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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1918.

Royal Oak Day,

A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., Most Britishers in the Colony

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. SCOTCH WHISKY,

E. WATSON'S VERY OLD LIQUEUR

SCOTCH WHISKY...

KILTY" LIQUEUR WHISKY,

Groat Age, Very Fine

THORNE'S BLACK SQUARE...

WATSON'S 0.8.Ɑ....

318

Tak

22,50

1.90

38.00

3.25

23.50

2.00

23.50

2.00

will have lively memories of Royal Oak Day, May 29, for, up till ton or fifteen years ago, it was one of the schoolboy's most cherished anniversaries. Woe batide the lad who, on the morning of the 29th, neglected to provide himself with

the Registrar General or his

DAY BY DAY, LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL officer is rendered capable of be

As for our deserts, the less said of them the better, for somebody might hear and nobody cares to be laughed at.

The Malls.

Canadian and Siberian Mail.-

BILLS DEALING WITH THE CURRENCY PROBLEM.

TRAMWAY BOYCOTT ECHO: COMPANY TO RECEIVE $45,000 COMPENSATION.

Mr. A. M. Thomson.

a buttonhole of oak leaves, for Siberian Mail. Despatched per every other boy was permitted, 9.8. Soharnhorst at 10a.m. Per Case. Per Bottle, by sacred custom, to bestow on

to-day. of : Dozen,

his one kick for his soul's health and as Д wholesome

Arrived por 8.8. Empress of lesson in loyalty to the Royal"

India this forenoon. House of Stuart. Most of us Australian Mail.-Due per se. hadn't the faintest idea why we

St. Albans 10-morrow. kicked, any more then we knew

Back Again. why" tope started" about Easter

Mr T. F. Claxton, Director of time, marbles soon after Christmas or kites in June, or why we de- the Royal Observatory, Hong-K.C.M.G. manded-and usually got a holi-kong, returned from Japan by day on May Day. It was customt, the Empress of India to-day. and boys-God bless them-are rare sticklers for the most solemn Daring a squall yesterday, a observance of custon. Hampshire sampan was overturned and two boys have, or had, an additional cased of rubber rings were lost. 29th of May, superstition which It is hoped to recover the cases. we suspect to be of heathen

Launch Masters Fined. At the Marine Court, this mork-. origin, and in no way con- neated with the memory of ing, three launch masters were King Charles. At twelve o'clock, each fined $10 for using their every oak leaf disappeared with-syrens for purposes other than out a second's warning and, in those for navigation. place thereof, every jacket sported a spray of ash; defaulters to be

Other Well-Known Brands Supplled To Order. Our Celebrated E very old Liqueur Scotch Whisky is a blend of the best Pot Distilled Scotch Whis kies. It is of great age, very fine, and mellow Its superior quality has established its reputation as THE LEADING SCOTCH WHISKY IN THE EAST.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

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Sampan' Overturned.

Lawn Bowls.

The Hon. Wei Yuk, C.M.G. The Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett, C.M.G.

ing somewhat shortened in the event of the person under con- viction being unable to give any. aaswer to the charge preferred against him.

The Bill fourthly provides a alight modification of the circum- stances under which during the continuance of any Proclamation issued under the provisions of the Peace Preservation Ordinance, 1886, it may be possible to effect the deportation of undesirable “ A meeting of the Legislative with plans to be previously de persons; the chief alterations Council was held this afternoon, posited in the office of the being that whereas in the old Director of Public Works, allauch Ordinance the grounds for such in the Council Chamber,

wore confined There were present, H. E. the lines, crossings, passing places, deportation Governor, Sir Francis Henry Mureidings, junctions, turntable and to the necessity for the public other works in addition to or as safety, the reasons in the The Hon, Colonial Secretary, extension of those particularly present Bill include also the apccified in and authorized by the condition that it may be either The Hon. Attorney General, Mr. Principal Ordinance as may be desirable for the public safety or approved of by the Governor in in the interests of the pesce or J.A.S. Buoknill, K. C.

The Hon. Colonial Treasurer, Council, and may work and use good order of the Colony; some the same and Whereas timely and definition is also made as to the The Hon. Director of Publio adequate notification by public channel of communication in this Mr. A.G.M. Fletcher. Works, Mr. W. Chatham, O.M.G. advertisement or otherwise of the connection between the Governor- The Hon. Registrar General, intention of the Company to in-Council and the complainants. apply for an extension of Bections 3 and 7 of the Bill re- Mr. E.R. Hallifax.

The Hon. Sir Kai Ho Kai, Kt., Section 5 of their Tramway by a move certain doubts which have single line comme icing at the ex-been expressed as to the power to M.B., C.M.G.

isting termination of the said fix life periods of deportation. Section No. 5 and terminating in Seotion 4 introduces a modifi- Wong-Nei-Ohong Road about cation which is mainly necessitat opposite the North Western cored by the alteration of the ner of Inland Lot No. 1927 has procedure in clause 2 of the Bill. been made and Whereas the Section 5 of the Bill enlarges We reported last night that the North Borneo Government had

Company has duly applied for the number of the Officers by the approval of the Governor-in-whom may be duly signed or Council to the proposed extension certified the formal orders of de- given power to District Officers

48 aforesaid and Where-portation, the necessity for this to admit the importation of krises etc. by natives who "shall come

as the Governor-in-Council has enlargement having been found to bona fids to settle in the State."

Section 6 of the Bill makes the Will this include krises that were

on the 8th of May, 1913, approved arise not infrequently in practice. made in Birmingham? We hope

of the said extension:

Now it is hereby resolved that requisite alterations in the Form not, for Borneo is about the only

Reports,

the approval of the Governor-in-of Warrant and Examination The Colonial Secretary laid on Council so given as aforesaid necessitated by the re-arrange country left wherein the cario- hunter may hope to capture the Hongkong Officers in the North.

In moving the resolution, the section 3 of the Bill. pukka Malay kris. The Malay Captains G. O. Turnbull and the table the Report of the Har-shall be and is hereby confirmed, ment of procedure dealt with in In moving the first reading the Peninsula, the Straits and event. W. Anderson, of H.B,M, Forces bour Master for 1912, the Report the Dutch East Indies have, in Hongkong, arrived here this on the New Territories for 1912 Attorney General said he did not

been morning from Tientsin says the and the quarterly return of think be needed to add anything, Hon. Attorney General said the this many ย year, surfoited with "dud" weap- "Manchuria Daily News" of May excesses on sub-heads met by because the terms of the resolution objecta and ressons which were savings on heads of expenditure. itself contained everything that attached to the Bill gave a com ons imported from Europe to 17.

could be said about the matter, plete resume of its contents..> cozen the unwary collector, and

and if he were to say anything Supplementary Sum Appropriated we should be sorry to see B.N.B. Twelve strokes of the birch was The following recommenda- further it would be merely to re- The Colonial Secretary moved following suit. Already the wily the punishment meted out to a tions by H. E. the Governor were capitulate the actual phraseology the first reading of a bill entitled Brunei and Bajau down there youth by Mr. Melbourne, at the referred to the finance Committee, of the resolution.

An ordinance to authorize the have begun to make their own Police Court, this morning, for on the motion of the Colonial The Hon. Colonial Secretary Appropriation of a Supplementary parange (s weapon which is half stealing piping from the Volun- Secretary, seconded by coconded, and the resolution was Sum of Thirty thousand six hun eword, half chopper) by begging teer Headquarters. or stealing odd bits of railway metal and, hammering them into blades and this may be the beginning of the end. Sanitary matters Again.

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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1913.

TARIFF REVISION AND PRICES.

Importation of Krises.

We grow rather weary of re- turning to a subject several times but it is necessary to be insistent in Hongkong ifeven minor reforma are to be effected. Just a month ago-on the 20th of April, to be exact-attention was drawn in the

Judging from present indications, there appears every like columns of the "Telegraph" to lihood of President Wilson's Tariff Bill eventually passing into law the fact that Sanitary Board coolies substantially in the form in which it left the House of Representa were dumping refuse at the side

On Monday evening at aix o'clock a meeting of the commit- see to make draws in connection with the Lawn Bowls champion- ship of the Colony, will be held.

Cheralavsky Trio. Messrs. Robinson. & Co. advise

as that the Cherniavsky Trio are postponing their concert in Hong- kong until June 7. They may, if time admits, give a concert at Canton on the 9th.

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Youthful Thief:

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New Light.

reliable We understand, from a source, that the Government has decided to adopt the Aga system of lighting for the Harbour fair ways. Messrs. A. Nilsson and Co. are the agents for the Aga lamp..

The Hon. Mr. E. Shellim. The Hon. Mr. Montague Ede, The Hon. Mr. D. Landule. Mr. C. Clementi, Clerk to

the Councils.

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New Member.

The Hon. Mr. David Landale took the oath of allegiance on assuming his sont on the Council.

Finance.

Colonial Treasurer.

the

A sum of $14,000 in aid of the approved.

Deportation Ordinance. vote Public Works, Extraordin-

The Attorney General moved ary, Hongkong, Communications, Roads and Streets, Rond giving the first reading of a bill entitled

Deportation Ordinance, 1912." 8c089s to Inland Lots Nos. 1946" An ordinance to amend the

and 1947.

A sum of $6,700 in aid of the The Colonial Secretary second- vote Publio Works, Extraordined and the bill was read a first ary, Hongkong, Buildings, City time.

In a footnote to the bill it is Slaughter House, Extension. MANCHESTER TRADE · A sum of $2,500 in aid of the stated that:-The object of this vote Public Works, Extraordin- Bill is to simplify somewhat the WITH THE RAST.

ary, New Territories, Miscel-procedure which exists under the laneous, Miscellaneous Works. present law in connection with Mesars. R. Barbour and Bro- sum of $6,100 in aid of vote the banishment of persons

It able trade for India in Dhooties

from

dred and nine Dollars and fifty- seven Cents, to defray the Charges of the Year 1912.

The Colonial Treasurer second- The sum so to be appropriated. ed and the motion was carried. was to be expended as follows:--

Miscellaneous Bervices, $12,- 054.04; Public Works, Recur rent, $18,536.44 and Charitable Services, $10.00.

The Currency Question. On the motion of the Colonial Secretary, seconded by the Colonial Treasurer, the following

The objects and reasons given

reduction in the duties practically all round. It follows, therefore, was then stated that coolies from monthly Market Report, May 1:Kowloon, Buildings, Yaumati,the Bill provides that the Gover-ordinance to prohibit the circula- tives. The measure, as everybody knows, will bring about a marked of Wong Nei. Chung Road. It ther, Limited, write in thoir Public Works, Extraordinary, the Colony. In the first place bill was read a first time " An that those sections of the public who have for so long been com- private residences in the vicinity, The month opened with a firm Vegetable and Fruit Market.

nor-in-Council may summarily tion of Foreign Notes." plaining of the enhanced cost of living will find no inconsiderable encouraged by this examplo, also tone and a tendency of values to A sum of $1,100 in aid of the deport persons who have been that is so, there is a danger that too much will be expected along and that the pile was raked over and less expectation of lower Hongkong, Miscellaneous, Up-Colony and who are not natural Ordinance No. 2 of 1866 with relief when the Bill actually becomes the law of the land. While followed this convenient course harden. More business was about, vote. Public Works, Recurrent, convicted of any crime in the at the foot of the bill state :: these lines in the immediate future; and it is doubtful if the ultimate by other coolies, with Euro-rates. A feature was the consider keep of Plant,

hern or naturalized subjects of amending ordinance regulates and controls, inter alia, the consumer will experience the sweeping changes in the price of food pean children looking on.

A sum of $30,000 in aid of the His Majesty. This power no

issue of notes by the Hong- and clothing which the sharp reduction in duties would seem to hold might have been been thought and light goods, notwithstanding vote Miscellaneous Services, Com-doubt existed under the Deport kong and Shanghai Banking out. This, at any rate, is the opinion which prevails in the big that the exposure of a pro- how distant was the delivery penestion to the Hongkong Traw-ation Ordinance, 1912, but wasnot Corporation, Ordinance No. 65 of

very clearly expressed in that centres throughout the United States.

ceeding so filthy and insanit-which had to be granted. Buoy-

way Co., Ltd. The principal foodstuffs coming most directly under the provi-ary would have been followed by ancy was distinctly exclusive and

Ordinance. Secondly the Bill 1911 that of the Mercantile Bank sions of the Bill are butter, eggs, cheese, poultry and ment; and prompt investigation and im- by no means general. The essier Compensation for Tramway Co. provides that a summary deports of India, while the issue by the lia and China is regulated by merchants who supply these commodities on a big scale are, accord- ing to recent advices from New York, ananimous in the opinion that provement; but the opposite tendency in the raw material In referring to the last finan- tion order may be issued by the Chartered Bank of India, Austra

has proved the case. Not once, which developed later rather in- oial minute, His Excellency said: Governor-in-Council against any its Charter.

Ordinance No. 2 of 1895 pro- high prices will still continue for quite a long time. There can, they but three or four times since that creased the disposition to retard I would like to explain that this British subject not belonging to say, be no return to the low price of beef, for instance, which prevailed date we have remarked that no offers wherever possible. Though vote is to provide compensation Hongkong who is imprisoned in hibits any unauthorised issue by a few years ago, but the inevitable rise in prios brought about by improvement has been effected. the undercurrent of requirements to the Hongkong Electric Tram the Colony in pursuance of any other Banks doing business in the curtailment of the Western ranges should be partly compensated Only on Monday last basket maintained a moderately healthy way Company for loss incurred sentence passed by His Majesty's the Colony but there is no law at for by the introduction of South American beef. The chief regret coolie No. 12 was seen to dump flow, it was only now and again in the recent boycott of its cars Supreme Court in China. expressed is that eggs and dairy products have not been put two baskets of refuse on the road where offers of weight were con- in consequence of the company's This power already existed present to restrain the circulation absolutely on the free list. As it is, the greatest change which aide. There, not for the first cerned that it was able to decision to accept nothing but under section 5 sub-section 3 of of notes issued by parties having may be expected is the probable shifting of the source of food time is presented specific in-

of the Colony in the Deportation Ordinance, 1912, their headquarters at placen supplies. Butter, the best butter in the world, will be enabled since, and is at bo popisu that obmerge the twin beta- the legal tender of his boycot was The Bil heat rourauges the adjacent to Hongkong

It is obviously desirable to pro- to come into the States from Denmark with a reduction in notice will be taken of it.

India, apart from the tran- in effect a conspiracy to defeat the provisions of section 3 of the De- daty of from six to three cents a pound; and eggs and poultry will A Scheme Not Enforced."

anations in light goods and in law of the Colony and for that portation Ordinance, 1912, which test the public against a note issue in respect of which Government most likely be attracted from Canada, although in this respect the While we are on the matter of a certain number of specialities, reason the Government undertook dealt with the procedure which holde no security and over which affect may not be noticeable for several years, owing to the fact that sanitary troubles we might again was inactive, but with the outlook to come to the assistance of the has to be gone through in con- it possesses no control. Canadian farmers will have to adjust themselves gradually" to the revert to the question of the looking healthy and prospects of Company. The Government hise nection with the banishment of In moving the first reading of needs of the new market. According to another authority, the sweeping of Kowloon's main a continued large offtake, provided recommended a sum of $45,000 persons whom for any reason it source of the principal supply of sugar will be changed to Cuba, thoroughfares. Just over a week of course that the monsoon again in round figures as compensation may be desirable to banish but this Bill, the Colonial Secretary though the view is expressed that no material cut in the price, now ago, the President of the Board proves favourable For China and this is an instalment on ac- who do not fall within the classes said that in this connection be

bers, that the very low in comparison with the price prevalent fifteen years ago, outlined the scheme, followed (or some few lines were put through count pending the final decision mentioned above or within the would like to point out to mom- banks alluded to, will follow as a result, the control of the Cuban market being large-said to be followed), explaining in. fancies, but in general the of the Secretary of State in the classes of those capable of being the three

banished daring the continuance restricted by very ly in the hands of the so-called Trust. Against these probabilities that the streets were swept three turnover sull lacked ample pro- matter. must be placed the prospect that in the matter of clothing prices, times a day from 5 a.m. to 9, portions. Sorting-up require- Tramway. Extension. of any Proolamation under the the relief will be much greater. An entiro elimination of the from 10 to noon, and from 2 p.m, ments were in the main the quota

The Hon Attorney General pro- Peace Preservation Ordinance, stringent conditions contained in the ordinance. Members were duty on wool, from which an annual revenue of 14 million to 5. He also stated that they were of the minor marketa. Seeing posed the following resolation-- 1886, or of deportees from the also aware of the existence of dollars has been obtained, assures to the man who purchases a suit watered from 8.a.m. to noon and the extent to which spinners will Whereas by the provisions of Sec-Straits Settlements or Federated Ordinance 2 of 1996 which pro- of clothes, after the passage of the Bill, a substantial saving. But from 2.p.m. to 5, adding that an have to draw on their reserves to tion 7 of the Tramway Ordinance Malay States,

hibited the issue of notes other here, too, the extent of the reduction must not be measured extra cart had been put on from meet the estimated consumption 1902, as amended by the provisions Under this Bill the old pro than those authorised, but up to by the difference in duty alone, for the rapidly increasing cost of about 12.30 to 2.20, or later if of 144 million bales by the world's of the Tramway Amendment Orcedure is somewhat modified: al- labour and the effects of a recent strike will have their effect as necessary: All this reads well spindles, the trend of the market dinance, 1912, it is inter alis pro though the principles on which now no stops had been taken with pointed out, competed unfairly manufacturers outside of America are not sufficiently numerous or scheme is only a paper-scheme sensitive to the tenor of the news of the Governor-in-Council after desirability of banishing any in with local notes in that they were well. In addition, it is pointed out that ready-made clothing enough, but it is evident that the seems likely to remain peculiarly vided that subject to the approval the enquiries to be made na to the gard to foreign notes, which, he

and is not really enforced. On regarding orop prospects. powerful at the moment to offer serious competition.

timely and adequate notification dividual are not materially altered not subject to stamp duty. Ho These are some of the probabilities which are being deduced Tuesday coolies could be seen Mesare H. Haworth and Co., by public advertisement or other nor are the safeguarde of the in pointed out also that this bill markets, who ocoupy leading positions in the American sweeping Nathan Road, under the state that sales are well below the wise of the intention of the Com-dividual in any way materially would not interfere in any way with legitimate exchange busi→

are of the deepest interest to those who have follow trees, at 1.45-p.m., and again normaal Demand from China ia pany to apply for such approval diminished

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issue of

just now ed recent developments in the States, and perhaps have a peculiar yesterday at the same hour, And, still disappointing, but in spite of and after such approval has been The principal points of rb- significance to those Britishers who at the moment are concerning what is much to the point, the the many obstacles in the way of confirmed by a resolution of the arrangement are, that the person Sir Kat Bo Kai asked that the themselves with the relative merits of Free Trade and Protection: road was not watered at all. These arranging ces some lines of Legislative Council, the Company into whose condnot enquiry is be second reading of the Bill should The lowering of the tariffa must, of course, affect prices; but it is are facts, and we invite the atten-well-known standard staples for may construct and maintain, sub- ing made is placed normally in not evident that in the United States there are other big factors which tion of the Head of the Sanitary

have been ject to provisions of the Prin the custody of the Police whilst Department to them, must be taken into consideration as well,

cipal Ordinance sud in sooordance the actual enquiry conducted by

not be taken for a fortnight,

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