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Recollections of a Record Cold"
Snap.
Oven
now.
The weather in Hongkong; just wenty yes ago to a day, we very different from the genial weather which prevails at present. There was a sharp fall of tho thermometer, ice in plenty, and Sulphur-and-Belmstone.
The quotations January 11"Whenever we which follow are from the local write about Macau affairs we feel papers at the time and show how #s, as if we were actually making a severe was the cold soap.
descant into bottomless sheoül'. The fall of the thermometer last The English Mail of the Decem-unique Colony in the Far East, down to 27 degrees at the Peak. The shady traditions of that night broke the record getting the modern roandals, Governa-in the coldest situations, whilst 'mental and cooisl, which have in other places it varied all the taken place there are so redolent way up to 32. The oldest inhab of sulphur-and-brimstone that itant has broken loose with yarns. winters, but A hawker at No. 17 Lyndhurst we have to ancork our ecent, about previone Terrace has had clothing stolen hole whenever we approach cannot find anything to boat this. Show was seen on the hill-tops [Tho Macao Independente-"anoross the water, and several hireling organ" had taken ex-gentlemen with vivid imagin-i ception to some remarke madeations have assured us that it was by the editor and had to be put snowing in Hongkong last night in its place.]
and the morning. Ice was in abundance all over, and during the night there were several alarmas of bursting water-pipes, The Observatory notice pradontly.
Hawker's Eoss. ⠀⠀
from his house to the value of $79.
Stolen Watch.
Mrs. Tellery living at Patell Villas, Kowloon has bea.robbed of a watch chain and pendant and $420.
Hongkong Christian Union.
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Not what he Wanted. January 12: "A lakong went to hunt up a witness yester. day, and when he found him the mad wanted the Governor and omits to state how the thermo- A guard of bonour export him to the station. their absence he hit the lukong He was fined $6 this morning." Capital Shooting.
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January 15 The Ewo"
PILLARS.
Of towards the Southern Cross-
We're left à Yarborough by their loss.
1.
At
►
BARS.
No sign of life he gives,
glanco Safely here we judgo a
trance.
2-The aminals walk in two
by two Noah would love such a
wondeous Zoo.
Rain of course would be
kept out. 4.It may be a cross or a part
of a square It's rather old fashioned
VOLUNTEERS IN CAMP.
Excellent Gun Drill and Accurate
Shooting.
(From a Specist Correspondent.)
Hong Hau, Camp, Friday. In my nots of yesterday. omitted to mention that the 10. pounder Section had been firing with time fused percussion shrap- rol. This morning they repeated this, firing at trenches, and dammy figures at from 2,500 to was much better than that of 2,800 yards range. The gan drill
3.-A tempest's brewing there's yesterday and the crews of both
no doubt.
guns were complimenteal by Lieut. Col. Kelly and Capt, Mar- ston R. G. A. The shooting was very accurate, the fuses being splendidly timed, as was shown by the lifting of some of the tar gets out of the trenches by the.. shraprel. Great praise is due to Capt. Scott for the admirable man- ar in which he handled his men.
now by it to swear. 5.-Man does not lond himself to help the charm And 80 we cannot guarantes bim free from harm, (Answer on Monday,)
now.
There will be further preotice to-morrow and the men are look ing forward to repeating their splendid work of to-day,
The Lagiacere and Howitzer Companies repeated their work of yesterday at Devil's Peak this
tometer is to-day, but Dr. Dobarok's too sheltered to gave a fair criter-afternoon. Both in the forenoon register puts it at 33 in the ion. There should be some won and afternoon the Maxim Gun The Rev. G. E. S. Upsell will
morning (10 o'clock) and 35 in der fat statistice obtainable just Sections did soms hard work the afternoon (4 o'clock). conduct the mesting of the Hong-
carrying their gune up the hills A correspondent writes:-
in the vicinity and carrying nat kong Christian Union at St.
"Special Telegram from the The thermometer registered. 29 Office Goat. Castle Peak, 17th,
firing practice with ball ammuni- Paul's College on Monday next shooting party, led by our well-1/2'nt one house at the Peak last Jan. 5 p.m."
There are no further at 5.30 p.m.
known local sport," the Hon. J night; and this morning at 9.45
oasulties to report. Bell-Irving, would appear to have the fire-trees, bamboos, and grase
All are looking forward to annual trip up country. Their spike, leaf by leaf and stalk, and idios you were to send me up Reserves and hope to have 4 had a grand time during their were coated with ice, spike by kong Telegraph.
Blooming Sunday's field day with the bag totaled thirteen hundred rain froze on ambrellas and here on your special blooming
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Snowstorm in Macao.. Macao, Janury 18, 11.33
"It is adowing heavily here and freezing. The glass registers
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mission. Ain't no snow at all good day then. Journalistic enterprise be blowed. Catch me coming here again. I
head, which must have afforded maskintoshes na one walked.
"Several umbrellas were frozen capital shoting. They report game to be abundant this season.'
so stiff that attempts to shut them Death During Sham Fight.
resulted in breakages. As seen in all ice here and as cold as January
another part of the issue, Macan charity. Shan't wait to interview 17 Yeaterday has experienced the unheard of Jack Frost or anybody elee, piercingly cold and few people afternoon a sham fight took place at the Peak. During the phenomenon of a snowstorm. Gradients steep for N.E. Winds were abroad, the churches being operations a fatal incident cocur.
"The coldest weather ever known sparsely attended. All over the The T.E. S. Robson, assistant ed-doubly end, being almost the
ia Swatow was experience ou Peak distrist the verandahs of manager at Taikoo Dockyard, first loss the Highland Regiment
Monday last. Nothing approach-the houses, the tennis Courtsand leaves for Home to-day on the s.s.bna sustained since its arrival.
ing anch extreme cold had been a portion of the roads are covered felt since foreigners first settled with ice, heavy icicles are hang- Tenyo Maru after hour years command of Lajor Prevost and The right wing was under the
in the place. Lesterday morning from the eaves of the etay in Hongkong.
Lient. Douglas, and their duty
ing everything that was wet had houses and in a few cases tho was to scale High West Hill by a the last twenty four hours no and apparently so do the seasons sleet which has been drifted up January 18, 1898-"During a covering of ice. Times change water pipes are frozen up. The steep, almost inaccessible, route. abatement in the About half way up Major Prevost, dented severity of the
unprece according to our experiences, at various points on the roads to who was at the head of the small has taken place; if there is any deaths which no doubt must be he produces the crunching noise. cold In addition to the number of depth of over half an inch and ing at the Astor House Hotel, bas columo, and who had bee i noticed change it is quite the other way. cauced among the most destitute which reminds him of snow. as the pedestrians tromp along of to be labouring hard, fell on his Ice is still more plentiful on the of the Chinees during this time There is indeed no enow yet,
knees and then rolled backward, trees and houses up the bill; the of unprecedented cold, there is He was picked up... but he tennis courts are frozen over, the no little danger of mortality from but died before medioal assistance rain of last night toroing into ice furta to keep up tae temperature grass, and as it glitters in the fixed upon tree, shrub and. could arrive,"
Death was due to as it fell, the telegraph and tele-Two Chinese were found dead in heart-disesse...
Pearl Scarf Pin Stolen,
Mr. Polincoski a merchant, liv
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reported to the police the theft a pearl scarf pin, valued at $600 from his room, "
$1,000 Ball.
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY, 17, 1914.
THE FINANCIAL Tangle
ing,
At the Police Court, this morn- a Chiness was charged with being in unlawful possession of u quantity of opium at Kowloon. The hearing was adjourned, bail. in $1,000 being allowed.
Annual Cash Sale.
Meeere. William Powell bave
1889
SHARE REPORT.
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the
frost
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phone wires are beavily beapang a small cargo beat last night at light gives all the appearance of led with glittering, icicles, in Kowloon, suffocated by the fumes probably this which has made the a snow-covered landscape. It is some places so thick as to break of a charcoal stove in their cabin.hile on the mainland so white, the wires. At the Peak the
We applied to the Kowloon Ai Canton and Macao, however, effects of the frost sre beautifal in the extremo, Observatory for information on there has been a heavy snowfall, the matter yesterday, and we are at the former place snow has every leaf and Branch covered with jewels of pure ice, the blook very courteously informed that fallen to a depth of five tree stems frosted all over in fairy having fallen in the year 1893, two inches deep; and the people there was no record of show inches, while at Macao it is like designs, whole trees encased but it was believed it did suow of these two places must be in a in sparkling oryeta?.
"A report was ciroulated in January 18. On the lot, it was
when the temperature was 82 on miserable plight. town to-day that Pokfulam reser raining at Kowloon and there sidents have been bringing down voir was completely frozen over would probably be snow on the large pieces of ice to show their Throughout the day Peak re three quarters of an inch thick; but Peak, on the 18th.
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The President of the Chinese Republic is a most prolifi writer of official Man late. Judging from the Northern papers, he must at present be producing more than one a day-and that, i-
The quotations which follow merely taking account of those idealing with important questione full page advertisement in this are from the Hongkong Tele- Nor is the fact without significance that within the last few months issue which announces the annual fraph for January 17, 1889.
cash sale which commences on quito a number of these documents have had to do with the vital Monday and lasts for four days160
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. question of finance. Particularly have they dwelt upon the obliga-Ercaptional bargains are on offer sellers.
per cent. premium, tions of the Provinces to the Central Government in this respect, and and this opportunity should not
it is difficult to believe. As there
friends below that the stories told- Union Insurance Society of has never been such a frost in the one cannot fail to notice the underlying tone of anxiety oxpresser,
missed.
ice at the Peak." of the state of waters up above Canton-$90, per share, sellers Colony before (not even in Pan-f nor the pointed manner in which the Provincial "authorities have
China Traders' Insurance Unm jama) and as, consequently, there been experiencing a spell of cold
"For the last two daye we have are not exaggerated. The roads been chided for failing to discharge those obligations.
pany.$75 per share, buyers are no skates, several credulous weather which is agreed to be of the residents who walk slippery that most
200 por ahore, buyers.
North China Insurance-Tle enthusiasts have been trying to unprecedented in the history of
down to business by the improvise substitutes, and there the Colony. It was a novel ex Peak Road either took the tram- Canton Insurance Company, may yet be chance to win a perience to the majority of the car or went round by Magazine Ltd.,-$97 per share, buyers. Billijse medal for saving life.
Hongkong Fire Insurance Com-
residenta to bo confronted by the Gap. Those who preferred this "The Douglas steamer Formosa white-capped hills on the main-alternative felt a decided change $340
·pany -
per
share arrived this morning and reports land, to find the thermometer regis in the temperature at the gap, buyers.
that during her stay in Swaton wering a low reading, and to find but so low down as Queen's Gar- Obina Fire Insurance Company the therrat mater registered: 311 all around a wintry aspect which dens-about 500 feet abive rea $79 per share, sellora. deg. There was plenty of ice suggested sarcastic thoughts of a level substantial iciclos hed Hongkong and Whampoa Dock both on deck and aloft. Wind tropical clime. Culd enough as formed. We are worry that the Company 376 per cent. pra- nwth west. The T, & O. steimer it was in the lower portions of the novel experience has not been got mium, sellors...
Mirzapore, which arrived this Colony and amongst the re. over without mishap. It sounde Hongkong, Canton and Macao morning from Shanghai, met with aidences on the hillside, the full odd to have to chronicle an ice ehare, sellers. Steamboat Company-$228 per a genuine snowstorm less than severity of this unusual visitation accident in Hongkong, but we China and Manila Steamship The Kowshing came in this after residente, and the cold is felt alt Messrs. Butterfield and Swire. twelve hours out from Hongkong. was only realised by the Peak understand that Mr. Beart, of Company-$164 per share, sales. noon with a perfectly Aratio the more from the fact that it was unfortunate enough to sustain $135 per share, sellers.
Hongkong Gas Company report, as may be seen in our has come so unexpotedly. The rather serious injury to his jaw
shipping columns, Hongkong Hotel Company
register for the last week gave down the steps of his house at $170 per share, nominal.
this morning. While coming Canton correspondent the thermometer readinga at Indo-China 8.N, Company-20 Such weather as was experi- follow:
writes under yesterday's date the Kowloon Observatory as per cent, dia., sellers.
Douglas Steamship Company $66 per share, buyers,
China Sugar Refining Com
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Alleged Larceny.
New Advertisements, By establishing the National Taxation Bureaux and by abolishing The Idol's Eye" appears on An advertisement regarding unnecessary departments, the Government has been doing its utmost page 5 to-day. to increase the provincial receipts, but there has not been that re- An adverti tement annourcing sponse which the Central Authority has a right to expent. We the loss of a diamond brooch read that telegram after telegram has been sent to the various Pre-appears on page 5 vinces ordering them to aid the Government financially, but that, thg Acuam appears in this issue A consignee notice respecting with the exception of Shantong, Kiaugsi, Chekiang and Shansi, on page 5. none has remitted funds, while some have even requested assistance from Peking. It is not a case of inability to raise funds; rather is it a matter of a failure to make the most of the available money. The territories of the Republic are extensive and its products are asing, Mr. Wool remanded a case At the Police Court, this morn- varied as they are rich. Hence if the cullection of taxes wan based in which a Chinese was charged on equity and every cent of the proceeds need for ils proper purpose, with larceny by bailee of printing there need be no fear that the revenue of the State would be ex property, of Ha Shin-chan. Mr. machinery valued at $5,000, the hausted. The trouble is, as the President has pointed out in one of O. F. Mason, of Messrs L'Almade his most recent Mandates, that the revenues of the Provinces are and Mason, appeared for the either retained by the local authorities, or find their way into plaintiff, and Mr. Norrington (Mr., the pockets of the officials entrusted with the duties of collection for the defendant.
G, E. Hall Bratton) appeared "Thus," says the President," the blood and labour of the good Are anoked for privato greed, and the foundation of the State is ren- dered most unsafe.”
Discharged.
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enced in and about Canton
last night has not previously
Lowest Highget
European inhabitant. We have Tuesday 10t been witnessed by the oldest Monday 9th Jan;
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Mount Kellett he slipped on the ice and falling heavily against the balustrade on the steps, out his face badly and injured his jaw. "A. Peak rosident writes:-I think you will be interested to hear what very frosty weather we are having at the Peak, I have never seen anything like it. during all my residence in the
pany, Ltd.-$1941 per share, had hail squalls, with a biting Wednesday 11th Mr. Lewis, of Mesars Johnson, sellers. ** It will be generally agreed that the fatare of the Repablic do. Stokes and Master, defended two
north east wind, and the ther Thursday 12th. peade, in the last resort, on its financial stability, which can only Chinese, a man and a woman who pany, Ltd. $83 per share, light this morning the whole Saturday 14th:60
Luzon Sugar Relining Commometer fell to 28 deg. At day- Friday 13th: be guaranteed by unceasing co-operation between the Provinces and lawful possession of opium before Hongkong IceCompany $101 ice. The Chinese say that have Saturday evening the thermom freezingly cold yesterday after-
were charged with being in un sollers,
country round was covered with Overnight at Mount Kellett on South of China. The wind was Peking. For a Province to refuse its obligations to the Centrul Mr. Wood, at the Folies Court per share, apliere, Government is only to commit a suicidal act. The Provinces can- this morning and got them die Hongkong Rops Menu fuotur over fifty years, that is before the afternoon ice was formed, the grase was encrusted with ica
not had such severe weather for eter fall to 33, an I daring Sanday noon and in several places the not be strong while the mainspring of authority-the Central Ad-charged. This was the case in ing Company, Ltd. $91 Fer English came to Canton, thermometer dropping to 30 by the frozen rain hardening on the ministration is weak. That is a point which
which Mr. Lewis argued a few share, buyers. ich the defaulting days age that the wman, being
Unfortunately there is at any seven o'clock During last night blades while some bambous hal Povinces would do well to ponder over, May be when they realise the wife of the men, was under and Godowa Company-776 per Observatory, nor at Gap Rpsk, had fallen pretty steadily through-
Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf reliable record now at the Peak or this morning the thermometer their twigs ani le vén enen ofia its fall import, they will be brought to their senase,
his control,
cont. premium, buyora," and the Kowloon Obevatey in out Sunday while the wind was (Continued on l'age
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