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THAT WILL BE REMEMBERED
ALL THE YEAR ROUND.
OUR CALENDAR
OF
-HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 11, 1916.
Trade · Entspeise.
DAY BY DAY.
Periodically we publish in our news colemas the Trade Enquiry Lista isened by the local American. Consulate General, giving the THE GRATITUDE OF PLACE EX- PECTANTE 15. A LIVELY SENSE OF names of firms in the United FUTURE FAVOURA. Sir Robert States resking openings in the Walpola, Far Esat for the commodities in
which they deal and suxious to
The Malla.
per 8.
take up lines which em, be sup-Siberian Mail:--Das plied from this part of the Lochow to-day.
ANCIENT CHINESE GREETINGS.world. The latest of these lists Canadian Mail.Arrived per s.r.
CONTAINING
SIX PICTURES OF CHINA.
MOUNTED IN A UNIQUE AND CHARMING SETTING"
SEND ONE HOME.
Price $2.50.
A. S. WATSON & Co.,
HONGKONG.
to appear in print contained the names of no fewer than
Empress of Japan to-day,
The Dollar,
To-morrow's Anniversary,
To-morrow is the 51st anniver ary of the death of Mrs. Gaskell, the novelist.
| twenty of such business condeYDI.
and the enquiries made covered The opening rate of the dollar uch varied bends as cinemas | on demand to-day was 2a. 3.9/16d. films, electric lighting plant, railway material, motor care and all manner of requisitos for the development of ports along modern lines. Thew are only few of the branches of trade? sad industry touched upɔr,
Criminal Seaston. but "they sre sufficient to The next Oriminal Sendons show that American business, will be held on Monday, the 20th men and Copenlar officials are inst. fully alive to the desirability of going far afield to establish new connections for the commerce of His Majesty the King has not the Sates. These lists are not been advised to exercise bis printed to be pigeon-holed in the power of disallowance with res Consulate-they are distributed pect to the following Ordiance: broadcast to me likely to be-Ordinance No. 10 of 1916.-An which interested in the particular lines Ordinance to provide for the
specified, and, lest any concern taxation of tabsecɔ, should be overlooked, they are alsa circulated to the Press for publication. That is enterprise.
Ltd.,
Correspondents are requested to observe the rule requires them to forward their names and addresses with communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for pabustion, bat as an evidence of their bona fides.
to the Editor.
All communications la tanded for publication should be addressed
Business correspɑadem se:should be sent to the Manager.
Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.
Telephons: No. 1
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A.SI.C., 8th edition. Western Union Office addres: 11, Ice House St.
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1916.
The Contrast.
+
The Tobacco Tax.
Harvest Festival.
|
1891.
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE.
YEARS AGO.
(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the week ending November 11, 1891)
|
Typhoon season the existence of * depressions "în varione parts of the Pacile Ocean and the Oɔins Bes; sometimes near Hongkong and sometimes much farther sfeld, which, albeit of consider abla intarest, generally prove of
8
SHARE REPORT,
a transitory mature, but somehow The quotations which or other, with all his skill and are from the Henghong Tele souman, his intimsoy with the f* November 11, 1891.
| the learned Dostor never tella vo
kasvanly boding and ke koowe Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. Latin and the use of the globe-158 per cent, premium bayern.. Union Insurance Society of anything about the apparently Janton-$91 per share, sominal. permanent depression from
China Traders' Insuraãos Com-
The Dollar. November 11.The rate of the dollar on demand to-day in which this colony has been suffet-pany-861 per share, sallars. 31. 141.
ing for so many monthe past, North China Insurance-Tia: Germany's Military Preparations. which has wrought such sad 260 per share, sellers.
November 5-A new German havoc amongst the brilliant Canton Insurance ›Company, loan is an ounced for £5,500,000 members of the ones high-toned Ltd.-$105 per share, bayam. werling, to be applied to perfect elite of our distinguished apper Tangtee Insurance Association. ing and increasing the Artillery airoles, and which is still 20-Tia 100 per share, buyers, branch of the Military Service" saately felt by the working Hongkong Fire Insurance Com-- populace, the back-bons of Hong.
Then as Now.
偶
buyers.
China Fire Insurance Coma- pany-$87 per share, wollera,
Hongkong, Canton and Misono Steamboat Company-$35 per share, buyera.
Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per cent. Debentures-8501.
November - Here in kong, in every branch of bas.—33124 per abare, sales and aplendid obance, a most favour-iness. |able opportunity, for Mr. Mitchell- Hongkong House-Bullding,
Innes to climb down, and with. November 6 The inquest draw, and apologise, and pall in on the body of the Chinese girl bis boros, and kick higisell, and killed by the fall of houses in son. In spite of his deliberate Wellington Street on Sunday Inst Hongkong and Whampoa Dook bare-faced assertions that the concluded to-lay. The coL Company-$76 per cent. per excise officers search passengers tractor who was engaged on the mim, sales and bayers. lor opiom with all decency, and repairs which were the immediate Hongkong Gas Company then only on resonable suspicion, cause of the pollapee gave evi- $120 per share, nominal:
Hongkong Hotel Company- here is a esse this morning which desce in socordance with that of oach to choke him. Ngen Ching other witnessrethat, in course $60 per share, sellers,
Chinese water coogiable, was of repairing the back part of the on Tak Kee wharf in plain clothes, house, some 500 or 800 bricks when a hulking Indian excise were piled up on the arcond floor, officer named Sander Singh came the back wall was taken down, Ching managed to get this whistle porte of timber were put up under up and wanted to search him. Poer and in its place temporary sup and blow it for assistance. Then the floors, but no beams were used the party wall another polite and temperate ex- to shore up ass officer (v. "Mitchell Innes on which collapsed. The Coroner Gentleness") come along, and (c. Wine) in finding a verdict together they got the plain clothes death from asphyxis,' said. 'I constable to the elation. He was have no doubt as to how the fall 93robed, and famad to be with- was axased, but I do not think the aut opium. Then he was taken contractor's negligence, if it was to the hospital, and the doctor negligence, was criminal. At the certifies that he had a fracinred same time, he must be more rib and was bleeding at the careful in future. I think he has math and showed braises all been very careless about the work, over his body; The excise officers, because there is no doubt in my
Indo-China 8. N. Company-- 827 per cent. dis, sellers,
Douglas Steamship Company...... $361 per share, sales and sellers. Chins Sagar Refining Company Ltd$177 per share, bayern. Luzon Sugar Refining Company. Limited-58 per share, sellers.
To-morrow will be observed as Harvest Festival and Hospital Sunday at Union Church. The On contemplating such a system money collections are for the Alice of the great benefits which would the cfarings of fruit and vegal as this, one cannot help thinking Memorial Hospital, se usual, and accrue to British trade if a similar ables will be passed on, as for policy were followed not only in several peste past, in the Royal Hongkong bat also in all foreign Naval and Military Hospitals in and colonial markets. Here in Hongkong. this Colony we have a glaring example of official indifference in this respect. Formerly there was Tue local uffigs of the P. & 0" a branch at the Harbour Office Co. has received telegraphic advice whose duty was supposed to from the Company's Directors that be to handle enquiries sent out the Admiralty advise definitely from the Board of Trade, and to that all bring the Lone manufacturer acdived from the Arabia the local szent, vice versa, into are proceeding either to Malta or touch one with the other. That Fort Said. The telegram also getting him to the police mind that it was this piling of work bas now, we believe, been states that all offisers sad ore station, maid nothing about any caused the fall, and that be migbi $19; por ahare, ex. dív, sellara.
race?
now.
The Loss of the Arabla.
passengers
Concealed Opium,
WEIG and
uninten.
bricks on the second floor that
Hongkong Toe Company- $82 per share, wellars,
Hongkong Rope Manufactur ing Company, Eid-$99 pe share, bayers,
Hongkong and Kowloon Whart and Godown Company.-$68 per share, sellers.
Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. Ltd. 47 per share, sellers.
----$14 per`share, sellers,
"Foreign Beer-Swillers.” November 7.-"The Gorman Clab nability and gentry MB- source smoking concers in that HONGKONG'S FINANCES. second-alase pot-bouse to-night. The members of the Telegraph
Returns to the End of August
The Snancial statement for
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...$983,007.12
1,111,153.65
2,104,160.67
AUSTRALIA AND THE TYRANNY OF LABOUR,
A. 8. Watson and Co., Ltd.-- resistance or assault on his saved, | transferred to the Secretary of the were
excepting Swa
noth. part. They were charged with have known it. I will sny
Hongkong High Level Tram- Chamber of Commerce, but, en engineers who were killei.
seaclt this morning at the ing by way of a rider to the way Co., Ltd.-$55 per share Yesterday's wire concerning industrial affairs in Australia make for as we know, there never has
Magistracy, and innocently re-verdict, as it is no good adding allora. Alice Memorial Hospital, melancholy reading, but it will probably surprise no-one who has been, and is not now, any attempt
The Hoo. Treasurer of the marked that they did not know rider unless you can do some
Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., troubled to watch the programs of the Labour party at Home. The whatever made to circolarise busi- New South Wales Premier's declaration that he refused to submit news housea regarding the openings Alice Memorial and Affiliated be war's constable (or they would thing with it, Verdict-death Led $25 per share, nominal.
have bit somebody else, sh?) and from sachyxia. So somebɔdy is Green Island Cement Oo. Lad. to the infamous tyranny of the Labour Executive "seems to show that, rereeled by the Board of Trade Hospitals begs to acknowledge in his part of the world elsewhere, there are still to be found a few communications: the letters, we with thanks the following done that he seesalted them. M'yes, to be hanged!".
Three weeks for Bander Singh benighted persons who decline to aurrender body and soul to the are told, are filed, and if business tion to the foods of the Hospitals: and fourteen days for Mahomed sweetness and light of the Laiporite creed. And, onless we are men wish to know what connec. J. M. Wong: $50; Wong Tary orasiderably cut in our reckoning, those few psreons will, brtians are sought, they can ascer-Ping-tez, 310; Tai Ming-tak, $10; Bee, his chum. The other side fore long, become macy. Go far as the Homeland is concerned, ittain by enquiring. As for siteul Hang Hing-kam, $5; Ko Po- of the case (it is of course our has long been evident that society in general in heartily tired of the arising the Prass, and thereby shum, $5; Cheung Kong-runs. | ja that no relisnos can be put on stef have taken in an extra supply
practice to fully state both sides) monstroza claims of trade unionists who, when it happens to sait informing all business houses of 35; Hang Tes leavg, $3: Obits ■ Chinaman'e bare statement that
of soda-battles to be prepared for them, will neither work themselves mor let others work. It will what the Home trader is cooking, Congregational Church, $16.25, he in a policeman, se this in s moi, fx many a day to come, be easy to forget that some of thoed
that is certainly not done. With No Licence and Bribery.
Tary common dodge; that the emergencies; and we consider it Labour stalwarta, in the early days of the war, were instrumental the knowledge of what the Ameri-] A Chinese was charged before water police are at sumity with only fair to intimate that if the the month of August, issued by in losing hundreds of British lives as the Front: lives that depended cans, the Japanese and others Mr. F. A. Hassland, at the Police the opiam farm people in con- police allow night to be made the Hongkong Treasury, is na on the arrival of munitions, which were delayed while the patriotic trade, and what we are not doing, ing gar-rings in the street without that the constable purposely shall have to trouble the Magi Balance of Assets
hideous" after twelve o'clock by follows: ste doing to extend their Court this morning, with hawk.
sequence of recent convictions;"
Revenus and Expenditure. "workers" were wrangling with their masters over a maiter of s
these foreign beer-swillers, wi halfpenny or is penny sa hear, or were declining to work at all be it any wonder that we are in having a licence. An Indian con resisted search and provoked
and Liabilities clase men who was not members of their trumpery anions were danger of being beaten in the stable said that when he arrested the constable, knocking his turban trate on Monday to assist us in toiling in some of the factories—occasionally without any pay at sound commercial propagands to drink ta. A fine of 85 was the Chinmen
on 31st July, Enterprise and really the man he was offered 30 cents of, and that the injury aire nuisance in the centre of the putting a stop to the most cổsas
1918. Revenue from 1st.. oity. If the Australisa Labour party conducts its rffairs on the same were never more needed than imposed for hawking without tionally crased, and was real- patriotic and altruistic lines, it is no wonder that Mr. Holmen oborelve from the fatal lethargy bribe a farther fos of $15 was be falling to the ground sad
to 31st August, We Britishers must arouses licence, and for offering the ly through his own struggles,
Eau de Chinois "
1916, November 9-"Some of the jacts to obeying its dictates. It seems to us that the present posi of the past if we are to hold our imposed. tion in australia is serving two good parpoese: it is affording a
dragging the Sikh on top of him. Peak residents have been drink- wholerome lesson to the Imperial Governmentgot to allow the unions own in the Ext.
An application for a rehearing is ing cau de Chinois recently, not Expenditure from at Home to reach such a pitch as will enable them to interfere with Our City Hall Library.
A huge Uhinese, standing over to be made to-morrow, and in the eau de Cologne, sad would be
Slat pablia liberty; and it is putting. Australia's own best men on their Three years ago we wandered six feet in height, was charged meantime the whole body of doing so now had not the body of
August, 1916, 683,893.17 mettle and prompting them to combine against a conscienc»less into the Osy Hali library and before Mr. F. A. Hex Indian excise officers have threat a Chiasman in an advazoed sla'e system which, if the Labourites could bat ses it, is capable of be- auked for the Transactions of
lead, at the Folios Court oned to throw up their posts if of decomposition suddenly made Balance $1,420,267.50 coming the worst enemy of the people at large. At present, while the China Association. The pre- bis morains, with being in ach an unjust conviction they appearance on the surface of the pick of Australia's manhood is sacrificing itself at sea or on land siding genius promptly brought possession of 45 tale of prepared consider it cannot be reversed. the water well situated near the
Liabilities. Homestead, whence their water Daposits not Avail- for the sake of the Empire, the country is given over, in great ne a much-thumbed copy of the opium. Detective Constable
The Ricksha Farm. meaaure, to a noisy rabbie that recognises no rights bat its own, Sketch! since then we have given Shannon found the man with the November 6. Tow Hicksba supply comes. The body was
able, What will her soldiers and esilors, who have borne the burden and this temple of learning a wide opium porousled in a block of farm will be liberally dealt with taken to the Mortuary last night House Service Ac heat of the day, bave to my when they return to find that the main berth, bat from time to time we wood which had been hollowed in our next issue. Our 'obief' and a searching inquiry will be
count,... aspiration with those who stayed behind has been not "We must make actionate enquiries as to out. His Worship said he would han for some days past been sadly held at the Magistsoy in the Postal Agencise,.. fight against German oppressors," but "We most grab all we can ise health, and we find that things require a certificate, and the case colour, bat is gradually coarm of a day or two, Evidently Exchange, while our brethren are away, risking their lives for adeing what are pretty much as usual with it. adj arasd antil Monday. coming round to his ordinary Tytan water mains were not laid
The only respect, so far as wo
cheezfoloses. Half-a-dossa Chin down at the Ponk a day too soon." Total Liabilities, Trade unioniem, se at present understood, whether in Australia can gather, in which it has for October show that the average Telegraph fine to protest against The Eyal Observatory zetuins | ❤ deputations have viited the
Oplum Smoking.
Baianos, November it--* Notwithstand- or elsewhere, means the glorifying and Eigh enthroning of Sell; the sought to keep abreast of clamooring for individua! "right", to the exolation of the feelings the stirring age in which we mean temperature was 759. the this solutio fad of the biggesting that the trifling sum of $4,000 and claims of everyone else. In other words it is loss socialistic live is in the treatment which highest point reached being 844 as the Hongkong Government has been lopped off the Opium
Farmer's monthly bill, the price f and more tyrannical than any feudalism could ever have been. Tost in periodiosle receive. Yester-on the 12th, and the lowest 658, 8-rvice has ever known, and we it can endure, so far as the sons of the British Empire are concerned, day Telegraph reader made the 31st. There were 1856 are with them in whatever con of the drag hasn't dropped a Subsidiary Cotes, $216,387:67 we would rather not believe, In source of time it mast the discovery that Hongkong only two days on which none was take against this aacoontiational the Chinese consider it is hard Impres
hours of sunshine, there being stitutional action they decide to single red cunt in the divans, and Advances,.. strangle iteell, The British workman, one of the finest fellows living Germany knows to her cost set out to explore. In the course six days, making a total of unofficial members of the Legisls knocking off smoking, w-morrow
left alone, in possesses a reading-room, and he recorded, while slight rain fell on abortion. Why don't the resident lines, and say that they'd be Crown Agents' Dis so-day; he may "grouse", but that is every Britisher's privilege, be of his researches be turned over 0731-inch, this comparing with tive Conseil pat a stop to this if they could, jast to get quit. Unallocated Stores, posit Account,... he navy or marquis; but his bark is worse than his hite and, for the leaves of a Homemagezion—
(P.W.D.) thirty years' mean of 4911 oond-class foling by rosigning Bat John' isn't the boy to cut off all his prejudices, he is a tens men. When, however, he gets into the only to find that embellishment inobne. The average humidity in a hody, and leaving Mr. Tarn- bis nose to spite his 40s. Not allocated Stores, bands of the agitatör, he allows himself to be led towards his own had been added to the illus-
WAS 71.
(Railway), cost" Keswick to bear the brant moob! He'll smoke away as por damnation like a lamb to the slaughter. He is not, and never has been, trations and that the mont
Balance Bank, seriously to hisme. We must look for the real aggressors in other revolting obscenitieà had beʊn Cemetery Improvement. of policy that apparently has usual, you bet.”
Orown directions. The culprits are the ospitalists and the agitators and, in pencilled in
It is noted that it is the in for its main objects the turning the margina. the background, pasi Governments that have been too cowardly and On handling other periodicals tention of His Excellency the of a free port into a hot bed of too egotistical to desi with both of these according to their several our informant observed that the Governor to make an order on old-world protection, and the deserts. "If the workman is self-mosking it is because, for generations, artist had extended his attentions, the expiration of six months from manufacture of hopeless nivoom- the capitalist tried (only too often with rucosa) to enslave him; and to those. This sort of thing moval of all graves in a specified brand-into high-pises politicians? November 10 directing the re-noop-of the Witchell-Inuse consequently his children have grown up to regard the employer be excellent testimony to the as the natural enemy of the peor. When our ralers can be permiad thoroughness of the Eaglia portion of Bection A in Mount Give the author of the new of public amusement have begun ed to punish without mercy every approved sweater and the members teaching which Asistios and Caroline cemetery, Back Order riokaha farm a plot are book to their duties at Birmingham. TheIt is on of every syndiosts that attackes more importance to its own van Eurasians xrosive in some of the will be made for the purpose of amuss himself with."
are under the direction of the piration of profits than to the welfare of the Blate and the community, and schools of this fair Colony, but the laying out of the area to
committee, which has been sp. when they can summon up plack, mongh to order the shooting of we should have thought that it provide for the burial therein of Morsmber 6 Our excellent pointed to deal with complai
dezen or so of the lisy rascals who makes fat living out of was the duty of the library auth, Oking dead of the Rose Bod
strika doctrince, wo shall probably hair the last af te onties to »gused-
we are afraid to do."?
BÚT 1850 AÐ AÐ present establiskad.
October Weather.
Catholic o
Depression
Women Inspectors of Cinema Halla
Two women inspectors of pisem
relative to filma, and they stros. i visit picture-houser and
the and report to the committe
.§. 683,235.48
4.008 95 5,164,87 605.83
693,010 14
H
3,420,287.60
Total,
****** $2,113,277.84
Assets.
8081861
$8,839,00
1,125,518.79
W
289,981,53
98,031.65
252 351.15
Agents":
Current Account,
Total,
12,459.44
32,113.277.64
Com