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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1913.

A Word to Employers.

Touching His Excellency the Governor's speech on Saturday

DAY BY DAY,

Study yourselves, and most of and our leader of yesterday, notice all note well

Whorein kind nature meant may be taken of the proposal, emanating from Cambridge you to excel Co. University, to the effect that no

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MARRIAGES. STEWART-BRODRIBB.—On Mardli 1, 1919, at St. Peters, Cranleigh Gardens, London, Nosl Brodiibb, yazngest daughter of the lata Kontio E. Bro-1 dribb and Mrs. Brodribb, Melbourne, Au tralia, to Kenneth D. Blowart, Joungest on of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Stowart, of 21 Courtfield Road and Strathgarry, Perthshire, N B.

The objeci of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve the truth;

and print the news without fear or fapour.

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

Telephon:: No. 1 A.B.C, 5th edition. Western Union

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1918.

AUSTRALIA AND "CHINA.

That much is certain,

Force."

immense

The Malls.

Ohanan to-morrow.

to take his B.A. or similar degree Australian Mail-Despatched per antil he has at least attained the 6.8. St, Albansat 2 p.m. to-day standard of efficiency as a mem-German Mail.-Despatched per bor of the Officera' training 8.8. Yorck at 10 am to-day. Corps, or of the Territorial Siberian Mail.-Dae, per R., possibilities in this scheme which could be greatly extended. The German Mail. Due per: 8,6.

Luetzow to-morrow. same principle could apply to all candidates for Government or Siberian Mail.-Closes per 8.8. municipal appointments. It seems

Luetzowat Up.m. to-morrow. to, ns, however that, whether Chion Traders Insuranco, Co, in the Colonies or at Home the real solution rests with em- ployers of labour who might well aek that candidates for any post shall possess a military qualific Mr. G. A. Caldwell has now Why not? An employe been appointed Secretary of the will probably give botter work if Hongkong and Whampoa Dock be has been subjected to a dis-Co. ciplinary course, and thus, apart

ation.

Overworked Teachers,

The 27th annual meeting of the above Company is to be held on the 16 inst. at 12.15 pm.

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Secretarial Appointment.

New Advertisement.

Bazaar.

Flued $300.

Relief Crews,

the

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH "·

Past History and a Review of

Recent Progress

self-respecting British journal published here.

THE SHANGHAI FIRE.

|Hongkong. Insurance Companies

not. Involved.

We learn from Mr. G. Fries-

***A Struggling Organ." Perhaps we cannot do better, in support of what has been said above, than quote some The "Telegraph" is now com fortably located in larger offices, remarks contained in the Tele- land, manager of Messrs. Melchera of January 23, 1811, and Co., that he has received a in a mere central part of the city,

groph For some time past, the premises written a fow days after the last farther telegram from the firm at connection with hitherto occupied have proved far change of ownership, apropos of Shanghai in too small for the accommodation the conduct of certain Icoal Saturday night's disastrous fire of the journalistio, clerical and journalists in withholding from The telegram estimates the extent printing staffe, which the steadily our reporters some matter which of the damage at Tla, 300,000. increasing business done by professional etiquette regards as the whole of which is covered by common to all members of the insurance. Hongkong investora paper has made it

Press.

will be relieved to learn that nei the necessary to augment very con- The Telegraph' is known ther the Hongkong Fire Insurance: siderably.

Bince the late Mr. Robert 85 struggling organ, admittedly Company, nor the China Fire Frazer Smith founded the "Tele lifeless, moribund, all but dead. Insurance Company is involved. graph" thirty-two years ago, the Let us withhold from, and deprive paper has experienced a succession it of, much needed pabulam- of aps and downs: bas alternated me. Starve it now whilst there CORRESPONDENCE. between spells of popularity and is yet time, lest the flickering unpopularity, of success and fail. spark of life be re-kindled and it

After passing through rice again to strength and power [The opinions expressed by our various hands, it became Chinese in the land of its birth, whilst property; and finally-a little we become once more the Fish arily those of the "Hongkong"

Wrapper. over two years ago-it WAS The words are worth a moment's' parobased by its proprietor, Dr. J. W. Noble. I thought. The "Telegraph "'was this last period that we are now with the paper's history during

arf,

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correspondents are not necess-

DOGS.

was only just over two years a struggling organ, with hardly To the Editor of the Hongkong a spark of life left; and this

Telegraph." ago. But to day things are dif- ferent. True, we are only a

Changes

was started

next year's show.

Yours etc.

WEL SHENTON,

Hongkong, April 1, 1913.

P. L-Ishould be much obliged you would kind by insert this letter in your paper.

[It is gratifying to learn auth- oritatively that the dog above re- ferred to was not remored from the show until 4 pm, and then only after the permission of the Hon. Secretary had firet been ob tained.-Ed.]

from patriotic considerations, Attention is drawn to the sui employere might very will oon-inga of the Russian Volunteer sider the suggestion. It would, if Fleet, which are advertised on adopted, impose no great burden Page 7.

Sir:-I notice in your issiɑ of Reiss and Co. on anyone

Subscription to Reutor's. It is notified thint Mr. P. II.

last night an article Loulo At one, period the Tele- The Railway Union.

is it not time that the Home Holyoak is now authorised to

inasmuch as Home news came by two-and-thirty years of age; and sound suggestions as to future Government passed a bill to sign the firm of Beiss and Co. graph" was scarcely an apt name, youngster, as papers go; only"Duga" containing some very chook the amalgamation of trades in Hongkong,

mail and not, as now, by wire. two years ago the knowing ones doga shows.

Whilst agreeing with coveral of anions, where such amalgamations

The subaoription to Renter's gave up all hope of us. Yet bere ad-litional An Anglo-Chinees bazaar is to DE WOLF-MARTIN-O March 26 1913, at H. B, M. Consulate may constitute an

point out that the Fox Terrier feature of the new "Telegraph." "main.

which was awarded the first prize Genaral, Shanghat, befir: Eir Evrard D. H. Fraser, K.e.x... John Spencer D. danger, to society's well being? be held in the City Hall to Agency was the first important we are, and here we mean to re-the proposals I should like to

The Original "Telegraph." Wolf, eldest surviving son of the late William Henry De Wolf, of Liverpool, to In yesterday's telegrams we read morrow, at 3 p.m. in connection

When the paper last changed haude, some eleven columns of It is generally supposed that was not removed from the show until about 4 o'clock when the Gertrude Elizabeth Martin, youngest daughter of the late Jaspor Augustus Marthat the National Union of Rail-with the English and Chinese! tin, of Land in Lirorpool papers please copy.

waymen the result of the fasion Wesleyan Churches.

news were presented. This nam the Telegraph" of certain smaller societies-now 149 On Holiday, 4^\

was obtained, which permission Robert Fraser Smith, bat nambere 180,000 men. This is Mr. Alfred Lutz, head of Messraber was speedily doubled and, about June 1881 by the late Mr. permission of the Hon. Secretary

to-day, is actually tripled. as much as to say that, the first Latz and Co. Manila, is at present

Less than a year ago, the in an old resident informs is possibly given on account of time a drunken portor or insolent saying in Hongkong on his way, creased amount of local news that, some years earlier, Mr.the inclemency and cold tempera- tare of the weather of which guard is discharged, we may heartɔ Japan for a holiday,

London journalist which we were giving, and the Curtis, a

many competitors complained." that all that vast number of mea Union Insurance Society. additional advertisements. that and a prominent Freemason,

The Fox Terrier at the Dogs has elected to go on strike. The 40th annual meeting of necessarily follow on the growing established a paper of that name Home may or may not be a very Sach D body may

almost the Union Insurance Society of circulation of a newspaper, made in the Colony. The office was in fine specimen but so many people be said to have England at its Canton, Lid, is fixed for Wednes- it imperative to increase the Daddell Street, opposite what are have informed me that if only meroy; for one section of its day, the 18th inat. at noon.

number of pages from eight to now Mesara Lammert'ssolo-rooms, units is made up of men whoso

ten...We are still growing and at but were then some queor old they had taken the trouble to ex- hibit their Fox Terrier at the sole intent appears to be to bully A the Police Court, this morn present are publishing a paper houses of the stamp still to be how they would easily have been and blaff and take mean advant ing, a man who landed from the of twelve pages. We hope, in soen in Macao. The printing awarded the first prize, so that I ages wheresoever they dare, while sa Sui An ja uplawful posses: the near future, to make plant nood by Mr. Curtis was the do not place very much weight the other consists of persons who, sion of opium was fined $500, the parent maso most elaborate and up-to-date in however, honest and well-mean- or in default three months.. In addition to dealing moro

the Colony. Some success attend-to you contributor's opinion bat possibly he will have ing, suffer from a constitutional

fully and exhaustively with localed the cow venture for a while; The long fore-fold response by China to the insistent knocking disability to see any side of a II. M. S. Royal Arthur arrived occurrences than formerly, much it passed into the hands of Mr. an opportunity of exhibiting this at her door on the part of those who desire bigger commercial and question but their own. When he to-day with the relief, crews space has of late, been devoted to Curtis' son, and, after a few years valuable animal he writes of at

will the country have a Guvern the Whiting, Otter, Virago interviews" with persons who of life, became extinguished. industrial interconres is still impatiently awaited ell over the world.ment strong enough to break up and Taku and half crews for the have information to give that will It has been a long, dreary wait for most, and yet we find the chief these Unions, and just enough to Tamar, Fame and river gunboats. be interesting or profitable to In 1881 M. Frater Smith, who countries in the universe ae expectant and eager as ever. That is see to it that neither master nor Chin Borneo Coy Ltd the general reader farther, be was then abandoning his post a sufficiently explained by the size of the reward in view, for when man bas, un uoprediten? Dating the absence of "Mr."W-sides editorials, much original clerk in the Hongkong and |

D. Jopp from the Colony, Mr. matter on local and other ques- Whampoa Dock Co., advertised if the day does dawn which marks the realisation of anticipations we Yesterday in this column we W. Kennett has been appointed tions is now being printed in the that he was about to start a part shall witness such an awakening as will exceed the wildest imagin- touched upon the matter of under ging Manager of the China Telegraph, as Special Articles which would be named the "Hongkong Telegraph." He had inge. We do not attempt to predict when that day will come-any-paid professions Teaching wis Brneo Company Ltd, at Hong regards sport

ports and criticisms are ro-little or no capital, but he one who knows anything about Oriental progress, or, rather, the one of those which we mentioned; Long.

The Clock Tower,

are informed by We

cognised by all Hongkong sports engaged a Mr. Souss, a printer in lack of it, would surely hesitate before assuming the prophet's and it is of interest to note a new problem shich is fucing the mantle in this particular connection. But orme the day mast, educational authorities at Home Colonial Secretary's office, as, me as being just and adequate. D'Aguilar Street, to bring out General Policy, the first numbers. At the last owing to strain of modern school matter-of-interest to the public, The space formerly allotted to moment his printer failed him, life. We refer to the repeated that stops are in contemplation items of commercial and shipping ostensibly because, the terms In considering this great question of trade openings in China breakdowns on the part of tea- for the demolition at the Clock news has since been doubled and, ogree upon were not high we generally think of the part which Western countries are to play chers in the elementary schools, Tower in the near future.

Gossip, however, enid in the eventual revival. Britain, Amscioz, Germany, France and more especially in the big city Hongkong Schools, Sports, on allermate days; a doluma re enough.

The Hongkorg Schools Athletiosting to army and navy mstlera that other local newspapers had

has been added.. In addition," bought" Mr. Sousa over. the other big Powers instantly occur to us. Bat it is well to re-ocation Committee of the 80s are to be held on April 17; the latest mail news from Home, By some means or other, the member that there are big Calonies of the British Empire which are LU.O calling for a return showing commencing at noza. The prizes America, the Philippines. the sheet avory modestone--was got without doubt destined to play their part in the coming awakening the number of masters and mis- are to be distributed at 5.30 p.ta. North and the South, are given out and, shortly after, the paper of China. This foot has been given point to by the recent inaugura-tresses who have suffered from by His Excellency the Governor in brief and interesting form, was established at 15, Wellington together with small items of Street. It consisted of four pages,

A caso of attempted armed tion at Sydney of a Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Great import-neurasthenia during the past three There are 27 events in all.

a6th: Punjabis Sports.

eighteen inches by twelve, the robbery is reported from the anos is attached to this new development by Australians. It is true years. It is known that in the

The Regimental sports of the that at present the trade between China and Australia is compará- past ten years or so there has 20th Panjabis will take place on tively small when one considera the vast areas of the two countries been an alarming increase in the Thursday at 3 30 p.m. on the policy" of the paper, this the rest being a two column lead that, on the night of the 30th bas remained unchanged or (usually very ablo and more or ult., some twenty robbers, armed and their illimitable resources, but, as one of the Sydney papers has and mistresses who have broken and The Officers, 26th Panjabis, have claimed, and have exercised, of local news. Under Mr Fraser attempt on & abop. They were U.S.R.C. ground. Col. Walton throughout the new regime. We less acrimonious) and a few items with rilles and revolvers made an pointed out, China, with her millions of people, should in time down in health. Neurasthenia will be at home to then friends. become a boundless market for Australian products, and as her alone does not account for all the

the right to offer fair criticism on Smith's editorship the "Tele- unable to break down the door 'Boy Injured. teeming population sequires taste for those articles which in the CEB03, for it is atsted by one of A Chinese hoy aged fourteen all subjects affecting the Colony graph" ecquired popularity but made their way into the Antipodes are now looked upon as merely the necessaries of life, the leading educationists of the has been removed to hospital we have endeavoured to set up some would call it notoriety, house next door and dug a hole the demand for raw materials from Australia will certainly continue day that nearly five out of every suffering from a wound in the to our professed intention to Other papers endeavoured not to thrrngh the wall. to increase. Wool is a case in point, and the trade between North thousand schoolmasters become face caused by calliding with a publish correct information, to recognise it, but Mr Fraser Fmith The fokis of the shop were on Okins and Australia, especially, should grow in dimensions as the consumptive b fore the end of ricksha as he was running across terve the truth, and to print the "had a way with him which the alert however, and the frat Chiness begin to regard this staple as indispensable for clothing, their twenty-sixth year, and the road.

news without fear or favour." compelled them to do so, evan robber who made his way We have never lost sight of the against their will.

through the hole was shot dend But that is only one of the articles in the list of products which nearly five out of a thousand

fact that we have various classes At Mr. Fraser Smith's death by the fokis. Australia could supply to the new Republic. In the speeches which woman teachers before the age of Yesterday evening a very in- marked the inauguration of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce we thirty-one.

teresting lecture on Japan was of readers to cater for: European, the paper was bought at public An Indian police patrol of given by Mr. E. T. Williams, at Eurasian, Chinese and Indian auction by the late Mr. J.J three men heard the sound of notice an observation by a Mr. Ping Nam to the effect that he hoped Some of the Reasons. that the people of the Commonwealth would in the future have when woremember that in recent lecture was illustrated by many

This is the more inexplicable the European YM.O.A. The we have endeavoured to be Franois, Q. O., who at once confiring and hurried to the scene.

fair to all

Os many verted the business into a private The police exchanged shots with higher regard for China and the Chiness than perhaps they had had before. Here we touch a factor which must not be lost sight of years the school buildings have fine lantern pictures, and was occasions we have found it syndicate, under the mangement the robbers and one constable

draw attention of the Into Mfr. Skertobley who was wounded in the foot. It is possible that the White Australia ideal may detrimentally affect improved in ventilation and other greatly appreciated by those necessary to the free commercial intercourse between the two countries: Fut

conditions conducive to good present.

posta de 14 maghuge to local grievances or abuses, and carried on the paper at 7 Pedders The police, we are, informed there is at least reason in the Commonwealth view on this question. that the work done in schools now

beth. One factor undoubtedly is Reported Collision?

it has been most gratifying to find Hill, Later, it was sold to a Chin- e-ptared one robber, armed with A fisherman has reported to that our roadors have generally ese syndicats who formed a rifle, and subsequently secured China, with its huge population, need never fear an inflax of aliens, is more intelligent and formative the police at Aberdeen that while been very ready to support us in limited liability Company to two or three more. Nothing but Australia, which only a few millions of people soattered over in area nearly twice the size of Chins proper, could never calmly con- of character than ever before, and sailing his junk in a south the views wo have expressed. take it over, removed it to was stolen from the shop...

broause of this, and because it is westerly direction bear

near Futan template the introduction of a race of people who might in time less mechanical and routine, Man, an unknown steamer.com-speaking has led to alterations change in Queen's Road and af- Often the Telegraph's plain the top floor of the Victoria Ex- equal, or even outnumber hers, and, being radically different in all respects, might some day cause racial trouble: Besides, it is to be there has been a greatly increased ing towards Hongkong collided and improvements in local affaire, terwards across the road, next remembered that the United States, which hopes great things in the strain. The question of the with his and damaged it to the and we are encouraged to believe door but one, to the Victoria that this will continue to be the Dispensary. From Mr. Skerlchlny future in her tra-dal relations with China, has adopted a like prin- size of classes is also important. extent of about $200.

An elementary school teacher is Peak Tramway. 30 the manngement passed to Mr. J. At the Police Court, this morn- cipal. In this matter Ohins must come to see that the polloy is not nowadays arpeoted to do the Altention is directed to atter As far as party politica are con P Braga, and the paper had a ing, Mr. Hoggarth of the opiam'. rooted in any repugnance to the Chinese as such, but is based on kind of work with a class of from ations in the time-table of the cerned, we have followed, as cur further move to the Luilding formy charged two men with! be economic necessity.

150 to 00 pupile that in a second

secon Peak Tram, which come into readers are aware, a definitely which it now cooupies and who, ing in unlawful possession of 200 Apart altogether from the particular aspect of the question which ary school would be only expoot fo co to-day. The alterations are Imperialistio ode, though on the in December, 1910 it ab adond thels of opium, which was soret we have just left, the time is bound to come when Australia will ed of a form master with from 12 in the night cara: The preant broadest lines compatible with in- for 47, Dea Your Road, These pro ed en board the 86. Paul Bean ipate on a bigger scale in trade with the Orient. She has a to 25 children. Here we have the 8 45 car is to start in futur) at dependence of thought. This is a mines proved inadequate and we bet na partition and the side ditinst advantage in the comparative nearness of the Commonwealth cause of much of the nervous 8 50 Frem 9.30 to 11 p.m. the British Colony; and loyalty to the again removed to own present ad the supp, eni zecured with to the East, and it is satisfactory to obsere that the opportunities, breakdowns sɔ, frequently co- care are: rún every alf-hour Empire, together with ourtesy dress No 11 los House Street! ard being realised by ralian merchauta.. course, the countries curing to day. So it will ha seon and belw en 11 pm and 11 45 and respect for the dictates of which was, until Saturday laho open up her vast resources will that not alone in business circles every quarter of an hour, hy hospitality, where the law-abiding, known as Noles Hotze Rod orga

which find the money for

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number of

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Lecture.

ATTEMPTED ARMED

ROBBERY.

Police and Robbers Excha150 Shots at Ping Shan."

general world's news.

With reference to the greater part of it advertisements, Ping Shan District. It is stated

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