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· To-morrow's Anniversary,
Earl Kitchener. That Fund, as is known, was established by the Lord Mayor of London, who has
At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 14; now, through His Excellener the clear. (1915, 75 sunshine.) Governor, "made an appeal to the Lower level 8 am. Temp. 81; Colony to help ia the clear. (1915, 79 sunshine.) good work which it is sought to achieve with the money secured. Already a very handsome sum has been raised at Home, but the Fond can do with all the contributions it receiver, since the number of wounded
The opening rate of the dollar officers and men of the Army and on demand to-day was 2.1.13/16d. Navy, for whose benefit the Fund has been established, will, by the end of the war, be legion. As the Council of the Fand points out, these officers and men will be protected from actual want by the granting of Government pen- sions, but there will be many hundreds of cases in which the disablement is of such s nature that something beyond mere sustenance will be required, and
Peak Church Service. this is where the Fund will be
The Bishop of Victoria will be able to render epecial help. Con- the preacher at the Peak Church medical treatment, to-morrow (Sunday) evening at tinnous special nursing and the provision 6 30. of costly appliances will be Becessary in many instances to make life endurable, and the
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1916.
OUR THOROUGHFARES.
1891.
"HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE -YEARS AGO.
(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the week ending September 9, 1891)
The Dollar. September 9. "The rate of dellor on demsad to-day is 3/2).”|
1891.
SHARE REPORT.
are from the Hongkong Telegraph The quotations which follow for September 9, 1891.
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, -173 per cent. Ex All, sellers.
Union Insurance Society of Janton-$65 per share, buyers. China Traders' Insurance Com- pany--$661 per share, bayern,
North China Insurance Tis.
Canton Insurance Company,
In What Department ? September 3 We specially 255 per share, sellers. direct the attention of the Hong- kong Government to the tele- | Ltd.-$110 per share, bayers,
Tangiese Insurance Association grem published in another part
To-morrow is the 18th anniver-of this imus, which sunounces-Tia. 70 per share, bayers. sary of the assassination of the that the Government of the Dom- Empress of Austris.
Accidentally Drowned. A coolie at Yaumati yesterday fell between a launch and the side of the pier and was drowned.
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Within Market Limits.
A Chinese who was charged before Mr. F..A. Hassland, at the Police morning, with hawking within marketlimita was fined $5.
Enemy Trade Marks. The Gazette notifies the renewal of five trade marks owned by Reuter, Brockelmann and Co. and sixty owned by Radecker and Co.
Stolen Branches.
come forward and assist the Fund. A Chinese admitted stealing & In the first place, it will provide quantity of branches of trees a lasting memory to the great before Mr. Hazelend at the Police And inestimable work done by Court this morning. A fine of Kitchener of Kharicam, one of 5, or 14 days' imprisonment, the greateet Empire-builders was imposed. we have ever had. He spent
his whole life in consolidating
August Weather.
To Mariners,
"CANTON\" CURRENCY.
Interesting Money Market Report.
The Canton trade report for lest year contains the following:
The lol szobango market, with its great variety of currency, offers great obavoss to the speculator and to the mani- palator; and to him who stadies, and makes a business of prosting by the shade of differenos in the daily quotations of Eongkong notes, Bank of Chins notes, the seven or eight kinds of dollars whicbare în use here, the difarent. grades and different mixtures. of more or less chopped dollars, the 20 cent pieces, the 10-cent pieces, and the copper cents, the nor-professional trafficker in ex-
Hongkong Fire Insurance Com- inion of Canada has summarily pany $317 per share, buyers dismissed the heads of the En- Obina Fire Insurance Company" | change, coming into the market gineering and Stationery depart—386) per share, buyers, mente for taking bribes. In what department of the Hongkong Government service should a similar policy be initiated? Now, don't all eposk at once.
That German Soldier. September 4-"Thers seems to be a belief in England that the average height of the Ger man soldier is greater than that of the British. This is not mo. As a matter of fact, Tommy Atkins beats Babe Wurst by about an ipoh; and in his turn, Hans Waret is about an inch taller than the French conscript."
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Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., Ltd-$25 per share, nominal.
BANK RETURNS.
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The need of a standard coin, authoritatively recognised as the basis of value, has been strongly demonstrated by the difficulties and disputes which have arisen during the year in connexion with the rates at which bank- zotes have been taken in pay. The returns of the average ment of Customs duties; and a amount of bank notes in circals- strong effort has been made to tion and of specie in reserve in have the Chung Yang, or new Hongkong, during the month Republican dollar, officially ended 31st August, 1916, as declared to be the standard of certified by the Managers of the value. Sterling exchange opened respective Banks are as follow at L. 91. to the Hongkong Average Specis dollar in January; and only slight obanges took place until about Reserve, the end of August, when
either to bay or to sell, to borrow Hongkong and Whampoa Dock or to lend, falle an exey victim: Company387 per cent. pre: Hongkong notes maintained their mium, sellers,
position as the most valuable Hongkong, Canton and Maca form of currency, though the Steamboat Company-$331 per advantage in their favour was share, sellers..
considerably lessened during the China and Manila Steamship year. In January Hongkong Company-$80 per share, notes $100 purchased Bank of sellers.
China notes $108.85. In sub- Hongkong Gas Company sequent months this premium kad a general downward tendency, $131 per share, sellers,
Hongkong Hotel Company-with occasional reactions, until on the Ist May the quotation 65 per share, Layers. Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per was Hongkong
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$100 Bank of Chios notes $104.70; cont. Debentures-$501.
upward Indo-China S. N. Company-there was then an $30 per cent. dia, sellers. tendency until, on the 23rd July, Douglas Steamship Company-when the market reopened after Formerly of the P.W.D.
the flood, $41 per share, buyers.
the quotation WU September 5-William Cole-
China Sugar Refining Company $108.30. From that time onwarde ton, at one time a member of the Ltd.-$167 per share, ex div. the two currencies came nearer, Hongkong Public Works Depart-sellers..
together, until at the end of the ment, was tried at Melbourne an Luzon Sugar Refining Company, year the premium on Hongkong July 20 for the murder, on the Limited-₹60 per share, sellers.notes was only 3 per cent.; and
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Hongkong Toe Company the prospect was that it would become still less in the early Mary Elizabeth Davis at Nar- $86 per share, sellars.
Hongkong Rope Manufactur months of 1915. This appreciation. bathong, Victoria. The only de- fence raised was that of insanity. ing Company, Lid$113 pa: in the Bank of China notes bears The jury found the prisoner share, sellers.
witness to the growing confid- guilty of wilful murder, that be
Hongkong and Kowloon Whärfence in the soundness and stabi- was not insane at the time of the and Godown Company.-371 per |lity of that institution, and it is and strengthening Britain's might the average mean temperature now. Mr.Justice Molesworth pass-
Observatory returns show that murder and was perfectly anne share, sellers.
good ground for congratulation. in the far corners of the Empire,
Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. Ltd. that, in spite of satural calami- and his last and perhaps greatest daring August was 82.6, the ed sentence of death, bus prom--$7 per share, sellers. ties, political unrest, and
highest point reached being 92.4, ised to state a cure for the jadger work,—the raising of our new
A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd.-restricted commaros, the credit on the 5th, and the lowest 755 of the Supreme Court, as to the $20 per share, ez. div., bayern. Armies-hes undoubtedly played
and prestige of the Bank of China GRANT.—At 9, Austin Avenue, Kowloon, on September 8, to defeat in the present war. Then, 5.040 inches of rain. The aver-which had been challenged by buyers.
a great part in saving ng from on the 18th and 22nd. There legal accuracy of his definition
Hongkong High Level Tram- have been maintained and im- were 217.8 hours of sunshine and to the jury of the word "insane," way Co., Ltd.$65 per share proved during the year. too, by helping the Fand weshall be helping those who have done aga humidity was 82. [= noble part in keeping our over- The Acting Harbourmaster of China Sugar Refining Co. Ltd..
seas possessions intact we have Canton makes the following especially in mind the officers notification:-Referring to Local Sagar Refining Co., Ltd., accord- September 7.- "The China and men of our Navy, who have Notice to Mariners No. 131 Noticeing to a return pablished in Sat- kept the sess open for us and is hereby given that the caution, urday's Goneita, manufactured enabled me to carry on " business therein laid down, regarding the 11,320 proof gallons of spirita se usual." Hongkong, as a naval Navigation of the Upper Ap during the quarter ended the and military centre and a great proaches to Canton above Tide Once in a while, when the ocossion seems to demand it, we shipping port, owen a great debt | Pole Light between the hours of
August 24," give the Public Works Department a hint to the effect that it does to these fighting men of oare 7.00 p.m. and 6.00 a.m. in with- not always lay out the money with which the Hongkong public and we now have an opportunity drawn.
Hongkong 'Cricket Club, « September 7.- The annual applies it to the best advantage; that, in fact, it is perpetually of discharging that debt, at least Company Warnlogs, leaving undone those things which it ought to have done and bother in part. The War Charities ing itself about what nobody wants it to do. Sometimes it takes Committee announces that it is tion of three months the following in the Pavilion this afternoon. It is notified that at the expirs.general meeting of members of the Hongkong Cricket Club was held
Banks. our hint; sometimes it remains obstinate and inexorable. And yet prepared to receive sad forward Companies will, unless cause is General business was discussed
Amount. we are only speaking for its good, and for the good of our readers, subscriptions in aid of this shown to the contrary, be struck and everything points to the Club Chartered Bank The P. W. D. appears firmly of the opinion that the building of the worthy Fasd,
off the Register and the Com being in a healthy and prosper of India, Australia new Magistracy, or of a bridge somewhere away ip the New Territory, The Hidden Hand.
panies will be dissolved:-The covers a multitude of sins and should have the effect of blinding We commend to the sober Clab Germanis; Parr and Comous condition. The new Pavilion & China $7,432,899, $5,000,000 end of December. Exchange an
will be completed on or about the Hongkong and
Shanghai went through remark- charitable rate-payers to its shortcomings where e.g. the lighting notion of our readers an article by pany, Limited; the Pan Hing let prox. Mr. A. J. Leach was Shanghai Banking
|abla__flootuations--the quotation and up keep of the Colony's thoroughfares are concerned. We do Mr. Charles Palmer on "Traitors Hotel Company, Limited; C. E. not in the least agree with the P. W.D. on this point. Because it near the Throne" which we re- Hastings sad Company, Limited, elected President in the place of Corp. 24,197,968. 20,000,000 in January was as high as 80
Mercantile Bank Captain W. M. Deane, who retires has built a magistracy, tar-sprayed a few roads and sedulously Isid, printed from John Bull yesterday.
candareens to a dollar; it stood in the vicinity of 79 until September, down one pavement on the top of another, it hes no right to rest on "Is there any real hatred of the It is notified that His Excel- owing to ill-health. The follow of India, Limited,
1,073,728. 359,000 † {when it fell to 781; it went down ite oare and its laurele, and let the world slip past it. Esther should German in Downing Street ?" be lency the Governor-in-Conseil ing members were elected to
1 candareen in October, and it be stirred by these achievements to greater, if lo showy, efforts, sake; and he goes on to show has given dirtotions for the re-form the Committee for the en- Not to put too fine a point on it, the condition of our roads and that many necessary reforma soiion of the Order of August W. B. Wallace, T. E. Daries, E,
Total $32,704,608 25,350,000 dropped to 744 at the end of ming year-Capt. Dann, Mesura.
Sterling Securities deposited November-recovering to 75) in pavements, hoth by day and by night, is a disgrace to any civilised at Home, where the alien enemies 16, pablished in the Gazette Ex J. Coxon, Colonel Obater, A. K. with the Crown Agenta valued at December. town. A vast amount of money is trusted to the Fablic Works Da are concerned would never have traordinary of the same data Travers (Hon. ses.) E. A. Ram 150,000,
Bank-notas continued to pass pariment every year, and, however big and ambitions its programme, been brought about by the Government Notification No. 356, (Assist, Hon, seo.) and B. Tresi-
+Securities with the Crown current in the market at consider- is surely becomes it to leave a fair margin of money to meet such Cabinet's initiative; in fact that proclaiming Macso to be a port lian, Hos. Treasurer. The first Agents £88,040.
ably higher value then the cuine minor matters as lighting, paving and road-mending. We have the Government had to be forced or place at which an infectious
represented by them- promise next to no heary wheel traffic in this colony; traction engines, by the voice of the public into ar contagious disease prevailed, match of the coming season will beavy lorries, horse-wagons etc. are unknown, and there is taking the steps desired. We and the same in rescinded.
to pay 100 Hongkong dollars, Conveyed, it may be, on filthy bat little excuse for the roads' being out of repair.
October next." Still hear a good deal nowadaya about Oplum in Moon Cakes. less is there any excuse for the littering and obatrosting of thoes "the hidden band ”—and not all How a Chinese concealed opium roads by the Department's employees. (By the way, the of it is nonsense. Of course it in moon cakes, was told to Mr. The later-Port Cricket Match; pleasant little obstacles at the top of Murray Road, to which we quite easy to exaggerate the Hazeland, at the Police Court
Beptember 8.-"The Hongkong Tenders are being invited a very dollars promised, although, made allusion the other day, were still there yesterday.) For influence of this mysterions this morning, when a Chinese Cricket Olak team left for Bhang follows:For repairs to No. 5 of course, redeemable at the bank Colony that bossle of being up-to-date and that is necessarily far entity, and if people begin was charged with being in na hai this afternoon by the Indo- Police launch; for the removal of of imus at face value only. It is more European in its ambitions than Singapore or Penang, there is to give ser to idle talk we shall lawful possession of a quantity of China Co.'s steamship Tainang, blood and hair from the Kennedy difficult to scoount satisfactorily no palliation where all this neglect in concerned.
soon have a period ansiagous to the drug. Inspector Gordon to do bettle against the pick of Town Slaughter House; for the for this anomalone state of affairs; blood and hair for the greater convenience, ill-patched and slippery; many of them notably that on the west Jesuit was believed to be larking Kowloon Railway Station and scarcely up to the Club's full from
As with the roads, so with the pavements: broken, neglected, the old No Popery days, when a said the man, was found at the the Model Bettlement. Although removal of
the Ma Tax Kok in handling and transportation, side of Pottinger Street in a condiditon that would disgrace Can- bebind every back and when when his basket was searched, strength, the names of several Slaughter House; for the Slaugh- of bank-notes, and the security ton itaolf, And as for lighting-the moment the shop lights are even the cholera was attributed moon cakes were found to be of our best players being absent ter House Contract, Sai they offer against low by coun- extinguisbed, the pavements are as dark as the 'gravo, and theft, to Roman influence. Bat the stoffed with opiam. A fine of from the list, such as E. J. Coxon, Wan
Bo; for the Blaughterfeit coins, are not elsewhere" Beault or murder can be practised pretty much at will, for aught other extreme of unguarded- $131 was imposed.
J. A. Losch, Lient, Blair, B.E., ter House Contract, Aberdeen; valued at anything like so high a the P.W.D. seems to care. Is it any wonder that the public is nesa is just bad, and
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for the supply of labour for the premium. In the case of the Bank clamouring for an elective municipal council that will take over it is time that we waked up to A Chinese, obarged before Mr. Highlanders, G. 8. Coxon, and burial of infectious corpses; for of China notes, the premiam over the dation which Government officials so shamefully neglect? And, the fact that there really is some F. A. Hazeland, at the Police T. B. Smith, the Hongkong the supply of head stones for use coin was only 3/10 to 4/10 of 1 be it borne in mind, we have but touched on one of the mysterious power in Britain that Court this morning, with stealing representatives are a useful crowd in the Government Camsteries; per cents premism which may P.W.D.'e spheres of activity. If space allowed we might is very decidedly favourable to some hemp baga, said he had all round and will take a lot of for the supply of clothing for the perhaps be accounted for on make a few gentle remarks on the manner in which it attende to its Germany. If this be not the case, been given them by _foki beating.”
use of the Sanitary Department; grounds of convenience and duties se supervisor of buildinge in Hongkong; but that is a maiter bow are we to socount for the whose name he did not know. Austria Preparing for War. for the Medical Department Con security against conuteriait, that will keep. This road and pavement question is one which ridiculous latitude that has been Inspector Bullivan said defendant September 9.-"An_inspired} tract; for the supply of aerated affects everyone who lives on the lower levels, everyone who motors given to aliens, both interned had pat the bags in buckets and pamphlet has been published in waters; bedding and clothing: Died from Kalfa Wounds, and everyone whose occupation takes him about the city afoot or in a and aninterned, for the blowing covered them over with shavings. Vienas insisting on the necessity beers, spirits, wines, eto,; spirit Yesterday a man was conveyed riokaba; it is a public matter, and one which has received all too up of British warships in bar. A contractor mid no foki was in of adding one million to tas of wine; chemicals, drugs, to the Government Divil Hospital little attention from those who might ventilate it. Will some kindly bour, and for mysterious railway position to give away bags. Austrian War Badget, in order surgical instruments and sun- suffering from wounds which hade Unofficial Member raise the question of our thoroughfares at a accidents and munition factory Defendant said he wanted to use to place the Army in readiness drive; faraiture, etc.; milk, eto,'; evidently been caused by a knife, meeting of the Legislative Council in the near future? Of course he explosions ? And, above all, how the bag a quilts to cover him for war. The pamphlet has caused | provisions; sundries; and wash. He was taken worns in she institu- will do so at the peril of being ignored, but he will at lowas, have are we to account for the death colf up with. Bentence of one sensation both in Vienna and ing; required by the Medical tion and about 10.30 set contributed towards bringing this disgraceful state of things to tha of Kitchener ?
150d as a result of his infuch Department, month'a huen labour was passed.. Berlin."," motion of the Glövernment,
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Macao Restrictions,
Stolen Bags,
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played on the 9th and 10th GOVERNMENT TENDERS
gradual rice began which took the dollar to Is. 11 3/15d. before the
tattered rag, exchanging in the market for from 103 to 104 of the