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RUBE'S REMARKS.

THE HONGKONG TEL

COMPANY MEETING.

Penk China Light and Power Co., Ltd.

Ho Discovers the Rallway and other Things,'

Oh crickets what a village Hongkong is It's half way a tween New York an nowhere,

The eleventh ordinary annual meeting of the shareholders in the

HONGKONG FINANCE.

Treasury Statement for Month

of July,

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER,

THE SHAMEEN MURDER.

Accused Sepoy Brought to

EUROPEAN LADY

ATTACKED.

Strange Story of Would-be

We have been informed that an

Robbery,

attack was made upon a European

China Light and Power Company month of July, issued by the Hong-law point of view one of the most A financial statement for the What promises to be, from a Lid was held this noon in the kong Treasury, appears in the interesting

criminal cases heard offices of the general managers of Government Gazette. It shows at Hongkong in recent years is ter bot on; but whon all's said the company, Mosers. Shewan that the balance of asts and that of the man Isral, who is so- lady at Causeway Bay, last night

an' I'm durned of I know which

on 'sung I guess. I'll choose the

Poak a sure winner!

Bay girls, hav any of ye been up for the Peak on the Funny oular railroad? Ef hevent, take my tip an' go! (The Yankes girl thinks that she knows it all, but she dont, not by a durned sight!). My Ma used ter say ter

.me,

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

CORNED BEEF.

Tomes and Oc., Mr. C. A. Tomes linbilities on June 30th, 1912, was oused of the murder of an Indian pany with a European One man's meat is another's poison. The King's sout Sir Paul Chater, O.M.G., and lat to 31st July $694,431.00, and readers will remember that, some presiding. There were also pre-8695,364.10, the revenue from officer of his regiment. Our gentle

"Ef', when somebody comes The secretary having read the orlong an tries tor tell you out notice convening the mosting, the hin that ye dont know, just por-chairman said :— ternd that ye ondestand, annak him the status quo of barometer! -That'll fix him,"

I asked that question twice,

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an' got a hard-hearted son-of-a

Liabilities. Deposits not Avail- ablo ...... 16 19 Gentlemen, We will take the House Service...... report and accounts as usual, with Crown Agents' Ad- your permission, as read.

vances

man

Mr. H. P. White, consulting com- the expenditure during the same three weeks ago, a sepoy of the According to the story told to mittes; and Meara C. N. M. Hamil-period $501,801.38, leaving a Baluchistan Infantry shot a (A2) ton, W. J. Carroll, Tung Shui-wa, balance of $887,993,78,

""} Subadar dead at Canton, the Presentative of the "Tale= |

"the lady and gentleman J. H. M. MoMoririe, J. A. Young, The statement of seats and causo of the orime being very

were having an evening run on A. 8. Ellis and the secretary Mr. liabilities on July 31at, is as much a matter of conjecture-one the car from Hongkong, and when

. M. Smith.

follows:-

report alleging that the man had they got to Causeway Bay decided a grudge against the officer for to have a walk. They had not having reported him, and another walked far from the tram ter $232,183.95 that a quarrel had arison between them and attacked the lady with midi before a Chinese approached 3,004.74 the two over a gambling trans the intention of relieving her of notion. However that may be, by her jewellery The European 3,099,077.25 the instructions of Sir Havilland

136,180.08 de, Sausmarez, Chief Justice at gentleman immediately stopped 1,051.001.30 Shanghai (whole court holds in between, but as he did, the

jurisdiction over Canton matters and threatened to stab him.

Chinese brought out a huge knife 5,422,347,31 so far as British subjects are con

887.999.78 corned) the military authorities

on the Shameen held a prelimi

Coine, $753,908.60

...$6,310,341.00 aary enquiry, and committed Isral for trial on prima facie evidence. By His Majesty's Order in 0,711.00 Council, of 1904, for the govern- A good number of golfers and 20.361.80 ment of British subjects in China, picnickers left by the 1.25 p.m. the Chief Justice at Hongkong is train for the New Territory to- 5,236,031.27 empowered to try, at the Supreme day, on the occasion of the in- 254,248.85 Court, "uny prisoner committed nuguration of the refreshment car

1,579.40 under such circumstances; and service.

They show small improvement Postal Agencies over the past, hut progress is un-Overdraft, Bank... gun's fist in my face both times.deniably slow, and it is difficult

I rookon that Ma got the wrong to see what more can be done Total Liabilities ideo o' how they do things in this here village.

I poked the foller back, un 'he

than quietly await the develop- ment of Kowloon.

Balance......

to date affair and is working Subsidiary

The generating plant is an up efficiently, and every economy is

Total

Assets,

tion, Unallocated Stores, Suspense Account, Crown Agents' Cur-

rent Account, Exchange,

poked me agin' an' bimoby village const'ble comes' long an bo 8829: Ere Ere wot's the being exercised. An assistant Advances, bldomin,' blessed row'?

engineer was ongiged in Febru- Improst, Bakes alive how kiu a Ruba boary last, as the constant and con. Railway Construo expected to ouderstand a foller tinuons supervision of the new that has a bayonet on his hat rather complicated engines was an telophone numbers on his deemed too mucir for one engineer shoulders?

alone. The oreoting engineer has boon kept on for a much longer. time than at the beginning was anticipated would be necessary owing to the unreliable work- ing of the gas producer, ox- perience being neeiled to arrive. at the greatest efficienoy, and this! trouble rendered it ansate to do away with the old steam plant until quite recently.

'n

I felt like callin' up Martly, (lior number es 2,-ring four), but I did'nt dass' ont do it. It's a great town, sure o' it.

But the Funuy-cular!-I paid my good money, an we started. Great wallopin' giuks, my oars begun ter buzz, un' when the Chineo conductor come orlong wuz a-hopia that the blamed thing would buat.

# cont.

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The number of consumers has

Total,

special interest attaches to the 23,868.12 case in question inasmuch as, 1,733.990 far as we can discover, this will be the first instance of a Hongkong 80,310,341.00 Chief Justice being called upon to exercise thesa particular powera. Yesterday afternoon the accused arrived in the Colony by the a..

· HONGKONG REVENUE

STAMPS.

A Change In Design,

It cannot be ascertained at the

moment what happened to the would-be robber.

Picnic Train:

To-day's Advertisement

Honam from Canton, in charge Theatre Royal

of a British officer and an escort consisting of one Indian sergeant and night privates, six of whom

On

ONE NIGHT ONLY

TUESDAY, Octabor 8th 1912, at 9.15 r...

Tox

MALE QUARTETTE'

OF BOSTON.

Booking at Mosam. Montile & Co.

increased by 15.6 per cent, and The following statement relat-liad their bayonoth fixed. The. Ihaiat seen much o' Hongkong, the increase in lamps and motore ing to revenue stampa appears in man, who had been clained to but wax plumb Boairt to death connected to the mains, oxpressed the Government Gazette:- the sergeant of the guard, was when the feller in front began in kilowatts, by 36.8 par cont.,

Whereas the use of the die immediately handed over, on ter tickle the wires. For all I and receipts from anle of current bearing the head of His late arrival, to the Civil Police who MAO WATTERS know he may hoy played Yankoo have increased by 18 per cont. Doodle, but there we waz,

Majesty King Edward VII has were waiting at the wharf. These Depreciation on all the old boen discontinued and a new die conducted him to the Victoria teotorin 'a' tween somewhere an' property was well provided for bearing the head of His Majesty gaol, where he remaine till further nowhero, a 'I' did'at like it within the year 1910 but nothing as King George V has been provided instructions are received.

Spasin' the cable boon written off the value of the in lieu thereof, it is hereby noti-enquiring of the Police, we learn busted? I look pretty not bein new machinery, now over a year fed under Section 19 of the that, so far, their only orders are ablo ter tuil who I was, would' old, and it is recommended that Stamp Management Ordinance, to keep the Indian in safe custody. $10,000 be applied to this pur-1911, that from and after the and that there his bbên no augis- It's a fine view when ye gel pose, about 6 per cent, on the 31st day of March, 1913, auch terial examination; and, from there, but it's a durned sight cost. finer view whon ya got back to |

new die shall be the only lawful apother official quarter, we gather Before putting the adoption of die for denoting duties charge that Isral will probably becharged, terror-cotter, an climb inter oue the report I shall be pleased to able under the Stamp Ordinance, in due course, at the Supreme o' these lor carry-me-where-answer any questions.

Court as though his commitment I-dont-want-ter go chairs!

had come in the ordinary way Say, Yankee girl, ye aint mad

through the Hongkong magistrate. THE Company's 'cause I'm in the limelight; be yo? The glorious press is free

CRIME RECALLED. fur everybody, anye could'nt expect to hev it yer own way all the time!

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If for a good looker an' dresses pert, I'll meet yo any arternoon ya say in the lorry 'a' my ho-tol an buy yo a ice cream sody. Come on, be a sport!

An' talkin bout "sports," fine one come up ter me on In Hoo Vinces Street. (I think that wuz the name), an' he sazs: "You're A 'Merican, haint you?" That riled me some considerable, 'cause any durned chump kin eco that I come from the land whar" the noblest bird that flios,-screams (how's that?) "What do I look

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1901.

There being no questions, the This notification does not apply chairmen proposed the adoption to the 5-rent revenue stamp. sold of the report and accounts. This unembossed to the public. was seconded by Mr. McMurtrie and carried.

On the motion of Mr Young, econded by Fung Shui-wa, Sir Paul Chater and Mr H.P. White, were re-elected to the consulting committee.

The chairman; That is all the business gentlemen; thank you.

CHURCH SERVICES.

OLD

'701

Prions of adtniss'on, $3, $2, $1. Hongkong, 20th Sept. 1812

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP

COMPANY, LIMITE",

FOR SWATOW.

8.8. HAICHING," Captain W. C. Passmore, will le des- patched for the above Fort, on SUN- DAY, the 29th instant, at 10 o'clock

For Fraight or Fanings, s¿ply to

General Managera,

On old orimo has been recalled

kong, 20th September, 17th Sun-

by the fact that a man who has St. John's Cathedral, Hong been imprisoned in Victoria Gaol day after Trinity. Holy Communion since 1907 has petitioned for his

release... 8.15 a.m. Matins 11 am.: Ros- ponens, Featal; Venite, Savage; took some girls, of the same na On April 5, 1007, a Japanese Pealms, Turton, Barnby, Barnby; tionality, to a boarding house; Te Deum, Lawes, Cooke, Hop- they had just arrived in the Co-INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVI-

Mr. Hamiltou proposed the elec- tion of Mr W.H. Potte and Mr. A. O'D. Gourdin as auditors. Mr. Me Murtrie Recouted and the kina; Benedictus, Langdon, Holyoay, and the next day, with four motion was carried,

423, 273,310; Kyrie. Evensong visit. The men, when the girls Communion 11.45 am, Hymns, noquaintances, be paid them a 5.45 p.m. (Full Choir): Respon- sas, Fastal Psalms, Rimbault, were absent, were drinking iced Stainer; Magnificat, Nunc Dimit beer, when a bottle was throwa tis, Walmisely in D minor; An- at the min by someone, who, it them, "Behold the Lamb that over transpired. This seemed was slain," Spohr; Hymns, 424, assault by the four other ines on to be the signal for a combined 229; Sevenfold Amen.

Union Church, Kennedy Road:

MAKING FAST,

At the Marine Court, this morn-

like,a ham sandwich?" seza ing, before Commander Book with

I, avellin' my chest bang up R.N., LS. Robert Lanigan prose

But this "sport" feller is sure some hand at a yarn! He had a Lost in the Bush-Kiss-me-Mo-

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BILLIARD HANDICAP.

Anthem "O Lord, how Manifold.

!

DOUGLAS. LAPRAIK, & Co., Hongkong, 27t: Sept., 1912.

[702

GATION CO., LTD.

FROM CALOUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE,

THE Company's Steamship

"KUMSANG "

Consigness of cargo by ber, are hereby having arrived from the abre Forts

which followed, the man received Cargo impeding the dindarge, or bruised him and in the melee livered from alongside. the other. They struck and foformed that their goods will by do-

remaining on board after Jonsignada 1st Oct., will be landed at Consigned' a

taken by surprise, but put up a good defence. In a dying condi ing under great terror, he man- tion, and seemingly still labour- aged to get into an upper room

risk and expense.

by

No Fire Insurance will be effected. -Bills of Lading will be countersigned

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. LTD. General Managera.bong

who searched the house for him. and to hide from his assailante | Floarkong. 88th Sept. 1912.

Meeting with no auocess they threatening a lodger with murder ransacked the building, and if he interfered, made off with the

deceased's property.

MAGISTRACY.

(708

tor all o' it's 32 and 7/8 inches. cuted Kwok Fuk Yau, master of Preacher, Rev. O. H. Hickling That skeered him, an' I only got the s.8: Kwong Wo, with disobey-11 am. Worship Hymna 373, stabs, one penetrating his totched for $5.! (Puzzul: No I, ing the lawful orders of the Har. 53, 275, Pealing 57 (Martyrdoma) inags and the other his heart. on' answer: which would ye bour Master by making his craft ruther, be a 'Merican, minus fust to the s 8. Caledonion in the Are Thy Works" (Barnby), Sub. The deceased was apparently $5, or look like a ham sandwich Harbour on September 24. an save yer money? Guess I The defendant, who planded ject-Character in Adversity. 12 wont give the answer; ye kin guilty, was fined $5.

noon, Communion, 6- p.m. Wor figger it out fur yerself).

ship. Hymna 438, 202, 207, 339, 240. Babject-Going ahead.

St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, -20th September. 17th Sunday ther-ore-I-die tale that boat any- A Billiard Handicap will be after Trinity Matine 11.00 a m2 thin' I ever hearn. An' I'll be held at the Grand Hotel, begin- Holy Communion Noon. Even ginswiggered of I did'nt see him ning Monday 21st October. The song 6.00 p.m. Responses, Ferial aridin in a ortaymobile that first prize will be a gold watch to Venite, Savage; Psalms, OXXXIX. same doggoned night! Would'nt the value of $130.00, presented Turton: CXL. Barnby; OXLI. that jolt ye?

by Mr. F. Reichman, proprietor Barnby Te Deum, Woodward, Moralee: When any body of the Grand Hotel. Other prizes, Smart, Turle: Benedictus, Gar

NOTICE is hereby given that tetohes ye, jest any ortermobila in proportion to the dumber of rett; Kyrie, Mould; Hymns, 160, tried at the Criminal Sessions, Mr. mesting of the Licensing Board an' I'll bet ye a new hat he'll run entrants, to be announced later, 520, 323. Evensong. Hymas, Justice a HJ Gomporte, who will be held on the Connell Chamber on Thar's some faakination bout will be presented by the different 22 Responses, Feria! Paalms, secuting and Mr. M. W. Slade do vamber, 1812, at 9.157., for the was then Attorney General, pro- WEDNESDAY, the 8th day of so- this here writin' game. Ma al- local Companies to the spiccessful CXLLI, Rimbault; OXLLII, fending The charge was one of purpose of considering applications for ways said that I was a prime competitors, as also a billiard Turle; Magnificat, Smart: Nune murder, but the jury returned a Pablicans and Hotel Keeper'a Adjunct hand at spellin', an she was dead cue and case, presented by Dimittia, Hopkins; Hymns; 277, verdict of guilty on a charge of Lioshows for the year 1912-1918/ander right Who's that laflin over Messrs. Lane & Crawford to the 332, 270; Vesper Hymn. there?

competitor sboring the highest St. Peter's Church, West Point, labour for ten years being passed ad at the Magistency,

*** manslaughter, a sentence of hard' the Liquor Ldornos Ordidagor, 1911.

Forms of applications may be obialm- break. The proprietor of the Holy Communion, 7.30 am One of those prisoners, w | Grand Hotel, Mr. Relohman, will Morning Prayer and Sermon-

present a special prize of 10 11.00 am. Evening Prayer and His Majesty the King has not dollare, for each break of 100 or Sermon, 8.15 p.. been advised to exercise his power over The entrance fee is Gospel

Me respect to $3.00 Entries are

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Fool may demand pheasants' tongues for breakfast whilst most of us are well satisfied

with Corned Beef and Cabbage for a change

If it be good and well, cooked 1 It is a dish

for live men not for mummies,

September 24, 1012,

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