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· BANK HOLIDAYS.

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11TH, 1915.

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CLOSED for the Transaction of Public the ORDINARY HALF YEARLY A. S. WATSON

TN Accordance with Ordinance No. 5 of 1912, BANKS will be

Business on MONDAY and TUESDAY the 15th and 18th instant.

Hongkong, 11th February, 1916, [277 THE ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.

MIXED FOURSOMES COMPETITION. ON

N the afternoon of MONDAY, 15th st, a MIXED FOURSOMES COMPETITION under handicap will be held over the Relief Course at Fan Ling.

Entranco Fee: 82.00 each couple. Conditions: 18 Holes (c., 2 consecutive

rounds of 9 holes) Medal Play. Competitors must arrange their own partners and opponents, and may start But on 18 holes when they wish, but not before tiffin. The competition rounds, however, need not necessarily be the first rounds of the day. Competitors, before starting out must obtain a numbered scoring Card, and must enter their names

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI: BANKING CORPORATION,

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS this Corporation will be held at the CITY HALL, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 20th day. of February 1915, al Noor, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directora together with a Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1914.

& CO., LTD.

individuals of the Allied nations, who wore surprised on Gorman soil when war was declared; the senseless and shameful massacre of peaceful people, living in unfortified towns on the East Coast of Great Britain; the dropping of bombs

WEDDING AT KOWLOON.

DAVISON ROBERTSON.

A very pretty wedding was solemnised yesterday at St. Androw's Church, Kow- loon, when Miss Bertha Ellon Robertson,

CORRESPONDENCE. THE CURRENCY: QUESTION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " HONGKONG

DAILY PRESS," SI-11 any many people as

from airships and aeroplanes without any elder daughter of Major T. A Rohartron, military justification; the sowing of mines A. O. Dept., and Mrs. Robertson, was Home who speak of a Chinese Puzzic in the highways of commerce, to the married to Mr. William James Davison, as something extraordinarily perplexing danger even of neutral shipping; and the R.N., Assistaut Paymaster on H.M.S. without ever having seen one were to torpedoing of merchant vessels and Rosario, eldest son of Mr. W. R. Davison, me to furnish them with an example r hospital ships-the commission of these of Southsea, England.

should unhesitatingly point to the our The bride, who was given away by renoy question in Hongkong. her father, was charmingly attired in a

We are told that the legal currency gown of white satin crêpe, with an over-the Colony is the silver dollar and that i, skirt of Chantilly lace, trimmed with is worth 100 cents.

Yet we find that, in orange blossoms. She also wore an old fact, it is really worth 107 or 108 cents in subsidiary coinage, and, notwithstand- lace veil, and carried a sheaf of flowers.

ing this, everybody looks askance at it.

The REGISTER of SHARES of the WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. crimes, which are attested beyond the Corporation will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 8th February, to SATURDAY, the 20th February, 1915 (both days inclusire), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered.

By Order of the Court of Directors,

N. J. STABE,

Chief Managor. Hongkong, 3rd February, 1915.

NOTICES OF FIRMS.

NOTICE.

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in the special book which will be provided THE EAST INDIA SEA AND FIRE

for the purpose, against the number of

the card taken.

The cards and book will be found in the

Tadies Club-kuust.

Competitors are reminded that competi- tion is over the Brief Course, which will be reserved for competiten: after 12.30 p.m. on Monday,

It is expected that the last couple in the Men's Open-competition on the same day, will finish by 1:30 plan.

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K. M. CUMMING,

Hon. Secretary. Hoogkong, 11th February, 1915.

THE ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF. CLUB.

· SHANGHAI CHALLENGE CUP..

HE main Club-house will be open to

THE Or Ten Tuesday, 10th

inst, the day of the competition for the above Cup:

K. M. CUMMING,

Hoit. Secretary. Hongkong, 11th February, 1915.

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CONCERT

„IN-ÅID_OF

LADY LUGARD'S BELGIAN REFUGEES' FUND, By the Papils of the

MUSIC CLASS OF THE ITALIAN- CONVENT,

To be held at THE CONVENT, CAINE ROAD,

On

MONDAY - AND TUESDAY, 15TH AND 16th Feb., 1915, Commencing och evening at 6 o'clock. Admission (by Ticket) 81.

AFTERNOON : SATURDAY, 13TH FEBRUARY, 1915, Commencing st 4 o'clock.

CHILDREN'S

Entrance: 20 Conts,

Hongkong, 8th February, 1915.

HONGKONG HORTICULTURAL

BOCIETY.

ANNUAL SHOW.

TSHOW will be hold on the 4TH and THE FLOWER AND VEGETABLE

TU: MARCH, în the Botanic Gardene.

Intending Exhibitors should send their entry forms to the Hon. Secretary not inter than 26th February, Copies of Rates and Sobedules may ba obtained from the Hon. Secretary,

F. HOWELL.

10. Des Voeux Road Central. Hongkong, 0th Fobraary, 1915. [267

RACE BOOKS. THE only Authorized Edition of the RACE BOOK is that Published by Messrs.

NORONHA & Co., WHICH IS COPYRIGHT

UNDER THE ACT OF 1911

T. F. HOUGH, Clerk of the Course,

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Hongkong, 6th February, 1915,

RACE BOOKS 1915.

Lenther-Covered

Cloth-Covered...

Paper-Covered ...

$2.00

*1.75

1.00

May be had from NORONHA & Co. (Printers to the HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB)

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Hongkong, 6th February, 1915,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PRINCE OF WALES'. NATIONAL RELIEF FUND, AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES.

TH

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to sell by Public Auction

(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED), On THURSDAY,

the 18th February, 1915, at 3 P... at their Sales Rooms, No. 8. Des Voeux Road, Corner of Loe House Street,

A 40 H.-P. FOUR-CYLINDER

LIMOUSINE CAR,

Built by BTODDARD DAYTON,

Seating sccommodation for Six Passengers,

Co.

in Perfect Running Order.

On View at the Garage of the Dragon Cycle Inspecting Orders will be issued by the Undersigned,

TERMS: Cash,

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, 8th February, 1915.

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PROPRIETORS, 75, Years Old

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possibility of question, compels the most impactial observer, howover reluctantly, to re-cast his ideas. Comparatively few of us know much by personal experience of the mass of the German peoples who have never left the Fatherland, and we have thins $265 fallen into the mistake of endowing them with the qualities of their better educated 2.90 fellow-countrymen, whose mental horizon has been widened by travel, and whose 3.00 prejudices have been smoothed down by contact with other nationalities. The pernicious teachings of BERNHARDI, 160 NIETZSORE, and TREITSCERE, and their pestilential school, have prepared the pub lic mind for any excesses committed by 3:45 Germany in the present war by represent ing them as mot merely excusable bit Inudable, and the lesson appears to have 4.09 been well learned by all classes of Bociety -ranging from the Supreme Head of the State down to the humblest soldier. But while we can go longer cajole ourvolves into the belief that the KAISER's subjects are unwilling agents of his Imperial will in carrying out the policy of "fright fulness" that has been undertaken 2.65 deliberately and of malice aforethought, wo are still obliged to place the chief 6.85

guilt upon the shoulders of the governing 9.95 classes, by whose orders International law and the laws of humanity have been alik floated. In thinking, however, to crush 13.15 resistance to their will by acts of ferocity that carry us back for their counterpart

4.55

4.55

There

w28 one bridesmaid (Mine Dorothy Robertson, sister of the brida), and two train-bearers (Miss Sylvin Constance Currio and Master Thomas

was of palo pink French crepe de chine, The bridesmaid's dress Alex. Pearce).

and she also wore a black satin hat trimmed with trails of pink roses and forget-me-nots.

Again, though the whole is not only greater than its part, as Euclid said, but greater that all its parts combined, it is less substantial than its own shadow. in cents, it is at a discount of ton per cent., other words, though worth 107 or 108 as compared witli a banker's promiz to pay it over whenever requested to du su Miss Robertion also we have all heard with pride of the

carried a bouquet of pink roses, Mi Currie's dress consisted of white maslin, and she wore a satin hat, and fittle Master Pearco was attired as a sailor..

Lieut. R. J. Pulleyne, R. N., of H.M.S. Rosario, acted as "best man," and the ceremony was performed by the Rev. N.

Pope, M.A

After the ceremony, a number of blue jackets from the Bosaria pulled the nexty married couple in a motor-car from the Church to Woodbury, the residence of Major and Mrs. Robertson, where a Largely attended reception was held. The honeymoon is being spent at Taipo, where a hungalow has been lont by Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Shepherd. The bride's going away dress was of old. ruse eatin charmeuse, and she also wore satin hat, with an underlining of black velvet, with trimmings of large veivel pansies.

white

Briton's high reputation for honesty, and the valuable national asiat.which that con- statutes, but surely it has never attained: else where such loaty altitudes as thig ine Bank of England is a shady festiba- tion by comparison with our local banks.

Unfortunately, our racial pride on this occasion has to be indulged at the cost of our pockets, na everybody is eager to pay us the delicate compliment of meeting our claims fa coin and accepting payment from us in paper, and the banks, no unnaturally, encourage them in this ence for their own promises. course by showing a very marked prefer-

discussion of the yoxed question ne to the May not this phenomeita help us in the practicability of introducing a dollar of Sxed value? All money

of course, is ba a token; intrinsienlly, it is of little are value, except for ornamental purposes, than a used postage-stamp, as a wanderor in the desert discovers when he tries to slake his thirst with it. For purely local' purposes it can be made of anything that-

not easy of unauthorised imitation, though for international purposes, it is necessary that it should consist of sumes thing which mankind has agreed to re of paper" with fancy values out of pre- expresses. Now if we can invest scraps portion not only to their own intrinsic worth but also in excess of the bullion which they purport to represent, why Both the bride and bridegroom are very cannot we do the same with the silver well known locally.

doller? If the Colonial Governament were to undertake to redeem its own dollars at the rate of (say) tên tố: the British sovereign, on demand, as other Governments do with their note issues, would not that solve the question ?. It is time that some attempt was made straighton out the tangle,

These Brandies bottled by to the days of ATTILA and his Hans, those and Miss Currie were gold and pearl Bard as representing in itself the value it

ourselves are guaranteed Grape Pablic that the First REPAYMENT Spirit and of Pot Still Distillation

of PRINCIPAL of the 8% NANKING MILITARY BONDS will be made on the 22nd of FEBRUARY, 1915. In pursuence of the Regulations of the said Loss, only

directing the destinies of Germany have shown themselves, as hopelessly mistaken

as they were in their estimate of the material forces that would be arrayed

One-Fifth of the total outstanding Bonds A. S. WATSON & CO.. against them. Belgium, they argued, was

recognised by this Ministry as valid will be drawn on the above date, aggregating to the amount of $1,150,000. The drawing will take place at the BANK OF CHINA, Peking.

MINISTRY OF FINANCE.

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THE NATIONAL LOAN OF THE THIRD YEAR OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA. SIXTEEN MILLION DOLLARS (816,000,000.)

AND

LIMITED,

HONGKONG AND CHINA.

AGRADECIMENTO.

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Os filhos, nors, irmãoa, cunhadas e sobrinhos de fallecido José MARIA 8. XAVIER, profunda- mente reconhecidos, agradecem a todos, que as sua transe de dér, vieram tomar porte com manifestações de dedicação e amizade, logo que SUPPLEMENTARY ISSUE OF EIGHT do saudoso fluado, bez nasim aos que enviaram tireram a infausta noticia da premptum morte MILLION DOLLARS ($8,000,000). grinaldas e accompanharam os restos morines & Repultura. Agradecem, outrosim, ao Sr. Dr. Dalmahoy Allan pela sua prompta assistencia. Hongkong, 11 de Fevereiro de 1915

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Nubscribers that arrangements have TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to been made by the Chinese Government to hand to the Underagued each month the sam of Dollars One Hundred and Twenty Thousand ($120,000) from the revenues assigned under the Loan Service Accounts have been opened in the Loan Regulations to the service of these loans name of the Undersigned with the Bank of Chins and the Bank of Communications, into which there monthly instalments of interest will be paid as received, and these accounts will be drawn on to meet the half-yearly interest Coupons payable through the intermediary of the above named Banks.

HONGKONG OFFICE: 104, DES VOUK ROAD C. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, FRIRUARY 11TH, 1916.

The first interest instalment for the month of January has been duly received and brought THE to account.

SUBSCRIBERS to the Supplementary Isens of Eight Million Dollars ($8,000,0.0) are) farther notified that in accordance with Article II. of the Loan Regalations the full amount of Dollars Font Handred and Eighty Thom ($480,000), being the amount of interest on the lown for one year, bas been duly raised by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Communications and has been placed on isel deposit in the name of the undersigned with the Bank of China and the Bank of Commanica- tions, as permanent guarantee for the interest

F. A AGLEN,

on the loan.

Inspector General of Customs, and Vice-Chairman of the Earvan of National Leans. Inspectorate General of Customs, Peking, 27th January, 1915.

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SOLIGNUM

FOR

CAMPAIGN FRIGHTFULNESS.

9

O.F

too weak to offer resistance, and the British Empire was so torn with dissen sion and disaffection in Ireland, India, Egypt, and South Africa that her embarrassed Statesmen, subservient to the will of her degenerate people, would eagerly clutch at any excuse for keeping out of the fray. To their dismay and sur prise, they have discovered that those whom they despised have been the very agents heroic resistance of Belgium that held to frustrate their plans. It was the

The bridegroom's gifts to the bridesmaid brooches, and the sailor train-bearer was presented with a boatswain's silver

whistle.

AT THE MAGISTRACY.. EUROPEAN SEAMAN SENT TO

PRISON.

Hazeland fined a scaman named George At the Magistracy yesterday, Mr. F. A

Ross, an absentee from the Drumeltar, $3 or fourteen days, for being drunk and in- capable.

a

dant was a "waster," and it was desired hack the German advance until France that he should be kept in prison until the Inspector Gordon said that the defen-

and Great Britain had time to take the ship left the Colony, probably next field, and it was the menace from outside week, otherwise he would become that closed the British ranks within; and nuisance to the Colony, with foar by displays of barbarity, ed to work on the ship when he was the only so, the attempt to paralyse their enemies

Defendant asked how he could be expect instead of producing the effects desired, European in the forecastle, all the others have inspired the troops of the Allies with being Japanese. She was a good ship, and the feeling that they are not merely had a good Captain, but she was full of waging a political war, but are engaged Japanese. in a Holy Crusade to free humanity from the curse of military despotism and all that it implies. The moral effect of this conviction is worth many battalions, and will ultimately prove the rock upon which German aspirations will te shattered.

The Magistrate said he could not discuss that matter with the defendant. Defen- dant had signed the articles.

COST OF FLOUR. Mr. T. W. Hornby, of Messrs. Wright & Hornby, gave evidenco at the Summary A mail for Europe vid Siberin clases Court yesterday in an action brought by to-day at 3 p.m.j

The Hon. Mr. A. M. Thom-on, Colonial Treasurer of Hongkong, is expected to return to the Colony on the 16th inst.

Fifty golden sovereigns were tendered to the shroff at the Magistracy yesterday by a Chinese who had just returned from America in payment of a fine of $500, imposed on him by the Magistrate for being in unlawful possession of a rifle and 250 rounds of ammunition, which were secreted in the bottom of a trunk.-

That the intrinsic value of coins is not

connection with the subsidiary coinago. the determining factor in questions of this sort is proved by our experience in When these, about seven years ago, went to a discount of 5 per cent. the Govern ment, in the hope of restoring parity, de-

despite the elimination of this foreign clared Chinese subsidiary coinage to be

coinage and the purchase of large quan- illegal tender in the Colony and later pro- hibited by law its circulation.

tities of their own subsidiary coinage. by the Hongkong Government, in order to reduce the quantity in circulation, we find that the net result is not a rise but a drop of 2 or 3 per cent in the value of the coin,

Yours faithfully,

Yet

PERPLEXED.

HONGKONG POLICE FORCE. PRESENTATION OF MUSKETRY

PRIZES.

There was a large parade of European and Indian Police in the compound of the Central Station yesterday, when the Cap- tain Superintendent, of Police (Hon) Mr. McI. Messer) presented successful rifle. and revolver shots with rewards won in

the annual musketry course.

tions of a second-class medal and farewell This ceremony was preceded by presenta two Chinese firms of flour dealers, concern. gifts to Jemudar Lal Singh, who is retir- ing the price of flour on the 27th Novem lug from the Force after 26 years service, ber. Mr. Hornby told the Paisne Judge SUPERINTENDENT paid & warm tribute to In making the presentation, the CAPTAIN. that he could have bought Crescent flour the services rendered by the Jemadar, He in Hongkong at the end of November at was four years a Sergt.-Major, and Bad $2.41 a bag f.o.b. His firm bought flour He went with the Indian contingent to held the position of Jemadar for 13 years..

Was

DESPITE Lord ROBERTS' parting injunction. to us not to lend too credulous an ear to the reports of Cerman atrocities, in view of the unfounded charges of a similar character that were levelled against our own troops during the South African campaign, the ever-increasing mass of carefully-sifted evidence that ia accumulating against our enemies leaves us little opportunity of giving rein to

in Portland for the Hongkong Flour the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in generous sentiments. At the outset of

Guild, and the guild sold to the Chinese London and was there chosen us the inter- hostilities, there were many of us willing

dealers, but when his firm wanted four preter for all the Indians in the Eastern and anxious to believe that the stories of

for the coast ports they re-purchased beer in the Police Force he had done his Colonida During the whole time he had iabunan conduct which were in ciroula

from the guild. Six thousand bags were duty in an exemplary manner and the tion owed their existence, in part, to heated

shipped in a German steamer, but when services. While they regretted his depar

Government were very thankful for those imagination, and, in part, to the isolated

war broke out the ship was stopped at ture, they hoped that he would long be actions of the black shoop that will always

Seattle and the flour put in godowns and spared to enjoy his well-earned pension in be found in every flock. We remembered

A public subscription is being raised in subsequently transhipped. The original

lis native land. all that Germany, had stood for in the

Dumfriesshire to present a bed (or two price was 82.00 a bag, but this tranship-then pinned upon the breast of the Jema

The medal, incribed for merit" WOOD WORK, BRICK WORK, realms of art. and science and industry; beds) to the King George Red Cross meat brought the price up to the extent of dar. On behalf of the officers, the Jema- wo recalled with feelings of pleasure the Hospital in London, to be named after 30 cents a bag. He was quite convinced taim Superintendent presented the Jema- many excellent Germans that we had met

Mrs. David Bell-Irving as a token of that the plaintiffs could have procured a silver drinking cup on behalf of the dar with a silver mounted walking etick; in social and commercial intercourse; and sympathy in the terrible calamity which the flour they needed at $2. a bug if Inspectors, and a walking stick and a we asked ourselves, not unnaturally,

befel her in the bombardment of Scar they had bought from the guild. There snake ring on behalf of the Indian detach- whether a nation could be changed in a borough and in token of admiration for was a subsequent shipment of 2,000 bags

Winners of musketry moment, as though by the spell of an evil the heroic bearing she displayed. It is by a Japanese steamer to the guild, which appended

had plenty of flour left. genius, from a community occupying a reported that Mrs. Bell-Irving, when proud position in the van of civilisation grievously wounded, displayed splendid BROWN, RED AND GREEN COLOURS into a horde of savages 7. We hesitated to courage and fortitude in urging the admit the possibility, and we rejected the bystanders to be calm, and in directing how first-aid should be applied to her probability. But the orgy of outrage that

sister, who followed the invasion of Belgium and

was severely wounded at the combatants were subjected to namelesshire; she raised the Women's Voluntary Northern France, where innocent noi-

samo time. Mrs. Bell-Irving is one of the pioneers of Red Cross work in Dumfries Brutalities, and sacred relies of antiquity Aid Detachment in Middlebie, and, besides were ruthlessly battered to the ground being 15 Commandant, was hon, secretary the disgraceful treatment meted out to for that division of the county. Ambassadors, officials, and private

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There would

have been nothing extra to pay through

the war.

Judgment was given for the plaintiffs

for the amount (1) paid into Court, and the following order was made as to costs: Defendants to pay them up to the

Mr. P. S. Dixon (Messrs. Willing and time of their payment into court; subse quent costs to be paid by the plaintiffs. Grisi) was for the plaintiffs (Li On firm, of Wing Lok Street), and Mr. W. B. Hind

was for the defendants (Fung On Hong Arm, of Bouliam Strand)

nient.

EUROPEAN POLICE.

prizes are

Rile:-1, Sergt. Pitt (161 out of 185 pas sible); 2nd, acting-Lee-Sgt. Grimmett, leo,

3rd, P... Booker 158.

Best European recruit, P. C, Edwards,

107

out of 120 possible out of 64 possible; 2nd A.-L.-S. Grimmett, Automatic pistol-1, P. C. Andrews, 58; 3rd Sergt. Brazil 68. Special prize, Ia- spector Lammont 61 (presented by the Deputy Superintendent of Police).

INDIAN POLICE. -

3, 1.6. Nande ingin recruit, P.O. Sher Khan, 94. Amar Singh, 29; 2,

Carbine-1, P.C. Bhagat Singh. 101;

Ali, 97. Best Indian

Revolver:-1, P.C. P.C. Pahl Singh, 39,