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The Dollar.
ANTIMONY ORE..
··· Engineers,
"Send-ON" for the Volunteers:"} Hongkong is wW XE JOLDU” to nots, showing still further signs of a desire to rid italf of its
↑ MAKING MONEY AND MAKING appalling unreadiness to "do the LOVE ARE ALIKE IN THAT THE Money Loan Clalmi by European rigat thing." Volunteers for the MORE YOU GET THE MORE YOU Front are to be given a real, WANT. send-off, and we desire to cɔm. pliment the generous souls who bave taken the matter in hand. As our readers are aware, we have ou repeatedly attacked the meso-24, 4.1/l8d. spiritedness that allowed the first batch of men to leave without a To-morrow's Anniversary, sign of a publio farewell-to Tc-morrow is the 85:h anniver- sneak out of the Colony, as sary of the fight between the one might any, so though they | Merrimao and the Monitor. were doing something disgrace- ful in offering their lives for the Empire; and it is very satisfactory
A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., his Colony it, more often thes
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THE CHINESE BUDGET. TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
Estimates for Current Year: "The following are the Chinere estimates for the current fireal! [year, which ends on Jane 30] | next :--
Ordinary Revenue,
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34,768,432
Two interesting little additiona to the "RLS” lagaoy are made" in the pair of shilling volumes published by Messrs. Chatto and $90,115.784 Windüs-"On the Choice of a 73,056,663 Profession" and "The Waif Wo- 96,767,010 42,719,194 man." The first in an stay in the trus Stevensonian - manner si- dressed to a young man about to embark on an artistic oarser, but apparently suppressed as foo 5,448,686 "cynical and sombre," perhaps, also, too “idealistic." Certainly it 2,083,401 Pale some plain (bat generally overlocked) truths in the plainest of language "There is nothing.... no hard to
get people to understand an this: They pay |for their money: and nothing non- difficult to make them remember, this: That mɔney, when they have it, is, for most of them at
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5,101,531
1,374,648
ceiptæ. ...
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36,584,311
Castoms Duty
At the Summary Court this Land Tax The opening rate of the dollar morning, before the Chief Justice Customs Baronus
(Sir William Rees Davise) two Salt Revenue claims of $1 000 each were beard, Taxon Merchandise bought respectively by Mr. J. J.Various Principal Lysaught, an engineer, of 2, Hotel | sad Miscellan Mansions, And Mr. C. F. eous Taxes Starkey, a mining engineer, of Minellaceous Con- the same address, against A tributions Ohinere carpenter, .of 20, Income of G varn- Correspondence.
Water Street, whose десе ment Properties "Spectator." - Your letter is Lei Kira. In the Yarious Provincial to learn that that kind of is unavoidably held over until loses brought by Mr. Lyaught it Receipts thing will not be repeated.
¡was claimed that $1,000 was lent Receipts of Central Self-respecting people here are
to the defendant on March 13 The Bishop's Engagements.
Offices ... rather tired of having to feel that |
The Bishop of Victoria will to-lent, and in the other case $1,000 Direct Central B not, an object of derision and morrow, (Friday) give & Lent was stated to have lent the defan- contempt to the men of Singapore lecture to Indies in the Chapel dant on March 28,
Mr. J.H. Gardiner represented | The total of the Ord. and Shanghai. On the outbreak attached to his house at St. Paul's
inary Receipts is $388,009,680 | last, only a chequs to purchase of war, Singapore's first care College at 10.45 a.m., the subject both plaintiffs, and Ir. G.B.
Extraordinary Revenue. plesture with.", How, then, if a WAL to TRISS fand for being, "Spiritual Vision." On Haywood defended.
The claim of Mr. Lymnght was| Land Tex... ...$ 5,751,464 men gets pleasure in following an sending Home every man who Sanday next bs will preach for
708,886 ? He might gain more sheques wished to go but could not afford the Bible Society at St. Stephen's heard first,
21,205 by following another; but to pay his fare. Did Hongkong Chinese Church West Point at 11 Mr. Gardiner first asked for Merchandise Tax... which do this? In Shanghai the men s.m. and at St. John's Cathedral permission to amend his claim as Principal and_Mis-
"What Christ may follows :-"The plaintiff olaims cellansons Taxes 3,011,410 forence in cheques, the amount with for the Front were feted right at 6 p.m.. on,
Income from
of pleasure in the same. - Es gols for and left and the bulk of the do for every man-Keep him the sum of $1,000 as the return
Government Pro-
some of his directly; unlike the British and French popaistion from falling"
of money paid to the defendant |
partics... for the parchese of antimony ors
8,351 bank clerk, he is having All communications latended for publication should be addressed lined up to Bee them on
A Pull and a Prize.
his fortnight's holiday, and board. In Hongkong, when Inspector Taylor of the Police which defendant had failed to
doing what delights him, all the deliver.". men arrived who had been at the Reserve summoned a Chinese at
91,610 year." Not perhaps what the Front, no
notice was the Police Court this morning for Some argument took place on Receipt of Central
average business parent would taken of them than if they had street gambling. The Inspector this application, and eventually
Offood.
2,248,437 consider the safest advice for a been returned Chinese deportees, said the defendant was in Ko the amendment was allowed, Direct Central Be
young gentleman at the impres until the Police Reserve took the Shing Street with a stall on the the defendant to have ceipts
23,510,989 aionable age, subject as it is to matter in hand. But now the footpath. A boy gave him ter the costs of any adjournment Central Miscellan
many qualifications. One would Colony really is trying to see the oente, taking several pulla at the which was necessary in con-
eons Receipts
8,100,000 like to know for whom the advice error of its ways and we board (produced). He did not sequenos.
Domestic Loan ... 24,291,488 was intended, what, after all, he fervently hope that its conversion win anything and put down
In cutlining the facts, Mr. Pablo Loans
16,187,805 did with his life." "The Wait will prove a Issting one.
another ten cente, and after Gardiner said that the two plain- The total of the Extraordinary Woman" is an eerie Icelandic "The Effeminate American".
another pall he received two tifs were concerned together in Receipts is $84,828,924; and the story found among Mr. Stevenson's packets of preserved sweets the China Mining Metal Company. grand total of both the Ordinary papers, and gaite worth printing Saveral other boye had tries. Early in March, 1916, the defend and Extraordinary Beceipts is The faithful army of "ELS." Defendant said the game was for ant who was well-known to the $472,838,584.
Correspondents are requested to observe the rule requires them to forward their demes and addresses sommunications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily publication, but as an evidence of their bona fides.
to the Editor.
Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager.
Cab'e Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.
Telephons: No. 1 A.B.C., 5th edition. Western Union Office address: 11, Ics House St.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1917.
THE PEKING CRISIS.
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Various Provincial & Miscellaneous Taxes...
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THE
Under the above heading reprinted yesterday United States paper's comments on some very practical remarks of Rear fun. Even if a man did not get plaintiff, went to their office and Ordinary Expenditure. Admiral Thomas, U. 8. N., who a marble into a hole be received said he could secure antimony Ministry of Foreign
two packets of sweets, and if he ore for $7 or $8 picul, delivered complains of the growth of ■
No country that really prided
itself on its manliness could HOW LILLE IS ROBBED. Hotel, and it was there that the tolerate for a moment, e.g. thej
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BOITOW.
Incendiarism and the Sequel.
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of
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ordinate offices... Ministry of Jantion and îta sab- ordinate offices Ministry of Eduos.
tion and its sub- - ordinate offices
Ministry of Agri- culture & Com
merce And its subordinate offices
munications and
ita enbordinate cfioss
Ministry of Board of Mongolian and Tibetan Affaira and its subor dinate cffices...
4,448,543
42,570,109
then, although there is a dif
lovers will be grateful for these stray pages rescued from Time's wastspaper basket,
The latest peace “kite,” which comes from Germany vis Amster dam, says the Manchester Guard. ian, is the suggested exchange 61,792,970 of Alsace for French Indo-Chins Apart from the fact that no men- tion is made of Lorrains, which
156,608,047 | is more French than Alsios and
which is exceedingly valuable. because of ita mineral deposits,
7,304,135 the French are not likely to con- sider for a moment the diminution of their Astatio possessions,
4,433,895
9,337,158 French Indo-Chins has coal,
lignite, And zine mines à capable of great development, ( but the difficulty, of course, lies in their distance, which not only means restricted commerce bat also raises questions of defence, 2,734,700 a fairly heavy forces must be maintained there. And the average home-loving Frenchmen bas little doeire to serve, in the 1,633,608, all who have read Haggerd's "Allan Qastermain" might infer from the observations of the amusing Alphonse.
1,044,216
The total of the Or dinary Expendi ture is ...
... $291,803,470 Extraordinary Expenditure. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its subordinate office
Affairs and sub- spirit of effeminacy among his was sucosmial he got mora. A Hongkong, This was con ordinate offices...$ countrymen. No one who has fine of $5 was imposed, sad the sidered a fair price, and after Ministry of Interior watched the American attiade money found on defendent was farther negotiations Mr. Lyaught
and its subordi. through the war can very well confiscated.
promised to advance defendant nate offices dispute the Admiral's statement.
$1,000. On March 13, an inter- Ministry of Finance view took place in the Edward and its anbordi.
nate officer In a sudden barst of energy and of confidence, Renier yesterday
money was advanced, defendant Ministry of Warand revealed what everyone in. Bongkong knew already; that matters winging in public of nach
giving the receipt (produced), its subordinate Defendant went up country to in Peking, in connection with the Chine-German silastion, bave ditty as "I Didn't Raise My Bay
offices ... secure the ore, and, on re- Ministry of Navy. reached a critiosi stage. One noteworthy point in the position is To Be A Soldier" The better that the pretent is probably the first occasion whereon Li Yuan-type of American žu
turning, in a fortnight's time, and ils sub- hung has held cat against bie Cabinet on any important matter. fally ready to explain why any
told plaintiff that the ore had The frot seems to show that the President can be firm, or can man who dared to stand on a A French business man, who been secured, but that it was not assume an air of firmaens, under certain circumstances--those (public stage and voice such a has been at Lille since the begin. sacient to fill a junk or boat, circumstance being, presumably, the consciousness of German sentiment was not promptly sing of the war, and was lately and that it would be better to sapport. Mr. Li has always been described by the Hongkong Chin ducked in the nearest pond. The released, owing to age and ill purchase some more and bave it ese as a figore-bead and a poppet; and it looks remarkably as though explanation is that, in the States, health, gives in the Matin some brought down at the same time. be is prepared to continue as such, though at the mercy of a new set women have been allowed to account of the depredations com Agreeing to this suggestion, Mr.
advanced of wire-pullore. Be that as it may, the Cabinet has resigned, and get the controlling hand. In 'mitted by the Germans at Lille. Starkey
defendant he must either oil a new one or eles must be prepared to take, at the schools it is not uncommon, The town has been over and over another $1,000, and defendant the eleventh hoar, the advice of hie Ministers, all of whom are now to find A WOMAD again fired. In 1915 a buge fine was told to have the ore stored at very decidedly in favour of war.
the head, and the masters meekly of 18,000,000 (£720,000) was Capton to the order of the It will be time enough when peses comes, to discum the various taking their orders from her. exacted the third, the muni- plaintiffs. Defendant again went Ministry of Com- sations of the British Legation. It is sufficient now to any that the Corporal punishment is forbidden, cipality refused to pay it, where way and when he came back the Germane broke he said the ore was stored in standing puzzle to every Britisher in Hongkong, and to every Chin- and the schoolmaster who thrash, upon ess who has felt a serious interest in the tide of events during thepasted a vicious boy would be "jailed.", inta the cellar
the a certain godown, near to tha two and a half years, is that measures were not taken at the out- Then, again, there is little or no town
hall,
barst open the station. Mr. Lyssught, who want break of war to persuade Chira to enter the Entente. China was family life in America, as we safes with blow-pipe, and to Oanton a few days later, wont open to persuasión; bat our diplomatists have thought well to put understand it; the women rules removed all the coin in them into the godown to take delivery, off till now any very ardent attempt to make a friend of her. The the house and it is no mach two motor-cars. Last Joly one but was informed that there was anfortunate part of the delay in that a number—perhaps a big nam-ma father dere do to more fioe was imposed of no ore there standing in bis name. ber of the Chinese will be saying that Britain is merely seeking discipline his OWD children. 22,000,000£ (4880,000). German Defendant, told of this, mid to exploit their country; and this, together with the lies and The boys, having been ruled by methods of commandeering are plaintiff had gone to the wrong bribery so skilfally arranged by Admiral von Biais, still women and taught the most equally sasorapulous and place, and gave him another renders the entry of Chine somewhat uncertain. The Germana cottageons sentimentality, either thorough. Offosre walk into the address. At the second place fear, but still hope; for it is natural that they should argos kick over the traces at the first shops armed with requisition plaintif was told that there was that, if they can hambag Li Yuan-hung as they have done, they possible moment, and ridicule orders, and carry off whatever ore there, but that it was in the ought not to have much difficulty in keeping the general their elders and all that thees! goods they fancy. In many cases name of a Company. Plaintif public of the country in ignoranos as to the real course of the have taught them, or alee these goods are brought back to could not get delivery, and when war events. Long before it had ever occurred to our aspient Foreign grow up into people like Mr. Wil-Lille from Germany by Ger- he told defendant of this, defend Offos to saler upon an educative campaign all over Chins regarding liam Brysn. Thus we have (thank man tradesmen, who re-sell them ant said that that was the ore, the war, the Hun bad sown lies thickly in every province and among Heaven there are many splendid st exorbitant prices. This is and a friend of his had put it in all clamer, had obtained control of a large section of the native press exceptions) two classes of people specially the case with wine. under that name. Defendant was and had pat lying pamphlets into the hand of every school boy. Some in the States: the one, that in dead Payments by the Germans are requested to go to Canton with day the British public may want to know why so little was dons to all sense of duty and moral made in paper currency. In this plaintiff, but he said he was too towards counteracting all this.
obligation, that will stick at noth-connection a remarkable incident | busy. Just after this, the Canton But just now the past will have to take care of itself. Britaining to gain its commercial ends, happened on Easter Sunday. A troubla broke out, and they could and China have to make up lost ground as quickly as may be, and and that sees nothing that is not report got about that the town hall noi go. When the trouble was this can only be accomplished by perfect frankness from both sides, admirable even in a person would be set on fire that night, lover, plaintiff had great difficulty China's beat men have not the least doubt se to the line which it is of the Barry Thaw type; and the Sure enough, two hours later a in getting into touch with the her duty to pursue. By joining the Allies she gains financially in other, that welcomes every fire did break out. Another ouri-defendant, but at length dilend- number of directions to which we have many times alluded--and ahai orane, from women's rights ons coincidence was that, when ant mid he had sold the are for lots the world see that she means to take herself seríonely as a nation. to Billy Bandstiem. with the firemen arrived, they found considerably less money. Plaintif The world has a habit of valuing a man accordingly as he values both hands, and that recognises that all their hose pipes had been had never received the are nor himself, and it applies the camerale to nations. If China is going to no bourdity in forbidding an out and were useless. German any money back. allow her President to argue that she is a poor and weak country entire State to harbour any officers during the fire asi at a Mr. Lgsanght then went into and desires to live on friendly terms with Germany an with Britain alochol within its borders or in cafe opposite admiring what they the box and bore this statement and France, she must pay the inevitable penalty of finding other encouraging shore drunkenness called a "magnificent spectacle." It out, giving details of the countries regarding her sa La Yan-hung appears to regard her. among bluejackets by making it was afterwarde ascertained that transaction. The greatest opportunity in the whole of her wonderful history lies impossible for them to get a drink the fire was due to incendiariam, Questioning plaintiff, Mr. Hay- before her: that of founding a lasting friendship with notions on board. Nothing short of having been lit at four differeni wood suggested that the money powerful enough to see her through all her troubles, whether a big war of her own is likely to parts of the building at once. The was lent by the two plaintiffs for domestic, financial or other, and to put her on her feet. The Chinese help America ont of the miserable German authorities decided that the working of mines in which Ministry of Com
· Hepublić has kitharta boss, in great masezon, a failure ; and for this depthw so which sho huna muk, the
they were interested, and that et aeuzgicusioun mud rowsern z' that it has never completely won the confidense of its ab- Since the Civil War her people, hooligant, who were never tesoud, an agreement man ninda out by die wurde. jects. It now ha ampla obence to do me, by proving to thươi thất, havo komi ginite content to play Fimily, by za still more orious Mr. Starkey embodying time semne práficos MENSEN A whatever Americs may choose to do in the way of loving her si soldiere--for the Spanish flair coincidence, - £40,000,000 worth on which the money wie lout: Board at hơm gulism children's deaths unavenged, China is too proud to lay herself open can hardly be taken seriously. of the paper currency inned by Plaintif mid that the agreed - Tibatan to sach a charge. Germany has drowned Chinons subjects and may If she is to be saved, it will only the Garmaan army in payment of meat had nothing to do with the conceivably drown more unless she sees that their countrymen ars be by an invasion that will arouse requisitioned goods was destroyed money in the present onse, which determined to fake a band in stopping the murders. The day that the dormant manhood of the in that free Ons milliard gone was advanced purely to purchase Expenditure is $181,085,114; and chopal mipuintes time a the Republic declarna war on Germany will be the day on which it country, and that will teach the in smoke,” said German officers are already mined.
the grand sisal of both the Ordi. cirozmetanese abali e per will convinos the conflicting elements within its own territory that is women, that their proper place is afterwards. What a loss for Mille!" Turther evidence was given, nary and Extraordinary Expendi- allowed to pos has come to stay, and that China is really on her way to redemption; the second and not the fente And they rosand with liughter. and the oses was adjourned. karo in 8472338)
Ministry of Interior
and its anbard- inste offices Ministry of Finazos and its sabord- inste offices... Ministry of Warand its anbordinate offices ...
Ministry of Navy
and its enbordin- ats office Ministry of Justice
and its subordin ste office
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| Ministry of Ednon-
Lion sad Sta subordinate office
Ministry of Agrical- ture and Com maros and it subordinate cffissa
Dfairs
$1,848,788
According to a Berlin now paper, the Germans were the originators of trousers. This may be true, but at one time some of them were anything but proud of their invention. The wearing of trousers (instead of kape- brosches) was regarded by Ger. man potentates at the end of the 3,117,770 18th century a indicating.
sympathy with the sansoulottes of France. In 1790 the LuodgzarS 162,397,632 of Hesse-Cassel ordered that the convicts engaged in street-sweep- ing and road-making abould be 10,711,833 dressed in trousers, no se to.
disgust_bis_mbjsota with this form of dress. And about 847,484 the same period an ediet address- ed to all Government function- arits in Pramia warned tham 28,610 that "the wearing of tromeses, and the fashion of dispensing with a wig and having the hair out short round the head, are derogatory to 594,943 the dignity and gravity of anyone ooospying an official post." In England, 100, trousers were in sɔme quarters looked upon with 1,279,496 dialavour, for many yours aft
'they firut'cams into vogna kii
chapel in pantoloost should be considere
64 276 The original trust The total of the Extraordinary in : 1820, of wo Noncon