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WATSON'S

FINE OLD

E BROWN BRANDY

Admitted by connoisseurs to

be the best in the market.

PER CASE

PER BOTTLE

$53.50

$4.55

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1915.

| Decrease in local Litigation.

We do not know exaedy how

| the" figurea stand as regards

DAY BY DAY.

SUCCESS IS THE REALISATION

The Weather.

Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. $0; fxe.

At the Peak 8 s.m.. Temp. 74; Lae.

the number of cases beard in the oF THE ESTIMATE WHICH YOU |Hongkong "Law Courte during PLACE UPON YOURSELF."

the past few months, but we know that the total is notably smaller than in previous years. Gen-| erally speaking, Hongkong is a Paradise for the lawyers. It hao a large Iädian population, famed for love of litigation, and it bas Count the Columns, well on towards half a million Yesterday the Telegraph Chinese, a goodly proportion published 36 columns of solid of whom are seldom happier reading matter. To-day there than when carrying on opera. will bo 451 published. tions in a law court. Ordio: Frily when business is bad the

law courts are more than ever flourishing, each man being an xious to get in all eums due $1 him, and ready to quarrel with his neighbour over the valus of a straw, Are we to assume that trade is not so very poor in Hong kong despite the war? Or is it

A. S. WATSON & Co, Ltd, that trouble has softened litigious

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

hearts and has decided every man to give his neighbour "another chance?"

Trading with the Enemy.

According to this morning's

The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve wire the Timesiscomingoutstrong

the truth and print the news without fear or favour,

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong,

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

Western Union Office address: 11, Ice House St,

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1915.

WOMEN AND PEACE

more.moment than the Press and

f

The Malls, European Mail-Closed per 8.

Oriortal to-day at 11a.m. Siberian Mail-Closes por 89

Chenna to-day at 4 p.m. Up to the Minute-Share Market News.

Closing prices

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

MR. LLOYD GEORGE SPEAKS PLÄINLY,

The Russian Reverse.

Intas be

1.8.9 0.

HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE- YEARS AGO. (Compiled from the "Hongkong. Telegraph" files for the week ending June 7, 1880.) The Dollar, June 4.-"The rate of the dollar on demand to day, is 3/31g."

China Sugars.

1890

SHARE REPORT.

The quotations which follow are from the Hongkong Telegraph for June 5th, 1800,

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank -191 per cent. premium, buyers.

Union Insurance Society of Canton-$100 per share, sellers. Ubina Traders' Insurance Com

pany-$70 per share, sellers.

North China Insurance-Fls. 355 per share, buyers. Ltd.-$120 per share, sellera.

Canton Insurance Company,

Yangtze Insurance Association

Hongkong Fire Insurance Com pany-$355 per share, sellers.

China Fire Insurance Company -834 per share, sellers.

Hongkong and Whampoa Dook Company-54 per cent. premium, buzera.

Przemysl has been re-taken by the chemy-a fact which argn- My 31-The shares of the ments and communiques cannes China Sugar Refining Co., Ld., explain away. We have no right have been freely offered to-day at lo question the Russian elatement $178 per share, and without find- that the city was recognized ding purchasers. Tais means that the state of the artillery in the of the scrip of this Compary has incapable of defence in view of since August last the market value

fortifications which the Austrious depreciated to the extent of had destroyed before capitulat $2,070,000-the difference be--Tls. 00 per share. ing," and, as we have no know-ween filicon thousand shares at ledge to the contrary, we should 8316 and the rate quoted to day. prepared to accept As we are not in the prophetia Doaglas Steamship Co. Lthe accompanying contention, line it would be 14 h to attempt of that prognosticate how much lower 247, buyere..

city only served the Rasaian pur- the quotation for China Sugars Shell Transports 91,6, sales.

"until possession of the will go; but prospects are certain China Sugars-$113, buyers.

Colo Kailing Mining Administration positions surrounding it had ly the revered of encouraging. And facilitated operation along the yet the the price of a whiskey and -39)- saler,

Sao." Still The reason for the ala remains stationary, end the Ewo'a Tls, 101, tuyers. Langkats.-T. 421, buyere,

capitulation given by the Amster-demand for that exhilarating be. Hongkong Fires-$300, buyers. dam-message sounde feasible: varage continues as keen ae ever." the Russian guns were outraged. Everything went well till the enemy were able to bring their on heavy artillery to a point whence it could det by communications between P.zemysl and Lemberg.

Green Islande-0.80, sellere. W. Porella'$0.

The Dollar The rate of the dollar demend to-day is le 9 d.

Z

that the maintenance

n

Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Company-$36.1-2 fer share, buyers.

China and Manila Steamship Company

$101 per share, sellers.

Hongkong Gas Company- $135 per share, sellers.

Hongkong Hotel Company- $100 per share, buyers.

Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per cent. Debenturea--$501.

Indo-China S.N. Company 25 per cent. dis., ellers.

Douglas Steamship Company→→ $51 per ebare sellers.

China Sugar Refining Com- pany, Ltd. $170 per share, sellers.

sellere.

Luzon Sugar Refining Com Pany, Limited-$75 per share, Hongkong Ice Company $88 per share, sellers,

Hongkong Rope Manufactur ing Company, Ltd.-8111 per

share, buyers.

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Increase of Capital. ru the question of trading with

May 31-An extraordinary the enemy; and one regrets that the bulk of the Home pagers

meeting of the shareholders of should not have thought it worth

this Corporation was held at noon while to stir the Government up To-day's Anniversary,

to-day, in the City Hall for ite loa, the eubject during all these

purpoes of considering a scheme To-day is the 102ed aniver

for increasing the Bank's Capitil. [months. Britain's business inter-sary of the birth of Adam Smith, . A More Forcible Explanation.

Mr. H. L. Dalrymple presided, esta, whore Uhina ia concerned, the great Economist, anthor of are no merò matter of a few"The Wealth of Nations."

But the last word-and a bit- and Mesere. W. . Torbos, L. pounis. Half the well-being of

ter one at that in explanation of Presnecker, S. O, Michealaon, EL. Crown Rents Due. Hongkong is bound up with the Owners of property are remind the Austro-German victory (for Hoppius, T. E. Davies, A. Mc- relations between the two coun-ed that Crown Rost for the First we may as well give things their Conachie, (directors), T. Jackson tries, and enormous percentage of Half-year of 1915 is payable at right names as far as possible) (ohief marager), Hen. O. P. Cha- the llome revenue further de- the Treasury on or before the was spoken by Mr. Lloyd George ter, H. N. Mody, J. D. Lapraik, pends on those relations. Toere- 24th instant.

at the Manchester meeting. "The J. J. Bell-Irving, J. Y. V. Vemo, fore the matter was surely of British Church Service at Macao. great German success was dae D. McCulloob, S. Coxon, G. S. Archdeacon Barnett will con-entirely to overwhelming sup- Coron, W. H. Ray, J. H. Moseley, the late Government pretended to duct a service in the British ariority in sto: and shell and Wade Gardiner, W. H. Young, F. consider it. A big debt of grati- Ohurch, Macao, to-morrow com equipment for war. The triumph Henderson, R. Lyall, O. J. Hirst, tude is certainly due to the mencing at 5.30p.m. Visitors and was won by the superior organisa- A. C. Morris, B. Z. Just, O. II. Shanghai Chamber of Commerce residents are cordially invited. tion of the German orkshops." Wright, G. von Willə, A E and the China Agociation for The Netherlands Trading Society. The people at Home must be Cape, H. W. Dick, W: B.Jackell, having so obetinately refused to The Manager of Hongkong indeed dull if they cannot apply G. T. Veitch, De Westley Layton, be set aside or muzzled, and we Agency of the Netherlands Trad the moral. The Minister of S. I. Danby, E. H. Gare Both, hope now that the Times ing society is in receipt of tele- Munitions has tot beaten about D. H. Mackintosh, S. A. Joseph, In another column we publish a summary of the resolutions has come forward with addi-graphic information that the bush or elaborated his speech H. G. James, H. Scott, A. “H.; which were to be discussed at the recent Women's Praca Congress tional arguments in favour of dividend of 8 per cent (eight per so that we have to take a Chiroy, Lo Hok Ping, etc., were

A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd.- as the flague, Women, in a general way, have either an overflow an uncompromising front, other cent) has been declared by this magnifying glass to discover the present. The Chairman said: ing tense of humour or else none at all; there are few of them who raised in the article under disous-

meaning thereof. If the Russian Your attendance to-day has been newspapers will follow. The point Bank for the year 1914.

Hongkong High Level Tram- Mr. Vivian Findlay Smith, supplies of ammunition were in invited to consider the question follow half-aud-balf measures in this respect. Thore of them who sion-that the Imperial Govern- Ar. Vivian Findlay Smith, adequate, there is reasonable of the inorcase of the Bank's way Co., Ltd.-par, nominal..

Russia

Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., has had capital, fil, if approved, to Ltd.-$25 per share. have a sense of humour have been well content to hold their tongues ment refused to prohibi: trade Joan zest son of Mr. A. Findlay excuse.

little ready money pa certain resolution which on the enbject of peace since the great war began; but some of those with the Germans in Chirnowing Smith, of the Peak Hotel, Hong- but.

Green Island Cement Co. (old 11 CBSBTY for. carrying issue).-$32 per share, sellers. who have none have been less wise. Hence the Congress-at which, towerful influences in Man- kong, lise just passed his final to play with during the past are

oheeter is one that will interest examination for the English Bar, few years, her workmen are lean out your decisira. so we gather, demands were made for arbitration for all international our readers and will make them and is about to be called by Gray's intelligent then ours, enl there is cular letter of the 10th ult., issue).-33 per share, nominal.

Green Island Cement Co. (new disputes, for the bringing of international pressure to bear on any wish, with us, that the Times had Inn, of which he has been a stud- no comparison between our means has been in your hands some ountry which resorts to arms, for the subjecting of foreign politica to been even more explicit. The ent.

of internal communication and time, and fally set forth the Co., Ld-300 per share, buyers, Hongkong Land Investment

Struck off the Register.

bere. Britain bay no excuse, and, scheme. Your Directors bave Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. "democratic control" under a system of eufrage which permite writer of a special article which

we published on Thursday It is hereby notified that the judging from the firm tone of Mr. given the matter their carefall

$6 per share, sellers.. equal representation to men and women, and for the prohibiting of the made it clear endingh that the names of the following com- Lloyd George's remarks, none is deliberation, and have come to West Point Buildings Co., Ltd. transfer of territory without the consent of the men and women principle has now been re- panies have been struck off the going to be made for her by the the occlusion that the increase-840 per share, sellers,

Cbina residing therein.

Com-new Government. cognised by judicial authority" Register The thit trading with the enemy ismercial Steamship Company, Limited, The General Dutch illegal. It is ridiculous to sup-

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Land Sales.

The Turks

The cir-

is necessary in view of the grow-

ing basiassa of the institution,

and that such inoresse will add

Hongkong and Kowloon Whart and Godown Company.-$72 per share, buyers.

Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. Ltd. -$10 per share, sellers,

$21 per share, buyers.

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Reater did not think well to wire us particulars of this extra" pose that the Home Government Limited, The Yue Tong Cotton Chinese Trading Company

to the picsparity and stability of The Warden has a page and a ordinary meeting, so whether it ever took place or not, whether it is not aware of this illegality and Mill Company, Limited, The two useful.little items of victory tions will be proposed one by one, deserves $800 a week if he does Meanwhile Russia has one or the Bank. The necessary resolu-half of duties to perform, and members agreed or disagreed, and whether or not anybody listered that being so, we should like to to, or cared two straws about, what the speakere had to say, we car- know how it can have reconciled China Pharmaceutical Supply to set of the disaster at Przemysl, and I hope you will see your way them all. The Superintendent, not tell. It is not easy to approach so wild a programme with its past calm seriousness, and yet the genuine and conscientions beliefs of those in illegality. It was high time

acquiescence Company, Limited.

Evidently there has been a very to agreeing to them. They are also, has his daily task cut out. who set the movement on foot demand a share of our respect: That that we had a Government that following Sales of Crown Land Libad; while, down in

clever move performed on the in conformity with section 22 of Rale i says he must reside in the It is hereby notified that the Baltic coast between Memel and Ordinance X of 1888, and in the priton. Major Dempster lives at they are wrong, hopelessly wrong, no person who troubles to compare would not allow itself to be

the terms of Article 90 of the Deed the Peak. Evidently the rules their ideas with the stern facts of international disputes will dictzied to by powerful in by Public Auction will be held at Armonian region, the Russians of Settlement, the conditions of are of the pie crust order." have the least doubt. If arbitration could be made a substitute for figences in Manchester" or any a.m., on Monday, the 14th day of pursuing them. The Turks could resclation, which I will myself

the District Office, Tai Po, at 10 have routed the Tarke and are which are fulfilled. The first A Complicated Caso, war, war would have disappeared long ago. Are we to supposo where else.

Jane 2.-The Police Court that men as level-headied and as corupulously honourable as The Simple Heathen.

June, 1915. It is hereby notified have done without this new re- propose, is as follows: "That this afternoon was f.itly crowded Sir Edward Grey, Earl Kitchener, President Poincare-to We have often remarked on the that the following Sales of Crown verae, for they have quite enough the capital of the Hongkong and with a motley throng comprising say nothing of the monarchs of the allied countries went into a war extraordinary misture of aime Land by Public Auction wil be to think about in Gallipoli and Shanghai Banking Corporation Gun Lascara, brókera, lottery such as the present for any other reason than that they could not plicity and guile in held at the Police Station, An the Dardanelles, and (according be increased from $7,500,000 to ticket sellers, and all other pro- help themselves? The day may come when talk will do the work the temperament of Tan, at 12. Noon, on Thursday, to a later wire) in connection with $10,000,000 by the crastion of fessions followed by the repre of blows, but it will not be in the present century. The "bringing certain claas of Chinese. It would the 10th day of June, 1915. the Balkon Staten. Events of 20,000 new shares of $125, to be sentatives of our Indian empire a late have been such as to warn issued at the price of £42. 10 greatness. The attraction was a arms" is almost tearfully funny. What international pressure, other drive out of the heads of China's has been pleased to appoint Mr. may follow Italy's example with. their allotments at the current Robinson had to unravel, in His Excellency the Governor them that Bulgaria and Roumania Battern shareholders to pay for complicated case which Mr. than force of arms could drive the German troops out of 'Belgiam?law-breaking fraternity the idea. R. B. Hanscek to be Saper out Ing delay. There is a for- rate of the day for demand billa/which a Gun Lascar named Al Stop their supplies 7 What if they elect to take these by force? If that any excuse or any palpable numerary Second Lieutenant inmidable length of frontier-line on London." Mr. G. E. Coxon Box was summoned by his sister-

international pressure would be bombarding New York to-morrow, landing, and taking by justices before whom they are with effect from the 22nd May, Bulgaria, and it will take more"That the said new abares be in watohman tɔ Messrs: N. Mody and were all that Germany had to fear, she lie will to swallowed by the the Hongkong Volunteer Reservo, between European Turkey and seconded. Mr. Forbes proposed in-law, Kashf, for assault: A force all the supplies that she wanted, end railing away with a brought, from time to time. In the jaunty promise to return again when necessary.

courts of a given year literally

than the additional fortifying of the first instance, in such manner. named Bunno; 8.A. Rumjaar, hundreds of thieves, smugglers or

His Excellency the Governor one small town to keep the Bul-3 the Directors shall prescribe clerk to the Attorney-General, been pleased to appointgariaza out, should they elect to for that purpose, offered tend A, Ching, wife of a Bindoo in the cock at the Captain G, K. Hall Bruston, indulge in hostilities. representation to men and women" are hardly worth going into just Hongkong magistracy,

Hongkong Volunteer Reserve, to now. They are beside the point, and it is extremely regrettable that the good taste should not have reminded the ladies that this is rots and over again: the articles W. L. Carter, with effect from act as Honorary Adjutant, during eame old atory over

the absence on leave of Captain time to talk about thoir vote graze. We are not blind to the fact found in their rosession were the 8th June, 1915. that, in a war, the women must accessarily suffer-often far more given them to take care of by keenly than the men; but, if we give each woman a thousand and some man whom they didn'

of international pressure to bear on any country which resorts to seem as though nothing can

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The demande se toa system of suffrago which permits equal selves

gun-runnera who find them-

1915.

Appointments,

The Italans.

the shareholders in the gaol-guard, were summoned by proportion of one new share Alli Bux for assaulting him. Mr. for every three shares of which Moop appeared for everytoly on the 31st May, 1890, they shall but Bux, who was defended by The performance of the Italian respectively be the registered Mr. Webber. The case came on fleet in the Dalmatian archipelago bolders, and that any new shares originally on the 20th altimo is no such small thing. As we not accepted by the shareholders before Mr. Wodehouse, who heard The funeral of the into Mrs. romarked before, one of Austria's within the time limited by the Kashi's affidavit that because she

Funeral of Mrs. Chapman.

many.

one votes, will the giving alter the inevitable? The Allies are nt know. But we hear that even Robert. Chapman "took place strong points is the nature of her Directors for that purpose, be went to: Box's quarters and up- avoiding it. All the congreses, all the women-electora, and all surpassed at the police court. Aant Cemetery, Happy Valley, While Italy's east coast is open to Directors in such manner and at sister, his wife, he threw a teapot carrying on this war for pleasure, but because there was no way of this artlessness has just bean yesterday evening at the Protest-sea-board from Fiume downwards, disposed of and allotte 1 by the braided him for thrashing her the international pressure in the world would not have deterred German in the dock was auxious to the coffa being followed by Jovery craft that likes to come auch price as in their discretion at her. Then Mr. Robinson took many from doing the abominable things which she has done. This war, awaken magisterial consideration after all, is only a gigantic system of corporal punishment, and it for the fact that he was in ill Johnson P.O.M.O. Dr. Koch and protected; almost the whole way, terest of the Company." Mr. revealed that Bar also struck her has been shown finally by practical people that there isro doing entire health and evidently hoped that

friends including De along, the Austrian coast is they shall think best in the in the case on, and Kashi farther ly without such punishment. If a child is naughty it has to be the era of the law would perceive ernment Civil Hospital. The of channels. Yet and here wo

many of the sisters of the Gar by groups of islands and mezes Hirst seconded.”

violently on the head with hia whipped; if a coolie enstohen earrings or bracelets he has to be flog that hie.side was adorned by a burial service was read by the have proof, if we needed it, of the

carbine. He also drew his sword ged; talk and meral sussion are more wasts of effort in such cases, formidable-looking plaator, The Rev. V.IL Copley Moyle chaplain ena pro maritime weakness of Victoria Gaol-335' in all-hand off he stopped at that. After June 2 The amended rules but as she bit a tortion of his. Every right-minded perron wants to see as little violence in the eye of the law had other matters to St. John's Cathedral, of the Italian ships were able to araise awelled the columns of Saturday's world as possible; but as long as human nature remaine human about which to concern itself, choir of which Mrs. Chapman was shrough these channels for a Gazette. The reason was that divors rectorial which a lot of cross-examination about nature, some form or other of violence is tolerably sure to exist and but our Chinese friend was not for many years a member. There whole day and to destroy wireless several necessary alterations had some characteristic insir to call for punishment by like methots. If these women would but to be outdoze. As the plaster wc was n' large number of wreaths and observation statious, without been made-for instance there is were made, the parties do something useful they would soon find that they would have not sufficiently visible, he enatab frem friends bearing eloquent the enemy's putting in an no more danger of the inmates drew their charges, and his

neither the time nor the inclination for attending congressos for the ed it from its original position testimony to the regard in which discussion of matters which they can hardly hope to understand, and atuok it across his jaw where the deceased lady was hold mnoh less alter

the whole world might nooit!

appearance.

Our Gzol,

having their private property whip read them a lect atolen, as occurred the other week. sent them away."