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POLITICS AT HOME.
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1890
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE YBARS AGO.
(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the week ending October 23, 1890.)
The Dollar. October 23.-" The rate of the |
EXCISE WOMEN.
New Sphere of Female Work Opened Up.
With that progressivo instinct which for so many yeare has in- variably distinguished the adm- dollar on demand fo-day is 3/5"inistration of the Casioms and Overcrowded Hongkong. Excise authorities at Thames October 17.-"The long-delay street, writes the Civil Service
s.a.
es.
ing laxer and more sone, it existe ed report of the Commission ap-correspondent of the Telegraph, abundance in the recent state pointed in November 1888, on the very interesting step has been ments that have been allowed to the recommendation of the Sanit decided on of replacing by come through as to the positionary Board, to examine into the women those Customs and Excise of Greene. It is right that the extent of the overclowding of the efficals who are engaged in the public should be taken into the Colony, is an instructive docum- very difficult and responsible work Government's confidenos over eat. It has long beso the sub-
on
What is the World thinking of Germany,
Cricket.
Raubs.
the
|pondent allowances. Owing to the be pleased at the idea of the Glocal Government should have novelty of the proposal it was, this mailer. That the public will ject of adverse criticism that the connected with asperation and de- verament's trying the ojlery allowed quite five sixthe of the
perhaps, wise that the change business we can hardly believe. It Colony to be overrun with the should first be confined to London, able to raise a sum that will add Next Monday is the 500th is not for Britain to be offering native element, who now, indeed, but if women should prove quali materially to Hongkong's oon-anniverary of the battle of jam to Greece in order to par- have invaded the very centre of fied for each duty, which requires tribation. Fow great the need is Agincourt, and the Gist of Balac. /suade her to do her duty. This, the town, and bid fair to elbow considerable tact and discretion, too, is the Italian opinion, for, at even the Europeia tradesman there can be no doubt that the for everyone to put his hand in lava, his pocket over such a matter,
the moment of writing, another and business boogs from their is evident enough if we remem-
include the whole kingdom, Accident on River Boat. cable comes to hand which saya circumeoribed stronghold in experiment will be extended to ber that the Government at
It is intended that the scheme A Chineso named Leung Yik that Italy "considers that Greece Queen's Road Central, But when Home must perforce think, firat aged 22. employed as a cook on should be constrained, not osjol- we see piene English property shall be worked, so far as the indifferent to the selection of suitable candidates and foremost, about money for board the 8.8. Charles Hardouin ed." Bravo Laly! Fortunately owners so
is concerned, in conjunction. Correspondendents are requested to observe the rule which the actual fighting expesites of has been admitted to the Govern- it looks as though circumstan we public good as to pull down for-
names and addresses with Britain and some of her allies, ment Civil Hospitel enfering from would take the Cyprus matter eign houses on their land in the with certain well-known centres out of the hands of the British more central localities in order to of organised social work. communications addressed to the Editor. not necessarily for and is therefore bound for would injuries through scalding.
Cabinot, for the same wire adda build huge barracke in which From thees centres the Civil be bound if the public of the Em-
that Grook feeling is rapidly Chinose of every class may hive Service Commissioners will be pira were less generons) regret fally to consider comforts for Bie Mojoy the King has not changing, and sensational devehen wa ace these buildings, able to secure a sufficient number the wounded a secondary con- bson advised to exercise bis power lopments are possible at any mo- once the sanction of the authori- of qualified women; and previous ties to their design has been experience of social work, especial- The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will sideration. There is still great of dis-allowance with respect to mant."
approved, handed over to be rely in London, may be considered be a follows
need of more money for the Red the following Ordinance:-- An
partitioned and sub-divided until Cross; and we feel sure that those Ordinance to amend the Certifi
sa s'eine qua non. they are
A thronged with
The age limits considered suit- especially who have known pain cates of Origin Ordiosace, 1915.
Frolonged activity among the multitude of tenants living underable are 30 to 40, and the those and sickness from personal ex- Export of Rice from Hongkong. aperience will not be slow to make It is notified in the Casette Grook troops is, socording to the the most insanitary conditions, whose recommendations have simply because the indifferent been approved by the Commis yet another effort on behalf of the that information has been received wire quoted above, impossible — men who are suffering for the from H. B. M. Consul at Saigon "especially among the non-com- owner gains greater profite, then sioners will be paid £26 week for the we hail with pleasure even such the first eight weeks, and if their Empire.
to the effect that the export of missioned officers and in rice from that Colony to the ranka, where batred for the Bul-mild confirmation of the scandal | service is satisfactory £2 10... a
A similar as the report of Mr. Mitchell-
wook afterwards. The engagement Netherlands Indies is prohibited. garians is intense."
hatred for the Turke is exprese Innes and Mr. Ede affords."
is on a temporary basis, which may Street Naming.
Are things in Hongkong very be terminated by a week's notice It is notified in the Gazette ing itself among some of the Bul. "There is quite a considerable that the sircet adjoining the garians, who have revolted, have much better in this year of grace on either side.The Globe,
At amount of perjury in this court western boundary of Tai Hang been fired on by gendarmes and 1915 ? at one time or another," remarked Inland Lot No. 164 and extending have assassinated a prefect.
October 17.-" The Hongkong one of our judges yesterday. So from Shaukiwan Road to Second Salonica the arrival of Franco-
has impresed Cricket Club will play the the Greeks"; in fact, wherever Racquet Court to-morrow, com- there is in other British courts Lane will be known as "Jones British wounded and We have never quite Street". understood why 80 few in- The Bishop of Victoria. we turn now, we find growing in- mencing at 11a.m., sharp. Tiffin
October 20.- Telegraphio in- stances of punishment for this The Bishop of Victoria will to dignation against either Germany on the ground. The following
formation has been received of offence are to be found. Amorrow (Sunday) preach at the or her allies. One of the most sig. are the elevens:-
Hongkong Cricket Club:-T.8. the discovery of another gold- witness calle on the Almighty Harvest Thanksgiving service at nificant expressions of abhorrence to witness that he is telling St. Peter's Church West Point of Germany's methods is that Smith, (Ospt.), J. Barton, G. G. bearing roof on the Raub Co.' the truth, ha promptly lies all at 11 a.m., and at the Peak quoted in last night's wires from Boyle, B.A., S. Coxon, Capt. property. round the board, the court knows Charob at the 6.30. pm. service, the Nieuws van den Tag-becanes Dunn, A.S.C., W. Fisher, E. W. An Adventure of Sir Henry May's October 21.-"On Saturday' that he is lying, snd yet he is This will be the last of the San-this very paper began by being Maitland, O. Platt, H. G. Stow, Boarcely ever proceeded against day evening services at the Peak as anti-British as the rest of the G. A. Woodcook, E. O. Young, night last Mr. F. H. Mav, private "David said in his baste all men Church for this year.
Datch press. While one is bound R. E. Racquet Court:A. J. secretary to his Excellency the
Administering are liare," remarked the late Holiday's Ordinance. to deplore the bysterical note Leach, (Capt), E. M. Blair, B.E., Officer Commissioner Kerr, on one co
It is notified in the Gazelle that evident in the Home papers on A. J. Campbell, (0lei), G. 8. Government, left this colony in the According to one of yesterday afternoon's wires a suggestion casion. "If he had sat in this His Excellency the Governor-in-the subject of Miss Cavell's death, Oaxon, Capt. Davidson, (91st), L. Government launch Victoris for is about to be made in the Lorde that His Majesty should call a full court as long as I bave done, be Council has, under the provisions one is equally bound to feel that Hallward, Capt. Levine, (91st), a trip up the Canton river..
the Chinese meeting of the Privy Council for the discussion of the entire war would have said it in his of section 7 of the Holidays Or-such an event may go some dis-H. B. Kirk, (91et), R. K. Leigh, But it appears that the sensible authorities has been substituted situation. Thie, coming as a expplement to the political murmur leisure." If the gravity of dinance, 1912, (Ordinance No. 5 tance towards opening the eyes of F. Maitland, and Dr. Robbins, forbes, and of inge in both Houses daring the past week, must be taken as anything the offence of perjury were of 1012), appointed Wednesday, the neutral world to the kind of A.M.S."
by the intolerance of that insorut. The Nugget Trick. civilised November 10, 1015, to be observ-thing but lacking in significance. In plain language, men both in and sufficiently impressed on
October 18.For the Eastable institution known as the out of Parliament are not satisfied with the Coalition's method of public, quite half the difficulty of ed as a general holiday in aub-nations are seeking to combat and
End pes and thimble dodge Chinese Imperial Maritime Cas- handling the affaire connected with the war. That this dissatisfzo-a magistrate's, judge's, counsel's stitution for Monday, November forush.
Chinese sharpers substitate the toms-which is ander European tion should exist is a mattor which every patriotic person will and jury's task would be abo. 8, 1015.
Mr. "gold nugget trick, preying direction and control Excursion to Macao, sincerely deplore, for the Empire cannot afford to have even the lished. When it became known
Undeniably, too, this disgost upon the fair sex pretly exten- May's attention was attracted by The Hongkong, smallest fraction of its interest and energy turned aside from the that the
who dared man
Canton ing crime committed by the sively, here, from time to time. continnons whistling satern, and one great issue, Happily there is a big majority at Home that to stand ia the box and and
Macao Steamboat Co's. Germans in Belgium will have Needless to say the nugget is doubtless thinking it was some realises this fact, and that will do everything that legitimately may lie
equivocate would New Steamship Tai Shan, ill come slight effect
00 the composed of gilded brass, A excursion launch passing the us be done to prevent the farther growth of the disastisfaction and 10 inevitably go to a langthy dopart from the Company's Wing reoruiting at Home;
but couple of confidence men were al salute, he responded by Steor the country clear-if that can honestly and advantageously be term of hard labour, there would Lok Street Wharf at 9.m. and will it do all that is necessary? run in this morning by a district giving three blasts of the brought about-of an open political rupture,
quickly be an end of at least the return from Macao at 3 p.m. to- The people at Home do not want a general election just now if most flagrant of the perjary cases. morrow. The Company will also When we come to look at facta watobman in the neighbourhood Victoria's whistle.
ran a aleamer from Macso on San. aquarely and to push sentiment of Wanchai where they were act was a gun fired at the on one side, we are bound to ask caught in the act of parting with representative of Britain's day morning at 7.30 am. and onreelves: Why should the killing two cents' worth of brass for the Majesty by the parsaing Chinese from Hongkong st I p.m. from the Company's Wing Lok Strest of one English nurse influence triding som of eix Mexicane. Mr. ornicera steam launch that had men who remained indifferent to Wise gaoled them for six months." followed the Victoris from Cap- Wharf
the torturing of British military A Skating Rink for the Colony. Įsui-mun to Deep Bay. As a mat- prisoners in Germany, to the gas- October 18.-"If preliminaries ter of course the lunch was at sing of the Allied troops in the can be satisfactorily arranged, we once "slowed down," when a trenotes, the submarining of pas-understand that a roller skating (steam cutter quickly o.me slong- senger boats and the outraging of rink will be one of the features side, aud on officer rushed aboard' untold hundreds or thousands of of Hongkong during the coming sad,in peremptory tones, demand. Belgian women? We have no right winter. This benlibfal and ex-ed to know Mr. May's name and to feel that the effect on the shirker hilarating amusement would most business. The Acting Governor's mind will be suy greater than certainly receive general pation private secretary didn't throw the that of all these other horrora. age, and as the promoter is a renegade overboard--as we should At the moment when Germany gentlemen who has had experi- have done without hesitation- was indulging in some of her once is the business, and further but politely informed him that he vilest performances, men at Home can make the place especially was on board one of Her Britan were going on strike! Of course attractive, we doubt not that the nio Majesty's vassals, and was thee is no harm in the news Hoogkong Skating Rink will addressing an officer of the Hong- papers and the oratora" "work-prove one of the most popular kong Government,... Presently ing" she Cavell incident, but we places of resort in the, colony. gig came alongside the Hong- are not greatly esuguine. Why Fall particulara will shortly be kong launch from the Chinese is this much talked-of National | annonacad.”
cruiser, and a man named Blake Register not being put to The 0.P.0. Again.. had the unparalleled impudence more use? The Government at October 18.-"Sir,--I enclose to board a British Government lest knowɛ now who the able-herewith (for your inspection) B Tensel, and to assert that he was bodied men are who are trying to cover of a letter which I posted captain of a Chinese Imperial sneak behind the women's skirts here on the 4th August, and you Maritime Customs oraiser, and 200 and whoa Mr. Maxeo pate it will see by postmarks on asus had a perfect right to board and are either visiting the cinema that it was delivered in Shang-search any vessels in Chinese tograph or else talking of going|hai on the 11th October! Let-waters *********
„This man Blaks on strike." Why cannot pressure tere going astray, and heavy de- tried to bally Mr. May using be brought to bear on thees? Why falcations, are bad enough, but threstening and offensive langu cannot they be publicly shamed when our Postmaster General, age-we wonder that the" jaynial into offering themselves for takes to sending letters by Price's Paddy: didn't give him a remi- service? The publication of their Dredger it is time the public benfgence of Donnybrook and lay names and addresses in the news { gan tograwl," ONE WHO SUFFERS, Liiv quietly to sleep until he papers of the distriate in which [Oer Post Office, was, it seems was pulled up with a round turn they live, and the posting of them noted for the alaority of it and told that he would be put in on every boarding in their neigh- movemente svan twenty-fire years irons if he didn't get out at once. bourhood, might be a good start, ago.
At this, the valiant Blake: ***
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the
LANGKAT OUTPUT.
it can be demonstrated to them that the present Government is doing not only its own utmost bat as much as any patential Government could do to end the war as it should be ended, at the earliest possible The Press and the Cavell Case. moment. But may it not be all too easy to prove quite otherwise? One realises, of course, that the members of the Cabinet are, as
The "playing to the gallery it were, in the pillory for every Tom and Dick to throw at, and that of the Home press in regard to the only a very small percentage of the public is prepared to take into tragic shooting of Miss Cavell— full account the difficulties under which these members have been as recorded in this morning's| working. With this in view it is fairer to judge the Govern ment by its own testimony and by what the men in the Lords and wires-will, we feel eare, be re- gretted by all eobor-minded! Commons have to say about it than to accept anexamined the state-
Britishera. "Let Cavell be ments of the Fore papers and wires. Remarks made in Parliament the bottle-ory, let Unveil Messrs. Wright and Hornby within the past few days say, as plainly as worde can show, that battalions be raised pledged advise us that the Langht output there are many men who consider that the Coalition Governmentis but a slight improvement on its predecessor. If that point can be to avenge her," shrieks the for the current mouth is as established beyond doubt and if, simultaneously, it can be proved Daily Graphic while even the follows:
grave Morning Post permits itself that a general election would prane away all undesirable elemente, the mild indulgence of calling leaving nothing but what the best interests of the Empire damand, the dead lady a modern Anti then arely it is the public's duty to ask for that election.
gone." Even if we ignore all that, mu Thcee of our readers who have studied the movements of past and even if we forbear to commest Governments will probably feel that they can still detect in the
on the scripture history of the Daily Coalition the cloven hoof of Radicalismo, in its more violone inter- Express, how can we fail to feel pretation, in (a) the amateurish atmosphere of many of its delibera- disgust at the Timce allusion tions and performances and (b), the tendency to suppress, disguise to Napoleon and the Dao d'Eng- or argue away that which ought to be faced. Every student of hien? The execution of the duke political history, be his views what they may, has to own that tho is one of the historical difficulties Liberals are not the people to handle a war satisfactorily. How
that have
will Dever-and can they be? All their traditions are opposed to war and even 60
never-be cleared up; therefore, receptly as eighteen months ago they were telling us that Britain was in any case, it wasabeard to drag well prepared and that Germany "meant nothing," and were oven what every reader of history hinting that our battleships ought to have been sold for three hun known to be debateable metter in- dred pence and have been given to the poor." It would be an- to the question. And how much generous indeed to deny that survivors of the old Cabinet have worse does the case become, in view shown themselves suxions to atone for every past mistake; but on of the fact that Napoleon-hat enthusiasm be made to do duty for experience and government in- stinot? Can it out-balance the ingrained love of experiment that his memory may be is as much exists in the Liberal mind? The final court of appeal in all thin a national hero of our Allion the in necessarily the country itself; and its verdict, should the Govern French as 6.g. Nelson is with us. ment appeal to it, will, without doubt, go against either s Radical Considering this, one feels that or a Coalition Cabinat. Nevertheless, if such an appeal to the El- the Times would have done better cotors can be averted for the present most of us will be the better pleased.
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