ROMANCE OF CHEQUES,
TREASURED RELICS AT BANKERS INSTITUTE.
Since the London Institute of
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TO-DAY'S SHARE QUOTATIONS.
J
OFFICIAL PRICIES.
Banks.
A
Bankers printed a catalogue of HK. &S. Banks a. & sa $700 its museum of old bank notes, drafta, &o, the collection has more than doubled,
Owing to the war the rate of North Chipse progress has bean much quicken Unions ed: for hardly a day passes with-Yangtsses out the acquisition of bits of Far Easterns paper which are curious now and
will sometime be historic.
Marine Insurances.
Cantons
1.
a
1.
$500. $515 $1100 $255 26
Fire Insurances.
n.
n.
$160 $330
No single room can be spared China Fires to house the museum, and there H. K. Fires is no immediate hope of a com- plete permanent exhibition being established.
The utmost that can be ex-Douglasas pected in that the more interest. Steamboats ing things may be shown in Indos (Pref.) glass arranged in the liberary Indos (Def.) and other of the Institute room's Shells in Clement's-lane off Lombard-Ferries street.
At the moment opportunity is needed even for closer investiga-Sugars tion, collation and primary Malabons cataloguing of the embarrassment
of riches.
Shipping.
b.
PRE-WAR SECRETS.
WILHELM WARNED BY CHANCELLOR
FRIDAY MAY
THE PROFESSIONAL PARSON.
INTERESTING OPINIONS:
A Chaplain to the Forces
"A by no means new but most excellent suggestion, that holy orders should cease to be a liveli- hood, has been made by the Ray, Clauds Tickell in a letter to the | Daily Mail.
The former Imperial Chancel-writes to the Daily Mail- lor, Herr van Bethmann-Hollweg, has issued a statement defending himself against the secusation of Professor Schiemann, former for sign editor of the Berlin Kreuz Zething, that hạ concealed from the ex-Kaer knowledge of the "It would take away the re- secret dispatches sent by theproach by no means universally Russian Ambassador in London | deserved that the clergy are poar before the war to the Russian business men. It would also do Foreign Ministry, which were much-perhaps everything-to regularly_cocamunicated to the clear away that greatest obstacle German Foreign Office.
to the work of the clergy-the gulf Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg between themselves and the laity. declares in his statement, accord- $ 88 sa 8836ing to a Berlin telegram:
2294
1.
b.
$32 152 170/-
b. $ 341 sa. 35
Refineries.
+
My reports and the reports of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs always described the situation to the ex-Kaiser as it appeared from the entire material at our disposal, includ- ing the secret reports. At no ume was the ex-Kaiser left in b. $148 sa: 150 doubt regarding the dangers of
Entente opposing the
and every
the year
increasing situation gravity of the impressed upon him. That I was in no way addicted to painting things in too rosy colurs I need
b
$.35
Mining.
The existing printed catalogue Kailans dates from 1906, and refers to the Langkats Maberly
D.
50/-
Phillips collection. Shanghai Loans which was then secured by the S'hai Explorations! Council of the Institute, and Raubs
b.
T. 20
b
which forms the nucleus of the Tronohs
Urals
b.
să
臨
museum.
HISTORIAN OF BANKS.
Mr. Maberly Phillips was
historian of banks and bankers.
In his studies he discovered
that no collection existed of the the old country banks, and he therefore formed one. The eight or nine hundred specimens he
214 +1/- 40-
Docks, Wharves, Godowns, &c.
H.K. Wharves
b. $97 a. 97 ex. rights
b. & sa $154
sa.
t. 126
K. Dock S'hai Docks N. Engineerings b.ext rights t236
b. $107 $99
gathered together were made Lands, Hotels & Buildings.
over by him to the Institute.
Centrals
One of the treasures of the In-H.K. Hotels stitute is what is claimed Land Invest to be the
oldest cheque in]Hphreys Est. the country. Dated 1675. it Kloon Lands was drawn by one Thomas L Reclamations Foules, who carried on business West Points as a goldsmith "between the two
Temple Gates in Fleet-street."
The South African war added Ewos
D.
b. $1061é sa. 107
$7,90 $39 $175 $70
£23714
5.a.
b.
D.
Cotton Mills.
S.
t. 32 1. 170
£
1.
t. 91 t. 178
n.
Miscellaneous.
b.
n.
some notable things to the Kung Yiks 'collection: for example, the emer-Lau Kung Mows n.
gency notes issued by the author-Orientals
rity of Colonel Baden-Powell (as 15'hai Cottons. he then was) during the siege of Yangtstepoos Mafeking. One of the latest pur-
chases of the Council is a silver
bank token for 18. Ed., bearing Green Islands the date of 1813-which is a reChina Borneos
t. 116
hardly say.
was
When Professor Schiemann considers that allowing the ex- Kaiser to go on his Scandinavian trip in 1914 was inexcusable he overlooks the fact that about the same time a particularly zealous member of the opposing Entente, namely, President Poincare, was
also at sea.
How the use of the secret Russian reports in connection with Great Britain in the years 1911 and 1912 could have prevent- ed the world war I fail to see. Professor Schiemann, who had a clear conception of the solid re- lations existing between the mem- bers of the Entente, must have known that any attempt to bring about a rupture of these relations would only have resulted in | further strengthening them.
1919.
TR-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned has received
Instructions to sell by Public Auction on
SATURDAY the 3rd May, 1919
at 12 o'clock (noon)
at his Sale Rooms, Duddell Street
(for account of the concerned)
154 Bales Green Lined Gunny Bags 43 29.
Terms: Cash on delivery.
GEO. P. LAMMERT.
Auctioneer.
FOR SALE.
"Incidentally this part-time work would (necessarily) abolish that distinctive (and archaic) dress which acts as a danger signal too often, alas! to those who are brought into contact with clergy-in the course of visiting the homes, in the street, in
Ths should FOR SALE-One brand new general society, clerics alone of the professional accessories. For particulars, apply Dodge Car Complete with classes be forced thus to advertise to LA. P. LEITE NO. their calling?
Connaught Road, 3rd floor.
WANTED.
**The largest question remains --it is a personal one to the present writer. Ever since my own ordination several years ago I have received pay for spiritualANTED An experienced work with mingled feelings and an ever-present sense of repug-
nance.
"How can one possibly put a value, in hard cash, to spiritual work? What can be the mone- tary value of a sacrament admin- istered, a sermon preached, an enquirer helped, or witness
borne ?
Perhaps the people generally would understand, or wish to un- derstand, the facts of the unseen and spiritual if such were present- ed to them by those who were known to make nothing out of it
at all."
This draw a further letter from the Rev. S. Clande Tickell, Vicar of Stainton-cum-Hellaby:—
The right solution of the poor clergy problem is for holy orders, to be no longer a means of live libcod. Some scheme should be formulated by the Church's rulers whereby this could gradually be
"He also seems to overlook the fact that 1911 was the year of the Mr. Lloyd George's famous speech (at the time of the Agadir incid-brought about. en:), and that 1912 was the year of the Grey-Cambon correspond $ 7.70
ence. The idea of a preventive war, which Professor Schiemann $1214
mind of all those responsible for raises, was at any rate far from the $734 the policy of the German Empire" $30 $7846
minder that such tokens were C. L Borneos b. 5 old b. 1.03 new issued by the Bank of England in China Providents b. the Napoleonic wars to supply Dairy Farms
"
54.
the want of small change.
H. K. Electrics
b.
memory
in
WAR EMERGENCY NOTES, Luckily for the Bankers Mu-Ropes keum, our armies have included Trama, Low Level b. & sa. bank clerks and other officials. Trams, Peak, old b. Some of them have presented to Trams, Peak, new b the institute examples of emerLaundries gency notes from many parts of Steel Foundries Belgium and France. A five-franc U. Waterboats rote from Lille; a two-franc Watsons from Cambrai; a 50 centime Wm. Powells from Oudenarde, of double Wiseman's
England's
Macao Electrics ኪ.
$3336
D.
$3146
$74
5794
cis.
.80
b.
0.
8 334 $12
b.
b
b.
Hongkong, May 2, 1919.
THE FORTUNE-TELLER
WRONG.
A KIDNAPPING CASE.
SPOTTED FEVER AT HOME.
NAVAL OFFICERS DEAD.
nursery
governess, Eur- opean preferred, to take charge of three children. Reply Box No 156 c/o Hongkong Telegraph."
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TUESDAY, 6th May
TOTICE-A General Meeting of Members will be held on Tuesday, 13th instans, at 4 pm. in the Chamber Room, Chartered Bank Building, 3, Queen's Road Central, for the purpose of nominating a Representative of the Chamber to serve on the Legislative Council during the WEDNESDAY, absence on leave of the Hon. Mr.
7th May P. H. Holyoak.
THURSDAY,
Notice in writing of the names of candidates and of their pro- posers and seconders to be lodged with the Secretary at least 48 hours before the time appointed for the holding of the General Meeting.
By Order,
E. A. M. WILLIAMS,
Secretary.
Newly ordained men could be required to earn their livelihoods by the exercise of their secular vocation, preferably manual (St. while devoting the greater part Paul elected to be a tent-maker), of their leisure to their minister- fal duties. The willingness to do Hongkong, 2nd. May, 1919. this would be an infallible test of their religious vocation."
TELEPHONE TO CANADA.
WIRELESS COMMUNIC“ ATION WITH IRELAND. Wireless telephonic сот- munication has been established between Ireland and Canada.
The official announcement
this
important
that
$1311⁄2 $ 64 Dr. Macnamara, in the House $114 of Commons recently, in reply to $27 a question, said there had been
an outbreak of cerebro-spinal of
fact wars; В one-franc from
fever amongst the young naval was made from Marconi Aisme. Ardennes et Marne;
officers at Cambridge. A num- House recently, and Mr. another one franc from Sedan,
ber of officers arrived there on Godfrey Isaacs, the Chairman of whose very name sounded the trumpet-call of "La Revanch"-
Jan. 31 and Feb. 8, there were the company, said: "We spoke 60 cases of influenza amongst to-day by wireless telephony from how eloquent they will seem, dumb and rather dirty scraps of
them. They were all making a Ireland to Canada. I am not good recovery until Feb. 13 and prepared to say any more than paper as they are, a few years
14, when eight developed cerebro that at present. hance! Sentiment OF quite
The disease was spinal fever. another kind will hang round the
Reports came from Canada in apparently contracted from
aNov, 1913, announcing notes for this or that number
carrier. Two other cases develop wireless "telephonic talks of pfennings printed for use
ed, and the infection of one was had taken place between in prisoner of war camps. There
The Glace Bay in Nova Scotia are several with the
The faith of the Chinese in traced to a previous case. mark
other was contracted outside and Clifden fortune tellers is simply marvel-
in Ireland, 2 "Gefangenenlager, Langensalza," If the military warders could lous. One Chinese woman, whose Cambridge. There had been five distance of over 1,900 miles. The have helped it those notes would child, a 7-year old girl, had been deaths. All the cases were now news however, was not confirm- ed. Mr. Marconi was at Clifden isolated. never have reached England and kidnapped, consulted a fortune- the Bankers'
Capt. G. H. Shaw, R. A. M. C., at that time carrying out experi- Museum.
teller, and in accordance with his
and Surgeon-Rear-Admiral Sir ments, but would not state what prisoners were supposed not to kidnapped and taken to Sunning in the disease, had been placed
statement that the child had been Humparey Rollestone, specialists success had attended his efforts. carry them away; were carefully she has now gone there on a searched, indeed, to prevent their
In July, 1914, when giving doing so. But the British soldier wild-goose chase. If she had less at the disposal of the authorities, evidence before the Dominions finds the way when he has the faith in the help of her gods and and the Medical Research Council Royal Commission. Mr. Godfrey will.
more faith in human efforts had supplied the special serum Isaacs declared that the work With these notes of tragic
those of the Police, she would used in the
The then being done in connection association might be placed the have
epidemic was considered to be with wireless telephony clearly showed that Mr. Marconi would blank cheque for one franc money saved, for the Police well in hand. found in the ruins of St. Pierre
have recovered the -child
state be able to speak to New York before the end of that year. The on January 4, 1903, after the and arrested the alleged
in
war caused the schemes to be volcanic eruption." to quote from kidnappers
Yanimati. It
postponed.
might
be
The
her trouble and her
to
treatment..
The naval authorities that almost without exception the disease has followed "upon in faenza, which was at its height when the officers
went
into
the old catalogue. Then there appears that the child was enticed away by the promise of
Mr. Godfrey Isaacs also told a case labelled B Surprises." It would not contain good things and taken residence at Cambridge. When Daily News representative that the cheque signed by Charles Yaumati, whither she was sub-authorities took the most rigid extremely successful, and opened the disease was discovered the the first experiments had been Dickens, since Dickens
sequently traced by the Police. Was
precautions, and all suspected up enormous possibilities which notoriously a writer with a level The alleged kidnappers, & head and a business instinct. Chinese man and woman, were ensure the best treatment.
cases were promptly isolated to would now be speedily developed. The He could not say at present But that with "P. B. Shelley" to-day remanded by the Police. military authorities placed a whether it would be practicable across its face would fall natural-The female prisoner was allowed portion of the 1st Eastern to carry on a wireless telephonic ly into such a category. Who bail in a sum of $1,000, by Mr. General Hospital at Cambridge conversation in cities like Lon- would ever associate Shelley with G. N. Orme, on the application of at the disposal. of the naval don and still maintain secrecy as "a cheque-book?
Mr. J. M. Hall,
authorities.
in the case of wire 'phones.
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