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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1913.

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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1913.

DISCONTENTED DUBLIN.

The Shakespeare Memorial.

The idea of the establishment of a Shakespeare Memorial The atrois still being prosecuted with

DAY BY DAY,

* MEN

CANNOT CO OPERATE

the utmost vigour at Home, aUCCESSFULLY FOR ANY PURPOSE though so far the responso has THE SOLE BOND BETWEEN not been so great as the organic.THEY IS BELU-INTERI,IT." ing committee would wish, However, a distinct for word

The Mails.

Oledere, Crnada Moro at noon to-day, iterisa Mail-Olox per 8,8

move has been made by the American and Canadian Maila.- decision to purchats a site and to truet to the generosity of the public to provide the necessary Eanda for completing and maintaining the institution. No doubt when the public sees this

more

tangible development, purse-stringe will loo an somewhat. The committee has already secured an option on the London County Council's build- ing at Spring Gardons, and other central sites are also in view. TLa memorial may take the form of a great national theatre, or some small scheme for the ex- olusive production of Shake- sperean works; at any rate, it is decided to have some definite scheme ready by the tercentenary of Shakespeare's death in 1916. Contractions.

Liangchow at 5 p.m. to-day. French Mail-Duo g 9.6. Aus

1828.

HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.

Compiled from the "Hongkong Telograph" files for the Weelt

Ending November 15, 1899.)

Dust Storms on Peddar's HIU. Novémlar 9"It any of our readers has a hankering after Band-storms of the Sabora type, we

Hongkong Firo Insurance Com- pany $325 per share,

filière... ·

China Fire Insurance Company $73 For share, selera, Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company 38 per cent. pru mium, buyers.

abare,

Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company-$218, per share, sellers.

China and Marila Stoomship Company-8185 per buyers. $135 per share, ellers.

Hongkong Gas CompanyTM

Hongkong Hotel Company→→→ $165 per share, sellers.

Indo-China &.N. Company--17 për cent, dis,, callons.

Douglas Steamship Company- 862 per share, sellers."

-China Sugar Refining Com-

would ask him to take a trat at tralien on Monday at 7am.noonday on one of the sinaite mo lean and Candian fails-alaba placed on Peddar'a lill "Close per 9.5. Miruests at 9 opposite St, Paul's College. There he may enjoy the fall tenefit of a.m, on Monday.

duet and sand till bis langs get Siberian Mail,-Clocs per se glaze lover with particles of silica Australien at 4 pm. on or his eyea acquire double sigh. Monday.

The sweeping fraternity carry on heir work to perfection every day on Peddar's Hill, the dust clouds pany, Ltd.-$186 per ahere,

buyers, raised by them in this Icoality. being particularly typical of the Luzon Sugar Rofining Com African storme. The residents in pany, Ltd.-$91 per share, Wyndham Street, when the wind eales and sellers blows from the East, are simply Hongkong Ice Company-$95 flooded with the dust that ja por sha:3, buyera.` At the Pulice Court, this morn-swept down from the balcon ing, two Chinese were sentenced height opt sits into their hou 38." [The weather must have tn to six m n'he imprisonment for returning from banishment. a bit drier then than it is just at

[preson']

Oplum Possession. At the Police Court, this morn ing, a Chinese was fined $75, for bing in unlawful possession of opium.

Returning from Banishment.

Honghong Rops Manufactur- ing Company, Ltd, $82 per share, sellers.

Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf, down Company.-59 per cent. premium, buyers.

and

A Tandon Polica magistrate recently rebuked a police witness for referring to a police sergeant as a "P. 9., ga the ground that

But is it was "not respectful." not the question of whether a contraction seema respectful or

Hongkong Christian Valon. The weekly meeting of the New Chlet Justice. not merely one of habit and cus- tom? "P.S." is just about as ngkong Christian Union, will

November 10: -“A cable was pretty, in itself, as "M. P." to be held in St. Paul's College, st which no one raises any serious 5.30 pm. on Monday. The Rev. received in cypher this morning objection. And what about Copley Mayle will conduct they the Colonial S. uretary stating

that Her Majesty hes en REBELS IN SHANGHAI K. G." for "King's Counsel. meeting.

pleased to confrm Mr. J. Ruscal The magistrate io question

in the position of Chief Justice, Eaid he supporad he would be Harmston'a popular Cirous is which office he has bun, tom spaken of as f. P.M." (Metro-still drawing big crowds, for arily holding tince the retirement politan Police Magistrate). Why whose comfort and entertainment of Sir George Phillippo." not, since a vast body of gentle every possiblo arrangement is men interested in law are daily made. There will be a matines referred to without offence as this afternoon, commencing at 4 "J.P.8?" When one begins to diep.m, while a grand change, of cuss to condemn or to defend programme is arranged for to certain contractions one is faced night, when a bumper house is with a tricky job. This is a busy expected, age, and syllable-saving is one of its manifestations. The Sensible Pacificator.

The Circus.....

A' Fine Tobacco.

Dotative

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Oplum Seizures.

Peking, Nov. 8. the Chinese Government has re- 'The Poking Gazette says that

"THE TELEGRAPH'S' ACROSTIC.

PILLARS. Distressfultis you are, doar

dirty city Distressing you he is and

more's the pity.

BARS,

-Porhaps you don't like

tripe to eat.

And than you needn't have

three feet.

2-A state that's nowhere.

can't be lose

More here shows us hap-

piness.

3.-Start no whinnyings, lest

you bore

The wretched chap that:

lives next door, -A duke of Vienna changed

name to enquire;

The results of a measure-in Av disguised as a friar,

5. Publishers boomed not the

wares they sold When Homer the tale of

the Trojans told. 6.-Although "tie no' pheno-

menon we BOD, Unknown it is," nor ever

known can be.

[Answer on Monday...

STEVENSON'S RECORD BREAK.

ceived information to the effect A Run of 919 With Ivory Balls. that Li Lieb-chan and Lia Ho, | · ·

At the Grand Hall, Leicester- November 10 We learn that two Kiangai rebele, have returned further seizures have been made to Shanghai secretly from Japan square, on October 7, Stevenson on board the Hongkong, Canton and have smuggled into the Settle established a new world's reword and Macao Steamboat Co's vessels ment several cases of bombs, with ivory balle by scoring s by the offiors of the Canton Oas-and that they have already auo break of 919. This is the high- toms. Twenty-one line of epium confederates. It is also believed since the spot stroke was barred ceeded in enrolling forty-five art break made with ivory balls We have had from the British-are stated to have on seized on

tion and other orime,

ran of 897, which was “mate The amiable and pacifio gautle. American Company a sample of board the Honam last Saturday, that they are plotting assassina- many years ago, and beats Inman' The Chiness Government has against Newman in the billiard men who do not lieve in armies their "Sweet chestnut tob cco. and a further har was made on and naves and who world con- This is a cool, fine-tvoured one of the night I ate at the be

formally requested the Diplomatic tournament last year. Stevenson which trut themselves, if a foreign fleet Aake tobacco

Bmo giuning of the weak.”

Corps to order the handing over eaɔrded a broak of 1,018 last apie red off the shores of Britain, kera will find very pleasant pa A Fortunate Escape. uf Less men to the "Chinese October, but composition balls with going down on their knees the palate and which they are

Novembar 12:"A feroat anthmities for trial

were used on that cocasion. nd praying it pleare to go away, recommended to try. The sample hawker bad a ne1.ow squeak this The paper adds that in view Stevenson's effort will live have always counted M. Norman is enclosed in a neat and useful morning. He ball as ro scared of past experiencoa it cannot belong in the memory of all We have read the care for Larkiaism; we have read the case.

Angell as one themselves. What aluminium cas3.

of fire that he resolved himself doubted that Foreign Govern- who were fortunate enough to for Murphy; but how much do we know of the conditions that they will make of his sph at Extradition.Case.

into a committes for the prisr-ments will refuse to allow the witness it, says the Sporting Life, prevail among the working classes in the Irish capital? For in-the United Files Institution The frat extradition care in vation of public ailey, and mor- Settlements to be used for further I acorned from his fifth visit to formation concerning the life of the Dublin poor we have 10 seek recently we do not know. Ho connection with Chines since ed, reconded, and passed a re-conspiracies against the Republic the table, when; finding the balls paper orges energetic nicely placed at the head of the elsewhere than the biassed and prejudiced orations of either the said that "amies had just one the recognition of the Chinese solution that a mething to doue The

use as between civili od States→ Republic, come before the at once.

He therefore Legan cul meues towards the expulsion table, he proceeded to gather Larkin or the Murphy faction, and us more impressive picture to prevent their Laing used." Police Court, this morning, when icating funds enough to hire a of every known conspirator, roints with great charm, fcency, could be depicted, giving a dispassionate focus of the prevailing That is good sound one. The Chief

Inspector priest to lay the fire fiend up especially in view of the many and rapidity until 363 was sig conditions, than the annual report of the medical officer for the main thing is not to use fores, but Collett asked for the remand of a with a broken leg, and among mysterious crimes that aro ocalled. Then he fastened on to City, Sir Charles Cameron, 0.0, M.D., which has been issued to prevent the other fellow from Chinees awaiting extradition on the contr butors was a widow curring in Shanghai every week, a inn of nursery cannons, of Fecently. The report states that the comparatively high death rate using his. The gigantic erma- obarges of murder and robbery. who gave him ten cents. Having all of which are attributed to which he ticked off a sequence of

ments of the present day are less The accused is named Chan Yam.got thirty cents he Egan to look political motives..

33 before breaking up the posi- in Dublin is mainly glue to the large number of the very poor who a menace to, than a guarantee of, The remand was granted. for some kw-down divino whɔ The report that Li Lich-chun tion designedly, N who reside in it, and that zearly half the population of the historic peace. And it is good to and s

Reducing Printing Expenses, could I got cheap, but none of and Lin Hu, his henchman, bad

This looked like proving a die- city are doomed to die in the State and charitable institutions. Of man like Mr. Angell apparently

A reduction in the expan38 of them could lagt to look at leas returned to Shanghai has, for natrons move when it directly led appreciating this tuth,

Manila government printing by than a dollar. The widow term some little time, been worrying up to a diffien't situation in the the 8,728 deaths, during the year 1912, 3,783 or 43 3 por cont.

a least one-half in the latest to have been waiting to see the the Chinese authorities here, saye character of a long one-cushion Coccurred in the various workhouses, hospitals, lunatic asylumns, and

NESTLE AND ANGLO-

change that has been decided fun, and when she found there the NO. Daily News of Monday cannon. However, it was negotiat prisons. Compare this with English towns where 18 per cent, of

SWIES C.M.CO. upon by the Governor General in wasn't going to be any she went last. The news that reached themed in brilliant style, though the the deaths take place in public institutions, and to those who know

the carrying out of his economy for the comm ttee with a club and was that these two rebels had x-champion was not yet out of anything of the sordid conditions of some of our English towns it The Christmas Competition.

programme. It is understood bad him arca ed." His was a arrived here with a quantity of the wood, broause he had next that the Chief Executive has bad case, it seeme, but "a re-bombs in their possession, that to face a terribly awkward cover will be an easy matter to understand the gravity of the situation

already issued orders to the acting verend gentleman in sauff-colour-they were engaged in plotting This dificulty, too, was overcome in Dublin.

The Christmas competition director of printing calling for a ed robes" spoke up for him in another rising, and that they had by means of a wonderful ran The report of Sir Charles Cameron also points to the death rate which is being promoted by the reduction of fifty per cent in the Court and he was discharged.

taken taken up their quarters in through cannon, after which he a Japanese hotel. It is understood proceeded smoothly until 680 was in the City as indicative of the squalor which abounds. The death enterprising Nestle and Anglo-

Coming Events.

that the most exhaustive inquiries called. Here he had another diffi- rate in the city area is 22 per thousand, whilst it the suburbs it is but Swiss Condensed Milk Company 15. A very serious factor in the rising death rate is the high mortality should draw forth a big response.

November 13. The steam-were made, but a thorough calt problem to solve in the shape among the infants of the poorer classes. So seriously does the Some one stands to gain goods to

Amid ringing learned officer regard this question that he states Child life rune to the value of the nice little sum of evening was provided by "The ship El Dorado, which arrived at search failed to reveal the pres of a longish and terribly difficult

Shanghai from Teintsin on the ence of the men who were inasse cannon, Court Cards last night to a waste in the earth here through fractures in the social organism, as $250, which may te ordered from

board."

they had over returned from their gotiated most brilliantly, and though babies were an overflow of life to be drained off." It is any of the firms name in the large audience. An enti ely 10th petant, had 85 griffine on wanted, or indeed to show that cheare this was succesfully

new while

saylum in Japan. In the present Stevenson went on to 841, passing natounding to learn that of each 1,000 children born in Dublin company's handbills;

The Casualty List. during 1919, 140 died hafore they had reached the age of twelve those who do not succeed in cap-entertainers gave great delight,

condition of affaire the authorities his old ivory record of 802 en November 15: Tells of a slight are strongly of opinion that it is route, when the most difficul months, and the death rate among the very poor in the metropolitan turing the premier prize may their work being marked by fire outbreak in Queen's Road, highly improbable that they problem experienced during the area is 30.6 per 1,000, this chookingly high figure being caused, secure one of the ten consolation vivacity, faish and refinement East. "A pot of paint was would ventare back to Shanghai, whole break cropped up in the main, by the wastage of young life. The reason for this is awards offered, consisting of There are only two more nights washed over a fireman in the and were there any proof that underfeeding and overcrowding. Every casual visitor to Dublin is fully representative assortment of in the Company's reason, and at Government Brigade, and plas they had done so, the representa under the top left cushion, the not likely to look behind the glamour of the delightful Saovilla the Company's widely known the fareivell performance on Montered him litorally, and a little tives of the Chiness Government object white in the jaws of the top Street for the overcrowded warrens that practically surround it. gonds.

The big prize is to be given to day there will be in ther new boy on a railing fell on his little would at once apply for a war One anxious to see the city proper would have to traverse the

head, which completed the list rant for their arrest. narrow and dirty streets wherein children are born and die without the competitor sending in what is Programme presented.

of casualties." ever knowing the true light of the sun, but it is only when one considered the best a Ivertisement learns that 21,133 families are living in one room tenements to-day or any or all of the Company's in Dublin that one can form even a vague idea of what overcrowd-high-class goods, and the at- ing means unless, of course, one has visited a Chinese-town."

tempts may take any form desir- ed. They may be in prose, rhyme,

expenditures of the bureau.

"Court Cards."

Another bright and cheery

programme was sub- mitted, and each and all of the

1888,

SHARE REPORT.

The cue ball was tucked up-

left pocket, and the red almost light under the top cushion, about six inches away from the right Accident on Empress Boat: pocket. Surveying the position The" Lion Sermon.

As the steamer Empress of for a moment or two, Steven In some of these one-room tenements, ss many as sixteen catchy, phrases, sketches, or de-

Britain, with the Duke and Da- con elected to go for a red delivering his Every year on Octol ir 18:

chess of Connaught on board, was winner, and persone eat and sleep, and the question of sex distinction cannot signs, so as to be suitable for hand- there is preached at the Chu oh

leaving Liverpool for Canada, a cue with remarkable accuracy possibly be considered.

Is it unnatural that an excitable, billa, posters, or newspaper adver of St. Catherine Cres, Laden-

man named Cohen foll into the on the ball, considering his fuck- and hero-worshipping race like the Irish should follow a man of tissments. There is plenty of all-strect, a sermon to com

Mersey while waving farewell to od-up position, he brought off a wit, of intellect, of daring and command, whether he be a Larkin, scope here for the ingenious, and memorate the deliverance from a

The quotations which follow a friend on board, Two man marvellous shot, amid the than Carson or a Redmond who pretends for their good? They, as a an excellent after-dinner pastime lion in the Arabian desert of Sir are from the Hongkong Telemonamed Sweeney and Williams derous applause of the onlookers rase, are ever the slaves of a man who gives the impression of great- is provided for those who care to John Gayer, who was Lord Mayor graph for November 15, 1888. jumped into his

resone; a pesa, and if that conception of greatness is narrow and faulty, is it to take the matter up. As many in 1830 Last week the preacher Hongkong and Shanghai B nk, ment later David Conolly of which was carried without further be wondered at when one considers their limited outlook on the attempts as the cornag stilor likes was the Bishop of Chekiang, Mid-1541 per cent, premium, buyers. Liverpool, one of the crew of the incident, save the excitement burn world and its affairs? The spirit of Larkinism appealed to them, may bo gant in, but all must be so China, who is a descendant of Union Inearancs Bociety of Empress of Britain, dived from of the hope that the 1,000" and like the responsive children they are, they followed it. Perhaps companied by a handbill and a Sir John Gayer, and there also Canton.$85 per share, sellers. the vessel, a distance of 50ft. It would be reached, to 91 when they have realised by now that strikes do not fill cupboards, but

China Traders Insurance Com was feared that the men would be an extremely difficult screw red until the less on had been learned by bitter experience they could not wrapper or label of the article took part in the service thres

dealt withá

clergymen named Gayer, who appreciate it, since impulsiveness of setion is characteristic of

beat him; steamer, and these were im- the nation. Allowar es, and very big ones, must be made. How much that the entries close on December the Lord Mayor, Every year tho

Attention is drawn to the fact are direct descendants of pany. $68 pa share, bayers, drawn into the propellers of the losse from the loft up pocket just North China InsuranceTls, mediately stopped. All the men Stevenson tired very much dar- greater then is the need for allowances when to this natural dis-20, and should be addressed to preacher has to relate the circum 285 per share, buyers.

eventually got safely ashore and ing the last 200, Lat the whole ability is added such a condition of life and living asubtains among Santa Claus, P. O. Box 351,8nces of the providential Canton Insurance Company, went home, with the exception of effort was complied in & fille the poor of Dublin to-day?

Hongkong,

| Ltd. --- 337 per abare buyers, Cohan, who was taken to hospital over the hour

deliverance,