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THE HONGKONG
TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1918.
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TO-DAY'S CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
("Chinese Mad" Service).
very soon.
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=ly resisti Rod übeorba uhocks and but one motor cycle authorized to use it. The famous Cradle Epring Frame is exclusive-“ ・ly-Indian-and-is-found on all Powerplus models. We still bare a few Electria Models in stock at the low price of $580°
ALEX. ROSS & CO.,
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Telephone 2487.
THE LATE MR. J. E. DOBIE.
YESTERDAY'S MILITARY
FUNERAL
who was a
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gharries, which used to`ply for information that pneumatic tyres record of the statement made by hire in Queen's Road, drawn by a have proved a failure in Hong-the waiter who attempted to half-starved, emaciated looking kong, and during the past few extort money. animal meant to a horse. **bone-shakers
The years, owners of private rickshas had iron-tyred with paeumatic syres have con-31st, two members of the crew of wheels, mostly wobbly, and as the tinnally been discarding their this vessel visited & Chinese res On the evening of December
rough and stony, far from what tyres. streets in years gone by were pneumatic for solid rubbertaurant. they are now, a ride in one of the streets. I
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Upon entering looking these vehicles can be better im-precentage of pneumatic tyreswell; this boy asked what they round restaurant they were met by a find that agined than described. On a wet among
the Chinese boy who spoke English Sir, Quite a stir was made at fully muddy, a lady would get out the contention that pneumatic whereupon one of the sailors Tokahama Specie Bank, many Dobie who was interred in the
day when the streets, were fear-infinitesimal, and this fact bears then asked if they had money, private rickshas is desired and was told "food". He the last Legislative Council her dress besplashed with mud tyres for some reason or other are showed a roll of bills. This proved millions of notes being
Peking, January 6. meeting anent the local service of owing to deficient mud-guards, not a success in Hongkong, or at satisfactory and the sailors were circulation in Manchuria.
There is severe ran on the evening of the late Mr. J. S. The fanaral took place last Chairs and Rickshas, and the and as to getting wet, one might least possess such a little advant-conducted to a table. Two doves, reported that the Bank, anti-officiating at the graveside. comment in your leading columas just as well have been walking age over the solid rubber tyres four bottles of "Asahi bear, a cipating a longer war in Europe, during the past week give one the
Protestant Cemetery at Happy. K. & S. Baoke b. $725 vs. 775/30 impression that there exists and storm-aprons ware invariabl-it. It cannot be said that the war Raven cigarettes were andered for the purchase of provisions Hongkong Defence Corps, was Far Baktorda in the rain as the awnings that the extra cost is not worth plate of fruit and a package of expandest much too large a credit member of D. Company of the Yangiszes
It is Valley, the Ber H. Copley Moyle `MARINE INSURANCES. much more unsatisfactory state of affairs than is really the case.there would be an advantage in made
Cantons 15 old and leaky, in
'The deceased, fact during the past four years has Just before the sailors finished
North Chinas As a resident of long standing in walking as by sitting in a "bone-pneumatic tyres, as they are initiative,
lajons the Colony, probably longer than shaker you would get your easily obtainable from Japan, Sing Song girls. Shortly after
it difficult
To import eating, the waiter, on his own either of the two honourable clothes soiled through the dis- probably the cheapest place to get this, the sailors asked for their
now not wanted, The Man- members who brought up the gracefully dirty state
brought in
accorded charian mouey market is critical.
full military hon- subject, and one who has been
ours, the members of the them, and when one stops to think bill, and were given one for $15
Shanghai, Jan. 6. generally observant, kindly allow days (both chair and ricksha) to adopt paeamatic tyres on all considered it exorbitant; but offer chief delegate, saying all matters Company Sargeant Major Blair: Douglases
aprons. The coolics in those for a moment what it would cost which they refused to pay, as they telegraplis to Chu Nai-kim, the
Company being present under China Fires me to express the opinion that at
Chin Nan-fan, the Premier, Captain M. S. Northcote, Regim-
H.K. Pires the present time, there is very style of dress (or undress) being uncertain
were a poor lat, their favourite our
ental Sergeant Major Bond and little cause for complaint. I have a pair of trousers rolled up to the hesitate advocating any change boy, they went to the proprietor; decided at the latter's discrecion / carriage, by members of the)
rickshas. with led to pay $3 instead. not been able to that any Company, and was Ferries
would arguing for some time with the holding the Conference can be
After relating to preparations for also being in attendance. The Steamboats feeling of dissatisfaction exists ing but a cloth girded about the alone (not including Kowloon) the to speak English, they were unment's instructions.
coffin was drawn
lidos (Pref.) among the public in general, aloins.
骂 a gun indos (Del.) the contrary it is conceded all
The old orde changeth cost of new axles, wheels and able to obtain satisfaction. In the round that never in the history of bone-shakers" were done away over $100,000, and the tyres would more bad assembled in front of tall the
however, and gradually the colony has the chair and with; it is a pity that one has not have to be renewed more often the restaurant and owing to the Diplomatic Corpsis quite satisfied
covered with the Union Jack and the pneumatic tyres would be mesatime a crowd of sixty or ricksha service been in a better been preserved and placed in the than once a year, which is the aggressive attitude of the waiter, with the progress made in the Marche Fanebre during the pro-Langkata The American Minister hasander Sergeant W. Crawford, Malabon. state than it is to-day. If there museum-it would have been a case at present with solid tyres. this crowd became more or less peace negotiations, although there cession to the cemetery. After the Raubs
President that is room for a grow! at all, it would curio worth keeping and would This large extra sum would have hostile towards the sailors; so
the and also the band of the 18th perhaps be more titting that it be
Infantry, which played Chopin's made by and not against the times. During the past few years, the most likely place would be the Shameen for at ims. in order inevitable and will be settled the buglers of the 15th Infantry
have been a link with the olden to come from somewhere, and they thought it best to return to between the parties, but this is the Last rest was sounded by Urais much maligned chair or rickshathe type of public ricksha has the pockets of the public. coolie, whose lot at the best of from time to time improved,
Is still some difference of opinion religious rites had been observed, Tronobs times is an unenviable one.
The chair question seems to in the
and to-day we
to prevent trouble, intending to find a vehicle rickshas, nothing much can be
In regard to the legal fares for pay the bill later. have been settled on the spot by it
streets, which, while said about the scale for Honging the Shameen safely, and Yot-sang to France persuade the addition to the members of D.
The sailors succeeded in reach-
and the Government giving actual have reached the highest state of Kowloon certainly needs revision. out the crowd following them; Boxer Indemnity, the funds to be the Ufficers of the HK.D.C., N. Boginterings b.
cannot "be
The Government has sent Li fired by the firing party. In
volleys claimed figures showing the number of perfection, is very far from being in Hongkong.
to kong, but the scale of fares for the gates were closed to shat French Government to return the Company, a large proportion of S'bai Docks
H. K. Wharves b. § 121 s. 118 chairs available at different hours
Kowloon Docks on both fine and wet nights at a disgrace to
as the Hon. Mr. Holyoak put it, a journey is 10 cents, while in gate and overmok the sailors
quarter-hour but the waiter got through the used for improving social affairs.
b. particular place, but what are the rickshas now all have rubber-tong every subsequent hour after picture show h
the Colony. The Kowloon it is 5 cents. In Hong-who were going to the moving grounds for a general charge that tyred wheels, the tyring used be
attended the funeral and also a the supply of chairs is invariably ing of solid rubber not less than Kowloon it is 10 cents.
The On Fook Club is dispatch-number of friends of the deceased,
LANDS, HOTELS inadequate on wet days? Can it one inch thickness; the cushions remember that not long ago, aand threatened to cry if he was
the first hour is 20 cents, while in Upon overtaking them,
Sincere singidelegates to different provinces including the members of the Centrals
AND BUILDINGS. be that one or two of the elite, are furnished with white covers; Kowloon ricksha coole
You will renewed his demands for $15, branches and in preparation for chief mourners were Captain G.P. Land Invest, yo
he for the parpuse to axtending its Stockbrokers Association. The H. K. Hotels after leaving a late dinner party they have effective mud-guards charged with demanding more to settle for $3, bat the waiter possibly at some desolate and and a wire-netting protector to
was not paid The sailors again offered
future alections.
Lammert, Mr. P. Potts and Mr. H'phreys Est. out-of-the-way spot on the upper) keep a lady's dress from coming evidence evolved the fact that the cry. The sailors decided it would levels, were very much annoyed in contact with the wheels, and trip, which was from the Star be unsafe to leave the Shameen. than the legal fare, and from the refused the offer and proceeded to
representing
F. Hough, the two former K'ioon Lands _through having to walk home for the awnings and storm-aprons are Ferry wharf to Gun Club Hill with the weeping boy following,
the deceased's West Points. once in their luxurious existence, waterproof. Improvements in the took exactly 14 minutes, the so they abandoned their intention during the present temporary type of vehicle are apparantly passenger tendering the legalfare of going to Sincere's and started derangement in the Peak tramway still being effected, as not very cents. Any decent person back to the ship. When a short service? In all my years of long ago, I noticed in the streets experience here, I have not had a type of ricksha with double will agree that 10 cents is little ing, at the any trouble to get a chair, even springs; another type has bicycle enough.
who has gone over this journey distance below the French land- a wet night, except under wheels instead of wooden wheels, exceptional circumstances such while a few months ago a hundred leaderette of the Zad. inst. that upon paying only $3 and
end of the I am pleased to see from your for $5; but the sailors insisted Shameen, the boy offered to settle typhoon weather ог if I happened
new rickshas were placed on the you have a soft corner in your pulled out his roll of bills to show be some lonely, sparsely populated a distinctly improved type. These spite of all the harsh things you thought
instreets in Kowloon, which are of heart for the ricksha coolie" in the boy three dollars, as he "locality. I am inclined to think cew
that the grumblers are a class of varnished yellow, with
Kowloon
are have said about him. It is true a
this people who forget that not so mountings and the awnings and Christmas treat is given to the of
might cause brass that in Shanghai, a really good then
settlement. The many years ago, they thought apron
boy grabbed for nothing of standing in the streets vas;
the of green
bills can-ricksha coolies every year, but shoved him backwards which in
and of London waiting a quarter or about them, however, is that they aranged, I am not in a position balance and fall overboard from
the striking point what form it takes or how it is turn half an hour for an opportunity to have rounded backs, the seat part to say. I cannot believe, Mr. the bund. It was low water, at caused him to lose his get on the féd or ld bus, and who thickly padded all round with Editor, that among the residents the time, and the boy landed in mow find Hongkong "society" white coverings over all so expensive that they must needs cushion, rendering them very ion for benevolence, there cannot short distance to a sand bar and the of Hongkong, with their reputat-very shallow water. He waded a adhere strictly to the ridiculous comfortable to sit in. One pless be found a numbers of good Sam-calia sampan which landed official scale of fares to try and ing feature of the rickeha service aritans who will take an interest him at the French landing. The make both ends meet. That such to-day is the excellent supervision in the well-being of these hard sailors seeing the boy was safequest at the Magistracy, with and Officers of the H.K.D.C., the a sadly unreasonable scale of which the Police exercise over worked, hapless individuals; and on the sand bar and that
were to visit the Central Police take the lead, Could not the proceeded several hundred yards the vehicles and coolies; if one it only Station-any morning during the Telegraph
someone to sampan had been called for him week, he would find numbers of of rickshas, sometimes over a hun- the Police Authorities would be sampan and returned to the stop ultimo the Police went to 15 cistion of Hongkong, Benjamin
as Treasurers up the bund to the Consular
Civil Hospital dred, on the compound being glad and willing to advise and
the fund and no doubt landing where they secured fractured skull.
and Staff of the Hongkong Club, result
of inspected by, I presume,
Hughes and Hough, Moxon and Un the 20th members would to well if they Traffic Inspector with the result advantage. Upon hearing that American Consul and still laterain
Later that evening I was in-Aberdeen Village, to
Taylor, Exchange Brokers' Asso- theassist in disposing of it to the best formed of the incident by the a prevailed upon the government to that the vehicles are all in a you are agreeable to my sugges-he informed me that no charges immediately consider a complete cleanly condition and a good tion, I will be happy to forward had been preferred and that Se/geant Cashman went half way H. Holyoak, Mr. N. J. Stabb, Shamel revision of the fares for chairs. state of repair, while the coolies you my subscription. According to the present scale, are generally neatly clothed in a chair with two bearers in the grey uniform and a blue-painted
recently istration, Hon. Mr. and Mr. P. WANTED by an old-estah, City of Victoria can demand only bamboo hat with their number
Yours etc.
preferred.
lished British Form 10 cents
During the forenoon of the 2nd, the first floor of the place 0.B.E, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. L thoroughly convenant with the for a quarter-bour conspicuously shown thereon.
Hongkong, January, £ 1919.
instant, the waiter came aboard
a troduce Expeña. journey. Now. it takes exactly
[We are not in full agreement The sailors concerned wers ques-
and presontod a
while Sergeant Earner, who was Dowbiggin, Mr. H. C. Sandford,antostraddles Chaschalkryž jo tention that the government is visws, but if a fund were started statements, except as to this where he died after a few days. A. Nisbet, Mr. F. SVAKOG MI TRA XO
I cannot agree with your con- with all
bill for $9.90. down below, noticed a max lying Mr. E Ormiston, Mr. F. W an efficient man. No othels quibbling when it states that the to give cheer to ricksha coolies charges, were concurred in by Evidently the deceased must Thompson, Mr. J. H. C. Good ban,
the correspondent's tioned, in his presence, and ther was removed to the Hospital, Mrs. T. Arthur, Mr. W. Nicholson, Hongkong Telegraph.
in the street, unconscious. He Evang, A. Brlead, Mr. and neediapply,Bust-class refe)- Police Station or the London pares favourably" with that of subscriptions.-Ed. H.K.T.]
8 existing ricksha service com we should be willing to receive him. The ranking petty of cer, have tried to escape arrest and Mr. E. AM. Williams, Mr. A. Br
ences essential. Heply Bar 101
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fares for chairs is in force is certainly the fault of the govern ment, and the coolies can hardly be blamed if they keep out of the way of the spendthrifts or for sake the dull, lonely localities on
a cold, wet night. Our anofficial
a quarter of an hour to go from
the Hongkong Hotel corner on
Des Voeux Road to No.
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the
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Widow and the latter representing Administering the Government. Kong Yiks His Excellency the Officer Ewas
b. MISCELLANEOUS Green Islands 1, 2014 72/$2,10 Borneos Providents China Light & P.&. b.
delegate for the South he will H. Sharp, K. U., U. B. E., Hon.
Amongst those present were Lau Kung Mowe z Tong Shiu-yee has telegraphed Major H. A. Morgan, Sir William Orientals to Peking that being the chief Kees Davies, K. U., Hoa. Mr. E
S'hai Cottons Yanziazepoos represent all parties in the South, Mr. P. Holyoak, Mr. F. C. Jenkin but as Sun Yat-senfis under order CBE, (representing the Hong- of arrest by the Peking Governkong Police Reserve), His Honour ment he certainly cannot proceed Mr. H. H. J. Competz, Hon Mr. to Nanking.
E. R. Hallifax, O. B., E., Messrs. Dairy Farms: “ Smyth, Hadeick, Dowley, Dow-H.K. Electrics b.....
B biggin, Ormiston, Sassoon; J. W. Maca Blecticsman, - roll A CORONER'S INQUEST Taylor, E. Raymond, W. Ropes
Logan, J. Ellis, Nolasca da Silva, Frame, Low Level is.
D. and H. A. Lammert.
Trams, Peak, old b. The floral tributes
were Trama, Peak,nowéb ots, 70 SEQUEL TO POLICESEARCH. numerons and included wreaths Laundries-b-
as Coroner, this afternoon held ning Corporation, Major Morgan from H.E the Officer Adminis-
Steel Fondries tering the Government, the
U. Waterboats--n, Watsods Mr. J. R. Wood, in his capacity Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- Hongkong Stock Exchange, the
Ww. Powells Wiseman's
Bzilor
to see the proprietor of the res-
of a Chinese, who died at the Hongkong Club, the Secretary the aid of a jury into the death Chairman and Committee of the Government
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that,
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execute
and Potts, Mercantile Bank of warrant for cer-Indis Ltd., Gande Price and Government property Co., the Kailan Mining Admin- was stolan
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Hongkong, January 7, 1919.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENT.
WANTED.
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taurant who told him that hieThe enquiry is proceeding. [To the Editor of tas“, Hongkong!
bill-amounted to $4.95 and the additional charges had Telegraph."
been added by the waiter. A bill for Sir-Since the article publish- 64.95, which is now in my posses-
who speaks Cantonese, we sent jumped down.
:
Lowe, Mr. D. E Deanely, Mr. H. Mr. P. Forbes, Mr. 8.
TRAMWAY RETURNS.
Mission on Caine Road via the other places in the Far East. I following route which is popular hold no brief for the government, ly used-Pedder St., across but I have no hesitation in main- Queens Road, up D'Aguilar St.taining that it has no need to be Wellington Str. Lyndhurst ashamed of our ricksha.service. Terrace, up Old Bailey St. on to It is common knowledge that in
P. Smith, Mr. J. H. Sath, Mr. Chinchen, Mr. J. D. Kew, Mr. Caine Road up hill practically Macao, one of the places you ed in your paper of the 2nd sion, was then drawn up, paid,
and Mrs. J. H. Wallace, Mr. Ejahn, Misses Phyllis A- all the way to Caine Road. Will mention, and in Canton, a large instant under the caption "Sha- and receipted, thus settling the
Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Jenkin, mada and Marie de Sousa, M any right thinking" person say number of the rickshas plying mean Notes
Dr. and Mrs. Forsyth, Mr. and Laminert Mr. and M that it is reasonable or human to for hire are vehicles which once statement of
Mrs. D. K. Blair, Mr. and Mrs. Bowley, Mrs. Wong Mr. expect two chair coolies to carry did service in Hongkong, and attempted to extort money, and
is founded on the case satisfactorily to all con
B. M. Dyer, Mrs A. Moore, Dr. A. Slark, Arisandra, E you such a journey for five cents which were since found obsolete since it is far from correct, I am to the throwing of a Chinese overTramway Company's traffic Capt, and Mrs. Gray, Mr. H.HBassoon, Mr. A. Dig. I
& waiter who cerned.
Moore-Graham Miss Gunning, Sum, Mr. AG. Gordon, Mr. F. each? Those of us who pay even and were discarded. With regard asking that you correct the the British bridge infers that this receipts for the week ending Gompertz Mr. and Mra. "HA double the legal fare cannot to Singapore and Shanghai, you erroneous impression concerning happened during the past few 4th January, 1919
Your correspondent a reference mate statement of the Hongkong Evans, Mr. and Mrs. G. Lammert,
The following is the approxi-Mr. H. F. Campbell, MF.D. da Silva, Mr. J. E. Joseph,
Mr. D. Cameron, Mr. M. conscientiously claim to be in make a strong point of the fact the crew of this vessel caused by years; whereas the
INS Mody Mr. Bid Mr As to, the public rickshas, num pneumatic-tyred wheels, If that is quite apertain that your corres-years ago and the nationality of that the riokehas there have the publication of this article. It referred to happened over ten incident Bors of your readers who were is the only advantage then I
ere ten to fifteen years ago submit that these two ports, are oudent did not. investigate the the sailors concerned has never ill recall
ramshackle not much ahead of Hongkong and 8 p.m. of the same day the
case, as it happened between 7.30 been determined.. of ehicles popularly termed in those in their ricksha service. From
article was written, and further-
any way over-generous.
the
Yours ato, Jaa. D. SMITH. Lieut. Comdr, U.S. N
days the bone-shakers (they enquiries made from some rickshamore, the article conforms to the will also remember the dilapidated builders here, I have elicited the Shamisen Municipal Council's U.S.S. Pampanga, Jan. 2,1919,
Receipt
ia Year:
Last
608
F. Majt Lammert, *--* Mr. and Mr. and Mr. Ho Winger, S. K. Ho, Edgcumbe Mr. and Mrs. P. 3. Capt. W. Evans, Mr. Ho Kwo Falconer, Mr.G H. P. Hoy, Mr. Mr.H.D. Dick Mr.F.Smyth, r. D. Grey, Mr. B. Basto, Mr. Kunjahn, Mr. W-Sinclair, Ir and Mrs. AE Grifin, Mester, Mr A David, Mad Mrs. Geos Chimbia, Me 8,4k Be Horton Smith Mr. H Hancock Mr. and Mrs Major kid Mrs. "Ozritali, Logan Mr. and Mrs. J Thaby Mr. U. O, Callmannat
and many Mr. Pestonji, Mr. J. H. Baring, others,
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