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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1913,

Kowloon Street Sweeping.

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The President of the Sanitary. Board bit the truth on Tuesday when he remarked that the water carts in Kowloon are supposed to be on duty from S o'clock till noon, and noon till 5 p.m. expect," he added, "they get about 38 they can, I dare say they dodge their duty, an all do. That touches the heart of the difficulty, Per Case. Per Bottle. It is one thing to have a workable scheme-on paper; it is quite on- other matter to make it work well in practice. Except theso coolios are watched every working mo- meat, they will dodge as many working moments as they can. Also, they do not adhere to the times laid down for them. For

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MARRIAGE.

DAY BY DAY,

What if your pockets are empty resolution is a mint.

The Malls.

English Mail.Arrived por 8.8. Ceylon at 8 am, to-day. Siberian Mil-Closca por

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Ceylon at 5 p.m. to-day. Siberian banil-Due per 8.5.

Delta to-morrow..

Extra Train.

It is notified that an additional train will leave Kowloon for Fanling golf links at 8.35

on Saturday next.

a.m.

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THE CURRENCY

QUESTION.

Further Local Opinions Regarding the Legislation,

Peak Tramway Co. Ltd.

the Botual words of the announce COMPANY, MEETING. ment, otherwise in addition to the importstion of notes payable in' dollar currency, the importation of Bank of England, Book of France and Yen notes would be The ordinary annual meeting illegal. It is fairly clear, he of the shareholders in the Peak In continuation of the eummary thinks, that an extreme of this Tramways Co.Ltd. was held to-day of local opinion as to the legisla-kind is not intended. It is just at noon at the Hongkong Hotel tion against foreign money which possible that the example of when Mr H. Humphreys presided. we have already published we give Singanore, when a sterling basis There were also present: the Hon. the following.

was adopted there, will be copied. Siro. P. Gbater C.M.G., Dr. J. W, A Hongkong business man re-The importation of British notes Noble, Meɛsre. O. S. Gubbay, J. marked to the writer yester and coins, which were formerly Scott Harston, the Hon. Mr. D. day"Of course I am as pleased current in Singapore, was pro- Landalo, directors, Messrs. J. H, as other people at the proposed hibited, but the new law was Seth, Enos Seth, D. E. Clark, J. change, but I am only wordering made aufficiently elastic to allow M. Wong, Lau In Cheung, share- if the public realise that whatever of the ordinary tourist, and holders and the secretary, Mr G., monetary gain there may be to the others who required a small Rapp.

The secretary having read the Government stands a risk of being amonat of British money for Departed.

swallowed by the expenditure con- legitimate purpoees, remaining notice convening the meeting, the instance, the president stated yes- Among the passengers who hected with an additional proven within the limits of the law. To Chairman said torday that the streets are swept left for the North by the Man- tive service. It seems to me that that end a small minimum was Gentlemen,--The report and between 5 and 9, 10 and noon, churia were Colonel and Mrs. anch a service will be necessary fixed which might be brought in. statement of accounts and auditors and 2 and 5. o'clock. We can Lean. testify to the fact that they are

to keep the Canton Chinese from It is reasonable to assume, he report having been in your landa Reported Hotel Robbery, sending their money down here thinks, that the same principle for the past eight days, I propose sometimes swopt outside these

We are informed that a gentle whenever silver happens to be will oporate here and that any with your permission to take them hours. On May we saw coolies

Some time back-and one coming from Macao or Shang- as read. in Nathan Road raising clouds of mun staying at oue of the local cheap,

For the period under review dust, and there was never a drop Hotels has been robbed of money that was even when silver was hai with a limited quantity of of water to lay it, or to provent it and property valued atover $500, high-the Canton Government notes and coin, not officially season and punch tiokote and from rising in the first instance. Opium Possession. issued a prohibition in regard to recognised here, will not neces- special cara combined have of forded increased receipts amount- Yat sarily be arrested. the exporting of silver. All the game, we can sure At the Police Court, this morn-

Canton mcoey was smuggled into

ing to $2,320.16 but daily tickets Colonel Younan, who has doubtsing, a Chinese was fined $250, or

sold on the cars are responsiblə on the point, that the streets are in default three months for being Hongkong, not just in small

for a falling off of $1,475.31. Thus really watered. We have seen it in unlawful possession of opium. quantities but literally in barrels,

the increase in traffic receipts If that happened with dear silver, done, though we have not seen, and do not expect to see, the water

what would the smugglers do

only amounts to $853.85, ag when it was cheap?

shown in the profit and loss carts trying to put up records in

Account. This has been more: than discounted by increased cost "Just now, of course, silver Beyond a Joke.

being at a premium, Canton is News has been received in the of upkeep and increased, wages" only minting sufficient money for Colony of the death of Mr. E. which have been brought about its own immediate domestic Cornewall Lewis, who was former for the most part by the extend- needs; but, whenever it has been ly assistant Postmaster Genoral ed service of cars. The experi- low, the Canton Government has in Hongkong. Decessed was ence gained during the past two deliberately laid itself out to invalided home in 1911 and in years proves conclusively that the coin for export purposes. Their August of last year his health increase in working expenses in- coin comes here and our silver was such that he was compelled volved by the addition of several dollars go to China in its place. to retire on pension. Death took extra cars to the service is out of Revolution, how very scarce silver on April 27th last. Everyone noticed, just after the place at Hornsey, North London, all proportion to the increase of revenue (if any) derived there-

MOORE-CAMPBELL-O May 14th, at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, Singapore, by the Rev. Father Nain, William Henry Moore to Elizabeth Juno Cathay, daughter of Major John C. Camp-point of pace or, ground covered. bell, Royal Irish, Rifles, and the late Mrs. Campbell.

The vôject of this paper is to publish correct information, in serve the truth and print the neon unithout fear or favour.

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

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

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1913.-

THE NATIVE AND THE LAND:

The Trees in Pedder Street.

Tower was to be removed the

Gambling.

A fiue of $3 oach was imposed on ten Chinese, by Mr Hazeland, at the Police Court, this morning, for gambling in a house at West Point.

European Loses. Watch

and Chain.

Mr. Edwards, of Queen's College, has reported to the police that some one be taken his watch and gold chain, from his room.

To relleve Sir J. Jordan

A Game of Skill,

Canton and Silver.

Mr. E. CORNEWALL

LEWIS.

Death of Former Hongkong Official

CORPUS CHRISTI

SUNDAY.

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The chairman moved that the

retining directors Dr. J. W. Noble, Mr. J. Scott Harston, Mr. O. 9. Gubbay, Hon. Sir Paul Chater, O. M.G., and Hon. Mr. David Land- alo be re-elected. The motion, on being esconded by Mr. Lau" in Cheang, was carried,

A well-known local business man has telephoned a request to the "Telegraph" to make public an adventure which bofel him yesterday while passing through Chancery Lane to his office. From an upper floor of one of the houses there suddenly

Alice Memorial Hospital, came a stroum of mouth-rinsinge

The Hon. Treasurer of the -the property of some Chinese who had just completed his or her Alice Memorial and Affiliated dollars were in Hongkong. Mil- The deceased had had a long-from. Your directors and general breakfast which fell gracefully Hospitals bege to acknowledge lions of dollara were being thy Colonial experience, extending managers, however, bear constant- on to his hat and white coat! We with thanks the following doua coined in Bombay and brought over some 35 years. The greater ly in mind that we are carriers sympathies with bim, if.only for tion to the funds of Hospital:

here, yet Europeans. could part of this time he spent in the and must within reasonable limits Wanchai Wesleyan Methodist not get hold of them. Why? West Indies, holding various Gov- satisfy the needs of the travelling the reason that, in the same

Church, $16.70. thoroughfare, a similar fato was

Because China wanted to pay her ernment positions in St. Vincent public, even if an adeguate re- very nearly our owa, a week or two

troops and to redeem the military and in Grenada. He came to turn be not immediately forth- Wo quoted last night an extract from the F.M.S. Government ago. It is a randalone thing that Mr B. F. Alston, of the Foreign notes she had issued.

Hongkong in April, 1899, on ap-coming.

I have no further remarks to "In order to ensure absence of pointment to the position of As Gazette, in which a proposed enactment is drafted "whereby it is this could happen even in the Oflice, bas left London for Peking, hoped to secure to Malaye their interests in land." The Gazette heart of Chinatowa; much more where he will take charge of the trouble there will have to be a sistant Postmaster-General, and make but if any shareholder has goes on to say that" the reason for such legislation is found is the so in a neight urhd through Ligation for some months, in the very definite understanding be in this capacity, as well as that any questions to ask I shall be which a great number of Euro- place of Sir John Jordan, who is tween the Hongkong Government of Acting Postmaster-General on pleased to answer them to the recently increased demand for agricultural land in the States; and reads are bound to pass daily. returning to London on leave of and Canton. The Chinese there various occasions, he acted until bost of my ability.

will find thoir profits reduced to his departure for England some Their being no questione, the the temptation thus held out to Malay landowners to dispose of their. And it is idle to say that such things absenes.

Knocked Down by Ricksha. a minimum the moment they are 18 months ago. During his resid-chairman proposed the adoption lands contrary to what the Government believe to be their true must be endured whenever there are Obiner; let the native in intoreste." We have often had ocension to remark that the admin- Singapore or in any concesion of

A Chiners has been sent to the forced to confine their minting to ence in Hongkong, Mr. Lewis of the report and accounts; Mr. istration of the Malay States and the Straits Settlements bas, in most Shanghai Ly the se ne gume hospital sefering from injuries local needs. Even in Hongkong made numerous friends, who will Sethseconded, and the proposition

a good deal of patience will be hear with the deepest regret of was carried. racgived through being knocked respects, clung loyally to all the best traditions of British colonies. But this is Hongkong,

down by acket. The coolie was aferary at first, for it is an his death. Mr. Lewis was promin- tion and firm yet fair and kindly government; and here is a In the "Daily Pies" yesterday aested and at the Police Court, axiom that, where ignorant people ently identified with St. Andrew's case in point.

morning Mr Henry Humphreys this morning was faed fifty are concerned, any change of cur- Church, Kowloon, where he was rency must be introduced cau- lay reader. He leaves a wife and tiously and gradually. Coinage to son. People whose only experience of colonial life has been gained suggested that, sine the Clock conts by Mr Melbourne.

them is a question of intrinsic in an essentially "town possession like Hongkong may not im- three banyan trees in Pedder A man alleged to be gambling value, not of tokens. An English mediately grasp what such proposed legislation means to the native Street should also be removed. in the sire at at West Point, was man doesn't care whether a shil- others, who know either the Malayan countries or any of the African Since the ricksha and chair stand brought tsfore Me Hazeland, a ling is made of silver or of brass,

Mesars W. H. Potts, and A. R. colonies, will agree with us that this is a shining example of "gov-tad besu provided, he said, the Polie Court, this morning but whether there is a sbilling's

Lowe were re appointed auditors erning the people for the people's good." Balote the mining boom there tre 18 are siively dan the case was withdrawn when his worth or a penny's worth of sil- On Sunday next, the 25th inst; at a remuneration of$100 each in the Malay States began, the interior native lived a life of proud gerous." independence becaue he was a land-owner. Men called him lazy, trees should to "ransplanted to game played was one of skill.

He suggested that the Worship pointed out that the ver. in it so long as the law re- the fasst of Corpus Christi will per annum, on the motion of Mr. but that was his own affair; he had his cocoa-nuts, bis fruit, his padi, Chater Road batween Queen's

cognises it as the twentieth part be celebrated in the Roman Cath-W. Clark, seconded by Mr. Enos Left for Haiphong

of a sovereiga; but with the na-olic Cathedral. Low Mass will Seth. his fish and his tobacco; "Tuban Allah" supplied all his needs, and Buildings and the Club, where

The Chairman:-That is all the he didn't know what trouble was. He paid 'bis tribute to some more tree shade is much needed." rompanied by Mozara Monroe and

Mr E. J. Haberer of Manila active it is otherwise.

bs said by the Rev. Reator of the Foreign Notes. native sultan or rajaqut of the products of bis bit of land, and there was There are any number of places in Googe eaper visie of the Bureau

Cathedral at 7 a.m. during which business. Thank you for your "The legislation with regarda General Communion will be attendance. Dividend warrants on and on't. But, by and by, the white prospector came along, found the Colony where moretres shade is of Education left for Haiphong on to the

notes will out where the gold or the tin lay, and promptly coveted the ground. needed, and Pedder Streat can do the sa. Hondagua, to-day, to study welcome.

be very administered to the congregation, will be ready this afternoon. So long ne you At 8 o'clock a High Ponitifical Later, the same thing happened over the diecovery that Malayan soil with shade quite as well as any conditions in Tonkin and Indo have only to deal with those issued Mass will be sung by His Lord- was good for rubber-culture. For a long while the Government was other part of the city, it is true China.

by the thres recognised banks, you ship Bishop Pozzoni, the diocesan able, on its own account, to meet the enormous demand for land by that the trees and the riekabastand

know where you stand. Every and cathedral clergy and the Off to the Azores. disposing of what was lawfully its own, yet not touching that which together cut into the traffic space,

body knows that, for each note Seminarists will also be present. was hereditary native property; but now, for some years past, Go- but is that not the fault of having by the Manchuria, yesterday they put out, in excess of the A special canopy will be placed on

Among the passengers who left vernment land that is of any use from the speculator's point of view pat the stand in the wrong place?

dollar for dollar with the Govern of the Blessed Sacrament through- has been growing more and more scarce. Meanwhile the pro-It seems to us that it could just as was the Very Rev. Father Jose authorised issue, they must deposit the main altar for the Exposition Malls Arrive by ss. Ceylon This spectors continue to come, and London investors.continue to want

ment, or rather-which comes to out the day for public adoration. ground on which to cultivate rubber or cocoa-huta. At one timeasily, and with more reason, have of the Macao Diocese. The Rev. the same thing-must have in Solemzi Vespers will be sung at 5 The P. and 0; steamer Ceylon

basn put botwe on the traand the the white man's money would have had no temptation for the

pavement. Immediately against native, for he had little or no use for it; but now, oven within the the

the stand would years ago as a Deacon and S. their vaults & sum in hard cash p.m. after, which the Blessed arrived in port at about 8 o'clock trees

corresponding to the notes issued. Sacrament will be taken in Pro- this morning bringing up the Ipoh, Taiping, and others have grown up from nothing and have perhaps have been a abade/cretary to the Rt. Rev. Bishop With foreign banks it is another cassion, erriod by the Bishop. mails from the 8.8. Assaye, which memory of many Hongkong readers, towns like Kuala Lumpur,

D. Jono Paulino d'Azevedo Castro, matter. No doubt the Banco Ultra- under a special Pallium, borne was delayed at Singapore through become peopled by Europeans and Chinese, both of which races but for the remainder of its

natrower then the pressat one, Bishop of Macao. He was or have shown the native what a goodly and pleasant thing it is to length it would have been wide dained a priest shortly after hiamarino dollar notes are all right by the members of the corfra er fire breaking ont in her after-

in general way, because, by

hold. A representative of the nity of the Blessed Sacrament, have money, and what a number of unheard-of luxuries this money enough for two rickshes to stand arrival. He noted on several occas- will buy. The result, of course, is that the Malay land-owner is now about two 110 tons to stand ions, during the absence of the private arrangement, the bank the Band of the Philarmonica Telegraph had a brief chat with faced at every turn with the temptation to part with what, at one matters yet, in fact. Mr Hump. Bishop, us the Head of the Echos agents here, who practically playing Processional Marches at the skipper of the Ceylon (Capt. accept responsibility; though the the rear, during the transit. Most Jeffery, this forenoon, who stated time, he held as dear as life itself.

clesiastical Body. On several oc- hreys is light in saying that more

the fire, as his boat loft shortly The F.M.S. Government's action, then, is what that of every irce shade is wanted in Chatt casions he has preached in Hong-same cannot be said for the Can of religious societies will join in that he did not actually, witness

Saigon. government should be (and is not): fatherly; the act of the wise and Road, but it should be provided kong. He goes home to Canon notes and those issued from this grand procession.

It is generally felt On returning to the Church, after the arrival of the Assaye. delaria, Pico, Azores, his native experienced guardian towards the wilful child who can see no far with trees of its ow. What is ther than the tip of his own nose. A man had, in a general way, wanted is to add to the total na place, vis America, on a well that the number of Banco Ul- the Rev. Fr. Tour will preach on He understood that the damage

earned holiday.

tramarino notes in circulation the subject of Corpus Christi, to the ship was not serious, and better out off his right hand than dispose of good land. Des not ber of trees in the streets of the

here is due to the scarcity of and the feast will conclude with this seemed to be borne out by our own middle class at home know that to its cost? In England Colony and not merely to shuffle there may be one farmer in ten thousand who farme his own land; with the present number.

ALLEGED ANTI-FOREIGN applications have been made in Sacrament.

Repeated Solema Benediction of the Blessed the fact that the Assaye had al ready left Singapore; When it TUTUH. though we doubt it; and, cave in one or two counties, the peasant

the past, to the Secretary of State,

became apparent that the Assaye who owns a foot of freehold land is as rare as snow in June. Part-

would be delayed in order to dia- for a larger supply, but little ing with land, sooner or later, meane working for another man in- Consignees of cargo by the Renter's Kusiyang (Kueishow) notice was taken of the request till H.A.L. and N.D.L. Reductions, charge damaged cargo, the maila The Hamburg-American Line were sent over to his boat, which, stead of for oneself. Even to the European whom centuries of Chiyo Maru are reminded that correspondont telegraphs: No ac recently; and even now there and the North German Lloyd left soon afterwards, having a civilisation have taught that all honest work is creditable, whether goods remaining undelivered by tion has yet been taken by the are nowhere near enough." annornos a reduction of their good run up to Hongkong. done for himself or for another, there is just the suggestion of sery- to-morrow at 5 p.m. will be sub- authorities with regard to an A Banker's Views, ituda in working for a wage; but to the half-civilised man there jeat to rent and landing charges, alleged injustice to a servant of

Enterviewed as to the probable steerage rates to Canada from are no half measures; for him, to take service under another man is

the foreigners in the Post Office, effent of the proposed legislation, 120 marks (6) to 90 marks (64 degradation, and nothing short; for, in his own eyes, he is one of two Having already sarved fifteen Some foreigners think that the a well-known local banker stated 108.)-the reduction to take effect things: a man or a coolie. This applies to semi-savages the world years in foreign waters, six years present Tatab is anti-foreign in that, in his view, the change on May 1 it no agreement is over but is perhaps especially the case with the Malay, and his im- in the Mediterranean and nine in his attitude. They state that would not affect foreign banks, reached in the negotiations pend- mediate neighbours, So long as he has his land, even if it be but the For East-the light cruiser since he came to Kusichow, over The new legislation really aimed ing between the Canadian Pacific, have obtained leave of absence: a strip of jungle or half an acre of padi-swamp, be is peaceable, con Astra was on 22nd inst. manned a year ago, several Protestants at ridding the Colony of notes It is declared the decision is only Mesers. T. C. Blatherwick, J. A teated and indifferent honest; deprive him of it, and be at once at Chatham by a full crew and and Roman Catholics have been which are payable in China and in accordance with the reduction Moore, N. T. Gray, N. Falls, S.H. of rates by the Austro-American. Langston, A.B. Jelf, H, C. Eok- wither becomes a rebel ond o preacher of sedition or cise descends to commissioned by Captain A, O. arrested and killed, without trial, of Chinese subsidiary poins. the level of the Chinese coolie. No one knows this better than the Sykes, to replace the light cruiser by official orders, and that others. The proposed legislation cannot, and that it does not prejudice hardt, E. H. Wallich, W. L. Con- men who are ruling the Malay Peninsula; all honour to them, there. Forte on the Cape of Good Hope have been unjustly imprisoned, in his opinion, be carried to the the negotiations with the Dang lay, E. G. Wood, and F. C. Mar-

aball fore, for doing their duty by those in their charge,

station.

"ying Daily News."

extremes which are indicated in diag Pacific.

For Consignees.

H. M. S. Astrack,

da Costal

ta Nunes, the Vicar General

Father arrived in Macao ten)

British dollar notes.

THE "ASSAYE" FIRE.

Morning.

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O'n' Leave, The following F.M.S. officials