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Green Brandy

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1917.

WATSON'S

OLD

BROWN BRANDY

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QUALITY.

25 YEARS IN WOJD."

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WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS...

Telephone No. 616.

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DEATH.

HIPWELL-At Pakhof, on the 13th inst. Kathleen Isabell, beloved wife of the Rev. W. E. Hipwell of the C. M.S. South China Mission.

A Worthy Veiture.

One cannot fail to appreciate the enterprise and determination. of the Geners! Managers of the Hongkong Steel Foundry Co.,

DAY BY DAY.

LIKE OUR

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS THE FRAWLEY COMPANY, { TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

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SHADOWS, OUR

Report by the Hongkong

Superintendent.,

Big Theatrical Attraction for

DECLINES,—Youz5.

as revealed in the speech of Me. WISHES LENGTHEN AS OUR SUN A. G. Gordon at yesterday's meeting of shareholders in that concern, Mr. Gordon told those present that he had risked his all

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Great Possibilities.

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To-morrow's `Anniversary. To-morrow is the third anniver-

The Dollar.

A Fight at Sea.

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Double Drowing Fatality.

TYPHOON WARNING,

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With the tremendous minerali wealth of the adjacent Provinces of Chios there would seem to be no resson why a Company of this sort should not have a very great j future before it. Coal, iron, tin and antimony are present in ab-

The telegram quoted below was undance, and there is no legitimate received by the American Con excuse why these resources should sulate General, Hongkong, from not be worked in China's aw the Manila Observatory at 450 welfare as well as far the benefit. p.m. yesterday:- of those who are enterprising Typboon in about 127 degrees enough to realise the immense Long. E. and 16 degrees Lit. N., possibilities. Unhappily, the Chi-di-ection unknown. nese authorities in the past have

The Hongkong Telegraph. pieced innumerable obstacles in

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1917.

THE COLONIES AND THE WAR.

HUMAN ANTHRAX.

"Goat's Hair" Brushes.

revenus

ment.

BMOD

Hongkong.

Fair

Alderman Hoad, of Folkestone, who has just completed his 101st year, may be numbered among potable "links with the past."

Mr. R. O. Hutchison, Super- A big theatrical attraction for For forging such, the period of sary of the transference of the intendent of Imports and Exports, Hongkong is promised in the longevity must coincide with the venture, against advice Belgian Government to Antwerp. in bia report for 1916, says the coming visit of the Frawley Cam- great historical evants. He Boad to the contrary, adding that:

collected from liquor rany, from New York, which is just misses this kind of associa no-one knew. better than be did

duties and licensed warehouses now on ite foarth world tour. It tion with Waterloo. If, however, the vicinitales of grod and

The opening rate of the dollar for 1916 $793.762 24. ascens at the Theatre Royal on the he lives we hope he may bad fortune through being deter-

demand to day

➡to see peace, his days will have was compared with $626,57497 in 25th instant, and booking mined to fight against all dificul. ties. That is the spirit which has will be found on Page 1.

23.11.1/88. The closing rate 1915. Os 1st Margh, 1916, a ormmerce at Mars. Moutries embraced the rise and fall of modern Prussia. The inter- general increase was made in the to-morrow. made British commercial ex-

dary on all varieties of intoxicat-

In the present Company, Mr. Tof thing were illustrated by the eating possibilities of this sort pansion possible in remote corners

ing liquor, The increas made Daniel Frawley, who is widely claim of a clergyman to have of the Empire, and it is a happy

Forty-nine deportess who were varied for the different kinds of owo Se one of the most learned buried an old woman in the same circumstance that in this instance the result that to-day Hongkong) by the as. Laertee have been con. Jaa an average increase of 25 per gether some of the beat players 150 years earlier. They were, of optimism has been justified, with being shipped from Singapore liquors but can be taken roughly legitimate solcre, has gathered to grave as her sister, she had and possesses the nuclena of what reyed to the Government Civil cant. The increase in the receipts of the United States and England,

ooor's, balf-sisters. Their father, become one of the Hospital enfaring from: braises frozu Europssa liquors does not Mr. Frawley, besides being a bigh at 20, married his first wife in may get

The result of a gast the amount of the increase in clam performer himself, baa 1740, and the first daughter, born A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD., biggest industrial undertak- and wounds

8 permaneat re1741, died in infancy. He was inge known to the Colony. fight which took place on the duty, but the decrease in the established

consumption thus shown is due to putation да 8 director and asreuty when be married a second The Chairman was able to show high sear.

the general conditions of the trade. producer Daring bia bow, after consistently over-

career wife, and she, in 1790, bore him The trade in Chinese liquore is he has developed some of the a daughter who lived to be 102. coming many obstacles, the Com-

in a very furishing state. The biggest performers in the basinere, Thus in the same grave were laid pany has at last, come into its A Chinese hae reported to the

increa-e in the duty on Chinese own, and that the only factor Police that yesterday whilst be liquors is more then fully shown are aa Blanch Bates, Wilton

among the number being ench two sisters, in 1741 and 1892. which hampering its catinned expan ani others were bathing-at

with sion was a lack of capital, which Kennedy Town a man armed in the increase of revenue, and at Lackaye, Tyrone Powers and for bas now been remedied by in Chan Kai, living at 81 Caine the same time the export of Chin- others. The company carries &

ese wines and spirits from the large repertoire of modern plays, often trouble the tribunals, but s Mathematical problema do not aressing it to a round sum of Road, got into di foalties. Leang Oclory shows a satisfactory in- the number being million dollars.

To, a Chinese cook, went to his

crease as compared with 1915. and Warmer." "Twin Bade," Provincial board had one to solve assistance, but both were drowned. The local distilleries continue to "Rio Grande," "The Outcsa","

a day or two ago. The old farmer do well and have benefited con-"Peggy O'Moore," and "* Jerry." was sold that out of his three sons aiderably by the general improve-

one must be released, the tribunal... » Th Frawley Company comes auggesting that the one who was ment in the trade in Chinese wines hore from Manila where it is still of the least value on the farm and spirits for which the

playing to big houses. It had a should be taken. The question Colony is a marketz

most successful five weeks" season had never appealed to the farmer Arrangements were made to in Shanghai, where record basi in this light, and to the best of his purchase raw opium direct from nose was done. At the close of knowledge all were equally hard the Indian Govement from the the season there, the N-C Daily workers. beginning of the year, and News, in an appreciation of the regular monthly supplies are now Company's work, eaid-It is a shipped by the Indian Governmsiter of mutual congratulation Some little questioning, how

The arrangement bas bitween the Company and the ever, elicited the fact that while... proved very satisfactory, The Shanghai theatre-going public ploughing a field last autumn be total quantity of raw opium that the Company has paid this had noticed that John

and boiled during the year including visit to Shanghai, and it speaks Charles did an acre in six hours, confiscated raw opiam was volamee for the dramatic ability Obaries, and William in eight, the way of those who are pre-

385 cheats ва compared of the members of the pared to invest money in under-

TAR-hours, and William and John an with 3451 chesta in takings of this kind, though there

1915. ioas osats that they have been acre in ten honra. Obviously The gross revenue derived from able to attract large audiences in William was the lazy boy of the is something to be said for the

the sale of opium was the dog daya-temperature re- family, bat to what extent few of viewpoint mentioned by Mr.

$5.811.110.15 a compared with cently averaging well over the members could discover. On Gordon, that the authorities,

$4,765,028.59 fa 1915. The 95 degrees F. and to perform the face of it, the problem seems prefer to deal with responsible

price of prepared opium waaraised the majority of their plays for easy, but it would puzzle many bodies rather than middlemen

twice and daring the year: on ran cf three consecutive nights. readers to ascertain the compara. who are anxious to squeeze out

February 5th it was raised to This is surely a record for Shang- tive speede at which the three blood before life begins. We can A report by Dr. Francie J. B. $11.50 per tael and again on hai and proves that Shanghai men worked. It is good to read the glowing tribute made by Mr. Walter only hope that the revised mining Coutta on an inquiry into the April 20th to $12 00 per tael. gives doe appreciation to what Long, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, os the "he part which laws in Chine will be put into causes of a considerable number of

A large number of seizures is good. Houses d'aring the the Dominions and the Crown Colonies has played in the war." operation without delay, and that esees of anthrax, which occurred

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Fot have. Breezy declaration of the Cal. In it, as would be noted in yesterday'a Telegraph generous reference this Hongkong venture will reap in 1915-16 in persons not engaged were again made during the year, past week may

in occupations recognised as liable but the amount of the seizures of been large, but this was certain- | cutis paper Capitalon Jane 22 is made to the gallant services of the troops from Overseas, for they, the reward that it deserves.

to be associated with anthrax, and raw opiam shows a large reduct-ly due to the abnormal beat The best news of the week is the as Mr. Long stated, whether they came from Australia, New Zealand, Premium Bonds.

lion as compared with the rather than

any lack of

belated determination of the Canada, Newfoundland or South Afr ́os, have shown themselves It will be read with much in-suspected to be due to the use of

This re-appreciation of the plays and Allies to stand no more demmed worthy of the beat traditions of the British Army." It was also ferest that the Imperial Govern infected shaving brushes, has figures for 1915.

duction would appear to be the manner in which they were nonsense in Greece. pertinently pointed out that the Dominions had made many greatment has decided to appoint a been issued na & BlueBook. iscrifices in other directions, many having suffered severely owing|Select Committee to inquire into Dr. A Neweholme, Medical largely due to steps takes in the portrayed. In hot weather, many to the limitation of imports from the United Kingdom. Mr. Long the question of issuing Premium Officer to the Local Government United Kingdom to prevent the residenta prefer to attend the doabilese had the Colonies in mind likewise in that matter, as also Bonde. Why each bonde have not Board, in a covering mem-export of raw opiam. There is a theatre to laugh rather than to when be reminded the House of Commons that the Dominions were long ago been issued throughout orandum, states that suspicion slight increase in the esizares of weep, and smong serious pisces "bearing very heavy war expenditure and simultaneously were the British Empire has been a mat was first drawn to shaving-brushes prepared opium. As I mentioned have been intermingled farcical called upon to bear a very heavy burden owing to the interference ser of not a little astonishment sa cause of anthrax by su invest in previous reports, the wathe in comedies. The Company was treffe equally at home in anything with their trade." Knowing well the enormous efforts that are being sad quite a lot of dissatisfaction igation by Dr. B. R. Elworthy, smuggled opiam is made in all directions at Home to lead as on to victory, it is not for By those who deprecase the isane pathologist to the West Londen through the Colony and can only ranging from this class of work us in this far away outpost of Empire to feel unduly elated with of the bonds, it is contended, we

Hospital, into a case of sutbrax be satisfactorily dealt with at the to melodrams, bat it

straight comedy and drams that what we have been doing: still, it would be more than human to believe, that such bonds have in occurring in Jaly, 1915. Icquiries various sources of supply.

they excalled." expect that we should be indifferent to Mr. Long's fine recognition them too much of the element of made by Dr. Coutts, in sesociation An agreement was made in of what had been done and coptiness being done by Britons over the lottery, and that as lotteries with Dr. Collis, of the Factory October, 1915, under which the Bess. We are all the better pleseed to know that such recognition are illegal, according to Britisk Dapartment of the Home Office, Commissioner for the suppression has been made, because we are inclined to think that what has been law, bonds should not be offered showed that the hair used in of opium for, the province of up at Home in the number of troops that has been sent to the front. element appears to be involved. 10 great part of Chinese bores parchase As Mr. Lang handsomely acknowledged, each by no means exhausts in the fact that at certain perioda hair, which had not been disin-stock of certified opium beld are allowed to land their cargo cannot all be Lord Aveburys. the activities of the British overseas, and he adds:. "There was no drawings take place in which the fected. The remaining aumsna in Hongkong from the opium without permit, a saifest only The famous banker entomologist foundation for any criticism that any part of the Empire bad not bond-bolders are entitled to par-

hair from

the merchants of Hongkong. The of each cargo being furnished to once captured a wasp in the done its full share in the war." Such a statement should prove a ticipate. We presume that it is

WAR found disturbances in the Kwangtung the department. This exception Pyrenees and succeeded in mak- further stimulus to good wors and to continued effort on our part. not obligatory on all to participate, to be largely infected. The meno province appear to have interfered a necessary to prevent undue ing it a pet. "I had no difficul

In the course of his lengthy statement, Mr. Long mentions i that and therefore those baving

facturer explained that the hair with carrying out of this agree hindrance to this short-distance ty," he wrote, "in inducing her conscription had been enforced in British East Africa, Uzenda, Cey-scruples regarding the was invoiced to him as "goat's ment and after the first two traffic. In the case of certain to feed on my hand, but at fret Jon, the Straits Settlements and the Malay States and was being consi- tentions point have a loophote by hair," which does not come under months of the year the export of classes of goods export is only she was aby and nervous. She allowed'ander band that a satisfac-kept ber sting in constant rendi- dered elsewhere, "Hongkong," be said, "bad found conscription an- which to ease their conscience, the Home Office regulations, and opium to the Kwangtong pro

tory landing certificate will be nege, and once or twice in the necessary because every white man was already a volunteer." Doubt France and otherContinental con- that for this reason he had not rince practically ceased.

returned from the declared des- traio, when the railway cfficials lass by now, the Colonial Secretary has been made aware of the fact that tries, which have long since issued Babjected it to disinfection. Four The total amount of certified tination. In more important cases came for tickets and I had to Hongkong also intends to adopt conscription, not entirely because Premium Bonds, have found them other cases of anthrax were traced opiam imported into the Kwangexportation is caly allowed after harry her back into her bottle, is is necessary to rope in the few that may yet remain out of one perhaps the most attr.ctive of all to brushes made in New York, tung province during the yearcaly reference to the Secretary of the stang me slightly--I think, or other of the Defence Forces, so much as because it seems desir bonds in the eyes of the public, and a consignment of shaving amonated to 83 chests 180 Stale for th. Colonits. In addi. however, entirely from fright. able to establish a body more suitable than the present Volunteer for there is no saineaying the fact brushes from Japau found to be chests were exported in Shanghai. tion to controlling the class of Gradually she became quite used Forcee. "The Crown Colonies," added Mr. Long, have fally done that practically everyone, except beavily infected with authrax Persian opiam continued to be goods exported, the permit, aye to me, and when I took her on their duty," and he warmly paid a tribute to," the patience, reaizot-the hopelessly Puritanical Inquiry showed that 200,000 had forwarded to Formosa. Uncerti-tem also enables the department my head apparently expected to tion and goodwill with which they had also borne the hardships enjoys a little fatter" in the been sent from Canada and bad fed opion was imported for the to check the shippers and consigba fed. She even allowed me to of the import restrictions." Mr. Long'e references to the recent lancertain realme of Dime been issued to various Army Government Monopoly and the nees of goods ander the White stroke her without any appearance perial Conference, at which, it will be remembered, be represented | Fortune. We feal that depots. The firm in Canada Macao Opiam Farmer. One lot and Black List system. The work of fear, and for months I never the Crown Colonies, are particularly interesting. The resolutiner Premium-Bonds would be immen had obtained them from of 170 cheats uncertified opiam involved in the issue of permits, saw her eting." After nine months passed then, he says," will not be pigeon-haled," bus that effecsely popular were they issued manufacturers in New York, which was being shipped nomine and the checking of soch permits this queer pet succumbed to the will be given to them as early as possible. It would be deplorander Government anepices, and who stated that the brashes were ally for Mexico was returned to against skips' manifests, has been rigours of an English February able if suything, should prevent this decision from maturing, in these days, when the silver made from Chinese hair which Calcuits owing to the suspicious very considerable. 88 the resolutions passed were of very. great importance ballete" are vital elements in the was supposed to have been nature of the shipment. both to the Motherland, the Dominions and the Crown great struggle, such as attractive thoroughly disinfected, and eng

A beginning has been made. á mentioned in last year's Coloniea Ia regard to this question, it is particularly gratifying to way of raising money should cer- gested that infection must have report, legislation was introduced ender the permit system to collect note that the Prime Minister has appointed a Committee of Mini tainly be given a chance, if only got on to the bra hes by mixing in December, 1915, to enable the statistics of the trade of the port tera and representatives of all departments concerned, with himself for the time being. It, of course, with other sorte.

department to deal with the im- of Hongkong, but the miltifarions as President, with the object of reporting on the best mathods and involves a principle which British The Local Government Board portation and exportation of gooda demands made by this Ordinance Chiness news reports state, the machinery by which effect may be given, to the body of the lawis, we believe, somewhat proad are in correspondence with the to and from the Colony with the sad other war measures on the n

saya & Shangbai paper, that it is resolutions. This certainly does not look as though there was any of, namely, that anything in the S. Government on the matter. object of controlling the move department, added to the great proposed to make Dr. Suo (Sun ground for fearing that the resolutions might possibly, in these nature of a gamble is by the Dr. Coutts, who has been inquirmeas of prohibited goods and of difficulty of finding room for in Wen) the President of a new Be- strenuous times, be relegated to the pigeon-bale. All will agree authorities taboo. But among ang into baman anthrax, men preventing trading with the greased staff, have made it im public of China with a Govern with the Colonial Secretary in his view that the task is not an sssy people who love horse-racing, tioce the long period during Enemy. Under the Importation possible to keep fall records for ment in Canton. Well, that may

1916. CDs, but that it ought to be undertaken; and it is very pleasing to with its invariable gambling which anthrax spores may remain and Exportation Ordinance, with

be done. A dozen or less of learn that Mr. Long was directed to say that the establishment of concomitants, and who are among dormant and yet develop in, full a few very minor exceptions, no The nett revenue collected by politicians oso get together in a the Committee referred to "in any case was evidence of the Govern- the most inveterate basinese virulence on onditions becoming goode can be exported from the the department during the year room, eleet Dr. San President and ment's intention to take all the stops they could to give effect to the speculatore on the face of the

One consignment Colony without an export permit, was $6.826,324 36 as against themselves to the principal officer, resolations of the Conference." It does that at least; and, we shall Earth such a principle is indeed which led to infection in August, The same rule applies to imported $5,393,535.58 collected in the announos themselves to be a Gov- therefors look forward hopefully to the best of results sccruing from much more honoured in the 1915, had been stored in London goods with the exception of goode previous year (1915), showing an ernment and telegraph the news the Committee's efforts,

breach them in observance.

since 1912.

from river por.a and coset ports increase of $1,432,788 80.

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was in

The plate rollers of a Tess-eide

mill chalked on a newly rolled steel plate for a Govern rolled steamer Up with the gus and down with the Hun and God Save the King Not a bad motto for a good shooting volunteer corps.

Wasps, which people at Home are being instructed to kill are not generally regarded as com- undertook within 50 miles radius. Vesela panicnable insects, but that,

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done both in the Dominions and in the Colonies is largely summed to the public. The "illegal" making these brushes consisted Lwangtung the remaining of all kinds trading to these ports perhaps, is only because we

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and now occupies a place in the British Museum.

Dr. Sun Yat-Sea.

over the world.