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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1821.
THE POSTAL RATES.
THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
Britain's Finances.
SATURDAY, JUNE 11
DAY BY DAY. I
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
WHAT- IS 'LIBERTY WITHOUT A cable relating to Britain's 18 THE GREATEST OF ALL some times to hear that a Sina
WISDOM AND WITHOUT VIRTUE ? It is pleasant in these trouble finances makes only too patent reSSIBLE EVILS, FOR IT IS FOLLY. Fein M.P. has been anjoying his the reason of the Government's VICE, AND MADNESS, WITHOUT dinners within the sacred pre- policy of retrenchment in respect
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HONGKONG TWENTY- FIVE YEARS AGO
HONGKONG TRADE.
Chamber of Commerce Report.
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Blankets have been reported but prices offered are still well below replacing value.
Between
Ourselves
By Robt. MacWhirter.
8.2
We take the following from the Compiled from the "Hongkong fortnightly Price Current and of unemployment and agriculture, TUITION OR RESTRAINT.—Burke, cincts of the House of Commons Telegraph" fles for week- Market Report issued by the In the two manths of the current|
He is Mr. Duggan, domiciled
ending June 19th, 1898) *Hongkong General Chamber of fiscal year revenus has dropped An amendment to the Farries when at home in Mountjoy Gaol,
THE DOLLAR.
Commerce by 110 millions sterling as com-Ordinance of 1917 is published in and while in Saxonland in Brixton June 19th-The rate of the Cotton Pisce Goods and, pared with 1920, this signifying the latest Government Gazette. Prison. à lawyer by profession. Dollar, on demand, to-day is 2a. | Fancy Cotton Goods.-There has the enormous fall of 40 per cent.
he bas been attending (in custody)2-9/8d.
been a brisk demand for certain As expenditure has decreased by
á case in the House of Lords. The next Criminal SessionsAnd the point has been raised as
A COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY. only a fraction of this sum, the have been fixed to open at the to whether & Sinn Fein M.P. who mission, said to be composed of The demand for Staples has
classes of Fancies and quite June 13th special com respectable turnover has resulted. account threatens big debit. Supreme Court on Monday, June has not taken the oath is entitled Mr. T. Sercombe Smith, Acting slackened off for the time being. This is not by any means the 20. full extent of the deficit, because
to the amenities of the House. I Paisne Judge, Captain W.C-Cotton Yarn.-Market we read that floating debt has
am informed that he is except Hastings. Police Magistrate and ruled steady to firm and fair lota been simultaneously increased The Chan Hing Lea Company for sitting, in the Legislative Dr.J.M.Atkinson, Superintendent have changed hand at advances by over 60 millions, which has been granted a licence to Chamber (sometimes doubt of the Government Civil Hospital, in several instances of 52 to $3 suggests that the heavy drop in trade under the non-Ferrous fat privilege) and drawing has been appointed to enquire into per bale. the Exchequer receipts has com-Metal Industry Ordinance. bis quarterly pay of £100, states the flogging fatality at the Gaol,
Quotations are-No. 108 pelled the Government to carry
writer in a London Daily.and hay already started ite5197/177. No. 1 $150/183, No. on in hand-to-mouth style, such Among the passengers leaving
There is, however, a question as labours.
20% $195/25. Arrivals 9,000 bales, RIFLE ASSOCIATION FINAL. as by the issue of more Trea-to-day by the ss. Colombia were to whether Mr. Duggan is really
Sales 5,000 bales. Shipments nil, sury bonds. This aggravates the Mr. T. H. Brayfield, Mr. and Mrs. prisoner in the legal sense. If situation, because the State pays W. J. Carroll, and Sir Otway and charge or trial, as I believe to be Rile Association's Long Range he is merely interned without John Andrew, won the Hongkong
June 13th-This afternoon bfr. Unsold Stock 3,000 bales. Bar-
gains 10,000 bales. an abcormal rate of interest on Lady Whealer-Cuffe.
Woollans-Small salea. of these issues. For some tire it
the case, it is questionable whether Cup with the good score of 93 aver has been 7 per cent. (fancy such a
his appearance in custody within the 700 and 800 yards ranges rate of interest on British Govern- Mr. Denman Fuller will give the precincts is not a breach of while the Spoons were divided ment security before the war 1) the concluding Organ Recital of the privileges of Parliament. An between him and Mr. A. Brown
Raw Cottona-A slight ap- and although, in accordance with the present series on Thursday Independent Liberal or Labour who put a slight fall in the Bank Rate, evening next at 9.15 on St. Johos member might raise the point. It Private Goodger, R. made 84
preciation has taken place and together 91 points.
current quorations are the interest has been reduced a Cathedral when Miss Jean Low-could be done by calling for the Mr. W. Deas also having a
follows Indian descriptions little, it still means a very costly son will be the vocalisi.
appointment of a Committee on similar score placed to his credit. 256 per picul Chinese form of borrowing. Under these
Privileges.
descriptions $25/34 per picul....... circumstances little wonder can
A VICTIM TO PLAGUE, His Excellency the Governor be felt that the Government feels has been pleased to nominate
Metal-Quiet market. Lower June 15th-We note with very prices are quoted from London The fact that Loid Edmund great regret the death from plague for Wire Nails Small lots have itself impelled to economise. AMr. Mervanti Pallonji Talati to be Talbot (now. Viscount Fitzalan) of Inspector G. Moffatt one of the bean booked. There is enquiry few weeks ago it was announced Member of the Court of the applied for the Chiltern Hundreds officers of the Board. He was for Bars and Plates, but dealers that the Government had made a University of Hongkong for as a preliminary step to a peerage actively engaged in 1994 and dur drastic cut of over 100 millions in term of three years, with effect and the Viceroyalty of Ireland, ing the present outbreak in the are chary of offering on a con- the 1921-2 Supply Estimates, from the 1st June, 1921.
Daily Ses contributor difficult and dangerous work of ed Wire has been booked at tinually falling market. Galvaniz- which serves to show what can
writing A few be done in this way. when and
weeks ago, searching for and removing plague Administration is really put to it. is being produced as a week-end eat from remote Donegal has duties of a Sanitary Inspector. About 180,000 sacks.
Another tale of the frozen north reminds me that a corraspood-patients and in the multifarious lower quotations.
Flour market report, Stock But the fact that a reduction on feature at the Coronet by the for some time been awaiting He was a thoroughly reliable and tions-American Patent $480 Quota- this scale entirely fails to First National Film Corporation. an answer to his query whether trustworthy man, of considerable equalise the fall in revenue
"The Rivers End" is a film the appointment of a Roman intelligence and great activity, Persack, American Cut off 83.15 brows an illuminating glimmer brimful of adventure and love in Cathohe Viceroy is legal and con- and he will be a very loss to the Persack, American Straight 12.80 apon the present financialproblem. cidents and pay be placed in the stitutional. He cites the Catholic Department. We hope that the persack, Shanghai Flour 2nd $2.95 The saving that has been effected same category " Back in God's Emancipation Act of 1829, which Government will take special note
per sack. during the two months amounts Country, Along with this film specifically provided that a Catho- of his services, and that he has steady. The latest information Window Glass Market to 17 millions, but the loss of is being shown a Rolin Comedy lic could not be Viceroy of Ire-fallen in battle against the plague, from Belgium reports an advance revenue in that period sweeps starring the little comedienne land and asserts that it has not struck down in the performance sway practically the whole of Beatrice Is Plante.
ia prices. while a been repealed. It has not been jof his duties, and as the direct and the year's contemplated reduction Gazette brings the latest news actually repealed it is true; but immediate result of his zealous in expenditure. On the workers via the camera to the Hougkung Sec. 37 of the Home Rule Act af endeavours to in msay industries who bare public.
suppress the been rendered idle by the coal.
|1920 repeals it in effect, thus: plague.We trust that no technical
THE REASON. strike the reduction of the anem.
“Notwithstanding anything to rule will prevent his widow from "Chimney sweeps and sweets ployment allowance falls hardly.
At the Hongkong Theatre the the contrary in soy Act, no sub-receiving if not a pension, a hand-won't go together, so I gave the The position is that the national week-end attraction is one of the ject of his Majesty shall be dis- some compassionate allowance in shop to my wife as a birthday Hongkong has a distinct interest in the news which Bnances have been placed in a best films that has ever been qualified from holding the office of recognition of his services and of present," said a chimney sweep came to hand yesterday regarding the protests made at condition which, in the absence Out of the Drifts, written by account of his religious belief"
shown at this popular house. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland on her great loss.
at Southwark County Court. Home against the proposed increase in postal rates on of retrenchment measures, would wm. H. Clifford, is a beautiful So that Lord Edmund's appoint matter destined for places outside the United Kingdom solvency. There is no doubt, too, being played by Marguerite tional.
nave meant heading for in- drama in six parts, the star role ment is both legal and constitu- A fortnight ago. when Mr. Kellaway, the Post Master that the institution of "doles
Clark. General announced the proposal in the House of Commons, the bane of old Rome in the clos- we questioned the wisdom of the step on the ground that it ing years of the Republic was ex- the eternal snows, and the story that the association of Beacons
in Alpine country, &mid It is generally recognised now: would operate adversely in the interests of British trade ercising a pernicious effect upon is one of irresistible appeal. A field with primroses was a 0119- propaganda and we are glad to note that very vigorous showed proneness to throw up dess finds that her influence a wreath for his funeral inscribed workers of a certain type, who! simple, unsophisticated shepher take. When Queen Victoria sent protests have been made at Home both by commercial and their jobs in a hurry, confident changes the cutlook of a course, His favourite flower, It was that the census at Home bas the bailiff at the door.
I see from my Lennox Herald its a writ and that would be newspaper men-so much so that it has now been decided that, with relief from the State,
What to drop the increase in charges on newspapers and printed they could get along while becomes worthy of her love. The matter for abroad. This news will have given general enjoying holiday. Serious as
Now, I didna' quite like tha satisfaction not only to those who were directly instrumental the position is, it would probably plot is full of fine situations and Queen Victoria there was only has been fixed for the business. way she said all this, as if the not take the Government long to the charm with which Miss ane be, and that was the Prince Well, ye can quite understand handing in of a writ was an every in bringing about the revision of the official intention but pull things round if we had Marguerite Clark interprets ber Consort, although he had been that for this coal strike has been day occarence at our house and to all those who are interested and engaged in oversea industrial peace. The Board of difficult role makes the picture dead 10 years. Probably nobody very upsetting in more ways than I'll no deny, I was a bit huffy. commerce and the interchange of knowledge.
Trade returns for May exemplify an outstanding one.
WA5 more surprised than the one. W our public parks foll I was for leading her on for a Mr. Kellaway's plea was that he had to make the Post the cause of the trouble.
Queen, though she had perforce of sodgers again and lots of bit longer as a kind of punish- Incalculable damage is being
As will be seen by our adverti-to keep silence, when the sugges-pastployed scouring the country ment until I began to see that Office self-supporting. But there must surely be more wrought to the country's welfare ing columns to-day the Russian tion so guilelessly given was for work, census taking, at the she was real put out about the ways of doing that than by levying an extra charge on a by the coal deadlock. Surely the Grand Opera Company fant to be cleverly seized apon by the best of times a ticklish job, whole business. It's funny how department of its activities that meaus so much in the task statistics must bring home to the confused with the Russian Light founders of the Primrose League. would have been the devil and all some folks get like an excited rab- of disseminating British thought and extending British parties the fact that industrial Opera Company, whose opening Nobody need be doubtful about to get through.
bit when they get the King's Writ peace is needful before all things. here has bean twice delayed) is wearing a primrose on April 19, I'm glad though that the Hong- put into their band. I've seen commerce. When deputations representing the newspaper proprietors. the Empire Press Union, the Colonial|
due to re-visit Hongkong for a for Charles Darwin died on April kong Census kept to schedule a taipan weighing the best part short season, commencing Satur-] 19. 1883, and he had a great deal time. It was bad enough as it o 18 stone trembling like a Institute. the Empire League. the Overseas Club. the Japan's Policy.
day, May 18. Residents will more to do with primroses than was, training Ching Mingers and blanc mange at the sight o' one. Patriotic League and the Royal Society of Literature, combine to make a protest it can be guaged that those who the Manchester Guardian, which months ago, and since that time suggested some of his most im- been put off goodness only been known to break swest at Viscount Uchida's message to the Colony a visit over twelve the fertilisation of primroses that through something or other it bad for the law at the Club Bar have remember that the Company paid bad Lord Beaconsfield. It was denying false rumours, but if Big busky chapa wi contempt are best fitted to judge viewed this proposed increase with published a Japanese number to the Company has been on tour portant discoveries.
knows when we would have seen the sight of a bailiff coming considerable apprehension. Leaving the question of celebrate the Crown Prince's visit, and has greatly strengthened its
the end of the business. newspapers out for a moment we might be accused The drawbark is that it does not go artistes in the Company, which our coinage by making ten ordeal was visited by two nice only for the coolis who in turn
is satisfactory as far as it goes. personel. There are seventy-five
through their office door sad As it was, it was, no light job. have found relief at the know- of bias) une
The proposal for decimalising Our house & few days before the ledge that the dreaded chit was can appreciate the fact that if circulation of pamphlets, circulars and catalogues had diplomatists, and publicists have Manila. where it is at present simplest that ye: appeared, states papers and a straw hat apiece. Born of long experience.
the beyond what Japanese politicians, bes met with great success at pennies equal to a shilling is the young lads carrying a bundle o' receives it wi been raised to the almost prohibitive extent the in- been saying for some time past playing. The Company is due to creases would have amounted to. then ruanufacturers, without any distinct improvement reach Hongkong on the Empresa. al. The half sovereign would, I kitchen answered the bell and different so I put Janet out of
correspondent in & Home journ-The pirate who officiates in our Wi The resulting.
woman though it's merchants and agents would have had to curtail that
Japan's Foreign Minister says Only four performances are being suppose, be then the English left them standing there like a pain by opening the European circulation. And that would have been a proceeding un- that no nation is more interested given. Booking opens at Moutries dollar, the penny one cent, and knotless thread while he sought paper out and enquiring if she questionably inimical to the best interests of Empire trade, than his own "in a peaceful
the half penny and farthing 9.5 out Janet wi the information was married. Then she tumbled especially at this time of keen competition for the markets Siberia and a united and pro-
and 0.25 of a cent respectively.that "two pieces abloff have that it was the Census and zo' of the world. Our old trade rivals are coming back into sperous China." Some degree of
A through fortnightly P. & O. These fractional values are the got"! My good wife looked shot drill at Victoria Prison for
service is passenger
mail weak point in the proposal. but reproachfully at me and said she your's truly. We thereupon had footing. Only the other day we received a request from a War Office is allowed to overrule being organised for the convey-it should be quite easy just now
a long confab on the matter German advertising agency asking us our rates and pro- the Foreign Ministry. Regard-ance of passengers, via Malta, to make a change which slightly as a rule. Would I go and see up there and then to save trouble Shroffs didna bunt in couples and she was for me making them mising to place advertising orders on behalf of German ing China, the attitude of Japan Colombo and the Straits Settle- increases the purchasing power them. I would, and did. As on the Monday morning, me firms re-engaging in foreign trade. In trade, propaganda herself is, of course, a primary meals, to Hongkong. Shanghai, of the copper coinage. But why I said before they were nice being a bad riser. But I pointed forms one of the chief means of expansion. To handicap factor in the problem. At the Kobe and Yokohama and rice not abolish the farthing and make inoffensive lads and in their best out the chances of onything out the British merchant by making the cost of his propaganda that there is not much hope of chiefly by vessels
same time, it must be admitted rerau. This line will be served the halfpenny the unit as ons cent Queen's College English they of the ordinary happening in our
of the with a five-shilling dollar? prohibitive would have been an extremely short-sighted a united and prosperous China" "Khyber," "Plassy" and "Don- policy. Much could be said also for keeping as free as until the Republic shows more gola" class (8000-9000 tons). Frec- possible the inter-Imperial exchange of knowledge. under designs of working out its changing ships en route, in con- which was proclaimed when the English) and were so informative Ink was spilt on our tablecloth dom from the inconvenience of The state of emergency" papers they carried and they left Monday morning saw us up which heading comes literature of all classes. It would own salvation.
jonction with the superior coal trouble began did not merely about the whole affair that I very and the cookboy told lies when have amounted to nothing less than a barrier on inter-
arrangements of the newly apply to the British Isles. A lady course. Let us be thankful the proposal has been dropped. FIRE BRIGADE RESIGNS.
assigned vessels as regarde cabins returning to England from India near asked them in for a drink. asked as to his whereabouts st The proposal to abolish the Sunday post is a good one.
Luckily, I minded about Govern 12 midnight. A similar question Feeling aggrieved by comments
and saloons, will doubtless be when the emergency" #TOBE In London there has been no Sunday delivery for made at the last meeting of the appreciated by travellers. For says that when the boat reached ont oficials that had been cor- shot at the smah caused her to
the present there
be Malta it was ordered back to supted before or goodness only, twitter and attest vehemently ad something like half a century and it has generally been ban District ouncil, the mem- occasional gaps in the fortnightly Port Said to pick up some neval
knows what might have to her virtus. The breakfast considered a paradox that what London should be denied of the Halsteal Fire Brigade service, as the great delay, arising ratings. They returned to Malta
been the upshot.
was lals but muske”, we did our bave resigned in a body. the provinces should be granted. Except for specially arrang-
from continued labour troubles, & second time, and ten hours When I got back into the bouse duly. MUNCIPAL SAVING BANK. ed deliveries (such as to newspaper offices, etc) there is no
in reconditioning the larger mail after leaving were ordered back again Janet, she was in a high A fortaight after I real, the eugent reason why a Sunday delivery should be kept in ham Municipal Bank it was re-prevents the complete release The Proclamation was posted
At the meeting of the Birming steamers of the Company's fleet once more to pick up some troops. state of curiosity and palpitation, approximate figures in the papers. "What is it o0yway?” asked Aye, they must have been that vogue and if an economy of one million sterling can be ported that over £38,000 were de- from the India mail service of on the vessel to explain the cod her a bit, only & Gov- Papers ara still lying on the she Oh" says I thinking to and only that for our Census effected by abolishing it then by all means let it be posited during March or £41,000 the steamers of the classes above strange proceedings, and the abolished. It will cause no hardship and give rise to little above the withdrawals. The bank named which are required fully voyage from India to England says she, somewhat drily 1 can of the two nice young lads wi ernment requistion. "Aye" parlour table awaiting the return makes special provision for house to establish the Direct China-occupied in all six weeks instead. regret.
purchase.
Japan Line now projected.
see that, and from the look o' it, the clean straw hats.
message of
crude man
his" referred to Disraeli. To account the 19th of this mouth so much that he not conaturally supposed that been put off. From the latest hae yn been up to now?
on Tuesday next.
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business and strenuous efforts are being made to get a firm inevitable while the Japanese steamers from London is now seeing how prices are fluctuating thought it must be serious.
disquietude over Siberis
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may
of four.
& nonchalance
explained the object of their housebold overnight and so we mission. It was the Census made up our minds no' to risk it.
me one spiece (Chinese and bright and early in our house.