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Watsons'
very old liqueur SCOTCH WHISKY
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
NOTES & COMMENTS:
DAY BE DAY.
is a blend of the finest Whiskies distilled in SCOTLAND.
The same high standard of quality still maintained.
Per case of 1 dozen $28 including duty.
[OUR “P. M, G. **
into the great advantage of
FLATTERY IS OFTEN A TRAFFIC
CURRENT COIN.
(BY "MERCATOR "):
The share brokers of this
ACTION AGAINST DANISH FIRM.
(Continued From Puge 4)
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
Tho
We observe that the Chinese OF MUTUAL MEANNESS WHERE, | · Foreign Ofoe has notified the ALTHOUGH BOTH PARTIES IN-
Probably the most strange British Charge d'Affaires in Pek-END DECEPTION, VEITHER 13 Colony, who have been practically their own accounts, there is no was that which an eccentric all. present over given to a bride ing of the following letter from DECEIVED.
out of business for the last four evidence to show. This question gentleman sent on the occasion the Ministry of Communications:
months, have now commenced to was not put to Mr. Jeppesen of the marriage of Sir Edward During his tenure of office as The Bav. J, Kirk Maconachie do something. Last week there Hat in view of the fact that the Ridley, formerly Me Justice Postmaster General at Hongkong leaves for Home on holiday to was a sudden rise in the shares goods were supplied on the 37th Ridley. It was the skeleton of Mr. S., B. C. Ross has shown amarrow, accompanied by Mrs of the China Sugar Raining Com January and the claim to deduct an Austrian grenadier! great regard for amicable relat- [Maconchie,
pany, and up to the time off writing these notes the market in would appear not unlikely that Lady Ridley making a studs advanced on the 30th January, it doner had once seap the future the Chinese and British, postal May 7th is the revised date this stock is buoyant. There is the defendant firm's order for the from a skull and vowed he would sarvices:** As a consequence, set for the completion of the first quite scramble for raw suge goods was subsequent to the Chinese Government round of the Kowloon C.C. Ten. America and Europe, and
the send her a whole skeleton when has expressed its thanks nis Tournament
thanks to the foresight of the
discovery.
jshe married. So among the management of the China Sugar On the 30th January, Young rents was a tall oak bax 000- Redning Company, who purchased Fung Pan was accompanied intaining the skeleton, a gruesome large quantities and made as well defendant firm(who had been, also,port's other charming gifts. at the beginning of the year very Canton by a fellow creditor of the addition to Miss Bromley Daven-
lang contracts extending till the acreditor of the deceased "broker". of this Company are on the era of his affairs). Both men were mel Royal Scots Fusiliers who fell in end of the year, the shareholders and a party to the settlament of reaping very large profie. It is a claim on the part of the the war a fund is being raised in expression of thanks, that Mr.At to-morrow's Sanitary Board continuing high for some time their account. Both spake the Wigtownshire, where many of the eanimated that with raw sugar defendant firm to deduct from Ayrshire and the Rhinns of doing good work, and that the meeting there will be read a letter there is every prospect of the Mandarin dialect only and com- men had their homes, Sometimes tribute is well-deserved. One from Government relative to the Company making on the year's munication between them and styled the Rhions of Galloway. thing we do know, and that is that Colonel and Brevet-Colonel L millions dollars. How long this firm was through an incompetent the Tweed, but it seems to have appointment of Lieutenant trading a profit of nearly four the manager of the defendant this word is little known south of
far the services of the official in
jobserys the activities of the head
question. It is, of course, not
Saturday's health return shows given to the general public to one fatal case each of small-paux of the Post Office in relation and cerebro-spinal faver (both to other Governments postal occurrence of paratyphoid fever services, but we may take i(Dutch, imported). from the issuing of such an
Ross has in this connection been
Chinese)
and one non-fatal
As a memorial to the men of the
A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. or Postmaster General is one of Humphry, C.M.G. R.A.M.C., as a demand from America for raw interpreter who spoke Cantonese some relation to a peninsula. The
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
TELEPHONE 616.
Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.
Telephone: No. 1. A.B.C, 5th edition. Western Union. Office address; 11, Ice House Street.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1920.
UNDEVELOPED. RESOURCES.
บ
against
we have. His administrative
mamber of the Board.
sugar is going to continue no and # little Mandarin-Rbinns of Wigtownshire consist ability was well sbown during
one can say, but it is believel They protested In their second meeting in the that his "rule" in the New Terri-
any of the district' extending from her needs have nas deduction and a discussion ensu-Corsewall Point, not far from tories; he was an ideal Distric:illiard contest, at the Chinese
AA get been satisfied. Thated which continued through two Stranraer, to the foot of that Oficer.. Some people say that he Club, Mr. Leung Kam-kong (ex-the enquiry must ease is cartain, days. Chinese New Year was narrow peninsula-like strip of the should never have been trans-Champion) beat. Mr. P.. Tranba: I presume for some weeks to approaching. They were natural-country where the Mull of Gallo- ferred from that post to the Pestich (champion of the Colony) come it will be maintained. Ity anxious to collect their dues way, the most southerly point in master Generalship, so well did 250-230. Club Lusitano wins the is remarkable how slowly news on that account. Finally, find-Scotland, marks one extremity of he understand the Chinese. But competition by 324 points.
iof an important charactering the manager of the defendant Lace Bay. he has the quality, so desirable
Argyllshire also percolates to the share market firm obdurate, Yeung Fung Pan possesses a Rhinns, an Islay. In a Government servant, of At the Union Church yesterday in the Colony. The rumoar of gave to the defendant firm-a adaptability, and as head of the morning. the Rev. J. Kirk the Cuban crop being less than receipt for the fall amount dua Post Office he has given every
Maconachie gave a farewell previously estimated was known to the plaintiff firm (Exhibit B) All Mohammedans do not ad- satisfaction. There are in the address on "Seven Years" Im to me three weeks ago and it (82,177,56) accepting thesmit the claim of the Sultans of Hongkong Goverment service a pressions of Hongkong." Aseems to have been publicly same time the cheque of the Turkey to the Caliphate. Marocco, few men who place common-report will appear in our to- circulated only last week It defendant firm for $1,577.55 Tonia, Algiers, and even Indis- sense above red tape," men who, morrow's issue.
was this fact and the rise in the and B recept น follows this on the high authority of the though surrounded by influences
price of the raw sugar by thirty-(Exhibit Cad February.late Sir Edwin Pears have never calculated to strangle their A returned bauisbee was to-day three per cent in Java and 1920. Received from Tak Shing recognised the legitimacy of the individuality, still manage to given twelve months' hard labour Hongkong, and the decrease in Loong the plaintiff firm, the sum claim. The Turks are Sunais, preserve the “howan touch." M. by the Magistrate. He was the Cuban crop that gave the of Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) and that sect is quite clear that Rosa is one of them. He bas deported in 1914 from Hongkong present boom a fillip.
for overpaid in last account, and the Caliph, the "vice-regent of the done ñne service in British inter-fort en, years, but returned to
we hereby certify that we hare Prophet," should belong to the ests during the war that the End bimself recognized and public knows little of. Our sur-caught by the Police yesterday have been violent for the last Fjerfabrik Ltd. (the defendant Hamid reigned, these qualific
squared up all accounts till date tribe of the Koreisb, and that he Fluctuations in exchange rates with ssid firm.-For Nordisk should be elected. When Abdul General Rozanoff the Russian trade
three weeks. In international firm) (Sd.) J.Jeppesen, Manager."ations were to be found posted in fugitive whose Lame recently equivalent to fluctuations in! The parties no doubt found it the mosques of Constantinople. Sared in the reports of political prices of commodities bought or hard to understand one another. Adal, who did not belong to the happenings in Siberia passes sald. One is more or less willing The manager of the defendant favoured tribe, and had not been
to Europe, accompanied by his the commodity and can thus accounts on this basis. Yeung Andre Lebon to-day. He is going modity when he is familiar with were satisfied to lose their mutual removed. through the Colony by the M. M.to deal in a fluctuating rom-firm understood that both sides elected, ontered the notices to be
his wife and daughter.
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exercise his judgment based upon Fung Pan states that, what he that knowledge, as to whether the did, he did under protest and in
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10 have acted on the unsound assumption that he was entitled to recover a num from the Plaintiff Brm. How of money, paid under a mistake. ever, whatever action he adopted
prise is that he has never been officially honoured, and we can only hope that the oversight will soon be rectified. To talk about the undeveloped mineral wealth of Chios is no THE J.P.'S ELECTION. new theme, neither is it novel to refer to the many native-inspired hin drances that are holding up any work that others are trying to do otherwise our Justices of the Hongtong's "Great Unpaid." But now and again one comes across an instance or a report that Peace, are shortly to indulge in accentuates the importance of the matter and impels some reference excitement of an election-that is,Į being made. 1: is, admittedly, not of much value for the Hongkongii
than one moze
candidate Dr out-Ports press to wax eloquent or indignant regarding such should
Many friends of Mr. L. C. Win-price is likely to go up or go down the hope of pressing his demand legal payment of the debt: and matters so far as the affecting of any immediate remedy is concerned, the
come forward_p filter, of the International Savings Fluctuations in the exchange for the sum in dispute by legal that this transaction between the vacapry оп but there is a distinct utility in pegging away at the subject, because lative Council which will be Winter will be interested to learn the commodity that come from sa sent proceedings have resulted.
the Legis Society. Shanghai, and of Mrs. rate represent price changes of action at a later date. The pre-parties was then closed. his only by persistency that any hope van be justified. The caused by the temporary absence that they are shortly taking up entirely extraneous source and occasion for our present reference is a report that has appeared in from the Colony of the Hon. Mr-permanent residence in Canton, bare nothing to do with the firm, through their representative give judgment for the plaintiff It seems to me that the plaintiff re-open the transaction and to one of the Canton vernacular papers, and the tone of that report is Pollock, We a very hopeful sign that the Chinese themselves are becoming alive to this will be the last of these Society is being established.
wonder whether where a branch office of the market merits pr demerits of the on the 2nd February formally, firm for the balance unpaid the immense benefits they are losing through lack of transportation, farcical happenings That will
particular commodity, hence the and after due meditation and by the Cheque on the balance absence of law and order, and the exorbitant taxes and "squeeze
difficulty in doing business. While after consultation with friends, unpaid of the price of goods sold imposed by petty officials who are as notoriously dishonest as of the Secretary of State with arrived here this morning from to take chances on commodity discharge from their obligations consent to close the transaction depend, of course, on the decision The British yacht Sapphire buyers and sellers may be willing gave to the defendant firm a full and delivered on the ground that they are exacting.
The reported referred to states that the mineral industry of form. The CR.A. were not suffic-Viscount
regard to local constitutional re- Southampton, having on board prices flactasting, since they are under the contract between the obtained from Yeung Fung Pan the south is experiencing a very great handicap through iendly democratic to suggest the Furness.
Viscountess familiar with the commodities, parties for the sale of goods; and by coercion. In my opinion the the lack of railway communication with the various mines abolition of the right of the JP's Lady Sarah Wilson and party. with
Countess Drogheda, they cannot take chances that in doing so they did not attitude assumed by the manager that have been started, and also because the numerous pirates to representation on the Council. The yacht is moored at the Daval ther cannot guage the prospec-in lieu of a larger sum, but criticised as high-handed and not. exchange rates since accept a smaller sum of money of the defendant firm may be roaming over the country have bindered what transportation but H.E. the Governor is known anchorage. was attempted of the mineral products to Canton. We have to favour a wider electorate so
tive fluctuations. The situation accepted a cheque for a part of remarkably scrupulous. I acquit all known this for a long time, but it is something new far as the general question of
as to exchange bas proved both the same doe and a receipt from bim of fraudulent intention; bat to base Chinese saying it. The report goes on to say that, with Unofficial representation is con- present in Hongkong investiga- business men. We hear talk about equivalent to the balance: that scrutinizing the position very
An important personage is at puzzling and disheartening to the defendant firm for & sum the exception of gold and silver, which
appears to me, without wolfram. lead, antimony and manganese were exploited with a to see that principle applied to Washington Government. He is assume that by this is meant the
are still unexploited.cerned, and we should much like ting the machinery Bejd -for the stabilising exchange, and many these documents constituted carefully. slight degree of prost while the European war was raging, as this particular seat. It is an Mr. W.H. Rastail, who is touring restoration of exchange rates to there was then a very great demand for these minerals. "Even anomaly, for the perpetuation of the whole of Asia, on an important approximate gold parity. Such coal miners made some profit, as there was a shortage of tonnage which there is not the slight mission. He is Trade Commis an undertaking appears so chim-effort to remedy the condition as for conveying Japanese coals here." It seems peculiar that coal, est native to the districts, should normally be left almost untouched and that
these
dayssioner of the Department of Com-erical, at least for any time in far as she is concerned, and that imported coal is theaper to buy and obtain. But such are the local
handful of merce of the United States the near foture, that no serious the downward movement of the at this time, the plaintiff firm's facts, for the report explains that until a few years ago native coals the choice of one of the unofficials
should have Government.
interest is taken, in the quest-sterling in the American alone were used as there was then very little importation of foreign in their bands whilst the general
ion. Mere stabilisation at any rate change market has been arrested. with a due appreciation of the representative gave bis consent coal, and local merchants enjoyed a monopoly. Imported coal is publie does not return a solitary by the Empresa. of Rossis are instance, the par of exchange Among those who are leaving would be advantageous, For bat lightly tared at about 42 cents a ton, but on the other band member. The only duties that the Han. M. H. E Follock, K.C.. between Paris and. say. New withdrawal from the local metal Canton without accepting pay position as he understood it. It native coal has been made so subject to the avarice of internal these Justices of the Peace per-ho will be away for four months; York used to be five francs to the market is due to the inherent ment
Japan's apparent silence and was open to him to have left revenue collections that conditions of working have been made form is to visit periodically the the Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pet. Who American dollar. intolerable. Not only is
and to have there the likin to be paid, but Gaol and the Lunatic Asylum is going to Shanghai for a month: were stabilised for a period of the Japanese. Only
Jued If the rate trait further demand on the score of military expenses" is made. But scarcely a
in the nature of for damages for breach of that is not all
reason why they the Hon. Sir Paul Chater, who is five years at ten frames to the ago the Japanese metal The so-called Financial Bureau has to put its should enjoy the right to choose going to America for four months; dollar commerce between France steel markets were demoralised to estimate whether his final year contract The material is not finger in the pie and taxes cost to the extent of 90 cents per ton, a Council member!
and available on which it is possible bringing up internal taxes to over $3.00 a ton. Well might the CHANGED CONDITIONS.
and Mr. Tobias, of Messrs. N. and America would be greatly and many firms in Japan were decision was or was not in bis. exploitation of native coal fields be considered a hopeless task withi
Lazarus and Company, who is encouraged. such conditions prevailing, and the matter of transportation is
In any case, conditions have going for four months to Canada not workable as it is unlikely that cause of their large boldings of how, be elected to compromise This, however, is bordering upon bankruptcy be best interest at the time. Ans- scarcely less serious. The paucity of railways and the unnavigable very much changed from the and England.
other countries wouldnot interfere iron and steel products purchased the claim and his election can- condition of the rivers delay transportation to such an extent that time, when these J.P.'s were first
as all exchange rates are part of at phenominally high war-prices. not now be disturbed. the ultimate cost of the coal is raised beyond a competitive figure the very early days of the Colony, search on No. 91 Des Voeux does not necessarily mean the has forgotten all about this, beprotest which I think may be
given that right. That was in Sergeant Henderson led a common structure. Stabilisation To-day it would seem that Japan It takes longer for coal to reach Canton from the native mines than and on looking back over old Road West the other day as a restoration of former rates, which cause she is making purchases in
He entered at the same time & it does for coal to come down by steamer from Japan. The report records we find that it sprang result of which a Chinese was were based on the relative gold seemingly very small volume expressed fairly as follows: before as concludes:Since the close of the European war nearly from a demand that the public arrested and to-day produced value of the currency units. The after 99 per cent. of the Chinese coal merchants bave experienced great should be represented on
"I discharge you loss. The Hip Hing Company, the largest firm cugaged in this
from your heavy buying in the before the Magistrate, Mr. European countries are not on Hongkong few weeks
obligations under that contract mining industry, bas loss some $160,000, and the Ling Kwang Con- Legislature. The then Governor R. O. Hutchison) charged with gold but on a paper basis. Eur ago.
for the sale of goods; but if on my pany lost some $140,000, whilst many other smaller firms lost from and accordingly asked the Jas taels of prepared opium, Ala
realised the justice of the claim being
The Japanese bas one in possession of 14opean credits have been strained trait which has been return to Hongkong, after taking $10,000 to $20,000 each. These are not comments made by antices of the Peace to select one Chinese P.C. said, he caught the stant and predominant exports big way. A noticeable feature of you are so discharged, I bave still disappointed foreigners who have seen chances of profit thwarted, of their number. At that time prisoner on the staircase whilst from the
evidenced by the con-talk big and to do business in. a
legal advice, I find that, though but they are facts given by Chinese themselves.
United States In looking at the above one bas to remember that the self. there could not have been a large the search was being conducted. Europe during the last five
China's trade during the past constituted body which has been weilding power at Canton for so J.P.8, and the arrangement no hard labour, was inflicted by the munitions and food during the chants now buy much of the raw firm's representative closed the
European population outside the A fine of $500, or three months years. These exports have been secured by Japan, whose mer-
is the increased share pursue it ". long has had among its members a good many of the young doubt met the
I find, then, that the Plaintiff politicians who have been hailed as the bope of China. To them bas
circumstances Magistrate.
period of belligerency, and food material exports from China and transaction with justifiable in- beso given an opportunity of trying a little honest administration fairly well. It is otherwise now
stuffs Bionc since the signing of furnish that country with a large dignation; bat both frend sad on opportunity that one can rightly say has been freely squandered of the Colony in the interim. with Mrs. Harry Woods, are
adays, owing to the steady growth Corrupt extortions by official onderlings are every bit as unchecked
The Misses Woods, together the armistice.
proportion of its need for coercion being abeant, the plantiff and nothing really tangible has been done to free the bonest class There is another way of looking leaving for Singapore by the se
staple products. Repeatedly it firta is bound by what he did. from the fear of marauding bands of pirates. Any foreigner in Justices of the Peace privilege with them very many expressions regarded by practical men" of tors in iron and steel commodities, claim as relates to the contract
st the question. To give the Mentor to-morrow.
Complications of the foreign has been noticed that the Japan- This Court has jurisdiction over They take exchanges have terested in mining matters, who has had rccasion himself to deal which is denied the general public of thanks and goodwill from business as belonging in the realm On the other hand, the Chinese is made by the parties within the long been ese bave been heavy specula-so much only of the plaintiff's with the officials op country, could give very eloquent corroboration of the state of things and how in this respect, at least, Ching herself distinct reflection on the un-leading residents of the Colony of academic discussion is her worse enemy. We are always looking forward to the future telligence of the latter. In these who have benelted from the theory. As the situation now when he actually needs the Any cause of sction which the and not a speculator. He buys only Colony for the sale of goods... for Improvement and although the latter seems a very long line in days of enlightenment, the public, excellent dancing tuition received, stands European countries that material. Under such circumst plainjite may now have against coming it is certain that if throughout the native Press can be disas distinct from particular groups, a special point of emphasis being seek to seminated facts of how officials and lack of public enterprise are has a clear right to repre- the rapidity with which the in-must
buy in America ances it is not aureasonable to the defendant firm for money robbing Chica of so much that
pay a stiff premium expect that a great share of the “bad and received to Canton valuable, then will be started an sentation on public body struction is imparted. These upon educational movement that will bring his own remedies to these charged with the administration dancers intend to return to Hong- for what they purchase. By the intended for re-sale to the Chinese. wholly outside the Colony.
the U. 8. A. dollar goods bought by Japan have been appears to me to have arisen problems. All that outsiders can do at the moment is to try to help time Hongkong awoke to that we are sure they will be warmly cost of the article increased enhancing his dominance in the enter judgment for the defendant
of public affairs. And it's about kong again later in the year, and amount of this premium is the in this way the Japanese is on that movement and give encouragement in the limited sphere in
With some regret, therefore, 1. which we operate.
fact.
welcomed back
Happily, England is making an Far East.
in this matter with costs,
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