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VITAFER

THE GREATEST OF ALL TONIC FOODS.

■f Sodium. Calcium, and Magnesium.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1915,

The Shuttlecock Nuisance.

We draw attention yesterday to the fact that an Indian con stabla had very rightly arrested a golf-caddie for throwing a ball, in a public thoroughfare, to the danger of the public. We would like to supplement our remarks by, asking if the police have no.

DAY BY DAY.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

GOOD WORK BY THE

RUSSIANS.

IF THOU WOULDST BE HAPPY, BRING THY MIND TO THY CON DITION, AND HAVE AN INDIFF

MORE THAN 18 ERENOY FOR BUFFICIENT-Pana.

The Weather. VITAFER is the essence of finest BRITISH milk, sterilized-power to deal with a far more playing in crowded streets. moncentrated and granulated-combined with the Glycerophosphates general poisonce - ebuttlecock-

Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 58; We

far dull. 'ara very, very from gradging Chinese boys As the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 1/; their games; on the contrary, the mist. Telegraph hag always been in favour of every encouragement's being given to sport; but there!

VITAFER is rich in body-building and nerve-restoring elements, the milk constituents form flesh and muscle, whilst the Glycerophcephates revitalize the nerves and brain. This latter effect is due to Organic Phosphorus being present in the food in the particular form in which it occurs in the human body.

·Count the Columns,

1890.

HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVa YEARS AGO.

Steady Progress. In all Theatres. (Compiled from the "Honglong

L'elegraph" files for the werk

ending Feb. 6, 1880)

NAVAL DANCE

An Enjoyable Function Last Night.

The Chief and First Class Patty Officers of the Navy in Hongkong were the hosts at a very enjoyable dance given at the Royal Naval Canteen last evening, about four hundred persons rasponding to the invitations which had been extended to the members of kind- red services and to civilians. A most enjoyable programme was gone through, the music. for the twenty odd dances being supplied by an orchestra of service men. Daring the evening Commodore and Mrs. Austrather paid

Though every effort is being

The Dollar, made by both the Germans and the Austriane to stem the Russian

February 0. The rate of the advance in Poland and in Galiola, dollar on demand to day in 3/17," the Cer's forces are steadily Nit Improbable,

February 1 Ous of our con- pushing forward. There have are plenty of playgrounds in the Yesterday the Telegraph evidently been big things doing temporariob, in noting the ace Colony, of one

or published 33 columns of solid in the former theatre, where the cessful career of a venerable man, break that he was born without a VITAFER is a genuine restorative, and not a mere transitory another, and it is to these that reading matter. To-day there Germans have once again been makes the startling statement

a visit, and among those to be making attempts to we should prefer to seo will be 30 published.

through the Russian lines. The dollar in his pocket...!

noticed were Lt-Commander. and Mrs. Gibson, Ll.-Commander communique says the enemy is

February 4.-"It will hardly and Mes. Cromie. Commander mixing the efort in olose form.

Stimulant.

"SOLE ACENTS

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which names and address with requires them to forward their communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but as an evidence of their bona fides."

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

sort

such games as may inconvenience

the

public confined. The

shaltlecook used at flame would

The Mails...

Das per as Cordillere to-day. French Mail. Clouse per v.

Cordillera to-day at 4 p.m. Siberian Hail-Closes per s.s. Liangehow at 4 p.m. id-day.

Flattering.

scaresly injure a butterfly, but American and Siberian Mailsation, and that is fully borne out be denied by evan the most Seaman, Major Mr, and the alavish toady to self-interest and Misses Roberton and a large nam- by the fact that no fowerthaussven German Divisions, or some 140,000 the powers that be, that the ber of other officers,

The fanation was a complete men, were ranged over a seven-report and statement of accounte

Success, and congratulations for mile front. Batin spite of this big originally issued by the Hong- has not succeeded and the Agency Company were the re-ing are due to the dance com display of strength the attempt kong Land Javeatment and having arranged 30 fine un sven Russians have been able not only verse of satisfactory. The report mittee, consisting of Messrs. J. E. to keep their own lines intact bus was a mere skeleten, the accounts Hamilton, president, S. J. Grandy, to take ing lines of the enemy's were an arithmetical abortion, hon, sec., G. W, Warren, T. D. We don't know, and what is more Campbell, C. White and E: T. we don'dicare, who drafted the

Tyler. report and we are equally on

that in vogue among the Chinese is weighted with two or three folds of thickish leather, and a person who has once been struck in the ore with this innocent-looking toy has no wish for a repetition of the incident. Every day, during the shuttlecock senson, Chinese boys and young men may be seen indulging in the game along the Prays and even in Queen's Road

less of the passers-by; and only once have we seen a policeman" and he was not a lakong-protest, The Late Miss Braddon,

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"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH."'

By Order,"

The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve the truth and print the news without fear or favour,

The Dollar.

The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is 18.9.3-161.

Bishop's Engagements.

"Smoker". Postponed.

By the death of Mrs. Maxwell- or Miss Braddon as she will be best remembered-we lose nearly the last of the Victorian "society We are asked to state that the novelists, who had so enormous a smoking concert which was to vogue in the pre-Marie Corelli have been held at the Victoria days. Si far as we recollect, Miss Recreation Club to-night in aid Braildon had two different styles: of the Frince of Wales Fund has the all-plot, Wilkie-Oulliasesque been postponed until further style, as shown in "Lady Audley's notice. Secret" and Honry Dunbar,"

To Consignees. Conaignees of cargo by the s.s. and the less sensational way of going to work as in "An Open Anyo Mara are reminded that Verdict," wherein she cover goods remaining undelivered provincial life, seasoned with a after Monday will be subject little aristocracy. In either case she did creditable and careful

A Chinçse was fined $2 at the work, which was quite as enter taining

Buil far legs Police Court, this mording, for pernicious than, the balk of that committing a naisance in Peddar

Street. executed by most of the up-to-date lady novelists; and, though she

Coal Coolie's Mishap. must have been a very womanly A coal coolie, while working on woman, there wis a distinct board the s.s. Anyo Hara, slipped atrength in scme of her mors and fell into the No. 3 hold. He melodramatic fiction. Moreover was attended by the ship's doctor she had what neither of her more and afterwards removed to the popular Contemporaries Mre. Tung Wah Hospital for treatment. Henry Wood and "Oulda"-bad:

tó rent.

A Nuisance.

trenches.

on

A

Un page 9, Mesars. Wright and Horuby's share quotations, revised to yesterday, will be found. The following alterations are advised, bringing the quotations up to to day :-

Canton Insurances. — $345,

buyers...

China Sogars-304.

Hongkong Land Investments.

-$110, males.

Humphrey's Estates.-87.1-4,

salas.

West Point Buildinga.-868). Hongkong Central Estates," $95, buyera,

Kang Tike. Tls, 111, sales, and buyers.

China Borneos.-$11, sales."; Langkate.-Tle, 40, buyers,

The Invasion of Galicia. The Rastianpressure

Meaare. Fennimore and P, For-\\ Galicia is being steadily main- oblivions as to the identity of the rest were in charge of the bar, the while the duties of M. C. were The Bishop of Victoria's en-tained. Hnge armies have an artiste who fixed up gagements for Sunday, Feb. 7. deavoured to bar the way, but accounts; but, in all friendliness, ably sustained by Mr. F. T. Raffil. are:-11a.m., preach at St. Peter's the relentless westward march of we would strongly recommend Church; 7.30 p.m. Address men's the Russians has never consed. them not to do it again."

THE SHARE market. meeting at Chinese Y. M. C. A. Those who have kept an eye on more bald-headed display of the line followed by the Russians combined short sightedness and will have noted the steady pro-ignorance has rarely been seen in gresa from Lemberg to connection with any commercial Przemysl, which has been left enterprise."

(And so on!) Hongkong Ice Company, Ltd. invested, and thence on the way to Cracow, Now Tarnow, 50 miles east of Cracow, has fallen February "The General to the heavy guns of the invaders, Managers of the Hongkong Ico and thus a big step forward in Co, Ltd., beg to submit to the the march into Austria has been shareholdere a statement (the made. The evacuation of Tarnow ninth saunal) of accounts for by the defenders is of marked the year 1869. The business of significance. The Russians will the Company has continued to no doubt now be able to bring improve and the result of the their light railway lines down to last year's operations, inclusive this point, and establish an im. of balance from last accounts, ja a portant base almost within atrik-profit of $37,836.78. On August 2 last, an interim dividend of 7 log distance of Cracow itself,

per cent, was paid, absorbing a The Progress la Belgium. sum of $8,750, and there is now There is a distinct renewal of a balance to be dealt with of activities in Belgium, as is shown $29,146.78. This will admit of in the over-night wires. The the payment of a further dividend operations have apparently been for the year, of 17 per cent. The confined to artillery actions, and accounts have been audited by Mr. it is good to note that the Allies' Thomas Argold, and the Ganer.1 guns are now more than a match Managers recommend that he for those of the Germans. Their should be re-elected auditor.

re has been deadly, and the Jardine, Matheson and Co.” results are to be found in the fact Mr. Francis on Borneo Tobacco a real eye for character. Mrs.

Probably Murder.

that the Allies have been enabled

Prospects. Woodaucceeded because she could Recently there was reported the to drive the wedge still further February 6. A very fair audi- hit two big sections of the public disappearance of an old couple into Belgian territory. Oor ence assembled in the Chamber -the sensation-loving and the who left Cheung Chan in their advance in this region has been of Commerce yesterday afternoon good-goody-with one stone, boat to go fishing, having on well n aintained ever since the to hear Mr. J. J Francis, Q. O., German atrocities have proved a fruitful subject for the press to "Oaids," again, sacceeded, partly board over three hundred dollars. days when the enemy was forced address them on "The Tobacco exercise itself upon, and we may take it that, one way or another, all because she could thrill the They did not return, though their back over the frontier. Step by Prospects of Borneo." Mr. Company-59 per cent. premium, that could be said as to the baseness of those responsible for the British milliner with dazzling boat was found on some rooks on step we have gone forward, firmly Francis presided for himself sellers.

for horrors that have taken place in Belgium and France bas already accounts of silky moustaches, a neighbouring island. The body consolidating the positions taken, and spoke something Hongkong, Canton and Macso been given utterance to. But we are reminded by a lengthy com- tenor voices, Turkey carpets, old of the old woman, aged about and that the pressurs is becoming over half an hour. He said that Steamboat Company-839 per munication, want to us for publication by the Conunl General for lace, and handeome, cynical seventy-one, has now been dis- serious for the Germans is shown he had just relaxed from a two-share, ex div., sellers.

China and Manila Steamship Russia, on Thursday, that there are depthe-although net more guardsmen whose lives had been covered at Mai-wo, with a rope by the fact that two trenches months visit to British North reprehensible, at laant more contemptible, even than the barbarities ruined by heartless women, and tied to one leg and to a heavy have been captured aser Westend, Borneo, daring which he took the Company

praised on defenceless Frauch and Flemish. To those depthe partly by reason of the real, live stone. The police, are making which is midway on the ocast be Germany has sunk in submitting those temporarily and accidentally plow which she was able to infuse enquiries into the oase, which ap tween Nieuport and Oatend.

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Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

Telephone: No. 1 A.B.C., 5th edition.

Office address: 11, Ice House St.

Western Volon

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1915,

or from

GERMAN CHIVALRY.

W18 enemy,

46,

into her fiction.

A Popular Novelist.

Miss Braddon's success was

China Traders' Insurance Com- Pany-$72 per share, buyers.

North China Insurance-Tls. 350 per share, bayers.

Canton Insurance Company, Ltd.-$180 por share.

Yangtaze Insuranog Association Tls. 90 per share, Hongkong Fire Insurance Com- pany-$400 per share, zollere. China Fire Insurance Company $001 per share, nollers, Hongkong and Whampoa Dook

buyers.

$120 per share, opportunity of learning something Hongkong Gas Company- about the country, particularly pears to be one of morder with

with respect to tobacco-planting. $135 per share, sellers. in ber power to gratuitone insult, annoyance and violence.

The Suez Battles.

Hongkong Hotel Company→→ They know there was a good deal The story sent to Hongkong by the Petrograd Ministry for

robbery for its motive. Foreign Affairs is one that we cannot read calmly, for very para

The Tarks are being badly of Hongkong capital invested in $200 per share, sellers. Enocked about in their efforts to Borneo in this enterprise, and he

Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per Bijou Theatre. graph shows how recklessly Germany, even long before she was

cent. Debentures-$601. reduced to her present desperate atraite, has ignored the obligations more genuinely deserved because There was a good attendance cross the Suez Canal. Yesterday' had been told that there was a of chivalry and of international courtesy, France, Russia and she wrote the best that it was in again last night at the Bijou wires showed that they at first good deal of despondency among 12 per cent. die, buyers.

Indo-China B.N. Company Britain, when war became inevitable, were careful not to forget the her to write, without any attempt Theatre, the principal attractions essayel the tank by bridging, but the shareholders as to the pros

Douglas Steamship Company smallest of the niceties to be observed towards foreign diplomats. to pander to the gallery; and if being some excellent war pictures, that just as they had collected pects of tobacco cultivation. It Germany has posed as the apostle of the most up-to-date refinement, she could not lay claim to a great a new Max Linder adventure and all their material and were about might be difficult to get them to 866 per share, buyers.

China Sagar Refining Com- and would speak with patronising scorn of our balf-civilised ancest amount of originality, she at least the ragtime songe of Mr. Louis to begin in real earnest the come to his conclusions, but to ors of mediaeval times. But, in the eyes of those ancestors, the person wrote like a lady. Though she was T: Slicker, an American com- British swooted down on them ist them he would explain what pany, Ltd.-$224 per abare, of a herald or an ambassador, whether he came from friend not so widely read as Mrs, Henry adian. In addition to his ragtime and gave them a pretty hot time had to be done, when an estate sellers.

Luzon Sugar Befining "Com- aboolately Facred," and "nons Wood ähe had really a more and some sheery patter, Mr. of it. Now they have tried their was opened before any tobacco dared to offer him offence or insult Advanced Germany, catholic public, and her booke Slicker sang an ingenious little luck with rafts, but with no bet onld be placed on the market and pany, Limited-$70 per share,

a profit realised. however, rises superior to such petty considerations; and, the mo- might, at one time, be found in parody--dealing with the Kaiser'a ter success. Indeed, their losses

Hongkong Ice Company- ment that war broke out, the practically withdrew her protection every cle of house, from delinquencies on "You made me on this occasion have been heavier So far as he had been able to work

$110 per share, buyers, from the members of the Russian Embassy, so leaving them at the castle to cottage. Apropos, the love you" and gave a good imita-still, and by this time they will cut the figures, he thought no

Hongkong Rope Manufactur meroy of any ruffian Jack-in-office with whom their ill-fortune chanced late Queen Victoria was credited tion of an old Italian reosunting surely begin to have a holy fear estate could be carried on under

something .more to bring them in contnot. Every obstacle to a peaceable departare with

than his woes in broken English of the British. The fighting has an expenditure of 85,000 & 1ng Company, Ltd.-$104, pe was purposely thrown in the way of embassy staff and cousals alike a enssking liking for the books To morrow night Mise May evidently been on a large scale month. The chief drawback was share, sellers.

sinos no fewer than 12,000 Tarks the cost of getting labour, a Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf not excluding detention in prison. A government that would thus of the deceased authoress; indeed Clarke, a

thore heap ignominy"

representing the

Russian it is said that when, on one oc soprano, makes her first appear. were engaged. But the enemy's drawback which was always and Godown Company-889 er Crown could not be expected to be particularly obliging towards casion, the subject of Mrs. ancs at the Bijon,

designs have completely failed, leaning, as free Chinese were go-share, sellers. and there can be no doubling the ing there in numbers, and in the the unofficial robjects of that Crown. But one would have thought Browning's poems was brought To Curio Collectors..

There is on view to-day at Mr ability of the British forces to future women and children that even modern Germany would at least respect women-many of up, her Majesty observed in-

keep the situation well in hand. would be employed in many of them elderly and invalide; bat to expect this is to expect too much. nocently: "Yes; I like her; and I G. P. Lammert's sles room a

the processes. The fugitives were hustled and herded as though they were slaves particularly like her "Aurora remarkable collection of old por or the lowest kind of criminals, no more consideration being shown Floyd,"! for the women and babies than for the men.

These are not idle stories, but definite statements offic ́ally rough- ed for, and, like the brutalities and blackguardiem practised in France and Belgium, only

German Losses.

well-known mezz).

ealain and curios which are to be sold by auction on Monday and Tuesday. The usual dynasties. and periods are covered by speci mena which show that fine work

18.90

SHARE REPORT.

The quotations, which follow

sellers.

Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. Ltd. $14 per share, sellers.

A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd — $23 per share, sellers.

Hongkong High Level Tram way Do., Ltd. – 200 per cant, prem., sellers,

* Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., Ltd 825 per share,

Alice Memorial Hospital, The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice! Memorial and Affiliated Hospitala to show what Europe

begs to acknowledge with thanks

Green Island Cement Co. (old The total Prussian loress in the that was produced by the diller the following donations to the had to expect if the Allies had stayed their hand and

lasue)43 par share, bayara allowed Germany to crawl to the supremacy that she lusted war, according to the casualtyent craftsmen of the various times, funds of the Hospitals-P. and

Green Island Cement Co. (new after-The instances given by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs lists of January 1 were 753,202, many of them being in an ex-0. S. N. Co. $50 Cawsejos

lasue). $5 per aliare, buyers. are but one more testimony in favour of the argument that Ger- and the total German losses, not cellent condition. Again, the Palanjes and Co., $25; 8.1,

Hongkong Land Investment man culture was little more than a cheap coat of paint under which counting the Bavarians, who are specimens range in price from David and Co., 825 Deacon, are from the Hongkong Telegraph Co., Ld-$100 per share, ox divi, los, and still liep, a disposition far more gross than that of a West stated to have lost half their that within the most moderate Looker, Deacon, and Haraton, for Feb. 6, 1890:

buyers. River pirate. Happily very fresh disclosure in regard to our army, wero estimated at 250,000

purse to pieces worth well over $25; Dudwell and Co., 825 Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Hongkong Electrio Co., Ltd. stay a conduct of affairs is an additional spur to the Allies to take killed, 400,000 missing, and 850 thousand dollars, affording op. Dennys and Bowley 525-198 per cent. premium, buyers. 38 per share, nominal, from her the power that she has so loathsomely misused, and to act 000 wounded. The grand total, portanities to all collectors to add Douglas B. S. Co., $25; Gande Union Insurance Society in such a manner by her that she is kept in a subject position till the including Bavarians and naval farther to their collection

West Point Buildings Co., Ltd. Pr.od and Co., $25; Gilman and Canton $103 per share, buyers.-$45 per aliars, buyers. Denturion shall have taught her that strength is given to a nation men, was then quite 2,000,000,

Co. $25, for use and not for shameless abuse,