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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 19.5,

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The Ferry Services.

During the present week-by reason, we assume, of the visit of the Italian Opera Company-the- ferry boats bave been running on the old schedule. Instead of stopping at 11.45 p.m. they have run antil half an hour after mid- night, as they did before war broke out. The public has much appreciated this return to the normal time-table, and the query naturally arises why former con- ditions cannot be permanently resumed. If late forries ran for week, surely they can

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be continued indefinitely with- out danger. The Ferry Company probably does not object to the

DAY BY DAY.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

I WISH THAT MORE OF US HAD THE COURAGE TO BE POOR: THAT THE WORLD HAD NOT GONE MAD AFTER FASHION AND DISPLAY BUT 80 IT 18, AND THE BLESSINGS WE MIGHT HAVE ARE LOST IN THE EFFORT TO GET THOSE WHICH LIE OUTSIDE THE POS BIBLE-Carey.

The Weather.

Lower level 8 am. Temp. 56; clear

At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 48; olear.

Count the Columns,

WILL ITALY COME IN ? :

Some Comments on the

Dutch Note,

1.8.90

HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVB YEARS" AGO.

Compiled from the "Donghong Telegraph" files for the week anding Feb. 20, 1890,)

The Dollar

February 20,-"The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is 3/14."

GOVERNMENT

APPOINT MENIS

His Excellency the Gove "ro has been pleased to appoint Mr. Samuel Barnside Boyd McElderry to be a Member of the Board of Examiners and to be a Member of the Sub-Committee for the examination of subordinate officers of the Police and Gaol in English, Chinese and Hindustani, with effect from the 12th February, 1915.

Hia Excellency the Governor hea been pleased to appoint Mr.

The demand of the Italian populace for the entry of their country into this war is distinctly refreshing for the Allies. While it is nut at all settled that they will, sa for se regarde any pro mites by those in authority, it Yesterday the Telegraph is distinctly pleasing to note that

will, if the people have their way Lammert, and bought in at 38 Lieutenant, with effect from the be seat against the Austrians and cents a foot," (Lot 524 is the 9th February, 1015. force them to fight on both front, large plot, still unpceopied, at the His Excellency the Governor

At Thirty-eight Cents a Foot. February 15.-"Kowloon In- land Lot No. 524 was offered for

J. W. O. Bonnar, Hongkong

GERMICIDE curtailment of the service, inas published 32.columne of solid one of the finest armies in Europe sale by auction to-day by Mr. G. R. Volunteer Reservo, to be a Second

CODORANT. the public adjusts its time to suit will bo 37 published.

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much as it may be assumed that reading matter: To-day there

the time-table. The Company, therefore, standa to gain rather Siberian Mail. -Arrived per a.

Chiyuan this morning. than lose on the transaction, since expenses are cut down on the American Mail. Due per se. Maxico Mara (ex Persia) boar saved. Bat the public,

to-day which, after all, keeps the Com- pany going, complains and justly EO, tco. We presume, however, that the matter is really entirely who certainly might by this time bow Rome consideration to public desiree' and wishes.

in the hands of the authorities,

Dual Schools.

We notice that the Peak School annual report regrets, "that there

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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1915.

GERMANY AND AMERICA.

their prevenco has generally the effort of a aking boys less rough." We have heard this question of the desirability of mixed schools discussed many times and, while it has always seemed to me that thers is much to be said in favour of the case tucation system, those by are opposed to it have, we think, the greater amount of rea-

tion in the school report is 800 on their side. The conten that the mixing tenda to make the boys less rough, and we presume that is undeniable, but can you take away the "roughnesa" (we nee the word for want of a better) from a boy or evan ap- precis ble portions thereof-with- oat the risk of making him numby-pimby,? We are not among those who believe that rade or Lallying exterior is the Burest sign of inward malina, and pluck bat we have seen some of the boys who have been

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educated side by side with girls,

Siberian Mail.-Dus per 8.8. Shid-

zuoka Mara tć-morrow.

Titan at 11a.m. to-day.

Siberian Mail-Oloeed per

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Siberian Mil-Closes per 8.8. Liangchow Cat 9 a.tu. to

morrow.

Australian Mail.Closed per s.s.

Taiydan at 11 a.m. to-day.

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Up to the Minute-Share

Market News.

Closing prices:-

Steamboats.-$23, Bales and

buyers.

has much

Politically, Italy gain if she throws in her lot with corner of Chatham Road and has been pleased to appoint Mr. Thomas Henry King to not as Cameron Road,) the Allies and they prove victor From the Governor of Singapore, Superintendent of Importa and ione. The addition of the lont

February 15. The following Exports during the absence on provinces to the

lustre of is an extract from a letter received leave of Mr. Robert Oliphant" the Italian Crown, while a by Captain Deane, President of Hutchison or until further not co, matter of a little importance, the Hongkong Cricket Club, from with effect from the 20th status ibat Italy would gain ae K.C.M.G., Governor of the Straits would not weigh much with the H. E Sir Coil Clementi baith, February, 1015.

the result of the establishment of Settlements:-There is no doubt

a

new equilibrium in Europe. In that your cricket was better than (Presumably that libel verdiot dead, the altering of the map of ours, but still our fellows.ought had left Mr. Fraser Smith sore- Europe is a small matter in com- to bave made a better fight of it. but wary.) parison with the political res

I doubt, however, adjustment that must take place if our men were physically fit;

when thie war comes to so end. change of climate, from hot to

for

Departure of Sir William Des

· Voeux. February 18-"A Govern-

Seeing Her Mistake.

cold, makes аз immense ment express sent, round, this In this connection the Italians

difference. It is impossible to afternoon says that H. E. the as a whole seem to be better.

exaggerate the

fooling of Governor, who is about to pro- politicians than their leaders, enthusisem

Hongkong ceed to Europe by the French tboogh the natural inclination to and bearty appreciation of mail steamer to-morrow, will

that $0.25, side with a Latin race may have all

dons for embark at Pedder's Wharf st much to do with the desire for them, which was exhibited on about 11.15 a.m. The public participation in the present strug their return by the Singapore address will be presented to His gle. To do so, however, the seam. You could not, I gather, Excellency in the City Hall at $42, Italian Government has to throw have done more for them. The eleven o'clock,"

overs Treaty. Regrettable though whole thing has been a tremend-

China Sugars.- $100. sellere, Tronoba.-25/6, sellers. Hongkong Cottons.

bayers. Shanghai Cottons.

buyers.

Hongkong Electrics.

sales... Hoogkong Trams.

bayers.

The Dollar.

Tis, 85,

The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is la 9.3-16d.

Food Prices:

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W&B

$5.10, this maye, to the other members, car saccess.

there seems to be no rule that"s Action against Mr. Fraser Smith, country, having once committed

February 15 -" The Supreme herself to a mistake, such as the Court reminded one to-day very Triple Alliance, should thereby be much of Bigdad broke loose, precluded from the benefits of during the conclusion of the libel seeing the error of her ways suit brought against Mr. Fraser at the eleventh hour. Smith, Editor and Proprietor of leven

Ricially speaking, the Allianco the Honghong Telegraph, by Oscar

The nations Brandt." Was impossible.

The prices of food have been revised, and the list brought up to date appears on phge 8

Orange Peel Danger. An Indian constable has been admitted to the Government Civil Hospital suffering from injuries received by slipping on a piece orange peel in Garden Road,

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(Mr. Fraser Smith conducted his ino uded in it were not kindred, and, in the cases of Italy and own case in the spirited manner Austris, oue mourned the loss of characteristic of him, but lost the provinces to the other who was action-nominal damages being gaite determined to hold on to imposed.)

Mistook it for Quinine, everything she bad obtained from China Fire Insurance Company, P. C. Alichurch has been sent the former. The whole fact of

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SHARE REPORT.

The quotations which follow are from the Houghtong Telegraph for Feb. 20, 1890.

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank 207 per cent. premium, sellers: Union Insurance Society of Canton-8101 per share, bayera.

Chips Traders' Insurance Com-

to hospit I suffering from the the matter is that the Alliance February 15.The annual re-pany-$72 per share, buyers. effects of carbolic poisoning. He was one of Governments, and port of the China Fire Insurance North Ohins Insurance-T15. and we feel that, unless theme is reported to have drunk some Governmente cannot always bold Co., Ltd., shows a profit balance 350 per share, buyers. influence of Jade eo educated diluted carbolic acid ia mistake a people in check. decidedly viile, the obsaces lot their growing

with op au effeminas bins are great, 8ume

for a quinine mixture.

Not Returned.

tress.

Victoria Theatre.

Gun Practice.

The

The Dutch Note.

beginuing

40 "uf $140,073.06. This amount. Canton Insurance Company,

the Directora propose to deal with Ltd.-$130 per share.

"

pany,

of the as follows: $60,000 as a final Yangisze Insurance Association Lily Dudley, of 46, Lindhurst New Year has been a time of dividend of $3 per share (mak--Tla. 96 per share. of 1000 Pouk youngsters are Terrace, bas complained to the Notes and the exchange of ing $0 for the year) $30,073,08, ' Hongkong Fire Insurance Com destined, we take it, to proceed to police that she entrusted a boy to Notas. Holland has followed these bonus on contribution of pre-pany-$400 per share, callers, English public schools later.

go to the bank with a cheque for fashion and delivered Notes ou min by shareholders, and the China Fire Insurance Company Then Heaven help them, during $120. The boy cashed the cheque the question of ventral shipping balance, $50,000, to reserve fand-801 per share, sellers. their first. term or two, if they but has not returned to his mis to both Germany and England. increasing this account to Hongkong and Whampoa Dook have had girle for their school.

Naturally the internal conditions $700,000, which it is hoped will Company-58 per cent, premium, mates. We would not change

Bishop's Engagements. of every country must make in meet with the approval of the sellers. places with them for a good deal.

The Bishop of Victoria is to forence with imports a most ahureholders. Mr. Steberesigned

Hongkong, Canton and Macao sonounced to preach at the Cathe serious business, bat it has not bia ceat in the Board on his Steamboat Company--835 101 Our Old Friend the Devil The Germans have been varionaly credited with culture and Profess r Hearusbaw, of Dar dralo morrow (Sunday) evening yet been shown that the establish departure from the Colony, and share, ex div., sellers. with savagery, but no one yet seems to have been able to stretch his ham, has been declaring to the at 5.45 p.m. He will conduct meat of anything in the catare Mr. H. Hoppins was invited to China and Manila Steamship

'the imagination so far as to contrive to accuse them of a sense of humour. Globe, that "the devil has been a meeting for intercession, open to of an effective search of ships and sit

Vacancy.-P. Ryrie, Company $120 per share, Indeed, bad they possessed that sense, would the present war bo tak-the determining factor ́ia] all, at St. Paul's Collega at 6 p.m. the decision of some cases reserved Chairm n.

bayers. for the Priz: Courts have inficted The late Duc de Montpenaler. ing place? Would they not have laughed at their Emperor's silly bringing about the present Ear- on Monday next.

Hongkong Gas Company the pretensions to be a sort of modern Bonaparte? Would they not opean couflist." Eren those who

any great bardship on February 17,—"A London wire $135 per share, sellers. have ridiculed his shildish vanity in imagining himself to be of the are farthest from agreeing with The new programme at the

countrion nog.combatant

of of February 5 announces the Hongkong Hotel Company stoff whereof conquerore are made? Above all, when they found Dr. Hearnshaw, will yet feel a Victoria Theatre contains a long Europe, if they have inflicted any death of the Duc de Montpensier, $200 per share, sellers.

film, at al. The figures quoted in the fifth son of King Louis Philippo that be was inexorably beut on bringing their country to atter rain, sneaking admiration for him, in and strongly dramatic

Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per would they not have placed him under kind bat firm restraint, and that he has thas openly prrolaim-entitled "The Great Sinner" reply by Sir Edward Grey in bie of France, in his 69 h year.

cont: Debentures---$501. so ended a regrettable little chapter in their nation's history?,ed his belief in the devil; for, in also two excellent nets of new reply to the American N to show "Exercising his Judgment.”. Indo-China S.N. Company-- Instead of all this they elected to take him and themselves these degenerate days, people as war pictures and two or three that the import into the Nether- February 17-"Ai the Police 123 per cent. dis., buyera. seriously; with what result we already know.

a whole are rather fond of "deny-good comica. The Russian Lil-lands and Scandinavian countries Court, this morning, Sergeant Douglas Steamship Company The war Las gone on for six and a half months, and still the ing that individual's existence liputian Froupe are due to open have in some cases more than neon charged a sturdy Chias $68 per share, buyers. Germans have not learned that procedures about which they are so Bach a denial on the part of a at the Victoria about March 1. drubled themselves. Of course man with committing a pira—that Obina Sugar Refining Com grimly serious are often a matter for jest to non-Germane. If the case man who is an avowed Agnostic

the argument may be that the is to eay, with being a bucoan-pany, Ltd.-$228 per share, were otherwise, it is certain that they could not hare replied as one can easily understand; but It is notified that joformation change of economic conditions in in other words, that he did at-sellers. they have done to America's Note. In the first place, it is not three the "broad-minded" Christians has been received from the Milit-cheas countries has brought tempt to stea (on, these things Lazon Sugar Refining Com months since they told the world at large that they had ample stores who toke up sach an ary Authorities that gun practice about the demand for these may be true, but there may be Limited-$70 per share,

If so, malice shown) with "exercising sellers. for a two or three years' wor; yet now Britain is "inhuman" for attitude would seem to be in will be carried out as ander increased imports. interfering with any additions to that store! Inhuman? Where did rather an illogica position. Surely On Saturday, the 20th February: England would roi appear to bis own judgment and courage Hongkong Ice Company they learn the word; and what do they understand by it? At this the idea of good implice a con-From Stonecutters. (West Bit-bave a leg to stand on. But if theto que a recent $251 argu- $110 per share, buyers. rate, the English and Latin dictionaries wil want overhauling, for trary: evil; ant if God be the tery), in a westerly direction, neutral complainants want to meat within the jurisdiction of

Hongkong Rope Manufactur M. culture means torturing women and destroying works of personification of good, why is between the hours of 230 p.m. show that the import of metale has the Chinese Government.

ing Company, Ltd.-$104 per mediaeval art, so “inbuman must be taken to mean using per there not a prao sification of evil? and 6 pm. All junks, ships and nothing to do with the demand of "only claimed to be left alone," share, sellere, footly legitimate measures to prevent an enemy from obtaining We should be sorry to coe belief other vessels are to keep clear of Germany for more war materials, and yet Mr. Wodehouse remanded Hongkong and Kowloon Whart supplier, and putting a spoke in the wheel of subjects of neural in the devil disappear, if only the ranges.

they will have to undertake s his case for future consideration. and Godown Company-889 or Smoker. countries who, from the beginning, have been seeking to make profit beo.use he comes in so uncom

task developing a trustworthy We

consistency in share, sellers. The old boys of the Dicceenn

DagL·t argamen. on the most specions Hongkong out of what is bringing ruin, misery and slaughter to others. Then, monly handy as a scapegoat for too, what of the six months' patient waiting"? This is something car ona shorte›minga.

"The/School held an enjoyable smoking of grounds. When Germany in epelled with a E," like the now well-worn " in the midst of peace, our enemies etc.' devil tempted me, and I did eat" concer: at the school last evening, making appeals for even the The only way not to be irritated by auch glaring hambag, is to always strikes us as the most about fifty old scholars being common household capper kettle treat it as a joke.

entirely human remark in the present. This function is an to be given up, there seeme to be

Hongkong High Level Tram- How will the United States take the reply? Americans in whole of the Bible.

attempt to carry on the old tradi- come little reason for associating the rights of neutrals, though way Co., Ltd.-200 per cent. tion of an annual reunion, which that with increased import of the general are certainly not deficient in a sense of the ridiculous;

abandon prem., sellers. indeed, to do Them justice, they are often the firet to laugh at them-

had been allowed to lapse of late metal by nations adjacent to that in doing so she is

ing a very valuable russ de Hongkong Steam Laundry Co. zelves, their castoms,institutions sad press; and if Germany'a whine

years. Among those who con Empire. Indeed, it would appear guerre. At the same time, the Ltd.25 per share. do not call forth a united laugh from all right-thinking people in Presentation to I.C.S.N. Official. iributed to the programme wore as though cerisin diplomatists loyal support given to the Govern Green Island Cement Co. (old the States we shall be greatly astonished. That it will meet with The engine-room staff of the Dr. Thomas, Messrs. B. Sykes, were endeavouring to feel allment by the British mercantile iwas).43 per share, bayern, The approval of Interested parties goes without saying; but we are steamer Lai dang bae presented R

G. Southerton, A. people all the time.

marine only calls attention to the Green Maland Cement Co. (new not prepared to believe that those in whose hands lies the guardian-Mr. A. Sinclair, Marine Super Mackie, W. Hall, A. Kew, and 8. ship of America's political and commercial honour will for one intendent, Indo-China Steam Jex. Mr. Piercey, the Headmas The reversion of the British fact that this war is a war of issue)-85 per share, buyers.

Hongkong Land Investment second take the reply as being worth serious consideration. What Navigation Company, with a ter, welcomed the old boys, and liners to the use of the British nations, not of armies or politic they are far more likely to do is to tell some of the speculators op brass mounted and polished the Bishop of Victoria regretted flag when entering British waters inns, and if our strategists declare Co., Ld.-8102 per share, ex div, their own side that the world cannot stand still while they wax rich fragment of a German shell his inability to be present. Dar is a matter for singere congratula that the blockade of Germany is buyers, and prosperous on famine prices. America will certainly get her which was recovered from the ing the evening a collection was tion. It demonstrates clearly necessary in order to attain Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd., West Point Buildings Co, Ltd. fair share of the erstwhile German trade when this war is over; engine-room after the ship had made for the cigarette and Tobacco that Britain waste to do as little ultimate victory, England is quite $8 per share, nominal. even now new markets are opening for her, and we feel sure that the been bombarded off the German Fund and a sum of about $50 as possible, short of maintaining prepared to pay the price that

-$45 per share, bayer. wiser among her citizens will be content with that, and will not go African coast.

her own rights, to interfere with angosen may demand. diving after the shadow at the risk of losing the substanLOS,

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

A. 8. Watson and Co., Ltd-

$23 per share, sellers.