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WATSON'S

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER

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The Shipping Question.

DAY BY DAY.

TRUTH 18'AS IMPOSSIBLE TO BE SOILED BY ANY OUTWARD TOUGH,

Monday's Anniversary.

1893

1918.

HONGKONG · TWENTY-FIVE

YEARS AGO.:

There has been some interest taken Ically in the statement by Sr James Glenny Wilson, published yesterday, to the ext|49 THE SUNBEAM. that within a few months the (supply of shipping for commerce

will be greater than the demand, of a compared with the pre-war. relationship. ile face of}

December 29 The rate of the things, thres appeare o im- The opening rate of the dollar Dollar, on demand, today, is 2 mediate circamalce pointingan demird te-day was 314.3d. 2 definitely to That conclusion, 7/16 1.

Monday is the 53rd birthday Mr. Radyard Kipling.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. oled on the mercantile marine Ordinance.

Hongkong Dispensary.

The Dollar.

Health Return.

(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the week ending January 4 1894 1

The Dollar.

Hard Labour. December 30-A number of

THE KING'S MESSAGE, | TO-DAY'S

Reply from Hongkong

Seventy-eight wards euthics for iba Bli that is to muka WozDGE eligible for Parliamentary His Exceller or the Officer discern in its brevity a hint to the sleotion, and the cynical may forwarde fer publication the foll Bill that ever found its way to Administering the Government ladies conosced. The shortest owing Telegram which ha the Statute-Book had also vitsi been received from the Secretary terest for the fair ver. It con- of S ste for the Colonies trgatherained six words: "Fairs shall be with the reply which has been married without disparage ent."

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From Secretary of Sute, Lon don, to Officer Administering the 24th December, 1918 Gavernment, Hongkong. Date

1 boor; sad one man, Mr. W. Following from His M-j-sty the Rosa, was presented with a hand. King some gold sibert and peadsat on

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TEB bitter racial por f'cla

aparted from the Canoas are

not to be wondered at when it in remembered how miny, and divarse are the peoples inhabiting *****|that region. Ovız 370 nations). Buckingham Palsce, ities, speaking 100 diffrent bis departure for Shanghai to join Another Christmas has come languages, are to be found the Municipal Police there. round and we are no longer |in| that modern Babel, The Sailors' Home. -# Eghting. God be blessed and the very names of some of Diosmber 30,At The Sailors' your efforte. The Queen them-Imerese, Rechau, Z ch- I for you. our sum, 2-, Pabav Ubyich, Shup- Home, last night, the festive and

was celebrated with heartfelt good wishes for a Hob, Tusb, Kszabulak, Ki and many Kimykshmare suggestive of a great success. The proceedings Happy Christmas

brighter years, to come. To the philologist's nightmare. commenced with a tes and afterwards a meeting was disabled, sick and wounded wa held under the presidency of Mr.sends special greeting, praying Mr. Andrew D While, the J. J. Ksswick, and a number of that with returning health you eminent American diplomst who songe and brief addreeres were may be comforted and cheered by bae just died, was the owner of given by visitors.

the visice of those good days of one of the finest libraries in pesce for which you hire sacri Americs, Mr. White began early foed so much.

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though if the matter is looked Government Appointment. it's it will beesma apparent that Mr. R. E. Lindsell has been Force mere sworn in again to-day sime-expired men in the Polo Cammiratoner to for a farther term of hard the eitagos is bound to be maappointed a terially si c'ed in the near future.administer oaths, SİC. It is to be presumed that the re-

Exempted. ference is to world shipping. The The Indian B-creation. "Clab great frotor, of course, is the has been exempted from registre. heavy loes which has been tion. ander the Societies

through the Germsä submarine campsigo. That lora has to be made up before we din talk of Daring yesterday there were the supply exceeding the demand. notified ose fatal oss easb of We know that both in America plague, diphtheria, anterio and and in Esgland great efforts cerebrospinal meningitis. All were being made in this direction the victims were Chinese. |Before the Armistice was signed,

The Famillar Words. and it must be the **Hawking without a licence which that

s-large number of $4 or even days" Those were Serrespondents are requested to observe the raie requires them to forward their names and addresses with veseela have been completed the words that fell upon the ears

Grandmotherly Government. Sommunications addressed to the Editor, net mocessarily for since OC. 810 nesring com.of our reporter as be entered Mr.

January 2, 1894-We would publication, but as an evidence of their bona fides.

pletior. The amount of tonnage Melbourne's Court, this morning remind our readers that under thus obtained will have a con Quite familiar phrase now!, the grandmotherly legislation of siderable effect on the position, especially since submarining bie Do cessed and therefore every ton bailis directly offsetting the Then there are the pset logste reseele which have been cader

to the Editor.

Telephone 16.

All communications Intended for publication abould be addressed

Business correspondence should be seat to the Manager."

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GEORGE, R. L

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on the satjat of the world's history. At last he had-

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Typhoon Warning, the present regime, it will be The telegram quoted below Decessary for all owners of dogs the Government, Hongkong To Mr. Birrell would admit, who wae received by the American to take out new licences from the Secretary of State. Londes, Data once said men should sever Consulate General, Hongkong, beginning of this year. Anywhere 27th, December 1918- talk of his library until he had from the Manila Observatory at elee bat in Hongkong, that im Your telegram of December 10,000 Books, Mr. White gave 8 p.m. yesterday:Typhoon in portant informion would have 24 h. Their Kejs ties' Gracions his library to Cornell University. requisition for wear purposes about 116 Degrees Long. E, sad been duly and publicly notified Christmas message had been pub- Many of three 2:0.. now

lished and has been received with being released, and these two 11 Degrees Lis. N, moving west, long ere now.

Allès Memorial Hospital.

Amateur Theatricals. factors taken together

great pleasure. 2.—" Princeen Toto” January decidedly and rapidly alter the The Hon. Treasurer of the! outlook. So after all there are Alice Memorial and Affilisted drew another crowded house Saturday, and Mr G. Bo'il facts operating at any rate Hospitals bege to acknowledge on

who in certainly in the direction indiosted by Sir with thanke the following dona South, James Wilson. Maybe before we tiour to the funds of the one of the most popular smatsur think, we shall get back again to Hospitals:-Mr. Bo Ngok-la, comedians ever seen in the East, $50, Anon (for suffering poor), scored a great success in his part $10; Pork Guild Central Market, of Zape'er which he undertook 890, Pork Guild Western Market, at very short notice, owing to Mr. $135.

Darby being laid "up.

Telegraph. normal conditions.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1918,

EXCHANGE OF COLONIES.

The Return To Civil Life.

Itie generally conceded that the A mistice has brought to the frent very importaat problems) demanding solution. The ques tion of the demobliestion of our Army is, in fact, the most import ant of sush problems, and it is one

Honorary Vital Surgeon.

15.

Taikoo Athletic Club.

The Scottich people being s somewhat praction), prople, are asking the pertinent question, Who is to per the war damages Cua Austria Hangary now, that, the Empire is a disembodied spirit P The various nationalitica in the vanished Empire having declared themselves our friendë, can we impose upon them Binan. The Problems of Hongkong steal conditions which would be

many and great;

THE PROBLEMS OF HONGKONG

On our minda form s burden

very much weight, 1--- But eolation will come, if

don't have to purse

Inst verse!

isid upon enemies ? The question

of may give rise to some discussion,

we

very

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bet it appears to us that the matter is clear enough. When s man takes ovET an 'estate be assumes the burdent of that calate. The arrangement between. parties may be conducted in a friendly spirit; but friendship- does not necessarily cancel just

debtr.

The Water Supply. January 3.-At the next meet His Excellence Officer log of the Sanitary Board, Mr. Administering the Oorazument Francie will move: That in has appointed Kr. Hemsan the opinion of thie Board, Eve The problem I state in my Balean, MD., BS. (London), gallons of water per day ie, from FRCS (Ecgland), LR.OA, to sanitary point of view, a wholly that demands very dose res8:0

be Honorary Visiting Sargeon to inadequate allowssos of water in ing. To all intents and purposes the Government Civil Hospital this climate and that in limiting Tas problem of hrmaing-a poser this matter he received attention daring the absence from the the free supply of water to many indeed,

Mr. Kenelm by the Ministries of War and Colony of According to the well-known French writer, M. Pertinax, there Labour. Hongkang, like the D:- Hutchinson Digby, M.B., BS 788 blocks of boildinge to that B-form for which Dicky

sowing the seed. qasatity, the Government is) Neem to be some grounds for belief in the reports, prevalent in minions and the Colonies, is (London), F.R.0.8. (England).

violating the understanding on The problem of water, Cinema Attraction. Britain, regarding the handing crer of Gibraltar to Spain. If these key interested in the question,

the faith of which the extensive solved at Tam Tuk, reports are true, they open ups wide field of sorjature, for the The demand by employers for the The Coronet Theatre inc firing, pawers granted by O dinance 16, "A lesson to all that whiskey in carious fade amid the heaps of

mark. giving up of Gibraltar would mean an entire change in our defen return of their employees, fer from to night until the end of of 1890 wers auferred by the rive policy abroad. Gibraltar bas come to be regarded sa one of peace has been signed, at the the year, another great For Legislative Council.

The problem of stebede en the greatest bulwarks of our world Empire, and more specially as earliest possible opportunity, is picture, "The Walls of Jericho,"

collo:st s wyth, cur meet important possession in the Mediterranean, controlling, se insist. A roheme for the featuring Elmand Brass. This January 4-The sanusi mest. As ably propounded by Middleton it does, the shipping and commerce cf that ea. Not only wee it crasettlement in divil life of film has been adapted from the ing of the Teikoo Athletic Club Smith, midered the most impregasble fort in the world, but it has also be the members of the forces we famous play by Alfred Satro was held on the Club ground at That of excluding Chistee from some one of the greatccaling porte, by which our Navy is enabled to submitted,

remember, The play ran for two years.Qatery Bay, on New Year's Day,'

the Peak, Rail throughout the oceans of the world. In recent year, however, arms few months ago to the st the Garrick / Toestre, in the presence of a large number A problem that left us with new and great factor has sprung up, which lessens to a very great War Cabinet, and fur reasocia beit, London, and one year at the of spectators, Favoured with intellect weak. extent the strategical value of Gibraltar. Even before the war, great known to the Government the Hackett Theatre, New York The delightful, weather, the sports The problem of training in roit strides bad been taken in the constraction of king range gane, and we details of that schema hava not picture has been beautifully pro proved su unqualified success. 1 able schiols, have seen in the last few years the state of perfection at which it has been made public. The respon daced and shecld draw big

The young Obiutse mind, ia

pigeon-hole cools, arrived. When guse can be constructed to shoot 60 or 70 or even ability for carrying out de bouses. The programme also January 4 The New Year 100 miler, forf like Gibraltar, however strongly fortified, cannot mobil salion, it appears, will rest contains many ether most £ festivities have a good deal to The problem of wages, that hosry hope to maintain its former position. And aerial warfare must with the Admirally sad the War ballent features.

answer for in the way of disturb. It bothers each year the head of

old grouse also be taken into account.

Office so far as the naval and

Friendly Cricket. ing the usual decoram of Her According to reporte, it seems that the authorities at home military arrangements are con

Craiges gower, were at home Mejsely's loval saki ote. Firal of The problem of transport from

the house, realias these foots, and far-retching developmente may not be far cerned, and with the Ministry of cft. If the value of Gibraltar se'n fort dissappears, all that it messe Labour as regards the ze settle on Boxing Day to the Indian all, the "Water Police" sign

Hongkong to Kowloon, becomes, in fact, one of the least important of our colonies. Ever soldiers in civil life. While the match. The latter won essily, painted since 1704, he possession of Gibraltar by the British has been problems.conne'ed with demo thorn in the side of Spain, and there could be no better time than bi-stin and rehabilitation, are the present to set the matter right. Important discussions regs d tremendous in sheir magnitude, ing Morroco are at present proceeding between Spain and France, they are not insoluble, in which Great Britsin is also concerned, the zer pect of the

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Pesan of Picardy returning now to the villagen recovered during

recent säran.com" are „ making-

Irabble which once were homSE. new frat work machine, an aviary containing - a pair of che fi aches still very much alive, complete anatomies! skeleton, box of dancing pumps, and an |iscabator "packed with the remains of egge, wers unearthed in # Village near Albert. In the library of a rained chatens wse found a note-book bearing on site title page the signstars of Napoleon Bonaparte. The book was dated at the time when he with notes referring to foot-drill. was "a- corporal, and was, Eiled

battalion A ̈dag onl—once a German headquarters==GOB» tained a well-filled bed of exaall-

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to us will be a small barren rock withTMs faitly important port: it ment of discharged sailors and Recreation Club, in a friendly board at Trimaha teni...” was gɔlution of which we may see ent mtiebrooms.

out and

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scoring 183 for sight wickets Beasonable b.verage by the name "gainst their opponents' total of of "whisky" was painted is. Then 120. Far Craigengower, Brata leading light in the legal world bury was top scorer with 68 not went to sleep in the Supreme out, while for the winners A. A. Court library, and was locked in Ramjaha (59), D Bamjahn (89 by the unobservant attendante. Dot out) and S. D. Iemail (36)

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total exclusion of Wilhelm the Ban,

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if he returns he will see to it

sro, That we shall hava problems to

solys evermore.

DISFIGURED

In recording the story of these dramatic days the future histori Fin: will find, nothing more remarkable than the spitit of onlm | restraint in which the news of victory has been received, asyn á Scottish paper. The significance of the momentous happenings of the past few days in fally appre sisted, but people have learned s great deal from the war, sbors ill, the lesson cf - wil control. There is a complete abeen the Mafficking

the country is grateful that the end ja now Almost within:

the path if hu

value of Gibralter is the true ore, now is the time for an amicable A Worthy Ambassador, Bettlement of any differences. If Gibraltar has ceased to be impregnable, we will have nothing to lose and Stain everything to Page, the former American well with the ball, taking siz

The news of the death of D: did well. A. A. Bumjahn did ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY, gain, if we give it back to its original and natural owners.

Ambaasde to London, will he wickets for 37 rune." The next few yesta will see the remodelling of the world on an received with as much regret by entirely new basis. At the coming Peace Corference, all the great Britishers as by his own nationals, nations of the world will be represented, and no more opportons Dr. Page cinly recently resigned **All dressed up and nowhere moment could be found to seitle, 0.01 and for all, from the Ambassadorship, after to go." That is the general com Mr. W. Nubolson's spoesi lo their differences. It is only a "matter of giva and take, five years of serviss, foar of plaint in Hongkong, but it should the Coast Parts for Heather 18 YOUR FACE and the possible cession of Gibraltar in orly an example of what which were daring the Gres not be. It is true that Hong- Day" contributions has been could be done in this respect. If we cede this possession to Spain, War. Presumably, he would have kong is very poor in the mailer heartily responded to, the follow- we can be compensated territorially and financially, so that we may gone into quiet retirement, and of amusements, but there is one ing being the amounts received, lose nothing in the transaction. It opens up a great fell of porni enjoyed the set which he so well house that cfm wholesome which are hereby acknowledged, by pimples or blotcher? If so it so fall of earp bility of what this arrangement of exchange might be able to deserved, but the Grim Reaper recreation, and that is the vis accomplish, when all the nations of the world sit down together at has claimed him almost before as Victoria Theatre. On Christmas Foochow par Mr. C. H. the parce table. It is only a question of mutual friendship, so- had severed his official tien. Ha Day its doors were besieged and operation, and, above all, a desire to reconstruct the world on bew will long be remembered in the special programme which was and nobler principles. The interests of the individual can be serv London as a tactful diplomst, presented for the delectation of ad by studying those of the whole: everything is possible if only a thorough friend of the children and grownups at the the statesmen of the world trest the matter in the right manner. English and, above all, a true matines was well patronised. The An cezards the distribution of colonise, great work could be done in gentleman. Haysa firm presentation this direction. It will be admitted that the possessions of the believer in dosa Acglo American dižerent cations are so scattered in many ouer as to lose much of harmony and in the creation of a the importance, which they would bass if they were better distribut better understanding between the ed. The exchange of colonies will probably be one of the greatest two Eng

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