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OLD BROWN BRANDY

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PEG O'MY HEART

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1916.

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DAY BY DAY

FOR OF ALL SAD WORDS OF TONGUE OF PEN, MIGHT HAVE BEEN-Maod Malie

THE SADDEST ARE THESE: “IT

The column headed"Twenty- five years ago in the Telegraph is no doubt of interest to the anti- quarian-the Colony cm boast of a few-but readers, who in their haste, cannot wait to mušice Imm heading are apt to be disappoint ed if they are only on the look-idall. oat for the very latest news BI to what is to be had in the way dull. of bargains; especially rare stamps. We understand that

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The Weather.

At the Peak Sam. Temp. 50;

(1915, 57 clear.)

Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 58;

(1915, 66 clear.)

The Malis.

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Siberian Hail-Das per sa

Kashmir to--OITOW,

The Dollar.

The rate of the dollar demand to-day is 1/11. 7/16.

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To-morrow's Anniversary.

on

NOTES ON THE CRISIS ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL

THE "COMPULSION BILL.

Are Things Moving la the West?

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Keeting of Sentholders and Subscribers.

The annual meeting of the seat- holders and antscribers of St. John's Cathedral was held in the Chamber of Commerce roam, City During the past week news Hallatevening. The Bishop of

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United Services Leagy Tabls up to and Including Saturday, January 2

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Goale For.

Foints,"

$2.3 14:22

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VOLUNTEER RESERVE

ORDERS.

"A" Co.an the Cucket Ground. Dress: drill order.

from the Western front has been Victoris (Rt. Rev. G. Lader, SSACARGA 2 2 more plentiful, but, however DD) presided, amongst those Volunteers 22 much we may thresh and it it also present being the Rev. H.Shropshires seems yield butli tle that is of the Copley Morle, the Hor, Mr. Claud, Nary the local Post Office Siberisa MailArrived per as nature of material progress. Since Savero, the Hon. Mr David Lun-Sted CoRG.A bas been inundated by ardent Suwa Maru, to-day.

the Germans were driven back by da', the Ber. H. G. 0. Griffith, STCRGA Philatelists desirous of being Siberian Mul-Closes per ss. the French and British in the Mr.N.J. Stabb, M. J. J. Stodars Royal Eng sapplied with the Jubilee stamps

Sinking at 3pm. tomorrow.sutumn of last year, there has Kennedy, Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, of 1891, the issue of which was Australian Mails-Closes per as been practically no alteration in (Han. Treasurer), Mr. W. L notified on Saturday in the coluşan

Changsha at 3 p.m. to the line, such gains in ground as Pattenden, (Hon. Secretary), Mt. referred to above, under the bead-

have been scared by the Allies Denman Fuller, FRCO LR ing of Twenty Five Years Ago!

being small and comparatively, Mr. J. M. Beck, Mr. G. To the disappointment of these

animportant. Luckily for us the Piercy, Mr. H. Sykes, and others V.R. Order No. 9, issned enthagiats the Post Office via,

circa uskantea...” åre each that The proceedings having been resterday by Major Wakeman, for once, found to be not a quarter

territorial gain, in this direction, of a century behind, the times,

counts as little in comparison with opened with prayer, and the Commanding H.K.VR, state

Secretary havingread the minutes, Parades for Wednesday the but, up to date, with we stock in

the wastage of the enemy, in man the meeting proceeded to receive 26th inst, at 5.15 pm. hand, the same having been ex-

and monitions; and, from recent and consider the accounts." In | bausted and disposed of a genera-

casualty lista, it is tolerably clear his statement Mr Bowley, tion aga

To-motor is the birthday of that "the Germans' losses are the Treasurer, said-In pat-

forward the the Emperor of Germany, who still satisfactorily cat of all pro- ting

Cathedral portion to those of the Allies. But Accounts for last year I wish to "D" Co. at Volunteer Head- what of munitions? If Germany draw your attention to two or quarters Dress: drill order can afford to throw twenty thoa- Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Harvey left and shells on one point that is three matters. First with regard Signalling Section at Volunteer to the general account the pew Headquarters Uniform to be After their never-to be forgot by the Chiyo Maru to-day.

probably not of conspicuous im ten experiences in the Mediter-

portance, we are driven to one of rents and donations show an in-wor

crease of about $1,100 over 1913, two conculsions: either she is still bat are only equal to 1914 and Orderly Officer from the moun The object of this paper is to publish correct information, serve to ranean, the Hongkong survivors

far better provided with ammani- considerably less than in earlier ing of January 28th to the mom- the truth and print the news trithout fear or favour.

have felt more thankful than the prizes at Saiyungpan School tion than was generally believed, years. The offertories for Church ing of February 4th. Lent. C. H.

or else she is reaching the pitch Expenses show s falling of of Bisson. of desperation and sheer wildness, $600, but on the other hand the when she no longer counts the Special Collections for national

Before the parade of “B” Co. and charitable fanda show an in- on Friday the 28th inst. it is pro

have the Company crease of $800 when compared posed to Is there nobody in the House of with last year. The ordinary ex-photographed at 445 p.m. It is Commons strong enough to pus penses of 1915 were comparatively particularly requested that all an extinguisher on the aimless light, as there was no passage members will attend at that time. and interminable talk there? By money to pay and practically

A. S. WATSON & CO. LTD., The Yasaka Maru

HONGKONG.

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

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

Ofice address: 11, Ice House St.

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BIRTHS. WELLS-On January 20, 1916, a The Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai to Mr. and Mrs. M. E. H. Wells, a sɔ3.

MUSSO. On January 21, 1916. at No. 13 Route Doumer, Shanghai to Chev. and Mrs. G. D. Musso, a daughter.

MARRIAGE.

DEATHS.

HARRIS-1: asking. China. on the 24th January, 1916

of the ill-fated Yasaka Maru must

words can express when they sighted our island Colony yester day. It is the first time since the war broke ca: that survivors from a torpedood vessel have landed here, and the occasion served to bring home to us more closely than ever before the grim side of Now that they have the war. safely reached their destination,

was born in 1859.

Departed.

Prize Day.

Mr. Ho Kom-tong is presenting all am to-morrow.

Whist Drive and Dance. Two whist drives and dances are being given by the RE Enter- tainment Club in the Theatre on February 11 and 25.

Naval Quadrille Glob

Calendar.

cost to herself.

BRI Tak

a merciful dispensation of Pro-nothing was spent on repairs, and

Art

Recruits on the Chicket Ground. Dress: drill order

Detail

Notice.

the little group of Hongkong The Royal Naval Qaadrille viderce the Compulsion Bill has yet our expenses exceeded our in-plying a new organ to the Union passengers no doubt look back on Clob is holding a whist drive now had its run in the Lower come by about $465, and the Church. If his assistance can be the affair as though it were some and dance in the Royal Naval House, but even yet there will be balance carried forward is reduc-jobbined it is thought that a sum BROWN-CRAVEN-C January 21. 1916 at H.B.M. Consu- bad dream, but those moments of Canteen Theatre on Friday even-people anxious to draw red her-ed by that amcant, We have of about $3,000 will be required late, Shanghai, before Sir Everard Fraser, R.C.M.G., and after-terrible anxiety and dread willing, February. 4.

rings across the track and to talk been extremely fortunate into reconstruct the soundboards an wards at Holy Trinity Cathedral, by the Rev. W. H. Price: Reginald

for the love of hearing their own the matter, cf repairs for the lines more suitable to the climate. voices and airing their own last four years, but we

If the incoming Church Body third son of Samuel, Brown, J. P. of Trewena, Kingston Hill, to always live in their memories. Katherine Isabel, third daughter of Thomas Craven, of Shanghai The bright feature in it all is the

splendid behaviour of the Ya88- From Mesare. Shewan, Tomes crazes. The sole idea behind all now faced with an expenditure of spproves of this proposal it will and 17 Fitzgeorge Avenue. Kensington.

En's ofrers and crew and the and Co. we have received an this discussion of industrial com- some $1,300 on repairs which our be necessary to make a special calm and masterful way in which effective calendar issued by the pulsion is just the old sweet hoorary architect, Kr. Laask, appeal for the purpose later on. they coped with the situation. Yorkshire Insurance Co., Ltd action of petting and corsetting advises, are necessary to prevent The adoption of the financial On this point all the passenger bearing a pretty picture of York the

workman, farther decay of the building. The statement was proposed by Mr. agree.

Nor must the deep Minster.

regardless of the fact that, but present generation is indebted to Beck and seconded by Mr Piercy. The Hon. Mr. Cland Severn and studied concern of the

for certain interesting varieties the benevolence of former gener- Company for the welfare of

Voyage Reports. the sarvivora be overlooked: Every

The as Loog885g, thing humanly possible was done Shanghai, reports strong north for the victima of the outrage, even westerly breeze, with heavy seas to the point of furnishing them The 8.a. Loongsang, from Manila, with ready cash. And the giving reports, strong, monsoon and of a dinner to the surviving pas-rough sea. sengers and crew last night was

Rowland Harris aged 31 years.

PEREIRA-On January 21, 1916, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, Joao Manuel Gonsalves Pereira, in his 1st year.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1916.

PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY IN FONGKONG.

The Hon. Mr. Holyoak in his speech at the Kowloon Schrol prize distribution laid before Hoogkong parents some considerations a fitting sad graceful act for on which they would do well to meditate, Mach that the new which the Company will always Member of the Legislative Council said would, of course, apply to be remembered.

apy scholars, but his remarks on the home training of children and

the daties of parents thereanent have a special local bearing. "In

their children as at Home, and delegated to o.hers those duties!

this Colony few parents were used to having as much to do with The Opiani Problem,

which, at Home, they would cheerfully embrace as part of the day's

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Hospital Donation.

Returned.

from

dear British

of that class, the wez might have ations in providing and maintain speaking of the Assistant Chap been well nigh ended by now. ing our fine Cathedral, and it is lain Fund, said that the balance The amusing part of the situation incumbent on the present genera on the current account for Dec- that the pakka hard-werking tion to see that the building is not ember 31 laat was rather larger artisan dislikes and repdadiates allowed to deteriorate. This is than the balance of 1914, bat the all this petting, even in days a duty which falls upon every monthly subscriptions which were gone by he did not want it, sad member of the Church of Eng being received fell short of what now he can have no possible use land in the Colony to maintain they felt they ought to get to be for it, for he is at the Front, and the Mother Church of the Colony in a perfectly safe position for the The Hon. Treasurer of the Parliament's affectionate solici- which is his parish whilst he lives fatare, by nearly $100 a month. Alice Memorial Hospital and tude is being bestowed. for the here. And I appeal specially that was due to many subscribers Affiliated Hospitals begs to greater part, on the incorrigible those Members of the Church of leaving the Colony. The main acknowledge ihe following losiers and strikers who are England who attend the service tenance of the Fand was recently donation to the Fanda of the masquerading as British work on rare occasions only, but who undertaken by the members of Hospitals Mr. Yeung Tso- men and whom three months in would no doubt feel aggrieved if the C.EMS, and the matter waS yung $40.

gaol would very distinctly benefit. the Charch was not available at Coming up at the next meeting of In the End arry Nearer ? the great Festivals, or for Wed the Society, so every member daties." Borgkong has badly needed plain speaking of this de- It is evident from the number

Another few days will see us dinga and Christenings, or if would have an opportunity of scription for many a day, and we have taken a great pleasure in of recent prosecutions following Mr. and Mrs. J. Hennessey at the end of eighteen months of there were no Chaplain to con doing his best to get new sub- pablishing it for the benefit of those who were not present to listen raids on illicit opiam divans that Seth, with their infant daughter, war, and the recollection prosapta duct funerale. In addition to the scribers. He appealed to thous to Mr. Holyoak's words.

One of the first things in the social life of Hongkong that the smoking of the drug contin- arrived back in the Coleny yes us to ask: Are we really any ordinary subscriptions which present to assist the Fund. With nes practically unabated in the terday by the sa Andre Lebon nearer to seeing the conflict are necessary for ordinary ex-regard to the Choir Fond, he strikes the new arrival is that there are sometimes very marked Colony. That is scarcely to be I will be remembered that Mr. finished? Without being unduly penses I shall be glad to receive thought that a more generons diferences between the Britisher of this Colony who has been edu-wondered at when we take all the and Mrs. Seth and child were optimistic one may well feel that special donations towards the collection and a few more sub- La ed here and the Britisher from Ecme. In certain respecte the circumstances into account. It passengers on the ill-fated Yasaka soms answer to that question repaira Mrs. Anstruther and scriptions would bring it up to

Hongkong boy" is vastly to be preferred to the average man who will be recalled that, shortly after Maru.

lies in several of the cables Hon. Mr. Cland Severn have most balance. has come from Home. Be is, for instance, usually far less snobbish the closing down of the licensed

ME Danman Faller pointed received in Hongkong during kindly started this fund with and has a nicer way with him," when dealing with the native or divans some years ago, quits a

Alleged Armed Robbery the past twenty-four hours. As 50 arch. and if twenty more out that the Choir Fund was, he the Eurasian, than has the average Home man. And one reason number of licencees of Chinese Two men were charged before regards outside intervention, parishioners would do the understood, to receive a grans. probably the great reason for this, is that he has been accustomed restaurants endeavoured to evade Mr. Wood this morning in con- there is no more and no less-to see the amount required would from the Church Body ever your from birth to far more waiting on" than has been the case with the law by giving what purported nection with an armed robbery hope than there was twelve or soon be realised. Looking at the to make up the Church collectio the average Home Britisher of the mercantile class the class most to be ires opiam smokes to which took place in Gage Street eighteen months ago. The neatral Endowment Fund, you will notice to $500. During 1914 the Chate largely represented in this Colony. He takes his waiting on" for customers, the cost of which, recently. Inspector Kent asked nations and the Vatican have that it is now invested at 6 per Fund was cut out entirely sad the granted, and so rarely or never seeks to air hie superiority in pre- however, was well covered by an for a remand, and this was granted long realised that, like a cold or cent, and the annual income of money he had axved during the sence of the Clipere and Portuguese, as is too often the way with increase in the charges for food. until Monday next si 2.15.

a fever, the war must ran its $960 is given in aid of the Assist previous years was used to meet the young man from Hɔme.

In this way they thought to escape But, like the rest of the world, this "Hongkong boy" has the coming within the legal definition Motor Car Accident. course, sad, deeply though they ant Chaplain Fand. With regard the expenses. He only wished to defects of his qualities. The

Suffering from injuries received are bound to deplore all that is to the Organ. the Rebuilding point that out very upbringing which of a divan, which was described has served to make him tolerant and indly and in as a place where money was paid by being knocked down by a happening, they are fain to Fund, for which Mr. Denman The Bishop did not think that breezily amiable manner mere or less democratio, and indifferent for the privilege of smoking. The motor car & Chinese boy, aged acknowledge their own helpless Faller has raised over $8,000 since $500 was at all exorbitant for to class distinctions, has also tended to give him less respect authorities toon overesme that nine years, of Kowloon Taxi, has nees. The Pope is now stated Nov. 1908, is zow practically the choir, and thought that the for parental authority and more respect for his own opinion than he point, however, by promptly pro been admitted to the Government definitely to have refused to offer exhausted. In 199/10 the Organ Church Body should seriously should, by rights, have. But, as Mr. Holyoak's remarks show, the hibiting opium-smoking in any Civil Hospital. The affair occurred by mediation till Germany does was rebuilt and the greater part consider how they could keep fault is less his than that of his parents. The cheapcess of licensed restaurant Bat the in Jhanghai Street, Taumati, the the right thing by Belgium; while of the instrument (which is a very up the fands of the choir during

Sweden has just taken occasion to vainable one) is now in excellent the year. domestic labour and the high salaries (Le, high sa compared with habit

The statement of accounts, was has by co mianaer no or car being numbered 53. those at Home) paid to Europeans out here throw in the way of the of means been suppressed, Mr. J. Hennessey Seth.. emphasise ber neutrality. Ameri- condition. The bellows were re mother the temptation to leave her children to the tender mercies of nor will it ever be, we imagine, Mr. J. Hennemcy Seth, partoerca and Holland have long ago nawed last year under the empervi- then accepted.

The following six lay members, the boy and the amah while she devotes herself to social distractions The closing down of the licensed in the fim of Messrs. Percy made it clear that they wish to son of Mr. Fuller and it was

Fleming, remain strictly impartial; Ros- hoped that no further expenditure of the Charch Body were elected which, at Home, would in many instances be less likely to come her divans has intensified the evil Smith, Seth and WET Now opportunities for enjoyment are not so plentiful is rather than otherwise, for. xa a during his holiday in Eng manis is thinking her own would be required for some time. en bloes The Hon. Mr. Cland this Colony that those who seize on them should be censored for so direct conarquence, “dy"

land was admitted a mem-thoughts and not talking about Daring the abnormally dry Severn, the Hon. Mr. David doing, but what about the child? While the mother is appearing tablishments have sprang into ber of the city of Incorporated them, and Greece does not count. weather at the beginning of Landsle, Mr. Bowley, Mr. Ken left to the tender mercies of servants. All that is wanted to alter is now no supervision, as there Chartered at tennis tournaments and bridge parties, the child must needs be being, with the risalt that there Acequutsats and the Society of So much for the outside point of December, however, serious de pedy, Mr. Pattenden, and Kr. Secretaries, after view, fo far as the belligerents fects were discovered in the sound- Stabb. Mr. H. O. Bandford was

The Bar the present regrettable state of affairs is a little forethought and a formerly was, ver the smokers having passed the necessary are torcented, the most significant boards, the gine having, perished re-elected anditor.

wires, perhaps, are those which owing to the extremes of this little self-denial. Looked at in a common sense light there is not We should not, in feet, be surpris examinations.

ever the Rassian successes in chimate, which is only no reason why parental responsibilities should rest more easily edif it wereioand that the number "The Yellow Dragon."

The Yellow Dragon, (the Queen's Ass, the bread riots in Berlin to wood on the shoulders of the Hongkong man or woman than at Eome, bat of illicit divane is far greater than there is every reason why that resposibility should be accepted with the number of licensed place College magazine) for January is and the Germanising of Tarkey Those special seriousness here. Fhysically sad mentally the English which formerly existed. And the an interesting and chatty issue. Taking these two last alone, child in the Tropica develope considerably more quickly than in the irony of it all is that in many home of his race, and, to make matters more difficult for him, & cases Chinese who were paid come correspondence from Old greater number and variety of temptation lie in his way than would penzation by the Government be the case in his own country. Thus the next best thing to keep when the Eicensed hous

ing one's children out of the Tropics altogether is to exorcistevenant down a25 RIDGE greater vigilance over them than one would feel called upon to exercise in the Homeland.

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