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HONGKONG THIRTY YEARS AGO.

(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the Week Ealing January 25, 1883.)

"Judas Iscariot”. The following paragraph ap-. pears in the issue of January 20h, 1853 " Wo họng thúc đ well-known Government official oreated quite a sensation at the fancy dress ball the other even- ing. He went as Julas Iscariot, and looked and noted liked that celebrated historical personage as if to the manner born."

Interport Sport.

CORRESPONDENCE.

The opinions expressed by our correspondents are not necess arily those of the "Hongkong Telegraph."]

VOTES FOR WOMEN,

To the Editor of the Hongkong

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"Telegraph."

Dear Sir: The statements maile in your leader of yesterday, January 23rd, are of the ancient and sentimental. order, which have been answered a thousand times. But the ignorance on the question of votes for women is so

general that I should be obliged The Hongkong cricketers re-if you would allow me to refer to turned from Amy on January some of the points raised in the 20th. Besides easily winning article in question and to place a the cricket match in Amoy, they few facts and suggestions before were successful it lawn tounis, you.. racquets and the single handed

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1918.

3. Because if woman is essen- tially different from man it is obvious that man cannot repre- sent ber point of view?

4. Because women need A weapon to protect themselves, especially in the labour market, instead of baring to rely on the protection of men which is, after all, generally required as 's pro-

taction from men.---Yours, etc., G. McPherson.

Hongkong, Jan. 24, 1913.

PRIZE DISTRIBUTION,

Annual Function at Ellis

Kadoorle School.

HIGH CLASS

BB

CIGARETTE HOLDERS

IN LARGE VARIETY.

The annual distribution of POUCHES, CIGAR & Prizes of the Ellis Kadoorio Chinese Schools Society's Hong kong College took place this morning. The function was of Femi-private nature because of billard match, but were vanqui-that militancy had incalculably are still proceeding. Mr. Ellis First, As to the statement the building operations which sherl at "ton pias" and lost the strengthened the opposition to double handest game at billiards. Woman's Suffrage and his put A one innings mitel at cricket back the one, I ask you to con- was played at Swalow, Hongkong sider the following facts:-. winning by ten wickets.. Swatow acored 35 runs, and Hongkong passed this total for the loss, of

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one wicket,

Hongkong, Hotel Co., Ltd.

election:

1.

1. That in 1870 Mr. Jacob Bright introduced a Women's Disabilities Removal Bill to give votes to women on the sanio format

Kadoorie presided, and was sup ported by Mr. Lau Chu Pak (the Hon. Secretary), members of the Council, and parents of the stud- ente. The Headmaster, Mr. W. Braidwood, read his report, which was as follows:

a

the

KRUSE & CO.

'OPPOSITE THE NEW

THE OPIUM CRISIS.

Hongkong Firms Victimised.

POST OFFICE.

HONGKONG FINANCE.

The financial statement issued by the Treasury for the month particulars under heading of of November gives the following Revenue and Expendituro:

Balance of As sets and Liabilities on 31st October,

Revenue from lat to 30th Novem-

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$2,716,278.37

$653,843,02

standstill. If the merchants themselves suffer, во mast

ulinor Chinose radars ber, 1012.

Expenditure from 1st to 30th November, 1912 $380,699.63

Balance, $2,780,421.76

tween

tlie wholesale

dealers

these smaller

The Magistracy Ro-building

Contract. of the Magistracy has, we learn, The contract for the re-building bean awarded to Kong On and

I have pleasure in presenting as men. The Bill passed a second to you the twelfth annnal report The half-yearly report of the reading with a good majority of the Society's Hongkong Col- above Company siguod by Mr. Ever since that time the House of legs. Sincs Midsummer, 1911, W. Kerfoot Hughes (Chairman) Commons has continue to pass when the demolition of the build appears in the issue of January Second Roadings of Vutes for ing commence, classes have been the opium traffic show no sign of 22nd, and sintes that, after de- Women Bills by a fair majority conducted enlely in the East and abatement in

The difficulties in the way of ducting such pro rala proportion and has thereby declared issell West wings. This has negsssarily future. The strain on the banks the immediate of fire insurance, taxes, repairs persistently in favour of women's led to a great redaction in the is said to be causing gravo an- etc., as is chargeable on the period suffrage, yet has never passed a number of students. The Average xiety, and the Hongkong opium under review (six months ended third reading. It is therefore Daily Attendance was also ad December 31st, 1882, the Profit evident that the House of Com varsely affected by the serious

merohunts say that business is at 11912, and Loss Account aliowas balance

mons approval in the past has outbreaks of Smallpox and of $8,183.23, of which amount en a meaningless and useless Plague, in the early monthe of the Directora propone to distri- buto a dividend of $3 per sharexpression of opinion. If milit-the year. The maximum month who act 98 intermediaries be-| thus absorbing a sum of $0,000 y line indeed destroyed this ly enrolment was 608 and and to write the balance off "Hotellse support, which for forty the average Daily Attendance. and the retailers and consumers. years has deluded women into the for the 235 days on which The Telegraph" is informed and Furniture Account." Mr. D. belief that a third reading would classes were held was 480; that two of McCulloch and Mr. Ant. dos by passed, and has given us With the exception of the ocfirms in Hongkong have already Remedios retired from the Board nest opposition in its place, casions I have just mentioned, the been ruined by the action of the and offered themselves for re-it is indeed to be congratulated. attendance has been inarked by Canton Government in prolibit 2. Since the beginning of the great regularity and 96 pupils ing the entry of the drug, and it Steamboat Company. The half yearly report of the militant movement in 1905, the made the maximum number of is thought that others must soon

Woman's Suffrage attendances. Hongkong, Canton and Macaospect of

fullow. in the House of Commons has Steamboat Company, L., tu

Co. Vacancies which have occurred

Much indignation is felt by the December 31st, 1882, states thaietely changed. From be in the staff have been filled by merc

ing a batooround enterinining the appointment, among others, the Medical Mission in Shanghai at the action of after paying running expou303,terludo in the serious business of Messrs N. Mc. Intyre, I. Smith, which has passed a etc.. thero remains, including $50,347.43 brought forward from the fuse, it has become a H. Maxwell, M.A., and J. P. last account, the sun $114,351.35 Brave and important question; it Jones, B. Sc., allkeen and qualified Republican Government in de- upholding the conduct of the at credit, of Profit and Loss hus, in effect, become practical teachers. Hitherto the lack of liberately breaking the Treaty

From this sum. the Politica, This does not prove that accommodation and apparatus This, together with the memorial |

The advance is due to the work of prevented the development of the Militants, future historians our teaching on the scientific presented to the House of Com capital, be paid as dividend for at fest significant that militancy in this direction on the comple-China's behaviour, is calculated baring strived from the above porte,

Anti-Opium Society, applauding the half-year, that $9,000-be written off the cost of the steamer romurkable revival of interest in fitted up. The staff, as augmented, President Yuan and his advisers that their goods will be delivered from

was immediately followed by a tion of the Laboratories now being.

to offer further encouragement to signees of cargo are hereby informed Honam, that $3,000 he placed at credit of Depreciation Fand, and that militancy and the pro- 3 Local Teachers, and 4 Vera- Minister at Peking.

the subject of voles for women consist of 8 Eaglish Masters, in their defisucs of the British

alongside and that $2,750 be appropriate as directors and auditore foes of the suffrage cause have onlar Teachers. For purposes of Government Grant-in-Aid the leaving a balance of $42,001 35 5 hand in hand. to be carried forward. The re- 3. Perhaps it is not generally school year now terminates on port, which is signed by Mr. E known that until the Feginning 30th June, instead of and the Central Government is It. Belilios as Chairman, statos of militancy the press boycotted December. To effect this chinge being made; but the wording that the new steamer Honam the subject of Woman's Suffrage, it was necessary to hold a connection with it is so vague

This arrived on 15tli September, 1832, ignored the constitational ngita. half-yearly inspection.

J. R. and is now running satisfactorily tion of forty years, refused to was done by Mr. oh the Hongkong-Canton lius.

report meetings and speeches and Wood on 2nd July an following that the first militant outbreak days, and he reported as fol broke the boycott and brought lows:-

Account. Directors

recommend. that

resolution

To-day's Advertisements.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FitOM CALCUTTA, PENANG

HE

and SINGAPORE.

$30,000 or 5 per cent. on the will deofile that point, but it is side, but we hope to extend mous by the members of the teamahup

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31st

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Meanwhile the Canton papers state that some attempt at an arrangement" between Canton

that no one can understand it.

from Yimiin.

in

"JAPAN,"

Cargo impeding the discharge will be landed at once, at consigncar' risk an expense.

Cargo remaining on board after I p.m.,

of the 28th inst., will be laaded at con- signo risk and expense.

Consignees of cargo from Singapore

and Puning are requested to tako. Im- mediata delivery of their goods from alongside, suol cargo impeding to dis- charge of the Vessel will-bo lauded and stored at consigncos' list and expense. No Fire Insurance has baan 'effooted. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the andersigned.

DAVID BASSOON & CO., LD., Agants.

[183 Fongkong, 25th Jan, 1913,

MOJI.

JAPAN."

GUSTOMS PATROL, New Barrister. Mr. Alfred Gascoigne Wise.

Reported Attack by Robbers. tho subject of woman's suffrage "Discipline and Organisation. barrister-at-law, was, on the mo- tion of the Attorney General into every household in England. There is a marked improvement -formally admitted a member of

The other point to which I upon the work offered in Decem- A patrolman belonging to the the local Bar on January 24th.

wish to refer is that of the "wo- ber 1911, the pupils seem to have Customs Station at Shalaukok, was Italian Opera.

mly woman" argument, the a much better grasp of the work, brought to the Colony late yea Tuo Italian Opera Company womanly womin being defined Poor results in some cases were terday, after, it is said, having FOR YOKOHAMA, KUBE 'AND

as the woman whose heart rules due to the fact that pupils did been stabbed in the thigh by continue giving their subscrip tion performances and after play her head. This praise of men not read the questions carefully robbers. The wound was con- ing Bellini's "Norm during for one siled ideal of woman-Sanitation, satisfactory; apparsidered serious enough to warrant THE Steamship the week under review, it is an hood, in which one set of qualities atus, adequate; average attend. is removal to the Government

Capt. O. P. Seddon, will be des- nounced that their future oparesis cultivated to the exclusion of ance, 516; reading, fairly good ivil Hospital. His name is Lei

patched for the shove pors on Thurs- will comprise "Ruy as thora, has its root in something to very good; arithmetic, very Wai and he is 22 years of age. Barbierete,

Lone," Saff." much more ugly, than the harm- good in 3 B and 8; fair in other It appears that the injured day, he 30th in t.. at noon.

man was with another patrol man, The steamer has superior secom- and "Contensa Amalfi." The less sentimentality expressed by classes mental Arithmetic, weak; dress circle seats were $15 oach. the writer of the leader, it had a systematic course of this subject soukos and Fiutis, (a distance of throughout with Electric Light and covering a route between Bha-modation for passenger, is installod its origin in the desire of men in all classes, would be beneficial;

carries a duly certifi i doctor.:

The steamers care about every 3 to keep women intellectually, composition, very good in 3. Baix miles) when they were set EXCESS OF

PASSENGERS.ially and physically sub fairly good in other classes upon by ton men who took their weeks for Shanghai and Kobe (Inland

ordinate to mea. The advantages Grammar, fairly good to very rifles away from them. In the Be), returning vis Moji, providing to mon of the upholding of the good; geography, Fairly good to affray one was stabbed. The at-stay off5 to 6 days in Japan. Before Commandor Basil Tay-ideal of the woman who feels very good Diotation, poor in 4 Lack took place about one mile Return tickets are available by the lor R.N., at the Marine Court, but does not think are so obvious fairly good in other classes; this morning, the master of the that it baboves men who use this Algebra good; Geometry good 8.8. Serf was summoned for un-argoment to understand the in- hygiene very good in 4. good in 5.' lawfully carrying twenty one ferences as to their own motives Scholarships and Prizes." passengers in excess of the num to which such remarks might Quarterly examinations havė ber allowed by his port clearance. lead..

been held during the year, and Mr. Shenton, of Mosure Deacon, The further contention that the on the aggregate number of Looker, Desoon, and Haraton, womanly woman, whose heart marks obtained at these, the Messrs. Komor's art curio store defended and ploaded guilty. rales her head, dore not want the Scholarships and Prizes have in Alexandra Buildings is always LS. Jackson said that on the vote, at least implies that the been awarded, except in the case well worth a visit, and especially 19th ult, at nine p.m. off Castle demand for the vote is based on of the Lugard, and the Hn Kom so just at present. They have just THE COMMITTEE has decided Peak he unw the defendant's ship. reason

Tong scholarships, the former received, direct, from the factory settling Days for 1913

that the following shall be the He stopped him, went alongside, I will put bofore you a few of being confined to Candidatos in in Smyrna, Turkish carpets

THURSDAY, 80th January, lie the many reasons why women the Preliminary Division of the which they are offering at factory THURSDAY, 27th February. counted the passengers and found need the rote.

Oxford Local Examinations and prices in order to introduce them FRIDAY, 28th March, 1. Because legislation has in- the latter being awarded for ex-w Hongkong. This is a chance UESDAY,

29th April. vaded the home and deals with cellence in certain specified sub-which should not be missed. THURSDAY, 29th May. children, slucation, price of food, joote. As funds are not available

27th June. FRIDAY, We learn, by the way, that the housing and other domestic for the Blake Scholarship this splendid bronze tiger, which was

WEDNESDAY, 80th July. An advertisement elsewhere problem",

year, the Hon. Feoretary bas recently exhibited by Mesars.

PRIDAY, MONDAY, 2. Becsuss for centuries men generously founded a Lau Chu Komer has been sold, to Mr. THURSDAY, give the suttling days for 1013 as fixed by the Committee of the have neglected to pass laws on Pak sholarship in lien theroof. Harald Thomas, of Battle Ab Hongkong Stockbroker Asencia-certain moral questions which in the 4th Quarterly Exammation, bey, Sussex, who recently passed tion.

primarily aff ́ot women.

("antinued on Page 10.1 through Hongkong,

and askód for his, clearance.

the number in excess as stated. Defendant was fined $100.

Sottling Days,

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The injured man is expected to remain in hospital for about two weeks.

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[184 Hongkong, 25th Jan., 1913.,

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