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A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd.,

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

SCOTCH

WHISKY,

E-WATSON'S VERY OLD LIQUEUR

SCOTCH WHISKY...

KILTY"

LIQUEUR

Great Age, Very Fine

WHISKY,

'THORNE'S BLACK SQUARE...

WATSON'S 0.8.0....

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1918.

The Oaks and the Derby.

DAY BY DAY, Once more the dangers of Tat- tenham Corner bave been demon- strated by the fact that, in the

Children should be taught to Oake yesterday, Crisp on St: laugh correctly as they are taught Bagoe came a cropper; and Crisp how to spell correctly and speak iano novice in the pigskin. Other decently. wise the race seems to have pre

sented no feature of notable i

The Malls.

interest. Evidently Jest, despite English Mail of May 10.-De- the fact that she won the One livered in London on June

'6.

Per Case. Per Bottle Thousand Guiness with a bit in of 1 Dozen.

22.50

1.90

38.00

3,25

23.50

2.00

103. ***

23.50."

2.00

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- kles. 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.

BIRTHS.

1888

(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the Week Ending June 7, 1888.)

HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.

Suez Canal Shares.

The following, from the

hand after making all the run-American Mail.Arrived per 8 B.Telegraph of June 2, 1888

ning, was not a popular favourite,

Nippon Maru last evening.

8.8. Assays at 1 p.in. to-day. Canadian and Siberian Mails

Despatched per e.a. Empress of India and noon to-day. Siberian Mail-Oloses per 8.a. Linan at 5 p.m. to-day.

Cargo.

and Waiontha was backed down English Mail.-Despatched For to 3 to 1, and failed to get a| place. Jest again won very smoothly. Meantime the Derby decision is creating great excite ment at Home and is being re- ceived with mixed feelings. The "Times" makes a good point when it asks why, if the riding was so bad as to justify disqualifi- The ss. Nippon Maru, which cation, Reiff was not censured, arrived last evening, brought 623 and it puts its finger on the whole tons of cargo to Hongkong.

Plague. weakness when it remarks that jockeyship has seldom been at Two cases of plague were notifi such a low ebb as at present. ed as having occured in the Colony That is undeniably true. British during the twenty-four hours end- jockeys have fallen a long wayed at noon to-day. from the standard of Archer, the Cannons, Jack Watts and other giants of former days. No Water.

Residents in Kowloon were

SWAN.-On Sunday June 1, 1913, at 54 Avenus Road, Shang-done out of their morning bath hai, to Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Swan a daughter.

BOHM.-On June 1, 1913, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. Fr. these muggy days, everybody

Bohm, a daughter.

BIRTH.

MOORHEAD.-On May 23, 1913, at Kickiang, Robert Bradshaw, infant son of Mr. and Mrs: J. H. M; Moorhead, aged eight months.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1913.

THE RICKSHA-coolie.

Some facts which we printed on Wednesday as to ricksha-coolie life in Peking are calculated to make one bestow a little sober thought on the lot of the hot altogether to be envied individual who pulls a rioksha in Hongkong. In comparison. with his Poking brother, he has doubtless an easy time; yet, at its best, the life can hardly be

Robbed of Bangles. The police report that a school- girl was robbed of two gold- mounted ratian bangles in Po Yan Street.

Judge Arrives.

Sir Havilland de Saumarez, Judge of H.B.M.'s Court at Shang: hai, arrived by the Assaye to sit in the Full Court here.

Aboard Without Permission.

to-day. And naturally enough, affected joined in the chorus of grumbling The water, in fact, was not available from about sight o'clock last evening until about eight o'clock this morning, and when it was eventually turned on, it was far too dirty for use. There appears to have morning. been defect in one of the

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A coolie who boarded the e.s. Hakata Maru without permission was fined $12, or in default six weeks, at the Marine Court, this

Rent Reminder.

main pipes, and of course it Owners of property are remind- was quits necessary that repairs ed that Crown Rent for the first should be effected. But it would half-year of 1913 is payable at the surely have been possible to have Treasury on or before the 24th given house occupiers an indica-instant.

tion that the water would be Hongkong Christian Union. turned off; then consumera would The Rev. O. Schultz will speak have been more sparing with at the resting of the Hongkong what they happened to have in Christian Union at St. Paul's store. People do not care to do College on Monday next at 5.30 without their morning dip after p.m. a night of perspiration, and not a few are wondering how their tes

coffee was made this morning gone to England for six months

or

A NEW SAYING OF CHRIST.

Diocesan Boys' School, The matron, Mfrs Tuxford, has

farlough; during her absence, Mrs Harris Walker will be acting as matron.

The Cathedral Choir.

happenings. is interesting in view of recent

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[We agree with his Excellency. It's bad enough to have to keep and monstrosities, without being other people's rogues, vagabonde called upon to harbour their idiots as well-particularly when the Colony has already enough of its own.]

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Hongkong Steam Laundry Co.

The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Hongkong Steam Laundry E. L Woodin presided and Messrs. Company was held on June 7. Mr

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THE CURRENCY

QUESTION.

Chinese Deputation to the

Registrar Coneraj,

Yesterday a deputation of Chin- ese business men waited on the Hon, the Regiatra: General with view to submitting certain con- aiderations to the Government in connection with the new Our- rency, Bill.. The deputation,

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J. H. Tripp, D. McCulloch, W which was introduced by Mr. Legge, H. T. 8. Green, J. Y. Lau Chu Pak, consisted of "Mr Gladstone, replying to Vernon, E. George, J. Grant, and the Chinese Banking and Insur: . correspondent, says: I am not E J. Hughes were present. ance Companies, and of the Onli- The Chairman said that, shortly fornian, Silverware and Medicine aware of ever having condemned the purchase of Suez Canal after the previous meeting, the and Drag Guilde, shares as a commercial specula Company's property was leased It was stated that, while the tion, if it be the proper way to to the Victoria Laundry Co,which, Chinese did not venture to employ the money raised by after a year's existence, had offer, the alightest opposition public taxes; and I think that to be wound up. From the report to the new Ordinance, they probably the purchase had a it would be seen that the Victoria hoped that the Governor-in- large share in bringing about Co. owed the Steam Laundry Co. Council might be persuaded those disastrous arrangements of $1,931.09 for rent, which had not to extend the period that has the Beaconsfield Government in been recovered. After paying out to elapse before. Chinees coin is Egypt which have led to on various amounts due, he had to prohibited. The time fixed for expenditure far exceeding the inform the shareholders that the prohibition is at present on profit on the shares.'"

their indebtedness stood at that and after January 1 of next year; moment at $22,288.07, but this and this the deputation prayed Hongkong Rifle Association.

amount would be reduced by might be deferred till Chinese June 4-The Hongkong Rife

about a thousand dollars by the New Year, that being the date at fourth weakly recent sale at auction of part of which they are accustomed to Association's

Speon competition took the machinery. He wished to balance books and settle accounts, took place at Kowloon on Satur- point out that the laundry proper The deputation further asked day, and resulted in favour of ty had considerably increased in that a definite distinction be Police Constable Wyllie, with a value since it was acquired by the made between importation total of 31. Police Constables Company, and be hoped the time and "possession pointing out Robertson and McLennon, Mr. B. was not for distant when the that, for some time to come, F. Hayllar and Lient. Smith, directors would be in a position many firms having dealings 58th Regiment, scored 30 each. to submit, for the shareholders with foreign basiness houses There were 19 competitors.

consideration, a price for the would be liable to have foreign premises which would at least money sent to them. They would- give a return of more than half the readily bind themselves not to the original value of the shares.

+

**

Volunteer Ambulancé Men.

Sur-

1888.

SHARE REPORT:

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put such money into circulation; but they would suggest that any man might be "in possession of a certain amount of the pro- hibited money without any wish to break the law. They admitted-that-the-Government-

On June 3, 1888, the stretcher- bearing detachment of Hongkong Volunteers: теге inspected by Deputy geon General Lewer. P. M. O., assisted by Dr. Yarr. Surgeon- Major Cantlio put the man through their preliminary drills, after which a test field operation

was right in protecting its was gone through. Number 1, The quotations which follow coinsge; all they asked was that the winning detachment, com- are from the "Hongkong Tele-trade might not be hampered. posed of Ganners Lammert, graph" for June 7, 1888. These The Registrar General, in reply, Dalby, Rope and Rivers, then quotations will appear every said that the Government had no came forward, and Mrs Cantlie week, and comparison of banded each of them a prize in quotations then obtaining with the ordinary course of legitimate the shape of a silver pencil.

Vaccination Ordinance.

those of to-day should prove of much interest.

159 per cent. premiam, sellers, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank,

Canton.-$87.1.2 per share, Union Insurance Soiety of

wish or intention to interfere with

trade, but merely desired to place the currency of the Colony on a The deputation might rest assured that all chat proper basis,

if a special proviso in the Bill was they had said would receive the Government's close attention, and

China Traders' Insurance Uom-thought to be necessary, no doubt.

one would be introduced.. pany.-$70 per share, buyers.

North China Insurance-Tls.

KOWLOON WATER 285 per share, buyers.

SUPPLY.

June 4. An ordinance for making compulsory the prac tice of infant vaccination in the Colony of Hongkong has re-sellers. ceived Her Majesty's confirmation and allowance.

Canton Insurance Company, Ltd.,$74 per abana, buyers.

could be pumped up the hill. The feelings of thoɛs concerned, and particularly of the sergeant in charge of the detachment, may be imagined when it was found

that there was no water to work

described as a dignified or onnobling one; and the same applies, of course, to the task of the chair-coolie. In theory, no honest work is degrading; neither is it in practice, for that matter; and anyone who' has lived in a big European city knows full well that, among the The new manuscript of the

We are glad to welcome Mr A. inhabitants thereof, one could find many unfortunate labourers who gospels found in Egypt six years. England as a new member. would gladly undertake, such work as our coolieej are doing. But ago, as now been published in There are still vacancies for that does not alter the fact that there in a sort of Hobson's choice American owner.

facsimile by Mr C, L. Freer, its several tenore we should be glad

Sanitary Board. The manu- to see filled-"Church Notes." about this form of labour; a suggestion of "do that or sturve; " and script is said to date from the Dallas Comedy Company.

The following gentlemen were it is difficult to imagine that nowadays any but a certain type of 4th century. The order of the

The Dallas Comedy Company appointed on June 4, 1888, by

· native would enter upon such work from deliberate preference. books is Matthew, John, Luke, left by the Assaye to-day for His Excellency the Governor, to

Cut off for Several Hours. Mark. The first three have Singapore. Mr A. E. Paine, man- the Sanitary Board:-Dr P. B. O. Yangtaze Insurance Association With the wider development of mechanical appliances, many minor variations of interest to ager of Mesara Montrie and Com Ayres, Colonial Surgeon, to beTle. 100 per share, sellers. Owing to a slight alteration forms of labour have undoubtedly sunk in society's estimation; the textual critics, bat in St. Mark pany, was a passenger by the President; the Hon. Mr W. E. Chinese Insurance Company-being rendered necessary to one British ploughman, for instance, has been a humbler character since its character ductustes, and it same boat.

Crow to be Acting Secretary and $170 per share, sellers. of the main pipes, the water. steam-ploughing reached its present popularity, and his particular has several readinge in which it Passenger Restriction. Acting Sanitary Superintendent; Hongkong Fire Insurance Com-supply throughout Kowloon was species of toil has come to be looked upon as markedly less dignified stands alone, or almost alone. It is notified by the Harbour Mr F. A. Cooper to be Sanitary pany $322 per share, buyers. cut off last evening and was not than that of the machinist who works the plough engine, or of the Thus, in ch. 2. 27, the exclamation Department that ships conveying Surveyor, Mr J. R. Germain to be China Fire Insurance Company restored until this morning.

We are informed that in order casual person who merely sits on the plough instead of having to of the people at our Lord'smiracles Chinese passengers, under the Senior Inspector of Nuisances and $74 per share, buyers. trudge behind it; in other words if the man who does unskilled work takes the form, "What is this provisions of the Chinese Emigra- Messrs J, R. Grimble and J. J. Hongkong and Whampoa Dook that the Electric Lighting Station which a machine could do better and more quickly is liable to find new, this authoritative teaching, tion Ordinance, 1889, will not be Clerihew to be Inspectors of Company-33 per cent. premium, should not be without water for himself fixed in a groove from which he cannot extricate himself, and that He commandeth even allowed to carry them on the up- Nuisances.

sellers.

cooling purposos, and that the And this applies to the coolie as much as to others.

the unclean spirits and they obey the 1st of June and the 15th Octo

per

deck or weather deck between

Legislative Council.

Hongkong, Canton and Macao light supply might be maintained, Unfortunately, although this is a British Colony, the white man ins

Him? In ch. ix. 24 is the

The Legislative Council met on

Steamboat Company-$206 per the services of the Fire Brigade share, sellers.

were requisitioned. From Yaumati cannot help the coolie to take a more exalted view of his situation,

various variant (no ber inclusive.

June 4, 1888; there were doubt The only man who can-if he will-understand him is own country the spirit of the child,"

Health of Mrs. Moyle. "scribe's а

China and Marila Steamship the steam engine was dragged in- error), Our readers will be glad to present, H. E, the Governor. Company $62) per share, to position by perspiring firemen man. The details concerning the Peking coolie were collected by instead of "the father of the the Chaplain has sant excellent F. Stewart, Colonial Secretary: hear, says "Church Notes", that (Sir William Dea Voax), Dr

buyers.

so that water from the Harbour some Chinese students of an enquiring and philanthropic turn of child." But the most remarkable

Hongkong Gas Company mind, and, in our opinion, the more educated of the Hongkong peculiarity of the manuscript reports of bis wife's health from Justice, Bull And Chief $135 per share. Chinese might do worse than follow these young men's example. is reserved for the end. Like the from England. During the first torney General, Mr. A. Lister, 8175 per share, sellera. The Chinese have, of course, philanthropic systems of their own, great mass of manuscripts (but

all the mere western ports and Mr. E. L. O'Malley, At-

Hongkong Hotel Company- which are in many ways quite admirable; yet we believe there are like the earliest of them) it part of the voyage she was very Price, Surveyor General, Captain Colonial Treasurer, Mr. J. M. many points in the Boience of philanthropy which they can learn from contains the appendix known as

Indo-China S.N. Company-12 ill but, after passing Colombo, she Britishers. Young China professes to be socialistic; then why should

W. M. Deane, Superintendent of per cent, dis, sellers. Police, and Messrs. P. Ryrie, B.

Douglas Steamship Company-the engine! the lives of its humbler people? The example might well come

The only way out of the diffi $54 per share, buyers. His Excellency the Governor Layton, C. P. Chater, J. Bell- from Hongkong University, even as, in England, it came largely from are given a position detached has been pleased to appoint Cap- Irving and Wong Shing.

China Sugar Refining Com-culty was adopted; that being to Oxford and Cambridge. For considerably more than half a century, but in the middle of this strong to act as Commandant of the completion of the Victoria

from the rest of Gospel tain John Henry William Arm- With regard to the delay over sellers.

pany, Lid$160 per share, make coolies run from the Har- bour with buckets of water so young men from both of our old universities have been devoting a vary considerable amount of their private time to helping lads of the passage it inserts some versee the Hongkong Volunteer Corps this was due partly to a mistake/Pany, Ltd. - $49 por share. itsoffi ca.

Luzon Sugar Refining Com that the engine might perform College, His Excellency said that working classes, by holding night-schools, giving gymnastic instruc- which occur in no other known and Captain Aled Fleming Church-

sellers. tion, and organising concerts, debates etc. With many, all this had, manuscript of the New Testa- ill to act as Staff Officer during as to time which, to him, sp naturally, a religious background; but there have been hundreds of ment, although they were known the absence on leave of Captain peared to be an excusable one, Hongkong Ice Company-$67

per share, buyers. ...

WILSON'S WORRIES. varsitymen who have done the same sort of work quite independently of them. In the Freer MS., after effect from this date,

to St. Jerome, who quotes a part O. V. S. Skrimshire, R.G.A, with in connection with a work of

such magnitude, involving a cost Company, Ltd.-$55 per share, feeling the cares of the Frem

Hongkong Rope Manufacturing of any wish or attempt to proselytise. Even at the present moment, verse 14, where it is said that Je-

President Wilson is already. men are devoting much of their vacation time to "settlement" work

of $200,000-and partly to the

buyere, in the London slums on lines purely secular; they are trying, in the their unbelief, the text continues tion of three months the follow-ordered for the main structure, and Godown Company. 68 per Jersey, to which place he made a ans upbraided His disciples for It is notified that at the expira-loss, in the Red Sea, of the roof

Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf let fall in a recent speech at New densy to judge by remarks he simplest and least officions manner possible, to inenlente manliness

as follows:- and healthy-mindedness into men who have forgotten how to be manly

ing Companies will, unless canse which delayed the work some cent. premium, sellers. or healthy. Indirectly these philanthropista also benefit themselves, saying that this age of lawlessness off the Hongkong Company Regis new one.

And they excused themselves, is shown to the contrary, be struck time, panding the arrival of a

fying visit in order to urge the for they gain a knowledge of life and of their fellow-men that no and unbelief is under Satan, ter and the Companies will be

measures of jury reform now be college professor could ever teach them. Why should not the young who, through the agency of dissolved: The

Referring to the need for a

fore the Legislature. He said :- Chinese in our university here attempt something of the kind? We unclean spirits, suffers not the Engineering Company, Limited as well as others could be no were charged with abducting, and ington there are windows only

Tin Hing

Lanatic Asylum in which Chinese The case in which two Chinese

"As I sit in my office at Wash are not suggesting wholesale and indiscriminate missionising; nor are we so sanguine as to expect to see the ricksha coolie anxious to power of God to be appre- The Shanghai Transport Comcommodated, the Governor said procuring a little girl at Yaumati, on one side of the room, and those join a debating society forthwith, or deliriously joyful at the idea of unto Christ, reveal now at once

honded. For this causo, said they pany, Limited.

that a scheme was being prepared has been sent to the Sessions for and the Potomac and the shore of and which was heard in camera, windows look out upon the parke

have a beginning. Judging from reporta, there are young men at aaid unto them, The limit of the Societies have been exempted by of lunatics; but be pointed out

It is notified that the following Tang Wah Hospital of the charge trial. Inspector Gerrard pro Virginia on the other side, the university who have given a good account of themselves at the years of the power of Satan is the Governor-in-Council from re-that, should the scheme come

"I cannot see Washington from Union; who have proved that they have the gift of public speaking. (not) fulfilled, but it draweth gistration under the Societies Orto pass, very stringent mes

Ordinances Approved. those windows, and I sometimes Sensible addresses, with a vein of loyalty running, through them, near the text, here and elsewhere, dinance, 1911-Miscellaneous: sures

The Gazette notifles that His thank God I can't because Wash- would do much towards aleviating the condition of the poorer is corrupt]: for the sake of those Society for Arts and Science to guard the Colony against the advised to exercise his power of with little games of special priv required Majesty the King has not been ington behind me is seething classes; and, from addressing open-air meetings to exercising private that have sinned was I given up non-political; General Merch probable influx of large numbers disallowance with respect to the ilege, whereas out here are the influence and organising clube need not necessarily be a long stride. unto death, that they may return anta Association (Non-Chinese); of lunatics who would be sent following: Ordinances An Or cool, large spaces of the United The idos is at any rate worth giving a trial. When the coolie once unto the truth and ein no more, The Marine Insurance Association here from the mainland. He dinance to amend the Opium Or States, and I would rather hear learns that there are other recreations than gambling, he will have but may inherit the spiritual and of Hongkong; The Association of trusted, however, that they would dinance, 1809 An Ordinance to the whispers coming in at the men of his own race rather than for the white man-to teach him.ness in heaven. But go ye, &o, kong, taken the first step on the road towards self-respect. But it is for the incorruptible glory of righteous Exporters and Dealers of Hong bo secured against keeping any amend the Magistrates Ordinance, windows than the stridont voices

lunatics but their own. sz.

coming in at the door.

it not put its ideas into practice by some slight endeavour to brighten the leat twelve veress of St. Mark, rapidly recovered.

Volunteer Appointments:

which in our Revised Version

A Warning.

being taught boxing, hygiene and football: But all things must thy righteousness. And Christ Registration Exemption. by which he hoped to relieve the

·would bo

Sent to the Sessions.

secuted.

1890.

PRESIDENT