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ENQUIRE OFTEN, BUT JEDE HONGKONG TWENTY- Sir James Cantlle, so wall. RARELY; AND THOU WILT NOT
FIVE YEAR'S AGO known by older Hongkong OFTEN BE VISTAKEN.—William
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WHISKY residents, has hardly given this
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Colony an advertisement in his Istest contribution to the JourFICIË
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One non-fatal case of diphtheria. '(Compiled from the “Hongbong
Telegraph" £les for week- ́ending Aug. 25th, 1995.) of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, was noted yesterday, the of which publication be is the sufferer being a Britishar.. Editor. In the course of en
The Gazette
that notifies
THE DOLLAR. article entitled "Housing at Home and AbroadTM be discourses travellers are forbidden to carry on what he thinks is a lack of AWAY from France more than precaution against disease by 1,000 francs.
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been
Aug. 22nd.-The rate of the Dollar, on demand, to-day is 25. 11-7/8d.
RESIDENT'S DEATH.
SHIPPING NEWS.
right under the hom
(BY "NEPTUNE)
| Pollos. ⠀ Their method was to purchase, a – barga,- go through all the Rumour has again been bas formalities, and moor her in the with reports of an absorption of Narth River labelled in big the Indo-China Stsam Navigation
letters. “ Dynamita-keep awKY" Company by the P. and D. Com York has had its fill of st- pany. It is officially stated that piosions, and they were thus left there is no truth whatever in the averaly alone. Then the river report Now, as was the cabo police suddenly made a raid, and eight months ago, the price men found 200,000 dollars worth of tioned by the gossips at woollen goods on board. The which the P. and O. Company watching was done by the crow may take over the shares is of another barge which did not given as 80 to 85, but such
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of
It is notified that the name of
figure is purely imaginear to have any connection he same high standard of quality foreign residents in tropical coun
whatever, but they wern arrastud triss, in so far as this relates to
the strangth On the manner of building houses the Asiatic Steamship Company
this recent report Indo-Chinas on suspicion. still maintained.
and goes on to state that "in no of Canton, Limited has
Aug. 22nd.-It is with feelings were hoisted up to £5. At one part of the tropics are better struck off the Register.
of the deepest regret that we hear time last year the price was rush- Some time in December of this honses to be seen than in the
His Excellency the Governor of the death of Mrs. Goddard,ed up to £57, that level being year Hongkong will be invaded An American company Colony of Hongkong. Many of! the houses are raised from off the has appointed Mr. Edward Lewis wife of the indafatiguabla and touched, as now, on the talk of by sex.
chartered a steamer on ground 4 ft or 5 ft, and the earth Agassiz to act as Assistant Crown deservedly popular commander of an absorption by the P. and O. has
This has been revived from time which it will send on exhibition the Douglas coasting steamer beneath is covered by concrete. Solicitor until further notice.
to time for several years since across to the Far East. A float- rendered Were these houses
Haitan, who passed away at the breakdown of amalgamationing exhibition will be rather s mosquito-proof, which few are, by
Per case of 1 dozen $28 including duty.
A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. and quinine taking.
WINE AND SPIRT MERCHANTS.
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Che Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1920.
don't come
SEEKING PEACE.
Our Peking correspondent advises us that much is being heard in the capital just now about the proposed calling of a People's Conference for the settlement of all fondamental national questions. | HONGKONG AND OPIUM.
Messra Silva-Netto and Co.
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CHINA ASSOCIATION,
A CHAMPION OF CONSTITUTIONALISH.
concerns. The current price of selected is being very alaborately the £3 deferred shares of the fitted, and the idea has the strong Indo-China Steam Navigation support of the American Manu- Company may be justified by the facturers Export Association and financial strength of the under-other bodies of a similar nature. We in Hongtong aball follow taking.
this new venture with interest. Its possibilities are Anormous,
netting of windows, verandahs, have been granted a licence to her residence, College Gardens. negotiations between the two novelty out in China. The ship and doors, malaria could be defied, trade under the Non-Ferrous yesterday. and quinine taking, which serves | Motal Industry Ordinance, 1919. to diminish the quality of blood,
Aug. 3rd-At a meeting of would be rendered unnecessary. A Chinasa was yesterday ad- A well-nigh perfectly bygienic mitted into the Government Civil the China Association held yes house would result were these Hospital suffering from stab terday, unfortunately in private, precautions taken. All agree wounds inflicted in bis left arm new.Committee was elected this doctrine is sound, and yet it pit by an assailant who has since
and there was a general feeling| The Hongkong and Whampoa The wares of one country can be Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requirasia not practised. The young man absconded.
amongst the members present Dock Company are extremaly brought to the doors of *03 ham to forward their names and addresses with communications going out to the tropics is usher-
Miss Ida Mas Vare, aged 23 that vary little bad been done in lucky in getting the contract for market, and the cost is, after all, dressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, bot a anded into a dwelling where these
instrumentality of their Manager, Widence of their bons fides.
precautions are not taken, and years, daughter of Mr. Vare, a the past and that nothing much four oil tankers, through the not much. All communications intended for publication should be address-he early succumbs to disease member of the U.S. House of Re-would be done unless there were fr. R. H. Dyer, who is at pre-
There is no improvement in the From which there is no reason presentatives for Pennsylvanis, more frequent meetings. The sent at Home, where be is trying to the Editor.
for his ever acquiring one of the visiting Congressional chairman introduced the subject of to advertise the shipbuilding freight market, which remains Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager.
เอ certainly Lave good party, has died in Peking from the Navy League, and read a letter facilities of Hongkong. It may stagnant. There is some enquiry
think tonsilitis. The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is.$36 houses, but we do nos
received by the Chamber of Com- not be generally known that there for tonnage for Saigon-Hongkong it is necessary to render
merce from Admiral Sir Vesey is more difficulty in obtaining at 15 to 20 cents per pical. Ai annum. (Payable in Advance.)
His Excellency the Governor Hamilton. The rala per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subcripthem mosquito proof in view of
The Chamber of orders for ships now than at any the close charterers are offering The French ataamar since the beginning of 20 cents. des for any period less than one month will be charged sa for a the fact that the Government has appointed Lam Kwan Yau
Commerce, being cosmopolitan time 1 month.
here. by reason of its extensive to be a "Forest Officer" for the in its composition and cosmopoli-the War. This is due more to Bourbon has been fixed for The Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee nullah training and other anti-control and superintendence of tan in its objects, was unable to the excessive costs of building Manila and Cebu at 10 cents per accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies malarial measures, has practi- the forests of the Colony, in act in regard to & matter purely than to any tall of freights. On rical, and it is reported that livered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies cally succeeded in ridding the succession to Ng Kam Shing British and it was left to the account of these high costs some the es Hangchow, Sings and at by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. Colony of this disease. A mos-resigned.
gentlemen present, all British owners are seeking to cancel Hunan, three Chins Navigation Single Copies, Daily, ten cents.
quito-proof house would, of neces-
subjects, to say if they could do contracts or to defer their fulfil-Company's vessels, have been Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for asity, have to be but ill-ventilated
The ment in the hope of more moder-chartered for Saigon and Manila Amongst the passengers who anything in the matter. fred period will be continued until countermanded.
and to suffer residence in suck left for Home by the s.s. Kalyan
the Manila and Cebu. There is a The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be during the summer months would yesterday were Mr. and Mrs, gentlemen present resolved to ate charges later on. There is a at 35 cents and 40 cents for
form themselves into the Hong-pronounced reluctance on Ltd.be well-nigh unbearable. Wehave P. S. Cassidy, Mr. and Mrs. P. P. kong Branch of the Navy League. part of principals of the great demand for boats on the Saigon
seen mosquito-proof houses in the Thursfield, Mrs. Le Huquet,
shipping lines to give fresh Phillipines run at $7 a ton dead- New Territories-mora particul- Lient. Com. Brown, Lient. Scott!
onters for new tonnage, or to weight for the carriage of cattle. sanction the pushing on of The market for Newchang-Hong- arly the outlying Police Stations Moncrief, Lieut. T. B. Wood-
the present orders, and we much prefer the open roffe and Mr. Owen Hughes.
30 kong Carton is very quiet. I bear. August 27th-The Hon. T. H. account of the bigh class of house, provided the breed-
costs that the 8. Drafar, a Norwegian arrived here this and of the alarming
de-vessel, has has been fixed for a ing of mosquitoes is guarded
His Majesty the King has been Whitehead against. The way to get rid of graciously pleased to issue a morning from Home, where, as is mands for further increases in sum of $21,000 for Saigon-Hougay- malaria is to get rid of Mandate authorizing the Con-well-known, he has worked hard wages, which will naturally Swatow-Saigon-Hongkong. There mosquitos, and for its work in secration of the Reverend Charles and very successfully on behalf increase the cost of ships in is no demand for toobage for coal. that direction the Hongton Ridley Dappuy, to be a of the ratepayers of Hongkong future. All the shipping losses and all imports of Japanese coal Government is not always given Bishop. to the intent that he could hardly be expected that due to submarinism have been from Moji, sic are being brought the credit it deserves. There is should exercise his functions in Mr. Whitehead would be greeted made good months ago and the to Hongkong by the owners' own
Closures bave been- still room for improvement, true: one of His Majesty's Possessions on his return by hundreds of difficulty which faces steamship tonnage, bo: there is hardly justiñcation abroad.
grateful and jubilant citizens, owners at the present time is not arranged by local coasters for the for the taunt of Dr. Cant.ie that
and it would have been too so much the necessity for now carriaga of coal at $2.50 per ton we are careless. And young men
Inland Lot 2303. Pokfulam much to expect the Chamber of tonnage as the want for some for Hongas to Hongkong, $2.30 out to Hongkong Road, is to be sold at the P.W.D. Commerce, whose representative arrangement regarding freights. for Hongay to Swalow, and similar rate for Hongay to succumb early on to malaria Offices on September 6. It has an he is in the Legislative Coun. In the current year some twelve
For the ran New- Dr. Cantlis doesn't say "Hong area of 33,400 square feet and the cil, to present him with an million tons will be released to Canton. tone" but the reference is un-upset price is $4,040. Rural Build-address of welcome yet if ever from the British shipbuilding chang-Hongkong-Canton I bear fortunately included in the same ng Lot 151, Plantation Road, is resident of the Colony deserved yards, and all this tonnage of a fixture of a China Navigation affect freights. On Company's boat, name not speci- paragraph in which this Colony to be sold on the same date. Its to be publicly welcomed and to will is mentioned.
area is about 12,000 square feet be escorted to the Town Hall the other hand, orders for special fied as yet, at 52 cents for a load and the upset price is $1,440. with a band playing "See the vessels, such as oil tankers, are of 22,000 picols with Daloy as an Conquering Hero Comes," it is being placed and are likely to be extra-loading port. On the same A certain proportion of the merchant and student classes has been Recent big hauls of opium by
Seldom have
Hongkong Mr. T. H. Whitehead. We can for some time. If Mr. Dyer sue-run it is stated that a Russian unusually vocat on the subject, and it is just possible that this may our local Revenue Officer thestre-goers been in 83 demon-assure him, though, that a very ceeds in securing more orders vessel has accepted a lumpsum the made a lest question. Now, the idea at the back of this move- reveal the fact that the smuggling strative & mood as they were last large number
residents before he leaves London in of $21,000. ment is a very admirable one, but we much doubt whether anything of the drug into Hongkong is still night, on the occasion of the are delighted to know that December, they will be a godsend practical value is likely to accrue from its adoption. Even in an extremly lucrative business. farewell performance of "The be is once again in our to the Hongkong and Whampoa
Although the profits earned by more enlightened countries than China, sach & step would be The Excise Department is certain Quaints. At the close of what midst and that they would Dock Company.
shipping companies owning cargo ifficult, and how it is going to be adopted in this land of politically having a busy time in watching was a most enjoyable show the have been only too glad to have
steamers have been highly satis- Intrigue and wire-pulling we cannot see. More than that, a primary smugglers from Amoy and audience remained in their seats taken part in some sort of de-
It is gratifying to find from the factory during the past few years, requisite would be a willingness on the part of the conflicting neighbouring ports, for it is from loudly applauding the members monstration had they been in- liques in Chine to submit their differences to such a tribuaal, and this district that most of the of the little parts. There were vited to do so by those who are report of the British Commercial the fact that a considerable num- the improvement in the situation in the North, there are yet wheels there is a very big incentive for length came to the footlights and lead in such matters.
cannot see any signs that such a prospect is in sight. Despite secret native traffic passes. That calls for Mr. Salisbury, who at naturally expected to take the Counseller in Shanghai that ber of experienced owners have- ithin wheels, whilst as for the attitude of the South on the general contraband work can be judged thanked those present for the Destion of a settlement it is extremely difficult to get to know by the fact that the warmth of their reception. He nything at all, so much at variance are the Southerners amongst native price of opium is feelingly mentioned that Mr. somewhere around $2.50 per tael. Scovell, the talented teuor mam. Themselves.
The chief advocate of this plan of a People's Conference is but to purchase opium in Hong ber of the party, had to be left Jeneral Wo Fei-fu. Geperals Chang Tso-lin and Tsso Kuo were long, where the Government behind at Shanghai seriously 11, effeved to be sympathetic towards the proposal, but the President exercises B
strict monopoly, and concluded by stating that PERILS OF THE FINANCIAL ment somewhat belittles the im- sold their fleets is not surprising. zeported to be against it on the ground of its impracticability means paying nearly $15 per tael The Quaints hoped to be back
portant part played by British Present shipping conditions pro- Thile curiously enough the Peking Leader, which is supposed to be difference well worth the again next year.
shipping companies in this trade, vide one remarkable contrast. he organ of the students, came out recently with an initialled securing. Last year's badget
evidence of which will be found New ships built on the time and Sir John Simon, addressing a
lime" system are frequently in the shipping returns of Hong- ditorial deprecating the suggestion that Chinese business man be showed that the Colony had
meeting at Dewsbury recently kong, Shanghai, Singapore, and proving far more costly than was pointed to Cabinet positions in order to bring about the nations! received a considerably decreased
said it was absolutely nec GRRKTY construction, pointing out that Chinese merchants, while renowned revenue from opium and iHONGKONG
that Liberala should
Fennog, which show that Great anticipated when the orders of their integrity, have not been distinguished for their economy more than probable that this
FINANCEShoulder to shoulder in a crusade Britain still maintains the lead were placed; and freight rates in their system. The writer advises them to leave politics alone. year will show an even greater
to reduce wasteful public expending position. With a return to various directions are still tend- ck to business, and develop the trade and industry of the country. falling off, seeing that the Gov- "aving the student classes to supply the future politicad. The erament has pursued its policy of The Hongkong Treasury issues are. It was becoming increas normal conditions in the shipping ing downwards. As an instance tiole is significant as expressive of student hopes and ambitions. increasing the price to an almost the following financial sistemant ingly clear that the problem of trade of the world, the British of the unexpectedly heary cost. public expenditure was the most share of the carrying trade in of paw lounge, there may be cit- a true that it is they who bare fostered a spirit of disinterested-prohibitive level. In the words of for the month of April:— ̈... * in national affairs, and it may be that Chine," more than any the Governor, we must expect Balance of Assets and Liabil. urgent and most fundamental of question will once more regained the case of certain large cargo former in-steamers of about11,000 tons dead- our difficulties. We had in the and surpass its
weight, for which, contracts were - Ser country, may become the country first to give the young men
portance. decreasing revenue, for ities on 31st March,
Just four or five years made away)
placed while the war was pro- women their proper places, but it is doubtful, for in tois country under the League of Nations
with more accumulated wealth
ceeding. It was estimated— ls held in especial veneration and it is unthinkable that the Covenant it may just be that we Revenue from 1st to
than mankind had ever expended| lagenarian or septuagenarian statesmen or politician should sit shall soon cease to handle opiam 30th April, 1929. 1,21,398.09 before in the same time. This terasted in shipping is hoping was given that the total cost to Everybody in Hongkong in-nething more than an estimonia de by side with a student of seventeen or even a young man of at all. But whilst Hongkong is irty. Still, the students may mould public opinion even if they contributing its share to the
needed retrenchment, and we that something will be done to the owners of each ship would 6,693,915.19
could never hope to reach a stable bring pilfering of cargo to an work out at about £135,000. As e not given an opportunity for yet a while to act upon it and eradication of the opium habita Expenditure from 1st
to 30th April, 1920 1.110.303.01 position again unless increased end. Shipowners get into bad the work has slowly progressed nslate it into legislation.
very costly-share, too—there is.a
production was accompanied by odour because of these thefts, it has gradually been made clear * A point of considerable importance in this attempt to secure à regrettable laxity of control when
..$3,583,612.18 the most rigorous cutting down and they have to pay claims that the cost would far exceed dalement of China's problems is the attitude which the Canton one comes to consider China
of Government spending. *amounting to thousands of dollars this figure. Modifications WATE overnment takes on this Feople's Conference ides. That attitude herself. The poppy is still being
We already saw the con- year. It has got to come made in the plans--wooden decke one of opposition, on the grounds that there is no law or pre-freely cultivated in certain
sequences of this ruinously high to. an end. Still, we are and other niceties were eliminat- feat for taking such a step and that enormous diffealty would be districts and trading in the drug administration that have long and wasteful expenditure in not the only people to suder od but the ships, of wuch slap. Countered in the way of convening the gathering, in view of the goes on almost unchecked, so rife stable political situation in the country. Thas the Canton is official corruption in the been prayed for. Opium is not debased paper currency, high from dock thefte. They are ler designs than was intended, ara vernment declares that all outstanding questions must be solved interior. If Chine is ever going to the worst curse of China by a prices and heavy taxation, and common in most of the ports actually doeting 2475,000 dech. ccordance with the stipulations of the Provisional Constitution, handle the question of opium long way, but it to one of the when the slump in trade became of the East and Far East. which it poses as the champion. We can, of course, ignore the satisfactorily it will not be evils that will assuredly come up pronounced we could expect In Lact they are even Wo for earnest consideration at no situation in which no class of the England and America Eaton Government's talk of "protecting" this Constitution * 10 until she has secured #n
chhot air," especially seeing that it has failed to revise that effective central authority very distant date Hongkong community could escape the fan they are in Hanglon stitution after years of trying, even though this was the first capable of governing the will, probably, be seriously affect force of the blow. A waz Govern have Thess it took up when the Government was first formed. The country with more honesty thened, but by that time our local ment still inspired by the war oright; In fact is that these Canton politicians are dead up against the is now apparent. But that day Government Will cibly have view of finance could never ple
hat was need fowal of holding a conference and that means that we are still seems a long way off, and would evolved other mesos for the OSOBY
of the Colony's neces" for a country to returni le fuine off that settlement which is so urgently needed in also oom to Berald very cr
1920.
Balance .....
$5,481,51710
of
SIR. J. SIMON'S ALARM,
SITUATION.
stand
British tonnage is well to the fore disposed of their vessels seems to in the Far Eastern carrying tradiderable decline in earning power indicatethatthey anticipate a con- While it is true that the Japanese in the near future. In view of have, especially since the wa,
very considerably increased their the present enormous cost of share of the shipping trade in constructing new shipping the action of those owners who have Far Eastern waters, such a state-
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