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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1915.

The Old Navigation Laws.

Our many sea-faring readora will have some interest in recall-

-DAY BY DAY.

OH YET WE TRUST THAT, SOME.

WILL BE THE FINAL GOAL OF ILL-TENNYSON.

NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

THE MUNITION MAKERS.

Progress of the British.

1890.

HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.

(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" filer for the week

ending June 26, 1890)

ing the fabt that the repeal of the former Navigation Acte is sixty-HOW, GOOD six years old to-day. Among the general publio all too little is known of the history of our great

Count the Columna.“ mercantile marine. Many people

Yesterday the Telegraph think that it "never came into published 34 columns of solid existence till the end of the 18th reading matter. To-day there Centary while many cthere are of will be 44 published. opinion that it dates no farther back than the founding of the Siberian Mail. Dua per 8.5 of the way of expecting big sus rains which have prevailed dur- munition, Britishers have got out Juce 20. The tremendous Est India Company. Not only is

The Malls.

"Chili to-day at noon. ETC. First Parliament it was the subicot Siberian

FRECKLES, ETC.

AND LEAVES THE SKIN

FRESH AND COOL.

A. S. WATSON

& CO., LTD,

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HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

Mail.

Closes to-day per so. Luchow at 5 pm. Up to the Minute-Share Market News.

Knowing what they do now as

The Dollar. June 20. The rate of the

1890.

SHARE REPORT.

The quotations which follow are from the Hongkong Telegraph for June 201b, 1890,

to the extent to which their pro-dollar on demand to-day is 3/375-195 per cens premium, sellers. gress depends on plentiful, am-

Heavy Ralos.

Hongkong and Shanghai Hon!

Union Insurance Society of Canton 808 per share, sellers.

China Traders Insuranos Com-

pany-870 per share, buyers.

North China Insurance-Tis 340 per share, sellers.

the service itself a very ancient French Closed, Tersoasses o big advances in Franceling the last forty-eight hours one but even before the days of the

and Belgium until such a time sa have fortunately, cone compara. their men can keep pace with the tively little damage. A portion of enemy where bombardments are a bank near the Naval Hospital Canton Tusurance Company concerned. This knowledge, gave way last night, although it Ltd.-$125 per share, sellers. bowovor, renders all the more had only heen pat ap after the Yangtage Insurance Association welcome such a wire so that fods in May last year.

-Tls. 84 per share sellers, d received yesterday evening, which The Water Authority. « Hongkong Fire Insurance Com recorda the fine work done by Jane 20. Chinese rits-pay-pany-$357) per share, buyers our artillery and infantry. The ere are wondering what the title China Fire Insurance Company

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Hongkong and Shanghai Bank ing Corp. $8175, sellers. Hongkong Tramways.$495,

buyers. I div.

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Union Waterboat Co. Ld.

$174, buyers. Lazoon- #35), bayers.

China and Manilas 84.00,

Do $53, buyers..

of much law-making by successiva kinge. It is eaid that Richard Coeur de Lion

the frat to draw up a definite and lengthy code of maritime law, and that, two hundred years later, Richard II added some important enactments. In 1851 Oromwell's) Parliament passed an Act (subse- quently ratified by Charles II)| "for the encouraging of shipping, which restricted the importation and exportation of goods to or from Asia, Africa or America to English ships, "of waich the masters, and three-fourths of the

Minor Acts were added and Wil liam of Orange firally consolidat-

The Dollar. ed the whole; and the code thus The rate of the dollar on remained til June 28, 1849, demand to-day is 1e 9:7/16d. 2 giving extreme cffence and To-day's Analversary. oresting inconvenience all round. To-day is the 66th suniversary Ship owners and masters were of the repeal of the Navigation tied by the leg, as it were, | Acts, and there was little hope of the mercantile marine's coming to

The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve mariners are to be English."

the truth and print the news without fear or favour.

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

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

Western Union Offico address: 11, Ice House St.

BIRTH.

China Sugars, $110, buyers. Langkats. Tle. 384, buyers. Shanghai Cattons, Tie. 87,

buyers.

fact that the artillery prepa:ations of the Water Authority, who is to881 per share, bayers can honestly be described as make his debut under the pro- Hongkong and Whampoa Dook perfect, abors that already the visions of the new Water Bill, Company-56 per cent, premium improved conditions are beginn will be. Some of them suppose hayers

ing to work. Some time ago, it may be Shui Kwai, but we Hongkong, Canton and Macar it will be remembered, our men hardly think co. It would scarce- Steamboat Company $37

ered scmething of a triumph ly be sufficiently decorous. Shui per share, buyers. through the story's having been Wong (water king, is much near- China and Manila Steamship spread among the enemy that the er the mark."

Company $103 per share, British were out of ammunition.

buyers.

German Demoralisation. If Germany is laying up dis appointments for herself in this

manner it is little wonder that her

.

Hongkong Gas Company $135 per share, allers, $180 per share, sellers,

Hongkong Hotel Company-

"Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per

25 per cent. die., sellers. cent. Debentures-$501,

Hongkong and Australia. Jane 21.-As we seara ago predicted would be the osse, the lasts and Hongkong is greatly on passenger traffic between Austra the increase. For some time lesely demoralised in the fightly patronised, and the Chingto, troops showed themselves bepe- past the steamers on the route, from both sides, have been large- described yesterday, as soon as it which arrived to-day, had a fali was made clear that our artillery complement of European passeng. $64 per share sellera

Douglas Steamship Company-- will take better men than the arise whether a larger clas of pany, Ltd.-8167 per share men were prepared for them. It

era. The question may shortly China Sugar Refining Com Germane to stand up against steamer than those now on the sellers. Suoh organisation and splendid line has not become an absolute

Cable Concessiona. On and after July 1, 1915, in a while such restrictions telegrams to and from Italy, DONNITHORNE. At 1, Morrison Hill, on June, 25th, 1915, they cut the hardest were during land may be passed in Italian.

lasted. Obviously the times when Libys, Eritrea, Italian Somali The wife of James H. Donnithorne, a Daughter.

Britain's various wars with Françe Dog Importation Prohibition. and Spain, when every British No doge brought from Shang-combination as our men have been seaman available was wanted for hai will be permitted to land in displaying. That the enemy is be- the meu-of-war. By the time the this Colony for a period of six coming more and more unnerved.

1915.

Winding Up Petition.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1915.

ABOUT THE WAR LOAN."

terms too clear for

necessity.'

Indo-China S.N. Company

precs-gangs had taken all they months from the day of June/hardly needa saying. The cona meeting with great opposition, $95 per share, sellers.

wanted it was a sheer impossi-27, bility to gai, for a merchant YesEel, s orow three-fourths

Luzon Suger Refining Com pany, Limited-$87 per share, The German Army." buyers. June 23. The Army Bill is Hongkong Ice Company" ter-attacks were, in this case, especially the increase in the ay Hongkong Rope Manufactur feeble and half-hearted, the pri- of officers. The Liberalas insisting Company, Ltd.-$110 per A petition for the winding up ezera (measuring our corn by upon the two years service."

share, sellers.. *East Africa: or even a quarter-English, and of the Hongkong Tarkish Bath German bushels) oried for mercy.! the result was that much vain. and Toilet Company Ltd. has been while those of the enemy who Jano 23. In reply to a ques- and Godown Company.-$75 per Hoogkong and Kowloon Wharf directed to be heard in the Su- could get away" made the usual tion in the House of Commons, share, sellers, Bel able trade was lost.

preme Court on July 9 at 2.30 signal of failure by a cannonade Sir James Fergasson said ther

with gas shells.” A confident whilst the Anglo-German negeti--$10 per share, sellers.

Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. Ltd. army no more does these things ations were pending, the status quo The new streets constructed in than it fires on nuns, nurses and in East Africa will be maintained: $21 per share, buyers.

A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd.- extension of Amoy and Swatow ambulances.

Major Wisemann has arrived Lines will be known as Amoy

Hongkong High Level Tram- in Cairo, and professes ast nighway Co., Ltd. par. buyers. and Swaton Streets and Amoy and Swatow Lanes will be re-

ment at the true of Mr. Stanley's named Amoy and Swatow Streets:

Chinese Getting at their own." speeches."

Holiday next Thursday.

June 24. The Chinese are getting their own again. Nothing

The New Army Cadet Scheme.

The wire announcing that alterations аге be ing made as regarde the admission of army candidates will meet with all round appreciation. The old arrangement was almoet fatal, for it limited admission to

p.m.

Street Naming.

The Skilled Workers.

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Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., Ltd.-$25 per share, nominal.

Green Island Cement Co. (old issue)-$28 per share, sellers, issue).-$3 per share, nominal.

Green Island Cement Co. (new

Hongkong Land Investment Hongkong Electric Light Co., Ltd.- $5 per share, sellers. West Foint Buildings Co., 835 per share, cellere.

·HONGKONG PIERS.

Ltd.

7. No person shall loiter on, or

The first big financial move of the present war was made when

the definite organisation on foot To such an army the news of the Home Government declared its intention of issuing the new war kan. The original loan issued, repayable in 1925-28 was, if the Sandhurst or Woolwich to the has, under Section 7 of the Holi- the las: drop in an uncomfort has been more noticeable of late

at Home in regard to shell- term may be used in national crises, a matter of expediency and a song of at least fairly well-to-do day Ordinance 1912, (Ordinance ably

H. E. the Governor-in-Council making will be somewhere near such it appears to be treated in the present proposal which is the investing public of the Empire. But the second may be before people, while it barred hundreds No. 6 of 1912) appointed, splendid tribute to the absorbing the building accom-Co., 187 per share, sellers.

is then the way in which they are apon as the initial piece of heavy financial attillery which the Allies of sthletic and brainy youngsters Thursday, July 1, 19.5, to be Scottish engineers that, of them-midation in the centre of the are to bring to bear upon the enemy. We speak advisedly when whose parents could not afford observed as a General Boliday. selves, they should have elected city. In Queen's Road West, we say it in the first financial move, for supposing it were the last to send them into the army effort of Great Britain and we know it is a long way from that when they got there. The whole notified in to-day's Gazells.

University Appointments, or to contribute to their support

to anticipate the new Bill and almost up to the Clock Tower, France, Russia and lialy, each in their turn would be capable of a idea was the height of snobbery

The following appointments are start recruiting of their own whole rows of shops have been similar loan, raised by similar means, if not good for quite so large and folly, insemnob as

accord;:

and the movement will rented by them; Pottinger a sum. If ever a nation spoke to another in

B. E. the Governor has been go very far towards wiping ous Street, D'Aguiler Street, and mistake, Great Britain has, through the months of her ministere, back-Pictum (even were be only a Ming to be Members of the Court annaturally harboured against the scesion of, and whole streets of pleased to nominate, Mr. Ellis mach of the past feeling of Upper Wyndham Street have been pre-supposed that the son of the Kadoorie and Mr. Chan Kai bitterness that the country not invaded and almost taken poss ed by some of the ablest financiera of the world, spoken to Germany. It is not, however, within the province of this article to discuss the successful pawn-broker, or what of the University of Hongkong Trade Unions. London, always to new houses up to the Com- political aspect of the new loan, though that in itself is entrancing the Globe once most deliciously for a term of three years, with the fore where any patriotic work missarist Buildings have been Further Regulations Published, enough, nor to draw comparisons between one Empire that can still

called "an eminent plumber") effect from October 16, 1914. find voluntarily enbscribed money and one which has even taken was better fitted to hold the Mr. Ho Fook has been elected listment bureaux, and every one And the white man has scarce a Regulations made by the Go

is toward, has twenty-seven on- erected for their accommodation.

There shall be added to the pledges of matrimony into piwn: we wish to deal solely with the King's commission than the son a Member of the Council of the of these has got its hande full place to lay his head." loan, as a nation of shopkeepers should.

of the peor country gentleman, University of Hongkong, for a enrolling volunteers. Clearly the

varror-in-Council says, the Go the under-paid professional man, term of three years, with effect men at Home have made up their

England and Germany, June 25." An Anglo German 4:1911, and published on page vernment a Gazette, August The new loau, bearing four and a half per cent and repayable the small tradesman or the work from October 10, 1914.

Convention has been concluded 538 of the Regulations of between the years 1925-45, bas, for the world at large, one huge war should have taught us, and as been re-elected Members of the

man. The army-as the Boer

minds that the war skall end." " message. The details of the issue; supplied as through the courtesy the present one evidently has Council of the University of The following gentlemen have

by which Germany withdrawa of Government House, show that the financial advisers of the Empire is far too serious a thing Hongkong, for a further term of small thing beside the undoubted island of Heligoland."

The Russians.

all claim to Wita and Somaliland Hongking 1014," under the

heading The low of Lamberg seems aand in exchange receives the are so certain of viotory that not only are they contemplating "the

"Blake Pier" the follow=" ing regulations: repayment of whatever it may cost, bat are ready to pay cff that

to be played the fcol with.

three years: Hon. Mr. H. E. progress of the Russians in other amount of ordinary Console which may be converted into the new

Cruelty to Animals. Pollock, K. O., and Mr. Evan directions. Just where the fier June 28, Tae brutal menner at the approaches to, the pier, so War Loan. In other words, apart from the actual money which Exorbitant and Insolent Ricksha Ormita, with effect from Octe- cest of the fighting has been-on in which pigs are shipped, to and as to cause an obstruction. the Government will receive in hard casb, the Government is Coolles, prepared to redeem old stock on terms advantageous to the holder

ber 18, 1914; Hon. Mr. Wei Yak, the Dniester is where they seem landed in Hongkong from ports 8 No person shall throw or The thanks of the public are OM.G., and Hon. Lau Cha Hak, to have been most successful in Hainan, packed in baskete de oait any litter, paper, or with a guarantee that whatever new issue comes into being through certainly due to the gentleman from January 6, 1915.

Meanwhile the picture which the and stacked tier upon tier in the rubbish these means shall be paid off within the next thirty years. In a who was at the trouble, this

apon the pier, year of terrible stress, when to the lay mind saob things seem morning, of coming forward to

German Vorwaerts gives of the holds of steamere, was again". 9. No persons, except women, impossible, the Government has come forward with an offer prosecute a riokaha erolie for

Russia of the hour above plainly brought to the notice of the girls, and male children under HOUSEBOY SENT TO that means three things-the placing of a new and valuable in-demanding excess fore. There

enough (the more so that it is Magi-trate at the Polics Court 10 years of age, shall use seats PRISON. vestment on the market, the reduction of former stock into one more are things which the police can

drawn by an enemy) how our this morning, when a petty trader reserved for women and children.

Teim Sha Tsui Wharf:- valuable and more readily marketable, at a profit, and an undertaktake up for themselves, but there

Ally regards the situation. Other appeared before Mr. Robinson in Smart Work by Police,

1. No person shall sit or stand ing that whatever money is raised and whatever stock is thus trana are others the present

German papers have represented response to a summons charging ferred shall be wiped off in thirty years,

сабе This morning, before Mr. J. R. the Russians as on the verge of him with being in Fossession of on any part of the railings. among them in which they are Wond, Tin Fuk, alias Chi Fuk revolution, of surrender, of an unwholesome pigs caress, 2. No person shall put his feet As regards the terms on which old stock may be exchanged for of the man in the street. The gold watoh, ring, and money to pesce, and

bound to rely on the co-operation was charged with the theft of a seeking to make a separate His Worship, in ordering the ono le upon any sent.

Heaven knows defendant to pay a fine of $20,

3. No person shell fy any the new, they are good enough to have called forth the unanimous fare in question is known by the total value of $243. Evidence what besides. To see a liar remarked that undoubtedly s

kites from the wharf. praise of the business world, and after all that knows, and would most Kowloon people to be a showed that the defendant was contradicted by one of his own good number of piga were land-

4. All persons using the wharf be among the first to call out if there were anything wrong with the five-cent one many coolies engaged a houseboy o Mr. Scall side is always entertaining, and ed here from vessels when quite

shall condpet themselves in B proposal. There obviously is not, and that to the ordinary average get ton cents for it, rather, per at the stables. Mr. Soall saw the we feel uncharitable enough to dead, having been either suffocat.

quiet, decent, and orderle informed person, means that those well acquainted with affairs are hape, because the perroz using defendant in the morning of warde Germany at the presented or crashed on the voyage from 5. No person shall explotorate pleased with things as they are going, and that hope for the future the ricksha happens to have noth- Thursday, but an hour and a half moment to hope that the words southern porte, ant that the flesh has turned to a certitudo. These terms mean the opening of a source ing less than a ten-cont piece later the defendant had ding of her leading Boialist paper of a pig, which had died either a on the wharf. of wealth which has not been touched before the smallest of email than for any other reason, Bat peared as had also the goods will spread end be well digested natural or violent death was not

6. No person not fully and investors. What that is worth to the Government is not yet known, this is quite good enough to en mentioned in the charge. The throughout the entire enemy. but the chances are that even those who have formed flattering opin courage the average coolie to hue and oy was raised and the country.

ered as wholesome food Properly olothed and stod shall the strict reading of the occupy say test. fons will be favourable surprised. We British may be a nation of demand double fare as his right, defendant was found next day on On the face of it Russia is more Ordinance. Mr Ladds Colonial shopkeepers but we descend from a race who peddled wares, with and to become cheeky when re the Prays Eist. When taxed, he contented and more loyal at the

sary Bargeon, wh their measures in one hand and a sword in the other. Our soldiers fused. The most surprised man admitted the theft and took the present moment than she has ever or the prosecution may be mercenaries and our people too fond of sport, but when it in the court, we imagine, was the polios to a house in West Point been, and never before has there that the flesh of the pig comes down to a stragale in whicham niter tella hie people, as Mr. coole himself when he found where the watch was found to been so good an understanding tion would not be Lloyd George did a while back, that the last hundred millions will that, in the magistrate's opinion, gether with some new clothing between the Government and the wholesome frol, but that ther count, it rather looks as if the business of war is in the hands of the his little bout of insolence was that had been purchased with the Poles. The people right nation, one who issness loan for a possible one thousand mil-worth twenty-five dollars.

ow whet waa no doubt about the evil- lions but who doesn't want tbst sum at present. Why that in it are the sentences we like to read whom a previous conviction, was far more scourately than the which were found dead upon,

These stolen money. Defendant, against they are fighting for and are able numbers of "these que self means that our men of affairs have put a period to the war and about. olored the estimate for the cost of victory l

proved, weesent to prison for mix Kaiser could wish to distinguish arrival of the vessel here, bein months with four hours stooks friend nifrom enemies

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