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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 16, 1916.

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An Appeal

It will be mon- from s news: paragraph elsewhere in this iwGa That Lieutenant Colonel Carrie,

DAY BY DAY..

The Weather. At the Peak 8 am, Temp. 73;;

(1915, 73 sunshine.) Lower level 8-m. Temp. 80;

(1915, 81 sonskins.)

The Mails.

commanding the Royal Artillery HOUSES SHOULD PULL DOWN THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GLASS in the Obins Command, appeals BLINDS. for quantity of reading matter for the troops. The need, which hould be met in the near future, |is, we understand, caused by rea-fine.

sons which at the moment cannot, for military reasons, be divulged, | fine. but as some two hundred men will be affected and as these men will, unless the public comes Australian Mail-Dae për ma forward with a liberal supply of spare literature, be without read-Siberian Mail-Arrived per ing matter for some considerable time, we commend the appeal to our readers in the confident hope that they will bear our soldiers in mind. These men are no on strangers to Hongkong; ther have been doing the essentis! work of Empire in the Colony

Eastern to-day.

Luchow Isat evening.

The Dollar.

1891.

HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE

YEARS "AGO.

(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the week ending September 16, 1891)

The Dollar.

September 16. The rate of the dollar on demand to-day is s.8.3/14.”

demand to-day was.28.1.15/16d; The opening rats of the dollar

'Monday's Anniversary. Monday is the 207th anniver-

A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., for some years now, and that is sary of the birth of Dr. Johnson.

HONGKONG DISPENSARY

Teloph ne 16.

Correspondents are

requires them to

requested to observe the rule forward their

which

an additional reason why they should be remembered. But there

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1891.

-SHARE `REPORT.

REVIEW.

A Useful Local Gregraphy..

CA Short Geography of Kwong kang" The quotations which follow W. Bay-Hongkong, Kally and are from the Hongkong Telegraph

| Walsh 1916.)- for September 16, 1891.

This very useful fifty-two-page. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. ramphlet has been compiled with 174 par cent, premium buyers. an eye to the welfare of two clamer: Union Insurance Society of the schoolboy, and the adult Janton--$95 per share, buyers. who, for commercial or other

· China Traders' Insurance Com-reasons, feels inquisitive as to the pany-$661 par akaro, sellers, lie of the land in the Province of North China Insurance - Kwangtung. The writer states in 255 per share, saliera. ~

his preface that most of the is. Ltd. $110 per share, sellers,

Canton Insurance Company,formation has been collected at Arst hand and can be absolutely Yangtane Insurance Association relied upon. —Tis. 70 per share, bayers.

Hongkong Fire Insurance Com-

China Borneo Company, Limited. September 10.-"A meeting of the shareholders of the above of the Agents (Mosers. Gibb, Umpany was held at the offices Livingston & Co.) st 4.p.m. this afternoon. There were present:- R. Stokes, T. E. Davies, B. L Masers. B. Layton (Chairman) A. pany $320 per share, buyers,

China Fire Insurance Company

Dalrymple, E. W. Wheeler,-887 per share, bayers, Japan Infected. is no need to labour the point. It is proclaimed by order of Perry, J. B. Gomes, Bo A-fak Company-482 per cent. pre A. G. Wood, A. G. Stokes, L. 8. Hongkong and Whampos Dock We bere no doubt that residents His Excellency the Governor in and Leslie Hallward (Secretary). mium, vellers. will fea to it that an ample supply Council that Japan is a plaon st of literature is forthcoming, and which an infectious or contagi-men, when we last met on the 12th Steamboat Company-$33 per The Chairman said:-Gentle Hoogkong. Canton and Macso those who the take the trouble of ous disease prevaile Pesrching out any saperlacas names and addresses with communications, addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for books or magazines which they publication, but as an evidence of their bona fides.

happen to porneze may rent anured that their gifts will be of Crown land will be sold by It is notified that fifteen lots warmly appreciated, We only public auction at the District wish to add that any parcels sent Office, Tai Po, at 10 a.m., on The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will to the Telegraph office will be Monday, September 25. be as follows:-

forwarded to the proper quartere.

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NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

Daily issue-$26 per annum. Weekly issue $13-per annum.

Lead Sales.

The book is nicely printed and extremely well stranged; the mape are good and helpful, and Mr. Bay has contrived to ora an enormous amount of practical small space. information into a remarkably

It gives the im pression of having been compiled who knows how to select the essez- by an experienced vchoolmaster August I informed you that reshare, sales and buyers.

tial and to reject the unnecessary; solutions had been entered into Hongkong Gas Company and it is certain that boys who between your Directors and $151 per share, sellera.

are studying the geography of for the disposal of the Company's $65 per share, tuyer Mesure, Jardins, Matheson & Co. Hongkong Hotel Company-Kwangtung Province for ex- business, and the meeting was

amination purposes will find adjourned to allow of further time sent. Debentures--$501.

Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per qatters very much simplided for them in Mr. Ray's litle work. for the consideration of terme. Indo-China S. N. Company-Business men, too, will be able proposed for the reconstruction 30 per cent. dis, sellers,” to see at a glance the commercial "Neal of the Navy.", Killing German Trade.

of the company. I will lay these Douglas Steamship Company-conditions of the various coalition, Patrons of There are indications from Theatre (The Palace Picture approve of them. Toe principle

the Hongkong before you and I hope you will $42 per share, buyers.

and touriste will be eager to many quarters that opinion House) are reminded that the 4th, on which the transfer is arranged Ltd.-8165 per share, sellers.

Chins Sugar Refining Company possees what is incidentally a throughout our great self-govern- 5th and 6th Episodes of "Nes is that the shareholders in this

wonderfully well-planned' guide- ing Dominions leens strongly in of the Navy" will be screened company should become share Limited-48 per share, sellora. Luzon Sugar Refining Company,

book. favour of pointed and effective to-night.

Attention may well be drawn diecrimination against enemy

holders in the new company, and Hongkong Ice Company-to two supplementary features: gode, Without waiting for the

that in exchange for each share on $86 per share, sellərə.

"Kwongtang at a glacos”—a decision of the Imperial Govern- Company Warned.

which $55 has been paid they It is notified that at the expira should receive one in a new coming Company, Ltd.-$107 per districts, principal cities, aTOBA Hongkong Rope Manufactur-tabular statement of prefectures, ment on the Paris Economiction of three months the Ying pany for $20, of which $15 share, sellers. Conference, deliberations, our Cheong Wo Hing Kee Company should be considered paid ap,

and populations and a lengthy Overseas statemen have made it will, unless 30se is shown to the leaving a liability of $5 per and Godown Company.-$71 per with Hongkong. The book is Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf topographical chapter dealing clear, in a bundred and one contrary, by struck off the Regis share. Haldera of fally paid up share, sellers. atterances, that they will do all ter and the Company will be die shares of $100 each to reosive at

quite a good one and should havO in their power to conserve trade | Folved.

Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. Ltd. |a wide circulation. within the Empire. The wisdom

the rate of 1 and 1-3rd of a fully-$7 per share, sellers. of such a course has been seen

paid up thare of $20, this being A. & Watson and Co., Ltd.-. for very many years by mea not Important Land Sale, the proportion to which they are $20 per share, ex. div., buyers, bound to old and worn-out poli-west of the retail market, Yau- consist of 10,000 shares of $20 way Co., Ltd.—$65 per share Koloon Inland Lot No. 1304 entitled. The new company will Hongkong High Level Tram- tical policies, and the war has at mati), containing about 9 870 each, of which, as regarde 1,343 bayers, least erved to vindicate the square fest, is to be sold at the shares, $20 will be considered Nur-stand taken by these apostles P. W. D. Offices on October 2. fally paid up, these being dis ef Imperial preference. As an The upset price is $29,610, and tribated among holders of fally

feeling the annual rent $136.

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BIRTHS.

GATES.--On Saturday, September 9, 1916, at the Victoria sing Home, Shanghai. to Mr. and Mrs. F. Gates, a daughter.

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The

Hongkong

Telegraph.

HONGKONG. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1916.

A PAGE OF HISTORY.

on the matter, we would call attention to the fact that, accord-i ing to the High Commissioner for

Criminal Sessions.

New Zealand, an Act is abortly to sions open at the Supreme Court liability of 35 share to be called

Government Tenders.

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93

Ltd.--$25 per share, nominal.

Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., Green Leland Cement Co. Ltd. $10 per share, sellers.

ENEMY LOSSES,

750,000 In Two Months.

SANITARY BOARD,

Motion for More Inspectors.

The orders of the day for next Tuesday's meeting of the Sanitary Board include:-

Letter from. Government rela«. tive to the erection of 6 water closets and 8 urinale at Noe, 181" to 195, Dee Voeux Road Central„ In the last two months alone and Nos. 90, 91, 94 and 95, from the beginning of the Bus Connaught Road Central, Marins

■ian offensive it is reliably estima-Lot No. 63. sted that the enemy has lost, on the Esstern and Western fronte, not fewer than 750,000 men:

The particulars are:- Prisoners............380,000 Estimated killed and

woanded,

19.370,000

750.000

Of this total, about 600,000

to notice, will move:

Mr. P. W. Goldring, pareuant

"That this Board in considar ing the estimstee for the year 1917, do recommend to the Government an increased vots in order to provide for an addition of at least five Inspectors on the atoff of this Department."

Plan of the proposed latrine Kowloon Railway

opposite Sation

paid shares of the old company as already mentioned; 5,546 at 820 of which $15 will be considered The September Criminal Ses-to have been paid up, leaving a be brought into force in that on Monday. Dominion which will place a 50 cases on the calendar, including $20 each, which will be issued

There are eight up at a future period: 3,112 ofį per cent, daty on all enemy goods two indictments for marder, one hereafter by the new company." imported into the country. Turn of manslaughter, one of robbery ing to South Africa, we notice that with violence, two of receiving

The German Press on the War the Chamber of Commerce are bribes, and two of larceny.

Question. To-day we publish the third and last part of an authoritative planning schemes for the preven

September 14.-"The Gorman, review of the recent trouble in China, which has been specially tion of the dumping of goods by

newspapers, commenting on the supplied to the Telegraph. What will probably strike our readers enemy countries, to the detriment the supply of winter uniform for/and General Von Caprivi to Tenders are being invited for departure of the Emperor William as the leading features of the article are the writer's grasp and in- of the British trader and also the Revenue Officers, for the supply witnees the Austrian military timate knowledge of the facts and his intense desire to deal fairly South African manufacturer, and, of winter clothing for the Prison manoeuvres, and to meet the by all parties. The narrative really revolves round the doings, simultaneously, for the develop staff, for the construction of misdoings, and efforts of one min-Lang Chai kwong; and it shows ment of British trade in that parts Underground Trough-Oloset Kalncky, Minister for Foreign Emperor of Austria and Count bim as surrounded by jealous enemies, hated, distrusted, and yet, of the world. It is not yet slated Latrins and Urinal in Garden Affairs, any that Seden was never by bis own rade force of character, avoiding perhaps more pitfalle what atape are to be taken, bat than many an accomplished diplomatist would have knows how to we may, trust oa: Colonial states Road, and for the supply of cloth. Bearer than to-day, as well as the dodge. Next, the writer gives us some telling little word portraits men and business men to grapple ing for the Railway Department. possibility of having to defend and honesty of purpose smashed Yasa Shih k'ai's dreams of king-effectual lines. Our future policy the Supreme Court will be openmittee of the German Clab have have captured over 600 guns and of Wu Hon-man, frettatab of Kwaugtung; of Tesi Ao, whose genius with the problem on sound and

German unity.",

front are not included. It is notified that the Offices of "The Chinese of Europe." The British, French and Ras closet near the Cattle Depot, Plan of the proposed trough ship; and of Sham Chun-haen, whom many of our older rendere in this respect must be in the daily during the Long Vacation, withdrawn their two subscriptions 15,000 machine-guns.

September 14.-"The Com-sian armies in the enzie period Kennedy Town, " remember as Vioeory of the two Kwang-a man of great subtlety direction of making the Empire except upon Pablio and General and of no inconsiderable administrative ability, and one, as the as self-contained as possible, with Holidays, from 10 o'clock in the to the Hongkong Telegraph, pra

Application for permission to writer of the article frankly observes, in whose eyes "no govern- due and proper regard, of course, forenoon until 1 o'clock in the amably on account of a paragraph August 2 of 350,000 Anglo- and 149.

erect 3 water closets at No. 28, ment will be irreproachable unless he holds the reins of it himself." to the interests of our Allies afteracon, (enbject, however, to which appeared in our Saturday's French losses on the Samtae i

on Caine Road, Laland Lot Nos. 148 To readers at Home the whole thing would appear mere German opportunities in British the provisions of Section 6 of thesene in which Germans were in-wildly exaggerated, and it is storm in a tracop, possessing no interest or importance for anyone possessions must be killed. And Supreme Court (Vacation) Or-oidentally referred to as the significant that the enemy has but those immediately concerned. But to us in the East it means now is the time to lay our plans.dinance, 1898, so far as it relates Chinese of Europe. We should be nothing to say about his own mech: the differensa, in fact, between a prosperous Kwangtung and a Kwangiang that is a prey to freebooters, dishonest politicians,

to the Criminal Sessions) from only too dalighted if the whols of loeses. mutinous and murderous soldiers and knaves in general; a

September, 20 antil October 17 theclabsinthe East, from Colombo Kwangtong with which it is impossible to carry on normal

1916, (both days inclusive).

to Vladivostock, would cease to dommerce. A new era is dawning for the Province, albeit no one.

subcribe in Hong kong is asogaine enough to believe that we have yet seen

it. would inoresse the last of political unrest there. The men sent from the North to quist matters have met with a big eaccess within a week or two;

ORGAN RECITAL.

mackene una var a

The Long Vacation.

Passports...

must

рам

are permanent losses. The casual ties of the enemy on the Italian

The German estimate

rone."

要

AN APPEAL.

Reading Matter for the Troops: Lient: Cel. Barrie, B.G.A.,

to this journal, particularly changeful smile that writes as to the effect that some It is notified that persons Monday's Programme. desiring to enter Portugal or our daily circulation by from two become proverbial. We are of the local troops will shortly be The programme of the organ Macso

Portuguese Colonies, other than to three hundred copies. Bat is it supposed to be fighting the Ger- much in need of reading matter, man influence. We have received and, as the number of men in an insult, apart altogether from to abandon a post wherein he had achieved so much an popularity. Fuller, F.R.0.0., L.R.A.M., at St. case of persons other than Portre mans the Chinese of Europe? each is not the casd.--Hous verbe appreciated.

ports; which passports, in the supply would On the new page of its history to which the Provinos has just John's Cathedral on Monday, 9.15 gume sabjecte, must bear the visa fail to see where the insult comes turned we may still expect to find much written that is not all p.m.. is as follows:-

We have great pleasure in comedy; for Kwangtung, like other parts of the country, has not 1. Grand Chocar......Gailment. Consular Representative,

**Vulgar Insolence, of a Potuguese diplomatic oring and wa do not hesitate to

making the appeal known to the found itself yet, and the fact that it cimen so much in contact with 2. Violin Sulo..." Dreaming"

All affirm that, in many respects, the reached us of a rencontre that co- forward to the proper quarterm September 16-"A report has public, and shall be happy to foreigners and their influence ie not an aomized blessing. I

passports must contain the sign-illustration in quation would carred the other night at the Peak any paróels of books or magasinen. claims to be more "civilised " than the majority of the provinces,

Schumann.ators and the photograph of the honor the citizens of any nation Hotel, in which a notorious pro- which our readers may send us. but we may well doubt ifat would not be a great deal better of 3. To the Bes... Macdowell. anthority granting the passport, threatened German boycott" of Hebrain peranssion was, to use a Miss Vera Crees. bearer, the latter sealed by the in the world. As regards the fessional 'masher of the German- without such of its civilisation as in mere varnish. It has a lot to 4. Bulo......"The lost chord" learn and its new Civil Governor-if his opening so's are

War Trading Lists.

the Hongkong Tegraph, we can oriterion is the man to teach it. Many books could be written on axy

Sullivan.

common nautical expression,

The Palisade, Mr J. Dewar,

The list of persons and bodies #fford to smile complacently,” the petty intrigues and beart-burnings that have taken pleos in 5. Madrigal....

of persone, incorporated or unin-

brought to his bearings with a The managemens of the Palie- Canton sinos the first revolution. Man after man has coveted the

.......E. Lemare, corporated, with whom trading is

The Boycott. September 16."A member of investigating this matter in the most sitractive programme for round turn. We intend carefully ede, Kowloon, has arranged a honour of ruling it, and no man yet has occupied the place of ruler 6. Chant sans paroles

Bymo 19.

prohibited by the Trading with the Hongkong Olab writes that public interest, and if the tale to-night, when a fall military with complete success. Lung Chai-kwong, controlled it, to be sure;

the Enemy (Statutory List) Pro- the attempted boycott" of the sold as can be verified, we shall band will again be in attendanos. but it was with powder and bullet rather than by the exercise of 7. Dast for Violin and Voice

Tschaikowsky olamation, Hongkong, 1918, ha Telegraph in that select Araby certainly afford the person more 4 special festure, which should reasonable tact; and even he could not keep the Cantonese from

been farther amended by the of the bleat' has proved a miser-] especially concerned” every op.. talking and sedition-mongering. Unfortunately, too, his mere want

D. Forster, variation and addition of certain able fiasco. It don't affect us portunity of publicly clearing made of the Kowloon ontoona be widely appreciated,, is being of education more than sufficed to alienate many of the old scholar

Mia Vera Grees and Mr. J. Dswar.

names. There is also issued as personally ons copper cash, but his character, If our wives and which are the work of a low! alam, whose xaxistance and influence was by no means to be despia 8. The Storm......... Lemmsor, being wound up ander the Trad this, rotten colony, there are into public places without being number of loost slides depicting additional list of firms which are we are glad to And that, even in daughters cannot venture forth toonist. There will alwɔ be a ed. The new Civil Governor, in addition to being a soldier and a diplomatist, is a man of considerable scholastic stainments, and one recitals of popular macio; daring Act, 1916. The list of persons to effectually frustrate the disgrace of foreigners whose immorality Another instalment of the Bisek This is the fourth of a series of ing with the Enemy Amendment enough honest Englishmen to subjected to the vulgar insolenos fancy dress bathing pienia whoes actions are more likely to be governed by reflection. All the singing of the hymn, called whom artides to be exported to fal arrangements of a crowd of is a bys word, we must get out Box" mystery will be shown. foreigners will vary heartily wish him success in his new undertak-tion will be made in aid of the Navy China may be consigned has sino internasted toadies who exist in the our horse-whips and use them the comics include some Joh ing, and will look forward to seeing a new Canton develop under Leagues War Memorial Fund. his skilful management,

muuahine of a never-ending but without ceremony? H

Bunny pio area,

been amended.