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WHITESIDE-On August 9, 1912, at Snady Lnao, Leyland, Pre ston to Mr. and Mrs. R.ˇA, Whiteside, (C.M.S., West China), u son
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PEREIRA —A! Singapore. August 113, 1912. Isabel Pursia, window of the late Francisuo Evaristo Pereira, farmerly of the Straits Settlamonte Bar.
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The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1912.
DAY BY DAY.
By being happy we saw anony- mone benefits upon the world.
Prometheus Arrives. H. M. 8 Prometheus arrived from Shanghai this morning.
Mass at St. Joseph's. The time for the celebration of mass at St. Joseph's Church hae been changed from 9 a.m. to 10
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Struck Off.
The name of Noel Ramsay and Co., Ltd., has been struck off the Hongkong Register of Com- panion.
The Summer Vacation.
After the conclusion of the September Urimina! Sessions which commence on Sept. 18, the Court will take a vacation of one month, rosuming business on Oct.
18.
The Y.M.C.A.
con-
Larceny from Cotton Mills.
gaol for six weeks.
Damage to Shrubs.
....
In the report of the Hongkong Botanical and Forestry Depart mont for 1911 it is stated that some damage to shrubs and turf
HONGKONG
DAY SEPTEMBER 7
arrogant and tactless guardians IMPRESSIONS. that a fond and paternal govern- gelament places sa watch-flends over
A Yankee Girl's First Olimpse.
[There is nothing new under.. the sun, but in a series of articles, written exclusivay for the "Tele graph," "The Yankee Girl's Viewpoint "has a usw angle.
O wad some Power the giftic jģis us
To acc ooreella as ithers soo us." ]
**Eh Chal"
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COMPANY MEETING
Hongkong Hotel Co Ltd.
NOTES AND
COMMENTS.
the patriotic oitizens who wish
Plague Warning In Verse to enter New York:-
The half yearly meeting of the. The fight in the United States: If anyone who reads this has shareholders in the Hongkong against rats, sa protection from ever been in jail and tried to Hotel Co. Ltd. was held this the invasion of the bubonio break out, that person will un afternoon at the Hongkong Hotel, plague, is the subject of warning: derstand that to leave prison when Mr. W. Hutton Potta pre- and advice from the public health without saying au revoir to the sided. Those present included service in a report just circulated. Chief Wardor is for easier than to Meesra. J. Scott Harston, Dr. J.The report gives methods of kill- break into our own "home town"! W. Noble, directors; J. W. Wal- ing and quarantining against rata, (American papers please copy) ker, A. Weill, Ellis Kadoorie, and draws attention to the fact Lau Cheung Shin, Lai Chan, Fung that the plague is "primarily s Was is Cha or Sha' or Shoo Tak. Hang, J. H. Taggart, mana- disease of rodents and, second that the numberless little brown ger, and the secretary, Mr. C. arily and accidentally, a disease. Hongkong has been the peg on men with sweat-glistening bodies Mooney.
of men." This is emphasised by which so many tales have been and strange wide hats were shout- The secretary having road the a jingle : hung that the name reaches ing at us? I distinctly heard one notion convening the meeting, alluringly even unto the confines eny "ohere," at my elbow and was the chairman said: of "little old New York," and most indignant until it was ex- penetrates the sacred precincts plained that all he wished was the of the Great White Way. privilege of lifting one a few foot
from the ground assisted by fellow "chers" man-and trans porting me anywhere.
the hurrying night clouds were tinged a copprous bronze. Still beyond, lone star glimmered
faintly.
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I longed to ask, innumerable questions, but my oyes wore too busy trying to see everything at
onco,
And then honk honk! With a clatter and the old old |
I've been bere only half an hour, so cheer up as there must be some" real live" impressions to be had! More anon.
MANILA TOBACCO- WORKERS.
Gentlemen:--The report and statement of accounts with audi- tor's report attached having been in your hands for some days, we will, with your permission take them as read.
increase in shop rents, sto.
,
First, plague in rats and then in fleae;
Then plague in mor, and quiok
disease;
No rats, no fleas, no plague
disonse."
Therefore, when it was decided that we should pack a few of our
The lines are not much in the more precious Inres and ponntes
way of poetry, but they press and,metaphorically spooking-
You will have noted from the home an important truth very pick up our skifts, and depart, my
accounts that we have some 9,922 happily. That is the main thing, On Monday afternoon, the anticipations: viod with my
more dollars to deal with than at and whether the rats proceded the Hongkong Young Women's Chris-delight.
the corresponding period of last flen or the flea the rat, matters pot. tian Association, of which Lady We plugged evenly across the
Such a din!
And such year; $5,133.76 of this is ac- A Mali-Delivery Grumble. May is president, will hold an Atlantic, trundled down the navy inanual labour Little girls,at counted for by a new departure Except for an occasional grum- "At Home" on the occasion of less (more's the pity) Mediter least I suppose that they were in the manner of valuing the ble at the irregularity of the the opening of the new rooms ou ranean, glided through the Caanl, girls-staggering along under a stook, your directors considering Siberian Mails, very few com- the top floor at Beaconsfield baked for a week on the Biblical fanny arrangement of a pole across that although various articles plaints are to be recorded against Arcade.
sex, waddled through a stiff mon- their bout shoulders, a basket were issued from the main stook the General Post Office, and its soon, and alid up in five days with bricks swinging from either during the six months, they were administration in Hongkong. In Delving Into History. from Singapore.-
end; women, hazard another still practically as good as now fuot one cannot but speak highly Yesterday afternoon Mr. Pot-
Of course we had to be up to quese almost hidden between and that only a proportion of the of much of the work that is done; tor arguing in the cass corning the validity of an unro-ap Rock though I con foss two huge bundles of grass-and cost should fall on the ourrent yet un Thursday wine of the
that saw no "gap"!
BO on ad infinitum. What aix months; the balance of residents of one of the principal gistered lease of a house in
The Dawn.
chancoforour ponderous S.P.C.O.! $4,780 odd is made up by a hotels in the City had good ren Queen's Rond quoted an Act pass-
Chinese of all kinds and ocu-small improvement in working son to be annoyed at the delay, The dawning more than repaid ed in the roiga of Queen Anne. messenger. Peak subgori bors can have their copies delivered at The Act was 1. Anno and was our trouble, and the trouble that ditione, Indians, Japanese, Ger-account, lower bad debts and an in the delivery of the Siberian
the China boye ha in getting our
mens-and a fow English!
Mail. The hotel in question is their residences without ray extra charge. On copies sent by dated for the year 1709.
The carious broad houses-1|| The board consider the result of not more than three minutes walk post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage.
aurly ten. Of course, as long as verandahs and windows; the long the half year very satisfactory, bo- from the post office. The arrival one is alive there must be dawn-lines of Chinese signs whose ing nearly 10 per eout. on the work of the mail was signalled at about The postage on the weekly issue to any part of the world is $1.00| At the Police Court, this mornings, no matter where ono in
por quarter.
ing, a woman was charged with but the unspeakably lovely tints Blaze at one from their black and the more encouraging as the re-until shortly before 1. p.m. Thatai.
gorgeous golden characters ing capital of the company; this is 7 a.m. and it was not delivered. Single Copies, Daily, ten centi. Weekly, twenty-five cents (for stealing a tin box from another of our first Chinese dawn ourpass rad backgrounds, the incessant turn for the first three months was is to say, nearly six hours elapsed
cash only). Advorticomonts and Subscriptions which are not ordered for'a fixed woman at the women's quarters of ed anything that I have ever seen. Ho Ho Hey Hol of my bearers some $10,000 behind the normal, | between signolling and delivery
the Cotton Mills, Causeway Bay, Over
the gently moving and those of many others-all mainly owing to the falling off in in this instance. Elsewhere in containing property valued at waters, just where they made $4.88. Dofondant said she was a heaving rim to our visible world, was so new, 60 utterly strange! tourist travel due to the trouble towa delivery was obtained a few ill and wrapped the box up by there stole a thin line of pale Rickshaws going every which on the mainland.
hours earlier that morning, so mistake. Mr. Irving sont her to green that broadened rapidly, I shall like Hongkong: I fool caught on," and was quite a wholly with the indoor staff, but way--No trallio laws,-Hurrah!
The grill room seems to have the fault would not seem to lie turning into a rich amber through it- which crept a deep crimson glow.
factor in maintaining the earnings rather with the native postman. High and away above, the last of
for the poriod under review. To our thinking, a hotel where smell a motor car grazed us by a provement to the Hotel, and to going should be served as quickly The new lounge is a great im people are always coming and few inches. Gone were the fondly judge from appearances is much as a business house and, in the cherished ideals that I had so appreciated and we hope will caso under notice, one lady who was dono by gangs of Chinese
Gradually the colours changed of for Cathay" where all was to the afternoon tea service in that her mail by half an hour. Where- onrofully nurtured of "The land be still more popular now that was leaving the Colony missed who assembled in Blake Gardon until, with a sudden fluro of heat, be mysticism, cymbals and joss room has been installed.... to watch birds fighting. Those the sun seemed to bound from sticks! Instantly I was back in No depreciation has been writ-before she left.
ns she might have had it an hour birds were brought into the garden the goiden sos. To starboard the New York, dodging taxis, in cages by other Chinese, and by heights of land loomed a misty
ten off the value of the buildings; Flown prohibiting this the nuisance was
the board not thinking it noc08- blue-gray.
If our wily friends the burglars soon stopped.
sary, as besides the cost of a read the newspapers, we can Junka everywhere! Suoh
valuation, they consider they imagine them doing a quiet little Salvation Army in China. strange creatures: seemingly In connection with the recently trying to stand on their heads in
stand in the books at a much chuckle this morning.
"For received telegram announcing the the most ridiculous fashion. I
lower figure than would be requir-months and months and months," possibility of the Salvation Army was at once for photographing |
ed to replace them; the cost of as the song has it, we have boom commencing work in China, it is each one, but the skipper rom-
all repairs such as iron beams, trying all wo knew to catch a interesting to note, that before inded me of better opportuni-
conorete floors etc., has been burglar of some sort; and when General Booth's death on Aug. 3 lies to come, so I exercised self
borne by working account, the we do happen to lay our hands on in fact-Col, David Lamb Toft restraint. (It has been said that
only item debited to capital being one we cannot keep him more London for China. He will spend women, and, girls have none,
At a masa moating at which the cost of the lounge which we than a few hours. A pretty siton- some time in the East and will go and that Englishmen are the 7,000 tobacco workers gathered consider quite legitimatu.
tion, truly-one which would de The serious accusations that are now being brought against the home via Canada, arriving in only possessors of this estimable at the call of Julian Kalimbas, There being no questions, the light the heart of a Gilbert. But y
the president of the Manila To-chairman moved the adoption of it has its serious side; too;" and New York police provide yet one more reminder that a nation can-England some time in October, trait, but "I am from Missouri
Verb map:!)
bacco Worker's Union, recently the report and account and Mr.we cannot refrain from expressing not be too careful in the selecting of men who are to guard its civil
Bank Figures.
it was decided to call a general J. Walker seconding, the motion surprise, as well as disgust, that interests. Now that America is, so to speak, down on her luck as re-notes in circulation and of specie The average amount of bank
"The Poak Is What the strike of all the cigar and cigarette was carried.
such carelessness "should be. gards her police, it would be unfair to hold her up as an awful example; in reserve in Hongkong during Penk?"
workers in the city of Manila, no On the motion Mr. A. Weill, diaplayed sa to permit of the factories to be exempted. and not only unfair but absurd, since every school-boy knows that August were as follow: Obar All the long thousands of miles
seconded by Mr. Lau Choung possibility of this Oriental Bill The principal cause for the shiu, the appointment of Mr. J. Sykes slipping through the this particular difficulty is as old us the bills, and is not confined to tered Banknotes $6,194,070; our most excellent host and skip holding of the meating was to Scott Haraton to the directorate fingers of the authorities. If the any age or country. flome, both as a republio and as empire, had specie, $1,000,000. Hongkong por, also his amusing chef. en-
view of the decision of the Bureau
man was, as is stated, believed to to face the fact that bribery and blackmail wore the distinguishing $10,089,002; specie, $14,000,- of "The Peak," ita view, its hotel, of Internal Revenue to put into seconded by Mr. Lai Chan, the was he ever transferred to hospital On the motion of Mr. Kadoorie į have been ahamming illness, why marks of many of the men in ber service, from the wealthy prefect 000. Mercantile Bank notes and its sunkes.
force certain provisions of law Hon. Mr. E. Osborne, was re-at all? A little medical investiga or influential tribune down to the lowest and poorest soldier; and $275,498; specie $130,000, plus It was beautiful in the early long on the stantes but. not en-olected to the directorate.
the
tion with in the prison precincts though the reflection may be but poor consolation to America, she £30,000 securities with Crown sunlight, towering over forced concerning the registration Messra, H. U. Jefferies and A. would surely have revealed the
Agents.
magnificent harbour. A slight of oigar makers and the prohibi- R. Lowe were appointed auditors subterfuge, Aro our police so soft is not so much worse off than other countries as might appear.
mist at the top served very sion of the employment of makers on the motion of Mr. Fung Tak-hearted and gullible that they Those with whom the appointing of the police lies, have usually The booking for the forthcom indoed the whole scene as our than those in which they were The chairman:-That is all the prisoner may care to tell them ? well as a bit of imitation snow not registered or in other classes hang seconded by J.H. Taggart will take in anything a Chinese but a very limited oboice. So far as the constable in London is ing dramatic entertainment in ship swung slowly in to her an- concerned, his post is not so extraordinarily lucrative, or his task so the Theatre loyal on Saturday, chorage, was much as a huge
registered day
buminose, thank you for your at Wesuppose the authorities now sit Very enviable, as to make it likely that the best mon will enter into September 28th, opens on Mon-back drop in a gigantic theatre, protested against as being pre- will be ready on application to over Bret Harte's words, For This proposed registration was tendanco. Dividend Warrants in contemplative mood, pondering day next. The pieces to be pro-wonderfully executed. The old competition for the vacancies that occur; and probably this is just duced are "Ponolope," a comio saw has it that distance lenda judicial to the interests of the the secretary on Monday, as true of New York. Offer a low wage for work that entails grave operetta by Hawtroy and Solomon enchantment. In this case it responsibility, ofton great danger, and, at all times, the risk of being Satro's Comedy A. Marriage was true because the city seem od provided for but a public mani- made a laughing-stook for dull wits and a scape-goat for duller magis has been Arranged" and a novel so tiny, nestling at the foot of fostation was ordered organized ates or superior officers, and you have an excellent chance of finding ty "Impressions in Light and the massive hills, its wee houses for the purpose of protesting to preponderance of rogues and fonts among your volunteers. Lucky Sound". The booking isnt enoroaching here and there on the secretary of commerce and then, is the chooser who can single out the good and reject the ill Messrs. Montries, from among material so questionable. When, some four or five
the sombre grean of their steep police and the Governor General. The s.8, Okara which has arriv- years ago, an enquiry into the conduct of the London police was held, The following notification from But the heat!
It was further decided that the ed from Rangoon reports that on cartain flagrant abuses wore brought to light, and these absorbed the Colonial Secretary's Depart- Our Babang ice had long since workers should refuse to register Wednesday she encountered. a so much public attention that the average case ran a risk of
under, the law. ment appears in the current isśno being over-looked. The few who were at the trouble of reading be- of the Hongkong Government
given out and of course none had
high wind and a rough sea. A tween the lines of the evidence and the subsequent finding, wero Gazette: It is hereby noti- yet come aboard. We literally tempts liave been made to re-encountered on Thursday. The In some of the factories at high gale and rough son was again forced to the conclusion that the London police contained a small fied that copy of an Order of His gasped in the torpid breathless gister the employes, says the steering chain was carried awayment Gazette that His Excellency number of astute and honest men, and a very large number of Majesty in Council of the 24th of individuals who looked at least one of these two qualities. And Juno, 1912, for giving effect in
On shore at last not by the the instructions of their loaders
Manila Times," but obeying and the ship hove to.
the Governor has appointed Mr the same might be said of the constabulary in St. Petersburg, Paris, certain parts of His Majesty's picturesque family abodes called they have refused to give the the steamer was in great danger Bird to be Unofficial Members of Heavy seas were shipped and D. W. Craddock and Mr. HW. New York and possibly even in Hongkong,
The average police are not necessarily rogues positive; but ing to Copyright which was.con What? No, bother with Cus- the law.
dominions to the Convention relat Launch,ssary data to enable the from noon until midnight when the Licensing Board, Vice the
sampans, but in a very smart
factory managers to comply with the course was again set and the Hon. Mr. Murray Stewart e the many seem to have their
price; Robert who arreets the drunken cluded at Berlin on the 13th of fome? To as of New York it
vossol...proceeded labourer, is the same Robert who tenderly places in a cab that other November, 1008, and copy of an
under great Hon. Mr. E. Osborne, difficulties.
resigned. drunken man who is good for a five-shilling tip. We have many Order in Council of the famo date seemed too good to be true, Of times pointed out the Intact to policemen, invariably to most with for continuing it force the Cone could swear that I The Missing Servant. the or use that an ill-paid man must not be too nice (which we take vention of 24th April, 1893, my person that I do not smoke, Arbuthnot Road has reported darried no bottle" of whisky about A wealthy Chinees residing to mean too scrupulon). A little more enquiry into the relating to Copyright Realprocity and that had no arme con- the police that he has lost two antecedents of constabulary candidates, together with better payment between the United Kingdom cealed in, well and ressonable chains of promption through moris, would and Austria-Hungary, and of the
women never valuable vases worth over $1,000 soon bring down to a minin
also states that a. Borvant of
and it je surmi
WHO SHALL GUARD THE GUARDIANS?
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The Peak.
General Strike Ordered.'
decisio what should be done in was confirmed. and Shanghai Bank notes, ginoor, had regaled us with stories
Dramatic Entertainment.
The Copyright Convention.
ali poentials as have been quoted, Convention, may
application at this Off
pooki
seen on would have avaie
workers.
Not only was a general strike.
HEAVY SEAS.
י.
The Okara In Considerable Danger.
For the Trop
Médi
ways that are dark and for trioks that are vain, the heathen Chinee is peculiar." That may be all very well, but if only due precau- |tions were 'taken, many of thems would waye" and tricks never come off.
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