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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY,

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& Healthy Growth.

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HONGKONG AND CHINA.

Correspondents

are requested to observe the rule

which

regalres them to forward their names and addresses with Communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but as an evidence of their bona fides.

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

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MANY HANDS WANT LIGHT

The Weather.

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On Thursday we published an appeal issued by the Hongkong

of Women War WORL Association Workers for the services of more. helpers to enable the Association to increase its output of garments; }

At the Peak Sa Temp. 70; bandages and comforts for our sunshine. (1915, 73 sunshine.)

A wounded soldiers.

the Lower level 8 a.m. Temp. 78; Sghting becomes mora intense sunshine. (1915, 79 sunshine.) on the various fronts, the demand

for these articles necessarily

The Malls.

Changsha at 11 am. day.

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increases, and it is clear from Australian Mail.-Closed per recent communications from Home that the organisations which have undertaken the distribution of Americau Mail-Das per 8.8.

Nippon Mara to-morrow.

the articles can do with all that is sent them, The women of Hongkong have certainly done most nobly so far in giving their labour willingly and cheerfully in the making of these esential requisites, and when the war is Lended we bare co doubt, it will

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OCTOBER 7, 1916.

1891.

HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. ·

(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the week ending October 7, 1891.)

The Dollar.

October 7.-" The rate of the dollar on demmad to-day is 3/11" The Peace of Europe. October 1.-"General

HONGKONG

WORKS.

Sɔmo. Facts and Figures.

According to the report of the Dicoter of Fablic Works for the

SHARE REPORT.

year 1915, the amount of reveDUE | The quotations which follow derived from the Water Works are from the Hongkong Telegraph was $151,517.49, that for the far October 7,1801. previous year being 8453,510.03. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. There was a falling-off of-165 per cent, premium sellers, Union - Insuranos: Society of Caprivi mide an ultra-pacific received

von nearly $20,000 in total amount

under the heading Janton-$95 per share, bayers. [sperob at Osnabruck, in the "Excess Consumption" during

China Traders” Insurance Com- course of which he stated that no the year 1915 as dumpered with pany-#68) per share, sellare. European Bovereign desires war,” 1914

North China Insurance-L The receipts from the Exportation of Arms, Lsichikok Works, which are † 255 per share, sellers, October 1-"A special pro-almost exclusively utilized for clamation in a Government Gazells the supply of water to the S sit p ou demand to-day was28. 2.5/10d.noon, prohibits the exportation those derived from the Oity and Ex raordinary issued this after ing, fell of by $8,231.00 whilst from this colony of arms, ammu. Kowloon fell of by $8,395 56 and naval stores for a period of the case of all the other districts nition, gunpowder and military and $8,248 83 respectively. In six months from to-day. This supplied, there were increases in-387 per share, rollers, Ordinance (3 of 1862 amended by the amounts received under the

The Dollar.

The opening rate of the dollar

To-morrow's Anniversary.

To-morrow is the 45th anniver be seen that their output has been sary of the great Chicago fire. really remarkable, Ba:apparently there are still ladies in the Colony

Struck Off.

who have not yet taken up It is notified that the names of any kind of war work, and it is the following Companies bare to these that the Association been struck off the Register:

There in The International Instituts of "ppeals for help. really no excuse for ladies who China, the Las Wo Company, refesin to lend a hand, sines the Limited... material is all supplied and the workers have the option of choos-

The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will most bompetent to undertake.

be as follows ****

Daily iesno-$36 per annum. Weekly isua$13 per annum.

The rates per quarter and per mensam, proportional. Subscriptions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a full month. The daily issue is delivered free when the addres see is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered at their residences without any extra obarge. 01 copies sent by post sa additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. The postage on the weekly issue to any part of the world in $1,00

per quarter. Bingle Copies, Daily, ten cects. Weekly, twenty-five conta (for Advertisements and Subscriptions which are act ordered for a fixed

period will be continued until countermanded.

(Payable In Advance.)

cash only).

The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be delivered to subscribers by, the Dairy Farm Compaar, Ltd., Shameen, Canton, who have been appolated our agents there.

By Order,

"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH."

The Hongkong Telegraph-

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1916.

WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS:

Alice Memorial Hospital.

The Hon. Treasurer of the Alios ing the kind of work they feel Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks The men of the Colony are doing the following donation to the their part, and it is up so every fands of the Hospital:-Ha. woman to do here on behalf, as Mr. J. H. Kemp, $10, the Association says, "al the men who are sacrificing so much for us all." We sincerely hope the appeal will meet with the response it deservEK.

Greece and the War.

Commercial Treaty.

It is notified that the Colony of Hongkong has acceded to the Commercial Treaty between the United Kingdom and Honduras of May 5, 1910 the accession having effect from May 11, 1916.

Can the Police do Nothing.

Canton Insurance Company, Ltd.-$107 per share, sellers.

Yangtase Insuranos Association. Tis. 70 per share, buyers. Hongkong Fire Insurance Com pany$315 per share, wellars.

China Fire Insuranos Company

Hongkong and Whampos Dock

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3 of 1884) has been put in force heading "Excess Consumption." Company--380 per cent. pro owing to representations made to As may be gathered from the mium, sales and sellers, a His Excellency the Administrator comparative statement of revenue Hongkong, Canton and Macso by the Chinese Goveromial, derived in 1914 and 1915, the Steamboat Company-$33) per Those who run may rozd.” deficiency in revenue under the share, sales.

heading "Eroses Consumption" October "Oso the polies a practically made good by the do nothing to stop the bordes of increased smount received as Chinese who crowd on board the Rates," the gross recaits for Hongkong, Canton, and Macao 1915 being only about $2,000 Co.'s steamer lleungeban cf the fees than in 1914. The diminution Harbour Office on her daily in revenue from the Lichik k arrival from Macso? Two men Works in obviously entirely das fell overboard yesterday, and to the war and the diminutions in doubtless when some of those the case of the City and Kowloon bost people get drowned or killed

by the ste mere propeller, it will may be ascribed to the same cause. dawn upon the people that sotion ought to be taken. Now, is this

sort of thing good enough in a business best. We have declined. crowded harbour like that of to supply the Hongkong Club and

institutions Hongkong? If a plain daty is some other

with

Food and Drugs. For the quarter ended Septem- grossly neglected, the Directore copies of the Telegraph for reasons ber 30, the following samples of the Company, in the interests which appear all-powerful to us wereexamined by the Government of their shareholders, should and that ought to be sufficient. Analyst:-Milk, 30; port wine, make a direct appeal to the Gov. It is no matter of personal feeling, bas purely a question of budinces, 3; sherry, 3; gin, 2. All were ernment."

The Long-desired · Flying It has been very well said that a

Machine. genuine are four samples of

newspaper should be like a tooth. October 1-Mazim, the Yan- brach-everybody have one of his

milk.

Al fresco Fetc.

Rate Reminder.

Billards.

Arms Possession.

**Running" the Colony,

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Hongkong Gas Company- $151 per aliaro, sollers.

Hongkong Hotel Company-- C5 per share, buyers. Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per cent. Debentures-8501.

Indo-Chins 8. N. Company- $30 per cent. dia, buyers.

Douglas Steamship Company** $38 per share, buyers.

China Sugar Refining Company Ltd.-$169 per share, nominal. Luzon Sugar Hefining Company, Limited- 53 per share, bayers.

Hongkong Ice » Company- $86 per share, sellars.

Hongkong Rope Manufactur ing Company, Ltd.-$100 per share, sellers.

Boagkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company.-$70 per share, sellers.

Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. Lid, $7 per share, sellers. A. 8. Watson and. Co., Ltd.— $20 per share, and bayers.

Hongkong High Level Tram- way Co., Ltd.-$65 per abare buyers.

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

Green Island Cement Co. Ltd. -$10 per share, sellers,

The days and weeks go by without, apparently fading Greece mach nearer to the end of ber troubles. That the heart of the people as a whole ja sand there seems no doubi; but the usuel German mischief making is well to the fore within the country, and hence the trouble Our rendera are reminded of kee gan-inventor, Las built, or is lown and not borrow his neigh with the Reserviste." The more the al fresco fete which takes place building, the king-desired Bying-bour's or "eponge" on club or the public is allowed to know of to-morrow at 9 p.m. in the com- machine, which is to overturn the hotel." King Constantine, the more pound of the Roma Catholic world. It is to be a species of despicable a figure dose he Cathedral. Particulars will be very light locomotive, and when October 5." A correspondent apper and the greater is the like-seen in our advertising columne. it start on its wild career will asks us to define the position of libood cf a Greek revolution.

run-along the surface of the earth the Hon. J. J. Keswick, M.LO., There is no mistaking the dis It is notified for the informs like any other vehiole. At 25 in this colony. Not an easy task; position of the nation at large to tion of owners and occupiers of miles an hour, however, it will but if we any he is the divine] join the Eatente; but is in equally tenements that, under the provi- begin to jump and manifest a head of the wealthy lower ordere clear that the King "disagrees"; sions of the Rsting Ordinance, desire to rise; at 30 miles, it will who try to "run" this colony for A week ago we had something to say in regard to the renewed in other words, that bis own 1901, rates for the fourth quarter skim along, only grasing the their own special benefit, we shall GOVERNMENT SURVEYS. demand which has sprang up for a larger measure of public control vanity and his Prussian wife are of 1916 are payable in advance earth coassionally, and at 86 not be very wide of the mark.".

miles it will rear up and start into The Hongkong Telegraph. in the government of the Colony, and, in spite of the ill-success being permitted deliberately to on or before the October 3.

the air. The inventor wys: "It October 8-"We beg to in- New Maps of Hongkong.. which has attended the latest demands along these lines, we desire stand in the way of the country's

In the Palace Hotel billiards I can rise from the coast of form the select portion of our

The annual report of the Direc- to return to the question. Since we penned our last observations welfare. But how long is this to on this most important subject, the public has been given an oppor continus?. There is, presumably, tournament last night- Mr. Kelly France, asil through the air scross community who are not regalar tunity of studying the whole of the correspondenes which has arisen some limit to the patienos of beat Mr. Linfield by 250 to 80, the Channel, and drop half-a-ton subsoribers to the Hongkong Tee tor of Public Works for 1915 invaluable states that good program wai to and is regarded as a warm favour of nitro-glycerine upon an Eng graph, that this out of the latest petition, but, for the tims being, we do not intend the people, as well sa to analyse these document. They will receive our attention in due the power of the Entente forcesite for the winning of the handi-lib city, I can revolationise the journal, the only honest and in- made, with the Ordiasnos Survey newspaper ever of the Colony during the year. cutie. Since, however, this latest movement has been killed, not to keep order indefinitely in cap. He played a very fine game, world." This seems an eminent dependent

Half-published in this colony, contain. The whole of the Hill Distric", by reasoned argament on the merits of the claims of the petitioners, places where disturbances are To-night at 9 o'clock, Mr. Jackson ly probable sistement. but by the application of time worn and thread-bare arguments to liable to arise. No one can deny (owen 80) meets Mr. A. Bli ton of citro-glycerine, dropped ing all the latest news of the with the exception of a few lots in the right place, would wipe world, telegrama, local items in and s portion of the Peak Tram - the greatly altered conditions or the present time, it is se well to that the Allies themselves have owes 110).

out anything or anybody-aren prose and verse, original articles way, was completed as well na dispel some of the ideas considered sufficient to bring to nought the exercised the utmost toleration civic demands of the petitioners of twenty odd years ago.,

hitherto, and have tried, by! A Chinone was charged before the local Bank Directorate and on matters of public interest, considerable portions of the Cen- editorials on leading subj:ots of tral and Western Districts of the "Ose of the arguments adduced in 1893 by the then Governor every mean: in their power, to Mr. J. E. Wood, at the Police the German "boycotters,"

Gade in for Spirits, the hour, etc., sio, etc., will, on City, the whole being plotted (Sir William Robinson) in favour of the rejection of a requout similar make the path of the King Court this morning, with having

October 2-"Annie Besant is and after to-morrow be on sale into a scale of 1 izob=50 feet. to that quite recently made was that the Colony could not have been smooth. He, meanwhile, remains in his possession certain arms on

now bring otherwise than well governed to have reached the prosperous obstinate, though it is impossible board the Wing Da. A fine of receiving messages from spirit the vicinity of the Bongkong Arrangements are conditions which it had then attained. Opponents of a larger degree to gather what he thinks to gain $250 was impod, a previous land. There is a mysterious soul Hotel, the Olab, Victoria Hotel, made for the production of a of popular representation on the governing bodies of the Colony thereby. But it is his affair, and conviction for a similar offence fal yearning in nearly every and Padder's Wharf, between general map of the Hill District at the present time would probably argue on somewhat similar presumably all that the Entente having been proved against women's complexity which fads 5.30 and 7 p.m. Price, Twenty on a scale of 1 inch=200 feet by no sure footing for her spiritual Cents, Cash. This new departure reducing from the 50-foot plans, lince, but the point which was overlooked a score of years ago, Punere can do is to sit down defendant.

fest, except in the bottomless has been under consideration for The Ordinance Survey of Kow and which still jumis, that, however great the prosperity quietly and wait for his almost

It was through the initiative of abysses and shifting quicksands a very long time, and in patting Joon Peninsula (soals-1' inch 59 reached under the Crown Colony system, the advancement would inevitable deposition or abdica.

tion.

Mr. P. A. Xarier. the proprietor of illimitable metaphysics and an into sotaal practics we intend to feet) was completed and is now have been relatively greaver had the people whose interests are

of the Hongkong Printing Frost, explainable fipdoodle. We are show the seven Germant, who being fically revised. A general wrapped up in the well-being of the Colony been given a freer voice in the control of its affaire. There is another point in More Peace Terms.

that the Portuguese national fage sorry for Annie, who was a clever, fancied they could smash up map has also in this este been WOTO made nad distributed practical woman of the world the Telegraph by withdrawing prepared on a scale of 1 inch to 200 connection with the petition of 1896 which is worth noticing, if

throughout the Colony in aid of one). And now she has gone in their paltry subscriptions, how feet by reducing from the 50-foot only to show that the official estimate of the strength of

Little excitement is likely to the fonds of the Sociedade da Grus strong for spirits alas !

innocuous the low and con-plane. It has however been con- the popular movement was endly wide of the mark. Sir Will be aroused by the New York Vermelha at Lisbon, to com "Schweishund !" iam itobinson at that tims appeared to believe that the petitioners Tribune's statement that the mecsorate the 6th anniversary of

temptible policy they have aidered advisable to include in October 3-"Bir Rupert" Ryrie thought it to adopt because the general map portions of New took their stand on au objection to the payment of the Military Oor-Kaiser has again offered peace the Portuguese Republic. We denies that he called a certain armebody said something that Kowloon, namely Shashapo tribation, which was then a harsing question. He was so convinced of this in his own mind that he expressed the opinion to the Secret terms to Belgium. The fact that understand that the proceeds German boors Schweinhund in some noble Deatscher di la't like and Kowloon City, and, when ary of State for the Colonies that if the Imperial Government agreed fused them is sufficient for the sum of about $500, which has Pain assays that he applied to It may interest advertisers to the map.

King Albert contemtpace ly re-amounted to the very handsome the Dongkong Club the other day.must prove in the long-an. these have been completed, will be sent to the payment of the contribution in dollare at the rate it force world in general. If the Germans boca handed over to the Ports the party in question good old know that the Hongkong Tele home for reproduction. The when it was levied, he did not think the Homs Government would had a tenth part of the ability to use Aoting Coneal for remit Anglo-Saxon term, which is hard-graph has a larger circulation surveys of Shaukiwan District, be troubled thereafter by any such petitions as the one he was then calculate probabilities with which tance to Lisbon.

I fit for esra polits. Bat "the that any other two English news- Aberdeen Village and adjoining forwarding. Subsequent history has completely knocked the bottom they are credited, they would have

Highland gentleman" says he papers published in the Far cultivated areas and Pokfulam out of that expressed conviction, for the latest movement has in nood their breath, well knowing

Farm Inte the last-mentioned: meant it, and we believe him, Esat." wise been involved with the Military Contribution question-it hat that, as concerns Belgium, there

| What has the German boor to mŁY

survay, embraces an ures of merely reflected the growing desire, se the years have rolled on, of is but one thinkable condition on'

in his d-fence? We pause for a October 7.-"Kaiser Wilhelm, about 150 zeros--were completed the public, which paya the piper, to have a larger voice in the which she could listen to their

reply. "Was it des Deut raga be will drink no more wine and plotted on the Ordinoce governing of the Colony: a greater freedom from the autocratio

overtures, and that, a BE con-

|schen Vaterland?" This is until he drinks it in Fraze), maps. Au ares of about 150 attitude of Officialdem. As it was twenty years ago, so is it now; COFOR The Allies

onundrum, and if it were not Wilhelm may intend a lot, but sores of farm and orchard land legislation is brought forward and "passed by the votes of the whale, Belgium has no power

distinctly against the law we bia threat may not mean much, at Fanling, New Territories, was Ofisial members, acting is accordance with instructions, irrespecto treat. Even though the Kaiser

would offer a bandsome bonus for after all. Napoleon III. drank surveyed and plotted. The new tive of their personal views of private opinions." And it is high offered to King Albert the only Yesterday at Kongmoon three champion beer-2willers and im- German wine in Germanymas a road from Taipo to Fanling about time that that was put an end to.

terme which he would listen to soldiers were shot for desertion maculate Benedicts of a certain prisoner. Wilhelm may yet six miles in length, and the light' Mach has been made of the diffonity of adapting anything for one moment-the evacuation and selling their arms and am-exclusively German type, Latest drink French wins as an exile railway from Bo us to She Tan like a municipal system to a Colocy such as Hongkong is, because of Belgium, the banging of von munition.

taset "To those we love." We enjoying the hospitality and pro- Kok were surveyed and plotoed, of a possible jeopardising of Imperial intereste. But neither the Bissing and his familiars, and the The condemned men were rather think that, taking all in tection of the Republic. Dating besides about 10 mores of hit petitioners of 1898 nor those of 1918 desired to hamper the sath payment of auch a sum as would marched between a company of all, Hongkong is a pretty fair the German occupation of Champas at Bha TR KOL The main orifies in that way. The fermer expressly stated that they were not completely make good the coun- soldiers down the river bank id aanscimen of "des Deutschen so unpractical as to expect that unrestricted power should be given try anapoial loss-It is out of all point below the Harbour Limit Vaterland.”: to any local Legislature all that the claimed was the common reason to suppose that the King and were there executed, seven right of Englishmen to manage their local affairs and to control the would wish to take any step abota being peomary to finish expenditure of the Colony, where Imperial considerations are not involved." That, we take it, is also a fair statement of the demands without an appeal to, and the them. When the Hongkong bout of the petitioners who signed Mr. Pollock's document of soms few entire cocearrence of the Entente, left at t'p.m. the bodies were still find better. Ablak ging on the ground where they months ago. And it must be pressed home until it in fully conord-

Sale of Portuguese Flags.

EXECUTIONS AT KONGMOON.

Deserters Who Sold their Arms and Ammunition.

MLA

Kaiser Wilhelm.

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pagne after the war French traingolation of the persist sowing seeds in a fi extended towards was jeered at by a half-sipsy Is'and, Capo D'Ag German who said: “You sow: fort:Island, about but the crop will to our. stations being arx *ind the Tois was done pur "That

am plining with work require

Why is A Newspaper. Like A

Toothbrush, October 5.We thank "Well- wisher" for his no doubt well- intended advios; but we hops wa Frenchman, aza old faouch to know our own him.

may