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The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1914.
THE TIBETAN PROBLEM.
Land Sale.
Auditor.
Message from Peru,
REGISTRATION OF SERVANTS.
Some Further Details of the Ceylon Scheme.
{SPECIAL "ARTICLE]
fa an article which we publish-
1889.
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE® YBARS. AGO. "
Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the Week Ending July 11, 1889.)
Five Per Cont. Dividend.
WEST RIVER FLOODS.
#
Relief Fund Totals Over $85,000,
The Tang Wa Hospital boge to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the Flood Relief Fund. Already acknowledged
Wing Fa Lau
$81,607.074
500,00
500.00
100.00
100.00
100,00
100,00
ed on Wednesday last the main July 8.It will be seen that features of Ceylon's coheme for George Fenwick and Co., Ltd. Mr. Loung Ohak Chun the registration and supervision have decided to pay an interim Moser, Tai Woo Cheong 100.00 of domestic servants were out-dividend of five per cent, on the Mr. Lam Ting Man
Mr. Lo'Chak Hin lined. To show how well drawn capital of the Company, or one Tai Shing Company up the system is, the writer may dollar and a quarter per share. We Mestre, Wing Wa Kee be permitted to give a few further are glad to learn that this enter Mesore. Tung Biog Lang 100.00 others already mentioned, would headway and fully answering the Mesars. Yu Shing Lung 100.00 poin's, all of which, as well as the prising firm is making satisfactory Messrs. Kwong Hip Lang 100,00 kong did theaathorities but see fit results of the first half of the The Staff & Students of be perfectly applicable to Hong expectations of its promoters. The Messrs. Kwong Tai Yuen 100.00
have seen how well controlled acta of nearly fifteen thousand dollars, The Staff & Students of to take the matter in hand. We present year show a clear profit Sai Ying College 1 al servants are under the echers and prospects are most encourag
But the system in force in Ceylon ing. It was at first contemplated so to speak. For instance, in the which the profit cou'd well afford, also covers the courses of supply, to pay a larger interim dividend case of intending servants the but, on re-consideration, the Registrar receives applications management thought it wiser to from persons desirous of entering err on the safe side." domestic service, and he has to
[It will be reniem barel that the be satisfied that such applicants above-mentioned company went are "fit and proper parsons" for into liquidation not long ago.] the work. In each cases, "pro- visional registration is granted, July 8.--"A meeting of the and this is sufquently convert committes of the Hongkong Public ed into "confirmed registration," School was held this afternoon to according to the result of subse-consider the offer made by Mr. quent service, Power is given E. R, Belilios to erect, at his owa the Registrar to withhold expense, a new building for that registration altogether, where he institution. Mr. Belilios, with a
seen fit to do so.
Belllos School.
Compradore,
Queen's College
Pacif
Mail S. S. Co.
03.40
55.00
50.00
Messrs. Wa Ying Cheong 50.00-
China Merchants' Steam
Po Yuen Kung Chan 50,00
50.00
Navigation Co.
Messrs. Yu Shang Yuen ́ ́ 50,00
Hang Tai Company Lin Ho Ku Masera, Yu Tai
Sam Yiok
*" discretion for which he is to be 51
50.00
50.00
Man Shun Wing
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Kwong Ki Heang
Tung Hip Lang
San Tung Cheong 50.00
50.00
Ewong Yick Cheong 50.00
San Choy Tung
50.00
50.00
30.00
30,00
3000
30.00-
30.00
30.00-
1
Son Yu Kee
25,00
20.00
Mesare Wing Yuen
20.00
Tung Shang Wing
20.00-
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Kong Shun Lung : 20.00
22
Kwong Ching Taeung 20,00
Fuk Hing Cheong. 20.00
11
Sui Chi Tseung
20.00
Yu Foong Tai
20.00.
Wing Tsung Kat
20.00
Sam Pick Chan
20.00
Kwong Woo On
20,003
Chung Fak Kee
20.00
Tai Lee Chan
15.00
Ma Wai Nam Yong Pak Ya
15.00
15.00
Mosers. Wing Shing
18.00
the
Wing Foong Tai Tak
16,00
15.00
Tao Ku
10,00
30.00
10.00
10.00
12
Hop Choong Lung Teeung Yuen Mo Ming Shi
10.00-
10.00
Kwong Tai Lung
10.00
10.00
Mr. Chan Wing Chung
10.000
11
Chan Wing Pan
1000
12
Chan Wing Chenk.
-10,00
Un Stu Fan
10.00
Wai Shi:
Young Yiu Nam
10.00
10,00
10.00-
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share, sellers.
however, has been found too Rural Building Lot No. 138, narrow, and in consequence it has The Poak, about 18,000 square become necessary to widen it by feet in extent, is to be sold at the taking in a big slice of the trian-P. W. D. Offices on the 27th inst. galar plot of land which it waThe upset price is $2,100, intended to turf and atilise as a
Another provision of the utmost commended had materially modi- Mr. Chin Chung Tak kind of garden. The work is now The name of Mr. John Halifax value and importacos is contained fied the stipulations of his original Tai Shun Company: in progress, but, as the levels of Lind, of Yokohama, has an in a clause in the Ordinance offer. In fact the only conditions Masers. Shin Foong Tai the roadway and the plot are not added to the list of persons which says that "the Registrar he made were that, during the
Choong Kam Ka the same, it becomes necessary to qualified to perform the duties of shall not grant registration to any summer months, there should be tear up the newly laid surface of auditor under the Hongkong convicted thief or associats of four hours' secular instruction the former. More than that, the Companies Ordinances. thieves, or to any person known daily; and, during the winter carefully-laid coment gully-way
to the police to be leading a dismonths, five hours. These terme which was put down between the Writing from Cerro de Pacro, orderly or disreputablelifo, or who were, of course, unanimously two now has to be filled in. This Peru, at an altitude of 14,200 feat, all have been convicted of any accepted, and we now venture ta is a typical instance of P. W..our former member, Mr. S. G. infamous crime." There is, how hope that all difficulties have been bungling. The Department never Bolden, sends kind regards to allever, a proviso to this clause which satisfactorily removed.". seems to look ahead. Had it Y. M. C. A. fellows. To reach gives the Registrar power to
The Hermits. done so in this case much time, Carro he ormesed the Andes at a grant registration to any such July 10-A nice little her- labour, and expense, since proved height of 15,855 feet-Progress. person on the application of any mitage was discovered in the utterly fruitless, would have been
householder who may be willing middle of a wood at Aberdeen on saved,
Late Mr. S. Bellinger. to give such person a trial. In Monday by Inspector Gould, The news has reached us that other words, the householder, may Two Italian firemen had built a Mr. The Deported Indians.
Consular and other officials in our devoted friend (Mr. S. Ballintake the risk provided he or she rude but of small logs about s Hence it week ago, and in company with a Hongkong who have suffered gar) has passed away to the is willing to do so. through the readiness of certain higher servics. While in the comes about that anyone engag Spanish ex-sailor from
O. P. R. office here he was aug a servant is not only able to Arragon and a Chilian whọ had g steamship companies to "dump"
member of the Mees. Both in judge, from his record of service, ran away from a ship at Singapore Sam Min Ku impecunious or objectionable passengers in this Colony, will monay gifts and rareonal effort his oapabilities, but is able to were living far from the madding Mr. Lin Ohi Shan read with interest today's Ruter he was ever foremost and depend rest assured that the character of crowd's ignoble strife. They had wire which states that the able. Though quiet by disposi- the servant is good. Such an only mats
to sleep on and Mesars. Kum Woo Lang Canadian Government is resolved tion he could say the word which assurance would be extremely a little rice to eat, so the to enforce the law by leaving it fitted the occasion. Our sympathy welcome in Hongkong, whose pionic was not anything very They were taken As was to be expected, the adjustment of affairs in Tibet is to the charterers of the Komagata ghea to his bereaved relatives. servant population must contain princely.
no small number of inveterate before Mr. Wodehorts and re- proving a matter of exhtme difficulty. The latest news, which was Maru to take back the undeair-Progress
thieves. “A Stickler for Etiquette.
mitted to prison as vagrants. outlined in apocial cablro published in the Telegraph on Tuesday ables at their expense. It is well
Victoria College. Such a system, of course, last, is that the Anglo Chines Conference has broken down, and that, as a matter of principle A complaint that a Chinese that the British Commissioner is leaving for England. The cause and precadent, the Dominion constable was eating too fast, at cannot be operated for nothing July 11.-"Victoria College is of the failure of the negotiations is to be found in the inability of Government should make this a meal at No. 7 Police Station, ont that various fees are imposed row. Scholars are to tura up at nine a and here it may be pointed to be informally opened to-mor the parties agree upon the territories which shall comprise Inner stand. Obviously it is the which enraged the first man. under the Ordinance
These o'clock. Rather an extraordinary, Kan Ohan Shi and Ontar Tibet. What the upshot will now be, it is hard to see, business of ship-owners The constable was assaulted and fees are paid in stamps affixed to hole-and-corner way of entering for not only is there the merely territoriál question to be disposed and ship-charterers, or IO. of, in which the Chinese and Tibetans are more directly concerned; presentatives, to ascertain before extent as made a visit to the the Ordinance. Thus fees of 25 building (we do not say it is worth his head damaged to such an the pocket-register issued under a five hundred thousand dollar bnt Britain's peculiar position in relation to this former appendage hand whether or of the Chinese Republic will have to come in for special considera the passengers travelling by necessary. The man who was causing an existing servent to be stars teaching in it on a Friday Government Civil Hospital cents are paid by the master on that, but only what it cost) to tion and definition.
their vessel are eligible for ad-
a bare little As in the case of Mongolia, so in regard to Tibet has the Chinese mission into the port for which strong on etiquette was fired registered or on engaging a new morning, with
Chins and Manila Steamship parents and Government found it hard to retain the allegiance of a distinctive they are bound.
$10 for assault, at the Police servant, by an intending servant notification to There is no
per share, Company-$140 Court; this morning. • people who have never taken too kindly to overlordship from Peking, hardship, here; only common
on provisional registration and guardians, and not even a new
sellers. Ordinances Approved. And on the inauguration of the Republic it was not to be wondered senso and common fairness; and
on registration being confirmed, hat for the bend master." at that a very determined attempt should be made to shake free of it would be well if, in all other been advised the service, hit the registration of previous for. July 11 A court martial was $135 per share, sellers
His Majesty the King has not as well as by a servant for Naval Court Martial.
Hongkong Gas Company the attachment. Since that time the problem of winning back both British Colonies, undesirables,
Hongkong Hotel Company-- Mongolia and Tibet has much agitated the official mind in Peking, whether British or non-British, power of die-allowance with vice or antecedente; while sheld on the Victor Emanuel today, but all indications point to the conclusion that China will have to were kept out by the same respect to the following Ordin- fee of one rupee is required from at the instance of the Lieut-Com- $240 per share, buyers,
Hongkong Hotel Co.'a Six per make up her mind to count these territories as lost to the Republic, simple means, Probably the the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908, register. Then there are
ancesAn Ordinance to amend a servant for a duplicate pocket mander of H.M.S. Firebrand, on This is one of the penalties of the new situation in China itself, charterers of the Komagata Marund Ordinance No. 9 of 1910 asmorous penalties prescribed for gineers of that vessel the charge be
nu- Mr. William Fedarb, one of the encent. Debentures, $501.
Indo-China SN. Company which has caused the attempt to maintain Chinese authority to will think twice before they again incorporated in the Pharmacy failure to carry out the terms of ing that of drinking until unable to par., ex div., sellers. utterly break down. It will be remembered that, in the case of undertake to carry passengers Ordinance, 1908. An Ordinance the Ordinance, such as finos on work Captain Hall, of the Sever, $83 per share, sellers.
Douglas Steamship Company Tibet, British intervention was originally prompted by approben-who, as they might know from the to provide against the circulation masters and servants for failure presided. Prisoner pleaded guilty sions of Russian intrigue, especially in regard to India. Au ex-beginning if they made proper pedition was accordingly despatched in 1908 to Lhassa, and as a enquiry, are not wanted in the publications. An Ordinance, to in the pocket registers, the giving months' seniority and he dismis pany, Ltd.-8288 per share, the Colony of peditions to insert the required information and was adjudged to lose six China Sagar Refining Com result thereof, and of the Anglo-Russian Convention of the following country to which they have amend the Electricity Supply of fales information, ete. And it sed his ship. year, the difficulties so far as Britain and Russia were concerned booked. were, happily, disposed of. Subsequently, however, the internal situation in Tibet developed on lines which had not been foreseen, mainly in consequence of the re-establishment of a Obinese suzerainty
A Divorce Bill, which previously had become murely nominal. The later happen The findings of the recentį inge are well-known-how Chinese troops were sent to Lhased; the Royal Commission on Divorce, so flight of the Dalai Llama to India; the mutiny of the garrison at far as both majority and minority Lhassa, accompanied by grows excessos; the retaliation of the reports agreed, have been in- Tibetane, which resulted in a state of turmoil in which Chinese corporated in a bill introduced authority was destroyed; and the eventual return of the Dalai Lamajuto Parliament by Lord Gorell, and his reassertion of practical independence. A new situation former president of the Divorce was created in consequence of these happenings, and towards the Court. The most radical depart was 8,863 tone and the average olors of 1912 the recognition of Chinese suzerainty ceased to be are is a provision that the exeed-ily output was 288.70 tons:— operative. Since that time the problem of the future status of the shall be on an equality before Mears. Wright and Hornby territory, especially in ita relation to Britain, has remained unsolved. the divorce court Under the advise us that the output for
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not
| Ordinance, 1911.
LANGKAT OUTPUT.
Dally Averages for Jana and July. The Langkat, output for Jane
It is apparent that the prosent unsatisfactory and indefinite existing law, a wife most prove Joly is ****** position cannot continue and it is equally evident that the con- both misconduct and oralty on ditions are entirely adverse to another restoration of Chinese the part of her authority. Tibet has become independent of the new Chinese whilst the husband needs only 2nd
husband let regime. That fact cannot be brushed aside. As to Britain's to
prove misconduct in order 3rd position, the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1007 definitely admitted to get a divorce. The new claws 4th the fact that Great Britain, by reason of her geographical position, provides that any married person b has a special interest in the maintenance of the status quo in the may dissolve marriage upon 6 à external relations of Tibet, while certain very definite rights assured proving that the other party 7th to Britain under the Treaty of Lhassa point to the likelihood that thereto has committed adultery. Rih British relations with Tibet will in fature be adjusted so as to The bill also provides that th Bort British influence there, irrespective of the obsolete inter judicial separation may be granted 10th national theory that it is part of China. That, at any rate, is the on the ground of habitual drank opinion of competent observers of current events. It will now beenness, which includes intoxica- Interesting to see how that end will be brought about.
tion by drugs.
conceived. What the writer
1889.
SHARE REPORT.
sellera.
Luzon Sugar Refining Com pany, Ltd.-8123 " per share, cellors.
Hongkong. Los Company- $125 per share, sellers,
following Company, Ltd.-8160 per Hongkong Hope Manufactor-
may be mentioned, in closing, that the character form containod in each servant's pocket register deala with honesty, sobriety, truthfulness, temper, cleanliness; sotivity and general efficiency. The quotations which The whole scheme is admirably are from the Hongkong Telegraph
for July 11, 1889.
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, -192 per cent, premium, buyers, Union Insurance Society of Canton. 100 per share, sellers,
China Traders' Insurance Com any,880 per share, buyers.
North Chins Insurance Tla. 330 per share, buyers,
wants to know is when Hong kong will similarly deal with the servant problem?
Canton Insurance Company, Ltd.,$135 per share, buyers.
Yangteze Insurance Association
Faulty Wireless Messages. It is understood that though 203 tone the authorities at Lloyd's are quite alive to the evils of faulty wireless messages, of which there have been several bad examplesTla, 100 per share. ~ Istely, no steps are likely to be Hongkong Fire Insurance Com taken to provide a remedy until çany-1885 per share, buyers, the meeting of the next Internm China Fire Insurance Company tional Wireless Convention - The ➡886 per share, buyers,ply subject - is considered ons. for Hongkong and Whampos Dook international agreement, not for Company 85 per cent, premium, individual sotion. The last Inter- sellers, modellen, national Convention was held in Hongkong, Canton and Macao 1912
Steamboat Compsoy-8278 re
204
11
220
219
228
268
244
218
28
Total to date
371
Daily average 237.1 tone.
share, nominal,
Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and GodownCompany.-8107 per share, sellers.
Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. $14 per share, buyers,
A.'S. Watson and Co., Ltd. 150 per cent. premium sellers.
Hongkong High Level Tram- |way Co., Ltd.-Nominal, G
Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., Ltd.825 per share, dominal.
Green Island Coment Co. (old issae).850 per share, buyers.
Green Island Cement Co. (now issue)814 per share, buyers.
Hongkong Land Investment Co., Ltd — 143 per share, sales and buyers, and dire
Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. 88k per share, sollers, driven
Wens Point Buildings Co., Ltd. -850 por aliste, collara, do
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