Intimation.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY JANUARY 8 foro
average Indian bas some private source of income which is beyond the knowledge of the ordinary European. Because this is not the first time that Indian watchman have appeared in Court as money-leading credi tors of large amounts. In the majority of
A S. WATSON & CO., these cases we have not been interested in the amounflent so much as in the enormous
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in Hongkong a single licensed rickshs which, is not tostery and in constant danger of depositing the fare in the mud. Of course that is due to the fact that the pullers insist on running along the tram raile, and as a consequence when a tail projects above the level of the roadway the ricksha performs a violent dream dance to the great delight of
senger. Probably it would be impossible to prevent the pullers using the tram line as a. sort of racing track, but if that could be done then something would have been achieved. What we cannot understand is how these old delapidated machines came to
lice, but also on the lines munnleg to South America and the United States. The P. & 0, Company goes its way without fuss or com plaint, and sil we know about its doing is from what transpires at the half-yearly and yearly meetings, and then we dog's learn too much. But it must not be forgotten that at the a meeting of the P. & O. Company, the
for the carriage of mails, andfrom his comments we gathered that the payment was so low as to be practically unprofiable to the Company If that be so, then the main contention that the
prerail. To return
THE exports from Japan during rpbo amounted to Y417,143,000 and the imports to Y392,646,000. Trade is shown by these figures to be approx mating to normal conditious and the economic autlook is improving/r/
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased, with the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to appoint Mr. R. E. Lindsell and
NOTES BY THE WA
THE COMETERY CONTROVEREY
In England, the coming gener would seem to monopoliza public out here in Hongkong, since ibere thing at the passion of party the dull cuties of our lives, the
rate of interest charged". Wacan recall half onlookers and the consternation of the pachairman referred to the Post Office payment 7. Mr. S. B, D, McElderry to be. Cadets in the comateries and monsmants would
a dozen casei in which the rate per annum ran well over 250 per cent, with the result of course that the more the borrower had to pay the deeper he dived into debt. But Gunda Singh, who seems to be a second edition of a Gunda Din, is made of different
[P;& ́O; receives a subsidy
Hongkong Civil Service
THE appointment of Mr. Elones to act's additional Assistant Harbour Master, and M A... Davey to act as First Boardi-g Officer
further notice, is gazetted.
be the burning question of the day.
really does seem strange in this enlightened, · that so, much time and breath should be exponded and which can hardly be said to conduce to a over a question which is of Hula public interest:
clay, for, as we have said, there was no men. be passed and licensed, and how pullera as its rivals will not the same lines with effect from the 1st December, count feeling of harmony among the vations sections of:
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Rangoon Refinery Company, of the report that Mess, Rothschild have purchased a control fing eest in these undertakings.
for Chloese,
Hoogkong'scosmopolitau community bat everybody will agree is a matter which "should
read of a budding lady novellit who in shortly. intention of writip up her impressions of the Colony. I wonder if our latest caule will ine troduce the exhilarating topic of graves into her impressions. Great Scott I dread to cou
emplate the sneers which wil be showered pas us from sources wise and otherwise. We shall be charged with being prone, after talk of comment ceste prision has ceased somewhat, to invent fresh outlets for oursuperfluous latel ligence and discuss the unknown mysteries of the graveyard Really she grave question is becoming a grave scandal which should be nipped in the bad. The perpetrator of this
tion of loterest by the plaintiff when the who are on the verge of the grave and can parties, came into Court. The defendants not run, two steps are allowed to drag out Eastern passenger traffic is very considerable | aging Agents of the Rangoon Oil Co. and the to visit Hongkong and who has announced her? to the PM. G. writer, he says that The THz Sisineman publishes a denial by the Man best be left alone. Readers may probably have declared that they had made payments their miserable lives by the sanction of MANUFACTURERS. amounting to $130, when his Lordship, the authorities in this cruel fashion. In purely off his own bat, so to speak, said: Shanghai we learn that the work of "But that was paid as interest. You cannot the ricksha depot in carried out by take that off." Nobody seems to have re- foreign sergeant and six native constables. plied to that, because the argument was im- During the morning their me is pecupied mediately shifted and the suggestion was by the i spection of rickahas submitted for made that the plaintif should agree to re-examination by owners who wish to take out gard the debt as being $320. Nothing licences during the following quarter. From doing" said the plaintiff in effect, and ac 2 to 3 p.m. rickshas for which licences have cordingly the woman in the case proceeded been suspended are examined, and if found to declare that the money had been paid, but satisfactory, the licences are returned: Old whether as interest or return of capital did not rickthas brought in from the various stations tinaspire. Now we come to the crucial are examined between 3 and 5 p.m. It point, for we read that: "Plaintiff denied should be mentioned that there is a recognize having received the money, but agreed, ifed scale of licence. suspension. The term the first defendant would go into the box of suspension ranges from four days for an and state on oath that the money had been old cover, rain apron etc., to seven days for paid, to accept his statement and agree to having no rain apton, an old, a young or a judgment for $320." Here is a fine exam sick coolie, old wheels etc., fourteen days for ple of the Indian regard for a lady... The having a coolie blind in one eye and a month when evidence or no evidenco is forthcoming four or six, and in some casas eight years, in may well be Imagined when it is said that
DRY GINGER ALE.
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CHAM-
ORANGE CHAMPAGNE.
STONE GINGER BEER.
PALATABLE
Watson's
AND
female defendant had sworn on. her.oath
for an old and unsafe ricksha. For the more
A SEOUL telegram states that the census now being taken throughout Korek will be complet ed by next Match. It will then be found that something to the 9,785,000, at which it stood at the population of that Peninsula bas-added
the end of 1907,
in these days, and there is no doubt that, by sanding the best ships East, the Norddeutscher Lloyd Company is getting a bigger share than is comforting to the Britisher. To fact, the NA SITE, to be known as Kowloon Tong Ceme. D. L. gamers, with their direct service, are tery, situated at Kowloon Tong, to the nor h of looked upon as the passenger liners. The the Kowloon Tong Reservoir, in the New Tor- Japanese score by reason of their cheaper ritories, containing an area of af acres or there fares. The English companies are probably abonia, has been appolated as a burial ground holding their own as regards cargoes, but Jobp Chibamın (and be countes in these matters) in as yet very likely to be impressed by scise and show, and he very probibly thinks that the oution which can fly its flag on the biggest ships is the commanding nation. He is seeing a lot of the German flag just now in Hoogkong and Shanghai, to say nothing of the coast parts. He is also seeing a good deal of the Japanese. All these half truths are just the ad for the rabid people who only rejcice
that the country is going to the dogs. To turn to another point, our friend the writer having solved the shipping secret, turns to Castan for news and proceeds to turn his information into this form The news that the Europeans in Canton, in view of the friction between. China and the Portuguese colony of Macao, have decided to form a volunteer corps (presumably to protect their own interests, if necessary), -reminds us that China is very much the same
that the money bad been paid, but the plain serious defecie the owner may also be prose tiff was not satisfied., In fact he bluntly in-cuted. But it is the test by which vehicles are sinuated that he was not born yesterday nor found to be fit for service or otherwise to which was he on the outlook for fairy tales. But we would call the attention of the Hong- if the male delendant said the money had kong police. The A. C. Daily News says: REFRESHING. been paid then well and good. Man to man The test to which a ricksha brought in for they could believe one another, but when it inspection is subjected is a pretty severe one. was a case of a woman's truthfulness be pre. In former years the inspecting officer was ferred to stand aside: This is a sad aspect armed only with a hammer, and there was of life in the Orient. We wonder whether considerable discontent among owners beas of old in the opinion of people on the spot. this Indian watchman is the possessor of
cause of the damage done to really sound What China, in these days of self-assertion what used to be called a zenana P-at least vehicles. Now the only tool used is a screw; will think of this veiled denial of her ability that was the word used in those old lorgotten driver, with which the officer pokes, various to protect foreigners in her own country is days when black, scrowling tramps managed parts of the body of the ricksha to see that it another matter." Now what is one to make to cadge our last threepenny-bit on the plex is made of sound wood. The real test comes of that? Does the PM, G. man think that that it would be spent on zenanas. What when the ricksha is raised on one wheel, the they wanted to get into the zenanas for we officer places his foot on the bottom tim haven't the slightest idea, but in our imagina of the other and gives it a quick down. tive youth we figured out that a zenana and ward jerk. If the axle or any part of the
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FRUIT SYRUPS
mixed with aerated or plain water
make excellent refreshing beverages,
the British, German and Freach volunteers
bring a handful at the best and all busily engaged in commercial life, are to throw up
Guaranteed to be made from the a paulch dance were very nearly synonymous. wheel is jerry-built it is hardly possible that / their jobs and march off to Macao in order to
pure juice of sound ripe fruit.
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until the period of suspension has elapsed and the ricksha has successfully passed in spection. The procedure might well be cut out and posted up in the office of the ricksha Inspector in Itongkong,
TWENTY Chinese naval cadets, sons of highly placed officials, who have come to Great Britain to receive waval training, ate staying at Southsen, ander the care of Capt. Li, of the Imperial Chinese Navy. The cadets, who are sixteen and seventeen years of age, will spend England. Six of them are going to the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, as students, and the remaining fourteen will be apportioned 10 the naval contractors' yards on the Clyde and the Tyne. Eventually, after training, they will return and take up posts in the Imperial Chique Navy,
RETURNS of the average amount of bank notes in circulation and of specia in reserva in Hongkong, during the month ended: goth December, 1909, as certified by the managers of the respective Banks:
Banks.
Average Specie in Amount. Reserve.
Chartered Bank of India,
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creatures, heroic act would deserve well of his fellow.
"SCARES MANUFACTURED HERE:" Another screaming farce which was enacted at the fast masting of the Sanitary Board was the startling proposal of the Head of the Sanitary Department to treat contain corres pondence, which was apparently to be treated in the usual way on confidential. The secret indignation of some of the members present there was nothing of a secret nature in the correspondence in question, but the idea origi. uated with one of the honourable, members who appears to have had in mind the pre- vention of a public scara. The principle underlying the idea was doubtless well-mean- ing but it was extremely misguided, for any to which the ratepayers were plainly entitled attempt to consider in cayers correspondence. would have surely tended', to create that very feeling which the authorities sought, and right- ly so, to guard against.
A SCIENTISTS VIEWS.
a number of eminent astronomers have la'e ly been making researches into the appearance Australia and China,$ 4,244,759 $1,300,000 clares that the tail of the comet may strike the
of Halley's Comel. One of the scientists da Hongkong and Shanghai National Bank of China,
Banking Corporation, 12,391,952 $3,000,000
'Limited,......
'$0.940 all. Tatal 516,687,651 17,300,000
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earth next May, but the views which can claim the greatest amoval of attention are undoubted. ly those expressed by M. Flammailun, as they? ore likely to seriously affect all of us it the scientist's theories are based on solid founda tions. M. Flammarion frackly declares that it-
following companies will unless cause is combine with the hydrogen of the comet's tail shewo'to the contrary, be strock off the Regis.ande quld thus bring about the death of thank- The Shangbei Carrying Company, Ltd. The If, on the contrary, there were a diminution of er and the companies will be dissolved :— info adis of the earth through suffocation Hongkong and Minerals Company, Ltd. The sitrogen, so unexpected sensation of physical Tong Sing Yu Newchwang Bean Oil Manu. - activity would be experienced by everyone, and facturing Company, Ltd., Tha Mas Ying Land - the human race would parish' in a paroxysm of Chungking Trading Company, Ltd. Tours of How many are there in Hongkong who would Investment & Agency Company, Lid. The Jay and delirium, probably delighted at its fate. the World (Eastern) Ltd. Frinting and rublishing Company, Ltd. Jag? Probably not many, as there are law of The Hoi Sun look forward to such a prospect with unalloyed The Sing On Steamship Company, Ltd. Co. us who are eager to die fast yet. The end of the and South Chica Trading Company, Ltd. characters as "Old Moore" and his satellites, but tam and Company, Ltd Tea Hougtorg world was long ago predicted by
inch famous The Heng Fang Flour Mill Company, Ltd. the respective periods assigned for the destrac- Tha China Fishing Company, Ltd. The ion of the universe bave long ago'come and Kwong Shue Steam Boat Company, Lid, The gude and still this beautiful world of ours man- Oriental Vafon Fire Insurance Company, Ltd. ages to jog along in the good old way. So my readers can congratula's “Themselver, at least for the present, that they are; free from the wholesale masancte predicted by M. Fiam marion.
Of course we know better now, worse fuck, it will survive this test which is tried
save the Portuguese against Chineza aggres- IT is not find in the Gurelie that, at the ex-in likely that the oxygen in the atmosphere but we still regret that succession of peonies first on one side and thea on the other.? If he does then bie imagination is sub-piration of force months from the 5th ipit, the will, at the time of the appearance of the comer, which went into the capacious pockets of the Assuming that the ricksba passes muster the lime. Incidentally he refers to Shanghai and licensed band of mendicante.. To resume, licence number, is stamped on the wheels actually has a word to say about Hongkong.: however. If that Indian was a zenana and and body, and stencilled on the hood, rain "Cantonis, of course, only following the example A. S. WATSON & CO., pleatiful store of wives we wonder what apron, and coolie's uniform and hat. If the of Shanghai, which bas possessed for years a sort of reception he got last night when vehicle collapses under the test it is taken fios, efficient foreign volunteer corps which Has they learned that he scorned a woman's away, to be used as firewood if the damage done good work. Various nationalities have word? Did Mrs. Gunda Singh imitate the
́s beyond repair, or to be mended if the de- their respective companies, and recently even notorious Mrs Coudle and woundly berate fect discovered be a trifling one. The Chinese company was inaugurated. Another her spouse, or did she welcome him home licence plates are removed from detective small, but efficiens, corps of volubicers in the with the remark that everything in the garricksbas and are not returned to the owner Far East is that at Hongkong, although they den's lovely? At all events, when the male
are somewhat overshadowed by the garrison defendant went into the box and swore that
soldiers of that British Crown Colony. payments on account had been made, the
There are under 300 members." He tries plaintiff accepted the situation and the Court entered judgment for $320. In the circum.
to get in a joke' about a call to arms stances we do not understand why the case
when the Commandant took the field is a dress was brought into Court at all. The debt
soil and so scared the satives that they are run- was not denied and the plaintiff acquiesced.
bing yet. That is exactly the sort of stuff the "authority" in question should stick to; then he on the statement that payments had been
is on sure ground. He will dove a wide field What has come over the spirit of the made. Where was the case? It is some Indian moneylender in Hongkong, when of what disappointing, however, that none of
tastes. and to competitors in dishing up fatuous (an. his own accord he expresses his willingness the papers give the address of this bene to forego his pound of fleah? Time was volent Indian watchman who will lead when the moneylender was regarded as a you $450 and take your word for it that you usurer pure and simple and to our shame have paid it back, Such an omission be it said in the light of the evidence given amounts to gross negligence. In a case in the debt court yesterday, wa have on occasions denounced these rascally
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1910,
A BENEVOLENT INDIAN MONEYLENDER.
RICKETTY RICKSHAS,
Hongkong, and we should not think of referring to it, were it not that a description
QUAINT VAPOURINGS.
A curiously discursive article on Far Eastern aff its appears in a recent number of the Pall mixed up in a general hotch porch. We have Mill Gossile in which kill sorts of things are
LOCAL AND GENERAL. ✨
THE Ta Ching Government Bank will calab
lish a branch in Harbis.
IT as been decided to increase the salary of a Grand Councillor to The. 20,000 a yair. A BLACKSMITH was this meraing awarded three months' hand labour for stealing a quantity of iron balts.
Tapsi Jeme Tian-yow to direct the construc. THE Fupeh people hava proposed to engage
tion of the Hapah rallway,
KAWASAKI DOCKYARD
COMPANY,
T
HALF YEARLY MEETING. ̧
THE MONEY LENDING' CURSE.. At almost regular intervals, rozders of the. The half-yearly general meeting of the Kawa, focal papers are afforded and opportunity of aki Dockyard Complay last month adopted seeing for themselves the mischief wrought by the report and acconets for last balf-year, which Indian money-leaders. The yoke of the usurer recommended a dividend at the rate of 8 per is so propounced as evor and one is sometimes The meeting also approved a proposal to add of British faslice, which is so unbending in ceet, per annum se for the preceding period, tempted to ask oneself by what peculine process to the business of the company the manufacture vibor respects," as these socis, vampires freely of iron and other metal work and to make so allowed to squeeze extortionale interest which addition accordingly to the company's articles bas brought about the ruin of many a humble pany for the period under raviaw amounted tkestan fråda via Ladak for the year ending of association, The set profit of the com- home? A report on the Indo-Chinelo Tar. Y345,859, which was distributed as follows:- gist March, 1909, Jast públ
published, contains sho Reserva... Y35,000 following by the British Consul: Money
Reserve for depreciation of buildings
10,000 lending, a business in which the Hindus from Special reserve
Shikarpur have breï ergagal in this country and machinery...............
Bonuses to officials
an
10,000 for many years, has been put a stop to by the Dividend at rain of 8% per annum... 156,000 Chiness Governor, and I am befping 160 Chi- Carried forward.......
10,000 mese to trample ont the cures.” Cannot the 24,850 local authorities take the same step? Brafford
ing these contemptibla
free accusato: Y345,859 the local courts to recover their extortionata 'cbarges, the law does not only allow them to recover thair, loans tenfold but providus a dis- tiect encouragement for the carrying on of the doubtful practice. It is a starling fact but it
BARS WHILE THE MILK WENT,
the faistos dea who the writer may be, bai` as to is described as a special correspondent he is presumably of some position. At the same time, one wonders where he got all his informa- tio from, especially bis generalisations." In de ling with the shipping trade he, as a Bri, tiher, naturally arrives at the conclusion that the only nation which is eat of the running is Great Britain. Getmary and Japan are the most determined surners in the race, which is given in a Northern contemporary of the implies, of course, that the red epsign is no. methods adopted to discover whether the where to be seen. "Many of as (sys the vehicle is in a fit condition to ply for hire.write?) will still remember the aggressiva de. Some time ago when what are known as claration of policy by the chief shipping firm
first-class" rickshas werp introduced into in Japán some Hongkong, everybody was led to expect that policy are now apparent in the six Eno new
[ years ago an
The results of that the good time had arrived when we should 9,000-ton liners of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha skim across the ground like swallows over trading between Japan and London. The the surface of a pool. We were told how North German Lloyd Company, too, keeps admirably arranged these machines were, some of its biggest and most modern vessels special care had been taken in their con- struction, how the tyres were of the most tisk company, the P, and O., only cccasionally
on the Far Ens-erd service, but the chief Bri: fashionable make, and how the pullers were seads one of its crack liners direct to China THE King's Exegnalur empowering Mr. to make out that the only truthful man in selected from the crime di creme of Chinese and Japan Granted that the N. D. L. and Francis Janssens to act as Belgian Conent at Court was himself. What manner of man athletes, who had been super-educated in..K. are getting along famously that is Hongkong has received His Majesty's sigon. is this, we ask, to veź up business as a treat of politeness and courtesy, There not to say the P. and O has left iha, tura, money lender? He does not appear to were many people who thought the prospect
Dut of late years - theṛn; bar: boin "2"} ir is stated that the Yuch'asepn' bas deputed authorities, who provided hospital treatment,; appreciate (~~ 5 teach know oven the rudiments of the game in too good to be frise, but most of us belogdancy to throw cold water on 'the enam Blith delegate to negotiate with tha japanese which was in many losientos successtole the Cow She
Indian vampires who fatten on the blood of It is an old question to bring up, that the unfortunate poor. Now it seems that the regarding the condition of the ricskhas in Indian moneylender is not a human leech; rather he is a philanthropist, ready to come to the aid of his fellow man-with emphasis on the "man"-and help him over a way side sille. But when we come to examine into the facts more closely we feel bound to confess that is no single respect does this moneylender bear out the general descrip. tion of his tribe. It was not alleged that he charged interest--the most extraordinary feature of all He did not proceed to the debtor's house and min pandemonium in order to show him in the face of his neigh. bours, He did not expostulate, or ledge and contradict himself in Court, nor did he seek
frid.
RULES for the election of Justices of the Fence ou ibe Licensing Board are published in the current issue of the Goscite,
His Excellency the Governor-in-Council bas' decided that the Shant Shui Fo cemetery shall be closed on and after the 7th inst. THE Director of Education will be ex-officio a chong and Queen's Recreation Grounds. member of the Committee for the Wong-nel-
Total mundi
OFIUM IN MANILA,
CONSULAR REPORT.
The probibition of the use of all forms of his trap, päras opium," except medically, in Manila," put in
the habitust eatery and smokers, says ibe Con to some milky topics fro sales report for the Philippine Islands; but Halley's comet is appro force in March, 1908, caused a panic amongst | Láit wask 1 remo
thase were able to obtale relief from their super milky yarn whi
anfierings through the care of the Government - people, with a sense of hum
This fiem no longer figures in the cottoms young minds the retoras, the importation of the dróg being ab- | chome elci, had beer solutely prohibited since Match 1, 1908, except ed some brig MK. R. O, Haichison has been appolated a' for medicinal purposes, on account of the Gov. iba sarplüs member of the Committen for the Wong-act- ainment. There is reason to suppose that a this, sha chong" and "Queen's "Recreation: Grounds, us | considerable quizilty, is being amu Jato
tire of the Royal Hongkong Golf || the cou
Mist the
fab, vica Lient-C
which bully-ragging and high finance are ready to believe anything which would Interchangeable terms. Guoda Singh is a relieve us from the dominance of the yelling of the British company to compels with its Secretary of Legation in regard to a postat watchman and he lent certale parties, a man bandits who scoured the streets accepted the active and heavily subsidized rivals, with the compact in Manchuria, And A Woman, $450 on promissory note, statements as gospel readings. To make minit that those who began the movement of It may be asked by the inquisitive reader a long story short, we were like the prover depreciation are begin log to perside where did Gunds get all that money? As blal stranger. All the difference we could stires that their original taradi suming that he has been w watchman for a see in the first-class vehicles was that actual fact: The truth is, of cour
Sto mouth and that he they were rubber tyred and some of shipping liber in the Oile rate of $60 a year how long thempainted in the most atrocious bues, most difficult thing,la ihe world
him to bring his banking calculated to give the liverish individual meet stated. The Jaundice at first sight. That would not bays
himself, have been so bad if the wheels had been
That the
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