1914-05-28 — Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1914.

COLONIAL WIRELESS.

DEMAND FOR SILVER

Compethion, or Continuity of

Large Purchasos, Will Find

· An Ill-Provided Market.

New Grecian Stamps.

The Penang Gazette learns from Greece has just issued a set of two charity postage stampa with an official source that an expert the design of a wounded soldier. will arrive there in about two The issue is made to raise funds months time to tackle the ins

Lon lon, April 30,-Mosers. for the soldiers incapacitated in stallation of short distance wire- Samuel Montagu and Co's circular the Balkon Wer, and the widows less stations, fitted with Marconi contains the following informa- and orphans of the killed, saya aparatus, in Penang and Singa- tion

This is astiefactory, for Mr. W.9. Lincoln, the well known porc.

about a million sterling arrived people were beginning to wonder in the form of bar gold, for which Holles-street stamp.desler.

the authorities at there was on active inquiry from Man With Forty Murders, whether A man named Narayein Ragho, Singapore had altogether failed the Cntinent. The price fell on a resident of Aurangabad, India, to recognise the urgency of the the 28 h instant from 77-9.5-8 to has been arrested in connection matter and the heads of com77-, and on this baris the great

Prepaid Advertisements

ONE CENT PER WORD

TO LET.

FOR EACH INSERTION.

TO LET. ROGATE, Austin Road, Kow-

LET at TAIPO a four loon; unfurnished.

Troomed Bungalow from 1st. Church Missionary Soolety Bunga-linen and glass. Mosquito proof No. 68 Peak, Mount Kellett June. Fully furnished, with plate, low) partly furnished. Cheap rent rooms. Ideal for week ends or

No. 6 Cameron Villas, No. 59 Peak to let furnished for one permanent residence.

bathing jetty & dinghy Apply year from 1st May, 1914,

E BRUCE SHEPHERD, Queon's Road Central.

No. 19, Shelley Street.

TO LET from 1st June 1914,

No. iz Beaconsfield Arcade, Shop.

No. 7 Mountain View, No. 7 Stewart Terrace, Feak. No. 20 Belilios Terrace, newly painted and colon washed.

.FOR SALE. "OLENSHIEL" 124 Barker Road, 5 rooms, close to Train Station.

Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS,

3rd Floor, Alexandra Building. Hongkong, 2nd Oct., 1913

with the alleged murder of native mercial and shipping horses were bulk of the week's supplies TO LET. No. 5. Mountain carters, who it is said he used to at a loss to account for the delay. changed hands. The shipment to poison by mixing dalurasoede with The demard for a wireless India is £250,000. The only gold View from 1st April 1914. Newly pounded rice, dball, coconut chips telegraph station is a real one, operation reported by the Bank of painted and colourwashed. and ground-nuts boiled in ghre, and it is strange that, while a England during the wook was a 55 ELGIN TERRACE, newly with a flavouring of chillies. Ho port like Sebang has for some withdrawal of £50,000 in Bover-painted and colourwashed, would hire a cart on the pretext time been able to get into eigne for Java on the 28th instant. of going to some place 30 or 40 communication with ships some The gold production of Rhodesia miles distant, then surreptitiously hundreds of miles cat at sea, for Mirob, 1914-£273,236 mix the preparation with the food Penang, whose interests lie so constitutes record for any one of the cutters, who when they largely in shipping movements month. It exceeds the production b:came unconscious would be and facilities, une perforce to of February, 1914, by £13,348,, thrown out of the cart by Raghu, wait until a steamer is within an and that of March, 1913, by either in a well or river, or aban-hour or two of the barbour. The £15,430. "doned in desolate parts of the expert to whom we have referred,

Tone of Silver Market.. jungle. The faces would be burnt will, we are informed, proceed The undertone of the silver to prevent recognition. It seems immediately to Singapore to market continues good. Prices this ghastly business continued undertake the work of establish moved considerably on the news for several years, Raghu being ing a short distance station there, that the United States of America responsible for over 30 or 40 after which he will turn his had definitely obtained control of murders. It seems he learned the attention to Penang. Thus we Vera Cruz, and thus interrupted effec's of daturs seed from a are to exercise patience over shipments of silver through that TO LET unfurnished No. 4

another period of waiting; and, port.

Morrison Hill, containing 8 Rallway Concession to Troops. with the illustration of the Pen- The Hongkong exchange, which rooms with usual servants accom-

The concession of travelling ang Hill Railway before us, we had remained unchanged from modation. For on the India Army form T-1700 can only hope for the best. the 8th to the 25th instant, com- ticulars, apply Property Office, JARDINE MATHESON & in a first-class carriage on pay- The Pebang equipment is to menced to rise, and Chine as a ment of sec nd-class fare, which provide for messages within a whole began to entertain favour-Co, Ltd. is at present onjoyed by captain" radius of about 350 miles, that of able views as to the prospects of and subaltoras doing duty with Irgiments of Cavalry, batterios Singapore, to the best of our silve, and to act upon them, or companies of Artillery, bat belief, within a 400 or 450 miles radius. We may, in passing, talions of Infantry, and companies remark that we are curious to of Sappers and Minera has been

know the reason why Singapore extended to officers of similar rooke of the Indian Medical should be better equipped than Penang in regard to commercia Service, on all occasions when wireless, for, when the Southern they travel at their own expense

Sudbu.

on the Madras and Southern

The Indian Bazaars were also buyers up to 27 3-16d., the quotation touched on the 28th instant. Their abstention did 271d. not prevent a further rise on the next day.

1211

further par-

TO LET-Past of First Floor of No. 25, Des Voeux Road Central. Immediate Possession. Also1 Motor Boat for sale. Apply

-DRAGON CYCLE Co.

TO LET. From 1st July 1914. The fact is, that demand is no 55. The premises now in the In Canton on Shameen Lot Settlement's station is completed, longer the chief factor of the occupation of the Bank of

and

room

of

Use of

TO LET-Four roomed hous

in Salisbury Avenue, Kow- loon. Cheap rental. Shop with Godown attached, Nathan Rd., Kowloon. Kowloon Marine Lot No. 48 with Wharf.

Flat in Nathan Rd. Kowloon. Apply to.

HUMPHREYS ESTATE &

FINANCE CO., LTD.

Alexandra Buildings, -

LET. "LA HACIENDA T. No. 74, Mount Kellott Road. Apply CHATER MODY, No 5, Queen's Road Contral.

TO LET-from 1st May, 1914 No. 1048, The Peak, furnish- ed. Apply to S. J. DAVID & Co. Prince's Buildings.

TO LET With inmediate

poascasion. -Office:-2nd

Floor of the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank's Building No. 7 Queen's Also Largo Road Central. Godown in Basement of same building. Apply to DEUTSCH- ASIATISCHE BANK.

TO LET Furnished from May 1st for 3 or 4 months, Kenlie 76A, Peak. Suitable for two Apply HARBOUR families.

«Notices.

it will not be able to speak with situation. For many years part, Taiwan Ld. Apply to, DAVID Mabratia Railway, North Western Betavia, or Hongsong, or any- the market has been wondering SASSOON & Co. Ltd. Hongkong. MASTER. Railway, Oudh and Rohilkhand. Railway, and Esatern Bongal except the wireless

were ele of importance, if we whence fresh inquiry could come

sufficient to absorb supplies, consider how long this shrinkage State Railway.

visible or expected. the liner

the cargo Shakespearean Collection.

The output had been on an in-will continne, rather than what One of the chief loan exhibite vessel--the principal object of

demand. beirg prepared by the Board of the short range wireless installa Creasing scale, the defunct Indian will be the extent of future Trade for the British Pavilion ation in questio. Tuare may be Specie Bank held a vast stock. the Leipzig International Exhi-a reason for the differ once, but financed by borrowed money, and bition of the Book Industry and cannot be a very waighty one, an impression permeated quart- Graphic Arts is a collection of Singapore will be bought into ers interested in silver that whilator

touch with ates oebis Fooner these circumstances existed, no Shakespearians. The general scheme of the Special Committee than Penang, comparatively, but improvement in the price could

the station on this island, when take place.

to include copies of Chinese and

Japanese editions.

Stent M. P.'s

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it

Demand is certain to arise in due course, and any competition, large buyer, such as the Indian continuity, of purobuzes from

an ill-provided market from Government for instance, will find which to draw the desired sup plies.

'N LAZARUS.

Eskibelak Optic

N. LAZARUS, OPTHALMIC OPTICIAN. 1A,D'Aguilar St

The stook in Bombay has risen from £32,000 to £35,000 whilst Tel. 1292. the up-country offlake in reduced from 150 to 100 bars a day,

A shipment of £50,000 has been made from San Francisco to Hongkong.

eleven persons. Prince Hitty and

Apollinaris

THE QUEEN OF

TABLE WATERS.

Supplied under

ROYAL WARRANT OF APPOINTMENT

Lo

GUARD AGAINST PLAQUE

BY USING C.N.

of Organisation, whose chairman faished and in working order, The Present Problem. is Sir Didney Lee, is to show, as should prove of inestimable The problem faced now is of

The quotation of 2}d, recorded] Nothing is more worth of your con-

alderation than the welfar of your oyu far as possible, the many forms

The trouble that to-day le small and easi- in which the works of Shake- Woitu. Broadly spe king, ship quite a different character. The apeare have been published. pere and others concerned will Cobart district in Canada appears on the 28th instant, is the highest There will be translations of the 3ve more than 24 hours of valu-to have reached the acme of its touched since December 6, 1913, y romediad, if neglected muy get beyond production, and even betrays when a similar price was fixed, aa single measures. Be on the safe side and If your eyes are giving trouble call on us on this ccession, for both cash and have them examined. No charge for great poet's works in six different able time.

signs of retrogression.

and forward delivery. The set-ught testing. Indian dialects, and it is hoped

One-sixth of the world's sup- Singapore Dilatoriness.

plies--that portion of the Mexican back yesterday to 27. 3-16d, was Reference has been made to output which went to the refineries merely temporary. No Member ever impressed the the dilatoriness of Singapore. If the United States of America- House of Commons with his gift There is another instance of has been lost for many months, of silence more than General delay in Penang for which we Another sixth is bottled up in indebted to officials in Mexico City, where local refineries Forester. This sonrible man are represented Much Wenlock for that Colony. We refer to the have been used to deal with it,

Given the prospect that 10 years, and never made a Fork. That bistorio, but unlovely,

months or grave disturbances and disloca- speech. One Member, Sir Charles relic's days or

of communication with outer Barrell, sat for 60 years, restrain-years are generally considered to tion

con- world will ing himself nobly. He made one be numbered. It was condemned, the

reasonв if prudence Rables in Calcutta; speech only in order to introduce a century ago, yet it still throws tinge,

There has been an increase ojj a Bill providing that housemaide shadow in the sun, and, like would counsel mining authorities should be forbidden to clean threatened men, it may do so for to conserve their treasures of rabies in Caloutta recently, laat sme time to come. We bear on silver underground in the form math showing 34 cases as against windows from the outside.

high authority that the pick of of, ore, rather than to temit 131 during the whole of 1913. Bangkok's Vehicles. The number of vehicles at pre- the workmen will not be wielded fortano by locating easily realiz- The worst case took place when HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE Y sont registered at the Registration upon Fort Cornwallis for six ab'e ingole of refined metal in a mad dog in Elliot Street bit Department of the Ministry of months. This is regard d aja po itions of danger.

1) ubtless, come such considera- two other men on the BI. mail Local Government at Bangkok is fir estimate, and we canno

steamer to Rangoon were recently 701 motor care and about 250 moloss surprico. Realising fullytions have induced the mining

the bitten by a dog and returned by carriages for hire. The latter what generly happens to Pinanganborities who control are divided into four classes ac when Singapore has the bandling Esperanza," "Santa Gertrudis," the next boat to Calcutta, pro

"Baena Terras" and "El Oro"

ceeding to Kasauli cording to their condition. Ac-of its fairs it is comforting to cording to the Nungsne Phim know that it is not aix years. companies to close down at this Thai there are thirty Royal care, The Fort my go with few regrete; juncture, Sey ral Mexican refin ten special care which do not in the dead dara idlers were eries, thus deprived of supplies, require registration, and twenty wont to ait on ita acaray have ceased to work. care in shops and dooks making slopes and their successors sit

In these circumstances, it 760 motor cara in all, The same there still. Its brown walls

patent that what- paper estimates that there are four may breed arme old philosophy, is fairly

the outcome hundred private carriages, but lut we live in a strenuous and a ever

may be the differences between the department, being concerned comme cial ago, and the dramere of only with rogistered vehicles, bas are not so numerous as those of the United States of America and no record of any of those figures. a new generation, who Basera the Mexico, whether hostilities are value of the site, in dollars and suspended or not, a stoppage, At Winchester Cathedral a desire to see the old Fuilding more or less prolonged, must take window to the memory of Izaak levelled to the ground. Are we place in the contribution of Walton is being erected, and the do'ng the powers of Singapore a Mexics to the world's available dedication will take place on May wrong? Has the reluctance supply of silver.

It will thus be seen' ihst, con- 29. The author of the Compleat teen born of a sentimental pang? Angler lived during his later We hardly think this is the extrary to indications which daye with George Morley, the lanation. Plans, and revised have prevailed for many years An infalible remedy for ir Bishop of Winchester, and was rins, pass to and fro and are past, any operator desirous of ritation of the Skin caused by baried in Prior Silkstede's blue pencilled or decorated with lorming an opinion as to the Heat. Freckles, Sunburn, Tan, Chapel in the Cathedral. His marginal notes until it is hard to future price of silver needs to etc.. speedily removed by its a

and a generally healthy tone grave is marked by a black know what the Government is

imparted to the skin. marble slab, It bears an in-[driving at. To dim lish the Fort

Large Bottle Cents 75, Boription by Thomas Ken, the and construct something eles on hyma-writer, and one of the the site once a decision is arriv-IF you have lost your appetite one of the big variety of Miesten bialiopa." Winchestored at might strike the ordinary Cathedral Library possesses ergon es quite simple, but it dainty, dishes at the ALEXAN- many book connected with gathers dilliunities eg time 003 DRA CAFE sure to tempt

Izaak Walton.

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