration for Chinese in British Colonies--notably in connection with the well-worn servant question. We have point- led out that a defnite line should be drawn between Chinese who are British subjects and those who are not; and that it should be powible for the Government to subjects even after they have left keep track of all non-British
the Colony.
Among the Chinese themselves Franch Mail, Clones to-day real situation in the Balkans we
still know practically nothing, November 20-"To the Editor there is a growing feeling that this registering should by no of the Hongkong Telegraph. thoughthereisencouragement per haps, in the promises made by the Sir, Allow me to suggest that, maana be limited to British Colo- Te rand by Italy, in the gathering in celebration of the Colony's nies but that China herself should, of Russian troops at Ismail (with Jubilee, no more illuminations or once and for all, undertake the The rate of the dollar on all that that implies) and in the processions of any kind take task where this whole of her
fact that the French have now place, but that a bona fide general population is concerned.
A prominent local Chinese, Mr. definitely taken the offensive subscription be raised, and the against the Bulgarians. As we gum so raised be employed in the Ho Wah-tong, in disonasing the write, another wire arrives, saying building of a substantial Public matter with the Telegraph, bas decisions at the Court, took To-morrow is the anniversary that the Germans have made an Library and Maceum. At present pointed out that more than half occasion in this instance to re of the occupation of Mandalay infer to Serbia: Germany to cease the Library and Museum in the of China's troubles are directly quest the Press to let it be known 1885.
hostilities if she is "given free City Hall is a disgreos to the trageable to this want of know- passage
" and is allowed to re- Colony and worse than uslese, ledge on the Government's part as to the doings and comings and tain provisionally the conquered Yours oto, Jubilant."
[And that was five and twenty goings of its subjects. territory. Prince Alexander has
“In China," he said, “a man replied by virtually telling the years ago! what shall we say of
is here to-day, there to-morrow, Kaiser to take a free passage to our library to-day?]
Levelorn!
and no one knows whether he is Mr. G. P. Lammert is selling a
well, maskes. The offer is of the
He November 22-The chair-a thief or an honest man. quantity of wines and spirits at his sort that one would expect from
Germany; "call it a draw" sort of coelie who set fire to a house in may be a law-abiding citizen, and sales rooms on Monday at 11 am.siness; and all one can say in Bridge Street on Thursday morn- he may be a rogue for whom the We have rrosived from In. that it has at least the value of ing last, because his sweetheart police of the next Province or the spector C. E, Frith, of the Sani- showing the gradual extension of had grown tired of him and had next city have long been searching. arranged with an old man, who In Western countries, if a man is tary Department, a bundle of our enemy's heart-losing,
with large beots, kicked him down" wanted" by the police it is illustrated papera for the troops. There is, of course, something
To Consignees.
That Germany should lose heart stairs when he dared intrude, was quite easy to spread a net that Consigases of cargo by the when, one by one in all too rapid again brought before Mr. Wode will catch him, in a general way. to be said from the point of view of the man or woman who Tenyo Maru are reminded that succession, her plots are discover house at the Police Court this If he escapes from England to at the next Criminal Sessions,” land, your extradition system is summoned for off-are while goods remaining undelivered after ud, her men defeated and her lies morning and committed for trial France or from France to Eng- others are allowed to commit the Monday will be subject to rent. disproved, in nothing surprising,
How to Deal with Snatchers. so thorough that, in most cases, Exempted.
Her plans in Persis, it is now November 22.-"Another orr it is not difficult to catch him. sama infringement of the law
The Borgsong Baden Powell evident, were laid with a little ing enateher was before Mr. Bat the moment China 'comes. without being as much as spoken
Association has more akill and forethought then Wodehouse at the Police Court into the question you are faced We have seen
Boy Scoote (lorto on the matter.
a good deal of that sort of thing heen exempted from registration has usually characterised her to day and received a sentence of with all sorts of hindrances, polioy"; bat even here there 9 months imprisonment with hard and yuo may say that, when so far se the muzzling order an
ende left were enough loose. applied to dogs is concerned.
labour, and 25 strokes of the rat. Jonce a criminal escapes showing to intimate to the first tan as a reminder, after being tiz from here or from Singapore into But the mere fact that such en The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be delivered anomaly peraists simply serves information that a memorial of comer that there was something months in gaol, that he should [China you may give up the tank. to subscribers by, the Dairy Farm Company, Ltd., Shamess, to show how lax the enforcement/re-entry by the Government on hidden which it might be worth not have snatched a pair of gold (of looking for him. If that man of very many quite useful Ordin. Kowloon Inland Lot No. 807 and while to ferret out. Probably earrings, valued at $14, from a had been registered and photo. ances has become. The fault is, Inland Iot No. 888 has been re- success
remaining portion of Kowloon the reaBJN why
greater Chinese woman in Queen's Road graphed in his own country, half attended these parti Central. The woman in giving your trouble would be gone, for, not that solitary individuals are now and again brought to book/istered in the Land Office accord-cular plots ia that the Tarke evidence made use of the expres in most ca868, it would not be
had a big finger in the pie; and sion Foreign devila Hong in re hard to find traces of him. but that other offenders not also summoned. It is a cons!
as they have forgotten more about ferring to the Victoria Hotel and It is notified in the Hongkong diplomacy and neat jugglory than was promptly and deservedly registration system on a very “In Chins, for her own mike, a BANNING LOVER.-On November 20, 1915, at No. 2 Dennartt of too few, not too many, in- Government Gazsite that on and Germany the chuckle-headed ever fined $2 by Hie Worship."
dividuala being prosecuted. There
complete scale 10 пасовагу. KEW-On November 20, 1915, at No. 17 Carter Road, Shanghai, fore me say: "Let the good work after January 1. next the rate of know, it is not unnatural that
Energetic Hongkong. Postage on parcels to the Com-some measure of success nkould
People say it would be impos- monwealth of Australia will be have accompanied their efforts. allowed respectfully to direct the in Europe it should be possible- November 22-May we bosible; but if it can be carried out one ahilling for the first pound Bat even they have shown their attention of the Hon. the Surveyor-gradually of coures in the Far A Deserved Sentence.
and sixpence for each additional hands a little too plainly now. While on matters magisterial, pound or fraction thereof,
General to the dangerous state of Eset. You can quite se, tco, Other Matters.
the three fights of stone steps that, if properly undertaken, it we take occasion to pass another
Though we hear so little from which lead from Pedder's Hill to would be instrumental in enor- compliment on to Mr. Lindeel! for The Harbour Master notifios Russia and still leas from the Wyndham Street? We saw an mously increasing the revenue. the prompt and effective manner that from and after December 1, Western front, the hints of which acrobatic performance enacted There would be no injustice, but in which he disposed of the cass 1915, no ships, without the writwe spoke above must be allowed there this morning that would just merely common prudence, in which a Chinese, not content ten permission of the Harbour roms value. A later wire gays have made the fortune of a circus in exacting a small fee for re- with making overtures to a girl in Master, shall anchor south of a that the Germans are begins "ambler." the street, proceeded to senault her. line drawn east and weet through ing to withdraw from
Seriously though, gistration-whether a fixed fee or * their For the two offences the defendast the crane on the Kowloos Naval hopeless task" of trying to capture atones have become as slippery sa of the person registered could be they ought to be seen to, for the one in proportion to the standing found himself called upon to pay Depot,
Riga. This, taken with previous glass through the wear of ages." eettled later. The sume so raised In another column will be found some remarks made to the out the nice little sum of $100,
intimations and suggestione,
Mr. H. P. Wilklason, Telegraph by a well-known local Chinese on the desirability of awhile for taking the liberty The Management of the Belle reema to imply that the enemy's
could be sat aside; not thrown November 25-Mr. B. P. into the general treasury, but put cintration system for China. He points out that, at present, spitting in Court he was relievedo View Hotel in putting up a ope- big general retreat from the Et Wilkinson, B.A., Barrister-at-law, towards a fund to meel, perhaps, Extradition proceedings between China and Britain or any British farther $5. Our acting Second cial oyster and pigs fest dinner has really got under way. We has bean admitted to practice in some big emergency. Colony are fatally bampered by the very simple fact that the Chinese Magistrate is evidently putting up tomorrow night at the modest hope to learn soon that Bassia E.B.M.'s Supreme Court at Shang- Government bes next to no means of knowing where to find the men with no nonsense from this tyre price of $1 per head. For those has found means of accelerating hai. Mr. B. F. Wilkinson a1" the system need not stop at "Of course," added Mr. Ho, whom it may happen to want. Not only is China a vast country of Oriental, and, what is more, he who do not wish to take the full i From the West we are introduced to the Chief Justice by registering men for the purposes in itself but it is a country of big nities. And by a big city she apparently keeps a keen eye on menn, it may be stated that the prepared to hear of big succes his father, the Crown Advocate. of ultimately tracing them, but andersteude, as often as not, an English village or small market defendants even after they have oysters can be obtained separately se at any moment. Mean-
This is at a most reasonable charge.. town with the population of Glasgow or Liverpool crowded into it. been brought to Coats.
might gradually expand into November 20,-"A Excursion To Macao. In such congested areas the law's chances of tracking a criminal are the second Chinese during the
that a little more backbone was successful test of the arc system al Register in England."
Very something like your own Nation Indicropaly amall, and it is only by the detestable, but withal neces present week who has found ex- The Hongkong, Canton and being infused into our politicians of atreet lighting was made by sary, co operation of the informer that justice can be carried cat pectoration an expensive hobby Maoua Steamboat Company's at Home. We notice that the the Eleotrio Light Company last and the criminal tracked.
Canton, who have been appointed our agents there.
By Order,
"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.”
BIRTHS.
THOMPSON.-On Saturday, November 20, 1915, at 93, Rue Montauban, Shanghai, the wife of H. A. Thompson, of a dau hter.
Estate, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. E. G. B. Lover, a son.
to Dr. and Mr. Chadwick Kew, a son,
DEATH.
HAYWARD.-Killed in action, with the British Mediterranean Force, on November 12, 1915, Edward John Hayward, 2nd Lieut. 2nd Batin. Royal Fusiliera; the dearly loved elder son of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Hayward, of the China Inland Mission, aged 23 years.
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ADJOURNED.
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to indulge in within the precincts steamship Tai Shan, will depart Lord Mayor of London propos night. The lamps shed a power-SESSIONS AGAIN We do not hope to see a complete registration system in force of the Magistracy, and we hope from the Company's Wing Lok another national praying fal steady light which would have throughout Obina yot awhile; but all things must have a beginning, he will not be the last. In the past once a turn from Mac. on Sunday cat. In our humble opinion it done credit to many an old snd the sooner our neighbour makes a beginning in this direction there has been far too much lati- and return from Macao at 8 p.m. is not the troops and the sailors, established light works at home. the better will it be from her point of view, as well as from that of inde allowed Chinese defendants The Company will also run a bat the politicians at Home, There was an entire absence of being
Owing to the fact that other tjast farritories. Of course we Britishers are rather new hands and onlookers in ion of a few morning at 7.30 am, and from who need playing for the jerk and licker which gener. Court to-day prevented the ex- The imposition a a.m. from ample of the kind of thing that ally accompanies the ignition of tradition case from being pro- China, though it is possible that our own shortcomings in the past more fines in csecs where or Hongkong st. 1 p.m. from the is going on in Parliament, a Mem- new lampe, indicating unsteady ceeded with, this osse will one- of the registration business to be laying ourselves out to advise Court, may give us a clearor insight than many other nations into dinary good manners are abused Company's Wing Lok Street bor who asked why the manager power at the dynamo, which tinne during Monday and Tuesday our neighbours' weaknesse, Germany, wiser in her generation then should do something to uphold Wharf,
of an enemy firm in India was speaks well for the very careful The Sessions, which were first of wo, long ago introduced a form of registration-borrowed, we the dignity of the Court.
being sent to Germany instead of manner in which various parts of all fired for Monday and after- believe, originally from Russia-which, while there was cortainly a
being interned, was told by Mr. the complicated machinery, lamps wards for Tuesday, have again Azaton Chamberlain that." he and wires have been set up. On been set back, the business com- big suggestion of police persecution about it, had at the same time, Too Light.
There was however, another | very mach to recommend it. In China the cohome should apply
was expecting information regard. Monday next the Company, will menoing on Wednesday. admirably. Every change of address had to be sent to the police, and osas yesterday in which Mr. Lind-
ing the case shortly." This is commence lighting the treats every man on leaving and re-entering the scantry was obliged to sell let the defendant off far too
all very well, but is it business? regularly, and when a few of the report himself. If the Chinese Government would allow no one to cheaply. We refer to the charge
Is it business that hundreds of thick branches of trees are thinned leave its territory or to re-enter it without such precautions being against a house colie for absent- The Bishop of Victoria will be German Lutheran missionaries out we are sure that the new light observed, it would soon realise very considerable benefit therefroming himself from daly without the prescher in the Cathedral each should still be at large to spread will be deservedly appreciated [But the need for lights on the
permission. The cans was proved Sunday morning during Advent. lies throughout India? Have we by the general public, in more ways than one.
The pavoments was, we take it, as Without much dificulty every chiangehun could see to it that to the satisfaction of the Magis He will also give a series of not already been punished heavily incandescent system is being marked as it is to-day.] the magistrates or polios chiefe in his province forced every man, trate, who convicted but fined the Advent lectures on Wednesdaye at enough for our national slushy completed as fast as possible, and them and ohild to supply particulars concerning himself defaulter only a modest dollar. 10.45. am. in his Chapal at St. sentiment, or are we asking for we have no doubt but that yearly statement of accounts to or horself, and could have each provided with some kind of card or If the facts warranted a convic-Paul's College on "Some thoughts mors trouble? What wonder in this excellent system of indoor 80th June last of the Chartered Buch, on the passport system, which must be produced on demand. tion-and they earely did the on Great Mysteries at Prait that the Guest to laughing lighting will be largely taken Mercantile Bank of Indis, Lontion Nots could easily be taken of the names of persons leaving the fine should have been far heavier. blems of evil, suffering, the In- at us for soft-hearted fools? advantage of here, an elsewhere, and China shows a net profit after asantry, and of those remaining it would not be impossible for the It is only a waste of time for a ornation and the life after death,
The Company have in stook Government to keep some sort of trace. Thus gradually the present European to precsed against a Tuesday next is to be observed
splendid lotof handcome fittings debts and including the lance providing for bad and doubtful higgledy piggledy condition would slip away, leaving something servant if after being found as a day of intercession for Mis-
of all kinds for house and office brought forward, of 889 289. 3. rational in its place. The suggestion, too, that s fee should be gailty the latter is merely called tions. There will be a celebra- His Excellency the Governor charged for registration is quite a good one. It read not be so high upon to pay a dollar for his shark tion of the Holy Communion at has been pleased to appoint Mr. orend it is said that the Hon. Ild. Of this amount. $18,750
O.P. Chater and Mr. Mody are appropriated to payment of divi sa to cause the people to feel that they were being taxed "with comings. What is more, such the Oathedral at 8 a.m., con. Arthur George Murchison Fict nothing to show for it? The ever-increasing same derived from ridiculously amst fines only on innous intercession all day and at her to be prestar of the now having their hanses fitted dead for the half year at the rate this source of revenue would quickly mount to a total large enough courage servants to give trouble to 8 pm, the Bishop will conduct a widows And Orphans Pensions, with ornamental burners which, of 5 per cent, per annum, Fre to moet very rainy day indeed, and, side by side with that advant their employers. If punishment meeting of Intercession at St. vies Dr. Francis William Clark for elegance and perfection of of income-ar, and 450,539. 30. , there would necessarily be marked decrease in crime; for is to be inflicted, let it be awift and Paul's College, this being one of resigned, with effect from the ln light, will not be surpassed in 11d is carried forward to present st goes without saying that at least half the crime in China is due salutary.
the united fortnightly meetings. Desember, 1915.
any part of the world."
half-year. 12 the diffenlly of traging the laws breaker.
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Bank Profits. November 27.—" The half-