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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH
WATSON'S
FINEST OLD
BROWN
The Tramway Track.
Our attention has been directed
to the condition of the teaDWAY. track along the Prays from
DAY BY DAY
ERBOR OF SOFAKTON "MAT (BE
Arsenal Street to the terminus of TOLERATED WHEN REASON IS the line. Our informant says LEPT PRZE TO COMBAT that, as a result of repairs which Thomas Jonasson,
have been périodically effected, the track presents a very patched-
The Weather.
At the Peak 8 am Tamp. 45; Lower level 8 am Tamp;
up appearance, the new concrete
which has been used in the work fog (1915, 59 dull.) is good, but the old material is in
BRANDYny places badly worn, the con- dall (1915, 66-clear.)
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QUALITY.
25 YEARS IN WOOD.
A. S. WATSON & Co.,
Ltd.
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
HONGKONG,
forward
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their
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sequence being that, in places, the rails are higher than partions of the roadway, thus creating public danger, By Ordinance, the Tramway Company in empowered to break up and open the roads covered by its service, but there
is a proviso which requires the
restoration of the thoroughfare to | such a state sa shall satisfy the Director of Public Warks. The Company, too, is held responsible |
The Mails.
Siberian Mail- Dee per 8.5..
Sinkiang to-day. American, Canadian and Siberian
Maila ---Closed per 8.8. Cana- da Maru at 1 p.m. today. Siberian Mail-Clossa per se. Chenan 3:5 p.m. to-day.
The Dollar.
The rate of the dollar
for the keeping in good condition demand to-day is 1/114. of the roadway between the rails,
extends eighteen inches beyond
as well as so much of the road as To-morrow's anniversary.
To-marrow is the 101st anni- the rails on either side thereof, versary of the death of Francis It is also laid down that the up-Mesmer, the German scientist. permost surface of the raila shall
Technical Institute.
be on a level with the surface čí the road.
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The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1916.
BULGARIA'S POSITION.
The Techzical Institute opens on Monday.
Authorised Architect.
1891.
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE
YEARS AGO.
(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph file for the week anding March 4th, 1891)
The Dollar.
1891.
SHARE REPORT.
instance, or any one of the Australian colosien, would not be tolerated for one day. Wo include the Courts of Justice, which loudly call for a tho rough cleansing without further delsy But the biggest exist- ing freed today is that amas- culated society of chattering nin-
is known a
The quotations which follow the Sanitary are from the Hongkong Telegraph Board, If the Governor wishes to for February 25th, 1891. emerge from his retirement, and Hongkong and Shanghai Bank is in sufficiently good health to New $327 per share, do so, we strongly recommend sellers. him to inaugurates public re
Union Insurance Society of
March The rate of the sumption of the duties of his Janton-$25 per share, bayars.
China Traders” Insurance Com dollar on demand to-day is 3 24" high office by at once and without
hesitation suspending the fans-pany-$64 per share, buyers............ Hongkong and Shanghal Bank, tions of those so-called Sanitary Narth China Insurance-
February 27. The ordinary authorities, until steps can be 275 per share, buyers, half-yearly meeting of sharehold- taken summarily to abolish a Canton Insurance Company,
Hongkong Fire Insurance Conte pany $335 per share, buyers. Chins Fire Insurance Company ---$90 per share, males. Company $84 per cent. pro- Hongkong and Whampoa Dock minum, ex div. sellers.
ers in the Hongkong and Shang pahlia body that has rendered it-Ltd-$115 per share, buyers. bai Banking Corporation will be self the laughing stock of the Yangtuse Insurance Association held at the City Hall at noon colony.The sooner the foundation-$89 per share, nominal. to marrow. No doubt the attend- is laid for a Municipal Council in ancs will be worthy of the occasion, Hongkong, the better will it be if it isn't it ought to be. With a both for the Government and the net profit of $1,715,743.39 minus į community. And the only difficul- $148,302.94 brought forward ties in the way are a few contemp from laat account, as the result of tible toadies and parasites of the six months' working, there past age, who ought long since to can be very little room for gram- have bee allowed to languish re-bling-excepting from those who quietly in their own impotence."
have been anfortunate in their "In Which it is Claimed." speculations in Bank shares, and, February 28",
"a subinarine division of toadies and taft-han-men will be able to remain twen-sellers. as they are not in the favoured boat, in which it is claimed that Company-$138
tare, they don't count, and they ty-four hours ander water, is can howl until they are black in built being at Detroit,” the face without eliciting a single The "Telegraph" Office Boy. expression of sympathy. Nothing February 28. -"Judge to succeeds like success in this life small witness)-Dɔ you know the
especially in Hongkong; bat nature of an osth? Witness cent. Debentures—$501. when the success of the men who Oh, yes sir, I am office boy in the are reputed to have mainly bene Hongkong Telegraph office fited from this extraordinary profit have to answer the
and of nearly sixteen hundred thou every few minutes."
telephone sand dollars comes to be closely analysed it is found to amount to
had been added to the list of The name of Mr. Arthur Turner
authorised architects.
**Excited Insects.“
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Monday, according to the Chin- Ching-che, or Excited Insecta." ese calendar is the festival of
Hongkong, Canton and Macro Steamboat Company $374 per share, sellers,
Chins and Manila Steamship
per
share Hongkong Gas Company- $131 per share, sellers.
Hongkong Hotel Company- $150 per share, sellers.
Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per
Indo-China S. N. Company $25 per cent, dis, sellers.
Douglas Steamship Company- $45 per share, buyers.
From the facts set out, it will be seen that the state of affisien which exists is anything but what it should be, and it is surely the daty of the authorities to see that
obligations. All that is necessary to do to realise the danger and
Ring Stolen. Mra. Grant, of Queen's Gardens, inconvenience which result, is to reports to the police, that a gold take a ricksha ride along the ring, set with diamonds, valued portion of the track mentioned. at £14, has been stolen from her The Director of Public Works might, when he has a moment to spare, make the experiment.
We are informed by Mr. T. F.very little. Dost and ashes. The Cana! Company, it is reported, is February 28 The Panama Uniformity of surface is the Hough that the Hongkong Jockey Court of Directors is a strong one, going to try the lottery scheme thing to be desired, and that is Clab has given to the War no doubt, but we fail to see that again to obmin money for the what should be guaranteed. If it Charities Fand the sum of $35,- Mr. H. L. Dalrymple, who repre- prosecution of its work on the $90 per share, sales. cannot be attained in any other 000 and to the Blue Cross Fund sents nothing of the slightest im-canal. The committee in charge way, a trial might be made of the sum of $1,000.
Hongkong Rope Manufactur system which is followed in re-
portance to anybody bat himself, proposes a system of annual losing Company, Id-$135 per gard to the Electric Company. Mr. W. A. Dowley informs us slightest claim to a seat at the canal is completed. From present
that we can find cut, has the series, to be continued until the share, sellers. When this Company has occasion that he has take over the Chair Board. That he is a protage of indications the system would be to break up the roads, the workmanship of the Tobacco and Jardine, Matheson and Co.'s carried on in perpetuity.”
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The Tennis Tournaments.
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TOCHR
1916
Jockey Club's Generosity.
Tobacco Fand.
No Criminal Sessions.
SUK Delivery. The Yokohama office of the
Vice-Chairman of Licensing Board.
Pick-Pocket
+
The Panama Canal, -
China Sagar Refining Company Ltd.-$186 per share, buyers. Limited $105 per share, bayers Lamon Sugar Refining Company, Hongkong Los Company
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and Godown Company-$76 per Hongkong and Kowloon Whati
share, buyers.
An Effete System Comes to an End.
of restoration is dose by the Cigarette Faad from Mr. D. W. should mean nothing-although! The Police and th Pensions, Government. A charge on the Craddock, and will be pleased to that all-powerful house did actual-
Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. Ltd. Company is then made by the receive subscriptions thereto.
March 2-Taken as a whole, — $12 per share, sallera. Government, plus a supervision
ly try to get him into the Legis the Pension Regulation effecting
A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd.- fee. As a consequence, the work It is zotified for general inlative Council at all events, it the sub-ordinate officers and cone $21 per share, buyers, is at any rate done to the satis formation that His Honour the necessary explanations that are Force, published for general in-way Co., Ltd.-$60 per share, should mean less than the very tables of the Hongkong Police Hongkong High Level Tram- faction of the Government. That Chief Justica has ordered that no seeme a reasonable method to Griminal Sessions for the despatch required from Mr. Dalrymple, formation in the Government buyers. follow, and, as we say, it might of the business of the Court shall and which we should demand, Gazette of Saturday last, are con Hongkong Steam Laundry Co. be applied in the case of the be held in the month of March, connection as promoter and dir-worthy of a Government that
were we able to be present, of his temptibly Mean *and |Ltd-$23 per share, nominal. Tramway Company.
Green Island Cement Co. (old) estor of certain companies in has an important ree-1 issue)-$20 per share, sellera. British North Borneo, whose his-ponsibility towards the public in
Hongkong Land Investment The statement in yesterday's cables that s pro-Russian fe ling in spite of the smaller military communication to the effect that ing to the public to know how pare this beggarly screwing down
It is a most gratifying fact that, T. K. Kis is receipt of a wireless tories are certainly not beyond providing men of good character Co, L-$86 per share, ez dir.
suspicion. It would be interest- 83 members of the Force. Com- sales. ie growing in Bulgaria can hardly surprise those who have followed element in our midst, the entries the silk despatched hence per mash promotion money, if any, of the privileges so
Hongkong Electric Light Co., the story of Balgaria's entry into, and part in, the war. On Thursday, for the Hongkong Cricket Club's as. Chiyo Mara on Jonary 25 this Chairman of the Hong- thrown at the rank-and-file, who
scurvily Ltd-$6 per share, sales. Heater mentioned that, at various meetings in Sofis, the abdication of lawn tennis tournament this year was delivered in New York on Lonz
West Point Buildings Co., Ltd. King Ferdinand had been demanded and that there was strong feeling are unusually large. Last year February 27,
and Shangosi Bank are only paid enough to keep! -$30 per share, sellers, against the German quasi occupation of the country, and yesterday's the number of participants almost
pocketed out of the North Borneo body and soul together, with the message added the facts that the desertions from the Bulgarian army constitated a record, and the
Features in which he was an lavish provisions made for the conticae and that the Germans are now scosed of seizing all the beat various competitions provided His Excellency the Governor active or passive partner; how higher ranka, the drones of the COMPRADORE ORDERS, for themselves, (with a courtesy and consideration truly Tentonie) some of the keenest sport on the has been pleased to appoint, the much he had to disgorge when Civil Service; and then marvel, it leaving their allies to feel the rough edge of hardship. How long is lawn which had ever been wit- Ecourable Sir Catchick Paul will-o'-the-wists, and what it-officers desert and "clear out for these vaunted El Dorados proved you can, that European police such an interesting condition of things going to continue?
nessed in the Colony. This year, Chater, KL, C.M.G., to be Vice- In the generally mixed-up situation it is easy to forget that the total number of players enter Chairman of the Licensing Board, terest be still retains. In our Australis without tuck of drum, Balgaria is one thing and Balgaria's king quite another. Kinging is even larger still, and with effect from the 28th opinion the shareholders of the whenever they find out the naked Ferdinand is a German by birthwhich seems almost as good as everything points
A few days ago we published Back would do well to let Mr.ness of the land. some February 1916.
Hongkong sa adertisement from the local saying that, like the hyphensted Americans and many of the Ger-Very hotly contested matches
Dalrymple slide from the Court of Commissions are almost always Banks to the effect that they mans domiciled in England before the war, he can be loyal neither when the play opens. These tour-
Directors, and put in his place bare-faced shame, or cast iron would not in future accept Com An employes of a Chinese firm, either Mr. David Gillies, of the frands, and we like them not, but to his own country sor to that of his adoption. All that can be said naments are widening in interest at 92, Connaught Road, has re- Dock Company, or Mr. Joo. D. the Razopean Police question is dat Orders, as has for so in his favour is that he at least made little pretence a to his attitude every year-i fact which may be ported to the police that he was towards Germany and Britain; se frankly as possible he intimated quoted as showing a steady in walking along when some person Humphreys, of S. Watson and becoming so serious that we 8 past been the rale, and to- day will be found an announce that the side which chose to make the higher bid could have bis provement in the standard of sole from his coat pocket $505 Co, men of position and chszac would strongi yarge the Governor ment from the principal shipping services. Though his sympathies must necesstily all along have play in the Colony. At the present in bank notes and money order who informes and great to appoint a Commission-20% of lines in the Colony requesting lain with Germany, he was prepared to serve the Allies if they defime Hongkong can boast of a valas 3300. The money has not material assistance is increasing anofficial time servers, but of passengers and shippers, to pay
wealth could not fail to prove of brainless officials and wom.out cided to make it worth his while. But what of his country? The growing body of good-class young yet been recovered.
all acconate by cheque or money people over whom he reigns are tied by gratitude, and largely by tennis enthusiasts-young fellows
the Bank's business.”
men with active minds and inde-83 from March 1 Thus the blood and religion, to Russia; and, as was made evident by the who are surely qualifying to take This week the following gaz-
pendent opinions who represent system of Compradore's Orders number of secessions when Bolgaris fratentered the war, this people the places of those who have ments have been sent by the A Municipal Council Wanted. the community to investigate cordes to a welcome end. Chins sympathised with Basia and not with Germany. Indeed, the only nearly had their day. Bat the Kowloon Little Bit Workers
February 28.-"His Excellency and report apon the whole sub has been the only country for very factor that could weigh with it in obeying its Sovereign's orders to older men are cot to be despised Society" (through the courtesy des Voeux, K.O.KG. has yet
the Governor, Sir George William (ject.'
Trusted to Mind the Pigs. many years now, where this. fght was the alliance between the Entente and Balgaria's old enemy still give points to the more youth to Colonel Gordon Hall, R.A.M.C. dous nothing in this Colony that
as yet; the majority of them can of Masers. Shewan. Tomes & Co.)
March 3-That indefatigable, ratem has been in use and the In an evil moment the Bulgarians allowed themselves to be led fal sportemen a fact which will A.D.M.S., Cairo District, Abbasia, will give his name and regime able and highly popular public only reason for its continuance astray by their King, who was himself utterly blinded by the wild no doubt be amply illustrated Cairo-2 dozen pairs slippers, anything beyond the most servant, who so faithfully dis. To that it was an old and time worn custom. In every other and imposible promises which the Kaiser made to him. And now when the competitions have really 15 suite pyjamas, 20 muflers, 38 ephemeral existence. He is prac charged the duties of Acting Be what is the result of it all? Bulgaris started with an army of 483,000 commenced.
pairs mittens and 2 paira accka;
tically unknown to the masses; gistrar-General antil quite recent part of the world the cheque and cash system of payment is in men, 120,000 of whom, the best part of two months ago, were writ
ore parced of babies clothes to with the classes (the Lord help ly, who now bosses the show at tan off as killed, wounded or missing. A very small percentage of
Miss Vivian, The Maurice Hostel, them) he is said to have earned the Colonial Treasury, has been rogue and it is now rightly falt 52. Herbert Street, Beton, Lons most unenviable unpopularity, very busy at the present in mak that it was time that such system was brought into operation here. don N...
and one parcel of men's He is not a universal female ing in miries respecting the cost The change was bound to come clothes to Miss Tacker, Soldiers' adorer, like Sir George Bowen, of rearing sucking pige, full- and Sailors Help Society, The and his health has prevented his grown pigs, sad, in fact, sil sorts, just as all old an effate systems are bound to go with the marcis Institute, Manafald Street, Hag pertocally acquainting himself and conditions of that highly
of progrees, and the transition gerton, London, NE.
with the rank and file of the interesting genus known to thei must surely be walcomed people he is supposed to govern. ancients as sus porcus. A pig traders generally. He knows little or nothing about farm is, in fact, to be established. the Hongkong people, their modes at Little Hongkong, and Sergeant of life and political and soci- Ford, No. 44, is esid to be the al aspirations, their conditions “chosen one" who, for the triffing and prospects-in fact, all he sum of $150 per month, will and those who told him knowing, breeding and fattening of the Banate-to-day. Thoms knows is what he has been told virtually give his time to the rear extorly as much as, and no more pigs pro bono público. How the of Colorado, said that the than, His Excellency. Plain Honourable the Colonial Tres dard Oil Company on one band. speaking, but true. The Hong-strer happens to be entrusted and the Pearson Oil Syndicate on kong Government, in its email with the matter of making ap the other, in rival efforts to obtain 177 way, is one of the biggest shams: estimates in connection with the monopoly of the oil industry in-
on the face of the globe
Farm is another of those Mexico, ware responsible for the 516department of the Servios mysteries in which the Bong revolutions in that country, sad
imposition on pablic mature Long "inner circle" has long been had covered it with a sea of which, in the United So
considered wonderfully prolific blood.”
Serbia.
MARK
War Gifts.
LANGKAT OUTPUT,
this loss can be made good from among the newer Classes, no doubt; THE DECLINE OF THE but this hardly alters the fact that Bulgaria has lost a fourth of her real fighting strength and that now, after several months of war, all that she has to show for the loss is the possession of Serbia (which) she must know is but temporary and which, even at that, has to be We have received from the shared with those who have been making a catapaw of her), and a Hon, Colonial Secretary an inter- discontented army and popalace. We wonder how the Balgarians esting diagram showing the falls like the position. Naturally their future is less hopeless than that in value of the British Pound of the Turks. No overtures of pesce that Turkey could make could Sterling and the German Beiche very well lessen the punishment that in awaiting her, but with mark on the New York Exchange Bulgaria the case may reasonably be regarded a different. She has daring 1915 From this it would sinned, bat not, like Germany, Austria and Turkey, beyond all hope appear that the pound sterling of forgiveness. Indeed, is she not feeling much of her punishment declined in value 3 per cent, only, advise us that the Langkat output Meers Wright and Hoby already in the turbulent condition that prevails among her people whereas the German reichemat for the current month is as and in the more than strained relations that obviously exist between depreciated 20 per cent. By follows ber and Germany? Some little while ago it was stated, on the best January, 1916, British pound sathority, that Balgaria's only cats now lay with the doings at merling had recovered in valus Salonics, and that, when that was cleared of the Allies, she would and had depreciated but two-and- coase fighting. Read in the light of more recent developments, this a third per cent. I slow par, bat becomes sa interesting admission. If her people have suy wisdom the German reichsmark had or sense of self-protection left, they will forthwith take the matter fallen to twenty-two-and-a-half out of the hands of their useless ruler an'i waste no time in making per cent, below pars farma with the winning side.
March 1
Tons 176
183
Total to 3rd inst.
Daily average
172.00
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A Wild Chargs. Washington, January 12, Daring the Mexican debite