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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, AUGUST 23.

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The object of this paper is to publish"emrict information, to the serve truth and print the news without fear or favour.

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A.B.C., 5th edition. Western Union.

Telephone: No. 1.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1913.

THE CHINA UNIVERSITY SCHEME.

The telegram stating that an unfavourable reply has been received from Mr. Lloyd George by the deputation which sought to secure a portion of the Pxer Indemnity Funds for the establishment of a British University in Central China, does not surprics us. Neither does it cause us hy sorrow. We're all for any stop which will tend to enhance British prestige in the Far East, especially if

| What is the Cause?

DAY BY DAY.

We find means to cure folly, but none to reclaim w distorted mind."La Rocheloncauld.

The Mails.

One of the most striking effects of last Sunday's typhoon was the manner in which trees in exporst positions suffered. Branches and leaves were wither ed to un extent which can only be fully realised by carefully taking note of the amount of Canadian and. American Maila.— damage done. The result in, Despatobed per 8.8. Canada that in placs of greзnary wo

Maru at 12 30 p.m. lo-day. now have leafless trees, or treas American, Canadian and Siberian whose leaves' are brown and Mails. Despatched per 8.8. withered, bere has been much Mongolia at 2 p.m. to-day. speculation as to the cause of Siberian Mail:-Closes per 6.8 this damage to ourr trebe. "Some Chonan at 5 p.m, to-day. attribute it to salt spray candied Siberian Majl-Duo pr in from the harbour, others to the amount of electricity in the air, and still others assert that German Mail of July 23- the extreme velocity of the wind,

Delivered if. Endou wheu it strikes the leaves, causes

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a vacuum, with the consequence that the sap is absolutely drawn out of them. We do not pretend to know the real cauce; perhaps

| some of our readers have ideas on

the matter,

Happy Ulster.

Sir Edward Cargou ought to be rather proud of his work in the North of Ireland. Property has been damaged and bumon

life sacrificed, and, every man set against his neighbour; what more could this pressbor of the latest from of anarchy desire? Had the ordinary ignorant tub-thumper

Luchow-mol.ow.

Two

Bodies Found: decomposed

New Chemist.

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bodies,

Wound, on the Head. ·

1888.

HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO,

(Compăcă from the “Hongkong Telegraph" files for the Week Ending August 23, 1888.)

Team Leaves Hongkong To-night.

Hongkong Fire Insurance Com- INTERPORT SWIMMING. pang-$345 per share, sellers.

China Fire lusurance Company $78 per share, fellore. Hongkong an i Whampor Dock Company 34 par cent, premium buyers.

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The members of the Hongkong Interport swimming - team will Hongkong, Canton and Macać 18semble at the. Victoria Recrea- Steamboat Company-$218 per ion Club this evening, and at abare buyers.

nine o'clock they will leave China and Mazila Steamship the Club for this. Chenan, Company $115 per share, by which will be For Whom is Hongkong.

sellera.

conveyed to abzughai, there to August 17. Is Hongkong for

Hongkong Gas Company-f themselves against the com It seems to us that we are ruined the European or for the native? $135 per abare, sellers.

bination of which the sister port”. Hongkong Hotel Company-oasts in aquatics. There can by Chinese competition, and that, $175 per share, nellore. bs not the slightest doubt that our before very long, our enterprising Indo-China S N. Company-25 neighbours ara fesling a bitle no, neighbours will have pushed us per cent, die,, sellers.

easy on account of the reports they pretty well off the island they

Douglas Steamship Company-hear concerning the times of the on ceded to as forty-five years ago $60 per share, sellers,

Hongkong men, and Finch will The recently-introduced ordin- China Sugar Refining Com-be a scarce of further uneasiness ance for the limitation of Chinese pany, Ltd.-$182 per share, to them if he repeats some of houses and shops is not retro-buyers.

$ the performances we have seen victims of the typhoon, have he suffect the many native buildings pany, Ltd.-$55 per share, Of course it is over the pective, and therefore does not Lazoo Sugar Dofining Com him sccomplish at the V.RO. found by the Police.

now being run up. The aite of sellers.

distance events that Finch The name of Mr. A. Kaby, the old Temperance Hali, there. Hongkong Ice Company-$78 is expected to shins, and the sprint events we hope to be in the Medical Hall, has been added to fore, is being rapidly covered with

per share, sellers. the Register of Chemists and tenements in which the pro-

Hoogkong Rope Manufactur-safe keeping of Cooke. It's in the Druggists.

priators expect to "accommodate" ing Company, Ltd $75 por 220 and the polo that there might nearly a thousand Chinese; in share sellera.

be a surprise, but we hope sincere the rear of the Hongkong Club, Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf ly, that the surprise will be a very the large area once occupied by and Godown Company--84 pr pleasant one for Hongkong. The Club Chambers has been acqui- cent. premium, buyers. ed by native capitalists with a similar objoot;

and DOW alice A body has ten found in the large

of the ground between our two bowls is sing similarly appropriated. This is in the centre of the town, be it remembered, where it will affect everyone, tradesman or re- sident; on the outskirts of the

We understand that the con- city the earth-hunger of the tract for salving the Matauts Meru, Chinaman is much more ravenous, which was driven ashore on the but much less important to this Paracels during the recent sy attention to all the exercise that generation phicon, has been scored by the 18 necessary to bring about Australia, thousands of miles Taikoo Dockyard and Engineer success, and all that we can do distant from the shores of Cathay, has set her fut down on this Company, and that last night now is to wait for the cables wholesale, requisition of propsity gear, left by the salvage boat events,

a salvage party, with full communicating the results of the "Good luck to the by the Chinees; surely it baboves Taikoo for the scene of the wreck, boys," is Hongkong's best wish. as who are within a stone-throw It is possible that pirates have by of the country, and who have the thie time been at work on the Philistines among ne even now, legitimately to bestirourselves and avert what promises to be a public disaster."

An Indian named Budha was found uncon-sinus in Queen's Road West, yesterday, suffering from a wound on the hand.

Found in the Water.

an embankment.

Lottery Tickets.

oat ried bia drzeobifying to an water at Kowloon City tied up extent calculated to bring about a in rome matting. It appeared like state of affairs he would have to have been thrown from me bean arrested long ago. Then boat,

Gardener Injured. why should Sir Edward Carson go acot-irea? To ov-way of

A Chinese gardener at Peak Rond has ton sent to the hospital thinking, the fact that he is a highly educated man only mag-suffering from wounds to his bead nifies his guilt. He has se good and leg caused by falling down a.knowledge of human nature as' moet men, and must be perfectly A Chinees found in possession well aware that nothing on earth. will so readily bring about a riot of 112 Po Pin lottery tickets was fined $250, at the Police Court, as an appeal to man's religione this morning. The charge was animosities. We have never felt proved by Inspector Gerrard. any violent admiration for Radical electoral dodges, but Ton Chinese were charged by we ft al bound to say that the Inspector MeHardy, at the Polir a most contemptible of them is clean Court, this morning, with gambl and honest hy the side of this ing at Jardine's Bazar. The first positively wicked Andeavour to defendant was fined $50 and the awaken Orange prejudice in its remainder $3 each. narrowest, bitterest, and insane form.

most

The Cricket Championship.

That fine sporting team, Kent,

Gamblers Fined.

Mr. H. Humphreys III. Mr. H. Humphreys is lying in the Peak Hospital suffering from typhoid. Enquiry this morning

and

the DAXL

Hongkong Rifle Association.

Hongkong Dairy Farm Co, Lad-$13 per abare, callers.

THE MATSUTA MARU.

Contract for Salving Secured"

by Talkoo, Dock,

"eam race should surely fall, to Hongkong unless Shanghai Eas produced something superior. to the team sent down last year. The one will "prend over three days, the 28th., and 39th inst, and the Laam will, in all probability, be: in Hongkong and we hoy with the colour-doring the first week of the new month. "Jook" Forbes will see that the men ↑ pay.

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vessel, and in order to be prepared WRAPPED IN A BLANKET.

alvage party is well armed. to cope with all emergencies the

Woman Fined for Possession of Arms.

It will be remembered that the Matsura Maru went ashore on the August 20.—" The Honkong 14th inst, and that her officers Rifle Association's third monthly and crew were taken off by the At the Police Conrt this morn- competition for the Handicap Hitachi Maru and landed in Singing, before Mr. Melt surne, two Challenge Cup, will take place at apare. The wrecked vessel je a woren were charged with being the Military Range. Kowloon, on new bost belonging to the Mitani in unlawful possession of twelve

automatic pistola and four hun-

it concerns the higher welfare of a people. But in this instance we seems very likely to win the elicited the information that there Saturday next at 5 p.m. Entries Bishi Goishi Kwaisha, being only dred rounds of ammunition at la fear there was a failure to recognise the situation as it really, is-an foricket championship this season, was no improvement, although to the Honorary Secretary (Mr A. recently built in England. She Ko Shing Strest. Oue of the

of July,

till the end" there was every prospect of a fine

ignorance of, or blindness to, facts. And there is al the other point that the sponsors of the movement were asking too much-rar batween Kent and Yorkshire: making a demand which can rightly be termed unreasonable.

a

his condition was hopeful.

Revolver Possesalon.

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At the Police. Court, this morning, tafore Mr Hazeland, a Japanese was fined $100, or in default one month, for "being in unlawful possession of a revolver. Inspector McHardy proved the

CA£3.

Officers' Quarters.

Shelton Hooper) close not later was ou her maiden voyage to the than Friday.

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"Our Sanitary Board." August 23.-"Drainpipe, and epidemin. Board mat this after- noon. Everybody there. Board had written to His Excellency asking what he istinded to do

East, and at the time of being wrecked was on the way from Singapore to Hongkong,

THE LATE MR MOONEY.

Among

women occupied a cubicle on the Jond for and the other was the principal tenant of the floor.

It was stated that the arms and blanket and made up into the ammunition were wrapped in a

form of a pillow, in the oubiola.

A fine of $250, or in default Grst defendant; and the second three months, was imposed on the was discharged.

then Yorkshire went down before Gloucestershire and Surrey and It will be remembered that the suggestion advanced by Lord were left with a lot of leeway to William Cecil and his friends was that a sum of a quarter of make up. Since then Kent have million sterling should be diverted from the Boxer Indemnity Fund gone down badly before Surrey, but that defeat did not bring them

The funeral of Mr G, Mooney, for the establishing and equipping of the University. At frat an hack to anything like a level with Tenders are being invited for and by, H. E. wrote back" not day, took place at the Happy, in anticipation of small-pox by whose death was reported vester initial payment of £50,000 was to ts asked for, and then the re- Yorkshire. Something extraor the erection of a terrace of four bis business: would consider Valley last evening, the Rev. V mainder advanced as the work of building the University prograssed, dinary must happen now, if they houses, together with fence walls, their suggestion. Mr. Francis H. Copley, Moyle, Chaplain to the It was a very attractive-looking scheme, this, to put before there to lose. At the moment of etc., at Mount Parish, Hongkong, surprised that the Board asked Cathedral oficiating.

writing they are playing Hamp for subordinate officers' quarters. such an impertinent question those present were: Dr. J. W. enthusiasts who had been drawn into sympathy with the ultimate shire, and they have still to tackle No work will be permitted on Wouldn't have let them if he had Noble, and Mr.J. W. C. Bonnar, object in view, but there were very serious objections to its adoption. Northamptonshire. The latter, Sundays.

at laat meeting. Captain Deane directors of the Hongkong Hoted First and foremost, the British indemnity (which totaled £7,593,000, who are strong in the running Charge withdrawn. tried to explain. Mr Francis Co., Ltd., members of, the Hotel and of which some c199,000 has teen paid) was based strictly on apring a surpries, but the chances mada's office, appeared at the to ask him why he wasn't at paire, White and Soondersm, and on Tuesday, at 3.45 p.m., are at for second place, may very well Mr. Haywood, of Mr. L. D'Al-aaappeased. Everybody afraid Staff, including Mesare. Beaure- meeting of the Sanitary Board The orders for the day for the the losses sustained, and it might well have been argued, had any are all in favour of Kent finishing Police Court, this morning to de- last meeting. Says 'it'a. a portion of it been diverted to altogether external purposes, that at the top of the table. The sene fend a woman charged before Mr.slap in the face. Temporary Yak.

cthers including the Hon. Mr Wai follow ;- Britain had in reality demanded more than was her due from China. tion of this week's play is the O. D. Melbourne, with being in silence. Secretary mollifies bim The following wreaths were This impression would have been all the stronger, supfing, se the defeat of Gloucestershire by Buscar lawful possession of opium. The by reading all correspondence sent from Mr. and Mrs. White tensions, etc., in capocetion with

on occasion.

. While the Public

leave."

SANITARY BOARD.

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Correspondence relative recerving an area for possible ex- to the extent of 470 runs. charge was withdrawn by the since March. Chairman ally China University supporters had wished, the money was to return Gloucestershire

have defeated police.

starts draft estimates. Mr. Ede Mr. E. Osborne, Mr. H. A at Kennedy Town.

and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ahwo), the Government Slaughter Hon:3 to China and be used for the benefit of the Chines themelves, both Yorkshire and Kent, but

Exempted.

brings up letter again. Thinks Lammert, Mr. and Mrs. Lee and Correspondence relative to an Some might have seen in the act a charitable motive on the part of they are not a great team all the It is notified that the follow-immediate attention to sanitary Great Britain; others would not hesitate to place another, and me. Sussex are rather an in ing societies have been exempted details more nesful than building family, Mr. Fang Kuen, Mr. Ng outbreak of cholera at Shauriwan. and out lot this sesson. They are from registration under the a hospital. Suggests that H. E. Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. Ho Toug, ending 28th July and 2nd August

Shok Kow, Mrs. Glover, Mr. E. E. more unkind, construction on it. From the purely financial able to do big things, but only Societies

Mortality retorn for the week. Ordinance, 1911, be told so. Mr. Francis again. Gande Price & Co., Mr. H. J. and for the month ending 81st, standpoint, too, it must be seen, that the full demand of

(Ordinance No. 4 of 1911) Chairman tries half estimate White, Chu Chak Hing, Mr. W. July, 1913. the University folk, exceeds the amount yet paid over to Britian by

Social Clubs Chipers), Yat again. Pulled up by the Board. H. Humphreys, Mr. and Mrs. D. Mortality return from Macao Ohins. There is another, and not less important ground, on which Danger on the Praya.

Tani, Trade Guilds; (Sawyers Half an hour gone. No results. Rumjahn, Mr. B. Tanner, Mr. J. for the week ending 20th July, objection to the proposals may be based, and one which arena Department are to be congrat Works

Guild), Fuk Wo Traung. Hongkong much more directly than the others. One of the main ulated on the briskness with July. Weather. objects of the Hongkong Unversity and one which was always which they took in hand the Observatory meteorological ob emphasised by Sir Frederick Lugard-was that it should provide repairing of tho damage servations for July show that the soul of journalism as well as Ohi, Chu Kan, R. Soonderam, A. the means of giving to the young men of China a Univesity edu- done by the typhoon, there average mean temperature for the of destructive criticism in those R. Ellis, J. Williamson, Mr. and cation without the need of their living in exile in the West, where points that still await attention. 30 years' average of 86.7. The

Or two little month was 82.8, compared with a daye]. the Oriental student almost invariably becomes denationalind. In In particular, the portion of the highest temperature was 82, on other words, the idea was to bring a University education, on ar- Praya East between the Corinthian the 20th, and the lowest point proved modern lines, to the very dor of China. The originators Yacht Club and the Sugar touched was 75.3, on the 3let. of the Central China University knew that quita w; yet they Refinery might very well be clean- The average humidity was 82, ed of the mounds of stone that have there were 233.8 hours of sun- persisted in their scheme, which, in almost every reз1:30t, was remained in position since the shine, while the rainfall was 15.05 similar to Hongkong's experiment, and which could not help being blow of Sunday. All the binding inches, compared with a 30 years' regarded as competitive thereto.

of the road has been washed average mean of 12.55 inches. aross to the land side and there

Auditors.

are

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Er-um-draft estimates. We

W. White, Mr. and Mra, A. 1913. Weill, Mrs. Ho Fook, J. M. Mehta, Rat retain for the weɔks end- [Brevity seems to have been the G. Price, Yap Hok Lang, Li Shing ing 9th and 16th Angust, 1913.

1888.

SHARE REPORT.

The quotations which follow are from the Hongkong Tele- |graph" for August 23, 1888, One British University in China is, as yet, and will be for very remains several inches above the The Gazette notifies for general Hongkong and Shanghai Bank many years, quite sufficient to meet the demands of those who seek level of the tramway track information, that the following-158 per cent. premium, sellera. a Western education. That University exists in Hongkong, and in which ia

uneven persons have made application to Union Insurance Society of it can be found accommodation for hundreds of students from all that to dismount from a tram car be appointed auditors for the Canton-$87.

per share, parts of China. As we have before remarked, if the Government might easily mean the incurring purposes of the Companies Or-sellers. had any money to spare, a better case could have been made out for of a twisted ankle. We suggest dinances, 1011 and 1913, and China Traders' Insurance Com Hongkong than for Lord William Cecil and his friends. The latter that at any rate, pending the that they are, in the opinion of pany-873 per sliare, sellers. will now no doubt be thinking hard things of the much-abused complete restoration of the road, Mr. A. Nisbet (Registrar) North China Insurance Tia. Chancellor of the Exchequer, but this is an instance in which we those portions immediately oppo- qualified to perform the duties 285 per share, buyers, think the little Welsh Minister did the right thing. The e has been tatnings to the Happy Valley required by the said Ordinances

Mrs. Wai Wai Wink Sam, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Wei Yuk, Mr. Lai Yim, Ng Hon Tez, Sbi Po Shem, Ho Wing, Cheung Pai Kai, Yap Hok Ling, La Cheung Shiu, E. T. Clayson, Leung Chi Ting.

STEAMSHIP. SERVICE

DISCONTINUED, '

Societa Anonima Nazionale di Servizi Marittimi stops Hongkong" Run,

THE OLD CLOCK.

Sold to a Chinese for $720,

This morning the worke of the old olook taken from the now dis mantled Clock Tower were sold by Messrs Hughes and Hough at the Government store at Wanobai. There was a fair attendance of Obinoso, many of them gentle folk, who apparently took a keen in-> terest in the ultimate fate of the ólook. MF. O. Harley was We learn that the Italian the auctioneer, and bidding ran vesele owned by the focjeta brisk until the 8600 mark was Anonima Nazionale di Servizi reached. Then offers camer Marittimi are discontinuing their slowly and in small increases until run to Hong Kong and the northern they reached $720, at which price Canton Insurance Company, ports. At present Mesure, Car the clock was knocked down to lowitz and Company, who Bai Koo. What will now become are the local agents for the of the clock in uncertain, but firm, have received noad is oleer, from the price raid, that vices, explanatory of the on me sphero of useful work is t | nera", decision to stop the service. be found for it elsewhere

a deal of wasted energy over this Central Cina University idea, Heard Street and Wanchai Road, to by performed by an auditor: Ltd.,$03 per shr, buyers, and one cannot help thinking how much grea or good its supporters should be made up in such a Horace Peroy Smith, John Hen-Yangtze Insurance Association would have achieved if they had, instond, worked equally hard for manner as to present a smoothnessey Seth, Daniel Miller Flem-Tia. 80. per share, sellers, the success of the only existing Western University in the Far surface to people dismounting ing, Seth Aratoon Seth, Alexander Chinese Insurance CompanyTM

$175 per share, users.

from the care,

Adair Bytą,