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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY: APRIL 12, 1913.§

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Mr. Austen Chamberlain's Speech' Some little time ago a Reuter's message gave the gist of a speech

DAY BY DAY.

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than their match in anything like a representative eleven from this

No man was ever written out of Hongkong Twenty-Five Years Colony, without any outside as"

delivered by Mr Auston Chamber-reputation but by himself. lain on the vexod question cl

tariff reform, in which he referred

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1918,

ANOTHER POLAR TRAGEDY,

The Malls, Delivered in London on the 11th inat.

rifices which had been made by what is known as the "food tax' section of the party, The English Mail.-Despatched per speaker was almost brutally

S.B. Assaye at 1 p.m. to-day Frank in what he said, laying

Siborian Mail.-Closes per 8.8. special emphasisen the conditions.

Linan at 5 p.m. to-day. which he and his supporters

Justices of the Peace. expected the "free food" section to abide by. Thereby hangs a tale, for wo road in a Home paper to hand a roport of the utterance which throws a deal of light on Left for Singapore. the situation. After delivering Mr. R. O. Hutchison left for himself of his complaint, Mr. Singapore to-day by the Assayo, Chamberlain went on to comfort on Government business. himself with the fact that they'

Y.M.C.A. Lecture.

"

A list of Justices of the Peace the Colony appears in the Government Gazette.

of

Ago.

|(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the Week Ending April 12, 1888.)

Overheard..

Scene-Hongkong Hotel bar; dramatis personaca select party of abare-brokers and othera sampling the latest brand of extra

sistance."

Tonnis.

1888.

SHARE REPORT,

Quotations Twenty- Five Years Ago.

"The first of the lawn tornis championships will be played on the 21st inst. The following will The quotations which follow compete-S. G. Bird v. Douglas are from the "Hongkong Tale- Jones, A. de O. Soanlaw v. D.H. graph" for April 12, 1888. These Macintosh, and W. H. Wallace v. quotations will appear every G.H. Potts.

Saturday, and comparison of Stamp Revenue.

quotations then obtaining with The return of the Collecton of those of to-day should prove of dry. Enter leading share-broker Stamp Reveune (Mr. Alfred mach interest,"

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. hastily and whispers in the left Lister) for the first quarter of the earof popular operator. Animated year 1888 showed a collection of-156 per cent, premium, sellere. an increase of Union Insurance Society of discussion ensues in low tones, $65,815.12, which gradually increase in $9,260.20 for the corresponding Canton $87.1-2 per share, volume as the agony is piled on. period of the previous year.

Accident at the Hongkong Hotel. China Traders' Insurance Com- At last..........

"An acoident of a very serious

pany-$68 per share, sellers.

North China Insurance Tls. nature, and which narrowly esca- ped being attended with loss of 285 por share, buyers. were "among themselves" (it) Next Monday, the 14th, Mr. M.

(very life occurred at 2 o'clock this Operator

7 morning (April 11). Without pre-Ltd.,-$75 per share. Tarifl Reform League Manuk will give a lecture on meeting) and bad "escaped the "The Higher Consciousness of genially)-"Oh, never mind

viously exhibiting any signs Yangtse Insurance Association ubiquitous presence of the Man," at the European Y.M.0.A. can male another.

of weakness, a considerable-Tis. 108 cocktail?"

shar, sollere. par portion

building, Chinese Insurance Company- extending northwards from about $195 per share, sellers. the centre of the dining saloon to Hongkong Fire Insurance the retaining wall of the new wing Company $315 per share, now in course of construction, sellers.

WAR

press

A

An Awkward Moment.

Broker (indignantly)-" Why d-n it, Sir; you have broken your promise,"

Popular

;

Have

1

The European Reservation Ordinance.

The "Telegraph" of April 6, 1881 contains a further letter on the above subject confirming the

the of.

+

sellers.

Canton Insurance Company,

Y.M C.A Hostel. The installation of gas stovER in the kitchen of the Y.M.O.A, At this observation, there was Hostel is now taking place, and loud laughter, and the gentlemen already a decided improvement who occupied seats on the plats noticeable in the service.

statements of the writer whom enddenly collapsed spreading China Fire Insurance Company form drew Mr. Chamberlain'è at-

Hongkong Christian Union. we quoted last week. The follow-destruction on every side. By -$73 per share, buyers.. tention to the reporters, who were

The Bishop of Victoria will ing excerpt should be of interest what can only be considered as a Hongkong and Whampoa Dook sitting only a few feet away from him. For a moment Mr. Chamber- apeaks at the meeting of the to those of our readers to-day wonderful piece of good fortune, Company-30 per cent, premium, lain looked in the direction of the Hongkong Christian Union at who agree with us that Hongkong not a single life was lost, nor was buyers.

For Hongkong, Canton and Macao Pressmes, and then his serious St. Paul's College on Monday has not yet reached a pitch piany person injured

aesthetic, sanitary and social some time past, active operations Steamboat Company-3202 per glance gave way to a smile. "I next at 5.30 p.m.

have been going on, adjoining share, sellers. Y.M.C.A. Chess Club, perfection:-

China and Manila Steamship "The face of the city might be the portion that has been wreck- The tournament has reached had not observed the presence of those gontlemen," he remarked;

they were lees convivial than the last stage with result that Mr. much improved by a coat of ed, in connection with the Hotel the others, and I do not know G. Piercy and Mr. C. A. Sather-whitewash on the outside of the extension, and a new wall has are in a highly disgusting con-one which formerly marked the that I should have said exactly to Rs here to play off three houses in the native quarter, which been erected contiguous to the dition and made to look worse limits of the building, and which cause I desire to conceal one!

On the Telephone. what I have said. It is not be games in the Final Round.

We are asked to state that evon than they are, by all kinds of has now come to grief.

"It was, we understand, in

per cent, dis., buyers. connect the pre- which I have given utterance-Gough Hill Police Station is on temporary bamboo erections, on word that I bave spokes, or to

The which the people dry their clothing tended to but if it is down, let it go down." the Public Telephone.

an- the Cheers greeted these words, and number is 30 and can be found and other household dish-oloats. sent Hotel with

China Sugar Refining Com that the Hongkong Government the old wall, and two of these pany, Ltd.-$152 per share, the incident then closed. It is under "Police" in the latest In this respect it is astonishing nexe by three archways through easy to see that the ex-Chancellor Telephone Directory,

lise so long permitted the Chinese arches had already been completed sellers. of the Exchequer said more than

Luzon Sugar Refining Com- he intended should reach the pub- Amony the passengers who left to carry out their objectionable without, it appears, anything

share, lic aar; and he will doubtless keep by the ss. Assaye for Home to- and very filthy customs, while, having been done to make up for

sellers. day were Major and Mrs. Hepper, for instance, the Dutch in Java, the strength thus taken from the Pany, Ltd.-$60 per

Hongkong Ics Company-$60 Lieut. A.P. Saunders, Liautare so particular in compelling structure. E.W.E. Fellowes, Eng. Lieut. Chinese settlers to conform to interesting to receive some ex-per share, buyers,

Hongkong Rope Manufactur- W.S. Reid, Mr. and Mrs. W. their own very cleanly habits in planation from whoever is respon

the matter of domestic arrange aible for the wonkening of this ing Company, Ltd.-851 per

addi- Dickson and Miss Dickson,

ments. In Samarang, Batavia wall without making any

a keen eye on the pressmen in

future.

Promotion in the Artillery.

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well

never come..

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Left for Home:

Crown Land Sale.

Drains and Nullahs.

New Ordinances.

It would be

MISSIONS TO SEAMEN.

The Annual Sermons on bobalf of the Missions to Seamen will

Hongkong Gas Company- Company-$60 per share, buyers.

Hongkong Hotel Company- $130 per share

$185 per share, sellers..

Indo-China S. N. Company-15

Douglas Steamship Company- $50 per share, sellere,

share.

MENTS

be preached at St. John's Cathe has been pleased to appoint Mr. dral to-morrow, April 13th, in Philip Jacke to act as Land Off-

We are glad to hear that a Royal Warrant has been publish-

Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf ed authorising the promotion At the PWD, Offices on the and Sourabaya, nearly all the tional support for the stability of R. A. lieutenants to the rank 28th inst., at 3, p.m., there is to streets are planted with trees, taken away. Had a score of lives and Godown Company-42 per of captain when they have com- be sold by auction. Inland Lot and amongst the thousands of been lost, as most certainly would cent. premium, sales and buyers. pleted thirteen years' service, 1968, situate between Pound Land Chinese shopkeepers, the appear- have been the case had the whether vacancies happen to exist and Upper Station Street, Tai anos of their houses and shops is accident occurred during the

searching enquiry GOVERNMENT APPOINT- or no. It was characteristic of Ping Shan. It is about 4,600 everything that can be desired, day, our English way of muddling square feet in extent, and the up- owing to the very stringent Gov- would have been made, and

ernment regulations. General that enquiry is necessary now- matters that promotion should be sot price is $11,500.

whitewashing in compulsory as much on public grounds as slowest in those very regiments-

Oplum Restriction. the Artillery and the Engineers It is notified for general in- every year, and, although the for the interest of the pharehold- His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. on which the country is most formation, and in pursuance of the Chinese are so carefully watchers in the Hotel Company.

to con- "From the top floor to the base-Norman Lockhart Smith to act as likely to be dependent in time resolution made by the Legislative ed, and compelled. of war. The Artillery Officer, Council on the 10th day of April, form to Dutch ideas and regment, this portion of the Hotel is Second Assistant Registrar brother 1913, that the exportation of ulations, they become rich and completely wrecked. Two bed-General, with effect from this His Excellency the Governor E's, is, na Persian opium to any port other are crowding into these cities in rooms, the half of the dining date.-2nd April, 1913. The mournful news of another Pular tragedy has just been of the R. flashed across the wires. The leader of the German Scientific rale, a very highly qualified pro- than the port of London or a port far greater numbers than the hall, and about two thirds of the

are smashed cretary of State for the Colonies, Expedition, which has been exploring Spitzbergen, and others of his fessional man, as the Woolwich of the Island of Formoss shall, authorities care about. In Sam-large billiard saloon, with all their has, with the approval of the Se

exam. papers show; yet, includ-after the expiration of one week areng, and, I believe, in the other contents.

Philip Peveril John Wodehouse party are dead. Nows of this kind coming hard upon the Ecotting two shillings a day "arma- from the date of the aforesaid cities of Java, no clothing is up in one huge mass of debris been pleased to confirm Mr.

permitted to be hung on bamboos on the ground floor." the income of an resolution, be illegal.

in the appointment of Deputy to dry, as is the case here in

Superintendent of Police and disaster, makes nations kin in the pain of sudden bereavement. It ment pay," in axiomatio that every pioneer who seeks to penetrate these unknown R.G.A. lieutenart amounts to the

Mr. Thomas Henry King in the Tenders are being invited for Hongkong." bewildering sum of about £150 a

[Yea; but there have been times

appointment of Assistant Superin- wastes of the white North or South throws down a challenge to year; and hitherto a man might the maintenance of sewers, drains

tendent of Police, with effect death which walks ever beside him watchful for any weakness in hang on indefinitely, waiting and nullahs, extension or altera- when Hongkong has placed in

from the 14th January, 1912. the best-laid plans. Caution and experience can eliminate part of for a captain's vacancy that might tions of the same and the con-high positions men whom the struction and maintenance of Dutch wouldn't trust to shove a

His Excellency the Governor the danger, but they can never make the odds anything but greatly

additional sewers, drains and fish-barrow 1

Interesting Advertisements, nullahs in the Island of Hong- against the explorer. The present disaster is rendered the more Generous Subscribers.

Among the advertisements on Our readers will be interested kong, Kowloon and the New Ter regrettable that the party is said to have been lacking in experience of conditions among the ice. With the exception of the owner of to sea, from to-day's wire, that no ritories for the remainder of the April 6 are notices to the effect the morning (11 a.m.) by the cer in addition to his other duties, the vessel no one on board, it is said, had any experience of Polar less than £15,000 bas been your 1913. No work will be that Mr George Dixwell Fearon Rev, D. B Reynolds, B.A., and in daring the absence on leave of collected to enable the militant permitted on Sundays except by has been admitted a partner to the evening (5.45 p.m.) by the Mr. George Herbert Wakeman, the firm of Messis Deacon and Co., Right Rev. The Bishop of the with effect from this dats,-10th

April, 1913. and special permission. work, and if that is true, it points to unfortunate imprudence. On suffragists to defy law

and Mr. M. Grote to that of Philippine Islands (Dr. Brent).

The working expenses of the His Excellency the Governor the other hand, it is na oasy as it is common, to make such statements nuthority. Who shall say that

John Bull is mean?, Some- His Excellency the Governor Mesara Chater and Vernon...

Mission (apart altogether from St. has been pleased to appoint Mr. Fire Brigade Inspection. after the event, and it more likely that the disaster, as was the case times one is inclined to think has given his assent, in the name

The annual inspration of the Peter's Church) last year amount Michael James Breen to act as readiness to subscribe and on behalf of His Majesty the in the Antarctic, was due to a combination of misfortunes which noth

Volunteer

Fire Brigades by ed to over $10,000. Last year Superintendent of Imporia, and skill or forethought could have anticipated and provided against. to public fands is a mania King, to the following Ordinances the Governor is reported. The there was a deficit of $2,500, on Exports in addition to his other

with the British people. God passed by the Legislative

reduced to $1,500: The Com- the Colony of Mr. RobertOliphant Events such as these realise for us the true meaning of high bless them for it; it's a fault on Douncil:-Ordinance No. 4 of function took place on the Cricket the Institute, which has now been duties, during the sheenes from courage and supreme sacrifice. They take the risks, these explorers, the right side; but, unfortunately, 1913.-An Ordinance to amend Ground, and lasted from 10 a.m. knowing only too woll that the risks may overwhelm them. They they use so little discrimination the Mercantile Bank Note Issue till 1 p.m., the operations being mittee of the Missions to Seamen Hutchison, with effect from the of one Chaplain, but they only In pursuance of directions but in pain and desolation, amid the solitary wastes of pitiless ice/tompted to say that, the 'less 5 of 1913. An Ordinance to house, Superintendent of consented to continue to do so on given by His Majesty the King, know that death may come to them, not in the gaze of the multitude over their giving, that we are Ordinance, 1011. Ordinance No. conducted by Mr. HE. Wode in England provide the stipend 12th instant. earn a worthy the object, the greater aro amend the Vagrancy Ordinance, Government Brigade, and his as and far from. the thronging world of men. But that knowledge the sums contribute. Query: 1807, Ordinance No. 6 of 1913. sistante Messra, Horspool and the Bishop promising that he the Honourable Mr. John Alezan- does not deter them for adventuring into the unknown, if a fund were set on foot for the An Ordinance to consolidate and Brewer. Colonel Anderson acted would make every effort to in- der Strachey Backmill, Attorney seeking to lay bare the unopened places at the ends of the apprenticing of a thousand poor amend the law relating to the as referes of the competitions, and duce the residents of such a General, has been appointed, one

R.N., Messrs. AP. MecEwen, W. Hongkong to provide a second Hongkong, d earth, and widening the borders of human knowledge. Fame, lads to useful trades, or for the powers of arrest vested in Revenue the judges were Commr. Rumsey. wealthy and important port as of His Majesty's Counsel for

relief of ten thousand sweated Officers.As

M. Deane, L Mallory, HJ.H. worker, as they have done in the glory, the desire for the applause of men mean little or nothing seamstresses in East London, New Territory Lots. *1 to theso brave souls. It is the work, the scientific side of exploration would the amount forthcoming Several lots of Crown land, Tripp, R.K. Leigh and Wei Yak past. We hope therefore there Timekeepers were Mesare, J.S. will be a liberal response on Sun- which calls them into the unknown. They are to modest and be half what the suffrage womon situate in the New Territories,

Meteorological observations H.E. Sir William Des Voeux

made at the Rayal. Observatory, sincere to care greatly for the applause of the multitude. Great have raised, or a hundredth part are to be sold at the Police Office, Brewer and W.M.B. Arthur. day next.

of what is annually contributed Au Tan, on the 17th inst., the

HONGKONG FINANCE. Hongkong, during February show works have their inspiration in deeper motives than tho wish to towards buying Bibles for the upset prises varying from 9 to made an encouraging little speech

that the average mean tempera secure passing fame. Only great, strong, modest men can write; blacks of Central Africa? The $135. On the 18th inst. at Tai at the close of the proceedings,

The financial statement for the ture was 61.7, (he average maxi- in the fand of death, as Captain Scott did, "Things have come out spirit of ready giving is not so Po several agricultural and congratulating the Brigades on

Interport Cricket.. against us, and therefore we have no cause for complaint, but bow common in the world that we threshing floor lots are to be their extreme fitness.

month of January, issued by the mum.65.8 and the average mini- can afford to sneer at it; but we sold, upest prices varying from to the will of Providenco. "

At the annual meeting of the Hongkong Treasury, shows, that mum 58.5. The mean humidity would like to see generosity direct $1 to $82. On the 19th inst. at

Shanghai Cricket Club it was the balance of assets and liabili was 79, and the average barome- old rasptain Boott yesterday, Lieutenant Stranz to-day-so they go. ed towards the most needy and Tai Po further lots for building decided to invite teams from ties on the last day of 1912 was ter reading 30.05.

arded But their lives are not given in vain. The men who come after them the most worthy objects and agricultural purposes are to Hongkong and Foochow to visit $2,805,129.79, the revenue dur987 hours of sunshine

be disposed of, the upeat prices will find the pathway partly made. And it is matter for pride that

varying from $4, 10814. Two Shanghai during the following ing January 8764,664.00 and the none being registered during heroes are still born in these days, that valiant men still rise up A Chinese was fined $25 by lots of granite qustries at Ling together or singly. The Tele a balance of $8,003,137,724

and to play them either expenditure $478,658.16, leaving thirteen days. Bain fell on eighteen days, totallin „6.945 who brave and attempt to pieros the unknown, who prove, alike in Mr C.D. Melbourne, at the Folice Ku Tan are to be let on auction their lives and by their deaths that the nations are far from degen- Court, this morning for being in at Tai Po on the 19th inst, the graph comment is a Wear The total essets on January inches, but only on iro occasions

average winds were H. by Nyt erate, and are not given over to the pursuit of wealth or ease or unlawful possession of ammudi font upsel Orowa rent being inclined to think that the Sheng 31st were $6,830,105.40 and the did the fall reach ons auch. The

cricketers will find more total liabilities 62,737,997,89.

tion.

Ammunition Capture.

season

MARCH WEATHER.