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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 6. 1914.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.,

ESTABLISHED 1841.

ÆRATED WATER

MANUFACTURERS."

FORMAZONE.

Public Bathlog Places.'

In the comparative statement | of the estimated and actual ex- penditure of the Colony for 1013,

DAY BY DAY.

which was laid on the table at I KNOW A PLACE WHERE THE SUN

IN LIKE GOLD. the Legislative Council on Thu. sAND THE CHERRY BLOOMS BURST day, there appear some illumiont- WITH SNOW, ing figures in relation to the AND DOWN UNDERNEATH IS THE provision of public bathing WHERE THE FOUR-LEAF CLOVERS

GROW, places. These show that the

LOVELIEST SPOT

A REFRESHING, INVIGORATING and PALATABLE drink estimated outlay was $2,000-\ONE LEAF IS FOR HOPE AND ONEĮ

particularly suited for Tennis and Bathing Parties.

Pints & per doz. Splits 60 ats, per, doz,

PYERIS

Chemically, an exact reproduction of a well-known Gorman spring, at half the price. Blends Perfectly with Spirits, especially Whisky. Once try a Whisky Pyeris and you will ask for it again,

Prices: $0.85 per do Pints. $0.50 por diz. Splite.

STONE GINGER BEER.

The only fermented Sne Ginge Beer in the Far East. The real charm of Stone Ginger Beer is the flavour produced by partial fermentation; without this no Stone Ginger Beer can be said to be gonuine.

8 Price: $0.85 per doz.

DRY GINGER ALE.

FRAGRANT, AROMATIC, DRY. Its "Dryness" is a feature

deserves

Pricos:-$1.00 per doz. Pints. $0.60 per doz, Splits.

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

FOR FAITH,

. FOR LUCK;

BUT YOU MUST HAVE HOPE, AND YOU MUST LOVE AND BE STRONG IF YOU WORK. IF YOU WAIT, YOU

WILL FIND THE PLACE WHERE THE FOUR-LEAF CLOVERS

YOU MUST HAVE FAITH.

AND 8)

the amount of the sum voted by

ho Council for the purpose-but AND ONE IS FOR LOVE YOU KNOW in the next column we notice on AND OOD PUT ANOTHER ONE IN tem of only $62.89, being the IF YOU SEARCH YOU WILL FIND total actually expended. In ex-

WHERE THEY GROW. observation Erection of sheds planation appears the following abandoned." One would like to know exactly what this means. We have many times pointed out definitely voted by the Council that the sum of $2,000 was for the specific purpose of providing publia bathing places, It should be expended, and we still adhere to that view. A Breach of Faith?

The explanatory note states which has helped to give this drink the popularity it so well that the erection of shede has heen abandoned. This cannot apply to all sheds, as we know hat scme have been put up. On he beach at Kennedy Town, May- be the cost of these accounts for will the expenditure of the $62.89 referred to. But the original cheme, ne advocated by Unoffici- al members of the Council, and approved, was for the pro-

The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong "elegraph

· be as follows **.

Daily israe-38 per annum.

Weekly issue-13 per annum. Te rates per quarter and per mensem, proportions. Subscriptions

GROW.

The Weather.

1889.

HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE

YBARS AGO.

Compied from the "Hongkong Telegraph files for the Week Ending June 8, 1889)

The Dollar.

May 31-The rate of the dollar on demand on this date

was 33. 0.1-4d..

A Storm Explained.

TAI ON PIRACY,

Five Chinese Again Remanded, }

LIKELY TO DIE.

-Alleged Use of a Chopper-

At the Police Court, this morn- ing, the five Chinese detained in

A Chinese from Wanchai, is, connection with the piracy on according to the stat ment of the Tai On were again remanded. Inarootor McHardy at the Pulice. The Crown Solicitor, Mr. P.M. Court, this morning, in the Hodgson, asked for a date for hospital anffering from injurioa the hearing to be fixed.

His Worship (Mr. Wood) asked inflisted by a Chinese in custody. if there were likely to bosny more. The injured man, he said, was in The Crown Solicitor eald hela critical condition. Dr. Koob in

said

feotion may exist through the very little of the case.

May 31"Whatever dissatis-did not know; so far he knew a telephonic communication are sure that a linge ways of afternoons of Monday, Tuesday. It was alleged that the prisoner havoo caused by the storm, we The bearing was fired for the the man was likely to die. gratification will sweep across the and Wednesday June 15, 10 and used a chopper on the injured Colony when they learn the real 17.

osuse. It was neither the depre- Mr. Dixon, of Mesare. Wilkin-man, cutting a deep wound on the ciation of the dollar nor the son and Grist, sad Mr. Agassiz head.

tmosphere agitation caused by defend, Mr. Dizon the third The bearing was adjourned for

the excessive

Light Wanted.

1859;

The "Telegraph" in Canton.

the Sanitary Board conference.risoner and Mr. Agassiz. the depositions to be taken. The Hongkong Telegraph is now on sale at, and will be Dr. Doberck esitles it by saying remainder. delivered to subscribers by, the that it was an abnormal amount

Mr. Bratton defonds. Dairy Larm Company, Limited, of water vapour extending to a Shameen, Canton, who have been great height in the atmosphere, not-nay, they are even so inver- appointed our agents there. which caused

tebrate they dare not meet on Iceedings at yesterday's jam- rainfall. Exactly a superabua Council days-not even to con borce as the last straw, and an dance of H. 20., flopped violently sider an important question like ample justification for eaving the Lower level 8 a.in. Temp 80; down in a heap by the Meteor the Fuk folam water supply. As colony from being made the rain, fog.

logical Manager." At the Peak 8 .m. Temp. 74. June 1. For two nights the

reorganised body they get out to object of farther ridicule through. frame model Sinitary' byelaws, cut the world!" slight rain.

etreats of Hongkong have been in which were the subject of endless 'The Mails. Siberian Mail-Olosed per 8.8. ness, owing to the breakage of the

the most complete state of dark-waddle, and, after all, were sent back by the Governor, in the Manchuria to-day at 11 a.m. gas main, and it does not go much his pupil to re-write an essay, for same way that a muster orders Devanha to-day at 11 am. Siberian Mail-Oloses per.... any measures have been taken to

authorities to say that scarcely is simply that of sirualating Yingchow to-day at 5 p.m. The English Mail of May was has been in a half submerged The ohange in the Presidenos remedy the evil. Queen's Road pamphlets on the dry earth lymph. delivered in London yester-state, with obstructions, pitfalle, it is hard to tell. The Colonial

may improve the Board's value day.

sand-banks and rivulets every Surgeon in tres, but he is Langkat Output. Mesare. Wright and Hornby where; yet it is generally left in the Coal Surgeon, and as such inform us that the Langkat out-nighta; not a glerm of a lantern ought to be the best man. The a most desolato darkness at put for yesterday is 360 tons.

Surveyor-General bas his hands Diamond Scarf Pin Stolen. is to be seen for a long distance, Mr. Ellia: living at Pedder's except those carried by a few very full indeed just now--he has his room of a diamond scarf pin This deplorable state of things Board can do is to sit down, dictate Hill has reported the theft from chairs and lickshes that plod with glory so fer, and in our by no means covered himself their way through the mud.

humble opinion the best thing the worth $150,

for any period less than ne month will be charged as for a vision of bathing-places at either English Mail-Closed por 6.5. to the credit of our paternal re-consideration. Their metier

fuli montb. The daily isane is delivered free when the address is accessible to

desanger. Posk subscribere can have their copies delivered a their residences without any ertra charge. Ou copios sent by post an additional $1.89 per quartor in charged for postage. Ta postage on the weakly issue to any part of the world is $1,00

per quarter.

Sagle Copies, Daily, ente. Weakly, wen-five cents (for

cash only).

end of the city. Does it mean, therefore, that the Government

lends doing no more than it has one? If so, there is a distinct and regrettable breach of faith on its part; and one would like: to know what is to be done with the balance of $1,937.11. The whole thing appears to have been muddled from beginning to end, And we hope one of the Unofficial mbers will have a sufficient regard for the public to bring

A Ivertisements and Subscriptione which are not oere for a fixed

period will be continued until countermande I. The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be delivered

to subscribers by, the Dairy Farm Company, Ltd., Shameen,he matter up at the next meet-

Canton, who have been appolated Our agents there.

(Payablo in Advance.)

By Order,

"HONⱭKONⱭ TELE 1 APH.”

DEATHS.

ag of the Council.

A Wonderful Invention..

Eleewhere in this issue is re

iated the marvellous use to which Gailo Ulivi, a young Florentine inventor, has put the ultra-violet rays, and the account of his suc- cess must stir even the slowest of

NELSON-On the 31st May, 1914, at the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, Lucie, Wife of H. T. Nelson, Wohu, and Eldest Daughter of T. Hayward, Esq., Dunnington Wood, Shrops, aged 30 years,

GREEN-On Saturday, May 30, 1914, at 39 Wothaiwei Road,imaginations. It had been known Shanghai: Laurenco Jervis Mortimer, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Green, age 2t yours.

MAHER J. M. Mater at his residence 86 Broadway East, Shanghai, on May 31, 1914.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 6,1914,

PLAIN SPEAKING.

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Rent Reminder, Owners of property are remind ed that Crown Rent for the first half-year of 1014 is payable at Trasury on or before the 24th

inst...

Correspondence.

The Bijou.

The magnificent film dealing with the visit of the King and Queen to Paris has drawn good houses to the Bijou for some

Gun: Practice.

A Fire Sequel.

کر گیا

...

has been rendered all the more

June

Zafiro's Mishaps.

1.-"The

steamehip

over

public, spheres of labour."

SHARE REPORT..

The quotations which follow for June 6, 1880. are from the Hongkong Telegraph

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. 175 per cent, premium, sellers. Union Insurance Society of Canton.-$100 per share, sellers. China Tradera' Insurance Com pany-$81 per shere buyers.

North Chins "Insurance-T!«. 330 per share, buyera.

Canton Insurance Company,

per

Yangtze Insurance Asacolation ebaro, Chinese Insurance Company- $100 per share, sellers.

Hongkong Fire Insurance Com- pans-$30 per share, selfors: China Fire Insurance Company $88 per share, sales and soilere,

Hongkong and Whampca Dock

hideous by the incessant parade allow them to dissolve, and ratire

a letter asking the Governor to Ltd.,-$132) per share, sellere, of ithe drunken fraternity all into their more useful, if less-The 100 along Queen's Road, during all hours of the night. Men of war's

The Blockade of Business, men, soldiers, and other un-

June 5.-" Hongkong Central recognisable gentry have been Owing to non-compliance with sparting themselves in the dark just where it was at the bagiu for some time. past that he had the rule requiring the sender's in the most original and objsoning of the week, as far as mud used these rays to explode mines name to be intim sted, we cannot tionable manner these two nights, laxity of the authorities in deal- is concerned, The soundalous and bombs, but the experiments insert "Justicia's" letter.

the residents on Queen's Road which he recently carried out in

being the patient witnesses of 18 with the od deposits Company-90 per cent. premium, their rowdyiem aud Bobdinagean Frm the Hongkong Club west-

becomes daily more marked.ellers. Italy with the help of Admiral | Fornari exceed all that rameur

mirth."

ward not an ounce of dirt has Steamboat Company-$272 for Hongkong, Canton and Macao bad suggested. Mines and the tal bombs were sank in the Arno, nights. To-night there will be Zafiro is going into dock tomor

been removed, and the proprie share, sollere. tors of some of the principal and the inventor and his ap-

China and Muuila Steamship. paratus were stationed on Monte change of programme when row for re-survey. She would establishments have been driven Company-40

per share, now to employing coolies on sellers. some fine films are promised. not have done so quite so early, their own sccount to clear their Senario, with the hill-town of Fiesole lying between. Despite the It is notified that the valuation that ebe sustained damage by Valuation Lists.

probably, had it not been feared

Hongkong Gas Company-- fronts. obstacle Ulivi's rays searched the lists for the Colony for 1914-1916 the recent earthquake at Manila, house Lane to Lane Crawford $240 per share, buyers. Every little shower $135 per share, sellors. river bed and exploded the mine will be open to inspection at the Those on board ely that the river

eaturates the ground from loo-

'Hongkong Hotel Company- Now that the King's birthday is over for another year, ccossion or bomb the moment it was locat. Treasury for twenty-one day had seemed to rise and lift the aud Co.'s, and when the "sun may be taken to remark the fact that the Chinese in the Colony, ed. This was done at a distance commencing on Monday, June 8, vessel up for a moment, and then comes out, as it did for a while 23 per cent. premium, buyers,

Indo-China 8N. Company-. apoaking generally, gave little regard to the celebration. Within of about ten miles, and the in- our own observation few British born Chinese flew the Union Jack, ventor expects to be able to blow

1914.

let her down again. No damage atrocious. The Surveyor-General $83 per shale, sellers

this morning, the stench is Douglas Steamship Compsuy➡ and the number who did a must have been quite inconsiderable up any explosive within a radius

ia visible, and she is quite tight. That this should be an is frankly disappointing. It is true that of eighty.

It is notified that info mation She sustained a curious accident was down and had a look at the China Sugar Refining Com there is no power which can force Chinese or others to By the Union The End of War ?

has been received from the one day about eleven months place this morning. We noticed pany, Jack on such an occasion, but surely they should not want to be

Ltd.-$250 per share, It seems possible that this practice will be carried out as from Amoy to Manila. Sheemile, and smile and be a

that he smiled.. Well-a man may salleis. Military Authorities that gung, when crossing forced. It is expected of them as a courtesy and as an evidence young Florentine will make war under-Ua Tuesday, the 9b was hundreds of miles from laud, staff called on him this afternoon, buyers. that they appreciate the benefits of living and working under the ae wo know it impossible. These May From Pak bha Wan, in a in very deep water, and the sea to see if more information could be

Lason Sugar Refining Com Surveyor-General. One of our pany, Ltd.-$107 per share, protection of the British flg. We noticed that our other raya appear to penetrato all Eastern neighbours, the Japaness, in some instances at least, substances, and, if that is so, direction, between the hours of heavy gwell, when her bow sud.extracted from him than from his $127 per share, buyera.

North Easterly to Northerly quite calm except for a long,

Hongkong Ios Company- had the grace to fly the British Ang beside their own on Wednesday, explosives are useless to an array. 8 p.to. and 10 pm. aud the courtesy was no more due from them than from the Chin. Mr. H. G. Wells, it will be re

denly fell into the hollow of the Myrmidon-Mr.Olend-you-more- Hongkong Rope Manufactur ese in the Colony, if indeed, it could as reasonably be expected. memered, in his "War of the

Two things must not be forgotton in dealing with this matter. Worlds," made his Martians Sun Lane has reported to the ing everything away inside the

wave and buckled the leeward Cooper. Not a bit. He smiled, ing Company, Ltd, $160 par A shopkeeper living at Wai side in for several yards, break- and was glad to see the share, sellers, The first is that the Chinese in the Colony who are British subjects employ a ray of light against the police that during the fire in forward part, and then bending

scribe, Bad would he sit

Hongkong and Kowlood Wharf are ready enough to claim all the protection which that affords them artillery acnt to destroy them; Jubilee Street Le removed some back again. That a long roll seconds afterwards, he discovered share, sellers.

down, bot when they are in trouble. Even the humblest Chinese, who has been when the beam fell upon a gun of his belongings to the pathway should have had such an effect and although he would sooner $14 per share, buyers.

about fifteen and GodownCompany.-$100 per born in the Colony, is swift to proclaim the fact, when he is haled or a caisson the shells and car of the street adjoining his house. on the sheltered side was really open his mind to the public than that he hadn't a minute to spare, before a Police Court Magistrate, in the hope that it will count in tridges were instantly exploded. While he was engaged in doing and again last year, on the anniversary of the birth of the Chinese author about to be realised? Is goods to the value of $80 was June 3. "The announcement in So the public will have to wait way Co., Ltd.-Nominal bie favour. The second point to be remembered is that, in 1912, le the dream of the imaginative so one of his boxes containing The Poor Old Sanitary Board.be Surveyor-General of Paradise 160 per cent. premium bayers.

A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd.-- Republic, many of the Chinese in the Colony, among them British extravagant fiction of one day stolen.

be really couldn't do it "to-day. Hongkong High Level Tram- subjects, flew the five-barred flag in defiance of the fact that the new (not for the first time) to become

Saturday's Gazette, that the Sur. government had not then been recognised by Britain and other the solid fact of the next? Or

Not a Great Haul, veyor-General has been appoint and see the work finished-if they Towers, and that they had therefore no right whatever to fly such will there prove, after all, to be Chun village, has reported to the Board, vice the Colonial Surgeon, Tang Cha-fat, a farmer of Esi ed President of the Sanitary

live as long."

Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., Ltd.-$20 per share, nominal. flag in a British Colony, Wisely enough, no doubt, some fatal flow in the invention? police that on June 4 at 1a.m.will not surprise anybody, simply the liberty of strongly recom

***A Laughing Stock," 1.

Hongkong Hotel: Uo.'s Six per was allowed to pass without any action There are enormous possibilities during his absence, three men, because nobody cares who imending Governor Des Voeux to issue)-850 per share, bayers.

June 6. We would again take cont. Debentures.-8501 haing taken, but it can do no harm to remark here, for the benefit in this fruit of a young man's one armed with a chopper and President of such a body even at once take whatever stops may be of those Chinese who do not fly the Union Jack when occasion calle brain, and it is just possible that the others carrying lighted tor- our old friend the King of Siam. legally necessary to summarily issue)13 per share, buyers.

Green Island Cement Co. (old for it, that the two circumstances placed side by side leave no very he has devised an instrument of okes, entered his house and roused It cannot matter; in fact, for the abolish the Sanitary Board as at pleasant odour. If they are British subjects they should celebrate destruction and devastation so his wife and child who were Board never amounted to any present constituted. This hybrid Co., Ltd.-8132 per share, sales Green Island Cement Co. (new such an occasion as that of Wednesday, as a right. If they are not terrible that nothing can stand sleaping there and then warned thing, anyhow. It is composed institution, which was expected and buyers, wa British subjects they should recognise the day as a matter of against it. That would mean the them not to make a noise. The of a body of representatives of to perform so many wondera in Hongkong Electrio Co., Ltd. - Hongkong Land Investment

end of war. It is idle to suggest that mere want of thought or of example

robbers made off with a box con- the Government, who always improving the sanitary condition $7 per share, sellere. is the explanation of the overlook-to give it a mild name. The

taining goods to the value of 20. attend, seldom initiate anything of Hongkong has been in ex West Point Building Co., Ltd, Chinese in the Colony must have seen, time and again, how such an

Ordinances Approved. and never, on principle, belp any stence for many months, and the Acting Harbour Master. occasion as the birthday of the German Emperor or the Czar of

His Excellency the Governor one else to do so, by giving in sam total of its useful labours in His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name formation. Then there are half

-$55 par share, sellers. Rassis is fittingly recognised in the Colony, British ships and has been planned othera fly the German or the Russian flag, and the occasion gener Charles William Malbeyse Beck- King, to the following Ordinances who take turns at attending than this-it has become a dis-

to appoint and on behalf of His Majesty the a dozen public men

any and every direction practi aily is made the opportunity of drawing more closely together the with, Commander, R.N., to act as passed by the Legislative Coun- and

onically amounts to nit. But more peoples of different nations. If they do not know, they must be Harbour Master, Marine Magist oil-Ordinance No. 15 of 1914. there tremendously eloquent, or laughing stock to the community has just bought four elephants. told that these courtesies have a deeper significance than appears rate, Emigration and CustomeAn Ordinance for more effec- else never turn up for months. Its meetings from the commence. Bis favourite pastime now, Bays either credit to the Government and a King Ferdinand of Bulgaria on the surface and that they are, and should be, takon quite serious Officer, Registrar of Shipping, tually preventing the Publication Its powers are of such a shadowy ment have been chiefly con- the Paris Excelsior, is the train- ly. If they do not know, or will not know, what is fairly expected Superintendent of the Gunpowder of Obscene Bocks, Pictures, and kind that when an official member spionous for pality squabbles and ing of his huge pets. He spende of them it is time that they were told bluntly and plainly. They Dapot and Collector of Light other Articles. Ordinance No. gets up and tells his colleagues cannot be permitted altogether to become a law unto themselves, Dues, during the absence on leave 16 of 1914-An Ordinance to that he doesn't know that they petty bickerings amongst the hours with them every day, celebrating, by cessation of business, creokor-firing, and the like, of Basil Reginald Hamilton Tay-provide for the registration of have anything to do with such state of affairs has been steadily and hardly ever fails to be pros the anniversary of the birth of the Republic, to name nothing else, lor, Commander, R.N., or until qualified Dental Surgeons and and such a matter none can going from bad to worse. Surely sent when they are given

membere and this deplorable teaching them balancing tricks, and allowing to pass almost unheeded an occasion which British farther notice, with effect from otherwise to regulate the practice gainsay him they do not know the Governor will consider the daily bath objects are expected to regard seriously. Their attitude is good June 4,

of Dentistry,

the oircumstance

pourtesy.

di Lade for köemselves nor for the Colony,

remarkable."

are: qlways

who are their officers and who are

Hongkong Dairy Farm Co.,

A King's Hobby,