1914-01-19 — Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE.

The opinions expressed by our correspondents are not necess- arily those of the "Hongkong Telegraph "

To the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph.

CRICKET.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1914.

Hongkong Defeat Cralgengower,

Happy Valley on Saturday, the This matoh was played at Club winning easily. The detailed acres are as follow:

H. K. C. C."

T. E. Peares, o Basa, b

Davierwalla

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HONGKONG TRADE.

Markets Quiet During

Past Fortnight.

and Market Report, published by The Fightly Pea Current the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce gives the following particulara :-

Owing to

GOVERNMENT

APPOINTMENTS.

The Government Gazette ab- nounces the following:-

FAR EASTERN NAVAL SQUADRONS.

Excellency the Governor has an It is hereby notified that Elis pleased to appoias Mr. Samuel Burnside Loyd McElderry to be

Magistrate, under the pro. Name visions of Section 7 of the

Alacrity Magistrates Ordinance, 1890,

Atlas the approach of Obina New Year(Ordinancs No. 3 of 1890), with Bramble tho, market remains quiet with effect from the 22nd Novemt 31,

no sales reported.

1013. His Excellency the Gover Cotion Yarn: The market has aur has further been pleated Cadmas

considerable activity to rathorise Mr. McElderry, 10 during the fortnight under re under the provisions of zotion 58 Clio

New Territories view and values hava improved of tho

Ordinance," 32 to the extent of $5.00 to $1.00eulation

Cotton Piece Goods, 38 Fancy Cotton Goods

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0 shown

IKE

A. C. Elborough, o Noria b "THE IDOL'S EYE

Tayler A. A. Claxton, b Tayler Sir,-1 have no wish to be R. Kennedy, e Viveash, b

Pestonji drawn into a stupid newspapers. 8. Moore, & Pestonji altercation with Lieutenant Crosse R. N. Andoreau, o Tayler, b and bis fair supporter or to give

Peatonji their fortherming perfo mance C. C. Clarke, b Hanek...

A. L. Gacs, not.out...

unnecessary and gratuitous ucb. K. Brownrigg, b Pestonji vertic?ment in your colums. G. E. Aubrey b flanetik.. They are connected with the play P. II. Cobb, cand b Hancock and therefore can only be expect

Extras, ed to have bias in its favour. Probably nothing short of a firel night riot would convince them that my "rashy' views are shared by large members of the more respectable and enlightoned public. .I fear that no

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CRAIGENGOWER.

good purpose would be served F. K. Tan, Elborough, b by my viewing & rebeareal. I

*Aubray....."

should not be shocked, Irvance IE. L. Braga, c. Kennedy, b. am not a worshipper of idold and Anderson

11

Re. 1010,

Fame Flora

Kinsha Verlin Minotaur*

HIS BRTANNIC MAJESTY'S SHIPS ON THE CHINA STATION.

For bale. Deliveries, whichi (Ordinanca No. 34 of 1910), to Hampshire, 11 have been rather poor; are hold a Small Dabis Count in the 12 expected in improve after Chi New Territories at the following U were Now Year. Quotations places-Tau Wan, Tai 0, 8 are:-No. 10, at $104/131, No. Tung Chung, Cheung Chau and Monmouth 0 12. at $110/132. No 16. at Young Shu Wen, with effect from

$123/141. No. 20. $120/153, the same date. Arrival 12,500 biles. Sales 18,000 178 bale. Shipments 500 bales. Bar- ghina 52,000 bales. Unsold atook 32,000 bales,

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am not gifted with the imagin-R. Basa, c Cobb, b Pearce... ation to put myself in the place W. H. Viveqali, c und b Cobb tof ore. There are authorities, G. A. Hancock, ran out

however, who are pail to do this, R. Pestonji, c Aubrey, b and now that I have drawn atten- tion to the matter. I feel con- fident that they may be relied in to do this duty.

sensible am

of the fact that there

TO plays with their scenes even in churches and

drala." Their propriety depends,

Pearce

H. H. Tayler, b Pearce L A. Itose, not out...

H

G. E. Lace, e Brownrigg, b

Pearco...

J. D. Noria, b Anderson

Wellens: Market still dead and there is some talk of shipping hack goods to Bradford in order to reduce the practically unsale- able stocks bere.

Raw Cottone: No change. Melale: Steel Ba a have been

4 reported done at 116/-. Sales are

Moorhen Newcastle

Robin Rosario

Class Despatch-bont Admiralty tug Gunbont Ganboot

www

West River

Canton

Tons Guns 1.H.P. 1,700 12 2,000

Commander

Reported at

Comdr, A. Cochrane

Hongkong

Master W. Weet

Hongkong

Britomart

British sloop

710 2 710" 2 1,070 6,

000

Lt.-Com. B.E. Frichard

Yangtozo

900 Lt.-Com. W. H. Darwell

Hongkong

1,400

Oomdr. H. Williams

Shanghai

Cherub

Water tank and tug- British sloop

390

300 Maatar II. Smith ·

Hongkong

Torpedo-bout destroyer

1,070 300

6

1,400. Comdr. Mackenzie, D.S.O.

Penang

6

5,700 Lt.-Com. Wilkinson

Hongkong

2nd class cruiser

4,350 10

let class cruiser

7,000 Capt.0. F. Corbett M.V.O.

Weihaiwei

10,850 10 20,500

Capt. M. R. Bill

Welbaiwei

River ganbost Surveying ship

810 4. 1,200

Lt.-Com. H. Marryatt

Yungteze

1,040

Capt. F. O. O. Puedo

Labnan

lat class cruiser 1st class cruiser

14,000

27,000 Capt. E. B. Kiddle

Weihaiwei

0,800

22,000

Capt. B.H.F. Barttelot,

Weihaiwei

River gunboat

180 2

800

Lt.-Com. Alan Dixon

Hongkong

2nd class cruiser

4,800 12

22,000

Capt. Frederick A, Powlett Shanghai

Nightingale Otter

River gunboat

85

2

240

Lt.-Comir. M. Murray.

Yangtaze

Torpedo-boat

385

8

6,300

Ribble

Torpedo-tost destroyer

'590

-

River gunboat

85

2

Depot ship for Submarines .980

River gunbost

85

2

River gunboat

85

2

Torpedo boat destroyer

350

Receiving ship

4,650

River gunboat

180 2

Gunboat

710 2

Torpedo-bost destroyer

500

Weihaiwei

Torpedo-boat destroyer,355

6

6,300 Lt.-Com, K. D. Adair-Hall

Weihaiwei

Welland

Torpedo-boat destroyer

590

7,500 Com, Seymour

Weihaiwei

Whiting Widgeon

Torpedo-host destroyer 360 6

5,900 Lt. Com. R. Neville

Weikeiwei

Gunboat

195 2

2,25/2,28 per bag|

Woodcock

Gunboat

Woodlark

Gunboat

150 2 150

800 Lt-Comdr. J. C. Borrett 500 Lt.-Com. M. B. Blackwood 500 Lt.-Comir. Lloyd

Yangtze

Yanglace

Yangta40

2.22/2.26 per bag

0.36,

Lt.-Com. McGill wie

Hongkong

0.37,

Lt.-Com. J. Gaimes-

Hongkung

0, 38,

Hongkong

T.B. 035,

Lt.-Com. Handley

West River

T.B. 036,

Lt.-Com. Stileman

Hongkong

T.B. 037,

Lt.-Com. Nicol,

Hongkong

T.B. 038,

L.-Com. H. W. Soymoar, Hongkong

8,000 Capt. Ilauta

Shanghai

Australion Market: Remains Sandpiper unchanged:

Snipe

Local Market: Business Taku very quiet on norant of the ap- Tamar proach of China New Year. A l'enl zivala have, toen heavy and Thistle stocke how stand at 635,000 Usk sacke.

0 reparted of 300 to 400 tons of sq. Quotations:

flat round bars. Prices remain'

3 much the same locally, and there Patents ...M $2.55/2,80 per bag O is little enquiry belly for iron, Cut Offs

24 lead or tin. The market is quiet.Straight...

Petroleum Products: Deliver-Baconds

2 isa are normal with a steady

01:

5

laid cathe-

B. Davierwalla, b Anderson

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of course, on their treatment and

Total

112

also on the place where they are)

produced. Wagner's great Bay-

reuth masterpiece, for instance,

Christiane demand reverent treat-

ment, the quest of the Holy grail

deals with a matter for which Chinese Rereation Club v. Civil

Service.

Played at Causeway Bay on Ober- some

An even botter example, perhaps, Saturday and resulted in a hand. wia for the C. R. C- Scores:-

as being exclusively religious, is:

the passion play at Ammergat. No one could pós sibly be shocked by either of these truly elevating performances.

CIVIL SERVICE.

But faney if Wagner had Foster b Ho Wing Kin designated Parsifal a Blunt." Brown h Yew Man Chang I am glad to say I have never A. E Wead o Mok Hling b come across the word before, but¦ Yew Man Chung um informed that it is borrowed: Daweɔn bo Wing Kin from the language of the gutter and Mackay o Ho Wing Kin b means a music-hall performance. Yow Man Chung Could anything be more valgar? Sara e Ho Wing Kia b Un

How Fan

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As for the Chinees Amateur Tacchi o Wei Wing Lok bo Dramatic Society, whose approval

Wing Kin

Lieutenant Crosse's play 18 Bill b Ho Wing Kin said to have received, I can only Ling not out suppose that their views cor- Linibie b'Ho Wing Kin respond in the Chinese commun

ity to those of the amateur play- actor in our own. Let us hope at any rate that their neticus of reasoning rise superior to dubbing their opponents "narrow-mind- ed" sad fanatics.". Finob argument appeara to me 'quite unworthy.-Youre etc.

'FAIR PLAY"

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market and no change in prices.

Sugar: Little doing. No change

in quotations,

Salt: etre: Stock, 2,000 bags. Market quiet with reported asles bago.

Flour: American Market: Both the Wheat and Flour markets e ntinue firm and no sales are reported.

CHINESE RECREATION

CLUB.

Yew Man Chung 'c Tecoli b : 5 Brawn

25

20

18

Ng See Kwong o Maokay b

Brann.....

..

llo Wing Kin'unk out Ng Sae Yuen e Brawa b Hill Wei Wing Lok not out

Chau Yat Kwong, Un Hew

I

Fan, Ho Wing Ching,

Ho Wing Yuen, Wong Po Kie, Mok Bing did

bat

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1.15/2.18 per bag

Opium.-Bengal. Transactions

took place of fairly good volume and values have buзn advanced 跛 follows: Patna, New $6,576.00, Old $6,450.00, V. Old $8,400.00. Benares, Now $8,350.CJ. Old $8,225.00, V.

Virago

w

Lt.-Com. R. W. Wilkinson Hongkong

7,500 Lt.-Com. E.J.G. Mackinnon Weihsiwei

240 Lt.-Comdr. Nash

We River

1,400 Lt.-Comdr. N.E. Archdale

240 Lt.-Com. I. S. Hutton 240 Lt.-Com. Maurice Leslie Yangtaze 8,000 Gunner W. H. Ryder Hongkong. Com. R. II. Anstruther O.M.G Hongkong 800 Lt.-O. Hon. Guy Stopford .Yangtaza 900 Lt.-O. HEN. Cotrell Dormer Yangtsze 7,500 Lt.-Comdr. Maxwell

Lt.-Com. Pope

• Flagship of Admiral Jerram, K.Ü.B., C.V.O., C.M.G. Commander-in-Chief. Kaiser Franz

Joseph I Armoured cruiser 4,000" 45

FOREIGN MEN-OF-WAR ON THE CHINA AND JAPAN STATION.

Armoured cruiser Armoured oruiser Gunboat

River gunboat

Gunboat

Gunboat

d $6,125.00, Maiwa. Dealers have entered into further pur chases on a good scale and ad vances in price, have been established. New to 4 yearį, $5,800.00, 5-6 year, $5,850.00, Oldest $5,900.03. of:uk on; January were? Patna Dapbaix ** 1,204 cheats, Bзnare, 545 ohusts; Kleier Malwa 2,607) chests, and Persian Jacdes and Turkish 629 chests. Total Argus importations during the past fort. Vigilante 26 night have b en 2023 chests, made Peiho

up of 75 chests of Paina, 31 of Dondard de Lagree, Guntont 32 Benares, 214 of Malwa and 83 of 63 Petrian and T-kiab, There L

2 have been used and exported 28 during the intval 77 ohcate of Patna, 16 of Bonares, 253 of Malwa and 38 of Persian and Tarkish, leaving stceks on hand, January 15,1,202 Patza, 560 Es notes 1,969 Malwa and 674 Persian 5 Turkish. The stocks of uncerti.. fed Bengal opium remain un- changed at 181 chests Patna and 181 35 cheats Benares.

French.

10,014 30 20,000 Capt. Vergos

9,700 12 19,000 Capt. Gourts

1,000 Lieut. Vandier

570 Lieut. Dordet

**Flagship of Rear-Admiral Colloch de Kerillis, Commander-in-Chief, the French Chias Suation

Shanghai

Hongkong

845 10

Saigon

180 6.

Canton

123 7 130

500 Lieut. de Jorvillier

Canton

Lieut. Collin

Tongka

Lieut. Dapay Dutemps Tohong-kin

Sabmarine

Lieut. Boluix

Saigon

rotea.

Submarino

Baigon

•

Armoured gunboat

1,798 10

1,700

Lieut. Guillaume-Louis Saigon

Destroyer

350 7.

303 Lieut. Aurillac

Saigon

Destroyer

Capt, de Frigate Ronisen Hongkong

Destroyer

130 7

300 Comdr. do Marquessac

Saigon

Destroyer

307 8.

300

Saigon

Surveying-ahip

1,025 · 10 9,000 Com. Voisin

Saigon

#ronde"

i'lberville Pistolet

•Mousquet. danche

!

• Fle-ship of Commodore Boudicaut, Commanding the local defence Indo.China,

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Total

Total

125

Bowling.

0. M. R. W.

B.wling

Coal. Expected anivals are 46,700 tons from Japan, 3,000 from Bongay, 7,100 from Dairen mden and 2,300 from Teingian, all of

Cruiser

neisenau

Armoured cruiser

Ling..

7

0 360

which have ten cold. The

s

Gunboat

Gunboat

10

aff

5

2 21.2

0.13 0

0 14 0

0. M. R. W.E Ho Wing Kin..9.5/6 1 44 5 Mackay Yew Man Chung

1 43 3 Brawn

Ng Sze Kwang 3

0 21 0Font ir

0 13 1

Hongkong, December 18, 1914. Un How Fan..4

Dawcon

290032

1 50 1actual arrivale bave totaled 74; Inguar 025 800 tons, 49,200 tons from Japan Leipzig

and the remainder from North Lucha China. Small sales are reported Yuruburg

Otter with coal offering,

Cruiser

German,

3,600 22 13,500 Capt. v. Muller

11,000 38 28,000. Captain Bruninghaus

13

90012 1,300 900 12 1,300 3,250 24 11,000 900 10 1,350 3,400 22. 13,200

Comdr. v. Gobren

Comdr. Lüring Capt. Haun Comdr. Thierichen Capt. Morsberger "Capt. Lieut. Firle

Capt. Rosing

Teingtau

Teingtau

Canton

Shanghai

Tsingtau

Gunboat

Hankow

Oruiser

Tsingtan

Scharnhorst

3..90

Faku

Tiger Tsingtau Vaterland

River gunboat Flagship Torpedo-boat Torpedo-boat Gunboat River gunboat River gunboat

Tangtsze

11,600 36 26,000 400 8 6,500 280 4 6,000 900 10 1,350 223 4 1,300

Tsingtau

Capt. Lt. Brunner

Teingtau

Obit. z. 8. v. Maubonge

Tu

Comdr. Booker

Teing tau

Capt.Lt. v. Moller

Canton

223 4 500

Oblt, z. 8. Dressler

Yangtse

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ANNUAL

SALE.

SALE GOODS.

25% to 50%

2ND

TIES.

ALL

BOOTS.

SOCKS.

SHOES.

SHIRTS.

COLLARS,

HATS. CAPS.

UNDERWEAR.

ΤΟ

REDUCTIONS.

TO MAKE ROOM FOR SPRING NOVELTIES.

FROM JAN., 17TH TO JAN 31ST.

"CALL AND BE CONVINCED.

J. T. SHAW,

QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

Alamaator Macao Pattia

A-2

A-4

A-6

1-7

Albany

Barry

Cruisor

Gunboat

Gunboat

Portuguese,

1,757

700

Macao

Capt. Annibal de 8. Dias: Hongkong Capt. Martins Capt. Luiz A, de Magalhaes Correa Maca

UNITED STATES VESSELS ATTAHED TO ASITAIC STATION.

Submarine

Bainbridge Torpedo-boat des.

Callao

Chauncey

Protected cruiser

Torpedo boat des.

Gunboat

Cincinnati

Protected cruiesr

¡Dale "

Gunboat

Ensign G. Bradford

Cavite

Ensign W. H. Pastley: Ensign JL. L. Rakel Dafter Ensign C. M: Yates

3,430 10

420 7

420

7 243 8

250 Ensign W. L. Heiberg

Cruising

Cavite

Canton

7,500 Commander M. L. Bristol 8,000 Lieut. R. A. Spruance:

8,000 Lieut. O. 2. Köller

Torpedo-boat destroyer 420 7 8,000 Ensign Woodson

.1

8,183 11 10,000. Com. J. V. Chose. Torpedo-boat destroyer: 420 78,000 Ensign F. T. Berry Torpedo-boat destroyer 420 7" 8,000 Ensign F. Cogswell

Gunbost Station ship

Monadnock Monitor

Monterey Monitor

600 Lt. Com. V. S. Gannon. 1,088 Com. G. R. Marvell 1,100 Lisut. V. R. Lowe, 3,000 Cöm. W. O. Cole

5,277 - Com. WÃO, Cole

Ensign P. J. Peyton 1,600 Lieut. 8. W. Wallace. Com, C., W. Colon er

· Cavite.

Cruising Cavita

"

Shanghai Shanghai Onvite Olongapo

Cavite

Canton

Cavite

Decatur

Eleano

Helenn

Mohican

620 1,392 8

1,900 0

4,084

3,990 8 40

Pampanga Gunboat

243 8

Piscataqua Sea going-tug Pompey

854

Repair ship

3,085