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WATSON'S. DRY GINGER-ALE.

FRAGRANT, AROMATIC, DRY,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1916.

IT'S "DRYNESS" IS A FEATURE WHICH HAS. HELPED TO GIVE THIS DRINK THE POPULARITY, IT

A. S.

TRADE

WELL DESERVES.

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Pints $1.20 Për Doz.

Splits 70 cts, Per Doz.

MARK

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The Peak Tramway Case.

DAY BY DAY

WHEN YOU ACCEPT A PRESENT). OF INDEPENDENCE IN THE VIN- TOU HAVE DISSOLVED THE PEARL EDAR OF OBLIGATION.

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The Weather.

The Malls.

We imagine that few Hongkong residents will be able to manier up much sympathy for the Peak Tramway Company in the over erawding onss which was tried in Mr. Melbourne's court yesterday, We also think it possible that there may be shareholders in At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 37; the Company who will feel that|rain." (1915, 71 rain.) there was no need to throw Lower level 8 am, Temp. 72; good money after bad by rain. (1915, 77 ražu.) employing a solicitor to make? childish efforts to prove that two plus two will equal fira if only | enough fass is made, Bath the magistrate and the 0.8.P. ex erpired an admirable amount of patience in listening to a lot of quibbling that would not dessive a baby. The case was established from the start, and it would surely have been a more dignified proceeding on the Com. pany's part to pay the fine and say no more about it. The con- tention that the police had not interfered with the overcrowding

WATSON & Co., Ltd., in previous years was of a, pisos

ÆRATED WATER MANUFACTURERS.

Telephone G16.

French Mail.-Das per 5.8. Atlan-

tique to-morrow. Siberian MailCloses per

Allantique. at 10 s.m. on Monday.

1891.

HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.

(Compiled from the Hongkong Telegraph" files for the wreck anding October 21, 18913

The Dollar. October 21-"The rate of the doller on demand to-day is 3/14": The Chartered Mercantile Bank

of India, London, and Chica...... the Chartered Mercantile Bank -October 15.-"The report of

1891.

SHARE REPORT.

IMPORTS AND

PORTS,

New Hongkong. Regulations.

The quotations which follow for October 21, 1891. are from the Hongkong Telegrapī.

An order made by the Governor- in-Council under Sections 3 and Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. 4 of the Importation and Exporta- -159 per cent, premium acliers. tion Ordinance, 1915, provides Union Insurance Society of for the addition of the following Janton-$81. per share, ssles. Fuler:

China Traders' Insurance Com- pany-$62 per share, sales and sellers.

North Chins Intraranos-Tis

255 per share, sellers. states that is has been found Canton Insurance Company French Mail-Olossa

necessary to make further provia | Ltd.-$105 per 8. ion to meet losses in the. Strsita

per share, sales, Cordillera at 2 p.m. on Settlements and failures in the-Tis. 93 per share, buyera.

Yangtase Insuranos Association Monday.

on

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The Dollar.

Certificates of Origin and Interest.

article from any plaos in Norway, 42. No person shall import any Sweden, Danmark, Holland or Switzerland unlese each artiole in

Eastern trade. The Bank is there- Hongkong Fire Insurance Com-companied or preceded by a fore unable to pay a dividend for pany-$312) per share, salsa and certificate of origin and interest

bayers.

The opening rate of the dollar the past balf year, and it is also demand to-day was 28.2.7/16d.the reserve fand to provide for pans-887 per share, sellers.

neossesey to take £125,000 from China Fire Insuranos Com-

these losses. The shares of the

Hongkong and Whampoa Dook Bank have fallen £2 10/.” Company $77 per cent. pre-

miam, sellers. Steamboat Company-$341 per Hongkong, Canton and Macao share, buyer.

To-morrow's Anniversary. To-morrow is the 71st birthday with the rest of the flood of logic of Madame Sarah Bernhardt. poured forth in the Company's defence. Poor police! If they! Golf Championship. don't interfere, they are black-(The entries for the Golf Club guarded by everyone in the Championship aloee on Monday,

sppear to stand

no

better

The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve Colony; and, when they do, they

the truth and print the news without fear or favour.

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Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

Telephone: No. I

A.B.C., 5th edition. Western Union Office address: 11, Ice House St.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1916.

DR. WILSON'S FAILURE.

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Bijou Theatre.

Good Times for the Police. October 16.-" There are good

times coming for the police of Hongkong, Promotion is slow, and thanks slower still; but now —now it will be all right: Under the new Opiam Ordinance, every in Hongkong's estimation. The There was no performance at

search for contraband opium must present Captain Saperintendent the Bija Theatre on Thursday be ondacted under the supervis has been conscientiously trying, night, on account of the fete ation of a European police sergeant. ever since his appointment, to the Public Garders,

As there are a limited number of remedy a thousand abuses and

sergeanta, and an unlimited nom- gradually to pull the Colony into

ber of searches, some 2,000 more something like decent shape; and

morgnants will be needed. Good the least that all classes of the

for the "bobbins ! ' the public can do is to try and co-operate in movements that are calculated to benefit them.

Trafalgar. Day.

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"At Home" at the Club -

Lusitano.

The members of the Portaguses Mutual Aid Society ors At Home. to their friends to-day from 5 to

̈p.m, at the Club Lusiteno,

8.

Rubber Dividend.

Messre. Benjamin and Potts advice us that the Java Con- solidated Rubber Co., L'd., has declared second interim dividend of one teel.

Why Not? October 17. "Dr. Cantlie pro- poses, in connection with the system of registering births, marriages and deaths, to extend the work by registering disensen and causes of deaths. It is a very good ides, and woul! by exceed ingly useful and instructive. Why not carry it still further? Why not register causes of marriages, and even-?"

A Gambling Matter. October 17. "The Acting

The War Loan. His Excellency the Governor he given bia assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the Governor of Hongkong is a man King, to the following Ordinance whom we admire-(Yes, there are passed by the Legislative Counsel and his address to the cil:-Ordinance Na. 12 of 1918. Council on the opening of the -An Ordinance to authorise the Autumn Session is sensible, com raising of a War Loan,

plete, concise, and very good. But one point-only one, as far as we can see at present-is bid. That The death took place this mornis bie explanation of the Kowloon business and its

Obituary.

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Hongkong Gas Company- $120 per aliaro, sellers.

relating thereto, and no person wball import say article from any other place (except places in France, French Indo-Chine, Roamanis, the United States of Italy, Rassie, Japan, Portugal;

or preceded by a certificate of America, Obins, Sism or Hayti) unless such articla is accompanied interest relating thereto; Pravid ed that the ownere, agents, char tarers and master of any ship on Hongkong Hotel Company which any article is imported $60 per share, sellers.

Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per be required ander this Bale, if without much certificate as misy cent. Debentures-3501.

Indo-China 8. N. Company-

they, or he as the osae may be, $271 per cent, dia, sales and

have no interest in the said article buyers.

except sa the carriers thereof, Douglas Steamship Company-shall not be deemed to have im

ported the said article unless they $38 per share, sellera.

China Sugar Refining Company said article..

or he shall have discharged the Ltd.-$177 per share, bayers: Luson Sagar Befining Company, Limited-54 per share, sales and buyers.

Hongkong Ice Company 883 per share, sellara.

Hongkong Rope Manufactur ing Company, Ltd.-$98 per share, sales and buysza,

Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company.-$67 per share, sellers.

Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. Ltd. -$7 per share, sellers.

A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd. $20 per share, sales and sellers. Hongkong High Level Tram way Co., Ltd.-$55 per share sellers.

Ltd.-$25 per share, nominal.

Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., Green Leland Cement Co. Ltd. -314 per share, sellers.

PRESIDENT WILSON.

Why No-one Will Vote for Him.

ports and Exports may allow any 43. The Superintendent of Im- article imported without much under Rule 42 to be deposited in certificate as may be required

and upon the said article being sach place as he shall approve, so deposited the owners and the said article and shall part agents of the usid pisos shall hold with or dispose of it only as the Exports shall direct. Superintendent of Imports and

44, Bach certificates shall be signed by come British Conealer Authority at the placent abipue of ar origin and shall be in the farm in the Sixth Schedule to the Raler.

45. The Superintendent of Im- ports and Exports may allow any certificate as may be required an- article imported witbout auch der Rule 42 to be delivered to the consignee upon such condi tione as to bond or cseh deposit or otherwise as he shall determine, 46. Rule 12 skall not apply to say article shipped for the Colony of Hongkong before the 1st October, 1916,

It is a most hopeful sign that, as the years go on, more, rather than less, attention is given to the anniversary of Nelson's death day. We can well remember the time when London thought it had doce its daty by the great hero when it had leida perfunctory wreath or two on the pediment of In another part of to-day's issue there will be found a brief the Trafalgar égnare monument. reprint from an American papar, which sets forth, in a very pointed In recent years the Navy League manner, the reasons why Dr. Woodrow Wileen can scarcely hope to has stirred melters round, and be re-elected to the Presidentship of the United States. Britishers there seems little danger know too little of the intricacies of American politics to be qualif1 that the victor at Trafalgar will to ventare a forecast na to the result of a presidential election; batcess to live in the memory of the newspaper example which we give may be taken as something bis countrymen. Before the war like a fair statement of the American man is the street's view there was, moreover, a dangering, at his residence, No. 23, gambling Naturally there is a pro-Wilson press as well as ons opposed to him: greater than

the forgelting bat, from the fact that, within the past year, many papers pledged of Nelson staring us jn the Mosque Street, of Mr. Fermin persistent continuation, Ele to the Democratic interest have very unfavourably criticised their face. Tuere seemed every like Antonio, who was formerly em says:- My representations have one-time bero, we may perhaps take it that press sympathy with hood that his spirit must depart ployed at the Chartered Bank. been met by the Chinese author- Dr. Wilson is very greatly outweighed by press antipathy. from among us, for we were be- Decensed had been ill for aboutalities with a laudable desire coming something perilously near month, and death was due to to co-operate, and stringent Batif Britishers have no right to apesk as to the Presid.to an feto and su em calate as. Bright's disease. The funeral measures have been taken to ent's chances from a standpoint of internal knowledge, they at least tion. Tue war came opportucely, will pars the Monument at 5 p.m. attain the desired object, but I can form their own private conclusions as to the result of the end hoisted Britain's one out of

rigret to say that the mein diffi election-basing them, of course, on Dr. Wilson's actions in mitiers the elough into which they were

The Buffalo Enquirer, which Enemy Trading.

culty in totally suppressing the finde evidence of President Wil- of international importance. The average Britisher neither Lepas Elaking, forcing them to remem- the list of firms which are being and facilities afforded to the to delight intense partisans,"

Amendments are publiebed of evil there arises from the shelter son's fairness in his

"failure nor expect to see D., Wilson returned to power. It is universally ber the deeds of their ancestors wound up under the Trading with gamblers by the neighbourhood draws up the following paradozio- admitted that the President is a gentleman of grast moral worth and to ressive that the men who the Enemy Amendment Act, of Hongkong and the easy means al list of predictions which have and of anquestionable intellectual ability; bat the standing wonder in by gone years died to make 1916; the list of persons to whom of transport. The earnest atten emanated from his foes: to all of us is still that, with no more marketable qualities than the Empire should these, be ever succeeded in persuading the people of the United sacrificed themselves in vsir. articles to be exported to Chias tion of the Government is being States to elect him to the highest office in their country. England The sturdy fighting animal was may be consigned; and the list directed to this phase of the against President Wilson because Worn clothing and other personal 1. All the pro-Allies will vole tacles returned to Sweden, 3. whose mental powers were by no means small. Edward the Con. had to go by the board. la face incorporated, or unincorporated, has not had much to do with the and all the pro-Germans will vote than animal ordinarily used for has had rolera whose private life was absolutely above reproach and fitly aroused, and luxary and fad of persons and bodies of persons, matter." Bat General Barker he is too gentle with the Germans effects og gad other persons! fearor, Mary Tudor, Charles I. and James II, are excellent exemples; of the Jutland battle and of the with whom trading is probibited. Chiness. The explanation be against him because he is too has 1000 bat never was England weaker than when these Sovereigns occupied more recent doinge on the West-

gires is, roughly, that we have stera with the Germans.. the throne. Similarly, never has the great American republic beea era front, we can well afford to said a Chinese before Mr. F. & when we try to crash it beyond against President Wilson becauss "No, I didn't steal the staff," put gambling out of Colony, and "2. All the militariste will vote more floated, incalted. ridiculed and defied than during the four ignore the fact that there are still Hazeland, at the Police Court our borders it comes back-takes he is too pacifio sad all the paci years of the Wilson administration. The reason is not far to sesk. The some" conscientious" young men this morning, when charged with refuge where it cannot live! fists will vote against him because GOVERNMENT TENDERS. ruler who yields to sentiment can never hope to succeed. President at Home on whom Nelson and his being in possession of a quantity Reductio ad absurdum. Evidently he is too militant. Wilson is a sentimentalist of the firet water and, even though enorm.men would not have condescend of lead and blue dye. It was he has taken in the Chinese ous numbers of his compatriols are fated with the same disease, ed to wipe their boots. "Their

"3. All the suffragists will vote they can hardly be expected to gain for him the majority that will numbers are ever decreasing, and renew bie term of office for him. Judging from all that one bears, the day may yet come when the the really strong men uf America are opposed to their President, a-t of them is either dead or for they feel that, even though with the best of intentions, he has converted. made their country cheap in the eyes of the rest of the world.

not have

The Rhodes Scholarships,

to-morrow,

A Cheap Deal.

A Chicken Thief.

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Exportation to Sweden.

to Sweden any article except the following:-1. Printed matter of 47. No person shall export to

all descriptions, 2. Empty recep

stated that the man was a marine exences, quibbles, and lies with against President Wilson because where he had got the staff from, preposterous beyond patience. suffrage by amendment of the the coming year for the mainten hawker and, when questioned out a suspicion, even though he does not approve woman he could give no satisfactory ex- The Lot is that the silver national Constitution and all the Bucs of sewers, drains and Tenders are being invited In

planation. A lakong said that gainzy 'has infected every oficial antisuffragiste will vote against nullahs, extensions or alterations when be asked defendant where from the Kowloon manderin up him because he traveled all the of the same, and the construction Hardest of all to forgive, from the Old Woll's point of view--

he had got the sto he replied to the Kwangtung Viceroy, and way from Washington to Prince- and maintenance of additional and, from the American also, for that matteria the President's Member for North Somerset, is in the box, ssid he gave 36 cents nigh hopeless to grapple with

Mr. King, the honourable From passers-by." Defendant, hence these excuses. It is well-town to vote for woman suffrage, revers, drains and nullake in the behaviour coccerning the war. America, up till 1914, bad always well set to work to waste the time for the whole lot. He had not this deep-rooted and far-reaching vote against President Wilson Kowloon and the New Territorises "4. [All the Protestants will Colony of Hongkong, British posed as the champion of small natione, and most American citizone of the House of Commons by been a marine hawker long and system of bribery; if it would be because he has a Roman Catholic the maintenance, repair and honestly cherished the belief that if a emill nation were ballied by cavilling at the Bill which pro- did not know whether the stuff done, nothing would be easier private secretary, and all the minor extensions or alterations e big one, their Government would at once prepare to defend the vides for the disestablishing of was stolen or not. His Worship than to shat up the houses where Roman Catholics will vote against of Government buildings and persecuted. It happened that, from one cause or another and the the German Rhodes Scholarships. inflicted a fine of $15, or, in gambling is carried on, to arrest him because he recognizel Oar piers in the Colony of Hongkong. cause is none of our basiness-Amerios was by no means prepared Is he one of the tender-scaled in- default, s month's hard labour. for war, and most of D., Wi'son's enemies will at least admit that | dividuals who are forever arguing

and hand over to the proper ranza,

British Kowloon and the New he did rightly in declining to urge his people to take up a task for that we ought to love the doar

authorities all persons cinght in which they were not fitted. Bat it is a long way frocs recklessly Germans, and to bag them to Bosd, a Chinese wis seen in a the first step is to overcome the he stood for the eight-hour day alterations of roads, streete, brid- Yesterday, on the Shaukiwan the act of breaking the law. But againat President Wilson becouse repair and minor extensions or "5. All the capitalists will vote Territories; the maintenaces, looking for trouble to swallowing insult upon iasalt, to standing by our hearts the moment the Chicken rna at the back of a power of the almighty dollar; and all the labor-anioniets will gos and prays walls, public calmly while unoffending American women and children are mur. dered, and to allowing the country to become a hotbad of German Rhodes,

war ie over? The late Cecil house industriously throwing the man who can do that will be vote against him because his cemeteries, c'estion grounds, conspiracy, Bad, Dr. Wilson had the moral courage 13 resign in bigasste, left fifteen woholarships, the chickens. The owner saw him General".

smong his other rice cat of his pocket to attract prodigy. Now come the early days of the war, no-one would have thought the worse of each of the value of £250 per pick up

on, proposed strike legislation in one and relative works in the Colony him, and he might yet have hoped for re-election in yeare to come.com, for German students; them away. Compliment said

two fowl and take: The ss. Honam and Macao. respect was not to their liking. of Hongkong, British Kowloon Instead, he furnished the world's comic parers with abundant cart-Parliament had rightly thoughs that he ran after the defendant Hongkong, Canton and Masao sident Wilson because he has minor extensions or alterations of New Territories: October 20. Owing to the reformera will vote against Pre the maintenance, repair and

civil-service and the con matter with his everlasting Notes, and gained for himself and well to make provision for the and caught him. He bad the chic Beamboat Co.'s steamer Heang-sarrendered too much to Dim water works in the Colony of his Government a reputation for "bluff' which they will not lose distribution of these elsewhere kens in his possession, Defendant when having gone to dock, the oratio spoilamon and all the Hongkong, British Kowloon and for some while. There was no reason why America should embark on before the end of the war, and said he did not know why he had one and fine on the forthe Democratic spoilemen will vote and delivery of timber to the aotiva war on Germany; but there was every reason why she should yet Mr. King can find it in bis par the rice in bia pocket kong Maoso live until farther against him heosuse he has pas

the New Territories; the supply have commandeered German ships and cther property, barred all heart to fool away the Houss's His Worship remarked that he notice Arrangements have been mitted too many Republicans to export to enemy countries, and assisted the Allies in scores of other time with objections. Dose he probably did so because all fowl made on the Hongkong-Canton remain in office,

Public Works Department; the waya in gaining & victory which she well knows means the triumph think that Oxford would hold out thieves followed that practice, line to meet the usual require

strane aapply of labour and masorials for of civilisation over rampant blackguardism and savagery. Bat Dr, both bands to welcome fifteen Defendant would be placed in the mente of the traffic. "

*7. All the conservativis will the Chinese cemeteries in iba Wilson could not or would not see this. Instead, he entered on a German louts, as soon as pesos in stocks for four hours at the Bay

rote against President Wilson Colony of Hongkong and Kow- dummy campaign against Mexico which made the whole world laugh declared, if the hard-hearted View Polios Station, and he

Returning to the Colony, and which has, unless be can work mizsoles, helped to loss him House would but leave the would go so prison for sir works. P. Chater left Ragland on Out him because he has surrendered Colony of Hongkon

October 21 The Hon. Mr. and the radionis will vote against ing boundary stones of lots in the because he has 'baited business loon; and for providing and fixe the Presidentakip of the United Stator.

bequest alone?

4 for this end of sha sua

6. All the

to Wall Street.**!

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