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Robert Burnett &

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1913.

A Well-Timed Courtesy.

The letter from the Colonial Scoretary to Miss Dank, which

DAY BY DAY.

The perfect man is modesk conveys Hie Excellency the Go-bat he says, but pa vernor's bigh estimation of her bache dos courageous conduct on the occa

CO,sion of the recent piracy on the

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8.9. Coblenz at 9 am. to-day. Siberian Mail-Closes per a.. -Chenau at 5 p.m. to-day.. Siberian MailDoc per 6.8.

Mexico Marú to-morrow morning.

1888.

Hongkong Twenty-Five Years. Ago.

|(Compiled from the "Hongkong|

·Telegraph" files for the Week Ending April 10, 1888.)

1888.

SHARE REPORT.

Quotations. Twenty-Five Years Ago.

In the morning (the writer has seen this happen a score of times, and even as near the cent ral part of the city as 'Wyndham Street,) persons whose daty calls thom ont between seven and Blue" have the felicity of tering The quotations which follow and emelling these loath ame are from the "Hongkong Tele-mounds as they are shovelled into graph" for April 19, 1888. These carts by the leisurely coolies em- quotations will appear every ployed by the Insanitary Board. week, and comparison of It pleasant for people, who quotations then obtaining with happen then to be taking their those of to-day should prove of breakfast at any one of the hotels, to reflect that the flies which visit much interest.

Hongkong and Shanghai Biok. their plates have just come from 166 per cent. premium, sellere, exploiting such heaps of fish!. Union Insurance Sciety of Is there any reason why every Canton-67.1-2 per share, householder should not be oslled upon to provide himself with a sellers.

China Traders' Insurance Com-covered and looked bin, made of wood or metal, large enough to hold the vacant obair, which would pany.-$75 per share, sellers.

North China Insurance Tls. the average amount of rabbish make matters rather worse than

discarded daily by the ordinary 205 per share, buyers. they have been."

Canton Insurance Company, dwelling-house? A receptacle of

this sort Old readers may soo the point. Ltd.875 per share.

could then be outside, and there We don't.]

would be lass question ofs

That Candid "Telegraph." We wonder what is the mean- ing of the following:-

"His Excellency no, we beg pardon, the Honourable the Eur- veyor General, bas expressed his intention of shortly vacating the Board. So mote it be. For this 8ohairmanship of the Sanitary relief the community will be truly sr. thankful that is unless the to-abiquitous Lister is hoisted into

Tai On, is a fine example of official Australian Mail.-Deepatched per thoughtfulness; Miss Dunk, it will be remembered, has resided for many years in the East, and knows Cantonese well. She was thus able to intervene when the trouble occurred and to urge the robbers to spare the lives of thoee on board. The officers of the ship were unanimous in praise of ber and in testifying to the fact that her intervention was the means of saving their liven. That the Go vernment, therefore, should mark its appreciation by the presenta- tion of gifts aptly chosen is a Such matter for satisfaction. well-timed courtesies make life a deal sweeter..

A Strange Order.

per

French Mail-Do

Polynesien to-morrow

a.m.

Siberian Mail.-Closes. per Polynesion at 9 a.m.

morrow.

at

8.8

Torpedo Boats Arrive. H. M. Torpedo boats 035, 036, and 038, and H.M.S. Sandpiper have arrived from the West River,

Schools Sports.

To Revise the Laws. It is officially notified that There is something incongruous in the message from Peking slat ing that the Government has The postponed Schools' Athletic MAS... Wise has been telegraphed to the Provincial Sports have been arranged for appointed a member of the the Laws and Ordinances" of Governors and the lenders of the Wednesday, next, April 23rd, to Commission appointed to revise Hongkong, vice Mr E J. Ackroyd, Christian Church in China commence at 1.30 p.m.

absent on leave. appointing the 27th inst, as a day. Official Secrets Act.

[N.B. There is still some revis of prayer for the nation. Nobody The Official Secrets Aot, 1911, The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph." will thinks of China as a Christian which is applicable to Hongkong, ing left to be done.]

nation, and one cannot help is published in extenso in the donbting the sincerity of the new Government Gazette for general Government in issuing an order information. which is certain to be ignored, if

be as follows:

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The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1918.

NATIONALITY IN ART

the Indian races formerly expressed themselves.

not smiled at, by the great bulk of the people. Not that China

Alleged Armed Robbery,

Hongkong Christian Ualon,

The two Chinese arrested in does not need praying for; as connection with the armed rob suredly she does. But from a bery at Pingshan, were remanded Government which sets at nought, until Thursday, at the Police without the slightest compune-Court, this morning, tion, Treaty obligations which have been solemnly entered into, The Rev. A. E. Ball of Quetta, this Instest order smacks of hy India, will speak at the meeting pocrisy. If we thought the in: structions from Peking would be of the Hongkong Christian Union received in the Provinces in the at St. Paul's College on Monday right spirit, and really represent-next at 5.30 p.m. ed the true feelings of the Govern- ment, we should have nothing to Ray. But we bag leave to enter tain a strong doubt.

A Rag-time Costume,

mous rose

wearer."

mon

Final Call.

A final call of $3 per share on the capital of the Hongkong and South China Steam Fisheries Co., Ltd., has been made, and is pay- able on or before the 15th May.

Maritime Convention.

Limited.

Electric Light Poles,

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An Epidemic Hospital. At a meeting of the Sitary board, the Secretary was directed to transmit to the Colonial Seore tary, for the consideration of His

Excellency the Governor, the following resolution, proposed by Dr Manson, and seconded by the Colonial Surgeon:

-That in

Yangtse Insurance, Association placed. -Tls. 108 share, sollers,

per

Manile's Example,

Chinese Insurance Company-its being interfered with, end,

if it were kept properly? Insurance cleansed, disinfected and covered, Hongkong Fire Company $315 per share, there would be bat little risk of

smell or of germs... $170 per share, sellers.

buyers.

China Fire Insurance Company

It may be seen from the Manila -874

per share, sellers. Hongkong and Whampoa Dock papers that the Director of Health Company-30 per cent, premium, for the Philippines has hit on a

plan not dissimilar, sava that it✅ buyers.

Hongkong, Canton and Macao requires that the house owner, and Steamboat Company-$202 per not the tenant, shall supply the receptacle. Two schemes, we share, buyers.

China and Marila Steamship read, were presented; by one, the Company-$60 per share, buyers city was to sell the dust-bins to Hongkong Gas Company the house owners; by the other, it was to lease them by the year, a01. $130 per share.

Hongkong Hotel Company-cording to size. In the first case, they were to be sold at fifty per $100 per share, buyers.

view of the danger to the com- munity from a small-pox or other

Indo Chias 8. N. Company-15 cent. of the cost of manufacturo; in the second, to be rented, accord- epidemio hospital situated in the per cant, dis., buyers.

Douglas Steamship Companying to their size, at one, two or three pesos a year. When the Board centre of the town, a representa- tion be made to the Government $50 per share, sollera, of the urgent necessity of estab- China Sugar Refining Com- came to consider the matter, the lishing an epidemie bospital in a pany, Ltd.-$150 per share, second plan, that of letting the receptacles out on hire, was de sabarban site, and of preventing sellers.

Lazon Sugar Refining Oom-cided upon. · in future the treatment in hospit

sh are, Ltd.-$60 per als in the town, of persons suffer ing from infectious or epidemic disease.

A Historic Fight. ⠀

pany,

sellors.

Bongkong Ice Company-$60

share, buyers, per

In view of to-night's Boxing Hongkong Rope Manufactor- tarn-out at the City Hall, it is ing Company, Ltd.-$51 per interesting to read in the "Tele-share.

Each bin will be branded, to show that it is municipal property, and, farther, will be numbered, so that, in case of theft, it will be

the more easily traced. Wo notice, further, that each house will have two pails, so that, wheat? a full one is removed in the morni

Bent

The buckets are to be made of ' Philippine hard wood, well hoopad, and will be supplied with covers, May be the Manila police are a

We are not given to reading

little more wide awake than ours, or the loafers lees given to fashion notes for women (or for

what the Cookney calle" apar- rate, no men either-God forbid!) but when we saw the above heading The Government Gazette con- graph" of five and twenty years Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf row-starving," at any in a contemporary, an Eve-like tains a despatch from the Secre- ago a three-column account of the and Godown Company. 51 per mention is made of padlocks. curiosity prompted us to read on,tary of State showing that Hong celebrated fight between Charlie cent, premium, buyers. and now we are able to enlighten kong is included in the list of Mitchell and John L. Sullivan, Telegraph! readers on the places in respect of which the which had taken place at Chantil- latest novelty in vulgarity. A accasion of Etis Majesty's Governly on March 10 of that year Older GARBAGE IN HONGKONG rag-time costume in one wherein ment to the Brussels International readers will remember that, în the hat, the sunshade and the Maritime Conventions, 1010, was this fight, Sullivan, who had Some Improvements Suggested.

styled himself (Heaven only shoes all "match" (in colour, pre-notified,

(SPECIAL ARTICLE] knows why) Champion of the sumably). For instance, a green Company Registration.

World, got very badly hammered The Telegraph "is often coming, another will be left in its hat and sunshade necessitate

It is notified in the Gazelle by the British braiser. The plaining, and so are its readers, place. shoes with green heels and green,

This is the sort of thing that The building of the now oficial capital of India at Delhi is bows. But the particular feature that; at the expiration of three Telegraph" remarks:-"The big that aah-boxes, rubbish-tine and rousing deep interest both at home and in India, and it raises to the of this choice get-up is an enor months the following Companies Boston bally was out-manoeuvred the like are left out in the streets Hongkong cries out for and "rising quite erect will, unless cause is shown to the and out-fought after the first few all night, often till an unpleasant should have. As to the time of point of practical issue a question which intimately affects the Far from the hat, at each an angle contrary, be struck off the Regis rounds, and it was only his tre- ly late hour in the morning. In removing the rubbish, if a locked East as a whole. This is the question of the importance of that its movements can be timed ter" and the Companies will be mendons advantage in height and another week or two the hot and duplicate systera of bins were nationality in art which has long been a matter of academic discus to the 18g-time walk of the dissolved: The International weight, and probably a disinclina-weather will be here, and many adopted, and carta were

"What more can the Skating Rink, Limited; The tion on Mitchell's part to run the people are anxiously asking if round to remove, these bodily, it sion and in this case, becomes of strong practical interest. English modern woman ask of Fate than Shanghai Motor Cab Company, risk of losing the fight by achance their unpleasant experiences of would be less imperative that the blow, which prevented Sullivan last summer, as regards night and work of removing should be long from being completely knocked morning stenches, are to be at night; bat, until such plan is designers have been appointed to lay out and design the official the possession of such a rig?

repeated this year.

followed, we would urge the buildings, and the question now being discussed is whether, in the Oar fashion-loving contemporary

adds, guilelessly or drily, that We understand that the poles ont."

Of course there must be house desirability at least of having all The combatants, fought for city itself, Western ideas of architecture should be allowed to prevail its popularity on the music hall in Kowloon, the dangerous plac

Probably, or whether the opportunity should be taken to resuscitate, if at all stage is assured."

"draw" very decidedly from inhabited districts; bat possible, those wonderful forms of architecture by means of which Since our ladies are wont, at times, 10 of whose supports we recent hours and a half, and, hold rubbish, and that rubbish refuse carted by, or before, day-

THE SHANGHAI FIRE to take their fashions from the commented upon, were not after the thirty-seventh round, must be removed somehow or other break.

telephone poles, but were those same delectable source where used to carry the overhead cables in the Englishman's favour-was there must surely be a possibility of evolving some better and more Some of .onr gentle of the China Light and Power called.

sanitary measures than those at Fuller Detalls of the Big Blaze, More Candour. The purpose behind the suggestion to revive lndian art is an from

take their wives, it is Co. It is none the less gratify-

About this time there was a present followed in Hongkong, excellent one, but a certain danger attaches to a deliberate attempt conceivable that the rag-time ing, however, that the danger has strike of cargo coolies, and the where this question is concerned. As will be seen from our tele such as that proposed. In the most beautiful cities in the world costume will figure on a much

now been removed.

Telegraph' Beems bove By the existing method, or, rather, gram columns, we have received thought that the strikers were in want of method, the boxes are confirmatory news from our own our medieval cities-there is no uniformity of style. There beauty larger stage than that of the

the right, and the Government placed outside the houses at correspondent at Shanghai con- is ons of startling and unexpected variety. They grew up naturally, music-hall.”

in the wrong. At any rate, it somewhere about bed-time, and cerning the fire at the Ewo Cott almost haphazard, Consciously to aim, then, at a new capital of Recruiting Returns.

In our Service Matters columa

more often than not uncovered, so on Spinning and Weaving Com- remarks: India built either wholly by Europeans or wholly by Indians, and

yesterday, we gave a portion of

"Amongst the community that the pleasing efflavia may ride pany's godown,

The Hon. Mr O. H. Ross, man- with a certain fixed effect in view, would be a mistake. If it is to the last official recruiting report,

there is only one opinion, and that unimpeded to the nostrils of per- is that the sooner the Colony is sons sleeping on the upper floors aging director of Messrs Jardipe be worthy its builders, it must grow up naturally, after the manner from which it may be seen that,

rid of the antique fossils whose with, of course, their windows Matheson's Hongkong 'branch, natural to its builders, and not consciously along any est or stated even though the figures up to

informe as that the words in the date show a slight increase on The following letter has been ridiculous fads are constantly open. lines. Why should not the best kind of European. architecture be last year's return, the outlook is addressed to Misa Dunk, the creating nanecessary distur The Midnight Investigators. telegram"other millat caught

No sooner has. the household fire, should reads other build seen alongside the best of Indian models? The result would be far from promising.. Those who lady missionary whose courageous bances, raising up racial differ-

ences and class grievances and retired for the night than round inge" no other milli fook fire, xq much more satisfactory than a city either entirely European or have lived at a depot town. at conduct on the nocasion of the

Homo will feel but little surprise Tai On piracy was the subject of impeding the trade of the Fort, come the various human lurchers The estimate of the demage at entirely Indian

at this. Young men are begin much approving comment at the the better it will be for Hongkong, who, to all appearances, contrive six lakhs may or may not be corr It is, no doubt, a great hardship to add to their incomes by rum-rect; the official information mays The diffoulty seems to be that the Indian princes themselves ning to ask some very practical time

that the rato-payers should be maging in the dust-boxes for about six, Mr Ross adds that are disposed to build palaces in Delhi after the European style; and questions as to the life of the

burdened with heavy pensions saleable matter. These gentle the whole of the amount is cover- that brings us to the heart of the matter. Here is touched a they see of him from time to

Madam, I am directed to for superannuated numskulls men certainly do not stand upon ed by insurance.

They endency which may be remarked all over the East. The fact is that time, they realise that, as often convey to you His Excellency the who have been drawing exor the order of their sorting.

A USEFUL GUIDE. Easter nations the Chinese and Japanese and Indians have been as not, he is one of the most Governor's high estimation of bitant salaries for the past bundle the garbage out on the society. Take Canterbury, as be occasion of the recent piracy of the

se possible in return; but of the very eyes of a somnolent lakong, architecture and dress and arte generally. The current will not in ing a typical garrison town. Theres.s. "Tai On" and to inform you to evils it will be much better to take whatever soemeth them good larly handsome, Official Shippers the other direction in time, no doubt. It was perhaps only in the are literally hundreds of men that steps are being taken to choose the lesser and get rid of and, as often as not, loave the Guide is issued by the Nippon. nature of things that Eastern peoples, when they started to copy the there, still young, who have never prooare a Bible and travelling these loafing obstructionists at horrible mess heaped up on the Yusen Kaisha. It is a bulky

done a stroke of work since they look for presentation to you by West, should be so fascinated that they turned their backs apon left the army some years ago. this Government as a mark of it any reasonable prica, pavement. The next arrivals are volume containing a vast amount [Had the Telegraphi" gót a the parochial cats which, having of information which is, however, their own traditions. But that, we should judge, is only a passing Their short period with the phase. There is too much that is noble in Eastern art for Western Colours has been their ruin, for appreciation of the valuable deliver that day, or was all this time?] satisfied their curiosity or hunger, readily accessible. Useful dea sistance you rendered to the

are in turn ohaced away by some criptions appear of the principal ideas finally to crush it out of existence. What is much more likely it has unfitted them-particularly officers of the ship and to the is that in time the beat will be taken of Western art and engrafted if they have served on a Tropical passengers whereby the sacrifice upon that of the East with, no doubt, remarkable results in station for anything like steady of life was prevented.-1 am, etc.gir Archibald Hunter is going a licence for him; and, when this classified in English, German, stimulating the creative faculty of the peoples of the East which is toil; and many of them live by beer-cadging, horse-holding, meantime latent. In the building of the new official capital the poaching and worse. When the Government of India is afforded a great opportunity of encouraging War Office does a little more to Miss Dunk, art in India and probably in starting a new movement which will help the time expired, there will

-1 be co dearth of recruits, make ita influence felt everywhere in the East,

!!

THE TAI ON PIRACY,

Official Appreciation of Miss.

Dunk's Courage.

Colonial Secretary's Office, time-expired; for, from what Hongkong, April, 16 1913.

to

perhaps a little too ready to depart from their own traditions inusolosa members of English your courageous' conduct on the generation and doing just as little pavement, occasionally under the

- (§d.) &. M. THOMSON,

.

Colonial Secretary.

c/o Church Missionary, Society,

Hok Shan,

A most useful, and a partion

A Caloutta telegram says that scorns the formality of purchasing national buyers' and sellers list Sir Archibald Hunter. wandering dog-whose owner cities of the world, and an inter- Home as he is resigning the noble animast has left a clear French, Japanese and Chinese is Governorship of Gibraltar, owing Bold, a few stiny rats will con anitem of peculiar valae There sir 18, of course, a wealth of steam- to local friction. It is said he, aider it meet, right ond

"little chip information, and the advers will be appointed to the command bounder duty to do

tisers list is aclarge one. of a division in Ladis,

exploring through the