WATSON'S FORMAZONE.
(REGISTERED)
A Refreshing, luvigorating and Palatable drink particularly suited for Tennis Shooting and Bathing: Parties,
Pints
$1.20 per dozen. Splits 70 Cts per dozen.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.,
AERATED WATER. MANUFACTURERS
Telephone No. 136.
WILLIAM
POWELL
TEL. 346
THE BEST SHOES
-FOR
CHILDREN
IN
HONGKONG
ARE
"PETER PAN"
OF WHICH
WE HAVE A COMPLETE
STOCK
AFTER YEARS or EXPERIENCE
WI HAVE THESE SHOEA TO PERFECTION FOR THIS CLIMATE. BRITISH MADE. ·
WILLIAM POWELL, LTD.
DEATHS.
DYSON.At Wohu, on July 4, GARNET (GEORGE) DYSON of the Chinese Maritime Customs, aged 40,
ABLASS-On June 28, at
OSWALD ABBASS.Interred at the
Babbling Well Cemetery, Shanghai
July 8,
ConMAN-On July 6, at Tientsin
ANNIE, the beloved wife of Mr. J.
1. GORMAN, C. M. Customs
Tientsin.
The China Mail.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, July 15, 1916.
THE CHINA MAIL
MR. C. CLEMENTI HONOURED.
Gnoficial Members of the. Council that expenditure cannot be further restricted and that a further increase We notice in the full list of Birthday of revenue. was absolutely necessary Honours received by mail to-day that Expenditure has been growing the name of Mr. Ceoil Clementi, MA at an alarming rate, and revenue Government Secretary, British Guiana, lar had to be rained to appears in the Colonial Office list among keep pace with the demands of those appointed as Companions of the Last most Distinguished Order of St. Michael the ponding departments. year the expenditure amounted to and St. George.
a total of $15,149,267, "incluire As mess of our readers are aware, of a sum of $1,839,882 spent on Mr. Clementi was formerly in the Public Works Extraordinary and service of this Colony. He came here $3,032,988 charged to Railway na sadet in 1879, and was appointed Construction. There was thus a deficit from this Colony to his present port en the year's working of 83,303,161, about three years ago. Mr. Clementi, which caused the balance of assets when he departed, from Hongkong, left behind him a wide circle of friends the over liabilities to be converted into a debit balance of 3452686 will learn with pleasure of the honour which His Majesty the King bag de The Governor assured the Council on
stowed upon him. Thursday thara good deal more r. Tonue was still required. This mena, presumably, required beyond the revenue the Tobacco tax is expected to yield. The discussion' iti the. Council on Thursday leaves the impression that the unofficial mem- bers are very inadequately informed as to the state of the Colony's finances, and inasmuch as the tax- the list..
representatives on the Council had considered unnecessary for ordinary purposes, it would be satisfactory to the taxpayers to learn that their representatives intend to pursue their investigations further. A Special Committee should be formed to go into the matter at once..
MALICIOUS RUMOUR." ABOUT THE H. & S. BANK.
GERMAN PLOTS AMONG CHINESE
AT SHANGHAI.
WILD STORY OF ALLEGED.
FAILURE
The N. C. Daily News" of the Monday last contains the following
Extmordinary ramoors of a most mali cione nature became suddenly current an Saturday afternoon regarding the Hong: kong Shanghai Bank, which was reported among the Chiness to have already closed its doors in Hongkong and London, and to be intending to do so this morning in Shanghai." These cam oun, of course, were not started until Aitar business hours, in order no doubt
SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1918.
COMMERCIAL
THE DURATION OF CHE WAR
THE END OF JULY,”
HONGKONG SHARE REPORT.
Moara Maxon and Taylor's Sharo Report of yesterday's date states :- Mr. Arthur Henderson, MP speaking Business during the week has been at Leeds last month, remarked that the maintained in fairly large volume rates test of fighting capacity and of military being steady for the most part, with a genius had yet to come. The Govern tendency to higher prices in many cases,
tearing to prepa Shanghai is quiet, with little or no and when that testing time: came business passing with that Fort.
him_say for their encouragement that. the
British Army would be better repre- - BA-Hongkong Banks have been sented on all the battlefields than they doalt in at 8765 following on the weaken-had been during the whole of the months ing in Exchange in the early part of the of this war. week. At the close there are bayers at $760.
MARINE INSURANCES.—Unions at 8010
*I am not, be added in a position "o-give-aur would it be advisable. for
of
to attempt to do all the facts. ave at my disposal, but I say this on are quiet Cantons have changed hands at 8306. North Chinas at The 1894 and the authority of the Minister of Muni- Yangtazes at 8500 have been the medium tions, who has done so much to bring of a small business.
this about, that, in stocks ammuni- FILE INSURANCES-China in highest standard, and shola of the tion, machine guns, heavy, gans of the 133 and Hongkong Fires at $75 are highest calibry we stand better to-day unaltered.
than we have over done and I venture
to:
defer
des for the. the holidays
that they might gather momentam juri SHIPPING-Dunglasce aen wanted silio. ing the week end, and they had this much $135 with $139 offered for September, to say better than he in his most an
be effect that a few Chiners csal shops on the market being firm at the rate.ne moments aver aspected us would, ALLEGED WRONGFUL DISMISSAL.Caturday afternoon began actually to and Deferred Indos, which closed last next two months was positively undeni
Preferred Indos have been done at s The need refuse, Hongkong Shanghai bank notes works $134, are now easter at 9731). ble Shells, one read, were being used Fer to accept them only at a disedia, the The inte dividend is expected to be at Verdun at the rate of 300,000* day, amount of which varied inversely with the amonneed at the beginning of next and when the Crown Prince came to the there was no distance from the Bank.
amount. Star Ferries at $15) a
And Steam-
longer possible be bosts at gas are quiet with nothing extend shell and munition at
when we should have to attention doing.
at the same.
CASE AGAINST ASIATIC PETROL
LEUM CO. STRUCK OUT.
the action of Hunt . the Asistic In the Summary Court yesterday the Petroleum Company was struck off
This was an action in which the
instructions.'
..
The case was accordingly struck off the list, and plaintiff was ordered to pay the coats.
THE DRGINNING OF TAX LIE
•Week, bat opinions vary as to the conclusion that proge transfer, his
traced to a Cantonese cash shop in Nan-week catil $115) was res
vu
Рости
aning of the Tam
going to tall
the right
hop hie gen
wtituted and the rumour was before long forext down in the bez~~ Ned, but...að |will be fini-hed, for where the w
Close inquiries were immediately in DEFINERIES-China Sugars wero rats as the French, had hindi
payers are now called upon to bear plaintiff, who was an employee of the king Road which had telephoned the the close the market in much firmer, tleman couton, "and I neef not, talli taxation, which unofficial Bir gou the why I am not going
for alleged wrongful dismissal.
cash shops. It is zeedless to say that cash, 3123) September, and 8192 Ang either to answer for the shortcomings
a twenty-three.. I have come here, to Mr. Grist, who appeared on behalf of the shop in question denied all knowledgeness done at 833 at which rate buyers
Malabona are easier with a small busi Pa
to assist those who are engaged viously before the Court, informed the telegram was handed in on Saturday the plaintiff when the case was ore of the plot. It was also heart that a prevail.
insely an act of self-denial in the The question has been Acting Paiano Judge that he had
OILS AND MINING-Langkats Tighting the tpone the holiday to received ho furthur instructions from iternoon at the Shanghai oflies of the are a quiet market. Haube have been asked me. Why po sufficient to NAT
Chinese Telegraph Administration to be also done at 821. Urals at 3. d. and the end of July It
Fm, not after the his client. He was thus without any
at the advanced rate of 102% and, to the end of Jair, and. 2. want to Pelding stating that the Hongkong Shells at
to speak 1st 328.
32s. 6d, are a wester market end of July ; and time" ought" Shanghai Pank had failed in London teing on offer.
with greater eliquerice than any g and Hongkong. This telegram. the
WHARVES AND
GODOWNS guage I could use. I don't mind felh Chinese Telegraph Administration very Kowloon Wharves have firmed to a you that the more real we make our properly refused to accept.
buying rate of 88) and $86 for Augast effort the more thorough the response, done. Hongkong Docks have again.
air the
larger the output, sod, if need calls, Inquiries made by tàn Chinese authors-advanced to $1974 business done closing four men in the trenches are in a positio ties, who are actively searching for thone
Bellers
endurance, who are guilty of spreading malicious on the declaration of a Tls. 7 dividend with the supply of all kinds of munitions
$128). Shanghai Docks to respond. Their powers of
their herciam, the military capacity, raniours, leave little doubt that the whole | to Tis. 81) at which a small business WEL thething is a German conspiracy, doubtless put through. Shanghai reports good of war will i hope, anable them to strike the hardest blow yet struck on behalf intended; ds a counter-stroke to the news buyers at Tla 50.
of the Allied cause.”. of the British, Froach and Russian vic tories in Europe, the seriousness of wäich for Germany is made plaiser, be every day's telegrams, and possibly also as a clotures of the general faultiness and bad form of revenge for the dancing dis workmanship of German electrical
NEWS OF THE DAY.
LOCAL-AND GENERAL.
car
A Chinese who sustated injuries through falling from A tram: yesterday was removed to the Hospital by the Pelice Reserve Ambulance.
COST OF POST OFFICES.
A correspondent, writing Singapore Free Press says:—
to"
It would appear from the Colonial Estimates for 1916 that the Post Office of the Straits Settlements, will, for the first time in its history, be run is a loss national Bureau Statistical Returns that It is interesting to find from the fater
every Post Office in Europe is run at a proft and every British Colonial Post Office except Cyprus and Sarawak Ofmachinery which the experience of River the French Colonial Post Offices, all are side power station has so bitterly proved. run at a loss, except Dahomey and Utterly absurd sa the rumours are, not Middle Congo. Most of the Portuguese to speak of their allinses, as the German Colonial Poat Offices are carried on at a falsehoods cannot fail to recoil in Chinese profit, Macas, Timor and S. Thomé and opinion on the Germans' own heads, they Principe being the exceptions. The hare their serious side, and a plaiz state- most expensive Post Offices of the worldment of the one, as shown in documents are those of Netherlands East India arsilable to any inquirer, may be given. which are carried on at an annual Icss of $14,000,000, Algeria which costs the French Government 13,600,000, an- nually, and Indo-China which coats
THE NEW TAXATION.
THERE may exist very good reasons for imposing fresh taxation on the Colony "for the purpose of establish ing an equilibrium between reveure and expenditure," but before such a Liens-Col. A. A. McHardy, D.S.O., step is taken the taxpayers might RA. (who on the Headquarters Staff reasonably expect from the Govern in Hongkong when the war broke out)
ent a clear statement of the need has received the C.3£G, decoration. for new taxation. It seems clear' from the discussion which took place Mr. Stuart J. Fuller, U. S. Consul in the Legislative Council on Thura- General at large, is again visiting the day on the Bill imposing taxes on Colony after a tour in the South tobaseca, cigars and cigarettes that Pacific territories, including Australia. the Unofficial Members of the Council
some of them at least-though We agtide that at Penang arrange-1,879,000 more that it brings in. The they had previously been consultedments are being made for holding an by the Government with regard to Open-air meeting on the Esplanade on NEMO. FOK TO-DAY. 9.15 -The Palisade Open-Aireying a tax on tobacco, were August 4th, the second anniversary of
Cinema, Kowloom.
THE DIARY.
HEKOS „FOR TO-MORROW.
5.42.Full moon.
taken entirely by surprise when this the war. measure was brought forward for
the purpose of balancing revenue
Thieves broke into the house of
and expenditure...they had approved Mr. Wang San at the junction of Star
9 am--Excursion to Macao by estha, principle of such legislation, se Street and Monmouth Path yesterday
"Trishan
MEMOS. FOR MO`DAY. Noca-Tenders due at Naval Yard
for Bread, Biscuit and Rice
est profitable Post Offices are those of Great Britain (excess of Revenue over Expenditure 167,000,000), and Ger many (excess £144,000,000.)
OVERLAND MAIL ROUTE.
THE ABANDONMENT OF THE BRINDIST TERMINUS.
THE STARNOTH OF WATTOONG.
**
Centrals continue to offer at 897. Hong- LANDS HOTELS AND BUILDINGS kong Hotels are wanted at the advanced rate of $109, Humphreys Estates have been closed at $6.60 West Points hate Kowloon Lands are quiet at 834 advanced to a buying rate of 800 and
COTTON MILLsEwns at Ts. 136 Shanghai Cottons at Tls. 90, Kung Yiks at Ts. 12, and Yangtazepote at Tls: 5 are all quiet with nothing doing."
ELECTRIC COMPANIES.-Hongkong Elec- tries have had a sharp advance and shares have changed hands at $475 to 8455: China Lights are still wanted at 844 Hongkong Trams at 88.95
MISCELLANEOUS-China Borneos could be placed at Bar and China Providents
LONG WAS AHEAD.
The eminent military critic of the Russkiya Viedomosti who has just returned from, a protracted visit to the Russian front, says
'The two fundamental impressions have brought back with me ate, firsty the striking excellence of our Arar and, second, the great difficulties which
face us in the technical resources of our chemies. Certain people say that the war will end in. the autumn, but this is
foolish and groundless supposition. which it is undesirable to spread, because those who entertún it are likely to be painfully disillusioned
We must prepare ourselves for a long
at $8.60 Dairy Farms are frmor with, and await with patience and con buyers offering 235. Cerpents are wanted decce the general offensive. If this is at 89.40, Peak Trams (d) at 804 and prematurely undertaken its success in The note insus of the Hongkong&new) at 5 cents Hongkong Ropes be for us to know that our brothers in not assured. However painful it may Shanghai Bank is more strictly hedged could probably be sold at 839).
the invaded regions are under the Teuton EXCHANGE-The demand rate on Lon yoke we must be patient. about by its own charter and by regula
This policy of patience which tions of and agreements with the Hongdon is 16 and the TT. selling rate kong and British Governments, than. on, Shanghai is 72.
people have blamed in Genoral Jeffre probably, any other bank in existence.
has been brilliantly justified at Verdun, and [our; Every note issued is secured by one means
splendid achievements in the Caucams are the result of the pati- and another to ite full value in hard
ent and long preparation. The Bussigā silver. In Hongkong the notes of the
which has already passed bravely Army Bank are legal tender for which the
and successfully through great trials will Colonial Government takes responsibility.
easily support that time. The nation must have emßdence in the Army and In Shanghai also the Hongkong Govern
wait patiently. ment takes responsibility for the Bank's their prisoners of war in the brutal The Germans in 1870 did not treat paper inane zo is to note issue of manzer they do now. It would be in the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank in Hon-teresting to investigate the cause of the kow and Tiantain. In Feking there is a change that has taken place in the
Daily News" under the date of Angust
of ria, correspondent 1870, reported that
TREATMENT OF PRISONERS. 1870-1914
The Berlia
7,
the
they understood, for the special and stole jewellery valued at $455 and purpose of providing an increased five sovereigns. contribution, to the Imperial Govern-] -»
A Northern India contemporary says small one, also of course, fully secured. national character. ment for purposes connected with
that a project is on foot to abandon the In fas Hongkong & Shanghai banknotes the war.
Captain (Temporary Major) E M. Brindisi mail route in favour of taxes are as good as silver bocause there is They did not in the
from Marseilles and that the advantages F. Momber, 176th Tunnelling Co., RE,
of the Marseilles route have always been always silver to meet them. Council, however, entirely oppose (who will be remembered by many in recognised, but political considerations,
The first batch of Franca prisoners, a pz-Auction of Crown Lund at the Bill; a motion for the post-
Directly knowledge of the rumours came containing 480 rank and file, arrived Hongkong) was awarded the D. S. O. route that passed through more t
principally, counselled. adhesion to a Clearance Sale commences at Madam panement of the Bill for a fortnight last month, "for cospicuous gallantry country. The Brindisi route wae adonado to meet any run that might result. people at the terminua Even the hoge wrifar resident in Germany throughout
to the Bank's ears arrangements were here yesterday at six o'clock. more than one
dare my
there were not less than 50,000 Sa article in the Times, by w. was supported by only two unofficial
because, at the
time Brindisi was the Large quantities of dollars were sent supper place for the prisoners was filled.
to the brim, thus rendering their the wary says the German people's com
P. W. D.
Gains'.
General Memoranda.
TUESDAY, July 18:-
Bombay
and
It
to write to their friends:
at their one to be waited
OPINION IN GERMANY.
GERMANY STILL CONFIDENT
LONDON, June 24,
members, though we cannot see that and skill in connection with mining nearest point to Port Sail connected with yesterday morning to the following for assage to their seats extremely difficult.fidence in victory is still aftong, and is anything was to be gained by rushing/operatiora. By his energy and deter the railway systems of the Continent teen native banks:-Dah. Tuck: Wing Only the persuasive powers of the ladies based on two things; Erstly, beef in mination he has achieved important, and, with a quick ferry service between Fourg, Hung Kin, Yuin Chuen Ting who presided here made the crowd yield the invincibility of their army, whiche the Bill through at one sitting. Un-
Brindisi and Port Said, it was the Bong, Hung Tong, Tso Ching, On Yee, The prisoners got each a large basin of official Members may protest against scenes over the enemy **
shortest route between England Shing Toe, Yue Yain, Hang Ziang, Kami baillion au riz, boiled beef, bread and only military disaster could shake; 230 p.&-Auction of Ship's Gear and retrospective legislation, but the
Furniture at T: K. K. and H. Skott Official "Majority can always over the Yuen Lung village in the Au Tau this section of the route. It was con. Shanghai Bank neto presented. The ladies presented correspondence cards as the Allies admit defeat, Germany will A recent proposal was to make Alex Yue Wing Xue, Toen Wo-who are cheese, a pint of beer and a cigar condly, a belief that their highway to A supposed murder took place at andria and Marseilles the two termini in instructed to cash ovary Hongkong and best quality Supper finished, the lenged. They ate confident tast as soo
everything tasted it myalf of the the East cannot now be seriously chal. & Co's. Godowns, Kennedy Town. weight them, so that it is difficult
tended it was possible to get just as WEDNESDAY, July 18 -
to see what the Government hoped a report that a man was lying dead on ports, and that farther spoeding up could gates of the Bank's offices on the Bunde
district yesterday. The police received quick a ferry service between these two names of these banks were posted on the to the Tendered the French extremelybe the head of a Zollverein. sirsich 2.30 pm. Auction
of Furniture, to gain by rushing the Bill through the roadside, having succumbed to a Blackwood Ware, Chairs, Miscell. Not ever: rappression of criticism is bullet wound. On the way to the scene, aneous Articles, etc, at Mesara Hughes and Hough's,
to be gained thereby, for even now the informers identified a man who that the Bill has been passed there discharged his revolver at deceased. He Last day for Persons to register at means of raising discussions in wrestl before the C.SP.
the Council on any objectionable principles the ordinance may be found to contain. In itself a tax on tobacco seems not unreasonable in
SUNDAY, July 23
FRIDAY, July 98
31
3p.m.-Anction of "Treverby" (RB
178) at Messrs. Hughes and Hough's FRIDAY, August 4
UP.
bo
abtained by arbetituting a train and were also inserted in the Chinese many pretty and elegant girls to so Ling from Antwerp to the Persing Child
papers.
The
TÆNDOR, IZDO 28.
Schlesischer
The LEO. Salactic, however, on her All yesterday it tho Bank's premises, man soldiers who accompanied the priAllies alote, or service between Alexandria and Suez.
wbo al Starving her will thenceforth be impos aiden voyage, did the distance between
flauntly spoke French The Ger
• Bulgaris" defeated by the time on record, boating the ordinary into convenient parcels, so that if any Marseilles and Borbay in the quickest shroffs were engaged in packing dollars soners were enthusiastic with regard to Allies alone, or with Rumania's help,
the bravery with which the French had the route to Constantinople cut, Germaz. mail time by no less than two days demand should come to-day it may be
fought after Gaisberg had been stormed. confidence would receive a fatal shoel This was not an exceptional perform met as expeditiously se possible.
This pretty picture shows the Ger once, because it was proviously done by
mans, only a generation agn, to have A P. & 0. mail boat that brought a Bach measures should very rapidly calm possessed the chivalrous feelings of a A GOOD PROPHET' Viceroy-Lord Curzon, if our memory any apprehension that may have been civilised mee. And be it remembered serves us to India. The company, says felt by some Chinese ou Saturday that In 1870 it was France that declared the Madras Mail, has a
war and was made to appears the these times, even though we are told RESIDENCE ABROAD
habit of does not appear, yet that many Chinese, ressor. I afterwards knew French declares there is too much talk abom the CLEARED showing what it is possible to do, 8pm-Landern Parade by Police increase the retail cont by 25 per that the general effect will be to
bat tensciously holds out in its contracts even among the less educated classes, man who had been prisoners of war Russian mannsce, and eroases the for a more leisurely rate of speed. This have been much impressed by a story them, but they brought back no tales of violon kant danger ersta Reserve
cent on an average. But the tax-statement in the House of Commons, Indian mail sebaidy, to drive ita steamers
is to some extent natural, because it of which the malice is no less shriots unnecesary hardship, no striking with We are glad to note Mr. McKenna's cannot be expected, for the sake of the than the absurdity, payers of the Colony will want says The Times, that exemption of British at a maximum rate. If this speeding it made clear to them that there is as well as foreign residents abroad from 3D were secured, it would not matter neccanity for this taxation for the scared of all ambiguity by an amandrouts. It would appeal to passengers income tax on Exchequer Bonds is to her much if the Brindisi route were abandoned in favour of the Marseilles ordinary purposes of the administrament to the Finance Bill As this travelling overland; but it would be tion. It is of vital importance to the exemption was originally worded it intolerable if the change resulted in a
Many people are worrying themselves future prosperity of the Colony that applied to anybody who was neither lower delivery of the mail then that about a common name by which the domiciled por ordinarily rendent in the before the war. At that time agitation chief Dominions ma be called compre citizens of the British Empire" and ita we should guard by all possible United Kingdom. The infortunate was proceeding not only for s quicker means against the constant tendency use of the technical legal word but s mora frequent delivery of us mailehensively. The uume Anzac made pretty has evidently come to stay land, in India two deliveries a week and is from initial letters although not very
THIS WEEK'S
OVERLAND
CHINA
MAIL"
Contents include :-
Correspondence Fanitary Board Leading Articles Commercial News Dividends declared Cases in the Courts Hongkong Local News
Chiyo Maru Court of Enquiry Military Operations in Kwan Moxonang TaylorsShare
E COMMON NAME FOR THE -
BRITISH EMPIRE
The fact must ant be overlooked authorities insisting on a declaration would reader hopeless these anticipazette suggests following the precedent
that the holder of the bonds had tions. that the higher the cost of living abandoned ail intention of ever returning the greater becomes the tax on the to make his home in this country Colony's trade, and the more ready, no doubt, in strict record- people will be to listen to schemes abandonment of the domicile of origin,
ance with the legal test for an DON'T NEGLECT YOUR FAMILY. for diverting trade to other ports namely, that there was no longer the
WHEN you fail to provide your fam where cargoes may be more cheaply animus revertendi But it was fatal to Colic, Cholars, and Diarrhoen
with a bottle of Chamberlaina handled. The revenus of the Colony Anglo-Indian investors and others who this saisin of the year, you are neglect
could not say that they would never ing the Бак own from $7
Ju 1911
return to Engiad to live or could be pre ta $12 100 in 1915.
auchh extreme test be considered ma the shirt space of five reasonable since the currency of the
incresse:
pre, imposing any new
only five years.
Lody at
s correspondent of the Pall Mall Ga-
and adapting
ESWICANZA
and terminating the citizens Exwican-
The word is made up as follows
the butt end of the rifle, no starvation English front, England." in prison, nor any of the brutalities has resources of her own which now afford. Germen nature a than awe generally imag malignant satisfaction.M.D. in The reason to fear that the great Observer, h
imminent, so that it will oua gigantic scale. Our would be well dysed fo briggest eye
CLOSING. SHARE QUOTATIONS.
There
Scorer
on the ET
be obtained from the Fliisa Mast ice price
UAN YOU AFFORD
por funtnam inlading postage
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