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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1914.

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The congestion of traffic in that portion of Ice House Street which connecta Qason's Road with-Dea Voeux Road has often been refer red to in this column, and we are glad to notice that the authorities have at length given their atten- tion to the matter. Hitherto, what with trucks lying about, and riokabas and chairs dotted baro and there, the pedestrian has had his work out out to dodge moving vohioles, especially since there is

DAY BY DAY.

18.8 9.

HONOKONG TWENTY-FIVE

YEARS AGO.

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MY HEART DETESTS HIM AS THE Compiled from the Hongkong GATESOF HELL-Pope.

The Weather. Lower level 8 a.m. Tamp 83; sunshine.

At the Peak 8 am. Temp 75; sunshine.

The Mails.

no side walk in this street. Now French Mail.Due per s.s, Cor. the police have taken the matter

dillere to-morrow at 8 a.m. in hand, and we have to con- gratulate them on the result.

Count the Columns. The thoroughfare, is now kept

Yesterday the Telegraph pub- absolutely free of stationary lisbod 30 columna tracks, ricksbde, chairs, etc., and reading matter: To-day, there of solid the person on foot can make will be 37 published. use of it without the danger of having his riba prodded by the ahafts of an oncoming ricksha- an experience to which he was more or less liable in the

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The

Exempted. Athletic Federation is exempted Hongkong Amateur from registration.

"Stopping of Heat." According to the Chinese

The crisis in Europe bas Calendar, Monday is the Festival naturally caused a suspension of of "Cha-shu," or "Stopping of the negotiatious for the second Hest," big loan to China, and as a con- sequence the Peking Government

rancy notes.

Ellis Kadoorie School.

Railwaymen's Clothing,"

has had to find other means for We are asked to state that the redeeming the Provincial cur Ellis Kadoorie Hongkong College The matter has will re-open on Monday, August already been considered, and 24, at 10 8.m. certain deficite, stops have been decided upon. It is intended, for instance, that in 'rovinces where Tenders are being invited for, the reserve funds are sufficient, the supply and making of cloth redemption will not be undering for the use of the Railway taken for the time being, but new Department for 1914-15. Government notes will replace, the old. In cases where the re- serves are insuficient, funds for Consignees of cargo by the redemption may be temporarily steamere Kentucky and Den of borrowed from the public revenue, Airlie are reminded that goode the appropriation of those funds remaining undelivered after to be repaid by imposing addi- Monday will be subject to rent. tional taxalion. A farther resolve

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The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1914.

MINING IN CHINA,

such a state that there are no roservos against the note issue.

Chung King-kwong in America.

It may not be amiss to men tion that Chung King-kwong, formerly head of the Canton Christian College, who "cleared out" to America last year after.

#1

To Consignees,

Oriental's Cargo.

kong per P. & D. 8.8. Oriental on The cargo shipped from Hong- the 20th inst. included 25 balee of raw silk, 2 cases of silk, 2 cases of old documents and 1 case of lanterna for London.

Met a Typhoon.

The 8.8.

came over the ship.

Removal of Graves.

Telegraph" files for the Week' Ending August 22, 1889.)

The Dallar.

August 22.-The rate of the dollar on demand on this date was

3a. 3-8d.

Hongkong Shanghai Bank.

issue.

ENFORCING LOYALTY.

Suppressing the Tricolour in

Alsace-Lorraine.

FRENCH RESERVISTS LEAVE KUALA LUMPUR,

An Enthusiastic Send Oil.

"

The efforts of the German Government to Germanise Alsace- Lorraine and extinguish by force and by long lists of Verbotener acts every spark of French feeling Kuala Lumpur by mail train laat The tea Frenchmen who left and sympathy among the inhabi- night (Wednesday) for Singapore, tants, results continually in ludic- says the Singapore Free Press of rous episodes and situations. - Angust 15,-" Another of 'Our

August 15, whence they will Local Stocks, the Hongkong ment officials in framing anti- Syria, had a send-off which lacked The ingenuity of the Govern- leave for France by the P. and O. Shanghai Back, will be put French regulations to be observed nothing in enthusiasm. The through the mill in tomorrow's by the people is only equalled, platform was packed with an on- Baya Berlin correspondent, thusiastic crowd, which, in the Hongkong Roads. ¡ August 15,-" The roads of the the ingenuity of the people in Marseillaise, the English National writing ander date July 7, by intervals of cheering, song the hours rainfall, in a most deplorations and devising means of various patriotic songs, with Colony are again, after a few finding a way round these regal Anthem, Auld Lang Syne, and able condition. Can nothing be causing petty annoyance to the extraordinary fervour, for half an done to remedy this deplorable sternly patriotic officials eent hour before the train left. nuisance ? The engineering down from Berlin, road-making is concerned, is taleat of the Far East, so far 88

During intervals of comparative To the average Prassian funo-calm, several speeches were tionary apparently limited to the For- selected for the duty of making

particularly those given

M. O. Patit, the French Consul tuguese Colony of Maçao."

loyal German citizens out of the at Kuala Lumpur, thanked the The Police.

inhabitants of the annexed pro- Britishers present for August 16.-"The police forc sustaining very heavy losses inces, the sight of the French magnificent send-off. They would this year, by death and depar-sight of a rad rag to a ball. The noble part Britain had taken in tricolour is something like the never forget either that or the inhabitants of Strassburg, there- the present crisis. (Loud cheers.) no loss than four men have died, fore; bit apon the happy ides of M. Louis Bonn also addressed the latest being P. O. Parker, a Young Dumfries man who had revenging themselves for having a few words of thanks to the crowd. He was stationed at Yaamati and French tricolour tiee, French tri-Ferrers, who responded very boen out here about two years. about"

to learn German by walking Afterwards there were loud calle the streets wearing for a speech from Mr, H. N. became ill with fever on Sunday: colour hatbands, French tricolour briefly. They must remember, After several fluctuations he died bandkerchiefe, and, in fact, he said, that their this morning. This remittent

French fever is getting something terrible faunting the red, white, and blue comrades who were leaving in the cut-stations."

conceivable form:

them wore going, not Every week-end hundreds of only to fight their own battles bat August 17. Even the " Strassburger citizens go, for those of the British as well. fest of the German soldier are excursions over the frontier and (Cheere.) The fate of the Empire carefully looked after. He is return laden with French flage and of all of them was bound ap now supplied with a powder to and button-hole decorations, with in the result of the battles they put in his boots and socks to which they parade the city under would fight-battles, as they all keep his feet from getting chafed." the noses of the exasperated believed, to which there could be

officials. The latter, after spend-but one result. (Lond oheers.)

is

ture. Within the last two months

The German Soldier.

The Enterprising Burglar.

poor

in every

their

r.k

August 17. When the en-ing some weeks in considering: The Frenchmen making up the terprising burglar is not a-burgl- how they could circumvent this party were as follows:-MM. E.

A member of the profession 1848, which declares that the nier, F. Poath, L. Bonn, L. Heitz, to do so or has just finished. ancient decree, issued in the year Fauconnier, J. Meslier, J. Four- ing, he is generally either going manuvre, have now dag up an Fauconnier, A. Fanconnier, R.

selected Mr. J. G. Smith's house!

"notices ble" display of French J. Manon and O. Trichot. They in West Terrace as u likely crib, colours is a criminal act, punish were accompanied by M. O. Petit. the other night; but, when getting able by imprisonment and heavy At Singapore they will join a big fias. This resurrected decree party of their countrymen from slong the verandah, be stepped

His Gable End.!!

.

authorities.

China Fire Insurance Company $85 per share, sellers. Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company-72 per cent. premium, sellers,

Steamboat Company-$41 re Hongkong, Canton and Macao share, sellers.

is that in Provinces where there are abundant Government pro- be derived from the sale of such properties. In the circumstances, the scheme is probably the best that could be devised, though it will bit

very hard those people who have to submit to further

on a bit of parapet that had been has been embodied in a formidable Saigon and the whole party on The object of this papar un to publish correct information, 'là serne the truth taxation because the finances of

mended by contract and natural manifesto, and launched at the board the Syria will number and print the news without fear or favour.

their Province have fallen into which arrived from Foochow yes he went down and half broke his the calamas of the official gazette C. Parant, C. Damus and L. Sabine Rickmers, ly it broke. Equally naturally bende of the populace, through something like a hundred. MM. terday, reports having encounter neck. Mr. Smith leaned over in of the district. It remains to be Tollissat, with M. C. Duchesne ed a typhoon on the 14th. inst. airy garb, and the dog barked, seen what will now happen. Ia (who is going to rejoin his regi near Namoa Islands. The wind and, in s few bours, a Sikh con the meantims, tricolour handker- ment in Belgium), will join the blew with terrible force for 10 stable came along. He asked the chiefs are being confiscated from Syria at Port Swettenham on hours-from 2 p.m. till 6 a.m. on thief what he was doing there the children in the schools, and Saturday. It speaks volumes for the 15th and tremendous seas with his head in a flower-pot; a school teacher who snatched a the patriotism of the party that and the latter feebly replied that red, white and blue penholder they have elected to return to he was a millionaire and had been from the band of a scholar and France without waiting for orders Tobbed. A chair was got and he threw it into the fire has been to do so. the shooting of Chan King-wah, It is notified that it is the inten- was sent to hospital, and recover-upheld in his action by the The departing reservists march- has been giving some very tion of the Governor to make an ed sufficiently to be propped up remarkable "dops to a States Order directing the removal of in front of Mr. Wodehouse today.

ed from the Selangor Club to the paper. His story is an interest-all graves on Inland Lot No. in consideration of hie back-sche

station headed by the Tricolour and the Union Jack and followed ing mixture one half vilifying, 2080 being formerly part of and the fact that be hadn't stolen the other half belauding, Yuan Mount Davis Cemetery which are anything, he was let off with a

by an enthusiastic band "of: Britishers, At the station they Shih-k'ai, and the whole more or within a specified ares.

Such fine of $10.

were greeted by the strains of the less abusing Lung Chai-kwong, Order will be made for the the Tulub of Kwangtung. tiere purpose of executing a public

Marseillaise, played by the State ie one of his remarke about purpose, namely, the sale of land snatcher got two months impri-

which prevailed until their August 19.An ear-ring

Band, and the scene of enthusisam General Lung: "He is al for building purposes.. Uhinese Lucullus, with a sirong

sonment and a free warming to

departure baffles description. The Some few months ago there were, from many parts of China, admixture of Borgian lempora

bis gable end this morning.

China and Manila Steamship train steamed out to the music of clear indications of a widespread movement in the direction of ment in bis make-up. But I may

Sir J. McLeavy Brown.

Insufficiently Pald. Company-$1371 per share. the French National Anthem, Sir John MoLeavy Brown, the August 19. Mr. Henry S. developing the enormously rich mineral resources of the country. be doing wrong to the memory well-known authority on China, Pollock, acting police magistrate, $135 per share, sellers.

Hongkong Gas Company bursts of cheering, and the bang- Old concessions were revived and new ones granted, and it was a things with a finesse that the recuperate at Wiesbaden, after and will finally retire on Saturday $210 per share, sellers.,

ing of fog signals. of the Burgine; for they did is shortly leaving London to bas resigned the appointment,

Hongkong Hotel Company- most gratifying feature to find that, in moat instances, foreign.co Hon. Lang is a operation was sought. Apart from the larger agreements, such as Not

stranger to." an attack of rheumatism which next. Mr. Pollock, very naturally, Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per that which gave a British syndicate valuable rights in Szechuan albeit some of those who knew also generally to restore his health. sufficiently paid with the half of

way, has worried him for some time, and does not consider that he is cont. Debenturea $601.

Indo-China S.N. Company- Cost of a Flying Station. Province, there were numerons enes reported in which Chinese moved to talk about Saul and the connected in London with the and we agree with him. This Douglas Steamship Company nation for the sale to the Crown

Mr. Chung in Canton may feel Sir John baa for many years been the actual salary of the position-10 per. cont. dia, sellers.

In the arbitration for compen- concessionaires, who were in possession, but lackel either the funde prophets. He gives, farther, a Chinese Embassy; it would now or the necessary technical knowledge, were calling to their aid vivid if here and there fanciful, seem as if his labours in Portland overlone that it must be seen to

"acting appointment' "is so much $83 per share, sellers.

China Sagar Refining Com-coast at Orfordness, for the pur- of 1,240 acres, on the Suffolk foreign money and assistance. In the ordinary coures of events, picture of the death of Uhan Place were coming to a close. No without further delay. It is even pang, Ltd.-$272 per share, pose of a flying ground, the Hon. important results would undoubtedly have sprung from these According to his story, the Tatah case will remain at the service of Peak. The time we certainly

King-wah and Chan Chung-pan. Boubt his valuable advice in any worse than the drainage at the sellers. developments, but the European eriala has unfortunately intervened invited them out into the back the Chinese authorities.

E. G. Stratt, the sole arbitrator, Luzon Sugar Refining Com has awarded Lord Rendlesham and caused at least a temporary patponument of the long-awaited yard of his yamen and calling

think has arrived when the pany, Ltd.-$100 per share, e12,107. The valuations ranged era of mining activity.

officiale of this Colony should be bayers. upon a squad of soldiers who

placed is their proper. positions. Hongkong feo Company Lord Rendlesham, to $6,700 for from about £33,000, on behalf of were attending him, lined up

Mr. Pollock is a barrister at law, $105 per share, buyers. my two friends against the wall

the Crown. It was, as we have said, a hopeful siga that foreign co-oper- of his home and shot them." The Local Government have member of the Bar, has showning Company, Ltd.-$150 per and though only a very young. Hongkong Rope Manufactur- ation was being sought, for it has abundantly been made oloar Seeing that several hours elapsed sanctioned the tangoon Man- himself to be a very careful and share,sellors, that the Chinose themselves are as yet by no means capable between the deaths of the twoicipality's proposal to jevy a tax judicious magistrate."

Hongkong Bad Kowloon Wharf " The Rev. Bob Jones, & famous of undertaking the development of the mining resources of men, and that Chan King-wah on private vehicles kept within the country. That statement fads ample justification in some facts was abot by one of his two municipal limits. The tax will

and GodownCompany-8167 per Southern evangelist, says the recently brought to light at Yunnan-fu. It is frankly admitted by surds as he left the dining be imposed from lat October and

share, buyers.

New York correspondent of the a correspondent from that city that the history of industrial enterp; it will be evident that will be on the following scale

Hongkong Dairy Farm Co.- Daily Telegraph, agrees with $14 per share, sellers. prises there, where foreign machinery under purely Chinese Mr. Chung has been drawing a teach quarter: Motor vehicles

another noted gospeller, the Rev: supervision is concerned, is one of "almost complete failure." A

A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd.-Billy Sanday, that New York little on his imagination. conspicuous example of "how not to do it" is found in the case of

other than motor bicycles weigh- The quotations which follow $22 por share, sellors.

unlike London, Paris, and Berlin, the mining machinery for the Tungchuan copper mines. In a barat

ing when unladen not less than are from the Hongkong Telegraph Hongkong High Level Tram-is almost past redemption. After of enthusiasm an agent was sent to the const to purchase foreign

seven cwts, Rs. 7.8; motor for August 22, 1880.

way Co., Ltd.--210 per cent. exploring that part of the city machinery for the celebrated mines which lie some seven days'

vobicles, other than motor bicycles Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. prem., sellers.

known as the Tenderloin," and Dead Aviator's Estate. journey north of Yunnan-fu. The purchase was made and the derson of Oudenarde Barracks, with or without sidecare

weighing whon unladen less than 186 per cent. premium, sellere. Captain Ernest Vincent An- seven owta,, Re 5; motor hioycles,

Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., visiting a series of notorious. goode landed at Yunnan-fu by railway, but that looks like the end Aldershot, Hants, and late trailers attached and including

Union Insurance Society of Ltd.-$25 per share, nominal, lobster palaces, tango-rooms, end. of the chapter, The machinery is too large to be carried, and even of the Curraghi Camp, Ireland, pedal bicycles when wholly or pany-$81 per share, buyers.

or Canton.-$100 per share, buyers,

Green Island Cement Co. (old “balls of pleasure," he told the if it could be carried, there is no road big enough to accommodate and of the

China Traders' Insurance Com-issue),—$45 per share, buyers. interviewers that New York ie the crowd of coolice needed to move the larger pieces. Hence Flight

Green Leland Cement Co. (new dancing on the brink of hell. to-day the machinery lien idle in the city, a monument to Chinese Squadron of the Royal Flying sistanco of third wheel. Rs. 3;

North China Insurance-Tis issue).-$8 per share, nominal. The only difference between New of No, means, with or without the as-1330 per aliare, buyers. lack of foresight. The case is quoted to show how utterly hopeless Corps, who was killed in an four-wheeled vehicles drawn by Ltd.,-$140 per share, buyers.

Hongkong Land Investment York and hell is that New York it is to expect the Chinese to themselves develop their country,

Canton Insurance Company, Co., Ltd. --- $134 per share, is entirely surrounded by water. Women, he says, have converted even when part of the means to do so is placed in their way. And aeroplane accident at Farabo- animal traction, Rs. 8; two- it is to be hoped that the instance quoted will serve to bring home the rough on May 12, aged 27, left whooled vohioles drawn by animalTls. 100 per share,

Yangleze Insurance Association Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. the new freedom into license, and fact to those who are interested in China's mining development.

$7 per share, sollers.

New York needs a great prophet estate of which £4,466 is not traction, Re. 2; rickebes Rs. Hongkong Fire Insurance Com- West Point Buildings Co., Ltd., to make character fashionable personalty.

1.8.

853 per share, buyers. again.

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bad in. ite

Black Commander

Rangoon's New Vehicle Tax.

Watch, partly propelled by mechanical

1889.

SHARE REPORT.

pany-$385 per share, sellers.

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Wicked New York.