15 Episodes.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER, 17, 1916.
HONGKONG THEATRE.
ANOTHER STARTLING
FEATURE
30 Parts.
"THE TREY O' HEARTS.
SHARE MARKET QUOTATIONS.
Up to the Minute.
Banks. Unions, Douglsen.
b. $ 765.00.
b. $ 995.00,
h. $ 122:50.
h
Indos (Del.) b. $ 133 00. Steamboats, b. $ 22.25. China Sugars. b. 120.00. Malabou Sugars, b. 37.00. 8. $133.00.
K'ioon Docks,
¡S'hui Docks, E-OR
b. T 86.03.
Kang Yike.
S'hai Cottone.
b. T 101.00. sa. T 16.00, b. T 11200.
Yangi-zspoon. b. T
Obing Lights. b. $ China Prov. 8. $ Cements. B.K. Electrics, sa. $ Ropes.
ea. $ H.K. Tramwaye, H. $
b. $
0,00. 4.75. 3.25. 10.00. 55,00. 85.00. 7.10.
COURT PRACTICE.
Solicitor Raises Point of Procedure.
THREE EPISODES WILL BE SCREENED EVERY WEEK, COMMENCING WEDNESDAY, 18TH OCTOBER. On SATURDAY, 21st OCTOBER, SEE 3rd and 4th Episodes of
At the Summary Court this morning, before. Mr. Juation Gompertz, Ko Fun-ibi, of 7, Sta Wa-fonz, ned Ko Bik-tang and Ko Iphi, a trader and his wife respectively, for the return of certain furniture, wearing ap.
parel, personal ffects and other goods, or their value ($800), it bring alleged that the defendants were unlawfully witholding them from her."
Mr. Mattingley appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. E Davidson defended.
EWO
"THE MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY."
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,
Government Civil Hospital
Matters.
manding the Troops (Major
General F. Ventris.)
The Hon. Mr. Cland Severn, Colonial Secretary.
as follows.
The Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp, Attorney General.
The Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, of July, 1918, between His Ex- Agreement made the 29th day C.M.G., Director of Public Works.
The Hon. Mr. E. B. Hallifax, cellency Sir Francia Houry May, Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
K.O.M.G., Governor and Com The Hon. the Captain Superio-mander-in-Chief of the Colguy of tendent of Police (Mr. C. Mel. Hongkong and its Dependencies Messer.)
for and on behalf of the Govern.
The Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, acting Colonist Treasurer.
The Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk, C.M.G. The Hon. Mr. E. Shellim. The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock K.C.
DAY BY DAY.
The People Next Door.
"OUR DAY."
Programme of the English Fair,
Day" English Fair is as fol- The programme of the "Our
lows.
of Hongkong and His Honour Sir the Sanitary Bard to the Guver namely -A B'ock. Morning, James Haldane, Stewart Lock nor under Section 107 of the Sister on exch flori bar, K.O.M.G... Commissioner Public Health and Buildings Ord-Operating Theatre, I Sister of Wei-bai-xci for the re-inance, 1903, for the erection on will the Government state (i) bo moral of Prisoners ander son- the site of the existing Publio what date between the 22nd
The Late Mr. L. R. Needham. tence or order of transportation Urinal situate at the juno August and the date of these Now that probate has been imprisonment or penal servitude tion of Albany, Garden, Qaistions (12-h October) it has obtained in regard to the estate at Wei-bai-wei to Hongkong Peak and Robison Roads been found possible to carry out of the late Mr. L. R. Needham, A meeting of the Legislative for the purpose of undergoing of an underground trough closet the said intended morning who died at sea on the 4th inst Council was held in the Council their punishment at Hongkong latrine: And whereas each sp-scheme of allocation, namely, 1 Mesara. Ewens and Needham's Chamber this afternoon, when and of an address being presented plication having been duly ap Sister on each floor of à Block, office is to be closed to-morrow as those present wera :--
to His Most Gracions Majesty proved by the Governor and a and 8 separate Sister for a mark of respect to the memory
3.00 p.m.-Opens, with en- H. E. the Governor (Sir King George V praying that His notification of the intention to the Operating Theatre; and of the deceased gentleman, Francie Henry May, K.C.M.G.)
Mainet, may be pleased to sane erect an underground trough (ii) on what datee, between the
trance of Governor and Band playing National Anthem. At H. E. the General Officer Com-ti sa Order in Council allowing closet latrine on such uite having said dates, Oas Sister alone has
At the Fruit Stall-
conclusion of National Anthem, a the removal of such prisoners on been daly published in had to attend in the morning not A Chinees was charged before Red Cross Contingent is inspected the ferma conisined in such three saccoesive numbers of only to the two floore in A Block Mr. Hazeland, at the Police Court by H.E. The Governor in the Red Agreement which is laid upon the Gascite a certain owner in but also to the Operating Theatre this morning, with assaulting & Cross Enclosure and competitions the table of this Council,"
the vicinity has objected to as well, that is to say, to do work man in charge of a fruit stall, commence there. All side shows The terms of the Agreement are auch erection: And wherese which, auder the above scheme, Complainant said that defendant commence and doors of theatre such objection has been duly of allocation, is supposed to be want to his stall and asked for are opened for first performance, by this Council that the above considered: It is hereby resolved done by three Sisters.
ame bananas,
which were Drums, megaphones, bugles, The Hon. Colonial Secretary given him. He ate them, then boosters, hawkers, etc. attracting. mentioned site and the erection said that in view of the great set upon him (complainant) dam attention to various side shows. thereat of an underground trough time taken to prepare the snaged the stall and threw all the closet latrine be and the same are swer which His Exosllenoy had fruit apon the ground. He else In the Theatre, "A Night at 3.15 p.m. 5.45 p.m.6.15 p.i.-- hereby approved.
just read, they had not been able assaulted a policeman. His Flynne" (A Drama of the Prairie), The Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk second-to complete the replies to the Worship fined him $10 on each introducing ment of the said Colony (herein (ed, and the resolution was carried. questions which were due to be count of assault and ordered him numbers, including the titanic various musical after called the Governor) of the.
Boswered to-day. Those replies, to pay $8 as compensation for the pugilistic encounter between Government Civil Hospital. one part and His Honour Sir
therefore, would have to be given damage he did. James Haldane Stewart Lockhart,
HE, the Governor gave his at a later date.
The Boston Bruieer" (Light Commissioner K.OMG,
of promised detailed reply to the.
weight Champion of Moose Jaw), Wei-bai wei for and on behalf of questions put at the last meeting
The Budget.
A man who was charged before and the Heavy-weight Champion The Hon. Mr D. Landale.
the Government of Wei-hai,wei by the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock a
of Flyan's Cabooeh Mr. Melbourne, at the Police Court The Hon. Colonial Secretary this morning, with oaking an hereinafter called the Commie to whether the stock of drugs and moved the first reading of a Bill obstruction in Connaught Road
320 p.m., 450 p.ш,
6.15 p.m. The Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak. The Hon. Mr. P. H Holyoak.
sioner) of the other part Whereas disinfectants at the Government intitaled An Ordinance to apply Central, said that some slinga of
-Maypole Dance; Winsome by Section 4 of the Colonial Civil Hospital had been considers sum not exceeling Eight mil-firewood were not his and he had
·lasses, grace, and beauty. Mr. Pollock and Greater Repre- Prisoners Removal Act 1869 it is ably reduced by the Principal lion six hundred and five thou- nothing to do
Mr. H. E. Pollock gave notie, provided (inter alia) that any two Civil Medical Officer before the sand one hundred and five Dollars | Inspector Kent said he was Blomerated galaxy of vocalTM and
Colonies may with the sanction war. It will be remembered that to the Public Service for the year paasing the shop and asked terpsichorean art. of an Order of Her Majesty Mr. Pollock was dissatiefied with 1917.
defendant to have the slinge for the children, grows up or All the time.-Donkey rides the the reply given at the last meet- The Bill provides for the ex- taken in and weighed, but ne removal of any prisoners ander ing, and that, after a heated die- penditure as follows:-
refused to bare
otherwise; the Lucky Wall, mag- sentence or order of transporta cussion, His Excellenes adjourned Governor vitude from one of such colonies tion imprisonment or penal ser- the meeting.
$85,011 Defendant said the wood belong.nificent prizes with every ticket; Colonial Secretary's In the course of his reply to-
ed to the people next door.
the Camera Obacara, "Inside Dept, & Legislature 79,169 Inspector Kent said firewood was and Arriet, with their coeter
darkness, outside can see; to the other for the parpose of day. His Excellency examined at Colonial Secretary's
'Arry undergoing in such colony the great length the conditions per- whole or any part of their punish-taining at the Epital, prior to Secretariat for Chi- Special Expenditure ment and for the return of such Dr. Johnson's appointment, in
nese Affaire prisoners to the former colony at the matter of the control and Audit Department, ... the expiration of their punishment issue of druge and disinfectants Treasury or at sach other period as may be and explained the measures taken Harbour Master's De agreed upon upon such terms by Dr. Johnson in regard to the and subject to such conditions na sdministration of the stores And Whereas by an Order of His long reply, of some dozen type
His Excellency concluded a may seem good to sach colonies Majsety-in-Council of the 12th written folios, in these words:
The reply, then, of the Govern August 1915 the said Colonial Prisoners Removal Act 1869 was ment is that its minutest in- made to apply to Wei-bai-wei vestigation bas failed to reveal. And Whereas it is desired by and any sign of omission in the between the parties hereto in manner of the administration pursuance of the powera vested of the Civil Hospital druge
from time to time of prisoners that Dr. Johnson has gradually in them respectively to make sad disinfectants by Dr. Johnson; arrangements for the removal that, on the contrary, it is satisfied
from Wei-hai-wei to Hongkong, succeeded in compelling system. between the said parties hereto antion in place of a lack of system Now it is bereby agreed by and stio and efficient store administra-
sentation.
that he would put the following questions at the next Meeting of Legislative Council,
the
namely:-
The
1. With reference to the fol- lowing statements in paragraph 6 of the Despatch of B. E. Governor, of the 28th May, 1916, Mr. Mattingley said the plait, to the Secretary of State tiff was suing for the value of
for the Colonies Ca the farailare, or its return, bich ehe subject of the recent Petition for alleged the
defendants
greater representation of the were withholding. He found Public himself in a rather pecaliar posi- Legislative Conncita, namely:- on the Executive and tion, owing to the fact that Mr. "It is quite impracticable to Haywood, who was formerly in apply the principle of election to charge of the case, informed hip appointments to a body like the that there were no doouinente, Executive Council. and no doubt there were none at it does not seem necessary to set that time, but now there were out the very obvious reasons documents, which
were being for which such a proposal could produced at the last moment.
not be entertained"; will the They were very material.
Government state what are the Mr. Davidson said he had been reusons why such proposal could in possession of documents since not be entertained?" he had been instructed, but be
state for what reasons 2 out of the 2. Will the Government also
4 noa-Chinese Unofficial Members of the Legislative. Council are Government nominees instead of being elected se members?
had only been instructed a few
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Financial,
...And
The following financial minutes, ernor, were referred to the Finance recommended by H.E. the Gov. Committee and subsequently ap-
proved :-
io-Council
follows:-
Bgree
for
little short of
scandalous; that,
will the Government' state
$9,905,
partment . Harbour Master' Imports and Exports Special Expenditure
Department Boyal Observatory,... Boyal
Observatory Special Expenditure Miscellaneous Sec
vices Judicial and Legal Departments
Police and Prison De- Police and Prison De
partments...
Medical Department partment Special Expenditure Sanitary Department Sanitary Department Special Expenditure Botanical and Fores Botanical and Fores- try Department try Special Expen- diture Education Education Special
Expenditure Military Expenditure-
Volunteers Public Works-
400
NOT
with them.
this done.
a nuisance in Connaught Road. 1,150 A fine of $3 was imposed.
57,345
35,294
07,480 | Overdraft, Crown Agente Current 180,454
740
977,999 22,750
A/o.,
400 p.m., 5.30 p.m.-"The Swanks," in their renowned con-
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barrow; Cocoanut Shy, the only Way La the milky whey, roll, bowl, or pitch; The "Everything Stores, Sur- prises from every part of the civilised globe at bargain prices: 7,722.30 not bazaar prices; the "Jungle Shooting Range", The change of
Total Liabilities....2,864,732.28 a lifetime, lions, elephants, big
ASSETS
Total,...... Sabaidiary · Coins Adranoes...
6,100 Imprest
+e
+++
714,213 Crown Agents' De-
game, of every description, in- $2,864,732,26- cluding the Peak Tiger; "Aunt Sally", impossible to describe, 750,152.82 ballway mark for blind men.
98,834.35
6.45 p.m.- Indian Dance, to 801.50 the blaze of an enormous bonfire,
daring which the illuminations
posit Account 1,137,301.30 in the grounds will be exting
272,478 Unallocated Stores,
(P.W.D.) 1,000,361 Unallocated Stores,
(Railway) Suspense Account
134
aished. "Kicking the Football"
314,584.44 the only other opportunity_of
shooting. For Golfers only: How 109,818.46 far can you drive? Who is 662.55 the longest driver? An ào. curate record of every drive; 2,412,045.42 illuminated certificates issued. 452,688.84 Tess, refreshments of the finest Total ... $2,864,732,25 strength in more ways than one. quality. Machines to test your
the Fair. Clowns and others. All the fun of
264,030 381899 Debit Balance
39,000
51,338
The following statement. of assate and liabilities on December, 31, 1915, and December 31, 1816, 850 (estimated), was also laid on the 338,011 table:
1,000 Revenue,
Expenditure, 70,152
1915. ...$ 11,788,108,73 15,149,267,54
8,363,100.81
2,910,473,97
Deficit, Balance of Assets, (1914),
Public Works Da-
partment Pablie
Recurrent Pablic Works, Ex-
**
404,981
4
Works,
2
***
cente; soldiers, sailors and police Admission to the ground is 50 in uniform half price; children, half price.
OUR
For the fand by which is it is hoped to raise a sum of $390 for the entertainment, one day a 452,686.84
1016,
week during the winter months, 13,274,000.00 of troops in the garrison, we have 11,817.670.00 received the following dona
Mr. H. F. Carmichael $100 "LG. L."
15
daye ago.
Mr. Mattingley said Mr. Hay- wood told him quite informally that there were no documents, He (Mr. Mattingley) had had trouble before over the matier of
1 Any prisoners at Wei-hai-wei | that it is satisfied under sentence or order of trans- in any one of ill-considered discovery and he had raised the point and was told that it was
servitude may be removed from disinfectante kept in store at the portation, imprisonment or penal reduction, the stock of drugs and customary in Hongkong to bare
Wai-hai-wei to Hongkong for the Government Civil Hospital was no affidavit. With great respect, he thought that it was extremely difficult for a solicitor to come vote Judicial and Legal Depart of their punishment: Provided the war.
purpose of their undergoing in not reduced by the present Prin- A sum of $300 in aid of the Hongkong the whole or say part cipal Civil Medical Officer before into a case and think there were mente, A.-Supreme Court, other that the Gaol socommodation at no documente and then, when charges, Registration of Com Hongkong is suficient and not.
Mr. Pollock's Questions. solicitor
•into CamB
The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollook panies at Shanghai, the other side, for him to disclose
unduly taxed thereby. A sum of $3,570 in aid of docaments. He believed that Mr. Public Works, Extraordinary, power if at any time the Gaol
K.O., asked the following 2. The Governor alall have questione ;-- Haywood was acting quite bona New Territories, miscellaneous, accommodation is deemed by him $10,147, and 89,714 sisted at fide when he said there were no
1. Of the sums of dccamente.
segregation camp at Laiohikok to be insufficient or is likely to be the last meeting of Council to Bome farther discussion took
quarantine station.
A sum of $8,000 in aid of the unduly faxed to decline to accept have been dipended in the years pinos on this point, and his Lord- ship said he thought it would be role Public Works, Extraordinar on or prisoners in any 1913, 1914, and 1915, respectively,
particular instance.
589,200 Deficit, (1915). better if, on Friday, when the dredging of Kowloon Point.
ary, Hongkong miscellaneous,
3. At the expiration or mooner legal professica was strongly
termination of the period of their tare representa druge and disin Post Office...
|: (1) how much of that expendi-traordinary
1,545,400 Revenue, A sum of $18,300 in aid of the parishment the said prisoners fectants represented, he said that it would following votes: Public Works, shall be returned to Wei-hai-wei be, well to always have a formal Recurrent: HongkongWater by order under the hand of the
438,350 Expenditure,... Post Office, Special written application for documen; Works, water account (meters Governor.
(C) applied from home?
Expenditure,
400 Surplas,... otherwise, as bad happened in &c.) $6,000. Kowloon Water
(b) parohssed locally?
Kowloon-Canton Rail-
Deficit, (1915) (ii) whether it is not the fact this case, when a new solicitor Works, maintenance of water the prisoners removal to mainten-infectants has gone up consider. 4. The whole of the expense of that the prios of drage and dis
MAYA had been brought into a
Working Expenses 386,381 Balance of Assets, works, $5,000, New Territories: ance in and return from Hong-ably since the beginning of the tre documents appeared which bad-Water Works, maintenance of kong shall be borne by the war, with the result that the
Special Expendi-
(1916), 1,003,643.16 formerly not been known of,
158,896 His Excellency addressed the Mr. Mattingley said it was the Lai Chi Kok, 3400, Public Works, Government of Wei-hai-wei,
Pensions
$40,700 Connoil at length on the Bill practice he was complaining of, manications, roads,general works, ceive and shall be deemed to be infectante since the war than it Extraordinary-Kowloon: Com 5. This Agreement shall reconsiderably losa drage and dis
Fame sum of money purchased Charitable Services
44,159 not the solicitor.
·Bills of 'Exchange. His Lordship thought this came
$6,000; New Territories: Com in fores immediately upon the did before the war?
Total $8,605,105 |・・ The Hon. Attorney General
A Canton Custom, ought to go on, and Mr. Mattingley works, $1,000. Total $18,300. Majesty-in-Council.
municatione, roada, general
A boy was charged before Mr. sanction of an Order of His
moved the first reading of a Bill Hameland, at the Police Couri then said that the plaintiff was
In connection (iii) whether say savings were
with effected on the amounts voted for Estimates for 1917, the following provision in connection with the fowls. It was stated that be was the intituled An Ordinance to make this morning, with cruelty to taken from a brothel by the male Prisoners from Wel-hai-wel. defendant as a concubine, but The Hon. Colonial Secretary ed, and the resolution was passed years 1914 and 1916 or either of on December 31, 1915, was laid of Exchange payable outside the four fowls in his hand, all of them The Hon. Mr. Wei Yak zecond-drags and disinfectants in the statement of Assets and Liabilties present war with respect to Bill soon walking along the street with that she was forced to leave him moved:"That the President without discussion... owing to the treatment she re- and Members of the Legislative
them, and, if so, what were the on the table:---
Colony, Public Convenience, ceived. The farniture and other Council of the Colony of
amounts of such sayings Pant
The Hon. Colonial Secretary, dans said that he came from
being held by the wings, Def Cut she took with her wors Hongkong do approve of the moved the following laring allocation of Ben the blo
The Hon. Colonial Secretary 2. With reference to the morn Deposits not Avail-
seconded, and the Bill was read top and that an allowed kept by the defendants, and the Agreement dated shahadation under Buction 170 of the Civil Hospital/which was House Servios Andy S
1,498,88 a first time, CE PRO them of July, 1916, made between Pablo Health and Balldin nounosab
Hin Eroallancy Hir Francis Ordine 1003 a
case,
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