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VITAFER

THE GREATEST OF ALL TONIC FOODS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1915.

**Scorchers."

Is is a gretifying feature that the extended use of motor pars and motor-cycles is having the effcot of opening up the New Territories to many who would otherwise be unacquainted with the beauties of the mainland op posite. There is always a danger, however, that those who use the

VITAFER is the essence of finest BRITISH mük, sterilized-roade will abuse the privileges concentrated and granulated-combined with the Glycorophosphates of Sodium, Caloium, and Magnesium.

which they are permitted to enjoy; and, from what we bear, this is precisely what some of those who

DAY BY DAY.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

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GERMANY HARD HIT.

A CHEERFUL TRIEND IS LIKE A SUNNY DAY, WHICH SHEDS ITS BRIGHTNESS ON ALL AROUND, AND MOST OF US CAN. IF WE C8009E, MAKE OF THIS WORLD Con She Recover from the Blows? Avebury. EITHER A PALACE OR A PRISON.-

The Weather, '

Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 01; overcast.

At the Peak 9 a.m. Temp. 52; overcast.

The Malls.

Chenan to-day at 9 5.m.

Germany has received a stag. gering series of blows this week

1890.

‚HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE

YEARS AGO,

[Compiled from the "Hongkong 'elegraph" files for the week

ending Jan. 30, 1890

The Dollar.

January 30-"Therate of the dollar on demand to-day is 3/21

GOVERNMENT

NOTIFICATIONS,

Nia Excellency the Governor has been pleased to promote, Lieutenant Dwid Landale, Hoog- Captain, and 2nd Lieutenant E. kong Volunteer Reserve, to be Evan Jones, Hongkong Volunteer Reservo, to be Lieutenant, with effect from the 23rd Jan., 1915.

Dr. Gerard Hall Lloyd Fitz- Williams was duly re-elected a meinber of the Sanitary Board at

VITAFER is rich in body-building and norve-restoring elements, the milk constituents form flesh and muscle, whilst the road ie, we are told, quite common | Siberian Mail.-Closed per 9.8.and the casualties which the Hongkong. Canton and Macao the election hold on the 22ad Glycerophosphates jevitalize the nerves and brain. This lattor effect is due to Organic Phosphorus being present in the food in the particular form in which it occurs in the human body.

VITAFER is a genuine restorative, and not a more transitory

timulant..

SOLE AGENTS

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

BIRTHS.

NEWALL-On January 30, at 11, The Peak, Hongkong, the wife of B.G. Newall, of a daughter.

HAWKINGS-On Sunday, January 24, at the VictoriaNursing Home, Shanghai, the wife of W.J. Hawkings, of a daughter,

MARRIAGE.

DUTTON-CALLAGHAN-On Saturday, 30th January, at St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, by the Right Rev: G. H. Lander, D.D., Bishop of Victoria, George Alan Dulton, third ann of Harry B.. Elizabeth Stuart. Callaghan, eldest daughter of the late T. Stuart

Callaghan and Mrs. Coriott Moore of Whitehaven, Cumberland,

DEATHS.

Count the Columns. Yesterday the Telegraph published 33 columns of solid reading matter. To-day there will be 40 pablished.

such a succession of reverses that we may be able to date the closing chapter of the war from the last days of January, 1915.

cruiser and a couple of Zeppelias

Tastians have inflioted in Poland,

Steamboat Co., Ltd. instant in accordance with Gor=" ia is now announced that in Trince along over 20,000 mon of the Hongkong, Canion' and 11th instant.

January 23"The Directors ernment Notification No. 9 of the of the Kaiser's Army were Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd., teg Mr. Philip Wallace Goldring accounted for in three days to submit to the shareholders the was, duly elected a member of the fighting. We have before made report and atatement of accounts Sanitary Board at the election reached the limit of her atrength 31 last, the point that, since Germany for the half-year ending December held on the 22nd instant in After paying all ex-accordance with Government months ago, every man lost meant pensee, there remains, including Notification No. 9 of the 11th resistance. What the effect of last account, the sum of $159,- 8 weakening of her powers of 35,481.28 brought forward from instant. reducing her armed forces by 940.92 at oredit of Profit and Los 20,000 men will be in these Account. From this sum the

own motor-oycles are doing. Siberian Mail. Due per te. Apart from the loss of a

Scorching along the Taipo Sado Maru to-day

nowadays-to the danger not only of the cycliste (bish is largely their own affair) but to pedestrians as wall. The law laya down a maximum speed for theas vehicles, but policemen are few and far between on the New Territory roads, and consequently the offenders have matters pretty much their own way. We hope, however, that they will realise that they have obligations to dia- charge as well as rivileges to enjoy. A word to the wise should Bufico.

An Ill-used Deportes 1

The twenty dollars or

Hageland month" which Mr handed out to a Police Basin cook yesterday will serve as a useful reminder to that individual that he cannot fly in the face of the Ordinance by circulating Chinese

The Dollar. The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is 16 9,3-10d.

mata Tenuls Lawn......“

Tenders are being invited for the construction of a tennis lawn at Mountain Lodge.

Authorised Architect. :

The name of Mr. Gerald George Wood has been added to the List

of Authorised Architects.

Left Yesterday,

Left for Home."

tbe

mont

"A Rough Handful.” January 21he other day a

take of Germany, be left to dividend for the half year of 7 indecent and revolting spectacle. circumstances bad better, for the Directors recommend that a fairly described as a imagination. It is a certainty per cent, on Capital, or $112,000, that in her present state she and a bonus of 1 per cent, or cannot stand the strain of warfare $18,000, be paid to shareholders, lot of men belonging to and that $2,500 be written off American ship William on these lines.

No Hope.

the value of the iron lighter {H. Lincola' went to gaol for With facte like these before us Son Lre, leaving a balance of oven dage, rather than stay on even the sosplica must admit $29,440.02 to be carried forward the ship. They were afterwards at the Allies already have to new account. The completion discharged by the captain. Last Drake whatever of the Germans Heungshan, now building at in Queen's Road. With profer breaking through or pushing back. Leith, has been delayed by a suc- sional promptitude they laid him. the gordon of steel that holds cassion of strikes in the ship-out; and then wiped their feet on them. Indeed, the point is whe building, trade, but she may be various parts of bim. He was ther they are even able to with expected here daring the Spring with a few stitches by the doctor, afterwards drawn together again stand the pushing process them. The refiting auditors, Misere.

Lovett Soutor, wife of the late Sir Frank Henry Souter, K. C. S. I..sentence, for.robbing a deportee for Home on the s.. Nubia es-elves when the Allies really ¿‚O'D, Gourdin- and F. Hender and threo of the men are back in

"I. E.

STOREY-On January 24, at the Municipal Teolation Hospital, Shanghai, Harold Storey (of Manchester, England) Aged 22 years,

The Hongkong Telegraph.

months.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1915.

THE MARCH OF TEMPERANCE.

A Commemoration.

to

in

To-day is "Martyr's Day", as it used to be called in some parts of England the anniversary of the

Chinese Theatrica's.

Men and Guns.

1890.

SHARE REPORT.

The quotations which follow are from the Hongkong Telegraph for Jan. 30, 1890.);

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank -194 per cent. premium, cellers: Union Insurance Society of

A Chinese theatrical perform- en adding to their strength all the means 'mashed on the place. Canton-$103 per share, buyers,

Fund will be given by the students of Queen's College in the Central Hall of the College on February 4, 5 and 6.

Stole Electric Bulbs. At the Police Cuart, this morn

tral.

wo man left it by the sayhow, even although they had no tickets, and were sentenced to week's imprisonment each to- day for stowing away!'

Pauy-$72 per share, buyers.

North China Insurance Tla. 350 per share, buyers.

Canton Insurance Company, Ltd.-$130 per share.

Yangleze Insurance Association De-Tls. 90 per share,

To Consignees. Consignees of cargo by the Nippon Mara are reminded that goods remaining undelivered after Monday will be subject to rent.

Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Henley Dutton, J.P., and Mrs. Dutton of Curzen Park, Chester, to Georgina coin, and that he is not expected it by the s.s. Nubia yesterday. the upper hand. There is now no of the Company's now steamer night a lot of them saw the mate

to set up as a money-changer without a liceres. We should Dr. leanley, blter paying a visit have wasted zo time in welees to South Africs, will rejoin his

· Shanghai papers please copy,

lamentation had an extra month wife at Home.

Among the passengers who left SOUTER-On January 21, 1915, at Hyderabad, India. Helona been tacked on to this financier's

We bave

wish ,no

terday were Col., Mrs. and Miss remain see undesirables

Baker Brown, Capt. Wood, and aume the cffensive. For one son cffer themselves for re-election, gaol waiting till he gets well." this Colony one second longer Major and Mrs. Pritchard. fast must not be overlooked-| than need be, but while they are

-P. Ryrie, Chairman." Price of Sugar,

namely, that these huge losses to here in police custody they are

The maximum retail prices of which we have referred have

Cracker-Firing. at least doing no harm and ought sugar have been revised by a resulted not from any concerted January 24-Fifty-four more not to be robbed with impacity. Proclamation issued by His Ex-scheme on our part but merely fire cracker fonds were elammed On the other hand, the magistrato celleasy. The new prices will from retaliation following violent with the sword of Justice this certainly had to take into cocount be found under the official market attacks by the enemy. To change morning. Mr. Robinson fined this the fact that the victim was not prices on page 8.

the metaphor, the Germans have lot twenty-five cents each. The being deported for his excess

Colony's Finance.

been hurling themselves at a stone 141 yesterday got off with ten of virtue, Bod it is not The Colony's revenue during wall, and they have suffered ter cents." impossible that B series of November, was $859,292.51 and ribly in the process,

Australia and the Chinese... the same sort of tricks on others the expenditore $1,081,300.10. We were asked, last week, to lay before our readers a proposal may have been the cause of the The balance at the end of the

January 24"Australia keeps There is another important making a lot of fuss about the emanating from some of the religious bodies in the Colony, as to Government's having given him month was $3,047,698.99 against point which must be taken into Chinese, saying they must g a novel manner of helping on the various fonda that have been es- a hint to go into business out of $3,209,796.58 on October 31. account, and that is that, while and so on, but apparently the heathen who are there are by no tablished for the berefit of those who is suffering by reason of the British territory; in which case

Germany is wasting, the Allies go wer. It was suggested that, for so long as the war shall last, each one is disposed to chuckle at his getting a taste of his own man in the Colony should abandon the preotice of buying drink for medicine.

little about the reinforcing of our cthers and of allowing others to buy it for him. The money thus

armies, it was freely believed in saved, it was urged, would be available for charitable purpcass,

London when the last mails left We did so we were asked, and left the question in the hands of our

that before the spring, and per haps early in the New Year, readers, cur responsibility ending there. What fruit the suggestion

Dr. Talmage's" Beautiful Britain would pour half a mil

Schema." has torne up till now we are unable to say; but we are fully pre-death of King Charles, the First.ing, a Chinese was sentenced to lion more men into France. January 24. The Rev. pared to find that it will bear fruit, if only from the fact that the Op till comparatively recent years three months' imprisonment and Then wo have to remem- Witt Talmage basa basutiful Hongkong Fire Insurance Com- world's attitude towards temperance, and total abstinence has under the Book of Common Prayer profour bours' stocks for the larceny her that the French have trained scheme for reducing the whole pany-$400 per share, sellers, gone to immense a change during the past few years-and even commemoration, and the wisdom a verandah in Queen's Road Cen- And to these facts must be has satisfactorily figured out that 389 per share, buyers.

vided a eet form of service for the of two electrio bulbs from under and equipped even larger reserves. world to Christianity'. Но Chins Fire Insurance Company of Convocation cr Parliament All of us can look back on a time when the teetotaler was TA-

added the fresh factor that the if every Church Obristian' in removing it has not garded as being anywhere between a lunatio and a humbug; been universally acknowledged.

Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Useful Diaries."

Allies now hold the advantage in makes one convert a year, and Company-60 per cent. premium, sportsmen and men of the world would have none of him, and even

From Messrs. W. G. Humphreys the thing most essential of all, each convert does difto, at the sellers. business men and the medical faculty were inclined to look askance However, the martyred King's and Co. we have received a very next to men, for recent fighting end of the year, there will be

is not likely at him as being an onpractical crank. To find the reason for this merrory

to neat pocket diary issued by the has shown that our artillery now fifteen hundred million Christ Steamboat Company $41 rer Hongkong, Canton and Macao attitude one has to Icok back a little. Abstention from alcohol was be allowed to die. In the first General Accidrat Fire and Life outweights and outranges that of fans to wear long black coats, share, eller not always regarded by the non-aba:sizeze with contempt. Setting place, the British schoolboy while Assurance Corporation, Ltd., and the Germans decisivaly. It is take up collections, and the sugar China and Manila Steamship aside the facts that the abstinence party can trace their ideas back keep it alive, if only because the an office diary published by the whispered about, in fact, that we and file their shovels. The world Company both to classical and to Biblical history, and that the Mohammedane said British schoolboy as a rule State Assurance Co., Ltd., for both are equipping our own field would require another great Flood havs eschewed strong drinks ever since the days of the Prophet, and vain to tell him that Cromwell Humphreys are the local agents. proved French 75, which is

has no use for Oromwell. It is of which companies Mesers. Brtillery with the now and im and a fresh start.” Datuk

Hongkong Gas Company regarding the matter only in the light of modern ideas, there was a

$135 per share, sellers. time when for a man to decline a drink did not brand him as a was one of the world's greatest'

admittedly the most formidable A despatch from the Secretary mobile gun in existence.

Hongkong Hotel Company- marise. We may take it that modern temperance dates back to the generals, organisers and rulers,

$200 per share, sellere. time of the celebrated Father Mathew, the Irish Capuchin in murdering, one of the Stuarts December 16, states that the rate He murdered, or was instrumental of State for the Colonies, dated

Fallare. who, in 1838, established his Total Abstinence Association and, that is enough for our youthful of premium for the insurance of be said that the Germans have

Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per cent. Debenturcs-$501. by his extraordinary eloquence and moral force, enrolled

As he gets older he may cargo at the Government War failed atterly in France and ively nothing doing in town to 12 per cent, die, buyers.

Indo-China B.N. Company hundred and fifty thousand converte in less than nine friend. months. Coming to England he presofied with almost equal sucress realise that luckless family did Hiske-Insurance Office has been Belgium. They have lost the ini day, the cricket match and re Douglas Steamship Company in Liverpool and Manchester: other religious denominations England no good, and there is reduced from two guintas por tistive and offensive for good. gatta absorbing everybody's $84 per share, sellers. followed in his wake and, for a while, the total abstinence idea spread just a chance that about fire per cent, to one gainoa and a half per They have been held up oven at the attention. This fact, and the China Sugar Refining Com swiftly and its adherents were looked upon as perfectly sane people cent, of him will thereupon go cent. as from the 11th ult moment of their greatest military circumstance that our reporter i pany, Ltd.-$226 per share, meriting extra respect rather than extra contempt. Gradually, however over to the other side; bat tho

advantage and our weakest a fugitive in Yunnan, on account sellers. His Majesty the King has not When the Allies reach the moment of a fatal fraces he had during Lazon Sugar Refining Com the new notions got mixed up more and more too mash, in fact other ninety-five will still find that with religion, and coon the only teetotalers to be found were those romance palla harder than cold been advised to exercise his power of greatest advantage, and General the morning with a chair-crolie, of the kill-joy, Pariten Bobool. It is but fair to the Church of Eng-pricality, and will remain loy of disallowance with respect to Jeftre finds himself with men to must be our excuse for this issue pelle, limite

Limited-871 per share, land Temperance Society and the League of the Cross to asy that al to the loves of their boyhood. the following Ordinance: play with and the fine weather not being so eighteen-caret as these at least were, in the main, opposed to fanaticism where anti-drink What the peculiar charm in the Ordinance No. 16 of 1914-An coming on, things will begin to usual."

Hongkong Ics Company viowa were concerned; but this does not affect the fact that, ass whole,

Storrie was we shall never Ordinance to provide for the re-move with a vengeance. The

$110 per share, buyers, temperance advocates (and, by the way, we mae the word temperance

know; but it was there; there gistration of qualified Dental Germans once boasted that they “A Revolting Spectacle." was a something in them that, Surgeons and otherwise to rewould take Paris if it cost them on Friday evening last, a new share, sellers.

January 28 — It appears that

Hongkong Rope Manufactur in the conventional sense) were regarded as already stated.

ing Company, Ltd.-104 per For the change to a more rational view we have to thank first from the days of James I of gulate the practice of Dentistry. million men. It has already cot arrival in the town, described as the sportsmen and, second, the men sa to whose manliness there Scotland down to 1745 prompted Company Warning them well on the way to three female of a certain clasa in

Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf could beno possible doubt-Lords Roberts and Kitchener for exemple men and women of every class to The following notification by million, and they have taken the Daily Press, committed the share, sellers.

and Godown Company -$100 er who have so strongly set their faces against even the moderste use give their last cent and their last the Registrar of Companies either Paris, Calais, nor Warsaw, great enormity of indulging in • of alcohol when serious business is toward. The sportsman's ad drop of blood for them. The appears in the Government Even brilliant success would have few walignions with a certain male Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. Ltd. mission that he cannot train on alcohol, and the army or navy of family that can, for more than Gazette Whereas I have rea-been damped by such a holocaust peran at the Race Course, balier AS. Watson and Co., Ltd.-

$14 per share, sellors. four's statement, founded on experience, that his men's nerve and aionate loyalty cannot have been Shanghai Wah Esing Fire and onbitters failure the Kairer and for the winter dance was only Hongkong High Level Tram-

three centuries, elsim such pus-ouble cause to believe that The as this. How it exaggerates and ing that their impromptu practice $23 per share, soilere. powers of endurance are decreased by the presence of it in the system, quite so bad as its enemies have Marine Insurance Company, his people will probably discover witnessed by their personal have been, of themselves, sufficient to change the opinions of many a man who formerly regarded temperance as womanish and weak, prosented it. There must surely Limited, is keeping in a place before long.

way Co., Ltd 200 per cent, friende. Of course, considering The persons who, in the past, have done the greatest harm to the have been one or two redeeming where it transol business out- temperance causo are the extremiste who were forever preaching, points somewhere. M

sido the Colony a register of

the strictly morel atmosphera prema, cellere, F. M. S. Rubber, which has enveloped the Hong Ltd 25 por share.

Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., and who did not leave sufficient to the individual man's resson. No

members without having a valid The increased export of rubber kong Rice Course, it was very Green Island Cement Co. (old licenos under the Companies Or from the FMS during 1914 was wrong of the lately-arrived young issue)-848 per share, bayers. mausible man is going to give up his glass of beer merely because

dinance, 1911, now therofore 17,824.89 tons, the total being female to fancy horself in a Green Island Cement Co. (new nome crazy creatore tella bim that his body will end in the work- house and his soul in Hell if he drinks it. We do not feel that it is The Hongkong, Canton and 36 of the said Ordinance, that at on rubber during the year erroneous impression, commit issue)-85 per share, buyers,

hereby give notice, under section 80,697.19 tons. Daty collected Francisco, and, under that other likely or desirable that Britain will ever become entirely an Macao. Steamboat Company noti- the expiration of two months amounted to $1,238,147.83, end such an enormity 68 to walt in Co. L-101 pershare, buyers: betaining nation (and, by the way, the more attempts there are at fios as that the steamers from from the date hereof, the name of the value of the rubber exported open daylight with a gentleman Hongkong Electrics Co., Ltd. - Hongkong Land Investment prohibition" the farther off will real temperance flee); but we do Moso to Hongkong, now leave the said company will, unless was $53,451,980 Of the total who at least certainly ought 84 per share, buyers. bellave that, from ocasing to be a reproach to a man, abstinence will 8 sm. and 2 p.m., both week days cause to the contrary be shown, exported 1,704.48 tons were sent have known better; but, we very gradually coms to be considered by every class as far more manly and Bundays, and that the excar he truck of the register and the to the Straits Settlement, and gravely doubt whether such per grad the reverse, and that if not abstinence at least temperance (tow sign steamer returns from Macsont company will be dissolved." 1,500.11 tons to the United Leotly innocent recreation can be in the literal interpretation) will become the rule rather than the at 2 pm, on Sunday, February 7 exception among the rising generation,

Kingdom,

The Macao Service.

War Risks.

Dentistry Ordinance,

!.

To sum up the situation, it can

(Seamingly Mr. Fraser Smith, like some of our recent correspond antu, was no great advocate of the missionary idea.)

"Nothing Doing? January 25.There is posit-

buyers.

pang,

a

-$120 per

share,

West Point Buildinga Co. Ltd.

46 per share,

mhare, buyers.