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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1915,

Hongkong's Wireless.

"The Governor's remarks at the Legislative Council meeting yet

DAY BY DAY.

BEAUTY

TRUTH

18 TRUTH, BEAUTY. THAT IS ALL

YE KNOW ON EARTH, AND ALL YE NEED TO KNOW.-KEATS.

Count the Columas,

од the new wireless station make public the fact that Hongkong is now no longer to be a reprooh to the Empire by its needs in this respect" The station is erected, the apparatus has now

Yesterday the Telegraph been certified as satisfactory by a published 35 columns of solid qualified man, and it is hoped reading matter. To-day there that all will be in working order will be 3414 published. next month. The fact that the etation is a low-power one will probably stir up some amount

of criticism among those who will rot take the trouble to reflect that all that was ever asked, for or necessary was a station that would meet ordinary needs, and that wireless oom munication so far as the Army and Navy are concerned was a matter for those.departments to attend to themselves. The Colony has now done what was required of it in this direction, and the grumblers are left free to turn their special talent towards other mattera which may or may not need see- ing into.

The Exportations Restriction

Bill.

The new broom is till sweeping beautifully clean at Home and the Coalition Ministry continues, we should imagine, to win good itself in all opinions for directions. Its new Bill for the

will

89 :still farther towards pupulárising it, and, in addition, may set people asking why soch a measure was

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1915.

A NEW WHARF FOR KOWLOON.

The Malls.

Siberian Maif. Arrived to-day

For 8.9. Talabus... European Mail-Vir Negapatam, due per se. Fooksang to

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

GERMANY'S EXTREMITY,

What the Russians are up

against...

A German communique sprake of Lemborg as being stormed by the Austrians; an Austrian com- monique says that the city has

THE NEW WAR LOAN.

Full Particulars.

The following particulars as to the new war loan bave been tele- graphed from Home to II E. the Governor:-

the additional right, In respect of esoh one hundred pounds Sock (or Bonds) held by them and fully paid in ossh, to exercise one or other of the four following options of Conversion provided application far Conversion is made' not later than October 13th 1015 —

Option 1.-Conversion of £3 10s. per vent War Loan 1925-1929. To exchange Stock (or Bonds) of $3 10. per cent War Loan 84 10 per cent War Lorn 1925-1928 to sa amount not ex- 19261945...

ceeding £100 nominal for fully Issue of Stook or Bonds bear-paid Sicek (or Bonde) of: £4 102, been captured, and a Russian ing interest at 45 per cent, per per cent War Loin, 1925 1945 at either way. Leaving all this aside, ditto prepares as for anything annum, payable half yearly on the rate of £100 of the former Jane lat and December late with a cash payment of £5 per what stands out more clearly than Treasury at £100 per cent.

Price of issue fixed by the cent. thereon for 8100 of the latter, Persone who exercise this option German anything else is that the Austro-

A full half-year's dividend will will receive the dividend of $1 troops are deadly be paid on December let 1015. keen on brow-brating the Russians

| 103, per cent payable on Septem. Shanghai Mail-Closes per ein Gsticid and Est Europe gesauthorised by the Trastee Aat 10. per cent war loan 1925-1928, The Stock is on investment bar lat 1915, in respect on the $3 Lobow to-morrow at 5 pm.erally. Altogether, says the 1893, and Trustees may invest surrendered, and a fall half year's Petrograd wire of this mora therein, notwithstanding that the dividend of £5 5. per cent pay. ing, there are four million enemy price may at the time of inveat able on December lat. 1815 in "troops between the Baltic and ment exceed the redemption value respect of the £4 10. per cont war flight of five hundred miles. of e100 per cent.

morrow.

French Mail. Closes per 9.8.

Obili to-morrow at noon.

Up to the Minute-Share Market News.

Closing prices:

יי.

Indos. $102, sales and buyers, Luzons-$31, bavara. Langkate. Tle. 384, bayers in

Shanghai. Uniona. $895 bavers. Douglas's.-$63, buyers, China Sageta $116, bayers, Low Level Trams.-35.20 sales

e and buyers. Hongkong Electric.

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Bukloving-any along a crow:

So

late in the day as this Germany,

oan hardly be suspected of medi- Įta ing an invasion of Russia on any ecle; and the inference would 30 to be that she hopes, by this extraordinary massing of troops, [tɔ intimidate her enemy into s $3934.wuhdrawal from the entire dis trict now being fought over. And, China and Manilas-$4.95, incidentally, is not the messing

buyers.

in itself an admission that Ger Raube. $3):

many is painfully aware of the enormous reserves of troops that

buyers.

The Dollar. The rate ot, the dollar, on

not adoped before. Sir J. H. demand to-day is 19 9%1. Dziel's statement in the House

ue to goods going into Germany only shows Low great the need

Teanis League.

European Sued,"

Court, this morning, appeared the In the list at the Summery action in which A. S. Watson and Company aged N. Stewart for the

of $57.

lean 1925-1945, issued in lieu Applications which must be thereof.

with all her boast and conceit, accompanied by a depseit of £5 Ophion: 2Conversion of £2 per cent. will be reosived at the

10e. per cez t'console. Bank of England, Threadneedle

To Exchange Stock (or Stock. Street, London, EC., and may be forwarded either direct or through Certificate) of £2 10a. per cent. the raedium of any banker or onsole to an amount not exosed- stockbroker in the United King- ing £75 nominal for fully paid stock (or bonde), or £4 10s, per dom.

Applications must be for even cent, war loan 1925-1945, at the rate of 275 of the former for 350. hundreds of pounds.

Arrangements are being made of the latter. for the receipt of applications for

Paragus who exerciss this optica smaller amount than gne hund- will receive the nsnal quarter's red pounds through the Post dividend of 128. 6 per cent pay- able on Ou:ober 5th. 1915, in Office.

Father payments, will be re- respect of the £? 10. per quired as follow:-

cent consol surrendered, and £10 per cent on Tuesday, 20th a full half year's dividend of July.

$25 per orat., payable on December 1st. 1915 in respect of the £4 10. per cent. war loan 1925-1945 issued in lieu thereof.

Russia can yet bring on to the soene of action when it seems good to her?

A Black Outlook for the

Austro-Germans.

£15 per cent on Tuesday, 3rd August.

£15 per cent on Tuesday, 17th August.

£15 per cent on Tuesday, 31st August.

£10 per cast on Tuesday, 14th

£10 per cent on Tuesday, 28th

£10 per cent on Tuesday, 12th

Option 3-Conversion of £2. 159. per dent, annuities,

To Exchange Stock (or Stock Certificates) of £2 153. per cent. annuities to an amount not exceeding 57, nominal, for fully paid stock (o: bonds) of £4-103. percent, war loan 1925-1945, at the rate of £87 of the former, for

50 of the latter.

-To-day's Anniversary, was for firm action. Our Govern the death of the Sir Laurence To day he the 3rd anniversay of mentis supposed to have establish is perfect while one of the com ed a blockade; but no blockade Alma Tadems.

Those who have had occasion to watch every wire closely can- modities most needed by the enemy can be smuggled into his present the Wigwam Tennis Club steady dimination of Germany's The following team will re-net have failed to notice the country to such an extent se is in their match against the Civil brag and readiness to anticipata Sept. the case with the cotton mention Service.

triumphs that, as we all know, ed. There were insufficient

never can be hers. There is more Sept. warehouses in Copenhagen to hold all the cotton imported, and whole

and more evidenes, too, of the streets were filled with bales de

looks for from a side that Krows sort of "wild" fighting that ope October.. stined for Germany." This is not

itself beaten. Germans are con October. what Britain wanta by any means.

troiling the Gallipoli compaign, The new Bill, it appens, applies

bat that does not prevent the the especially to Holland but on be extended to other neutral coun-

Turks from wasting literally authorised to receive applicatione payable in respect of the £2 153, Ti ousdads of tons of valuable tries It is a little late in the day

We have received samples of ammunition. Similarly, in Argon-form either of Inscribed at:ck or and a full half year's dividend of for this loan which will take the per cent, annuities surrendered, for those discoveries to be made, Messrs. A. S. Watson's "Formue wheretae Praesions have all the Bonds to Bearer at the option of £215. per cent. payable on "but we may be sure that the

zone DEO ON

excellent mineral Government is out for stening for water,

say, the latter are "squandering the subscribers.

December 1st, 1915, payable in tonic, a pick-me-up their

ammunition without past errors, and that consequently and an agreeable drink. a very definite limit is already set;

de ivering a single infantry at-loan will be repaid at par on war loan 1925-1915, issued in If not previously redeemed the respect of the £4 10. per cent.

to Germany's power to acquire

tack." Surely want of confidence December 1t 1015, bat Hisia thereof. is the mainspring of all this Majesty's Government rearrve to what she wants via neutral conn-

Option 4.-Conversion of £2. Again, se regards the Austrians themselves the right to redeem 10. por cont, annuitier. tries.

in the Tyrol; while Germany is the loan at par at any time on or

To Exchange Stock (or Stook sending her young men to school after December 1st, 1925, on giv- Certificates) of 82 10% per cent to learn the art and practice of ing three calendar monthe' notice annuities to an amount not

!

Yesterday's meeting of the Legislative Council was one of more general interest than the average. Though short, it seems to have covered a good amount of ground, including references to Garman as well, in the address to Sir

Loyality to the Empire.

There is pathos, and comedy

Frederick Lugard, our lite

An Excellent Drink,

Kallan Mining Output." The total output of the Ad ministration's mines for the Week encing 12th June amounted to 59,968 tone and the S les during the period, to 45,807 008.

Adjourned,

Court, this morning.

In the List.

£10 per cent on Tuesday, 28th The Governor and Company of Bank of England are

Persone who exercise this option will receive the pens quarters dividaad of 139. 9. per cent.

mount sineering, Austrian Alpin- in the London Gazette. Both exceeding 278, nominal, for fully jste have presumably been hustled

away from Galicia to do battle capital and interest will be a paid stock (or hand) of $4:10s. with the Italian hillmen-and of the United Kingdom.

charge

on the Consolidated Fund per cent war loan 1025.1945, at the rate of the former for £50 of The books of the loss will be he latter.

Parsons who exercise this

have come to this pass?

"

prisoners and their wives, the Kowloo Canton- Railway, the wire-Governor, by the Nigerian nativas. lose station and the dredging of the Harbour. His Excellency's Loyalty to the Empire is manifest The hearing of the action in have promopily been repulsed. remarks on the latter subject afford us some welcome-because enough in it, and the fact that ths which Tak Kes sues Mr. and Mea. This is all the herder on the ene kept at the Bank of England and long-desired-enlightenment. The Telegraph and many of its memorialists are Mohammedans Loureiro for the sum of $51.23, my in face of his many years at the Bank of Ireland." Dividends option will receive the usual

is an additional rebuke to the readers have long and often sozght information on the subject of Kaiser "See now, we give three was adjourned at the Summary of preparation for just such an will be paid half yearly on June quarter'e dividend of 12, 6. per the dredging of the Harbour. A stranger coming to the Colony hundred pounds from out of the

invasion as Italy is treating lat and December 1st Dividends cent. payable on October 5th. him to. Most significant, too, notices, first and foremost, that, save in a very few cases, ships Native Treasury. The King muet

on Stock will be paid by warrant 1915 in respect of the £2 10, per arriving here cannot go alongside, as at Singapore, but must lie in use it as he sees fit to sit." Is In the list at the Summary regiments have have had to be Dividends on Bande will be paid full ball grar's dividend of £35. is the statemement many Austrian which will be sent by post, Gent annait es surrendered, and a the Harbour-not at all to the convenience of passengers or of cor- not this just the very spirit of the Court, this morning, but not dealt sent back to Galicia because they by darda signees. Docking for big ships on the Hongkong side is more or pukka British loyalist? The with, was an action in which N. refaaid to fight the Italians. How

per cent payable on December less out of the question, but when the stranger discovers that, at spirit to which Mr. Bonar Lan's Mody and Company sued far off is the end when matters ortible into Bonde to Bearer per cent war losa 1925-1945, Inscribed Stock will be coilst, 1915 in respect of the 24 10s, Kowloon, accommodation could soon be made for vessels of almost Shrewsbury speech appealed? Nagatta for the sum of $2.90. any size, he not unnaturally wonders why this is not done.

We may well feel proud of the

issued in lieu thereof. at any time without pay- There are, we know, persons in this Colony who have harbour-Empire when from every quarter

ment of any fee. and Bords to (other than issues made abroad or In the event of future issues dredging on the brain; who seem to think that it is necessary, and of it such offers, or such appeals

Bearer will be exchangeable for easy, to dredge every inch of it. Some two years ago in discussing to be made use of, can be counted

isenes of Exorquer Bonde; At the Summary Court, thia

Insoribed Stook on payment of a this matter, we pointed out, on excellent authority, that it was ar by the score. If the yoke of British morning, the case in which Gajar

fee of one shilling per band, and Treasury Bille, or similar short ranging rather than dredging that our Harbour calls for, and that rule he so grievous to be borne Singh Bard E. Loureiro for the Speaking of the end, Mr. Lloyd The instalment may be paid in dated securities) being made by any deepening required may well be confined to the neighbourhood as the Kaiser and his friends sum of $71, wen allowed to stand George, in his introduction of the full on or after July 20b, 1015, His Majesty's Government for the of the existing Kowoon wbarves, Anyone who chooses to consult would like to persuade us, over, the plaintiff being advised Munitions Bill, hoe once again under discount at the rate of 41 purpose of carrying on the war, a reliable chart will 800 that the "eballowness of the Harbour has why ...this

warm-hearted to consult the solicitor for the made it clear that that is pretty per crat per annum." In case of Stock and Bonds of this inate will been greatly exaggerated and that there is accommodation if a readiness on the part of Nigerian defendant, Mr. Haywood.

much in the hands of our own default in the jayment of any in- interest, as the equivalent of cash be accepted at par, plus acorped proper system be followed-for for more craft than ever sails into Mohammedans to go to work for

people. Where the Allies are atalment by its proper date the for the partose of subscriptions the port. Batisfaction, then, will be felt in most quarters that talk no money and to give from a Club de Recroló Tennis Team, making any progress, on any depost and the instiliste preto such issues of dredging has been practically confined to one locality, and that scanty treasury? What astonishes. The following wilt represent part of the line, it is due to the viously paid will be liable to for A commission of ens eighth

the non-British world the most is the Club de Recreio in their superiority of munitions." The feiture

·To Stand Over

Mr. Lloyd George's Further,

Plans.

with a specific purpose.

The scheme to which His Excellency alladed at yesterday's that such generasity and loyalty League Match against the Chinese superiority in fighting qualities Sorip Certificates to bearer with per cant will be allowed to bank- meeting provides for the building of a wharf over 650 feet long; are not confined to one elses or Recreation Clab on Saturday, at to which Mr. Lloyd George alto Coupon attached for the dividenders and financial houses on allot- one, therefore, that will accommodate the biggest vessel ever likely group or race or religion. What 4 30 p.m. VYvanovich and E. alludes has been sufficiently payable on December 1st., 1815, monta made in respect of useh to come to Hongkong, so far as length is concerned. The Wharf the Australian has offered the Can: Marques; A. Lopes and F. Re- proved in the past; ammar will be issued in exchange for the applications for this issue, hear- Company will, at its own expense, dredge two berths of a depth of adian has also offered; and while medios; J. Lopes and P. Yvano-tion is all that is required. Dar provisional receipte. As soon as sion will be allowed in respect of ing their stamps, but no commis 30 feet, while the Government makes itself responsible for clearing they and the Tadion are fighting rich.

ing the past week or so, notable these scrip certificates have bean a reasonable area of bottom to give access to the wharves. The side by side, the Nigerian negro,

Brides have been made, and paid in full they can be inscribed applications for conversions, latter will cost $35,000, s sam quite large enough, bat nevertheless the West Indian planter, the

Assessment Appeals. the new arrangement of divid (ie, can he converted into stock) subscriptions may be obtained at Application forms for csah one which the Colony should see back with interest ar time goes Chinese merchant and the Ber The effect of the war on local ing the country up into fixed or they can be exchanged for the Bank of Ireland, at any Bank oo. We are surely justified in regarding all this as only the former are all coming forward and trade and the departure from the areas for ammunition produc- bonde to bearer (as acon as these beginning of a movement which, as the years pass and as local asking Can we not do come- Colony of a very large number of tion, cach under a competent can be prepared) in denominations or Money Order Office in the Un- has às fine a range of docks as thoss at Singapore. It is Jime, subjects undersfand the term kong during the past few years The hint about the control of the Stock will be transferable in Bay of the principal atcok Brokers. financial matters get back to the normal, will spraud till Kowicon thing?" This is how King George's Chinese who had come to Hong- business man, scarcely looks like of 8100, 200, 500, 1,000 Marshall and Co., 13, George ited Kingdom, or Mesers, Mullens, turning back from the plough. £5,000 and $10,000. Ingoribed Street, Mansion House, E.0, and rather than money, that is needed; for the money will come of its loyalty to the British Empire. own accord by the inorense on Harbour returns that is to be looked for after the war. Taking the rough with the smooth and the bad with the good, it would rot be untrao to any that, as a whole, Hong-

Gold Watch Stolen,

Conversion of 23. 10s. Per Cent

from the Mainland, says the As sessor in his annual report, caused metal market is ominous for the sums which are multiples of a an extensive reduction in rense, mean-spirited ones who are still penny. the Districte principally affected seeking to make profit for them- kong's affairs have never been in more capable hands than those of Mr. Coull, manager of the being the Central and Western selves out of the Empire's dits the various officials and business men who are now running" the Jockey Olah Stables has com portions of the City of Victoria, uities; but we will hope that thes Colony and, the war apart, the outlook has never been more plained to the Police that yester. In 200 Appeals against the adopt. good people will lot patriotism promising. Noticeably and in a hundred ways Hongkong has day morning someone stole from ed assessments of 1 516 tenements triumph over avarice and eo not been waking up during the past three or four years, and the con; his room a gold watch and chain reductions agzregsting 8355,795 bring needless di credit on their sciousness of the fact encourages us to look forward with abundant and pendant and money to the in Rateable Valde were mado by country and make their own. faith to the day when the first port of the East and one of the first total value of $240.

Order of the Court.

names a lasting theme. of the world, will own dooks that are worthy of it.

War Loan, 1925-1928, £2 10

per cent Console.

B 150.

62 106.

Aunuitise, Annulties. Holders of the £4 108, per cent.

11 War Loan, 1025-1045 will have

Appliostion for forms for con version will be forwarded with each letter of allotment

The list of applications will be closed on or before Saturday Jaly. |10.5, 1915.

Bank of England,

June 21st, 1915.

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