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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1914.

Auguste Rodin.

A paragraph in our lost night's War News anncunces that M. |Radio, in presenting a collection

DAY BY DAY.

The Weather.

Lower level 8 a.m. Temp: 70.;

At the Peak & a.m. Temp. 03;

The Malls.

to-morrow,

at 0.0.0.

Closed to-day Siberian Mail-Olesa to-day at

4 p.m.

The Dollar.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

RUSSIANS DDING WELL.

Surprises for Germany on

Land and Sea..

1889.

HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE

YEARS AGO.

Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the week

ending Nov. 21, 1889.) |

DECLARATION OF LONDON.

Intentions of Germany and Austria.

The Hongkong Government Gazette contains the following notification:-

It is hereby notified that the following Notification was issued by the Foreign Office on the 18th 18-ptember and appeared in the London Gazette of the 18th September -

of his works to the British nation, A THOUSAND AND A SMALL ONE A "A LITTLE ONE SHALL BECOME writes that he does so as a token STRONG NATION, of admiration for your hercer." The value of this tritate from the grestest sculptor, and profice. bably one of the greateat painters, living, is enbaroad by the fact fine. thatsispretty generally knɔwD

For once in a way the Russians Rotin has, at times, delivered Siberian Mail.-Due to arrive are most prominently in the himself of sentiments that were

picture in the over-night wires.

The Dollar. decidedly anti-British. But be Australian Mail

They are fighting most desperate November 21,--The rate of the that as it may, art-lovers at Home

battles with the enemy in Poland, dollar, on demand, to-day is 3s will rejoice over this generous gift,

and it would appear is if the ex-2 1-2d. the more so that there is sur-

changes at the mement are fairly

A Leper. prisingly little of his work, other

even here. The Petrograd report Count the Columns, 2

Nov, 14-Actiog Inspector than what has been acquired Yesterday the Telegraph Breaks of the operatione cops tans Butlin, while on a tour on the by private parab asere, in England; published 35 columns of solidly fluctuating between the con 12th. izst,

"Foreign Office, and most Britishers only know reading matter. Today there aive sad the defensive, and in Recreation Ground, on Holly near the Chinese

16th September, 1914. his wonderful aohievements will be 43 published.

asmuch as we know the Germans wood Road, came across an in- for Fereign Affaira has received His Majesty's Secretary of State through the medium of copies

to have been heavily re-dividual whom he took to be a communications from the United and Irint published in the The rate of the dollar on inforced of late, it is more leper. From there he had the States Ambassador informing various art journals. It is said demand to-day is Is 8.9-10d. than likely that the Russiane man sent to the Tang Wah him that during the prin that what le himself regards as

Intercession...

engaged include other troops Hospital, but the philanthropic hostilities the German and Austro- absolutely his best work in paint-

The next monthly meeting for than those comprising their ad-individuals in charge of tut Bongarian Governments will ing and sealpture is act for sale, Intercession which the Bishop of vance guards. May be the whole institution refused to admit the treat as absolute or conditional can only be seen by specially Victoria will conduct will be on of the Czar's main army has not patient, albeit the constitution of contraband those objects Correspondents are requested to observe ike rule which favoured visitors to his studio, Monday next, Nov. 23, at 6 pm. yet come up to the fighting line, | the Hospital declares itself ready materials which are enumer

addresses with and will be, by his own wieb, der at St. Paul's College.

but the fact that the issue is be- to do anything for the good of in Articles 22 and 24 of the cessarily for troyed at His death. This Inst item

Bishop of Victoria. ing so stubbornly contented leadesofferin' 'umanity. So the poor Declaration of London. may be but idle gossip; never-

The Bistop of Viotria's en

ono to assume that there are con- leper was returned to the palice theless there are people-even gagements for to-morrow, (Sun-siderable masses of Russians authorities on no other ground artists-aming those who bave day) are:-11 .. to reach at participating in the conflict. than that they could not admit witpeaned these private exhibitions St. Peter's Church, West Point;

in East Prussia. The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will who maintain that such destruc- 6.45 p.m., to presch at St. John'a

the man. Inspector Batlin mado

In Lighter Vėta. In East Prussia the Russians another trial of getting the leper

Hundreds of French rests are tion may not be altogether regret

are having distinctly the better admitted, but, we are entry for now serving at the Frost The table, on account of the artist's Alleged Possession of Coul. peculiarly twisted notions on

of matters, aa is shown by the lat. the reputation of the directors of Gazooka are Coming! Three Chinese were charged by certain points.

Sergt. P. Grant with the unlaw-eat message to hand, which speaks the Tung Wah Hospital to have Newsvenders who call the news The Belated Rise of a Great Man. weight of coal at Taumati, befor positions east of Angerburg and unsuccessful as the first. The with very mingled feelings the ful possession of five hundred of the capture of strong German to say, the second appeal was as are reported to be apprehending

The daily issue is delivered free when the address is accessible to the general cynicism, of this extra this morning The defendants Preoners in the Mazorian Lake 5 cell at the Central Et tion, and fon

The "taiated notions; "`in feet Mr. Hazeland; at the Police Court fine baul of munitions and man was therefore lodged in Na.fall of Przemysl.-Zendon Opin«. / netenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered a fer linary genius are supposed, by their residences without any extra charge. On copies sent by those who know him best, to have were remanded in police custody *gion. Their advance in this there gave up the ghost yester post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage.

theatre is now assuming a serious day. The coroner (Mr. Wode- The postage on the weekly issue to any part of the world is $100 born of his early end seemingly

arisen from an embitteredness until Monday

aspect for the defendera, and we house) will hold an inquiry to per quarter.

Tenders are being invited for may take it that the invaders will morrow morning into the circum Single Copies, Daily, ten cente. Weekly, twenty-five cents (for known.

futile struggles to get his work the purchase of waste food from not be dislodged here as they stances." cash only).

To-day he is, in all Victoria Gaol for one year, vis, were after their first entry into Franco-German Indemnity. probability, the wealthiest artist

November 15: The German in the world though, up till from 1st January, 1915, to 31st East Prussia. They have had

December, 1915. Waste food ample time for mobilisation since Federal Council has only just about the year 150u, when he consists of the kitchen refuse and those days, and it can safely be wound up the accounts of the was already old, he was not only waste of rice, congee, vegetables, reckoned that their forces are indemnity of £200,000,000, paid porr, but was unknown to almost fish, &c., averaging about 200 lbs much larger now than they were everyone but his fellow artists, and a few of the greater daily.

requires them to forward their names and communications addressed to the Editor, not publication, but as an evidence of their bona fides."

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"HONGKONg Telegraph.”

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1914:

THE PEOPLE AT HOME,

the

Cathedral:

Waste Food,

in the initial venture.

On Sea.

Greece and Turkey,

bad that it would be well-nigh impossible to make them much. worse. But the tide should near- ly be at its ebb, and must soon turn.”

1889.

SHARE REPORT.

The quotations which follon are from the Hongkong Telegraph for Nov, 21, 1889.

Hongkong Hotel Company- $210 per share, sellers. cent, Debentures--$501.

Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per Indo-China 8.N. Company

Germany by France at the close of the war in 1871, and The Medical Board.

it has been decided that the orities who mournfully owned

Better Than Expected. that Rodin's conceptions were has been pleased to appoint, un to realise that the Russian Army is the different States of the Empire

His Excellency the Governor

balanco, amounting to £110, Germany must now be beginning 935, shall be divided among above the comprehension of the der the provisions of Section 10 far more efficient than the Kaiser in the same, propcrtion as the average nineteenth-century buyer.of the Medical Registration Or- and bis advisera expected it to larger anm which has already been He bad few influential friends, dinance, 1884, (Ordinance No. 1 be. Indeed, that fact was begin-distributed, Prassis, of course, he was essentially of the peasant of 1884), Mr. Stanley H. Dodwell ring to be taken note of some taking the lion's share, class and was lacking in ordinary to be a member of the Medical month cr eo ago, when a Berlin

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank common education; at least, so Board for a term of three years, paper remarked that "the Bus-

-180 per cent. premium, sellers. "Chinese Immigrants. we have been told by close with ffect from the 16th Novem-siane are very much better than stated, says a San Francisco.com.

November 15:"Is ia. Dow Canton-$110 per share, buyers.

Union Insurance Society of personal friends of his. Weber, 1914. believe it was Whistler, finally,

they were thought to be. One temporary, that a new steam line pany-$12 per share, aellers. China Traders' Insurance Com- Notice to Shippers. who suggested to him

hears that on every side." Lord Curzon has issued in a recent speech a remarkably advisability of "boosting"" him- kong issues the following notifi- to make, and the fact that it was tione between Canton, Mroso,

The Harbour Master of Hong is no small admission for Berlin erament will soon begin opera-350 per share, buyers.

That subsidized by the Mexioan Gov North China Insurance-Tia. pratical list of "Don'ts" addressed to would-be war or tics. The self. Scraping together what cation:-The following is a precis allowed to be published raises Honolulu, San Francisco and Ltd.-$135 per share. list is to long for quotation, and is, moreover, already fairly well ready money he could get hold of a notice issued by the Japanese the suspicion that the ides Salina Cruz, Mexico, for the dar

Canton Insurance Company, known in the Colour; but the final injunction calle not only for of, he hired a small annexe to the Government:-"The blockade of was to quotation but perhaps for some little comment as well."When the Paris Exhibition buildings and Kiauolaa Bay bas been rained, public for what the German Mexico encourages this import-

prepare the German riage of Chinese immigrants.TIE. 90 per share,

Yangtze Insurance Association war is over," a ye Lori Curzon, "don't throw away the lessons of filled it with his sculptares. The but for the time being the part is military authorities saw to be ation for the sake of cheap labour the war." In Hongkong, keen though the local interest in the admission fees alone soon ran up closed to all shipping, except such coming. If the foregoing was on public works. She declines $350 per share, sellers. Hongkong Fire Insurance Com- conflict has been and is, its inflaces in but indirect and secondary to a big emount; bis work sold vessels as pre oberiered by the representative of official feeling at to take a leaf from our experience,83 per share. when compared with what it has effected in the Homeland. Our like the proverbial hot cakes and Japanese Government, or have that time, what must the opinion or even from that of some of the

China Fire Insurance Company lettera and nowapapers are six weeks old (and sometimes more) when Rodin was a made man, we receive them; and even then we get but the gist of what the war's Widespread Effect. ⠀⠀

special permission from

the be now? And what will it be South American States, where Company 68 per cent. premium Hongkong and Whampoa Dock folk in England are doing and thinking and feeling.

Japanese Anthorities.".

when the Russians really get into conditions more resemble her own;] But what the Home press does make clear enough is the of China are about the last class

Native nouen in the ipferior Cheaper Newspaper Postage. their swing, as they assuredly Ecuador has just forbidden

sellers. demeanour of the people in the great cities. Palpably, Britishers of people one would expect to be December 1, 1914, the rate of

The Gazette as tifies that from will before very long?

Chinese immigration. Peru and Steamboat Company-841 for Hongkong, Canton and Macao at Home have begun to think; nay, bave gone a step farther and arcted by the war in Eurore, postage from Hongkong an newe- have begun to lay to hears a lesson of which, as nine-tenthe of them hut, judging hom a repert in one papers pablished in the Colony to be taken into account. That

Russia on the sea iseloo a factor When Mexico fade herself with

Chili have had enough of them. ahare, sellers, will readily own, the country stood in argent need. We read that of the northern papers they, like will be two cents per four ounces, much is shown from the news of added to her revolutionary tend-Company-$102.1-2 per share, China and Manila Beamship race and labour complications London, for instance, has become a sober, serious city, quite start almost everybody else, are feeling or any fraction thereof, to the yesterday that a division of the encies, she will with she had been lingly free from orime; and that the people are going to bed early, its effecte. According to this following places:

sellers. avoiding as a rule-public jubilation over the various iteras of good statemet, for the last few years Canade, Ceylon, Chine, Cren, the

Australia, Black San Fleet had engaged warned in time. Meantime we $135 per share, sellers.

Hongkong Gas Company- nowe from the Front, taking comparatively litt'e interest in sport every woman in Central China Formosa, India, Jaos, Macao, Breslau and had had decidedly hundred miles to gnart.

notorious Coeben and will have a frontier of over fifteen or drams and, above all, beginning to go to. Church! Oynios will has been a customer of Germany Netherlande India, New Zealand, the better of the exchanges. The quote The Devil was eiok; the Devil a monk would be," and for aniline dyes. These, we are Philippine Island, Siam, Straite fate of the two Turco German

+ doubleas there is no small amuuat of reason on their side; none of told, form part of every pedlar's Settlements, Timcrand the United cruisers-one does not know quite states that Greece had tried to November 16:—" . Tricouple we who have bad much experience of the world believe that a state pack, and no village maiden or Kingdom. of solemn repentance can endure forever; and, if we take into matron fails to invest a cash or

how to describe their ownership cultivate cordial relations with 15 per cent. dis., sellers. account the mercurial quality of the British temperament, we two in the means by which plain

Appointments. It is notifing that His Honour that the Gheben uffered heavily so that henceforth Greece would is not knowo, but it is apparent Turkey, but found it impossible, shall-further be quite prepared presently to see, the pendulum homespen cotten may be trans-Sir William Rees Davies, Knight, from the Russian gunnery, inas-sim at one day vindicating the per share, lo

Douglas Steamship Company- swing in the opposite direction for a while."

formed into brilliant red, blue or Chief Justice, in and for the much as she was badly hit and rights of Crete, But does the feeling at Home go so deeper than this outward green. The great advance in Colony of Hongkong, ban bean there were several explosions on

China Sugar Refining Com- show? Unhesitatingly we should say, Yes, for deeper." The price, caused by the European pleased to appoint Thomas Henry board. It was calculated by Socialism In Galicia."

pany, Ltd.-$107 per share, Britisher does not wear" his heart on his sleeve, and upheaval, advertises the war to King. Assistant Superintendent those concerned in th shady has lately spread rapidly in

November 18-**** Sosialismbayors. his present subdaed hearing probably arises ra her from his notions every hamlet, and never before of Police, Sewart Buckle Carne"deal" over there two boats that Galicis.

Luzon Sager Refining Com of decency and the fitness of things than from soy desire to it seeme, have Chinese pessants Roas, District Officer, and S mael the Raseins would have no war-

pany, Ltd. $674 per share, impress the world with his anxiety to take part in days of national been so much aware of the doings Burnside Boyd McElderry, As ships able to cope with this pair, November 18 Oar apolc

" The Office Goat.

Bellers. humiliation and mourning. He has no heart to go a-jankeling of the great outside world.

Hongkong Ice Company while his son, bis brother.tr his chum may be lying dead on the Inevitable.

Siarant District Officer, to be but there again expectations have gies are due to the gentlemen $110 per share, buyere, battle fold. This outward show of solemnity, then, is not so much

Commissionerato administer been falsified. Taking the whole who played in Caturday's cricket to be taken into considération as the fact (apon which all the Home ff-cla, too, for we

Tue war is having other oaths and take declarations, affir- situation under review, the Bus-match, the Club v. The Garing Company, Ltd.-$100 per Hongkong Rope Manufactur papers seem to agres) that John Ball is less ready to give advice that in Shansi Provinca there for in Hongkong, so long as they the trend of events on land and that appeared in our issue of that Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf

read mation, and attestations of hon sians may well feel satisfied at rison, for the frightful maddle share, sellera. and to criticise than he has ever been within the memory of living are no big bagera fer the shall continue to hold their con ses. man genuinely bumbler and lasa self-assertive, and perfectly con- foreign market this season and no spective office an aforesaid. tent to leave his fate in the wise bands of the ruling powera of the large orders are going to the country. He owns that he has been brought up with a round turn. coast.

Electricity Sup:ly. The result is that for the It is notified in the Gazette.

fall obarge, Billy has been tem- Hongkong Dairy Farm Co.- Yesterday his country was the home of prosperity and of peace (as agricultural and labouring claaste that Regulation No. 33 of the

porarily suspended, and we are $14 per share, sellers. far as foreign nations were concerned) and he was free to squabble unemployment is the order of the Regulations for Seening the bathing-dress anywhere! stitute. Even the great Juve $23 per share, sellers

She-Berbert, Ion't find my advertising for a capable sub- A. S. Wateon and Co., Ltd. with his compatriots and, in the intervals of this pleasant pastime day. With the commercial fety of the Public contained in to devote himself alternately to money-getting and to amusement; relations of the various countries the Schedule to the Electricity-Panch.

HeSee if you've got it cn." nods sometimes, " dong Hongkong High Level Tram to-day be has to realise that Britishers have a bigger and a more of the world now so e'osely inter Supply Ordinance, 1011, ia. c«n-

Friends Then as Now, way Co., Ltd.-210 per cent, immediate duty to perform than quarrelling over Irish or industrial woven, a great war like the pressas olled and the following: Bab

War: Humour,

November 20-The Kaiser prem., seller. questions; that they have to stand shoulder to shoulder, aink all must re-edbo in the fartbermost stituted therefor: "93, Any Pat riots in war, Patriots.pertonally inverted the Sultan Ltd.-$25 per share, nominal,

Ireland ummed up-In peace, and the Sultan': The Emperor Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., differences and make common cause against their country's enemies, cornera of the earth. That is person making any addition to Champagne is still the favour with the Order of Hohenzollern, A word might be added about the demeanour of the women. They inevitable, and China, like every any electrical installation, con-ite tipple of the officers of the and the Emperor and the Em-issue). $45 per share, buyers. too are taking their lesson, and taking it bravely. We hear nothing other country, must be noted nected to the Company's main, Gran Army. But the German press have been loaded with the now about the suffrage; for this is a man's war and the women are by it. Indeed, she will feel ite without giving cue notice to the Nvy sticks to port owning, if not by word, by not, thit their place is in the back-consequences for more te-day Company, to enable them to test We deprecate the published The Stock Exchange.

costliest gifts from the Saltan." ground. That that back ground is a noble and not an inglorions than the would have had the the same before connecting it to suggestion that many ragtime as, is being manifested in ways too numerous to mention. Even crisie come earlier in history, for the existing installation, shall be tunes might be straightened out iness is quits et-gnant, and

November-20 Buro bus frivolity with them has become as unfashionable as feminine politics, with every passing year her liable to a persity not exceeding into march tunes. There must quotations generally continue on and all are doing their best to show that they, like the men are foreign intercourte is steadily dollars for every such addi bo no amoisies on our side, the downward in ck Bicck Er being strengthened and beautified in character by the harah school, enlarging its scope, mastering of the war.

London Opinion,

olange, matters are, in fact, so

tion

Unnoticed.

date. Our Sporting Editor was and Godown Company-$87 per absent, and the office goat took share, Bellera, ja q

Green Island Cement Co. fold

Green Island Cement Co. (new issue), per share, buyers.

Hongkong Land Investment Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. - Co., Ltd.—896 per share, buyers. 84 per share, buyers.

West Point Buildings Co., Ltd. -845 per share, sellers,