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1891.
1916
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.
(Compiled from the " Hongkong Telegraph files for the week endang March 15th, 1891)
The Dollar.
March 18. The rate of the 35. dollar on demand today is 3/2
18 91.
SHARE REPORT.
give the natives five months” notios prior to their coming into operA- tion in November. A disemation took place on this subject and it was ultimately decided to refrain from formally reading and dis cussing the new proposed bre Laws pending the result of certain negotiations with the Colonial
The quotations which follow Sargeon (a member of the Board, are from the Hongkong Telegraph who was present) relative to the for March 18th, 1891. disinfection of infected vehicles
Hongkong and Shanghai. Bank
used for carrying disessed pes New Issue315 per share,
pie to the Civil Hospital the sellers the Civil Hospital authorities Canton $95 per share, bayers. desire of the Board being that Union Insurance Society of should at once disinfect such The Tsarevitch and Hongkong vehicles and not allow them, as pany-$64 per share, buyers,
China Traders' Insurance Com Mach 1 Through the Bus beretofore, to be kept in the com of the dollar on gian Consul, the Tsarevitch bas pound until the Sanitary Superin- 275 per share, buyers, demand to-day is 1-11 9/16.
North China Insurance-Th declined to receive any ceretendent causes the disinfection to consuls or from anybody else monial visits from the foreign be carried out while on his tour. Hongkong,
The rate
The householder in Hongkong has been feeling the effects of the war in the enhanced priose which have to be paid for the necessaries of life-prices, by the way, which now appear to mount up at
The Weather. the whim af the shop-keeper, with At the Peak Sam Temp. 49; none to say him yes or nay. But fog. (1915, 47 clear.) in no commodity has the increase * Lower level S am. Temp. 60;) been so startling as in the case of dull. (1915, 56 clear.) ccal, the price of which will, if the! upward tendency continues much | Siberian longer. become absolutely prohibi- tive. To-day, we believe, dealers Siberian Mail-Dae per are asking fally double--in some Singkiang tomorrow. cases even more than double-
The Dollar. what they were a few months ago. If we were in the bot season, the matter would not be so serious as it sow is to the household con- To-morrow is the 56th birthday sumer, though, even then, coil of Mr. William Jennings Bryan would necessarily be required for
Hongkong Racing. Exempted coching purposes. We can, oi
The Young Men's Sporting disappointed.
we are afraid, will be grievously see that the suggestion thrown March 17-We are glad to course, well appreciate the fact Union has bien exempted from gentility and fashion and shoddy out sometime since by the Tele
The rank and that the rice in freights is hare registration under the Societies and the other swells of more or necessity for the alteration of the ing some effect on coal prices, Ordinance.
graph regarding the obvious while the increased demand for
lese high degree, who had made the foel is also an influercing
It is nok fed that the Riverside up their minde to hob-nob with Derby, has been followed by the Company $91 per cent. pre-
conditions of the Hongkong would like to be assured on is added to the list of authorised abilities as Prince George of notice that in fature the weights Steamboat Company-$361 per factor. But the point the public Flour Code (5th edition) has been a real Russian Heir-Apparent-Stewards of the Jockey Club,mium, ex, div, sales.
not to mention such minor not That body has to-day issued & that the present high price per ton codes as from the 16th instant
Hongkong, Canton and Macao is wholly attributable to these
Greece and Prince Bariariesky of Derby runners will be accord-share, buyer
China and Manila. Steamship
cacaes.
Is it Fair?
To-morrow's Anniversary.
New Code.
Use of Codes.
code messages.
money
The rates per quarter and per mensem, proportional Subscriptioners in our mide who are deter of $5 or 14 days, was imposed.
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Hongkong Hotel Company, Limited.
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Canton Insurance Company, Ltd-$115 per share, buyers.
Yangtare Insurance Association $70 per share, sominal. " paay-$320 per share, sellers. Hongkong Fire Insurance Com-
SS2 per share, sellers. China Fire Insurance Company... Hongkong and Whampoa. Dock
share,
Hongkong Gas Company- Hongkong Hotel Company---- $150 per share, sellers,
Hongkong Hotel Cola Six par cant. Debentures-$50L
Indo-China S. N. Company $30 per cent dia, solera
Dongiss Steamship Company. $47 per share, bayers... Ltd.-$205 per share, buyers.
China Sugar Refining Company. Luzon Sager Befraing Company,
It is notified for the information and give their tasty Courting to their inches, and not the of the public that it will tend to it, Windsor. aniforms, and standard 10st. 101b., of previous Company-$130 par expedite the despatch of telegrams Marlborough House toggery s in one of the authorised codes, if public airing, are already at will altogether do away with the
years. This much needed reform sellers. That there is no sctual short.decodes are handed in with the ever-heat with indignation at chances of these elongated taram- $131 per share, sellers. age in the Colony is shown from
being done out of the opportual tales of the Ardent and Eater the fact that supplies can be
Beggar Fined.
y of again gaily strutting intainer class and will, of course, The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will obtained readily enough by car beggar at the Police Court this Inspector Salivan prosecuted a
borrowed plumes. They can't bring all ponies on to practically Anmersat a price. That is the morning, before Mr. Ezelanded Russian traveller
under-tand why this distinguisheren terms, and make the race point. In the price a fair and He said the man was begging for decline to be tosdied to, and to
much more interesting in conse- equitable cae? Or are there deal-
and not for food. A finele a warwork exhibition of
quence." mined to make hey while the sun
himself for the special gratifica- shices? These are queries which
H. E.'s Private Secretary."A
tion of a hybrid crowd of smirk- the pal lic has a right to sek. We eamed the additional Nutate what serves the parpoee of brains yearly meeting of shareholders It is notified that, having asing nobodies, who generally carry
March 17. The ordinary half go further than that and sek and arms of Fene, Mr. Richard Somewhere in the region of their was held at the Company's Hotel, Limited--$105 per share, sales Where is the Food Committee? Ponsonby, Private Secretary to boots, forgetting that his journey this afternoon, for the purposes of and bayers.
in the above named Company Its members may answer that coal His Excellency the Governor, will to the Far East is for his own receiving a Statement of the Ac- is not food. To which we reply henceforward that it is quite as much reces Richard Ponsonby Fane.
be known as convenience and not for the in-counts of the Company to 31st $30 per share, sales,
Hongkong Ice Company sary of life as, say, salt, the price
dulgence of the canaille of British December, 1890 with the Esport of which is supposed to be re
Attached to H.K.V.C.
settlements. Bat they vow that, of the Directors, and to discussing Company, Id-$13 per gulated by the Committee. At any has been pleased to approve of wishes of the Russian Emperor's be brought before the meeting
Hongkong Rope Manufactur His Excellency the Governor notwithstanding the expressed matters that might competently share, sellers. rate, this coal question calls for Second notice by the Government, and Edward
Williamson, they will act be deprived of There were present Messra, D. and Godown Company.
Hongkong and Kowloon Whart we commend it to its earnest Volunteer Artillery, late enter will array themselves in all their Hogbes, Ho Tang, J.F.C.da Roza
Osborn, Bombay their anticipated oatings, they McCulloch (Chairman); E. Jones-share, sellers ant, Wellington Division, New bowed war paint and roll up (Directors): E. Byrie, W. H-88 per share, sellers. Zealand Garrison Artillery, being in regimen's at Murray Wharf to Gaskell, B. G. James, W. H. Wal- attached to the Hongkong give him a full-dress reception, lace, A.G. Stakes, NJ. Bobinaon, Volanteer Corpe, with effect from and the band will play and the H. T. S. Green, W. Ozorio, J.H. the 10th March, 1918.
fools will bray, and a great deal Cox, J. G. Paillippe, I. S. Perry, of sickening and offensive no R. Lyall (Secretary) and others. sense will be indulged in."
The Chairman in opening the March 12-Five hundred proceedings said: The Hotel's children under ten years of age shows a falling off beth from local business for the past six months were taken into custody last year receipts and the number of people in London as drank and incsp- are fooling about in Chins kindly six months of 1889. The "Hotel able. Will the missionaries who passing through here who were fewer as compared with the last are that there is a wide field for Property Account" represents the their energies in "darkest Lon land and buildings now occupied, "Remaining Portion of Marine Lot No. 7 represents the land ad building in course of erec- Reclamation" is, of course, the
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The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be delivered to subscribers by, the Dairy Farm Company, Ltd. Shameen, Canton, who have been appolated our agents there.
By Order,
** MONOKONⱭ telegraPH.”
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1916.'
* PERHAPS LASTING TWENTY YEARS,"
China herself pay for her own reforms?
consideration.
The Tennis Tournament.
to
.
$3
Lieutenant
Street Gambling.
Stolen Glass.
grase,
того
don ? **
A Gentle Hiat.
now
-$79 per
Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. Ltd...
$21 per share, sellers.
A. S. Wabo and Co., Ltd.--
way Co, Ltd.-360 per share, Hongkong High Level Tram- buyers.
Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., Lid-$23 per share, nominal, issue).-$19 per share, sellers.
Hongkong Land Investment. Green Island Cement Co. (old
Co, Ld-$30 per share, en dir. buyera.
Ltd.-$5 per share, sales
Hongkong Electric Light Co., West Point Building Co,Ltd. -$30 per share, sellers.
The lawn tennis tourssment in connection with the Cricket Clab.
Cutting Trees. is now in fall swing, and almost
Two Chinese women were any evening now one can rely on charged before Mr. Hazeland at seeing ties well worth watching. the Police Court this morning, Already there is evidence of good with being in possession of a tree. talent among the competitors, Sergeant Floyd esid the women but, of cares, the weeding out had been allowed to cut the It is somewhat early in the day to branches of the pine trees. Both process will take a little time yet but they had started to eat the discuss the Championship pros- defendants said they had picked The short article on the situation in South China which we ready reen, the star event seems imposed.
pects, though from the play al-them up. A fine of $7 each was pablished yesterday, while it does not point to any great increase of interes: where the local Chinese are concerned, euggests that thereseptet The throwing opes of wear # fairly open
Case Against Well-know may be more plan and method in the programme of the anti-the competition to the whole street was preferred against a A charge of gambling in the
Skipper. Government party than can be said to have appeared in any previous Colony has bad the effect of bring Chinese youth before Mr. Haz Captain Crosby, of the Americas son on Mecher's old site; "Praya trust-although I do not expect-
March 12-The case against Chinese revolutionary tactica. out that the provinces which have declared their independence were era into the tournament; that fact morning. An Indian constable
Among other things, it is pointed ing some very clever young play Isnd, at the Police Court this ship Imperial, was decided this apparently chosen with special intent by someone in the background
morning. The Captain Was lot now being reclaimed; "San-
to find a better state of things of it all who had an eye to the financial needs of a revolation. There famed now.
s seen last year and it is con- said defendant and others were 17th day of February, on board owing to the Company, and
charged That he did, on the dry Debtors" are accounts Prevailing before your next Re can be no denying that, as we remarked a few days ago, the Chinese in ex-champion, had a narrow squeakground in Hill Street. A fine of the American ship Imperial, than the same account is
Mr. Nisbet, the playing on # piece of waste
port is issued.
Broken Roads ! British and Dutch territory have lost confidence in the revolutionary in his match with a virile you Sallivan mentioned tha: four land in this Colony, who being able on the 19:h April, 13 lace is protest in the interest of the proceedings of their compatricts, and are less and less likely to wish Chinese player two evenings ago,
March 18-To the Editor of duced to $9.68190. was imposed. Inspect lying in Hongkong harbour, na- to find the money for further ventures like that of 1913. The first from which it is evident that he cents in cash were seized.
On the lawfully allow James Smith to
other side are Debentures 4 lace- Sir, I ask you to pablish this the Hongkong Telegraph.-Dear to realize this would naturally be the very men who have asked their will need to go all the way if he
1 lac has been drawn and is pay- expatriated friends for monetary, help and have been politely refused. is to meet the present holder, Mr.
other than Chinese and at the In that case, what is more catural than that they should seek to make Green. The mere fact that un-ling, a Chinese was charged with destitute of means of subsistence.19th April 1895. "Sundry Credit fubmitted to the opening up of
At the Police Court, this
time of his landing was obviously and the balance is payable on the
payable on the 19th April, 1893, for fair play. For eight months general public and as an appeal
certainty exists as to the outcome having in his possession to Mr. A Moir, superintendent of the
past the rate-payers have tamely It is enggested that, when suficient men and districts have situation to be. I intensifies the scspected of having stolen aallor Smith had not applied to Shanghai Bank $107,581; inter- Colony by the Surveyor-General's
is quite how sportamen like the paces of glass which he was
Sailora Home,said the discharged OFB** are the Hongkong, and the roads, streeta and isnes of this declared themselves definitely opposed to Yuan Shih-kai as monarch, interest. And that is good for lakong said he saw the man carry who appeared for the Captain, October to 3 1st December, 1891, his opponeau-finsuced in accordance with the above-mentioned everybody.
bim for admission. Mr. Bowles, est on Debentures from 19:h ecbeme will boldly seek to dictate terms to him. He is to choose
ing the glass in Wanchai Road.
underlings, who have been making between sacrificing his kingship and involving his ecuntry in a civil
He asked him where he had got not apply to discharged sailors, fees $1,150; and the other items water goodness knows what. A submitted that the Ordinance did $4,800; Directors' and auditors water mains, water-cocks, and a “maiden” effort to lay down war that may perhaps endure for twenty years. No mention is made
them from and he said he had Mr. Wise, however, ordered that are salaries and other current ex-month ago their operations of disorders that may have taken place in the meanwhile, of silly
picked them up from the Prays, the defendant was liable to the peases. Mr. W. H. Gaskell said appeared to be complete, bat attempts to steal ganhosts, of indiscriminate bomb-throwing that
A fined of $7, oz 14 days, was Government of this Colony for all The item Sundry Creditors during the past week Queen's right canse the deaths of incffezeïve women and children, and of
imposed. going to work band and glove with some of the greatest peats in or
costs and charges inearred by the $114,993 92," is a disgrace to the Road East, Hollywood Road, out of China. All these minor inconveniences are ignored and only
His Excellency the Governor Colony in consequence of Emith, report. Such a large sum should Old Bailey Street, ind some the one lofty isnus is considered-the establishment of a republic] Hongkong Importers Warned.
has been pleased to appoint Folice becoming a regrant. This, no appear without fall details of the roads on the upper levels in a country that has had one for four years and has made a moet
Inspector Albart Terrett to be an doubt, is very consoling to Smith, This method of manipasting have been torn up some of them deplorable muddle of it.
Examiner of Weights
who is at present in the House of accounts has been commented on for the first time and others for Measures under the Weights and Detention consequent upon con- Tery severely by many of the the second and third time. You The only advance, then, that the "reformera
The Hongkong Government 4, and alec Inspector of Vangerous
Measures Ordinance, 1885, section Fiction for vazta ey.".
shareholders: "Share account, etc., ▲ Bata-payer. (We publish have made is that they have devoted more thought and calculation goods which originated in an Fireworks Ordinance, 1901, sec-1, has been, procanted to the province of the Directors or of a founded grievance. There is 6 can be said to desire to warn importers that Goods under the Gunpowder and Alabaster, British consul at Can- not think that it is within the remedy for his no doubt well- Mr. Alabaster Promoted. $16,479.19." This item has also A Rate-payers protest, but we to their present attempts then has been the case hitherto. The
March 13.-"Mr. Chaloner been severely criticised, I do really cannot suggest an effective thing looks well-on paper; and the fact that the promoters, zememy country, even though they tion 14, in place of Inspector rank of consul-general. some of them, are prepared to find their efforts spreading over become neutral property before effect from the 22nd March, 1918. Alabaster's departure from with it speculate in shares. In this complaint comes inside its
may have left enemy territory and William Withers, retired, with a acors of years instead of being crowned with immediate success, the war, are liable to seizure
This hotel company to borrow money thing called a Sanitary Board in ahows that matters have been entrusted to saner heads that of Sun under the Trading with the Enemy
promotion will probably postpone from the Bank at 7 per cent, and the colony, and we imagine that Yat-sen. But that is not saying much. There still seema no Second Amendment Ordinance, ing, a Chiness was charged before of the foreign commanity." getting away from the plain truth that the "reformers", however 1915, if imported without per Mr. Hezeland with having in his
At the Police Court, this morn Canton, greatly to the satisfaction this connection the Directora de recognised functions; our corres peaceable and bloodless their avowed intentions,and however elaborate
serve the greatest censure, and their theories, can do nothing witheat the assistance of ruffians who mission of the Government.
Germany and Portugal, they ought to be made liable to per petition to that august body, pondent could formulate a pro- ought to be decorating the gallows; without violence, and without ranted only upon production of Kok Tsui. Sergeant Lannigan dispute with the Germans at shares. The management of the are that it would only lead to und possession three race and six March 13-"The Portuguese the Hotel Company for any loss bat in our opinion he would only Such permission is as a rule candareens of dross opium at Tri are now involved in a border they may have incurred on these be wasting his time, as the odds It is true that, up to the present the Western Powers have recognised identical goods which it is desir-fendant was fined $5, or, in the the republic and have not recognised the monarchy that is or weed to import left enemy territory alternative, was sent to prison for the Sanitary Board to-day, the are most immediate. Complaints zer land the progmatical noneptic
Zaube
hotel under Mr. Tacker is, to say finally end in, a lot of silly talk. to sacseed it; bai that is neither here nor there. The West has its before the war.
Disinfection of Vehicles. the least, moet casual, March 13.-"At a meeting of charges be in empowered to make come along and remove to a bet The If a tattling epidemic were to The evidence 14 days. A Chinese was charged
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ENEMY GOODS.
Appointments.
la Possession of Oplum.
20d
hands to full to concern itself closely with China's doings; but should be produced and the with being in possession of four Dye-laws concerning the disinfeo-are rife from all sides, even from ties who have for so long been? it is not to be, gainsaid that avery well-ordered foreign Power authority of the Government. taels of opicm dzons vained 2317;tion of vehicles were read- and your own senante, as to his esat messing up things generally, would and will sympathise with the Pel Government-be it obtained before any steps are A fine of $38, or, in default, s monarchical or republican-sgainst people ho, while pretending taken to have the goods shipped month's imprisonment was in it being decided to priat and I don't think there is anything Hongkong. Ed., HonghonyIde to go to work peacefully and with moderation, propose to use as to this Colony.
passed alter slight amendments, courtesy and disobliging manner there would be sous hope Lot their agents men whose trade it is to zob and to murder.
circalate them in Chinese and more I can naéfally add, but I graph.}
ficted.
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