1914-05-29 — Page 4

WATSON'S

HOUSEHOLD AMMONIA.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY,

A Lesson from Shanghal.

We have before now commented in the more go-ahead spirit which prevails in Shanghai generally thon in Hongkong. The point is imphasised by the motivity of the orticultural Society there. Nut

DAY BY DAY

THERE ARE FEW THINGS WHICH

BLESS AND BOOTHE THE LIFE OF OTHERS MORE, OR DO THEM MORE THANKS. IT MAKES MEN GOOD, THAN THE GIVING OF

MAY 23, 1914.

DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL COMPANY MEETING.

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LATE-MRS. LAMMERT,

Funeral at Happy Valley Yesterday.

The funeral of the late hir Lammert took plaos yesterday sear, as compared with one in WORLD, AND THAT BONE OF THE of the Fifth Moon, according to Merors, A.B. Watson and Co. Ltd. Hongkong, but it also has ae one of FINEST IMPULSES TO A BETTER their calendar, and on that day is was held this morning at the evening at the Happy Valley, the ste aims the introduction into ED HEART WITH PLEASANT HOPE always celebrated the Dragon Hongkong Hotel, when Mr. H. cortege being followed from the the Settlement of garden shrubs AND BIDS MANY A MAN WHO 15 Boat Festival, which has centuries Humphreys presided. There were Monament, whic's was pssood at of tradition behind it. The also present-Dr J. W.Noble, of 5,30 p.m., by a large number of nplants which are not indigen. SAD IN MOOD TAKE COURAGE.

The Weather.

Festival is kept up with much the consulting committee, Messrs. na to the neighbourhood. But

Lower level 8 a.m. Temp 83;

enthusiasm in South China, and in G.J.il.Sayer, D.E Clark, E. Setb, residents, including H. E. the his object is not allowed to

sunshine. emain a mere dead letter, for a

At the Perk 8 a.m. Temp 78; Janton particularly it le observed F. T. Chapple, L. Gay, F. Malt Governor.

with widespread ohome is on foot to carry it out

delebrations. land, G. Hogg, J. M. Wong and

The coffin was met at the The feature of the Festival Capt. Rolfe, shareholders and J.. In a very practical manner. It is anushine.

entrance of the cemetery by the racing A. Tarrant secretary, realized that foreigners who be Siberian Mail Due per owadays is come interested in gardening Liangshow to-day. know little, when they first lake Siberian Mail-Olosed per as. it up of the local difficulties

Kawachi. Maru at 11 am. ittanding the cultivation of Eur-

to-day Siberian Mail.-Closes per as tables, and consequently the looisty is proposing to undertake something in the nature of an axperimental garden which would

The cheapest and host in the market. They give a free and last-pean fruit, flowers and vege ing lather, and impart a soothing feeling to the skin. For delicate and sensitive skies they are unequalled.

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The Chairman said :-

Copley Moyle, chaplain to St. John's Cathedral. The first part

between the gaily-adorned The secretary read the notes Bishop Lander and the Rev. V.L.. dragon boats, and the crews of convening the meeting. the respective craft go in for striot training for some weeks before Gentlemen :-The report and of the service was read by the

being recited by the bishop. the event. In Hongkong the race statement of accounts and audi-later, the committal sentences takes place at aberdeen, and, as tore' report, having been in your E. F. Ferdinand at 5p.anal, this year's event, which hande for the past eight days, I The principal mourners were

to-morrow.

Visitors

Count and Countess Tallenbach are staying at the Hongkong

Elutel.

Sent to the Pound. Eight stray dogs were sent to the Pound yesterday by the po'ice.

Stolen Anchor and Chain,

With the idea of carrying this laa into effect, the Society has pproached the Municipal Council uggesting the setting apart of a Jortion of ground in the protect- looiety is willing to develop for xperimental and instructional A favourable reply purposes,

18 been received, the Council Messrs. Wright and Hornby stating that it is its intention to inform us that the Langkat output

et seide an area for the purpose for yesterday was 355 tons. which the Society has in view,

A Good Trip.

An anchor and chain are report- ed to have been stolen off a cargo boat at Tai Kok-tsui.

Langkat Output.

took place this afternoon, drew will, with your permission, take the deceased lady's fire some, George, Charles Lionel, Her large crowds of Europeans and them as read :~-~ Chinese to the other side of the The ecoquats show an increased pert and Frank, while among land to witness the struggle for proft aves, 1912 of 317,330.10. others who were present HE, the Governor, honours. His Excellency the That this increase has been coin-were Governor and party were present oident with a reduction of stocks Mesare.. F. Maitland, M. 8. launch of nearly $50,000, ie, I think you Northoote, A Rodger, G. Grimblé, in the Government

Vistoria

# will agree, highly satisfactory. E. Browne, W. Armstrong. J. A The race itself is both weird and We paid off during 1913 $92, Mackie. G. A. Woodcock, Consul barbaric. The long parrow canoes, 027.11 in mortgages and advances, J. J. Leiria, E. Beth, J. Walker with curving prowe, fanciful as stated in the report, and re- Petley, Owen Hughes, A. R. Su- carving and banners flying, duced our local and general lia-therland, A. O'D: Gourdin, G. carrying from fifty to eighty of abilities in the Eat and America Pieroy, J. Rodger, W. G. Ham- crew apiece, row up to the starting by $25,546.19, notwithstanding phreys, F. M. Ellis, U. O, Galuzzi, line to the beating of gongs and so unusually large expenditure U. Seth, C. D. Bilas, W. Hum hrill yells of encouragement or on new machinery and new phroya, T. K. Dealey, J. H. Peare defiance; and at the given signal launch. The item cash in bank sou, Dunoon Clarke, R. Kennett, away they speed at a pace that is shown an increase of $6,275.09. A. Chapman, O. J. Lafrenz, G. truly wonderful.

The loss on subsidiary coins Caldwell, Mr. and Mrs She tom amounted to $18,830.52.

Hooper, Miss Maker, and Mr and

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anger. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered a the Council, at its own expense, The 6.8. Changsha arrived in their residuces without any extra charge. On copies sent by o organise the work under the port to-day from Melbourne and

The swiftly moving canoes, the post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. supervision of the Parks Com-reported fine weather throughout, To postage on the weekly issue to any part of the world is $1.0nitteo, who will consult and co- the voyage,

gleaming paddle blades, the glis Daring the year ander review, Mrs. P. H. Holyoak. perate with the "Committee of Clock and Topee Stolen. tening naked bodies of the orswe, we purchased, with the approval. The wreathe, of which shore he Horticultural Society. A clock and a topee were stolen the clamour of the gongs and the of the consulting committee, No.. was a profusion, were moet Jne would like to see an experi- from the house of Mr. G. B. Sayer frenzied shouts of the rowers: all 33, Queen's Road West, and have beautiful, Coming as they did mental garden started here, but in Hankow Road yesterday. The these go to make up a spectacle since shifted our West Point from all sections of the community, if such a movement were set on value of the stolen articles is ten as exciting as it is picturesgue. branch there. The landlord of our they bore eloquent testimony to fot we doubt if it would receive dollars,

When the race is finished the old premises was continually put the esteem in which the decease i the authorities the same

Kailan Output. irom

victors are not slow to make ating up car rent, and we bought lady was held. liberal assistance which is pro-

The total output of the Admin- parade of their prowess and there No. 33 in self defence. The nised in Shanghai by the Muni-istration's mines for the week is a great deal of feasting and purchase was subject to the

ending May 16, smounted to drinking to follow.

existing mortgage of $15,000 at ipal Council,

64,850.64 tone and the sales The origin of the Dragon Boat 7 per ce it,, which we expressed A SPORTING TUG-OF WAR. Illiberal Expenses.

A gentlemen at present residen during the period, to 58,420.20 Fertival is somewhat obscured in a wish to pay off, but the work

the mist of Hongkong has had rather a tons.

autiquity, bagages refused to accept repay-

When. tradition tells that it is connect ment.

however, jusintexperience with the govern

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HONGKONG TELBQYA 'İ!.”

DEATH.

on 27th May,, -LAMMERT -At Meirion, the Peak, widow of the late G. R. Lammiert, in her 72nd year.

and print the newn without fear or favour. MUÆÆÆÆRTIZURES Tak 4

Jane,

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong. Telephone: No. 1 A.B.C., 5th edition. Western Union.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

Lost the Owner,

Electric Cable Stolen.

Straight Pulls

Yuen, by reason of his good qual- the amount of business done as ny afternoon, before a large and

nent of Canton. He was asked, A coolie brought a typewriter ed with the commemoration of a expires in September next, we D.C.L.I. Defeat the R.G.A, in two

He told the police Yuen, of the Cho country (now property unencumbered. The obftet of this paper in to publish" arrest information, serve the truth long ago, to visit Canton and to the Police station yesterday great and good statesman, Wat shall pay it off, and hold, this

ive evidence in a certain case, afternoon. ind he agreed on condition that that he had been engaged by a known as Hanan), who fi urished The present yes", so far as it

- Shortly after six o'clock yester- is expenses were paid. He went man to carry the instrument but many centuries ago This Wat has gone, shows an increase in → Canton, spent a whole day had lost sight of him.

audience, 87 here, and expected to be recouped!

ities and of the high estimation compared with the corresponding distinguished for his steamer and hotel expenses. Mr. Sorby of the Hongkong in which he was held in the period of 1913, and it certainly Company R. G. A. engaged in a 'wo days ago a cheque came Electric Company has reported hearts of the people, was impesoh- looks as if the fulare has in store tug-of-war on the Race Course long in payment of his out-of-to the police that someone, beed by jealous and powerful new era of prosperity for this with the D. O. LL, the result of seporting challenge. The teams pocket money; it was for nine tween May 21 and 28, stole about | enemies, and he was banished by company. dollars and twenty-five cents! He 120 feet of electric cable from the King of Oho to Kiangnan I have no further remarks to were ten a side, 110 stone, and" did not make much on that trans-dram lying on the Conduit Road, (now known as Kisnau). This make, gentlemen, but if any the contest for best of three pulls helion. The Canton government Old Wellingtonian Dinner.

Auy old Wellingtonian wishing injustice so preyed upon the shareholder has any questions to all over. aas evidently a curious idea of what it costs a European to travel to attend the dinner on June 18,tatesman's mind that in a fit of ssk, I shall be pleased to answer

despondency he jumped into the them to Canton and to spend a day is asked to send in his name, river and drowned himself. This There being no questions I bag there. But the fault was partly with his year and house or dor event happened on the 5th day to move that the report, and at the door of the gentleman mitory, as soon as possible to: of the 5th moon.

statement of accounts as present Soon after Wat Yuon's death fed be passed. himself. He should have made a the Honorery Secretary, O. W..

aydinner, Murray Barracks, Hong the people of Cho began to realise bargain before he went.

Mr. Chappler. Ohairman, who are asked to give evidence in kong.

very keenly the great lows they beg to second the adoption of Clay Pigeon Shooting. cases outside the Colony should The Victoria Clay Pigeon Club's had sustained by his death, and the report and sccounte.

they mourned his untimely end. The Chairman:-It has been profit by the example of another monthly cup competition for May to keep his memory green; it proposed by myself and seconded Hongkong gentlemen who was recently naked to travel to Macao boon won by

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1914..

THE MILITANT MADCAPS.

r. T. M.

Within the past few weeks the militant suffragists have agai" come to the fore ut Home. They have renewed their window- smssking campaign, once more taken to damaging some of the nation's piotorial treasures, and instituted a new method of annoy- as an expert witness. He declined Nigul ecr., with a soore of 98 ont apce, giving fresh justification for the term "abrieking sisterhood," to go except he got forty dollars of a possible 100. Mr. Strafford by raising such a din in Court as to make proceedinge practically a day and he got it, too. An was second with 95 and Mesura Lup possible. Practices such as these must assuredly do harm to the expert has to be paid for time and Lugebil and Sorby tied with 92

knowledge. cause by arousing the ire of the thinking public. But that does not matter one whit; the point is that they cause others to suffer,

“Secret” Sitting..

Some comment has been made

The D. O. L. I won the first call easily, and the second after. considerable excitement. They are said not to have been defeated in this department for ten years,

ARMED ROBBERY.

Masked Robbers who had

Poor Haul."

became the custom to offer sacri- by Mr. Chapple that the report aces on the anniversary of his and scounts as presented, be

Armed and masked men com death. The sacrificial offerings passed. All those in favour please into the river. It so happened, carried unanimously, consisted of rice thrown broadcast hold up their hands again! say the records, that on the night The Chairman:-Before ask mitted a robbery the day before following one of the earliest ing Mr. Clark to move the re- yesterday on a fishing boat off at a re- Tai Chau-cho, a village in the peared in dreams before certain muneration of $700 a

and that the law is openly set at defiance. Hence must the modern on the fact that the recont by austion on June 2 ladies' shoes 82crifices, the spirit of Yuen ap-election of the 80 a year 1 New Territory. While it was yot

cone option of the movement be sternly resisted and its advocates brought to their senses. It is a problem of no small magnitude and dificulty from the fact that those at the bottom of it are abusing their position as women, but none the loss is it a matter which calls for sharp and effective treatment,

be

on

to convey

river,

for the third place.

Latest Advertisements, Mr. G. P. Lemmert ie welling "asoret" sittings of the Ameri-trunks, etc.-Page 5.

Conaigrees notices are issued wise men of the Che country, and should like to make just one or dark, in the morning, two boate can Senate have tsen rather fully

had been thrown into the river for many years past been in re- and five men élsmbered on reported in the press, but there regarding the Den of Ogil and complained that all the rice that two remarks. The saditors have drew slangside the fishing boat need be little in the way of the Manchuria, Page 5.

The Exchange Binks are to for him had been eaten by the ceipt of 8500 a year, but a few board. Seizing the master of the surmise as to how the result of closed to public business occasion of the next festival, requesting that their remunera purse, which, however, contained On the days ago they sent in a letter vessel they deprived him of hie fish, leaving him none. the sittinge leaked out. It is a

therefore, the people made their should be increased, no more than twenty cents, and well known fact that if a senator Monday and Wednesday next-

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very forced him to descend into the offeringe of rice into dumplings, as their work It is a signifidant fact that militant suffragism, active though or, in Britain, a member of, say, "Month of Mary,"

"doubt hold, closing the hatch and nail- it is, is making no headway among the educated, intelligent type Select Committee, is friendly On Sunday, being the last day wrapped up in leaves, so that the heavy There is no of women. It is true that it continues to attract adherents, but with a journalist the latter does of the month of Mary fish could not got at the oan that Watson's audit is one of the ing it down. Hering assaulted and these are for the most part young girls away from home influence, not find it very difficult to extract a high solemn mass will be toote. Also, they introduced largeet, if not the largest, in imprisoned foki the robbers in which Hongkong. The amount of detail then wont aahore to the fiber- with neither the capacity nor the experience to judge the issues; information from him. To come celebrated at the Cathedral of the dragon boats, in

the

sacrificial in enormous and it opoupies three man's house and demanded, from they are swept into the current by the magic but mistakenly-used to lower ground, we remember the Immaculate Conception st words, "Woman's progress." The bulk of them may, indeed, be the case of a town councillor at 3 s.m. by the Rev. Rector. In damplinge out into the middle of full weeks of the auditors' time, his wife, information we to where said to be without the discretion to determine what progress really Home who had attended a moat the evening, at 5 o'clock, a grands years want on, the crews of general managers and your being forthcoming sensors, all Under these circumstances, the he kept his pige. Information not is, or to resitee that the movement is merely masquerading under important committee meeting procession will take place in the

the dragon boats made a practice consulting committee recommend geese and a pair of trousers, 'all- the term. In actuality this Woman's progress" is away from the He met a journalist after and spacious compound of the Church, home, away from man, and away from the child. It has produced, remarked how surprising it was beautiful image of the "Imma of racing each other to the that the increase asked for be of a total value of 183,80, with 13, 10 of perspective in the minds of its followers, and, what that he always managed to know culate Conception will be borne place at which the offerings granted. I therefore, sek Mr. which they has to be content, for fa much worse, the increasing irreverence and disrespect for author-what was going on.

no on, through the centuries, has of the auditors at seven hundred scared them and toade them run

for the boste and make away. ity can be traced in large measure to modern conceptions of suffrag you have heard that wed by the brothers of the Con- had to be cast into the river, and Clark to propose the re-election the woman-raising an

Phocalx Assurance Co., Ltd. been evolved the great Dragon dollars a year a ism. Through the suffragiste entire disregard of law and order, so on. He went on supposing and fraternity of the Blessed Lady. there has sprang up an evil influgace, changing completely, or in the journalist went on making The Phoenix Assurance Com-Boat Festival of China with its Mr. Clark-I beg to propos danger of so doing, the attitude of the young towards proper mental note; and all the time pany's report for the 132nd year's merry-making, janketinga, oleng that Messre. F. Maitland and C. that councillor looked as innocent working shows that the proft on of drums and gongs and wild Bernard Brown be re-elected as a babe. But the journalist is Fire, Accident, and Marine In-skirl of music, The noisy accom-auditors for the ensuing year at a Enough has been written to show to what an extent the milit-sometimes tricked. There is ons tances and Interest on invested paniments to the festival are remuneration of seven hundred ant movement has its roots in demoralising doctrines, while on the record the fact that Mr. Justin fands amounts to 8315,000. The intended to soare away the hungry dollars. ground of inexpediency it could easily be shown that man's and McCarthy and Lord Randolph total funds of the Company now fab On the day of the festival, Mr. Sathi beg to second woman's interest throughout practically the whole sphere of haman Churchill once agreed to spend amount to over £16,000,000. A paper dragon bosts, gay with that Motivity are identical and do not call for separate treatment. The some time in the lobby apparently interim dividend of 3/6d was paid colours, may be found in every The Chairman-It has been only comforting reflection is the knowledge that this new movement in secret conclave. Next morning in November and a fuel of 4/6d dwelling, as well as quantities of droposed by Mr. Clar in us wice represents the bulk of feminios opinion. But its blast a most circumstantial account of is now recommended, making 8 the sacrificial dumplings, which seconded by Mr. Enos Seth that Ing julluences are none the less serious on that account. And it is a coming Nationalist entente per annum free of income tax are in due course consumed after the suditore, Mosers. F. Maitland "bigh time these madcaps were made to understand that the common appeared, The rase had been a Messrs. Dödwall and Co., are the

O has been paid to the and O. Barnard Brown be re elec

led for the ensuing youral are on appli ouse ul the nation will no longer tolerate their abomigahlo and completo kurousa, –

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