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WATSON'S

COMPOUND

BALSAM OF ANISEED

THE HONGKONG

SATURDAY, JANUÁRY 11, 1919.

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NOTES AND COMMENTS,

WANTED: SOME HEAT.

NO DOCTRINE OF IMPORTANCE Hongkong has been a bye-word CAN BE TRANSFERRED IN A MATUR- amongst civilised peoples, not by ED SHAPE INTO ANY MAN'S UNDER- reason of its large army of un- STANDING FROM WITHOUT; IT MEST Noansed hawkers, but by its licens ARISE BY AN ACT ́

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Gives immediate relief in all cases of to animals. In no other WITHIN THE UNDERSTANDING ITSELF.

COUGH.

PRICE

50 cents

and: $1.00

per bottle.

PREPARED ONLY BY

1894.

HONGKONG TWENTY- FIVE YEARS AGO.

THE DOLLAR

(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for wont- ending January 19, 1991) January 13-The rate of the To-morrow is the 60th birth- Dollar, on demand, to-day is

s. 3já. idea is essentially British, and in, day of the Marquis of Crewe. every civilised city such a Society exists. In Hongkong the resid

British possession, we think, is, cruelty to dumb animals permitt-] as it is in Hongkong. The S.P.C.A.

The opening rate. `f the dollar

them have received prime con- sideration, but Press agitations health yesterday.

There was again a clean bill of to stamp out cruelty in this Colony, have only received a cursory reading and, at most, there has The total output of the Kailan been a little ripple on the waters. Mining Administration's mines Ask the Hongkong public "Do you for the week ending December want a vote 1" and all Hongkong 28, smounted to 70,129 tons and will send in applications for one. the sales during the period to

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD., A meeting to enlarge the Legis- 69,524, tons.

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NEW REGULATIONS. The Hongkong Government Gasetta contains the following

In exercise of the powers con- There is passing through the ferred by Sub-clanse 1 (a) of Colony, at the moment, on his Clause Ill of the Order of Her way to Calgary, Canada, vis late Majesty Queen Victoria i Calcutta, Captain George Ash, Council dated the 26th day of THE POLICEMAN'S LOT.

one time cowboy, U. S. Govern- October, 1896, as enacted by the January 15.-That "the ment Somut Hangar etc. **

Order of His Majesty in Council ents have in the past been too on demstid to-day was 3a 3-15-one" few will question, much representative, Captain Ash re-1916, which were brought into p'liceman's lot is not a happy

Interviewed by a Telegraph dated the 21st day of March, absorbed with the dollar-getting 164. question. Problems that affect,

less the members of the local counted some of his exciting operation in the Colony by Pro- force who came out here under adventures, a full account of clamations dated the 5th day of agreement and with the balief which would fill a book. The August, 1914, and the 12th day that the dollar was worth 3a6d. tales of hairbreadth eacspes and of May, 1916, respectively, His lat least, and now find that with adventures would

the exchange at Pad., they are fictions of a Mayne Read or stering the

the Excellency the Officer Admin in reality getting less pay than a Marryatt.

Government ia To give au pleased to make the following This fact the Governor-in-Council this gentleman has experienced, men of their station at home, idea of the adventurous life

regulations:- seems to havesuddenly recognis we relate & few instances which

1. No person

whose sge exceeds or appears to exceed - lative Council can generate heat,!

ed in a most remarkable manner, ware recounted:

fifteen years shall enter the but past proposals to establish a'

the result being that a circular Captain Ash, who has been a Colony unless he produces a pass Society ia Hongkong to stop has ordered

His Hancur the Chief Justice has today been submitted to all cowboy for 27 years, in Texas, port which has been granted to cruelty

sorts and conditions of policemen was for four years a been

Captain in him by or on behalf of the pooh-poohed and Criminal Sessions for the despatch in the Colony, asking them if the Teras Rangers. He received Government of the Country of reply given cui boni. Every day of the business of the Court shall they are willing that their pay his title of Captain for services which he is a subject. wa see around us must repelling be held on Monday, the 20th day should be reckoned at 38, and rendered to the US. Government outrages committed on birds and of January, 1919, at 10 o'clock that should any of them, at some in connection with

2. The date of issue or of re animals by the Chinese. It is in the forenoon.

securing newal of such passport shall be nobody's business to interfere.

future date go home on leave or information in Mexico, sa a within a period of not more than We are only birds of passage

on pension, that rate of Secret Service Brigadier General, the Hon. should stand good? "No" says Washington (D.C.) War Office. arrival of the holder in the Colony.

agent of the

two years prior to the date of the- and the question should Sir Charles Crews, Lt. Col., J. Robert Peel, who can see sbout After enduring many hardships only interest faddiets!

While Marwood and Col., R.H. Whil- as far through a fire barred gate and taking enormous risks, part is not a British sabject, it

3. If the holder of sach pass-- Hongkong has been under British well have arrived in the Colons as the next rule for nearly three-quarters of a

Ash man, especially Capsin

sncceeded in shall bear a viss granted by a. The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph is century. little bas been done and are staying for a few days when his hard earned wages are acquiring valuable information, British Diplomatic Consular

to remedy this

scandalous prior to their departure for in the near distance. Well, for which he was rewarded by or other Official Representative. state of things. It is true wo, various destinations,

well! What next we wonder. commission in the Texas Rangers, The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip- have an SPCA. in Hongkong. tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a but is on a joci -cousa. It only. The average mean temperature

year, Captain Ash subject such visa must ba full month. -

The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee it rest in peace there. There is being 78,6, on the 20th, and the Pablic School, before a large hunt down a gang of bandits who journey with the intention of exista in the Directory, and may last month was 6.52, the highest afternoon the girls of the Belilios Domingo, in the West Indies, to the holder first starts upon his January 15. On Saturday as requested to go to Santa obtained in the country in which

is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies now an attempt to resuscitate lowest 49.2, on the 28th. delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies the Society here. Recently ..

There audience of parents and friends, had been murdering whites, in the proceeding to Hongkong, and a sent by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. private meeting of a few of those were 108.9 hours of sunshine and performed a musical "Fairy Play" interior. Upon arriving at Santa similar visa must be obtained in

Single Copies, Daily, ten cents

interested in the matter was held

140-inch rain. The average called "Pansy, or the Flower Domingo, and after an interview the port or place from which he Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for &and there is a prospect of some-

humidity was 80.

Fairies." The performance was with Major Ramsey, the Chief embarks for Hongkong. Such fixed period will be continued until countermanded.

thing concrete resulting. A small

greatly enjoyed both by the Intelligence Officer of the Ameri visa mast contain & definite The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be band of persons cannot found an delivered to subscribers by, the Dairy Farm Company. Ltd.SP. CA in Hongkong; it must at No. 23, Wing Lok Street, si selves and great credit is due to studying the conditions in the may be given for the holder of Fire broke out, this morning, audience and the pupils them can Marines stationed there, and recommendation that facilities. Bhaineen, Canton, who are our agents there.

have the hearty support of the about 2.30. The Fire Brigade their mistress, Mrs Bateman, for interior, Captain Ash started the passport either to public, to materialise.

was quickly upon the scene, bat the excellence of the show.. upon the work of hanting the Hongkong or to pass through GOOD PROSPECTS..

the flames managed to secured

bandits down In less than Hongkong to 2 destination A meeting will Soon be a good bold and burned with January 15- Daring the two months, with the assistance named in the visa. held to discuss the propriety of considerable force for about an month of December 103 deaths of only 30 men, every bandit reviving the Society here. The hour-and-a-half.

5. No master of any vessel were registered in the Colony.operating in that country was shall bring into the waters of the Telegraph has already receir-

Of these the Tung Wah Hospital accounted for. Captain Ash was Colony any person who does not ed promises of support, and The embargo on the import of was responsible for 93, the Asile rounded several times and car-hold a passport in accordance there is every prospect now of tea into the United Kingdom de la Ste Enfance 71 and theries the marks of his wounds with these regulations. the idea catching on. From the having been removed, Hongkong Italian Convent 30. There were which testify to his narrow es tone of the letters that we have residents again have the oppor 10 deaths among the British and cape

6. If a master of any vessel has reason to believe that a person the appeal this time is not going unity of sending cheer to their foreign civil communities, tw Two years ago, in Columbas,who does not hold a passport in to fall on deaf ears. The follow friends. An advertisement else from the Army and one from the New Mexico, a party of Maxi-sccordance with these regulations ing excerpts from letter where in, this issue gives partie Navy.

cancs crossed the border and raid-had been brought into the Colony 3 lady correspondent ulars of Messrs. Lane, Crawford

ed the town of Columbus. Cap-in his vessel, he shall cause such are typical of others that, and Co's scheme.

January 15-By special retain Ash received orders to hunt person to be detained and he have been addressed to usi

His orders shall forthwith notify the Captain "Frequent cases of cruelty con-

quest, an extra performance of the raiders down. It was a bare-faceri lottery, not Princess Toto" will be given also included instructions that Superintendent of Police. stantly come to one's notice; for "a Drawing for War Bonds" by the AD.C. in the Theatre he

to cross the instance, that of carrying pigs in that got a Chinese into trouble. Royal to-morrow afternoon, pre-

7. The master or in the ab border and enter open bamboo crates is particular- He was found to be in possession sumably for the delectation of territory

Verican sence of the roaster then the Now that the mass meeting is over and the public of Hongkong needed to see how terribly the of some tickets for the lottery Peakites and children generally, the credit of succeeding in his by which any person is brought

ly revolting. Little observation is

Not to be denied owner or the agent of the vessel has indicated its wishes in regard to the type of constitutional animal's flesh is cut into. reform which it requires, the dominating thought in most people's times the unfortunate creature bribe a constable in addition, so for the latter and the show is to his orders and with three other of these regulations shall on At and was arrested. He tried to Special rates have been arranged enterprise, Captain Ash defied into the Colony in contravention mind is as to what prospect there is of the demands being granted. is carried perhaps for miles. if he has not the winning ticket begin at 4 o'clock. As we have seen before, it is one thing for a public meeting to pass The

Rangers, tracked the raiders to notice in writing by the Colonial resolutions, but quite another to get its wishes met. In this in-1.

painful

Way in he will probably have to go 0

their camp, at night; surrounded Secretary be liable to convey and the medium of the local Government, from which enthusiastic sup obstaclesfor establishing a Society fine of $60. stance, the petition to the Secretary of State has to be made through which fowls are handled is an- gaol for six weeks unless he can

other frequent outrage."

January 17-The winter is it and opened fire and not one of shall cause to be conveyed such port of its contents is not to be expected but, as we have before had to deal with such outrages are,

The find other means of raising the breaking already and summer

the desperadoes escaped alive.

Our adventarer also served vessel in which he was brought person out of the Colony in the may be on as even before the occasion to remark, the public has at any rate a right to expect that not many. There are probably Under the Sale of Food and eck's figures show that its desires shall not be damned by faint praise. After all, the in existence the rules and regula

Chinese New Year. Dr. Doberander General Funston at the to the Colony or in some other battle of Vera Cruz, in the vessel named in such notice t proper sense in which to view the Government is as the servant, tions, which had an dested Drugs Ordinance, during the thermometer has been rising Mexican Revolution, and assisted such date and to such place as not the master, of the taxpayers. Because of the access which the before for the defunct S. P. C. 6. last quarter of 1918 the following lately and the barometer falling, in the taking of the town, which the Colonial Secretary may spec Hongkong Government has to the private ear of the Secretary of there are funds lying in its samples State, and by reason of past traditions causing great weight to be Secretary's hand. Equipped with Brandy, 7; ice, 1; milk, 13; port that north-east monsoon is In this battle 800 or 900 Mexicanos against the Government

were attached to the Colonial officials' views, the attitude of Officialdom these and subscribers annual fees,, rum, 5; whisky, 2.

analysed while the steamers arriving re was accomplished in twelve days.ify and no charge shall be made towards this movement must be a big factor in the success or other the path should be a smooth one seven samples of milk and the west. Wise of the campaign. We should like to feel that the Hongkong for our new body. All that will two whisky samples were adul-

Of these, already giving way to the south-were killed and also about 20 respect thereof. Government will not pre-judge the case, but that a fair hearing be needed then will will be given the people, who are sincere in these demands,

PRICE OF GOLD.

ship Prairie. be en- terated. Four samples of milk After all, what the Colony is seeking is nothing revolutionary.

thusiastic workers.

January 18-Owing to the had

Ash proved to be of very poor quality steady rise in the value of gold, tain The people who pay the taxes merely ask for the right of being QUITE UNDERSTANDABLE. able to conrel Hongkong's domestic policies. That fact cannot be The impatience of our soldiers the whole year, the adulteralments, jewellery etc., are being serve for a time in the Rangers. breach of these regulations shall and the dealer was warned. For large quantities of gold orna- Paso, Texas, and continued to 9. Any person committing s too strongly emphasised. We are not asking, either, for something and sailors to get back once again cases were 24 of milk out of 91 brought to Hongkong from Can- which others have not had granted them, for, as Mr. Pollock very into civil life can be well under and two of whisky out of 12...

When I came back," said be liable on summary 'conviction appositely pointed out at Thursday's meeting, there are Brown stood. Many of them have had

tou and other parts of China for Captain Aab, "the green grass to imprisonment with or without Colonies to-day which possess the very form of government three or four years of war service

sale to gold dealers who smelt it and the home comforts sure did hard labour for a term not ex which Hongkong seeks. Then why cannot this Colony bave it also? and have undergone great hard." Auntie gave it to me," said a down into bars and retail it to look good to me. There is no ceeding six months or to a fine There no reason either of logic or expediency that we can think of ships. It is true that their reten, Chinese who was charged to-day the local banks,

place like civilisation". Recently, not exceeding $500 or to both why it should not. The present system has well been described tion under military and naval with stealing an unfinished coat

“QUSH"

Captain Ash has been giving eximprisonment and fine." as one of "benevolent despotism." Wall, despotism in any form, discipline is as nothing compared and trying to pawn it. Mr. benevolent or otherwise, is wholly out of place in the present era. The with what they have experienced Melbourne ask where did you Robinsonian gush in course of Shanghai, in aid of American apply:

January 19-Another dose of hibitions of cowboy craft, in 10. These regulations shall not British Empire, of which Hongkong is no unimportant part, has been in the past and they mustcertainly really get it from? but the preparation. His Excellency the Red Cross funds, for which (a) To any member of His exerting its whole energies for the past four years to kill despotism, feel great relief in the thought that accused declined to be confidential Governor Heaven bless him services he was presented with a Majesty's Naval and Military Is autocracy, no matter what its degree may be, to be kept alive in they have done with fighting. But and still adhered to the tale of has kindly consented to distribute medal by the American Red Forces travelling on duty. Hongkong while other parts of the Empire are enjoying greater probably it is that very idea Liberty and will get even more still in the future? That would be which is at the bottom of their Melbourne then read-out-s string Diocesan School and Orphangge Captain Ash is a Canadian born,

auntie's benevolence. Mr.the prizes to the pupils of the Cross officials in that city. (b) To persons of Chinese race. to make the British slogan of self-determination and the killing of anxiety to return to full freedom. despotism something not far, if at all, removed from hypocrisy. Many of them no doubt have of previous convictions including on Friday 26th inst. at noon and when he reaches Calgary Government by officials, on purely domestic issues, is utterly inde business and domestic matters a punishment order for five years. NEW CHINESE WHARF.

he intends to join that fensible. It cannot be justified on any ground-whatever. It must which urgently need their atten. It is doubtful whether auntie be discarded as out of tune with the spirit of the age.

January 19-After being kept remarkable body of men, the The resolution passed at Thursday's meeting asks for dua and forgiven a little impatience at have to be paid in lien immemorial, Chinese

tion, and they can therefore be will provide the $100 which will out in the cold since me Poyal North West Mounted prompt attention to be given to this subject. Those words were the prospect of being kept in of two months hard labour. steamers running in opposition to past experiences; he will certainly owned Police, where, judging from his meant. We do not want this question bald up, or postponed, as in uniform indefinitely. We do not the case of the request for a Commission to report upon the housing think for one moment. that

the Hongkong, Canton and find himself at home.

In our pictorial supplement to! A Chinese was charged to-day Macao Steamboat Co's vessels known immediately to the Imperial authorities For this is

• izsue on which the public has fully made up its mind; business

4. very natural desire to Dairy Farm Company. He tried a convenient part of the Praya, Capt. Anh. is meant this trae, and we want no dilly dallying with the matter, get back to their homes: As to the time-honoured excuse.. SO HONGKONG BANK-DIVIDEND If the prompt representation of the community's views should be:

whether demobilisationis proceed much favoured by opium smng prevented, or if the local Government, by means of the private

January 19 Subject to audit, GRANTS TO MONGOLIAN PRINCES. ing as rapidly as the circum glers the baga were despeton" gretam kis the movement, there will still be other means stances justify, we cannot say to him, Mr. Stephenson as & Shanghai Bank propose, at the ment to the March

given the Directors of the Hongkong. In order to show special treats of impressing the Tsiperial authorities the fact that the pabbe But we feel sure that if there has extent manager of the Dairy forthcoming meeting to declare a who went up In eamest. As a last resort, the Unofficial members of the Comell been any canse for complaint in Farm Company, said the firm dividend for the half year of £1 New Year greakings could waign in a hody,-aa. a- protest, just as the members of the Licensing Board once did. But we trust that no such measures as speedily removed. All the same, of sad a lot that they did not credit of Reserve fund $100,000 ed each of them an allowance of this direction it will now be were missing a lot that they knew per share, place $300,000 to the President, the Government grant- these will be called for. The request which is made is based on the authorities are really the best-know of. The thief, was given to the credit of Bank premises three hundred dollars 80 common-sense and reason. It deserves consideration: paraly on its judge of the situations it is up to merits. Our hope is that it will be received in that spirit, and that the men, after fasting, duarre, one month's hard shour with account and carry forward, enable them to defray, their per Rifles from before long this ungeally pressing reformy will be an accomplished presentations, to continue to four hours stocks in lieu of the $115.290.83 to the next half-sonal expenses fact,

hilat in the January 25th gêné Last day

Capital.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1919.

AFTER THE MEETING.

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AMATEUR THEATRICALS,

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.

the

was no

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quietened

American milors of the battle

8. No person shall assist of After matters attempt to assist any person to down, Cap commit any breach of these returned

to El regulations.

POLICE RESERVE ORDERS.

Jenkin, C.B... state

Orders Issed by Mr. F,C.

COMBINED FARADE. All ranks will parade at Central

day, January 15th. Uniforma. Cape with covers, Belts” “And capes. No words or rifles wil be carried. Inspectors will wear beltak SAVE

problem. We wants the desires of the community. to be made loyal or disaffected; they have with stealing some bags from the have at last procured a wharf in Ỉ day we give a photograph of ation af 5.30 p.m. on Wednes

obey.