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THE HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1913.
The Cup Final.
DAY BY DAY,
Who climbs high must fear a
After a lapse of eight years, Aston Villa have again won tha Football Association Challenge fall. Cup. They lost held it in 1905
The Malls when they defeated Newcastlo United by two goals to nono: Siberian Mail-Despatched per 8.S. Chenan at midnight. on Saturday,
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Saturday saw Sunderland make u
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first appearance in the final tio,
RAG-TIME.
A GALLANT SAILOR.
Royal Humane Society's Medal for During Act. We'nreinformed by the Colonial
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COMPANY REPORT.
The Hongkong Electric Company, Limited.
As certain of their own postel have said: Everybody's doing it
The report of the directors now. Soldiers march to rag-time sailors coal ship to rag-time, we Secretary that on 7th September, of the Hongkong-Electric Com- twenty-fourth ordinary yearly hum it at our work, we whistle it 1012, at 11.15 p.m. A. B. Patrick pany, Ltd., to be presented to the in our baths and the pianist next Delaney of H.M.S. "Newcastlo
named Lenard of the 8.8. held at the Company Oflices, St. a fine game. We have ezen finale Siberian Mail-Arrived per s.s.dor is persistontly strumming it was accompanying a young A. B. meeting of shareholders, to be Mexico Marú yosterday forth at inconvenient hours."Empress of Japan" to his ship, George's Building, at noon en the Palcce-aotably one
morning..
Then in the house below with whon going up the gangway Saturday, 3rd May, is Be fol between Newcastle and Barnsley in 1010-which would have dis-French Mail.-Arrived per ss. admirable patience they are inter-Lenard fell into the water, strik- lowa:- graced two fourth-class teams. Polynesien yesterday morn-minably waiting for the good-ing heavily on the side of the Final tie nerves play the deuce ing
aat they appear to have played
at
with correct frotball at times. It
is curious to note that, according to the last mails from home, the cup finalists were also fighting out the leadership of the League If the Villa win both League and Cup they will perform an unparalleled feat. It has been done before, to be sure, but not under the "strenuoue" conditions of modern football.
Siberian Mail-Despatched por 8.8. Polynesien at 10 am to-day. French Mail-Closes per
Ernest Simons at 11a.m.
morrow.
It
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Gentlemen :-Your Directors was have the pleasure to submit the ship-Robert E. Lee,' only occasion-sampan aa be fell.
dark and there was accompanying Statement of the ally taking a spell to render very
Hitchy-coo which, we believe, a strong tide running bat Delaney Company's Accounts for the year The Balance at Oradit of Profit must be the rag on the other immediately jumped in after him ending 28th February, 1813. side of the record. Everywhere and with considerable difficulty
and Loss Account is $273,000,08; They were swept some hundred and after deducting Directors s.8. there are rage' fussy, mysterious held him up. to'rage,' Honolulu Lalu 'rage,' in-
torspersed with wedding glides, feet or so from the gangway be- Fees ($3,000) there remains a fore the sampan could let go from sum of $270,090.08 available for Dixie choruses-sorambled egge American Mail.-Closes per 8.8 in the ne-ew mown hay'--and the ship and get to their assistance. appropriation, and your Directors
Korea at noon to-morrow.
songs about rag-time singers and They then were towed back to recommend that this be disposed
the gangway and were got of as follows:- safely on board, Lenard being To pay a Dividend of 16 per American Mail-Due por 8.8. rag-time hands.
What can it portend, this wave Shinyo Maru to-morrow,
of rag-time which has swept over stapified and having to be practi- cent
Say $1.00 per share Theft From Mission Hall,
the Anglo-Saxon world? The oally carried up the gangway.
There was no doubt that” had By the way, Reuter states that
The police report that
musical critic of the Times bas there were 121,010 spectatora of one entered the hall of the Lon-writion learnedly on the tech-Delaney not acted with such the match on Saturday, which don Mission, and took a raincoat nique of rag-time-its 'contrapua- promptness, Lenard would have
Neither valued at $15. constitutes a record.
tal syncopation. (We hope this been carried away and in all Reuter nor any other can say how
is right. At any rate he means probability drowned.
For this act of gallantry A. B. the sort of gurgling hiocoughin the It is possible to check the number
middle by which we know rag- Delaney has Lean awarded the for admission of people who. pay
time when we hear it.) He fore- Royal Humane Society's bronze to the Palace, but not all of them
sees and appears to hope that the medal and parchment certificate.
music of America national
FUR AND FEATHERS witness the match. If Reuter,
A wooden case containing fifty will evolve itself from rag- stitate a record for the Cup final, dozen of socks valued at $120 time. Dreadful thought! for again, means that the figures con-
he is right; but the figures has b:30 stolen from the praya ourselves, we prefer Mr. Frances
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1913.
THE TERRITORIALS.
fact that the great coal strike was proceeding and transit dim- Julties were great, 127,307 per. sons paid for admission. They take the big international
in
gome
Á Scalp Wound, A Chinese, alleged to have been fighting at Yaumati, has been sent to the hospital euforing from a scalp wound.
Haul of Socks.
Dope."
Drunken Sailor.
Bern at Sea.
Fr
In conection with the article
on 80,000 shares $00,000.00 To place to Reserve 30,000,00
count for deprecia- To write off Plant Ac-
tion
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... 106,075.01 To write of Property Account for depro-
:
ciation
R
To write off Furniture
16,218,71
Account for de-
preciation..........
133.50
To
To
carry forward to
pay a Bonus to Stall.........
5,120.02
next Account
+4
15.945.84
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to not set up a record for attend-in front of the Kowloon Godowns. Tore's idea that rag-time itself under the above heading, which is rather a school than a rythm appeared in our columns last ace at a football rustch. That, Is a fact, stands to the credit of
A woman found in unlawful It denotes a species of music al-week, we are glad to be able to
$270,093.08 of is spreading very considerably. Directiora-Mr. Medburst hay- Hampden Park, Glasgow, and TUB set up a year ago at the possession opium was fined $47 most invariably associated with state that interest in the forma land and England. Despite the Hazeland, at the Police Court, for merely ridiculous kind, with a We also learn that the article in ing resigned on leaving the particularly hideous lurch of the this morning. international match between Scot-or in default six weeks by Mr. particular dances of a lascivious tion of such a Club as we spoke
shoulders and usually with yells question has been translated into Colony, Mr. 8.H. Dodwell was "Wak Taz Yat Po," and that appointment requires the confir- A Swedish sailor named Karl or interjections of a most revol-Ohiness and re-published in the invited to fill the vacancy. This
Chiness poultry-fanciers are mation of Shareholders.
In accordance with the Articles Audression was fined $3 by Mr. ting kind. He further warns us Melbias, at the Police Court. that rag-time is dangerously anxious to ex-operate with Ear- this morning, for being drunk condcoive to nervone hysteria. Scotland.
When we consider the times peans in bringing about such an of Association, Mr. J. W. C. Bon vory seriously Londoners reinark on the fact and incapable.
in which we live, we see at once organisation. It is intended to nar and Mr. S. H. Dodwell rotire, call a general meeting, further bat, bising eligible, cfter them- in wondering tones. We remom-
The F.8. Seungchoon, which that this is trao. They are nor
Auditors-The Accounts have ber one writer (himself a Scote- man) who described the scene arrived in port yesterday from yous, hysterionl times, out of detaile of which will be made selves for re-election. in Glasgow for London Rangcon, reports that a baby boy keeping with the steady sobriety publio shortly, at which the pro-
milles of management elected. Hynes, and F. Maitland, the latter ago. He was born on board the vessel on of the march or the dignified volup-ject will be discussed and a com- been audited by Messrs. A. U A correspondent points out that in the absence of Mr. W. Hutton paper wrote, with his tongue in his Friday. The nationality is not tousness of the waltz. We want scamper and fass, with unhealthy
a further good result, to arise from Potts. Messrs. A. C. Hynes and cheek, of how there came, from stated..
spice and a dash of the bizarre the forming of a society will be W. Hutton Polis retire, but offer towns many miles away, mea
V. W. O. BONNAB, with pigeons, and of how these An Indian who was charged at to tickle our ears. We want some- pigeons were released at the con- at the Police Court, this morning thing ansophisticated, unreal and that an appeal from it to the Gov- themselves for re-alection.
his meaningless. Something to suit ernment may result in the latter's clusion of the match. Straight with being drunk said
Hongkong, 17th April, 1913. the quick-lunch, the strikes of "ppointing some qualified official each bird went to the house of "stomach was aching" and that
poultry and the keeping of bees vagaries of the present govern-searried on by those Chinese who the provost in that far-away town, caused the trouble, He was fined unrestful labour, the hare brained to enquire into the breading of and he awaited its cotning on $3.
ment and the hysterical lawless supply the market. At Home the doorstep. No doubt the
Left for the North. ness of the suffragettes. And we and in the greater Colonies the CORRESPONDENCE. Londoner, or some of him, believ Among the passengers who
Local Government Board makes Rag-time is a warning to ne itself responsible for the proper ad this. But the average Scots left by the as. Buelow for the get it precisely in rag-time. provost is too important a person North were Major D.S. Robertson, symptom of our disease. It is inspection of poultry farms etc.,
sonte
years
A
A Story Told Before..
*
Local Volunteers, and, in fact, every one else in the Colony who is interested in matters that affect the defence of thio. Empire, will find a good deal that is worth sober thought in our wire of to-day relating to Colonel Seely and the Territoriale. The "Times", in to admit that ho interests himself Military Attache to the British hard to give the disease a name, and, where any disease is suspect-
is
Thrown Downstairs,
very
THE S.S. HAIYANG.
A False Report.
Chairman.
[The opinions expressed by our correspondents are not necess¬ arily those of the "Hongkong
Tolegraph'
in football; and if he is anxious Legation in Peking, and Bishop but perhaps it might be bested, notice has at once to be given. dubbed national flippancy. This, it is thought, should like the course of a very frank articlo, observes that the War Secretary's to have the result, be has it sent Brent of the Philippines.
Surrounded as we are by the gra wire be the rule in Hongkong. Leaving for Home.
CHINESE IN B.N. BORNEO.: position has been seriously shaken, and hints that he has been dis- by wiro, opens the telegram
II. M. S. Royal Arthur is due vest possible problems" offeoting, posed, hitherto, to treat war as if it were a game; and it adds," War privily, and says nothing about it.
to leave this afternoon with time-our very existence as a nation, we
[To the Elitor, of the Hongkong is a most serious business in which we cannot afford to make mis-
expired naval ratings for Home. are able to treat nothing seriously:! 'rag. Our
"Telegraph." takes." Thousands of persons within the Empire are of the same The Oxford Locals
Dear Sir, I am very much We have occasionally found it Shortly after two o'clock the in-everything is a
children aro opinion on all of these points, and, to judgo by the Home press in
from the Naval Hospital to the rag," our
A report has been widely obliged to you for the copies of Local certificates are worth the
brought up to look on life as one circulated in the Colony to the the "Hongkong Telegraph," con- general, there is quite an appreciable number of those who have; till necessary to bint that the Oxford valided men were transferred politicians rag, our preachers
huge rag. Shall we still be effect that Mesars Douglas, Lap-taining report of our interview. recently, supported Colonel Seely who are beginning to doubt if he paper on which they are inscribed cruiser by stretchers.
Yesterday a
The Prodigal's Return-
our sit's ss. Haiyang (Captain A.EThis is quite correot, and very altogether the man for the important post which he holds. And, and no more.
Just to remind him that he was playing rag-time when "Telegraph" reader handed us truly, a policy that pats Mr. Winston Churchill at the head of Navy
letter of application received not a welcome visitor, Mr. O. D. modern Rome is burning? Or is it Hodgins) has been chartered to well stated, except in one respect. Wo want to take a Samoa, and that the ship is now Chinese give trouble to the Polica affairs, and hands over the Army to the care of a Volunteer major from a gentleman who; if you Melbourne, at the Police Court, possible we may yet take warning carry coolies from Swatow, to It would appear from it that the
this morning, sentenced a man to in time? (promoting him, for the purpose, to the higher dignity of colonel) is please, is anxious to give a lessons six months' imprisonment and pall at ourselves and be more in dock at Kowloon, being fitted in British North Borneo; which is not the case, as they are on the in English. The following extract not one of which the cation can be entirely proud..
four hours' stocks, for returning serious about the things that out for that purpose, hardly calls for comment. "I was
matter. How? Well, of course, We are authorised to state that whole's most quiet, law abiding Since this gentleman has been in office, he has tried more ex-educated in Queen's Collego from banishment.
the great majority of us, cannot there is no truth in this story, set, whom, above all others we periments and ventured upon more daring statements than men like and was in the First Class
A Chinese, who was alleged to hope personally to do anything The Haiyang is not in dock, but are anxious to obisin 64 freo threo years. I posred the Lord Roberts or Lord Kitchener would ever dare dream of; and for now, after the House of Commons and the world generally have been Senior Oxford Local Examination have thrown a woman down some off our own bats to alter the fate left yesterday on her usual run, settlers, to accomplish which, we have given an entirely false im« privileged to listen, for close on two years, to his inspired utterances in English (Essay, Grammar, stairs and badly injuring her, was of the nation; but at least we can and neither now nor at any later have come to Peking to interview pression as to the conduct of the ། on a subject whereon he does not appear to bo too much at home, lie Dictation and Shakespear), and in charged by Inspector Gerrard, use our judgment and give our time will she be employed for the Chinese Government. I must
the various Oalloge examinations, before Mr. O. D. Melbourne, at steadfast support to those public the purpose alleged.
Chinese in B.N, Borneo and in has at last to admit (in so many words) that a body of men, on whose Excelled in the subject of English the Police Court, this morning: men whom we see to be purpose-
TROUBLE.
justice to them, I shall be very training the Government has spent fabulous sums, is next door to Conversation. I am capable of Defendant was fined $5, ordered ful and soberminded. And we disapproval of mere popularity-
mach obliged to you if you will aseless. For the object, we take it, of onrolling the 70,000 men managing young student in to pay $3, and bound over to can try to discorn and show our huntera, time servers and flat-
Persons who wanted a quick either publish this letter or draw under discussion was to provide the country with an additional and successful manner. My term is keep the peace in $25.
$20 per month, 2 houra lesson Forthcoming Benefit
catchers. And as a first step let us hath could have had it gratis attention to the misunderstanding Entertainment. ollicient fighting force for purposes of defence.
for very night. Sould (sic) my
We are informed that the prop-determine with one accord on the yesterday morning by standing which I must have conveyed.→→ When the Territorial system was begun, it would ill have bo- torm be favourable I shall be come experienced soldiers to throw cold water broadcast over the happy," atc, etc. What higher priators of the Bijou Theatre aro dentli of rog-time, that climax of in the roadway, outside the I am, flame of military enthusiasm that was running through the country; testimonial could there be to the arranging for a Benefit Entertain-irresponsible silliness for that Beaconsfield Arcade, at about but many of our generals, if they did not go that length, at least value of those certificates, or, ment to their very popular man-way madness lies. We can hard-eleven o'clock. This time the refused to commit themselves any further than to own that the new indeed, to the quality of the ager, Mr R.H. Stephenson on the ly picture the cakewalk upon "English" taught in Hongkong evening of May 2. Mr Stephan High Olympus; but could we do son is so well known and ec gen-80, we might well believe Whom scheme “might abolish the necessity for consoription." Soon after the new movement was entered upon, we had the felicity of watching schools?
erally liked that we may safely the Gods wish to destroy, they two or three thousand of the territorials at their annual camp; and a
prophesy a very fall house for first teach rag-time !' more mournful sight could hardly be imagined; the men were doing what our present War Secretary has of late been indulging in TOO MANY PASSENGERS. that night. In addition to the turns by professional artistes, in- playing at soldiers at the expense of the country, and providing an inexhaustible fund of mirth for all the Rogolars who happened to be This morning at the Matine cluding Mr Stephenson himself, in the neighbourbood. Here and there, at rare intervala, were men Court, before Commander Basit we understand that items will be of good physige and fuq musonlar development, but the bulk wore Taylor, R.N., Clian Shap, master contributed by some well-known The following are the results as how should they be otherwise? us less when it came to a long of the s.l. Tai Tick, was charged local amateurs. The programme of events in the V.R.O. Sports march or a tedious hill climb. The majority of them were employed by P. C. Dyke with carrying 21 will be published shortly. The programme decided after we had in shops and offices in Loudog, under-fed, under-sized, and no more passengers in excess of the num-prices of admission will be one gone to press on Saturday. Nevertheless, in a case like this, Government... Ho eben no resso to be compared with the Tommy Alkins whose siness it is to keep her allowed by his licence, on and two dollare.
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then with Hookenschmidt or Sandow. It was no fault of theirs; April 18.
Solomon at the P, O. Dyko gave evidence that Sir Brooke Boothby's Estate. they were keen enough on their work, but, as the
innot make a he counted 120 persons on the Sir Brooke Boothby, of Broad head of the War Offro is beginning to find out, you competent fighting mansout of a London clerk or a Maneater factory launch, which was licensed to low Ash, Derbyshire, formerly hand after a few drills and a fortnight at a seaside camp We wonder carry only 99 all told, and the Secretary of Legation at Tokyo, what will be to dovernment's next move. Must come to defendant, who had nothing to died intestate and a lachelor.
He left £30,018 Bay, was fined $50, after all Pa
V.R.C. SPORTS.
MORE VERANDAH
Dear Sir,
Faithfully yours.
ALFRED TURNER. Peking, April 9, 1913
washing of the verandah, but, to water-fall was not caused by the all appearances, by a leaky pips, which, to judge by the slop in the road and gatter, and on the
The Chinese in Slant. pavement itself, had been doing ita pleasing work for some con- M. Hn Wai Toh, this Chinese siderable time. We don't believe Minister to France, who has been in the Every Man his own visiting Siam, thinks the great Plumber" idea; experimente in Chinese population of that coun that line, carried on by amateure, try seem to be doing well and are apt to prove disastrous, are well looked after, by the One Mile Flat Race-1, W. wholin the comfort of every pas at present why a Chinese Legation Drade; 2, J. Forbes; 3, R. G. ser-by is concerned, wo should should be established in Siam, but, Judah. Time, 5 min. 0.45 sec. have thought that some temporary as his visit was quite unofficial Consolation Race-1, I. L. remedy could have been applied, be did not feel authorised to make even by a house-boy of Imited definite attements,ADY BIOD Race for the Bandemen intelligence, that would have been such as this would be a matter of Goldenborg; 2, P. II. Murray.
nt arran ment besprecä Subadar Singh, 2, Jemal Din; 3, effective up to the arrival of an subseq
the two Governmenta socomplished oraftemen, Atta Mahomed
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