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Sir Robert Burnett & Co.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY JUNE

OLD TOM GIN.

DRY GIN.

UNEQUALLED IN QUALITY.

A. S. WATSON & CO. LTD.

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

¿í a ubject of this paper is to publish a vreci in'ormation, to serve the truth and print the news without fear or favour.

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong."

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

DEATH.

ROWE.-On Sunday, June 15th, 1913, at 182, Bubbling Wall Road, Shanghai, Samuel Bryant Rowe, CE, Late Commissionor of Lands and Surveys, Western Victoria, aged 80 years.

The Hongkong Telegraph."

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1913.

ANOTHER TRADES UNION TRAGEDY.

most common;

expend itself in angry words instead of in violent deeda.

A Unionist "Plot.".

The attitude taken by the "Daily News" over the Marconi

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DAY BY DAY.

The Malls.

stopa."

to-day. American, Canadian and Sibarian Mail--Despatched par 8.5. Monteagle at 12.45 p.m. 10 day.

1888

1913.

HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE

YEARS AGO,

China Traders' Insurance Com- FAR EASTERN pany.-$73 or shore, sales and

Belleza.

North China InsuranceTla 285 per share, bayers.

TUSSEN SHOE TRADE.

Predicted Openings for Organised Capital,

Canton Insurance Company.. Ltd.,-$74 per share, buyers.

Yangtze Insurance Association

This morning a "Telegraph" -Tle. 100 per share, sellers. representative called on Mr G. W. Ohinese Insurance Company Brown, Vice President of the $185 per share, buyera.

United Shco Machinery Company, Hongkong Fire Insurance Com of Boston, U.8.A., which is Mr Sanitary Board Appointments.

Brown states, the largest firm of June 16.-Drs. Cantilie and pons-$340 per share, sellers. Ho Kai bave been appointed

China Fire Insurance Company its kind in the world, having members of the Savitary Board,$76 per share, buyers,

factories and branches in all by His Excellency the Governor.

Hongkong and Whampoa Dook parts of the globe. The firm The names of the other two have Company-35 per cent. premium, deals in machinery for the English Mail.-Despatched per not yet reached us, although we

buyers.

making of beats and shoes --- Hongkong, Canton and Macso and has a. Arcadia at 1 p.m. to day. have reason to believe that Mr

#capital of Steamboat Company-$208 per between 40 and 50 million dollars N. J. Ede in one of them."

share, buyers.

| (gold). · In the main office at China and Marila Steamship Boston over 500 assistants are Company $621 per share, employed, while employment for over 5,000 people is found in the Company's principal factory st Baverley. The firm also has factories in England employing over 2,000 people, and in France, Germany, Austria, and Canada, as well on branches

Siberian Mail.-Closes per 8.8

Linan at 5 p.m. to-day.

affair, as reportel in this mor Men throw on fate o insan (Compiled from the Hongkung ning's wires, is precisely what we of their own wild

Telegraph" files for the Week should have expected of that Sir. Waiter Boolt.

Ending June 1, 1888.) worthy organ of Peoksnifliam. flark to its inspired utterances Australian Mail.-Despatched per

The publio now recognise the

e... St. Albans at noon to-day. object of the whole campaign; namely, to plot against and de-American Mail.-Despatched par troy ministers in order to destroy 8.8. Tanyo Maru at noon their policy." Then all we can asy is that the British public must bave altered very consider. ably ainge laat we came in contact with it. Anyhow, the Britishers of Hongkong, Shangbai and Singapore have very decidad views on the whole business; views that in no way coincide with those expressed by the ultra-pious And respectable periodical above quoted. This latest piece of impudence deserves co, go down into history side by side with the attempt on the part of the friends of the blameless Radical Ministers to show that they were innocent little lost lambs who stumbled by the wayside, solely through thoir ignorance of matters financial! Fancy Sir Rufus Issacs-probably the most successful and the shrewdest com- mercial lawyer England has over known-being betrayed throngh ignorance of the ways of commer. ce into doing things that were

unwise or regrettable." How to Serve up News.

massacre of Christian Chinese,

bo served out to them, ». The Finest Site.

The disfigurement Hong kong's "finest site" some year or so ago by the erection of a number of unsightly contractors'

Cilo Arrives.

H.M.S. Clio Les arrived from Singapore.

- Market-Limits.

A regulation outlining the limits of Staunton Street market is published in the Gazette.

Departed. Mra Roome, wife of Engineer Commander G. W. Roome, R.N., left for Home to-day by the mail was among the passengers who

steamer Arcadia.

For Consignees.

Land Sales,

Oplum Divan,

Supposed Suicide.

Death of the Kaiser Frederick.

June 18. Minate guns were fited from noon till 1 pm. to-day by the shore battery, the Victor Emanuel and the Austrian cor- vette Fassns, in tokea of mourning for the late Emperor of Germany.

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Cholera.

What

buyers.

Hongkong Gas Company $135 per share.

Hongkong Hotel Company $175 per share, sellera

Indo-China S.N. Company-12

per cent, dis., sellers.

Douglas Steamship Company-and warehouses all over the world, from Sydney and Mel- $54 per share, buyers.

buyers.

Hongkong Ice Company-$75

Hongkong Rope Manufacturing

cisco to Vienna.

Mr. Brown is visiting the East looking over the shoe manufactur ing situation. He bas already been in Japan and the Philippines and is now on his way through China. He has spent some time in Hongkong and Canton and left to-day for the North,

In the opinion of Mr. Brown, there is a very large and increas ing demand for boots and shoes all through the Far East. The few factories that have started in the Orient are doing exctedingly well, and Mr. Brown' prophesies that at a comparatively early date Companies will be formed with":

take ospital to

the excellent

removed from such graves shall fow windmilla on the to re-interred or disposed of in that the Chinese will more quick-

June 10." The choleraic Hongkong Christian Union. The Rev. W. Hewitt will speak epidemic seems to be spread at the mesting of the Hongkong ing without a single preventive Christian Union at St. Paul's step being taken, by the author-

on Monday next st ities. College

We have a Sanitary China Sugar Refining Combourne to Copenhagen and St. Board, 5.30 pm.

Sanitary Gfficers, pany, Ltd.-$11 per share, Petersburg, and from San Fran an array of eminent medical ex-

Luzon Sugar Refining Com parts, and more deaths. Since

$46 per share, Saturday there have been the pany, Ltd.

deaths-five in the gal, two alarming number of sixty-seven buyers. among European residents, and per share, buyers, sixty among the Chinese. In the It must be quite nice to live Consignees of cargo by the s.s. Tung Wah hospital alone there Company, Ltd.-$63 per share, in the Philippines and to be Goldenfels are reminded that have bean, from Saturday till, to sellers,

undelivered day, fifty-three deaths, almost all Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf dependent on the local press for goods remaining one's news. An esteemed Manils after tomorrow will be subject from cholersio diarrhoea, not and Godown Company.69 per contemporary, on June 17, ap to storage charges.

counting the fatal cares admitted cent. premium, sales and sellers. pesred with a headline that

during that period. There is atretched across the whole of the Various lots of Crown land are gross negligento or apathy some front page: "China again in the to be sold at Taipo on the 27th where. Daily we find dangerous REMOVAL OF GRAVES. throes of a fieroe revolt;" and inst,, the upsat prices ranging lunatics polluting our water-sup- below, in the same sized type: from $3 to $30. Two lote are also ply at the fountain-head, and "China again in the midst of a to be sold at the District Office, daily wo read of the farce which

Deeming it expedient for the substantial big revolution," and again below: Hongkong, on July 8, the respec they, suppo: ted by the magistrate,

proper laying out of certain areas advantage of China is again in the throes of tive upset prices being $37 and play at the police court. of Mount Caroline Cemetery in sheap labour which abounds in a most formidable revolt......An 886.

i need to stop the wholesale poi-terraces for future interments, the Far East. In many instances anti-Christian feeling" bas arisen Manila Chief of Police. soning is not a five-dollar fine or among the people and many Mr G. E. Harding, Chief of a fortnight's imprisonment, where His Excelleney the Governor bas it has been demonstrated that the issued a proclamation ordering Chinese and Japanese can make According to one of yesterday's wires, a dispute between rival Chinese Christians have been Police in Menila, bas been on the lives of the community are that eartsin of the graves therein perfectly good boots and shoes

far as seriously endangered." trades unions at Glasgow has ended in revolver-firing and one death. ruthlessly murdered...It is leave, journeying" as

shall be removed to the satis-and with a little more skill as to feared in European circles Shanghai, and returns to Manila [Modern Flongkongites will! This is the kind of thing that one would have expected to find in

that

faction of the Director of Public style and finish they will be able the failure of the to-day by the e.s. Loogeang. He readily sympathise with Mr. Works either by the Public to turn out an article which will the mining camps of America or Australis, fifty years ago, but that Government to ot ush this said that this morning he was not Fraser Smith's moan. They have Works Department or by the it could happen in a country which bonats of its up-to-date civilisa-revolt will mean anarchy and here in connection with the a Sanitary Board of their own.] Thing Wa Hospital, should the goods turned out by other nations compere very favourably with the tion, and among a class of men that are always ready to proclaim the beginning of a wide-spread Vicente Sott case.

Electric Light Wanted. Board of Direction desire to under which are now exporting to the Jane 20-"Some day when take the work, and that the remains Orient. their "progress," would be incredible if the world at large had not and a general renewal of the At the Police Court, this mor^.{a

Mr. Brown voiced the opinion already formed a pretty just estimate of the value of that progress. cultivation of opium, eto, Bating, ten men were charged with we have time we intend to start We have said many times that the strong common sense of Britishers we suppose the readers must like being concerned in an opium Peak for making light; such manner as the Registrer ly turn to wearing shose of the as a whole is greatly opposed to taking elern measures with the this sort of "news," or it wouldn't divan at West Point, The first we do not mean sunlight, nor General, in consultation with the American and European typa, for man was fined $250, or in default

candle-light, but the bright and Head of the Sanitary Department the reason that they have always preachers of discontent, revolt or lawlessness; the more so that

three months, and the remainder luminous flame which is born of and the Board of Direction of the worn some kind of shoe, and, nu- experience shows that, in those countries where the speechifier is

were each fined $2, or in default electricity and which we hope to Tung Wa Hospital, ehall think like the Japanese, they do not re- watched and barried and imprisoned, rioting and conspiracy are the

seven daye.

find so much more brilliant and fit, and that all reasonable ex move their footwear when enter so much cheaper than the gas penses in connection with such ing their houses. And the very and that tragic incidents such as the one which

A Chiness, aged 48, is alleged which our friends the Hongkong removal, re-interment and dis-marked change in the style of Renter records are more rare in Britain than elsewhere because the abeds led to a series of protests to have committed suicide at a bulk of the disaffection and ill feeling of malcontents is allowed to inside the Council and out, which boarding-house No. 39 Connaught Gas Company at present supply posal shall be defrayed out of the dress among the Chinese must

have a big effect in the future, eventually led to the removal of Road West, by jumping from the us with. We don't mean to say public revenue of the Colony.

From what Mr Brown said, it the eyesore. If all that we hear roof. He died from the effects of we are down on the Gas Company,

would appear that what is neces is true-and we believe it is a fractured skull. It is that he or that we have any idea of at-

sary to add another important in- or a sickly, competition ¦¦ there is almost an exact counter- tried to out his throat once before. tempting to bust them by a the most nomination in His body has been taken to the bay

dastry to Hongkong is or our experiments will be under-

ganisation by men with plenty of at present. Kow mortuary,

taken chiefly in the cause of our "Enest site" is the big

capital, to handle the enterprise on the American and European atretch of ground immediately in

Mise Florence Beach christened on individual interests, together

Degrees la Medicine and

basis. Already one Iceal firm ernment that has persistently mistaken half-measures for a happy front of Victoria View, impinging the new American Cust me cutter with those of our cousins and our

Surgery Recognised. and common-se se-dietated medium policy The trades unions have on the main road leading from

"Gilbert" which was launched at aunts who embark in the same

of Chinese has commèneed to " boat."

manufacture boots and shoes on a been growing in strength and aggressiveness, not because of any the ferry wharf, The land is, we the Hongkong and Whampoa

[The Telegraph" of those The Dean of the Faculty of paying scale, employing come 250 intrinsic merit of their own, and still less because the average believe, owned by the Govern Dock, this morning.

ment. Some time ago a portion is expected to arrive in Manila on days bad, probably like ita readers, Medicine (Dz Francis Clark) has workers in their factory, and we Britisher is, in any sense, in sympathy with their performances or men fenced off to accomodate September 1st. Miss Bsach tra- very little idea of the tremendous bean officially informed that the understand that this frm has a atrides which the use of electric General Mediol Council of Creat full equipment of machinery sup demands; but simply and solely on account of the Government'e sawyers of wood needed in oon-velled from Manila for the par-light, power etc. was to make here Britsin has decided to recognize plied by the United Shoe Ma- inability to nandle a problem that requires firmness and strength. nection with

Bome building poss.

within the comparatively short the Degreas in Medicine and Sur-chinery Company. Gan Practice. The Radicals, in or to get into power in 1906, kowtowed to the operations, and gradually the

Information bas been received space of five-and-twenty years.] gery of Hongkong University, The American Trading Com- Labour Party, and untinued the kow-towing process at the two area roped in has extended until

from the military authorities that

granted after examination, for re-pany, which represents the United at the present time the greater

June 20 A number of new gistration in the Medicial Register. Shoe Machinery Company in the elections of 1910, promising it, even as it was at the same time portion of the plot is occupied by gun practice will be carried out promising the Nationalist Party, things which it had neither the contractors' shede.

as under-On Saturday, the 28th six-inoh five-ton gune have just

University Union, Far East, and which has offices right to promise nor the power to carry out. The result has been A Serious Orievance.

Jade From Belchera, in a been tested at Home and will

De Francis Clark (Treasurer) in Shanghai, ie, we understand North-Westerly direction, be-shortly be despatched to Hong- one which it was lamentably easy to foresee.

Iocidentally, this has had the tween the hours of 9 a.m. and 2 kong for the defence of the boge to acknowledge with grate considering opening up a place effect of cutting off what was

fal thanks the receipt of the follow of business in Hongkong in the if we are as loath as ever to wish to see anduly severe action formerly a much used thor-vessels are to keep clear of the

p.m. All ships, janks and other Colony."

near future. ing generous contributions to bat taken against the stump-orators, we yet claim, and olaim strongly, oughfare,

words the coat of laying out the most

A London telegram to Hong-students' new recreation ground that it is the Government's plain duty to exercise control over the serious grievance is that the nn- Ordinances. Approved. kong, dated June 11, 1888, says: on the Pokfulam Road. anions-a control that, so far as we out here in the East can gather, date some hundred or so coolies, the King has not

sightly buildings.now accommo It is notified that His Majesty "The proclamation of the Em

The ground has an extent of it has made not the slightest attempt to obtain or else to abolish day and night. At night these advised to exercise his power Prussian people declares that his some five acres and the estimate

been peror William the Second to the them. It is abominable that a number of men should be able to coolies keep up an almost contin of disallowanos with respect reign will be just and tempered/od cost of levelling and turf. years back of the Japanese Com disorganise the commerce of the whole world by railway or coat or ual disturbance, inch to the an-to the following ordinances by lemonoy, fast he will foster amounts to about $20,000, so United States, and while in Japan shipping strikes; and it is something more than abomiosble that oyance of residents in Victoria An ordinance to smend the Mer religion and use his efforts to revolver-firing and death should be the outcome of trades unioniem. comes from the buildings is de 1911; an ordinance to consolidate mote the commonweal.”

while the stench which cantile Bank note issue ordinance, maintain peace in order to pro- That the men were aquabbling among themselves, and that the shot cidedly objectionable. It would and amend the law relating to was not fired by the police, or at a

black-leg," but by one trades- be interesting to know if the con- the powers of arreat vested in. unionist at another, has really little to do with the point; for this is tractors pay any rent for the use Revenue Officers an ordinange no more than what one expecte to find when the mob is allowed, or of the ground, and, if so, whether to amend the offences against the allows itself, to throw off authority and be a law to itself. The time in the matsheds of gangs of filthy

the terme permit of the residence person ordinance, 1805. - : ---- is undoubtedly coming when the possibility of strikes and labour coolies. Anyhow, residents of It is notified that the Govern- The quotations which follow jengles will have to be put out of the question by the breaking up adjacent European houses are ment proposes to erect an under-are from the "Hongkong Tele- of the unions; when to belong to one will be made as illegal in londly complaining, and the ground trough closet latrine in graph" for June 21, 1888. These England as membership of a secret society is here in Hongkang. matter certainly deserves the Pottinger Street between its quotations will appear every Men have an individual right to refuse to work, but they have most thorough investigation, equally a right to work if they wish; and they have no right what ever, save in the rarest of cases, to refuse collectively to perform the tack which, by implied contract, they have undertaken. If the present Government is not strong enough to destroy the unions and it certainly, is not-les it make way for one that will have the

But that even one each case as the present-and unhappily it is not the only one that has taken place within the last two or three years can happen within the British Isles, is another striking and Kowloon terrible evidence of the weakness of the Home Government-a Gov-loon's

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power and the resoluteness to do so,

View..

the

Truck Accident.

American Customs Cutter.

ranges:

The cutter

Public Convenience.

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Mare Guns for Hongkong.

The New Kaiser's Edict.

1888.

SHARE REPORT.

UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG.

that farther contributions are put in hand promptly with a asked for, to enable the work to view to the ground being ready for use before the end of the present year.

It is of interest to note that Mr Brown was Chairman of the Entertaining Committes of the Boston Chamber of Commerce on the occasion of the visit some few.

mercial Commission to the

he renewed many scquantances then made.

MR BYZACK'S

GENEROSITY.

$1,000 Chin U Tin Esq. Au Chak Man Eag!! 1,000 Cheong Sum Woo Eaq 1,000 Mr Byzack, of the Hippodrome Leong Shiu Kong Esq. 500 Cirons, has presented to the Vic Leong Yan Po Esq. 500 toria Recreation Club, a very

The membera of the Union have fine and expensive tanteins as the

Junctions with Stanley Street and week, and comparison of decided that donors of $1,000 first prize for the three lengthe Queen's Road. If any owner or quotations then obtaining with shall be elected Vice Presidents swimming race which will take A truck ran over the foot of immediate vicinity of such site much interest,

cccupier of property in the those of to-day should prove of of the Union for life, that donors place, among other events, at the.

of $500 shall become Honorary Club to-nighter ivismi qophon girl in Queen Victoria Street, objects to much erection; sich Hongkong and Shanghai Bink. Life Members and that the names. The winner's name will be in- yesterday, and she had to be sont objection must be sent in writing169 per cent premium, sales, of all donors of $100 or more scribed on a silver plate, and the to the hospital. The man in to the Colonial Secretary so as to Union Insurance Society of shall be inscribed on a tablet to prize will be awarded to the lucky charge has been arrested on reach his office not later than Canton 867.19 per share, be placed in the students, soren, gentleman: sinthe performdenoe charge of reckless driving.

Monday, the 14th July,

on Monday eveninge